The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

DOMESTIC.

THE MISSING BRIDEGROOM.—MY. Joseph Ames, 01:
was on Wednesday week united to a young womae.m.
Whitechapel Church, suddenly left his bride after 471
ceremony, first placing 120 sovereigns in her hand,
"
saying he should wait her return from the west end.
had taken a public-house, and after his departure infortell
her that there were £l3O in the bank which she wig'
have, but that she would never see him more! The 9121/;
derer, however, whose conduct is inexplicable, has Pu
returned to his no longer " mourning bride."
HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE.—On Thursday week, - litde
boy, the son of a fireman working at one of the IWO,"
furnaces, was playing about the rails, when his foot old.;
ped, and horrible to relate he fell into the furnace. .P;,,
father, with more affection than prudence, irnmedilti,e4
sprung in after him, in the forlorn hope of saving ...a
child; strange to say, he was quick enough to catch snit
throw him out : but too late, however, for the boy
almost instantaneously have died. The father bad eclt,
exchanged situations with his child, and found the gret
est difficulty in extricating himself from his perilous P°°::
tion, which he was obliged to do by catching hold. of:i
iron bar, little les3 than red hot, and swinging 11ilie
out ; but as soon as he had done so he was senseless. "...6
poor fellow was carried home, and now lies in a danger
and uncertain state. The furnace had not long been
charged, and consequently was not at its greatest brerlrd
otherwise escape would have been impossible.—Herei°
Times.

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Tit E Pooa LAW.—On Wednesday, a miserable looks
man applied at one of the London police-offices arl,s
stated that he had been in business in II oxton some YePa
since, but, unfortunately, he went out of his mind, anuile
coming out of the asylum, was ruined in business. lc,
had since had a severe fall and was incapacitated for Ori,,
having broken three of his ribs, He had applied to t'
parish for relief, but they had refused to assist him, un
less he would go into the house with his wife and children.
The poor man continued his tale of woe as follows •• ._
My wife kas the strongest dislike possible to go in, "(II
determined not, and she can contrive to keep herself !flu:,
of the house, though she can't support me too,
willing to separate myself from her and go into the Itous;
by myself ; but they will not take inc in alone, and lin,irt
am I wandering about almost starving, for I have n.':
had a bit or sup in my mouth all this day. The 1130,
trate.—But, as that is the case, why don't you try to OT.e
suade your wife to go into the house with you? her
Poor Man.—She is determined not, and I can't force
to do it. I have pawned and sold every thing I had tb
would fetch any money, till now I have not got anything
more to sell. It's very hard to be refused relief after paY'
ing rates so many years. The man in reply to the magis-
trate, said he had exp!ained his case many times to the
officers, but they refused peremptorily to relieve hin
unless they all entered the house. The magistrate granted
the man temporary relief, and directed enquiries to be
made.
THE CREEP AT ST. PETER'S DOCK.—On Friday
week, at St. Peter's Quay, about three miles betoi
this town, the surface of the ground, for some acres in
extent, was affected with what in this district is called the
creep, being a sort of incipient earthquake, by which con
siderable destruction has been done to property in the
neighbourhood, the extensive building yard of Messrs.
Smith, shipbuilders, having been rendered for a time 0"
tirely useless. The first intimation of danger was olt•
served a week ago, but it was very slight, amounting enlY
to a rent in one of the houses. Yesterday morning the
whole of the men and boys, nearly 200 in number, Were
at breakfast in the smith's shop and store, on the north side
of the building yard, when they heard a loud noise, and 00
looking out, beheld the surface of the ground in motior!:
In a few minutes the heaving of the surface ceased, an,a.
on the men returning to the building yard, they found the
ground rent in various directions, presenting chasms sr
veral feet in depth ; the bottom of the spacious dry doc !
