The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

THE MINISTRY

TO THE LANDOWNERS AND LABOURING PEOPLE OF
ENGLAND, AND TO ALL CLASSES OF THE OPERA-
TIVE TRADES PEOPLE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF PRO-
TECTING THEIR PRESENT RATES OF WAGES,
DEFENDING THEMSELVES FROM THE FURTHER
INVASION OF THEIR RIGHTS AS A BODY, AS IN-
DIVIDUALS, AND AS A NATION

Mr FRIENDS,—There is no time to be lost in coming to
a final conclusion on the great and important point now
under discussion in the Commons, and which is introduced
for the destruction of your joint and separate interests as a
people, as a class or classes, and finally as a nation ; but the
power avert to the ruin which is to attend these proceedings
lies in your own hands. We have two contending parties,
the Conservatives and the Destructives. For the Conserva-
tives I will say as little as I possibly can ; a comparison of
the two parties will show directly who are the protectors of
the people's rights and who are the assailants. If the O'Con-
nell party ever intended any thing for our general good, why
would they at first setting out provide, on such an extensive
scale, workhouses for the people, such a plan of relief amongst
a then independent, Protestant population ? They must have
premeditated a general ruin, which would be a cause for the
existence of such prisons; they must have intended a certain
line of policy which would have the effect of a general de-
crease of our business and our prosperity. The falling state
of the country is a proof of it. And as for the general bene-
fits which we were promised from a Whig-Radical and
O'Connell administration, we see the nature of these benefits
clearer when we come to compare them with the Conserva-
tive administration ; we see the Conservatives have done
their duty to their country, whilst the Radicals have played
the game so well, that we find a great national deficiency
which we must all contribute to, until made good. Now, as
there are two sects of people, independent of Papists, who
have power to remedy these evils and prevent this sort of
O'Connell sport, I would request the attention of both to
those two parties, the Conservatives of England and the
Radicals. These two sorts are people who want political
qualification in a member of parliament without any refer-
ence to religious principles ; even such a man as this cannot
find any thing in the Whig-Radical to merit his support, but
directly the reverse ; and the man who would require both
these virtues amongst the Whig-Radical party, they are
found to be enemies to the country and enemies to our
church ; and no one can give an instance of any thing under
colour of our good proposed by them until the end of many
years ruin on the country when they are called to resign, and
then they will give us cheap bread and cheap sugar. The
cheap bread being accompanied with the destruction of the
highest interests of Englishmen, and if this system should
operate for the reduction of rents of land and houses, and
the reduction of employment, how does Lord Melbourne
intend to meet another and a new kind of deficiency which
must take place in the financial department by means of the
said reduction of the value of property in general ? This must
be considered as another great evil arising out of the great
evil of corn-law repeal, as the poor-law dungeons are a great
evil, made necessary to remedy the evil of the ruin which
was anticipated previous to the building of the workhouses
for the people, and all these evils spring from the same
source, Whig-Radical administration. But the Radical
O'Connell party cannot be for the good of Englishmen—
quite impossible. See his words to the inhabitants of Dublin
several years ago : We will have no police here ' • we will raise
the Irish volunteers, who will do the duty of the national
guards; we will have no English fellows to govern us—we
will govern our own country, and defend it against the com-
mon enemy. Will you not all be volunteers? Voices : "we
will, we will." We will drive the Sasenach (the Englishman
or Protestant) from our land ; we will not have it defiled by
such reptiles ! These are every one identical words used by
O'Connell himself to the people of Dublin. And he was
as good as his word ; he did raise an Irish volunteer move-
ment, to the amount of some hundreds of thousands, whose
operations made it dangerous to the lives of Protestants to
remain in the country, and it required no small degree of
power, on the part of the English government, to suppress
them. But does he come over to Englishmen with such
language? No; he uses very different weapons in his war-
fare from those used against us at Wexford in 1798, at Derry,
or at the Boyne. He finds it won't do here, and therefore
he conies to you with sweet words, "cheap bread and sugar."
If O'Connell thinks cheap bread a good thing, let the Irish
have cheap bread for a trial, but without any benefit from our
English markets, except as usual. Let the Irish have foreign
corn cheap until their ports are full, and see how they will
take it; and if it is not for their benefit, it cannot be for
yours. But I will advocate cheap bread if it is all English
or Irish produce, giving the reward for labour to our own
men, and keeping the workhouses empty. And any man
that wants further proof of Whig-Radical treachery, let him
look at the system of religion they advocate—popery, tran-
substantiation, purgatory, idolatry and cheap remission of
sins, paid for according to our means, their priests professing
to absolve all sinners without any ceremony but the cash.
As to transubstantiation, our Saviour has said, " Verily I
say unto you, ye shall not see me hence," &c. They say we
can see him and handle him every day. The other absurdi-
ties of their church will appear on comparison with the
Scriptures. And because we are protesters against these
innovations on God's church, we lose the name of Catholic,
which Rome retains. The name of Catholic is strong enough
to keep the unlearned man stedfast in their superstitious
belief. Look at their i,stitutions, the nunneries. No man
of principle would vote for the Whigs, who extort an income
from our pocket to support such places, whose burden on
the people could not be endured in a popish country, Spain,
as appears by the revolt which scattered the popish inquisi-
tion courts. In fact, the world may laugh at Englishmen if
they reject their own friends, and vote for those who are
bound in allegiance to a foreign enemy, the Pope, whose war
is carried into our very camp. Therefore, the Whig-Radical
ministry being found to betray the interests of every man,
both as regards politics and religion, and both separately and
conjointly, and the English Conservatives found the friends
of the people, and of the nation generally ; and as regards
both politics and religion, any man who will not reject the
former and support the latter, must be declared an enemy
to his country, to himself, his family, and above all, to his
God.—l remain, dear Sir,

