The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

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bering that the year in question has been one of fa-
mine—in which the population of Ireland have had to
contend with the scarcity and dearness produced by
the loss of two potato crops—would naturally ex-
pect to find the withdrawals of money out of the
Savings' Banks seriously predonderating over the
deposits. Such would be the case in this country,
or in any country. The artizan or the peasant, de-
prived of the products of his labour, or thrown
into a state of idleness from the failure of a demand
for such labour, would draw at once upon the
amount of his past savings, and exhaust them be-
fore he began to bawl to his neighbour for charity,
or to resort to outrage. No such process of deple-
tion, however, occurs to the same classes in Ireland
Their hoards are not altogether
e Savings' Banks. or even di-

as being necessary
withdrawn from I
minished. On th

Ireland, with one apparent exception, which ceases to
be so for the purpose of our argument when ex-
plained, we find from this return that the deposits

ceeded the w thdrawals—that the classes
using the savings banks are actually at this moment,
proclaiming to the world their utter destitu-
tion, better of, and richer than they were at this
period last year, or at any previous period. The
following is the gross return for the four provinces:—
Paid in. Drawn out.
£260,915 .. £476,264
42,100 .. 23,560
4,40")

Leinster,
Ulster .

Connaught

Muns

Totals £393,314 £558,024
The return states that " the sum £476,264 includes
£223,800 drawn out by St. Peter's Parish, between
the 25th October, 1845, a d the 3d January, 1846,
occasioned by a rumour that the funds of the said
bank were not sufficient to meet the demands of the
depositors." Striking Dublin altogether out of the
return—and the loss of the potato crop has not
that
fallen peculiarly upon the population of
city—
we shall find that the gross deposits have exceeded
the withdrawals throughout the whole of the rest
Ireland

But a closer analysis of the return shows the
rather singular feature that wherever the alleged
distress has been greatest and the most loudly pro-
" imed—where relief has been fairly dragged from
n the shape of grants and presentments—there
the deposits have been the greatest in proportion to
the withdrawals. Connaught, we were told, was a.
province in which the existence of famine and desti-
tution was almost universal. Yet Connaught paid in,
during the year, £9600, and only drew out £4400.
Munster has been described as in a wretched condi-
tion, and has drawn largely upon the country for aid.
Yet Munster paid in £80,699 and drew out £53,800,
being thus richer, after a year's famine and the loss
of two potato crops, by the pretty balance of
£26,899. The improvement in the three provinces
of Munster, Connaught, and Ulster is just £50,639.
More striking results still might be found in the re-
turn of some particular localities. In the county
Roscommon, for instance, we find paid in £3,300 ;
drawn out nothing ; in Sligo, paid in £1,800; drawn
out nothing ; in Clare, paid in £7,100 ; drawn out
only £3OO ; Killarney paid in £7,300 ; drawn out
£3,100; in Limerick paid in £18,200; drawn out

,300. Yet in all these localities we were
given to believe that during the whole of the past
year the people have been in a condition of unpara-
lelled distress !

only £

31s occupying the position—
whose circumstances were well calcu

deepest emotions of Christian sympathy."
Havinz, in his usual felicitous manner. expounded the
words of the text, and enlarged upon their applicability
to the circumstances of the congregation—and, indeed, of
all—shewing that the triumph over death and the grave is
by faith in Christ, Mr. IVl'Neile specially referred to Dr.
Tattershall in these words :

Now, our dear departed friend participated in this holy
iumph. He_ entered by faith and hope in the enjoyment of

and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance, Ale sublime
truth of the resurrection of the body. Frequent were my com-
munications with him upon this very subject ; and whatever
difference remained as to some of the revealed details, there
was no difference in the "assurance" that entered into his
soul. The word of God, simply taken, was the paramount au-
thority to his cultivated mind. His earliest impressions, even
during childhood, were calculated to produce this unhesitating
confidence in the revelation. Much has been said of a Chris-
tian mother's influence, and of the benefits and blessings in
after life which may often be devoutly traced to that sweet and
sacred source. It is a precious theme, full of encouragement,

or a mother's neart. true, indeed, it is, that saving grace is
nut hereditary ; but it is equally true that the God of all grace
works by means, and is a hearer of affectionate, earnest, and
persevering prayer. And it is true that the great Apostle of the
Gentiles himselt, the champion of free grace, was filledwith joy in
the remembrance of his beloved Timothy, because of the unteign-
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rated John Wesley knew his parents; an(
upon the occasion of their marriaze, his observation was

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