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

" Left the world to darkness and to ME !"

His lordship sounded the note of onset most valiantly;
but he left his juvenile companion in defeat to sing the
dirge for the fallen. In good sooth, it strikes us that
it requires a peculiar talent—which we shall attempt to
point out—to enable any one man to lead an opposition
against a ConservatWe government in the present
House of Commons. Reader, you have perhaps occa-
sionally watched with interest—admiration ought to

e been the feeling—the patience and perseverance,

with
which some frieze-coated native of the emerald isle
has handled a drove of porkers from tl
Dock to the railway station in Wapping

we know not how many oth

3 Clarence

What

,en! what

winning suavity of manner you have s
coaxing tones you have heard ! and when some adven-
turous grunter has rushed up some side street, smell-
ing an adjacent brewery or stabling, what an instanta-
neous perception of the exact spot, at which he might
be advantageously confronted and persuaded to return
once more to the
paional supervision ! Anon, the
snouts and the tails of the drove have pointed in as
many different directions as are marked by the signs
of the zodiac; and then, with what energy Terence, or
Murphy, or Paddy,
has danced round them, now
plying his whip, and now all the tones of his mellifluous
brogue—wheedling, whistling, and swearing by turns
—until at length eyes in front," and the yard is
gained, and the long-legged and long-eared rascals are
boxed up as snug as beggars in a lodging-house, and
about as throng ! There was never an Irishman,
we believe, who lost a pig under similar circumstances.
Now it strikes us very forcibly that it is the very
talent displayed so conspicuously by our industrious
brethren in the frieze coats, or apologies for the same,
which is required in a leader of the Whig opposition in
the approaching session; and that unless Lord John
is equal to the task of driving a score or two of pigs,
of independent habits and feelings, he may as well
attempt to whistle down the cross on the top of St.
Paul's, as lead, with any hope of success, that opposi-
tion. Of the herd of strange animals which he would
have there to drive, some crotchetty member, bearing a
remarkable likeness, in the length of ear and other
peculiarities, to Mr. Joseph Hume, would be darting
up an alley leading to " penny wisdom and pound
foolishness ;" some cadaverous-looking porker, in fea-
ture and leanness resembling the great Cobden, would
be off, grunting out " free trade and down with the
landlords ;" the tails and snouts of the whole drove
would continually be pointing a hundred ways, instead
of a dozen ; and in place of landing the whole in any
given spot, the unhappy drover would perchance find
himself some day, not a month after the commence-
ment of his adventurous exploit, pleasantly seated in
the " verdant mud," having been brought low by his
capricious charge mistaking the capacity of his legs to
serve as an arched gateway !

Lord John Russell, then, we pass by. He is not
the man of whom we are in search. His lordship,
though unscrupulous as a politician, has yet some
noble blood in his veins. He has some little of the
chivalrous spirit of his race in
his composition; and
the man, who must lead the
" all denominations," in
the present House of Commons, will have to do and
submit to things, of which we honestly believe his
lordship to be incapable. Who's next, then ?
Our judgment points, next in order, to Lord Pal-
merston. This venerable personage would not be
likvly to indulge in any of the refinements of feeling
and taste, which might deter the ex-secretary for the
home department from undertaking an office so
onerous and perplexing. But, then, the foreign policy
of poor Palmerston ; how it has been cut and hacked
by of the pack he would have to lead
denounced aling t League meetings; made matter for
laughter at tea and toast gatherings---for laughter,
horrescimus referentes, which has rung from the lips o
the gentler sex, young and old, the objects of its
author's fondest idolatry ! Besides, though " fallen
upon evil days," yet the necessity of some little con-
sistencys
ep reens
bt oy ttl oe
ffice
amrancytesrt,ililnboendeeelheoda,
o f their andleader,
and radical opposition, to be desirable; and if this be
so, the chance of his lordship is out.
Mr. Richard Cobden has graciously assured us that

he does not as

'e to become prime minister, coin-

.A-in-chief, chancellor, or to fill any other official
dignity, as the result of his virtuous labours. He
might, it is true, patriotically throw the shield of his
great name over his disorganised party, in the capa-
city of leader of the opposition; but then unfortunately
could h .
the poor man has only one idea 1 Take him off the
subject of the corn laws, and he wouldwis soon
to be be as far A
at sea as a reasonable being
number of minor names suggest themselves to our
notiee—nf men who would be great indeed at a free
trade festival, an anti-monopoly meeting, or a chartist
soiree; but in the presence of such statesmen and
masters of debate as Peel, Stanley, Gladstone, Graham,
and the host of talent which rallies round the Con-
servative benches, they may, indeed, " pale their in-
effectual fires," and retire from the arena.
This question is beyond us, then; but in the next
which we have proposed, viz. : " what is to be the
great opposition question," we may have better fortune.
It will not be the unfortunate budget of Lord Mel-

administration; that is dear. The fastest

depended

s of the

Jackson, Esq

Mayor, two pears

•y an amendment

soon become general in the town

BITION

To-day will be launched from the building-yard:of M
P. Cato, southwest corner of the Brunswich Dock, a new 1,
brig of about 170 tons register, the property of Christopher !

SHOPKEEPERS' HOURS OF Busnasso..We have much
pleasure in directing the attention of our readers to an ad-
vertisement in our columns of to-day from the Association
of Tradesmen's Assistants. We are very happy to find that
so many respectable tradesmen have adopted the recom-
ly more satisfactory to mendation of the public meeting held, under the auspices of

incerely hope that so
abits of business will

PUBLICANS FlNED.—Twenty publicans were fined: by
Mr. Rushton on Friday, in sums varying from 20s. to £5,
for allowing tippling in their houses at various hours, varying
from past twelve on Saturday night to the time of opening
allowed by law on the Sunday. It may be well to remind
the licensed victuallers that the penalty is not the only con-
sideration worthy their attention, but the renewal of the
licenses will be jeopardized on the next licensing day.

CORN CONSUMPTION.—It appears, upon reference to the
best recent reports relative to the corn market. that the con-
sumption of grain is increasing, and that the stock of free
foreign wheat are becoming very much reduced. The quan-
tity of Wheat and Flour in granary at Liverpool on the 31st
ult. were only 170,000 quarters, and 25,000 barrels, 6,000
sacks, the Wheat having bee❑ reduced since Nov. 1, by
100,000 quarters, and the Flour by about 14,000 barrels.
Authorities usually considered good in such matters, main-
tain that ;he foreign grain and flour will soon be cleared out,
although business in the London market, where about 500,000
quarters are held, is very quiet at present. The prospects
for the new crop are looked upon as highly satisfactory.

