The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

TOWN EDITION.

LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY SOCIETY FOR PRO-
MOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG TH JEWS.

The annual services in connection with the twenty.
fifth anniversary of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society for
Promoting Christianity among the Jews, commenced on
Wednesday. last, and will not tirminat.l beairc Sunday
morning next. The first part of the services was the
celebration of divine service in Christ Church, on Wed-
nescLy evening, by the Rev. A. N. Alvers • during which
three of the brethren of the House of Israel were publicly
baptized. Each of these persons had been inmates of the
Liverpool Institution, arid there is'every reason to exvct
that Their profession and practice of aristianity will be.
coosistent and praiseworthy. The next branch of the
services' was a pubic mce:.inz.,, which was held on the
evening of Friday, in St. Bride's school-room, Grey-street,
at which several clet gy men attended and some addresses
of a highly interesting character in connection with the
cause were delivered. The following evening, Saturday,
at seven o'clock there was a public praler meeting in the
Institution House, Siater.4.treet ; the ssing of Almighty
God upon the proceedings of the anniversary, and on the
extension of his truth among the children of Israel was
here most earnestly supplicated. On Sunday the usual
sermons were preached.

The pubic .rneeVng of the members and friends of the
Society was held at half-past six o'clock last night, in the
Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street. Tbere was
a etio,t numerous attendance of clergy ntid laity. The
Rev. H. S. Joseph was prevented being present by severe
indisposition, brought on by over exertion, and we are
sorry to bear that he has been forbidden by his medical
adviser to preach or speak publicly for six months.
The Rev. JAMES HALDANE STEWART was called to
the chair; hesid s whom we noticed the following:—
Revs. 11. M`Neile, J. Jones, Thos. Nolan, Dr. Tattershall; M.
Brock, J. J. Reynolds, and W..R. Fremantle, the deputation; F.
Barker, W. W. Eubank' H. Carpenter, W. Rawson, S. P. Bout-
flower, 13. A. Marshall, H. Hampton, J. Cordeaux, W. Butler, F.
Ould, A. APConkey, S. Fenton, Da,ies, It. Walker (Crosby),
T. C. Cowan. M. Margoli(o.vh, D. Anderson, B. Morgan; C. Jones,
JoneS, B. James, W. M. Falloon, G. Gibbons, J. It. connor, r.
NV. Lawrence, G. F. Greene, W. Maynard, Chas Badham,
Biggins, Wray Hunt, M. Meyler, Irvine, Wainer, H. J.
Witkinson, C. J. Hamilton, It. Congreve, and H. J. indley ;
Messrs. Wm. Jones, Thos. Porter, Geo. Langtry, W. Brocklebank,
(Runcorn), J Rigby, J. Eden, Thos. Forsyth, NV.
Maples, R. Harbord, J. K. Rcuuthwaite, Thos. Houghton, J.
Overend, and —Losg:.ove.
The Rev. T. NOLAN having supplicated the Divine
blessing upon the meeting and its objects,
The venerable CHAIRMAN, in his opening observations,
remarked that they had met in very plea-lug circum•
stances. For instance, God in his great vodness bad
granted to us an abundant harvest ; the cloud which had
long hovered over our commerce hal passed away; and
our giaciuus Queen had been blessed with another son,
thus giving to us a confirmation of the delightful hope
that we should still continue to live utoler a line of Pro-
testant princes, under whose happy and mild government.
we had enj,;yesl so much civil and religious liberty (hear,
hear.) 1 here was peace, too, throughout the whole
world; the monarchs of Europe wished our country not
to engage in allimces for hostility, but as brethren, to
promote a spirit of love and brotherly concord. Surely
then there was cause for thaniit airless ; but whilst they
met under these happy circumstances as rega.:thd them-
selves, assetotlrtl in the can-e of God's ancient people, it
could hot but be borne in mind that Jerusalem was still
trodden under tout of the Gentiles, the mosque of Owar
still stood upon the very place where the temple of God
formerly stood ; they nito-t bear in mind also that it
might still be said of the children of Judah as it had been
said :

Tribe of the wandering foot and weary breast,
How wilt thou flee and be at rest?
The whd dove has its nest, the fox its cave,
Mankind their country—lt,rael but the grave.
They tbigit stilt' n e the lam:,uage of Scripture and say,
" Jerusalem is sti:: in the tin:t —Babylon dill li,ts its
head." The false prophet still hart many follouers; our
God's name was ;till blesplictred ; his Sabbaths were
broken, his word profaned, and open infidelity Walked
abroad. On these and other important grounds he stroag; y
urged the necessity of supporting this society.
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN then read the annual report
of the Liverpool Auxiliary, of which the folloxing is an
abstract :

