The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

TIM LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE RECENT ATTEMPT OF THE Two YOUNG WO-
MEN FROM HULL TO BECOME SAILORS. In the ac-
count we last week furnished of this freak, we stated that
when the girls were brought before Mr. Craig, surgeon,
and inspector of volunteers for the navy. they were re-
quired to strip, and took, off their jackets, but being
pressed to go further in the process of denuding, they
confessed their sex. We afterwards stated, as taken from
the lips of the girls themselves, and consequently their
opinion only, that " had not a second doctor (a young
man) been called in. they would have passed inspection
by the first" (this is by Mr. Craig). By giving this last
expression of the girls, (who were of course greatly mis-
taken,) we find we have given some unintentional offence
to Mr. Craig, who, having had long experience as an in-
spector of seamen, immediately detected the sex of the
impostors, and so expressed himself to his son, who was
the young men alluded to. Mr. Craig also gave them the
most moral and earnest advice, urging upon them the im-
propriety and indelicacy of leaving their homes in such
attire, or so foolish an adventure, and impres,ing on them
the impossibility of escaping detection, should they make
any future attempt, as complete personal inspection of all
candidates for the service was imperative. As nothing
was further from our own intention than to impugn the
professional discernment of Mr. Craig, we trust this ex-
planation will be satisfactory, eseecially as we cannot be-
lieve that his reputation has suffered in the slightest de-
gree by the crude conclusion of two servant women.
DOCK COMMITTEE, THURSDAY.—TiIe consideration of
a synopsis of the routine duties at the Albert Dock ware.
houses was deferred for a week in consequence of the
absence of some of the members, who had expressed strong
opinions upon one or two of the clauses. Mr. Mann, in
reference to a list which was submitted of parties recom-
mended for the various offices at the Albert Dock Ware-
houses, said the warehouse sub-committee, in considering
the applications for the situations, had met 35 times. their
sittings frequently occupying three or four hours. There
were 423 applicants, all of whom, with very few exceptions,
had a number of testimonials, all of which were gone
through, All the clerks recommended were persons of
considerable experience and great respectability, and the
wonder wag, that men of such respectability and ability
should be induced to offer their services to the Dock
Committee on such terms. The Secretary then read the
following list, and the committee confirmed their appoint-
ment :—Warehouse-keepers, Superintendents, Clerk,
Warrant Issue Clerk, Manifest or Ship Ledger Clerk, at
salaries of £l5O per annum each : Thomas Inman, aged
44 ; Leonard Simpson. 32;' Ebenezer Allen, 44; J. A.
Cunliffe, 27; A. S. J. Pomperoy, 3 ); John G. Gilks, 28.
Ledeer Clerks for Warehouses and Vaults, at a salary of
£lOO per annum each Elkanah Healey, 22; John Goodall,
25; Alexander Gordon, 39; Thomas H. Glover, 25.
Warehouse Clerks, at a salary of £BO per annum each : S.
T. Nicholson, 29 ; Richard Williams, 24; William Wright,
23. Landing or Cheek Clerks, at a salary of £BO per
annum each : George Clare, 21; Henry Fox, 26; James
Williams, 27; J. W. Fairclough, 22; E. R. Tillet, 22;
W. F. Pennington, 21 ; H. J. Orme, 24 ; C. M. Machell,
22; J. D. Pennell, 25; John Marsh, jun., 28; James
Askew, 26; William Eaves, 22; R. Evans, 21; Cornelius
Beattie, 28. Landing or Check Clerks, at a salary of £5O
per annum each : Wm. Owens, 22; A. C. Leughton, 19 ;
George Thirkell, jun., 18; Edwin Walley, 21/. Managing
Foremen at 455. per week : Silk—William Stokes; East
and West India produce—James Ayre. Mr. Molyneux
said that Mr. Hinch and Mr. Card were highly recom-
mended for the two last appointments, but after sending
in applications they had since withdrawn. Mr. Rankin
was understood to say, there were many of the rejected
parties as deserving as those who were approved, and, it
was probable, should an addition to the present staff be
necessary, that a selection would be made from the un-
successful candidates without giving public notice. Mr.
Ripley (who was much affected) proposed that the Chair-
man should write a letter of condolence and sympatay to
the family of the late Mr. Charles Horsfall. The Chair-
man said he should to glad to comply with such a request.
He felt himself very much indebted to Mr. Horeail, for
the information he bad given to him whilst a member of
that board. When applied to, he afforded it with that
courtesy and willingness which so distinguished him
through life.

