The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-23 00:00:00

In an article in our last paper relative to the con-
servancy of the port of Liverpool, we noticed the
recent discovery of a dangerous sunken rock near
the Skerries, (North East of Holyhead point, and
laid down in no chart,) which, after an unsuccessful
search, as we were informed, by the surveyor of the
Admiralty, had, (as we understood) been found by
Mr. McArdle, chief carpenter of the City of Dublin
Steam Ship Company. We were mistaken as to
Mr. McArdie finding it, but it was discovered by
parties sent to search for it, in his little screw steam
schooner the Daedalus, one of the vessels of that
company having previously struck upon it. Lieut.
Sarsfield, R.N., the Marine Manager of the Com-
pany, who sent the men out, communicated the
fact by letter dated the 25th ultimo, to Captain
Beaufort, R.N., &c. of the Admiralty. Lieutenant
S. stated that he had sent the late master of the
" Queen Victoria" with the small steamer, on the
13th ult. to search for the rock on which that ves-

sel struck off the coast of Anglesea, and thus con-
tinues :

" He has just returned, reporting to me his having
found it. It is situated a little to the north-east of
what is called the " Gravel Bank" in the charts,
with 31 fathoms water; but this rock had only 10i
feet at low water on the 21st ult., being 18 feet
springs. He sounded with a pole on it, so there
can be no doubt of its being there. He left two
small buoys on the spot, but with the marks on
shore he can find it at any time."

Of late years several vessels have struck, as nearly
as can be determined, in the same locality, and no
doubt on the same hidden rock. One of them, a
coasting sloop, was, we learn from good authority,
seen to be impeded in her course at the spot, and
after wards to go down, when all hands perished.
Lieutenant Sarsfield's letter has not, we learn, been
yet replied to; but as the Admiralty are now so!e
conservators of the port of Liverpool, and its out-
ward entrances, it is surely high time the rock
should he more particularly surveyed, and marked
out, for the safety of mariners, either by a large buoy
or buoys, or, as a perhaps more suitable and conspic-
uous object, by a fixed beacon with a bell. It occurs
to us too, that the parties who so meritoriously
ordered the search, and the men who prosecuted it
for many days to a successful issue, are worthy of,
at least, the thanks of the Lords of the Admiralty,
as they are of the general commendations of the
community. There is not a more dangerous part
of our outward channel than that in question, espe-
cially in north west gales, which are frequent. It
is in the direct and hitherto considered safe line of
ingress and egress to the port, and there is no telling
how many gallant ships, "never heard of," may
have there gone down with their ill-fated crews, or
how many may hereafter be saved by the discovery.

