The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-06-18 00:00:00

CHILD DESERTION.—A poor emaciated woman, named
Moran, a widow, was on Tuesday charged, before Mr.
Rushton with having deserted her child, a boy of only
about three weeks old. It appears that she lived with her
mother and sister in Milton-street, where she was deli-
vered. On the previous Wednesday, she took out the
child, and placed it on the lobby of the house of Mr. John
Smith, publican, Browtilow-hilt, who sent it to the Work-
house. The prisoner's sister said she missed the child,
and on asking about it. was told by the I,rsoner that she
had sent it to the Workhouse, upon which witness said
that was right, as it would be better there then they could
do for it. The prisoner, she said, was very poor; she
had nothing but what she got by sewing and it was very
difficult to get any work. Mr. Rushton said the witness
had acted most improperly in abetting the prisoner to
abandon her. child. She ought to have advised her to
apply for parish relief for its support. Had the child
perished, they might both have been committed for mur-
der. As it was the prisoner must be committed for trial.
EmtortarioN.--Etiglishrnen are usual!), unwilling to
quit their fatherland, but they appear fast losing that ho-
nourable spirit of nationality. Thousands of Irish, Scotch,
and English emigrants are pouring into the United States,
a foreign country, subject to foreign laws, while a colony
of their own empire, where the institutior4 of the mother
country prevail unaltered.—where the soil is productive
and labour receives its full reward, beet-Awe there is a'
large demand for it, and where the climate is acknow--
!edged to be the finest in the world, is overlooked. We-
allude to Western Australia, so replete with natural
sources of prosperity, which, are only delayed in their
effects, by the inadequacy of the population to tarn them
to due account. We are. however, glad to find that Mr.
Alexander Andrews, of 14, New City Chambers,- and Mr.
J. W. Hodge, of 11, Warnford-court, London; have vo-
lunteered to give every information on the subject of this
very eligible colony, and we hope that the public' mind
may soon by this means be fully disabused.
SELECT VESTRY YrESETING —At the fortnightly meet-
ing, on Tuesday, the senior Churchwarden in the chair,'
an application from Mr.-John Taylor Crooke for leave to
take a copy of the poor rate laid in November 1843, with,
the payments up to thtt date—he paying any expense in-
curred—was refused. By the Workhouse return, it ap--
peered there were 1,618 peepers in the house, costing,.
2s Old per bead, amountingto £166 17s Id. In the cor-•
resporehng week of last year there were 1,659 inmates, at-
an expense of Is ad per head. amounting to £127 17s 7d.
showing a decrease of 41 in number, and an increase of-
61d. per head, and £3B 19s 6d, in money. The out door'
expenditure for the fortnight' ending Bth instant was
£773 6s Bd. which relieved 7,002 cases; for the compara-
tive period of last year there were 6,691 cases relieved at an,
expense of £744 17s, showing an increase of 311 cases,-
and £2B 9s Bd. in money.—There was a slight increase of
fever cases in the house, but otherwise the health of the
inmates was not materially altered. A letter was reads
from the Poor Law Commissioners, confnming the regu-
lations made by the vestry and Mr. Clements for the go-•
vernment of the medical department. In another letter
the Commissioners said they bad no power to sanction •
the recent vote of the vestry of a retiring pension-of .c9o,
per annum to Mr. Nightingall, the late surgeon. —Mr.
Mellor and Mr.- Whitby were appointed members of the
Committee in the department relating to illegitimate
children.—Mr. Gray reported that various sums had been
received as reimbursement for the support of a lunatic
female. One sum for this purpose (of .£150) had been
discovered in the hands of a gentleman near Latham,
through the activity of Mr. Rowland, visiting officer of
this town.—Adjourned to the 25th instant.
EXCISE INFORMATIONS.—On Tuesday several infor-
mations by gentlemen connected with the Excise were
brought before the notice of the court. Patrick Trainer,
who lives in Boundary-place, Windsor, was mulcted in ,
the penalty of £5O for having sold spiiits without a
license.—An information was also laid against Edward
Middlehurst, for having in his po;session an illicit still.
The charge was preferred by Mr. John Woodruff, import
surveyor, who stated, that on the sth of Marcia last he
received information that an illicit still had been dis-
covered in an empty warehouse in Brooks'-alley. He
went there, and seized a still which was regularly set up,
and which would hold some forty gallons. Tbere were
seven tubs and other utensils, and 140 gallons of wash
in a state of fermentation, which, on being worked up,.
produced 26 gallons of proof spirits (whiskey.) The
whole were taken to the Excise-office.—William Heath,
who occupied houses, Nos. 6, and 8, Back Beau-street,
was convicted in the penalty of £2OO for using an illicit
still—Ann Hughes, who lives at 164, Burlington-street
was convicted in the penalty of £lOO for illicit distilla-
I tion. Eliza Dillon, living at 152, Dale-street, was fined
in the penalty of £5O. for having on her premises an
; illicit still, and Mary M'Donald(to whom, it was shown,
the still belonged, and who had been several times pre-
viously convicted) in the full. penalty of £2oo.—Daniel
• Macerlain, who lives at 13, Stewart-street, was convicted
in the penalty of £5O, for selling spirits without a license.
On the 3rd instant, an officer of Excise went out and pur-
chased two glasses of whiskey, for which he paid 4d.
The defendant, it was stated, was an importer of eggs,
from the sister isle, and was in the habit of improving
his trade by bringing over a " drop of the cralhur."

