The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

ITN LIVERPOOL STAADARIL

Laird objected to the chairman of the present meeting
being a member of the• Finance Committee. Ile objected
to him, on explanation, on. account of some transaction
relative to an advance made• to the' commissioners by the
North and South Wales Bank, but the amendment of
Mr. Laird, after having excited some little sparring, was
not seconded, and the original motion was carried. The
following were then elected :—Of the Watch Committee,
Messrs. Cole, Watson, Gilbertson, Homer, Pike, Adam-
son, Hicklin, and Fox ;—of the Health Committee,
Messrs. Adamson, Mallaby, Barbour, Cole, Gilbertson,
Watson, Pritchard, Thompson, Hicklin, Pim, and, on the
motion of Mr. Hind, Mr. Laird's name was added ;—of
the other committees several of the parties named, and
others.—lt was agreed that no motion should be brought
forward at the general board, unless four day's notice were
previously given to the Law Clerk.—The town-clerk read
a letter relative to the Gas and Water Bills. It appeared
that Lord Shaftesbury objected to allow any of the
acts to pass, unless the , whole of the improvement
acts were repealed, and one general enactment con-
solidated the whole of them brought in, and as there
was no time to do this in time this year, Mr. Hicklin
moved that the bills be withdrawn for the present session,
which was agreed to.—A motion was proposed, requesting
Mr. Lloyd to draw a case for counsels' opinion, relative
to any gas contract made for the commissioners for more
than three years ; but this was superseded by an amend-
ment, (carried by 7 to 4,) deferring the question until the
next meeting.—lt appeared that• the ferry receipts, from
23d April to 31st May, 1846, had been £2537; for the
same period in 1847, .£244B.—Mr. Hicklin gave notice of
motion, for the next meeting, to the effect, " That a com-
mittee be appointed to consider the expediency of applying
to government for a charter of incorporation for the
township of Birkenhead."

MEETING OF THE SELECT VESTRY

On Tuesday the usual weekly meeting was held. The
Rev. Rector Brooks presided.
Mr. COLEMAN, sharebroker, attended before the board,
and stated that he had had several interviews with Mr.
Rushton and the Mayor, in reference to the necessity of
making the provision of a fund for the support of the
wives and families of those public officers who had fallen
in the service of the parish. The matter was more parti-
cularly pressed upon his attention now, in consequence of
the death, last week, of Mr. Whitley, one of the district
medical officers : and he certainly thought it was a great
disgrace to the parish if something were not done for the
wives and families in cases of the kind. Mr. Rushton had
drawn up a memorial to the house of Commons and House
of Lords upon the subject, and had said that it ought to
be presented to the former by Lord Sandon, and to the
latter by Lord Brotigham.
The memorial, after stating that about 250,000 nearly
destitute persons had arrived from the sister country ;
that although 70,000 of these had emigrated to the United
States, and 6000 of them had returned to Ireland, yet a
vast number of the remainder had located themselves in
this neighbourhood, and were living in the cellars of the
town ' • that this accumulation of human misery had pro-
duced disease ; that at present 3000 persons were afflicted
with fever ; that the giving of assistance to them was at-
tended with danger to life; that several of the relieving
officers and medical men had died of contagion thus con-
tracted, leaving their wives and children, in most instances,
very inadequately provided for; and that there being no
funds to provide for the wives and families of those who
had fallen in the public service—concluded by praying
that the house would cause a short act to be passed, en-
abling the overseers of the poor to make, in every case, an
allowance out of the parochial funds to the wives and
families of those who had died in the discharge of the
public duties of the parish.
The RECTOR, after expressing his approval of the me-
morial, signed it in his capacity of chairman of the Select
Vestry.

The expenditure for out-door relief for the week ending
the 3d of June was reported to be £1049, being an in-
crease of £366 over tilt expenditure of the corresponding
week of last year.

The Irish casual poor relieved during the last week
amounted to 57,701 individuals. The cost of their relief
in money and in kind was £721. During the correspond-
ing week of last year only 400 Irish had been relieved, at
the small cost of £lO ss. 6d.

It was reported that the parish was indebted to the
treasurer in the sum of £6,000, and that it .was, there-
fore, essentially necessary the rates should be collected
in as quickly as possible, in order to reimburse him.
Mr. HORSLEY said ha observed two items in the expen-
diture—one for £l2O, and another for £3B, for coffins :
he wished to know over what period of time that expen-
diture had extended ?

