The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-10-28 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SOCIETY

LIVERPOOL CHURCH_OFENGLAND SCHOOL

This society held their annual meeting on Friday, at
the Savings' Bank in Bold-street. From the statement
of the treasurer's account it appeared that the gross re-
ceipts amounted to £1,703 7s. 4d., and the payments to
£1,609 2s. nd., leaving a balance of £94 ss. Old. in fa-
vour of the society. The society, however, we regret to
state, is, nevertheless, not in that flourishing condition
which such a result might indicate; for among items of
the receipts is included a sum of £568, which had been
granted by the committee of council on education, to •
wards the erection of the schools in Naylor•street and
Windsor; and although there had been a trifling increase
in the subscription list, upon a comparison with the pre-
ceding year, there had been a considerable decrease in
the amount of donations, church collections, and child-
rens' pence, whereby the ordinary income did not exceed
£1,135. The ordinary expenditure was stated to be
£1,398. There is, consequently, a deficiency upon the
accounts for the year of £263.
The committee, in their last report, made an earnest
appeal to the public in general, to the friends of the soci-
ety in particular, and to the clergy more especially, for
that increased aid without which they could not hope to
continue the efficiency of the schools. They regret this
year to have to report that the appeal has been ineffectual.
Fresh subscriptions, it is true, have been obtained for the
ensuing year, by the indefatigable zeal and activity of the
inspector, but the church collections have fallen off from
£252 to £l4O. The gross increase, therefore, is less this
year than it was the preceding one, the expenses which
were reduced as far as they well could be before, are
nearly the same, and nothing, therefore, remains, unless
great exertions are made, but to impair the efficiency of
the schools, by discontinuing the services of those by
whom alone their efficiency can be maintained.
The committee regret the discredit consequent upon
such a proceeding, but it would ba more discreditable to
involve themselves in debt, which would already have been I
the case if they had not been relieved by the payments of
grants in arrear from the Privy Council, and therefore
they think it best at once to declare the truth. If, how-
ever, the Protestants of Liverpool could be led to con-
sider how deeply the interests of Protestantism will be in-
jured if this society, which was founded to vindicate the
Protestant principle of scriptural education, be permitted
to languish for want of funds, and if the clergy could feel
themselves in a position to impress the importance of this
fact upon their congregations annually and assist the so-
ciety either by annual church collections or by the solici-
tation of regular congregational subscriptions, the evil
might still be averted, the society maintained in its full
credit and efficiency, and the schools kept up to provide
for the scriptural education of the poor.
The committee have in conclusion to report that Miss
Jane M'Lean, who acted: as head mistress in the South
Corporation School for two years, who left that school
when the Church of England School Society was estab-
lished in 1836, and nas continued to perform her duties as
head mistress at the South School faithfully since that
time, is going to leave in consequence of her intended
marriage—they feel it their duty to record their approba-
tion of her conscientious conduct during more than nine
years. The schools, though diminished in numbers from
last year, are in the opinion of the sub•committees more
efficient perhaps and more available to the purposes of a
sound Christian education than they were before.

