The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-12 00:00:00

CI-IiJRCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY

The annual meeting of this society was held on Tuesday, at
Exeter Hall. Lord Ashley presided, and among those pre-
sent were, the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Winchester,
the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Llandaif, and a large
number of the clergymen of the Church of England.

The Noble CHAIRMAN said, it is not my intention to in-
terpose at any length between the meeting and the business
of the day, but I cannot restrain myself from saying a few
words in congratulation that this society continues to
flourish, and to enjoy the countenance and support of the
country—(cheers). I do not believe that at any one anni-
versary have we met under circumstances of so great neces-
sity as at the present day— (hear, hear). Ido not believe
the country has at any one period more required the co-
operation of such an association as at the present hour, for
we are beset between two assailants, and if we have to fear
the. progress of false doctrine with the one, we have likewise
to fear what may be called the progress of no-doctrines from
the other—(hear, hear). We are between the two seas of
heresy and infidelity—(cheers, and cries of "hear, hear ").
But I do rejoice that it has pleased Gon to call me to the
honour of presiding over such a society as this, which, both
in its constitution and in its conduct, appears to me to be the
only actually protesting body now existing in the Church of
England. lam very glad that we rejoice in the name, and
still more glad that we rejoice in such an operation ; but now
let me call your attention to the present state of things. You
must have seen that the Government of this country have
lately propounded a system of education with a view of bring-
ing within the pale of christianity—for such it is—thousands,
nay, hundreds of thousands, and almost millions of children
and young persons who now live in a state of more than
practical heathenism—(hear). Whether that system is the
best in itself it is not necessary here to enter, but the educa-
tion propounded I am sure is the best that the Government,
under the circumstances of the Church and nation, could pro-
pose. There are many points which may require considera-
tion, but the system as propounded to you is worthy of accep-
tance—(cheers). Whether it will be accepted or not by the
country I do not know, but this I do know, that if it be ac-
cepted it will be your duty to co-operate in forwarding the
projects of the Government ; and if it be not accepted, it will
be your duty to double and quintuple your efforts to do that
which they have been unable to effect, and to endeavour to
bring within the sound of the Gospel those many millions of
whom I have now spoken unto you, and who, if they are not
brought within the pale of Christianity, will soon drive this
country and this empire itself beyond the pale and even the
name of Christianity—(hear). Late events have proved
the truth of what I say. Two parties were visible in
the late events of the past autumn. There was the
active and the inactive party. Of whom did the active
party consist ?—(hear, hear). Did it not consist of all
those who at no period of their lives had ever received at the
lips of GOD'S ministers the truths and precepts of the gos-
pel ? And who were the passive party, who, be it observed,
had just as much reason to complain as those who were most
active? They were those men who, as my rev. friend on my
left, the rector of Salford, has said, have been, by the assi-
duity of the ministers of the church, brought within the
sound of the gospel—children who have been trained from
their earliest years to fear the Gon who created them and
the SAviousi. who redeemed them. Therefore you have
before you a good prospect of success if you will but perse-
vere. But let me tell you that your perseverance must be of
no ordinary kind; it requires an amount of self-denial, a
self-denial in time, a self-denial in trouble, and self-denial
in what lam sorry to see is a strong test of sincerity—a self-
denial in money. Therefore, let me exhort you not to rest
content with what you have done, but look on it as a mere
drop of water in the bucket, and pour forth your means, and
even beyond your means, for the opportunity now offered
may never return, and be assured that every year now is a
century as compared with the times that are past. (Cheers.;
I do not wish to hold out any flattering prospects of the state
of the country. I have seen enough in my commerce with
the mighty provinces in the north to know that the country
is resting on a dormant volcano. It may please GOD, and
we all pray that it may please [Bin, to save the country from
the danger that threatens it ; but if the country is to be
saved, recollect it is not to be saved by the ordinary opera-
tions of statesmanship. It must be done by some greater
