The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

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destitution the poor of this town are in :—Monda
Tuesday, 234 ; Wednesday, 192 ; Thursday, 180 ; Prid
371 ; Saturday, 495 ;—total for the week, 1617. The num-,
hers have increased nearly fourfold.

during the past week; will show

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ST. SAVIOUR'S ORGAN.—By an. advertisement in another
column, we perceive that Mr. Thos. Venables, late of the
Coronation German pedal organ, St. John's, dester, is ap-

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it orgai

-las two octaves and two notes in tII

an accomplished performer to execute the pedal fugues of
Bach, Mendelssohn, Bine &c. The authorities of St.
Saviour's may consider themselves fortunate in having se-
cured the services of an artiste accustomed to this peculiar
description of instrument, and capable of developing its pow-
ers. Mr. Venables, who is now settled here as a teacher of
music, delivered the essay at the last soiree of the Royal In-
stitution.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT. -- Yesterday afternoon, about
twenty minutes past four o'clock, • as a cart loaded with
bricks was passing along Whiteehapel, just opposite Mr.
Kind's shop, corner of Church-street, the carter, who was
leaning with one band on the shaft, was moving a little back-
ward, in consequence, it is supposed, of another cart being
near, when his foot slipped and he fell on his back, and
being unable to recover himself, the Wheel of the cart passed
over his head, and crushed it in such a dreadful manner as

to produce instant death. The body was carried to the dead
house. The cart was, we learn, the property of Mr. Fair-
dough, builder, Richmond-street. We could not obtain the
name of the unfortunate deceased.

WESLEYAN METHODIST TEA-PARTY.—Ou Friday even-
ing. the teachers and friends of Jordan-street Wesleyan Sab-
bath School celebrated their anniversary by a tea party, con-
sisting of upwards of 160 of the most respectable and influen-
tial friends to the institution. The Revs. Messrs. Vevors
and Nelson were present, the former occupying the chair.
The secretary, Mr. John Renshaw, read the report, which
noticed increased attention on the part of the children. and
determination of the teachers to devote thomselves with
greater energy and increased activity to their several duties ;
also, the establishment of a sick society for the benefit of the
children, under the superintendence of Mr. Wm. Harley, as
secretary. The meeting was afterwards addressed very ener-
getically, and in some cases, eloquently, by Messrs. Fern-
worth, Cross, Whittaker, Harley, Ellis, Lee, Lyon, Davies,
and others.

FRAUD ON A SIIIPMASTER,—Edward Shiels appeared be-
fore Mr. Rushton on Saturday, and claimed £6 as the balance
of wages due on a voyage from Quebec. " The plaintiff had
shipped as an ordinary seaman at£B -per month, which he
asserted was £2 per month below the current rate of wages
at Quebec. The wages per month out of Liverpool, for ordi-
nary seamen, range from £1 lOs to £2 per month. The
captain refused payment on the ground that when the plain-
tiff got on board, he knew not the least item of a sailor's
duty. He was set to feed the pigs, but in all other respects,
he was in the way. The plaintiff tacitly admitted this, but,
as seamen had been demanding' such high wages, he seemed
to think that the captain had him very cheap. As the plain-
tiff was not entitled to• any wages, the case was dismissed.
The captain had, it appea►s, offered the man :W out of mene
commiseration, but this he refused. The captain, at the con-
clusion of the case, however, very kindly paid the last-men-
tioned sum into the hands of Mr. Davenport, the plaintiff's
solicitor.

CORONERS' INQUESTS IN 1840.—During the last year
there were 402 inquests held in Liverpool, of which 52'were
on persons burnt to death, 3 accidentally choked, 23 found
dead, 81 accidentally killed, 28 found drowned, 106 died by
the visitation of God, 11 manslaughter, 9 scalded, 10 overlaid,
8 died from want, 12 apoplexy by drinking, 4 stillborn, 7
wilful murder, 1.-1 committed suicide, 3 by bites of dogs, 4
felu de se, 13 accidentally drowned, 5 smothered, 8 chance
medley against sundry persons, and 1 want of assistance at
birth.