Mr. HART replied that the £l5B was for a fortnight's
supply.

it was reported that there were 900 fever patients in the
Workhouse, Hospital, and sheds adjoining. It appears
that fever patients are now occupying the new chapel,
and also the old committee-room at the Workhouse.
The total number of inmates is 1988.

It was reported that there were 115 cases of disease
amongst the children of the Industrial Schools, and that
the total number of children at the schools was 968.
Mr. Rounthwaite, of the City of Dublin Company,
suggested that 'the Clarence Pier ought to be used for the
examination of paupers arriving by the steamers from
Ireland ; the pier to be walled up at both ends. The
Workhouse Committee informed him that his suggestion
could not be adopted, and that the steamers must conti-
nue to go as usual to the lazarettoes
A great

increase in the number of fever cases having
been reported to the committee, a deputation waited upon
the Mayor, at the Town-hall, with a request that some
gentlemen might be sent to London, to urge upon the
government the propriety of putting a stop to the immi-
gration from Ireland. The Mai or having written to Lord
Sandon, to ascertain his sentiments upon the subject,
Mr. Earle, Mr. Rathbone, and Mr. Aikin were appointed
as the deputation to the government.

The Messrs. Molyneuic offered to place their sheds,
situated in Athol-street, at the north end of the town, at
the disposal of the parish, for the accommodation of fever
patients, on receiving a rent for them of .C3OO per annum.
Mr. Whiteman having examined and reported that, with
a house adjoining, they might easily be made to accommo-
date 180 patients, authority was given to the Irish Relief
Committee to take them at the proposed rent within the
next week, if they should think proper so to do.
Some of the district medical officers wrote to suggest
that a building capable of accommodating 5000 fever pa-
tients ought to be erected out of the town ; and they con-
tended that their own salaries ought to be advanced, and
their lives insured by the Select Vestry for twelve months.
Mr. HORSLEY suggested that application be made to
the Birkenhead Commissioners for the warehouses on the
other side of the Mersey, for the accommodation of fever
patients. It was evident that the warehouses on the other
side would not be wanted for a considerable length of
time by the commissioners ; and as they were a very ac-
commodating set of people at Birkenhead, and we had
lately accommodated them with a landing stage, they
might grant the use of their warehouses. He believed
that 3000 or 4000 fever patients might find room in the
Birkenhead warehouses.

Mr. Walker and his, wife, of the South Dispensary,
were appointed to the offices of superintendent and ma-
tron of the " Akbar," at a salary of 40s. per week. Mr.
Graham was appointed as additional medical assistant at
20s. per week, and Mr. Callan, jun. was appointed to the
office of district medical officer.
According t tl i by

.o the orders issues le committee, the
steamers are to be brought twice a-day to the Albert
Dock steps, there to receive fever patients on board, and
to convey them to the lazarettoes.

The CHAIRMAN said it was utterly useless for the
vestry to think they could ever keep pace with the fever
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g the influx, and it could only
be done by the enactment of some very stringent law.
The difficulty would be this :—They would have to pay
so much--five shillings a-head for sending them back to
Ireland ; but, unless there were some law to prevent them
from coining to Liverpool again, where was the use of
vvir minds.
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vom,otliehrlesdr reflected
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, instance, they would send them hack for ss.
to br
them for nothing, in order to get a second ss. a-head for
taking them back again. If, indeed, the vestry could be
sure that, when sent back, they would never come again,
it would be all very well to incur the expense of I

getting
rid of them in Liverpool ; hut what guarantee was titer(
for that ? (Hear, hear.)

were now

winz prepared would not accommodate more
One was to be fitted up for conval-

PRINCIPLES OF ORANGEISM AND; DUTIES OF

ELECTORS.

On Tuesday evening, one of the mernberssof 24 Lodge
of the Protestant. Association of Loyal Orangemen deli-
vered to the members present on that occasion, being the
monthly meeting, the following. eloquent and spirited
address :

