The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-18 00:00:00

The Rev. CHAIRMAN stated the objects of the society
—to promo'e the extension of Protestant Sunday schools
in Ireland, by ern/hying agents, and distributing Bibles
and Testaments amongst the pupils. The society was
established in 1809, and still continued to flourish and
expand, though, he lamented to say, some who had at
first supported it had withdrawn. The society was never-
theless as important as ever; as much, if not more,
needed ; and, by God's blessing, would, he trusted, go on
and prosper. The scriptural education of the children
in Ireland was the main object ; and though there
were many other societies for religious education, there
was no other that exclusively addressed itself to the Lord's
Day—a day which was disrespected, even to desecration,
by the Roman Catholic people of that country. The spec-
tacle of 266,000 children being instructed in the truths of
the gospel in the heart of a Popish country, and the many
parents who received the reflex of that instruction, was
surely one that was calculated to awaken the warmest
feelings in behalf of the society. He regretted that the
government was against such a society for the dissemina-
tion of gospel truth, and had not only withdrawn their
grants to them, but had given their endowments to
Roman Catholic estabiishments for education--to
fix upon the children the chains of superstition. The
last scheme proposed in parliament was, indeed, to
increase to nearly four-fold the former grant to Maynooth,
which was formerly £9OOO a-ye:r, and was now proposed
to be raised to £28.000. Some years ago, government
proposed (and he believed through the present premier)
to endow the society they were met to advocate,
but it was refused by the lAter, and it was perhaps
well that it was; for it would have been withdrawn be-
fore this time, and the society, not depending upon itself
might have gone down like others. He highly compli-
mented a lady present for her exertions, through which
-el')') Tact rpor ho.r. rn;c.a./. fuud would,
however, he feared, fall short this year, and he would be
glad to distribute 20 or 30 collecting cards to parties wil-
ling to collect donations. The qoestion would soon cease
to be an Irish one only : it would soon, from the encroach-
ments of Popery, become at., English one. He read an
extract from the London Times of two years ago, chewing
this to be the fact, and concluded by contending that all
the mischiefs, bloodshed and rapine in Ireland could alone
be put down by Scriptural education.
The following is an extract from the report :
" In connection with the society there are in Ireland 2981
schools, containing 246,693 scholars, and 23,265 gratui-
tous teachers; of the scholars 140,202 were reported to
be reading in the Bible and Testament, 50,895 to be adults,
above the age of fifteen, and it appeared that about 100,000
were not receiving instruction in week-day schools. A
most important feature in this statement, and one which
cannot but commend the system to every friend of Ire-
land, is, that upwards of twenty-three thousand persons
of benevolence and piety in all classes, are engaged in
affording instruction gratuitously to their neighbours on,
the Lord's Day. The labours of these teachers do not ter-
minate with their services on the Sunday, but by visiting
the scholars at their houses they become acquainted with
the temporal wants of the respective families, and are led
to use means for their relief. Upwards of 700,000 Bibles
and Testaments have been circulated since the formation
of the society, in 1809."

The Rev. Mr. WOLFENDEN proposed, after a brief but
pointed address, that the report be received, and that the
list of names for the committee of the gentlemen, and of
the committee of the ladies' auxiliary, for the present
year be adopted.
The Rev. R. H. KYLE, of All Saints', Herefordshire,
rose to second the resolution, and spoke in behalf of the
society with great eloquence and effect, for nearly two
hours. To attempt anything like a report of his touching
address at this late hour, is beyond our time or limits.
He related many affecting anecdotes of the excellent ef-
fects of Sunday schools in Ireland, which he had himself
long attended to, and supplied many deeply interesting
statistics relating to them. He was listened to with the
utmost attention. and was much applauded.
A hymn was then sung, and a liberal collection made
towards the funds of the society.

We understand that the Rev. Mr. KYLE will preach a
sermon this evening, in behalf of the Society, at St.
Mark's Church, when we trust the attendance will be
commensurate with his merits as an eloquent speaker,
and the claims of the Protestant Irish Sunday Schools
upon the benevolence and Christian feeling of the public.

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—Yesterday two men, M`Don-
ald and Delaney, and a female named Smith. were charged
before Mr. Rushton with being in possession of several
quarts of illicit spirits, low wines, &c., in the cellar of the
house where they lived in Blackstock-street. The female
was seen talking to them when they were apprehended
by the excise-officers, but the evidence was not sufficient
to convict her of a guilty knowledge of the distillation or
possession of the spirits, and she was discharged. The
case was made out against the men, and they were each
convicted in a penalty of £3O, or in default, to be im-
prisoned three months.

S sTURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—Upwards Of two
thousand persons attended on Saturday last, when the
celebrated Mr. Henry Russell, from America, gave one
of his inimitable vocal entertainments, delighting and as-
tonishing his numerous auditory, who received all his
songs with rapturous applause. He givPs a second enter-
tainment this week, and we understand that Mrs. Sun-
derland, who has created so much sensation amongst the
musical public in Liverpool, will sing next, when an
extra night will be given to accommodate parties who are
unable to attend on Saturday evenings. She will be as-
sisted by Messrs Mary Swain, Mr. Ryalls, and Mr. Lam-
bert, principal bass at York Cathedral.

DEATH FROM BURNING.— Yesterday, an inquisition
was taken before the borough coroner, touching the death
of Euphemey Eccleston, a child of ten years old. The
deceased lived with her parents in the house of Mrs.
Hinds, Sidney-place, Edge Hill. On Friday night, the
deceased was by herself in a room, on the fire in which
her mother had left a pan. In taking the pan off, her
apron (as she afterwards herself stated), took fire. A
sister of the deceased, aged 12, ran out and gave the alarm,
when her mother and a police-officer went in, and the
flames were extinguished, but not before she was so dread-
fully burnt about the chest. neck, and arms, that she died
on the following night. The jury returned a verdict of
" Accidental Death."

DEATH IN THE WORKHOUSE.—On Friday, an inquest
was held before the Borough Coroner, on view of the
body of a child, ten days old, named Owen Green. It
appeared, that, after the birth, the mother died, and the
child was taken to the girl's sick nursery at the Work-
house, and placed under the care of Sarah Beyes, one of
the nurses. At the time of his reception he had a wound
on the left side of the head, a contused wound on the
back of the head, and another on the right side. His
death was caused by a wound on the left parietal bone,
which was an inch and three• quarters in length, and an
inch in width, and was evidently inflicted by violence.
A female, who acted as midwife, and attended the mother
of the deceased in her confinement, admitted that the
birth had been a tedious one, and that she had been
obliged to inflict some injuries, when extracting the in-
fant from the womb. A. verdict was returned to the ef-
fect, that the deceased died of the injuries, but how in-
flicted there was no evidence to show.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1845.

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