The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

ALIBI FOR MAHER.
f.T: Saw Maher at half•past six on Shrove
treet, and did not leave him until half-

past eight.
By Mr. MONK : I have been in scrapes myself ; in different
scrapes; I cannot tell you how often, because when a boy I
carried dinner up to Kirkdale Gaol every day. I can't tell you
how many times I have been in gaol for felony, nor for what
offences. If you want my character you can have it.
Mr. MONK : I think I have got it.—Witness: If you want it,
I can send for it.—JUDGE: Where do you keep your cha-
•? • 114, Great Howard-street, my lord.—Janos : Then
abetter take of it,—you stand in danger of losing it.—
Oh, no, my lord, no fear of that. (Great laughter.)
Ellen Bridge: About five minutes to six, on Shrove Tuesday
eight, I saw Maher at his tea, at my house, where he lodges,
and I left him there at a quarter-past six.
Mr. MONK, in reply, defended the police from the remarks
of Mr. Pollock, urging that their conduct had been straight-
- means fairly subjected them

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~,gue insinuations of his friend. He remarked that it
was somewhat extraordinary in this case that there should
have been four persons charged with this d,sperate.outrage,
and that each of those persons were enabled to set up an alibi.
lie contrasted the evidence of identity, given by the prose-

to the v

cution, with that for, the defence; and he inquired continently
'f every one of the witnesses whom he had called had not
manifested the greatest caution in giving their testimony, and .
by their demeanour and candour fully entitled themselves to
be considered as the witnesses of truth at the hands of the
jury. He also maintained that the statementsof the witnesses
for the prisoners left their reply to this charge peculiarly de-
fective, and in many instances contradictory.
The Learned JUDGE commenced his summing up at twenty
minutes Mist five, and introduced it by remarking, that in
order to assist the jury in dealing with the case, inasmuch as
they might be embarra.sed in considering four cases together,
he would point their attention to such parts of the evidence as
affected each prisoner; and then beg of them to think, in their
own minds, what impression it made on them, before they
passed on to the next. With respect to an alibi, he observed
that it might be true or it might be false, and it was always a
painful duty to have to decide on matters of this kind; but
they would not jump to, the conclusion that reople who
`came there to swear to an alibi which was consistent in its
details, came there to swear falsely. If there were no glaring
contradiction on the face of it, the evidence was entitled to
every consideration; and the jury would have to say whether
they thought in this case that the prosecution were mistaken,
and that the witnesses for the prisoners were speaking the truth
or not. If they believed that the evidence of identity was so
strong as to overbear all presumption that it could be mis-
taken, then, of course, the question of an alibi was entirely
' disposed of, and the case at an end. His Lordship then care-
fully recapitulated the evidence as it affected each prisoner,
and as he concluded the several parts the jury turned round to
determine the guilt or innocence of each separate offender.
The demeanour of the prisoners throughout the trial was
confident, even to recklessness ; but, for the short time when
their cases came separately under the consideration of the jury,
they betrayed some anxiety.
Maher, on leaving the dock, turned round and said, " If they
catched the right man. lie hoped they would allow him to come
back again.
The prisoners were then removed by the officers of the gaof.
On the conclusion of his charge, and without much consi-
deration, the jury returned a verdict of guilty against all the
prisoners, who seemed much disappointed with the result, so
much impression had their defence made on the minds of many
in court.
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oA previous conviction against Maher was then proved.
Mr. Morin : There is another case of a very similar cha-
racter;e youre din
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theprisoners
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. bad been called

