The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

REVIVAL. OF THE " NATION" NEWSPAPER.

The Habeas Corpus Suspension Act expired on Friday,
and Saturday was- whered in by the reappearance of Mr.
Gavan Duffy's journal, which was in active circulation
before eight o'clock. The number contains, it may be
'aid, but one leading article, or, rather essay, written by
Mr. Duffy himself, and extending over nearly six columns
of his paper. As a piece of composition, although its tone
is cautious and even moderate, it does not lack the style
of eloquence peculiar to the writer, and which found so
many admirers among the young men, of. Ireland. Mr.
Duffy has been making a tour in the provinces, and he
seizes the occasion to draw a most harrowing picture of
the joint effects of famine and extermination upon the
peasantry of the south and west. Here is a sample of his
pencilling :
" No words. printed in a newspaper or. elsewhere will give any
man who has not seen it a conception of the fallen condition of
the west and the south. The famine and the landlords have
actually created a new race in Ireland. I have seen on the
streets of Galway crowds of creatures more debased than the
Yahoos of Swift—creatures leaving only a distant and hideous
resemblance to human beings. Grey-headed old men, whose
idiot faces had hardened into a settled leer of mendicancy,
simeous and semi-human; and women, filthier and more
frightful than the harpies, who, at the gingle of a coin on the
pavement, swarmed in myriads.from unseen places, struggling,
screaming, shrieking for their prey, like some monstrous and
unclean animals. in Westport the sight of the priest on the
street gathered an entire pauper population, thick as a village
market, standing round him for relief. Beggar children,
beggar adults, beggars in white hairs, girls with faces gray and
shrivelled, the grave stamped upon them in a decree which
cannot be recalled ; women with the more touching and tragi-
cal aspect of lingering shame and self:respect not yet effaced ;
and among these terrible realities imposture shaking in pre-
tended fits to add the last touch of horrible grotesqueness to
the picture. I have seen these accursed sights, and they are
burnt into my memory for ever."
It is to the land question, mainly, that Mr. Duffy means
to devote his future energies. As for a renewal of the
old plan of agitation, he literally scouts the idea as absurd
and impracticable. His admissions on this point are not
uninstructive _ _ .

If the struggle is to be renewed, for what object is it to')e
renewed, and by what ways and means? I answer, without
hesitation, that the struggle of 1948 to win our independence
by arms cannot be taken up now. All bluster and bravado are
more repulsive and mournful to me than a death-bell. They
sound more falsely, more offensively, than even the• glosses
of simulated loyalty. It is true that no man can presume
to fix limits to the endurance of a nation, or to bar its rights
of resistance—and God forbid that I should try to do so—but
to me, who am not ignorant of any part of what has been done
or attempted to be done since February, 1848, nothing is more
certain than that Ireland is not prepared to walk in that path.
and that it is a mischievous and misleading falsehood to pre-
tend that she is."

The Great Northern Railway as far as Doncaster will
be opened to-day.
The Mayor of Manchester will give, on the 21st inst.,
a grand banquet to Sir James Duke, Bart., Lord Mayor
of London, and a select party of about 160 gentlemen.
The party will include the Mayor of Liverpool, the
Mayors of Bolton, Stockport, Oldham, Ashton, and the
other towns in the vicinity of Manchester.
COMMITMENTS FOR TRIAL, YESTERDAY, AT THE
POLICE-COURT.—A mere boy, named Dennis Scolefield,
having been found within the railway station in Great
Howard-street, on Saturday night, in the act of passing
two parcels under the gate to parties outside. The par-
cels contained 14 packagesof carbonate of magnesia, worth
Os. 10d.—Richard Hands, charged by John M`Namara
with stealing a pawn ticket for a boy's dress. The ticket
was missed, and, from notice being given to the pawn-
broker, the prisoner, who presented it, was apprehended.
—Jane Watson and another woman, charged by Fred.
Spencer with stealing his watch from his person, in Rose-
place, early yesterday morning,

CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD.