&CCIDENT AT THE "CENTRIFUGAL RAILWAR" EXHI-
.—We regret to learn that. a very serious accident oc-
curred, a few days ago, at this exhibition. A lady named
Brindle, residing in New Bailey-street, Salford, had placed
herself in the carriage for the purpose of being whirled round,
when, owing to some obstruction on the path of the carriage,

it was precipitated to the ground, a short distance from the
starting point. The lady was thrown out, and the carriage
falling upon her, her thigh was broken, and she sustain other
serious injuries. She was conveyed home, and a medical
gentleman was promptly in attendance by direction of the
proprietor of the exhibition. She was also attended by her
own medical adviser, but we understand she is not yet out of
danger.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCHOOLS, CORNWALLIS-STREF,T.
—A public examination of the scholars receiv'ng education in
the Church of England schools Cornwallis-street, took place
last evening in the presence of a large assembly of the sup-
porters of the schools, and the parents of the children. The
examination was conducted in several portions of the Scrip-
tures, to which the replies of the children, given extempo-
raneously, were most satisfactory. They were also examined
in secular knowledge with the like issue. At the close of the
examination Mr. Clarke, the head master, was presented by
Mr. Wilkinson, of Lord-street, on the part or the pupils,
wiih a handsomely. framed Portrait, in oil, of himself, as a
testimonial of their regard for his continued exertions for
their improvement. Mr. Clarke made a suitable reply ; and
the proceedings terminated shortly after nine o'clock.

BIRD'S NEST EMBEDDED IN THE HEART- OF AN OAK
TREE.—On Tuesday last, as two sawyers, in the employ of
P. Chaloner, Sons and Co., ship-builders, Baffin-street,
were employed in cross-cutting the limb (f an oak tree, they
came to what they considered a flaw in the wood, which, on
examination turned out to be a bird's nest, containing six
young birds, both in a state of perfect preservation at the
time, though a little damaged, subsequently, by careless
handling. The young birds are nearly full fledged, and must
have been nearly ready for flight, when the closing up of the
entrance to the nest entombed them alive. The exclusion of
the atmospheric air must have been very sudden, for the
bodies apparently retain all their juices, and exhibited not
the least symptom of decomposition. The hole in which the
nest was built was six inches long by three inches wide, and
it was inclosed by three inches of solid wood, at the side
nearest the surface. The birds, we believe, are of the ox-
eyed titmouse species.

BODY FouND.—On Friday morning. about eight o'clock,
Matilda Harrison was picking chips on the South Shore,
when she saw something in the water which she judged to be
the body of a man. Shc immediately went and informed her
grandfather, who accompanied her to the spot and dragged
the body out of the water. It was conveyed to the Receiving-
house. It was the body of a man, about fifty-three or fifty-
four years old, five feet six or five feet seven inches high, fair
complexion, bald head, with some gray hairs at each side.
He had on a brown great coat with large horn buttons,
stamped with a crown, black body coat with silk buttons, a
black double-breasted waistcoat, drab kerseymere trowsers,
black silk stock, brown jane gaiters and shoes. An inquest
was held on the case on Saturday, when a verdict was re-
turned of " Found drowned."

DEATHS IN THE WORKHOUSE.—On Friday last, an in-
quest was held on view of the body of Peter Jump, a pauper
in the Liverpool Workhouse. It appeared that the deceased
was found in his bedroom, at the workhouse, on Thursday,
between twelve and one o'clock, hanging by a shawl from
the wall. He was cut down, but was quite dead. The
deceased had shown several symptoms of aberration of mind,
and the jury found a verdict of insanity.—On the same day
another inquest was held on view of the body of Mary
M'Avoy, also an inmate of the workhouse, aged 75 years.
The deceased got liberty to go out of the house on Monday
week, and on her return complained that a boy had run
against her and knocked her down. In the course of the
same day she was again thrown down by the wind, whilst
she was in the yard. The surgeon to the establishment
stated that deceased had, by one of the falls, suffered a frac-
ture near the shoulder joint of the left arm. She gradually
grew worse, and died on Thursday_ morning. Verdict,
" Accidental death."

ROBBERY.—Two young women, named Margaret Mat-
thews and Mary Crellin, were charged before Mr. Rushton,
on Friday, with having committed a serious robbery on the
previous night, at the house of Mrs. Taylor, publican,
Bevington-hill. Mrs. Taylor deposed that Matthews was
related to her, and had been brought up by her from child-
hood, and that Crelly had been in her service about three
months. Both of them had lived with. her in the capacity
of servants. A variety of articles, comprising bed-linen, a
shawl, and other property of domestic use, had been ab-
stracted, to the value of £l4, according to her estimate. A
police officer stated that having heard of the robbery, and
meeting the prisoners carrying each .a bundle, he accosted
them, and asked what they were conveying away. The an-
swers not being satisfactory, he accompanied them to a
house in Chisenhale street, and there found the property
produced, and which Mrs. Taylor identified as hers. Crelly
stated that she had been incited to the commission of the
theft by her companion. Mr. Rushton ordered both pri-
soners to be sent to trial at the sessions.
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY.—We stated a few
days since that this society had obtained the Lecture Hall
of the Collegiate Institution in which to hold their future
rehearsals an concerts. When we call to mind the fashion-
able character of these meetings and the many very excellent
selections of music with which the subscribers have hitherto
been favoured at the different quarterly concerts held at Mr.
Lassell's saloon, we look forward with high expectations to
the result of this removal, now that, with greater facilities
at their command, the committee have the power of increas-

ing the number of subscribers, and it properly supported
they will be enabled to obtain the assistance of first-rate
metropolitan talent. When it is considered that a very large
proportion of the practical members are gentlemen amat( urs,
too much praise cannot be lavished upon the excellence of

