The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-25 00:00:00

ABSTRACT OF THE DOCK ACCOUNTS.

The Trustees of the Liverpool Docks have recently pub-
lished their annual statement of income and disbursements,
a short abstract of which will doubtless be acceptable to our
readers. From June, 1837, to June of the present year, the
receipts of the Dock Estate, it appears, amounted to
£170,500 13s. 9d., of which the duties on tonnage form
£76,324 Ils. Id., and the duties on goods £69,965 12s. 10d.
Among the other items of income are £5,638 2s. 9.1. for
lighthouse duties; £2516 Bs. floating light duties ; £5579165.
graving dock duties; £1524 4s. 6d. graving block duties;
rent of cranes £5BB Os. Bd.; from the weighing; machines,
£263 19s. 94., From the Corporation fur site and materials of
old dock offices, £6160, &c. &c. The bonded debt of the
estate in June, 1837, amounted to £1,382,097 9s. 4d., since
which another issue of bonds has taken place to the extent of
£51,650. The bonds and assignments paid off since June,
1837, amount to, £44,950; so that the debt now owing by the
estate amounts to £1,394,797 9s. 4d. The expenses of the
surveyor's department amount to £l,lBBO, including an
annual salary of £1,500 to the surveyor, Mr. Jesse Hartley ;
£250 to his clerk, Mr. Gilbert Cumming. The expenses of
the secretary's department are limited to £450, consisting of
£350 salary to the secretary. Mr. Daniel Mason. and £lOO
to his clerk, Mr. E. B. Lloyd. The salaries in the treasurer's
office amount to £2,053 Ils. 3d., including £6OO to the secre-
tary, Mr. George Withers, and £250 respectively to Mr. W.
Marrow, Mr. 'I amen. and Mr. Evans receivers of duties on
tonnage arid goods; besides minor salaries to hook-keepers
and check-clerks. Mr. Askew, the harbour-master, receives
a salary of £3OO per annum; Mr. Hodgson, master of the
Prince's Durk, £319 14s. Id. ; Mr. Purnell, master of the
George's Dock, £207 18s. 6d.; Mr. Garuiss, master of the
Queen's Dock, £345 16s 10d. including an allowance Of £4O
a-year for house rent; Mr. A'sbridge, master of the King's
Dock, including ditto, £263 141. 5d.; Mr. Cosnahan, master
of the Canning Dock, including ditto, £190; Mr. Edward
Horsfall, master of the Half-tide Dock, including ditto, £145 ;
Mr. M•Bride, master of the Clarence Dock, including ditto,
£240 ; and Mr. Easton. master of the Brunswick Dock,
including ditto, £240. The master of the Waterloo Dock,
Mr. Rea, receives a nett salary of £2OO per annum, and Mr.
Humble, master of the Clarence Basin, £lOO. The special
auditors, Mr. H. B. Hornby and Mr. Joseph Kelsall, are
paid a salary of £l5O each. The expenses of the marine
surveyor's office amount to £93215. 44., including Lieutenant
Denham's salary, £7OO per annum, and Mr. William Lord's
ditto, (assistant draftsman,) £l5O. The police force for the
docks cost £10,733 7s. 31, exclusive of £844 6s. 9d. received
for lights, &c. The gross annual salaries of the lighthouse-
keepers at Point .Lynas, Bidston, Mockbegg ar, Ho)lake,
Black Rock, and Formby, amount to £670 -15 s. 6d• The
telegraph establishment costs annually £l,OBl 15s. 5,1, in-
cluding the salary, of the superintendent, Mr. B. L. Watson,
£2.50; his two clerks and an office boy, £l3B 35., and twelve
keepers at the signal stations, £58845., with other items. The
wages of the dock-gatemen amount to £4,257 4s. 9d.; wages
and provisions for the master and crew of the floating light
vessel, £B4l 4s. 9d. ; wages and provisions for ditto in the
New Channel, £683 10s.; assistant-clerks, foreman, and
labourers, £21,715 17s. 11d.; carpenters, £3,926 165. Id. ;
masonry, £14,350 16s. 10d. ; timber, £7,653 Bs. 3d.; expenses
of quarrying and hewing granite stone, £9,148 Bs. 11d., &c.
. &c. There is an item of £lOOO paid to the Corporation-the
proportion of the expenses of the Dock Estate towards the
Mersey Conservancy Bill.