CHESTER CONSISTORY COURT.—On Thursday the Rev.
Chancellor Raikes gave judgment in a case respecting the
occupancy of a pew in Vest Derby Chapel. The promovant
was John Butler, Esq., and the defendant Alexander West-
more, chapel warden. The promovant had purchased
Greenfield-house from a gentlemun of the name of Ashley,
who resides at West Derby, and in right thereof had become
possessed of a pew in West Derby Chapel. The last-named
gentleman contended, that the pew had not passed with the
purchase. He put a lock on the door to debar the promovant
from occupying it. The suit against the defendant was for
perturbation of seat, as the promovant contended he was dis-
turbed by his connivance. A great number of witnesses had
been examined on both sides. The Rev. Chancellor went
through the evidence pro and con; with great minuteness, and
gave judgment to the effect that the promovant was not to be
disturbed in the occupation of the said pew, and condemning
the defendant in the costs of suit. Notice was given of an
appeal.

DARING ROBBERY OF A WAREHOUSE.—Yesterday, at the
Police-court, a car-driver, whose name we could not learn,
was placed at the bar under the following charge :—John
Fairbrother, warehouseman to Mr. Wth. Colton, a wine-
merchant in Oldhall-street, said, that last night (Sunday),
about half-past seven o'clock, he was passing through Suf-
folk-street, when a car backed up to Lockett's bonded ware-
house door. He suspected there was something wrong,
and told two friends that were with him to stand still, and he
would go and see. He crossed the street towards the car,
and the driver, who heard what he said.to his friends, drove
off at a furious rate. He found the warehouse-door open,
and called out, " Stop the car—the warehouse has been
broken open." He fell over a bag of coffee at the ware-
house-door, when trying if all was safe. He got up and called
police. One of his friends gut hold of the horse's reins and
stopped him near the corner of Pitt-street. Witness ket.t
hold of the door of the car. In about five minutes the
police came to their assistance. One. of them searched the
car, and I saw him find three bags of coffee in it. We took
the prisoner, who was the driver of the car, and the car, hack
to the warehouse. We got a light and searched the place,
but found no person there. The bag I fell over appeared to
have been removed from No. 1 Room, where the bulk was
kept. I gave the prisoner in charge of the police, and then
left him. I saw that all the locks of the doors had been
forced. There was no person in the car except the prisoner.
—John Graham, a custom-house officer, corroborated what
had. stated_ lie went into the warehouse
with the last witness and another,. but found no one there.
The custom-house lock had been wrenched off from the door
of the room where the coffee was kept. The stock-lock had
marks of a crowbar upon it, and he believed had been

