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
£76,324115. 14., and the duties on goods £69,965 12s. Iocl.
Among the other items of income are £5,638 2s. 9:1 for
lighthouse duties; £2516 Bs. floating light duties ; £5579 16s.
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 for 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
£57,650. 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. Tanton, and Mr. Evans, receivers of duties on
tonnage and goods; besides minor salaries to book-keepers
and check-clerks. Mr. Askew, the harbour-master, receives
a salary of £3OO per annum; Mr. Hodgson, master of the
Prince's Dock, £319 14s. Id. ; Mr. Purnell, master of the
George's Dock, £207 18s. 6d.; Mr. Garniss, master of the
Queen's Dock, £345 16s 10d. including an allowance of £4O
a-year for house rent; Mr. Ashridge, master of the King's
Dock, including ditto, £263 14s. 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 toaster 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. 3d., exclusive of £844 6s. 9d. received
for lights, &c. The gross annual salaries of the lighthouse-
keepers at Point Lynes, Bidston, Mockheggar, Hoylake,
Black Rock, and Formby, amount to £670 15s. 6d. The
telegraph establishment costs annually £l,OBl 15s. 54., in-
cluding the salary of the superintendent, Mr. B. L. Watson,
£250; his two clerks and an office boy, £l3B 35., and twelve
keepers at the signal stations, £5BB 45., 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 16s. Id. ;

masonry,, £11,3;50 16s. 10d. ; timber, £7,663 Bs. 3d.; expenses
of quarrying and hewing granite stone, £9,148 Bs. Ild., &c.
&C. There is au 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-
covering 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 AOO 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, (1(1 o'click) 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 CHAIRMAN at some length alluded to the object of
the meeting, and our obligations to the Jews in having trans-
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. TATTERSHALL, 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 iu 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 journies I have made, and state, at the
same time, some of the results of these missionary perigrina-
tions, 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 Mabomedans, but especially
to the Jews, these 18. years. From Loudon to Gibraltar,
Malta, Alexandria, Cairo twice, Mount Sinai, Syria, Jerusa-
lem, Mesopatamia, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Circassia,
Crimea, Persia, Khorossaum, Independent Tatary,
Bok-
hare, Balkh, ghanistaun, 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, I 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, proposed 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. I 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
my nation before the representatives of the greatest republic
in the world—that is, America. I thought if I only could ou
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, as he 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 years 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 baptized;" 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 be 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 my 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 mother 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 uhom
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 his steady conduct, and desirous to be baptised, and
1 pledge myself for his sincerity. Assuring you that you
have the regard of every liberal Roman Catholic in Bohe-
mia, and that any letters of your'swill 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, embracedine 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 le 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
v 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—
" I 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 I 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 I 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 Lutherean left the whole ar-
rangement to this Jew, and there the Jews of Krootstown,
were the first that acccompanied me into that church to hear
me give an account of my missionary proceedings. I re-
mained there till two o'clock 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 1.832. 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 Rushneabud, 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 Ifusbneabod, 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 1 saw at a distance people on horse-back
with spears in their hands, and guns. I 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 missionary cause into disgrace—that they might say
"he has run away like a coward." (Applause.) Then
returned and 1 stopped for 10 minutes. They were engaged
in binding every one they 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
Nagging. (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 I assure you, you
would not have laughed. (Continued laughter.) Now, I
must come to the point. At last, there I made an 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 promises 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 *xperience and this is to me a proof that Jesus
Christ is a self existent Jehovah, for he hears prayers and he
°Tants petitions. Now, mark, while the rest of the Maho-
medans were around bound, one of the chiefs of the party
came up to me and tells me in Persian, Kehasti, " 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 I was more cons.