upon in the usual form, and grumbled out their protestations
of innocence, proceeded to "pass sentence. He said the jury
had to determine the question of their guilt or innocence, and
they had said the prisoners were guilty. It was the judgment
of the jury, and not of the offenders, he was to take in these
matters. They had found them guilty of a very gross and vio-
lent outrage—one of the most daring he remembered to have
heard of in the long list of crimes he had had to deal with
curing the present assizes. At an early hour in the evening,
armed with deadly weapons, they had made an attack on this
hou e, and a young and unoffending person who was there had
the narrowest escape, one ofthe parties ordering the otherto fire,
that he might not look at their persons so as to identify them again
Unquestionably if the
,youth's life had been sacrificed, they
would have all been guilty of murder ; because lie had no
doubt they all had gone to that house to resist to the last any
attempt made to prevent their carrying on their unlawful
designs. As to Maher. he had been recently convicted, and
had not taken warning by his previous imprisonment, but had
pursued a still more daring and reckless course of life. It was
extremely probable that Maher was the ringleader, that he had
made all the arrangements, stood at the door, and ordered the
other accomplice to fire. It was quite clear he was a perfectly
incorrigible offender in wrong, and his repetition of these
crimes rendered him utterly unworthy to remain in this
com.try. His lordship then sentenced Maher to be trans-
ported for his natural life, and the other prisoners for fifteen
years' each.

The greatest commisseration was felt for the first witness,
Seddon, who was so brutally and wantonly shot in the mouth
by one of the perpetrators of this daring outrage. He has not
yet recovered his health, or the free command of his speech,
and indeed some time will elapse ere he does so even partially.
The wound he received in his month was a most fearful one,
occasioning the loss of his teeth, and disfiguring him for life.
The other inmates of the house would seem to have been some-
what more humanely dealt with ; at least, but little personal
violence was offered to them,With the exception of the servant,
who resisted his assailants so manfully, until he was over-
powered by the deadly weapons and repeated blows of the
Lang. Mr. Tyrer was from home at the time, and his sister,
though with the offenders a considerable time, was too much
frightened and alarmed.to recognise ire the least the features of
any one of them.

ASSAULT AT WINDME

Edward Gorse, a very tespeabl;:ttitired young man, was
charged with having made an assault, at Windle, on Matthew
Rigby, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm.
It appeared from the statements of counsel and the wit-
nesses, that the neighbourhood of Sutton and Uphoßand was
frighted from its propriety by the report that there was to be
seen on each night, stalking along the roads, a black man,
some ten feet high, with other attributes in proportion. On
the sth of January, about 12 o'clock at night, the prosecutor,
and a friend, and the prisoner met on the road, and some
badinage passed about the "big 'nn," whi"h ended in a scuffle,
wherein Rigby was wounded in the neck, as he presumed v.ith
a penknife. The wound was not not dangerous, and Mr. Put,
tom( having made a humouroos speech in defence, the jury
found a verdict of a common assault. It was then desired to
call witnesses to the respectability of the prisoner and his
family; but his Lordship said he was very willing to believe
him to be a very respectable goose; and having rated him
soundly for his childish fears, sentenced him to ray tr fine of
5, and to be discharged. The money was of course paid.

POACHING AT PRESCOT

Matthew Robertson was convicted of poachinT on the lands
of the Earl of Derby, at PreQcot. and assaultinz the zamekeeper.
He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with a
suitable warning from his lordship as to his future conduct. •

SENT ENC ES,

Jackson Haslom, who had pleaded guilty to a bareary, at
the earlier part of the assizes, was sentenced to six months'.
imnrisonment.

George Johnson, convicted this morning of the attempt at
burglary at the residence of Mr. Okell, of Leigh-hall, fifteen
months' imprisonment.
John Burns. awl Thomas Nofri.e, convicted of having in their
Possession. at Liverpool, for,'ed promissory notes of the
Northern Banking Company of Ireland, ten years' transpoi ta-
tion each. _ • . .

