The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

CERTIFICATN,

LOCAL NEWS,

QUICK DISPATCH.—On Wednesday, the sth instant,
the ship Lydia was berthed in the Waterloo Dock, and
within 37 hours discharged a cargo of above 400 hogsheads
of sugar ; then went into the Graving Dock for repairs ;
and by Wednesday, the 12th inst.. had taken a full cargo
for export on board, and sailed next day.
SMUGGLING.—On Tuesday, George Gottfried, and
and Frederick Meras, Prussians, were charged with
smuggling from on board the Frederick, in the Brunswick
Thck 61Iba, and 30Ibs respectively of leaf tobacco.
They were each convicted in a penalty of £100; but Mr.
Rushton stated that as they were foreigners, and this was
perhaps their first offence he would recommend their case
to the lenial consideration of the Board in London.
FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—A crowded assem-
blage met in the Music-hall on Friday evening, to hear a
statement from Dr Cunningham and Mr. Begg, of Edin-
burgh, regarding the position and prospects of the Free
Church. Considerable disappointment was felt when it
was announced from the chair that these gentlemen had
not yet arrived. The auditory were, however, unwilling
to adjourn, and listened to addresses from the chairman,
(Rev. D. Fergusson), Dr. Raffles, Mr. Gardner, Dr.
Blackburn, and Mr. Welsh.
EDUCATION OF NEGRO CHILDREN.—A very respect-
able meeting of a branch of the Society for the Advance-
ment of Education among the Negro Children of the West
India Islands was held, on Friday evening last, at the
Music-hall. Adam Hodgson, Esq., was in the chair, and
the meeting was addressed by the Rev. Mr. Lawrence,
the Rev. Mr. Ewbank, the Rev. Mr. Reynolds, and the
Rev. Hugh M'Neile. From the report of the secretary,
it appears that the society had received, last year. £lOB in
Liverpool, a larger sum than had been collected by any
other branch.

FALSE PRETENCES.—John Wright, beerhouse-keeper
and shipping master, was on Wednesday charged, before
Mr. Rushton, with obtaining money from several seamen
on pretence of finding them ships. The prisoner had a
placard in his window to the effect that seamen were wan-
ted for the schooner Margaret, about to sail for th? coast
of Africa. The prisoner charged them ss. and los. each
for shipping notes, and said the vessel belonged to Mr. I.
0. Bcld, but on inquiry no such vessel could be found.
A vessel of that name had been chartered by Messrs. Bold,
but had sailed ten days before. The pritoner was re-
manded.

