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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

tior,.classies,.Fimsch, mathematics, Aiiinvophy, writing, and draw,
Richard White, writing, arithmetic, and drawing; Henry
BoOr, drawing ;, Thomas Clark, classics and French.

J o v►uus.

Third' Class.—q. Itc•seoe, English and arithmetic; . Braith-
waite, French; drawing, and writing.
Second Class,—B. Ronald, Eng ish and arithmetic ; William
Livingston, English, arithmetic, classics, and French ; Hugh Bing-
ham, English, arithmetic .claseics, writing, and French.
Upper First Class.—Charles: Tomlinson, English, classics,
French, drawing, and writing'.
Low•r First Clam—E. Robinson, English, arithmetic, and clas-
sics: W. Robinson, English, arithmetic, and classics; Alfred King,
English and classics.

PREPARATORY SECT:ON OF THE DIOR scaooL.
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT.

Third Class.—Robert Banning, Charles Banning, Louis Davies,
Charles Davies, Joseph Closson, Hatfield Nicolson, Joseph Hiles,
George Pearson, Robert liankin,, John Worthington, Richard John-
son; Archibald Tomlinson, I homes Layland, and George Upton.
Second Class.—swainston Harrison, William Henderson, Frank
Lyon, Percy Palmer, Johnstone Bennett, Robert Jones, and Wm.
011erhead.

First Class.—John Robinson. George Clare, Wm. U. Picton,
Charles. Walkinshaw, George Webb, and John Verly.

LOWER SCHOOL.

The following are the names of the pupils to whom certificates
have been adjudged. These are the highest honours of the school.
John Tonikinson, Frederick Leyland, Wm. Henry Jones, Joseph
Norman; James Scut. on, Matthew Lewtas, Wm. Smeatherg, Charles
Burns, George Barton. Thomas Briggs, Thomas Hughes-. Joseph
Hanson Mee, John Dunning, Stephen Walmsley, William James
Harris, Walter Purdie, Robert Mills, John H. Williams, Richard
Darby, John Routledge, Henry B. Lee, Edward Hughes, Anthony
Galletti, Henry Jackson, Thomas H. Williams, James Wylie, John
Thomason, Charles Thompson, Itichd. Bentley.

PRESENTATION TO THB REV. H. CARPENTER,
BY MEMBERS OF HIS CONGREGATION.

At a numerously-attended meeting of the congregation
of St. Michael's Church, held in the School-room, Nel-
son-street, on Wednesday evening last,—Mr. Tollitt, one
of the churchwardens, in the chair,—a handsome silver
tea and coffee service was presented to the Rev. H.
Carpenter. The principal articles bore the following in-

scription :
" Presented to the Rev. H. Carpenter, A.M.,. Minister of St.
Michael's, Liverpool. by members of his congregation, as a token
of their Christian love, and as a testimonial to his faithfulness
in preaching the • truth a> it is in Jesus.'—June Ist, 1344."
The following are copies of the address and answer :