Richard Elsley Johnson. who pleaded guilty to uttering a
forged endorsement, at Present, was sentenced to twelve
months imprisonment at Kirkdale. His LORDSHIP remarked
That it. appeare ', in an evil hour, the prisoner had been be-
trayed into making use of the name of a person he hat been
cotnected with in business without his authority. It was the
inference of law that he intended to defraud some person, and
although he mieht have :leant to have taken it up when due,
still it was done fraudulently. He had been, no doubt, betrayed
into this by some practitioners in London, who afterwards
swindled him ; but money being misaepropriated by those
parties. he presented a second forgery in order to endeavour to
screen himself. His Lordship said he had carefully looked
over the case, and felt hound, as a public example, to pass a
severe sentence—one year's imprisonment.

Michael Maeartney, Michael Galvin, and James Glanway
pleaded guilty to a riot. His Lordship said the men had been
gnilty of aiding in r. very serious disturbance—a prize fight.
It WaiB only the other day that a man was killed at one of these
tights. They were very brutal ekhibitions, and such as could
not by any means be encouraged. To be imprisoued one
month. with hard labour.

The business of this court was terminated at half-past seven
this evening.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS

Monday Night.

Our Share market has been depressed this week, from
sales made by speculators, apprehensive of having to pay
again the heavy contangoes of last account. After this
purging—not yet quite passed—we look for a healthier
market and better prices. This dayrs quotations are—
Aberdeen, la ; Ambereate and East Junction, 311;
Late C'ies. and B'head.2ol ; East Anglian. 5 ; East. Lan-
cashire. 161 1 1. ; Do. preference Fifths, 'p ; Do. do. 2nd
issue, 54; Leeds Fifths, 6 13-16 d; Loudon stock, 127 4 ;
Do. new Quarters. 5p ; M'chester Shef and L'coln, pref.
12 1-16 ; Do. £6 new preference, fo ;- Midland Halves,
144 d ; North Uni.on A, 241 ' • Old Drivers, 2611; York,
Newc. and Berwick. 211 ; Dutch Rhenish, 41d; Royal
Bank preference, 125. . _ . .

The cotton market on Saturday continued fiat, without
any alteration in prices to notice, which are the same as
Friday. The sales amounted to 4,000 bales, 500 of which
are on speculation. To day the market has been mode-
rate. with prices a shade lower. 5,000 bales have been
sold, 500 of which are for export. Tmport since Friday :
Uplands, 2,093 ; Orleans, 2,026; West India, 34 ; total,
4,153.

We learn from the monthly timber circular of Messrs.
Mackay, that since the Ist February last. fifteen timber
laden vessels have arrived from British North America,
eight from St. John, N. 8., and seven from other ports.
The following is an extract from their circular published
on Friday :
" The import of Pine Timber is in excess of last year, and
chiefly composed of small average girths, while Deals and
Battens are brought forward in limited quantities for the daily
increasing consumption. The slight -advance reported, being
not sufficient to induce shipments to any great extent, for
with the advance in freight and first cost of wood goods, now
demanded by ship-owners and shippers the present prices
here, after deducting all charges, will still entail a loss upon
the importer of from les. to 15s. per standard. The enhanced
prices now readily obtained in London and other ports of the
United Kingdom, together with the unusual large quantity
sold for spring delivery abroad, will have its effect in greatly
reducing the quantity that otherwise would naturally come to
this port ; and under these circumstances nothing short of
remunerative prices to importers will influence a fair-average

supply."
Whilst upon the subject of the timber trade, we ought
not to omit to quote the following exposure of the unjust
railway charges fixed on this article. Messrs. Chaloner
and Fleming in their last circular say :
" There is one great drawback to the development of this,
namely, the snstentation of unreasonably high rates of inland
c trriage, the railroads and the canals treating it as a mono-
poly, instead of wisely adapting their rates to enable this
market to sustain itself against the competition of Hull, Glou-
cester, &c. Take, for example, the disparity between the
carriage of a standard of deals to Manchester from Hull and
Liverpool ; from Hull, a distance of eighty three miles, it is
carried for 28s. ld. ; while from Liverpool, a distance of only
thirty mile?, it costs 20s. Bd., thus enabling the ports on the
east coast to beat us out of our own market, through the
advantage they derive in the difference of the foreign freight,
more than ever to be considered now, as the foreign-duties are
likely to be further reduced."

