The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-17 00:00:00

On Friday evenir

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the attendance was I

very large,

respectably filled

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of the Liverpool

we observed the

Rev. Hugh the Rev. R. Burgess, the Rev. F.
Barker, the Rev. W. Currie, of Waterloo, the Rev. Dr.
Tattershall, the Rev. Mr. Hughes, the Rev. Mr. Bromilaw,
of Billinge, Major Thorp, G. Duncan, Esq., J. Middleton,
Esq., &c. &c.
On the motion of the Rev. F
M'Neile was unanimously requt
the proceedings having been c

Rev. Hugh

the chair

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,ing upon them

of the Divine
The Rev. CHAIRM._ oecomes my duty to
inform you briefly concerning the nature and objects of that
society upon whose behalf we are assembled this evening.
The object of the Foreign Aid Society in England is to mani-
fest sympathy with the struggles, and to minister assistance
to the necessities, of the orthodox christians upon the conti-
nent of Europe, especially, at present, in France and Swit-
zerland. The condition of the Protestants in France is little
known, generally speaking, in England. There exists a very
general idea that the population of France is wholly Roman
Catholic as to profession, although divided, as regards ind'
vidual character, into the superstif
and the infidel. Unhappily this is too true, ....
of the great mass of the population of that country
there is a very considerable

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scription given by the apostle of the suffer
saints, of whom the world was
tute, afflicted, tormented. This per
part of the reign of Louis the 14th,
excess; and about the middle of the reign of that celebrated
monarch, it seemed as if France had been absolutely de-
prived of all Protestants—it seemed as if the Protestants
had been exterminated and controversy silenced, not by ar-
gument, but by the edge of:the sword. Very little is known
concerning the struggles of the Protestants of France from
that period till the breaking out of the great revolution ; but
no sooner had the fury of the revolution passed away, and
Napoleon Bonaparte come into the ascendant, than a law was
passed giving full toleration for Prote'
scribing the order of the ecclesi

of the ancient

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they were desti-

ion, in the early

carried to a great

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,verned. That
with regard to

which the Protestant churches
law of Buonaparte is still the law o,
Protestant churches. It was recognise,_
and confirmed by the charter in 1830. ft,.
conducted by what they call consistories, with the power ac-
corded by law, of uniting in one synod. A consistory, accord-
ing to the law of Napoleon, is composed of the pastors of a
certain district, assisted with a few laymen, not less than
six in number, and not more than twelve in each
consistory : these laymen were not to he elected by the
pastors or any of the Protestants of ''-` •
absolutely designated by the letter of the 1
the laymen in that district who pay the
annual income tax, so they are, at least s ,or any number
between six and twelve, of the richest laymen in that district.
These were ex officio members of the consistory. Of such
consistories there are at present in France ninety, without
reckoning a few Lutheran consistories upon the eastern
boundary of the kingdom. aong the banks of the Rhine. The
ninety consistories of France have now about four hundred
pastors. Unfortunately, many of these pastors, and many
of their coadjutors, the laymen in the consistories, do
not hold Scriptural orthodox doctrines ; they have been af-
fected with the neology of Germany and other infidel and
semi-infidel and Socinian views, in opposition to the revealed
truth of God. Some of them have been taught better; and
of late years an increasing number of the pastors and laymen
comprising these consistories have become christian and or-
thodox men. In proportion as they have themselves been
taught divine truth they have become, as all men so taught
will ever become, anxious that others should learn the same;
and they have formed themselves into societies, called Evan-
gelical Societies, for the purpose of disseminating more
widely among the members of their own consistories, and the
congregations assembling under those pastors, the saving
knowledge of God's revealed will. It is, then, to aid these
societies, these " Societes Evangeliques," or Evangelical So-
cieties, that this institution has been formed in England.
You must perceive from this brief sketch of the, state of
things in the Protestant Church of France, that such societies,
still in a minority and struggling upwards, must needs re-
quire assistance ; they require the countenance of christian
people in other countries ; and beinoor, the require not
only christian sympathy, but the genuine producey of christian
sympathy, christian liberality. This briefly explains our
immediate object in this association. Then, if you inquire
about the nature of the church government under which
these people are, I have already said that they are allowed by
law to have their consistories, and to assemble, if they will,
in a general synod. The synod is to be composed of one
pastor and one layman from each consistory, which should be
the representative in the synod of the particular district
from which consistory they were sent. Hitherto the
general synod would have been composed of so large
a majority of Neologians or other infidels that no good
results could possibly have been err—
bling of such a synod ; but -
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peace in 1815