THE EARL. OF DERBY.-It will be gratifying to a numerous
class of our readers to learn that his lordship is gradually re-
cover;ng the use of his left side, and that a most satisfactory
account as to his lordship's ultimate restoration is giVen by
one of his medical attendants,

MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR CHRISTIAN-
IZING THE JEWS.

Last evening the annual meeting of the Jewish Missionary
Society was. held in the Music Hall, Bold-street, the Rev.
Mr. Buddicom in the chair. Many of the clergy of the
town were on the platform, and amongst them the celebrated
missionary, the Rev. Joseph Wolff, L.L.D. The announce-
ment. that so extraordinary a man would attend and address
the meeting, had the effect, notwithstanding the rainy night,
of effectually cramming the Music Hall, and about 1200 per-
sons were present, a large proportion of whom were ladies.
Wishing to give as much space as possible to the speech of
the Rev. Dr. Wolff, we are reluctantly compelled from the
late hour at which the meeting concluded, (10 o'clock) to
curtail other speeches made, several of which were well worth
giving in full. This, however, will plead our excuse.
The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL, the secretary of the society,
opened the meeting with prayer; after which,
The CHAIRNIAN at some length alluded to the object of

the meeting, and our obligation; to the Jews in havingtrans-
mitted to us the gospel. We ought therefore to aid such a
society as the present, which had for its object the conversion
of the Jews to Christianity, and whereby we might repay
to them the heavy obligation we were under to them as a
nation, and excite a flame to the glory of God.
Dr. TATTERSIIALL, the secretary, then read the report,
from which it appeared that the society's receipts were £592
in Liverpool this year, being an increase of £6B over the
receipts of the previous year.
The Rev. Mr. BATES, assistant minister of St. Bride's,
moved that the report read be adopted, printed and circulated
under the direction of the committee, and also that the officers
and committee of the society be requested to continue their
services for the year ensuing..
The Rev. Mr. CARTWRIGHT, secretary to the Parent
Society, seconded the resolution at considerable length, and
in the course of his observations, detailed the proceedings of
the society and its gratifying success at Jerusalem, Constan-
tinople, and Tunis, and stated, that annually hundreds of
Jews were baptised at each of those places, in the name of
Christ Jesus. He also gave an account of the labours of
the ,society in printing the Scriptures in Hebrew, Greek,
and German, for the use of the Jews of different countries.
The resolution was unanimously carried.
The Rev. ANDREW KNOX, of Birkenhead, moved the
next resolution, earnestly praying that a blessing from on
high might follow their endeavours for the conversion of the
Jews, in the various parts of the world, and pledging the
meeting to assist the society in those endeavours. He also
noticed an establishment in the town for supporting such
Jews as were converted, which . was connected with the
society.• _ _