CO RR ttSPO NDENCE.

EARL GREY AND•THE IRISH CHURCH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Our opponents misrepresent our position; our hostility
to Papery is quite consistent with our love for Papists.
It is not against Roman Catholics but against Romanism
we protest ; it is not against those unhappy victims of
Priesthood and hypocrisy in the sister island against
whom we protest, but against those men and that religion
by whom and by which they are victimised. We protest,
and by God's grace we will protest, till we have not left a
voice to lift up against its enormities a system, than which
all the ingenuity of Satan and his infernal councils could
not have devised one more effective for the perversion of
humanity, the destruction of nations, and th. everlasting
ruin of immortal souls 1 A system, which, wherever its
infecting presence is found, blights commerce and pros-
perity, roots up communities and nations, and spreads
devastation around it. A system, a more terrible engine
in the hands of Godlike venrance for the punishment of
a nation's sins, than all the inagues, calamities, and woes
ever issued from the quiver of eternal wrath ! This is strong
language, and we are decried for using expressions incom-
patible with Christian charity and moderation ; but, Sir.
I ask with what other diction are we to suit our subject?-
Would that / could speak on such a burning topic in
" words that burn." When we read of the cheats that
are practised by the inheritors of that truth which Christ
gave unto his disciples, upon the very calamities of a
-starving peasantry. When we read of men, priest's for-
sooth of Christ's holy religion! and in this enlightened
age, trading with the mummery of their perverted office,
and selling "holy salt" as a remedy against disease to
those wretched and -deluded beings who were perishing
ender that disease, and whose necessities favoured their
helpless credulity. When we read of ministers wearing
the badge of the deity of the Bible denouncing that holy
volume a " damnable book," and consigning the Stem.
bling spirit who shall dare to consult its divine precepts
to " eternal damnation ;" when we find the ambassa tors
of the Prince of Peace sowing the seeds of dissension
amongst their people, and encouraging them to acts of
violence, robbery, and bloodshed, by extending to them
God's pardon beforehand; when we read of these things
not one tithe of the fearful class of enormities which stain
that horrible confederacy of the powers of darkness,
whilst in public, decency and conventionality step in to our
restraint, in the private musings of one's indignant spirit
the whole vocabulary of Saxon vituperation is utterly
unable to furnish language capable of expressing our just
abhorrence of such wicked, such blasphemous, such horri-
ble abominations!

for th- use of the inhabitants of such new separate parish-;
provided always, that no such rate shall be valid unless
rate-payers °coup\ ing at the least three-fourths of the
property rated to the relief of the poor in such new parish
concur in making such rate ; and no such rate shall be
valid unless due notice be given of the intention to make
such rate for such purpose, by an advertisement published
during three successive weeks, in some one newspaper
pub ished in the county or counties wherein such parish is
situated, signed by the churchwardens, overseers, and ten
rate-payers ; or where there shall be fewer than ten rate-
payers, by tate-pters to the amount of one• fourth of the
rates levied for the relief of the poor. Clause 4 declares
' that churchwardens may. raise money for building new
churches by mortgage—provided always, that it shall be
covenanted that not les: than one-tenth of the sum so
borrowed shall be annually paid off, in addition to the in-
terest agreed to be paid tor such sum. ClAuse 5. Pro-
viding sites for new churches.---That it shall be lawful to
erect any such new church or chapel on any such glebe
land on any part of such new separate parish ; and it shall
be lawful to take any quantity of such glebe land, not
exceeding in the whole two acres, for the purpose of form-
ing a churchyard fat' the burial of the dead ; and the glebe
land so taken for the site of such new church, and for
such churchyard, shall thereafter be vested in the ordinary
for the use of sur:h separate parish ; provided always that
such glebe land shall not be taken unless the ordinary and
the clerk in holy orders, who may be in the possession of
the glebe land, shall give their consent thereto in writing.
Clause 6 provides that funds now appli -able io repairs of
churches may in certain cases be applied for the purposes
of this Act.