exercise of public and private virtue; by a large and imme-
diate diffusion of the Gospel among all classes. (Cheers.)
It must rise upwards among the rich, and go downwards
among the poor, and yon must contribute every encourage-
ment you can morally and physically for this great purpose ;
and rely on it unless you do so you will not celebrate in this
hall many more anniversaries. You may meet, but if you
do it will be to mourn over the fate of these kingdoms and of
that church which, if you had listened in time, if you had
listened to the many Jonahs that now speak to you from the
pulpit, you might, like Nineveh, have turned to the LORD in
sackcloth and ashes, and might have sprung on in a new
course of greatness and power—not the greatness of conquest,
not the power of mere imperial dominion, but the greatness
and power of being a mighty instrument in the hands of Gon
for the advancement of his glory and for the temporal and
eternal welfare of the whole human race. I have spoken to
you what I feel. I most solemnly feel what I have said, and
I do declare my firm belief that unless some great effort is
made by the nation at large to avert the mischiefs which
threaten us, not many years will have elapsed before we shall
have ceased to be a nation, or if we shall not have ceased to
be a nation, we shall have assuredly ceased to have an inde-
pendent church and an imperial parliament. (Cheers.)
The report was then read. The committee were happy in
being able to state that during the past year they had ex-
tended the society's aid to 29 incumbents, in addition to
those already on their list. They had thus afforded the
means of supporting 26 additional curates, and one lay as-
sistant; besides which they have made also one grant to-
wards the completion of a building for a school-room, to be
licensed for Divine service, in an important manufacturing
district; and a grant of £2O to enable an incumbent to
occupy a chapel, and conduct regular service on the Lord's
day, in a hamlet of 500 persons, situated four miles from the
pai lab church. The average rate of the incomes of these in-
cumbents was £l9O, while twenty of the number had no par-
sonage-house. Of these 29 grants, three were to aid incum-
bents in charge of 5,000 souls; two of 7,000; four of 8,000;
two of 9,000; two of 10,000; one of 14,000; one of 15,000;
one of 17,000 ; one of 23,000 ; and one of 24,000. These
grants, with sonic small additions to others previously made,
amounted to £2,010 per annum. The existing grants of the
society were to aid 235 incumbents, in charge of an aggregate
population of 1,801,452, or to each on an average 7,660 souls ;
while the average rate of their incomes was only £163, and
128 have no parsonage-house. These grants provided stipends
for 233 clergymen and 31 lay assistants, at an annual charge
upon the society's funds, when all the appointments should
be made by the incumbents, of £20,330. And as the in-
cumbents aided provided either from their own or local
resources the further sum of £3,138 per annum, to make up
the amounts required for the several stipends, the society
was thus made the honoured instrument of bringing into the
service of our national church, when all the grants were oc-
cupied, the annual sum of £23,488. At the present time
200 clergymen and 31 lay assistants were supported in their
labours by the society, at the charge of £17,735 a year. The
grants provided for the addition of 338 full services on the
Lord's day, 124 on week days, 284 cottage lectures, and in-
creased pastoral visitation in all the districts aided. The in-
come for the year ending the 31st of March, so far from
being raised to the amount which the present scale of the
grants requires,had only reached the sum of £17,562195. lid..
whereas in the previous year it amounted to £18,880155. 2d.
Of this deficiency, however, of £1,317 15s. 3d., only
£428 17s. lid. might be considered as the falling-off from
the ordinary sources of its income; the remainder was oc-
casioned by a smaller amount having been received from
legacies and special donations. The expenditure of the so-
ciety for the past year had amounted to £20,209 7s. 10d., or
£2,646 7s. 11d. more than its income, which sum had beers
defrayed by a further draft on the balance which had ac-
cumulated during the early years of the society's operations.
This balance was now reduced to £3,756 17., which sum was
full £3,000 short of the amount absolutely necessary to pro-
vide for the regular quarterly payments of the grants in the
three first quarters of the year, during which period the
sums usually received were little more than one half the
amount regularly paid ; so that unless the funds of the so-
ciety received a considerable increase, an immediate reduc-
tion of grants to the amount of above £2,500 must be ef-
fected, in order to bring the expenditure within the income.
The Bishops of Chester and Norwich, and Archdeacon
Shirley subsequently addressed the meeting.

