The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL LOCAL BOARD

DIRECTORS.
glairman.—Hilton Ha!head, Esq., Merchant.
Robert Bickersteth, F.R.C.S.
James Bland, Esq., Merchant.
Matthew (Jregson, Esq., Merchant.
William Joseph Horsfidl. Esq., Merchant.
Itjames Lord, Esq., Merclant.
`EDICAL REFEREE.—AIfred Stephens, Esq., 4,
ItA, Upper Parliament-street.
DER.—Mr. Chas. Batten, Cuthbert's-buildings,
Clayton-square.

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tilkih%tlers, their Widows ant Orphans, by providing An-
ile^.tllillirl Homes 'or Asylums.
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and other afflictions.
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tared for policy stamps. Medical men always pail for
?nee! °r,!s. Louis granted in connexion with 'Life As-
-4,lllltlt•esTif premium moderate.
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T. G. WILLIAMS, JUN.. ESQ.,
head 0. MANAGER AND SECRETARY.
`ce, 355, Strand, London.

AoltptgßOF LIVERPOOL.--At the ANNUAL
h, i...,ERAL VESTRY, held at the Church of St. Nicho-
aa arene'ra'ree TUESDAY, the 18th day of April, 1854,
a
tile Archdeacon BROOKS, one of the Rectors, in
the Chair,
Ncti„
4, ere._ canvening the Meeting was read ;
-atirteVall, it was moved by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE,
ti;t4t tbi Mr. Churchwarden HUTCH Isom, and resolved,-
613leeting become adjourned to the Sessions-house,
place ar,_aPel-street, and such adjournment having taken
eke te.i"di"Y,
Notiee was again read, as also the Summary of
41.,'-calnts of the Churchwardens' for theimst year.
lci;,rrna_owyed by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE saconded by
aiyabva,,rtaeoarden HUTCH ISON,—Tbat the Accounts of the
lteo` lazi% ,n`cve 7, now read, do pass.
bysotp JOHN amen d men t, by Mr. T os.URQUHA RT,
a It treasznaiidn
gar
t(iliemotrgts do
.
'4114. ; and the votes beoimn'gnotal:e—nriflol
r andit was declared by the Chairmen to be carried.
titotti.„ lit3loved by
Nonce,R *ANDERSON, Esq ,
Iluariess I' Mr. JOHN and resolyed,—That Mr.
Frederick Carne be re-elected aeChurchwarden for
lt v_rinulfr. year.
ita(leted was moved by Mr. HARMOOD WA,LCOT BANNER, se-
her.t „I Mr. THOMAS CLARKE, and resolved,—That Mr.
satta Hutchison be re-elected a Cberchwarden for the
elt ~;: Year.
!...D3Oved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
alette• Churchwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Sir. Geo.
It„.,au he appointed Vestryman for two years.
Vas Moved by Mr. Churchwarden Ittrreir !SON, seconded
AiChurchwarden CARNF, and resolved,—That Mr. Jas.
les be re-appointed a Select Vestryman for three years.
ah„arati moved by Mr. Churchwarden Hrercti more. seconded
top Churchwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Mr. John
,111 be re-appointed a Select Vestryman for tin' e years.
Tr :Zs moved by Mr. Churchwarden"CA LINE, seconded by
;'l4lprehWarden HUTCH IsoN, and resolved,—That Mr.
'-'latkrratilcker anti Mr. Peter Bourne Drin k water be appointed
11-‘z.o, far the ensuing year.
aeklel,'ll (wed by Mr. ehurchwa, den altrrenisoN, seconded
411,:,01‘,JA RD PERRY M4KNIGHT, and resolved,—That Mr.
/t2Of„be nominated for appointment by the Magistrates
ire, Moved
Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year.
Wriy. (Toyed by Mr. Churchwarden litrrcHisoN, seconded
Y,aat prehwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Mr. Chas.
