The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-02 00:00:00

ding, were generally uuimportant, and prices unimpr

Having no fine English Malting Barley at h
in value was apparent ; but a few parcels
moved off on rather higher terms ; indifferent kinds

;ood Iris)

same time remaining unvaried.
Malt dull and rather cheaper.
Beans and Pease continued in slow request at our last quo-

ARRIVALS OF CORN.
From the 26th Jan. to the Ist Feb. 1841, Inc

CANADA! ". LAND. } WISE. REIGN. TOTAL

Wheat Qrs. 1588 3642
Barley Qrs. 748 1083
Malt Qrs. 203 1692
Oats Qrs. 4004 798
Rye Qrs. 9
Beans
Pease. Qrs.
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn . Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal . . . . Loads 4112
Flour. Sacks 3409 1381
Ditto Brls. 1000

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Wheat, 35 qrs
qrs.; Oats, 1172 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 4451 loads; Flour, 21

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Oats, 100 qrs. ; Flour, 41
Wheat, 487 qrs. ; Flour, 97 sacks.—Coastwise.
Barley, 27 qrs. ; Malt, 25 qrs. ; Beans, 8 qrs
Oatmeal, 16 lds. ; Flour, 422 sacks 439 barrels.

Ireland

Wheat, 198 c

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Jai
Wheat.. dos. 9d. I Barley 328.11 d. I
Oats.. 21s. 4d. !
Beans.. 395. 74. Pease 383. lad

Aggregate average of the six weeks

Wheat.. 60s. lod:

--1" Barley.. 325. '1
Beans.. 40s. 3d

Sd. I Oats.. 21s. Sd. I Rye.. 3
L I Pease.. 40s. Id.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat 263.8 d. Barley 13s. led. } Oats .... 15s. 3d. Rye.. Igs. gd
Beans, gs. dd. Pease.. gs. 6d. Ind. Cornl3s.lod. I Flourl63.oid

Liverpool Averages, week ending 26th January. 1841.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. Pease.
Qr 5..... 343 170 2924
Prices.. 545. Id. 38s. 6d. 21s. Od. Os. Od. I Os. od

PROTESTANT OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION

TOXTETH-PARK BRANCH

Last evening a public meeting of the members and friends
of the Toxteth-park Branch of this Association was held in
St. James's School-room. At seven o'clock the Rev. Hugh
M'Neile, the president of the society, entered the room, and
was warmly greeted by the crowded assemblage, chiefly com-
posed of the operative classes. The rev. gentleman, on tak-
ing the chair, reminded the assembly that one of the rules of
their association was that all meetings should commence with
prayer ; and in reply to adversaries, who find fault with them
for abiding by this regulation, said he would just make one
or two observations. It was said that they acted inconsist-
ently in mixing up a religious exercise with matters and bu-
siness which were of a purely secular and political nature.
Such an objection came well from persons whose principle
it was to separate religion from politics ; but this principle
was not theirs, neither was it yet the principle of the state.
For his part, he would not lead in any movement in which
the practice was prohibited, or join in any undertaking not
based on the foundation laid in Zion, the Lord Jssus Christ
being the chief corner stone.

Vie meeting then joined in prayer, after which
The Rev. CHAIRMAN said, I am happy to avail myself of
this opportunity to congratulate you on the considerable
measure of success which has attended your proceedings.
One of the principal objects of your association was to rouse
the dormant spirit of Protestantism in this district—and now
I congratulate you—the spirit of Protestantism is no longer

0-
dormant in Liverpool. There is not, I do assert, a tcwn in
her Majesty's dominions—and God bless her Majesty (cheers)
—where the spirit of Protestantism is more truly and scrip-
turally roused—nor a people any where more fully aware of
their duty than in the town of Liverpool. We are accused—
for we have enemies—of meeting here to abuse our Catholic
neighbours; but one or other of two things is plainly the case—
either those who make this accusation have never attended
our meetings, and know of them only by hearsay ; or if they
have attended them, they have paid little attention to matters
of fact. I desire to know who ever heard us abuse our Ro-
man Catholic neighbours? (Hear, hear.) You have heard
me abuse slavery; but who ever heard me abuse the slave?
Now Popery is to the mind what slavery is to the body. A

slave is not his own master, but has become the prope'rty of
another, and a man compelled to open the secrets of his mind
to his fellow-man, ceases to be his own master. The con-
fesAonal annihilates liberty. No Roman Catholic is a free-
man, because all his secrets are in the keeping of a priest.
Now we are endeavouring to emancipate the slave—(cheers)
—the slave of Popery. (Loud cheers.) The reverend
gentleman enlarged at considerable length, and with all
his accustomed power, on this head. He then adverted to
the glorious deliverance with which this country had been
favoured by the reformation, and dwelt in a theme of the
most animated eloquence on the heroic deeds of our Ridlevs,
Latimers, Cranmers, and Hopkins. I would, he said, .that
we had such bishops now—men not afraid of offending deli-
cate ears. Could we fancy the spirit of Latimer to animate
one of our bishops in the House of Lords—could we believe
in the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, and suppose
him speaking by the mouth of one of our prelates of the pre-
sent day, what an astonishing effect would he not produce !
[A voice—" wait till we have Hugh M`Neile a bishop."]
(Cheers.)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ •

Mr. M`SEILE.—I should rat for that—(laughter)—or
join in the cry for repeal—(laughter)—or write a pamphlet in
favour of the Irish National Board of Education, or of the
Liverpool Corporation Schools. (Renewed laughter.) But
I could not in my conscience submit to do any of these
things, and therefore I have as much chance of being a
bishop as any one of you who by his honest industry is earn-
ing his daily bread. (Cheers.)
Mr. MOORE moved the following resolution:—" That this
meeting considers it highly inconsistent in a Protestant go-
vernment to assist in the propagation of error, and that the
blessing of Almighty God cannot be expected to rest upon
this country so long as the government perseveres in such a
glaring ineonsistency."
Richard Harbord, Esq., Mr. Matthews, and the Rev.
Hugh M`Neile afterwards addressed the meeting ; but we
have to express great regret that the crowded state of our co-
lumns and peculiar demands on our time and space this pub-
lication prevent us giving these admirable speeches in our
present number.

