The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-09 00:00:00

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

Last evening a meeting of the above society was held
in the Music-hall, Bold-street, for the purpose of afford-
ing an opportunity to several clergymen of the town and
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respectably attended. Among the clergymen on the plat-
BJountleesr,, H. Cmarpenter, H. Hampton, W. W.
organ, W. Fallow), S. Fenton,
olfrw Minidd W.le Wignali, of Chorley, F. Ould, Edward
Clark, wich, Dr. Tattersliall, 1-1. Higgins, and
T. Harris, T. Harris Ilenllys, J. Crowder, T. Nolan, G.
Gibbon, Reay (curate to Mr. Butler), T. Dwyer, E.
Jones, B. A. Marshall, Badham, T. Jones, D. Ander-
son,
s,. Cragg ; and amongst the laity, we noticed the follow-
ing gentlemen .—T. B. Horsfall, John Howard, Richard
Harbord, T. Forsyth, W. Maples, R. A. Payne, T. 0.
Cooper, T. Haughton, T. Keeling, C. Cotesworth, John
Eden, W. Brown, Samuel Holmes, and Thomas Branch,
Esquires. About half-past six o'clock, upon the motion
of the Rev. Mr. CARPENTER, seconded by Mr. HOWARD,
the chair was taken by CHARLES INMAN, Esq.
The Rev. Mr. EasTuaN lc having opened the meeting with
prayer,
The CHAIRMAN said it had been thought desirable to
call the present, which was a sort of intermediate meet-
ing, to receive from their clerical friends information of
what was going on in various parts of the world. He
felt that he needed not to tell them anything, at this
stage of its proceedings, of the nature and objects of the
Church Missionary Society—a society which bad been
for the last 40 years labouring and prospering, increasing
year by year, and sending forth more and more labourers
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into the vineyard of the Lord. He should, therefere,
content himself with calling upon the Christian public
to help the society forward by all the means in their
power. and not to be weary in well doing, and with
expressing a
fervent hope that the society would go on
increasing until the whole world should know the truth
of God, and submit to His will. (Applause.)
The Rev. Mr. EWRANK then addressed the meeting,
and in the course of his speech alluded more in detail to
the special objects of the meeting. He said their simple
and undivided desire that evening was to hear statements
prepared with considerable care and attention, from se-
veral of his clerical brethren, with respect to
the missionary operations in connection with the
society. It was, in truth, an extra meeting. They
had hitherto been content to hold two meetings in the
year, at the same time with the annive) vary •, and it bad
been thought, and very wisely thought, that at those
meetings a sufficient amount of detail was not presented
to the subscribers—at least, not so much as they were
fairly entitled to and might reasonably expect. Perhaps
it was impossible it could be otherwise, for their excellent
friends, the members of the Deputation, generally thought
that there were some points which it was of great impor-
.tance to impress on the public, and to which they devoted
their principal attention; and the consequence was that
when the public came to those meetings exceedingly hun-
gry for information on missionary details they were neces-
sarily disappointed. He was sure they would not be dis-
appointed that evening, but that they would have great
cause to thank their clerical friends who had devoted so
much of their time and attention in making themselves
masters of the details. They would learn of many
successful results—of the planting of the gospel in the
minds of Heathenism, and of the desert blossoming like
the rose; and the reason why they would be delighted at
learning those details was simply because the society, like
the Pastoral Aid Society, did not send out men simply
because they were ordained, but because they believed
them to be, in addition to their ordination, such men as
Paul and Peter would approve of ; and also because the
society's matters were arranged by a committee in Lon-
don, who were actuated by the spirit of the gospel them-
selves. With all respect for bishops—(and he was quite
sure that the evangelical clergy, as a body, had shown the
very greatest and truest respect for bishops)—but, with
all respect to them, the people could not shut their
eyes, they could not avoid seeing that men were ordained
who were not fit for the sacred office of the ministry; and
this could not be helped in a large body of clergy like the
clergy of the Church of England ; but when the society
was sending out men, they first fixed upon those they
thought suitable L-they then instructed them in those
particular parts of their work in which it was necessary
they should receive instruction—they never lost sight
of them after they left those shores, but they kept up a
correspondence with them to know what they were doing
in order that they might render a proper and strict ac-
count to those who had entrusted them with the manage
ment of the funds. (Applause.)
The REv. Mr. CARPENTER next addressed the meeting
in a lengthened and deeply interesting speech. He said
it had already been stated that the principal object for
which the meeting had been convened was to communi-
cate information respecting the proceedings
If the
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ceedmis-
sionaries abroad ; and he was sure that if
the minds of the public any correct
in conveying to
statement
of their labours he should be instrumental in
kindlingin the hearts of all true christians gratitude to.
wards God and in awakening an increased interest on
behalf of the society. His task was to give some details
respecting the oldest mission of the society—the mission at
Western Africa, the head quarters of which was at Sierra
Leone. This was a spat which had been the scene of the
labours of the society from its first foundation up to the
present time ; and this spot was associated with some of
the brightest and some of the most painful events which
