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proposed, namely, to tax, along with other pro=
perty, that of our dock and corporate estates.
We will just mention a few facts which tend to
show the urgency of the case before us—the ra-
pidity with which the wealthier classes of our popu-
lation are withdrawing into the outskirts, beyond
the reach of the parish tax collectors. In Stafford-
street, a few days ago, we observed no fewer than
fifteen.houses to let. In the upper part of Isling-
ton there were eleven, and in 80ld-street nine
shops. Nearly half of the houses in Rodney-street
are unoccupied ; as are a large number in Clarence-
street. Bedford-street, St. Anne-street, and similar
neighbourhoods. The rates for every one of these
houses, so described, are accumulating upon the
heads of the shopkeepers and the poorer portion of
the middle classes. This must have .an end. It
must result in the ruin of thousands, or leave once
wealthy and thriving Liverpool a deserted locality.
IMPORTANT TO COFFEE DEALERS.

In consequence of the trustees of the Albert Dock ware-
houses having recently resolved to raise the delivery dues
on the article of coffee, when bonded in their warehouses,
from -Id. to 2d. per parcel; and that each of these pay-
ments should be made by the merchant instead of the pur-
chaser, a meeting of the merchants, brokers, and dealers
in that article was held yesterday, at the office of Messrs.
Molyneux and Taylor, Royal Bank Buildings, for the
purpose of considering how the proposed alteration would
affect the trade.

Mr. RAIDS having been unanimously called to the
chair, he explained, DI a brief and pertinent speech, the
objects for which the meeting had been convened.
Mr. SHARPE, an extensive coffee dealer, then stated
that a few of the coffee buyers met on Saturday, when
they came to the resolution,-Ist, That with Merence to
the delivery rates payable on coffee at the Albert Dock
warehouses, they are of opinion that these rates should be
paid by the importers; they recommend that all coffee
should be re-weighed on delivery, in order to protect the
buyers from pilferage and other causes of loss, and se-
condly, that the dealers in coffee will on all occasions give
a preference to coffee bonded in the Albert Dock ware-
houses, because of the superiority of the system there em-
ployed for its preservation. The meeting also recom-
mended that a memorial be presented to the trustee., of
the dock, with the view of inducing that body to modify
the proposed rates, and to place them on such a basis as
would be calculated to advance the interests of the trade.
Such being the state of the question, lie would submit
these resolutions to the considetation of the meeting.
Mr. FERRER said it must IA a matter of arrangement
whether the buyer or seller should pay the rates. He
then entered into a full statement of the position in which
the trade stood with regard to these rates, contending at
the same time that the rates levied by the dock trustees in
Liverpool were much less than what was paid by the
dealers in the London market. He then proceeded to
read a statement of the amounts paid at London, as com-
pared with what was paid in Liverpool. He said, in Lon-
don, the dues on a bag of coffee of one cwt., not bulked,
was ls. Id.

Mr. SHARPE.—One
Mr. FERRER.—One and threepence if bulked ; but that
includes landing, sampling, and rent for twelve weeks.
Barrels, bulked or not bulked, is. 6d., tearage 4d., so that
on barrels the merchant there has Is.lod. to pay. Tierces
Is. 6d., tearage lid., making is. 71d. altogether. Now,
at the Albert Dock, even under the 2d. proposed rate, the
total amount paid on bags is to be nd. on barrels is. Id.,
and on tierces 10d.,—being 61d less on bags, 9d. less on
barrels, and 9:ld. less upon tierces than was paid in Lon-
don. He thought that whatever way this was arranged,
the Liverpcol dealers in coffee had no reason to complain.
He should like to see the merchants of Liverpool placed
on the same footing as the merchants of London were.
After some further conversation, it was agreed to send a
deputation to the Dock Committee, with the view of com-
ing to the best possible arrangement respecting the pay-
ment of these dun. It was stated, we should remark, by
every gentleman present, that the working of the Albert
warehouses, with regard to the article of coffee, had, since
their opening, been most excellent; and they were of opi-
nion that it would be better for the trade if all the mer-
chants were to bond their coffee in the Albert warehouses.

