The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

I am, sir, yours respectfully,

JOHN LdNGWORTH.
Toxteth-park, April 2911 t, 1843.
[We are glad to find that our old friends are true to their
colours, but they must be prepared for all sorts of tricks by
the radicals.]

GREAT COMET.—The following[ is an extract from a letter
dated Pernambuco, 18th March, 1813. " A comet has been
visible here for the last three months. On its first appear-
ance it caused a great setisation; we see it every night quite
distinctly."

HYDROPATHY ; OR, THE WATER CURE.—The individual
to whom the world is indebted, as the founder of this new
remedial system, is Vincent Priessnitz, and the place which
has for many years past acquired notoriety by the astonish-
ing cures effected there, and has been visited by the prince,
the peer, and the peasant, is Grafenberg, a distant village in
Austrian Silesia. The benefits of the water cure are now
extended over Europe. The attention of society is now fully
alive to the efficacy of this mode of treatment, which, when
properly applied, has been most eminently successful, (emi-
nently so in ladies' cases,) and, though potent in its opera-
tion, is, when judiciously managed, perfectly harmless.—
County Chronicle.
MANCHESTER UNION MORAL AND INDUSTRIAL TRAIN-
ING SCHOOL.—On Friday the corner stone of this extensive
edifice, situate in the township of Swinton, was laid by Wm•
Garnett, Esq., High Sheriff. The design of the building is
to make provision, at a distance from the Manchester union
workhouse, for the children for whose accommodation the
house itself is insufficient. The structure will be in the
Elizabethan style of architecture. The front will be 458 feet
in length ; the building will be in the form of a quadrangle,
inclosing a large space which will be occupied as play-ground,
but the total quantity of land is 23 acres, which has been
purchased of the trustees of the townships of Anlezark and
Charnock, for a perpetual ground rent of £250. The centre
of the front elevation will be surmounted by two turrets, and
the appearance of the building, as seen from the high road,
from which it is distant about 50 yards, will be very elegant.
It is intended to accommodate 1500 children in the first in-
stance, and will be constructed so as to be easily capable of
enlargement, to the extent of accomodating 2300. The cost
of the superstructure will be about £lB,OOO exclusive of the
foundations which are already in. The building will comprise
school-rooms for boys and girls and for infants, with class
and lecture-rooms, and dining-rooms adjoining; also various
workshops, where different trades will be taught,—the object
of the guardians being to give each of the children the rudi-
ments of a trade, in connection with so much literary in-
struction, as will cause them to be readily taken out as
apprentices or domestic servants. In the back part of the
building will be infirmaries, fever-wards, and other rooms for
the reception of the sick, with rooms for the medical officers.
The great dining hall be nearly in the centre of the building,
surrounded by the various domestic apartments, and entered
by several doors. On the ground floor will be rooms for
working, and all the necessary apparatus. The dormitories
will occupy the upper story.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER RACES,

FRIDAY

The ROODEE HANDICAP STAKES of £lO each, h ft, if de-
clared before twelve o'clock on the day of the race ; 50
added ; for three-yr-olds that have run during the week ;
from the two mile post in.

