The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

may not 1:e lost upon a ministry to whom is co m

witted, we do not hesitate to say, at the present
moment, the circulation of the great truths of the
gospel, and the civilzation and the peace of the
world.

We have abstained hitherto from referring to the
controversy raised by the attempt of a few indiscreet
admirers of Mr. William Rathbone, to foist upon
the acceptance of the Council, or rather, perhaps, to
throw upon it the ungracious task of refusing a por-
trait of that gentleman to be placed in the Council
Chamber. We had no wish to enter upon an exa-
mination of Mr. Rathbone's claims to such an ho-
nour ; and we trusted that his friends would see the
propriety of withdrawing a proposal, the only result
of which must be to generate party and even per-
sonal bitterness. To such a course, however, they
have not been induced to submit. On the contrary,
at the Council meeting of Saturday last the question
was pressed to a division, and the portrait was re-
jected by a majority of $7 to 18.
And such, we are satisfied, ought to have been
the fate of a proposition to glorify an extinct politi-
cal partisan, who, whatever may be his private amia-
bility of character, is, at all events, Me man of the
entire Whig par y in Liverpool, who has struggled
for years to earn, and has succeeded in earning, un-
popularity amongst the Conservative majority of his
fellow townsmen. If the admission of his portrait
was asked as a tribute of respect for his public cha-
racter, with what consistency could a Conservative
council, who viewed that character with dislike, ra-
ther than respect or love, grant such a demand. If
the portrait was to be admitted as a work of art
merely, the same request might have been made for
a clever portrait of any other man, however disre-
putable his character or humble his station. The
council room is not a picture gallery; and if its walls
are bare of adornment, we do nut think that the
portrait of William Rathbone, however splendid the
robes of mayoralty in which he is painted, and how-
ever magnificent the gilding of its frame, would be
very generally considered an ornamental feature in
that locality. Some people even might go so far as
to think there is already acidity enough in the com-
position and the debates of the council itself, with-
out having an impersonation of vinegar upon its
walls.

Mr. Blackburn, we find, contends that the por-
trait ought to have been received, " not because of
Mr. Rathbone's general character, but because of
his personal worth and high honour whilst filling
the civic chair." We have nothing to say against
his personal worth ; we have as little to say against
his " high honour whilst filing the civic chair." We
don't know that the chair in question sustained any
lustre in the eyes of the world from its occupation
by the ex member for we don't remember how many
wards. But even Mr. Blackburn's argument does
not satisfy us that the council was wrong in the
course which it pursued ; for haw many of its mem-
bers were witnesses of the high honour in ques-
tion ? Of the sixty-three members now com-
posing the Council no less than forty never
enjoyed that gratification ; and it is scarcely to be
supposed that these gentlemen would trouble them-
selves to run up and down the borough, to pick up,
from the rejected of the last three or four years,
their notions of Mr. Rathbone's " high honour,"
or any other of his assumed or real virtues.
The fact is, the whole affair was a party move,
and, as such, it was very properly defeated by the
conservative majority of the council.
Besides, if the testimonial originated in a desire
to express gratification at the manner in which Mr.
Rathhone discharged the duties imposed upon him
as chief magistrate, how happens it that the matter
has been suffered to remain dormant for five years,
and is now only mooted on the eve of a municipal
election ?

The latest particulars connected with the present
important proceedings in Ireland, will be found de-
tailed in our third page. We shall receive this
morning, by the first mail, a narrative of what
transpired yesterday in Dublin, which we shall give
in an early second edition.

