The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

A nine o'clock on Sunday evening, in

ead. For some years past, the
ibourhood of Back Chester-street has been resorted
the Sabbath by the loose and disorderly characters,

e lowest class of Irish, in the neighbour-
;on pitch and toss, and other games. On
ng, two of the police attempted to put

,ecration, when they were set upon by:Se-
-eds of the mob, and cruelly beaten. As-
tortly arrived ; and one of the ringleaders was
A. second was handcuffed, but made _
in pursuit._ The first man s

.1 hund:

his escape

decoying the pol

curely lodged in the lockup.. But for the interference
and cries of shame of the women in the neighbourhood,
the first two policemen would have been murdered by
their brutal assailant
COMPARATIVE Sr

OF RIVER STEAMERS.—In
con-
aph in our last publication relative to
ursion ofMesers. Willoughby's new Birkenhead
the Britannia, we have been called upon by a
n connected with the New Brighton boats, who
at there is considerable exaggeration in the ac-
count in question—it not having been explained, first,
. .

kitty had previously met with a

ut of dock. with her en-
, rig a boat full of lumber
d, secondly, that the James Atherton, had

had bu

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CHURCH _MISSIONARY SOCIETY
MEETING. -

ANNUAL

The Annual Meeting of this Society was held yester-
day morning, at eleven o'clock, in the Collegiate Institu-
tion. The meeting was numerously and most respectably
attended. Amongst those on the platform we observed
the following clergymen and gentlemen :—Rev. Henry
Hampton, Rev. W. Maynard, Rev. Dr. M'Neile, Rev.
Dr. Byrthe, Rev. Robert Davies, Rev. S. Fenton, Rev.
Dr. Hume, Rev. C. Boutflower, Rev. R. Anderson, Rev.
J. Crump, Rev. —. Cowen, Rev. W. W. Ewbank, Rev.
Wm. Pollock, Rev. D. Anderson, Rev. F. Parry, Rev.
J. Cordeaux, Rev. J. Hughes, Rev. P. Irvine, Rev. J.
Gabbet, Macclesfield, Rev. C. W. Lawrence, Rev. J. H.
Browne, Rev. H. Jones, Rev. D. James, Rev. B. Mar-
shall, Rev. S. Cathbert, Rev. R. Ryan, Rev. G. Dover,
Rev. H. H. Higgins, T. B. Horsfall, Esq., C. Inman,
Esq., J. H. H. Stratham, Esq.
Sortly after eleven o'clock, the hour appointed, the
Rev. Chancellor RAIKES entered the meeting, amid
loud applause, and took the Chair.
The meeting having been opened by the Rev. Mr.
EN9IANK offering, up an appropriate prayer,

The Rev. CIIANCiLLOR rose, and. said that when first
he anticipated the present meeting—looking back at the
fruits of the recent meeting held in London—he thought
that it would have been one of universal triumph. All
the circumstances disclosed at that meeting were- calcu-
lated, in a pre-eminent degree, to fill the heart of any
Christian man with animation and joy. But he was sorry
to find that in Liverpool the success which attended the
efforts of their brethren in the Other portions of the king-
dom were not so fully manifested as he could wish. He
was sorry to find that considerable disappointment had
been felt with the result of the annual collections in aid
of that society. It was rather a strange circumstance
that such should be the case in Liverpool—a town which
has invariably aided by its munificent contributions all
the charities and benevolent institutions of the empire.
(Hear, hear.) Whether this was attributable to the fact
that from the frequent appeals recently made to their ge-
nerosity on behalf of other objects of charity—and which
had been liberally responded to—or whether it was attri-
butable to the great and unparalleled mercantile crisis
which was at present affecting the community of this town,
he could not tell ; but in consequence of this or some
other cause, the collections of yesterday would, he was
told, fall short of what had been expected. He feared
that this meeting would be one of a varied character,
where the light and shade of rejoicing and regret
would be exhibited in consequence of this falling
off in their exertions. They should, however, feel
grateful to the Lord for what little they had effected,
and bow themselves in humbleness before Him, for having
given them so much. Such lessons of adversity were, he
thought, as useful to Christians and to Christian societies
as the utmost degree of prosperity could be, At their
meeting to-day he anticipated they would have a little
sunshine to fill their hearts with gratitude to the great
Author of life and the Giver of all good gifts, and a little
shade, in order to make them feel their dependence on
Him for all that they enjoyed in this life. (Hear, hear,
hear.) And if they did but thankfully receive the bounty
of God, and humble themselves to him in the spirit of
prayer, an increased and increasing fervour in his holy
cause will be the result ; and if in such a spirit of humility
and prayerfulness they looked to God alone for their
resources, they would have the satisfaction of never being
disappointed. He felt, however, that they had no cause
for desponding at the present apparent failure in their re-
sources, for he knew that any of the circumstances to which
he had alluded—in conjunction with which was to be con-
sidered the unfavourable state of the weather—were calcu-
lated to produce that temporarydepression which had taken
place yesterday. They had worse than that temporary
depression to regret ; for he had been told that, during the
last two years, there had been a gradual falling off in their
exertions—a falling off to the amount of £3OO during that
period. (Hear, hear, hear.) He would submit to the
consideration of the christian friends and brethren by
whom he was surrounded, whether they had not reason to
apprehend that something was wrong in the present state
of their missionary dnterprise in Liverpool. Considering
the wealth of this kingdom, and the high eminence which
this kingdom has ever held, he did think that it would tell
badly for the christian character of the country, if it went
abroad to the world that, in the missionary enterprise of
England, there was a falling off; but that was not the fact,
as the report of the Parent Society evinced. It appeared
to him, however, that something should be done to restore
the missionary enterprise to the high and palmy position
which it used to occupy. Their past prosperity had been
productive of so little good that he could not but regard
their adversity as something coming from the hand of God
himself to force the British public back to their old prin-
ciples on the subject of missionary enterprise. (Hear,
hear, hear.) He was of opinion that the great reason
why they did not occupy the post which they ought
was because they did not seriously feel that which they
professed to feel in the cause of religion ; for if they were
as serious as they ought to be in their endeavours to carry
the light of the gospel to the poor heathens, their gifts
would be more in the spirit of Christian liberality. He
begged to submit to his reverend friends around him,
whether it would not be important for them to look
closely to the state of the various branch societies with
which they were connected, and also to address their
respective congregations on the subject ; for he knew the
powerful influence which they exercised on all occasions,
and he also knew that nothing could be more calculated
to excite their powers for the promotion of all that was
good than the perfect state of the Church Missionary
Society, (Hear, hear, hear.) If there was but a cloud
hanging over them now, why did they not act like the
child when it beheld a cloud on the face of its father, per-
severe in their 'endeavours to remove that cloud ? And if

fuch was

in heaven pass away, and all the brightness and sunshine
of his love return in all its usual effulgence. The Rev.
Chancellor then resumed his seat, amidst loud applause.
The Rev. Mr. EWBANK, in the unavoidable absence of
the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, (the Senior Secretary,) read the
following report :