The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

LATEST FROM DUBLIN.

THE INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT.-SUS
PENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.

No outbreak has as yet taken place in Ireland ; indeed
the utmost tranquillity prevails; but in that country a
lull is always open to suspicions. Silence is the most
dangerous element of Irish agitation. So far the appre-
hensions of disturbance are confined to Dublin. Orders
have been given to seize all arms imported into Dublin.
It is notorious that neither rifle, pistol, or any other fire-
arm is to be seen in the shop windows, having all been
sold. The general impression is that the provinces are
not yet ripe for an outbreak ; and that until the provincia
clubs are more widely extended the rebels will make no
hostile demonstration. In Cork, however, there was some
excitement when the intelligence arrived that that city
had been proclaimed.
The announcement of Lord John Russell's intention to
apply to parliament for additional powers to crush insur-
rection in Ireland, reached Dublin, by electric telegraph,
early in the forenoon of Saturday, and had a thunderbolt
fallen upon the city it could not have created greater dis-
may or terror. Full time was it to resort to the extreme
measure shadowed forth in the Premier's notice of motion,
and that not another instant is to be lost will be made
tolerably clear by a perusal of the manifestoes—it would be
childishness to call them newspaper articles—put forward
in the felon journals of last Saturday. They are "open
and advised" declarations of war, and nothing less. Mr.
Duffy, Mr. Martin, Mr. Lalor, and Mr. Brenan, with their
signatures appended to those blood-breathing documents,
tell the people that the hour has conic for striking the blow;
that the 40,0e0 military composing, the Irish garrison roust
be slaughtered ; that they (the people) are to be stigma-
tized as cowards for evermore, should they neglect the
present opportunity to obliterate British dominion in
Ireland. All this, and even more desperate advice, is
given by the accredited leaders of the movement, so that
there is no choice left ; the crisis cannot be much longer
averted. With such undiluted treason as flows through-
the columns of the Nation and Felon it is difficult to know
where to begin or where to stop. Mr. Gavan Duffy, as
the senior journalist, is, perhaps, entitled to precedence ;
and here is an extract from one of his appeals to arms :

" Rise, then, men of Ireland, since Provi,lence so wills
it. Rise in your cities and your fields, on your hills, in
your valleys, by your dark mountain passes, by your
rivers and lakes and ocean-washed shores ! Rise as a na-
, tion ! England has dissevered the bond of allegiance.
Rise—not now to demand justice from a foreign kingdom,
but to make Ireland an independent kingdom for ever.
It is no light task God has appointed you. It is a work
of trial and temptation. Oh ! be stedfast in the trial—
be firm to resist the temptation. You have to combat
injustice, therefore you must yourselves be just. You
have to overthrow a despot [power; but you must estab-
lish order, not suffer anarchy. Remember it is not against
individuals or parties or sects you wage war, but against
a system. Down with it—down with it, even to the
ground; but show mercy to the individuals who are but
the instruments of that system. You look round upon
the land—your own land—trodden down and trampled
and insi Led, and on a persecuted and despairing people.
* * * Act as if ycur soul's saNation hung on each deed—
and it will, for we stand already within the shadows of
eternity. For us is the combat; but not for us, perhaps,
the triumph. Many a noble heart will lie cold, mans- a
throbbing pulse be stilled, ere the cry of ' Victory' will
arise. It is a solemn thought, that now is the hour of
destiny when the fetters of seven centuries may at last be
broken—and by you, men of this generation—by you,
men of Ireland ! You are God's instruments ; many of
you must ne freedom's martyrs. Oh ! be worthy of the
name ; and as you act as men, as oatriots, and as Chris-
tians, so will the blessing rest upon your head when you
lay it down a sacrifice for Ireland upon the red battle
field."