FRIENDS AND BRETHREN.—We approach a period
when that portion of the government of Great Britain,
which is supposed to concentrate the opinions and feelings
of the people, is to be cast once more upon the conscien-
tious discharge of individual duty, and when every elector
holds a trust for which he is solemnly responsible before
his God, his Queen, and his country.
Never since. England has been a. nation has her weal or
woe been so deeply involved as at the present time, in the
answer to the great appeal. We live in times when sounds
that would have startled every man in England, are heard
with indifference and even approbation, and propositions
are received with courtesy and indulgence that would once
have been crushed with indignant reprobation, ere they
could kindle the sympathy of a second pleader. At once
passing by every subject however important, upon which
politicaleconomists may differ, and argue, and experi-
mentalize, we strike the chord to which every patriotic
heart should vibrate, and ask,. is it not now and hi our
day to be decided, whetaer or not we preserve undimmed
the light around which all our blessings have so long re-
volved, and transmit to our children the glorious bequest
of our own forefathers, that Protestant faith which, as it
honours God, he has condescended to honour in return,
and has caused us, beneath a triumphant flag abroad, and
" our own vine and our own fig-tree " at home, to bask in
national glory, and repose in domestic peace. It has been
honestly declared before the nation by a Popish noble,
whose right to stand in a British parliament was purchased
in the year 1829, by promises that have been broken, and
oaths, the violation of which all but Papists deem perjury
and treachery, that the contest between Protestantism and
Popery must continue until Protestantism is extinct, and
henceforth no man in England will be infatuated enough
to deny that if our Protestantism is to be preserved at all,
it must be by strong and energetic measures for defending
what remains, though there may be a difference of opinion
concerning aggressive measures for the recovery of what
is lost. The best and noblest reply that indignant Eng-
land could return to the speech of Lord Arundel would be

—" A Protestant House Of Commons "—or at least, such
a majority of true hearted men, that,would crush every at-
tempt to challenge the displeasure, and provoke the judg-
ments of God by apostatizing our government, and so en-
danger the crown of the House of Brunswick. If these
are times when even our enemy can afford to be honest,
let us not be afraid to be honest too, and if Protestantism
is to be exterminated, let us astound those who have un-
dertaken the task, with a witness of the principles they
must first annihilate. If there are men so Popish as not
to be afraid to declare hostility to liberty of conscience,
and the principles on which the government of England is
erected, so indifferent as not to be afraid to counsel the
sovereign to perjury, by supporting a religion she has
sworn to hold false and heretical, so infidel, or so rebel-
lious to the laws as not to be afraid to combine for the
overthrow of our Protestant established church, let not
men be wanting bold enough to declare their steady reso-
lution to preserve the freedom that God's truth has.given
them—to remind the sovereign of the articles of the faith
she has sworn to maintain, and to guard the national
church as a blessing to the people, a security to the state,
and a pledge of true liberty, political, intellectual, and
spiritual.

To call ourselves Protestants is not enough—the word
once so electric, so well known as the watch word of principle,
has become so elastic, and thousands possess the name
who seem to have forgotten its meaning and its origin—a
pledge more decided, an assurance more defined, that shall
not be evaded or mistaken, is demanded by the necessities
of our present position. Evangelical alliances will not
supply the want, for they comprehend ingredients whose
impotence, as regards steady consistent co-operation, has
been detected and exposed. Is there then nothing that
without the objection of novelty, might stand forth a tried
and trusty combination of heads, and hearts, and hands in
this great cause ? To any and every Protestant associa-
tion set for the defence of our holy religion, we cordially
and heartily bid God speed, and to such we need make no
apology for commending one particular, which seems to
harmonize most with the early strength, the devoted zeal,
and unwavering constancy of that Protestantism which
won for our forefathers the blessings we now inherit ; and
perhaps we could not select from the neglected records of
the past, a name better calculated to carry conviction of
our meaning, our character, and principles to the minds
of. the most obtuse, than that which bore upon the ban-
ner of Nassau in the year of our Lord 1688, the assurance
of help, preservation,,and protection to the Protestant re-
ligion and the liberties of England. Glorious and thrill-
ing are the associations clustered around the name of the
Prince of Orange, never, never to be forgotten while a
Briton lives to breathe his thanks to God, for the memo-
ries of a period so nobly commemorated in the Liturgy of
his national church ; and it is treason to the crown King
William wore, to impute disloyal or unholy motives to
the society which has adopted his noble name, whose sin-
gle aim it is to preserve that crown, radient with every
jewel whose lustre has made it worthy a royal brow, and
worthy the affectionate obedience of a free and enlightened
people.
The Orange Society was instituted in a period of sorrow
and peril to the Protestants of-Ireland, for the defence of
life, liberty, and religion ; and to its operations and exer-
tions, under God, Ireland was indebted for preservation
from the climax of misery through rebellion, civil war,
and Popery. But services past, calumny successful, and
zeal relaxing, the name grew obnoxious to modern libe-
ralism ; and at last, in self-denying obedience to the sup-
posed wish of the Sovereign, the loyal band dissolved,
and, maligned and insulted, each member retired, to che-
rish in- private those Conservative Protestant principles,
which could not be laid aside with a ribbon, or rolled up
in a • flag ; and which, notwithstanding the ingratitude
with which former services were repaid, are ready again,
in time of need, to spring forth with unabated vigour in
the service of Church and Queen.

