The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-23 00:00:00

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" With respect to the labours and operations of the Liver-
pool auxiliary, your committee report that the annual sub-
scriptions during the past year amounted to £343. Is. ld.,
being £2O. Os. 9d. less than the previous year, which was
also less than the year preceding. The donations were
£39. 7s. 6d., being £93. 12s. 7d. below the last year. The
Ladies' Branch Society contributed in the last year £220.
being £35. 7s. more than the year before. But this has not
by any means raised that department of your institution to
the position it formerly held, and this can only be attributed
to the want of ladies' collectors to carry on the operations
of this important section. By the sale of books there has
been received at the depository during the last year the sum
of £525. Is. 41d., ben g £33. Os. Gid. more than the previous
year, and that was a yrar of increase; so that, compared with
the report of the year 1840, £Bl. 14s. 43d. more has accrued
to our funds from this very sure and certain indication of the
value of the Bible Society, for in this case we have positive
proof of the increasing desire of the public to possess them-
selves of the Holy Scriptures. In giving a Bible to any one,
we cannot be assured that the gift is properly appreciated ;
but when that volume is sought for, and paid for, we may
entertain a reasonable hope, at least, that it is properly va-
lued. The country associations have contributed to your
funds the following sums:—St. Helen's £76; Prescot £5O.
From the Mechanics' Association there has been obtained
£8 ss. 5d., being £1 10s. sd. more than last year. Your
committee cannot but believe that a very considerable sum
might annually be obtained from this source, if the proprie-
tors of extensive establishments would permit and encourage
the formation of associations among their workmen. Ho-
nourable mention might be made of gentlemen who have done
this, but to notice them by name might appear to be invidi-
ous, and would, most probably give pain to those benevolent
individuals who have thus distinguished themselves. The
Welsh Branch Society have in the past year contributed
£463 7s. lid. to the funds of the society, being less than last
year by £4B Gs. 3d. Lut this dimunition is not to be attri-
buted to any decreasing zeal or interest in the cause, for this
branch endeavours to supply the need of the -Welsh popula-
tion of Liverpool, without trenching on the funds of your
auxiliary : and the Welsh schools are supplied with Welsh
bibles and testaments without drawing upon your depository.
It has been a subject of astonishment how so large a sum is
raised by the Welsh community of our town. The question
might be answered by replying that they are deeply conscious
and have a lively sense of what they owe to the Bible. But
this is not all. Admitting the full force of gratitude for so
inestimable a treasure, they have brought this feeling to
operate strongly on every individual. A reference to the
appendix of the report of the last year will show that, not
content with a subscription from the head of the family, the
wife also contributes her subscription, and each member of
the family, according to his means, even to the youngest
child, is enrolled as a contributor to the Bible Society. This
will solve the problem, How is it, that while the auxiliary em-
bracing the wealth of the merchant princes of Liverpool obtains
from the English portion of the community in subscriptions
and donations only £382 Bs. 7d. The Welsh branch has raised
£463 7s. lid. ? Your committee trust that the statement of
this fact will create a holy rivalry in the breasts of those who
in this cause of Christian benevolence have not donn what
they could_ The total number of copies of the Holy Scrip-
tures distributed by this auxiliary and its branches in the
past year amounted to 9309, making a grand total of 237,558
copies issued since the year 1811. The following is a par-
ticular statement of the issues during the past year :
To the Ladies Branch Society
„ St. Helen's ditto
„ Prescot ditto
„ Mechanics' Association
„ Schools
„ Subscribers ..
„ Non-subscribers at cost prices, and
copies claimed by subscribers
Various grants

2550 3186
138 681

4135 50;4

Mr. PAYNS then read a statement of the accounts

The Rev. HENRY CARPENTER moved the adoption of the
first tesolution, in a speech of considerable length, during
which he reviewed the objections commonly urged against
the institution, and said they only served to increase his at-
tachment and reveration for it. During the rev. gentleman's
address, the Chancellor entered the room, and took the
chair, which Dr. Byrth vacated.
The Rev. Wm. ACKWORTII, adeputation from the Parent
Society, seconded the resolution. He commenced by ob-
serving, that the support which Liverpool gave to this ex-
cellent institution was by no means commensurate with its
importance; after which, he drew several pictures of the
awful destitution with regard to the Scriptures prevailing
both in Manchester and other large towns. Following this
branch of his subject, he described the great work which yet
remained to be done in our eastern dependencies, making
that the ground for a powerful appeal for support, and then
giving a description of the want of the Scriptures in Italy
and France, he strongly urged that they alone were able to
stem the torrent of popery which was over-running those
lands. The details into which the rev. gentleman entered
were too discursive to be reported otherwise than at a length
which we cannot devote to them. He next described the
success which had attended the efforts of the society in va-
rious parts of the world, particularly in Australia and New
Zealand, and he terminated his address amidst loud cheers.
The Venerable CHAIRMAN, in passing the resolution,
apologised to the meeting for not having been able' to arrive
sooner ; and he expressed his decided approbation of the
principles and objects of the society. The resolution was
adopted unanimously.
The Rev. Dr. BEAUMONT, after an energetic speech, in
which he warmly contended for the circulation of the scrip-
titres without note or comment, moved time next resolution,
expressing an earnest prayer to God that he would continue
to bless all the efforts made to advance the cause of the
Bible Society.
The li.tvA BonsAttp Iltcittotericxtt, amidst loud cheers,
Asgunth34 the teaolutlttm ISt was tritlf gludj ttiett