8 4 Mr. F. R. Pric's Colin Clink
8 2 Capt. Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus ..
7 10 Mr. Worthington's Ilooton
6 I'2 Mr. Rawcliffe's ch c Bizarre—Esperance.... Ebdale 4
Even on the winner ; won in a canter by two lengths.
The PALATINE STAKES of 450 each, b ft, for three-yr-old
colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Bst 21b; to start at the Castle-
pole, go once round, and finish at the coming-in chair.
Off by consent.
The CIIESIIIRE STAKES of X 25 each, 15ft, and 5 only if de-
clared on or before the Ist Feb., with 50 added ; two miles ;
the second to save his stake. 33 subs, 15 of whom de-
clared, and pay only £5 each.
7 6 Lord Eglinton's Jamie Forest
a fr Mr. Mostyn's br f Irony
7 0 Sir W. Stanley's ch c Vakeel Copeland 3
5 0 Mr. R. Errington's b f Corelia .
Betting : 2 to 1 agst Vakeel, 6 to 5 agst Jamie Forest, and
6to 1 agst Irony. This was a most splendid race, and was
only won by a head ; Vakeel struggled hard, and was only
beaten for second place by a head.
The WIRRAL STAKES of 10 each, with 50 added; for two
and three-years old; two 6st 121 b, three 9st ; two-year-old
course ; half a mile ; the second to save his stake.
Mr. Mostyn's Mandarin, by Velocipede, 3 yrs.... Marlow 1
Capt. Harcourt's Sir Abstrupus, 3 yrs Lye 2
Mr. Osborne's The Heir, 2 yrs
Mr. J. Peck's b c Peter Plirnjey, 3 yrs Templeman 5
Betting: 7 to 4 agst Sir' Astrupus, 7 to 2 agst The Heir,
4 to 1 agst Mandarin, and 4 to 1 against Peter Plimley ; won
by a length easy.

The LADIES' PURSE of £5O, to be run for by forges beaten
during the week ; heats, twice rod the conrse to a heat ;

to start at the coming-in chair; three yrs old qst 121 b, four
Bat 21b, five Bst 181 b, six anti aged list. The second to re-
ceive £lO.
General `Sharpe's ch g Lara, 5 yrs Templeman 1 1
Capt. Harcourt's Arnagill, 5 yrs . •
Sir W. Stanley's b c Pensive, 3 yrs
Lara carried Bst 121 b, Arnagill, Oat 41b, and Pensive 7st.

TiiE COMET.—A letter from St. Petersburgh, of the 11th
of April, says—," Neither here nor at Vulmonia (3), where
the principal obgervato.iy is situated, have our astronomers
been able, with all their efforts, to discover the eery cornet.
It has not been visible in this 'part of the empire, though at
several places in Southern li.ussi'a It was discernible by toe
naked eye (that is to say the tail) as far back as the month of
February, whenever the state of the atmosphere permitted.
As for the nucleus, it could no,t be seen without the aid of a
telescope,"

TIIE F4prQny drip,.—Dtwir,wrgna CHuncHNEN•
—The real cause of the disagreement lietwoen the Legisla-
ture and the Dissenters, is, that these two parties regard the
question from two entirely different points of view. The
Government, having inquired into the matter by the agency
of a body of intelligent commissioners, has become ac-
quainted with a state of things which all public men declare
to be fraught with the greatest danger to the State. It there-
fore declares, with the concurrence of Parliament, and of
the nation at large, that immediate measures for the removal
or alleviation of the evil must and shall be taken. The Dis-
senters, on the other hand, look less at the feartlfustl ascertained
deficiency, than they do at their own doings in reduction of
that deficiency. They see that a good and efficient and per-
weakeny.abs by the State, fn
and reduce, if not utterly destroy, Mliny of Aor inevitably
schools. And their funduess for
.t4eir ?feu doings renders
them blind to the great natiqual gain, which will accrue from
increased gad really suflieleat provision,

sioctm vent pRoMOTIN6 CH itieTIANITY

AAIONG THE JEWS.

