The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

A Match for 50 sons.

Mr. Payne'sl);Fe;si;, by Despot, 2 yrs, ist.. (Howlett) 1
Lord Maidstone's ch f Wide-awake, 3 yrs, 9 st 2
Betting-6 to 4on Pensive, who took the lead, was never
headed, and won in a canter by two lengths.
The LADIES' PURSE, value £5O, to be run for by horses
beaten during the week ; heats, twice round the course.
Mr. Dawson's ch f The Biddy, 3 yrs (Lye) 3 1 1
Mr. Graydon's ch h Clinker, G yrs .. . ............. 1 2 2
Mr. Langley's b c Rancour, 4 yrs
Betting—First heat—Clinker made all the running, and,
after a short struggle with Rancour, won by about three
lengths. Second Heat—Clinker again made the running,
but after a long struggle with The Biddy, was beaten by a
neck. Third heat—The
lenßiddymade way at a middling pace,
and won easily by half a gth. m
Sir W. M. Stanley, Bart., F. R. Price, Esq., and the Hon.
j, S. Anson are appointed stewards for next year's races.

JUNCTION OF THE RAILWAY IN MANCHESTER

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—After the conflict of interest and feeling which this
important question has excited, it appears that the directors
of the Liverpool line have submitted to the Hunt's Bank
junction. It is indeed humiliating to the dignity and wealth
of a body representing the earliest and most renowned un-
dertaking of this nature, that they should have yielded to the
domination of the Leeds Directors, after publicly announcing
their conviction of the paramount advantages of a southern
over a northern junction of railways in the town of Ma'fiches-
ter. Mr. Hodgson, a member of the Liverpool Board, has,
however, nobly redeemed the minority from the imputation
of infirmity of purpose, exhibited by its other members, who
must have felt some keen anticipations of public censure
upon their inconsistency, in conjunction with the overwhelm-
ing preponderance of shares held by Mr. Hodgson and his
party. It can scarcely be imagined that so powerful a mi-
nority will quietly see a measure so inimical to the company's
interests, and forced upon it by such disueditable means,
carried out to the expectation of the Leeds Directors. And
it is to be wished—tor the sake of the public, who have a
right to require, in the formation of this junction—that it be
not made for mere selfish purposes, and have, at least, the
appearance of its being what is ostensibly declared for the
accommodation of the public. But how can travellers by
the Birmingham and Manchester and Sheffield and Man-
chester lines reach the Liverpool Railway by the proposed
communication? It is surely not intended to invite them to
dangle themselves in mephetic air and darkness down a pit
seventy feet deep, and emerge from the other tunnel shaft
like a knot of colliers issuing out of their pandemonium ?
The public need not entertain any apprehension that they
will be deprived of a proper communication ; for parliament
can never sanction so absurd a project as a tunnel while the
desiderata for an union of all the railways present themselves
in the line to the Store-street Station.

I take it for granted, that the Liverpool and Manchester
Company will sleep upon their oars until they see the fate of
the bill for the tunnel project, which must be defeated, and
will then gladly yield to the tide of public feeling for the
southern line, from which they have been so unwillingly
driven. Their late adhesion to the Hunts Bank junction
will, of course, prevent any open demonstrations from them
against that measure; but the Sheffield and Manchester
Company, whose interests are seriously involved in the
question, have only to exhibit the two proposed lines to par-
liament—and say, " look on this picture and on that"—" Hy-
perion to a Satyr"—to insure the defeat of the tunnel scheme,
which must instantly neutralise the plans of the Leeds
Directors and their party.
Since writing the preceding observations, which I had
intended to request the favour of being published in your
journal, some friend has sent me your publication of the 3d
instant, containing some stringent observations upon the
late—but I do not believe it will be the last—decision of the
Liverpool Board. The thanks of the public are due to you
for your talented advocacy of the southern junction, which
alone can give that convergence of lines which they have a
right to demand ; and as a shareholder in the Sheffield and
Manchester Company, whose interests are also involved in
this question, I thank you, in the name of its proprietary,
for your just and indignant reprehension, on several occa-
sions, of the unprovoked calumnies heaped upon it. Had
it been an undertaking from which the coalescing lines of
Birmingham and Leeds had nothing to fear, they, at least,
would not have disturbed it as they have done in its progress
to the euthanasia into which they have fruitlessly striven to
drive it. But the cause of their enmity to it constitutes its
value ; and the prospect of its •becoming a participant in the
eastern traffic of one, and the southern traffic of the other,
is destined, I conclude, to perpetuate their hostility.
Assuredly no green-grocer or chandler's shopkeeper ever
exhibited more degrading and silly animosity at the audacity
of a competitor opening a neighbouring shop than has been
done by one of these companies, while the truth of the fact
is demonstrable that railways generate peculiar traffics of
their own which never materially interfere with those of
others.

