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were administered in Liverpool—and he had long given an
opinion that it never could be stringently administered here

rovisions could never be applied to such a population
workhouse to contain a corn-

as we had, without buildi

triunity I

enough for atown

quire a workhouse to contain as least 5000 'mole ; therefore,
he said it was impossible to work it here; but if it were
worked in any modified form or shape, it was quite clear that
the must exercise a perfect and vigilant controul over
the rules, orders, and regulations of the poor-law corn tnis-

He wished it Co be understood

attribute any blame to the parochial authorities for the delay
in the direction of the schools. Mr. Houghton had stia-

ested to him, that there had been some dispute about ti

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places, that the places had only receutly been finally approved
by the poor-law commissioners. All he (Mr. Rushton)
knew was, that an order of their own had been sent down
more than twelve months' ago, that not a brick was yet in
the ground, and that the justices had had no subsequent
order suspending the operation of that which was before
them.

Mr. EARLE.—I can explain that.
Mr. Rusirrorr, resumed. He was strongly inclined to say
nothing about those matters the details of which he had
given upon the former occasion : but as to one or two things
about himself, if the meeting would permit him, he would
say a sentence or two. He had been attacked in the public
prints for the course he had taken with respect to this mat-
ter. That he cared nothing about, every man who meddled
with, or took a share in public business must make up his
mind to be exposed in a free country like this to the fair and
proper criticism of persons conducting the public press, and
he was the last person in the world to shrink from its obser-
vation or to complain at all ; but in one or more papers,
the Liverpool Courier there was an assertion so false that he
felt it his duty to assure the magistrates of that fact. That
paper, on The very day after Mr. Hodgson and himself had
communicated with Mr. Clements, stated in an editorial
article that he was a member of the select vestry twenty
years ago, and that although he knew of these abuses he
had never thought proper to mention them—that as a fact
he bad connived at these disorders—that he had neglected
his duty in bringing them to exposure then and insinuated
that be had done so now simply because the majority of the
select vestry were gentlemen of conservative principles.
Now, he felt that that imputation upon him was false—that
it was most injurious ; and it %Nes the only one he thought it
his duty to give his proper and distinct contradiction to.
Haying said so much he legged that the recommendations of
Mr. Clements, and the letter from the
_churchwarden to the
Mayor might be read : after which he should have the
honour to submit three or four resolutions to the considera-
tions of the justices.
The TOWN-CLERK then read a letter to the Mayor,,,r,igned
" Win. Birkett and IL W. Houghton, churchwardens,' in-
closing Mr. Clement's communication. They stated that
they at first felt great difficulty in complying with the request
of the Mayor to allow Mr. Clements' instruction to be placed
in his hands, for the consideration of his brother magistrates,
in consequence of a regulation of the select vestry. On fur-
ther consideration, however, they had come to the conchs- '
sion that the magistrates and select vestry could have but
one object in view, and they therefore placed the document
in his worship's hands, requesting, as it was the original
document, it should be returned. Mr. Clements' document
was then read. It was entitled " Memorandums of sugges-
tions for the permanent improvement and temporary amend-
ment of the Liverpool Workhouse." The suggestions were
ranged under separate heads. The first recommended the
appointment of an architect for making the necessary altera-
tions in the workhouse, so as to preserve a proper classifica-
tion of the inmates. The second recommended arrange-
ments for old and infirm men, able-bodied paupers, old and
infirm woman, and able-bodied women. This classification
also contained suggestions respecting the sick, and for the
management of the probationary, wards. Third classification
contained regulations for fifteen classes of paupers, and re-
commended distinct airing-ground and other conveniences.
Fourth recommended proper provision to be made for old
and infirm people. Fifth, rooms for old and infirm men and
women, and that no class be on the ground-floor. Nos. 6,
7,8, 9, and 10 recommended various plans to be adopted for
the better maintaining of cleanliness and securing the com-
forts of the inmates. No. 11, that provision should be made
for all children above the age of maturity by the erection of
an industrial school. Under the head of " Temporary
Amendments," the document recommended improvement in
the system of management, in which were included all the
officers of the establishment. No. 16 recommended arrange-
ments to be made for placing refractory paupers in cells.
No. 17, additional conveniences to be made to each area ad•
joining the chapel. No. 18 recommends a permanent over-
looker to the quadrangle. No. 19 contains regulations
respecting uniformity of dress for the paupers. No. 20,
single beds to be provided for men and grown-up boys.
No. 21 recommended the distribution of paupers throughout
the house to be revised, with a view to reduce the number in