governmen

—they are to be
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that if

general syr.eu we.,. as tar as the pastors are
concerned, there would be a majority of the orthodox, and
we have every reason to hope, that if the progress of divine
truth that has manifested itself of late years among them
continues a few years more, the assembly of a general synod
would enable them to pass resolutions that would greatly
advance the cause of divine truth in France. As yet, how-
ever, no synod has been called ; they are struggling upwards;
they are helpine. themselves; and they ask us, not to send
missionaries to France, not to attempt the work by our own
agents, but to give them our countenance, and give them
some portion of our superfluities from this country. That
is simply the object in view. These persons have not the
same sort of church government it is our happiness to have.
They have never had the opportunity of such. When the
Reformation tee!: place upon the continent none of the
bishops becatee reformers. No bishop in France, no bishop
in Switzerland, became personally a reformer. The conse-
quence was, that the people of those countries imagined—
and the same applies to Scotland—that bishops were identical
with Papists, and episcopacy and papacy must stand or fall
together; therefore, although sound argument was against
them, yet the outward appearance of the case being in favour
of that view, the people threw off episcopacy at the same
time they threw off papacy; and the Reformation in Switzer-
land, arid Scotland, and France assumed a Presbyterian
aspect. These churches in France, therefore, have done no
more than protest against Popery, as we did in England, only
in England— mar the difference,—some of the leading
protestors were themselves bishops. The Archbishop of
Canterbury (a name familiar to you ail), in those days, was
Cranmer ; the Bishop of London, Ridley; the Bishop of
Worcester, Latimer; the Bishop of Gloucester, Hooper.
When these men came forward as reformers, the people of
England saw the difference between episcopacy and Popery:
they saw Protestant bishops ; they saw their protest in the
persons of these bishops ; and in England alone the people
had the great happiness of getting rid of popery without
shaking off the orginal, primitive, Scriptural episcopacy of
the Christian church. (Cheers.) The churches in France
are not to be blamed ; they never had the opportunity, even
if they had the wish, to put themselves under episcopal
government; and it would be a refinement of barbarity, and
not Christian orthodoxy, for any man in England, under
pretence of a jealousy for the form of church government
which lie has the happiness to live under, to withhold his
right hand of fellowship from them because they have not
that form of church government themselves. They could
not have it. There is a great difference between them and
those in this country who, with an apostolic church within
their reach, do willingly and wilfully separate themselves
from it, and refuse to avail themselves of it. (Cheers.) I may
say, without any unkindness, and certainly without intend-
ing to wound the feelings of any, but for the sake of truth,
that I think those who so dissent in this country are cer-
tainly to blame, because a better way is in their reach,
and they refuse to avail themselves of it ; but in France
there is not the same blame, because they cannot have
bishops without having Popery ; and, well as I love a
bishop, I would rather never see one than have Popery.
(Cheers.) Everything is comparative. I would rather have
this hand cut off than protest against episcopacy; but I would
rather have both cut off than submit to the Papacy. (Cheers.)
This explains the position, as clearly as I can in a few words,
of a Christian church upon the Continent; and I am happy
to say I am highly and strictly orthodox at this moment,
standing not in the exercise of mere private judgment, but I
stand delivering the sentiments of my diocesan. (Hear.)
On Tuesday last I attended a meeting in the city of Chester
on behalf of the Foreign Aid Society : it was my happiness
to behold the Lord Bishop of the diocese in the chair—to
behold him supported by a noble marquis (Cholmondeley)—
and, in the midst of a large company of the rank and dis-
tinction of the county of Chester, of seeing the truly Pro-
testant member of parliament for one of the divisions of the
county, Mr. Tollemache. (Cheers.) I do but speak the
sentiments of the Bishop, then ; and therefore, I say, I am
highly and strictly orthodox in drawing this line of distinc-
tion; and if any of you wish for further authority upon this
point, I would refer you to a publication of the present
Bishop of London, made by the junior rector of Liverpool—
republished, I should say, in this town by the junior rector
of Liverpool, with a preface expressly written to advance the
circulation of the tract, in which these very sentiments dre
laid down with the clearness and the perspicuity for which
the present Bishop of London is so remarkable. This dis-
tinction will, therefore, I think, satisfy the minds of many
who have a godly jealousy for apostolic church government,
in which I entirely agree with them. I entertain a godly
jealousy for that government, but I entertain, I trust, a godly
Sympathy for our dear friends upon the Continent, who can-
not have such government. I believe they have all that we
hold essential to a Christian church, though riot all we desire
for the perfection of such a church. The Church of England
declares that the apostolic form of government is ancient—
from the time of the apostles : she declares it essential for
communion with herself—that she has a right to do as every
society has a right to do, so far as communion with herself
and participation in her advantages;
land nowhere declares that it is essential for the salvation of
a sinner. The highest and best defenders of the Church of
England, from the days of tl' e Reformation to our own days,
have hailed the Protestant Church of France as a sister
church; they have manifested a desire and a wish to keep up
a fraternal communication them,withdthe right ha
andtognivdeotfheferlot‘hve.
countenance of our sympathy an
ship, by assisting her in everyl will not, in
the position you have ca
way we can.
called upon me to occupy, take up
Your time longer, but call on the he operations o norarysecretary giveitsosoci _
you some details connectedwithth
ety. I will just add for your information, however, that the
persons through whose instrumentality our assistance is ren-
dered are the leading men
our honorary secretary, who in those little societies I described
just now, personally known to
them so that every pains
takes great delight in this work, who is often upon the Con-
tinent, and sees them and knowsih.e
and practicable, to guard
will be and has been taken
against any imposition upon n" thess liberality of Englishmen.
Those orthodox men who are the medium through which
this money is administered,
e
Burgess, rector of Upper Chelsea, known to the Rev. Mr.
sea, who has long devoted
himself to this noble and evangelical work of brotherly and
Christian kindness abroad, and whom
rev• chairman thenl shall have the plea-
sure to introduce to your notice. (The
resumed his seat amidst much applause.)
The Rev. RICHARD BURGESS, rector of Upper Chelsea,
then rose to move the first resolution. He said that, after
the clear and lucid statement which the chairman had wade