A DEFENDER OF THE CHURCH AND
THRONE OF ENGLAND.
Fresco!, 31st May, 1841.

The Cheshire Cavalry, 600 strong, under the command of
Colonel Egerton, are expected to arrive in this town to-
morrow, for permanent duty,

GRAND WRESTLING MATCH AT TOXTETH-PARK.--WD
are obliged to postpone our account of these interesting sports
until Tuesday.

COVENT-GARDEN MARKET, SATURDAY.—Every week
adds to the profuseness of the supply of every description of
summer fruits and vegetables, which are also much improved
in quality, from the continuance of fine and genial weather.
Trade has also been brisk during the week, and prices have
been moderate. Every description of forced fruit is of very
good quality—Providence, Emrille, and Queen pine apples
being from Gs. to 10s. per lb • hot-house grapes 4s. to 8. En-
glish melons ss. to 10s. each and peachettes and nectarines
20s. to 30s. per dozen; strawberries continue abundant, and
there have been some in the market during the week grown
in the open air. Cherries are plentiful at ss. to 12s.
per lb., and are now to be seen in many of the shops.
Green gooseberries were in abundant supply, at 4s. per
sieve, although this fruit has been very much affected by
the blight ; green currants were 3s. per half sieve ; and apri-
cots 6d. per quart. Peas from Kent, were plentiful and of
good quality, at 4s. to ss. per currant sieve, and shelled 3s.
per quart. The supply this season promises to be very
abundant. There was a continued good supply of asparagus
at 3s. to ss. per bundle ; and cauliflowers were very good at
2s. to 6s. per dozen. Forced French beans were 2s. per
hundred ; and new frame potatoes, 6d. to ls. per lb. ; tur-
nips were 4s. to Gs. per dozen bunches ; cos lettuces, 9d. to
ls. 6d. per score ; onions, ss. per sieve; spinach, 9d per
sieve ; cabbages, 9d. to Is. per dozen ; and new carrots, Bd.
per bunch. The great variety of flowers now makes the
garden a rich and pleasing parade, and amongst the most in-
teresting new plants were some kalmais azalias, clianthuses,
acacias saponarias, &c.
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MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.-011 Saturday
last, Charles Foster, Esq., fourth son of Baron Foster, was
to have accompanied the baron and family from their resi-
dence, Rathescar, in the county Louth, to Dublin, but as he
was to proceed on horseback, and the day being extremely
wet, he deferred his journey till the following Monday. In
the course of the morning of that day, he and Mr. Arthur
Foster, went out in a small boat, on the lake of Colton, in
the domain of Lord Ferrard. They had been but a short
time on the water when, owing, it is supposed, to some in-
advertence in rowing, the boat upset, and both parties were
precipitated in twenty feet of water. A gamekeeper of
Lord Ferrard's, with Mr. Delapp, son-in-law of that noble-
man, happened to be on the bank of the lake at the time, and
witnessed the melancholy accident. Mr. Delapp, an excel-
lent swimmer, instantly plunged into the water, and quickly,
reached the fatal spot, where he caught a glimpse of Mr.
Arthur Foster in the act of disappearing beneath
thee surface
after a short but severe struggle for life. He sucded in
catching hold of him, and rescuing him, in a state of the ut-
most exhaustion, and almost total insensibility, from his
perilous situation, but his ill-fated companion had sunk into
a watery tomb. Mr. Delapp dived repeatedly, to try at least
to recover the body, but without success ; and although
every possible exertion was made for the same purpose down
to three o'clock in the afternoon, the resnaius vrere net Cs.
eorere4,—Dnblin Siewsan.