picked. Two locks in the store-room had also been wrenched
off, and there were marks of violence apparently made with a
crowbar. Three bags of coffee were found in the car. He
described the marks in the bags. The prisoner was taken to
Bridewell.—Henry Critchley, warehouseman to Messrs. W.
and J. Lockett, said that firm rented the warehouse. On
Saturday afternoon he 1--)clit..d Room No. 1, and afterwards
the street-door, and the custom-house officer afterwards put
his padlock on. On hearing- that the premises were broken
into, he went there, and found the warehouse •as described.
Some of the locks were wrenched off, and one of them
picked. He saw the three bags in the car, and there were
three missing from the whole (41 bags). Ile knew the marks
and numbers. The weight of the coffee taken is 2 cwt.,
3 qrs., 6 lbs. The duty was not paid.—The prisoner was
fully committed for trial at the sessions. His accomplices
(and he doubtless had some) have not yet been discovered.
PARISH CHURCH OF WARRINGTON—INTERESTING DN.
COVERY.—A most interesting investigation is at the present
time going on in this ancient fabric. A few days ago, on
taking up the floor of the chancel, near to and beneath the
altar, and digging into the earth below it, for the purpose of
laying down flues for the circulation of heated air, the work-
men came upon the remains of a spacious apartment, the
roof of which had formerly been supported and ornamented
by beautiful groined arches, rising from brackets rudely
sculptured with grotesque heads. At the instigation of our
worthy rector, the excavation was continued, and the whole
of the rubbish removed, displaying the original size of the
interior, and likewise four spacious windows, which, before
the work of demolition was begun, were probably of the
same rich order of architecture as those of the higher portion
of the chancel. No solid flooring has been found, and there
seems little doubt that the whole space was formerly occupied
by a well, probably consecrated to St, Elfin, the original pa-
tron of the church, and much resembling (though upon a
much smaller scale) the celebrated well of St. Winifred, at
Rolywell, in Flintshire, except that no terrace round it ex-
isted for the use of visitors. Even now, the water springs
abundantly, though not sufficiently clear to allow of ready
chemical analysis. The original mode of access to it is not
yet clearly ascertained, but from one corner a winding stone
staircase in the interior of a buttress on the north side of the
chancel, the existence of which, has been known for some
time, leads upwards to an opening in the wall, at the point
where the pulpit formerly stood, immediately over the pre-
sent rails of the altar. The dimensions of the apartment are
twenty-one feet in length by eleven feet in breadth, and the
height, from the highest part of the roof to what appears to
have been the level of the water, is also 11 feet. The period at
which the work of havoc took place will.probably ever remain
a mystery, but it is most likely to have been the result
of that excited feeling which, at the period of the Re-
formation, overthrew every object, however sacred, which
bore the least resemblance to a relic of popery ; and, in doing
so, resorted to measures of rapine and violence, which the
admirer of antiquities has in an especial degree often had
reason to deprecate and deplore. The manner in which the
filling up of the apartment has been effected, appears to have
been by breaking in, in the first instance, the arched roof,
and mullions of the windows, covering these to the level .of
the floor of the chancel with earth taken from the church-
yard. This is obvious from the number of human bones
confusedly mixed throughout the whole, with one exception,
where portions of an entire skeleton were dug out from a
great depth, and found to be imbedded in lime, without any
traces of a coffin. This would seem to indicate that the in-
dividual, whose mouldering remains have thus again been
brought to light, after the lapse of ages, had either died of
some prevailing pestilential disorder, or suffered the severe
penalty of the law.. It is probable,likewise, that.he belonged
to the ecclesiastical order, for to these alone was the privilege
reserved of interment within the precincts of the chancel.
An inspection of the spot, even in its present dilapidated
condition, wilt amply repay any one whom curiosity may
induce to visit it ; and as the flooring of the chancel must
necessarily be replaced in a short time, no better opportunity
than the present can possibly present itself for the purpose.
It is but due justice to mention, that the work of excavation
has been greatly expedited by the public spirit of William
Alcard, Esq., who liberally furnished a supply of the men
in his employ on the railroad, to aid the workmen previously
engaged in the task. The rector, Mr. Powys, has expressed
himself as warmly desirous that an attempt should be made
to' restore all or part of the ruin to its former condition,
which is practicable at a comparatively light expense. As
the edifice is perfectly unique of its kind, in this part of the
country, it is to be hoped that this praiseworthy desire will
meet with many supporters ; and if we may take the pleasing
result of our last exhibition as an illustration of what the
personal exertions of a few zealous individuals can effect, we
cherish the hope that our ancient town will, ere long, num-
ber this amongst the many other attractions which it already
possesses, in the shape of relics of the olden time.—Man-
chesterdourier.