of the nature and objects of the Foreign Aid Society, the
only thing that remained for him was to endeavour to follow
the line of argument he (the chairman) had laid down, and
to fill up some of the vacancies which he had left. The
chairman had spoken of authority. They were clergymen,
and they gloried in the privilege of being clergymen of the
established church • they delighted in her apostolic form of
government, not because it was essentially connected with
salvation, but because it was the best adapted to hand down
divine truth from one generation to another without loss.
This was not the case with Presbyterianism. So long as
the truth was preached, wbether by Presbyterian or Episco-
palian, God would own his own word : but the question was
its preservation—they were bound to see it preserved; and
on that account they delighted in the episcopal form of church
government. They had the precedents of all the most dis-
tinguished bishops of the church in this work; and further,
this was not new work, for, previous to the depression of
the reformed church, our bishops—even those who had the
reputation of being the highest churchmen—were in constant
communication with the reformed churches of the Continent.
Letters were extant which shewed that the most delightful
Christian intercourse was carried on between our bishops
and the members of the reformed Continental churches :
y went to France, they communicated together ;
d neither bishop nor Presbyterian, when they were there,

when the

)out church government; but 'they had all
(Hear, hear.) Referring to living
e reverend gentleman quoted some passages
!e Sermons preached by the Bishop of London
during Lent 1842, in St. James's Church, published with
a preface by the Rev. Augustus Campbell, jun. rector of
Liverpool, and one of his lordship's chaplains. It was there
laid down that none of the Continental Protestant churches
were ;••