DISIIONESTY OP THE WHIG RADICALS

LIKE MASTER LIKE MAN

(From the Chester Courant.)

So Mr. Rlostyn and the Chronicle are again at their dirty
work—again brandishing their electioneering weapons, which,
as on a former occasion, will end only in covering themselves
with shame—again are they committing a gross breach of
confidence for the paltry advantage of a very questionable
momentary triumph over a political adversary. It cannot be
forgotten in Flintshire, and if it had, the Chronicle has,
under the infliction of the madness which is said to precede
destruction, (" quern Deus vult perdere, prius denze;ilat," )
brought it to the recollection of its readers, that on the eve
of the last election, Sir Stephen Glynne, then member for
the boroughs, which are unhappily under the dominion of
the Mostyn family, well knowing, as the result proved, the
county to be tired of their politics and political domination,
wrote a private and confidential letter to Mr. Mostyn, then
for the last time member for the county, proposing for the
sake of the peace and harmony of society to forego the post
of honour, of which he has since been the ornament, and to
continue in the secondary post of member for the boroughs,
if such an arrangement could be bona fide made; but alas
for the political virtue and honour of the Nlostynites, the
letter was found in print in Wales nearly as soon as Sir
Stephen became acquainted with the circumstance in Lon-
don ; and the result was then, as it will be now, to justify
the adage that " honesty is the best policy," experience does
not teach, in certain cases, where much virtue is attributed
to it, or we should not now have to record a similar instance
of the absence of high and honourable principles, and al-
though the act may have been perpetrated by an intervening
party, we must not forget the sound legal maxim, " qui
facial per alium facit per se, and we cannot conceive the ro-
sition being at all more enviable from its close connexion
with the editor of the Chester Chronicle.

Now for the plain unvarnished tale :—Sir Stephen acting
upon the sound religious principles with which he is known
to be deeply imbued, though evidently with some misappre-
hension as to the full bearings of the case, gave instructions
that an unauthorised religious service, usually performed in
an unlicensed cottage of his at Broughton, then for the first
time brought to his knowledge, should be discontinued, and
although, as was likely from the fact of a mischievous sect,
disapproved of alike by churchmen and dissenters, having
lately crept into the parish, he did not immediately adopt
the representation of the minister who has usually performed
the service in that cottage ; yet his Letter No. IV., which
we have extracted from the Chronicle, proves that on a tho-
rough investigation of both sides the question he did so, and
the parties became perfectly satisfied with his decision and
motives ;—so much so, that the resident members of the
Methodist New Connexion had been placed provisionally in
the hands of the editor of the Chronicle, immediately pre-
pared and signed a memorial deprecating and disclaiming the
publication of the correspondence. backed by a letter from
their minister, (who had prematurely given up the early part
of the correspondence to the Chronicle), expressive of his
satisfaction, and declaring that justice and honour to Sir
Stephen required that the matter should proceed no further;
and they even sent one of their own body express to London,
where the editor then was, in the hope that nothing further
might be done to interrupt the constant harmony, kindness,
and affection, which had become proverbial between the
Glynne family and their numerous and happy tenantry.
But, no. The request to have their own property re-
turned to them did not suit the political honesty of the Mos-
tynites and the Chronicle—the clap-trap was too good to be
parted with, and the personal and religious interests of a large
body of poor well-disposed dissenters were to be sacrificed,
that Mr. Mostyn might have some slight chance of gaining
the next election. Nay, will our readers believe it, the pub-
lication of their protest and their minister's letter was posi-
tively refused them, with only the poor consolation of a re-
mark in the " Notice to Correspondents," that they were
under consideration ;—and yet will Mr. Mostyn coquet with
the dissenters, after it is thus clearly shown that their inte-
rests have been most shamefully sacrificed to his own.
We will, therefore, give them one word of advice on the
subject ; for, after all, an open and generous opposition is
better than an insidious interested friendship, which has
failed to stand the test of one single trial. Trust not the
Mostynites. The bird which has ruffled and destroyed its
own nest, is not the one to be admitted into yours; and have
they (the Mostynites) not lost the confidence and esteem of
nearly all the ministers of their own creed, by their open alli-
ance with the political emissaries of Popery, with all its abo-
minations, and, above all, its intolerance, although they
would fain creep into your confidence, under the hollow pre-
text of being, par excellence, the friends of toleration and
dissent: If they are not true to the maintenance of the
principles of their own church, they cannot be true to you.
Therefore, again we say, trust not the Mostynites.
Since writing the above it has come to our knowledge, and
we merely allude to it as a singular coincidence, that Lord
Mostyn was in Chester, and in communication with some of
the parties who had the custody of Sir Stephen's correspon-
dence with Mr. Bakeweil, on the very day on which they
were put in type by the Chronicle, from which our readers
will doubtless draw their own conclusions; and we are happy
to have it in our power to assure our conservative friends, on
positive authority, (in answer to the impudent insinuations
of the Chronicle), that Sir Stephen Glynne will again solicit
the suffrages of his constituents at the ensuing election.
[lv.]
London, May 17, 1641. _