their performances, vocal as well as instrumental. As we
understand that the subscription list is rapidly being filled,
we would strongly recommend all true lovers of good music
to lose no time in enrolling themselves members of this
highly interesting society. Liverpool has frequently, and
of without cause, been contrasted in no very enviable way
with Manchester as regards the support of musical specula-
tion. Surely, now that an opportunity so desirable offers,
an excellent room, music of sterling character, performances
of known talent, with a committee of gentlemen whose taste
cannot be questioned, we shall not in future deserve to be
considered as second to any town in the kingdom as appre.
ciators of a delightful science. We are informed that Miss
Birch, Mr. Machin, and Mr. Walton are engaged for the
full dress concert in March ; when Miss Weller, who re-
cently made so successful a deut in Dublin with Thalberg,
will perform on the piano-forte. It is proposed, we believe,
to have twelve concerts in the year,—viz., four quarterly full
dress concerts, with metropolitan talent ; and eight monthly
undress concerts, with local talent. The terms of admission
to the reserved gallery and body of the room are uncommonly
moderate. The pupils of the institution are to be admitted
at a low annual charge to the upper gallery. The follow-
ing gentlemen are members of the committee :—Rev. A.
Campbell ; James Aspinall, Josias Booker, Christopher
Bushell, Robertson Gladstone, R. W. Houghton, Edward
James. John Leyland, Duncan M`Viccar, Thomas Moss,
Charles Mozley, John Radcliffe, Samuel Turner, Choindley
Woodward, John Wright, Jos. Atkinson, R. W. Bateson,
R. H. Bownas, William Clare, Robert Clay, B. Coleman
Thomas Jos. Duarte, Edward Eccles, Robert Jones, W. S.
Litler, John Russell, William Sudlow, and John Swainson,
Esquires.
Loss OF THE STEAM SHIP MONK—ADDITIONAL PAR-
TICULARS.—The crew consisted of eight men, and there were
at least 18 persons more on board, the owners of the cargo.
Six only from the whole have survived the catastrophe.
Hugh Jones, the engineer, is the only one belonging to the
vessel who is saved. The survivor and three others soon af-
ter she struck launched the punt, which could carry no more
than six men, and reached a bank along which a considerable
distance they had to drag the boat, and crossed two other
channels before they reached the main land. They informed
the Llanddwyn Fife-boat-men of the accident, who went off
towards the wreck about eight o'clock, but after two hours'
fruitless exertions they could not reach the steamer, and were
forced to return in consequence of the tremendous swell then
running over the bar. It was a trying thing for the survivors,
though not aware of their own safety, to reflect upon the
scene of misery they had lately left, which is represented as
of the most heart rending description. Many in despair and
fear had lost all control over themselves, others were engaged
in fervent prayer, and all seemed too timid or overawed to
avail themselves of the example of the engineer and his party,
to launch a more powerful boat on board, by means of which
a greater number, if not the whole, might have been saved.
The captain declared from the first that he would not leave
the ship while a plank stuck together. About eleven o'clock
p.m., the vessel was breaking up, at which time the unfor-
tunate sufferers on board had crowded into the rigging, from
which, one after another, they were seen to drop off as nature
became exhausted and benumbed from the cold. Fifteen un-
happy beings who clung to the weather shrouds were washed
off at " one fell swoop !" On Sunday morning the shores of
Menai were strewed with the carcasses of pigs and masses of
butter ; the owner of the latter was saved with another person
by the life boat, from the wreck, after the most trying misery
all the night of Saturday. The corpse of Captain Hughes
has been washed ashore at Helen. None of the others have
as yet been found.--North Wales Chronicle.—[We under-
stand that Captain Hughes had swam to shore twice to
obtain assistance, and in all probability he was lost whilst
making another attempt. This heroic man was wrecked
some years since in the Formby Channel, in No. 1, Pilot-
boat, and then distinguished himself by his intrepidity.]
MINOR THEATRES.—The trial of the informations laid
by the proprietor of the Theatre-Royal (arid not by the
lessee, as we erroneously stated on Tuesday last), was fixed
to take place on Friday, but was postponed until to-morrow
week, the 25th instant. There were five informations against
Mr. Copeland, one against Mrs. Copeland, four against
Mrs. Honey, one against Mr. Melville, one against Mr.
Conway, and one against Mr. Egerton and Mr. Sloan.
None of the ladies were in court. Mr. James, barrister,
appeared on the part of the proprietors of the Theatre-Royal,
and Mr. R. S. Sowlee, of Manchester, for the defendants.
Tne time specified for the trial was eleven o'clock; but after
waiting two hours, the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, attended by
the Rev. John Moss, came from the criminal into the civil
court, and took their seats upon the bench. Mr. James said,
he appeared in support of the accusation, and if the chairman
thought proper, they would proceed with only one case,
Mr. Sowler said, he appeared in behalf of the defendants,
and as the chairman bad stated that the magistrates could
not detain the parties in the other court, some of whom had
come frOna a great distance, he suggested that the ease should
be adjourned until the 25th. The chairman said, the question I
rested, in some degree, upon an act of parliament, and, in
another degree, upon the proof which was advanced. It
would, therefore, be advisable that a bench of magistrates
shaonutliderbedegsoitt,abalned
tot both then the matter would be conducted in a
in
parties. He thought the case
should not be gone on with without a bench of magistrates,
and, as to himself, he had no objection to make one of them.
The case was adjourned until that day. Mr. Sloan said he
would be stopped from going to America. The chairman
then said, amidst considerable laughter, on ascertaining that
he was one of the parties summoned, " The best advice I
can give you would be to go to America without delay,"

LIVERPOOL 807

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The CHAIRMAN commenced

the committee's report

NIC GARDENS

I;.l;;;',l"l;e'en—f'or-w—a-r-ded

ON, the pre-
attended•

lings by reading

following is a sum'

d that in conformity Witt;

the resolution

passed at the last annual meeting, a sub-committee had been
appointed to open a negotiation for the sale of the garden to
the common council, hut the sale was not completed, and
the various steps which the committee resorted to in conse-
quence, and which have been already before our readers, are
there detailed. The committee then say, that according to
the resolution passed on the 2nd May last, they have been
enabled to raise a sum to pay off the whole debt. The re-
quired sum has been borrowed for a term of not less than
seven years. at the rate of three per cent. interest, the Bank
of Liverpool having consented to make up the defficiency at
the same rate, on the distinct understanding that every ex'
ertion should be used to raise the full amount as soon as
possible. The report then calls upon the body of proprietors
to use their best exertions to induce their friends to become
proprietors or suhscribers ; and after noticing the continued
annual forfeiture of shares, which threatens the ruin of the
institution, states that at no previous period of its existence
was the garden in such complete order and perfection. It
concludes by noticing the vast multitudes of the labouring
population who visit the garden on the public days. The
committee regret that they have only received £lOO annually
from the corporation, a sum totally inadequate to retain the
loss sustained by the increased expenditure and reduced sub-
scriptions consequent on the gardens being opened to the
public two days in the week.
The PRESIDENT said there were one or two things to
which he wished to call attention. The first was, that the
committee had succeeded in borrowing a great part of the
sy they had reduced the interest of the

money, and in this

to say, in consequence of so many
shares having been forfeited, he did not know that they had
gained much by that. By borrowing this money at £3 per
cent., a saving of £54 per annum was made ; but in conse-
quence of the defalcation in the subscriptions, and the for-
feitures of shares, they had a diminution of income to the
amount of £7O; so they were £2O worse off than before.
Another matter was the subscription to the corporation.
He and Mr. Holt had waited on the Mayor with a commu-
nication.from the committee respecting an increased slit-
scription : they were most courteously recei..-ed, and the
application was referred to the Finance Committee ; but
whether anything additional would be received from that
source was, at least, exceedingly doubtful. The subscripticn
of £lOO was totally inadequate to repair the loss sustained
by the gardens being opened to the public two days in the
week. The committee had reason to believe that many
persons availed themselves of these opportunities of visiting
the gardens, who otherwise would have paid their subscrip-
tions. In conclusion, he would mention that the committee
were sa

.t he wv

it would require the greatest exertions to keep
op the gardens with any degree of credit, and the greatest
point with them must be to increase the number of sub-

scribers,
Mr. I

.....owEN, the treasurer, then read a statement of his
accounts, from which it appeared that the current expenses
ad., whilst the income was only

amounted to
£704 19s.

694 lis

On the motion of Mr. WATSON, seconded by Mr.
FALKNER, the accounts were passed, and the report
ordered to be printed.