CONNEXION BETWEEN THE PRICE OF FOOD
AND OF LABOUR.-Our contemporary, the Mer-
cury, in one of his wise replies to correspondents,
remarks that the above question " lies in a nutshell."
There are nuts, however, which it is not every body
has strength enough to crack; and in his attempt
upon this shell, our contemporary must take care
that he does not break his teeth. It has puzzled
stronger-headed people than himself, and will pro-
bably puzzle many more. In his own flippant way,
he remarks, in the paragraph before us, " Not only
have we seen high wages when food has been cheap,
and low wages when food has been dear, but there is
no getting over the fact that, if large supplies of
foreign food were obtained, in addition to all that is
raised at home, it must be paid for in goods of some
kind. To produce these, extra labour must be had—
if extra labour, more constant employment, would
first arise, and then higher wages, so that every work-
man would be in better circumstances." It would take
a tolerably large nutshell to hold the proof of this
very off-hand tissue of assertion, supposition, and
illogical conclusion. We shall not, however, re-
quire such proof at the hands of the Mercury, for
the very obvious reason that he knows as much
only of the subject as the goose or the wood and
iron that furnished him his pen. To one question,
however, he may, perhaps, have brains enough to
furnish us an answer, and we give him that question
in unmistakeable type. IF A LOW PRICE OF FOOD
WILL GIVE TO THE LABOURER BETTER WAGES,
AND CONSEQUENTLY INCREASE THE COST OF

ALL GOODS OF WHICH LABOUR IS A COMPONENT

PART, HOW IS THE MANUFACTURER TO BE
ENABLED TO COMPETE WITH THE FOREIGNER ?
Of course, we only expect, in reply, A QUIBBLE,

We understand that Robert Henderson, Esq., wilt
become the conservative candidate for St. Peter's Ward.

"ST. JUDE'S MATIN BELL."—Under this "ominous"
head the Mercury of Friday elaborates the following
paragraph :—" One within Sound of the Bell' complains,
in sensitive, but gentlemanly terms, of the disturbance of
his morning slumbers by the long continued tolling of St.
Jude's prayer bell, before six o'clock in the morning; and
he feelingly appeals to the parties concerned to abate a
nuisance by no means necessary in a town of clocks, and
watches. He thinks, moreover, that though people have,
of course, a right to attend prayers at any hour they please,
they are hardly justified in thus loudly proclaiming their
zealous piety, to the annoyance of others who are most in
need of

`Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.'

How vastly poetical is our Mercurial friend, not only at
the close, but throughout this paragraph—which, being
one of his best, be sets in " nonpareil!' We feel quite
certain, that were it not for that innate modesty that
hedges around our sapient contemporary, and which pre-
vents him on many occasions from quoting " wise saws
and modern instances," he would have added, in the words
of Rousseau, when he was within " sound " of some un-
pleasant practitioners of " Bob Majors,"—
" Ye rascally ringers ! ye pltuzues of these lands !
Would you had round your necks what you hold in
your hands I"
Now, what will our readers and the public think of the
discretion of the Mercury when we inform them, that
" St. Jude's is guiltless of a matin bell' "
That, in fact, the bell he, or " One within Sound of the
Bell," is annoyed by, is tolled at his own pet Popish
convent, over the way ! Shame to Romanism, and espe-
cially to " the ladies thereof,', that they should so disturb
the repose of their champion, or any of his readers. But
we beg pardon of the " fair," for we do not think th•
belles to blame. Our contemporary—always asleep him-
self—communicates so strong a soporific sympathy to his
perusers, that we defy even a " ding-dong' from the great
bell at Moscow to rouse them. Besides, the Mercury
may exclaim with the jolly old friar,
" At ' matin "tis rare
I am there to say pray'r ;
And out when shines Helper,
I'm rare at vesper."

We are bound in courtesy, however, to suppoFe that our
contemporary has received a letlerahout the bell; but we
advise him not to meddle the Belles Lettres again!

THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN AND THE
BROKERS OF LIVERPOOL•