And, Sir, who is it that is favourab'e to this dangerous
religion; who is it advoc,tes its brawling claims? Not
only Earl Grey and his reckless party, but our own, or
sure our own leader and ally, the Premier of England. It
is Sir Robert Peel who has fed the pollution of May-
nooth, and who has threatened the destruction of the Pro-
testant University and that now pants to dispense the
money of Englishmen to the maintenance of the Roman
Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland !
It is lamentable to contemplate the sad wreck of former
prosperity and greatness, exemplified in that degenerated
man. " But yesterday, and Peel might have stood against
the world ; now, none so poor as do him reverence."
Apart from the considerations of party, this fallen man is
a terrible lesson to his compeers and successors ; he will
be for ever a monument of favours lost, and advantages
thrown away. 1,1 the political history of his country, his
own life will form a melancholy episode, pointing, for the
warning of future generations, to that rock upon which
no statesman can steer with honour or with safety, veri-
fying the truth which one day, if the terrible time of rec-
koning has not yet arrived, will flash across his con-
science, with all the force of thirty years' experience, that
though the arts of duplicity and cunning may for a while
succeed on the credulity and weakness of a party, yet, like
water, the dishonest, statesman must at last find his real
level. Ile has been tamped by a master hand our Fabius
nMxioatle rrissus but o
n 0;
table,n
character
rwe
aictieirsid a far
oiant less
iquity will only
suit
tuhgihs
crimes. When we reflect. upbti the many advantages
showered down on this misguided minister by a lenient
providence, perverted to thwart the very will of that gra-
cious providence, we are afflicted with reeret that we
should have trusted in his hands our best and most impor-
tant interests, as his day of remorse will come for betraying
them. Whilst he might have retired from the active arena,
upon which he has so long played his part, covered with the
laurels of success and a gratified ambition, followed by the
endless gratitude of his own party, and the forced admi-
ration of his political opponents, he has now blighted
every hope, but the paltry prospect of a wickedly earned
coronet. He has not one satisfaction meet for an honour-
able man to entertain, and the only anxiety he occasions
a betrayed country is., that for the good of pro'.perity he
has grown tired of his troublous existence, if nor from a
conviction of its turpitude, still from the desire of repose.
There can be no peace fora detected deceiver on the stage
where he practised his deceit ; and that party into whose
arms he has thrown himself, only despise him for his
weakness and distress. As soon as they have accomplished
the dirty work in which they have employed him as their
tool, they reject his help as an incumbrance, and laugh
whilst he writhes under the contempt of one party and the
ridicule of the other. Without one friend in the wide
world who would vouchsafe him a character, this helpless
wanderer is at the mercy of every tide and blown by every
wind that caprice, cunning, or revenge may raise to his
destruction. Once the cherished hope of a nation, he is
now the miserable object of scorn and detestation of every
party in that nation : once the recognised leader of the
greatest party England ever saw, now cast out from alle-
giance, a pitiful deserter to a faction whom even he taints
by his adhesion : once the great premier of England, now
the apostate hireling and tool of a rabid and revolutionary
crew!