The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Irish Auxiliary to
this truly interesting society was held in the
'Tuesday.i
Dublin Rotun-
da, on 'Tuesday. The room was crowded n every part by
Otto of the largest and most respectable assemblies we have
ever seen in the Rotunda, and the deepest Interest was ma-
nifested by the entire meeting in the
proceedings.
The Dean of Clogher and Archdeacon of Derry, and seve-
ral clergymen addressed the meeting, but we have only room
for the following abbreviated report of the speech of the Rev.
THOMAS NOLA N, of this town. He said,-1t is not among
the least remarkable features of the present time, the increas-
ing interest awakened in the minds and hearts of Christians
towards Jerusalem and the dispersed Judah. It is full of
good hope and encouragement; and even though Ow il rizon
lowers, and danger seems to threaten, the thought of this bids
the Christian " thank God and take courage." God is faith-
ful who 'lath promised, and his word is, " They shall prosper
that love thee—blessed is he that blesseth thee." The great
object of Christian doctrine is to set forth the glory, the cha-
racter, and the will of God, and of Christian duty to promote
that glory, to emulate that character, and fulfil that will; the
sole depository where the record of God's will and the rule
of man's duty.is to be found is the inspired word, the Holy
Bible ; this is profitable equally for doctrine and for instruc-
tion in righteousness; and just so far as we are practically
penetrated by the power of that word, is God's will accom-
plished concerning us; and his will is our sanctification--so
our Lord prays for his people, " Sanctify them through thy
truth, thy word is truth." Now, it is plain from this prin-
ciple—which it would have been a pleasing and a profitable
task to expound more fully—that the value and importance
of every question, in the eye of a Christian, must be eseimated
by its tendency to acquaint us with the mind of God, by
bringing us fully and frequently in contact with his word.
In this respect we are bold to claim for the Jewish nation and
question a noble pre-eminence above all others; a depth of
intense interest clings to the Jew, that we look for in vain
elsewhere. Looking back to the very earliest period, we find
the Jews—for "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord"
Throughout the entire history, fulfilled or unfulfilled, of the
church, they are not lost sight of ; for " though I make a full
end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will
I not make a full end of thee ;" and at the very end the glo-
rious promise is reserved and secure for them, " I will make
of thee an eternal excellency and a lay of many generations."
So that, in turning your attention to the patient and prayer-
ful study of the Jewish Scriptures, and bespeaking your ac-
tive sympathies in behalf of the Jewish cause, we do most
effectually promote your own growth in grace and in know-
ledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, inasmuch as to the Israelites
"pertaineth the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the ser-
vice of God, and the promises—whose are the fathers, and of
whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all,
God blessed for ever." The record of their polity is the
hook of God, the charter of their hopes is the covenant of
God : to love them is to be like God, for they are graven on
the palms of his hands; they are beloved for the fathers'
sakes. To labour Ito do them good is to bring down a bles-
sing from God on ourselves, our church, and our country,
since " they shall prosper that love thee." The indirect col-
lateral advantages consequent upon a warm devotedness to
the cause of Israel, are both numerous and important—that
already alluded to, for instance, our being thereby familiarized
so much with the word of God ; and, beside this, the best
light at which to study the page of Eternal Truth is that
caught from the brightness of Israel's destiny. This is the
master-key to unlock most of the difficulties of Scripture; it
is the master-chord with which some of the sweetest and ho-
liest strains of Scripture are accurately in tune. These mo-
tives (and they are neither few nor weak,) are wholly exter-
nal to the subject itself—they consist of the advantages ac-
cruing to ourselves from the adoption and furtherance of the
Jewish cause ; whereas the claims of any cause, or society,
must rest upon their own intrinsic merit. (Hear, hear.)
The Jewish question is one purely of prophecy ; the subject
matter of it is simply the Word of God; the prominency as-
signed to the Jewish nation in that word—" Ye are my wit-
nesses," saith the Lord—is applicable to that nation, alike in
its spreadings over the past, its present calamitous dispersion,
and in its vast and glorious predicted outstretchings into
futurity. With this question tire Jewish society, as such,
has no concern. It sends the Gospel to the Jews as to
poor sinners perishing for lack of knowledge; and any pe-
culiarity in this society, from an ordinary missionary society,
arises not from any difference in the objects aimed at,
but from the pesuliarity of the people, the objects of its
solicitude, who require missionaries peculiarly trained, and as
well furnished men of God, as are required for any other por-
tion of the Lord's vineyard. The Jewish question has to do
with the nation, Israel, and Judah, the ten tribes as well as
the two. The society is in quest of the " remnant according
to the election of grace," gathered out of Judah alone, and
his companions of the house of Israel. The great things,