The report sh,wed the proceedings of the Committee during
the past yea-. They regretted to say that their dear friend and
brother. Mr. C. Boutlower, the late treasurer, had been called
hence; for tie was a zealous and long-tried friend of the Jewish
cause, and a devout Chr stian. They had satisfaction in re-
peating that the interest felt by God's children in the spiritual
welfare of the Jews was progressively increasing. The meet-
ings had been more numerous, and there was an increased at-
tentic n to the ot.ject in view, amongst many who were not
hefrce sensir.le of its importance. Several new auxiliaries had
been formed, and a foundation laid for more extenueu exertions
in future. They gratefully acknowledged the contributions of
their Liverpool friends, and rejoiced that there l.ad been an in-
crease •ot the -funds over those of the past year. From the
financial report c.f the parent society, the aggregate receipts
during the year remounted to -t'25,305, being an inert ase of
.t'259 above the receipts of the preceding year. The attendance
of baptized and unbaptized Jews at the Episcopa Chapel, ave-
raged from 3o to 6a adults. The number of children in the
liebrew Schools f the society was so boys and 41 girls. M
the liebrew C liege 13 missionary candidates (the same num-
ber us fast Year) had pursued t Ilea studies under the direction
of the Principal, and of these 10 were members of the Ilouse of
Israel. The applications in London for Christian instruct:in
had been numerous during the year. In Liverpool, the Rev.
H. S. Joseph had rendered %en, efficient service to the cause,
by visiting the auxiliaries in Offer rit parts of the kingdom, and
plead ng the claims of Israel there, and also from the pulpit.
As the number of Jews in the large teens of the West of Eng-
land is considerable, the Committee have stationed a missionary
at Bristol, whence he can rea, ily visit Bath, and he has already
met with much enccuragement. The report concluded with a
warm and Christian appeal, at.d a pious aspiration in behalf of
he society.

Idi i ch
attended was t o
tt
ihlee ef-
fect,
af--
op resolution,t
e which
la,in pir:'":an t e d ; and that the
.
The Rev. JOHN JONES, minister of St. Andrew's
f, Church,c,t.
that
meeting reinrch:d with renewed feelings of gratitude to
tint.;:iev erdf.ptoirlet be adopted
justified by the specific com-
jbOlumtisgohtt.ythGeosdo'citeh:y ibnlebseshinaglt of his ancient people. The
reverend gentleman, at some I.ngth, defended the society
from a number of cOjections made aF;aiii,t it, contending
The Rev. Hum! M'NEILE scontled the resolution,
tillii,atldis,soipro.iic,reeLrionridgis. were
observing that he would callntlewion to one particular
pasagt in the report, which referred to the institution, in
this town, Jur the sliciter aod support of inquiring bap-
tised .li. ws. That in,tutiti.oi was not sc.) v ell kno‘%ii, and
he believed, upon that accou.,t wincipaliy, not. .so well
suppotted ai it d-servo'd_to i be. _f tie IV, re rtet.rnis,:mken,
that ins:notion, and asylums timilar to it, connected
them& lves directly wizb a %cry impoi taut question which
had been in.ti;atell in the Parent Society in Loildon, and
bronsl,t forward at getATLti ti.eetings anon; the best