ROBBERY FROM A WAREHOUSE.—On Wednesday, a
the Police-court, James Cosgrove was charged with steal-
ing 981 b. of currants, from a warehouse, in Kitchen-
street, the property of Mr. A. Mongredien. Some men
in the adjoining yard had, on the previous Monday, ob-
served a hole in ihe wall of the warehouse, and some cur-
rants strewed about it. On the following evenink the pri-
soner w is seen coming out of the yard with a bag on his
back, and was detained. Tie bag contained the quantity
of currants stated. The prisoner said he was carrying it
for a man who had given him a shilling far his trouble.—
Lie was committed for trial.
DRIVING VEHICLES THROUGH THE STREETS ON
SUNDAYS.—On Tuesday last, William Welsh was sum-
moned before Mr. Rushton, for drivinc his whitechapel
through Great Crosshall-street, opposite the Welsh inde-
pendent chattel, on Sunday afternoon last, during the
hours t f Divine service. It appeared that the pace of
worship alluded to was amongst the chapels and churches
res ecting which the Mayor caused notice to be given a
short time ago that if parties should drive along the streets
in which they were situated during the hours of Divine
worship on Sundays, they would be liable to a penalty.
Mr. Rushton said the full fine was 405., but the defendant
mu,t pay 20s. and costs.
It behoves us always to be on our guard, when alone we
should watch our thoughts, when in society our tongues,
and when in our families our tempers. Indeed, upon our
properly guarding the last depends much of our social
happiness and domestic comfort, taking care to counteract
that continued irritability of mind which is the precursor
of ebullitions of passion. But cur mental disposition is
so intimately connected with our physical condition, that
what is frequently considered ill-temper, or peevishness,
is in reality but the result of a derangement of the diges-
tive or other organs of the body, and requires medicinal
not mental remedies. To such we recommend with con-
fidence " FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH," as being cer-
tain in its effects, and gentle in its operation.
THE NOTE ROBBERY.—Francis Trapps, the person
concerned in the robbery of .£lOO notes, was again brought
up, and the following evidence produced as to another
of the £lOO notes stolen from the District Bank. Mr.
Blease, cashier at the Custom-hon=e, said he recollected
prisoner coming to him on the 28th of May, and asking
him for change of a £lOO note. He sa'd it was for Littler-
land, Davies, and Co., and that it was to pay dues.
The prisoner at his request, marked the note, and signed
James Croskell on the back of it. He (Mr. Blease) ob-
tained the change, and handed it over to the prisoner.
The witness identified the prisoner when shown to him
amongst others, at the Bridewell. Mr. Mather, recorder
at the Custom-house, gave the number of the note re-
ceived from the prisoner ; it was No. 16,694, and was
identified as being one of those stolen from the bank on
the 28th ult. The prisoner was fully committed for trial
at the borough sessions in July next.
UNIOSTIFIABLE ACCUSATION.—On Thursday a gen-
teel-looking man, named Charles Hunt, a clerk, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, on a charge of assaulting
and annoying Mrs. Alice Thomas, who keeps a respecta-
ble house in Russell-street, where the prisoner, a married
man, had lodged for twelve months. It appeared that on
Wednesday night last, while in a state of intoxication, he
had broken into her room, and behaved in so violent and
outrageous a manner that she was obli2ed to give him into
custody. Mr. Owen, for the defendant, proceeded to put
questions to the complainant with a view to insinuate or
prove that defendant had not for a long time slept in his
own bed ; but Mr. Rushton stopped this unmanly course,
for if a man were guilty of what was insinuated, nothing
could add so enormously to' his crime as to come into
court and declare it. He believed it was a foul libel on
the female, and ordered the prisoner to find bail, himself
in £5O, and two sureties in £25 each.
IMPORTANT CORN CASE.—In the case of Barrow v.
Arnaud, Lord Denman delivered judgment on Tuesday.
The defendant is the collector of customs at this port, and
the plaintiff a corn-merchant in the same place. Upon
the Thursday next, after the Friday on which the Sliding
Scale Act received the royal assent, Mr. Barrow applied
to Mr. Arnaud to sign a bill of entry, for the admission
of a certain quantity of wheat. The day of the applica-
tion was that upon which the first weekly average was to
be made by the controller of the corn returns, and it was
made by him upon that day, but not transmitted to Mr.
Arnaud until the following day. Mr. Arnaud not having
any certificate of the average under the new act, demanded
the duty which would be payable on the repealed statute ;
and as Barrow contended that the latter statute (the 9th
George IV. c. 60) having been repealed, no duty would
be payable under it, he refused the demand of the duty,
upon which the defendant refused to sign the bill of entry,
for which refusal the plaintiff brought the present action
to recover damages for the injury which he had sustained
in losing a market for his wheat. The case having come
on for trial at Liverpool, the jury found a special verdict,
which embodied the facts of the case as we have men-
tioned them above. The only question for decision was,
whether the legislature had not in the Sliding Scale Act
omitted to make any provision for levying the duty upon
the importation of corn during the six days which inter-
vened between the day upon which that act obtained the
royal assent and the day upon which the first weekly ave-
rage was to be made under its provisieng. The judgment
upon the verdict was given for the defendant.

