The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

claimed articles from among those which have been
seized. Mr. Clough arrived from London on Saturday,
and on Sunday Inspector Lund and Sergeant Whitcher,
the talented and ingenious officers of the detective depart-
ment, Scotland-yard, arrived in this town from the met-
ropolis, bringing with them four tolerably-sized packages
of plate and jewellery, no doubt the produce of robberies ;
and as it is thought not improbable that some of it had
been stolen in Liverpool, by the " suburban" and other
burglars, it will be open for inspection and identification
at the Central Police-office this morning. In the even-
ing information was conveyed to parties who have re-
cently been plundered in Liverpool and the neighbour-
hood ; and, as it is known to the polioe that Sirrell has
received several parcels from Liverpool of late, doubtless
some of the articles will be identified. The collection
includes silver spoons, forks, teapots, and other utensils,
most of which are marked with initials or crests. There
are also a number of cases and works, and signet, mourn-
ing, gem, and other rings, in great variety. Sirrell is
simply a refiner, and his shop in the Barbican has a very
unpretending and unattractive appearance. The window
is obscured by a wire blind, and the panes are of ground
glass or some such semi-opaque material, which is only
relieved by a tew lengths of gold and silver lace. His
wife died about twelve months ago, and he has an only
daughter, who is described as a beautiful girl, and just
emerging from her " teens" into the ripe maturity of
womanhood, He occupied a delightful residence in the
neighbourhood of Holloway, and drove to town in his
brougham. Among his papers a number of letters have
been found written very indifferently and misspelt. They
evidently refer to transmissions of plate, supposed to have
been the produce of robberies in all parts of the king-
dom.

On Wednesday a man named Jones was committed for
three months for an attempt to extort money from Edward
Cropper, Esq., of Dingle Bank, by means of a forged
begging petition, to which the name of the Rev. F. Parry
was fraudulently attached.

On Thursday six seafaring men were committed for
three months for plundering the wreck of the Providence.
A boy named Furniss was on Friday committed for
stealing a pair of boots from the shop-door of Mr. G.
Scott, Ranelagh-street. Mr. Rushton strongly repre-
hended the practice of shopkeepers exposing their goods
at their shop-doors within reach. Four cases which will
cost the borough £2O had been before him that week.
Charles Dillon, the keeper of Mr. Tuton's Rooms in
Lime-street, was fined £5 on Friday for allowing prosti-
tutes and disreputable characters to assemble there and
remain until three o'clock in the morning. Much dis-
turbance is created in the neighbourhood when they
break up. Mr. Rushton said the conduct of the parties
was most disgraceful, and he was determined to abolish
the nuisance in some way.

How THE MILK TRADE IS MADE TO PAY.—Three
milk dealers, named Lyner, Moore, and Gannon, were
summoned on Friday, for obstructing the public tho-
roughfare in Kaye-street, by placing milk cans on the
pathway. Lyner acted as spokesman for himself and
fellow-tradesmen, and in reply to the charge said, "Well,
what are we to do, sir ? They will not build us a milk
market." The officer said there was a place near to the
railway station assigned to the milk dealers, but they re-
fused to go there. Lyner said the place was so filthy and
dirty that no one would purchase milk if it was taken
there. Mr. Rushton : " Well, why don't you set to and
give it a good clear.ing ?—whitewash it." Lyner : "We
pay them (the railway company) well for the carriage of
the milk—three farthings a gallon." Mr. Rushton :
" Oh, you make a good thing of it, my lad." Lyner :
" We pay for the milk sixpence-halfpenny a gallon, and
sell it for sevenpence, besides paying carriage." Mr.
Rushton : " Oh, nonsense ! there is a pump conven;ent.
We know all about it." (Laughter.) Lyner: "If they
would build us a market the same as that in Lime-street."
Mr. Rushton : " You don't suppose the railway company
built the market in Lime-street ? " Lyner : " Yes."
Mr. Rushton : " Nonsense ! it was built by the Corpora-
tion, out of the public funds." Fines were imposed.

LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY BIBLE. SOCIETY

The annual meeting of this society was- held on Wed-
nesday, in the Collegiate Institution. The Lord Bishop
of Chester presided. The meeting was well attended.

The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, briefly
referred to the object of the society, whose interests they
had met to promote, and then paid a high tribute to the
memory of the late Mr. Davies, one of the joint secretaries
of the society, and then called on Dr. Raffles, the other
secretary, to read the report.
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The report stated that the annual subscriptions for the
present year amounted to £397 4s. Id., being £1 4s. 11d.
less than the subscriptions of the year preceding; but a
sum of £l5 4s. 6d. had been received since the accounts
were closed, being arrears for 1849. making a total of
£412 Bs. 7d. The donations during the year had been
£6O ls. Ild., being £49 7s. less than was obtained in
1848. The ladies' branch had contributed £44 Is. 21d.,
being in excess of the previous year. The decline was
attributed to the amount of poverty existing among the
lower classes, and the want of collectors. In addition to
the above there had been received from Prescot £56 95.,
St. Helen's £54, Southport £63 18s. Ind., Ormskirk
£46 6s. 9d., Orrell £l2 15s. Bd., Wallasey £lB 9s. I ld.,
Chowbent £4 45., Chorley £27 195., Tildesley £7 95.,
Wavertree £3O s. Bd., Scarisbrick 12s. 6d., from the
mechanics in the employ of Mr. Haigh £7 13s.P being £2
less than the previous year. The amount of sales of
books bad been £574 19s. 7d., which was £35 Os. 94d.
beyond the proceeds of the year preceding. A sum of
£B5 had been collected from the circulation of the Bible
on the continent. The Welsh branch had subscribed
£350 this year • and the total amount received by the
Auxiliary for the year 1849 was £2208 14s. Id., being
£42 7s. 2d. less than the receipts of the previous year.
The number of Bibles and Testaments distributed during
the year was 19.257, being 4848 more than the year pre-
ceding; and since the opening of the branch in 1841,
there had been 404,802 Bibles and Testaments distributed
by it.
Mr. BOURNE, one of the secretaries of the parent
society, proposed the first resolution, and in doing so
hoped that the income of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society
for the year 1850 would be far more prosperous. He was
glad to say the parent society was in a prosperous state;
its issue being 27,000 more than that of the previous year,
and during the last year there had been a continuous
stream of Bibles going out at the rate of five per minute.
(Hear.) Their income had been £2,000 more than the
previous years; and for the first quarter of the current
year £1,700 additional had been received, available for
the general objects of the association. The patronage of
her Majesty will still be continued to the society ; and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert had sent them £5O,
and requested his name to be added to the list of life
governors of the Bible Society. (Cheers.) Sixteen
thousand two hundred Bibles bad been distributed in the
Thames alone to seamen ; the same thing had been going.
on at Liverpool, Shields, Newcastle, and along the eastern
coast ; and he knew that no vessel had left this country
with emigrants but had an offer of copies of the Word
of God for the use of the emigrants. Eleven thousand
copies of the Bible had been distributed to schools brought
into operation during the last year, for affording scrip.
tural education to the youth of the country, and thirty
thousand copies had been voted for Ireland, where thou-
sands of conversions were taking place from Romanism
to Protestantism, in consequence of the reading of the
Bible there. He then referred to the operations of the
society in France, where, during the last few years, two
millions of Bibles had been received. Three thousand
to Algeria had taken with them three thousand Bibles,
and they had heard most gratifying intelligence of the
results. Bibles were sold in large quantities to the
National Guards. In Belgium they were countenanced
by the king, and forty thousand Bibles had been circu-
lated in that country. The King of Prussia, and the
King of Hanover, also countenanced the society, whilst
the Emperor of Russia had admitted 50,000 Bibles into
his dominions free of duty. In Australia the operations
of the society were carried on, and 50,000 Bibles had been
supplied to the New Zealanders. In Southern Africa
the work was going on with more than anticipated success.
In Western Africa they found a Bible Society estab-
lished, and that society paid them £39 for Bibles, and
sent them a free donation of £37. From Barbadoes they
had received, about three months ago, £2OO as a dona-
tion. After a reference to the efforts of the society in
the Polynesian Islands, be concluded by moving that the
report read be adopted and printed.
The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE, in a long and able address,
seconded the motion, which was unanimously adopted.