SIR,—.I have to acknowledge the receip't of ;our letter of
the 11th. The views which we take respectively of the na-
ture and also of the historical basis of the church are so diffe-
rent, as to render it, I fear, wholly unavailing for me to dis-
s.buse your mind of the impressions with which you seem to
regard my conduct in the matter of the meeting upon my
estate.

For instance, you believe that the church is herself a sect,
and that she separated from the church of Rome. I believe
her to be the institution founded in this country by the ori-
ginal preachers of Christianity, and that she never separated
herself from any other church, but simply repudiated by an
authority properly belonging to her, an usurped authority of
the pope. But it is not my intention to enter further into
any theological discussicn.

I feel, however, that my tenants, and especially my poorer
tenants, have a right to expect of me that in a matter thus
affecting conscience, 1 should do nothing with precipitancy,
and 1 agree with you in preferring the method of persuasion
to any which bears even the appearance of force. I have
communicated my intentions to my agent accordingly, who
will, upon your expressing a desire to that effect, make you
acquainted with them.—l am, sir, faithfully yours,

STIPHICH. R. GLYNNI

Rev. John Bakewell,
Lower Bridge-street, Chester,

MANCHESTER RACES

These races commenced on Wednesday last, under cir-
cumstances not the most promising. The attendance of
influential gentlemen of the turf was unusually thin, but the
crowds of operatives from the factories were considerable.
The course was hard and dusty, and, what with the heat of
the weather, the blinding dust, and the delay between the
different races, a more uncomfortable day we never passed
on a race-course. The stewards, who were not named until
the morning of the races, were John Entwistle and R. P.
Willock, Esqrs. The following is a return of the first day's
sport :

The WILTON STAKES did not fill.

