The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-27 00:00:00

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a proceeding. If the managers of their National Church,
at that time, had been wise enough to perceive that there
might be unity without conformity ; that men might work
together for a great object, without all doing so in the same
way ; that men might love one another without being like
one another ; that hearts might beat together when
countenances would not measure together; that there
might be co-operation without similarity—if they learnt
this they would have known how
_to deal with enthusiasts

withotddriving them out of the pale. The fact, however was
that dissent had grown up in the land, and the National
Church was national only in name ; they could not disguise
the fact. All that now remained was to strive, if it was yet
possible, by individual liberality, to keep up even an ap-
pearance of nationality about her. If they were deter-
mined to have a National Church, they must put their
shoulders to the wheel, and their hands in their pockets.

If the church was to be maintainel they must do it. Par-
liament would not. Parliament was a mongrel set of
Papists, Socinians, and all sorts of Dissenters. There
were men in it who loved the Church, and men who hated
it ; men who respected it, and men who detested it. All
were mingled together, and the enemies of religion were
louder than its friends. Good and respectable men had
characters to lose, and therefore acted with something
like moderation, but there was a generation who had no
character to lose, and therefore cared not what they said.
Such a Parliament they had and must have. It would
prove worse rather than better, and therefore they could
expect no endowment for the Church from Parliament.
The reverend gentleman then went on to speak on the
topic of lay agency. He fully agreed with the remarks of
the chairman on that subject. There ought to be a
stated and regularly ordained ministry, whose sacred
office it was to administer the sacraments in the church,
a doctrine and view of duty) which was according
to scripture, and ought ever to he maintained. The
idea gradually and erroneously came to be entertained
that the lay members of the church were not to instruct
their neighbours, and fellow countrymen, and fellow
sinners. Not only was there no valid objections to this,
but he considered it to be the duty of Christian laymen
to preach the gospel. He wanted not only lay agency, but
female agency. He wished that the ladies would take ex-
ample from the Romanists; they sent their Sisters of
Mercy to the dwellings of the poor, with their little
douceurs of tea and sugar, for the purpose of more readily
insinuating the subtle poison of their princip:es. He ur-
gently pressed upon Protestant ladies, the young ladies
especially, to go to the dwellings of the poor, and whilst
they ministered to their spiritual, not to neglect their tem-
poral wants. It was so easy to take little luxuries from
their own table, in their baskets and reticules, which
would be most gratefully received. Of all the enjoyments
man was capable -of there was no thrill of such ecstatic
rapture as that which arose from the consciousness of do-
ing good to others. Bad as they were that was still left
in them. Fallen as they were that yet remained in man.
The secret satisfaction of seeing happiness conferred on
another far exceeds anything which they ever had or ever
could desire from selfish gratification. Mr. Mc. Neile
further urged upon ladies not to neglect the spiritual wel-
fare of their servants.

OPENING OF THE PORTS.-SCARCITY
DEARTH OF FOOD.

The Provost of Pollokshaws has received the following
letter, acknowledging the receipt of the memorial of the
inhabitants of that burgh to Lord John Russell, praying
for the opening of the ports, and prohibition of distilla-
tion from grain :
Downing-street. 16th Octoler, 1846.

Sist,—l am desired by Lord John Russell to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ult., and of the
memorial of the inhabitants of Polkshawa which accom-
panied it.
Lord John Russell is deeply sensible of the calamity
which now presses so severely on the poorer classes of
the United Kingdom, owing to the almost total failure of
the potato crop ; but he trusts that the measures which
the Government will adopt, and the exertions of pro-
prietors on their own estates, will tend very greatly to
mitigate the dis'ress.
I have also been instructed to inform you, that it is not
the intention of government to prohibit the distillation
from grain.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
servant,
__ _ (Signed) R. W. GREY:
. .

William Hector, Esq., Provost of Pollokehaws

CONVICTION OF AN INNOCENT MAN

On the 27th of last month, a poor man, named
Thomas Nott, a tailor, was convicted of felony at the
Clerkenwell sessions, and sentenced to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour. His innc,cence has since
been made apparent under very singular circumstances.
A girt, named Mary Ann Bevans, only fourteen years
of age, in the service of a Mr. Still, accused Nott of
having robbed her master. The evidence taken against
him at the Thames Police-court went to show, that Mr.
Still had missed a great many articles of linen and wear-
ing apparel, and the girl swore that on the night pre-
ceding the apprehension of Nott she saw him in the rear
of her master's house, and after he had gone a quantity
of children's linen and wearing apparel, hung out upon
the lines to dry, were missing, and that a portion of them
were found in an adjoining yard, which the thief must
have passed over, on the same night. She also stated,
that on the following morning, when she got up, she
saw the prisoner standing close to the parlour window
of her master's house, and immediately recognized him
as the man she had seen in the yard the night previous,
and that some time afterwards he came to the house with
a bundle which contained a portion of the stolen pro-