were revealed in the pages of missionary history. Here
hundreds and thousands of the most miserable of the
children of sorrow—the liberated Africans, had been glad-
dened by the tidings of a S viour's love, and had died full
of hope of a glorious resurie ction ; and here sonic of the
most eminent servants of Ged, some of the most devoted
missionaries of the society had fallen victims, early in
their years, to the pestilential climate. and were sleeping
in their graves. In the :aim y at S errs Le( ne the So-
ciety at present maintain-d 21 European teachers, 11 of
whom were clergymen of the Church of England, and
42 native teachers, two of whom had been admitted min-
isters of the Gospel in connexion with the Church ; and at
every town marked on the lithographed maps, which had
been previously handed to the audience, there were Christ-
ian teachers in every town the gospel of Christ was known
and that gospel had been embraced savingly, more or less,
by the inhabitants generally. Mr. Carpenter then pro-
ceeded to give an instance of the effects of the ministry
of the gospel at a town called Ki.s.y, which vas situated
on the northern part of the Peninsula, where there
was an establishment for the education of ir,t've Af-
ricans with a view to prepare them for the ministry
of the gospel. One missionary, who, on his first visit to
Sierra Leone, spent his first sahbath in Kis'ev, had writ-
ten home to say that a more delightful s.ihoath he had
never spent in Christian England—that he went to the.
missionary church and found it crowded with 900 black
worshippers—that an African clergyman preached on the
occasion, and that, after the service was over, it had
been his privilege to assist in administering the Lord's
Supper to 300 black communicants, who devotedly knelt
at the table of the Lord, and received the emblems of a
dying Saviour's love. Similar results were to be found
in other towns extending from north to south; and all
those results were to be attributed under God to the
la,hours of the Church Missionary Society. In conse-
quence of that inhuman and barbarous traffic—the slave
trade—the missionaries of the society had been compelled
in 1818 to retire from other parts of the country,
and concentrate all their strength within the colony of
Sierra Leone, where their greatest exertions were re-
quited. A few years prior to that time, Sierra Lone had
been a depot for the reception of liberated Africans—the
slaves that had been resdued from slave-ships by tl,e British
cruisers stationed along the coast for that purpose. Those
people were arriving in the colony continually, and were
located in various towns. Amongst other localities to
which some of them were sent, was a valley about five
miles from Freetown, where was an impenetrable forest,
and the governor cleared away some acres of wood, and
erected a substantial stone church, capable of accom-
modating 500 liberated Africans. After the Church had
been built, there was no minister to occupy its pulpit
for some time, until at length a devoted minister of the
name of Johnson was appointed, whose constant prayer
was, that he might be made instrumental in saving one
heathen soul. When he came to see the character of the
people amongst whom he was henceforward to labour, his
heart died within him. And it was no wonder ; for here
were savage men, gathered from twenty-two African na-
tions, who scarcely understood English, whose condition
was miserable in the extreme, many of whom were di.
seased, sickly, worn out under the oppression which they
had endured in the slave ships, and six or eight of whom
died every day. To use the language of one of the mis-
sionaries, they were more like skeletons moved by machi-
nery than living men. They were indolent and slothful:
built houses in which to worship the devil; stole the
property of their neighbours; and dug up dogs, dead
and buried, on which to feed. Johnson began his
work by visiting from house to house ; and after
some time he saw a little shaking amongst the dry
bones. He opened his church, began with a con-
gregation of nine persons, lived to see the building
crowded to excess, lived to see it five times suc-
cessively enlarged and lived to see 2,000 Africans,
which was the entire population of the town of Regent,
assembled for public worship every Sabbath. (Ap.
plause.) The consequence was, that civilization in.
creased, drunkenness and profane swearing were unknown,
and visitors came from Europe, Africa and America, to
see the blessed results. Mr. Carpenter concluded by
relating one or two instances of personal religion among
the converted heathen, and by stating that he could
continue at much further length to detail the triumphs
of the Gospel in various other parts of VC estern Africa.
The Rev. Mr. BARKER next addressed the meeting.
He said it would be his business to carry them in
mind and information to the East Indies—to point out
to them the ruins of a once noble temple, and some of
the more favoured children of Sheen, those who once
possessed the light of divine truth. He alluded to the
Syrian Christians, who received their bishops for centu-
ries from Antioch. it appeared that about the year 900
a body of Christians existed on the coast of Malabar, to
whom the emperor granted rank and privileges which
raised them to the highest stations in his empire, with the
exception of one class of the inhabitants—the Brahmins.
At one time the King of Cosheen depended for his safety
against the aggressions of a neighbouring prince on 50,000
Christian soldiers. The people were also much superior
in their domestic relations to the Hindoos. They held
the Athanasian Creed with some few omissions, they
denied the supremacy of the Pope of Rome, and re-
pudiated the worship of the Virgin Marv, their final
appeal being to God himself. But their faith had un-
happily too little effoet upon their lives, and they entered
into fierce contensions, and many superstitious practices
crept in amongst them. The Word of God was locked