We believe we may now safely congratulate the friends of
the Established Church, on the certainty that the Very Re
verend Principal Macfarlan will be elected Moderator of the
ensuing General Assembly, by a considerable majority. Wha
has been called the " middle" party in the Church, will, we
understand, almost unanimously record their votes in his fa-
vour, and will cordially join in every measure necessary to
frustrate any attempt which may be made by the " Convoca-
tionists" to dis-establish the Church, or make a schism and
division in her body.--Glasgow Constitutional.

REv. D. BAGOT.—We are happy to learn that the Rev.
Daniel Bagot, minister of St. James's Chapel in this city,
has just been appointed Vicar of Newry and Vicar-General
of the Exempt Jurisdiction of Newry and Morne. This, we
understand, is a situation of great consequence in the Esta-
blished Church of Ireland, as the vicar discharges all the
civil functions which devolve upon a bishop. Al r. Bagot was
minister of the Chapel of Ease in the parish of Newry for
seven years before he came to Edinburgh ; and is now ap-
pointed to the highest ecclesiastical office connected with the
Exempt Jurisdiction—after an absence of upwards of seven
years—a gratifying proof that be has not been forgotten after
so long an absence.—Edinburgh paper.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.—
At the monthly meeting (May) of this society, the sum of
£l,OOO was placed at the disposal of the Bishop of Antigua,
towards the restoration of the churches, chapels, and school-
houses of his diocese, which had been destroyed or injured,
by the late earthquake. The secretary laid before the meet-
ing the audit account for 1843. The amounts received were
as follow :—Subscriptions, £15,779 Bs. 2d. ; benefactions,
£3,714 10s. Id. ; legacies, £2,074. The total expenditure
was £84,110 10s. 9d. A grant of £l5O was made to the Rev.
John Endell Tyler, B.D„ rector of St. Giles's, to be ap-
plied for the relief of the spiritual necessities of his parish ;
29 grants of books were made. Donations to the amount of
£327 14s. were announced, and 50 new members were ad-
mitted. The following gentlemen were elected the tract
committee for the year ensuing :—Venerable Archdeacon
Lonsdale, Rev. R. a. Faber, Rev. C. B. Dalton, Rev. Dr.
Dealtry, Rev. John Sinclair, Rev. J. E. Tyler, Rev. J. G.
Ward. The Rev. Dr. Russell, rector of St. Botolph's,
Bishopsgate, occupied the chair.
DESTRUCTION OF EXTON CHURCH, IN RUTLAND.-011
the 25th ult., about two, one of the most terrific hail storms,
accompanied with thunder and lightning, the most vivid and
tremendous that can be remembered here, came on. The
electric fluid has struck our handsome old church, and de-
stroyed the spire for several yards downwards. The shock
was awful at the moment the church was struck, and large
volumes of smoke were issuing from various parts of the
fabric. I have just been to see the work of destruction, and
broken fragments and stones have been forced through the
roof, and demolished the leads; the spectacle is awful, and
it is almost dangerous to go into the church, as large portions
from different parts of the roof are yet falling in. Large
stones have been carried from the church a considerable dis-
tance; and it was fortunate it did not occur during divine
service, as many lives would have been lost. The roof is
completely open to the sky, the windows are most of them
shattered to pieces, and the spectacle is heartrending to wit-
ness. It will be long before the church can be in a state fit
for divine service to be performed in it. People are flocking
from all parts to see the work of destruction. The organ-
loft and the pews underneath have suffered severely from the
melted lead running down, Mr. Richardson, the architect,
from Stamford, has been sent for, and is now examining the
ruins. Large portions of the roofing, with lead, broken
beams, rafters, &c., are dangerous to look at ; several grave-
stones are broken and smashed, and the church-yard, as well
as the church itself, presents a very mutilated appearance.
FAILURE OF MESSRS. ACKERMANN AND Co.—The well•
known firm of Ackermann and Co., printsepers and engra-
vers
in the Strand, suspended payment on Friday afternoon.
Their transactions with some of the large houses in Europe
and America hare been very numerous. On Saturday it was
reported that their debts amounted to no less a sum than
£200,000; but we have this morning been assured by Mr.
Ackermann that the joint and personal liabilities will not
exceed £35,000, and they entertain every confidence that the
estate will ultimately realise a handsome dividend. The
failure is attributed to the large amount of stock, together
with the liabilities which the present firm took upon them-
selves when they succeeded to their predecessor about eleven
years since, and a considerable proportion of which stock
has since laid a dead weight in their warehouses.

