The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-15 00:00:00

THE MISIONARY CAUSE IN IRELKI'kIj),

TO THE EDITORS OF THE WATCHMAN. of
Sirs,—Having accompanied the Rev. Thomas Murray', ,
Barnard Castle,—(one of the deputation of the North Of .firs.eio
land, iu behalf of the missious)—to six different places, :be
happy to announce to the readers of The Watchman, that 'in
interest excited this year, so far as I witnessed it, is grealecd,
favour of the missionary cause than it was at any former per
The places whose anniversaries were attended were Duuaaia
Newry, Banbridge, 'randaragee, Lurgan, and Portadowu•
the first named place, the collection was more than doubled,;
and with the exception of' Newry, therb was a considerable
crease in each of the other places. There is no reason to Or,
plain even of Newry, as it was not only as good as the year. OfB
fore, but equal to most of the meetings got up for any religetb u e
purpose in the town. At Banbridge, the Clergyman 01. efr
parish took the chair, and conducted the business of the
lug with great propriety and cordiality. Being the first r
leyan Missionary meeting be had attended, he was not a
surprised and pleased to hear of 177 mission stations, 240 little,.
sionaries, and a gross income during the past year of I.:6o,us'ii ,
He expressed his admiration and gratitude and, in conclusi? ,
prayed heartily for our future success. This is as it should ve:
the clergy of Ireland are much indebted to the zeal, perseled
ranee, and influence of Methodism, not only in the soutba
westof Ireland, but even in the north. It checked the Prd,
gross of popery and wickedness in every quarter of the la?„a
preserved thousands from enemies to the church, by. eaullre
them to a knowledge of the truth ; and, in the late struggle., tfa,
Methodist people threw all their influence into the scale In -y
your of the Protestant Institutions of the country. The clerltor
are not only aware of this, but several of them openlY °Sol
theiigratitude. In Portadown, the meeting was a deligh'efr
oneindeed. That town and neighbourhood are, perhaps, as le
fectually Methodized as any in the empire. There the pole!
shut up their shops, and repaired to the beautiful new chePb,,
lately erected. It was filled to excess. The chair was taken
Col:Blacker, who sliewed 'the greatest interet in the preeee,'t
ings of the evening, and conducted his uepartment with grrfii,
ability. The collection there amounted to £2l 17s. sfl. a
thing is remarkable, in the case of Portadawn, namely W,s,
at each anniversary, some one friend puts a ten pound note 14,
the plate. His name is known to the God of missions•
each of those places the people were highly gratified with, the
interested in the narrative given by Mr. Murray, iespectiug L.Pc,
state of Slavery in the West Indies, its abolition and the Stli,
cess attending the measure ;—he was the last missionary wome
was imprisoned in Jamaica for the cause of Christ,—and, te,
trust, the last for ever. The several speakers at these theo
resting meetings Were the Rev. J. Nelson, of Portadown ; of
Rev. Thos. Beamish, of Dundalk; the Rev. John Gttenr'„,..
Armagh; the Rev. David Waugh, of Lurgan; the 1`;„1
Messrs. 'Waugh and Bennett; the Rev. Messrs. Blone,a ,
M'Afee, of Newry : and the Rev. Charles Marie; of Moir%
withthe Rev. Messrs. Harper and Lucy. On these occasiln
there was no resolutions passed expressive of our confidence 1,
the Committee of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. Tha9,r
God, we know of no one on this side of the water who eil,..
`t
doubts their piety or wisdom, or who feels inclined to col.
their measures for the improvement of Society at home °,
abroad. It would only have insulted our people to have broae4
ed the subject.—l am, &c., ALPHA.
May 3, 1835,

(From the Montreal Herald.)
An American editor, speaking of his brother of the Liqn;
root STANDARD, exclaims "Poor fool ! does he not know, tt,
that language, which was "Chatham's mother tongue,"
elsewhere spoken in its purity but in the United States!" -
',purity,/ of "no elsewhere' is respectfully doubted; but be
tog only a Scotchman, we may entertain-groundless doubts.
St. Francis River in Missouri is, in several places, cotqle,tee,i
ly covered by rafts, that have run aground and acctunoo'
such a quantity of soil as to produce living trees.
On Sunday the 22f1 Marcb, a heavy snow-storm fell in th.:
neighbourhood of Albany. The Overslaugh on the Hudson
blocked up with ice, both above the surface and below the boy
tom.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says, that " It i 5
remarkable fact, that ships and steam-boats named after
Genes
ral Jackson, are almost certain to be wrecked, snagged,
blown up.—" A remarkable fact," truly. at
At Quebec, on Wednesday morning, the mercury stood
3° below zero. In the woods, the snow, on an average,
about six feet deep.
The Spanish pirates, according to the Washington Globe, ice
respited at the intercession of the Spanish ambassador, an
not from any doubt of their guilt. Such a confession, autben_.
ticated by the official organ, is by no means creditable tO tnic
President. of
NAVIGATION EXTRA.—" A little cutter called the Ciree,,Le
only twenty-two tons, has found its way from London to 15, I
Cape of Good Hope, navigated by the toaster and two hor3A
After leaving Deptloid, which was on the 2d of August, I*l'
she had been at Maderia, the Canaries, Cape tie VerdS,,,°.
Abrolhes, on the South American coast, Isle de Grand,
SebastiN, Elizabeth and Saldanha Bays, and on
March, 1834, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. This is ot
so extraordinary a feat as the one performed many ve?rs
since by a Down Easter.— Captain Shackford, now of °bin!,
an eccentric man, then living in Portsmouth, N. H. purchase:l!
a tobacco boat of twenty tons, and with no companicn but b
dog, and no object but to see the world, navigated her in safe.tY
to England, where he had an interview with Sir Joseph Bands
and thence found his way to one of the West India Islands
On his arrival, although his papers were authentic, he was ‘.":i
rested by the civil authorities and confined as a pirate, anrl,.l_
v:as nnt till a subsequent arrival of some of his townsmen, r
the ith
were acquainted with his solos voyage, that' he was set at a-
, betty.