Yesterday, William Ingham, Egerton Cannell, and
Micheel Derrick, were brought before Mr. Rushton,
charged by George Lum with a conspiracy to rob him of
£2B. The two first named prisoners were in respectable
attire; the other apparently a working man. The case
was taken up by the Guardian Society, for whom appeared
Mr. Aspinall, the barrister, to conduct the case against
the prisoners. Mr. Reay, secretary to the society, and
who had prepared the "brief," &c., was also in court.
The learned gentleman furnished an outline of the case
before calling witnesses, and the particulars may thus be
narrated :—" Ingham is a general dealer, and has his
place of business in Peter's-lane. Cannell has an office
in the Goree Piazzas, and is also somewhat in the same
line—a buyer and seller. Derrick was, in this transac-
tion, employed as their agent, to find a purchaser for an
article hereafter named. A few days before the 2d of
August Derrick called on a man named James Malone,
a marine store dealer (who appeared as a witness), and
asked him if he could find money to purchase a quantity
of gambier (a stuff used in tanning and dyeing), on which
he represented a great profit could be made. Malone,
not having the money himself, took the applicant to Mr.
Lum, a publican in Tithebarn-street, from whom he bad
himself received advances to make purchases. He went
with Derrick to introduce him to Mr. Lum, but did not
then find him at home. On a subsequent day, the 2nd
of August, Malone went himself to Mr. Lure's, and found
that Derrick had got there before him. Derrick,
throughout, represented that the gambier could be bought
from Ingham at £8 a ton, and that they could sell it to
Cannell at £l3 a ton, being a profit of .£5 a ton. The
three, it was agreed, were to have each an equal share
of the profits. They all went to Ingham's, in Peter's-lane,
and the stuff (of which a sample had before been shown),
which was packed in casks, was purchased, weighing in all
41 tons. The order, and the invoice, made out in Lum's
name was produced, but the word •` gambler" was in the
last missed out. Mr. Lum paid the amount, £36 ss, to
Ingham. It was weighed at the George's Dock machine,
and was then deposited on the quay of that dock, as it
was represented that Cannell was to be the purchaser, at
£l3 per ton, and he had said that he would have a vessel
there in a day or two to receive it on board. Lum then
called at Cannell's office for payment for his purchase,
(Xl3 per ton,) when the latter said it was not then con-
venient, but he would pay it on the following morning.
Lum said that as the parties were strangers to each other
he would place a watch upon the goods until the money
was paid. Not being able to find Cannell next morning,
he removed the casks to his own premises. The grava-
men of the charge was brought out by evidence subse-
quently elicited. The stuff was not gambier at all, nor of
anything like its value. Ingham had bought 41 tons of
a material not even resembling gambier, in grain or colour.
Ingham had purchased it from a man named Martin
Duffy, a small general dealer and cooper, in Tithebarn-
street, for 3s 6d per cwt. Duffy, who appeared as a
witness, said he had bought it for asphalte, for 3s per
cwt, and had sold it by that name. The prisoners had
received it as asphalte, and sold it as gambier,—which is
said to be worth £lB per ton. Dr. Brett, the celebrated
chemist, was in court, and on being questioned said that
he had been shown the barrels, all .of which (38) had
been opened. The sample produced—the same as the
material in most of the casks—was a composition of resin
and chalk. Some of the casks contained nothing but red
sand. The other specimen produced (and brought into
court for comparison) was, he said, gambier, or terra
japonica, an article sometimes used in medicine, but
chiefly in tanning, fixing colours in dyeing, &c. The
stuff in the casks he did not consider, from the price of
resin, to be worth more than is 91d per cwt. Some
letters found on two of the prisoners were put in but not
read ; and the whole three were committed for trial.

SEACOMBE COTTAGE GARDEN ALLOTMENTS.