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS.—On Thursday, the
anniversary of the national schools connected with the
Established Church, was celebrated in this town, by the
children walking in procession, headed by a number of
clergymen, members of the Town Council and others, and
afterwards attending divine service at St. Peter's Church,
where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Thos. W.
Peile, D. D.. High Master cf Renton, and late fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge. During the service, the
psalms and hymns were sung by the children in a
very beautiful and correct manner. Mr. Edmund Stott
presiding at the organ. His Worship the Mayor
was prevented from attending, in consequence of
sudden indisposition. The collection amounted to £4O
2s. sd. ; last year it was £44 ls. 10d. The subject of the
reverend gentleman's sermon was taken from the three
last verses of the 48th Psalm. In drawing a parallel between
the providence of God over the ancient Jewish Church,
and his merciful dealings with our own Established
Church, the pride and protection of our land, he took
occasion to advert to the glorious Reformhtion, the Res-
toration, and Revolution, in which our religion was re-
formed, established, and confirmed, and also to the in-
creased zeal and energy of her clergy and laity in the
present day as causes of devout thanksgiving and good
hope for the future. In saying this, however, he was not
blind to the dangers by which she was assailed, more
from the divisions by which she was weakened from with-
in, than even from the enemies by whom she was menaced
from without. Tares had been sown among the wheat ;
an enemy had done this and " such tares, too," he ob-
served, " as one would have thought that neither the craft
nor subtlety of the devil or man could have reproduced in
the Church of Protestant England." However, as the de-
soh.ting tempest only restored health to the atmosphere
by which we are surrounded, even so this lamentable de-
fection might also be overruled for good in His hands who
ordereth all things, to whom therefore thanks should he
given, and in whom confidence should be placed. The
following is an account of the number of children in the
schools connected with the Established Church, within
the parliamentary boundary, on the day of the anniver-
sary, 25th June, 1845:

xtay. Info

SCHOOLS

Blue Coat Hospital
Fm. a'e Or. Asylum

Old Church 253 252 8
Hunter street l6B 100 15
Sr. James's
Welsh Charity ... 296 104 ..
Everton ftr Kirkdale 186 110 20
1..4. Mark's..
St Andrew's l3B 128 36
St. Paul's
Edgr..hiq
St. lude's
St. Augus'ine's :59 140 26
St. Jonn the Baptist 157 24u 36
N. Church of Eng 268 20', 28
St. Bride's..
St. Ca' herine's 79 76 6
Mill-lane
S. Church of Eng l3B, 150 4
st. Luke's 6Ol 43 5
St.Maty'r, Kirkdale
Christ Church

88! 373

100 '175
156 334
;6. 431
19') 456

Maxims quis non Jupiter, exelamat, simul atque audivit )

601 266
55! 204

Sol 384
2281 492
1:39 3:•1
2021 410

The subject has carried me too far : I have touched
upon it very slightly : I must recur to it and my Lord
Grey's speech on the earliest opportunity.—Tour obedi-

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66, 162
D's

ent servant,

NIGEL

June 19th, 1946,

60, 256
3.6
86. 4.0

22., 47.6
422 735
297 717
175 sso

UNIVERSITY 4- CLERICAL NEWS,

78' 158
52 148
tan, 254

The new church at Elworth,in the parish of Sandbacb
was consecrated on Tuesday.

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2M 510
89 214
151 223
287 654

The diocese of Australia is to be immediately subdi-
vided into three distinct bishoprics.
It is Miss Burdett Coutts who has expressed an inten-
tion of founding, at her own expense, two colonial
bishoprics.
On Friday the Bishop of Chester consecrated two new
churches at Longsight, near Manchester. His lordship
preached on each occasion.
On Wednesday, the Bishop of Chester consecrated the
beautiful little church at North Rode, Cheshire, and on
the following day he performed the same ceremony at
Rainow, in the same county.
In the Arches Courr, on Saturday, the Rev. James
Shore was admonished and condemned in costs of suit for
celebrating divine worship in an unlicensed chapel within
the diocese of Exeter.

13f11 73

Mariner', Church . 10 74, '. . .
St. Bartholomew's 170 15n 25
St. Clement's 142 98 55
St. 'imon's . 130
St. Barnabas' 2lB 16
St. Silas'
St. Martin's . l2O 951 • •