up from them in an unknown tongue ; for though once
the language spoken in Jerusalem, it was known only to
the priests. About the year 1500, a Port uzuese adventurer,
Vasgo de Gama discovered them, and caused a history of
them to he published on his return to Europe. He returned
in 1501. and the king belt g at war,soingratiated himself with
him in the name of his government, that he sent through
him as a present to the Port uguse monarch the sceptre that
had been wielded by a former celebrated king of that
country. The speaker then went into turther interesting
historical details of the vie.situdes in the prtaress of
Christianity, derived front Syrians, on the M:,,labar
coast; the in..ylect of the P,rtuguese for 45 years ; the
subsequent i ietr, durtion of their doctrines by
establishing r: G .a in 1545 ; the fifty years of
persecution •,t tc• iiist followed ; the reaction of
the Syrian Chri, oo drove the Rowan Catholics,
who had branc' r iii to Cosheen to Goa; the 100
years of neglect &lowed, and the subsequent suc-
cessful efforts made to bring them back to true Chris-
tianity. Foremost in the good work was the noble-
hearted Claudius Buchanan. who had left a religious
establishment in India to visit that country, and who
afterwards warmly interested himself in its behalf. Mr.
Bailey afterwards printed with his own hands copies of
the Bible and Prayerbook, he himself casting the types.
He fell a sacrifice to his 2.!Fil in the cause. The speaker
continued his missionary narrative up to the present
time, detailing the labours of the devoted Bailey, Norton,
Dawson, and others, the first of whom still lives, having
endured the climate for twenty-six years. Five English
churches had now risen on the shores of Malabar, in hich
our missionaries ministered. He then noticed several
other stations in the neighbourhood, furnishing gratifying
details of their rapid progress and increasing success, and
relating many anecdotes of the natives, showing the be-
nign influence of religion amongst them, and sat down
amidst loud cheers.

The Rev. Mr. JONES rose to propose a vote of thanks
to the committee for giving so agreeable a treat to the
meeting as they had that evening enjoyed, a treat most
seasonable at such a solemnly festive season as they had
just passed. He made a strong appeal to the audience in
behalf of the association.
The Rev. Dr. TATTERSILILL seconded the motion in
an appropriate address, adding in the vote of thanks the
names of the two gentlemen who had taken such pains to
instruct the meeting on the state of the localities alluded
to.

The CHAIRMAN put the resolution in a brief and im-
pressive manner, and it was carried by acclamation.
A collection was then made, during which a hymn was
sung. A prayer followed, after which the assemblage
dispersed, it being understood that a future meeting
other gentlemen would address them, on the success of
other missions under the association in different parts of
the globe.