We have watched with some interest during the present
summerthe progress of this interesting trial of theallotment
system, to which we directed the attention of our readers
a few months ago, and have been pleased to see the oppor-
tunity, offered to the villagers of Seacombe, of cultivating
for themselves the products of the kitchen garden, em-
braced with such zeal, and that cultivation carried on with
such industry, skill, and success. The plot of ground upon
which the allotments are situated is the property of the
lord of the manor ; and has been properly fenced and di-
vided, and its cultivation encouraged by a committee of
gentlemen of the locality, Mr. Isaac. Penny, the son-in-
law and agent of the owner, acting as secretary. As an in-
centive to exertion on the part of the tenants, the profits
of the first year, after deducting the expenses of manage-
ment, fencing, &c., were to be distributed as prizes to the
most successful and worthy of the cultivators. And we
have now the pleasure of recording the result, with the
names of the parties to whom the prizes were last week
awarded. The gentleman to whom was deputed the office
of adjudging the prizes to be given, wne, Mr. William Hen-
derson, proprieter of the Oxton hill nursery, and the fol-
lowing is the substance of his very interesting report.
Mr. Henderson states that he has on four different occa-
sions inspected the gardens; and thatrwhere all has been
so well done-, he has found some difficulty in fixing upon
the parties most deserving of reward. To do this equitably
he has divided the tenants into three- classes, viz., Ist
class—those employing labourers to do the work ; 2nd,
gardeners, or parties making a living by gardening; 3rd,
artizans, mechanics, and labourers. Amongst the first class
he places Lot No. 12, James Hall, as head, prize ss. ; Lot
No. 14, William Hughes, (pilot), as second, prize 2s. 61. ;
with a commendation of Mr. John Frost's cultivation of
No. 29 Mr. Henderson says, " the three foregoing atiot-
meats have been well managed at all points, as to crop-
ping, keeping up a succession of useful vegetables, and
neatness and order." In the second class he has had some
difficulty in coming to a decision, N0..9, (T. Watson),
and No. 33, (W. Moran), being so nearly equal. Consi-
dering, however, the original state of 33; its judicious cul-
tivation, and the forethought evinced in the liquid ma-
nure, tank, &c., he has recommended the following
award :—Walter Moran, Lot 33, ss. ; Jt. Watson, Lot 9,
2s. 6d. The third, or artizan class, he considers the most
interesting ; and the prizes are awarded as follows :
Joseph Jackson, Lot No. 4,10 s. ; Ralph Ogden, Lot No.
5, ss. ;J. Robinson, Lot No. 1, ss. John Dean, Lot
No. 20, 2s. 6d. ; Lawrence Hilliard, LOt No. 27, 2s. 6d. ;
John Frost, Lot No. 29, 2s. 6d. The amount of the above
prizes is 425. 61, which, added to the cost of a year's sub-
scription, 17s. 6d.,. to the Cottage Gardener's Chronicle,
for circulation amongst the tenants, makes up £3, the sum
which the committee have this year as a surplus. Mr.
Henderson points out a few errors in.cultivation, com-
mitted by some of the other tenants, these being princi-
pally the cultivation of articles not of domestic use, over-
crowding of the ground, and the sewing of.more spring
plants than there is space for bringing to perfection. We
may remark that we have seen in one of the allotments,
that of Mr. Frost, a production, which has not for the last
few years been observed, viz., the potato apple, in its full
growth and maturity. Throughout the allotments the
potato has been of excellent quality and yield. One of
Mr. Frost's, we are informed, reached the extraordinary
weight of 14 ounces, and the number at each root was very
large. Thus far the result must have been very eacourag:-
ing to the cultivators—a great boon to the families of the
poorer class amongst them ; and the shew of winter crops
is excellent.

THE MONSTER SHIP " CONSTELLATION."—This pon-
derous' ship has again arrived in port. It will be re-
membered that she sailed under the management of
Messrs. Tapscott and Co., with a full complement of
passengers, and on her outward, as-on her inward, transit
not a single death from cholera haaoccurred—so much for
improved ventilation. She beat all out, and has madeher
passage here in twenty days.
SUICIDE.—On Saturday, Mr. Rayne' one of the metro-
politan coroners, held an inquest on the body of James
Bartlett, aged 45, late barrack-master at Liverpool. It
appeared that deceased had, for some time past, been re-
siding at a lodging-house at Deptfoid, where he became
acquainted, with a female with whom he had had a-serious
quarrel, and by some means he got possession of a large
carving knife, with which he repaired to the water-closet,
where he was subsequently found with an extensile wound
in his neck. He died on Saturday.
SURVEY OF PASSENGER; SHlPS.—Government has
issued am official notice with reference to the survey of
passenger ships—That in ceder to avoid the trouble and
expense of unloading the ship for survey at the port where
the passengers are embarked, it will be indispensable that
she should be surveyed at the port where she takes in her
cargo or ballast, and that the master should'be furnished
with d certificate from the emigration officer, or in his
absence from the offices of customs at that port, :to the
effect, that the vessel had been duly surveyed according
to law, before Me carguor ballast was put on board, and
was in ell respects fit for the conveyance of passengers,
such certificate to be exhibited to the emigration officer,
or in his absence to the officer of customs at the port
where the passengers are embarked.
TESTIMONIAL OE- RESPECT.—It hating become known
that Mr. J. A. Thine purposes embarking for Demerara
in a short times his fellow-member of the Board of
Health, at their meeting on Thursday last, determined
that he should not leave without some mark of the esteem
in which be is held by them. As Mr. Tinne is Deputed to
lay the foundation stone next week of a building which is
to be erected ire Cornwallis-street, to be used as public
baths and wash houses, it was considered that a. silver
trowel would kie an appropriate present,,ind acccordingly
one was immediately ordered at the establishment of Mr.
Mayer, of Lord-street. The trowel is to be of an elegant
Gothic form, with a richly pierced engraved handle. On
the flat there is to be a view of the baths and wash-houses,
and above them the arms of Mr. Tinne, with an inscrip-
tion below. The whole is surrounded by a border of vine
stems. leaves, and grapes. We hope shortly to welcome
Mr. Tinne back again to a town which has derived such
vast benefits from his iisinterested and pains-taking
labours.
INQUEST, YESTERDAY.—On view of the body of John
Howard, a seaman, aged 30. It was at first thought that
a female, named Richards, had caused his death by push-
ing him from the top of some steps, hut the final evidence
left no ground for this supposition. The case was simply
this :—On Thursday evening, the deceased, with some
other sailors, all slightly affected by drink, went into Mr.
Woodward's public-house, in Union-street, where they
had each a glass. Some " larking" commenced amongst
them, which, between the deceased and another sailor,
grew into a quarrel, and they began to assault each other.
Another sailor got between them, and separated them.
The deceased went to the top of the stews, leading from
the apartment into the street, and soon after fell down
them upon the foot walk below. If a push were given to
him, it was merely accidental, and only gentle. He was
insensible when picked up, and was taken to the Northern
Hospital, where he died from fracture of the skull. The
surgeon stated that the weight of his body in falling down
the steps, and hitting his head against the edge of the
footwalk, might have caused the injury. Verdict—" Ac.
cidental death."