The; purpose of the reorganisation of the Orange Society
in England must not be misunderstood. It is not to
shackle men to a political party ; it is not to raise a fac-
tion throughout the country, to embarrass rulers in their
efforts to promote and improve the social condition of the
people ; it is not to interfere with corn-laws, poor-laws,
or any laws that may properly be discussed upon the
ground of expediency ;—but it is, to be able to distinguish
between friend and foe, in a graver matter than any that
should be allowed to depend upon the existence of cabi-
nets, or majorities in parliament ; it is to interfere with
every attempt to introduce Popish laws ; it is to arrest
every Ronieward movement, and to elicit, if it were pos-
sible, from every tongue in Britain, one universal procla-
mation of determination, to resist every effort to endow
the Romish religion upon any spot under British sway,
or that may tend to invest it with the enjoyment of any
public patronage, so long as God's fiat against idolatry
stands unrepealed in the pages of Holy Writ.

The great and exclusive- features of the society are
these

First,—Reverence for and obedience to the 'Word of
God, as 'the only standard of sound doctrine in every
religious controversy, the ultimate reference in every
argument, the rectifier of every interpretation, and the
circulation of that Word among the people, unmingled
with human comments, as free to the Esuine infant in the

school as to the learned commentatorinTisTtliy:" To
know on inspired authority that the Scripture makes wise
unto salvation, is sufficient guide to duty upon this im-
portant point ; and here is the true foundation of the only
temple whose top shall reach to heaven, while the pre-
sumptnous elevation of the Mystic Babel shall be scat-
tered as rubbish before the wind.

Secondly,—Respectful and affectionate attachment to
the person of the Sovereign, whose power is based on
laws which guard the dignity of a national head, while
they restrain from the tyranny of an absolute will. " The
King can do no wrong " is not the expression of slaves,
but the legitimate result of a code of laws as solemnly
binding upon the ruler as upon the people. And while
the Orange Society proclaims undivided allegiance to the
British throne, it as firmly denies that any foreign Prince
or Pontiff has, or can have, any power, temporal or spi-
ritual, within the realm of England, whether in neigh-
bouring isles or distant colonies.

Thii;l,—ln resisting falsehood we are bound to defend
truth, for true Protestantism is not a mere negative, " it
consists not merely in the rejection of what is wrong,"
and tracing from the Word of God the righteous title of
an Episcopal Protestant Established Church to protection
and support, the Orange Society recognises in the sys-
tem established by law in this country, the best machinery
for the Moral cultivation, and spiritual salvation of the

testaut Church, guarded by defences that must be Over-
thrown before any successful assault can shake her deep
foundations—she is, however, bitterly assaulted on every
side.—By infidels, who reject her faithful witness for God,
by republican politicians who feel that she is interwovon
with the.existence of a monarchy, which she has enabled
to defy their revolutionary clamours—by voluntaries who
envy the dignity of her position as the just object of a
national affection, and the wealth secured to her by laws
that recognise the duty of the civil ruler to provide for
the whole condition of immortal subjects,—and by Ro-
manists, who detest the scriptural medium she holds be-
tween the superstitions wherewith Popery has displaced
Christianity, and the fanaticism which risks decency and
csihetey. Here then
order, by.the rejection of apostolic system, and scriptural
not only the sym-
form. She demands and deserves support, apnodsswehssilees
thheer
BtSyor'iton, and as every
paconfidence
pt soatniinnidedt ise
on
wt.
ihol
devotionipeciehrrapotieofgstni ehi
ought
ttfooi
enraevtneenlnggi
sr,eti
t
Orangeman is known to be a Bible man, a loyal man, and
a Churchman, we invite our countrymen to a fearless
avowal of sentiments that will do them honor, and present
to the knowledge of every gentleman willing to represent
'an honest Protestant constituency, a roll of flames upon
whose cordial support he may rely—and to every Papist,
Infidel, or modern liberal, an intimation of the opposi-
lion, It does not become an English-

ae must encona...
man to register his principles first at the hustings, but
first to commit himself to them by adopting a name that
at once and for ever cuts off the possibility of being per-
suaded to violate or change them—and thus to encourage
Protestant representatives to come forward, who now
shrink from the contest under the sad conviction that a
majority of true Protestant electors is not to be expected
tl -ate dav- -therefore the few noble spirit