perty, and placing the buncl!e in her hand, begged of her
not to say anything to her master and mistress, and Le

would reward her

her down with the child in her arms she opened the front
door and ran away. Immediate pursuit was made, but
no tidings of Mr. Swift could be gained. Some wearing,
apparel, linen, and other property, were missing directly
afterwards, and Mr. Still made an application at the sta-
tion-house for assistance to police-sergeant Harris, who
immediately suspected the girl was the thief, and on in-
quiry being made, it was found that on the Saturday
morning, when Swift was represented to be in Lucas-
street, she was upwards of two miles from the spot. A
lodger, who had some suspicion that the girl was an im-
postor, looked up the chimney in the girl's bedroom,
where he found a bundle of wearing apparel fastened with
a cord, which the girl bad led Mr. and Mrs. Still to be-
lieve had been stolen by Mrs. Swift. Sergeant Harris made
further inquiries, which satisfied him of the innocence of
the man Nott, and of Mrs. Swift, and that everything
the girl had said about them was false from beginning to
end. She afterwards made a full confession of her guilt,
and said that Nott was innocent, and that she had dropped
the child's cap in his house for the purpose of securing a
conviction against him ; that all she had said relating to
Mrs. Swift was false, and had inflicted the bruises on her
head and face with her own hands, to be revenged on

Mrs. Swift for the observations she bad made concerning
her. She signed two declarations, affirming the inno-
cence of Nott and Mrs. Swift, and expressing her regret
at having made false charges against them

The inspec-

tor's report; the declarations of the girl, and a memorial'
from Mr. Still, have been laid before the Home Secre-
tary, sad Nott has been since discharged. The girl Evans
has been discharged from her situation, and is at large.

REVIEW OF THE TRADE OF THE KINGDOM.

Official tables of imports and exports have been pub-
lished by the Board of Trade. The period embraced in
the official tables is to the sth of September, but with a
comparison of the same periods of the two preceding
years. Under the heads of cattle and grain some idea
may be formed of the progress made under the recent
changes of the tariff in the anticipated increase of our
supply of provisions from abroad. It is shown that we
have added to our own stores, in the first eight months
of the present year, from foreien sources, no less than
3.043,505 qrs. of wheat, and 2,905,252 cwts. of flour and
meal. Within the same period, 58,559 head of live ani-
mals have been imported into this country. Including
bacon, beef salted and fresh, hams and pork salted and
fresh, 185,447 cwts. have also been imported under the
head of " provisions." In timber, the increase of tr

is enormous, being_ 1,117,758 loUds in 1846

,29,429 in 1845, and 642,900 loads i

showing an

The importation

increase in two years of 100 per cent
of linseed is extremely small. The
wool of all kinds retained for consume
year, is fully 2,000,000 lbs. less than last year
export trade in which the national industry is t

quantity of foreign
e present

Of the

whole a reduction equal to two millions has taken place.
The following table will show the account more clearly :

INCREASED

Declared value exp

to sth Sept. to sth Se

Cotton yarn
Hardwares and cutlery 1,455,884 1,501.491 45,607
Machinery

Silk manufactures

9,539,432 10,900

451,752
57,645

DECREASED

8 1,310,896

Declared value exported

to sth Sept. to

Cotton manufactures

0,189 11,789,662 1,130,527

Earthen war
Glass

10,128

Leather wrcught and 1

237,801

15,033

unwrought.

Linen manufactures

Linen yarn

2,080,373 1,854,062 226,311
708,500 548,121 1611,379
1,230,407 998,769 231,638
137,436 106,130 31,306
332,729 271,275 61,454
385,762 182,352 203,410
682,208 558,808 123,400
9 4,691,699 965,650

Copper and brass
Soap

Refined suaar

Wool, sheep or lambs'
Woollen yarn

Woollen manufactures . 5,567

25,145,820 21,887,881 3,257,939
The largest decrease in 1846, as compared with 1845, in
the exports of cottons and woollens, is to Belgium, to the
United States. and to China; the increase is to Cuba and
the Brazils. There is an increase, particularly of cottons,
to France.—Halifax Guardian.