The following from Messrs. Littledale's circular, pub-
lished on Friday, furnishes a gloomy picture of the state
of trade during the last month :--
"We regret again having to repeat the same unvarying tale
of dullness in our produce markets, but seldom. has such a
state of-things continued with so-little change for three months
in succession as has been the case for the first quarter of '5l.
Notwithstanding this total want of animation, there is a mode-
rate consumptive demand from, day to day, and the light stocks
in the hands of dealers would warrant the expectation of relief
to importers ere long. It affords's strong proof of the sound
position of produce, as regards prices, to see how little decline,
comparatively, has taken place throughout this-long suspen-
sion :—with the exception of indigo, which had been previously
driven.up Is. per lb. by speculation, and has now lost nearly
the same; and sugar, partly from the same cause, but more
from the depression existing amongst the refiners. attributed
in some degree to the increased competition of Dutch refined
sugar and the country grocers working off their previously
heavy stocks of raw sugarr—the value of most articles remains
without material change—•say cotton, silk, wool, tea, saltpetre,
oil seeds, ivory, kips, spices, spirits, and other minor articles,
Coffee forms another exception, but when the largely increased
estimates of supply. and-the diminished consumption from the
amount of unheard-of trash now used in adulteration are con-
sidered, the surprise is that the decline has not been greater."

STRETFORD.—A steeple chase is to be run at Stretford,
near Manchester, on Thursday next.
The Earl and Countess of Sefton were present in the
Crown Court, yesterday, during the whole of the trial of
the Simonswood burglars.
Mr. Justice Cresswell will, it is believed, leave for
London this morning, if Baron Platt, who was slightly
indisposed last night, is recovered. The criminal business
has all been disposed of, but tho- civil cases will occupy
two or three days more.

A letter from Marseilles of the lat inst. announces the
receipt of intelligence from Egypt (no date given) of a
serious revolt at Senaar, in which the Pacha and the.
Egyptian troops had all been massacred. Preparations
were making at Cairo to dispatch troops to the scene of
tumult.

We understand that a meeting was held last night,. at
the Public-office, Toxteth-park, for the purpose of me-
morialising the council infavour of the appointment of
two stipendiary magistrates for this borough. Mr. Mercer
was in the chair, and among the gentlemen present were
the overseers and guardians of the poor, Mr. Councillor
Lloyd., &e.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.—The monthly meeting of
the council was held yesterday,—Thomas B. Horsfall,
Esq., president, in the chair. An interim report from
the committee on Customs Regulations was brought up
and adopted. It contained a series of s iggestions for
amendment in the bonding system, and the management
of the Customs. A report from the Special Committee
on the Patent Laws was also received and adopted ; like-
wise one from the committee on the Law of Debtor and
Creditor, in. which it was recommended that the chamber
should support the bill about to be brought before parlia-
ment for the speedy arrest of absconding debtors.
The report from the committee on the Adulteration of
Coffee was read, and, atter much discussion, adopted.
It was to the effect that though, in the opinion of the
committee, no legislative enactment can effectually
prevent such adulteration, yet having reason to believe,
from recant intern, ation, that the Treasury order permit-
ting the mixture of chicory with Coffee is regarded by
many dealers ns sanctioning adulteration, they suggest
the repeal of that Treasury order, to remove any such
misconception. Mary communications' were read, among
which were several on Customs reform : one from 'the
Hull ellarobi-r of Commerce, on the subject of the repeal
of the Sound dues and the abolition of the Russian Com-
pany ; one from the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce,
on telegraphic communication ; one on commercial trihu-
nals ; and one from the master stevedores, with a copy o
f
their memorial from the Town Council—all of
were referred to special committees, .hich

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY
AMONGST THE JEWS:

The annual meeting of the friends of this society was
held last night, in the Concert-ball, Lord Nelson-street,
for the purpose of transacting the business'of the auxili-
ary society of this district. The Rev. Dr. M'Neile
occupied the chair; and on the platform we noticed the
following clergymen and gentlemen :—The Rev. J. B:
Lowe. W. Rawson, Rev. S. Minton, S. P. Boutflower,
T. Robinson, W. M. Masse, Sce, J. K. Rounthwaite,
Esq.. H. J. Webster, Esq., &c. The rev. chairman
called upon the Rev. S. P. Boutflower, the secretary, to
ask God's blessing on the proceedings.