In these &genera,
who brave the sneer, and stand the scoff, are left to com-
bat single-handed for the honour of God, in the Parlia-
ment of their country. It is to prevent rather than to
court danger that we desire to enlarge and strengthen our
Institution. Self-defence is admitted to be the first law
of nature, one of the sinless instincts of natural life.
May not the proverb be truly transferred to a larger
sphere, .and. national defence be deemed a sinless instinct
of social lifer the first law of patriotism. W e cannot now
be mistaken concerning our enemy. Itis not over a
heathen or infidel world lying in wickedness that the
Bishop. of Rome bends his yearning gaze,. it is on. the

little British oasis in the desert, where God is honoured,
where the waters of life flow fresh and free, where it spar-
kles forth from the fountain's head, untainted by the
muddy traditions of fallible men ; where the Queen of
the Isle wears a crown independent of a Popish blessing ;
and where the people worship God in Christ Jesus, with-
out any of the devices wherewith Popery trades in the
souls of men.

As Mordecai to Haman, so is England to Rome ; and
though the whole world cringe beneath the imperious
sweep of pontifical sway, all fails to satisfy the covetous
desires of the despot, while heretical England disdains his
command, and defies his authority ; and disdain and defy
them she will, so long as she holds fast by that precious
Truth which has lighted her path to preeminence among
nations, and enabled her to turn the bright rays of the
Lamp of Life wherever men are " sitting in darkness and,
the shadow of death." Let us not then mistake our duty ;
we live not in a dispensation of miracles, when men's
strength was sometimes " to sit still," but we live in a
I dispensation of means, on which we ask the blessing that
can crown them with success. "If the foundation be de-
stroyed, what shall the righteous do ?" First let the
righteous do their best to guard them from destruction,
that no reproach may rest upon cowardice or indifference,
when courage and zeal might defend them.
We have clergymen pledged by ordination vows to Pro-
testant principle, and a laity pledged to support them
would cause many a soldier of the Cross to thank God and
take courage. For these high and holy purposes we de-
sire to combine the strength of the British people in mighty
phalanx, through which no human power shall break, and
to weave such an Orange wreath around the Royal purple
that no papist act from a British parliament shall reach
the presence chamber of a British monarch ; and that a
faithful representation of the right-minded Protestant po-
pulation of still Protestant Britain, shall on the opening of
the first session of a new parliament greet the presence of
our Protestant Queen. A faithful representation, I re-
peat, of the restored tone of public feeling which drove a
popish monarch from the throne, popish laws from the
statute-book, and the popish mass from the Church; and
which, no longer deceived by false promises, nor cheated
by disguise, is steadily resolved that what was boldly dri-

yen out shall, by the help and blessing of an approving
God, be still kept out, for His glory and our country's
peace. Orangeism asks not " what is truth ?" like the
temporising politician of Pagan Rome ; but knowing it,

toss for the excellency of the knowledge of it, and all
things well spent in the zealous defence of it.
' The Orange symbol is of necessity at once, from the
kindling associations of days gone by, a proclamation of
principle among British laymen, before which, if boldly
made upon a national scale, revolutionists would retire in
the assurance of failure, political dissenters would be
taught gratitude for toleration and security, instead of as-
sailing the fortress whose bulwarks guard their sectarian
outposts ; and Romanists would once more tremble for a
" craft in danger ;"—pure Orangeism would throw up its
rampart around " the Protestant religion and the liberties
of England," and unfurl the broad banner of " No Sur-
render" in the face of every foe.

THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON
AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY-.

On Wednesday, Captain Coddington, the Government
Inspector of Railways, arrived at Wolverton, and investi-

gated the circumstances connected with the late fearful
collision. The gallant captain made a minute examina-
tion of the points at which the train entered the siding,
the exact distance of which from the Wolverton station is
stated to be 580 yards. The whole of the bodies of the
sufferers have been removed by their friends for inter-
ment. The report as to the condition of the parties in-
jured is that they are progressing favourably; some of
them it is believed, will be able to attend the adjourned
inquest. The Company have directed that all the funeral
expenses of the sufferers should be charged to them. The
Cambridge Advertiser says—" It is with painful feelings
that we perceive among the victims of the terrible colli-
sion at Wolverton on Saturday evening last, the name of
a young gentleman of high talent and promise, who ap-
pears as mathematical orizeman of Masnialene Colleup in