The Rev. Dr. WOLFF next rose, and was received with
much cheering. He spoke in broken English nearly as
follows :—Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, I second
with pleasure this resolution—"'That this meeting rejoices
to hear of the establishment in this town of an institution for
supporting and converting Jews, as well as for performing
weekly Hebrew service in St. Simon's chapel, and earnestly
prays that a blessing from on high may follow the endea-
vours thus made for the benefit of the Jews resident in this
town " Before I endeavour to make any remark at all
about the different jouruies I have made, and state, at the
same time, some of the results of these missionary perigrina-
lions, you will permit me, first of all, to give you the list
of those countries which I traversed, many of them,
not only once, or twice, or thrice, but many ten
times. In • Persia three. times. You will permit me
first to mention the places I traversed first as a mission-
ary to the Jews, and also to the Mahomedans, but especially
to the Jews, these 18 years. From Loudon to Gibraltar,
Malta, Alexandria, Cairo twice, Mount Sinai, Syria, Jerusa-
lem, Mesopatarnia, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Circaisia,
Crimea, Persia, Khorossaum,' independent Tatary, Buk-
hara, Balkh, Affghanistaun, Cashmere, Hindoostan, Abys-
sinia, Yemen, St. Helena, and America. But I must, how-
ever, first of all mention two instances by which you may
see the inscrutable ways of God to bring people frequently to
the knowledge of the truth. When lately, last December, at
Washington, the capital of the United States of North Amer-
ica, 1 was requested by the Congress to lay before them an
account of the state ,of the Jews throughout the world. John
Quincy Adams, the late ex-President, nroposed it to the
Congress, and both houses most kindly adjourned on a week-
day, Saturday, and there 1 was allowed for four hours to ad-
vocate the cause of the Jews. 1 confess I must make the
remark, you will find it a little perhaps extravagant when I
should have thought of it, when I so advocated the cause of
any nation before the representatives of the greatest republic
in the world—that is, America. I thought if I only could on
my return to England to my duties to advocate the
cause, and to show the importance of conversion of
the Jews before the House of Lords. (Loud cheering.)
However, we must leave all to Providence; perhaps it may
come to it. Now, last when I entered the Congress Hall,
received a letter from Sir Thomas Baring, which was trans-
mitted to me by the President Van Buren, including also a
letter from my friend Mr. Cartwright, telling me that my
brother had arrived—Matthias—and the president, Sir
Thomas Baring—the president of the society, requested me
to give him my candid opinion about him, asshe wished to
enter the Christian church. I confess that I thought it was
the work of the Lord, and that he can bring people in a most
remarkable way to a knowledge of the truth. The Lord in a
moment can strike him with the lightning of His grace.
That it appeared to me very strange, for you remember it is
now 28 yea's ago. I came from my uncle, in Bohemia, where
at that time my brother was, about 12 years of age. I told him,
"I am now going to be baptised;" the moment I said this
he turned away from me, and these were his last words to
me—the Jews here will understand it in Hebrew (giving it
in Hebrew)—this means, " Thy name and thy memory
should he blotted out." It is a curse, and so I saw him no
more. Hearing this I was surprised that he wrote to Sir
Thomas Baring, and I said to him, "Though he is my bro-
ther, I can give no testimony about his character; I- have
never seen him, and therefore I don't wish to be in the least
answerable about him." Well, that brother—after this Mr.
Cartwright most kindly took care of him. He then returned;
and after any return to England I went to Ireland, and during
that time he writes to me, and writes to me that on his arri-
val at Munich, where my another resides, he had met with,
by accident, my journals about Jerusalem, and soon after
came into company with Mr. Goulberg, a missionary at
Dresden; and thus by God's grace he came to a knowledge
of the truth, and at the same time he sent to me a letter, and
1 give you here a translation, and tell you after from %shoal
this letter is, and I am sure you will be surprised:—
" Reverend Sir,—Having always felt the greatest interest
in your missions and wanderings, I recommend your own
brother Matthias Levi, the leader of the Synagogue, of Amos
Green,, who has gained the estimation of the Jews and Chris-
tians for hts steady conduct, and desirous to be baptised, and
l'pledge myself for his sincerity. Assuring you that you.
have the regard of every liberal Roman Catholic in Bole-
mia, and that any letters of your's will be read with. the great-
est interest.
(Signed,)

VICAR GENERAL,
and
COUNCILLOR AT PRAGUE."
This was from a Roman Catholic Priest. Now you see as
always say it is wonderful how the light of God penetrates
where ever it comes. So I have found many during my pe-
regrinations—many Roman Catholics, who after I told them
candidly my belief, embraced me as a brother in Christ Jesus.
Now I soon came back to my family to England. My brother
I did not take to my house the first week, till I first heard of
his good behaviour from Mr. Cartwright and Dr. M'All, and
it was to my greatest joy that at last Ie baptised him—the'
brother, the brother,—in the episcopal J w's Chapel at Lon-
don. It_ was verily an interesting night. I don't know how

