The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

EDUCATION IN WALES

We find the following in the Merthyr Guardian :—lf
the statement be unimpeachable—and we must assume it
to be so, derived as it is from an official parliamentary
document—no one will venture to affirm that the system
of which it is the exponent, is calculated to promote
either the spiritual or the social interests of the Princi-
pality. It will be said, perhaps, that the low state of
education among the Welsh, precludes natives from tak-
ing their due proportion of ecclesiastical preferments;
but this only suggests the question, why education has
been suffered to get into that low state ?
We must now proceed with our review of the Church
in North Wales. We had left off that period when we
showed that eleven men, Bishop's relatives, received
from the diocese of St. Asaph alone £12,292 per annum.
Our attention, in the next place, is naturally drawn to
the Chapter. This, also, will prove to us the manner in
wh ch it has been customary to encourage and reward the
native clergy. Our authority is again the same, the re-
port made to the House of Lords. Here we find there
are fourteen dignities in the Cathedral of St. Asaph.
Nine of these are held by Englishmen, and five by
Welshmen. The revenues of those held by the English
amount in the aggregate to £1,841 per annum; and the
total amount of fines, at the time of making the returns,
during an average of three years, were £772.
On the other hand, the revenues enjoyed by the five
Welsh amounted to £3l per annum, and the tines during
the same period of three years were £2Ol per annum.
Thus ;
Total income of Englishmen .. £1,841 per annum.
Welshmen .. 31 11
Total fines of Englishmen .. 772
Welshmen 201
11 .. 11
Total received by Englishmen during three years £2,613
El 2

Welshmen
Excess received by Englishmen over Welshmen £2,381

A meeting of the clergy of this town, convened by the
rectors, was held yesterday at the Blue School, for the
purpose of receiving a proposal for the formation of a
" Parochial Assistant Association for Liverpool, Birken-
head, and the neighbourhood," which has been sanctioned
by the Lord Bish(,p of the diocese.

MISCONDUCT OF A POLICE-OFFICER.—At the Police-
court yesterday, officer No. 478 was suspended by Mr.
Rushton, for drenching a female prisoner with water, in
the Bridewell, after he had taken her there o❑ some
trifling charge. The woman was discharged.

BIRKENHEAD MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—We are
glad to hear that lectures, in connection with this institu-
tion, are being delivered in the Craven Rooms, Chester-
street, every Monday evening. On Monday week, Saml.
Wilderspin, Esq., lectured on infant education, to a nu-
merous and respectable auditory. Mr. Hogg, of the
Liverpool Mechanics' Instituqon, delivered a lecture last
evening, on " Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead."

MEETING OF THE PROTESTANT AND REFORMATION
SOCIETY.-It will be seen, from an advertisement in our
columns, that the annual meeting of this society is fixed
to be held in the Concert Hall, Lord Nelson-street, on
Friday next. The Rev. Canon M'Neile will take the
chair, and several other influential gentlemen are expected
to attend, and to address the meeting. No doubt the

meeting will be crowded and enthusiastic, as our Pro-
testant friends have not such opportunities of having their
faith s rengthened as frequently as they ought to have.
VALUABLE PREFERMENT.—The Bishop of Bath and
Wells last week collated the Rev. T. Newberry, M.A., of
Queen's College, Cambridge, and lately incumbent of the
district parish of Shipley-cum Heaton, Yorkshire, to the
Rectories of Hinton—St. George and Scavington—St.
Michael, with Dinnington annexed, in the County of So-
merset; vacant by the death of the Rev. R. A. Cox; and
to which he has been presented by the Most Noble the
Earl Paulett. The rev. gentleman has received a splendid
and valuable testimonial from his late parishioners, on his
removal from them, expressive of the high estimation in
which he has been held, and the grateful appreciation they
entertain of his ministerial labours amongst them.
STABBING CASE.—We have elsewhere given the parti-
culars of a charge brought before Mr. Rushton last week
against James Hunter of stabbing Charles Winslow, in
the street, on Tuesday morning last. The final hearing
came on yesterday, before Mr. Rushton. Several wit-
nesses were examined, but no new facts were elicited. It
appeared that the whole of the parties were partly intoxi-
cated, and that some provocation in words was given, but
nothing definite was heard or stated. One of deceased's
companions, a seaman, having heard the deposition made
by deceased in the Hospital, said it was not correct. One
witness said that he saw the blow struck at the deceased's
belly by the prisoner, who was kept sight of and appre-
hended, but he could not see whether a knife was used by
the assailant. The sailors, he said, were all fighting to-
gether. The officers who took the prisoner found a clasp
knife in his pocket. Mr. Dean, surgeon of the Northern
Hospital, said the deceased died there on the following
day, from hemorrhage in the intestines, a large blood
vessel in the intestines having been opened by the wound.
The prisoner said that he was not the man who committed
the act, and that he had heard from a man in the Bride-
well that deceased was stabbed by a man named Kelly.
Mr. Rushton ordered the depositions to be taken in writ-
ing, and committed the prisoner for trial at the assizes.
MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY HIS WIFE.—The disco-
very of a mysterious case of poisoning in the village of
Acton, a short distance from Sudbury, within the last
few days, has created the greatest sensation in that part
of the county of Suffolk. The circumstances connected
with it are of a very complicated character. About a
month ago a healthy-looking young man, named John
Foster, 24 years of age, was married to Catherine Morley,
aged 18, the daughter of a widow residing in the village.
For three weeks they lived with the mother apparently on
good terms, when, on the afternoon of the 17th instant,
he complained of heartburn and sickness, and in less than
twenty-four hours expired. The sudden nature of the
death having been communicated to the coroner for the
county, an inquest was held in the village on Saturday,
the 28th instant. The deceased died soon after eating
some dumpling made by his wife. The post mortem
examination discovered arsenic in the stomach of the
husband, who appeared to be a perfectly healthy subject;
and after a good deal of evidence the jury returned a
verdict of " wilful murder" against the wife, who was
committed to the county gaol for trial at the asiiaes.