li. `taw be re-appointed a SelectNestryman for three
j,,.
Ilali.tljer moved by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by
atio, hehwarden HUTCHISON, and .resolved,—That Mr.
I 11. ."'aw I e be appointed a Select Vestryman for three
tb.'taa,
a4t,,-,le moved bMr. Churchwarden HUTCH ISON, seconded
Churchwarden CARNE,—That Mr. Thomas Henry
1%4 Wait 4 appointed a Select Vesryman for three years.
BraSeco_ aaed, as an amendment, by Mr. RICHARD .10H
iti,otk,rl:led by Mr. JAMES DENTON,—That Mr. Edward
eite .„f"r appointed a Select Vestryman for three years,
lb. nees.,
.alr. Satchel!.
eat trlnal motion having been withdrawn, and the amend-
iare?Lutt been put from the Chair, the.amendment was
4 be carried.
r-:-eved by Mr. Churchwarden HUT,3HISON, seconded
ekalloa-711rehwarden CARNE,—That Mr. Joseph Gardner be
tate,r..ll for appointment ensuing te Mgistrates as one of the
`avo-,°,..af the Poor for the year.
114taaleu'rred as an amendment by Mr. WILLIAM BROWN,
ari,(l iritZY Mr. CHARLES CHALK,—That MT. Luff he nomi-
Chadra,J,ead of Mr. Gardner, which amendment having been
plalia.;a.and the original motion having been put by the
Leh tit was declared carried.
ilertalt",-;", (wed by Mr Churchwarden El urcrusoN, seconded
to aallirchw d C NE and resolved —That Mr. Jas.
Rat 1:44 b_ _ ren AR
th,7.,nominatel for appointment by.the Magistrates as
''.o-Verseers of the Poor for the ensuing year.
lit 1t pes riueved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
tOtoeilatleetwarden CARNE, and resolved,—That Mr. Thos.
tale eivanominated for appointment by theNagistrates
1,42 the Overseers of the Poor for the ensuing year.
8111 r moved by Mr. Churchwarden Htrretarsort, seconded
t 4tee a ;flu rchwarden CA ENE. and resolved,—Th at M u -
ph lao, Pia:milted a Seed Vestryman fort wo yealsr. Thos.
h',ll! ttr.Moved by Mr. JOHN DOWNEY, seconded by Mr.
mot
_,,arriear, and resolved,—That Mr. James Chesney be
aaji,;(l a -Select Vestryman for oneayear.
Inoved,s an amendment,
war Mr. Churchrden
pli)e•
i,N. seconded by Mr. Churchen CARNE,-That
4r, a„'alar.ll Johnson be appointed a Select Vestryman for
ill„'!)t2
oinstend of
.Ir. Chesney ; and this ,amendnaent
itateirle wrthdrawn tn consequence of Mr. Johnsonthav-
fl,4 lao4aed to act,if elected,
)`l,tit,nlored, as a further amendment, by Mr, Churchwar-
top'.lW.e!arsoN, seconded by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE,—
.an, „sealward 13rancker be appointed a Select Vestryman'
41,4 instead of Mr. Chesney.
to }:411,, motion, with the last amendment, having been
tt,,.._aut from the Chair, time original motion was declared
n, ed in the appointment of Mr. Chesney.
e;a a. drved by M r. -Churchwarden HUTCH iso Iv, seconded
Nr,ty seßrehwarden CARNE, anti resolved,—That Mr. Thos.
I WI. "'bell be appointed a Select Vestryman for -three
k,as
"r. —eyed b Mr. Churchwarden HtrreHrsoN, seconded
ltayettleu_rchwlrden.CAlLlkE, and resolved,—That Mr, John
t Was e-a epointed a Select Vestryman for three years.
epe,te moved by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
I,..vtboaurchavarden CARNE, and resolyed,—That Mr. Jas.
of itt Rad Mr. John Williams he appointed Churchwar-
ay %Ns Church for the ensuing year.
7ed by Mr. Churchwarden HUTCHrsoN, seconded
tai'llatnn":.!chavarden CARNE,-and resolved,—That Mr. Geo.
,Ittelayer'T Me. Theophilus Palmer Gwatkin be appointed