A FREE HANDICAP STAKES of 10 sous. each, with 30 soya
added, for four-year-olds. One mile and a quarter. (14
subs.)
6 12 Mr. Richardson's ch. c. Kingston Robin.. (Francis) 1
6 5 Mr. Allen's b. f. Moleskin, by The Mole 2
7 3 Mr. Bower's ch. f. Lady Grove
7 7 Mr. Graydon's ch. f. Miss Heathcote.
6 12 Mr. Stephenson's br. f. Martha Lynn
6 5 Mr. Hutchinson's ch. f. Maria Monk. 0
8 paid forfeit. Betting—Even on the winner against the
field, 3 to 1 agst Lady Grove, 4 to 1 agst Miss Heathcote.
SWEEPSTAKES of 15 soya. each, 10 soya. ft. with 20 sovs.
added; three-year-olds fillies, Bst. 31b.—One mile and a
quarter.
Mr. Bell's b. f. Mary O'Moore (Heseltine) I
Mr. Bower's b. f. Collina, by Langar 2
Betting-10 to 4 against the winner.
HER 111AJESTY'S PLATE of 100 gs. for three•year-olds and
upwards ; three-year olds, 7st. 21b. ; four, Ost. 21b. ; five,
lOst. ; six and aged, lOst. 51b.—Three miles and a dis-
tance.
Mr. Mitchell's b. f. Lady Liverpool, 4 yrs..
Mr. Worthington's b. h. Northenden, 6 yrs
Mr. Graydon's br. h. Roscius, 5 yrs
Mr. Barrow's b. m. Catherina, aged
M. J. Osboane's ch. g. The Emperor, 3 yrs
Mr. Speed's b. c. Rough Robin, 4 yrs
Capt. Witham's bl. g. Lartington, aged
Betting-5 to 2 and 3to 1 agst. Roscius, 3to 1 agst. Em-
peror, 3 to 1 agst. Lady Liverpool, 4 to 1 agst. Northenden,
sto 1 agst. Catherina, sto 1 agst. Lartington. A good and
fast run race.

(Heseltine) 1
9

On Tuesday, at Covent Garden Market, there was a plen-
tiful supply of green peas, at Is. 6d. per peck, and by the
afternoon they were common at most of the shops in the me-
tropolis. Cherries were retailed at Is. per lb., and straw-
berries were very abundant at Is. 6d. per pottle.

E.roN MONTEM—" SALT."—The amount of " salt" col-
lected at the Montem on Tuesday last was not finally ascer-
tained until Wednesday morning. The collection has ex-
ceeded that of any former year. The sum received by the
salt bearers and servitors, up to Tuesday evening, amounted
to between £1,240 and £1,250, and when the " odds and
ends" were brought together on Wednesday morning, the
gross amount approached very nearly to £1,300. The ex-
penses of the Captain for the day will amount to about half
that sum. At the three preceding Montema, the " salt"
collected was as follows : £ a. d.

1832. Williams, Captain.
1835. Money, Captain...
1838. Williams, Captain.

893 0 0
1,006 14 0
1,186 13 0

The visiters by the railroad very materially contributed to
add to the funds in 1838 and this year.

STRATHBOGIE.—INTIMATION OF THE SENTENCE OF
THE SEVEN MINISTERS.-Thr ministers appointed by the
General Assembly to intimate the sentence of deposition
against the seven suspended ministers of Strathbogie, re•
turned to town yesterday afternoon. In every case the in-
terdict granted to the Court of Session on Saturday arrived
too late. At every churchyard gate, within the bounds of
that presbytery, the sentence was read, and thereafter posted
by the agents of the assembly ; and it was not until the after
part of the Sabbath, a day on which it is illegal to serve such
instruments, that, at the instance of these maintainers of
the law, the said interdicts were served. In the case of three
of the Assembly's ministers, whose names were unknown to
the messengers-at-arms, blank interdicts alone were served.
—The Witness, Edinburgh paper.

CHASE OF DOGS ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—On
Wednesday last, as the 11 o'clock train was proceeding to
Cardiff from Merthyr, on nearing Newbridge a fine grey-
hound and a terrier were observed by some of the passengers
running at the top of their speed between the rails, a few
yards in advance of the train. After running some 500 or
600 yards, they crossed the left rail, and, still side by side,
continued the race, evidently in great terror—the terrier,
singular to relate, being about a head in advance of the grey-
hound. The train was going at a fast rate, and the little dis-
tance between the dogs and the engine rapidly diminishing,
when the engineer attempted ineffectually to drive them off
the road by throwing large pieces of coke at them. The poor
creatures, however, seemed fascinated, and whilst the writer
of this paragraph (a passenger, feeling assured that both
would be killed) was anxiously awaiting the issue, he sud-
denly lost sight of the terrier, whilst the greyhound, being
passed by the engine, crouched down on the road with tongue
extended, evidently all but exhausted. The writer's conjec-
ture a 3 to their fate was partly verified, for on looking back
he beheld the poor terrier extended between the rails, with his
head cut completely open, and his more fortunate companion,
on the ground, standing over him.—Hereford Times
HB.—Sir Robert Peel's speech during the late debate has
furnished HB. with a new subject. The Chancellor of the ,
Exchequer is represented sitting like patience, in a punt,
upon an empty chest, angling in the " Tory preserve "
in
expectation of a bite. A notable fish, with a head re; em-
bling that of Sir Robert himself, is sportively avoiding the
bait, while John Bull stands by warning off all poachers.
The hopeless condition of the ministers (pro tern.) is also
pungently set forth in a version of one of Pinelli's etchings,
descriptive of the endeavour to recal Cincinnatus from his
Sabine farm to
clas-
sicalresume the cares of government. The agriculturist is represented by Lord Spencer, and the
supplicants by Lords Melbourne, John Russell. Lansdowne,
Normanby, &c. The likenesses of the latter are excellent,
as well as their attitude. Cineiattatne himself is sitskri.
istieally impersonated by tke Weble Prim'adeld
cultural hie*.