MR. DANSON IN A Fix.—Mr. Councillor Danson is at
present holding a controversy with the Journal which
improves as it proceeds. The reporter for our contem-
porary made Mr. Danson say that when the water works
were purchased by the Corporation there were twenty-
seven yards of water in the Windsor wells; when he was
corrected by Mr. Lace, who said, "inches, not yards."
In a letter to the Mercury, Mr. Danson denies in toto
the allaged correction of Mr. Lace, and then the reporter
for the Journal comes forward with his notes and clearly
establishes the accuracy of his original report. But this
is not enough. Mr. Danson again falls foul of Mr.
M'Donald, and boldly asserts that the report of the latter
gentleman to the Mayor "was written and signed by a
Mr. French in the establishment of the Journal." To

this the editor replies that "there is no person in his
establishment of the name of French." Mr. Danson also
accuses Mr. M`Donald of being a "tool" in the hands of
the Journal. This is of course beneath Mr. M'Donald's
notice, but that gentleman has reminded Mr. Danson of
a conversation between them, which took place on the
morning of the sth of April, during which Mr. Danson
"promised to give Mr. M`Donald his full support—main-
tained that every member of the Water Committee were
sick of the contemplated project—and that it was only
necessary to apply .the match to the magazine in order to
blow the whole concern to pieces." Mr. M`Donald leaves
Mr. Danson to reconcile his subsequent conduct with
these statements, and so the matter stands at present.
To-morrow will be launched from the building yard of
Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., a fine new vessel, 12 years
A 1, 400 tons, intended for the China trade, the property
of Messrs. Pryde and Jones, of this town.

PITT-STREET WARD.—At a meeting of the Pitt-street
Ward Branch of the National Confederation, on Friday,
the thanks of the meeting were tendered to Mr. Councillor
Robinson and Mr. Councillor Toulmin, " for supporting
in the Town Council the opinions of the ward on the water
and rating questions."
THE WEATHER has been unusually unsettled since our
last. Thursday was a fine harvest day, as was Friday, un-
til evening. On Saturday it rained the whole of the day,
but Sunday was warm and fair until night, when the rain
again descended very fast, and for several hours. Yester-
day was a lovely day, with a much more settled appearance.
Loss OF A STEAM VESSEL AND SLOOP.—On Sunday
morning, about two o'clock, the Prince of Wales steamer,
bound from Belfast to Fleetwood, came into collision with
the sloop Jane belonging to this port. The steamer re-
ceived such injury that it was found necessary to run her
ashore near to the Puint of Ayre lighthouse. She has
received considerable damage, but it is hoped she will be
got off. It is feared that three persons on board the
steamer (men in charge of cattle) were unfortunately lost.
The sloop drifted on shore about a mile south of the
steamer, and it is feared is a wreck. At the time of the
collision it was raining very fast, and it is supposed that
in consequence the lights were not distinguishable. The
steamer is a first-class iron vessel, and was built by the
parties who built the Princess Royal of this port and is
almost as large, indeed the two vessels are extremely like
each other.
CRICKET.—On Wednesday the return match between
the Cestrian and Birkenhead-park Clubs was played in
Birkenhead-park, which terminated in favour of the Ces-
trian by twenty runs.—On Thursday a match was played
on the ground of the Roscoe Club, between the St. llelen's
and Everton clubs, when the former won, with nine
wickets to fall.

On Thursday, a brewer at Birkenhead, named Thoma-
son, was convicted in a penalty of £2OO for working an
illicit still.

On Friday night a fire broke out in the brass foundery
of Messrs. Cowgill, Corner, and Jones, Argyle-street.
With the Green-lane water, however, the flames were
extinguished before much damage was done.
JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—A friend assures us, that the
following was actually delivered from a dissenting pulpit
in the south :—Brethren, what a grievous sight it is to
see little children that can neither walk nor talk, running
about the streets, taking the name of the Lord in vain.
Mr. Brough's benefit on Thursday, at the Amphi-
theatre, was a very satisfactory one to him. The amateurs
did their best.