Our contemporary, the Manchester Guardian, is never
slo x in seizing hold of any opportunity which offers of
having a fling at the merchants, the brokers, the ware-
houses, the docks, the corporation, or anything else which
is of Liverpool. The very mention of our town seems to
stir up all the bile and acidity of his temper, which forth-
with discharges itself from his pen in a stream of mingled
misrepresentation, distortion of facts, sly inuendo, and
jesuitical insinuation, intended to blacken the character of
our port, too often at the expense of truth, and always at
the expense of candour.
An instance of this propensity has occurred during the
past week. It appears that, amidst the multifarious trans-
actions in our cotton market a case has by some means
come to the ears of our contemporary, or his reporter, in
which some tenth or twentieth rate firm has been guilty of
something of a fraudulent character ; and in noticing the
fact the Guardian has, in his usual style, taken the op-
portunity of at least insinuating that similar fraudulent
transactions are common in Liverpool except " so far as
respectable brokers are concerned." So exquisitely je-
suitical—so beautifully framed to be conveniently backed
out of—is the wording of the charge in question, that we
shall not trouble ourselves with giving it at length, but
content ourselves with stating, that so damaging has its
tendency appeared to the whole body of the brokers of
Liverpool—than whom a committee of the House of
Commons has declared that there existed not a body of
mercantile men more strictly correct and honourable in
their transactions—that they have felt themselves bound
to enter immediately upon an examination of the real
facts of the transaction out of which the charge of the
Guardian was tortured. Immediately upon the appear-
ance of the Guardian on Saturday, a requisition to Mr.
\Wrigley, the chairman of the Brokers' Association, was
got up on 'Change, and at one o'clock a meeting was held,
at which it was decided that the secretary of the associa-
tion should proceed to Manchester, and demand from the
editors of the Guardian the author and the facts of the
case upon which their injurious paragraph was founded.
Such satisfaction was, we need scarcely say, not accorded
at once ; but a promise was given that the matter would
be taken into consideration. Up to half-past one o'clock
no communication from the Guardian was received ; and
at two o'clock a meeting of the association was held at
Messrs. Wrigley and Son's offices, which was numerously
attended. At this meeting, a firm suspected to be re-
ferred to by the Guardian laid before the body a number
of letters explanatory of their transactions, whicb letters,
however, not being deemed satisfactory, a committee of
five gentlemen engaged in the trade was formed, for the
purpnse of thoroughly sifting the facts of the whole affair.
We need scarcely say that there is in Liverpool no such
" practice of making erroneous declarations common in
Liverpool " as that against which the Guardian cautions
the Manchester public; and we half suspect that the
Guardian was perfectly well aware of the fact when he
penned his mischievous and venomous remarks.

MANCHESTER ATHENAUII BAZAAR.—The produce
of this effort to wipe off the debt of £3OOO which hangs
over the Manchester Athenteum, made up to the close on
Saturday night was as follows :—Received from admis-
sions £268 1 la. Sd.; sales, £1079 12s. 7d. ; exhibition of
cartoons, £54 Is. 10J. ; donations, £343 ; proceeds of
soiree, £75; in all, £lB2O 12s. Id. The nett proceeds
are expected to be nearly £l6OO.

ADVANCE OF WAGES IN THE MANUFACTURING
DISTRICTS.—The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday
notifies that Mr. William Threlfall, of Addingham Low
Mills, advanced the wages of his weavers sixteen per cent.
on Thursday last. Most happily do we wish to see an
example so good extensively followed. Manufacturers
are prompt enough in screwing down wages; but scarcely
so active in getting them up again.

COMMITMENT.—On Wednesday, Ellen Davies, a char-
woman, was charged at the police court with having stolen
and disposed of for sale as waste paper, sundry leaves of
mercantile books, invoices, and other accounts, from the
office of Mr. Cyrus Morrall, while she was occasionally
employed to char out. The purchaser was a Mr. Tur-
ner, provision dealer, whom Mr. Rushton reprimanded
for buying the papers (some of which bore the name of
the owner upon them) without first making enquiry. The
case was proved, and the prisoner was committed for trial
at the sessions.