Mr. E. 11,1111.LBNEux moved, and Mr. ROBERT MATHEIL
seconded, a proposition that Dr. Reynolds be elected presi-
dent for the ensuing year.—Carried unanimously.
The Rev. Jonathan Brooks, the Rev. James Martineau,
Dr. Freckleton, Mr. J. V. Walker, Mr. John Bent, and Mr.
H. Newman, were elected_the committee for the next year.

On the motion of Mr. HORSFALL, the thanks of the pro-
prietors were voted to those ladies and gentlemen who had
presented seeds and plants to the gardens during the past
year. Thanks were also returned to the officers of the past
year, and to the proprietors of the Athenaeum for the use of
their committee-room.

The next resolution authorized the forfeiture of all those
shares, the subscriptions for which were in arrear for 1841,
and previously.—lt was carried unanimously.

Tile CHAIRMAN said, this was all the ordinary business,
but the committee had received notice that several resolu-
tions would be proposed--copies of which had been sent to
each proprietor.

Mr. E. D. FALKNER said, that being the person who
had given notice of these resolutions, he would first read
them, then explain them generally, and afterwards they might
be put seriatim.—Mr. Falkner then read the following

" 1. That the rules of January, 1841, whereby the gardens
have been closed altogether on a Sunday, be rescinded, and
that hereafter they be opened on that day to proprietors and
annual subscribers, after two o'clock p.m., until dark in the
winter, and until eight o'clock in, the summer months.
" 2. That the committee be authorized to engage a band
of music, to play in the gardens on twelve evenings during
the next summer, during such hours, and on such particular
evenings, as they, from time to time, at their diseretion, ac-
cording to the state of the weather, shall determine, public
notice thereof being given in some convenient manner.
" 3. That there shall 'be three public exhibitions of bo-
tanical and horticultural specimens held during the next
summer, one in May, one in June, and one in August, the
days for holding which shall be fixed by the committee ; and
in order to encourage competition, and to remunerate theeX.
hibitors for expense and trouble, a list of prizes shall be
framed, and advertised by the committee as early as possible,
on the principle of the one advertised by the Horticultural
Society of London, that is, specifying at once every itena
for which a prize will be given, and the amount of that prize,
leaving it to the exhibitors to contend for it at each or at all
Of the three exhibitions, as he may please or find it con-
venient, the gross amount of such list not to exceed £lOOO.
" 4. That all proprietors and annual subscribers be ad-
mitted to the exhibitions free of extra charge.

to
bscriptions for the present yeAt

shall be,—proprietors as heretofore, one guinea and a half,
with the following privileges, that is, free admission at all
times for thtniselves and families resident with them, (ex-
cept sons, brothers, or nephews, of age, and in business for
themselves,) with power to introduce, either personally, or
by special written order, any number resident more than fivo,
miles from the gardens, but not exceeding three at once of
residents within five miles
"6. Annual subscril

for family tickets twq gnincaf,l
.ogeu for the year as provricturv,
—,snip in the property, and the rights con-
sequent thereupon, such as voting at meetings, &c., and also
except the privilege of giving written orders of admission to
residents within five miles of the gardens.
" 7. Annual subscribers, for non-transferrable tickets
Single ticket, IQs. ; two tickets in same family, 18s. ; three
ditto, 245.; for every additional xlitto, 7s. more. Entrance
.fees for strangers, resident more than five miles from the
gardens and not introduced, Is. each. Exhibition tickets
- the three exhibitions, single, ss. ; double, Os. ; treble,
additional ticket. For one exhibition
on the day, till font
No orders on ev

except actual cwt.

befoie the day, 2s
;_ after four o'clock,

ralkner's explanations, a long discussion en-
ued on each of these resolutions. In the first, Mr. ADA'S
GSON, seconded by Dr. TATTERSHALL, moved, as an
mendment, that the gardens remain as at present. As 61
amendment, however, was a mere negative, it was agree,
that the question should ba put for or against the original
motion. A division took place, when the original 'notion
was carried. Long and interesting discussions took placeupon the other resolutions, at the end of which they were
all carried.
The thanks of

Frecklei

proprietors were then voted to D►''
n, for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting

separated

STUART.—THEATELE-ROYAL.—Mr. Stuart rear.
peared at the Theatre-Royal last evening, after an absence
of two years ;—he was warmly welcomed on his entrance.
LIVER THEATRE.—Mrs. Honey is playing a round °
characters at this theatre with considerable eclat.
The weather, since the storm of Saturday morning, kat
in this locality, been of a varied, and latterly, of a gratifying
kind. Saturday was fine for the season. Sunday wos $
dismal winter day, with heavy falls of sleet, snow, and hail"'
so that none but the robust could venture abroad. Yester;
day was again dry and cheerful, but exceedingly wet upcle
foot; and last night was cloudless and almost calm, with ti
hrilliant moon. The gale has certainly quite passed away'
ght and salutary frost will probably set in.