things in common

the Thre

in any sense schismatic, because they held all the
essentials of sound doctrine. The Lord Bishop of London,
therefore, had given his sanction to the objects of this
and the Rector of Liverpool fully approved of them
y giving his imprimatur to these sermons. The meeting,
therefore, were assembled to promote the interests of a
society, the object of which was to assist those brethren who
could not, in their positions, be considered as schismatics.
He would refer only once more to the authority of the Bishop
of London, just to show what the right rev. prelate consi-
dered would justify separation from the national church—
namely, if she required us to hold as scripture what was not
in the word of God. This was a justification of separa-
tion : it justified us in separating from the Church of Rome
at the time of the reformation, and it would justify us in
separating again if it should come to pass that she required
us to receive some article of faith at variance with the fun-
damental truths of the gospel—for instance, if she com-
--Tied some act of worship, such as falling down to images,
as forbidden by the word of God. He need say no
more upon authority ; but after what he had said he trustel
every churchman would be convinced that this was a lawful
object, and that he might give the right hand of fellowship
to those continental churches, who, although not holding one
form of government still held the head, confessing that Jesus
Christ is the son of the living God. There was another
question which the meeting was entitled to have answered.
They had just heard that large numbers of the pastors of the
churches were affected with the neology of Germany, Sbci-
nianism, and Arianism, and with unsound doctrine : the
chairman had also told them there were a certain number
who did hold the orthodox faith, but the question was, what is
that orthodox faith ; have they any document to show that
what they called orthodox faith was what we should call or-
thodox faith ? Now, if he (Mr. Burgess) could not show
this, he did not see how he could conscientiously call upon
the meeting to support the Foreign Aid Society ; and, there-
fore, he would first say a few words upon the orthodoxy of
principle. He held in his hand a paper published twice a
week in Paris, which was the organ of the leading pastors,
who called themselves orthodox. The same question had
been put to them in France, and in answer the pastors,
in this their publication, stated that they confessed
the faith of Christ crucified. The reverend gentleman
read several passages from this publication, which shewed
that the supporters of it were earnest in asserting and
maintaining the faith of Christ our Saviour. They
preached, he continued, and propagated just such doc-
trine as we would wish to see spreading throughout the
length and breadth of the land. The next thing would be
to inform the meeting vi hat the Societes Evangeliques had
really done. There were three of them with which the Fo-
reign Aid Society was in connection. The first, the central
committee of which assembled at Paris, was formed in 1833,
and it bad now 128 agents in occupation as schoolmasters,
missionaries, and colporteurs. From its commencement to
the present time, it had sent out 270 agents ; and it had
extended its influence over 26 of the departments of France.

society

mar
which w

opening many places of public worship, founding many
schools, and altogether operating upon a population of not
less than three millions of people. Another society with
which the Foreign Aid Society was in connection was one
formed at Bordeaux, which had extended its operations
throughout five departments, in all of which it was preaching
the doctrines of the Gospel. The third society with which
this institution was in connection was formed at Geneva,
and of this Mr. Currie would give some details. Another
society, which had lately been formed in the North of France,
had made application to be taken into connection: it was
founded upon sound principles, and he hoped it would be
taken into association, so as to receive occasional help.
Besides these great societies, there were institutions in dif-
ferent parts of France which sprung out of them. For in-
stance, the Evangelical Society of Paris had established a
normal school for educating teachers to teach Protestant
doctrine. Other schools had been established in different
parts of the country, and within the last six months two
young English girls had been rescued from consignment to
a nunnery through the instrumentality of one of them. The
rev. gentleman then entered into some interesting details, in
the course of which he stated that a Protestant church was
about to be erected at a place called Sourmont, on the very
spot where one had been destroyed in the time of Henry IV.
Since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, this town had
been entirely without a Protestant church ; but the first
stone of the new erection was laid by the mayor on the 18th
of August last. This was one of the works which the Fo-
reign Aid Society was solicited to assist. It must not, how-
ever, be supposed that all this was going on without opposi-
tion : it was not likely that, in the midst of a Romish popu-
lation, with priests in every village, everything would go on
in peace and quiet. At this moment there were pending in
the courts of France certain trials of those who had re-
sum
mayored
otfothperecaocmhmiunne. Mr.
villages,
Burgesscontra then h
contrary to the wish
th
ishoaftp,tliine
violation of the fifth article of the Charge Constitugionnelle,
which enacted that every man should have liberty to profess
his own religion and have toleration for it, much persecution
had been inflicted upon the Protestant pastors. The details
into which he entered on this part of the subject were too
long to report : at the close of them he hoped that the pro-
ceedings which had been taken, in violation of the letter of
the constitution, would serve to enhance the value of the
religious liberty which we ourselves possessed. The great
obstacle to the spread of the Gospel in France was Popery.
(Hear.) Popery was the great enemy to the preaching of
the Gospel in France, as it was to the spread of truth every-
where; but it was such Popery as we had scarcely any idea
of in this country. He was told that it was very bad in
Ireland, but he doubted whether the superstitions of Ireland
could equal the superstitions of France and the Continent.
The rev. gentleman here adduced some horrible blasphemies
from the charge of the Cardinal Bishop of Lyons to his
clergy, and shewed that there must neceesarily be the great-
est opposition between Popery, which held such doctrines,
and the truth of the Gospel. Here, then. he said in conclu-
sion, was a field for Christian missious! It appeared to him,
indeed, that there was as much need of the Gospel in France
as there was in New Zealand. It seemed, too, to have de-
volved upon the Christians of this country to bring the
thirty-two millions of France out of the darkness, just as
much as it did the hundred millions of heathen under the
British crown. He concluded by moving the first resolu-
tion.