CIIILD FcirrNn.—Early on -Saturday morning last, a
new-born child, cold and apparently dead, was found be
some workmen, lying on some shavings in an unfinished
house in Thomas-street, Birkenhead. It was removed to
a dwelling-house in the n-iAtnnarbond, by Mr. Vale,
surgeon. who was providentially attending a patient, and
by persevering means animation was restored. The
mother has not yet been discovered.
LISCAIID INFANT SCHOOLS —The examination of the
pupils at this school took place on Wednesday last. The
attendance from the neighbourhood, including the Rev.
S. Tobin and lady, was exceedingly numerous, and they
all appeared to be highly pleased with the progress the
children had made, and the general and scriptural intelli-
gence they displayed. The school is under the manage-
ment of Miss Wrils, to whom the greatest credit is due,
and now contains upwards of 100 pupils. all of whom,
though few of them exceed six years of size, showed so
clear a knowledge of scripture, and repeated their lessons
with such credit as to astonish every party present. On
Friday they were regaled with a plentiful supply of tea,
bunloaf, and coffee.
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LIVERPOOL. SYMPATHISERS.—The first at'empt on
Monday evening having failed, a second meeting of per-
sons who choose to call themselves " the friends or civil
and religious liberty," was held on Tuesday evening, in
the Amphitheatre, " to take into consideration the subject
of an address to the queen, for the discharge front prison
of Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers, until the writ
of error be decided by the House of Lords ; and also to
sympathisewith those gentlemen under their Lite extremely
severe sentence?' There was a pretty numerous attend-
ance, including some females, but except that the as-
sistance of Wm. Blundell, Esq., of Crosby ; Thos. Weld
Blundell, Esq.., of Ince ; Nicholas Blundell, Esq., of
Crosby • and Edward Chaloner, Esq., had been obtained,
the leaders were the usual Clayton-square worthies, ex-
cept Colonel Wiliiams, an Irish physici,in, yclept Sir Ar-
nold Knight, some Romish Catholic priests and laymen,
and a sprinkling of the members of the Anti-corn-law
League. As a demonstration the exhibition was con-
temptible. The proceedings closed about nine o'clock.
PAVING AND SEWERAGE.—At a meeting of this bosrd
on Thursday, of applications for the breaking up of the
flags, alterations of the pavement, &c , were read and
disposed of. Permission was granted to drain the stag-
nant water, which was described as a great nuisance, on
the east side of crown-street, into the sewers, on condi-

tion that the sewer was paid for whenever the 1 tnd was
built upon. An application from parties connected with
Salem Chapel, Brownlow-hill, requesting that the street,
opposite the chapel, mi2ht he macadamised, was read,
and the work ordered to be executed. In consequence of
its broken condition, the asphalte on the footwalk oppo-
site Renshaw-street Chapel was ordered to be taken up
and re-placed with flags. IV/r. Jones, the proprietor of
113 houses in Saltner-street. applied to the commissioners
to adopt that street. Mr. Cunningham, the surveyor,
having reported that the street was not properly levelled,

and that the water could not be drained off unless a sewer

were made, it was resolved that the commissioners would
not adopt the street until it could be drained to their sa-