Tna Qualm DOWAGER.—This illustrious lady, deeply
attached to the protestant faith, is one of the most gene-
rous of her sex in aid of church extension, and of the
erection of schools for the scriptural education of the
children of the poor. Every week seems to add to the
splendid roll of her Majesty's contributions. It is with
no small degree of satisfaction that we this day have to
announce that her Majesty has given the sum of £2O
towards defraying the expenses of enlarging St. Mary's
Church, Kirkdale. The large number of additional
sittings to be obtained by this enlargement, of which it is
intended to appropriate 310 for the use of the poor, will,
we trust, induce many of our wealthy and generous towns-
men to add their names to the list of subscribers, that the
alterations may be commenced without further delay.
RAILWAY NUISANCE.—At the police-court on Friday,
Mr. Rushton ordered a fellow (who it was stated was one
of a gang of desperadoes who usually infest the railway
station in Lime-street, and are known under the cogno-
men of " mancatchers,") to pay los. and costs, for having
resisted the police when ordered to move nff. It appeared
that the prisoner was one of a knot of blackguards who
are in the habit of blocking up the gateway of the railway
station, where they are continually on the look-out for
strangers, whom, as soon as they set foot on ground, they
importune and nearly drag out of their habiliments, under
the pretence of finding them comfortable lodgings. The
object is apparent, these scamps having a commission from
a parcel of low crimps in the town for bringing strangers
to their domiciles. Once in the hands of these cormarants,
an embargo is set either upon their persons or their lug-
gage, and it is seldom they have the means to extricate
themselves before exorbitant sums have been extracted
from them.

THZ FUNDS: SATURDAY EVENING.—ConsoIs have
further improved to-day, with a steady business, and now
stand at 95/ to / for money and the account. The other
English securities were equally well supported, notwith-
standing the shortened hours of dealing. The last price
of the Three per Cents. Reduced was 941 to 4 ; Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1011 to 4; New Three-
and-a- Half per Cents., 1021 to 4; Long Annui,ies, 121 i
Bank Stock, 179 to 1130 ; Exchequer Bills. 625. to 645.
premium ; India Bonds, 765. to 78s. premium ; and India
Stock, 269 to 270. Spanish Actives have been as high as
20/, and the Three per Cents. as high as 291; but they
left off 20 to k, and 284 to 4 respectively. The business
is chiefly speculative, and the public have taken but small
share in the late dealing. Mexican is flat at 304 too ex.
div. ; the Deferred, 91 to 1 ; Danish, 85 to 86; Brazilian,
72 to 74 ; Belgian, 105 to 106; Chilian, 98 to 100 ; Peru-
vian, 20 to 21 ; and Portuguese Converted, 434 to 4,14.

DEATH OF M. THOMAS BEAN.—We regret to say,
that on Tuesday evening last, in the prime of life, Mr.
Thomas Bean, the proprietor of the Liverpool Albion,
expired at Paris. We stated, a few weeks ago, that an
accident had befallen him on his way to the French me-
tropolis for the purpose of obtaining surgical advice—he
having for a considerable time laboured under a distress-
ing malady ; and we lament to say, that doubtful as were
before his chances of recover), the injury he received so
aggravated his complaint, that it terminated fatally. Mr.
Bean, by riaid application to business, became the archi-
tect of his own fortunes. He originated t Albion about
eighteen years ago. He conducted it with an ability and
a perseverance that ensured success; and though we were
throughout adverse to the politics he promulgated, our
occasional intercouse with him ever impressed us with an
assurance that he was an upright and honourable trades-
man. The deep regrets of his immediate frienas on his
demise bear ample testimony to his private worth.