The Rev. JAMES CURRIE, in seconding the resolution,
entered into some details of the operation of the Evangelical
Society of Geneva.
The resolution was unanimously carried.

The Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL, after a few general observa-
tions in support of the objects of the society, moved the
second resolution.
The Rev. F. BARKER seconded the resolution. 1•-la said
it had occurred to him, since the last publication of the
Parker Society, that the Foreign Aid Society must be-
come, to all persons acquainted with those publications, a
subject of much greater interest than it had hitherto been.
No person could peruse the letters written by the most
emirient reformers of England, upon the death of Queen
Mary, and the accession of the great and good Queen Eliza-
beth, without feeling the deep obligation under which this
country lay to such persons as Peter Martyr, Bullenger, and
others, whom the reformers Sands, Jewell, and others, ap-
pear to have consulted on all occasions. To his mind this
was a pleasing opportunity of expressing the acknowledge-
ments under which the Church of England lay to the foreign
(Applause.)
The resolution was then carried.

reformers

Major THORPE moved the next resolution ; and after a
few general remarks, he said there was work enough to do in
Geneva and France, in spreading the gospel, if the society
had ten times its present amount of income. The Lord was
every day, in those countries, opening fresh doors through
which Protestantism could be forwarded and error put aside,
but the society had not the means. Funds were wanting.
Money was the sinews of war, and without it nothing could
be done. The gallant officer then showed how the interests
of Protestanism were advancing in different parts of the con-
tinent—first, by the conversion of Roman Catholics, and
next, by the operation of the societies in connection with the
Foreign Aid Society ; and he concluded by a few words of
affectionate Christian exhortation.

Mr. MIDDLETON seconded the motion, and it was carried

The Rev. Mr. BURGESS here said there was one duty yet
to perform, and a pleasing duty it was; it was for him to
move the cordial thanks of the meeting to the Rev. Chairman
for his able services on this occasion, and for the exertions
he had made on behalf of the Foreign Aid Society.
The Rev. Mr. CURRIB seconded the motion, and it was
carried by acclamation.

Mr. M'NEILE then returned thanks for the compliir
arid, atter singing the doxology, the meeting separated.

TH E MILITIA.—We have good authority for stating that
the Militia for this county will be raised early in the course
of the ensuing spring ; that a ballot will take place when they
will be regularly embodied, and had up for twenty-eight days'
training and exercise. Preparations are already making to
carry this object into effect.

THE FUNDS : SATURDAY NIGHT.—The public funds have
continued heavy all day. There was a slight reaction in the
first few operations of the morning, but the advance was not
wholly supported up to the close of business. The brokers
and jobbers are now principally occupied with the arrange-
ment of the three accounts, which fall for settlement in the
early part of next week. In foreign stocks the settlement
will be made on Monday, and the Consols and the other
English securities the day following. Money, of course, in
the present abundance is procurable at very easy rates, so that
little fear appears to he entertained for the resuls of the ge-
neral adjustment of differences. Consols for money and the
account left off at 94+ to .-}, and for the opening, 94R ; Bank
Stock, 1711 to 1721 ; Exchequer-bills, 60s. to 625. premium ;
India Stock, 261 k to 262/ ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 95 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 101 to 3; New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 ; Long Annuities, 121 ;
India Bonds, 555. to 575. premium; and South Sea Stock,
1051. In foreign stocks, Spanish Actives were quoted 18k
to ; ditto, New, 234 to ; Mexican, 31+ to 32+ ; ditto, De-
ferred, 94- ; Danish, 84/ to 85/ ; Colombian, 23+ to
Brazilian, 72 to 73; Belgian, 102 to 3; Dutch Two-and-a
Half per Cents., 52 to ; and Portuguese Converted, 35i
to 36.1.

The Cheshire county rate for the ensuing year has been
fixed at a penny in the pound.