tt. e,eB ens of St. John's Church for the ensuing year.
keilltieptiuered by Sir. JOHN BLVHAM, seconded by Mr. J.
h4at4., and resolved unanimously,—That it be a recom-
litial„ ErOM this meeting to the select vestry, to appoint
16°
-';',l,umittee of their body, for the purpose of super-
-IIN -tate making and revising the assessments to the
ere aud that such committee he requested to report
hay rri-ceedings to the select vestry, at each of their fort--
4 eetinol
111 4 4 Inov •
roe eb.ur_v* by Mr. Churchwarden, CARNE. and seconded
04,fartb;_Tlarden HUTCHISON,— I ha a Church-rate of
i'•tta-erll'horlicii,Z,
ore
(1 !eine &ouitnNdobheerlaeldoxfoir tile:1;11m gt rifiro.o
of
11%, aeoll;wardens to lay a rate of tZaplenence:inethien pound, to
o"' diz,e
all'e Parochial and Cemetery
upon Rate," for the pur-
te% iarging
lct 7th nd the obligations imposed n them by
i
II William 111., cap. 56; and George 111.,
George 111. cap. 80 • 26th George cap. 15 ;
latt care 72; and Ist'and and Victoria., cap. 98.
steer 'eu bY Mr. Churchwarden CAerce, seconded by
attliatio,otwarden Hurroisort, and resolved,—That the
11'1411 arda "ar ers. be, and they are hereby appointed, collectors
i.tia,e_s,.tarn'T., in accordance with the provisions of the said
Ctikae Ston„ety :—Messrs. Charles Fry, William Williams,
J. Blackte. Edward Able, John Moly-
ee -.s
1,1 vilson pow" John K, Thompson, John Rogers,
William Christian, Matthew Cottam.
tpti: ttcou`p_t as an amendment, by Ma. J. R. Jeersma,
tV.,—That this subject be adjourned for cone.
~lernward, this day week, and that in the meantime the
earl _ 'la be requested to ascertain the amounts which
tr,o aside collected during the last three years ; the names
131 t ,tioo:lees of each defaulter, and the amount of the
tiltCl4" rUoe d
~tlp4Aps.,:!-T as a further amendment, by Mr. THOMAS
VI!, -rate and seconded by Mr. J. R. JEFFERY,—That no
0,0 votes hey aid for the present year.
.a.,11,,e, the ing been taken for and against the original
wao dentltame
was declared to be negatived, whereupon a
ttar.lia ,oved enued by Mr. Churchwarden CARNE.
k'koh by Alr. Churchwarden HUTCHISON, seconded
der b °dr -"warden CARNE, and resolved,—That Mr. Geo.
itioPar,aealinairm.ood Walcot Banner, and Mr. John Branc-
COMmiStiOners of Saint Paul's and Saint
a-Coereo„, "_ea, M supply existing vacancies.
bore lwarde dby Mr. Churchwarden CARNE, seconded by
%11,(11,4 the , n
RatesHUTCHION, and resolved,—That the
Kt4e, enintary Committee be read.
It and Re, as all amendment, by Mr. KINDER LIVER-
!tit: C4,'"rt ate
by Mr. CHARLES WILLMER,—That the
atstio„anitte also of the Account of the said Voluntary
I )4a thise be received for consideration at an adjourned
.cloc Vestry, to be held on this day fortnight, at
4 411:h1,4,hairburtti er,t
w,n CARNE having. withdrawn his motion,
Nne4itlrrie" Put by the Chairman, and declared by
I!it'4eklii.aara:l,LtAN now announced that the present Meeting
4,ollapa the p Until Thursday next, the 20th instant, at Ten
laws e" forenoon, at the Sessions-house aforesaid, for
(14i-a.11,e. eking the Poll demanded by Mr. Church-
j
VaaAleer'rrnon - JONATHAN BROOKS. Chairman.
%tab.%) „alan (-,,aving vacated the Chair, it was moved by
aq he" ta-sosir PER, seconded by Mr. Churchwarden
Li, et i,,tiven unanimously,—That time thanks of the
eth,.," the eta he Chairman for his able and impartial
raol 1811eair, CHMILES VIART Vestry Clerk.
April, 1854.