MEETING OF THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE FUND
FOR THE RELIEF OF THE MANUFACTURING
DISTRICTS.

A meeting of the subscribers to the above fund was held
yesterday, at noon, at the Clarendon Rooms, " for the pur-
pose of deciding on the disposal of the balance of about three
hundred pounds, now lying in the Borough Bank," the resi-
due of subscriptions raised some years ago for the relief of
the then destitute poor in the manufacturing districts. The
attendance was but slender, the subscribers generally, having
doubtless the fullest confidence in the gentlemen who had
taken an active and efficient part throughout in the manage-
ment of the fund.

Mr. ADAM HODGSON being called to the chair, said that
he had taken the liberty to call the •meeting. for the purpose
stated in the notice, there being a balance of upwards of £3OO
remaining on hand of the sum raised by subscription in 1826,
and partly in 1827, for the relief of the distressed in the manu-
facturing districts of Lancashire and Cheshire, during that
period of depressson. The original amount raised was
£7,593 lOs 3d ; the balance was £239 16s 3d, to which must
be added the interest since accumulated, making a total resi-
due of £3lB 8s sd. They were now called upon to decide
• upon the manner in which this sum should be disposed of.
It appeared to him that the original object of the subscribers
would be best met by applying it to the relief of the destitute
in the town, and he would suggest that it be apportioned to
the three excellent charities upon which the calls were at pre-
sent peculiarly pressing—the District Provident Society, the
Strangers' Friend Society, and the Soup Kitchens.
Mr. JOHN CROSSFIELD was of opinion (and the meeting

concurred with him) that the sum Was too small to be bene:
ficially devoted to its original purpose. He believed that the
societies of the town that had been pointed out, and particu••

,
larly the two first, which were greatly in want of funds,
would expend it to the best advantage, from their thorough
knowledge of the condition of the poor.

Mr. W. COMER said that he wits authorized on behalf of
Mr. John Cropper to express that gentleman's regret,• that
unavoidable circumstances prevented his attendance at the
meeting, and to express his (Mr. C.'s) opinion that the
balance could not be better appropriated than to the Dierict
Provident Society, the Strangers' Friend Society, and the
Soup Kitchen Charity, in the proportion of one-third the
amount to each.

The Rev. Rector BRooKs said the District Provident
Society's funds were exhausted, and they had in the present
season relieved no fewer than 5,000 families. The society
depended upon donations from week to week, and month to
month ; they had been called upon to relieve 465 familes in
one day. It was a most deserving society, as was he be-
lieved the Strangers' Friend Society, which did much good.
With respect to the Soup Society, it was a question with
him whether they had not more money than they could spend
in soup. That society was by no means in want of addi-
tional funds.

Mr. COMER advocated the interests of the Soup Society.
He stated that the funds towards it had been raised on the
understanding that the subscribers should not be agaiti call. d
upon before the lapse of four years. The society had, more-
over, to begin the season with a considerable debt.
The Rev. J. BROOKS said that he never knew the town of
Liverpool backward in subscribing when a real case of neces-
sity arose, and there was a confidence that the amount raised
would be properly husbanded. He believed the merchants
and others would not care, in such case, though they were
called upon every three years for the support of such a society.
Mr. CROSSFIELD said much was done for the poor people
who came from the country districts to the town.
The Rev. J. BROOKS disapproved of encouraging such
from coming to the town to partake of its charities. The
manufacturers were wealthy, and ought to support their own
destitute poor. He complained that the soup society charged
the District Provident Society to the full extent for soup
tickets, while they gave an advantage to the Strangers' Friend
Society.
Mr. COMER said the last society was in debt for soup tickets,
and would pay that debt.
The Rev. J. BROOKS said, that the District Provident So-
ciety would have been insolvent but for a seasonable sum
they had received on the Queen's marriaze.
After some further conversation, in which Mr. LAWRENCE
and others took part, an amendment was moved to Al •
that Comer's th bianl nt coen of by
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This was immediately agreed to, and the meeting
nsdepSaorcatteetdy..

SENSATION.-4. 0. U. are vowels which create more dis-
agreeable sensations in the minds of honest men than all the
rest of the alphabet put together. ,
byTthhee vicarage
the N.LoCwrdcaßs siieh-upon-lyne has been conferred
Bishop of Carlisle, upon the Rev.
R. C. Coxe, M.A., incumbent of Archbishop Tenison's.
Chapel, Regent-street,. London. The rev. gentleman is e •
pected to enter upon his important charge in the course of 1;
sic weeks.
impression
rheasss i
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upon
n visitedth ose
withth etown and
wom he
came in contact for devout, mild, and gentlemanly demean-
our. He is of Worcester College, Oxford, and took a high
left a hv
eorry
degree in the year 1821.

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