and a sli

SUNDAY
.--M r. Josepard an aeare
before Mr. RushtonTRADING
on Saturday, h inShep anspwer togai a charge i ° having on the Sunday previous sold a small book at his shoP'
Mr. Sheppard said he pleaded guilty to the charge, but cool'
plained of being singled out for persecution, and was fined s°'
Mr. Sheppard then laid an information against Wm. Spence;
the Mayor's coachman. He stated that on the Sunday before,
at a quarter before one o'clock, he saw the defendant turning
his coach round which he believed was following his daq ,
avocations on the Lord's day. This was confirmed by av"
tress. Mr. Shuttleworth, the Deputy Town-clerk, appearet
for the defendant. Ae contended, that the defendant did 00
come within the meaning of the act, which, in its first sectioT
set forth, that no trat:. swan, artificer, workman, labouT:
or other person whatever, shall do or exercise any worldly ite
a tra
bour, business, or work of their ordinary callings upon tut.
Lord's day, or any part thereof. The defendant was neithea
deaman, an artificer, a workman, or a labourer, atiot
the general term, " or other person whatever," could ni.gt
apply to him, for Lord Tenterden had laid it down,
when general words followed particular ones, the
,r',"-ra le
was to construe them as applicable to persons
eiliseb`ra
generis. In the case Soudiman versus Breach, befo
Lord Tenterden, it had been held, that a stage coachint,
were not within the meaning of the act. If a stage coach
man were not within the meaning of the act, neither was
coachman of a private gentleman. If so, indeed, other 'pis
mestic servants would be so, as a footman waiting uPon to
master, for instance.—Mr.,Rushton asked to be alloweust
-c look- at-thoase. The ease,--Sandirimt V. m'eavii, was D.'i,
o
where a person booked a Place, and paid half the fare to g
by a common stage coach -from Clapton to London on a Su; day, and the coach proprietor refused to carry him,
heeil-at
there were no other passengers; whereupon he hired a
Itr chaise to go to his destination, and sued the proprietor
deny,
the amount. The case was heard before Lord Tenter
when the defence was, that the contract was illegal, and tat
Judge reserved the point. It was snbsequently argued, thder
Baron Gurney, in support of the rule, raised the point n°,ll-0
consideration, by stating that the whole turned upon as
point whether the contract entered into on the Sunday gt
iilegal. Lord Tenterden give judgment. The opinion
that the ease did not come within `i.he statute 3d Charleg,st
or 29th Charles 11. By the former it was enacted, '` rr„i'vy
no carrier with any horse, nor waggonman with an`
waggon, nor carman with any cart, nor wainman with er
wain, nor driver with any cattle, shall, by themselve'vr,
any other, travel on the Lord's Day ; and, by the latth-er
"That no tradesman, artificer, workman, labourer, nr,,°„iir,
person whatever, shall do or exercise any worldly I,ar-ti's
business, or work of their ordinary callings on the J-4?ther
Day." It was contended, that under these words, "
persons whatever," the drivers of stage coaches wer,°(ol.
eluded. " But were general words," said his lordship able
low particular ones, the rule is to construe them as apPhft
to persons ejusdern generis. Considering, then, th'ed,
Charles I. carriers of a certain description are mentiouers,
and that in the act 29, Charles 11., horse-carriers, waggci
and travellers of certain descriptions are specifically roen'tionLoe
eel, we think that the words ' other persons,' cannot Prod
been used in a sense large enough to include the owner tbe
driver of a stage coach. On these grounds the rule must
discharged." Mr. RUshton, having read the above case,
the grounds stated by Lord Tenterden where strictly
plicable to the present case. The words "or other PerVanrle:
were limited in the act. It was set forth in the act of C a
L, that persons who were robbed when travgiling d°red,
Sunday were not allowed to recover from the Wu! to
,e where a person was robbed while gt:",°c7o,
orse
church on a Sunday, he was allowed to recover, t'sitY.
it was held, that going to church was an act of nec"ci to
The defendant must be acquitted. The Mayor begg_esibie
say, that, in this else, he was, in reality, the resPof oat,
person, and not the defendant. The carriage was takentrl
coin ill
on Sunday, for the purpose of bringing him from thefit 9,
into town to go to church, and was not made use of, 0„ fond
day, for any object of pecuniary profit or recreation. !s"trat
always been considered right that the Chief MBA' oler
should himself set the example of going to church,,tn,ortate;
to induce others to attend their places of worship.
-,PLea, to,
tions had been laid by the same party against Mr. JuP
the Exchange Newsroom, and against two other keeper
newsrooms, newsrooms, but they failed for want of evidence.

vet, i►► a ca

, out a general synod were called,now it
wou
as far a
concerned, there would be a majotity of t
we have every reason to hope, that if the
truth that has manifested itself of late y
continues a few Years tr,,,,

y, (i.r assembl
would enable them to pass resolutions t advance the cause of divine truth in Fray
ever, no synod has been called ; they are si
they are helping themselves ! „»,t

missionaries to France:not to
hut to give them our
some portion of our superftuif
's simply the object i, - •

same sort of church government it
They have never had the opportu
Reformation took place upon thi
bishops became reformers. No
in Switzerland, became personally
quence was, that the people of th
and the same applies to Scotland—
with Papists, and episcopacy and
together ; therefore, although so
them, yet the outward appearance
of that view, the people threw
time they threw off papacy • and
land, and Scotland. and 'Frar
aspect

Le lieforma

These churcnc,
more than protest against
in England—mark the di
protestors were themselves
Canterbury (a nain niliar t,
Cranrner ; the Bis
Worcester, Latimer ; the Bisho,
When these men came forward a:.
England saw the difference between
they saw Protestant bishops ; they s.
persons of these bishops ; and in Eng.
had the great happiness of getting
shaking off the orginal, primi Seri).
the Christian church. (Cheers.) The el
Are not to be blamed ; they n ad the c even
if they had the wish, to put themselves under episcopal
' n ,finement-of barbarity. and

When th

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government; u,.- _
not Christian orthodoxy, Is
pretence of a jealousy for tl.
which he has the happiness
right hand of fellowship from them becaub
that form of church government themselves.
not have it. There is a great difference between
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
tlllntinn ..c .I._ -

y man

to live

o Withhold his

they have n

They could

testant member of parliament for one of the divisions of the
County, Mr. Tollemache
sentiments of the Bishop,. (Cheers.)i I do but speak the
and therefore, I say, I am
highly. and strictly orthodoxt ienn:l
rwting this
two ; and if any of you wish for drawing
authority upon tin:.
point, I would refer you to a publication of the present
'shop of London, made by the juniort rector of Liverpool—
republished, I should say, in this the junior rector
of Liverpool, with a preface expressly written to advance the
circulation of the tract, in which these very sentiments are
perspicuity for which
laid down with the clearness and the P
the present Bishop of London is so remarkable:
dis-
tinction will, therefore, I think, satisfy tfieable; This
who have a godly jealousy for apostolic churgngdosveorfnmmeannty,
in which I entirely agree with them. I entertain a godly
agodly
jealousy for that government, but I entertain, I t
sYrnpathy 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 not all we
edesire
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' is 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 ; but the Church of Eng•
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 the 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 with them, and to give them the
countenance of our sympathy and the right hand of fellow-
ship, by assisting her in every way we can. I will not, in
the position you have called upon me to occupy, take up
Your time longer, but call on the honorary secretary to give
You some details connected with the operations of this soci-
ety. I will just add for your information, however, that the
persons through whose instrumentality our •
dered are the leading men in those little sot_
just now, personally known to our honorary secretary, who
takes great delight in this work, who is often upon the Con-
tinent, and sees them and knows them ; so that every pains
will be and has been taken, possib e and practicable, to guard
against any imposition upon the liberality of Englishmen.
Those orthodox men who are the medium through which
this money is administered, are known to the Rev. Mr.
Burgess, rector of Upper Chelsea, who has long devoted
himself to this noble and evangelical work of brotherly and
Christian kindness abroad, and whom I shall have the plea-
sure to introduce to your notice. (The rev. chairman then

ine of distinc-

ies I desce

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 made

of the nature and objects of the Foreign Aid Society, the
I only thing that remained for him was to endeavour to follow
the line of argument he (the chairman) bad 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, whether 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
it, our bishops—even those who bad the

unicotion wiih the reformed churches of the Continen

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 :
when they went to France, they communicated together ;
and neither bishop nor Presbyterian, when they were there,
said anything about church .government; but they had all
things in common. (Hear, hear.) Referring to living
authority, the reverend gentleman quoted some passages
from the Three Sermons preached by the Bishop of London
' 1842, in St. James's Church. published with

during Lent 1849

_ 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 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
society, and the Rector of Liverpool fully approved of them

by givi

is 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-
manded some act of worship, such as falling down to images,
which was forbidden by the word of God. .He need say no
more upon authority ; but after what he bad said he trusted
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, Soci-
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 haw 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 sbewed
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 what the Societe: 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 had 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,
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.
dushhatidol gaft,tiiilnne
Since the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, this town had
ios.
etf
anne
been entirely without a Protestant church ; but the first
AugustbAo be supposed
dstuhpelponso tes.we SocietyderectionwthaasThistsNaoviltlii
sewti
otialeoisdso laid by the mayor on the 18 t h
oo
wasf assist.the.
going works
ontw must
withouth i coho
ot,theopposi-
tion how-
ever,oFaoition : it was not likely that, in the midst of a Romish popu-
lation, with priests in every village, everything
tinhopoeaocoertasndofquFireato.
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moment
taa lrsg. ld oon
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fst
pre-
sumedavor
of
fo
the
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iehltreociens those who
ewwhwo fendingeo i
mitinnev.illaMgers.,
violation of the fifth article of the Charge Constilutionnelle,
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 missions ! 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. TATTERSH ALL, after a few general observa-
tions in support of the objects of the society, moved the
second resolution.
The Rev. F. BARRER seconded the resolution. He 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
eminent 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, ar d
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
reformers. (Applause.) _ _

The resolution was then carried.
ajor THottPE 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,
hut 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. CURRIE seconded the motion, and it was
carried by acclamation.