WANT OF EMPLovmENT..—An advertisement having been
inserted in the Times, for a respectable young man as clerk
or messenger, salary 30s. per week, a person applied at the
address given, and found at seven o'clock above GOO letters.
He was told that 130 came by the six o'clock post; that there
was another post then to come, and the country letters next
morning. The letters by hand were also pouring in as fast
as they could be received.

Tun LATE Loan HILL.—The following anecdote, for
which we are indebted to a correspondent, shows that, like
his great friend "The Duke," Lord Hill was on principle
opposed to warfare. The truly valiant warrior laments the
necessity for war when winning victories :—" The late Lord
Hill, when he heard of the successful results of the Indian
and Chinese wars, was so overcome that he exclaimed, with
tears of joy bursting from his eyes—' Thank God, I have
lived to hear of these glorious victories, and to know that
there is an end of war ! horrid war!' "—Salopiart Journal.

DREADFUL STORM AND DESTRUCTION OF

LIFE AND PROPERTY

lowest point which it indicat
of the Gth and

The barometer, on Friday , fell two degrees below the
h it in,!icp..ed previously to the great storm
h lary, 1839; end continued to waver at

an extraordinary depression throughout the day, so as to
create considerable alarm in the public mind, from such in-
dication being the almost certain forerunner of a storm.
Mr. Abraham, optician, of Lord-street, was of opinion, on
Friday evening, from the fluctuating state of the instrument
for some time, that, though we might have a heavy gale, the
force of the storm would not be local, but elsewhere at no
very great distance, and this opinion proved to be, in some
measure, well founded ; for, though we have felt the gale
to be very violent, its strength was, probably, equally if not
more severely felt over a breadth of the island further to the
southward. The wind throughout Friday, while daylight
remained, was occasionally fresh, with heavy showers ; but
it did not amount to 'a gale, though it was evident, from the
rapidity with which the carry passed along the sky, that there
was a much stronger current of air above. Towards evening
the wind increased fearfully in violence, and at midnight be-
came a perfect hurricane. In the opinion of many persons,
the gale was as terrific as that of the 6th January, 1839, though
we are not of the same opinion, and the casualties which have
reached our ears, though awful enough, are, certainly, not so
numerous, or of such a destructive character, as those occa-
sioned by that memorable storm. We extract the following
state of the baromter, at Liverpool and Holyhead, at threw
periods on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

At three, pm., At eight, a.m., At eight, am.,
Thursday, Jan. 12. Friday, Jan. 13. Saturday, Jan. 14
28.05 .. 28.78
27.58 .. 28.44

Liverpool
Holyhead

CASUALTIES IN THE TOWN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD

The wind came in fearful gusts, blowing a perfect hurri-
cane, and between one-and three o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing reached its height, slates, chimney-pots, and bricks fell
during the night in all parts of the town. Many of the inha-
bitants, particularly in exposed parts, fearful of accidents by
the falling of chimneys, congregated in the lower apartments
of their houses for safety, and scarcely closed their eyes. As
far as our information extends, no fatality, we are glad to say
occurred in the town though several had extraordinary
escapes. In Gloucester-place, Everton, a house was partially
unroofed. A house in Salisbury-street also similarly suf-
fered. Part of a garden wall in Brownlow-street, and another
in George's-road, West Derby, were blown down. A stable
belonging to Mr. Crosby, West Derby, was unroofed, and
the shed at the back of the Fish Market was blown away.
In Rokeby-street a chimney penetrated the roof of a house,
but we are happy to say did not injure any of the inhabitants.
A yard wall near the Zoologic,l Gardens was blown down.
Tl,e severest casualty was the falling of a house in Epworth-
street, and as the details connected with it are interesting,
though melancholy, we will give them from the graphic pen
of an eye witness of the disaster.

FALL OF THE CHIMNEY AND INTERIOR OF A HOUSE

Soon after four o'clock in the morning, Mr. Walker, a
reporter connected with this office, left his house, in Finch-
street, and went into London-road, to inquire of the police
whether they had heard of any accidents during the night.
He met two police-officers at the end of Gildart-street, and