•
tisfaction. Several complaints were made that various

parts of the town were not properly watered, when it was
resolved to summon the watering c mmittee to take the
subject into consideration. On the motion of Mr. Glad.
stone, a letter was directed to be sent to the Commis-
sioners of West Derby, pointing out to them the dis-
graceful state of Prescot-street, from Moira-street to
Moss street, and requesting that it might be macada-
mised, S.) as to make a continuous macadamised line to
the Monument. On the motion of Mr. Cooper, a similar
letter was directed to be sent to the Toxteth-park Com-
missioners, respectine, the footwek from the Catholic
chapel to the Parish-office.
EASTHAM AND ITS ATTRACTIONS.—There are few
sweeter or more delightfully situated places in this locality
than Eastham. which is within half an hour's sail of
George's Pier-head. It has long been a favourite place
of resort for the denizens of this crowded hive, where they
inhale the pure breeze, and participate in the picturesque
scenery of a finely wooded country. The view of both
shores of the river, with Liverpool in the distance, is
commanding. In addition to its attractions as a watering
place, the ancient village of Eastham, a mile from the
ferry, is an object of interest. Within two or three miles
of this lovely spot stands the family residence of the
Stanleys, one of the oldest and most highly respectable
aristocratic families in the kingdom. The present young
baronet, Sir William Massey Stanley, is one of the most
popular and respected landlords in the country, idolised
by his tenantry, and a finished specimen of an English
gentleman. Coming recently into possession of the family
estate, he seems anxious to study the comforts of all
around him, and one of the improvements which cannot
fail to be appreciated by the public, is the erection of a
noble, stately pile, as an hotel—an excellent substitute
for the old unsightly building on the margin of the ferry.
The new building, which is now open for the reception of
visitors, is not exceededin the comforts of an hotel by any
similar establishment on the river. Previously, the attrac-
tions of Eastham were somewhat impaired by the want of
accommodation at the old house—a defect which for the
future will be effectually remedied. The sitting, dining,
and bed-rooms are noble and capacious, and there apeears
every disposition on the part of those now in possession
to furnish the public with the best cheer at the most mo-
derate rates. During the summer months a band will play
on the lawn, and the tine gardens attached to the house
will be thrown open to the public. Some improvements,
we understand, are contemplated in the matiaeement of
the ferry ; a better class of steamers are about being placed
on the station, and the regularity of their running may be
depended on. Upon the whole, under the new manage-
ment, this once favourite place of resort—the Richmond
of Cheshire—seems likely to rival the glories of its former
popularity, and the public owe deep obligation to Sir Wm.
Massey Stanley for the public spirit which he has evinced
in the erection of the new hotel.
THEATRE-ROYAL. Monday last being the closing
nieht of the Theatre-Roval, Mr. Webster addressed the
audience between the pieces. He said—" Ladies and
Gentlemen—On the close of this our first season in Li-
verpool, both Madame Celeste and myself feel deeply
grateful for the more than ordinary success with which
our endeavours to please you have been crowned, a
greater number of persons having paid to enter this theatre
since Christmas last than was ever known during the pal-
miest days of the drama here within the same number of
consecutive nights. Our only motive for entering upon
the lesseeship was, that so noble an edifice, devoted to the
drama, should not be crushed, as we were ins Jew's, told,
never to rise again and, as we ran prove it may be kept
open profitably, we conceive we have arfreved our point.
The suddenness with which the whole affair was arranged
threw us into considerable difficulty in the formation of
an efficient company, for we found nearly all the provin-
cial performers of any repute in settled engagements. In
this dilemma we were fortunate enough to secure a por-
tion of a talent sent adrift by the wreck of theatrical spe-
culatons in London, and the chief part of those ladies and
gentlemen presented to you have passed what is deemed
the highest ordeal and come off scatheless. With regard
stars,' the position I hold in the metropolis enabled
me to promise largely, and there is not one pledge we
made at the outset that we have not more than redeemed.
The present state of the theatre, compared with its pre-
vious appearance, and the manner in which we have
placed the various pieces on the stage, will, I think I may
presume to say, prove how regardless we have been of
outlay. I assure you, Ladies arid Gentlemen, profit was
less our consideration than the raising the fallen fortunes
of this dramatic temple ; and however my metropolitan
station as manager may be, I feel it is not more honoura-
ble than being associated with Madame Celeste in the di-
rection of the first theatre, in one of the first mercantile
towns in the world." Mr. "Webster then expressed his
gratitude to the press, (with one exception,) and con-
cluded as follows:—" Everything that can be done shall
be done to secure a continuance of your approbation.
And again thanking you, in the name of Madame Celeste
and every member of this establishment, for your distin-
gui-hed patronage, until the 15th of July next, I most re-
pectfully bid you farewell."
MEETING OF THE BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—
A special meeting was held at the Town-hall on Tuesday
evening—present. Messrs. Case. Hide, Horner, Bentham,
Adamson, Cole, Green, Sudlow, W. Jackson, J. S. Jack-
son. Appleton, Watson, and Brownrigg. The newly
e'ected members subscribed the usual declaration on
taking their seats. Mr. Bentham, in moving that J.
Deane Case, Esq., should be re-elected chairman of the
Board, eulogised the conduct of that gentleman. Mr.
W. Jackson seconded the motion, which was unanimously
carried. Mr. Case feelingly returned thanks for the
honour done him, and the kind manner in which it bad
been conveyed. Alter alluding to the rapid advancement
of their rising town, he expressed his conviction that no-
thing could now arrest its progress, and that, although it
was as yet but a branch of the mother town opposite, it
bid fair to rival it in due time. So long as he remained
amongst them he would have great pleasure in giving any
services in his powar for the advantage of the community.
He then took the chair, when Mr. Cole moved, and Mr.
Pim seconded a motion, that Mr. W. Jackson be re-
elected vice-president. Mr. Jackson thanked them for
the honour, and hoped his next year's services would be
as beneficial to the township as those he had been enabled
to render it in the past year. With reference to Liver-
pool, which they bad never found an unworthy parent, all
they wanted was to take their fair share of those com-
mercial advantages to which, from their locality, they
were entitled. He complained at some length of the op-
position they had met with from parties on the other side,
and also in Birkenhead, to their Improvement Bill, which,
however, bad now received the royal assent, the whole of
the clauses of their opponents having been thrown out.
He had to report that the Birkenhead Dock Bill had
passed the third reading of the House of Commons ; that
it had been read a first time in the Lords, and he expected
that it was that very day on the standing orders for going
into committee. He was compelled to leave that evening
for London in order to forward the measure—a mea-
sure that he entertained no doubt, before his return,
would receive the royal assent. (Cheers.) Much money
had been thrown away by the Dock Trustees of Liver-
pool in opposing it, and they had put the townships of
Birkenhead to great expense ; but the funds of the town-
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it would, and let the time be lengthened out as much as
it could. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion, he trusted that
they would set an example to the nation of what a young
township could do, by guarding against the errors of other
towns, and deriving.all the benefits of the experience of
the past. (Cheers.) The several committees for the
year were then appointed. Mr. Jackson said he should
submit at the next meeting what portions of land they
ought to offer for sale—so that the township might partici-
pate in the sales and improvements going on. The Ferry
Committee submitted a recommendation that a reduction
should take place from the Ist July to the following scale :
—For one year, £1 ss. each, and 10s. for every additional
person; for six months, 17s. 6d. each, and 7s. 6d. for
every additional person ; for three months, 12s. 6d. each,
and 5s for every additional person. After some unitnpor-
taut conversation the board adjourned.