THE RAILWAY COMPANIES OF THE LANCA-
SHIRE AND YORKSHIRE DISTRICT.

11.-THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE COMPANY.

This company, which has now taken its place amidst
the leviathans of the railway world, is based upon the
Manchester and Leeds, a company incorporated in 1836,
with a share capital of £1,300,000, and power to borrow
£433,000. • The length of line was about 50 miles, run-
ning from Manchester to Wakefield, through a most
populous and picturesque manufacturing country ; and,
for the remaining 10 miles to Leeds, using the York and
North Midland. Six further acts for extensions, branches.
&e., raised the amount of capital in 1846 to £4,731,400.
Various amalgamations, purchases, and leases of new
lines, have since further increased the extent of the com-
pany's engagements ; and the following is now the posi-
tion of the whole, as formed' into the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Company."
The total miles opened for traffic are 2031; and consist
of the Manchester and Leeds line, including the Oldham,
Halifax, and Heywood branches, 56} miles; the Ashton
branch, 61 miles; Oldham extension line, and Mumps
station, 1/ mile ; Manchester and Bolton railway and
Kearsley branch, and Manchester and Bolton canal, 11
miles; Heywood extension and fork at Blue Pits, 41
miles •, Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole line, and Askern
branch, 371 miles; West-Riding Union line (Mirfield to
Low Moor), 7/ miles; Liverpool and Bury line, 28+
miles; and Ardwick branch, l mile,—making a total of
154+ miles. In addition, the company lease, in conjunc-
tion with the London and North-Western, the North
Union (Bolton and Preston) 201 miles, and Preston.and
Wyre 29 miles,—in all leased 49+ miles; making up the
lines open to 2031 miles.
In course of construction are the Burnley branch, 9
miles; Methley branch, 5/ miles • Liverpool and Bury,
dock branch, &c., ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 151 ;
West-Riding Union (remainder), 11i • Manchester, Wi-
gan, and Southport, 3; and Sheffield, Barnsley, and
Wakefield, 10 miles ;—total in course of construction,
56+ miles. When completed, the company will have
under their working 2591 miles.
The total capital authorised up to 31st Dec., 1848, is
£13,293,745, of which £3,833,943 remains to be raised.
Additional money, however, will have to be furnished for
contemplated future amalgamations, which will bring up
the total authorised capital to £14,202,045.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire line, it will be seen from
the above statement, embraces within itself a large por-
tion of most important manufacturing districts of the
West-Riding of Yorkshire and of Lancashire. It gives a
connexion, too, between the port of Hull on the east
coast and of Liverpool on the west; and opens the route
from Manchester and a part of Yorkshire to the western
districts of Scotland. Like the East Lancashire line, it
will compete powerfully for the traffic between Manches-
ter and the adjacent manufacturing towns and villages to
Liverpool. The route by which this traffic is accommo-
dated is by the Bolton line to Bolton, and thence by
,Wigan, Orrell. Pemberton, Aintree, and Walton, to the
station in Great Howard-street- The distance to be tra-
velled between Manchester and Liverpool is 38 miles.
The financial details of the company's position, the
terms upon which it has raised its capital, and the nature
of the different amalgamations, leases, and guarantees
formed, are far too intricate to be stated here. For the
most succinct statement of these we would refer to Mr.
Scrivenor's able volume.