HIGH COMPLIMENT TO SAMUEL SANDBACH, Esc.—
On occasion of a recent visit of our respected townsman,
S. Sandbach, Esq., to his estate in Denbighshire, he was
met on the borders of the property by a numerous body
of his own and the neighbouring tenantry, accompanied
by two bands of music, and many of them bearing flags.
and banners with various tasteful devices. The arrival
of the carriage was hailed with hearty cheering, and the
procession, headed by the vicar of the parish, received
with every demonstration of respert their worthy landlord
and h's lovely daughter. The vicar then addressed Mr.
Sandbach on behalf of the assembled tenantry, expressing
their grateful sense of the benefits they had derived from
their connexion with him, from his kind and liberal con-
duct as a landlord, and from the extensive end judicious
improvements effected and still in progress on the estate,
which had given employment to so many of the indus-
trious population of the neighbourhood. He added, that
while they condi not but regret that other engagements
had prevented him from becoming a permanent resident
among them, they had much cause of thankfulness that
he was so worthily represented by his excellent son, who,
with his amiable and accomplished lady, had given so
many proofs of the kind interest they took in the welfare
and improvement of all around them, and more particu-
larly by the constant attention they bestowed on the
school, where, by t.ic liberality of the family, upwards of
100 children were blessed with the means of acquiring a
sound and useful education. Mr. Sandbach replied in a
very feeling manner, thanking them most cordially for
the very gratifying proofs of their attachment which he
had just seen and heard, and expressing the satisfaction
he felt that his endeavours to ameliorate the condition of
those over whom he had, in the course of Providence,
been called upon to preside, had been so universally ac-
ceptable to them. He had no other 'active in entering on
the duties of their landlord than to promote their and his
own happiness, by cultivating the most friendly relations
with them, and he might add that since he came into pos-
session of the property, the whole revenues were expended
in improvements, to promote which still further be pur-
posed to introduce the most approved Scotch system upon
one of his farms, which he hoped might prove a " model
farm" that would lead to improved methods of cultivation.
The tenantry afterwards took the horses from the car-
riage, and drew their landlord and family through the
pretty village of Llangerniew, and along the park, the road
at various points being decorated with triumphal arches
of branches and flowers, to the mansion of Hafodunas.
where the evening was spent in dancing on the lawn, and
other rural amusements, to which the hospitality of the
mansion added no little zest.
SAINT MARTIN'S CHURCH SCHOOLS.—Tuesday last
being the day appointed for laying the foundation stone
of the schools attached to St. Martin's Church, divine
service was performed at eleven o'clock, in roductory to
the ceremony. About twelve clergymen were present,
and at the conclusion of morning prayer, the choir beaded
the procession from the church to the contiguous site of
the schools, chanting a psalm. When arrived at the
ground prayers were offered up and the 127th psalm was
sung. The Rev. Cecil Wray, incumbent of St. Martin's,
then addressed rector Brooks, at considerable length,
requesting him on behalf of the congregation of the
church, as rector, and in the name of the clergy present
to lay the first stone of the school— a building to be
dedicated to the honour of Almighty God, and to the
training up of the children of the district in the doctrine
and discipline of the Church of England. He ex-
pressed his thankfulness to Charles Groves, Esq., and
the other contributors to the undertaking. He im-
pressed upon the inhabitants of the district present that
the schools to be erected were for the whole popula-
tion—of all classes and parties without religious distinc-
tion ; that all would be welcome to the instruction given,
for the ministers were put in charge of the whole popula-
tion by the Bishop, to seek for Christ's sheep that were
scattered, and at least to offer a religious education to all.
In giving this invitation to dissenters (whether Protes-
tant or Roman Catholic) as well as the members of their
own church, he did not promise to teach the different
systems of error that claimed the title of Bible religion ;
nor would he suppress any doctrine of the church for the
satisfaction of those who were content with what they
called our common Christianity. They would teach the
scriptural faith of the Church of England only. Besides
the Bible reading in the school, the children would also
hear two chapters and the appointed psalms solemnly
read to them in the daily morning service. Nor would
they neglect the prayer book. The holy scriptures would.
be explained according to the catholic teaching of the
Church of England. Being episcopally ordained, they
would not separate doctrine from discipline, and would
carry out faithfully the whole system contained in the
prayer book, and all its rights and ceremonies, fasts and
festivals, even to the utmost. The Church of England
possessed higher claims than any other of the surround-
ing sects, and to regain the affections of the mass of the
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Church of this country. It only required the systematic
attendance of the clergy to render these schools more
efficient than those of the dissenters, and from the situa-
tion of the building the superintendence would be easy.
Their course would be to teach the children to be trust-
ful, humble, and obedient,—dutiful to their parents, self..
denying, and charitable to all.—The rector congratulated
Mr. Wray on the commencement of so excellent a work,
and proceeded to lay the stone, saying :—" In the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
We lay this first stone of a building to be erected to the
honour of Almighty God, and for the education of the
children of this district in the doctrine and discipline of
the Church of England. Amen." A prayer was then
offered up, that the Lord would bless the undertaking, after
which the procession returned to the church, for the rest
of divine service, chaunting the 122 d Psalm.—The ser-.
mon was preached by the Rev. T. V. Bayne, of Man-
chester, from the Bth chapter of the first epistle of gala
to the Corinthians, and the first verse : " Knowledge
p puffeth up, but charity edifieth." At the close of the
• sermon, the prayer for the church militut was offered 41
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