WANTED, an -Experienced NURSE. None
need apply who cannot give respectable references.
Roman Catholics need not apply.—Apply to Miss SPExcEtt,
St. George's hill, tiverton.

THE Patronage and • Support of the Public of
Liverpool are respectfully invited on behalf of the
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION in aid of the WIVES and
FAMILIES of SOLDIERS ordered to the East, which is under
the Patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, and His Rayal
Highness Prince Albert.

GENERAL-COMMITTEE.
H.R.H. the Duke of Cam- IJ. C. Co!quhoun. Esq.,
bridge, K.G., Col. Dunne, M.P.,
TheArclbishopofCanterbury, Capt. James D
The Bishop of London, John Letsum Elliot, Esq.,
The Duke of Manchester. _Hon. A. Kitinairii, M.P.,

The Marquis of ,Blandford, Lieut.-Col. B. Knox, M.P.,
M.P., Hon. Capt. Knox, M.P.,
The Earl of Annesley, MX., Capt. Laffan, M.P.,
The Earl of Cavan, Lieut.. Col. Lawrenson,
The Earl of Effingham, Lt.,Col.Hon.J.Lindsay,M.P,„
The Earl of Feverahatn, Gen. Sir P. Maitland, G.C. R.,
The Earl of Shaftesbury, Right Hon. J. Napier, M.P.,
Viscount Hill, Col. North, M.P.,
Viscount Ingestre. Capt. Owen, R. 8.,
Aland ilk, M.P - J. W. Patten, Es.' M.P

Viscount Mandeville, „
Viscount Sondes, Melville Portal, Eq., M.P.,
Lord Lilford, - Majorthe Hon. H: L. Powys,
Lord E. Howard, M.P„ A. Sp dtiswoode, Esq.,
Lnrd H. Cholmondeley, M.P, A. Stafford, Esq., M.P.,
Lord C. Clinton, M.P., Lieut.-Col. Taylor, M.P.,
Capt. Archdall, M.P.,- Capt. W. E. Vernon,
Col. Baker, . ,Sir William Verner, M.P.,
Col. Boldero, M.P., Shirley Woolmer, Esq.,
Lt.-Col. Hunter Blair, MX., General Wyndham, M.P.,
Lt.-Col. Caulfield, M.P., Sir Robert Gerard.