CHILD DESERTION.—A poor emaciated woman, named
Moran, a widow, was on Tuesday charged, before Mr.
Rushton with having deserted her child, a boy of only
about three weeks old. It appears that she lived with her
mother and sister in Milton-street, where she was deli-
vered. tin the previous Wednesday, she took out the
child, and placed it on the Libby of the house of Mr. John
Smith, publ'can, Brownlow-hilt, who sent it to the Work-
house. The prisoner's sister said she missed the child,
and on asking about it, was told by the pesoner that she
had sent it to the Workhouse, upon which witness said

that was right, as it would be better there than they could
do for it. The prisoner, she said, was very poor; she
had nothing but what she got by sewing and it was very
difficult to get any work. Mr. Rushton sold the witness
had acted most improperly in abetting the prisoner to
abandon her child. She ought to have advised her to
apply for parish relief for its support. Had the child
perished, they might both have been committed for mur-
der. As it was the prisoner must be committed for trial.
EbilGßATlON.—Eng:istimen ate usual•y unwilling to
quit their fatherland, but they appear fast losing that ho-
nourable spirit of nationality. Thousands of Irish, Scotch,
and Engl.sh emigrants are pouring into the United States,
a foreig❑ country, subject to foreign. laws, while a colony
of their own empire, where the institutions of the mother
country prevail unaltered,—where the soil is productive
and 1-•bour receives its full reward, because there is a
large demand for it, and where the climate is acknow-
ledged to be the finest in the world, is overlooked. We
allude to Western Australia, so replete with natural
sources of prosperity, which are only delayed in their
effects, by the inadequacy of the population to turn them
to due account. We are, however, glad to find that Mr.
Alexander Andrews, of 14, New City Chambers, and Mr.
J. W. Hodge, of 11, Warnford-court, London, have vo-
lunteered to give every information on the subject of this
very eligible colony, and we hope that the public mind
may soon by this means be fully disabused.
SELECT VESTRY MEETING —At the fortnightly meet-
ing, on Tuesday, the senior Churchwarden in the- chair,
an application from Mr. John Taylor Crooke for leave to
take a copy of the poor rate laid in November 1843, with
the payments up to th.t date—he paying any expense in-
curred—was refused. By the Workhouse return, it ap-
peared there were 1,618 paupers in the house, costing
2s 01-.1 per head, amounting to £166 17e Id. In the cor-
responding week of last year there were 1,639 inmates, at
at expense of Is 61-,d per head, amounting to £127 as 7d.
showing a decrease of 41 in number, and an increase of
Gid. per head, and £3B 19s 6d in money. The out door
expenditure for the fortnight ending Bth instant was
£773 Gs Bd. which relieved 7,002 cases; for the compare-