such wards as may be over-crowded, and render classification
as complete as circumstances will admit.
Mr. RUSHTON then said that if these recommendations
were adopted as " rules, orders, and regulations," much of
that now complained of would be remedied upon the instant.
He then moved the series of resolutions which appear in our
advertising columns, to which the reader is referred.
Mr. A. HODGSON seconded the resolutions.
A discussion followed of considerable length, in which
Messrs. HARVEY, EARLE, CASE and ACKIN took part;
after which the resolutions were unanimously adopted.

THE HIBERNIAN SOCIETIES

The subject of party processions was then discussed at
some length. in consequence of an intimation from the Hiber-
nian Society that they intended to walk on St. Patrick's Day.
T2e conduct of the Welsh, the Orangenitc, and the ship-
carpenters, in yielding to the wishes of the magistrates, was
warmly eulogised ; and it was resolved to enforce the regula-
tion adopted by the magistrates on the 2nd of July, 1842, for
the suppression of these processions, as hiving a tendency to
endanger the public peace. The meeting was adjourned
_to
that day month, unless the mayor should see fit to summon
the magistrates at an earlier period. These resolutions will
also be found advertised.

THE NEW CHURCH IN CATHERINE-STREET

This building now in progress of erection, has becOme an
object of general interest and curiosity, not only frOrn the
rich style of the architecture, and the splendour and costliness
of the masonry and interior decorations, lint from the un-
certainty abroad as to the peculiar class of religionists for
whom it is to be appropriated, a wide scope having been left
for doubt and conjecture on this point, in the absence of
authentic and distinct information from those initiated in
the apparent mystery that has hung over it since the com-
mencement of the work in 1841. We may state, however,
as a probable means of so far satisfying the curiosity excited,
that (to use the words of a gentleman connected with the
works, who politely replied to our inquiry) it is to be " A
Catholic Apostolic Church, ihat it will be dedicated not to
any particular Saint, but to the whole of the Apostles ; and
that all who have been baptized will have free admission within
its pile." A rumour has, amongst others, found pretty ge-
neral credence, that the doctrines to be promulgated at this
new place of worship will assimilate to those entertained by
the disciples of the late Edward Irving ; but our informant
would not undertake to say from his own knowledge whe-
ther this was the fact or not. Be this as it may, 60 build-
ing itself, both in design and execution—so far as it has pro-
gressed—is highly creditable.to those who originatsd it, who
appear to spare no trouble or expense in the general style and
purity of the architecture they have adopted, and in revising
and concentrating, in its elaborate details, the usages and ap.
pertenances of the ancient church; and as we have visited
the building, a few particulars of its construction even in its
present state may be acceptable to those who take in interest
in the ecclesiastical architecture of the town :
The building is in the perpendicular decorated style of Go-
thic. The eastern portion only, enclosing the choir and altar,
is all that has yet been nearly brought to completion, and is
walled off and being fitted up for public worship. The re_
mainder, raised somewhat above the base, will, however, be
proceeded with so soon as the weather will permit. The
whole edifice will be crusiformi—
about 21 feet longer than.
St. Peter's Church, and about 40 feet in width, exclusive of
the transcepts. The building stands due east and west, and,
as it is within a considerable area at the corner of two
wide streets, it will be seen to advantage from various points.
We can estimate its appearance as a whole only from that
part which is finished, from the fact that the nave will be of
corresponding richness of style, and that from between the
transcepts near the middle will rise a gothic tower, sur-
mounted by a handsome spire, the height to the top of which
will be about 200 feet. The whole is built of fine white
tooled free stone, from Bury, in this county. The east end
is quintagonal, nearly approaching, in appearance, from the
obtuseness of the angles and the number of buttresses, which
are continued all round the building, to the semicircular
form. On each side of the aisles (of the west end) there are
four handsome gothic windows, with pointed arches richly
moulded. In these—each between buttresses—there are
two perpendicular stone mullions in the same massive style
of moulding. The windows at the quintagonal altar end
are of the same height and style, but are placed two and two
together between the buttresses, with each one centre stone
mullion only. The aisles round the choir are but of one
story in elevation, there being no interior gallery. They
are roofed with slate, and within them rises, all round, other
walls of fine stone, enriched with shafts, and perforated with
numerous Gothic windows, similar to those below at the east
end. These walls are supported interiorly on lofty Gothic
clustered columns and archwork round the choir, the roof of
which, pavilioned at its eastern end (to correspond with the
angular form of the masonry), rests upon them. The roof,
covered with a bluish green slate, has more than the usual
pitch, so that it rises, from its steepness, to a great height,
resembling the piqued roofs usual in the Elizabethan style
of building. Round the tops of the walls, and between the
summits of the buttresses, there will be a band of perforated
tracery in stone. All the buttresses and shafts, too, will be
surmounted by richly carved pinnacles, and from the former
spring light flying buttresses to the bases of the pinnacles of
the inner and higher wall. These together will go far to hide
from view the roof round the aisles, and a considerable por-
tion of the higher roof over the choir, w Inch at present,
though in keeping with the ancient style of the whole, may
by some be deemed (as it now appears) somewhat unseemly.
design, though all hUrmonising, from
copiouslyop
rr
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ornamental
suwtscoeervimkpleit.ogri butyl
mouldings
ings
The stone tracery within the arches of all the windows is
massive and elaborate, and what is rather remarkable, no
one window in the whole pile, above or below, is, in this
;invariety of which the style is so
qguatre-foils, trefoils, and foliated
particular, alike in
susceptible
—lneaithe south side, and leading into the
the uniformity of the archwork, and size of the windows that
decorative doorway, forming a pointed
are intended to correspod. This tracery, indeed, com-
a which are enriched by square
ess,.or.studs, each of a different design,
projectingat rr ric nh s, c
thee pt ,
deepios
rna a m e
but appearing similar if viewed from a
sshuormrtoduinsttaiungcet.he'efulide
learn, from that of the Cathe-
dralarch terminates in a handsome finest.
s itghnes , windows
wrought areout
chieflygl d
of the roof on the east is an ornamented gilded cross, the
formbw yi t h
minuteoswhichtffa:n e Boulogne.
pd i
glasseTcea as o ft
insertedevhane taken, we
elaborate.l ead work,
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brightest, most varied, and pleasiwngiodcootivoubrusi.ng Tolhikeediensitghniss
pieces of glass are circular, and represent scriptural
subjects. Generally. however, the entire design is carried
out by means of numerous small pieces of self-colours arid
of various shapes. We e shall describe the interior of the
raheirrse;pneerso
t, variedrtld allss the
being colours,
more
building in our next.