his friends on this occasion, and to see such a number of them
gathered together; and though he had come to Liverpool on
behalf of another society—[toe Church Missionary Associa-
tion]—he rejoiced to have an opportunity aff.trded him of
pleading for this. (Hear, hear.) He cordially loved the
Bible Society. (Hear.) He rejoiced to say that he bad be-
longed to it now for between thirty and forty years, and he
had never yet repented of belonging to it, hut, on the con-
trary, he had cordially blessed God for having a part and a
share in that magnificent plan of communicating to the whole
world the Inspired Book, that every nation might read " in
their own tongue the wonderful works of God." (Hear.)
He rested the duty of labouring in the cause upon the plain
direction of God's word, that having freely received, we are
freely bound to give. (Hear, hear.) The command of cur
Saviour was " G into all the world, and preach the Gospel
to every creature ;" and this society gave abundant oppor-
tunities for extensively fulfilling that command; it was not
an agent of evil, but it was an agent of good, that was seen
flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting Gospel
to preach to every nation, kindred, and tribe upon the face
of the earth. (Cheers.) The Bible Society, he conceived,
was a mighty instrument of God for accomplishing the mighty
work that could not otherwise have been so effectually ac-
complished. Other institutions there had been which had
tried this, and God had blessed their labours to a certain
extent. The Scotch Bible Society, which separated from the
British and Foreign Bible Society, had been honouring God
in a limited degree by diffusing the word of God. If he
turned to the translation society, the Christian Knowledge
Society, it had been honouring God to a certain and limited
extent in diffusing the sacred scriptures in different languages.
The Trinitarian Society, which acknowledged the Trinity,
and began with prayer, (which he trusted the grand majority
of the friends assembled ever felt to be a most important
principle)—they, to a limited extent, had been honouring
God in diffusing the Scriptures. The Baptist Translation
Society had also done something in a similar way ; but how
feeble and limited were all these efforts, and of other societies
in foreign lands, compared with the mighty work to be done
to give to every nation the inspired volume ! (Hear, hear.)
When he looked at the British and Foreign Bible Society he
saw efforts more corresponding to the great necessities of our
fallen race. (Cheers.) It was a delightful fact to know that
this society had been distributing, in thirty-nine years of
operation, fifteen millions of copies of the Scriptures directly
from the society, and ten millions more indirectly, through
other societies ; so that twenty-five millions of copies of the
Holy Scriptures had been distributed through the agency of
the Britisn and Foreign Bible Society. (Loud cheers.)
Besides this, the Scriptures had been distributed in 161
different languages through this society. (Cheers.) It was
such a magnificent delightful scheme, so full of promise in
every way, so connected with the promise of God's word,
"My word shall not return to me void," that lie could
not but wish the British and Foreign Bible Society good suc-
cess in the name of the Lord. (Cheers.) He would admit,
indeed, that there were, and there would be, great imperfec-
tions in every human institution, and every human exertion.
(Hear.) in all translations of the inspired volume, there
being no promise of inspiration to the translator, there must,
of necessity, be imperfection and improvement, by degrees.
(Hear.) None of them had put in a claim of infallibility—
they left that to the Pope of Rome ;—(cheers)—nor did any
of them want human tradition to make complete the inspired
volume. (Great applause.) Let it be remembered that the
great apostle of the reformation, the. glorious Luther,—
(cheers)—by an imperfect trarislation—by the Vulgate—had,
through the mercy of God, given to him the light of reforma-
tion truth (!) Let them then, at first, endeavour to obtain
what was substantially, and in the main, the word of God,
and circulate it far and wide, with the full assurance that our
Heavenly Father will abundantly bless it. (Hear.) He felt
then that as yet they were but in the beginning of this great
work. Twenty-five millions of copies of the Scriptures had
been distributed, it was true, but of those twenty-five mil-
lions not one million had yet been distributed among the
heathens ; the twenty-four millions had gone an-tong pro-
fessing Christians. (Hear.) Six hundred millions of hea-
thens had not yet had, from this society, one million copies
of the Holy Scriptures! (Hear.) What a mighty and urgent
appeal was there for all their exertions! (Hear.) Should
we be cavilling about this trifle and that trifle, disputing
about this question and that question, when six hundred
millions of our fallen race were waiting for divine light?
(Hear.) Here there was a very weighty and powerful claim
upon us. And he could not but also feel that the more the
Holy Scriptures were distributed and read—and read as it
had been suggested with the blessing of God, looking upward
for the teaching of the Divine Spirit—and the more we might
hope Christians would be united together. (Hear.) He
could not but forget that amid the apparently multiplying
controversies, and the increasing earnestness and zeal of
those controversies, rea6Christians were more and more in
unity together—(hear ;)*.real Christians were more and more
saying " Grace be with rill them that love the Lord Jesus
Christ in sincerity and truth •" more and more determined
that the human name shall be lost, and the name of Christ
magnified and declared ; more and more determined to cease
from man " whose breath is in his nostrils," and cry " Glory
to the lamb that was slain to receive riches, and honour, and
power, and wisdom, and glory, and blessing, and salvation to
our God and the Lamb for ever and ever." (Cheers.) He
felt the great need of this re-union—(applause)—for they had
mighty enemies upon every side raised up against them. Infi-
delity was taking every advantage to multiply its attacks upon
them ; a spirit of lawlessness and insubordination was
raised, and spreading in its efforts and attacks. We lived,
perhaps, upon the surface of a hidden volcano, as many had
justly remarked, at the annual meeting in London; but their
old enemy especially, the Pope of Rome,—(hear, hear)—as
a giant refreshed with nerve, was awakened, and exerting
himself with unequalled and unparallelled activity. It was a
very striking fact, that large societies had been formed
among the Papists—one comparatively of recent formation,
namely, in 1822, raised about £lOO,OOO a year—for the pro-
pagation of popery. (Hear.) Then there was the exertions
of this society throughout Europe, and its revival of the
most abominable corruptions. (Hear.) He had in his hand
a newspaper giving an account of the charge of the Arch-
bishop of Lyons, with the most astounding statements
of the idolatry of Rome. (Hear, hear.) In another
part of the paper there was an astounding description
of the worship paid to the virgin, published in Rome
itself. It was surprising to see how in every part of
Europe the agents of Rome increased in among the open
idolators of the apostacy. When he looked at their exertions