Co/MEsPoNDENcE,

THE SHIPWRIGHTS

7'o THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Site,—l perceive from the radical papers of Saturday last
the Anti-Monopoly Deputation have had another meeting in
the Bond-street Rooms, and the principal performers were a
Mr. Boult and the shipteriphls' old friend Wm. Rathbone,
Esq. Mr. Boult came forward first, and commenced by
sonic allusions to a letter which appeared in the STANDARD
of the previous Tuesday, and written by me; the object I
bad in addressing you was to contradict a false report, (and
what I thought a libel on myself and fellow-workmen, the
shipwrights of Liverpool,) that a resolution had been sent
from a meeting of shipwrights, requesting our excellent re-
presentatives, Lord Sandon and Sir lloward Douglas, to
support a total repeal of the corn-laws. As I told you be-
fore, and Mr. Boult could not refute what I said, there were
not more than six shipwrights in the room ; had there been
more the resolution would not have passed. and the meeting
would not have been so satisfactory to the performers, nor
would it have encouraged Mr. Rathbone to have attended the
second meeting. The resolution was proposed by one of the
deputation, and seconded by a radical Papist shipwright, who
has been always one of the party, and carried by a rabble
who always attend radical meetings.
The other statement I made respecting cheap bread and
low wages was fully supported by a fellow-workman in the
room, had he been allowed to speak, and express his senti-
ments ; but, like myself, Sir, not having the advantage of
liberal education, and not accustomed to public speaking, his
statements were not heard. Perhaps if, like Mr. Boult, we
bad had those advantages, we should be better able to express
ourselves ; but we labour for our daily bread, and are not
paid for going about the town sowing the seeds of disloyalty
and dissatisfaction. Mr. Boult told the meeting, if we had
cheap timber we could build cheap ships here, as in foreign
countries. Here we have a gentleman coming forward, as a
friend of the labouring man, wanting to reduce us to the
level of foreigners : if we have cheap ships built, we must
have low wages. Another statement of Mr. Boult's was,
that a Frenchman could bring gloves to this country for 2s.
per pair, while gloves made here cost 3s. per pair.
Mr. Boult says, let us have free trade and Frenchmen will
bring us gloves and take our hardware : so Mr. Boult would
benefit one class of our manufactures by ruining another.
It may do for Mr. Boult to talk in this manner, but put his
ideas into practice, and nothing but ruin to one half of our
country would be the result. In 1837 I was one of a depu-
tation appointed to wait upon the master shipwrights to ask
them for an advance of wages, provisions then being very
dear, they very kindly heard us, and advanced us 6d. per
day : since then our trade has been very bad, and during the
last winter hundreds of us have been out of employment, yet
they have not reduced us, and for which I beg respectfully to
thank them. Depression in trade does not always produce
low wages. Why don't these anti-monopoly and anti-corn-
law men show that they are the real friends of the labouring
man, by doing away with the greatest evil that ever visited a
country, and the greatest curse to a country—l mean em-
ploying children instead of adults in the manufacturing dis-
tricts? Let them give every man proper wages for their
labour, and reduce their enormous profits made out of the
blood and sinews of the poor, the working man will then he
able to pay for educating his children, and live comfortably
with his family ; and when they do this, we shall believe that
they are really the poor man's friends.
Mr. Rathbone calls himself the shipwright's friend; but
is it not well known that a great majority of the shipwrights
are freemen, and is it not equally notorious that Mr. Rath-
bone has taken every opportunity in his power to rob us of
our birthrights as freemen of Liverpool ; and when he had
the power in the Corporation schools, he, along with his fra-
ternity, deprived our children of their Bible and a sound
Scriptural education. We must have more practical proofs
of friendship before we listen to the opinions, or be guided
by the advice of such men as these.
I fear not, Sir, the shipwrights forsaking their principles ;
they will always be found supporting those gentlemen by
their votes whol will support our glorious constitution in
church and state ; their rallying cry will always be, the
Protestant Religion and the Liberties of England.