capable of admitting vessels of the largest size, was direr
up in dreadful confusion ; the sides rent, and the whe,,,,,13
presented a sad scene of destruction. The windows in tu-
neighbouring houses were broken, doors and frame-wore
split and crushed, and several walls were levelled with th
ground. The movement was confined to the building:
yard and the adjacent houses. The quay next the ricell
has sunk several inches, and the bed of the river, whina
before was " high and dry" at low water, is now covel,
to the depth of from 18 to 24 inches. The water in tue
river was agitated, and the motion was felt on board t'
vessels lying near.—. Newcastle Journal. Of
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—A remarkable instance
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providential escape from untimely death occurred to Or;
young gentlemen, at Marsden Rock, near South Shiel°„o
on Tuesday week. It appears that a holiday having be',,f
given at the school which they attended, a number id
youths went to Marsden Rock for a little excursion, 313,f
to enjoy the beauties of that romantic spot. Three ;Jr
the party descended to the beach and wandered about if)),
same time ; these were the sons of Mr. Wealands Re,.
son, Mr. William Dixon, and Mr. Lonie, of Bishopw'e3''
mouth. The sea was very rough, and the tide was seal
in very strong, when they discovered that the tide Pie
flowed round them and cut off their retreat. The litt,
fellows got upon the highest point of the rock, and tag
water by this time had reached above their knees, and' t
flowing so rapidly that they must soon have been swapf
into the surge. Young Dixon was three times washed off.
his standing place, but gained it again. In this juncti::
a brother of Robson looked over the precipice, and Ss,"
the imminent danger of his young friends, and instantge
ran to the house of Peter Allen, close by, and gave t:a
alarm. Allen with promptitude took a rope, '`";t
hastened to the rock, desired one of the boys to tasters ;
round his waist ; this was done, and he was dragged up re
height of 70 feet with safety. The other two boys waif
rescued in the same way, young Robson couragets,
waiting to the last to assist his more frightened corlrto
nions. Dixon was in a very exhausted state, and had d
be put to bed at Peter Allen's, where he soon recovered
so as to walk home; the other two were much bruin
against the rock in being drawn up, but all are now' e
fair way of recovery from injury and fright. About five
minutes after their escape the spot on which they stage
was covered with the fen ming surge, so that their es
• was truly Providential.—Durham Advertiser.
In tb°
GREAT FOG IN LONDON.--011Thursday the fog - aaa
metropolis
hew
throughsa nottsree
tts h
pea
rt
emsfieartslsstte
odf veryasomp dense,ookarea
oaon appearances
ouv
fta
ptboheuef
ro before
teinnue:,
ta,rmw.hil
o'clock in the evening might be designated "a thick &roc
'everyansdtreael
confuo
swhilst Persona
carriages o n footo f literallyall t e
s cr i gp; hie
nfi eltheirlsesd.'
waggons, omnibuses, and cabs, made their way at ate",bo
pace, and under circumstances alike dangerous t°,bei
parties who guided them, and to those with whntn ...'ero
were every moment coming in contact. In vain '',..,
vehicles provided with lamps and preceded by torcb,e by
in vain was the greatest care and caution observe °,4
those who led or drove ; accidents became of mornewnsl
occurrence, and amidst the shouting of men, the occaslerecl
screams of the few women or children who ventu..ity
abroad, the glare of the torches, and the active aeateo
of thieves, the police found abundant employment, taeo
every one who had a home and no very pressing bol 0
to keep him out of doors, hurried into shelter witsiao
much expedition as the prevailing darkness and confect ,t
would permit. In most of the principal streets war ing
the corners clusters of boys with lighted links, olieWt 0
their services to conduct individuals or vehicles table
charge of Gd. per mile, while others found it a profi bop,
speculation to purchase a quantity of links at an ca-stosso
and sell them at an increased price in parts of the veil
where such a desideratum was not to be obtained. seat
few of the omnibuses along that line of road were.erer
out by the proprietors, and several of those which 0 the
although they had lighted lamps and links, got OrVere
heaps of gravel on the park side of the road, sudngers;
nearly upset, to the great alarm of the passers" aP
Numerous collisions took place during the evening inter
of the town, but no accidents of a serious eltalielp
were heard of. The navigation of the river was er leave
suspended, net one of the steam-boats venturing to late
their mooring. Several accidents occurred, at 3.
hour, but none of them would, it is hoped, tertroo_.a
fatally. A considerable number cf vessels ready for ere
were necessarily detained. Others that had arrived "o'or
o bliged to relinquish all idea of docking, and cast floe'
in the river,

Nov. 26,1844

THE IRISH SOCIETY.