The punsters say that as ministers find Nur eptidtatr vitt
not make them stick in their places any longer, they are
now going to try Corn plaster.

Mr. Penny, the publisher of the Weekly Chronicle news-
paper, was drowned on Monday night off Chelsea, by the
boat in which he was rowing, coming in contact with a barge.
He was trying to extricate himself, when the boat unset, and
he lost his life. Another gentleman who was in the boat
was saved by clinging to the barge. A reward is offered for
the finding of the body.
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.—We learn from the best
authority that tha dissolution of parliament will take place
about the 12th of this month. The proclamation is ready,
and only watts the Queen's signature. The new parliament
is to meet on the 4tq August. We trust that the conserva-
tivos in this district will be fully on the alert, but the remark
is almost unecessary, for,the very best spirit prevails all
through the county.—Hereford Journal.

NEW STEAM COMMUNICATION TO DIEPPE AND HAST-
INGS.—It is understood the railroad company intend to rum
a steamer from Brighton to Dieppe. Hitherto the steam
navigation company have been allowed a monopoly by the
pier company, who, until now, have given them the exclusive
right of landing passengers at the pier-head. A steamer will
also run from Brighton to Hastings, thus forming a very
agreeable means of communication between these fashionable
watering-places.

BEST DESCRIPTION Or SHADE.—Witbin these few years
past, screens and shades against the light have come much
into vogue for weak eyes ; but I may observe that such arti-
ficial defences are only serriceableand proper for those whose
eyes are very prominent, and who have scanty eyelashes and
eyebrows. To such as, from this cause, need some protec-
tion for their eyes, a green silk shade is the simplest as well
as the best contrivance that can be used.—Curtis on the
Preservation of the Sight.
The foundation stone of the Oxford Memorial, comme-
morative of the martyrs, Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, was
laid on Wednesday last, by the Rev. Dr. Plumptre Master
of University College, chairman of the committee of ma-
nagement. After an eloquent address by the Rev. Vaughan
Thomas, the ceremony concluded with a suitable prayer by
the Rev. Chairman, and the singing of the 100th psalm, by
the children of the parish school of St. Mary Magdalen.
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.—IR carrying on the improve-
ments and restoration, which have been some time on foot in
Hereford Cathedral. the architect has just discovered that
the tower, with its immense superincumbent weight, is in
imminent danger of falling, and crushing the mighty fabric in
one general ruin. Large fissures in the masonry, in some
places two feet deep and across the solid stones themselves,
are apparent ; and it is a most providential circumstance that
the discovery has been made previously to any further pres-
sure upon the failing parts by the alterations in progress,
which, it is said, must have occasioned the total destruction
of the magnificent tower, together with the choir, the tran-
septs, and the eastern portion of the nave. 'When, or tinier
what circumstances, so awful a catastrophe would have oc-
curred, of course not even those best acquainted with the
subject could pretend to decide.
THE ORIGIN OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.—Whatever be the
issue of the question, so far as Mr. Stock and Mr. Raikes
are concerned, there is a town which can show that a Sunday
school was established in it full fourteen years prior to the
formation of the shool or schools at Gloucester. In the year
1769 a Sunday school was commenced by Miss Ball, at High
Wycombe. She was a lady of great piety, and of rather un-
common earnestness in doing good. Her custom was to
assemble as many as thirty or forty children en Sunday
morning, to hear them read the scriptures and repeat the
catechism and the collect, preparatory to going to church.
A place is still pointed out in the remarkably fine church of
High Wycombe, as having been occupied by the Sunday
scholars of Miss Ball. An old servant, who when young
was my nurse, was one of those scholars, and still lives, in
conjunction with sundry individuals, to bear testimony to
the facts which I have stated. In a " Memoir of Miss
Hannah Ball," recently " revised by John Parker, Gent.,

and published by Mason, 14, City-road," it is further stated
that " Miss Ball continued this school for many years; and
also met the children every Monday, to instruct them in the
principles of Christianity•—Rev. IV. H. Havergal, Rector
of "Utley.