Mr. M'NEILE then returned thanks for the compliment;
and, after singing the doxology, the meeting separated.

Tn 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 rnuuT2—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 be entertained for the resuls of the ge-
neral adjustment of differences. Consols for money and the
account left off at 941 to 4, and for the opening, 944 ; Bank
Stock, 171/ to 1721 ; Exchequer-bills, 60s. to 625. premium ;
India Stock, 2611 to 2624 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 95;
Three-and-a-Hall per Cents. Reduced, 1014 to 4; New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 101 ; Long Annuities, 124 ;
India Bonds, 555. to 575. premium ; and South Sea Stock,
1054. In foreign stocks, Spanish Actives were quoted 184
to 4 ; ditto, New, 234 to 4; Mexican, 314 to 321; ditto, De-
ferred: 91 ; Danish, 841 to 851 ; Colombian, 234 to 4 ;
Brazilian, 72 to 73; Belgian, 102 to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a
Half per Cents., 52 to 4-; and Portuguese Converted, 354
to 36k.

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

WANT OF EMPLOYMENT.—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.
lie was told that 150 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.

THE LATE LORD 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
Thank God, I have
tears of joy bursting from his eyes—'
lived to hear of these glorious victories, and to know that
there is an end of war ! horrid war !' "—Salopian Journal.

DREADFUL STORM AND DESTRUCTION OF
LIFE AND PROPERTY.

The barometer, on Friday, fell two degrees below the

reviously to the great storm
; and continued to waver at

extraordinary drpres.

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 cf 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 baronater, at Liverpool and Holyhead, at threa

DISASTERS ON THE lIANRS AND IN THE 11./VEIt.

The only casualties that we are aware of in the river, are
the sinking of a schooner in the quarantine ground, (the
crew of which were saved) and the blowing away of the land-
ing stage at the George's-pier. The Woodside boats ceased
to ply at half-past nine, and those at the other ferries about
an hour and a half previously. The Cleveland, Woodside
ferry steam-boat, was obliged to return to Woodside without
being able to land all her passengers on this side, a few of
the younger ones only having reached the pier by jumping
from the boat : the remainder prudently returned to
Cheshire, where they remained all night.
Mail-packet, Princess,

N. of the

who arrived on Saturday morning, about eleven o'clock,
from Dublin, states that he never encountered a severer
night. As he was coming through the Formby Channel, he
saw a schooner sunk off Crosby Point. The_ gallant officer

immediately took measures to save any of the crew who
might survive. The schooner was the Hale, from Creetown,
on the south coast of Scotland. The crew had consisted of
five persons : four of these had been swept off and drowned :
the master was the only survivor, and had saved himself up
to the moment of his rescue by clinging to the vessel's rig-
ging. He was taken on board the steamer, and the means
there used restored him to a state of comparative sensibility.
Two other vessels in a crippled state, which had suffered in
the tempest, were enabled to reach port safely, through
Lieutenant Sarsfield's pilotage and instrumentality. Captain
Evans, of the Hale, has written a letter of thanks to Lieut.
Sarsfield, and to Mr. Sayers of the receiving-house, for their
kind attention to him.

The American ship St. Petersburgh, from New Orleans,
in attempting to run in, got on shore on Jordan Flats, about
eleven o'clock at night. Captain Trask ordered the masts
to be cut away, which was promptly executed. This deci-
sive measure enabled the ship to hold together during the
night, until succour arrived in the morning. As soon, as her
perilous situation was perceived from the shore, the lifeboat
and one of the steam-tugs went alongside and took off the
crew, who were brought to town by the latter. Many of the
poor fellows were in an exhausted state, but they all soon
recovered on being brought on shore. On Saturday night
the vessel was got off, and, full of water, brought into dock.
Thousands of people have visited the dock to see the wreck.
The following authentic particulars are derived, by our own
reporter, from an intelligent person on board :
The St. Petersburgh, of Boston, sailed from New Orleans
on the 17th December, with 2,900 bales of cotton. Nothing
of importance occurred unti lshe took a pilot off Point Lynas,
on Friday morning, when about half way between the N.W.
buoy and the above land shortened sail; but so terrific was
the gale, that eighteen men, the first and second mate, were
on the maintopsailyard from five o'clock until nine, without
being able to furl the maintopsail, and were, at length, com-
pelled to relinquish the task, allowing the vessel to drift in-
wards. At half-past twelve the pilot called all bands to rouse
the cables on deck, and clear away the anchors. At about
one o'clock, when near the light-ship, cut away the mizen-
mast, and at two o'clock cut away the mainmast. At about
half-past two let go both anchors, one with one hundred, and
the other with ninety fathoms of chain attached, in about ten
fathoms of water : at three o'clock cut away the foremast.
At four in seven fathoms of water, striking heavily, cleared
away the long-boats, and left her till daylight. At half-past
eight slipped both cables, their being no sign of a steamer,
made sail on a jurry foremast, and run for the beach. At
about nine observed a steamer steering for thin.), hauled their
wind, and let her lay close at it amongst the breakers.
Shortly after which the Albert Steam Tug took her in tow
with two hausers, but both parted; she now hove heavily
on the edge of Jordan flats, and cracked amid ships with a
fearful crash. The captain, pilot, and all hands, then went
on board the life-boat of the Steam Tug Company, but we
understand the pilot afterwards returned, and remained with
the mate until she was got off by two of the Steam Tug
Company's boats. We visited the vessel yesterday. She
was brought into the George's Doek Basin, where sbe yet
lies. During the whole of Sunday, parties were employed
in discharging the cotton from the water-logged vessel, and
the whole quay is yet covered by the bales, of which proba-
bly upwards of 1,000 have been discharged, most of them in
a damaged state, being saturated with water. The hold was
filled with water up to between-decks, and east numbers of
persons went to see her as she lay alongside the quay, and
walked along the stages to look into the several holds.
The St. Petersburgh is a very large handsome vessel. Her
rudder and, part of her stern post below have been smashed
off. The wheel house, several of the deck-houses further
forward, and other erections, as well as several of the boats,
are made complete wreck off—having been dashed about the
deck, by the seas she shipped. She will be taken into the
Graving Dock for survey, and, no doubt, extensive repairs.
The American ship John Cumming, Captain Thayer, from
Savannah, which was at anchor in Bootle Bay, was in im-
minent 'danger of becoming a total wreck. The sea made
repeated and complete breaches over her. The violence of
the storm and the sea caused both her anchors to drag, until
she tailed on the Bootle sands, where, at the fall of the tide,
she lay high and dry. The bottom being soft sand, the ves-
sel has not sustained much damage. On Sunday, however,
some fears were entertained lest, from the very softness of
the sand, she should get embedded in it before she could be
got off. We have since ascertained that on Sunday morn-
ing two steamers went down at tide time to endeavour to get
her off, but failed in the attempt. She was nearly high and
dry at low water, and her anchors being got out, the crew,
with assistance, succeeded in getting her afloat at high water
the following tide (Sunday night); when two steamers towed
her up to port, and she is now in Waterloo Dock gut, ap-
parently with little or no damage.