ADDRESS.
" Liverpool, sth June, 1844.
" Rev. and dear Sir,—We, the members of your con-
gregation whose names are hereunto attached, request
your kind acceptance of the accompanying service of
plate, as a testimony of our affectionate esteem for you
as our Minister in -Christ, and of our gratitude for that
faithfulness with which your Heavenly Master has ena-
bled you, from the first hour of your coming amongst us.
to declare in all its fulness the Gospel of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ ; and which many of us, and many
now no more, hut whose memories are dear to us, have
indeed found to be the power of God unto salvation.
" The circumstances which have now given rise to an
expression of our sentiments, so gratifying to ourselves,
are briefly these. At the close of the month of January
last, a letter was addressed to our respected churchwar-
den, Mr. Tollitt, of which the following is an abstract :
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Sir.—Although I am unknown to you. I am a very old
member of St. Michael's Church. and I may not
to hear the Word of God explained. I wish, therefore, before
my last change shall come, a small token of my gratitude to
be given to our excellent and worthy minister, the Rev. Henry
Carpenter, for his faithfulness in preaching the Gospel of Christ,
our only Saviour and Redeemer, as the way. the truth. and the
life.' ' I know many wish to give their shillings.' I think all
the money you can get should be put into a purse, and then
presented by you to Mr. Carpenter, as a small token of his
people's love for his zeal for Gui's glory and the salvation of
inners.' : enclose half a five-pound note, and shall send the
other half as soon as I find you have begun the good work,
which I pray the Lord may prosper.'
" I remain, sir, with sincerity,
" ' A VERY OLD ?demean.'
" This excellent letter was followed in the course of
February by another, enclosing a further sum of £5 for
the same purpose. Some delay arose in the first instance
in carrying into effect the object of the letter, from an
unsuccessful endeavour to discover its author. Thus it
has only been within a few weeks that the subject has
been brought under the notice of your people.
In uniting with the writer of these letters, we heartily
adopt his sentiments as our own ; and it is our earnest
prayer that you may be long spared to minister amongst
us an unadulterated Gospel, stedfastly to maintain, at a
time of much apostacy, the faith once delivered to the
saints,' and those pure principles of our national evan-
gelical church, for which her revered martyrs poured out
their blood even unto death.
" We cannot conclude this address, sir, without ex-
pressing our sympathy in Mrs. Carpenter's leng'hened
illness, and our happiness that she is in some measure
restored to health and usefulness. May her valuable life
be long continued to her family and friends.
" Finally, we would say, reverend and dear sir, the
Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given
thee of the Lord God of Israel.'
" We remain, reverend and dear sir,
" Faithfully and affectionately yours,
" On behalf of the subscribers,
(Signed) " Jour; rOLLITT, Churchwarden.
"To the Rev. Henry Carpenter, Minister
of St. Michael's Church."
ANSWER.
" St. Michael's, June sth, 1844.
"My dear Friends,—lt is with feelings of no ordinary
gratification I receive the affectionate address which you
have this evening so kindly presented to me. For your
expressions of regard for myself personally, I hope, I feel
thankful ; but, I freely own, I feel still more thankful
for the testimony, which this address affords, of your
approval of the great truths of the Gospel, to teach which
has ever been the object of my ministry among you. To
a minister of Christ seeking to save those that hear
him,' it will be at all times a source of gratification to
know that his flock entertain a just value for the distin-
guishing doctrines of the Gospel. But in days like the
Present, when doctrines, repudiated by our church, are
taught with much confident assertion indeed, but with
no scriptural proof, it is doub'y gratifying to know that
almost all the laity of our church reject these dangerous
novelties, and are resolved to stand by those principles of
Protestant truth, of which, for three centuries, the church
of this nation has been the best bulwark and the most
distinguished guardian. That you, my dear friends,
share in this jealousy for the maintenance (to adopt your
own expression) of an unadulterated Gospel, is and will
be a subject of rejoicine with me. In this lam not, I
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tachment to evangelical truth. Such joy your address of
this evening has awakened within me.
"The letter you introduce into your address, and which
gave rise to your present kindness, is to me peculiarly
pleasing ; because it seems to proceed from one who has
derived profit from the preaciiing of the Gospel. I hope
we may yet come to be acquainted with the name of this
unknown friend, that 1 may tender to him the same
thanks I now offer to yourselves for your generous and
costly present, and the affectionate expressions with
which it is accompanied.
" I shall prize your gift for its beauty and intrinsic
value, but far more shall I prize it as a memorial of your
undeservea kindness to myself, and of your affection for
the scriptural truths, which, for more than seven years,
I have endeavoured by the grace of God to inculcate
among you.
" For your expressions of sympathy in reference to
Mrs. Carpenter's health, accept, my dear friends, her
thanks and my own. We trust that this recent and
unlooked-for demonstration of kindness on your part,
will excite a liverer concern in both our minas for your
temporal and spiritual welfare, and that the substantial
record of your affection we have this day received will
serve as an incentive to bind us, and our children after
us, in firm attachment to evangelical truth, as the sure
basis of personal, domestic, and national happiness in this
life, as well as of everlasting happiness in the life to come.
That ' the truth as it is in Jesus' may become increasingly
precious to you all, and that you may all know from
happy experience that it is the power of God unto salva-
tion, is the fervent and united prayer of us both.
" And now' brethren, I commend you to God, and to
the Word of his grace, which is able to build you up,
and to give you an inheritance among all them which are
sanctified. (Acts, xx. 32.)
"Believe me, my dear Friends, your affectionate Minister,
c‘ HENRY CARPENTER."

DOCK COMMITTEE.-THURSDAY.

Present, Messrs. Nicol, Holt, Holmes, Smith, Moly-
neux, Trotman, Sandbach, Middleton, Chilton, Bold,
Royden, Bulley, Moon, Shand, Aikin, Evans, and
Tobin.