odends the cerise of Israel humbered in this country.
(Hear.) He meant the question of temporal relief to
enquiring and -baptised Jews. (Hear, hear.) It had al-
ways been felt to be a difficult matter to determine how
relief should be systematically adminis.errd. He did cot
think there had been much difficulty in determining that
relief should he given, but there had been difficuety in
determining how to give it. If temporal relief were
given, and if i. were publicly known that such relief were
given, there was danger upon one side, that hyeocriey,
ever reedy, would avail itself of the open dour, and
Chtistiati bounty would be abused. It was the duty of
Christians to guard against this. They had not only to
consider the duty of Christian prudence, but to consider
the privilege of Christian sympathy; for if no relief were
giveo, then enquiring Jews were upon the very brink of
being rejected altogether by their own people, or when
altogether rejected by their own, instead of being taken
up and for a time supported by us, fOund theneselvis at
once in a state' of temporal destitution, while they had
not yet had time to consider the deep grounds cf these
spit-hull truths, for the ,sake of which they had lemur-reek_
that tempordl distress. The burden of martyrs was
laid upon them before they had had time to acquire the,
strength of a child. It was the privilege of Christian
sympathy to guard against this; and what was required,
was some mode of administering temporal relief, which
should at once be safe upon one side of the duty of
Christian prudence, and upon the ether exercise the
privilege' of Christian sympathy. It was confessedly
difficult. (Hear.) When this society was originally
instituted a part of its plan was to give temporal relief; and
an accusation was brought!hgainet its operations by the
Jews that it sought to make converts by bribery. (Hear.)
The Om of giviog relief was therefore relinquished; the
ekeet of the society was strictly limited to spintuel in-
sMuc ion; and then the charge brought against it was
that it would wal,e converts to starve. lie thought, too,
it was a vet y unfair charge to bring against the institution
that it did not deserve the name of Christian, because
there was some part of Cbrisjan duty whch it did not
aim at fulfilling. It was not a society for carrying out
die whole length and breadili of Christian duty: it was a
society for a specific purpose, That purpose was to pro-
mote -Christianity among the Jews by the preaching of
the Gospel, by the instruction of th,. young, and by the
other spiritual means placed within its reach. The funds
of the society were collected for that propose; and he
thought it woide be very unfair that funds collected for
one purpose should be expended for anuther, or that coy
part of- the runes collected for one purpose should be ex-
pended for another purpose. He confessed that he thought
tire society bad acted wisely in determining to maintain its
spiritual and scriptural character, and in declining the
proposal wljich some had made, that part of it. general
funds should be applied to temporal relief; but if it were
admitted that the society was right in confiuieg itself to
the spiritual object, -it by no means foliowed that they
(the public) would be right in so confining themselves.
(Hear, bear.) The society was organised for a specific
purpose, but the support of it was in the nature of a
Christian duty towards the Jews. Grahtsd that we sep-
portel the society as we ought to do,—and perhaps fee
would have the presumption to say they had acquitted
themselves in the whole length and hreacith of Christian
duty towards the Jews,—there remained a duty upon us
as ChOstians after supporting the society, after con-
tributing towards their spiritual instruction, with regard
to their temporal condition. (Hear, hear.) He was
glad to hear this referred to in the report, because Ire con-
sidered it a most legitimate matter to give instruction
upon, although the society would still observe its single-
ness of pure:tie, and apply all its funds to the spiritual
objects designed ; he therefore did not feel he was travel.
hug out of his course in proposing this matter to the at-
tention of the meeting, although, strict y speakiog, it was
not a part of the operations of the society. It arose our.
of those operadens in this way ; they pointed to one part
of our duty as Christians towards the Jews, and be availed.
himself of the opportunity to suggest another part. He
hoped that this made it very clear, so far as it was posst-
ble, how to maintain the Cristien duty of giving temporal
relief to the Jews, while at the same time we maintained
the Christian wisdom of confining the operation of this
society to spiritual objects. (Hear.) But then the ques-
tion occurred how was this temporal relief to be admieis-
timed ? A separate fund had been sugeested ; and they
*had beers told that a separate fund Lad failed. The reason
why it had tailed, he thought, had been that the mode of
administering it had not been explained; for surely betote
they could consistenitiy, or with any good hope of success,
call upon the public to supply funds, they engin to inform
the contributors how those funds would be used when
they got them. There were persons who said " let us have
a fund first, and then we'll use it." This was fair, per-
haps, with regard to oar own money, with which we could
do as we liked; but if you asked the public for theirs,
they had a right to demand from you before they gaee,
,' What are you going to do with it " flow are you
going to sdend it ?" hit were proposed in a general in-
dentine way that a separate fund for temporal rebel be
placed at the dispose' of the committees of the various
Jewish auxilieries throughout the country, he did
not think there would be any fair proseeet of suecesi ;
he did riot know who the officer of these auxil'-
aries were who would undertake the reseonstility of ad-
ministering at their own discretion funds so placed at
their disposal. He for one confessed, as connected with
the auxiliary in this town, be should always shrink from
any such respenisibility ; he would not undertake to have
aiiy hand in the disposal of such a fund unless: upon prht-
ciples laid down, plainly defined to the public when they
were asked for their money, arid then honestly acted upon
when they -had given the-money. '(Hear.) 'How, then,
were such principles to be laid down and acted upon ?
The eueetion again recurred ; and here lie reverted to the
institutions before named. He thought by asylums
lamed for receiving and for retaining baptiz,tl Jews
within their walls, under certain specified rules and re-
gulations, and by asking the Christian public to give sub-
serptions for the support of these asylums, they might
attain to a plan of rescuing their, Jewish friends from the
immediate pressure of want daring their enquiries or
speedily after their baptism. He granted that we could
not permanently do so ; that, he thought, was hopeless ;
but there must be hardship somewhere ; and if it pleased
God to convert men, and by that conversion withdraw
them from civil associates upon whom they had been de-
pending for a livelihood, they must count the cost, and be
exposed to sortie trials in consequence. All that they
could do—all that they could reasonably b expected to do
—was that they should for a time after tile conversion of
a Jew, shelter him Iron) immediate want, supply his
pressing wants for a time, and during that time strengthen
him in the faith, and instruct bins in the principles of
Christianity. Tuey might make what enquiry they could
among their own friends to procure employmeat tor him
at the end of that tune;, but whether they could succeed
io procuring him employment or not at the end of that
time they must have done with hint ; they must say
Gedbe with you ; Ito forth; we have been the means of
converting you and leading you into the true faith,
but we cannot continue all the year to support you;
torch now and God be with you." (Hear.) The prob-
lem then was reduced a little in difficulty ; it was now
this, " how shall we adopt a plan which shall give refuge
and support for a certain period to converted Jens, m
order that they may not in the very infancy of their
christiautty be cast upon an unfeeling wnrld ? " Such
asylums as he lied referred to supplied, he thought, au
answer. But, in order to do such a work efficiently there
must be efficient workmen, and here we should find the
difference between dealing with living and dealing
with abstract truths. The efficient working of such an
asylum demanded in the very first instance an efficient
exeminiug committee. Ile would propose, therefore,
that after the internal rules and regulations ef the asylum
had beau determined upon, there should be an examining
committee, formed of the society's committee; ap-
pointed, and that no Jew should be admitted to
the asylums without a written order, signed by at
least two meniters of the examining committee, and
addressed to the superintendent or the asylum. (Hear.)
This drew the onus in the outset of admitting a Jew
upon the discretion and judgment of the examining com-
ruittee; and here was the very first importaet step.
As far /16. the internal regulations of the aryl, m itself
were concerned. they alreaty had a sufficient frame ; in
their own institution in this town they had, if not au ex-
aw ple of the regulations, yet nearly such as would answer
all their purposes. But he returned to the importance of
an examining committee before any Jew should be
admitted Mop such an asylum. -(Cheers.) Being
once admitted there must be a limit to the time heehould
be retained in it. He ventured to propose that every Jew
professing sincere inquiry into the truth- of Christiaeity
who should be admitted into the Asylum, at the expira-
tion of one year from the date of his admission, unless
he desired it sooner himself, should be brought before the
examining committee ; and if he should then be un-
willing to be baptised, or if the exarniiiieg committee con-
eddered him not qualified for that holy ordination he
should be dismissed from the asylum. This proposal
gave him one year of fair trial under the rules and regula
dons of the asylum, with christian instruction from the
Superintendent every day, and a bare subsistence, not
amounting to a bribe, to bring him in and yet respectable,
such as a christian man should offer a fellow-creature.
!laving been allowed one year of such probation,. if he
desired baptism himself and the members of the examiu-
ing committee (who in most cases wonld be experienced
ministers of the Established Church) judged him suffici-
ently qualified then lie would be Laptised; but if not, if
through incapacity, or any remaining prejudice,or through
any lungeing immorality of conduct, or from whatever
cause he were still himself unwilling to be baptised, or
judged unlit or incompetent by the examining committee,
then they hal discharged a christian duty towards that
man—and he must be' removed from the asylum to make
room for.emne more hopeful enquirer. lie (Mr. ill'Neile)
did not see his way to a permanent reception of any man
into it ; it must be only passing through. A question
might arise as to the propriety of the period mentioned,
and he merely submitted it for consideration ; some
might prefer 6 months, others IS months. He had said 12:
but this was a matter open to adjustmentif the principle
were admitted. The; every Jew baptised in the asylum,
and el- sitieg a connnuarme of temporal relief, simuld be
continued in the asylum if he conformed to the rules and
regulations of its internal manugement, and remain an in
mate for any period not exceeding s x months after his
eaptisin ; and at the expiration of six months he should
appear before the committee and be dismissed from the
asylum, the c ..muiittee presenting him with any sum of
m oney, not execed;ne 405., that they might den cave-
.
dient. here guru an important. principle was ineolved.
He did not pretend to specify these plans as the very best
that cernbilled wisdom could draw up; he had drawn them
.1;) in the hope that something; would he arrived at, anti
erudentlY determined upon, whereby this long agrtated
question might, through an holiest endmivour to make a
l;eiti lags come at last to a prosperous termi„atio-,.
{!fear.) • Some !night think that six months after baptism
was too short a p: riot to allow the converted Jew ; but fie
thought, if ..aftsr his baptism he was retained. for. six
moeths; kept in the' insdtutien for that time, add
in-
structed clilgeolly (as lie wc:ultl be every day) in-the par.
tienlars of th.: Christian rebgiete the kieel friete:s of the