I am. Sir,
-Your's respectful!y,
JOHN LONGWORTH.

Tarteth Park, May 10th, 1843

[we are glad to receive and give publicity to the commu-
nication of our intelligent correspondent ; though an opera-
tive he is able to understand the practical connexion between
the employer and the artizan, and to detect the sophistries
of those who labour so strenuously to make himself and fel-
low workmen discontented. May he and they go on and
prosper.]

THE SCREW PROPELLER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—In your paper of Friday last there is a statement
respecting the performance of an iron screw vessel, built by
Messrs. Mather and Co. As your informant seems inti-
mately acquainted with the vessel and machinery, the writer
of this, as well as the public, will feel indebted to him for
some further particulars, viz::—length, beam, and depth of
boat-load: displacement with engines, water, and coals on
board ; draft of water so loaded ; diameter of cylinder ;
length of stroke ; number of strokes per minute made by en-
gines ; PRESSURE of steam in boiler. By inserting this letter
I hope the above information may be obtained from your for-
mer, or some other, scientific contributor to your useful
paper.

A SHIPOWNER.

PHRENO-MAGNETISM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Stu,—As the interest in phreno-magnetism is continually
increasing, and consequently the danger arising from cross
influences and unskilful manipulating increasing too, I feel
it as a duty to caution all who are unacquainted with phre-
nology against making experiments.
Phrenologists ought to bear in mind, that exhibitions got
up for the purpose of convincing sceptics afford a strong
temptation to the operator to excite those organs which are
" well developed" in the patient's head, and to neglect such
as will make no show. This is the very reverse to what
ought to be done for the patient's good ; and experiments
of this kind, frequently repeated, may produce a morbid ex-
citability in those organs whose tendency to action is already
too strong.

Clairvoyant patients ought on no account to be brought
into a public room. In some cases a third party could not
approach within siz yards of the patient's person without
producing convulsive tremblings.
To mesmerise without injuring a patient, the operator
must be free from disease; his mind must be calm and se-
rene ; he must feel a tender solicitude about the welfare and
safety of a human being whose whole nature is perfectly
under his control, and obedient to his will.
Let those who venture on clairvoyant experiments take
care to give no orders but what may with propriety and ease
be obeyed. The patient cannot disobey. He may be made
happy or miserable as the operator wills; and no limit can
be assigned to the duration of the effect. Recent experi-
ments go far to prove that a permanent change may be
wrought upon characters—that the most virtuous person
alive may be forced to commit crime, and the most vicious
directed to virtue by a mere command. This is an awful
power to be entrusted to man, and must be used, if at all,
with the greatest care.
Let all who submit to be mesmerised, particularly females,
think of what they are doing, who is the operator, and what
is his object. N.