The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

.t his cliurch, at inte

removed from Manchester ;
furniture partly hired : occupy-
cottage, quite unable to pay current expenses,
employing no servant, even during, his wife's con-
finements, and latterly obliged to accept a private sub-

1.--District clergyman : married. five children.
destitute and overpopulated district. Income £lOO

We think these facts sufficiently show how unjust
are the imputations cast on the zealous supporters
Established Church by the Mercury. Such
tres, as we have above quoted, show that their
s, instead of being overdone, have not been

sufficiently strong. We do not deny that the reve-
nues of the church are not always made as pro-
ductive as they ought to be; and if the editor of the
Mercury would aid in securing their better admi-
nistration and application, it would do more good
than by casting stigmas on zealous friends of

We shall take an early opportunity of noticing
the efforts now making on this subject in Manchester
and elsewhere, in which we now feel great interest.

.NNUAL MEETING OF THE FRIENDS OF THE

SOUTHERN HOSPITAL

)mmittee and Friends o
yesterday, in the Board-

room of the Hospital, for the purpose of electing officer:
and reporting upon the proceedings of the past year. Mr.
J. B. Yates occupied the chair.
The Secretary read the report.
During the last twelve months there have been treated
2444 patients, of whom 1788 were Out, and 656 were In-

patients. 1573 of the entire number were cases of externs
violence, and 871 wen; medical and surgical cases of vari-

:admitted from t'
Ist Jam

Ibex, 1847

sin the Hospital on l 62.

e Ist January,

temaining in the Hospital on Ist January, 1848 39
Of the 45 deaths which occurred as above,mentio

on, being entirely hopeless from the beginning. If these
cted, the rate of mortality will be reduce(

explain that, although t

1. many of which it would have been desira-
to have

ary spa

A.fter_

)ttimittee for their zealous

Jan. IS, 1848.

IMPORTANT DEMONSTRATION IN BEHALF OF
OUR WEST INDIAN COLONISTS.

On Thursday last a most important meeting of the
West India Association was held in Brook-street, Grosve-
nor-square, at which, besides a large number of the mem-
bers of the Association who were present, several mem-
bers of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society, and
other friends of that body attended. The speakers on be-
half of the colonist entered into a full explanation of the
state of affairs from the period of the Emancipation Act
to the present time, shewing most conclusively that, al•
though they should have no fear of a competition on even
terms, provided the slave trade could be effectually put
down, it was utterly impossible that they could continue
the cultivation of their estates under existing circurestan,
ces ; and that the negro population of the West Indies,.
for whose improvement the Anti-Slavery Society had ex.
pressed so much anxiety, and who had at one period
raised themselves materially in the social scb
lapse into their semi-barbarism. The colonial speakers

ale, must re

Association in behalf of t

of the Association to join them in an effort t) p 1
the planter and the free labourer in a position t
themselves from the effects of comr)P+'

cultivator