I was able to read the service—that brother who cursed me
—my own brother—the same mother and same father. And
after this, I must give you a little more particulars; I ex-
pounded, and preached the text in the 11th chapter of Romans.
" God has not cast away his people; for there is a kindness
according to the election of grace, even to this present."
And so I had at this present time—at this present time—
there I see my own brother. Is not this a very remarkable
thing, how the scripture truths so tangibly tell to this present
time. (Applause.) How delightful. But, however, ano-
ther remarkable such instance at America. At Philadelphia,
I preached at the church of Dr. King—at the Episcopal
church in that town. I soon after went to preach at a place
called/Salem. During my stay at Salem, I received a letter
from a person signing himself Myers Arnold. He writes—
" 1 heard you preach in the church of Dr. King, and hav-
ing so often heard your name, Wolff, I suspected that
you must be the son of Rabbi David Wolff, my dear mas-
ter, who licensed me as a reader—gave me the cabella,
and I knew you, when you were eight years of age. If 1 do
not mistake, pray, come to me, I have to speak to you."
Now, I set out from Salem to the place where he resided,
and wished to take some clergyman with me as witness, and
therefore, took the episcopal clergyman, and went to Kroots
town, at Reading, and there 1 saw that person whom
I saw when I was eight years old, surrounded by his
family—a Jewish family, and he introduced me to a
Lutheran clergyman. The Luthereau left the whole ar-
rangement to this Jew, and there the Jews of Krootstown,
were the first that acccotnpanied me into that church to hear
me give an account of my missionary proceedings. I re-
mained there till two o'clCick in the morning. And now,
his nephew is baptised by the Bishop of New Jersey. 1 must
here give you a few more accounts of my last missionary
proceedings. It was stated to me by some of my friends,
that, " your proceedings are too rapid; you are too quick
through the country; what use can it be? My dear friends,
yes, great use. I do not say, now mark, that every other
missionary should follow my way. God has bestowed his
gifts in divers ways, and therefore, let every one go in the
way and manner as the Lord points him out. But, however,
these my own proceedings with God's grace have also been
blessed. Now just a few instances—how one may preach
the Gospel of Christ, and be a missionary in every circum-
stance of life. When at Hinorosan in 18:32. just when I had
left a place called Joorjish, on the way to Turkistan, the
whole country was in confusion with the khans warring
with each other Before I came to Joorjish, I saw often
whole villages burnt down, and the people carried away as
slaves. How can one go through such a country? Then,
my friends, when I was in the British empire at Teheran,
many said it was impossible for me to go to be a missionary,
I should be murdered or made a slave. I said, " by God's
grace, a missionary, though a slave." Altogether 15 miles dis-
tant from Mishoopoo, and just having left a few Persian testa-
ments and bibles in a place called Rusbneabod, not to Jews.
for though Jew myself one has learnt not first to ask, " art
thou a Jew, or a Gentile?" So I was always happy when I
was able to preach these tidings to Mahomedans, or Jews, or
Gentiles. Setting out for Rushneabod, riding at that time
on horse, there suddenly came—boo—a firing from all. sides.
I thought this does not look well (a laugh). I. looked around
me, I saw my camels on which my bibles were, all in con-
fusion, one running here and another there. I am rather
short sighted, but I saw at a distance people on horse-back
with spears in their hands, and guns. 1 thought I will not
run away, for I had a good horse that would carry me away
safe, but I must not leave my servants behind to bring the
whole inissiouary cause into disgrace—that they might say
"he has run away like a coward." (Applause.) Then II
returned and I stopped for 10 minutes. They were engaged
in binding every one the.), got hold of. There were with me
about seven muleteers, my camel driver, and my servant.
I returned; at last came one up to me, takes hold of the bri-
dle of my horse, and says in Persian, "give money, give
money, give money." I put out my hand and gave him.
"Have you not more?" "Oh yes, in my trunk." "Then,"
says he, " don't tell my companions." (A laugh.) You
see these fellows rob themselves. At last they all came, and
said, "Pool, pool, pool,"—money, money, money. I said,
" I gave it to your companion," and they gave him a good
flogging. ( Laughter.) They stripped me; and they did
more; they bound me on a horse's tail,—(laughter)—and
wooip, wooip went the whip. (Loud laughter.) Now,
my friends, you laugh about it; but 1 assure you, you
would not have laughed. (Continued laughter.) Now, I
must coins to the point. At last, there 1 made au expe-
rience that I will never, never, never conceal it; in
that moment one learns—one has the proof of the truth
of christianity which neither a Butler, nor a Chalmers, nor
any of the philosophers can give. It cannot be given by any
external evidences, namely, that these pro Mises of Christ
contained in this book one experiences to be true. This was
always to me a proof of the truth of christianity. My dear
friends, prophecies can be cavilled away ; the most clear, the
most lucid prophecies, a Jew like Moses has put aside al-
together. But his promises, once experienced, cannot be dis-
puted. Why? Why is it they cannot be disputed ? Why,
if one has been in -a beautiful garden, and has smelt the
odour of the roses, and has heard the song of the nightingale,
this cannot be set aside from one who has found it. And
we know the Lord Jesus Christ says, "Whatever you shall
Pray for in my name, the Lord will give you." Well, this I
have had experience and this is to me a proof that Jesus
Christ is a self existent Jehovah, for he hears prayers and he
grants petitions. Now, mark, while the rest of the Maho-
medans were around bound, one of the chiefs of the party
Caine up to me and tells me in Persian, Keliasti, who art
thou ?" I tell him I go about for the sake of God, nothing
more. And that chief instantly ordered his people to un-
bind me and permitted me to ride on horseback, and
gave some rags around me, and j was wore com 7