The American ship Adirond;ck, Captain Hackstaff, from
New York, arrived on Saturday morning; sailed on the 22d
ult., from Sandy Hook, and on the 20th, from New York.
Captain Hackstaff had two men blown off the foreyard, and
two men maimed by being blown on deck, during the night.
He himself sustained personal injury. He describes the
tempest as having been as severe as any he ever encountered.
When the ship lurched, it seemed as if the waves actually
washed over the mizen topmast head.
The schooner Isabella, of Belfast, bound to Runcorn, laden
with pipe clay, &c., was wrecked on West Hoyle during the
night. Whether the crew were saved or lost we have not
heard. They were, it is but too probable, lost.
Several pieces of wreck, painted yellow inside, apparently
part of a large vessel, have been washed on shore on Hilbre
Island, at the mouth of the Dee. Part of a barometer, made
at Marseilles, has also been washed on shore on the island.
Two flats were driven on shore at Hoylake.

The packet-ship Hotiinguer, Captain tursley, which sailed
on Wednesday, for New York, put back on Saturday morn-
ing. Captain Bursley saw the packet-ship North America,
Captain Lowber, on Friday, about one mile to leeward, off
Ramsey, Isle of Man. On Saturday. she was off the Great
Ormshead, all well, and is, by this time, well round Holy-
head.

The Acoru, for this port, is on shore near Southport.
The Holyhead letter, received on Saturday morning, which
was posted on Friday night, at seven o'clock, stated that the
as the writer expressed
it, " a whole gale." The
bardmeter continued to fall during the day, and that, at half-
past four in the afternoon, it blew,
Cork, had put back with foretopsail split. The St. George,
Lever, from Demerara to this port, had put in with loss of fore-
topgallant mast. The Catherine, Altridge from this port to
in, with loss of main boom, main of Glasgow, had also put
gaff, and loss of bulwarks.
The letter added, that several other vessels had taken refuge
at Holyhead from the effects of the tempest.
The Prince of Wales, iron steamer, running between this
port and Cork, got into Cove at six on the evening of Thurs.
day, so that she escaped being at sea duringoin
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the haeiegrhntooofn, i
the
gale. She got up to Cork, where, at
began to rain and lighten. It b tw
blew so violently during the
night that followed, that the posts on the quays at Cork were
torn away, and it was necessary to carry the Prince's an-
chors on shore, and bed them in the quay to hold her on.
She started from Cork on Saturday afternoon at one o'clock,
and arrived here in safety on Sunday. The usual passages
made by this fine vessel are from 221
to 23 hours. The dis-
tance all the way to Cork is little short of 290 miles. The
mate states that the city of Cork has suffered very severely,
many of the houses having been thrown down or much da-
maged. The ravages of the storm on the whole line of coast,
both in the west and south of the island, are said to have
been very /great ; and it is rumoured that upwards of one
hundred fishing-boats and other small vessels were loit, be-
sides some ships. The captain bad never observed the ba-
rometer so low before.
The little Manx steamer " Mona's Isle" was out during
the whole of the hurricane, and weathered it well. " The
Queen of the Isle," the largest vessel, should have gone that
day, but was not ready, and the Mona took her passengers.
She left at ten o'clock on the morning of Friday, and got in
on Saturday morning, with no other damage than the loss
of a few boards from her bulwarks. An old man on board,
who had been thirty.six
years at sea, states that he never ex
perienced such a gale, at one period of its violence. It quite,
he said " put his i- '
P.pe out.' She was full of passengers.
No accident took place.
The fine, large Glasow steam-ship " Princess Royal" was
at sea during the storm, and fully proved her excellent qua-
lities as a sea-boat. She left Glasgow at eight o'clock on
Friday night, and Greenock at half-past eleven o'clock. They
experienced the greatest severity of the hurricane from twelve
o'clock to about three, on Saturday morning, and arrived
safely here, without the slightest damage, at five o'clock on
Saturday—having completed the run (certainly with fair
wind) in 18 hours.
On Friday night, the small steamer Skimmer, from Wales,
with pigs, got into the George's Slip to discharge them, and,
through some mismanagement, when the tide fell, she got il
her paddle-boxes much damaged.

LOSS OF LIVE STOCK IN THE GALS

We have ascertained from authority the number of pigs,
sheep, &c., lost in several of the Scotch, Irish, and other
steamers, ing the storm

—The William Penn, From Waterford, which arrived on
Saturday night, had on board 37 pigs, 2 sheep, and 1 cow,
which died on the passage, by the violence of the wind and

The Nithsdale steamer, from Scotland, had 9 sheep that
perished on the passage.
The Royal Victoria, which arrived on Saturday morning
from Carlisle, had on board 116 dead pigs and 3 dead oxen.
They died from the water flowing over them on the passage.