On T,

..,ii Tuesday morning the friends of this excellent so-
ciety breakfasted together at the Adelphi Hotel. The
chairman was the Rev. HUGH M'NEILE, who, after the
Company ad sun.. a hymn, rear', a portion of the 2nd
cf Acts, and then delivered the following address:
--He said their attention in that portion of Holy Scrip-
tureb was called to the matter of language; and he might
e •
po add oe or two observations to what he
had saidermitted thet eveningn before. There was a remarkable
Peculiarity in the case of language as a medium of com-
munication ; for, while man's communication with God
was identical all the world over, by means of faith, and
While his communication with external nature was the
same, the senses acting identically everywhere, his com-
munication with his fellow-men was not the same. With
the Bible before them, they found no difficulty in account-
tog for this • because, while there had been no divine in-
weirtfhe r eGn cde to
' disturb the unity of man's communication
o and external nature, there had been an inter-
ference to disturb the unity of communication between
inter-
man and man. That interference took place at Babel.
t re they read, at the commencement of the gospel his-
tionvY, when the middle wall of artition was to be broken
of", of a counter interference—a sort of anti-Babel.
iracle—
SuPPlYing the apostles with power to speak in
diverse languages. The design appeared to be, that during
1.. a Christian dispensation there should be a variety of
latiguages. The design of the Christian miracle was not
.0 enable all nations to understand the same language,
V. to enable Christian preachers to address them in their
aurrent languages. (Hear.) Here they found Christi-
hell tY, as usual, in direct opposition to the perversions f
Church of Rome. As if by a fatality which presented
f
that system everywhere in opposition to God, the.aimo
the Church of Rome was unity of language, as if that_
"are the genius of the Christian religion. She would
teal,
"are all learn Latin in the face of the passage he had
the sh°wing that the great Christian miracle established
the 11"
of divers languages. (Hear.) With respect ic,
the Proposal that a particular book should be printed in
w e Irish language, he wished to observe, that although;
..its to be a distinct undertaking, they raw their way
.o
'trona
ra CC
0 111
plishment of it if they found funds. The pr_te-
tha tMenlty would be a correct translation. But
t be
ugut there were gentlemen in Ireland who could_o-
- employed in making it. The British and r
reign Society had a set of Irish types, and though theyn
hatitue't, as a society meddle with the printing of
Re-
The
'int the Bible, they might lend the types to
.the
-,pus Tract Society who would attend to the printing.
that he Rey. ~.
~ , d R. CONNOR said it had been suggested,
they by.' giving the printing to the Achill Mission press,
trail r°lll4 gain two objects—first, in getting a good
Thes ation, and, , secondly, in assisting the mission.
Th CDrlalltua.at said the hint should be attended to.
tati : --n-y• WILLIAM PENNEFATHER, one of the depu-
soci°e-' "al, that with reference to the operations. of the
comet't he would mention some circumstances whichhaodf
his under his own observation. In a former parish
of his,
the county of Cavan, he had once called a meeting
A ce e teachers, which was attended by about persons.2oo
.rirt"'d r Prayer and exercises, as usual, they were dismissed,re.
tuvrat„w° pf them, named Keegan and Campbell, OD
tak''`g nonae, the weather being extremely hot, were
st,s_, a in, and subsequently died. It was a melancholy
or. very serious fact but the priests instantly laid hold
43; a...,
11, . spread thro' uah the country that they had died
soothe
direct visitationaof God, for attending a meeting
abotue translation of the scriptures. Keegan, who was.
dr nut 34LiYears of acre bad left a widow and several chtl-
e "e Id IV dth an account of this
finer i wou ie to rea em
tier a . brother
[The speaker then read a letter from a
on tgbYruati, describing the opposition that had been made,.