fortable. Now, you see here is a complete hearing
of prayer. And now we come to the first place and
there they made a large fire, and give me to drink a
little of my tea, which they had robbed from me (laughter)
end we were at that time valued at what we were each worth,
My servant—a great rogue (laughter)—he was valued at £6,
and myself, his master, only £3. (Much laughter.) Well.
I did not care about this, how much worth they thought of
me; but at last they got more serious; they took out what
had with me—my passports from the King of Persia, a
passport from Lord Dudley, and a firman from the Sul-
tan—and then they looked at me. "Ah !" says one,
"this fellow, I don't like him; he has eyes like a bul-
lock ; he is a dangerous fellow ; his papers show he is
not a common man, and Abba Mirza is now in the
country, and if he only hears of him and writes to our chief,
we shall be obliged at once to liberate him, and on his ac-
count all the rest, and, therefore, it is better to kill him. I
therefore spoke to them, you are completely right; I shall be
ransomed by Abba Mizza as soon as he hears of it; but de-
pend on it if you kill me, God will avenge my blood. But
if you take my advice, you value me at £3, I will get
you
£lOO, give me my bible. Now I wrote in this bible.—"To
the Jews of Zoorbad. I, Josiah Wolff, of Jewish nation, but
going about for the sake of Jesus of Nazareth ;—I have been
made slave. I beg you to ransom me for 100 tourmans,
and I shall remain with you till I shall be able to repay you
200;" for I would have refunded it to them, and written to the
British Ambassador at Teheran, and he would have paid the
money. " Now go and see what noise this will make among the
Jews." Well, so they did. We arrived at Tea rbad. Imagine in
what a state—only a few rags about me, in the month of
November—snow, for it snows on the mountains—and with
such a horrid set. At last Jews came, and the moment I saw
them, I exclaimed, " Here, Israel, Jehovah, one God, Jeho-
vah is one." They at once surrounded me, and said to the
robbers,—" Assan, you permit this man to go with us: we
pledge ourselves to pay any sum for him: permit him to go
with us to-night to our house." They said, however, I must
be back with them the next day, until the whole sum is paid.
Well, I came with them to their houses. Now entering in
this way—now shier, frozen again—l desired them to give
me a cup of coffee. They said they bad no coffee, but they
can give me brandy spirits, and I am sure that every tee-to-
taller would have drunk it. (Laughter.) Now, don't be
afraid. I shall not say any thing against the Temperance
Society; I only state here a fact. Now, you will see bow
one is a missionary in such a state. There they were around
me. They said—for they had got my Bible—you have sent
us the five books oaf Moses and the Psalms, these we know ;
but this here, the New Testament, whet book is this ? And
I explained to them what book it was the whole night. That
I assure you huw we can warm in speaking of the Gospel,
that forgetting our misery through the whole night, I prayed
and explained the New Testament to my nation, till at
last the woman and children came and we were obliged to
adjourn to the synagogue, and we remained all night in the
synagogue. Next morning I was sent for by the roboers, and
put in a dungeon, bound, together with 30 slaves, bound to-
gether in the dungeon at least an hour and a half. There
was a knock at the door. "Is an Englishman here ?" I
said, Pelai, Pelai, Yes, Yes; and my chains were taken
away; not only so, but every one else was liberated, and so
I became the liberator of about 40 slaves. Immediately
after, you will see how one is a missionary in a town. I was
brought before Naboun Esah Khan—a horrid tyrant. When
I came there, there were lying in his room my Persian and
Arabic Bibles and Testaments. • He said take them away,
I don't care about them, Abba Mirza has written about
it. Exactly what the robber had said. The people told
Abba Mirza what bad happened; he said, this can be no one
else but Joseph Wolff, and bad me liberated. He ask me
how much money they take from me? I said "80 too-
maunts''—about £7O. "The rascals, you shall see my jus-
tice." He got them flogged, got out every penny from
them; and, in order that I might see his justice, he put
every penny into his own pocket. (Laughter.) I remained
14 days with my Jewish brethren. At last they gave to me
two of the Jews to accompany me to a famous town, Mecca.
And there is a most beautiful mosque, with a golden cupola
upon it; and when the Mahomedans came to it, they per-
formed their devotions. This was like a shock to t be Jews who
accompanied me. You will never take from the Jews the ex-
pectation of returning to their own land ; and so they shall re-
turn. These prophecies never can be in vain, that if any of thine
be driven out from the utmost parts of heaven, from thence
will I fetch you, and bring you to your own land which your
fathers possessed ! This is Canaan, Jerusalem, nothing else.
When these two Jews came and saw these cupolas, they said,
"Oh, when will the time come?" And mark, these are Jews
without all doubt, of.the 10th tribe, who never returned from
Babylon, but remained there; .these Jews said, "Oh, when
will the time come when the tribes shall go up; and
when will the time come? when the Messiah our King
shall come." I went with them to Mecca, and there prayed
in the chapel, and several of them were baptised. And let
me bring you to the dreary desert, and show how one can be
a missionary in the desert. Five days journey from Mecca,
Jews wandering about in the desert, living like taor-
manna, but separated from them, never intermarrying
with them. The very first day they sing the following
hymn, and I will give you a translation, and then if you
will permit me, I will give you an example of the wild
desert-like melody :
The Messiah, our King shall come,
The Mighty, with the Mighty is He.
The Messiah our King shall come, •
The blessed one with the blessed is He.
The Messiah our King shall come,
The Great one with the Great is He ; _ . _