MARCIIMONT PEERAGE.—The claim of Captain Sir F.
D. Home, Bart., to this peerage, which has occupied much
of ,the time of the Committee of Privileges during the last
three sessions of parliament, and which has already received
nine lengthened hearings of their lordships' house, will, we
understand, come under the final review of the Lord Chan-
cellor for decision, immediately after the meeting of parlia-
ment. Sir Francis, now in his 54th year, is one of the cam-
paigners under the gallant Moore; was close by the person
of th hero when he received his death-wound in the hard
fought field of Corunna, and was afterwards in many of the
principal actions of the war. He unites in his person the
representation in the male line of the ancient and distin-
guished border familes of Home of Wedderburn, and Home
of Polwarth or Marchmont.

We understand that Lord Brabason, one of the members
for the county of Dublin, and the Hon. Grantley Berkeley,
one of the members for the western division of Gloucester-
shire, will move and second the address of the House of
Commons to her majesty, on the speech from the throne, at
the opening of the ensuing session of parliament.—lllinis-
terial paper.

SINGULAR BAPTISMAL NAMES.—Jonathan Collins, cot-
ton spinner, at Heywood, has lately caused four of his chil-
dren to be re-christened in the following names, at St. Luke's
Chapel, Heywood :—First, John Jonathan George ; second,
Martha Maria Hannah Victoria ; third, Sergeant Hall Oliver
Cromwell; fourth, Camereska Albert Napoleon Louis the
Twelfth.

REPLY OF DR. BUCK TO TIE CHARGES PRE-
FERRED AGAINST HIM BY CAPT. WILLIAMS.
(Continued from ou• last)

SEVENTH CIIAIGE

'Whether the chaplain has not made an entry in his jburnal,
dated July 12th, 1840, reflecting m the state of the female
prison school, without due knowedge from previous ex-
. .

arnination of the progress there trade, and u7hich is con-
trary to fact, and whether he has tot most improperly and
indiscreetly Applied the words 'bigoted principle' to a

female prisoner on the same oc

The entry in my journal thus read; :--" Visited the priso
rlYthis morning for the purpose o! examining the boys an.

ittuding of what they read

" The six senior girls I called up it, the first instance
read three verses between them with some difficulty. As to
answering questions they had not tie least notion. One girl
refused either to read or speak, evidently upon bigoted prin-
ciple. I had every possible cause to be dissatisfied with the
state of the school, where it is evident the children do not
know the meaning of one word they read."
After considering the heavy charge—mv answer to which

you have already beard, and read :the entry which gave it
birth—l confess I feel something like difficulty in addressing
you in reply to the accusation of having reflected on the
female school, of having spoken of the progress therein made,
contrary to the fact, and of having ioiproperly and indiscreetly
applied the words " bigoted principle' to a female prisoner.
My talents as an examiner in the mere reading,of three
verses from the New Testament, my reflecting on the low
state of education in the school, my saying that one girl had
evidently acted on bigoted principle in refusing to read from
the scriptures, to me, a clergyman,—are subjects which I
really know not how 'to answer. There is something so ex-

tremely contemptible, (I would not use the term if I could
find another which would express my feelings as well,) that
really I stand in amazement that so many gentlemen should
be assembled to investigate such a matter.
Mrs. Norris has told you that I took up six girls, sitting
on the first form, nearest to her ; the most aged girls certainly
in the school. She tells you she did not inform me they
were not of the same class. She gave me no information to
dispel from my mind the fair and honest belief that they
were her six best scholars.

She tells you I tried them in reading, that I asked them
several questions which were hard—she tells you she was
ashamed of their reading aud of their answering, that they
were very bad.