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society wherever toe we; toot nets s tarot., seownio tiS
circumstances, would in the meantime make tease inte-
rest for him, speak to persons connected with the town or
neighbourhood, who would in all probability give him
se me labour when he canter_ forth from the asylum ; and
if he were then indeed a sinceie l hristian, as he world
profess to be, he would not
.hee allowed to be desti-
tute. (Hear, hear.) And it he were, we could only
hope that God would Ina!, --ate blessing arise to him opt
of it. In this way ato proposaima to-the mode of
expending a separate filed inie-„ht be laid, ht,fore the pul.dic,
and he was strong in the conviction th'at if a worse pro-
posal of tic tort nere made, it would be responded to,
end that a sta:arate fund would riot, be a failure. He
would venture to propose further, that Ito baptised Jew
dismissed from the asylum should be eligibie for readmis-
sion at any time sooner that twelve months from the
date of his disroisal. He might, then, be taken upon
trial again by the Examining tommiteee. He might by
tlemi have come to a better mind. And, also. that if arty
inmate of the asylum refused compliance with the rules,
or in any other respects conducted himself in a disorderly
'or imeroper mariner, the superiotemtent shall it-mixt-lan-1y
report him to the committee; bet ,:o inmate ehall he dis-
missed with gut an erder of the corn.: ittee. This was what
he had ventured to sugge,t, ir. a very brief and imperfect
manner, in order to make a beginning Of something tan-
gible and practical in this great matter—(hoar, hear)--,
and we know not any part of the kingdom where it
migi t more grace:roily etnannte f o a that from the town
of Liverpool. !Cheers.) We were not the metropolis, it
was true, but we had shown the metroitolis an example
before now ; and he was happy to be able to soy that we
vre going witlOn a few days to follow a good example
shown us be the metropolis. We were first Open the
point of getting a Sailors' Home. (Cheers ) The land
had been given, and a meeting bad been called for Ft iday
next, with his Worship the Mayer in the chair, to take
rseeedings fora Sailors' Home fer Liverpool. (Cl errs.)
The Rev. Mr. Baum of Bath, moved the next resolu-
tion, which congratulated the members of the society upon
the gradual diminution el prejudice amongst tie Jews,
both upon the Continent end Palestine, as proved by
their general readiness to receive christian instruction..
In supporting this resolution the rev. gentleman gave an
interesting narnetive of a native from the foot of Mount
Arrarat, who had recently visited this country to cbtein
funds to release his children, who had been seized for
some taxes due to the menarch of Persia. This man was
a Nestorian christian, but without participating in the
errors of Nestor ins, and from his conversation and state-
ments it was evident that christianity was making progress
among the Jews in thoye regions. The corire progress of
tire cruse, indeed, was snot, as to call open alt who loved
Christ to further it by their means and the :r prayers.
The Rev. J. J. Rays:Gees. seconded the resolution, in
a very able speech, in the course of which he g tee a va-
ritty of elaborate details of the sucet ss wide)) has attended
the efforts of the society's ageitts and missionaries, most of
which will he found in the publications pe'iodically made.
A collection was mode at this period, during which the
beautiful hymn of " Crown Him Lord of all" was sung in
tremendous encrus by ths vast ess.f nobly.
Tile Rev. WILLIAM FRELMANTLE prepared the last
re snution ; and after some general observations upon the
excellence of the cause, and replying to certain objections
which are occasionally urged against it by persons who
are disposed to cavil, he narrated a few circumstances
connected with a visit he made to Palestine about four
years ago. Many -persons he remarked wished to visit
that country ; tau he stroogly recommended all such not
to go there but with the bible in their bands.
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN said the office of seconding
a resolution at tint late hour was merely nominal ; but it
was a suitable close to an evening so spent to recommend
and urge the people to vainest prayer for Gods 1191 y spirt
—the first breath of spiritual life, the tool of a converted
sinner, the secret energys that put into our minds good
desires and enab:ed us to bring them to rood effect.
Let us pray then for the peace of Jerusalem
and, said he, may the God of Abraham reai:zr to you all
abundantly his gracious promise, " Blessed is he that
hlesseth thee,"