THE WAY TO GET ON IN THE WORLD.---TO get on la
this world, you must be content to be always stopping where
you are ; to advance, you must be stationary ; to get up, you
must keep down; following riches is like following wild
geese, and you must crawl after both on your belly, the mi-
nute you pop up your head, off they go whistling down the
wind, and you see no more of them ; if yew have not the art
of sticking by nature. you must acquire it by art; put a cou-
ple of pounds of birdlime upon your office stool, and sit
upon it ; get a chain round your leg, and tie yourself to your
counter like a pair of shop scissors ; nail yourself up against
the wall of your place of business, like a weasel on a barn-
door, or the sign of the spread eagle ; or what will do best
of all, marry an honest poor girl without a penny, and my
life for yours, if you do n't do business ! Never mind what
your relations say about genius, talent, learning, pushing,
enterprise, and such stuff, when they come advising you for
your good, stick up to them for the loan of a sovereign, and
if ever you see them on your side of the street again, skiver
me and welcome ; but to do any good, I tell you over and
over again, you must be a sticker. You may get fat upon a
rock, if you never quit your hold of it !—Blackwood.

FATE OF THE APOSTLES.-St. Matthew is supposed to
have suffered martyrdom, or to have been slain with a sword,
at a city in Ethiopia. St. Mark was dragged through the
streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, until he expired. St Luke
was hanged upon an olive tree, in Greece. St. John was put
into a cauldron of boiling oil, at Rome, and escaped death.
He afterwards died a natural death at Ephesus, in Asia. St.
Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downwards, at his
own request, thinking himself unworthy to die in the same
posture as his beloved Master. St. James the Great was
beheaded at Jerusalem. St James the Less was thrown
from a pinnacle or wing of the Temple, and then beaten to
death with a fuller's club. St. Philip was hanged up against
a pillar at Hierapolis, a city of Phrsgia. St. Bartholomew
was flayed alive by the command of a barbarous king. St.
Andrew was bound to a cross, whence he preached to the
people until he expired. St. Thomas was run through the
body with a lance, at Coromandel, in the East Indies. St.
Jude was shot to death with arrows. St. Simon was cruci-
fied in Persia. St. Matthias was first stoned, and then be-
headed. St. Barnabas was stoned to death by the Jews at
Solonis. St. Paul was beheaded at Rome, by the tyrant
Nero.

HORRIBLE DEATH.—Pierre Bigot and Genevieve Pel,
the former a locksmith and the latter a washerwoman, had
cohabited together for the last two years, and lived in har-
mony, arising, alas ! from a certain congeniality of taste for
idleness and strong liquors. Last Sunday, according to cus-
tom, they bad spent the day at the different wine shops at La
Caistille, and returned in the evening to their domicile in a
state of intoxication. Soon after their entering their room.
their neighbours heard loud talking and quarrelling between
them, and soon after, on looking in at their window, ob-
served the woman lying motionless on the floor, and the
man sitting beside her on a chair lighting his pipe. About
half an hour afterwards, a strong smell and a quantity of
smoke proceeded from the room, which was soon afterwards
enveloped in flames. A message was immediately despatched
to the nearest station for assistance, and the firemen, arriv-
ing promptly, broke open the door, when the first thing
which presented itself was the body of the unfortunate
woman, her clothes in a blaze, and a blue flame also proceed-
ing from her mouth and nostrils. Pigot was sitting there
an unconcerned spectator of what was going on, and when
interrogated as to the cause of the accident, confessed that
he had intentionally set her clothes on fire, to cure her of
her propensity to drunkenness ! The flames from her mouth
and nose proceeded from her breath, which was so strongly
impregnated with alcohol as to immediately become in a
state of combustion. The heartless ruffian was immediately
taken into custody, and committed to prison, to take his
trial for the murder. The death of the woman must have
been instantaneous, as suffocation must have instantly se-
gued on the flame reaching her face.—Paris paper.