they stated tliat they had heard of nothing particular in the
town with the exception of the falling of some bricks, slates,
and chimney mugs in different directions, but that they had
learned that a ship, supposed to be an American, was in dis-
tress in the river, not tar from the sea-wall. (It appears that
she was afterwards got out of the perilous situation without
much damage.) He walked with one of the officers up Lon-
don-road and Prescot-street, as far as the lower or west cor-
ner of Epworth-street, remarking that some broken chimney
pots had fallen close to the lamp-post. They heard no noise
or alarm at that time, nor, though they looked along Ep-
worth-street, saw the least appearance of any accident to
a building. They returned down London-road. At the end
of Gildart-street Mr. Inspector Morley came up, and with
officer J. Curry, (336,) was again proceeding up London-
road, on the opposite side, when a gentleman came up in-
quiring for the police, as he said be was apprehensive that
some accident had occurred in some house near that inhabited
by himself and family, all of whom had been disturbed and
alarmed for some hours by the cries, from time to time, of a
man, as if under the ruins ; but from the violence of the
wind, he could not tell precisely what house it was, and had
seen no appearance of a fallen building. The whole accom-
panied him to hit house—next door, to the westward, of the

Corner of EpArth-street. The gentleman was Mr. Relps,
and his wife and children, and a foreign gentleman, a teacher
of the Spanish language, were in the front parlour, and in
considerable alarm—the cries of some sufferer being heard
by them at intervals from about half-past one o'clock up to
that hour. They all went up the back yard of the house,
which is bounded by the high wall of a house in Epworth-
street on the east, and another—detached from it—on the
north, the gable of which runs westward. They listened for
a short time, and on Mr. Morley repeatedly shouting, the
cries of a man from apparently under ruins were repeatedly
heard, and appeared to issue from that on the east, which
being a single house, presented a high dead wall to the yard,
without any opening in that direction. Mr. Morley shouted
to him to make himself as easy as possible as assistance was
at hand, and the whble party proceeded out, and went round
the corner into Epworth-stteet. There was at the first view
no appearance of damage in the imperfect light, but Mr.
Walker and Mr. Morley soon discovered, in going up to the
house in question (three stories high) that the windows above
and below were cousiderably,broken, and through these they
could perceive that the roof had fallen down from top to
bottom interiorly, carrying the whole of the floors into the
cellar, and burying the inmates in the ruins and rubbish.
The first thing to be done was to procure a light. Some of
the neighbours were roused, and candles were got, but it was
impossible to keep them in. Meantime it was suggested by
Mr. W. that a lantern might be-,;ot by knocking up anybody
in the neighbourhood that kept stables, but they were stated
to be all closed and to have left their premises. A man run
down to the car proprietor'z, nearly opposite the Green Man
Still, but found no one there. A lantern was, however,
soon after brought by our reporter from• a bakehouse in
Prescot-st. The fallen house was inhabited by Mr. Pace, an
organ builder, and his family, consisting of his wife and three
children. Meantime the outer door was broken open below
with a hammer, by Mr. Morley. The stairs are just oppo-
site to the door ; and, as some children were heard in the
cellar, an attempt was made to get at them by the cellar
door, but it was so jambed up with rubbish and wreck that
this was found impossible. The lower pannels of the parlour
door were then broken in by Mr. Morley, and Police-officer
43, (Davies,) got into a sort of recess found between the
cellar wall and the fallen materials of the floors. The children
were close at hand, within a bed, which had partly turned
over upon them, forming a layer or stratum, but they were
pressed down pretty tightly by the materials above them,—
and moreover caged in by the portions of the beams
of the parlour floor which had there fallen perpendi-
cularly, and stripped of their plaster, so as to form bars.
Three of their naked legs projected from the materials next
the door, but neither their bodies nor heads were yet seen,
though they could both speak, and they did speak cheer-
fully and encouragingly to each other, as efforts were being
made to get them out. A saw was got, and Hughes began
to cut one of the beams that caged them in. There was room
for only one man to work in the recess at a time, and that,
too, in an awkward position ; and as the saw was a bad one
for cross-cutting, and continued to jam tight, notwithstand-
ing the occasional application of grease, considerable time
was occupied In even getting half through the beam, though
it was of comparatively slender dimensions. A good tenant
saw was then brought by a neighbour, and the work, so far,
was completed. While this was going on care was taken to
postpone attempting to remove or tread upon the ruins piled
up in the front parlour,lest the superincumbent mass should set-
tle down upon and crush the children. At length, about a quar-
ter past five, by great coution and exertion, during which the
children did their best, in moving so far as they could, accord-
ing to the directions given them, one of them was drawn out
at the bottom of the bed by the legs—the face downwards.
This was Henry Pace, a brave little fellow, between seven
and eight years of age, who had shown great coolness
throughout. He hod been nearly four hours in the perilous
situation stated, but was not hurt. During the night he had
frequently encouraged his father (who was at some distance
in the ruins) to shout again and he would shout too. He
was wrapped in a blanket brought by Mr. Sheppard, flour-
dealer, opposite, who paid similar attention to all the suffe-
rers—afterwards receiving two of them into his house—
and carried to the house of Mr. Inspector Morley, a short
distance off on the other side of the street. Soon afterwards
the eldest boy (Thomas, aged ten years) was taken out,
through the opening made by severing the beam, with
great care, as he complained that he thought his leg was
broken. When brought up through the pannels of the
door, it was, however, found that this was a mistake,
and that the pain he felt proceeded from a fracture
of the hip joint. He was carried to Mr. Sheppard's. He,
too, kept up his spirits. This little fellow cried out in the
night—" Father, if we get out don't take a corner house
again."
It had previously been found that Mr. Pace, his wife, and
a child, William, aged two years, was under the ruins at from
one and a half yard to two yards from them and rather below
them. The officers now directed their efforts to extricate
them, and to effect this entered by the parlour window. The
child was got out first. It had been lying on its mother's
breast, and after the accident " fought very hard with her,"
as she expressed it, so that she was much exhausted. and,
indeed, at times nearly stifled. The child was taken out un-
hurt. By very great exertions, and much care in removing
the bricks, timber, and rubbish, Mr. Pace was got out about
six o'clock. He was not hurt, but a good deal exhausted.
His wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, was next got
out, with still greater difficulty. She was carefully carried
over the ruins in the interior ; lowered from the window into
the street, and conveyed, with a blanket round her, to Mr.
Morley's, where her husband was. She appeared very pale
and exhriusted, and had evidently, from her situation, suffered
more, from inability to breathe freely, than any of the others.