The twenty-eigth anniversary of the Liverpool Auxiliary
Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews was
held last night in the Royal Amphitheatre, which was
filled by a most respectable auditory. The deputation
from the parent society on this occasion consisted of four
lice. gentlemen, the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe, rector of
Biddeuham, Berks ; the Rev. W. Ayerst. secretary to the
London Society ; the Rev. J. C. Goodhart, incumbent of
St. Mary's, Reading ; and the liev. F. C. Ewald, mis-
sionary at Jerusalem.
The chair was taken by the Rev. the CHANCELLOR OF
THE DIOCESE.
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN opened the proceedings
with prayer ; after which
The CHAIRMAN delivered a most impresAve speech.
He said he felt deeply convinced that unless the cause of
the Jews wete dear to every Christian heart, there was
imminent danger that the state of that Christian heart was
one over which the believer could find little satisfaction,
and much room for misgiving and anxiety. One especial
benefit connected with the affairs of this society seemed
to be, that it carried us back to the standard of the Old
Testament. (Hear.) He had, he owned, long laboured
under the conviction, that unless the Old Testament was
made the subject of our especial study, our speculations
upon the New Testament were not likely to come to
any satisfactory conclusion. (Hear, hear.) And he
might appeal to his rev. brethren around him if they
had not reason to suspect that some of the errors of the
present day had arisen from wilfully separating that
God had joined together, and et:deev uring
to prosecute the study of the new Testament with-
out reference to that which was the root and sub-
stance of it, the Old Testament. (Hear.) He felt con-
vinced, from all he had heard and seen of the present state
of religion upon the Continent, that the general Christi-
anity of the Continent had materially suffered from sever-
ing those whom God had joined together in a volume
not to be separated one from another. (Hear.) Men
of study and theology upon the continent had confined
their studies generally to the New Testament. Captivated
by the beautiful system of morality which the New Testa-
ment set before us, they had lost sight of the real charac-
ter of the Bible ; they considered it as a splendid system
of ethics, and forgot that it aimed at a much higher object
than that of restoring the moral sense and the moral judg-
ment of man. They forgot that the gospel is a system of
atonement and reconciliation, instead of a system of
ethics. (Hear.) Had these men begun their theological
studies with the Old Testament, or had they but doled
out an equal measure of attention to the Old Testa-
ment as well as the New, and had they but remem-
bered that the stamp of eternal truth was imprinted
upon one as well as upon the other, they would
have derived from the study of the Old Testament
that preparation of mind, and that prostration of human
intellect, which were the only safe qualifications justi-
fying men for entering upon the study of the word
of God. (Hear.) Unhappily for them, proceeding at
once to the study of the New Testament, captivated by
the beautiful system of morality it exhibited, they
had at once become enamoured of what they called
" the morality of the Gospel ;" but they had for-
gotten the purpose that morality has intended to
accomplish. The had forgotton the foundation upon
which that morality was to be built. Thay had for-
gotten the state of man by nature. and the real essential
character of the Deity with whom we are concerned, and
thus losing sight of these great. essential and fundamental
truths, they had pursued their theological studies with
an increpible degree of earnestness, diligence and activity;
but like men entering upon a study in ignorance of the
first principles of the truth which the study is aimed at,
the further they had gone the more they had gone astray,
and their last error had been worse than the first.
(Cheers.) On these grounds he rejoiced to see the cause
of this society so taken up in this town, that the full and
powerful intellect of Liverpool, the bold spirit of inquiry
that actuates the population, should be guarded from the
delusion to which they must be otherwise expo'ed, by
being taught to proceed step by step, from Genesis to
Exodus, and Exodus to Leviticus, from Leviticus to
Numbers, from Numbers to Deuteronomy,—that they
might receive the testimony borne by Moses and the pro-
phets to Jesus Christ, before they ventured to lift the veil
from the things not cognizant by tender human sight;
and so the grace of God might be manifested to us in the
revelation of his blessed Sop !
The Rev. T. NOLAN then came forward to read the
report, and announced that on Wednesday a sermon to
the Jews would be preached in St. Augustine's Church.
The following are some passages from the report ,