TREASURER. HONORARY SECRETARY.
Sir John Kirkland. I Major.the Hon. H. L. Powys.
The Wives of Soldiers now embarking for the East may be
divided into three classes:-
Ist—Those women who are.married with military sanction,
and have been allowed to embark with their hus-
bands, at the rate of four.women (without families) to
every hundred men.
2d—Those women who, though married with military sanc-
tion, have not been allowed to embark.(though pre-
pared to do so), in consequence of the:number being
reduced from six per cent. to four, and in consequence
of their having tamilies.
3d—Those women who are married without military sane-
-I.ion, and have no claim whatever to military favour
.or indulgence of any kind.
Of .these three classes, the second is most especially the
object of she care and protection of the Association-; though
I, from the.third class relief and assistance will not bemithheld
in certified eases of urgent distress and respectability of cha-
racter.
The Government pays the passage of all soldiers' wives to
their parisliel, and then in most cases the workhouse is the
only alternative. IN here the Government leaves them this
Association proposes to take them up, Fon tr as gyro-ENT
THAT THE -PUBLIC WILL NOT ALLOW THAT THE ONLY HOME
FOR THE SOLDIER'S WIFE AND CHILDREN SHOULD BE THE
WORKHOUSE.
The plan already carried out by the Association is as fol-
lows :-
Ist—To furnish the Commanding Officers of Regiments
previous to .embarkation, with small printed cards,
to be distributed amongst those Wives of Soldiers
who remain behind and are sent to their parishes;
these cards being signed by the Commandingofficers,
prove the identity of the person who holds them.
2d—On receipt of nominal rolls of all the Women and Chil-
dren left behind., to administer temporary relief to
the most urgent cases, through the Officer command-
ing the dep& or regiment, or through some clergy.
man of the parish, or through the Paymaster of pen-
sioners of the district, or any other trustworthy
channel. Nominal rolls have already been received
from fifteen regiments, and to eighteen regiments some
relief has been granted, both through the Command-
ing Officera and the Army Chaplains.
3d—T Asylums for Motherless Children, and fur
Children whose mothers consent to part from them
in consequence of the largeness of their family.
4th—To provide Employment for Mothers, and assist them
in the Education of their Children. The Association
has already been instrumental in purchasing hand-
looms and mangles for Women anxious to work.
With a view of encouraging
efforts to And employment by
these Women themselves, the standing rule of the Association
is not to give permanent pecuniary relief in any case where
employment has not been obtained after a certain time. So
that the greatest claim a woman shall have upon the Associa-
tion will be her having obtained some employment, however
small, or her being able to prove satisfactorily that she has
Made every effort in her power to find employment.

PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE FOR LIVERPOOL.
J. B. Lloyd, Esq., Mayor.
Geo. C. Arbuthnot, Esq., Wm. Jones Esq.,
C. Balleny, Esq., T. W. Keiglitley, Esq
Chris. Bushell, Esq., Joseph Langton, Esq.,
Chas. Cotesworth, Esq.,R.N., Rev. C. W. Lawrence,
Col. Derinzy, Geo. H. Lawrence, Esq.,
John Eden, Esq., Thos. Littledale, Esq.,
Rev. W. M. Falloon, M.A., Chas. M'lver, Esq.,
.Adam Gladstone, Esq., Rev. If. MiNeile, D.D.,
Capt. Greig, Jas. Middleton, Esq.,
T. B. Horsfall, Esq.. M.P., Thos. Edwardes Moss, Esq.,
Geo. H. Horsfall Esq., Hugh Neill, Esq'
Sir T. G. Beaked), Bart., Rev. F. Ould,
Rev. John Jones, John Torr, Esq.
TREASURER.
Major BoUrne, Heatlifield•house, Wavertree.
SECRETARIES.
Capt. Westmacott, R.E., 3, North view, Edge-hill.
Rev. John It. Conor, M.A., 16, Canterbury-street.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Treasurer
and the Secretaries, and alto at MeS4M, Moss's Bank,

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
WORKING MEN'S PROTESTANT REFORMATION