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
I had with me—my passports Qom 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. 1, 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 shallhe 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 Tearbad. Imagine in
what a state—only a few rags about me, in the month of
November—snow, for it snows ou 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 shiver, frozen again—l desired them to give
me a cup of coffee. They said they had 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. 1 shall not say any thing against,the Temperance
Society; I only state here a fact. Now, you will see how
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 of Moses and the Psalms, these we know ;
but this here, the New Testament, what book is this ? And
I explained to them what book it was the whole night. That
I assure you how 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 robbers, 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 Nabouu Esah Khan—a horrid tyrant. When
I came there, there were lying in his room soy 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 had 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 the 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 tour-
mauns, 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 au 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 bur 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
the desert; smoked a water pipe with them, what they
call
in India a hookah; and there, sitting reading the gospel
along 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 beard—(laughter)—
and I took hold of theirs—delightful life it was. (Continued
laughter.) Now let me here at once bring yon to the deserts
of Mirvi, bordering on the Caspian Sea, formerly described by
General Morave, on the road to Siberia in Persia. Now
Mesopotamia,
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there in the desert snow see how the gospel can raise the
people. If nothing had arisen to me but this, I would have
been compensated for all my fatigues in that vast desert.
There the Jews were in four camps, about twenty miles dis-
tant from each other. Now these Jews coming from all
parts 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
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of salvation. Now, within the last two years, you remember-
I have so often told you of the Rechabite in the deserts of
Hebrew. The Rechabites are descended from the brother-
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Mecca, the Holy City, where the Queen of Sheba is
buried. I wished to see a city called Latta 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 Lelia and the Rechabites and the mode
in which he disarmed their hostility, and drew them
to listen to him in the temple while be 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 J erusalem, 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. Th 6 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 FUENIVAL 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 EYE.—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 au old nail, or some hard sharp pointed
substance. Verdict—accidental death.

Tun Row, WILLIAM.—The passenger's fares of the
Royal William, which sailed on Thursday last, tokether
with freight on cargo, parcels, and letters, amount to upwards
of £3OOO. 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 coun-
try,—to say nothing of a trip to Paris in the meanwhile,
doubtless intendine, his countrymen to profit by his observa-
tions ;—the Rev. William Bettridg,e, his lady, and twq.claugh-
ters : and Miss Yielding, were also amongst the pasngers.
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 burnt
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 Sumonosoff (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-
manosoff (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
the Kiln, by which one man lost his life, and the other three
had all their clothes burnt, and were everything but literally
roasted alive.—Bolton Chronicle.

THE LEIPSIC RAILIIOAD.—LEIPSIC, SEPT. 10.—On the
16th instant the road opens from Leipsic to Dahlen, and
from Dresden to Oberan, so that there will be 42 miles in
operation. The Kind 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 NA ME."—We have 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 disb.—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, .elsden Park, .when he con-
sented to become a candidate It is confidently expected that
hi. election will take place without opposition.—Ministerial
paper.

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Her beautiful, her only boy,
Her all of hope below !
So long his father's pride and joy,
And yet from him the blow !
Alone she must his head sustain,
And watch his sinking breath,
And on his bright brow ❑►ark the stain
Of the destroyer, Death !

" Let me not see him die," and lo
The messenger of peace ;
Once more her tears forgot to flow,
Once more her sorrows cease.
Life, strength, and freedom now are given
With mighty power to one
Who from his father's roof was driven,
And be—the outcast's son.

How often we, like Hagar, mourn,
When some unlook'd for blight
Drives us away, no more to turn
To joys we fancied bright.
Forced from our idols to retreat,
And seek the Almighty's care,
Perchance we are sent forty to meet
A desert angel there !