five period of last year there were 6,691 cases relievetfat tut
expense of £744 /7s, showing an increase of 341 cases,
and £2B 9s Bd. in money.—There wag. a slight increase of
fever cases in the house, but otherwise the health of the
inmates was not materially altered. A letter was read
from the Poor Law Commissioners, confirming the regu-
lations made by the vestry and Mr. Clements for the go-
vernment of the med,cal department. In another letter
!he Commissioners said they had no power to sanction
the recent vote of the vestry of a retiring pension of .c9a
ter annum to Mr. Nightingall, the late surgeon.—Mr.
Mellor and Mr. Whitby were appointed members of the

Con,mittee in the de,.artmeni. relating to illegitimate

children.—Mr. Gray reported that various sums had been
received as reimbursement for the support of a lunatic
female. One sum for this purpose (of £150) had been
discovered in the hands of a gentleman near Latham.
through the activity of Mr. Rowland, visiting officer of
this town.—Adjourned to the 25th instant.
EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—On Tuesday several infor-
mations by gentlemen connected with the Excise were
brought before the notice of the court. Patrick Trainer,
who lives in Boundary-place, Windsor, was mulcted in
the penalty of £5O for having sold spirits without a
license.—An information was also laid against Edward
Middlehurst, for having in his po=session an illicit still.
The charge was preferred by Mr. John Woodruff, import
surveyor, who stated, that on the sth of March last he
received information that an illicit still had been dis-
covered in an empty warehouse in Brooks'-alley. He
went there, and seized a still which was regularly set up,
and which would hold some forty gallons. There were
seven tubs and other utensils, and 140 gallons of wash
in a state of fermentation, which, on being worked up,
produced 26 gallons of proof spirits (whiskey.) The
whole were taken to the Excise-office.—William Heath,
who occupied houses, Nos. 6, and 8, Back Bean-street,
was convicted in the penalty of £2OO for using an illicit
still—Ann Hughes, who lives at 164, Burlington-street
was convicted in the penalty of £lOO for illicit distilla-
tion. E iza Dillon, living at 152, Dale-street, was fined
in the penalty of £5O. for having on her premises an
illicit still, and Mary M'Donald (to whom, it was shown,
the still belonged, and who had been sevetal times pre-
viously convicted) in the full penalty of £2oo.—Daniel
Macerlain, who lives at 13, Stewart-street, was convicted
in the penalty of £5O, for selling spirits without alicense.