and so on. They sing it in a wild way. Now round the wild
desert, amidst snows. There was together the Toorgomauns,
standing in this way, just as when reading the Koran, hav-
ing a respect for these words of Moses, 'and singing in this
way. (Singing the above poetry in Hebrew, in a melan-
choly sweet air.) Well, with these Jews I abide 20 days in
the desert; smoked a water pipe with them, what they call
in India a hookah; and there, sitting reading the gospel
alont, with me, they were very earnest. They have very
large' beards, and sometimes they gut so earnest in their
argument that they took hold of my heard—(laughter)—
and I took hold of theirs,-delightful life it was. (Continued
laughter.) Now let me here at once bring on to the deserts
of Mirvi, bordering on the Caspian Sea, formerly described by
General Alorave, on the road to Siberia in Persia. Now,
there in the desert snow se. how the gospel can raise the
people. If nothing had arisen to me but this, I would have
been compensated fur all my fatigues in that vast desert.
There the Jews were in four camps, about twenty miles dis-
tant from each 'other. Now fhese Jews coming from all
Harts for the purpose of hearing, as I said the holy man from
England speaking about the Messiah. And with the Toor-
gomans, and in the vast wild howling desert a had my
Jewish nation around me 14 days, preaching the glad tidings
of salvation. Now, within the last two years, you remember
I have so often told you of the Rechabite in the deserts of
Mesopotamia, in 1824. I gave him a bible and testament in
Hebrew. The Rechabites are descended from the brother-
in-law of Moses; they drink no wine, and plant no
vineyards, and sow no seed. In eighteen hundred and thirty
six, in the month of October, having been obliged to go
back from Abyssinia with Mr. Gobat on account of his ill-
ness, I wished previous to my return to Abyssinia to come to
Mecca, the Holy City, where the Queen of Sheba is
buried. I wished to see a city called Lalla inhabited by
the Rechabites whose numbers amounted to twenty thousand.
The Rev. speaker then went on to detail a very interesting
narrative, which we regret our limits oblige us to curtail, of
his visit to Lalla and the Rechabites and the mode
in which he disarmed their hostility, and drew them
to listen to him in the temple while he explained to them
who was the Messiah. And also gave several anecdotes of
the mode in which the bread of scripture had been cast upon
the waters and returned after many days. In 1821 it was
attempted to dissuade him from going to Jerusalem, and there
was no one there to preach Christ crucified. But they had sent
their missionaries over, and now at last they were about to
establish a church at. Jerusalem ' - and, therefore, let them
not be discouraged. Considered by one party as enthusiasts,
and by another as fanatics, see the power of the grace of
God. The reverend gentleman concluded amidst loud ap-
plause.
The Rev. FIELDING OULD moved a resolution, pledging
the meeting to sympathise with the society, and to endeavour
to attain its object, the conversion of the Jews
The Rev. JAMES FURNIVAL seconded this, which was
unanimously adopted.