St.l homas', Paik 45 13
St. John's . 152 1
W. Derby Workhs. 55

Live' pool Ditto I

42
991 169

14t59 390; SSI

3h7
1.•
100 2-5
24 296
75 194
961 202
6 2.0
85i

132, 4751

260 5,
202 498
2'9 483
4'B 716
1;3 373
ISO 385

144 318
50 118

4241 497 6708114205

Mcinnrit BY TWO BOYS.—Last week the Manchester
magistrates were engaged in investigating a case involving
circumstances of an almost unparalleled desert, tion, as
tending to prove a deliberate act of murder against two
boys named James Seddon and Joseph Dean, the one 17
and the other only 14 years of age. The victim is a boy
named George Wray, 13 years old, the son of a blacking
maker living in Dfansgate-street, Manchester. Seddon,
the elder of the accused parties, has for some time occu-
pied a small coal-yard near a street called Tuer-street,
Chorhon-upon-Medlock. but both he and Dean seem to
have led a sort of vagabond-life, existing rather upon
what chance placed in their way than from any regular
means of subsistence. The circumstances of the horrid
affair are these :—On Friday week the deceased and bis
brother were sent out by their father with a donkey and
pithiersTolnilik blieltiortor- sale. - As they did not re=
turn home at the usual hour in the evening, the father
went in search of them, and succeeded in finding the de-
ceased's brother and the donkey, but the deceased could
not be met with. Late on Friday night the father gave
up the search, intenling to renew it on the following
morning, but on that morning he received the news of

At a consecration a few days since, by the Bishop of
London, his lot &hip alluded to the number of churches
be had consecrated (upwards of 150), and said, there was
a friendly rivalry between himself and the Bishop of
Chester, who had consecrated upwards of 160.
The valuable vicarage of St Pancras has become vacant
by the death of the Rev. James Moore, LL D., (Ale of
the most Eloquent preachers in London. It is said that
the Rev. T. Dale, canon of St. Paul's, will be his suc-
cessor.

JESUITS IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—Archbishop
Magee, the predecessor of the present Archbishop of
Dublin, made the following assertion

o some cler

of his diocese, some time previous to his death re
are, (said-he), at Ws moment-, mriny
count—but still acting as Church of England clergymen,
and in the possession of parishes, who are silently but
surely working its downfall."
At Glasgow a floating church has just been launched.
The vessel is built of iron, perfectly flat underneath, the
a I one end formed after the fashion of a bow, and the other,

son's death. It appeared that about four o'clock in the
morning, James Hughes, ostler at the, Golden Eagle,. in
Tu'er-street, went to the stable connected with the inn,
and, on opening a window which overlooks a stream
called *1 Black Brook," he saw the body of the deceased
lying in the brook. The depth of water in the brook was
only about three inchrs, and the upper part of the de-
ceased's dress was quite dry. The body was removed
into a stable, and the police were informed of the circum-
stance. Inquiries were immediately set on foot, and on
the deceased's body being examined by the police sur•
geon, it was found that death resulted from a severe blow
received on the forehead, and which bad injured the
brain. The blow appeared to have been inflicted with
some heavy blunt instrument, though with sufficient edge
to cut through the deceased's cap, as a hole was disco-
vered in it at a part corresponding with the wound on the
forehead. There were also some slight marks on the
d. ceased's neck, as if an attempt had been made at
strangulation. He had no money in his pockets; although
he was known to have sold blacking to the amount of two
shillings or three shillings in the course of Friday. The
priocival facts which tend strongly to fix the boys Seddon
and Dean with the murder, are that between ten and
eleven o'clock on Friday night they were seen going with
the deceased into Seddon's coal-yard, and shortly after
that time a man who was passing heard a noise in the
yard, and called the attention of the policeman to the cir-
cumstance ; but the policeman, on knocking at the yard-
gate, could obtain no answer. Mrs. Bridge, a small shop-
keeper in the immediate neighbourhood, states that the
deceased borrowed a candle from her about eleven o'clock
that night, saying he was going to look at Seddon's
" dandies," and she also states that the candle was re-
turned to her about half an hour afterwards by the prisoner
Dean. but she saw nothing of the deceased at that time.
Matthew Mills, a shopkeeper near the same spot, saw the
two prisoners leaving the coal-yard alone about a quarter
before twelve o'clock the same n,ght ; and some time after
niidn'ght, Jane Williams, who occupies a house in Tue r-
street, beard a struggle on the wound below her back bed-