SOCIETY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—At a Meeting held in this town on Mon-
dayko evening last, it was my sinzular good fortune to be
the subject of attack by three reverend gentlemen, and in no
fewer than five speeches to be lectured in unmeasured terms.
The cause of offence was a speech delivered by me three
months ago, in connexion with the Working Men's Sunday
Services. Two reports of Monday night's meeting have
appeared, and as each supplies deficiencies in the other, it
will be necessary to quote from both. I have frequently
been w:trned since my speech was published to prepare for
the impending blow, and am at last enabled to judge of the
force of the home thrult by its rebound. I em not indis-
posed to receive in good feeling any advice to act charitably
towards my fellow men ; yet such advice hardly comes with
good grace from men who seldom appear in public without
betraying the absence of true Christian meekness and charity;
and it is rather inconsistent in them, when their misconduct
is exposed, to turn round and lecture any individual who has
the temerity to draw aside the veil and exhibit their proceed-
ings in their true colours.
Liverpool has been long afflicted with a party of Protestant
Priests, who, reared in Ireland, and reeking from its Orange
hot-bed, have planted themselves here as in a soil more
congenial to their peculiar talents; yet is it not marvellous
that it has never struck them (in their zeal for Protestantism)
that Papist Ireland is a much better field for their zealous
and disinterested labour than the Protestant community of "
Liverpool? Would it be uncharitable to suppose that there
are sterling reasons why the Roman Catholics of Ireland are
left by these gentlemen to the teaching of their priests,
while the English Protestants are diverted with polemics, to
the neglect of the more important duties of religion?
The Rev. V. M. White charges me with "misrepresenta-
tion," with "condemning Scripture Readers' Societies,
Town Missions, and Foreign Missions." How can one deal
with a minister who construes a censure upon the bitterness
of controversy, and inflammatory appeals to ignorant and
violent men, into a condemnation of objects and institutions,
which I not only hold in high estimation, but whose excel.
ience was expressly admitted in the speech which Mr.
White held in his hand, and from which he affected to be
reading?
Even Mr. White, hi reference to the Protestant Reformation
Society, "confessed that he felt something like an opinion
that the name • Working Men's Reformation Society' was not
exactly the name which the purposes of the society would
lead him to choose." Why, then, in the name of common
sense, is a title chosen opposed to the practice of Mr. White
and his friends ; and why is such fault found with me for
detecting and exposing the inconsistency? If the name under
which they are acting does not express the "purposes of the
society," why don't they adopt one that does? If they had
called it "A No-Popery Association," or "A Presbyterian
and Prelatic Anti-Papist Society," there would have been no
mistake, and the real object would have been honestly stated.
Why borrow a name that does not express the purposes of
their action? A jackdaw in borrowed plumes is still a jack-
daw, and if gentlemen will wear feathers that do not belong
to them. they must expeet, some time or other, to beplucked.
Mr. White has flocked much of late with the polemic rookery.
This is little to his credit as a dissenter, and it hurts his gene-
ral usefulness; but in the end he will most likely he served as
others have been served before; he may chatter and caw with
the brood so log as it is fancied his services may " promote
the end they all have in view ;" but the moment lie has
answered their purpose, lie will receive the gentle hint that in