THE HUBARD GALLERY still continues to attract great
attention—an attention that bas induced Mr. Norman,
the principal artist, to prolong his stay for a :hurt time.
At this art of paper sculpture, we have never seen any to
equal his productions—vk h ch are not only true iu points
of outline, but finished with the delacacy o; a flue
miniture.—See advt.

SMITH'S LIVERPOOL CONVEYANCE LIST. -We
strongly commend Mr. Smith's list to the attention of
merchants, forwarders of goods, and travellers, as the
most complete, and perspicuous monthly epitome of the
public conveyance of Liverpool, by land and water. The
arrangement of the information is admirable, and the list
deserves a place in every establishment connected with
any substantial
the transit trade of this port.--See advt.
LONDON WINE SHADES.—An establishment of a same.
what novel character, called the London Wine Shades,
was opened last night. In point of decorations and
fittings-hupr
out of the metropolis. It is under the management of
Mr. G. Wood, a first-rate connoisseur in wine, who is
costly character,,
direct from town. A visit, to those who wish to c•ijoy
comfort with excellence, will give the greatest satisfaction.
—See advt. ltle ro, fit wils'ienho at
re of
equalled the
by most
establishment and

DEATH Fr OM AP 3PL qoufestthewahody o a h
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veaterd,
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res'cling at No. 13,
Trowbridge-street. Deceased, who was much addicted to
7hda y gti!l h
z.Lfloreet, Mr.
w e Curry,
of a butcher,
drinking, and did not always go to bed when intoxicated,
went up stairs on Sunday night, and sat down on a box.
Her husband had gone to bed and fallen asleep. When
he awoke in the morning he found her dead. The surgeon,
who had known the deceased, was of opinion that she bad
died from apoplexy, arising from excessive drinking; and
the jury returned a verdict accordingly.
FORGERY IN GLASGOW.—On Tuesday last an order
was received here from Glasgow to apprehend John Potter,
of the firm of John and James Potter, slaters, plasterers,
and stucco-makers, di Seel-street, on a charge of having
committed an extensive forgery, upon one ~f the Glasgow
banks, about twelve months sirce. The duty "as as-
signed to constable Lloyd, who, after having arrested him,
conveyed him to Glasgow, in which town the forgery is
alleged to have been committed, where he was brought
before the magistrates, on Thursday, and sent for trial at
the next assizes. It appears, that, shortly after the per-
petration of the act, the ai,,used took up his residence
in Liverpool, where he was carrying on an extensive
business up to the period of his arrest.
FORGING A CHECK ON A BANK, AND CONSEQUENT
OBTAINING OF A LARGE SUM.—On Saturday, at tl e
P,,lice-court, a young man, named John Evans, was
placed before Mr. Rushton, on suspicion of being im-
plicated in the felonious obtaining of £6OO from a bank
in Belfast. It appeared that the prisoner was the com-
panion of another young man, a clerk, in Belfast, who
had presented a forged check and obtained the money.
Information was sent to the police-officers in this country,
with a description of the parties, and the prisoner was
consequently apprehended in this town on suspicion.
In his pos-e sion were f,und a number of doubloons and
tank-notes, the former of which he had probably got in
exchange I ere for other notes. As the case did not fall
w thin the jurisdiction of the court, the prisoner was or-
dered to be sent in custody to Belfast.

THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.—This greatly improved
place of ainn,ement was ak.a' n numerously and respectably
attended during ti e past week. The piece of the " Lion
Gls( w." in which Mr. Carter exhibi-s his fine animals,
was exceedingly well got up, the closing see e indeed pre-
senting a gorgeous sp-ctacle of a Ronan amphitheatre,
with a triumphal procession, including the whole strength
of the company, a great number ( f horses, and the lions,
tigers, &c. in the hack ground. The sc,nes in the circle
have been varied and intere,ting. Mademoiselle Lcuise,
Mons. Ferdinand, Madame Klatt, and others, are pecu-
liarly graceful and daring riders. L.st night there was
an entire change, which will be continued until Friday.
The performances Dien with the " Son of the Desert,
in which Mr. C. Freeman, the American Giant, wil
make his arpeirance. Scenes in the circle f tllow, and
the whole w 11 conclude with " The Greek Renegade,'
interspersed with combats of h )rse and foot, military evo-
lationi, &c. This evening the performances are by desire
and under the patronage of the Earl of Sefton. On
Thursday, at one o'clock, there will be another juvenile
performance.—See advt.