railway directors in favour Of Mr. Miller, Who suffered
on the same occasion. Mr. Miller was an active agent in
the Ragged Schools, and has left a wife and young family.
The coroner's jury re-assembled at Wolverton on Fri-
day morning. There were present Mr. Barnewell, solici-
tor to the Railway Company, Captain Huish,' general
manager, Mr. H. P. Brageres, general superintendent,
Mr. M'Connell, locomotive superintendent, Mr. Blott,
station-master, and others, including Mr. Payne, deputy
coroner of Middlesex, who appeared as counsel for the
relatives of one of the deceased—Mr. Miller. Fossey,
the policeman was pr sent. William Manners, the engine
driver of the train, stated, in answer to questions from
several parties, that they were nine minutes later in
leaving Euston-square that night than usual. He de-
scribed the lights used on locomotives. They had a white
light which denoted " safety." The paints were about
six yards on the London side of the bridge, and the dis-
tance from them to the place where the collision occurred,
on the siding, was 547 yards. Before he came to the
points he saw the policeman exhibit his green light which
denoted " caution, ' before he had let off the steam, and
had on the bieaks. He had never driven the mail train
before, but had driven pilot and night engines. He had
not sufficient time to stop the train, (though the pace was
slackened to about ten miles an hour by the breaks being
put on. There was no engine or lights attached to the
_coal waggPps,„„l4ights are never fixed to stationary en-
gines. If the points had not been interfera with they
would have been all right. Neither he nor the stoker
jump ed off the tender. The buffers were broken. He
knew Fossey, who had never before had an accident. He
could stop an engine of 100 horse power as soon as one of
50 horse : but not with a train of 20 carriages, as soon as
with one with 10 attached. it was a wet night, other-
wise he might probably have stopped the train. The
stoker corroborated this evidence. William Cooper, chief
to the mail train, said that had not the rails been slippery
from the train, the train might have been stopped before
coming into collision. William F. Smith, inspector of
police, at Roade station, deposed that after he heard
of the accident he saw FACCPV_ anti acknti him

now ne Happened to turn the train into the siding ?
He (Fossey) said " I don't know, my watch de-
ceived me, she's twelve minutes before her time."
Fossey, in some subsequent remarks, said that, -if no one
was killed, witness might transport him as soon as he
liked, for that was what he wanted. He afterwards said :
„ _

—" I thought it had been a goods train, but the light de-
ceived me." He was given into custody. The prisoner's
watch was found to be four minutes slower than the station
time. Prisoner had made a mistake, at the same place, on
the Monday previous, and was fined ls. No luggage train
was dup at the time of the accident under review. Mr.
Bruyers, general superintendent of the Southern division
of the railway, said the fine was reduced to ls., owing to

the prisoner's previous steadiness anc _
the waggons not been in the way, the train would. MVO run
again into the main line. (Here an explanation of the kind
of lights now used was given.) Mr. M'Connell said the
engine was tipOn Mr. Stephenson's patent principle, and
had been in use at the time two months. The breaks, ten-
der, &c., were in good order. Witness could not account for
the principal damage being done to the sthand6th carriages,
but thought the driver and stoker deserved credit for stick-
ing to their posts. The destruction of the carriages was
described as in former accounts. A superintendent of re-
pairs, named Parker, was complimented for having saved
the life of a gentleman named Turner. The Railway
Company had, it appeared, paid the greatest attention and
kindness to the passengers who were injured. The inquiry
was then adjourned.

CHURCH PASTORAL-AID SOCIETY,
Aiding 314 Clergymen, having under their Pastoral
Charge 2,193,550 souls.

" Our cause is the cause of God and His Church; it is the
cause of Evangelical Truth in this land ; it is the cause of mil-
lions Of immortal souls, who would be otherwise perishing for
Innt- of r-2—.

Man, at the Anniversary of th'e Church Pastoi•all'.
in 1844, when Archdeacon Shirley.

lid Society,

The Society now aids in all 314 incumbents, having
under their care a population of 2,193,550, or each the
average charge of 6,977 souls; the average amount of
their incomes is £2Ol, and 173 of these incumbents are
without parsonage-houses.
The existing grants provide stipends, in whole or in
part, for 301 clergymen and 73 lay-assistants, calling for
an expenditure estimated at about £33,000 per annum
when all the grants shall be in operation ; so that the
')er of 1 '

numL .ahourers amongst these 2,193,550 souls has
been more than doubled by the Society's aid.
The grants are classed as follows :
Additional curates for populous parishes.
Chaplains on railways .
Chaplains for boatmen and mariners
Incumbents, or ministers, whose incomes are fur-
nished, either in whole or in part, by the Society 31
Lay-assistants for parishes
Lay-assistants for railway labourers 2