their estimation he is no rook, but only a jackdaw; he may
flirt with them and flutter about their steeples for a season,
but at last he will he told that the sooner he wings his
flieht to his own little conventicle in Islington, the better;
and, let me tell him, he can there serve his Master better
than 'by peppering poor Papists from the platform.
The charge of "misrepresentation" is made because of my
pointing out the danger of addressing inflammatory language
to Orange operatives, convinced that the denunciation of
Popery to such men can only lead to consequences that would
fall upon the beads of Papists. Mr.. White says (and in this
he is supported by Mr. Taylor) that "every seeaker carefully
inculcated the necessity of distinguishing between the sin
'reprobated and the man who commits it." If this be an ex
post facto discovery of what ought to have been done, I can-
not help thinking it is rather too bad to blame me for
not seeing what is not in the report of the meeting from
which I quoted. Mr. White must alloW that there are those
who are likely to know working-men as well as he or his
quondam friends can be expected to do. Blind zeal prevents
men from looking at the facts Of a case; and blind, indeed,
must be the zeal of that man seiho has not made the discovery
that such inflammatory appeals to ignorant and violent men
can :only have the effect I described, "excite envy, hatred,
malice, and all uncharitableness—promote rancour among
neighbours—provoke party feuds and street fights..
Nay, further, there is nothing which so thoroughly disgusts
reflecting working mien with, the professors of religion, and
so directly tends to bring it into contempt, as such unseemly
exhibitions by its minissnrs.
It is easy to discriminate between the preacher of the cross
and the polemic, between 'the Christian minister and the
political parson ; and whilst I revere the one, I will raise my
voice against the other, as a social evil and a political nest.
Mr. While also took 'up the cudgels for his friend. Dr.
Baylee, and charged me with "ascribing false motives'" to
that gentleman in referring to his twopenny collection for
providing additional curates for Liverpool. I simply quoted
facts from Dr. Baylee's report, which stated that a great
many twopences had been collected, " some from families so
poor that they could not afford a second room ; that a poor
widow (a lone widow) contributed her penny ; and another
poor widow, havinga family, a halfpenny ; that even the:kelp
of a poor washerwoman,. with tears in her eyes, was not re-
fused." I did the receiver justice, by adding that lie slid
"confess to teeing in some cases ashamed to take the
money." I cordially agreed with the worthy doctor, and
quoted his own words, and merely added that the promoters
of that movementwere in my opinion greviously mistaken.
The Rev. W. F. Taylor next charges me with being guilty
of the "most flagrant inconsistency," &c., Sec., .quoting
many texts for my edification, and talking loudly and largely
of charity, while he, a minister of the Church of Enzland,
quotes Scripture for the purpose of making a miserable pun
upon my name. 'Of the taste of its introduction, and the
charity of the sentiment, I leave others to judge.
The Rev. S. B. eutton bad the good sense to draw. a prace
tical inference ; be said, "he was glad that reference had
been made to my observations, for it would teach clergymen
to look more narrowly to their duties. Many working men
looked upon clergymen as mere schemers, and religion as a
matter of pounds, shillings, and pence." That fact long per-
sonal experience enables me to verify ; and my object in mak-
ing the observation was to bring out this view of the matter,
in the hope that it might have the effect of provoking to good
works, anti I greatly rejoice in believing that such will be the
result.