On the 3rd instant, art officer of Excise went out and pur-
chased two glasses of whiskey, for which he pail 4d.
The defendant, it was stated, was an importer of eggs,
from the sister isle, and was in the habit of improving
his trade by bringing over a " drop of the crathur."
HIGH COMPLIMENT TO SAMUEL SANDBACH, ESQ.—
On occasion of a recent visit of our respected townsman,
S. Sandbach, Esq., to his estate in Denbighshire, he was
met on the borders of the property by a numerous body
of his own and the neighbouring tenantry, accompanied
by two bands of music, and many of them bearing flags
and banners with vatious tasteful devices. The arrival
of the carriage was hailed with hearty cheering, and the
procession, headed by the vicar of the parish, received
with every demonstration of respect their worthy landlord
and h•s lovely daughter. The vicar then addressed Mr.
Sandbach on behalf of the assemble.) tenantry, expressing
their grateful sense of the benefits they had derived from
their connexion with him, from his kind and liberal con-
duct as a landlord, and from the extensive and judicious
improvements effected and still in progress on the estate,
which had given employment to so many of the indus-
trious population of the neighbourhood. He added, that
while they could not but regret that other engagements
had prevented him from becoming a permanent resident
among them, they had much cause of thankfulness that
be was so worthily represented by his excellent son, who,
with his amiable and accomplished lady, had given so
many proofs of the kind interest they took in the welfare
and improvement of all around them, and more particu-
larly by the constant attention they bestowed on the
school, where, by t.ie liberaltty of the family, upwards of
100 children were blessed with the means of acquiring a
sound and useful education. Mr. Sandbach replied in a
very feeling manner, thanking them most cordially for
the very gratifying proofs of their attachment which he
had just seen and heard, and expressing the satisfaction
he felt that his endeavours to ameliot ate the condition of
those over whom he had, in the course of Providence,
been called upon to pre-ide, had been so universally ac-
ceptable to them. lie had no other [active in entering on
the duties of their landlord than to pron.ote their and his
own happiness, by cultivating the most friendly relations
with them, and he might add that since lie came into pos-
session of the property, the whole revenues were expended
in improvements, to promote which still further he pur-
posed to introduce the most approved Scotch system upon
one of his farms, which he hoped might prove a " model
farm" that would lead to improved methods of cultivation.
The tenantry afterwards took the horses from the car-
riage, and drew their landlord and family through the
pretty village of Llangerniew, and along the park, the road
at various points being decorated with triumphal arches
of branches and flowers, to the mansion of Hafodunas,
where the evening was spent in dancing on the lawn, and
other rural amusements, to which the hospitality of the
mansion added no little zest.
SAINT MARTIN'S CHURCH SCHOOLS.—Tuesday last
being the day appointed for laying the foundation stone
of the schools attached to St. Martin's Church, divine
service was performed at eleven o'clock, in roductory to
the ceremony. About twelve clergymen were present,
and at the conclusion of morning prayer, the choir headed
the procession from the church to the contiguous site of
the schools, chanting a psalm. When arrived at the
ground prayers were offered up and the 127th psalm was
sung. The Rev. Cecil Wray, incumbent of St. Martin's,
then addressed rector Brooks, at considerable length,
requesting him on behalf of the congregation of the
church, es rector, and in the name of the clergy present
to lay the first stone of the school— a building to be
dedicated to the honour of Almighty God, and to the
training up of the children of the district in the doctrine
and discipline of the Church of England. He ex-
pressed his thankfulness to Charles Groves, Esq., and
the other contributors to the undertaking. He
pressed upon the inhabitants of the district present that
the schools to be erected were for the whole popula-
tion—of all classes and parties without religious distinc-
tion ; that all would be welcome to the instruction given,
for the ministers were put in charge of the whole popula-
tion by the Bishop, to seek for Christ's sheep that were
scattered, and at least to offer a religious education to all.
In giving this invitation to dissenters (whether Protes-
tant or Roman Catholic) as well as the members of their
own church, he did not promise to teach the different
systems of error that claimed the title of Bible religion ;
nor would he suppress any doctrine of the church for the
satisfaction of those who were content with what they
called our common Christianity. They would teach the
scriptural faith of the Church of England only. Besides
the Bible reading in the school, the children would also
hear two chapters and the appointed psalms solemnly
read to them in the daily morning service. Nor would
they neglect the prayer book. The holy scriptures would
be explained according to the catholic teaching of the
Church of England. Being episcopally ordained, they
would not separate doctrine from discipline,. and would
carry out faithfully the whole system contained in the
prayer book, and all its rights and ceremonies, fasts and
festivals, even to the utmost. The Church of. England
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Church of this country. It only required the systematic
attendance of the clergy to render these schools more
efficient than those of the dissenters, and from the situa-
tion of the building the superintendence would be easy.
Their course would be to teach the children to be trust-
ful, humble, and obedient,—dutiful to their parents, self-
denying, and charitable to all.—The rector congratulated
Mr. Wray on the commencement of so excellent a work,
and proceeded to lay the stone, saying :--" In the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
We lay this first stone of a building to be erected to the
honour of Almighty God, and for the education of the
children of this district in the doctrine and discipline of
the Church of England. Amen." A prayer was then
offered up, that the Lord would bless the undertaking, after
which the procession returned to the church, for the rest
of divine service, chaunting the 122 d Psalm.—The ser-
mon was preached by the Rev. 'l'. V. Bayne. of Man-
chester, from the Bth chapter of the first epistle of Paul
to the Corinthians, and the first verse : " Knowledge
puffeth up, but charity edifieth." At the close of the
sermon, the prayer for the church militant was offered up
and a collection made.