His letter is dated " Newgate Prison." His brother
felon, John Martin, is equally intelligible. He says,
" My advice is, shortly, that you stand to your arms.
Stand to your arms ! * * Stand firm and yield not an
inch of ground to the threat and the rage of our alarmed
tyrants. Let them menace you with the hulks or the
gibbet for daring to speak or write your love to Ireland.
Let them [threaten to mow you down with grape shot,
as they: have massacred your kindred with famine and
plague. Spurn their brutal ' acts of Parliament'—trample
upon their lying proclamations—fear them not 1 The
work you have undertaken is to overthrow and utterly
destroy English dominion in Trcland. That work must
be done. It must be done at any risk, at any cost, at any
sacrifice. Though hundreds of us be torn from our
families, and free air, to be shut up in the enemy's
dungeons or sent in chains to his felon islands—though
thousands of us be butchered by the enemy's cannon and
bayonets, cur streets and native fields be purpled with
our blood—never shall the struggle for Irish freedom
cease but with the destruction of that monstrous system
of base and murderous tyranny, or with the utter exter-
mination of the Irish people. Oh, dear countrymen !
let not your hearts quail at the sight of the enemy's pre-
parations—of 40,000 human machines arranged with their
weapon's of death to butcher you on your own land for
the crime of loving your own land. Stand to your arms
resist to the death ! Better a hundred thousand bloody
deaths than to leave Ireland another year .disarmed,
cowed, and defenceless to the mercy of that fiendish des-
potism."
Mr. J. F. Laic)'r calculates that " there are 40,000 sol-
diers in Ireland, and the question is, how best and soonest
to kill and capture these 40,000 men ?" He would take
the time " when the full harvest of Ireland shall be stacked
in the haggards. Wherefore, let us fight in September, if
we may—but sooner, if we must. Who thaws first blood
for Ireland ? Who wins a wreath that will be green for
ever ?"

Another letter is from the pen of a man who, at meet-
ing held on Saturday week, proposed a resolution to the
effect that the outbreak should bo commenced that week,
but -the motion was lost by a majority of one only.
Although the meeting in question was limited to twenty-
one persons, each holding a responsible situation in the
rebel counsels, the government was in full possession of
their " secret" intentions on the following day. This man
says that if the clubs shrink, " the slaves' portion will be
theirs. Let the coffin-maker's heart be merry, for his
trade will shine. Will not the land be rich and produce
great harvests for luxury when the bones of the poor
manure it ? These things will be if you strike not. Now,
then, or never! Now, and for ever! I think we had
better front our fate at once, and be free in death, if we
cannot live in freedom."

The greatest excitement prevails throughout the district
extending from Carrick-on-hub., in the county of Water-
ford, to Clonmel, in the South Riding of Tipperary. The
club organisation all along is quite complete ; and after
the metropolis, this is the only quarter in which immedi-
ate danger is apprehended. Mr. Meagher has arrived in
Dublin from Waterford. It is said Mr. Smith O'Brien
has taken wing and retreated to Wexford.
It is said that four regiments will be encamped in Phoe-
nix Park. Already the troops are daily exercised in pitch-
ing and striking tents &c.
The severest scrutiny is exercised in granting licenses
for arms. No license is to be granted to any person to
hold any large quantity of arms, or who has not a legiti-
mate use for them, and in no case are licenses to be
granted to young men to keep arms who merely want them
for amusement.

Hyland. the Dublin pike maker, has put out his fire and
transferred his anvil and other apparatus to a southern
county, free from the incumbrance of a Government
proclamation.