The Doxology was then sung, and the proceedings
closed about ten o'clock.

This morning (Tne-da) a public breakfast will take
place at the Adelphi Hotel, at which it is expected some
interesting and important statements will be made IT the
tnembers of the ieptiration and others. This evening a
public meeting is to be held =n the school-room of Sea-
forth Church: and a sermon also preached in St. M.-
chael's Church.
The following are the amounts collected at the several
churches on Sunday last :
X s. d.
St. Augustines.....-10 1) J. Reynolds.
St Bride's...—.--43 17 o—,Revs.Frummble and Brock.
Aigburth ---20 2 2--shev. T Nolan
Everton ;:b 0 o....—Eev. M. Brock.
• St. James' —l3 3 7--Eev. H. Hampton.
:Mariner's
St. Silas' 10 1 J • Cordeaux.
St. Thomas's.-- 4 0 o—.llcv. IL A. Marshall
Seaforth-----27 0 0--llev. W. Eaws.n.
Edge-hill 0 J. J. Reynolds.
St. Andr: w's 4'; 0 a.... Rev. W. R. Freemantle.
St. Baruabas 11 5 7.... Rev. J. E. White.
Ju(L's 64 5 7.... Rev. Hugh M'Neile.
St. John's l6 10 e.... Rev.W.F.%llocn,andwithou
any previous noticr to his congrel-ation.
St. Cement's
M. Falloon.