which are most surely believed by many of us engaged in this
holy work, and looked forward to as the bright points of hope
for this interesting people, are not to be accomplished by the
agency of man. The tide of second causes seems certainly
now beginning' to flow towards Jerusalem: the sons of the
strangers may be said even now to be building her walls, but
their glorious conversion must be the direct work of the Lord
himself. lie wilt restore all things—the kingdom of Israel
included His spirit will be poured out of grace and of sup-
plication upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. This is not a society for the accomplishment
of prophecy—the Lord will hasten His own work, in his own
time, " even so Lord Jesus come quickly—amen." But,
while he tarries, the Jewish society seeks, like a faithful ser-
vant, to fulfil the Lord's command—preach the Gospel to
every creature, "beginning at Jerusalem."—(Hear, hear,
and applause.) This distinction 'tis important to make,
equally for the society's sake as for our own—first, because
it places the matter on its true basis ; and, secondly, there
are many who, though unable to sympathize with us in our
hopes and views concerning the glory reserved for Jerusalem
at the coming of the Lord Jesus, yet fully concur in acknow-
ledging the duty of sending the Gospel to the Jews now.—
(Hear, hear.) Again, it is of advantage to ourselves also to
realise to our own' minds the hopeless wretchedness of the
unbelieving Jew; for there is danger lest, in contemplating
the grandeur of national pre-eminence designed for him in
the " revealed counsels of the Lord, that chaugeth not," we
may lose sight of the ruin in which he is now involved,
"cast oft' because of unbelief." We must all agree in re-
garding the Jew especially as an object of anxious commis-
aeration and tender sympathy to the Christian ; his common
claim as a fellow-creature belonging to the family of fallen
man, is surely not weakened by his special claim as a Jew,
to whom " pertaineth the adoption." Every motive by
which we are exhorted to bring the tidings of great joy with-
in reach of the Heathen, apply as forcibly to the case of the
Jew, nay, more—are fearfully enhanced by the recollection of
the privileges which he still continues to neglect and despise.
His great advantage and profit above other nations was, that
" unto him were committed the oracles of God." To this
day he professes to reverence and to be guided by these
oracles, but, alas! he is blind to their contents. The yell is
upon his heart when Moses is read : he cannot find Him, of
whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, for the
spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. He has light
enough to aggravate fearfully his responsibility, but riot
enough to secure his salvation. He has the words of salva-
tion in his hands, but, like the Athopian eunuch, he under-
stands not what he reads, and with him may reply to us,
" How can 1, except some man should guide me ?" Oh !
dear brethren, here is a great claim upon us to send some
Philip, to go near and speak unto him, " that through your
out into the
mercy he may obtain mercy." This is truly the object of
this society, and a glorious object it is, to go
byways to seek the lost ones of the house of Judah, and to
speak to them words whereby they may be saved ; to take
them to their own Scriptures, and out of those same Scrip-
tures to preach unto them Jesus and the resurrection—ex-
horting them to repent, to be converted, and to be baptized.
It was thus we were dealt with ourselves by the ancestors
of those Jews, the first preachers of the word : it was in this
spirit of compassionating love our blessed Redeemer (him.
self a Jew) went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, to be-
stow peace and blessing upon the poor Syrophceniciau woman,
as the first fruits of the Gentiles. So he commanded his
apostle St, Peter to go down from Joppa to Cresarea,nothing
doubting : to him had been committed the keys of the king-
dom of Heaven : with the Jewish key he opened up the Gos-
pel on the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem—and now he is
sent down with the Gentile key to Cornelius, to open a door
of mercy unto him, since God had granted to the Gentiles
repentance unto life. The middle wall of partition is broken
down. The Gospel was thenceforth to be the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth it—first, doubtless, to
the Jew : but, also, though after, to the Greek : and so the
Apostles testified both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith to our Lord Jesus Christ.
—(Hear.) The case is now reversed : we, who were not a
people, now are a people. These are the times of the Gen-
tiles : God is still visiting us to take of us a people for His
name. Jerusalem is still trodden down. Behold, therefore,
the goodness and severity of God—they were cast off because
of unbelief; and we stand by faith—we walk by faith—we
live by faith. Faith works by lore, as Christ also loved us
—and love keeps his commandments. " Preach the Gospel,
beginning at Jerusalem," is still unrepealed—" Blessed is
he that blesseth thee,": is still unrecalled. Now is an oppor-
tunity, and so we read, even so have those also now not
believed that through your mercy they may obtain mercy.
The sympathy of the Lord Jesus is still undiminished to-
wards them : they are beloved still for their father's sake :
his bowels of compassion still yearn towards them as when
he wept over Jerusalem, and mourned over her approaching
. He wills us to speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and
:o seek to do her good.--s(Hear, hear.)