buried
e Part of the relatives of the deceased, to his being
tens in the family vault, and the effect of the persecu-
"d
unchristian spirit so manifested, in inducir!g se-
veral,te and amongst them the widow, who had previously
Thise undecided, to quit the pale of the Romish church.]
narrative •d
how r- kle in one arular, that it
showe , e sai , was emar
dh them events,ab seeminglyp thetic most
°aivlerwheltning, turned out, to individuals and to the
~aurch collectively, the greatest blessings. So the.pecu-
bed:!_r.. difficulties surrounding the Church of Ireland, if they
patience and trust in the Lord, would be found to
yrid to the deepening of the piety of that church, and to
iserre extensive usefulness to their unhappy countryh.
to Ould therefore commit the case of the Irish churc.
theirpeii prayerful consideration. They stood in the most
aid, they Pofsition, and looking to the prospects of humanh
statesaueO ound f they could expect none. Oh, that
.t e
selfish point cr-41glaIlei would consider the case even in a
to gratify Roo. view. If they thus sold the Irish church
church woulPaniece, they would find that the English
Irish church not long stand. They were one.; and it the
Romanistswho let them depend upon it that the
, u
on the ow, contrary to their oaths
registered
statute-book of the Parliament of Britain, were
to blind endeavouring to overthrow that church, would find words
nd the statesmen of England to the state of the
EnglishMr church, and in the same manner it would fall.
~..0. Pennefather then gave an interesting account of a
?'(•• man Catholic youths who was studying for the minis-
stre try at King's-court, having' been taken by him from the
inte ets and placed at school, where he displayed so much
lligence and sweetness of disposition, that having
Ultitnately avowed his preference for the Protestant faith,
he was placed where he would, in time, be qualified for
"Pounding and commending it to others.
differ-
ent The Rev. D. FOLEY wished to give a somewhat
tone to their feelings from that which they were likely
to receive from the reverend gentlemen who had just ad-
dressed them. Not that he at all disputed • h,s facts, but
he thouht the tied to chrish brigter hos. y were e
Goa delivered the threenlsraelites ofe old from the powpeer
'of Nebuchadnezzar, but it was not till they were in the
midst of the fiery furnace ; he saved Daniel, but not till
t was in the lions' den ; he delivered Israel out of cap-
,4l,tY, bot not till they had hung their harps upon
tie
_ ""vs, till their hearts were sad, and they felt their nai-
13;r0Ynand bondage. It was of vast importance that they
intended
be strong and of good courage. God evidently
the
people, mercies to their nation. He had roused
Thefeop e, and the light of the truth was spreading.
There were faithful m in
at any moment en lreland, who were
prepared
who knew to ]amen
down their lives for the Gospel, and
uo that if they would
great point, they only compromise that one
would Within the
last fortnight, have perfect peace.
had put his hsouth, who
a Protestant clergyman in the .
forpublicly and zealously to that work, had been prayed
in all the Romish chapels. This marked the
to their cause. They
tiOn • should, he repeated, have no agita-
roreisn Ireland, if they would only consent to wave their
liR
at t against the errors of Popery. It was the Bible
ri stirred ao all the opposition. But there could be no
~,,,ron between light and darkness. The observations of
, i
his mind.
on the Irish language suggested a thought
to t.us mind. It seemed as if the English government
had struck upon the very error of Popery in trying by
lava of Parliament to abolish the Irish language. Penal
every ere enacted against it : it had been discouraged in
in oway , and treated as a hostile thing, 83, doubtless.