REVISION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY LIST Or ELEC-
TORS FOR THE BOROUGH.—On Thursday the Revision
Court was opened by T. H. Marshall, EQq., one of the
revising barristers, in the Sessions-house. The attendance
ass but small compared to former years. No objections
were brought forward by either party, and about sixty
claims bad to be disposed of. Mr. Moss and Mr. P.
Wright appeared for the conservative interest, and Mr.
Snowball and Mr. Berry for the Whig-radicals. No case
of peculiar interest arose, and the result was that the
claims of 19 of the latter, and nine of the former, were
allowed. Some discussion arose about the vote of Mr.
Ellis, of Essex-street, Toxteth, which was allowed. The
objection was that he had not paid his taxes. It was
proved, however, that he had gone to the office and ten-
dered £5 to pay his taxes in due time. The parties re-
ceived what was due, but did not take the amount of the
assessed taxes. Mr. Ellis called frequently but could not
find the collector of that tax. Watson, the overseer of
Toxteth-park, was reprimanded for the manner in which
he had made out the list of voters. Mr. Berry said it was
a general rule in that court to place no reliance on the
books of Toxteth-park, and not to take them in evidence.
His friend Mr. Wright would bear him out, he believed,
in that. Mr. Wright said he would not go quite so far as
that, but, certainly, there were great reasons for com-
plaint. The barrister considered the tender of the money
sufficient, and allowed the vote.
NEWSPAPER MONOPOLY BY THE QUEEN'S PRINTER.
—ln an article upon the subject of the office of the
Queen's printer a contemporary—the Age and Argus—
has the following remarks :—" Desirous, poor man, to
turn an honest penny, Mr. Spottiswood used, during his
reign over Old England, to let out ' so many columns of
matter' at ' per lot'—supplying some metropolitan and
some provincial papers with ready composed news, thus
evincing a spirit of monopoly an. free trade mixed, which
was irreconcilable with any interests but those of " the
Queen's printer.' He monopolised the printing that
would have otherwise employed many scores of composi-
tors, whilst he kept up a free trade in newspapers, by un-
derselling his neighbours, and establishing local prints on
a cheap and nasty' principle. In this way he supplied
with sixteen columns weekly, the Dover Telegraph, Essex
Standard, Windsor Journal, Liverpool Times, Farmer's
Journal, Conservative Journal, Scc., le. ; but the system
has choked itself, and Spottiswode and his Lion no longer
represent Old England or the New England system,
which they tried, and which so signally failed." We be-
lieve that such has been the practice of Mr. Srottiswode
towards more than one paper published in the metropolis
and its immediate neighbourhood ; but we think we can
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LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY SOCIETY FOR PRO-
MOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST THE
JEWS.

The twenty-fourth anniversary of the above society
took place last evening, at the Amphitheatre, Great Char-
lotte-street. Shortly after the doors were opened, the
house was crowded in every part. The following gentle-
men we observed on the platform :
Bev. Alexander Alcock, of Waterford, Rev. Godfrey
Massie, of Limerick, the Revs. Hugh M`Neile, J. H.
Stewart, Wm. Rawson, G. T. Driffield, John Jones, F.
Parry, D. Stewart, F. Nolan, F. Ould, W. Falloon, C.
Hesketh, A. Knox, H. Hampton, 11. Davies, B. A. Mar-
shall, T. France, J. Bavlee, W. Butler, H. Carpenter,
Thos. Dwyer, H. Coowbes, .T. Cordeaux, B. A. Chal-
mers, C. Boutflower, T. Higgins, D. James, W. Hughrs,
J. R. Connor, B. Morgan, Chas. Badham, W. Maynard,
Geo. Gibbons, Robt. Walker, Geo. Dover, —. Cragg.
Also present—Messrs. Chas. Boutfiower, Chas. Inman,
T. B. Horsfall, Jas. Parker, Wm. Brocklebank, T. Ander-
son, John Howard, Wm. Maples, T. 0. Cooper, John
Eden, T. Forsyth, H. Webster, C. Cotesworth, Geo.
Gurden, Fairclough, Shepherd, R. A. Payne, J. K.
Rounthwaite, and Keeling, of Runcorn.

