The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

getting more and more cotton, more wheat, more timber,
more sugar, more sheeps' wool, and all other necessaries,
PAYING BRITISH LABOUR FOR THEM, AND NOT BRI-
TISH GOLD, A 9 AT PRESENT.

And let such a government, rising superior to the petty
influences and considerations of the London Land Specu•
lators and Companies, assure every family which, by its
own or its friends' exertions, can reach Canada or any
other British colony, where there is unconceded lands be-
longing to the crown, of their getting WITHOUT CHARGE,
AND AS THEIR PATRIMONY OR BIRTHRIGHT, A LOT OF
LAND (200 ACRES), (with the cost of clearing three acres,
as a commencement, and a year's provisions till their
first crop is got off the ground (to be repaid to govern-
ment), to such as have only means to take them out, but
whose reaching the colony by their own exertions will be
sufficient proof of their being the proper parties to emi-
grate).
You may depend that it is not in human nature that
the oppressed labouring classes should misconstrue sub-
stantial benefits like these, by whatever minister or party
offered; I am, Sir,

Your obedient humble servant.
ISAAC BUCHANAN

Glasgow, 19th March, 1846

*** It is self-evident that the paper currency to be safe
must be small and fluctuating in this country when the
bulk of our trade is with foreigners, as they do not take
in exchange its manufactures (or labour) ; for commer-
cial confidence (or credit) exists less or more just as there
is less or more movement or exportation of the precious
metals. I. B.

INDIA.-DEFEAT OF THE SIKHS.

BY EXTRAORDINARY EXPRESS.

[From a Second Edition of yesterday's Times., with
which we were favoured by Mr. Aylward.l
We have just received by Extraordinary Express a copy
of the following

TELEGRAPIIIC DESPATCII FROM MARSEILLES :-
" CAIRO, MARCH 8.
" MARSEILLES, MARCH 21

" On the 29th of January a division of the Sikh army
was attacked by the English forces under the command of
Sir H. J. Smith, at Alivert. The Sikhs were forced to
cross the Sutlej, leaving behind them all their artillery,
amounting to about 69 pieces of cannon.
" The loss of the English has been four officers killed,
14 wounded, and about 400 soldiers killed and wounded.
The loss of the Sikhs appears to have been very consider-
able.

" A salute of 21 guns had been fired at Bombay to ce-
lebrate this victory.

[Last night's- London papers contain no farther intelligenc

SOUTH CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS

On Sunday last, two sermons were preached in St. Michael's
Church, by the Rev. Ambrose Dawson, for the South Church

of England Schools recently attached to St. Michael's Church.
The church was extremely well attended on both occasions, and
Alderman Lawrence; and the councillors' for the ward, together
with a great number of gentlemen unconnected with the con-
gregation, but no doubt desirous of showing their respect to
the estimable preacher, were also present. In the morning, the

reverend gentleman took for his text the 7th v. of xix. Ps.,
"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testi-
mony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." The
preacher began by showing that salvation was all of grace, and
that from the sinful condition of man no other way of salvation
could meet the emergency of his case than that revealed in the
Gospel, in which forgiveness through the blood of Christ was
proclaimed to the sinner, "free, unconditional, and irrespec-
tive of his own merits." But free grace does not supersede the
use of means, but is communicated by instrumentalities ap-
pointed by God for this end. Among these stands "most
conspicuous his own Word ;" and after enlarging on the bless-
ing to be derived from the Word preached, " the grand ordi-
nance of salvation," and the Word read, he proceeded to
enforce the duty of communicating that Word to all, particu-
larly to the children of our own poor. He pointed out the
dangers to which the young were exposed from immoral and
infidel publications, and called upon all who valued the Bible
and felt for the best interests of man, to aid in giving a Scrip-
tural education to the dear children they saw before them. He
enforced this Scriptural duty in his own impressive manner,
and reminded all, young and old, of the importance of studying
the Scriptures, with earnest prayer for the teaching of God's
spirit, without whose aid, as the preacher illustrated' by an
interesting-anecdote, there might be head knowledge, but heart
knowledt
Word