BIRMINGHAM MANUFACTURE AT COURT.—A magni-
ficent chimney-piece, grate, and fender, en suite, of an
entirely new mcde of manufacture, made for his Highness
Abbas Pacha, were submitted to Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, by Mr. H.
Room, of Birmingham.
THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.—We have so long enjoyed
peace, subordination, and security in this happy island,
that young, or even middle-aged men, do not remember
the day when the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended
within the realm of England. But the student of consti-
tutional history and the well-informed lawyer are both
aware that such suspension has taken place more than half-
a-dozen times within a century, and generally, if not
always, with the happiest effects, and with no destruction
or permanent diminution of public liberty in England.
Even within the present century, the 31 Charles H. has
been twice placed in abeyance, and were John Horne
Tooke, or his pupil, the late Sir Francis Burdett, or John
Gale Jones, to rise individually and collectively from the
tomb, each must admit that such suspension—far from
inflicting a wound on public liberty—only tended to pre.
serve and foster that greatest blessing.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BLOW OP A HOUSE AT SHEF-
FIELD.—On Friday, Mrs. Marples, the wife of a joiner's
tool maker, in Hermitage-street, Sheffield, 'was aroused
from her slumbers by a loud explosion, accompanied with
the smashing of window glass. Slie immediately jumped
out of bed, and took her children up, when she saw a
flame shoot through the aperture in the window shutters.
Having alarmed her brother, who was
,sleeping in an
adjoining room, they went to the front and shouted
" murder ! The night watchman immediately repaired
to the place, when he found three men running away.
He .chased them, and, having laid hold of one, the other
two came up, knocked the watchman down, and rescued
his prisoner. Upon getting in frontof the premises three -
ginger beer bottles, charged with powder, were found
lying on the ground, and about two pounds of strong
blasting powder. The glass in the window was broken,
and it was quite apparent that only bottle had ex-
ploded, and that had fortunately nefarfejt the; bed!.
room, on account of the window-shunexerrye.g,Ta4lal4
closed. Had the three bottles etiteponle..oilldint;
exploded, every person therein mu,Kitlial' 7.4nefthlown to
pieces. Some time back, the fz.pg,t?.r etitigLYi the
same person was destroyed by an - ', •
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TUESDAY MORND,TG, JULY 25, 1848.

HER Majesty's ministers have at length sum-
moned the courage to take decisive steps for the
prevention of rebellion in Ireland. At length it is
discovered that arrests which lead to nothing, and
enactments whose penalties may be postponed at
pleasure, whilst those against whom they are di-
rected are allowed to proceed to further and more
daring acts of treason, are worse than idle at such
a crisis as the present. In all probability, before
these remarks are laid before our readers, the ordi-
nary forms of law in Ireland will have been sus-
pended, and the Lord Lieutenant furnished with
powers to deal summarily with the truculent lead-
ers, who have hitherto bearded the Sovereign and
the British nation with impunity,
Much as, in common with all right-minded Eng-
lishmen, we should ever deprecate the too ready
and too frequent resort to measures which are in
violation of constitutional liberty in the abstract,
we cannot, even whilst thanking ministers for the
course upon whichthey have entered, but express our
regret that it has not been taken sooner. For
months the Irish government has been in posses-
sion of information sufficient to have enabled them
to foresee that somethirhvi beyond the ordinary
powers of the law would be required effectually to
put down the insurgent spirit of the Irish people.
They saw, before their very eyes, an extensive con-
spiracy organizing itself for the avowed objects of
plunder and massacre, and preparing itself with
arms and leaders for the conflict. They saw the
materials for a rebel army being moulded in effec-
tive shape, regiments forming and drilling under
the guise of clubs, whose very names are suggestive
of the memory of the worst features of the bloody
and disastrous events of the close of the last cen-
tury. Yet they hesitated. They played with the
infant reptile when they might have crushed him
in his nest. They let him grow unmolested, and
increase his store of venom, until the moment when
he was ready to spring at our throats. A few
months ago they would have had to deal only with
a few desperate ruffians and contemptible adventu-
rers, who incited them for their own venal pur-
poses—with the scum of Conciliation Hall and
Burgh Quay. the rotten excrescences of a dying
imposture. The gentry of Ireland held aloof from
them to a man, and even the bulk of the Roman
Catholic farmers and the industrious peasantry
hung back from their dangerous contact. But
they are not the same powerless faction now.
Terrorism has been allowed to do its work, and has
brought thousands into their ranks, whom a firm
and decided policy on the part of government, ear-
lier resorted to, would have retained in their alle-
giance, and in the pursuit of their ordinary avoca-
tions.