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

THE PRECURSOR AGITATION.
( From the Morning Herald.)
Mr. O'Connell has entered upon his customary au-
tumnal course of letter-writing " to the people of Ire-
land." The third of his lucubrations,- since the pro-
rogation of parliament, is now before the public.
These annual epistles—although their objects, the
establishment, viz., of Popish ascendancy in Ireland,
and the augmentation - of the RENT, arc the same as
ever—begin to exhibit a remarkable change in style
and tone. Their air and spirit are, now•a- days, apo-
logetic. Mr. O'Connell appears to feel that lie is uni-
versally suspected of dishonesty, and his whole care,
accordingly, is directed to the fabrication of excuses
for the violation of his solemn pledges " to the peo- •
pie of Ireland."
The impostor is, indeed, rapidly descending to his
proper level. But three short years ago, he stood the
representative of the Rornish priesthood of Ireland,
and the favoured leader of the democracy, both in Ire-
land and in England. He had, just then, succeeded
in forcing his whig creatures, as ministers, upon Wil-
liam IV.; and, in the exuberance of his insolence, he
loudly threatened the hereditary peerage-of England
with extinction. Now, Mr. O'Connell is afraid to at-
tend a public meeting of English operatives. The
artisans of Dublin hold him in abhorrence. A portion
of the priesthood has denounced him, in consequence
of his base trickery in regard to the Irish poor law;
whilst that portion which still supports him begins to
find t11,,t his market value, as a tool for the furtherance
of their treasonable .designs against the integrity of
the united kingdom, (reclines every day. When
O'Connell shall have sunk too low to be any further
useful, the whole body of the Romish priests will cast
him off, and seek another instrument.
But although O'Connell is rapidly losing that influ-
ence, with which extrinsic influences have clothed him,
still, the power which has hitherto supported him, be-
comes more formidable day by day. On this point
Professor Butt made the following just observations at
a meeting of the Dublin Conservative Society held a
few days ago :
" What was the evidence that Mr. O'Connell's influence
was declining? Letters like those of Priest Daveren. if
his influence was declining it was only because his prudence
induced him to cloak, although he did not mitigate, his hosti-
lity to protestantism. When would conservatives cease to
speak of an individual, and neglect the influences which
alone gave him his power? He (Mr. Butt) repeated, Mr.
O'Connell was but the impersonation of a power which'ex-
isted independent of him, and would survive him. He had
said it before, and he would say it again, were Mr. O'Connell
in his grave to-morrow, while the elements of popish bigotry
remained the same, their own cowardice and their own indo-
lence would raise up another O'Connell in his stead."
Professor Butt has, undoubtedly, touched upon 'the
causes of that success, which has followed all the
movements of late years of O'Connell and the Romish
priesthood. Let the leaders of the Protestant party
only shake off "their own cowardice, and their own
indolence," and the Romish priesthood of Ireland and
its tools will afterwards possess little power to disturb
our institutions in church and state-!
In his third letter, Mr. O'Connell re-states the
grievances under which he declares Ireland still to la-
bour. If, in truth, Ireland were cursed with no other
grievances than those enumerated by the agitator, Ire-
land might be fairly deemed one of the most fortunate
countries in the world. Here is the catalogue :--
"The points to which our demand for legislative relief
should, for the present, be confined, are these—
"First—An equal reform of our municipal corporations
with that existing in England.
" Second—An equal extension of the parliamentary fran-
chise with that existence in England.
"Third—An equal degree of religious liberty with that
existing in England—so that the Irish nation at large shall
no longer be compelled, or called upon, to support the church
of a small minority of the Irish people.
"Fourth—A due and adequate proportion for Ireland of
the representation in the united parliament."
Not one word does Mr. O'Connell utter about any
of the calamities which do, in truth, afflict Ireland!
Not one word is bestowed on the miseries of the pea-
santry ;—not one word on the causes which have given
importance, nay, ascendancy to impostors like him-
self!

