The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

DREADFUL FIRE IN SLATER-STREET.

About half-past five o'clock on Sunday morning a dread-
ful fire broke out at the corner of Slater-street and Wood-
street, contiguous to the Music-hall, which caused the
destruction of property to a very litrge amount.
The premises, which have now to a great extent'
reduced to a heap of ruins, were tile property of the late
Mr. William Calloway, painter and paper-hanging manu-
facturer, of 26, Browolow-stteet, who died a few weeks
since, and who willed them, we believe, to his widow
Tin y were erected five or six years ago on the sit.,
old Deaf and Dumb School and Eye and Ear Institution,
and formed a very spacious building, extending along
Slater-street and Wood-street a considerable way, and
being four stories in height from the level of the pave-
ment.

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The shop at the corner was occupied by Mr. Calloway.
Tw.► adjoining shops in Slater-street were tenanted by Mr.
John Hunt, a gas-lamp-maker, and Mr. Dodd, a dyer;
and there was a third shop also adjoining, which was un-
tenanted. Over the whole of these shops in Slater-
street. and extending back to Mr. James Edmund Lee's
house, in Wood-street, ran the first fl ,or of the building.
which was occupied by Mr. William Porter Dreaper,
piano-forte-maker, of Bold-street, as his show-rooms.
The third and also the fourth stores were used by Mr.
Calloway as paint-rooms and places where his business as
a paper-hanging manufacturer was carried on.

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The fire s;ert—is to have been first di.cuvered in that part
of Mr. Calloway's third story which looks into Wood-
street, and is on a line with Mr. hunt's shop, but so ra-
pidly did it extend, that the whole r f the upper part of the
"itemises was in a blaze when Mr. Hewitt, with the en-
gines and fire brigade, reached the spot about ten minutes
to six o'clock. The flames quick y communicated up.
wards with the fourth story and the roar, and downwards,
also, with Mr. Drearier's show room; and for some time
the fire threatened the most alarming consequences to the
surrounding property.
It was eight o'clock before the fire could he said to be
completely subdued, and long before that time the entire
of the roof had fallen in, and the beams and floorings of
the second and third stories, as well as the mimes and
sashes of twenty-six of the windows, had been completely
burned away. Five of the pianos and all the stained paper
in Mr. Calloway's shop were preserved, but the property
saved bears very litle prop rtien to the ce.antity lost.
Mr. Dreaper's loss must have been very considerable.
His show-rooms contained between sixty and se.enty
pianos, some in rosewood cases. and all very valuable, and
not one of this vast number, with the exception of the five
already mentioned, has escaped destruction. He is at pre-
sent in Paris, and we understand he is not by any means
fully inured. Mr. Calloway is insured, but, we -believe, •
not to the extent of damage which the buildine has sus-
tained, estimated at between £2,000 and £3,000, and the
loss he has suffered by the destruction of iintheese quanti-
ties of stained paper, costly moulds used for the purposes
of his trade, oils, varnishes, &c. The origin of the fire is
unknown.

The va'.u. of the game killed upon the estates of Mr.
Clifton, o' Lytham Hall, in Lancashire, la,t vPar, has
been estimated at upwa ds of £1,500. 21.000 head of
hares and rabbits are said to have been de,royed. 7,000

amount to £875, and 14,1.00
rabbi a, at 2s. per couple, would amount to 1:700;
£1,575.

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SELECT VESTRY

—On Tuesday, the usual weekly

ward. The waiter was ',Awed to the overseers. The
Industrial School Committee reported that three of the
teachers—Messrs. Giles, Wooller, and Johnston, had re-

that the government of the bCil( ols was objectionable.
The committee it‘s!igated Wm? inqu Tits into the truth of
their alle,ations, at.d fnund flint John,ton complained

tuai rue t. sellers were not peinmieu to vipit Eome parrs
of the house. Giles stated :bat lie had been reported by
Mr. Corts, tt.e governor, for not 'making a bow to that
gentleman. The resignations were ac.epied. A letter
was read from Mr. I iremner, dt.elin,tig tie honour of the
'at at tb.- The va-

oat() to which he had been timed
c,ncy was ordered to be filled up at the next meeting