GENERAL MISCELLANY

M. Thiers left for Paris on Wednesday.
The London Common Council hare voted £5OO towards
a fund for educating the Southwark poor.
£BOO has been collected for Dr. Wolff and presented to
that gentleman.
The Bight Hon. R. H. Clive returned 40 per cent. to
his allotment tenants, at ins audit just held.
The fortieth anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar and
the death of Nelson occurred on Tuesday last.
On Monday, John Haycock, a gamekeeper employed
in watching the preserves of Earl Fortescue, at Tatter-
shells, was attacked and left for dead by three poachers.
The villains have since been apprehended.
North Walsbam Theatre, which eighteen years ago cost
£lBOO, has lately been sold for about £4OO ; it is to be
co iverted into a school.
A splendid new chapel was opened last week in Lei-
cester, by the followers of the celebrated Robert Hall, at
a cost of £6,000. It will seat 1,500 persons.
A boy at Enfield, aged nine years, died on Wednesday
of cholera, brought on by drinking stale fermented
liquor.
On Tuesday morning, a quantity of jewels and plate,
value £3OO, was stolen from a carriage standing at the
door of a house in Little James-street, London.
The packet Largo has become a wreck off the coast of
Scotland. The accident is ascribed to the extraordinary
circumstance of the whole crew, master, steersman, and
all,
.00ing to sleep !
Mr. Parker (who conducted the late inquiry into the
Andover Poor Law mismanagement) has resigned his
office of Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, and his re-
signation has been accepted.
On Wednesday. the roof of a dissenting chapel, in the
village of East Waldren, fell in while the congregation
were assembled ; two persons were killed and many fear-
fully injured,
A LADY DEER-STALKER.--Lady Seymour (the
" Queen of Beauty " at the Eglinton tournament) is at
Achnacarry, enjoying the sport of deer-stalking. A few
days ago her ladyship took down a splendid stag.
A CLAIM FOR PREFERENCE.—We are glad to see that
the Hudson testimonial is to be a vast almshouse. It
will, of course, be most appropriately devoted to persons
ruined by railway speculations.—Examiner.
The Scotch Reformers Gazette says, that they learn,
from a well informed source, that Sir Robert will recom-
mend the Queen to summon a Privy Council immediately
to open the ports for the admission of foreign grain for
the next three months, duty free.
A. daughter of Mr. Nicholls, of the Bedford Foundry,
Tavistock, aged rather more than eight years, was a few
days ago in the smithy, behind a man that was striking ;
and, while he was swinging the sledge, he struck her on
the head. She lingered a short time and then expired.
The interesting ceremony of the inauguration of her
Majesty's statue in the centre of the merchants' area of
the Royal Exchange will take place to-day (Tuesday), it
being the first anniversary of the opening of that splendid
edifice.
On Tuesday, during a wrestling match at Denton, be-
tween James Stanfield and John Cooper, the latter was
thrown with great violence, and his opponent falling upon
him, he was taken up insensible, and died the following
morning.
Wm. Garnett, Esq., of Quernmore Park, has pur-
chased, at 150 guineas, for the benefit of his tenantry, the
splendid bull, Union Jack, which obtained the silver cup
at the Lancaster agricultural exhibition, and also the first
premium at the last Lunesdale meeting.
At Bow-street, on Saturday, a youth, named Pearce,
about thirteen years of age, was remanded on a charge
of obtaining £1 3s. from the proprietors of the Morning
Chronicle, under false pretences, by imposing upon them
two articles copied from the Times of 1840.
A person rapped at the door of Mr. Lambert, in Nile-
street, North Shields, on Wednesday evening last, and
left a hat box at the door; when opened a fine female
child about two months old, alive, and dressed in a pink
and white dress, was found in the box.
On Saturday evening, William Bunting, clerk to some
solicitors at Mansfield, was severely wounded by some
ruffians, who attacked him while returning home in a gig
from Nottingham. It appears that they mistook him for
an anticipated booty in the shape of a rich stock-broker.
Mr. Bunting is now slowly recovering.
Several acts of mutiny have occurred on board the ships
forming the experimental squadron. The men had been
refused liberty to go ashore. Desertion, to an enormous
extent, followed ; while those who could not succeed in
getting away pelted the officers, cut the sails, and did
other serious damage. A rigid inquiry will be instituted.
GLOUCESTER AND BERKELEY CANAL.—The first di-
vidend to the proprietors of this canal was declared on
the Bth instant. This event might almost be termed a
jubilee, for in 1793 the canal was commenced ; in 1827 it
was opened ; and in 1845 there is a declaration of a divi-
dend!
As Mr. Alfred Richard Harrison, jeweller, of Pickett-
street, Strand, London, was riding along Portland-place,
Clapham, on Saturday, the 4th instant, his horse stum-
bled over a heap of rubbish, lying where the road had
been repaired, and he was thrown to the ground, and so
seriously injured that lie died on Saturday.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday evening, daring a
merry making at a wedding at Islington, in London, one
of the females, in jest, took a pistol off the chimney
piece and presented it at a gentleman named Brooks,
when to Ler horror she discovered it was loaded. The
contents entered Mr. Brooks' left side, and he lies in a
very dangerous state.
THE ELLENBOROUGH TESTIMONIAL.—The total sub-
scriptions at Calcutta already exceed £50,000, of which
only .£10,421 remains uncollected. It is intended to
apply the total sum realized to the purchase of a service
of plate, and it has been already submitted to the noble
ex-Governor of India that such a course has been de-