ALTITUDES OF VARIOUS PORTIONS OF THE
BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL.

We have frequently heard controversies, with respect to
the comparative altitudes of various points within the
borough ; and perhaps it may be interesting to many of
our readers if we give a few of the principal features of the
profile of the locality. The figures are taken from the
excellent map, just issued by the borough surveyor, Mr.
Newlands, and the datum from which the elevations are
taken is th Old Dock sill.

Beginning at the point where the northern boundary
runs down to high water mark on the Bootle shore, at the
northern end of Lower Mersey View, we find the elevation
24 feet above the dock sill. It increases rapidly as the line
runs almost directly east to a point a little beyond the
crossing of the Liverpool and Bury Railway, where it at-
tains an elevation of 132 feet. In passing the Walton-
road it has decreased to 120 feet ; after which it rises, as
we proceed along the high ridge above Everton, until it
crosses Breck-lane, at an altitude of 200 feet. The line
passes on, at a gradually increasing elevation, until it
reaches Kensington, where the elevation is 212 feet. It
falls from this point until it reaches Sandown-lane, at an
elevation of 132 feet ;. proceeds, with an increasing gra-
dient, along the lane towards the Windsor Water-works;
near which the elevation is- 192. From this point it de-
scends, with an almost uniform decline, past the east en.
trance to the Prince's Park, where the elevation is 148 ;
past the south entrance, where it is-112, which elevation
is nearly maintained for some distance, until within about
two hundred yards from• the shore, at its southern extre-
mity, the line sinks rapidly to 40 feet.

Within this amphitlieat:erwhich the high range, along
which our boundary line is carried, may be said to form,
there is a. very undulating surface, and many localities,
with respect to which mistakes may well arise, if the eye
alone is depended upon. The highest elevation which we
find-upon the map. 2481-eet. is irempelintpiv.....tiguoua to
St. George's Church, Everton, on the east side of Church-
street. Generally speaking,, the south end of the built
direr portion of the town is the highest in level. The
north end, about the region of Vauxhall-road, is rather
flat,.with little fall for effective drainage, which may in
part account for the sickness of that district. We give
the precise elevation of a few particular points :—St.
George's Hall stands on an elevation of 68 feet above the
Old Dock sill; the Workhouse is 156 to 160 feet ; the Col-
legiate Institution, the Infirmary, St. Jude's Church, the
Philharmonic Hall, and St. John the Evangelist's Church,
Hope-street, are all about the same altitude, viz., between
152 and 156 ; St. John's- Market is from 44 to 48 ; St.
James's Market, 88.; and St. Martin's, 88. St. Paul's
Church is 76 feet, a much lower elevation than has been
generally assigned to it. St. Luke's Church is 92 at the
west and 102 at the east. The Monument, London-road,
is 132 feet. St. Mary's Church, Edge-hill, is 224 feet.
Kirkdale Prison is 114' feet to 116 feet. The Exchange
Newsroom is 56 feet ; the Town-hall and top of Castle-
street about 52 feet; and St. George's Church and the
head of Lord-street 48 feet ; the bottom of Lord-street 28
feet ; the top of Church-street 44 feet, and the top of Ra-
nelagh-street 64 feet. The lowest region of the town is
that extending from Wapping, by Hurst-street, Cleveland-
square, the Custom-house, Paradise-street, and White-
chapel, the line of the old pool. We may explain that the
lines of contour being drawn only at each variation of four
feet in level, do not denote the exact difference between
adjacent points. Thus the line, 28feet, includes elevations
not reaching the next line, 32 feet.