The next exhibition of the Liverpool Academy, which
will probably open on the 13th of September, is expected
to be very attractive, numerous very fine pictures having
been already secured for it.
Invalids and strangers are requested t,
Baths, Cases-street, Clayton-s
ceive every attention fro
private and separate
and at consil

Victoria
;Where they will re-
-perienced assistants, with
tfiments for ladies and gentlemen,
rreduced prices.
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DR. MUSPRATT'S LECTURE AT TIIE MECHANICS'
INSTITUTE.—On last Saturday night, Dr. Muspratt gave
his second lecture at the above institution. The subject
was on sulphur, and was illustrated by some of the most
brilliant experiments we ever witnessed. There was an ex-
cellent attendance, and all left highly delighted. We per-
fectly agree with Sheridan Knowles, that D. Muspratt's
extemporaneous statements and elucidations are remark.
able for their readiness, precision, and perspicuity.
NEW ORLEANS SERENADERS.—This talented corps of
vocalists, whose excentric performances have gained them
such universal celdi, will conclude their last engagement
in England during the present week. We attended one
of their concerts on Friday, and were not only pleased
with the visible improvement in the style and effect of
their performances, but with the superiority of their me-
lodies, and the unbounded enthusiasm with which they
were received. Little Ole Bull handles the bow well, and,
indeed, promises to be one of the first violinists of the day.
The novelty of these entertainments is not likely to wear
off so long a's they are conducted in the creditable manner
these concerts have presented.
MORE ARRESTS.-00 Wednesday night Inspector
Boyd arrested a man of the name of Somers, a Chartist
orator, who keeps a provision dealer's shop in Hurst-
street. The arrest was made by bench warrant, and the
charge was the heavy one of treasonable conspiracy.—On
the same night another chartist leader, named O'Donnell,
residing in Great Crosshall-street, was taken into custody.
Somers is the man who made himself so notorious, a few
months ago, by his inflammatory harangues at the Music-
hall. Both men were brought before the Mayor, at the
Town-hall, on Thursday. His worship committed them
for trial, and intimated that bail would-be accepted of the
following amounts; their own recognizances of £4OO, and
two sureties of £lOO each : the same bail, of course in
both cases. They were unable to procure this, anti con-
sequently were taken to Kirkdale gaol.
Lord Hardinge arrived in London on Friday night from
Ireland.

On Saturday morning, at three o'clock, Mr. George
Everett, surgeon. shot himself wits pistol, as he To
being driven in 4 cab in 1.01149 t

ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL
IN FOREIGN PARTS.