It is too late, however, to canvass the past.
Aggravated as the evil has been by unwise tole-
rance, we have now to grapple with and subdue it.
The gage of battle is thrown down ; and the time
come when, to use the words of the convicted John
Mitchel, "either the Government must put down the
rebel host of Ireland, or submit to be put down
itself." We have no fears with respect to the issue
of the struggle, even should it have to be decided
by the force of arms, which, however, is not as yet
a certainty. Great suffering there must inevitably
be, to be borne chiefly by those who have provoked
the conflict; a sad disorganisation of society must
take place, attended with a fearful wreck of the
industry of the people; and old feuds must be re-
vived in all their bitterness, which it will take half
a century to heal up again. But.the overwhelming
strength, on the side of loyalty and good order, for-
bids the slightest doubt being entertained as to the
final and speedy result.
Looking dispassionately at Ireland's means and
position, it is only surprising that men can be found
base enough to lead her half-informed masses into
a conflict so hopeless, as the attempt by force to put
down the rule in Ireland of such an Empire as Great
Britain. Leave out of view our military and naval
strength, the vast capital of the British nation, our
power, by blockade of her shores, to isolate her from
all communication with the rest of the human race,
and, for a time, to blot out her name, as it were, from
the map of the world—and what more terrible fate
could befal Ireland than to be left to herself, to the
rule of her own lawless midnight legislators and as-
sassins ? Great Britain possesses, amongst the Irish
people themselves, a force, of power enough to hold
Ireland without a single British soldier or sailor
being called upon to take a part in the contest. The
Protestant population of Ulster alone might be de-
pended upon to suppress a rebellion in that country,
were its strength tenfold more imposing than that
of the present threatened outbreak ; and none know
the fact better than some of the Rev. and other agi-
tators, who are inciting the ignorant masses to this
mad attempt. As it is, there may be a few hours
or days of butchery and pillage in the streets of
Dublin, and a few other large towns, to be succeeded
by the horrors of a guerilla warfare, carried on by the
peasantry from the mountain fastnesses, and other
places of natural strength or security from detection,
until at last, starved out, or betrayed by their villain
associates, they will be handed over to the civil
powers to be dealt with as traitors. But that rebel-
lion in Ireland can ever make a stand sufficient to
entitle it to be treated with, or to afford ground for
the shadow of a hope of success, is one of the most
preposterous absurdities ever nursed in a lunatic's
brain.

The Roman Catholics of this town have resolved to
erect a school for poor girls, on the convent ground, in
Mount Vernon, under the care of the Sisters of Mercy,
as a testimonial to the worth of the late Dr. Youens.
The Britannia steamer arrived at Liverpool on Wed-
nesday, bringing New York papers to the sth and Halifax
to the 7th instant. The news received is not of a very im-
portant character.
A NOBLE EXAMPLE.—The late John Wellstood, Esq.,
of this town, bequeated the following liberal legacies, free
of legacy duty :—The Liverpool Infirmary, £100; the
Blue Coat Hospital, £100; the School for the Blind,
£lOO ; Northern and Southern, £lOO ; Easter Dispensary,
£5O ; Liverpool District Provident Society, £5O.
BIRKENHEAD Docs:s.—These docks now contain a
greater number of vessels than ever has been in them at
one time since they were opened. There are no less than
thirty-one vessels lying in them, many of large burthen.
It is expected the works will shortly be resumed, as it is
confidently anticipated the bill now before the house of
lords will speedily become law.
The silver tankard, played for, on the Aigburth bowl-
ng-green. on Thursday, was won by Mr. Mython. The
day was wet and unfavourable, and the attendance more
limited than it would otherwise have been. After the
bowling, the competitors and their friends, to the number
of about one hundred and twenty, sat down to an excel-
lent and sumptuous dinner, served up in a manner which
did great credit to Mr. Prest.
Captain Warren, R.N., late of the Prince of Wales
steamer plying between this port and the -Menai Straits,
has been appointed to the command of the Anglia, one of
the splendid new steam-ships intended for the Dublin and
Holyhead station, in connexion with the Chester and
Holyhead railway. Capt. Warren has been on the B3au-
maris station for the last live years, and during that time
has displayed equal skill as a seaman, and courtesy as
the host and protector of his passengers.
DISTRICT COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—On Wednesday,
Mr. John Tomkinson, builder, passed his final examina-
tion without opposition. One of the debts proved was
for £12,000 on a bond on an old parternership transaction
between the late Mr. Grindrod and the bankrupt. Mr.
William Potter, of Birkenhead, also passed his final ex-
amination without opposition. The case of Mr. John
Cheshire, salt merchant, was again entered upon, but
after a long examination it was adjourned sine die with
protection for two months.