A doxology was then sung, and the meeting broke up at a
few minutes before ten o'clock.

BOWLING MATCH.—A bowling match for a silver snuff-box
took place during the present week on Mr. Leonard's green,
adjoining the Zoological gardens. Mr. Blackwell, of Crox:
teth, was the successful player. The day was extremely fine,
and the party enjoyed themselves highly. The green attached
to the Derby is one of the largest and best in this district.
DEATH OF A CHILD FROM A WOUND IN THE BYE.—On
Tuesday an inquest was held on the body of a child belonging
to Jane and Daniel Whittle, who live near the Dog and Gun
public-house, West Derby. The child in question had been
playing in the garden of its parents in which there is a ditch
about two feet deep and a plank across it, used for draining
the garden. The child fell off the plank into the ditch, and
got something into its eye, which caused it to bleed profusely..
It was picked up and taken to a surgeon, but died on the way.
From a post mortem examination of the body by Mr. James
Cooper, surgeon, it appeared that something had passed be-
tween the upper part of the eye and the socket, extending to
the posterior part of the socket, at which point there was a
fracture of the bone, and a punctured wound of the brain,
which was the cause of death. The deceased had fallen on
something containing an old nail, or some hard sharp pointed
substance. Verdict—accidental death.
THE ROYAL. WILLIAM.—The passenger's fares of the
Royal William, which sailed on Thursday last, together
with freight on cargo, parcels, and letters, amount to upwards •
of 1.200.0. Amongst the passengers were James Gordon Ben-
nett, Esq., the able and energetic, though eccentric, editor
and proprietor of the New York Morning Herald, and other
papers, who came to England to see the coronation, and has
since been sojourning amongst us, "taking notes" of man-
.ners, customs, and institutions, in various parts of the coon-
try,--to say nothing of a trip to Paris in the meanwhile,
doubtless intending his countrymen to profit by his observa-
tions ; —the Rev. William Bettridge, his lady, and two daugh-
ters: and Miss Yielding, were also amongst the passengers.
The vessel has on board 40 tons of the prepared peat-stone
fuel, the invention of C. W. Williams, Esq., the active and
intelligent manager of the City of Dublin Steam Company,
each ton of which goes as far as three tons of coal. She has,
therefore, been enabled to take fifty tons of cargo, with her
full complement of passengers, and yet had seven inches less
draught of water than on her departure the preceding voyage.
We understand that the proportion in which this fuel is Lurut
in connexion with coal, is one ton of the former to six tons of
the latter. Above 4,000 letters were received on board, within
the last hour, before sailing. We heartily wish the Royal
William a prosperous voyage, and her owners every success
which their spirit and enterprise deserve.