The anniversary meeting of the above society was held
yesterday evening, in the Theatre of the Collegiate Insti-
tution ; and was very numerously attended. The audience
was particularly respectable and intelligent, as, indepen-
dently of the great body of the local clergy, the meeting
was to be addressed by two eminent Colonial Bishops—
the Bishop of Madras (Dr. Spencer), and the Bishop of
Fredericton, New Brunswick, (Dr. Medley), who sailed
from this port about three years ago for his newly-formed
diocese. Amongst the clergy and laity present, in addi-
tion to the distinguished speakers we observed—Revds.
Cecil Wray, Dr. Carpenter, James North, Robert Davies,
Thos. Nolan, Frederick Barker, J. C. Prince, Wm. Ryan,
Joseph Baylee, John Hughes (Aberystwyth,) G. Cuthbert,
Thos. Bold, I. B. Phillips, H. H. Higgins, E. G. Jones,
C. W. Lawrence, Wm. Hughes, Henry Hampton, J.
Brancker, J. Stewart (West Derby), H. Marlen, D. J.
Hirsch, R. Faulkner, E. It. Jones, A. Knox, and D.
Barry ; the Worshipful the Mayor, Chas. Groves, Esq.,
Adam Hodgson, Esq., A. Swainson, Esq., and Richard
Harbord, Esq.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS moved that the Worshipful
the Mayor be requested to take the chair.
His WORSHIP took the chair, amid loud cheers, and on
doing so, called upon the Rev. James North, one of the
clerical secretaries of the society, to offer up prayer.
The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to state the object of
the assembly. He need hardly say that the meeting was
called for the purpose of supporting the great object
which, for nearly a century and a half, the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, had en-
deavoured to forward. The principles and objects of the
society were clearly defined—the propagation and spread
of the, doctrines of Christianity in distant regions, (pri-
marily amongst our own colonies, and secondly in foreign
lands,) according to the formularies and discipline of the
Church of England. It was not his intention to enter
into a detail of the operations of the society, because
there were those present who could speak more fully on
that subject. His duty was simply to ask their calm and
deliberate attention to the sentiments which would be
laid before them—sentiments from which., if they were
Christians indeed, they would feel themselves bound
under obligations the most obvious, and by love the most
endearing, to render to this society not a cold and chilligg
assent, but a solid, substantial, and enduring support.
(Hear, hear.) His Worship concluded by calling upon
the Rev. John Jones, who, in the absence of the Rev.
Rector, who was obliged to leave town, had been selected
to move the first resolution.
The Rev. Joart JONES- came forward amidst applause
to propose the resolution. He had great pleasure in
doing so on every ground ; and it was not necessary for
him to use many words to enforce it, inasmuch as it
was to be supported most ably. They were highly
honoured upon the present occasion by the presence of
two of our colonial bishops. He felt this to be a high
honour to this town, and more especially to that meeting,
and he hoped from the statements which would be put
forth that evening, a new era-would start in that society,
for its operations were most important to our colonies.
Ile had no doubt the statements they would hear would
convince them that hitherto they had not done their duty
to the society. He bore his testimony to the excellence of
the society, notwithstanding the prejudices which had ex—
isted against it. It would bear the strictest and most
minute scrutiny, and, in proportion as that was made, so
would it be the more manifest thatits objects were honest
and its faults few and far between, and that it had been
the means of diffusing in our colonies most incalculable
benefits. It was an unostentatious society, saying little
but doing, much ; and most thankful should he be, if
meetings like that tended, as he believed they would, to
remove prejudices which had existed. How many mis-
sionaries might have been sent forth, had' those prejudices
not prevailed There was a time when the society was
not so well supported as now, but God had been pleased
to revive religion in the Church, and in t 139 same propor-
tion had the support afforded to that society increased.
(Cheers.) The rev. gentleman concluded by proposing
the first resolution.