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dation to pay the expense of their removal.
The salary of John Fry, clerk to the North Harbour-
master, was increased from 7s. to 18s. a week.
A letter was read from Sir John Hall, of the St. Ka-
therine's Docks, London, on the Inland Bonding Bill.
He said—" Unless your attention has been lately called
to this bill, allow me to invite it, and if the Dock
Committee concur in opinion with me on some of the
objectionable principles thus sought to be introduced
in the warehousing system, I beg to suggest a com-
munication to the members for Liverpool to Oppose
it." After stating that he would endeavour to get the
consideration of the measure postponed, Sir John pro-
ceeded—" Although the proposed bonding privilege is to
be confined to goods for home consumption, the effect
must be to transfer to warehouse keepers in Manchester
the rent upon goods which the dock and other warehouse
keepers in Liverpool and other of the outports are legiti-
mately entitled to. If this bill pass, what shall prevent
Birmingham and other places applying next session for
similar privileges. The principle once admitted I know
not where the measure is to stop. The warehouse system
was avowedly introduced to encourage the transit trade,
but the proposed measure would be a new feature, adopt-
ing the right of bonding for mere purposes of credit or
duties, which from circumstances have been merely inci-
dental."
Mr. EVANS thought it very foolish for the inland towns
to wish for any such power, for if they bad the liberty to-
morrow, they would exercise it only to a very insignificant
degree. He would not notice it. He would offer no op-
position at all to it. It would be unavailing, and it would
be very ungracious on their part. He had not the slight-
est expectation that bonding would ever go on to the ex-
tent that Liverpool or London would in any way feel.

Mr. Atxist said, that as it would not affect the interests
of the trusty he did not see how they could interfere.
After some further conversation, it was resalvcd that
the committee ought not to move in it.
The CTTAIRMAN stated that the dock receipts during
the last week had been £15,443 13s. 10d. ; being a much
larger arnonat than was ever received in any one week,
and considerably more than double the receipts of the
corresponding week last year, which were £7213 WS. sd.
That, in some measure, had arisen from the long preva-
lence of easterly winds.
Mr. EVANS supposed that the members of the commit-
tee bad read the evidence as to the Wallasey Docks, and
he would move as the result on his rrind of what he had
been reading, that it was not desirable to continue their
opposition to the Wallasey Dock Bill.
Mr. AMIN said he had read the evidence very carefully.
and bad come to precisely the same conclusion, and begged
to second the motion.
Mr. EVANS said one of the reasons was, that the Lords
of the Admiralty and the Lords Commissioners of the
River had made up their minds on the subject. He bad
bad that information from the best authority.
The CHAIRMAN said that would have the effect of
withdrawing the vote of confidence in the Parliamentary
Committee which was passed last week.
Mr. Allot; said not in the slightest degree. That vote
was come to before the evidence was placed before the
committee.
Mr. EVANS asked if any answer had been received to
the letter to the Admiralty ?
The CHAIRMAN said he believed not.
Mr. EVANS said this confirmed the information be bad
received.
The CHAIRMAN said they might put what construction
they liked upon silence, but he did not think the matter
was settled when Lord Harrington, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, had consented to sit on the committee in the
Lords. Both the Wallasey and Liverpool Dock Bills
hail passed the standing orders of the House of Lords.
The votes were then taken, when there appeared for
the motion, four ; against it, thirteen : namely, for the
motion, Messrs. Evans, Holt, Aikin, and Bullet'; against
it, Messrs. Middleton, Moon, Chilton, Bold, Tobin,
Sandbach, Smith, Holmes, Boyden, Trotinan, Molyneux,
Shand, and Nicol.
The CHAIRMAN said the Liverpool Dock Bill was op-
posed in the Lords.
Mr. MoLvetsux.—By the Commissioners of Birken-
head ?
The CHAIRMAN said Mr, Jackson and Mr. Laird stated
that the Commissioners of Birkenhead never opposed the
bill. In opposing it, they did sc. as Liverpool mer-
chants.
Mr. EVANS thought the sub-committee ought to put
the general committee in possession of all the materials
for judging of the matter. The plans of the Wallasey
Docks ought also to have been placed before them.
The CHAIRMAN said the plans were there : they had
only arrhed that morning.
Mr. Atxrx.—Of course they have been before the sub-
committee.
The CHAIRMAN.—I believe not.
Mr. AIKIN.—You surely never would oppose plans you
never saw.
The CHAIRMAN.—O, I have seen them very often
myself.
The committee then proceeded to financial matters.