or stern
t part, quite square. The extreme length is 78
f
breadth 23: and depth of iron 41 feet. Tie area of
the church has a fine, raomy, and most comfortable ap-
pearance. The height from the floor, which is level with
the base of the i.oat, to the Op of the c urch, is 17 feet,
and in the middle of the roof there are three cupola win-
dows which light the whole house, and these have their
centre pieces moveable to act as ventilators. There are
as vet no seats formed in either arcs or galleries. and it is
doubtful if any will be placed till the church arrives at its
destination, which is not yet definitely fixed. It is inten-
ded to ace mmodate about 700 persons.
THE BISHOP OF CALCUTTA.—The appearance of
Bishop Wilson, on Tuesday morning, in the Oxtord Uni-
versity pulpit, attracted an unusually crowded audience to
hear and see a man so distinguished in the religious his-
tory of the last thirty years. Long before service cern-
menced, the spacious edifice was crowded irs every part.
His lordship took his text from Titus. chap. ii., v. 14. It
was evidently a great exertion to the bishop, worn out by
his labours in India, to deliver a discourse at all. much
more so on this important occasion, when the public cu-
riosity and interest were so highly raised. His lordship's
physical powers, formerly so vigorous and energetic in de-
livering his great message, are no longer equal to the task
of preaching, and those who recollect what he was twenty-
five years ago, .in the zenith of his fame and popularity,
listened with saddened feelings to the :übdurd and altered
voice once so thrilliu and impassioned. The most strik-
ing passages in the sermon were his lordship's brief ad.
dress to the young tutu of Oxford, urging them nit to
fritter away their too brit,f academical term in attending
to the mere externals of religion—the traditions of men—
and the Popish and semi-Popish teaching of the last ten
years. The people of England, the bishop said, detest
Popery, and are strongly and firmly attached to Protest.
lare ; and there was no fear for the Church of England.
provided the bishops and the nobles were true to their
duties. The b'shop's charge, however good, is not
enough ; he must follow it up by the whole of his conduct.
Another striking passage related to India,. the chosen

room window, which overlooks the brook where the body scene of the preacher's dying labours. He strongly urged Preirnbles in Commons Oldham, Manchester, and
was found. She states that she looked out at the window the claims of In both upon missionaries and medical Birkenhead. proved ; Oldham dis,rict line, not proved;
and saw two persons going away, but she could not idea- men, and stated that the medical practice of the 1-1 indoos Caledonian ( Clydesdale Junction, deviations ), proved;
tify them. A cabin in Seddon 's coal yard was searched i is in the same barbarous state now that it was two thou- Midland (Lciesier and Swannington), proved ; Caledo-
by the police, and in a box in the cabin were found a sand years ago. The bishop thanked the University for nian Extension, not proved; Blackburn, Chorley, and
handkerchief belonging to the deceased and 24. 4-d• in its liberal contribution to the cathedral of Calcutta, where, Liverpool, not proved ; Llinvi Valley and South Wales
copper. On these being shown to Seddon he said they he said, he was going back to die, and rest with his pre- Junction, proved.
were his own, and that he had received the money for decessors in his episcopate, among shorn mes the 'amen- Bill& rejected in Cemmonj commiiteet.—Dover and
coals. A purse containing 6s. 81 in silver was found be- ted Heber, whose life had fully borne out the high exPec- Deal; Loudon. Ilounlow, and Western . London and
neath a fire-grate in the cabin, and three of the coins were tations formed of, him by his University prize poem of 'Windsor ; Leeds, Wakefield. and Mitirand (Wakefield,
marked with blacking. A poker, a short thick piece of " Palestine," which (the bishop said) he heard delivered Pontefracr,and Goole Junction); Huddersfield and Shef-
wood, and a Mackintosh coat were also found in the ca- in the theatre forty-three years ago. We may odd, that &Id line ( airfield Branch).
'
bin, and two or three small sums of money were found in the same year, the bishop himself gained the prize Rile read a third time. —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
hidden in cl.fferent places in a stable adjo'ning, of which essay—" Common sense." The collection after the ser- lisle; the Cornwall Railway ; Edinburgh and Bath-
Seddon had the key. At the close of the examination the mon amounted to £97, being £lO more than last ear. gate Railway; leswich.and Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich
prisoners were fully committed for trial for murder at the CHURCHES.--The following is an outline of the Biil to Extension) ; Belfast and Cour,ty -
n
--wn ; Leicester and
ensuing Liverpool assizes. provide for the erection and repaa• of churches in con- Bedford; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole.
sulidated ecclesiastical- dsstricts (just introduced into the
House of Commons by Mr. R. Hodgson and Mr. H.
Elphinstone.) The preamble recites the several. Acts for
building additional churches, from 58 Geo. 111., c. 45, to
8 and 9 Vic. c. 701 and then the bill proceeds to enact,
" That it is expedient to provide for the erection and re-
pair of churches a-id chapels in consolidated ecclesiastical
districts; and that consolidated ecclesiastical districts be
considered distinct parishes." Churchwardens or other
officers are to be appoin'ed for new parishes. Clause 3
relates to the rate for building new churches •—That it
shall be lawful for the rat--payers in any such new sepa-
rate parish (provided always that the consent in writing
of the ordinary shall be first duly obtained) to make a
rate for the building of a new church, or for the repai, ing„
or for the enlarging any church or chapel now existing