£36! Is 6
unscseßnank.arec..3taus.ah

SAVAGE ASSAULT UPON A POLICE I NSPECTOR....
At the Police-court, yesterday, a man, 'irned John
Rogers, recently an officer in the constabulary force of
thpi boreugh, was brought before Mr. Rushton and Mr.-
Charles Turner, the sitting magistrates, upon a eleirge Jf
having committed a frost se.vage assault upon James
Muir, an acting police inspector. From the sta7ment of
the complainant, it appeared that the prisoner was on
duty in Brownlow. bill, on the morning of the 31 instazit,
as a constable. The inspector had charge of that division,
end on going his rounds he knocked his stick its the usual
way .for the prisoner. Re.Ti,ing no answer, he knocked
several times,ntore; and, after waiving for nearly half an
hour, tire prisoner came un drunk On the inspect° r
charging him with being in
,that state, and alsh with hay-
ing been off his beet, he was caned a liar. The in.
spector was in the act of goimr away towards Jordan-street
Bs idewell, to r, port the circumstances, whr-n the prisoner
came behind him, and with his slick struck him a How
over the head which immediattly tei,dered him insensible.
Three of his fingers were also disabled by this violensce.
Recovering for a moment he st4gtted into the middle of
-the street (Brownlew-hill), and at this period two officer:,
No. 352 and No. 111, came up, and he directed them to
take tire prisoner into custody. thon this No. 352 whis•
feted something to the prisoner, which appeared to irri-
tate him, for he anruedia,ely struck the inspector again,
end in consequence he fainted once more. Li this state
he was t:rkrn by Ne. 111 to the cotnes. of Pus:ell•street,
and whilst standing aeaii,st a wall: there the prisemr again
struck him, after which he est_aped. in answer to a
question teem Mr. Rushton, it was stated that No. 352
Lad been dismissed from the foree ft r his conduct on this
occasion. The prisoner' in octet ce, ds need having been
sAI his beat, but adviitled being thud: and having struck
the inspector once. lie was vet story for what he had
done, and be hoped the magistrates would be easy with
him, for he bad s c,n chi:dren and a wits- 'Ales was just at
down-lying. Mr. riusleon.—You !Huai be dismissed the
force, and further you must be treed (or this assault.
Prisoner.-1 hor:e 3on will let use off. Mr. RuShson.—
Indeed, I will ro7. You migbt have murdered this uian.
A respect,ible end rising turn in she fore, you have as-
saulted in this •srlvage was. I rannor lot ovee it. Tee
pris,ner was then comnitsed for trial at the sessions,
whirl') arc now being held.

FOREIGN CATTLE —One hundred and ten bead of
horned cattle have been imported by the sterimoss from
Jlamborgh and Rotso dam sine.' our last.— Hull Packe!.
FOOD FOR CATTLE —The Trea.ury hare given permis-
sion for upwards of 20 tons of th Lotas nut to be ad-
mitten without payment of any duty for Earl Spencer,
which he is about To import f,r the purpose of the article
beiny tried as an experitneut as food for cattle.
THE FONDS: SATURDAY NIGHT.—In tho Enz;lish funds
the au:ount of buso,ess trauvected to-dry was not consi-
derable. and Fric:, continue father fla'. in conseqt:ence
of the increased demand for ca.ll, which has not in the
least abated. The absorption of cap-tat by the new
schemes of railway in all directions appearing before the
public, will account in a mcasure the temposary tight-
ness of the money niooket, es a great slumber of ihe first
cats made on the a! ton-lent of sLarea-are tow in coarse
of payment. This aoplit s nos ori!. to 11nOish, but like-
wise to contineut al projects, loNe found vi.ry ready
support amonq our eapituFsts at home. Cortsols for
money left off this oftrrnoon at 1001 i '0 ; arol for the
account, 10011 to ; Mils, 735. to 755. Pre-
mium ; Bank Stock, 2042 to 205 ?1; lodia Stork, 'lB7 to
289; ThreP. per Cents. kedinol, 99a to New Three-
and-a.Quat ter per Cents., 1024 to +; India Bonds, 94 to
96 premium; and Long Ant:ui+s, 12k The increasing
demand for money is also felt out of the Stock Exchange.
The discount houses came yesterday to the determination
that theY would take money at 2 per cent., and lend it at
In the fcreLn se,oirities there was scarcely a bar-
gain. Speculation is quite at a stand. and prices, sympa-
thzing with the state of affairs in tie English house, are
certainly heavy. Spanish Five per Cents. left off 234 to
• the Three per tents.. 31-1 to 1; Portugae,e, 50 to 51;
Mexican, 344 to j; the Deferred, 154 to 4; Dutch Two-
per Cents-62i to i; toe Five per Cents.. 94
to 4 ; Danish, 88 to 89; Colornbiao, 144 to 4; Chaim,
101 to 103; Buenos Ayr: s. 36 to 37 ; Brazilian, 814 to
854; Ind B:lgian,lo34 to 1044.