" VERNON." LOSS OF THE SCHOONER

At day-break several of the parties connected with the life-
boat at the Magazines, and others, were on the look-out for
any vessels that might be observed in danger, and the boat
was got in readiness to go to their assistance in such event.
In a short time they observed a vessel on the Great Burbo
Bank. George Atherton, Esq. immediately offered the use
of his steamer to tow out the life-boat, and the crew of the
life-boat went on board of the former to assist in weighing
her anchors. While they were so engaged the government
steamer Merlin, with the outward mails for Dublin, came
up, and, being hailed, her commander readily consented to
lend them what assistance was in his power. He towed the
life-boat out to some distance to the windward of the Rock
Channel, so that the crew considered they could thence fetch
the wreck. It was then about nine o'clock, and the wind
was still blowing fresh from the N.W. with a very heavy
sea. Shortly after, when the life-boat had reached the
eastern end of the Great Burbo Bank, and about 1 mile
from the wreck, the Albert Steam-tug, with the life-boat be-
longing to the company in tow, passed the Magazine boat.
In a few minutes afterwards the latter was spoken by a
stoome doubt of its accuracy,
take any notice of her.
fishing-boat, and informed that the crew of the stranded
vessel had been rescued by a steamer some time before.
This information was rendered the more probable from the
circumstance of their observing the Albert pass the wreck
Theyshortly
still, after,
however,without
en
tea
and fortunately perseveringly
_rowed on towards the wreck,
on nearing which they could decry some persons in the rig-
ging. At half-past ten o'clor . they reached the vessel, and
by great exertions succeeded in in rescuing five of the crew—
the only survivors—the captain, the mate, and the cook hav-
ing previously been washed ove! oard. t one time the life-
prptea
jag)!
life-
boat was nearly stove in, by a.beavy sea dashing her against
the wreck, it having been found necessary to take the weather
side of her. The Liverpool life-boat was, however, pulling
about, outside the breakers, at some little distance ; and
would, doubtless, have come to their assistance bad such a
casualty occurred.
The wreck proved to be that of the schooner Vernon, one
of the smallest of the fine line of traders of the line, that
run between this port and Glasgow. She had long been
commanded by Captain Maclean, a man highly respected by
all who knew him, and whose loss will long be deeply de-
plored. The vessel sailed from the Mersey on Friday morn-
ing last, with a general cargo, the principal portion of which
was, we learn, cotton and pig lead. She had not made much
progress northward when the gale commenced. During the
night (of Friday) the spin-drift, sleet, rain, and haze became
so thick that those on board lost all sight of the lights.
About half-past three o'clock on Saturday morning, while
thus uncertain of her course, and desirous to return to port,

she struck on some bank, not to them precisely known, but
supposed to be somewhere between the Bell Buoy and Burbo.
She did not receive much damage from this, and dragged
over the bank. She soon after, however, got upon Great
Burbo, and beat so heavily, the sea being tremendous, that
she almost immediately sunk. This was about half-past
eight o'clock. Shortly 'After she struck she shipped a sea
aft, which, filling the lower part of the mainsail, carried
away the main-boom, the rolling fragments of which struck
the captain and broke his legs. About eight o'clock
the same unfortunate individual was washed overboard by a
heavy sea. The crew, when the vessel sunk, took to the
rigging. The mate was soon after washed nut of the fore
rigging, and also disappeared. The cook had taken
to the lee side of the main rigging. One of the men,
Thompson, continued through the trying occasion to en-
courage his shipmates to hold on as well as they could, and
not to despair of assistance reaching them. Seeing the cook,
as he thought, in an insecure position (on the lee side), he
asked him to thrust himself through the rattling, or endea-
vour to gain the weather side ; but when next he looked the
poor man was gone. The weather was extremely severe, and
the sea making a clear breach over them. The survivors
became at length so benumbed by the cold and exposure, as
to be nearly powerless ; and when Thompson was taken from
the rigging, he was holding on to one of the rattlings only
by his teeth ! Another of the men dropped off the rigging
just as the boat got .along-side, and was picked up with a

boat-hook. The ivhole of the bull of the vessel was under
water. The main rigging on the larboard (and lee) side was
carried away with the exception of one shroud—probably by
the sea that washed away the cook. The main topmast and
all the running rigging was also carried away. Three men
were taken from the fore and two from the main rigging.
At the time the life-boat left her part of the cargo, cotton,
&c., was floating out of her, and it is not possible that she
can be got off.

Soon-as the rescued parties were landed at the Magazines,
they were taken to the house of Mr. Roberts, publican, who
had volunteered his services in the boat, in place of one of
the crew who was absent. Two of them were so much ex-
hausted that they had to be carried. One of these, indeed,
was in a state of delirium. The other three walked
with assistance. They were put into comfortable beds, and
every humane attention was paid to them. Mr. Dunlevie
and Mr. Baker, surgeons, of Liscard, were immediately in at-
tendance :—the former, indeed, happened to be on the spot.
The usual remedies were applied, and they were all soon in a
fair way of recovery. They are, however, a good deal hurt
and bruised, particularly on their hands. Their names are
Daniel M`Farlane, of Ellensborough ; John Galbraith, of
Loch Gilpie (Argyleshire); John Thompson; John M`Lellan,
of Glasgow; and Robert Kelly, of Greenock.
The following persons perished :—Captain Maclean ; Dun-
can M`Donald, Argyleshire, and the cook, whose name we
did not learn.
Great credit is due to the crew of the Magazine life-boat
for their perseverance on this occasion. Had they declined
to proceed, after the mistaken information they received
from the fishing boat, all on board the schooner would, in all
probability, have soon died from exposure and exhaustion.
Their names are—Thomas Evans. captain ; Henry Evans
(who was captain during the storm of the 6th of January,
1839) ; John Evans—all three brothers;—William Whittle;

Thornas Whittle (his son) ; John Hughes; Samuel Dane;
Williacri Bell ; John Hilliard ; Richard Sherlock ; and William
Roberts—who volunteered.

Mr. Scameral, constable of the township of Wallasey, was
also very active in rendering every necessary assistance.

The present Magazine Lite-boat was built by the corpora-
tion of Liverpool about six months after the great hurricane
of 1839. She is constructed on a much-approved principle,
and the site of the shed in which she is kept is well chosen,
to render her readily available in cases of casualty at the
mouth of the river. The Magazine life-boit has often been
highly successful. The boat in use before the present one
was commanded by Henry Evans, and in three years saved
the lives of no fewer than 98 persons. The present boat,
commanded by his brother, saved the crew of the Corsair,
of Halifax, 24 in number, in January 1840. About three
months ago, the boat of the government steamer Medina
took off th crew of the schooner " Cooner Baba," which was
lost on Great Burbo Bank : the boat, however, became half
full of water, and the Magazine life-boat took the whole of
the people out of her. We mention these facts with a view
to the merits of these men, which, as they do not live in the
town, are not generally known; and we trust the Shipwreck
and Humane Society, or other individuals who may have the
power, may be induced to give them some reward as a token
of their approval of their past services, and an encouragement
for their future exertions for the saving of human life, at
considerable personal risk, from the frequent perils to which
it is exposed in the locality in which their services are so
immediately available.

PLYMOUTH

This town sustained damage from the storm. The casual-
ties on the land were confined principally to the prostration
of chimnies and partial unroofing of houses. The schooner
Belle, of Plymouth, was beached at Deadman's Bay, but has
been warped off. The brigs Sea Witch, Southampton, and
General Brock, all of London, are stranded. The barque
Bragilla. of Falmouth, is a total wreck at Bovisand Bay.
A brigantine from Marseilles for this port (Liverpool) went
into the port with loss of sails. The brig Mayflower, which
stranded on the south side of the breakwater on the 3d inst.,
has been carried by the force of the waves clear over it, and
now lies nearly perpendicular on the north or inner side. The
latest accounts state that there is considerable apprehension
of the ultimate safety of the Sea Witch and Southampton.
Nearly a ton of lead was peeled off one of the sheds in her
Majesty's dockyard. In the Plymouth citadel the slates
were blown from the roof of the barracks to the ramparts,
and the lead on the chapel there has been turned up like so
much paper. The roof of Salham-house, the seat of the
Right Hon. Earl Morley, has sustained considerable damage.