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In the evening, the reverend gentleman took

text the 103 d v. of cxi. Ps.—" flow sweet are thy words unto
my taste; yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth." After
alluding to his ministry in past years in St. Michael's Church,
and citing the example of St. Paul, as authority for frequent
appeals to their liberality, he proceeded to show how mental
and spiritual operations were often illustrated in the Bible by
bodily acts. Thus, Gospel doctrine is compared to manna,
milk, and meat ; Christ to bread, and the receiving him by
faith into the heart is likened to eating and digesting food.
An appetite, a cry for food, is the evidence of life in a new-born
babe, and how can any know that he is spiritually alive except
he hungers and thirsts for the spiritual food of God's Word?
He then showed with great force and beauty in what the
sweetness of God's Word consisted ; how sweet it is to a minis-
ter to proclaim such good news to sinners, and how sweet to
hearers to listen to andreceive such a revelation of mercy and
love; and concluded his discourse, in which, as in the morn-
.

lA, ■ic VW, 111l11:11 nunuul on LUAUS IV UM, Dy- again appealing
to the sympathies of all present in behalf of schools m which
more than 500 children were receiving a Scriptural education,
by which, with God's blessing, they would acquire a taste for
the sweetness of the Bible, which would render irreligious and
immoral books insipid and even bitter to them. Ile reminded
his hearers that God could do without their help,. if he pleased,
but it was his pleasure to use their aid, and so- multiply his
servants and glorify his name. The two collections amounted
to snore than .-445, including a liberal donation from the
preacher himself. The boys, girls, and the infants- were pre-
sent morning and evening, and sung in a touching-manner the
appropriate hymns chosen for the occasion, aided by the chil-
dren of the Corporation and Stanhope-street schools. The
manner in which all these children sung, morning and evening,

reflects the greatest credit on the masters and riirstresses of tlif
several schcols to which they belong.

It will be seen that the Rev. A. Dawson, and the'Rev. W. M.
Falloon will preach the annual sermons on Sunday next, at St.
Clement's Church, Windsor, on behalf of the schools.
SOUTHERN lloseiTAL.—On Sunday morning last,. after a
most excellent sermon by the Rev. Thomas Nolan, the estimable
honorary chaplain of this institution, upwards of .t 66 were col-
lected in aid of its funds, at St. Anne's Church, Aigburth. The
words selected for the text were admirably appropriate to the
occasion, being the 21st verse of the 19th chapter of Job "Have
pity upon me, have pity upon me, 0 ye my friends, for the hand
of God hath touched me.' The collection was the largest ever
made in the church.

The Aletheroma still continues on view. The opportunity of
seeing the extraordinary scenes should not be lost.
STEALING FROM A SHOP.—Two little boys, Josiah Dobbins,
and James Jones, were committed for trial by Mr. Rushton,
charged with having on Saturday night stolen from Mr. Hobbs's
hat shop, 64, Byrom-street,.two fur caps.
FATAL FALL.—A working man, named Peter Tyler, fell acci-
dentally from a three-story building in Ford-street, last week,
and was so much hurt that. he died on Saturday.

The celebrated Russell gives two entertainments, in the Con-
cert-hall, on Thursday and Friday next.

DEATH FRONI A FAL L. -.1 ohn Sheppard, a respectable brick-
layer, fell into a cellar at Mount Vernon, on Saturday last, and
was so much injured that. he died yesterday ,morning
_ _

BODY OF ANINF.,,NT FOUND.—On Saturday last, The body of
a full-grown male child was found on a bank. near the King's
Dock. It was sewed up in a piece of canvass, and appeared to
have been a considerable time in the water.

SUDDEN DEATIL—A woman, named Bridget Raley, aged
about 65, residing at 31, Brick-street, fell down.. in the house, on
Saturday, and expired immediately.
An amateur performance will take place at the Theatre-Royal,
on Monday next, for the benefit of the Licensed Victuallers'
Charitable Institution. The charity well deserves support.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—A man, named Barnard Campbell, who
was at work on Saturday, on board the "Gipsy," in the Can-
ning Dock, was struck with the Winch with such violence,
when hoisting some pig iron, that he was killed on the spot.