SMOKELESS COMBUSTION OF COAL.—An invention rank-
ing wtih the most scientific and useful discoveries of the day,
has lately been perfected by Charles Wye Williams, Esq., of
Liverpool, a principal director of the City of Dublin Steam
Packet Company, and the justly celebrated improver of the
Shannon. Mr. Williams is the author of a work, "On the
Combustion of Coals chemically considered," in which he
has satisfactorily demonstrated the possibility of so com-
pletely consuming that fuel as to render the combustion
smokeless. Everybody is convinced that smoke is a serious
evil in more ways than one, but few are aware that is also a
waste of material. Smoke, in the main, is composed of un-
consumed particles dislodged from the body of the fire, for
want of a correct adjustment of the supply of common air,
the presence of which, in exactly required quantities, and of
a proper temparature and quality, is necessary in order to
secure perfect, that is totsl, combustion. Unless this com-
bustion is perfect—that is to say, unless all the particles of
fuel from which heat can be generated are consumed, some
must escape, and what escapes is wasted in the shape of
smoke. Although we are of opinion that no plan of warming
rooms in houses is half so good (with some rare and very pe-
culiar exceptions) as that of the open fire-place in general ase,
there can be no doubt that for manufacturing and other pur-
poses, where the object sought is the production of the greatest
possible amount of heat from a given quantity of coal, it is the
worst. The means employed to heat water in boilers, and for
similar purposes, are all open, more or less, to the objection of
defective construction on this plan. Until the appearance of
the " patent improved furnace" invented by Mr. Williams,
science had done but littletowards the establishment of prac-
tical means for economising coal to its utmost limit, by
pointing out the way in which its combustion should be so
effected on true chemical principles that the nuisance arising
from smoke should be abolished, and the smoke itself turned
to account. We have authority for stating that both these
ends are secured by Mr. Williams' plan of furnace. In this
furnace (we make use of the inventor's own words) the com-
plete combustion of coal, without the production of smoke,
is effected by the peculiar mode in which atmospheric air is
introduced to the combustible gases evolved from the coals,
in strict conformity with the conditions required for the
chemical union of these gases with the oxygen of the air.
The great defect in ordinary furnaces consist in the admission
of too much hair, and its introduction in an injudicious
manner and in the wrong place. In effecting the combus-
tion of coal, with the view of producing the greatest heat,
the conditions which demand attention are—The quantity of
air required for the combustion of the gas ; the quantity
required for the combustion of the carbon, or coked part of
the coal, after the gas has been expelled ; the quality of the
air so employed, particularly as regards the combustion of
the gas ; the incorporation of the air and gas, and the time
required for effecting the same ; the mode in which the
mixing or incorporation of the air and the gas may be
best effected ; and the place where the air may with
the greatest effect be introduced. The mode in which
the above objects and principles are reduced to practice in
this patent furnace consist :—lst. In separating the required
supply of air into two distinct portions; the one for the com-
bustion of the solid or carbonaceous matter resting on the
bars : the other for the combustion of the gases or volatile
portion at or beyond the bridge, 2d. Introducing the supply
intended for the solid part of the coal, through the ash-pit,
by such meads, or jets, as will distribute it uniformly along
the entire under surface of the bars. 3d. Introducing the
supply intended for the gases, by means of numerous small
jets, so that each otom of air shall be enabled, immediately
on its admission, to come into contact and be mingled with
the due saturating portion of gas with which it can combine
and enter into chemical union and combustion, thus avoiding
the common mistake of allowing the required volume of air
to enter through large apertures, by which the temperature is
reduced before the admixture or diffusion of the gases can
take place. 4th. Distributing such jets of air along the flan-A-
bed or flue, and diffusing the heat uniformly over alarger
surface, experience having proved, that, where the
nd ad-
mission of air is confined to any one place, a
severe and
unequal action of the flame is produced at
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Williams's: and it is no little addition to the pleasure we feel
on the present occasion, to be able to refer our readers for
the practical working of his furnace to a large water-works
establishment in Liverpool, as well as to the Etna foundry of
Messrs. Breeklehurst, Diroke, anti of Abe ammo
plias, wise tiro Vie slants of tits iavostor.—Piligiohnie
Journal.

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