At about half-past six o'clock, the Rev. J. H. Stewart
took the chair. He said that they had assembled to pro-
mote a great and glorious cause. The Society for Pro-
moting Christianity among the Jews was founded upon
the plain command of our blessed Saviour, " Go ye and
preach the Gospel to every creature ; " and until it could
be proved that the Jew was not a descendant from the
fallen Adam, and that he was not a being who required
a Saviour's assistance, it was their duty, as it was their
privilege, to inform him that it was a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that " Christ Jesus came into
the world to save sinners, even the chief of them." The
salvation of the Gentile was bound up in that of the Jew.
He trusted all present felt a deep interest as to the fulfil.
ment of the time when Jew and Gentile should become
one fold under one shepherd. (Hear, hear.) After ex-
pressing his regret at the absence of the President, the
Chancellor of the Diocese, the rev. gentleman resumed
his seat amidst the most enthusiastic cheering.
The Rev. H. S. JOSZPH then proceeded to read the
Report. The report alluded in terms of gratitude to the
Mission at Jerusalem, and to the establishment of an
institution in this town for the reception of enquiring
Jews, where the poor anxious enquirers sae cared for,
watched over, and sheltered from the storms of' the world.
The aggregate amount of contribntions fo.l the year is
£25,066 2s. 6d., being an increase on the preceding year
of upwards of £3OO. During the past year four boys and
twelve. girls have been admitted into the Hebrew school
in London, where there are now forty-seven boys and
forty girl's. From the Hebrew college five students have
been nominated to stations, three of whom are of the
house of Israel. Four have proceeded to the Holy Land,
and the fifth will set out immediately for Smyrna. The
Rev. H. S. Joseph has been actively engaged in ♦isiting
the Auxiliaries in different parts of the kingdom, and
pleading the cause of the society, and Mr. Lazarus has
endeavoured to improve the favourable opportunities
which Liverpool presents for intercourse with the Jews.
Mr. BOUTTLOWiII, candidate for Abercromby Ward,
then announced that the amount of contributions and
collections from March 31, 1842, to March 31, 1843, was
£767. Ils. 6d., being an increase over the preceding year
of £39.

The Rev. T. S. GRIUSHAVI said, he had been in the
habit for, he believed. no less than 30 years of addressing
meetings on those great objects that appeal to the emo-
tions of every awakened conscience; but he had never
addressed a meeting at which there was a greater number
of clergy and other friends to the Jewish cause than was
to be seen on the present occasion. He joined in that
expression of regret which had been uttered by his excel-
lent friend the Chairman ; for were the gentleman alluded
to present, much information might be afforded to the
meeting as to the progress of their cause during the last
year. He was sure that the collection of £760 was a
most gratifying proof of the interest felt by the town
of Liverpool in all that related to the society. He
remembered a remark that was made to him in his
early years, namely, that they should never make
comparisons, and pet haps with the warning re-echoing in
his ear he ought to profit by it, but when he considered
the great population of Liverpool, when he bore in mind
how their ports presented to the eye of the traveller ves-
sels that navigated every sea, and the extent of their com-
merce, when he remembered that Bath was not distin-
guished by any commercial privileges, and that in that
city last year was presented to the treasurer of the society
£l5OO, he would with all courtesy state that an increase
of £4OO instead of the sum that had been mentioned
might well be made. They had now 60 missionaries, 40
were jewish converts. and of that number there were not
less than 10 jewish clergymen. He could not contem-
plate the result of the labours of the society for the last
30 years without astonishment and without exclaiming
" what hath Goa done." Not less than 4000 jews had
been baptized into the faith of Christ. He would beg to
offer a word or two respecting that temple which was to
be erected by British liberality for the promotion
of the jewish object on Mount Sion. The jewish'
governor had given an order that the work should Ise
suspended. Sir Stratford Caaning, however, a warm
friend to the society, and their ambassador in Con.
star tinople, had dune every thing that could be done,
and there was reason to anticipate that the building
would be carried on, and that the British people would
have reason to rejoice as regards the completion of an un-
dertaking in which they had taken so deep and affectionate
an interest. He knew well the claims that Jerusalem had
on the Church of England, and the church would bear in
mind that there was no place in the whole civilised world
were Christianity presented a form so dissimilar from
that which was presented in the bible as in Jerusalem.
The Jew in the East regarded all Christians as idolators,
because he never saw Christianity presented to him in
any other form than that of gross idolatry, and of extreme
superstition. The assemblage he had now the pleasure of
addressing was one of protestants,—(cheers)—he looked
at it in that light, because he considered that the
appellation of protestants was identified with the title
of Christians, and he asked Lis friends before and
around him, should Jerusalem, the place where the
Saviour gave eyes to the blind, hearing to the deaf, and
raised the dead to life—the place where He died, where
He was buried, where He rose again—should it be lost
sight of? Should not the ('hurch of England plant true
Christianity in a country where the doctrines of God were
turned into the doctrines of man? Wauld she so far
forget her high doctrines as to allow the traveller to say,
there is the Latin Church, there is the Greek Church,
there is the Armenian Church, there is the Coptic Church,
there is every church except the Church of England. He
thanked God that that never woi Id be said. An impres-
sion was daily created in the minds of the people that
Christianity was of a purer form than anything on which
they had ever contemplated ; and the Jew would, he
trusted, ere long, in the language of penitential devotion,
cry, " God be merciful to me, a sinner." The reverend
gentleman then moved that the report be adopted.
The Rev. HUGH M'NEILII seconded the proposal.
We regret extremely to state that the lateness of the
hour at which we write precludes our giving even a por-
tion of the reverend gentleman's most eloquent address.
The report was unanimously passed.
A collection was then made, during which a hymn was
sung.