Total clergymen ..
Total lay-assistants

374
As has always been the case, several of these grants re-
main unoccupied, on account of the difficulty the incum-
bents experience in finding suitable fellow-labourers. But
it is with great satisfaction your committee are able to re-
port that never were there more grants in actual operation
than at the present moment, these grants being for 261
clergymen and 71 lay-assistants, at a rate of expenditure of
above £29,000 per annum. The Society has now 77 more
grants on its books, and 88 more grants occupied, than it
had on the Ist of April last year. Instead of one-fifth or
one-sixth of the grants being vacant from want of clergy-
men to take the posts, as in former years, only between
one-ninth and one-tenth are at present vacant.
The Society's operation have led to the erection, opening,
or keeping open of 119 churches or chapels; and 156 rooms,
licensed for public worship, are used, in connection with
the present grants, for additional public services.
506 additional full services on the Lord's day, and 222
on week days, 317 school-room or cottage lectures, and
161 Bible classes, are the immediate benefits arising from
the society's grants ; besides which, more than double the
amount of pastoral visitation and regular superintendence
of the Sunday and parochial schools is secured, while the
incumbents are better able to attend also to the manage-
ment of the various benevolent and religious institutions
in their respective parishes.
In the eleven years since its institution the society has
collected, for the great object it has in view, the sum of
£196,629. It has made grants to 539 incumbents for
stipends f0r563 additional clergymen and 146 lay-assistants
to carry the gospel of salvation to a population amounting
to 3,664,133 ; and, in the same period, it has made 50
grants towards securing the purchase, erection, or fitting
up of rooms to be licensed for the celebration of divine
service in districts destitute of church accommodation. 1

I PROPOSED HARBOUR OF REFUGE AT
HOLYHEAD.

The report of the Commissioners appointed by Parlia-
ment to inquire into the expediency of making a harbour
of refuge at Holyhead has been printed by order of the
House of Commons, and would be presented to the house
yesterday, or this day. It would appear from this, so far
as it has yet transpired, that the Commissioners have left
the matter yet indefinitely decided upon, the main objec-
tions being unanswered, while there is an animus shewa
by them in favour of the railway company, by viewing in
the most favourable light the more obvious defects of the
plan of Mr. Rendel, that company's surveyor. -
The Admiralty had instructed the Commissioners as to
the several questions upon which they desired specific in-
formation. The committee examined Mr. Rendel, who
explained his plans ; also Mr. Downes, the diver, and Mr.
Beardmore, who was employed by Mr. Rendel to examine
the bottom. No fewer than twelve witnesses, including
engineers, nautical, scientific, and practical men, expressed
opinions against the measure, their objections nearly all
embracing the great cost beyond the estimates—the dan-
gerous, and at times the inaccessible, nature of the entrance
—the heavy swell inside in gales—the bad anchorage, and
the rockiness of the bottom—the badness of the stone for
the construction of the sea walls; and, generally, the im-
possibility of rendering the site an available harbour of
rPfli CIP

Sir J. Rennie, and Mr. G. Rennie said the cost would
be £1,800,000 in place of £BOO,OOO as estimated, that the
holding ground was bad, that there was no beaching
ground, that sailing vessels could not enter in westerly
gales, and that the eastern side was designed for govern-
ment vessels, leaving merchantmen without accommoda-
tion in such gales; also that the stone would have to be
taken from a distance. Mr. W. Bald objected to the
stone and to the cost. Mr. Page estimated the cost at
£1,526,000, and the anchorage was bad, and no beaching
ground. Mr, Joshua Trimmer deposed at length to the
bad quality of the stone. Mr. CounEeller C. W. Williams
urged numerous objections on behalf of the City of Dub—
lin Steam-packet Company. Lieut. Sarsfield, R.N. said
`-kere would be great dancer in Pn +.rin g the harp-

u,...iscr in enter...,
.uour, ann
to all vessels, during westerly and north east gales. If
obliged to run in the dark, he would prefer the old har-
bour, and thought that mooring-chains would be useless,
as there would be difficulty and danger in getting hold of