- -
The attendance, though numerous and respectable, was
not so treat as on recent occasions on similar gatherings.
The Re. CHAIRMAN stated, that as they were aware
the object of that meeting was to hear the report of the
transactions of the Liverpool Auxiliary to the Jews'
Society in London, and to agree to its being published
immediately, instead of as formerly, at the end of the
financial year, in order that it will appear almost simul-
taneously with the parent society ; it was therefore very
properly called their business meeting. Although there
was no deputation from the parent society, he 'hoped
some very valuable details would be given by gentlemen
who had undertaken to address the meeting. The proper
business of the London society, as it was of the Auxiliary,
was to effect the conversion of the Jews considered as
individuals to the faith of the go pel ; and secondly, the
restoration of the Jews, considered as a nation, to the
land of their fathers !—these were quite distinct. The
present business related to the conversion of the Jews,
considered as individuals, but the other object should
never he lost sight of, for this high reason, that God never
, lost sight of it. After speaking of the work to effect she
conversion of Jews lawful and laudable. The rev. chair-
man reverted to the more immediate business of the
meeting, and in doing so referred to a letter received by
him that morning from Darmstodt, explanatory of the
progress of the society's missions. The Jews there and
at other places on the Continent it appears are divided into
two classes, one of which is composed of the bigoted fol-
lowers of the Talmud, and the other differ little from
infidels. The writer spoke of Dr. M'Caul's " Old Paths"
as a work which was doing much to root out from the
minds of the Jews their implicit faith in the Talmud.
The rev. doctor spoke of the Talmud as exercising on the
Jews the same infiuenence that the breviary does on the
Roman Catholics. It was full of legends and tales, in
vented by artful men to impose on the ignorant. At
Frankfort-on-the-Maine the Jews had decided to discon-
tinue the practice of instructing their children in Hebrew,
as it prevented their intellectual progress. o.her innova-
tions were being trade,such as the permission o intermarry
with Christians, and in one instance a Jew had been a sponsor
at a baptism. The Rev. chairman adduced several gratifying
instances o the progress of the missionary efforts among the
Jews, and with respect to the smallness in the aggregatenf the
conversions, remarked that it was only in accordance with the
result of Christian preaching amongst ourselves. If all those
who then listened to him were to leave that place with con-
verted minds, they would produce an immediate effect not only
in neighbourhoons, but in whole sections of the town. After
referring to the case of a Jew who at Cracow had led a mob
against the missionaries, but who had never been baptised,
and was now resident in London, Dr. M'Neile called upon the
secretary, t'n Rev. S. P. Boutflower, to read the report.
The report, which was then read, stated, that the funds
of the association showed a small decrease compared with the
preceding year.. As respects the operations of the society
abroad, it appears that two gentlemen, a clergyman, and a lay-
man lately paid a visit to the Missions in Holland, Germany,
and Poland, at the request of the Parent Comm ttee, awl re-
ported, on their return, that all the missionrries were profitably
and effectively employed. In every instance we found them
' on terms of friendly intercourse with Jews ; and had the
satisfaction to hear that all their communications are uni-
formly characterised by a courteous behaviour. Allusion is
then made to the esteem manifested by the Jews at Lublin and