Take her evidence in her own words—" They read very
awkwardly, they were confused. He (the chaplain) put a
few questions. One girl answered very well, the others did
not. I was ashamed of them.. I told them to speak up and
answer, for I know they could. They were very bad.
So far all agrees with my complaint. She continues—
" One did not refuse to read—she did read ; and when Dr.
Back asked her to read again she began crying. Dr. -Buck
said he would report me for, refusing to answer. This was
the girl who cried. The one who read and afterwards cried
was a catholic." •

Thus she says that one girl, instead of reading, began to
cry, that I threatened to report her for her refusal.—and it
came out after some time, that this girl who cried, who in
Mrs. Norris's opinion could have read if she would, was a
Roman Catholic. Bigotry alone could, therefore, have been

the motive of her refusal. She could answer if
but she would not, even when th

Le woul

atened to be reporte

Mrs. Norris became acquainted with my complaint of the
school on the 12th of July, for I told her at the time that I
would make an entry. The master of the South Corporation
School examined the school ten weeks afterwards, and re-
ported on the whole favourably of it. Observe, there is no
proof whatever that the same six girls I examined were sub-
jected to his examination ; and, indeed, it is very unlikely
that the same six girls should be in it; but passing by that
important consideration—when asked by me whether if the
girls were absolutely ignorant ten weeks before the time he
examined them, he might fairly have expected to find them
as much advanced as they appeared to be at the time of his
visit, he said at once they might under such circumstances
be more advanced than he found them to be.
" Did you find the children answer well?
" The girls in the highest class answered very well.
" Did they manifest any difficulty in answering you ?
" Some of them did.
" Did they seem put out by it ?

" Some of them

" Beyond the three girls, had the others very little notion
of answering a question ?
" Very little, except one in the second class.
" Did they read tolerably well ?.
" Four girls read well, the others did not.
" Did you ascertain the time they had been in prison ?
" Yes.
" And what acquirements they possessed when coming
into prison ? •

" Yes.
" Ataking allowance for what w•as the general state of the

school ?

" I did not find it in the state I expected, "owing to the
strict discipline to which the pupils are subject. I expected
they would exhibit more general knowledge than they did.
It seemed to be a more mechanical than intellectual system.

" Do the defects apply to the system?"
" Yes ; and it seemed to me that the female had not been
accustoined to teaching and communicating general know•
ledge."*
" Do you think, from what you saw of the first class, if
they had ten weeks before known nothing, that if they had
been well drilled for ten weeks they would have answered as
well as they did."

" Yes ; if they had been well drilled in the first class they
might have answered better."
" Do you consider our schoolmistress well-talented as a

dame sclioolmistr

" I have no doubt she is, and capable of explaining th
meaning of words."
" From what you saw, do you think they understood th
meaning el words?" _ _ _ _ _

" I found they understood the meaning of words; but of
the meaning of what they were reading I found them very
deficient."
_ _ _

'Now I apprehend that no refutation of so miserable a
charge as this could be more complete. Its nothingness
causes the only difficulty of meeting it. It is too unsub-
stantial, too insignificant, to be seriously dealt with.
If Captain Williams were to speak to the majority of the
members of the corporation of Liverpool, or justices of the
borough, as to' Dr. Buck's capability of judging, at even a
first visit, whether twenty girls in a prison could read and
understand what they read, they would smile at him, and
say,_we thought. Dr. Buck guile competent, at the close of
the year 1837; to examine the whole orthe North Corpora-
tion School, consisting of about R) children, in a very short
time ; we believe his report of that school was a correct one,

that period we certainly deemed him a goof

and useful witne

You have, gentlemen, I apprehend, heard quite sufficient
of this charge.
I will only, in conclusion, say, that wherp the idea was
picked up of my having reported on the comparative pro-
gress of the pupils, I-know not—certainly not from my jour-
nal. If any complaint is suggested of the chaplain's not being
a teacher of 'that school, or a weekly examiner, it should
have been openly made ; and I should in reply have put in
all those parts of my journal which shew that I have con-
stantly claimed that superintendance, but ineffectually. I
should also have put in the act. Of amnesty, indemnity, and
acquittal of blame, sent by the magistrates to government,
before alluded to.

