The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-14 00:00:00

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the funds provided by the proposed bill are to be paid
out of the poor-rates) is to furnish the means for sec-
tarian education of the people, we know not what else
it can mean; and how consistent and modest a request
for the admirers of the voluntary system, in religion
and in education !

In conclusion, we must implore the attention of the
friends of the Church of England, and of a national
system of religious education, to be alive to their duty,
at a crisis and upon a question so important. Whilst

dissenting congregations, in every village and hamlet

throughout the kingdom, are carrying on a systematic
and combined warfare against the proposed measure of
Sir James Graham—a measure the most generally sa-
tisfactory of any which has ever been proposed to
meet the educational and religious destitution of the
rising generation; and which, it is evident, is to be the
root from which further aids to the promotion of the
moral well-being of the empire is to spring—it is surely
fitting that the Church of England should make her
voice heard, in a temperate and yet earnest appeal to

government, to resist the torrent which is being
directed against the cause of truth which is in its
hands. We trust that such an appeal will at length be
made ; that the apathy which binds us will be thrown
off;—and we know of no quarter from which the
example can be more powerfully set than from the
clergy and the tried and trusty champions of religious
education in our own town /

LOCAL NEWS

The following vessels hailing
from this port we perceive appear in the list of the Thames
Yacht squadron :—Mermaid, 25 tons, Dr. Grindrod ; Queen
Bess, 30 tons, J. W. Haselhurst, Esq.; Sea Gull, 25 tons,
H. Melling, Esq.

TIIKMES YACHT CLUE

Snip LAuNCTI.—To-morrow (Saturday) will be launched,
from the building-yard of Messrs. Humble and Milcrest,
Barrack-street. North-shore, a splendid ship, intended for
the East India trade. For beauty of model, internal fittings,
and solidity of workmanship, she cannot be surpassed.
DUDITFE'S ADAM AND EVE.—These splendid paintines.
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which have
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e last six weeks exhibit,

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ay nig

flue to draw crowds of
t, 13,079 persons had

of the town—" Modern Florence,"

Mr. Haydon calls it

The following are the losses from fire in warehouses, since
the establishment of the Fire-police, a period of seven years
and a half :

In district A £659.530
„ C 110,911
„ B 21,275

£791,716

THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT WESTERN.—The directors of
the steam-ship Great Western posted up a notice in the
News-rooms, on Tuesday, stating that their vessel will not
sail from this port, as previously advertised, on the 15th, but
on the 29th ; and that her future sailings to and from New
York would also be changed. This alteration is rendered
necessary in consequence of her having to go to Milford to
repair—the graving-docks here large enough to take in this
steamer being previously occupied.

SMUGGLING.—On Wednesday last, at the Pollee-court,
the captain of the brig Rival, lying in the Salthouse Dock,
was charged before Mr. Rushton with smuggling a quantity
of cigars. From the evidence of the tide-waiter it appeared
that the captain was taking his chest on shore when he was
requested to allow it to be searched. He stated that he had
lost his keys, when the officer took it to the Inspector, where
it was opened, and two boxes of cigars discovered. He was
remanded until Saturday, to know the desires of the Board

of Customs.
EXTRAORDINARY QUICK PASSAGE

—The John o'Gaunt,

uapt. ttonertson, which arrived at this port on Friday last,
is the first vessel announced from Hong-Kong. She com-
pleted her passage ont and home in 286 days, including her
detention i❑ Hong-Kong and St. Helena, having sailed from

port on the 24th of June last, on her outward passage.
On her homeward passage she sailed from Hong-Kong on
the 22nd December, and from St. Helena on the 20th of
February. The John o'Gaunt is the property of Messrs.
Gladstone and Co., and is one of the handsomest and deci
dedly the finest vessel that adorn our docks. She was built
by Messrs. Wilson and Co., of the North Shore, and every
passage she makes seems to add to her already great celebrity
as a fast sailer.

UTTERING BASE COlN.—Mary Johnson, a respectably-
dressed woman was charged at the Police court, on Tuesday,
with having uttered two base shillings. From theevidence
of an
.assistant to Mr. Acroyd, draper, of Byrom-street, it
appeared that on the 3d of April the prisoner paid to him a
bad shilling in purchasing a hank of silk, which was not dis-
covered until after she left the shop. On Monday last she
came again, and tendered a counterfeit shilling. On her per-
son were found two good shillings. She was committed for
trial at the ensuing sessions.—The same day a man named
Thomas Hughes was also committed for trial for a similar
offence. On his person was found a box.containing sand, a
piece of sand-paper, and some fuller's earth—all materials
used, it was stated, for taking the greasy smoothness off
counterfeit coin.

A CONTRAST.—DISINTERESTEDNESS AND CUPIDITY.—
A splendid snuff box, with the following inscription, has been
presented to a French lieutenant, for his generous disin-
terestedness, with which his crew appeared also to be actuated.
" Presented to Captain Pouthier, commander of the French
marine steam-ship Camelion, by the Shipping Association of
the port of Dartmouth and the owners of the English schooner
Mermaid, as a trifling acknowledgment of his generous con-
duct in gratuitously assisting her into Toulon, when totally
dismasted off that port on the 17th of January, 1842." As
a contrast to the above, I nay state, the Adelaide (r. c.)
towed into our port the British brig Hannah, also dismasted
by being in contact. A claim has been made for £lOOO, for
services performed to their own countrymen. The French
commander, with a noble spirit, as above stated, claims no-
thing.—From a Correspondent.

WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIET .—The services in con-
nexion with the 26th anniversary of the Wesleyan Methodist
Missionary Society for the Liverpool district, commenced on
Sunday last, when sermons were preached in the various
chapels throughout the town by the Rev. P. C. Turner,
Governor of the Theological Institution, Didsbury, and the
Rev. H.. Fish, of London, the deputation from the parent
society ; also by the Rev. T. Dove, Superintendent of the
Missions in Sierra Leone; thc Rev. Dr. Raffles, the Rev.
A. E. Farrerrthe Rev. T. Hargreaves, and the Rev, J. H.
James. The annual meeting was held in Brunswick Chapel
on Tuesday evening, the building being crowded to excess.
Richard Matthews, Esq., was called to the chair. The
report announced an increase in the income of the past year
to the amount of £159. 18s. 6d. The resolutions were
moved and seconded by the Revs. H. Fish, J. Kelly, J.
Caughey, G. Osborne, and Thomas Dover. The Rev. Mr.
Farrer stated, that he had received a letter enclosing the sum
of £2O, and the Rev. Mr. Caughey announced the receipt of
£l5 from a lady. The sums in the missionary boxes
amounted to £22. ss. Ild.
DARING BURGLARY—FORTUNATE ARREST OF THE
ROI3BERS.—On Monday morning last, as police constable
No. 95 was on duty near Fontenoy-street, he observed two
young men whose appearance was somewhat suspicious.
He questioned them, when, from the evasive answers they
gave, he took them into custody. On one of the prisoners,
who had but that morning been discharged from prison after
twelve months' confinement, were found three keys, two to-
bacco boxes (one a new one), a punch, and other articles.
One of them was wearing a coat, which being much too large,
was suspected to have been stolen. Shortly after six o'clock
on Tuesday morning information was received at the police-
station, that a tobacconist's shop in Great Charlotte-street
had been entered during the night, and a variety of articles
stolen therefrom, amongst which were the coat, punch, and
other things
things found on the prisoners. One of the keys also
dsnuff,
cigars, the door of the shop. A large quantity of
g and other articles, were removed, and.were afterwards
discovered concealed in William Henry-street. The pri-
soners ners made but a lame defence, and were committed to take
theirs trials at the next assizes.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.--A meeting. of
Shareholders in the London and Brighton Railway took place
vester,
day at one o'clock, at the Clarendon-rooms " on"

(as stated in the advertisement) important business connec-
ted with the Company. The meeting was but slenderly at-
tended owing to the shortness of the notice and an adjourn-.
ment to a fature convenient early day was at first suggested,
and Concurred in; but with a view to the better information
of the shareholders, a chairman was appointed, Mr. Brockle-
ba,
and Mr. Alderman W. Earle entered into a brief
p,
onkl.inatlon of the objects he had in view in calling them to.
s—etrli'cr. They had had, he said, a full meeting on a previous
l occasion for the purpose of having certain clauses introduced
into the bill now before parliament, and which the Directors

in London objected to ; but they (the•shareholders here)
were successul, and they had now to choose ten di-
rectors in place of twenty-four, as originally on the bill.
The business of the company would be well done, if
they elected ten good, able and competent men, and let.
them work it out in their own way. He bad prepared
the few resolutions he held in his hand, previous to his seeing
the article in the London Times, of Saturday last, on the
subject, which coincided with his own opinion, and these he
had purposed to submit had the meeting been as numerous
as was desirable. He should, however, read them. [Mr.
Earle here read the resolutions. They were to the effect that
it was of importance to the interests of the Company, that
efficient directors should be elected at the meeting to be
called for that purpose, after the passing of the act now in
oroeress through parliament ; that that object could only be

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attained by a cordial co-operation of the proprietors in plac-
ing their proxies in the hands of one or more individuals to
act for them at the meeting, atter making the requsite en-
quiries ; and, finally, that a person or persons named shall
he appointed to attend the meeting, and to take such measures
in the interim as might be deemed necessary for securing the
objecilhe proprietors had in view.] After some conversation
relative to the manner of procuring the proxies, the Chairman
said that he should himself like to see the gentlemen who had
before acted for them in London again appointed as a depu-
tation—namely, Mr. Earle and Mr. Chorley. The meeting
intimated their approbation.—Mr. Earle said he was ho-
noured by the compliment, but he rather thought he would
not be in the country at the time; and it was still more pro-
bable that Mr. Chorley would also be absent, as he had gone
to Paris. It was desirable to appoint a deputation to be in
readiness to act at the next general meeting, which would
take place in a few weeks; for the bill had already passed
the House of Commons, and would go through the Lords
rapidly, as it would not be opposed.—After a concurrent
opinion being expressed that some gentleman or gentlemen
be appointed to go to London who would feel truly
interested in the welfare of the shareholders generally, and
advert:sing the next meeting, the purpose in view
should in
uu'ildd be specifically stated, to induce a larger attendance of
the shareholders, it was agreed to adjourn the meeting, for
the objects stated, until that day week—Thursday next.
The meeting then separated.