TII E Mon's CAnnErt..—Ah, ins' they press on ! so
tierce and impatient, that they choke the pas,:,!ce and re-
tard themselves! See, therz is a wretched woman, who
would extricate herself front the press--she bears a child
in her erms a drunken sroilt wields his Ipunnter beside
her, and the heavy head stings close past theforehead of
the infant. Oh! will they not hold down his hands for
the mercy ofheuven And see ! ,he ha seized hint by the
cast, and supplicates hint, and he cannot wt inn; h;mself
in ay, but places 1-ts lfltck hand upon her forehead, and
crushes her down into the crowd. Where is the child.?
They are borne on by a rush front behind, end I see them
no more ! —Dublin Unirersily Magazine.
Monocco.—Th- copuhtion cf the Wrocco enipira is
variously repres,nted. Jackson professes to 'Lir., had
accss to the Imperial Itegi,ters, and dyes the folowit.g
the result:-City of Mot a:!co, 270.000; City of z,
28'3,000 ; city of Mrquint z, 110,t4t0 ; otht r 135,000;
pwtince,,
• • 13
,„ o9i 14,P86,6C0. T,ere is evi-
dently mat ex.,ltp•ration in this staLit,ent. More recent
t:avelhrs have et- drwo the. portdtt,on et' the city of
Mot occo as 30,K O, tio• 4 thr towns in proportion.
,
Another writer is cf opititin that, the entire popti,tionris
Perhaps 6.000,000 is re.ler the
uot hee:,nd 5,030,000.
truth. Thei'heavy ea tt e Ai_Fs nun tuid the
a is tel wee,.:;a r and five hut.drtAl Inlcs in lengtt; and
1,4).e;t ,k of the cha'av is 13,050. .In 1547, an
tho race 'h the m la etlrs, asc: dad the
hrotle, and hi, osterity still rules.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,--Passing along Hanover-street, a few mothi .gs
ago, at an early hour, l picked up the enclosed letter close
to the Brat.ch Bank. It seems to contain some whelesome
truths; and you are at liberty to make use of it, only it
may be desirable t•i suppress the names of the writer, and
the gentleman to whom it is addressed. It has evidently
been dropped from the pocket r.rough negligence, or per-
Imps in " whisking mit the wipe."

tutu. Sir, ymit's
1)11ELIA1 O'BOTIIEREIII
Clarence Dock, Oct. 18, 18-11.

DEAR had intended to call upon you to have
a little serious talk, but you are sin concounde,,l peppery and
belt-willed, that it may save us a blue -up if I write instead
of .slk. lam glad that yon are coiae home again, safe
and arsenal, and, as I am told, a better and a wiser man.
Yell will be surprised when I tell you that we hav'nt had
a decent rote in ceuncil since you went !noon the grant!
tour to kiss the Pope's tine; and the town, has been remark-
ably and most untertunately quiet during your absence. I •
know that yon are a s' ell-mentaing fellow, but a good deal
troubled with bile, and Dr, F. says that politics teaze you
so terribly that you hail belt r keep yourself cool—if you
caul—and abstain from such things; but as you are aware
that I am a bit of a fatalist, 3 nu will credit me when I add
that I don't believe you can keep out of such messes, and
that your enjoyment is like old fighting Tom Pictons, who
was never so happy as when he was in it storm of grape and
canister. Discretion may be the better sort of valour, but
you hav'nt learnt that lesson yet. I see (just what I ex-
peeled) that you have scarcely lighted on this orb. which
you always graced, before your arrival is announced on the
walls, in the shape of a placard, addressed to some vulgar
electors in an unknown part of the town, and in a locality
where you always place the wind between it end your own
nobility. What the deuce made you go th“re, alter sitting
for the aristocratic attird of saberctounten ? It is all nonsense
calling yourself a a leveller," and such like names, which
nobody else would have designated you, and whic n nobody
believed when you were so foolish as to noes it. Why,
you are a gem the first water,—related to
your very name declares it, and a more lordly fellow dues
not exist! And if you wanted to tilt your lance, what in
the name of figs did you chaose Parker for? lie is not a
banker, nor a merchant, but a plain straight-forward
tradesman ; and there will he no honour, when the Pope
hears you Tiave beaten a brewir, for beat him you will—
that's a fact. But don't mistake inn. Parker possesses
sooie old Yorkshire blood io him, quite as good as yours.
His grandfather was not a tinker, and it would be quite as
wise of you not to look upon hint as a snob, because I can
assure you that his quarterings are much more ancient and
respectable than your own. You might try Abercromhy
again if you chose. Never mind such old proverbs as
"better known than trusted," " beware of broken backed
horses, &sc." Go at Abercrouiby step up, and either win
it like a mate er go to Caliphornia till you're wanted.
Rest assured that the council will die of atrophy if you are
not there. Why the reporters hav'nr had good thing to
amuse us with since you paid your £5O. and made your
conger. if it is only for the fun of the thing. you ought to
bo to. There wants samethieg to counterbalance the pon-
derosa gravity of poor Barclay, who is fast going the way
of all (Whig) aldermen ; and it is rather hard upon Sir
Thomas that he has nobody to help him to crack a joke;
and it is quite shameful to let David Hodgson have it all
his own gait. By the way, how strong Hodgson is at
Everton. Ile is booked for life there, and yuu may make
up your mind that 3 oe'll have to meet him at Philippi.
and he's not like you—a shadow. But naw, attend Will,
don't make a feed of you:as,lf the next time you get into
council, by telling fibs and sassing that you're "a leveller."
Does John the footman. breakfast with you? Do you clap
Joseah, the coachman. inside the carriage, and you, on a
wet night, handle the ribbens? Did Betty, tine chamber-
maid, dine in the parlour when Lord Burlington was your
gn st ? And if you meet Lord Setton in the street, and tune
of your future constituents who bakes leaves at iggins's-
court. Circus-street, came tip just at that moment, which
of the two would you first shake hands with ? Poo, poti!
don't talk such stuff, I say. which only makes you ridicu-
lous. Anti then again. " a terrier!" [low absurd !
If you had told the Pope when you kissed his toe that yen
were a terrier and a leveller, depend upon it that mire of
his Swiss guards would have shaken his ceck-tail feat het s
at you, and showed 3on the back doer of the vatican. Be-
sides, snappish dogs are not wanted in council, as old.
Billy
Thornhill can tell you. Thombill is a devoted friend of
yours, and will leap out of his skin to see you back again
I fancy the old nano has looked thin and downcast sinceyou
left; but he will smoke two or three extra pipes of tobacco
a day, and dinub:e his potations for joy, when he can fight
again under your shadow. Bu' don't he so hard upon hint,
fur though he does'nt speak such good grammar, he's a de-
cent fellow, and would beat you any day in Scotland
Ward. And do'nt use such familiar epittets as " George'
when you're on your pins. It d,es'et,ound well in public,
for "George," as you contemptuously designate him, is a
gentleman as well as you, and is likely enough to live to
call you to order. You see, Will, the public has a good
memory, awl they has nt forgat the be o atig yuu received
in
Abereromby Ward, nor that you hail, at last, to creep
Into council thiough the loop holes of the aldermanship—a
sad and biting comment on sour own principles and (pi-
nions. lam glad, however, that in yonr addr as you talk
big, and disdain canvassing; &v. •That's the ticket, be as-
sured. It might. do well enough ten sears bark to canvass
the greasy voters, and write tine sentences about reforrn,
and liberality, and economy, soul all that sort of humbug
with which we used to gull the fellows; but it wo'nt do
now. "Tine people" have tried us all, one after the other,
and it makes ones heart- tileed to see sach patriots ltath-
boneone and Bolton, and Shiel cum mullis aliis driven about
from pillar to post, without a warn to t• [leiter their hapless
heads; and even you, with all your travelled magnificence
—the most finished liberal—the best tempered of the lot,
and who has bidden as high for popularity as any of them,
absolutely driven to the melancholy necessity of cowing
out for an unknown region, where cambric handkerchiefs
and Eau tie Cologne are drugs; and whete it would be
death or extirpation at the Wellington Me ms if they
knew you had been seen in. Iran have run at Newmarket
you have figured at Ascot, but neve
"The high mettlsd racer's a back on the road."
I am, dear Will, yours,-&c.,
* * * *