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN AND THE
DECLINE IN OUR EXPORTS OF COTTON
MANUFACTURES.

In our publication of the 11th instant, we noticed the
serious decrease in the exports of the country, during the
first five months of 1848, compared with those of the same
months of 1847, as shewn in a return from the Board of
Trade ; and, in particular, directed attention to the item
of cotton manufactures, the exports of which in 1848
were only X 6,895,963 against £7,525,023 in 1847. Our
contemporary the Manchester Guardian, in his publica-
tion of the following day, endeavoured to console his
readers with the expressed belief that no such decline had
taken place in the quantity of the goods exported as might
be inferred by the decrease in the declared value. His
argument was, that whereas a decline of about 25 per
cent. had taken place in the value of the raw material,
cotton, between the two periods, the declared value of the
goods exported would naturally shew a similar decline;
and that, as the returns only exhibited a decrease of about
1] per cent., it was not impossible that there might even
be an increase in the quantity exported.

The publication of Burn's Commercial Glance, giving
the complete return for the two half years, has unde-
ceived our contemporary ; and, in his publication of
Wednesday last, we are glad to find him confessing his
error, and admitting that there had been an actual de-
crease in quantity for the half-year of " about nine per
cent., instead of the equality, or rather the slight increase,
which he should have anticipated from a comparison of
the declared values with the average market prices during
the first five months of the year." In forming this anti-
cipation, however, the Guardian has gone upon false
premises, as to the average market prices of the princip,al
cotton staples having been lower in 1848 than in 1847,
although cotton and yarn were lower in the former. We
find from Burn's Glance, that on the Ist of June, 1847,
the price of 7.8 printers, 27 in. 72, was 5s 40. to ss. 9d.,
whereas the price of the same cloth on the Ist of June,
1848, was ss. 4d. to Gs. 3d. The prices of 9-8 printers,
36 in. 72, were respectively 63. to Gs. 9d. and 6s. 6d. to
7s. 3d. ; and the prices of 40 in. 60 reed shirtim7s, 371
yards, Bs. 1:1d. in 1847 and 9s. 3d. in 1848. The declared
value, theretbre, both of plain and printed calicoes, the
two leading staples, was higher in the latter than in the
previous period.
The result of a close examination would probably shew
the decrease to have been even greater than is shown in
the returns, the quantity shewn by Mr. Burn being kept
up by the substitution of coarser fabrics. Thus we find,
that whereas the falling-off in the shipments of plain cali-
coes—principally the finer fabrics—to India and China
was upwards of 27,000,000 yards, the total decrease in
this article to all countries was only 24,667,409 yards.

The Queen has approved of the appointment of M.
Metaisyer as Consul at Liverpool for the French Republic.
On Thursday, the repealers in this town originated " a
Bermuda Club," in remembrance of Mitchel's exile. A
reporter was present, but he was requested to withdraw.
On Friday a male passenger from Liverpool to Egre.
mont, leaped from the steamer into .the river, but was
picked up by the Seacombe steamer before life was extinct.
CRICKET.—The return match between the gentlemen
of Manchester and those of Liverpool, was played last
week on the ground of the former; but owing to the un-
favourable state of the weather, the match was not played
out.