_,. up sense, it was ; sedition, rebellion, and every kind
of n
mischief,D.) was hatched in it. But what were they
ets°rlB,?. . They were trying to abolish a mark of God's
we .-' which would remain till the end of time. . God's
rk either to correct in the world : he did not abolish the
they either in the saints or in the world, but he put sno-
w, e Principle in action, which went through the great
;ass of
crime, and darkness, and wickedness, correcting,
let.novating, renewing, till the day of Christ should come.
veitheY would follow the analogy of God's dealings, as
1 as
r the plain dictates of lis word, they would try to
man tamed Y, not to abrogate; tur find a machinery suited to
to as he is, not as he should be. Whenever they turned
andYtlfsr°D3 ;his
principle they fell into many mistakes,
attemptse Lord stamped confusion and dismay on all their
ratan' [Mr. Fol here, at the request of the Chair-
self detailed th •ey ere,
which he had him-
quitted e circumstances under
to with the Romish communion, which were listened
ordealaware of the
thgreat interest.] They were little . _
land ha , rough which a convert to Protestantism in Ire-
not iod,,° to Pass. The first thing a priest did, if he could
him fr'ee him to go back, was to expatriate him, to drive
Makiort,_ the place, by exciting the people against him,_
one ,rl,,b It " too hot " for him, as the phrase was. For
they hadu a
Bothaolmaster, who was thus treated at GalwaY,
Years ,_ situation at Dublin. He was away five
Of d ',Luis wife was then taken ill, and being on the point
revere h' she wished to be taken back to Galway. She
it " the Place alive, contrary to all expectation; and
leerseee that, in addition to her desire to be buried with
. relatives, she was anxious to testify the sincerity of
his Professi Id form an idea of the extent
of the . on- No one cou
by •••• ci
~,„ , Y against persons in her situation—that they are
dieP-'nres, and will be glad to have the priest when they
Pries She steadily refused all entreaties to receive the
non tor the ointment, but died sound in the faith. The
.thaesecluence was that a universal ferment was excited ;
the e hundred men, women, and children • followed her to
buritaye with all manner of execrations; she was refused
in the In the consecrated ground ; and after being interred
and and; four miles off, under a strong force of police
coffin abst'guard, the grave was opened in the night, the
rolled , token to pieces and the body kicked out and
thin ° "'in the shore 'towards the sea. What must they
Irishmen the odium rested a convert, when
onnl, um that upon
Was one a " '-` forget that respect for the
dead which
as the had
the strongest feelings in their bosom, and act
They Heed done to the corpse of this poor woman
Orphan Institutionthe
was worked. They did not, as in
anent, wiaethices, receive the children into one establish-
them for thei;47f9B thought not so well calculated to adapt
with respectabluture situations in life. They placed them
a Piece, they hade
the or cottiers, and, for four guineas
and them
educated. With comfortably lodged, fed, clothed,
already mentioned he respect to a subject w i Web had been
Ment of the athat the treat.
, e was happy to say
that which had n Campbell had been very different from
Keegan ~,been described as having been shown to
. Lord, il Though he had been a faithful servant of the
fello e
.had won the esteem of his Roman Catholic
vv-parishio
and
testified ners, many of whom attended his funeral,
The Re the strongest affection for him-
orgin v. JOSEPH lIAYLEE took that opportunity of
their g he extension of the operations of the society to
/totu.down land. There were not fewer than 30,000 Irish
n Catholics in Liverpool,l altogether
than 100,000 in these
and not ess
"d hesott • bigoted
parts of England, as deeply
AO Iris ed in superstition as in any part of Ireland.
h so 1 in 1.,* in
Ireland u Liverpool was quite as important as or t,._
lit hough there might not be the mountain scenery
log him gs to cast an interest over the work of reclaim-
Ployed ' He had once a Scripture reader of his own ern-
hl, 1,,_ in Liverpool, the necessary expense being borne
ot,uler: Groves ; but the increase of work at Birkenhead
goodd him to withdraw him. He could assure them,
gnowdever, that there was an ample field, and that much
Mr.
might be done.
PE
PrOpo NNEPATRER and Mr. FOLEY approved cf the
Sotia anion, and said that, as far as sending qualified per-
,... never, they had no doubt it might be carried out.
persons
CHAIRMAN suggested that, in the first place, two
should be sent over, to be under the superinten-
deuce 0a Mr. Baylee, should the committee in Dublin,