REPORT

" It falls not within the local report, to enter into the
details of the Parent Society, and still less are your com-
mittee required to do so in the present instance, the
rather that the 37th report of the London Society, full of
interesting and gratifying intelligence, has just been pub-
li,hed and is already in the hands of the subscribers.
Neverthele,s' there are two points vitally affecting the
success and character of the society's proceedings, which
have also been considered by your committee and noticed
in your last report ; to these points and for these reasons,
your committee feel called upon to make a brief allusion.
The first has reference to the financial arrangements of
the society, concerning which a satisfactory extract was
given from the report.
" The other point is that affecting the subject of " Tem-
poral Itelisf for Enquiring and Baptized Jews." This
question also occupied the attention of your committee ;
arid while they acknowledged the duty, they felt the diffi-
culty of discharging it suitably. A special fund has been
opened for this purpose, and a rule adopted, affirming the
principle upon which it is to be distributed, (viz. Itule 15)
which directs ' that the relief be applied as much as pos-
sible in the promotion of industry, by the teaching of
trades or other means of obtaining a livelihood.'
" Under this head your committee are rejoiced to be
able to state with respect to the " Liverpool Institution
for poor inquiring and converted Jews," that six of the
inmates have been baptized during the past year, and that
Mr. Lazarus the superintendent has so far been merci-
fully restored to health, as to admit of his resuming his
important labours. Once again, therefore, would your
committee respectfully recommend this meritorious and
useful institution to the continued or rather enlarged be-
nevolence of the friends of Israel."
" The funds of the Society show an increase of £lB5
14s. Bd. above the receipts of last year. The disturbed
state of Syria has aggravated to no inconsiderable extent,
the difficulties of the Mission in that quarter; notwith-
standing, the report states that " the Hebrew Christian
Church on Mount Zion has during the past year been in-
creasing and acquiring a firmer footing," and upon the
whole, your committee firmly relying on God's faithful-
ness and his truth, are persuaded that all these things are
only happening to the furtherance of the Gospel of his
dear Son."
" There are about 10,000,000 of Jews in the world
scattered amongst the nations of the earth : these consti-
tute the field of the society's labours. To bring the
sound of the Gospel near them, there are thirty different
stations in connexion with the London Society, distri-
buted as follows :—Three of them are in England, four in
Palestine, two in Syria, two in Persia, one in Africa, and
the remainder on the Continent of Europe. It has
schools both in London and on the Continent.
" These are the arguments, alike obvious and urgent,
by which your committee would appeal to their supporters
and the public of this great town, soliciting the support of
new friends, and increased efforts on the part of those
who have kindly befriended them already. New stations
might be opened, and each of the existing ones might be
considerably enlarged, did but the mercy of Gentile
Christians repay mercy hack again to those through
whom they first received mercy themselves."
The TREASURER then read a statement of the accounts.
From them it appeared that the total receipts for the
year, paid sermons, subscriptions, and donations, had
been £B2B 10s. 10d. After deducting the expenses, the
liberal sum of £727 Iss. 2d. had been remitted to the
Parent Society. (Cheers.)
The Rev. J. H. STEWART moved the first resolution,
THE LATE FIRES AT QUEBEC.—Collections were made 1 to the effect that the report be printed, and also that the
at the various churches on Sunday last, in behalf of the i usual officers be appointed.
sufferers by the late calamitous fires at Quebec. At St. I The Rev. W. AVERST in seconding the resolution, ex-
Jude's, £BB ' • 'at St. John the Baptist's, £3l; at St. pressed his thankfulness for beiug allowed to call the at-
James's, £23; at St. Phillip's, £32 Is. ; at St. Silas's, tention of that great meeting to the facts respecting the
£3l 3s. 6d. ; at St. Nicholas's, £lB ; at St. Mark's, state and history of the children of Israel. He corn-
£46 ; at the Holy Trinity Church, Birkenhead, nearly ; menced his recital of facts by renewing the history of the
£3O; and at St. Michael's, Toxteth-park, £2B 4s. 7d. British Jews, narrating the circumstances of their plunder
Surely, some influential houses in the Quebec trade , and expulsion in the reign of Edward the First, when they
ought to sign a requisition to the Mayor to call a meet- were compelled to pay £260,000, and no less than 16,511 of
ing together. them were banished. For 350 years since that period, no
DEATH OF MR. DAVIS OF THE NATION.—We have Jews were permitted to reside in this country, and it was
not till the, time of Oliver Cromwell that they made
never hesitated to acknowledge the great ability with .