The Rev. H. M'Netut remarked at the close, that he
observed some young men who during devine praise had
remained covered. He did not wish, in remarking on the
fact to convey any reprehension, but merely for their in-
struction to state that the Scriptures enjoined that all
should during worship be uncovered.
The Rev. A. DALLAS moved the second resolution—
to the effect that the meeting rejoiced to learn that the
state of the Jewish Nation afforded the strongest en-
couragement for the continuance of missionary labours,
and that a larger number of Jews had been baptized during
the past than in any former year. In a very eloquent and
impressive address, he dwelt upon the Christian magnifi-
cence of the subject before them ; the fact that the Jew
was a brother ; that the Saviour took the semblance and
flesh of Abraham while on earth ; and that it became their
duty to lift up Jesus to the unbeliever, and especially to
the Israelite. He pathetically noticed the grief of Jesus
as related in Scripture on two occasions, first for Lazarus
and hislfamily, and secondly, on his approaching Jerusalem
and seeing Mount Calvary. He took a reasonable scrip-
tural view of our obligations as regarded the Jews, and
what might be expected from theirconversion by the ful-
filment of the prophecies regarding them, and giving
references to various portions of the New and Old
Testaments, showing that the time would come when that
now benighted people would have their names written in
the Book of Life, and that preaching the Gospel amongst
them would accelerate that consummation of the Divine
will. In every country in which the Jews were scattered
they were looking forward ; but most of all was their
regeneration to he looked for from the efforts of truly
Christian England. It thousands were converted, he
should exceedingly rejoice, but they ought not the less to
rejoice,lfthey had done all they could in propagating the
gospel in the conversion of but one ; for the Lord
in his good time would gather in the whole tribe.
He furnished a very lucid historical exposition of the
history of that interesting people, and concluded by an
anecdote of a recent occurrence in the east, strongly
showing the duty and propriety of Christians carrying
out the good work that had been so happily begun.
The Rev. Thos. NOLAN seconded the motion in a few
forcible remarks • and it was unanimously carried.
The Rev. W. W. PYM, moved a resolution expressive
of thanks to God that their new missionary stations had
been established in the East during the past year; and
that the Institution afforded the prospect of supplying the
long existing want of competent labourers in this depart-
ment. He noticed, in order, the three main difficulties
with which the society had had to contend—ignorance—
rrejudices—and the neglect until latterly, of Christians,
—on each of which he debated at some length, showing
that they were all to a great extent overcome, and would
by perseverance he entirely surmounted. The Christian,
he stated was indebted to the Jews, in the first instance,
for all they knew of the means of salvation, and in grati-
tude they ought to regard them with a feeling of sympa-
ttiemyantdo
the favour
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thesoo Almighty.nerrestore
The Rev. Anthony Thomas seconded the tesolution
and it was passed enthusiastically.
The Doxology was then sung, and after a blessing from
the Rev. Chairman the meeting separated.

CITY ELECTION.—The writ commanding the election
of a member for the city of London has been issued. It
is generally believed that the nomination will follow on
Thursday, and the polling on Saturday next.
THE DUBLIN MAYORALTY.---it is confidently stated
that the executive government will not ratify the election
of Mr. Timothy O'Brien, the Repealer, to the mayoralty.
This gentleman is also one of the Repeal arbitrators.
Mr. George Gibson, one of the official assignees in
bankruptcy for the metropolitan dial ict, committed sui-
cide on Friday last by hanging himself, He was 57 years