in every society, exertions made with an energy unequalled

in sending forth missions to all the meetings a-all the great
Protestant societies, seeking to mar the work our God had

prepared and blessed among the heathen ; when he looked

again at the exertions of the Papacy in our own land, and con-
nected with this he could not but deeply mourn the spread of

papal principles in our own church--:amodified form of po-
pery, had therein been proposed in direct opposition to the
standard of faith in the established church of this realm,
which it was most grievous to see—how, he asked, was ail
this evil to be met? (Hear.) By rallying round the great
principles of the Protestant reformation, (loud cheers) the
holy bible, the word of God, the only standard, the divine
rule of faith and practice. (Renewed cheering.) Rally round
that standard, and by the grace of God, through divine truth,
we yet trusted to overcome all our enemies—nay, by their
very attacks to be quickened and roused and animated to
more exertions, and to more devoted zeal for Him who has
bought us with his blood. (Hear.) He could not but feel
confident that the Bible Society had now special claims upon
us. Let infidelity, let popery, let lawlessness, let tractariati-
ism, let every form of error only lead us more and more to a
bold confession of that precious sufferer who has redeemed
us with his blood, and to an entire devotedness of heart to

him that communeth with all who live with him in sincerity

and truth ! (Cheers.) The resolution was then carried.
The Rev. JOHN KELLY moved the next resolution, which
thanked the passed officers for their services, and re-elected
them. He grounded his attachment to this society op two
points, the first of which was the principle which it distinctly

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regarded, of the sufficiency of the scriptures, and next upon
the unequivocal testimony there had been given of the
practical good results from its operations.
The Rev. Dr. BYRTII seconded the resolution, and it was
unanimously adopted. _

Thanks were then voted to the Chancellor for presiding,
in reply to which he expressed his convictions of the great
utility of the society, after which the meeting separated.

The anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Association for
184.1 has been fixed to take place at Southampton.
A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against
Edward Thomas and his wife, for the double murder by
poison at Laleston, Glamorganshire.
NEW MAGISTRATILS.—Fifty-eight gentlemen have been
added to the commission of the peace for the West Riding of
loi k shire.

The Rev. Sydney Smith, who it seems is one among the
innumerable sufferers by the bad faith of the repudiating
States of the American Union, has published an address to
the Congress at Washington, in which he sets forth in pecu-
liarly forcible language the infamy and fatal consequences of
such conduct, not only in a pecuniary, but in a moral and
political sense.
DEATH FROM A FIGHT.—The death of a man named
Charles Ferguson, a bookbinder, in the employ of Mr.
Whewell, of Little Bolton, was occasioned on Monday, the
Bth instant, by that brutal mode of fighting for which Lan-
cashire, especially that part of it, has been so long signalised.
At the coroner's inquest a verdict of " manslaughter" was
returned against four persons, and they were committed for
trial at the assizes.

-'‘,The experiment of an "elephant-battery" has been suc-
cessfully tried at Dum-Dum. Elephants have now, for some
vearF.R, been used with the guns in Assam, Sylhet, and Arra-
can, where they have been found most efficient, and are pre-
ferred to any other description of draught cattle. Their
application to ordinance draught is considered a great im-
provement, and they may be expected to completely super-
sede bullocks in Bengal, Assam, and all the adjacent districts,
or in fact wherever artillery is required in jungly or mountain
country.

IMPORTANT SALES.—Our pages to-day exhibit, both in
quality and in quantity, sales beyond anything that it has
ever been our good fortune before to announce to our nu-
merous and wealthy readers. The lauded property alone
approaches in value one Million sterling, and its eligibility is
EU intelligibly stated, that we will not weaken Mr. Robins's
arguments by any observations of our own. In pursuing this
splendid list of property, its variety will be as apparent as its
intrinsic worth. The estate of the Earls of Ducie and Berners
alone are estimated, with the timber, at half a million of
money. Then comes the North Mymms Park Estate, so
long in the enjoyment of Alderman Heygate, with an Eliza-
bethan mansion worthy of an emperor, and a park of 1,000
acres of land. With these three estates Mr. Robins seems
to entertain no doubt that three scats in parliament will
necessarily follow. Next we perctive, in Scotland he an-
nounces the sale of the two entire islands of Rasay and Rona,
in the Western Hebrides, extending to eighteen thousand
acres. Then he draws rather severely upon those who do
not move at a railway pace, for he invites the speculating
capitalists to a freehold estate in North America, and twenty
thousand acres of finely timbered lands, situate on the east
bank of the mighty Mississippi. This property abounds in
mineral wealth, and will be a secure source of investment,
with most brilliant prospective advantages. Returning to
England, he invites the capitalists, and a little army of sport-
ing gentlemen, to the innumerable seats, with their domains,
in which there will be found field sports to their hearts' con-
tent. Then again some thousands of acres of fertile lands.
" Here verdant pastures wide extended lie,
And yield the grazing herd exuberant supply;
Luxuriant waving in the wanton air,
Here golden grain rewards the peasant's care."
Again, the Weddington Castle, recently inhabited by the
Earl of Hillsborough. The entire freehold estates of John
Winter, Esq., the solicitor to the bank at Acton and Ealing ;
the Orchard Hill Estate, in Bucks; two valuable farms, near
to Billericay, in Essex ; and in Leicestershire, a castle and
2,000 actes of land not far removed from the town. In the
Isle of Wight, Lord Spencer's celebrated marine villa; and
at Bonchurch (at the hack of the island), an Italian villa ; at
Horndean, near to Fareliam station, a snug abode with
parkish grounds; at Cheshunt, the renowned gardens, upon
which it is said £5,000 was consumed by the late N't . Harri-
son, upon the lawn only, in rare exotics;
lie was accounted
the first of botanists: the other villa is in the Elizabethan
style. Then into Kent. the non-pretending abode and grounds
of Lieutenant-Colonel P. W. Belli:: ;—but we must take
leave to pause, or our readers may be fatigued before the task
is half accomplished. Our great surprise arises out of the
circumstance of Mr. Robins's felicity in doing justice to each,
and in such glowing terms, without being fairly charged with
plagiarism ; it really must be a work of labour, and aided by
considerable tact. In conclusion, we promise our monied
readers a treat in the perusal, begging, en passant, they will
not overlook the announcement of the Hon. Mr. Wilson's
extraordinary display of stock, which is upon the Didlington
estate that is to be sold in June (the live stock remains until
September). By the way, we have overlooked Einanuel
Brothers and CO., whose
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