THE PRESET CRISIS-FACTS AND RUMOURS
IN THE POLITICAL WORLD.

The royal assent was given, by commission. on Friday
afternoon to the Corn Bill and the Customs Dies
Viscount Falkland has relingu;shed the governorship
of Nova Scotia, and Major General Sir John Harvey has
been appointed his successor.
Lord George Bentinck is ro he invited to a
ner at Lynn, as a mark of the esteem of I

his constituents

tor hii public cooduct,

It is said that the conservatives of Preston will invite
Lord Stanley's son to become a candidate for that borough
at the next election.

office, it is probable he will succeed in getting through the
session without haying recourse to a dissolutinn.
It is said that the able and active chairman of the South—
Eastern Railway Company, James Alsegregor, Esq., late
manager of the Commercial Bank, in this townt is to go.
into Parliament for a Kentish borough.

Mr. G. F. Egerton. eldest son of-Lord Francis Eger-
ton, has announced- his intention of comiug forward as a
candidate for Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the event of a
dissolution of parliament.
Tho address to Sir Robert PePI, approving
hatrcial policy, which was exhibited on Frill,)
verpool Exchange New..-room, received in th
few hours, upwards of 6ao signatures.
Lord Stanley's protest against the Corn Bill was ots
Thur&day laid on the able of the House of Peers. It re-
capitulated all the points that have been urged against the
measure.

his com-

the Li-

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j The lion. E. R. Littleton, the son of Lord Hatherton,
in a circular to the electors of Walsall, has announced his
intention of offrring himself as a candidate for their suf-
frages whenever a dissolution of Parliament shall occur.
It transpired in, the city on Friday that a considerable
quantity of baggage. under the charge of Sir Robert Peel's
domestic servants, bad passed through Paris to the south-
ward. This is significant of the course the Premier in-
tends to pursue for the present, and also that his Luinj has
beenLE
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jooriectiirNeGts.ro.fA office
offo o
rsmommeemtibmeers of the.
Anti-Corn-law Ltague had guns fired at Leeds, yesterday,
in celebration of passing of Corn B,11; but generally the
news of the event was received with a feeling little abort
of apathy. The League party threaten to inflict an illu-
mination upon this and other large towns at no distant
day. Would it not be wiser to " wait a wee ? The
good (?) of free trade has yet to be realized.—Leeds
paper. _ _

- The Manchester Courier says, that when it was publicly
announced, by Mr. Greg, on Frsday. in the Exchange
Newsroom, in that town, that the Corn Bill and the Cus-
toms Bill had passe,' the House of Lords, and that minis-
ters had been defeated on the Irish Coercion Bill, " Not
a single cheer, or even the whisper of a cheer, followed the
announcement. It was received in solemn, and almost
brew bless silence." The Times says, that " The division
on the Irish Coerci,,n Bill was received by the House or
Commons in silence."