The school, however, is not quite deserted, for Miss Davies
says—" I never examined the school much myself. I have
heard them answer questions pretty well. I select the chil-
dren for the school. Ido not think it necessary to take Dr.
Buck's advice upon it." She was, therefore, partly superin-
tendant, examiner, and directrix. Mr. Bacheldor, it ap-
pears, had more to do with it; hence the schoolmistress says
—" When Mr. Bacheldor visited the schbols, up to the
time that Dr. Buck took the management, he used to select
the parts of Scripture for the girls to read, and to examine
them"—a greater exercise of power than the chaplain was
allowed in any part of the prison.
I pass on to the seventh charge.
THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS WAS DELIVERED AT THE COM-
MENCEMENT OF THE SECOND DAY OF MY DEFENCE :

Gentlemen-A appear before you this morning, with very
different feelings from those which yesterday at this time
nearly pressed me to the earth. I was labouring under sus-
picion of uttering wilful falsehood, of purposely deceiving
you by entries made in my journal, &c. These impressions,
so far as my defence has proceeded, I now feel you have
banished from your minds ; that in looking towards me you
believe you are beholding a man of truth, who has scattered
much misrepresentation, and who you hope will disperse
every other imputation to the winds.
There is, gentlemen, and
.it is the cause of all the happi-
ness we know, a glorious superintending Providence, watch-
ing over and directing the most minute events. I have felt
this ; I have realized it ; and would be most thankful. I
have had unwonted health during the preparation of my de-
fence; my mind has been preserved in comparative calm;
so that I have been able to sift, with some measure of suc-
cess, the voluminous evidence taken in these proceedings, I
had strength on the first day, although affected 'as to the
lungs, to speak without difficulty or exhaustion for hours ; I
had your most patient and kind attention; and I am spared
to meet you this morning to complete my defence.
I ascribe it to the good providence of a gracious God,
whose I am, and whom I serve, in the ministry of his Son,
that certain documents, tending materially to make my case
more clear, especially in relation to the sixth charge, and
bearing powerfully on the first, have been brought to my
remembrance. From daily records of duty performed, or, as
1 should rather say, of circumstances arising out of the per-
formance of thoe duties, written day by day, as reflections
arose, and thus admitting of no after-insertiOns, I select the
following :

May 2ith, 1839.—Preached yesterday twice on the Prodi-
gal Son ; the congregation exceedingly attentive, and a very
general burst of weeping and sorrow discernible.
To my utter astonishment, Mr. Batcheldor made known
to me to-day, that forty persons had been reported to him
for inattention and ill conduct in the afternoon service. As
I well knew that this could not be true, without having seen
some symptoms of the ill conduct, I expressed my hope that
he had discharged the complaints as ill founded. He in-
formed me that he had already. punished the whole by loss qt
food.
The fact is the people were affected.to tears—many sobbed
aloud ; the heads of some were brought down, and in some
cases the hand Was lifted to the eyes to wipe away the tear;
but, alas ! being prisoners, they have been punished ! and the
chaplain has no magistrate to whom to disclose the case with
any hope that his representation may be of the slightest use
in hindering a recurrence of such cruelty.

May 29t1i, 1839.—Three turnkeys were employed yesterday
(some one of them) to take off in writing my daily sermon.
No doubt with a hope of doing me some mischief. Thus,
espionage freely allowed in this prison, will go to the extent
of neglecting the care of prisoners, in hope of finding some
ground of accusation against the chaplain. To these entries,
gentlemen, as expressive of my feelings at the time, as tend-
ing to clear up much that might yet be in doubt, as shewing
that the turnkeys went to the chapel prepared to take notes,
(the remarkable text giving them a handle, for it is not their
practice to be occupied in chapel with writing,) and.that this
was done as part of a scheme then devised for my future
overthrow. To these entries, I say, I beg to call your par-
ticular attention. That I had ground for saying in my
pamphlet, that men by your rules and regulations were sub-
jected to punishment, and were actually punished for lifting
their hands to .wipe away a tear, all are to my mind clearly
established by these entries, which, happily for me, were
made at the time, and which, as happily for my defence, have
been brought to remembrance since 1 was with you yesterday.