NOSES IN DANGER.—The new Russian minister to the
United States is called Somonosoff (saw my nose off) An
attache of the same legation in Washington, Blowmanozorf
(blow my nose off.) Besides which we have Colonel Kutma-
nosof, of the imperial guard (cut my nose off), Marshal Pull-
manosuff (pull my nose off ), General Nozebegun (nose be-
gone), and many others.— Washington Metropolitan.

HORRIBLE DEATH.—As four men were employed about
a Lime Kiln, at Breedin, and whilst in the act of loosening
the top part of the Kiln, which sometimes congeals, (so as
to leave the Kiln hollow,) the mass fell suddenly down, and
the men having hold of crow bars were all precipitated into
theXiln, by which one man lost his life, and the other three
had all their clothes burnt, and wete everything but literally
roasted alive.—Bolton Chronicle.

THE LEIPSIC RAILROAD.—LEIPSIC, SEPT. 10.—On the
16th instant the road opens from Leipsic to Dahlen, and
from Dresden to Oheran, so that there will he 42 miles in
operation. The King went yesterday along the line, and
came the whole distance from Dresden to Leipsic (75 miles)
in five hours and a half. Up to the 31st of August 360,503
persons have travelled along the railway in 2.264 journeys,
or 112 per voyage.

"NOTHING IN A NAME."—We hare been told that there
is "nothing in a name,', and that "a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet." We are not inclined to dispute the
correctness of these axioms, for we are about to relate an an-
ecdote in support of them. A worthy gentleman of this town,
distinguished alike for the urbanity of his manners, and the
hospitality of his table, invited a few friends to supper one
evening, when he discovered at the festive board a Lyon, a
Hogg, and two Lambs all feeding out of one dish.—Ciimber-
land paper.

The death of Lord Carrington has caused a vacancy
in the representation of High Wycombe. A numerous
and highly-respectable requisition to George Robert Smith,
Esq., the late candidate for the county, was got up in
a few hours on Wednesday, and yesterday a deputation waited
on that gentleman at his seat, Selsden Park, when be con-
sented to become a candidate It is confidently expected that
his election will take Flace without
,aper.

Pottrp.

SECOND SIGHT.

BY MRS. ABDY.
They tell me, thou pale and thoughtful sage,
That thins eye can glance o'er life's coming page,
That the shadows in time's dim glass concealed,
To thy piercing gaze are all revealed.

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When the infant smiles on its mother's knee,
Thou dust not joy in its playful glee,
Thou canst tell the hour when the world shall win
That
maiden sportivet
sits
in her
spirit to guile
Summerand
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sin.,
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,ri,hter in bloom than the fairest. r ;
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But thy look is sad, for thou know'st her doom
Is a fading cheek and an early tomb.
i,l The bride goes forth from her home of youth,
She trusts in her faithful !owes truth ;
But thy tears at the boding vision start,
Of a broken vow and a blighted heart.
Soldiers march on in their proud array,
Their drums are beating their colours gay,
The crowd exults in their high career, _

But their death-dirge sGunds-in thy shuddering ear.
These are the records that numbers tell
Of the force of thy wonder-working spell ;
But for me, I cannot deem that Heaven
Has a boon so fatal to mortals given.
Oh ! not for the worlds, would I own, the power
To lift the veil of one distant hour,
And sadly on youth and joy to gaze, .
Knowing the ills of their coming days.
On the past I love to turn my eyes :
My present blessings I fondly prize ; ' •
And, when doomed misfortunes to deplore,
I trust I have better days in store.
But I would not wish on those days to look—
They are safely kept in Go D's secret hook ;
And my heart would grieve were His wise design
Profaned by a feeble glance like mine.