STEALING COTTON FROM THE QUAYS.—A girl named Ann
Hackett was yesterday committed by Mr. Rushton to gaol for
a mouth, for taking a quantity of cotton from disrupted bales
at the quays. _ _

ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—A young man named James.
Bateman, was yesterday tined 10s. and costs, at the Police-
court, for riotous conduct in Concert-street, on Sunday morn-
ing, and afterwards striking a police officer.
THE TRANSPOSING PIANO-FORTE.—This is an exceedingly
ingenious contrivance for adapting the piano-forte to any
peculiar voice or instrument. It may be seen at Mr. Smith's,
Lord-street.—Nee advt.

WIGAN ELECTION PETITION. —After all the boasting of the
League, we understand one of the electors of the borough is so
convinced of the groundless nature of the allegations in the pe-
tition, that he is determined to defend the seat of Captain Lind-

:louse to permit

IjEATII FROM INJURIES IN A FIGIIT.-011 Sunday fortnight,
a tight took place at a beer-house in Kensington, when a man
named Henry Sherlock was so severely injured, by, it is said,
some Irishmen, that he died, on Sunday night. The case is un-
dergoing investigaiion. _

It will be semi, on reference to an advertisement is another
part of our paper, that Mr. J. Walinsley, one of our oldest
publishers, is about to remove from his present premises to
Lord-street,—premises more extensive and central, and equally
commanding.

STREET ASSAULT.-At the Police Court, yesterday, three
young men, Terence Connell and two others, were charged, the
first with having, on Friday, knocked a man down and at-
tempted to steal his watch, and the others with looking on and

abetting

I'. Connell was sent to gaol for three nionlhs, and

the two others f•;r on

Some few years since Queen Victoria presented a very hand-
syme carriage to Queen Pomare. It appears that the Queen of
the Sandwich Islands. is now in such very straitened circum-
stances, being entirely without revenues, that she has been
compelled to offer the carriage for sale, and an advertisement
appears in the Polynesian, a weekly journal published at 110,
nolulhu, the capital of the Sandwich islands, offering it for dis-
posal. _ . .

CAUTION TO Boys
streets and bye-r(

The offence of throwing stones in the
Is appears to be on the increase, and where
nays have been laid, the annnunition used

for the practice, and were lined ss. each, and seveeely repr
manded by Mr. Rushton, who had himself witnessed On Sun-
day a regular melange amongst a number of beligerent urchins,
in the neighbourhood of Windsor. • - _ _

DEATH FRO?,I rOISONING.—An, elderly man, named Wil-
liam Hutchinson, who lodged in Beresford-court, Beresford-
street, went into the house and to his room on Wednesday
night, and was observed to sit moping, as if be were ill or in-
toxicated. Next morning he was found in the same position.
The woman who kept the house afterwards found a bottle at
the back of the lire, which he said had contained oil. He kept
much in the same way, and died on Friday morning. The
bottle, it appeared, had contained laudanum. He had been
long ill, and being in the habit of taking laudanum, had pro-
bably overdosed himself. _

CHILDREN STRIKING PARENTS.—At the Police Court, yes-
terday, a youth named Patrick Harlequa was charged with
abusing and maltreating his poor mother on frequent occasions.
He was required tofi bail, himself in £4O and two sureties
in .t'2o each, or be imprisoned for three months.—John Pugh,
for abusing and annoying his father, a hard-working sawyer,
who had employed him and made a comfortable home for him ;
and also for maltreating his old mother, was severely addressed
by the magistrate, who ordered bins to find two sureties in .41.5
each, and to pay five shillings for being drunk, or to be impri-
soned, on sparer diet than he had with his father, kw two
months.

THE WATERLOO BANQUET.-Mr. Keys, of I3old-street, has
had manufactured, expressly. for this splendid eng;aving, an
elegant frame, which, in point of beauty or adaption to the
peculiar character of the picture, is not surpassed by any of the
numerous elaborate designs hitherto :produced in papier
machee. The subdued marks of the chisel may be traced las
distinctly as in the most costly carvings, the former having
an advantage in regularity not to be attained by any other
process. .tkt each corner of the frame is a lion's head, and
round the outer edge of the moulding are twined in graceful
clusters, thistles, shamrocks, and roses,—emblems of united
efforts used on the great occasion this banquet was called to
commemorate.' The centre is surmounted by a helmet and
shield, the banners of victory, and numeroui other trophies of
war, forming an eactedially prattle gnu?.