I the ouoys. _besides, there would not be sufficient accom-
modation for trading purposes. Capt. J. H. Christie, of
the Dublin mail packet "Princess" deposed to the bad-.
ness of the anchorage, the rapidity of the tides; that no
vessel could get into the harbour with the wind from N. W_
to W.N.W. blowing hard ; and that he could not see
how large steamers were to get into the inner harbour.
Mr. Lockett, chairman of the Shipowners' Association
of this port, complained of the exclusion of the public
from the inner harbour, and stated, that if the bottom
were as had been represented, it would be anything but a
harbour of refuge for ships from Liverpool. Mr. Askew,
harbour-master of Liverpool, objected as follow :—lf a
vessel's chain break, she would not only destroy herself,
Eut others. If the anchor clnpc tint b n'l A ..,...4.: --I —l__ __

p as
you cannot immediately take the canvass ofarucutart y a ship, she
must either go on the other vessels or on shore on the
rocks. Vessels when they once get in cannot get out.
with the wind round to the E.N.E. The destruction will
be dreadful if the wind chops round from N.W. to N.E.
Has owned four sail of vessels, and always gave his mas-
s_-_ al •C

cept to save life and property, he would supersede them.
Vessels suffer very severely off Holyhead, from the short
abrupt swells. Vessels could not lie alongside one ano-
ther, or on the west side of the packet-pier, in heavy gales
from N.W. to N.E. Should not like to run in a sailing
vessel at Holyhead, where the tides are so strong, be-
tween pierheads less than 300 yards apart. Great diffi-
culty in a large steamer in turning into the inner harbour.
Mr. Imrie, a member of the Liverpool Shipowners' As-
sociation, objected, that the harbour will not be used;
that the insecurity of the intended harbour will prevent
the shipping of Liverpool making use of it.
In the appendix a statement also appears of Lieut.
Tudor, R. N., against the proposed harbour
The commissioners (it should b
ployed divers, and made examim

which led them to the conclusion that the anchorage is
good ; but, on the other hand, Captain Askew states that
the bottom cannot be adequately tested by divers, but
only by borings. Bars driven in four feet were no guide;
and Captain Christie said he had bored the bottom ;
never got more than fifty-three inches before he came to
the solid rock, and generally speaking the soil was shallow..
The commissioners admit that there is some hard ob-
jectionable ground near the Platters, which the engineer
proposes to improve, and this they consider possible.
With regard to the difficulty of entering the harbour,
they admit the objections made to be of considerable
weight ; but they propose certain and not very definite
alterations in the plans, which will, they think, remove
the difficulty. One of their main suggestions on this
point is merely experimental—an opening in one of the
breakwaters, to be permanent or to be closed up as expe-
rience may point out ! They say that the refuge harbour
appears to be so designed as to admit of such modifications
as will render the entrance more easy of ingress to vessels
seeking shelter, anti that the breakwater will render the
packet harbour " easy of ingress and egress to steamers
of all classes, in all weathers," an assertion which, in
the face of so many obvious objections, some o: them
admitted,) savours of special pleading in favour of Mr.
Rendell's plans.
To the question as to how long steam-packets, not con-
veying the mails, may participate in the advantages of the
harbour by lying alongside the western face of the pier,
or by the construction of another pier further to the west-
ward, they reply in the same spirit of accommodation to
the scheme, namely—" The western side of the packet-
pier affords 1600 feet of wharfage, and should this not
prove approachable during strong westerly winds for the
purpose of discharging cargo, we are of opinion that one
or more piers further to the westward might be run out,
without materially encroaching on the general anchorage."
They state that they do not feel competent to form an
opinion as to Mr. Rendel's estimate, but having followed
his calculations, they see no reason (` good easy men !') to
doubt his accuracy. They also give it as their opinion—
contrary to that of many of the witnesses—that the stone
in the Holyhead mountain is suitable for the work."

GENERAL PROVIDENT INSURANCE SOCIETY,
LIVERPOOL.

Chroniclers of the passing events of the day, as well as
of the various movements made by the different classes
of society for the amelioration of the labouring classes of
the community, it falls distinctly within the range of our
duties to direct the attention of our numerous subscribers
to the advertisement of the General Provident Assurance
Society of Liverpool, which appears in the columns of our
paper of this day. We would not propose to enter into

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insurance, and the equally beneficial tendency of associa-
tions founded for the succour of the immense number of
individuals whose daily labour is the only means they
possess of procuring their daily bread, and of whose sor-
rows, when laid prostrate on the bed of sickneq.? 42.5
members of the middle and upper classes of the commu-
nity can, at the utmost, form but a very imperfect and
inadequate idea. The immense extent to which such
associations have ramified over the whole of our country,
forms one of the best indications of the advantages which
have been reaped from them ; and however varied the
constitution, and diversified the rules by which they are
regulated, they afford incontestible evidence of the work-
ing of a great principle, the application of which, when
properly developed, and equitably adjusted, must be held
by all philanthropists as one of the most comprehensive.

Most efficient, most harmonious, and most philosophic
schemes which could have been invented by the masses
of the working people for equalising the contingencies of
sickness and mitigating the sorrows of death. The plan
;inated with themselves, and it is to their lasting