THE DUBLIN MAIL.—On Monday next the London
mail which is at present despatched from the Dublin Post
office at 20 minutes after six o'clock, and forwarded via"
Liverpool, will be detained till 20 minutes after 9 o'clock,
and then sent off via Holyhead, where it will be con-
sidered due at 2 o'clock the same day, and in London at
5 o'clock the following morninfr. The evening mail from
Dublin to Liverpool remains as at present.
LIVERPOOL AND LANCASHIRE ART-UNION.—The
drawing of the above took place at the Concert Hall, Lord
Nelson-street, yesterday, when upwards of 25 prizes were
distributed, ranging from £1,500, to £lO. The numbers
of the successful candidates, we understand, will appear
in the Times of the 28th instant. Amongst the prizes
are, Rembrandt's well-known picture of the " Ship-
builder," and Manning's beautiful piece of sculpture,
" Prometheus chained to the rock."

We perceive by the advertisement in another column,
that the Independert order of Oddfellows intend to hold
a grand gala at the Zoological Gardens, this day—the pro-
ceeds to be given to the Widow and Orphans Fund of
the district. We trust that the benevolent objects aimed
at by the committee will meet with that success that is
deserving. In addition to the usual amusements of the
gardens, numerous sports have been devised, and we have
no doubt the whole will give every satisfaction.
A LUNATIC DROWNED IN A CISTERN.-011 Wed/ICS-
day, Sarah Davies, an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum, at
the Workhouse, was found droWned in a cistern in the
yard. She had been let out of .the,,ward, and a nurse was
requested to watch her. The nurse having left the place
for a few minutes, the deceased was missing on her re-
turn, and found as above stated. There was a lid to the
cistern, which the deceased had lifted off; but no direct
evidence was produced to show how she had got in.
WALLASEY COMMISSIONERS.—On Thursday the elec-
tion of seven Commissioners for the Parish of Wallasey,
to serve in room of seven, whose term of office had expi-
red, took place, when the following gentlemen, were put
in nomination :—Messrs. R. Parry 302 votes ; C. H. Hill
282: J. Parry 244 ; H. Banner 234 ; J. Halliday 214 ; W.
Healing 210 ' • J. Twiname 192 ; G. Wilson 179; H.
Winch 169; J. Penny 140; W. R. Coulborn 133; J.
Taylor 119 ; J. Ripley 101; J. Price 98. The seven first
were elected.

BUILDING DEMOLISHED.—A hut was erected on the
canal quay for the safe deposit of workmen's tools during
the night. It was, however, subsequently converted into
a dwelling-house, contrary to the 84th section of the Sana-
tory Act. The circumstance having been duly reported,
the Health Committee, on the 15th instant, ordered that
the structure should be destroyed. This was carried into
effect on Saturday, when Mr. Robinson, one of the sur-
veyers, with a party of workmen, accompanied by five
policemen, proceeded to the premises an 3 demolished the
building. The expense of this proceeding will be recove-
red from the owners.