She at first, indeed: fainted in the arms of one of the officers
(we believe Robert Hall), with whom were officers John
Curry and Maddocks. The greatest attention was paid to
the sufferers at both houses where they were received. Dr.
Gratreax was sent for and was soon in attendance. He and
others advised that the boy Thomas should be sent to the
Infirmary, which was complied with ; and we are glad to
learn, that he is found not to be so severely injured as was at
first supposed—so that his speedy recovery is expected. On
inquiry yesi.esday morning, we learned that the mother was
a good deal recovered. Leeches had been applied to her
breast on Sunday, and her breathing was still considerably
affected. _

The whole of the family were sleeping in the middle room
un stairs at the time of the accident. The two elder boys
used to sleep in the attic, but, on this occasion,their bed was
brought down to the room below, and placed under that of
their parents. It is, therefore, somewhat extraordinary that
they should be found so far separated in the ruins—which is
to be accounted for by the particular way in which the floors
gave way and fell, so as to launch them apart from each
other. The house, as before stated, is completely gutted
from top to bottom—the four walls remaining alone entire.
The partition wall between the staircase and the rooms was
very much shattered, particularly that portion of it near the
cellar. The whole destruction was caused by the falling of
a stack of chimneys at the top of the west or back wall of the
building, which had been thrown on the roof by the gale, and
carried all before it. The timber of the floors, &c., was of
a most slender description, and scarcely a piece of it is left in
the walls. The operation of extracting the parties from the
ruins was one of considerable danger throughout, the tall
shell of building being alone left without any interior bind-
ing,—so that a strong gust of wind would, in all probability,
have brought down portions of the walls, and buried those
who were assisting. Luckily, however, the gale had consi-
derably abated by the time Mr. Morley came up, and con-
tinued to decrease as the morning advanced.
Great praise is due to Mr. Morley and his men for the
coolness and intrepidity they evinced throughout, as well as
several neighbours and gentlemen present. Mr. Relphs
kindly offered the use of his house for the reception of the
sufferers, but it was found more convenient to convey them
to the places named. The numbers of the officers employed,
all of whom were most active, were 336,
198, 43, 494, and
303.

The houses in Netherfield-road, Everton, and the more
exposed parts of Toxteth-park, suffered more or less injury.
On the Cheshire side of the Mersey, in Birkenhead and its
vicinity, the only loss which has yet come to our knowledge
is that sustained by the falling in of the gable of a new house
in Wellington-terrace, as well as the destruction of an in.,
complete cottage in a small street near grange-lane, besides
occasional breaches made in the roofs of the houses here and
there. A. house in Rocky-lane, Wes; Derby, was partially
unroofed.