"1 he. Zyub committee of the vs orkhouse recommended
that the balmy of Mr. Eleathcote, k,es er of books and
se ousts. be reduced from £l5O to £l3O per annum ;
that the salary s f Mr. l'ilkinsvoss, el. sic so the ehanl-on.

be reduced to X 35; and that on the retirrmen► of Mr.
Radehfle, o-urgeun, next unattb, only twn_medicsl officers

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

On Tuesday night the second of the anniversary meet-
ings of the Liverpool Auxiliary of the Church Missionary
Society was held at the Royal Amphitheatre. The spa-
cious building was densely crowded on the occasion. The
n Rev. Chancellor Raikes occupied the chair.

ne, an

IRev. HENRY CARPENTER, the secretary, read the r
port, which we gave list week.

The Rev. GEORGE HAZLEWOOD moved the first reso-
lotion: He confessed he was deeply impressed with the
responsibility of addressing so large an assembly as the
present. He Lelieved he need scarcely say that Christi-
anity was of an expansive character, and that in propor-
tion as the blessed hope of everlasting life cheered us
here, our language would be to gather others into the fold
hf Christ also. There was one great principle involved in
the society. When missionaries were sent out to Egypt
some years ago, they were told to " Preach everywh, re
peace in Jesos Christ—he is Lord of all." The Bishop of
Calcutta lately assigned a number of reasons for stmoort.

ing the institution. One was this : that the society main-
tained the great Protestant pi inciples of the Reformation
as opposed to Romish error; and another was, that it
opened and closed its meetings with prayer. He was cer-
tain that it would ever maintain its prineTles. He then
referred to the immense amounts of money collected in
England for the spread of missionary efforts; and he ex-
pressed his gratification at haying once found in Dublin no
fewer than 500 of the clergy of the Church of England as-
sembled on the platform of the society. He gave an out-
line of the history of New Zealand. For some lime it was
a matter of doubt as to whether the society should com-
mence operations in that island. Mr. Marsden was the
first to send an ir.struc•or there; and from one of these
societies the sum of 1:11 7s. was transmitted for the pur-
pose of circulating the Scriptures among the people of Ire-
land. Though he anticipated a large deficiency in Ireland
this year in consequence of the failure of the potatDe crop,
he was glad to say that there was something of an increa-e.
But there must be a considerable increase if the society
were to go on and prosper. He rejoiced to say that a
Pt esbyterian had the day before given the sum of £5O to the
treasurer ; and he concluded by expressing a hope that
every year the friends of the society would abound more
and more in the work or the Lord.
The Rev. Mr. BERNAtr. missionary from British
Guiana, seconded the resolution. He marvelled at the
success which had attended the labours of the society du-
ring the forty.five years it had been in exis►ence. That
success was far greater than they anticipated. He had
been labouting for ten years in British Guiana, itt Sou• h
America. On arriving there he found that seventy of the
converted Indiana bad di.-d of the measles, and the re-
mainder had fled to the woods. He then fo, med a new
colony. He built a cottage with his on n hands, and then
made his missionary excursions. He found that the child-
ren ran away from him, and that their patents, with their

bows and arrow., fled in►o the bushes. He paddle 1 about
iti a canoe, took some little American biscuits, 'him them
to the children, and. in this way, succeeded in bringing them
around him. At list they touched him, and then he spoke
to them on the subject of religion. Some of the natives
mete converted. He taught them to build decent cottages
in which to live. He learned their language; and, in the
course of ten months. he obtained the sum of £l5O from
them towards building a church. The Governor-General
of th' ',ice gave £5OO towards the church ; and the coun-

of,
cil have been annually voting 400 doll

hrs tor the suPonit

here are now

lildren in t

of the tnisionaries had been very much overrated in Eng-
land, and the their joys in foreign lands were exceedingly
great. The Indians are not idolators. They have two
great spirits—the good and the evil one; and they have
-cot the devil. Hip

arse to conjurors, and the agency o
illustrations of their revengeful spirit in the savage state
Were perfectly Appalling,
The Rev. Mr. OWEN

Staffordshire, propn-