CRICKET MATCH.—The return match between the
Stanley and Tranmere Cricket Clubs was played on Sa-
turday last on the ground of the-former; and, after some
good playing, was decided in favour of the Tranmere,.with
nine wickets to go down.
CAUTION TO SEAMEN.—Yesterday, at the Police-court,
the mate of the Royal William was fined £lO and costs
(or to be imprisoned one month) for secreting some tobacco
on board ; and a seaman, belonging to the same ship, was
fined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment in
default, for a like offence.
PUBLICANS' LlCENSES.—Yesterday was the day ap-
pointed, in accordance with the Act of Parliament, for
the re-granting of publicans' licenses. No new licenses
however will be granted before the 12th inst., which will
also he the time for rescinding any that may be con-
demned by the magistrates., The magistrates who sat
yesterday were John Haywood Turner and William
Dixon, Bsqrs.
THUNADER STORM.—On Saturday night, shortly before
twelve o'clock, during the thunder storm, the electric
fluid struck the house of Messrs. Harwood and Son,
Nelson-street, Great George-square, breaking down one
of the-chimney-pots, part falling into the street, and part
into the house. Several squares of glass were broken,
and the rooms filled with smoke. Fortunately no person
was hurt.

FAST BY PRIVATE AUTHORITY.—The churches in the
borough of Newport, isle of Wight, were opened on
Thursday last for a special service, on account of the
cholera, notice having been given by the clergy on, the
Ssnday previous. The shops and public-houses were
closed, and business entirely suspended at 6 p.m. The
congregations at both churches were larger than have
been known for some years past. Similar arrangements
have been made in various other places.
MR. HENRY RUSSELL'S €II3NCERTS.—This popular
vocalist commenced last night a series of his excellent
musical entertainments, in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
street. The room was most respectably attended ; and
the songs and anecdotes of negro life, the latter of which
were very amusing, delighted the audience. In the
course of the week he will Introduce several new compo-
sitions. One great merit of Mr. Russell's, songs is the
excellent moral which he makes them convey. This even-
ing he will introduce Kirkman and Son's newly-invented
grand fond a pian a.
OBTAINING , MONEY UNDER FALSE; PRETENCES.—
At the Police-court yesterday a man named James Mar-
shall was charged with defrauding his employer, Mr. J.
Heywood, of certain monies. The prisoner was foreman
at Mr. Hey wood's, ship-bread bakery, Hanover-street ;
and had a wages, or time-book, to keep of the work per-
formed by some females on the premises, as " packers."
He put it clown and represented, that more was due to
them than really was. The money was paid to him to pay
them, but he only paid them what was due to them, re-
taining the difference—sums of 65., 45., &c. He was
sent for trial.

PRETENDED CHOLERA DOZTOR.—Yesterday a man in
barragon, whose name we did not learn, was placed before
Mr. Rushton on the following charge. It appeared that
he was in league with another man not yet apprehended,
and that they loitered at the door of the north dispensary
to intercept persons who might be wanting surgical assist-
ance in cases of cholera. A respectable female residing
in the neighbourhood, and whose child was ill, came up
on this errand, and the prisoner accosted her, and having
learned this, said he would bring the doctor, who was then
busy, to her housaln a few minutes. He did introduce a
man, who went up stairs and saw the child. He went
away stating he would return with some medicine. He
did return, and getting a candle, again went up stairs by
himself. He came down again, stating that the child was
two degrees better. After going into the back yard he
left the house, and it was soon afterwards discovered that
he had realised a handsome fee for doing nothing, by car-
rying off the watch of the female's husband, which had
been left on the stand of the looking-glass in the bed-
room

Sept. 4, Ig4o.

NEW CHURCH IN LIMEKILN-LANE,

TRANMERE.

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need not add a word on our part as to the efficient wer7rhe
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memorial speaks volumes. and attests his earnestness Pro•
zeal in promoting the everlasting happiness of the iteto
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Last night, the quarterly meeting inbeehraatliresi;tthil:
" Pastoral Aid Society," was held in the club-room
Queen's Arms Hotel, Lower Tranmere. The rooms,
very full,,and after several good speeches from the
B. Arthnie, Rev. M. Margoliouth, A. Jackson, Esq"°rest
J. Herd, Esq., of Rock Ferry, after detailing the•
spiritual destitution prevalent in the populous net, des.
hood of Limekiln-lane, and alluding to the great ens is
yours of the Rev. Mr..Arthure and his various cure that
spread the gospel amongst the numerous people clfefft
neighbourhood, said,—l have been entrusted with a "iri,
grateful commission, namely, to plead with you the 100.
tual exigencies of my poor fellow Christians in Lime„ced
lane. My pleasure in doing so is considerably en,li.
by the conviction that you are as much, if not tore, '5
ace
citous for the accomplishment of the desired object, sa the
are. Without further preface, then, I proceed to rea
document I hold in my hand:—