Aqua-street, October 14, 1844.
-.P.
INCORPORATION OF WALLASEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
ISia,—Feeling assured that the following observations
on the proposition for an act of parliament for the im-
provement and general government of the parish of Wal-
lasey, if inserted in your widely circulated paper, will be
read in the quarter I wish them to be, you Mill oblige me
if you can find room for them in your next publication.
I have long been of otinion that if such a proposition
were brought forwards in an open and a candid manner,
at a public meeting of the parish, and a committee nomi-
nated at that meeting, empowered to draw up the beads
of a bill, fairly and liberally, the ratepayers and others
interested in the palish wnuld be satisfied, and the ulti-
mate success of the measure ensured.

The report submitted to the meeting on Thursday last,
I, with the majority, consider to be exceedingly defective
in many particulars.
In the first place, the rating qualification is too high :
it should be £25 or £3O.
In the second place, in the highway clause, the com-
missioners should take power to purchase lands, with the
consent of the owners, tor the purpose of forming three
or four parallel lines of roads, to run north and south
through the parish.
In the third place, power should be taken to purchase
existing ferries, as well as to establish new ones when
wanted ; so that making the proposition appear a matter
of business likely to be protective to the ratepayer, as
well as profitable to the parish, the present opposition to
the measure would cease.
In the fourth and most important place, the landowners,
instead of proposing to borrow money (say £15,000), the
interest to be paid by the ratepayers, should come forward
with that sum or more if necessary, stipulate to pay the
expenses of obtaining the act, and set it fairly in opera-
tion, before calling upon the latter to bear a burden they
cannot at present support. The ratepayers have a right
to some consideration on the part of the landowners, as
the value of land will be very considerably increased by
the act.
It some such stipulations as above were to be entered
into and brought forward at the adjourned meeting, or
declared beforehand, I feel confidant the opposition to
having the act at all would he got over, and that all par-
ties would come to an amicable agreement orra measure
which would, if properly carried out, tend greatly to the
prosperity of the parish of Wallasey.
The following statistical information, relative to the
three townships forming the parish of Wallasey, for the
year 1841, may be of use ; and I may observe, that the
rates since that period have considerably increased :
Area i i Popu. Poor 1-'way County Assess.
Townships. Acres. Houses. tatiou. Rate. Rate. Rate. Texes.
• Poulton- 1
corn- 646 353 2146 £175 £205 £B6 £6lO
Seacom be JJJ
Liscard.... 841 406 2873 285 233 85 1034
Wallasey .. 1789 172 942 148 176 55 136
I remain, your obedient servant,
A RATEPAYER OF THE PARISH.
Liscard, 19th October, 1844.