THE SILVER CRADLE.—At the last civic banquet, Mr.
John Smith threw out a suggestion, that a silver model
of a cradle, which should be a rare specimen of art and
and taste, and worthy of a place in the drawing-room,
would be a fitting token to carry out the legend, and
commemorate the present Mayor's term of office and the
nativity of the young stranger with which his lady pre-
sented him during the time. The idea was favourably
received, and a committee has been formed to carry it
out. Mr. Mayer, of Lord-street, has been authorised to
prepare a design for the proposed work, with all needful
armorial devices and appropriate embellishments.
NARROW ESCAPE.—Yesterday morning, as the nine
o'clock Woodside boat, the Lord Morpeth, was approach-
ing the stage, a youth, of the name of Willis, in attempt-
ing to leap the bulwarks to reach the stage, became im-
mersed in the water and almost instantly sunk. Mr. R.
M. Walker, who was a passenger at the time, with praise-
worthy decision, immediately stripped with the intention
of rescuing him should he reach the surface at any dis-
tance from the stage, but, as the wheels were revolving,
it was for some time thought he might have been hurt.
After, however, a lapse of about a minute, he appeared on
the surface in close proximity to the stage, when Mr. W.
succeeded in getting hold of his hair, and assisted by.one
of the hands of the boat (who was most active), was suc-
cessful in rescuing him. He was conveyed to the Receiv-
ing-house.
SUICIDES.—On Tuesday last Henry Critchley, ware-
houseman, aged 38, and living in Gradwell-street, de-
stroyed himself by cutting his throat with a razor. He
he had made a similar attempt with a carving knife some
weeks before. He had scarcely been sober for a fortnight.
On the same day Peter Allwood, pawnbroker, of 39,
Vauxhall-road, took away his own life by shooting him-
self with a pistol. About sixteen months since he had
been released from a lunatic asylumn, in which he was
confined six months. Since that time, until about four
weeks ago, he appeared collected in his mind, anti then
he became low in spirits and peevish. On Sunday he
was in a very low and desponding state. On Monday he
appeared agitated, and said that " when lie died it would
be sudden." Soon after he became collected again ; but
on the day he committed the fatal act he was in a strange
and fluttered condition. At four o'clock on Tuesday be
ordered his cousin to go into the shop • he then repaired
to his bedroom, and almost immediately after the report
of the pistol was heard by the inmates.

AIGBURTII SUNDAY y SCHOOLS.—The children and
teachers of the above schools'spent their anniversary day
at Waterloo and Crosby on Wednesday last. They were
conveyed there and back in the two large land boats
drawn by four horses each, belonging to Messrs. Law-
rence and Casson, omnibus proprietors. Through the
liberalil y of the Rev. W. J. Purdon and most of the ladies
and gentlemen of Aigburth the teachers were enabled to
give them the above treat. The day was :somewhat
unfavourable, but through the kindness of the Rev. Mr.
Jones and the master and mistress of the Waterloo
Schools, the children were accomodated with the use of
the same. where they partook of refreshment, sang several
hymns, and were addressed by the Rev. W. Jones, Rev.
W. J. Purdon, and some of the teachers. At intervals
they enjoyed themselves on the sands, viewing the ships
and the great waters ; they also took a walk to the railway
station. They returned in the evening about half-past
seven delighted with the day's entertainment. A lady on
the green showed great kindness to the children in dis-
tributing a large quantity of gingerbread cakes, &c.
THE LATE EXAMINATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS.—The
result of the examination of masters of elementary schools
and students of training schools in connection with the
Church of England, made at Easter, in this year, has been
made known, in the form of a published list of those to
whom certificates of merit have been granted by the com-
mittee of council ou Education. The list is divided into
higher, middle, and lower classes, each class comprising
first, second, and third divisions. The whole list com-
prises the names of 161 masters, and of this number, 35
are in Yorkshire and 18 in Lancashire, or about one-fifth
of the total certificate holders are in those two counties.
15 are located in London only, and two are mentioned as
students of training schools, and both at Cheltenham. We
find the following names of persons connected with this
town :—R. Andrews, Christ Church School ; 11. Copeland,
St. Clement's School;" H. Glover, St. Mary's School,
Kirkdale, and J. Allan, Holy Trinity School, Birkenhead.
The certificates entitle each to an addition of £l5 a year
to their salaries, from Government, and a pension when
superannuated. We understand many of the candidates
failed in obtaining certificates; and those who have ob-
tained third class certificates, would have obtained better
and higher, had they known the examination would have
extended over two weeks instead of one. However, they
can but " try nail),"