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of MADRAS (Dr.
Spencer) said he rose to second the motion with mingled
feelings of responsibility and anxiety, and with a deep
and anxious desire to do justice to the important trust
committed to him. He believed it was known to some
present that he had come to the meeting-under peculiar
circumstances. He was suffering frour considerable
bodily evils, and a very heavy dispensation of the Al-
mighty ; and thought he should not have strength, how-
ever he might have the disposition, to speak at great
length upon this deeply interesting subject, for it was in-
deed a subject or deep interest to all who were present,
and of infinite interest to those upon whom God, in His
mysterious providence, had thought fit to lay the crushing
responsibility of a bishop's office in our colonial depen-
dencies. The church of the colonies was bound to us by
the closest ties of national and spiritual relationship. The
resolution spoke of those ties, and therefore it was our
manifest duty to minister to the necessities of the colonial
church, and to pray in spirit and in truth that
the peace of Almighty God might rest upon• the church
both at home and abroad. These churches at home and
abroad were one. They had one body, whose head was
Jesus Christ, and they had "one Lord, one faith, one
baptism, one Gotland Father of us all." The natural tie
between them was this—that thousands had gone forth
froru year to year from this port to seek abroad for that
home which their native land had denied them. The
subject of emigration had, therefore, become a subject of
the deepest interest. Great Britain bad become too
straightened to hold the immense population which God
had given to us, and it was absolutely necessary that hun-
dreds of thousands should go forth annually to seek a
temporal home in the colonies. God had committed to
Great Britain a colonial empire far more vast than that
which had been boasted of by Rome in her palmiest days.
Nothing could be more wonderful than the colonial em-
pire ; and if it had not been for the labours of the Society
for the Propagation of the Gospel, the hundreds of thou-
sands who went forth to that empire would' have been
unable in very many instances to find a church. They
might have found a refuge for their bodies, but would they
have found a refuge for their souls ? Would they find
the pure, unmixed, unadulterated, clear religion of Jesus
Christ in those dependencies of the British Empire, were
it not for the really evangelical labours of the Society for
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts. (Hear
and applause.) He (the Bishop) trusted that he would
not be considered in any sense the advocate of a party,
for the Rev. Gentleman who preceded him had alluded to
party questions connected with the society. He was
quite aware that the society had, by those who were igno-
rant of its real principles, been associated with some party
divisions in the church, but those who knew what the
society was, knew very well that it was far above all party
spirit—that it sought to do to the utmost of its abilities
that which it professed to do—that it promulgated the
gospel, the whole gospel, the pure and blessed gospel, as
it was handed down to us by Jesus Christ and his apostles
—that it propagated the gospel and nothing but the gos-
pel throughout the length and breadth of the colonial
empire of Great Britain. He hoped the Bishops of the
church, all of whom were the supporters of the Propa-
gation Society, would never be supposed to be tainted
with any Anti-christian spirit of party ; and though
he was then pleading the interests of the Propagation So-
ciety, yet equally and thankfully should he be to stand up
in Liverpool or elsewhere, to advocate the interests of the
Church Missionary Society. (Applause.) He contended
that the Propagation Society was spreading the gospel
throughout the length and breadth of the Colonial em-
pire of Great Britain. Look at what it had done in Bri-
tish America ! Look at what it had done in th.t country
whose political conuexion with us was now dissevered—
he alluded to the United States of America. He believed
that the Episcopal Church there was a pure, Evangelical,
fruit-bearing branch of the church of Christ, and that,
under God's Providence, bad it not been for the labours
of this society's missionaries, there was every reason to
believe that the Episcopal Church of America would not
now have a local habitation and a name. Time would
not allow him to enter into what the society had done in
British America, but there was a Right Rev. Prelate pre-
sent, the Bishop of Fredericton, who would speak upon
that branch of the subject. Let him, however, pass
on to that country, of which he could speak after a
ten years experience,—let him pass on to British India,
where the society was acting up to its professions and
propagating the gospel, throughout the length and.
breadth of that marvellous and deeply interesting land
—a land of the deepest darkness and of the most hide-
ous idolatry, and for the restoration of which England
had done comparatively nothing. But what as a nation
we had neglected to do had been done, according to their
means and opportunities, by the agei.ts of the Church of
England—by the two handmaids of that church, the Pro-
pagation Society and the Church Missionary Society,
neither of which be would exalt at the expense of the
other. He hesitated not to declare that the missionaries
of the former society were all that they could be wished
to be—faithful, devoted servants of the Lord Jesus Christ ;
men chosen by those who were best qualified to choose,
the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of
London, and a committee of clergymen. Therefore, the
society had a right to claim the confidence of the church
and to say, " Give us your confidence, and be assured
that, so tar as it is in our power to judge, we send out no
man to preach the gospel in foreign parts who will not
preach the gospel—aye, and nothing else but the gospel."
And what had been the result ? Why, in the south-
eastern extremity of India—in Tinnevelly, a district about
as extensive as Ireland, the gospel had struck deep root
downward, and borne unequivocal rich fruit upward.
There, both the Church Missionary Society and the Pro-
pagation Society were labouring hand-in-hand, as brothers
in office and brethren in love, knowing no distinction, and
in that province alone there were at the present moment
50,000 converts to Christianity. Were they content with
a mere nominal conversion, such as another Church was
contented with, where they numbered now their tens of
thousands, they might, without the slightest difficulty,
number their hundreds of thousands. Rome now num-
bered 700,000 converts ; the Church of England numbered
her 50,000; but he would infinitely prefer the tens of
thousands of our converts than he would accept the hun-
dreds of thousands of such converts as he feared those
who had embraced Popery to be. (Applause.) The
Bishop then proceeded to say that when the native of
British India embraced Christianity he became, like the
Redeemer, " despised and rejected of men ;" and in
conclusion he defied any one to point out a singe instance
in which any Missionary of the Propagation Society had
embraced the false, fallen Church of Rome. He made a
powerful appeal in favour of the missionary cause, and
concluded an able speech amid great applause.
The Lord Bishop of FREDERICTON rose to propose the
next resolution, to the effect that the Society was entitled
to the aid of all true Churchmen. He came from a part
of the world intimately connected with Liverpool—New
Brunswick, and as his diocese was mainly supported by
the Society whose anniversary they had met to celebrate,
be trusted increased exertions would be made in its be-
half. He was happy to INE.4.r his testimony 0, the 3,ener4