The nature of the substitutes for repeal, which Mr.
O'Connell has the modesty to propose, may serve to
excite a smile. He demands, simply, to have the
whole corporate power of Ireland put into his hands--
to have the number of parliamentary votes at his dis-
posal, doubled—and, finally, he demands that the es-
ti:ilished church shall be uprooted, and the revenues
of that church hanged over to the Romish priesthood.
These are, we repeat, the substitutes for repeal, of
which Mr. O'Connell will condescend to accept What,
let us ask, could repeal give him more?' And if larger
objects could be secured by repeal, would not repeal it-
self he, as a matter of course, within the grasp of the
party to which such concessions should be made ?
These claims are, in fact, . put forward by Mr.
O'Connell, simply with the view of keeping in good
humour the mass of his supporters. Mr. O'Connell
entertains no.desire for repeal, so loaf; as he can ob.
taro, through the agency of a government of traitors,
like the present, all the advantages which repeal could,
by possibility, secure to himself and the priesthood,
whose servant he is. The patronage of Ireland isnow
in his hands, whilst the church to which he belongs is
quietly rising to the level of ascendancy. These great
objects have been attained, without a struggle of the
kind, which Mr. O'Connell dreads; but if repeal were
carried, such a struggle—whatever might be its issue—
would be inevitable. The continuance of the Whigs
in office is, therefore, of as much importance to the
agitator as the most successful rebellion could be.
Mr. O'Connell is, however, as we have seen, under
the necessity of devising some plausible excuse for
postponing the question of repeal. He has found him-
self, also, under the necessity of alleging some cause
why he declines to co-operate with. the English radi-
cals. We could easily assign one—the fact, viz., that
the English radicals hate and despise him. Mr.
O'Connell, however, finds more difficulty in the mat-
ter, if we may judge from the number of words which
he devotes to the subject. Here are his " reasons" in
an abridged form :
" In the first place, the Irish are not as yet on a level in
point of political rights with the English. Our first business
is to obtain a perfect equality with England. For my part,
I do not think we either want or would be benetitted by the
political patronage of the English radicals.
"In the second place, the English radicals are neither
combined nor concentrated. They have no fixed plan of
action. If we were to enter into any alliance with them we
should not know occasionally where to find our allies.
" In -the third place, they have no skilful or well-trained
leaders. At present the speechmakers have it all during
their hour—l do not disparage speechmaking—but where it
is the only qualification it is worse than useless.
"In the fourth place, the leaders who appear amongst
them are men in whom the Irish could not place any confi-
dence. Oastler; a rank tory, who very good-naturedly calls

CRIME IN IRELAND, AND ITS REMEDY.
(From tire Dublin Statesman.)
Ireland is the dark spot upon the fair fame of Eng-
land. It is a foul reproach to her. What signifies
English power and English greatness in the esteem of
foreign nations—what signifies England's vast domi-
nion both by sea and land, while Ireland stands up to
taunt her, and to tell her, that though she had con-
quered half the world beside, she had gained little—
while Ireland's barbarism and multitudinous wicked-
ness remain untouched. Not a day passes but has its
own copious record of frightful atrocity. Our paper
this day bears painful testimony to this statement; we
have here details of barbarism and cruelty and wicked-
ness that make the blood run _Fold. Is it wonderful
that we almost doubt the evidence of our senses, and
fancy for the moment at least that we are living in
some remote South-sea island where the name of Eng-
land was never heard of, and no ray of Christ's reli-
gion had ever penetrated! Why does England's so-
vereign or England's government permit this? Is not
England able to conquer Ireland ? Surely she is; but
she has not done so, to her shame be it. spoken. Ire-
land is to this day but a half-conquered country, and
the barbarian divides it with the civilian. Is not this
a great sin which England has to answer for—is it not
one for which the Lord will judge and visit ? We
think so. But it may be said, England has done her
best, and if she has failed to subdue
,Ireland by civil-
ising her, it is not her fault. Such a plea is absurd on
the face of it. If England had tried her best, she
could not have failed; she must have succeeded. She
has failed most egregiously, and she has to answer for
it, just because she could have succeeded and did not.
The law of God is the only law of morals. This Eng-
land cannot, does not, dispute. But has she not ne-
glected most awfully to make this law known, and
bring it home to the Irish people. This we charge as
the great sin of her rulers, and against her because
she has abided by, and still abides by, such rulers.
Now Popery stands precisely in the light of God's
laws and God's truth. Popery shuts up the book of
God's revealed Word, and gives the people in its place
laws which are not His. And observe, it is Irish Pa-
pists who commit all the crimes, and cause all the
trouble, and all the disgrace, both of England and Ire--
land. Such being the case, we come at once obviously
to the fountain-head of the evil, when we come to Po-
pery. Now it might be presumed, if England were
anxious to remedy the evils of Ireland, that she would
never cease to work against, and would, if possible,
utterly destroy, this foul source of all sin and mischief.
This would very naturally be supposed ; but, shocking
to relate, such is not the case. English rulers have,
on the contrary, entered into a league with the ac-
cursed thing, and are content to rule Ireland through
it, and be governed by it. What is the consequence ?
Every evil in Ireland is aggravated—her disorder is
increased—her crimes are doubled. The government
is administered for a faction, and through one; and;
worst of all, that faction is a Papist one! Our rulers
cry peace, peace, where there is no peace, and a false
case of improved morality is attempted to be made out,
by concealing crimes, by forbearing to prosecute of-
fenders, or by pardoning them when convicted. But
all won't do. Irish morality has become a bye-word
and a jest : the people are drunkards, and a man's life
will be sold readily for a day's drink. Murder stalks
abroad at noon-day, and no man can trust his neigh-
bour. Have we not a plain and just right, then, to
call upon England to remedy this hateful and horrible
state of things? Have we not a subject's right to de-
mand and insist upon it? Obedience and loyalty are
the duty of the subject, and lie has a right in return to
look for protection and security. How many millions
of money has England cheerfnlly paid for negro eman-
cipation? Well, let her not think it ton dear to ba-
nish Popery from Ireland at any price. And it can be
done. Not .a doubt of it. Let the Queen take up the
matter ; let her ministers, let parliament. Let the
land be deluged with Bibles, and invaded by a noble
army of preachers. Tottering Babylon will then be-
come a heap of ruins, and the day-star of Ireland's
happiness will shine in the heavens. This is not
poetry, or prose run mad, or mere flash, for the sake of
passing off, perhaps, a dull article. No; we assert, as
we believe it to be, downright, sober truth, and we
shall not cease to urge it till we see the very thing in
operation, yea, and it will be accomplished. It will
certainly be accomplished, and that before long.