distinction drawn between railway and
coach
an old whip. " If," said he, " you gets
comfortably
The
accidents following
b i s y
a
capsized by the road side, there you are ; but if
you gets blown up by an engine, run into a cutting, or off an
embankment, yore are your'
'f FULL DRESS !"-A French naval officer of distinction,
lately returning from a cruise in the Pacific, brought with
him, as a present to his sister, the complete costume of an
Indian princess on one of the Society Islands. It consisted
of a necklace only!

CORRESPONDENCI

THE ESSEX RING

ar journal of this da

Leels Mercury, relati

e discovery of a vain-

:on Cast

aoie antique ring, in the neigbbourhood o _
Yorkshire, on which is an oval shield, bearing the figure of
a crowned female, &c.swith the inscription "pences de moy,"
and a suggestion is thrown out that the ring in questior
might probably be the one given by Queen Elizabeth to Lon]
Essex.
In reply to the

above erroneous surmise, I beg to state
Nottingham, on her death-bed, restored the Essex
ring (as it is called) to the queen, from whom it passed into
the hands of her successor, King James, who, as a special
mark of royal favour, bestowed it on Sir Thomas Warner,
knight, lieutenant of the tower, a gallant soldier, who had

and was himself the discoverer and foun

West ludi

by letters patent under the

CharleS I
In this

of one of our

was constituted governor

nd and seal-of Kin

family the Essex ring continued as an h

family motto), and Colonel

rd Warner,.half-pay.2Gth

s the poi

:or of t

ring at the present moment

I have only further to observe, for the information of the
curious in such matters, that tre ring it
a diamond heart, set in gold, and b

ther me

device of any soit.—

our obedier

10th March, 1843

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENC

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