Cairo, for Mr. Kleinhenn and Mr. Lauria, and to the strong
testimony borne by Bishop Gobat, of Jerusalem, to the latter
gentleman, whose ordination is also noticed. It appears that Mr.
Lauria was formerly a Rabbi at Jerusalem, and that on being
baptized by Bishop Alexander, in 1843, he was compelled by
the Jews to divoce his wife,.and his only child was torn from
him as the price of his profession of Christianity. In some
places the zeal and success of the missionaries has led to the
fiercest opposition. At' Lafet' Mr. Daniel has been obliged to
seek the British consul's protection for himself and an in-
quirer. At Bagdad the Rabbisbave anathematised all inter-
course with the niissionariesl. and the inquiring Jews have
been grossly ill used by a furions-mob whom a bigoted .Tewets
stirred up against her own lin-band. At Amsterdam, also, the
missionary and a number of proselytes have only been pro-
tected from violence by the interference of the police. As re-
spects Jerusalem, singularevidence is produced to the activity
of the mission in the form of a naive admission which recently
appeared in the Jewish Chronicle, that the Jewish community
there expended 30,000 piastres in one year in their efforts "to
open the eyes of the Winded people" who resorted to the mis-
sionaries, and to induce them to quit the city. The circula-
tion of the Scriptures has greatly increased. The Rev.
Mr. Lawrence sold three times as• many copies in a tour in
Prussia on ally former occasion, and at I Pram' as soon as the
Society's Bibles were declared authentic by the Jewish tri-
bunal to which the missionary formally submitted them, the
whole srock was immediately disposed of. Missionaries are
not allowed to labour in Prussia, but some New Testaments,
and many hundreds of Old Testaments have been recently
transmitted thither, where they are eagerly sought by the Jews.
In Prussia the Society's books and tracts are readily accepted,
and publicly perused in the streets, audio many parts of the_
Continent the attention which used to be given to the Talmud
in preference, is now being directed to the Scriptures. The
deputation above referred to visited the missionary schools in
the Duchy of Posen, and after witnessing an examination of
the schools in Posen itself, in the prophecies respecting the
Messiah, the fulfilment of them in Christ. and the Gospel plan
of salvation, reported that "'it was impossible forany scholarsin
any country to afford a more pleasing proof of successfu scrip-
mill instruction." Four new schools are added in different
inssionstothoseAlreadysupportedbytheSoci_ty.and missionary
labours have been commenced at Jassy, and at Oran, Morocco,
in which regency 300,000 Jews reside. In selecting these new
stations, preference has been given to Mahomedan countries,
on account of the greater toleration there afforded to Protestant
missionaries than in Roman Catholic lands. There are many
important openings the society is obliged to neglect, owing to
the paucity of it missionaries, on which- subject an appeal is
made by the committee, particularly addressed to the young
men in this town who take an interest in Christian missions:
The death of the Rev. J. S. Frey, thefirst missionary the society
employed, is then noticed, and also that of the celebrated Pro-
fessor Neander, whose world-wide reputation as a scholar and
theologian, affords another contradiction to the stale fiction
that no really learned Jew ever becomes a Christian. In con-
clusion. the committee express their fear that, while an interest
in the society generally has exended, it has diminished of late
years in Liverpool ; and after calling upon their friends to renew
their former exertions, add to interest others in its behalf,
commend the whole subject to their earnest prayers.