THEATRE ROYAL.—The performances at this theatre
hive continued to attract bumper houses. In addition to
Madame Celeste, the manager, the company has been
aided during the past week by the appearance of Mr.
Webster, her fellow lessee; and, by their joint efforts, the
beautiiddrarna of " Victor and Hortense" has been pro-
duced, with every assistance which excellent acting and
fine scenic illustration could supply. In "The Pretty
Girls of Stilberg" Mr. Webster presented, in his own
person, the most excellent resemblance of the Emperor
Napoleon which we can conceive. We cannot term him
"every inch an Emperor"—for, in fact, he is smiewhat
too lengthy for an effigy of " le petit corporal ;" but in
his dress and general features, and especially in his mas-
sive forehead and the management of his hair, he may be
called the best living representative of the pers m of the
Emperor of the French. In addition to this attractive
impersonation, Madame Celeste has delighted a succession
of crowded audiences with a review of her excellently
trained regiment of female warriors, whose evolutions
would put to the blush those of the crack companies of
many a military martinet.. Celeste took a benefit on Fri-
day—a bumper—when, in addition to the performances
of the week, the farce of " The Double-bedded Room"
was introduced ; and, on Saturday, a juvenile night was
given—" The World oi Dreams" being performed first, to
the evident delight of the young folks, whose wondering
admiration of the gorgeous scenery with which it abounds,
we shall not attempt to pcurtray.
TWELFTH NlGHT.—Saturday last being " twelfth
night," the confectioners' shops in this town were, as
usual, brilliantly illuminated ; and in the windows were
exhibited large Christmas or twelfth cakes. At Mr.
Holt's, in Castle-street, and Mr. Horsfall's, in Church-
street, there was in each shop a large circular cake,
weighing 130 lbs., very elegantly frosted and ornamented.
tikoes of
varyingthe o tihne
weightfrom 60 t
confectionersals:
2 do lbs.ispla Butsmalleryedt
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cake of cakes, the great leviathan, the monster cake,
which was capacious enough to swa' llow up all the rest,
was exhibited by Feeney Brothers, St. James'-street.
According to the account given in a contemporary, " it
weighed one ton, or 2,240 lb., and contained twelve solid
gold rings, of the value of half a guinea each, which they
had purchased from Mr. Bott, jeweller, of 67, St. James'.
street. This cake, which is about 164 feet in circumfer-
ence, and 2 feet 4 inches in depth upon an average, oc-
cupies the whole of the window, the wooden palings
and part of the gas-flttings having been removed for
the purpose of affording it ample accommodation.
In the centre, an antique tower, of lofty dimensions,
and composed of coloured sugar, stands prominently
in sight; and we were told that the tower, which was
built and fashioned by an eminent hand from the Irish
metropolis, occupied the long period of five weeks to
raise it from its foundations to its summit, and that
its workmanship and materials have been valued at
five guineas. At the base of the tower, from which the
frosting inclined gradually to the circumference, a fox-
hunt is represented, with the hunters mounted on their
chargers, and the hounds in full cry. The remainder
of the surface is covered with a variety of figures of various
sizes and share. We were curious enough to inquire the
quality and quantity of the ingredients of which this enor-
mous cake was composed, and were informed that it con-
sisted of 34 cwt. of butter, 34 cwt. of soft sugar, 94 cwt.
of currants, 1,300 eggs, 14 cwt. of flour, 1 cwt. of citron,
2 gallons of brandy, and 14 cwt. of loaf sugar. It was
not of course baked entire but in twelve parts."

A RADICAL'S OPINION OF THO IRISH QUESTION.--
We have no spirits at this time to speak of Ireland. We
anticipate a protracted and irr tiling trial ; and, if the go-
♦ernment has the rare god fortune to obtain a verdict,
grand stroke of graciousness and magnanimity, in the par-
don of, at least, the principal culprit, (if he should ever be
even sentenced ;) and then England and Ireland will stand
on no better terms than before.—Tait, for January.