which the Dublin Nation has been conducted, however
the attempt with success. He contended that from the
1
much we might dislike the politics which it has advocated. national treatment of the Jews during these periods,
We can now, therefore, express our sincere regret to 1 we ought never to think or speek of them as stran-
gees, that we ought not to take offence at their
know that its ablest head is no more. The gentleman in :
question, Mr. Thomas Davis, one of the contributors of Polish or German accent without remembering that in
its best prose and its most nervous, though misdirected, the persons of our forefathers we had given occasion for
poetry. expired on Tuesday last, after an illness of ten their estrangement. This driving them out had had a
days, the fatal result of which we can well believe was very disadvantageous effect upon the Jesuit mind ; but
until a comparatively recent period there was little to in-
accelerated by the arduous duties attendine to editorship,
terest inquiry. The state of things now was different,
at an age little over 30 years. The members of the re-
peal association attended the funeral of the deceased. We and he referred to the establishment of the new sy-
have had no personal knowledge of Mr. Davis. All ac- nagogue of Protestant Jews in London as a proof
counts however state him to have been sincere in his ad- that they were open to conversion. All that these
vocaey of Ireland's nationality; and we can well afford, Jews said and did was of a decidedly Protestant cha-
in our admiration of his talents, to forget that his views racter. They rejected everything founded merely upon
were different to our own. the moral law, 50 that the traditions of the elders,
THE CHARGE OF LEAVING A SEAMAN ON THE which, in our days as in the time of our Lord, formed so
COAST OF AFRlCA.—Captain Glover, of the ship Lydia, great a "stumbling block," were done away with. Soon
who was recently charged at the Police-court with having afterwards the Chief Rabbi died in London; and the
left a seaman named Benjamin Heseltine, on the coast of speaker reviewed the history of this divisiou up to the pe-
Africa, and the depositions in which case were forwarded rind of the appointment of Dr. Adler as Chief Rabbi,
to the Admiralty for determination as to whether the case whom he described as attempting to please all parties.
should proceed further under the 7 and 8 Victoria c. 112, Ile drew pleasing inferences of the success of the Chris-
appeared at the police court yesterday, for the purpose of tiara movement among the Jews from the circum-
the result being publicly announced. Mr. J. liamil- stances of these divisions. The English Jews were
ton Parr, atttended on the part of the Admiralty. anxiously enquiring after truth, and it was one of God's
Mr. Rushton, addressing Captain Glover, stated mercies that it was placed before them through the agency
that the depositions had been forwarded to the stations of the society, viz., Amsterdam, Bagdad, Gib-
of this society. The speaker then adverted to the foreign
Home Office, and the Home Office had sent them to the
raltar, Gottenburg, Frankfort on the Oder, and to that in
the city of Bristol, and from his statements it was obvi-
Admiralty, who had decided that he should be prosecuted I
for having left the man ashore. With their decision he i ous that this ettus'e is greatly progressing. He then en-
laree:d on the sacrifices which the Jews are in the habit of
had nothing to do ; but his (Mr. Rushton's) opinion of 1
the case was of such a nature, that he should admit 1
making from regard to their religion, and reminded the
Captain Glover to bail, to answer any indictment that I meeting of the care with which they fulfilled their general
might be preferred against him at the Sessions upon
duties;
but he remarked that the motive was wrong,
the testimony already on record. M andr. Parr said, i
energetic call upon
that so far as he concluded ban earnest and ener
he was concerned, acting on behalf English Christians to aid the society in this great work
of the Admiralty, any bail that would satisfy the I
of conversion.
him, for Captain Glover was not
bench would satisfyA collection
was fixed at, himself in £lOO, ; was here made, during which the congre-
likely to go away. The bail
gation sang the beautiful h • "
snan All hail the power of
and two sureties in £5O each, to answer the charge of ,
, Jesu's name."
misdemeanour at the Sessions ; and it having been put in, 1
The Rev. T. S. GRIMSHAW/C moved the next resolu-
b
will take place at the next Lion, in
the parties retired. The trial on, support of which he delivered eloquent
sessions. very
session*. address, for which we regret we are not able to find room.
EXPORTATION OF SALT.—It is said that from twenty It consisted of a luminous exposition of the several de-
to thirty thouiand tons of salt have been exported from ' scriptions of the Jews in this country, first of the rabbi-
this port to the East Indies within the last three months, I nical Jews, who adopt the oral law and the cowmen-
and a handsome profit is expected. tart' of the talraudists, and next of the reformed

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