...
H. J. WEBSTER, Esq., read a statement of the financial
position of the society, from which it appeared that the
sum forwarded from this town to the parent society last
year was 4:751 Bs. Bd.
The Rev. T. ROBINSON, incumbent of St. Bartholo-
mew's, moved the adoption of the report, and that the
meeting recognize, with sincere thanks, the mercy and
blessing of God which had attended the operations of the
part year. In the course of a very able address, he said
it was with the most cordial wish for the prosperity of the
society that he moved the resolution, for he could not but
consider that its object was one at once sacred and grand.
It ought to be remembered that those who claimed
their sympathies were the descendants of God's ancient
people. It certainly was a very, painful reflecctinn
that so many hundred years had been allowed to
pass away before any systemmatic effort had been
made to effect the conversion of the Jews. We knew
that it had been commanded to go and preach the Gos-
pel, beginning at Jerusalem. With the exception of the
primitive preachers of the Gospel, these solemn com-
mands had been permanently disregarded. The Church
had been enwrapt in slumbers for nearly eighteen hun-
dred years ; but, thank God, she had at length, in some
measure, been awakened. The rev. gentleman, in a strain
of fervid eloquence, traced the origin of the society, and
expatiated on.the glorious results-which had sprung from
its efforts. _ _

The Rev. D. J. HIRSCH, Minister of the German
Chapel, St. Thomas's-buildines, who rose to second the
resolution, remarked that wonderful as was the past
history of the Jewish nation, still more glorious would
be the future. There were many blessings still in store
for that ancient people, with respect to which we could
not but feel deeply interested. There were some who
sneered at the efforts made• to carry the gospel to the
Jews ; but these sneers always came from persons who
knew the least of them, of their history, and of God's
prophecy concerning them. He entreated attention to the
claims of,- this people upon them on historic grounds ; for if
he must give up historic truth, as applied to the Jews, he
must give up the teachings of history altogether. Eighteen
hundred years had gone by; nations and powers. had
been gathered to the dust, and empires had been shattered
one after another; yet still the Jews remained a scattered
people, fulfilling all that had been prophecied of- them.
The rev. gentleman entered at some length into the
working of the society in his own country—Germany—
and dwelt upon the benefits especially resulting from a
circulation of the Holy Scriptures amongst the Jewish
people.
The motion was put and carried unanimously.
The Rev. Mr. Mirrrote moved the second resolution in
an eloquent and powerful speech, the length of which,
short as, from the rapidity with which it was delivered, it
would appear to a deeply interested auditory, utterly pre-
cludes us at this late hour, and in the crowded state of
our columns, from giving even an outline of its argument..
The doxology was then sung, and the meeting soon after
separated.

The Bishop of London was prevented by illness from
preaching at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, on Sunday.
On the 25th of March, last year, there were 27,351 boys
in the workhouses of England and Wales, and. 22,838
girls ; making 50,189.
At Norfolk assizes on Saturday, George Carnt, 23, was
sentenced to death for the murder of Elizabeth Bain-
bridge, by throwing her into a pond. The prisoner and de-
ceased (a married woman) were attached to each other.
Ctruncii EXTENSION.--A committee has been ap-
pointed in London for the purpose of receiving dona-
tions, which will be applied towards the assistance
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nounced are most munificent. We give a few of them.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, £3000; Bishop of Lon-
don, £3500 ; Lord Rabt. Grosvenor, £2OOO ; the Misses
Seymour, £lOOO ; C. Freake, Esq., Bromptou, £5OOO ; C.
J. Bevan. £5000; A Friend, £5,000 • another Friend,.
£5,666 ; W. Page Wood, Esq., £l,OOO ' • H. Valiance,
Esq., £l,OOO ; Rev. J. Fletcher, £1,000; Barclay and
Co., £2,000; Tru-man, Danbury, and Co., £1 000 • T
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Baring Esq., £5OO ; Sir E. N. 'Buxton, £5OO ; R. C.
Bevan, Esq., £SOQ; J. Labouchere, Esq., £500; W.
Cotton, Esq., £5O , and many others equally liberal.
A provident Irishman is going to get his life Insured,
" so that when he dies he can have something to live on,
and not be dependent on the cold charities of the world
as be once was."

EXTREME DELICACY OF FEELING.--The Registrar-
General, appointed under the Census Act, has got himself
into terrible disgrace by omitting to send to any of the
Ministers the usual form. His excuse is, " that be thought
it would look like a cruel insult to ask them where they
slept on the 30th of March,, as by that time he mach, 'we,
all the Ministers would be out.'
—punch,