Now, before concluding, will Mr. Sutttn and his friends
allow a plain, practical min—one more accustomed to figures
than figures of speech—to ask them one plain question,—" If
working men look upon clergymen as mere schemers. and
religion as a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence,"are
their prejudices likely to be uprooted by a movement whose
most prominent feature is the employment of men in course
of education for clergymen as collectors of -twopences?t
the taxing of thohard earnings of their toil likely to recom-
mend to working men the Gospel of Jesus, which invites ail
to " Buy without money and without price?" Oh, but Mr.
White tells us that our Lord commended the poor widow for
casting her mite into the treasury. Will Mr. White point out
the passage where, in s-nding his disciples to the common
people. Jesus bade them first go round the town and collect
two-pences from workmen, pennies, or half-pennies, from
widows—lone widows and weeping washerwomen? If'the
disciples bad done this, I trow the common people would
hardly have heard them quite so gladly. No, they did not
beg on, year after year, waiting for a church and a parson-
age, telling up their twopences. It was no part of their mis-
sion to beg from lone widows and washerwomen. Amongst
all sects I have heard of begging parsons, but never such
begging as this—beggars begging from beggars. A beggarly
business, truly, for gentlemen and clergymen to follow.
Yours truly,
NATHANIEL CAINE.

* If any proof be necescary, it is-supplied by the following
.extract from the annual report of the Rev. C. F. Bishop :
—" Polemical excitement has lost none of its virulence
during the past year. It is astonishing, as welt as grievous,
to-witness to what an extent religious (so-called) and political
bitterness is found to prevail amongst some of the lahouring
, classes ; and, in most cases, the violence of the feeling is in
,proportion to the wickedness _of the life. Men, who neglect
their duties as husbands and fathers, who spend their earn-
ings in the public house, and allow their children to wander
in the streets, ars ready, on the slightest provocation, to
,fieht in the name of religion, and to treat with the greatest
ferocity all who are of the opposite party. This apply
:almost equally to certain sections of both Protestants and
Catholics. The sight of a green ribbon on the one side, or
an orange ribbon on the other, is sufficient to anger these
foolish people into a state of frenzy. The orange procession
of the 12th July rekindled all the dying embers-of-strife, end
the flames still continue to rage. On the nieht after that
procession went both into Orange and Catholic -districts
whered was known, with the view of doing what.l could to
allay the evil spirit that had been raised, and I was thus en-
gaged tilt after midnight. Besides the collisions in the
.principal streets, many savage fights took place in more
retired neighbourhoods, and in several ,courts I saw-case-
ments with nothing in them but shattered glass. From one
house of disreputable character one of the wretched inmates
was carried to the hospital with a broken arm, which she had
got in one of, these religions frays; for even that miserable
class shared ip the agitation, and ranged themselves on their
respective sides. 'The feeling, as I have said, has not died
away. Just at the-close of the year I was requested to-call
and see a man whoevas one of the flag bearers in the above
procession. He had been drinking at a public house, and
was there reproached by some of the other party because of
his share in the proceedings of the carpenter lads,, on Prince
William's day, and, after the usual taunts about the Pope
and the confessional on the one side, and the character of
Henry and his connexion with the reformed religion.
on the other, the fiagbearer was waylaid by several men as
he left the.house, who threw him down and kicked him with
such brutality that he had to be assisted, bruised and bleed-
ing, by the police to his home, where he lay for a fortnight
in a disabled state.
Such are the results in the courts an I homes of the poor of
the unholy polemical agitations which are too often promoted
by those who have every .means of knowing better, and for
whom the same excuse cannot be alleged as we ought, perhaps,
to make for the ignorant people, whose worst passions they
stimulate into such ferocious activity.
Even the very children catch in some degree the same evil
spirit, and it is us unusual thing to hear little urchins propose -
"three groans for the Pope," or " three groans for the jump-
ers," under which cognomen all protestants are included. It
is worthy of note that, seen after the 12th July, I saw a party of
boys, varying in age from eight to fourteen years, armed with
long sticks, with which they were getting up a mimic row;
with all its movements and noises. One of the little fellows
pretended to be felled by a blow on the head received from
one of his companions. There he lay, apparently stunned.
They came about him and pretended to raise him. He
dropped his hands, and arms, and legs, exactly as if he had
been senseless, and they laid him out as if they would carry
him to the hospital. In what a school, thought I, are those
children tieing educated? And what tan he expected of them
when they feel the passions which they thus horribly mimic.
Oh,.when will this spirit of foul antipathy be laid, and was
differ from man as brother from brother? Not till a more
lowly and charitable demeanour, and a less proud and arro-
gate spirit, are manifested by the leaders of sects and parties.
The feeling that prompts the educated man to the use of in-
jurious words will urge the ignorant man to resort to wound-
ing blows.
t A` Every one who is a collector is a student of St.'Aidan's."
—The Rev. Dr. Baylee's speech at the Collegiate Institution,
11th Jan., 1853.

TEE Cnox,Ene.—A notification from the Board of
Health, endorsed, we regret to say, by alarming intelli-
gence from Ireland, warns us that the cholera has not yet
departed from our shores, but that, on the contrary, a
fresh and more virulent outbreak of it is to be expected.
This expectation is founded on the fact that in 1831, and
again in 1848, the epidemic declined, and all but disap-
peared, in a similar manner, only to break forth with
increased virulence in the following spring and summer.
These facts serve as a text, on which the Board of Health
enlarges for the purpose of precautionary measures. We
cannot help saying that the Board of Health is greatly
to blame for having delayed this notification until the
return of the warm weather when, according to their own
statement, some of the most important operations in the-
way of deansing can no longer be performed with safety.
But above all we cannot suppress our astonishment,—to
use no stronger term,—that when such an official intima-
ton is sent forth, advantage should not be taken of the
approaching day of humiliation and prayer to make the
impending visitation the subject of an address to the
Throne of Grace.—John Bull.
THE ExtionATlox Commissioners have advertised for
four vessels to carry emigrants to Victoria, South Australia
and New South Wales. They are to be respectively ready
for Melbourne and Adelaide on the 2d, and Sydney and
Portland Bay on the 6th of June.
Tun NOLLOWING VESSELS were taken up on Saturday
by the Admiralty, for the transport service:—The Sir
Robert Sale, the Europa, the Lord Raglan, and Libertus,
belonging to London ; and the William Tuition, the
Theodore, and Palmyra, belonging to bverpod

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