RELIGION v. RADICALISM

(From Fraser's 3fagazine for September.)

In winding up our observations on the religious periodical
press, we must make a very important remark—a remark
that demands the serious notice 'cif the Ministerialists and
Radicals of the country: it is this—religion is on the side of
conservatism. With the exception of one solitary Dissenting
paper, the Patriot—and, it may be, another hole-and-corner
print—the religious newspapers of the country are the open
and uncompromising advocates of Conservative principles.
This is a most striking and impressive consideration. It is
the habit generally of Conservative statesmen, to base their
views on the fundamental and glorious principles of the Eng-
lish constitution—to advocate certain measures, because they
are calculated to lead to certain valuable results—and to re-
sist the encroachments of the fierce democracy, on the strong
grounds of an enlightened philosophy and ripe experience;
and these are tribunals never to he lost sight of in the adjudi,
ration of political measures. But it certainly must strengthen
the hands of the powerful opposition that now covers the as-
saulted liberties and menaced institutions of their native land,
to he assured that signal piety, as well as great talent, is en-
listed on their side; that the faith of millions, as well as the
prescriptions of the Magna Charta, sustain and side them ;
that the prayers of Christian men, as well as the resources of
gifted minds, are lifted up in averting the catastrophes that
are knowingly courted, or in ignorance hurried on, by reck-
less and unprincipled statesmen. The Dissenter must not
dare to look for his politics in the heart of his creed—the two
cannot coalesce, unless, like ropes of sand, by the force of
external compression. The dissenter must leave his religion
in his closet, or his chapel, or in any other safe lock-up,
when he goes forth in quest of political tight, or to advocate
the return of members that coincide with his political views.
Its presence at such a moment torments his conscience, re-
strains his tongue, and checks too strongly his liberal partia-
lities. His faith condemns his politics. and his politics are
barely impudent enough toinvite the co-operation of his faith.
His vote and his Bible must never be stored together in the
same pocket. Hence, when Dr. Pye Smith went forth, with
the chivalry of a knight-errant, to vote for the ejected goose,
he took care, we understand, to purge every leaven of religion
out of his mind, and every page of his theological prelections
from his doublet together; and after the dire agony he expe-
rienced that morning, in endeavouring to silence an obstre-
porcus conscience, and hush the protestations of Peter and
Paul, he mustered nerve enough to do what, for the honour
of Britain, very few ministers of Christianity would feel com-
petent to; viz., to make a speech in favour of the claims and
character of (proh Hoxton! roh Homerton !) Joseph Hume!
Another proof of this fact, viz., the intense antipathy that
subsists between Christianity and Radical politics, is the
circumstance that, go where he likes for his religion, (and
we hope be goes to the Bible,) the Dissenter must go to those
cloaca: of the age—those torpid puddles—the Dispatch, Weekly
Chronicle, Sun, Morning Chronicle, Globe, &c., &c. He
must drink at such fonts, or politically die. He has scarce
the shadow of a journal that combines his political views with
his religious principles. A Tory, or Conservative religious
newspaper, is harmony in utterance, and exemplified in tact,
nearly every day in the week ; but a Radical religious jour-
nal!—it is admirably illustrated by the mongrel fiction of the
poet:—
_

" Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam
Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas
Uadique collatis membris, ut turniter atrum
Desinat in piscem inuliter formosa supern;
Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amid!?
Credite, DISSENTERS, isti tabuli & fore NEWSPAPER :
Persimilem, cujus, velut agri somnia, vanie
Fingentur species : ut nec pes nec caput uni
Reddatur forma. Pictoribus atque poetis
Quirilibet audendisemper fuit aqua potestas.
Scimus, et bane veniam petimusque damusque vicisiim:
Sod NON UT PLACIDIS COEANT IMMITIA, NON UT
SERPENTF.S AVMS GEMINENTUR, TIGRIHUS AGNE."

In proportion, it evidently appears, as a newspaper becomes
religious, it ceases to be radical. If Joseph flume, Grote,
Wakley, &c., became enlightened and sober. minded
arts, the.first, would cease to vote "black white," or goad a
orovince of his country to rebellion; the second would make
his ballot-box a depository for subscriptions to some work of
hritnanity; and the last-mentioned squ eezeab le personage
would stick to his lancet, pestle, and pill-boxes. It is impos
sible that the trio just enumerated could foment the treason
of Papineau, the insurrection of the Canadians, and minister
divers other parliamentary and Anchor stimulants to throw
off the " baleful dominion of England," if they read, or,
reading, believed the maxim of an ancient 'book, " Let
every soul be subject to the higher powers; for there is no
power but of God. Whosoever'resisteth the power. resisteth
the ordinances of God." Our conclusion is a decidedlOne—
that a Radical Christian is a nonentity : the two epithets can-
not be combined—they partain to antagonist categories ; the
one must, of necessity, be the grave of the other. A Radical
or Ministerial religious newspaper is an equally impossible
phenomenon; as the one character progresses, the other re-
tregades, until the abortive .attemiat;tn. aisentilaut ma
terials issues either in a purely Christian and Conservative,
or a purely infidel and radical print. The old English in-
ference is the right one.
The altar is the prop of the throne, the prescriptions of a
sound faith, the foundation of the pandects of Runnymede.
The two alternatives are dissent, democracy, destructives,
voluntaries, and other cages of unclean birds; or the Esta-
blished Church and the constitution, true religion, and Con-
servative views.

O'CoNNEI.r. IN TEARS.—In his second letter to the people
of Ireland, Mr. O'Connell says—" When Lord John Rus-
sell argued against the ballot,l went to my bed in sadness
and sorrow, and during a sleepless night—ipay be laughed
at for the avowal—shed many and bitter tears!"
A HINT TO OCR CLEasy.—The truth is, Sam, if a mi-
nister wants to be popular he should remain single, for ►hen
the galls all have a chance for him, but the moment he
marries he's up a tree; his flint is fixed then—you may de-
pend its gone goose with him after that, that's a fact. No,
Sam, they ate the pillars of the temple, the clear little
critters.—,Slick's Sayings and Doings.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the letter is a hur-
ried one, and leaves many points untouched;'of interest both
to the public and the friends of the adventurers. Captain
Wickham, who had command ofthe nautical part of the ex-
pedition, is only incidentally mentioned; but is satisfactory to
know that all are well.