A collection was then made, after which a series of
resolutions were proposed and seconded by the Rev. R.
Newstead, the Rev. W. M. Falloon, Mr. J. Blackburne, the
Rev. G. Smith, the Mayor, and Mr. Adam Hodgson.
The proceedings then terminated as they had begun,
with devotional exercises.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.-At the usual weekly meeting of
this committee, held on Thursday, a letter was read from
Mr. J. M'Connochie, declining to act further in the exa-
mination of furnaces, &c., in connexion with smoke infor-
mations. Mr. Fernihough called attention to some re-
marks made at the meeting on that day fortnight, imput-
ing that swindlers were employed in the Cornwallis-street
establishment, and reference was made to a person named
J. Edwards. Mr. Godfrey explained that he meant no
reflection on the officers or the committee. The Chair-
man said Mr. Godfrey sent more recommendations than
all the members put together. Mr. Godfrey replied that
he had recommended two or three persons, but they were
respectable shopkeepers, honourable men, and not swin-
dlers. It was ultimately agreed that Mr. Ashlin should
employ extra writers in his office when required.—The
meiical officers' report for the week ending the 28th of
September shewed the number of deaths to be 204, being
an increase of four on the previous week. The tempera-
ture was 521, being 41- degrees lower than in the previous
week.—A letter from Mr. Charles Holland, expressing
his willingness to adhere to a plan proposed in 1848, for
widening Wright-street, in connexion with the continua-
tion of Mill-street to Aigburth-road, was referred to the
Finance Committee.—Mr. Lloyd moved that the engineer
prepare plans for houses and baths in High Park-street.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS IN IRELAND.—A meeting of the
promoters of these schools was held on Tuesday evening,
in St. George's Presbyterian Church, Myrtle-street; Mr.
John Adam in the chair. Dr. Gill, In a speech of great
length, pointed out the necessity of instructing the Irish
people in the truths of the gospel, more especially
through the medium of their native language. He
stated that there was at present one most flourishing
class of schools under a Belfast Ladies' Committee, of
various denominations, assisted by his distinguished coun-
tryman Dr. Edgar; another maintained by their distin-
guished countryman Mr. Dallas ; and a third which,
though not officially connected with his (Dr. Dill's)
church, was under the care of her missionaries, and su-
perintended by his brother, Mr. Allen. Wherever the
missionaries went over a district of some fifty miles dia-
meter, having Ballina, in the county of Mayo, for a
centre, hundreds flocked around them for religious in-
struction ; and as the only way to meet the demand, they
resolved on establishing a number of preaching stations
for the adults, and schools for the young. They had
thirty-four schools, with six Scripture readers, and nine
ordained missionaries, upwards of 2,000 scholars, and
several thousand adults, nine-tenths of whom, 4 years ago
were Roman Catholics, and so ignorant as scarce to know
who Jesus was—(applause)—and nothing but want of
means seemed to stand in the way of the indefinite ex-
tension of this agency. The rev. gentleman made an
appeal to the meeting in aid of the schools, and the fol-
lowing gentlemen were appointed a committee to prose-
cute the object :—The Rev. V. M. White, convener, Dr.
Chrichton, Rev. D. Fergusson, Rev. W. Smith, John
Adam, Esq., Mr. Pryde, Mr. Arnott, Mr. Reed, Mr.
Martin, Mr. Burt, Mr. M'Henry, and Mr. Gardner,
treasurer, with power to add to their number.