The body of Mr. E. V. Busfield, who was unfortunately
lately drowned near Dlackvvall, was found on Thursday last
about n mile and three quat ters from where the melancholy
accident took place. The coroner's jury, on view of the
body, found a verdict of accidental death.
DISASTER AT CAMDEN .TOWN.—On Wednesday evening,
about seven o'clock, the neighbourhood of Camden-town was
thrown into consternation by the following distressing cir-
curnstance:—Mr. T. Hall, about 40 years of age, upholsterer,
of 3, Stucley-terrace (near Mother Redcap's), was lying ill
in his chamber of brain fever. Being delirious, he attempted
to leap out of the window, two stories above the shop. His
brother tried to prevent the leap, but was immediately felled
to the floor by the unhappy maniac, who speedily accom-
plished his purpose. He was picked rip frotn'the pavement,
with nothing on but his nightshirt, by a workman, in whose
arms he expired in about three minutes after. Deceased has
left a wife, but no 'family.

MURDISItS AT SUNDERLAND.—On Tuesday an extraordi-
nary sensation was produced at Sunderland, by the following
William Ferry, a seaman,
tragical occurrence. had been for
some time confined in the Gateshead Lunatic Asylum. o,l\
Saturday he contrived to make his c.4eape, an'tl aivi,ved at
home on- Monday. 11 isfatoily consisted of hiMSelf, his w i;e,
and five children, three of lipin only were in the house
on the night Of Tnesday\ vi 4., :javah Anne (the eldest) about
seventeen years of age, Viliiam, aged nine years, and Han-
nah, a child nine months old ; there was also a youth named
Duncan, who lodged in the house. The children went to bed
at their usual hour, and the wife did not entertain any doubts
of her own or their safety, for a neighbour who was in the
house about nine o'clock, and suspecting the man's insanity
proposed to remain in the house during the night, but the
poor woman thought there was no necessity for this v\-ecatt-
tion, and accordingly she left soon afturwrcis. ' The house
consists only of two room i in tile Wont room the wife slept
in a camp bed with her daughter, and in a desk bed were
the nun: boy and Duncan ; in the hack room Ferry was to
sleep. About twelve o'clock the little boy was awakened
by hearing his father beating his sister over the head with a
tire shovel, which very speedily killed her, her head being
fractured in a shocking manner. Not a word passeti between
them that he heard. Whilst this was geinq on Mrs. Ferry
awoke, and alive to the awful nature c. of
1 her situation, jumped
out of bed and attempted to escape, probably to call the
woman above referred to; but her Maniac husband pursued
her, and when she was at the top of the stairs, he threw a
water skeal at her, which hit her over the face, and she in-
stantly fell. He then took up a
log of wood about ten inches
long, mid six or seven inches in diameter, with which lie beat
her head, as if in the act of beating a substance to powder,
and for the purpose of more effectually_ finishing the work
he used a fire poker. She of course immediately expired
under these repeated and furious blows. About the time of
her death, Duncan (who during this interval had got out of
the house) succeeded in arousing the neighbours, and some
of them with the police were speedily in the house, and the
author of this sad tragedy was seeure4.zknd taken to the
Monkwearmouth police statittn, vill'c.'re he raved all the day.
The youngest ciiild ewaped uninjured, and the boy named
William was allowed to remain a spectator of the murder
of his mother anid the child, his father promising not to hurt
him because his name was NVilliann• In the evening a coro-
ner's inquest was held and the jury returned a verdict of
" wilful murder" against the unfortunate man.