cided upon.
Thursday afternoon a lady and two children left London
by the steam-boat, and proceeded to Greenwich Park for
recreation. A short time afterwards one of the children
ran towards the deer, and held an apple for one of them
to eat. A buck made up to the child and snapped at the
apple, when the sharp-pointed horn of the animal per-
forated the upper lip of the child, and divided it from the
nostril to the side of its mouth.
LANDED PROPERTY.—Within the last few days two
estates in this neighbourhood, which only came into the
market a short time ago, have been sold. Capenoch, the
property of Sir Charles Kirkpatrick, of Closeburn, Bart.
has been purchased for £20,600, about 32 years' purchase.
Mr. Maxwell, the younger, of Cardoness, has bought
Dalskairth. where he at present resides, from Mr. Ken-
nedy, of New York, for £l3,ooo.—Dumfries Courier.
Several atrocions threatening letters have been sent to
Mr. Nah, the solicitor, engaged in prosecuting the par-
ties in custody for the recent railway robberies. Facsi-
miles of these infamous epistles are advertised in the
Times of Wednesday. One of them says, " These letters
are but the flash before the report—the gleam of the blade
before it descends into your entrails—the rattle in the
throat before all is hushed into silence."
THE SECEDERS.—It is said that Mr. Newman has pur-
chased several acres of land at Littlemore to build an
important institution connected with Romanism. Mr.
and Mrs. Ward are residing at Iffiey, between Oxford
and Littlemore; and, i t is said, are organising schools
and a visiting system for the poor. Mr. Ward's visits to
members of the University, some in high official positions,

are incessant_
MARRYING A WIFE'S SISTER.—At the Southwark
Police-court, last week, a man was summoned for not
maintaining a child, the offspring of his marriage with his
deceased wife's sister. The magistrate, in making an al-
lowance for the child, said that the latter marriage, on
account of the degree of consanguinity existing between
the parties, was null and void, and the offspring, there-
fore, came under the denomination of bastards, and the
defendant was amenable fer their support.
THE ROMANTIC OCCURRENCE AT BYFORD.—It ap-
pears certain that, as stated in our last, Miss Ellen
Davies, the pretty daughter of a milliner and shopkeeper
at the above village, was shot at on Monday night, the
13th instant, but that the blood with which she was covered
was not her own but another's. here is reason to believe
that two parties, her lover and another, were concerned
in the outrage, and that the shot struck one of these per-
sons, who was near the intended victim, aiding the chief
actor in the diabolical work.—Hereford Journal.
SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—On Tuesday, the driver of
the Wellington engine, while bringing up the train from
Greenock. observed a pigeon sitting on the line, at the
crossing at Stoney Brae. He lost sight of the bird on
coming close to it, but shortly afterwards observed its
feathers fluttering in the spokes of one of the driving
wheels, the centrifugal force of which, generated by the
speed, retained the bird inside the rim of the wheel. On
the engine slowing, the pigeon immediately fell on the
ground, apparently stupified by its gyrations, but with
only a slight scratch above the eye. The bird is still in
possession of the engine driver, and is brisk and lively
after performing its astonishing feat.—Renfrewsh. Adv.
FAILURE OF LORD DUNDONALD'S ROTATORY STEAM-
ENGINE.—The Janus, steam-sloop, has been making ex-
perimental trips down the river Medway. The first was
made on the 11th instant, the Right Hon. the Earl of
Dundonald being on board. From opposite the dockyard
to Upncr Castle the wheel revolved about five times
within the minute, when a breeze sprung up, and her
canvass wss spread. She then went down as far as Gil-
lingham-reach, the wheels revolving about 13 times
within the minute. It now appears that after all the
trouble and expense of taking her machinery to pieces and
recons,ructine it, there is not any alteration in her speed
effected since her last experimental trip. The general
opiuion is that this craft is a total failure.
RESULTS OF THE PANIC.—Too many cooks are pro-
verbially objectionable, and if the provisional committees
we have seen advertised on railway sekemes had been
charged with providing all they undertook to afford, a
pretty hash they would have raade of it. We have no
commiseration for those who have suffered by the check
given to insane speculation, and we scarcely pity even
those who, having embarked in really good projects, find
cold water thrown upon them by the bursting of adjacent
hubbies. Those who have taken shares for bond fide
investment will find their property all the better for the
weeding which the market must undergo; but if they
have only been speculating on large and speedy premiums
on some shares to pay the deposits and calls on others, or
if they have withdrawn from their business capital tbey
could not spare, they have only themselves to thank for
the inconvenience they will have to suffer. Besides we
are not to be blamed if the same want of discrimination
is shown in getting out of lines as was manifested in
getting into them. Let the public use more caution in
parting with their shares than they did in buying them,
for there is as much to be feared from the extreme of
cowardice as from the extreme of foolhardy recklessness.
A little evil is sometimes necessary to accomplish a great
good ; but we have the satisfaction of feeling in this
instance that we have effected an immense benefit with-
real harm to any one who is deserving of
out doing any
public sympatby.—Times of yesterday.