Requesting the favour of your publishing these observa-
tions, I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,

Sheffield, 6th May, 1812

ATTICUS

We have readily given insertion to the communication of
our correspondent " Atticus," not only because of the inte-
rest of the subject, upon which he writes, to our Liverpool
readers—(and in truth it is of far snore interest than they
are at present aware of)—but because it is only just on the
one hand, that the claims of towns, seeking to be connected
by a railway communication with this port, should be heard ;
and, on the other, that those of our fellow townsmen whose
recent concession to dictation has, for the present, repu-
diated, in appearance at least, those claims, should be ena-
bled to judge of the opinions, held beyond the limits of their
own immediate locality, of the propriety and dignity of the
position into which they have submitted to be driven. With
respect to these we have already expressed ourselves freely ;
and in everything that we have advanced upon the subject
we are fully borne out by our intelligent correspondent.

To oue passage of the letter of " Atticus" we would re-
spectfully entreat the serious consideration of the Liverpoo
board. Our correspondent, whilst predicting the certain
failure of any attempt to carry out the projected tunnel from
Hunt's-bank to Store-street, as the junction of the Liverpool
line with the Sheffield and the Birmingham lines,—and how
such an absurd proposition can ever be attempted to be carried
out we are at a loss to conceive—suggests that the Liverpool
board should "sleep on their oars until they see the fate of the
bill for that project." Surely there is, at least, reason in the
adoption of such a course. If the Manchester and Leeds
Company have entrapped the Liverpool directors into the
adoption of their Hunt's Bank Junction, by the promise of
such an underground continuation to the foot of a shaft in
Store-street, from whence passengers and goods are to be
lifted in buckets or baskets, or projected by some " infernal
machine" to the level of the Sheffield line, surely it is but
prudent, before embarking in the formation of a portion of
the scheme, to ace ~hrthui the remainder, bud though IL be,
is ever likely, or is even intended, to be proceeded with—
whether it is ever destined to be any other than a paper plan
—a mere fighting line—conceived in the fertile imagination
of an engineer, for the purpose of bolstering up an imposture
upon the Liverpool board and upon the public. We, at least,
are satisfied not only that it never will be made, but that it
was never intended to be made! Let the Liverpool board
only examine facts and probabilities, and they will inevitably
arrive at the same conclusion.
We must return our thanks to " Atticus " for the flatter-
ing mention which he makes of our labours upon this junction
question. We have certainly "reprehended severely," and
with justice too, the unworthy course which the Leeds directors
have pursued and are still pursuing, against the undertak-
ing in which he is interested, (in common with the public,) and
against the board of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The concession of the latter body to insult and insolence has
not convinced us that we are wrong ; and we see nothing as-
suredly in the present conduct of the Leeds and Manchester
gentlemen—we see nothing of that moderation in victory—
which is calculated to assureusthat concession:has purchased
peace. But a fortnight ago, the same fire-eaters, who lately
threatened to eat up the Liverpool line by a northern project,
were about to swamp the Sheffield line (having succeeded in
depriving it of a junction with Liverpool) by a branch line of
their own to Ashton (I), and surely men who could put forth
such an absurdity—who could thus show the true nature of
their raving opposition to any junction, in the advantages of
which their Sheffield opponent could participate, will not be
particularly observant of any pledges which they may have
entered into to abandon that northern scheme, the fear of
which has driven so far from their propriety the directors of
the Liverpool line !

BILLY, THE TERRIER OF THE TOWN-COUNCIL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—May I, through the medium of your columns, offer
a few hints to our worthy town-councillors, upon the impro-
priety of having admitted the canine species into the town-
council. But having done so, I would humb y advise them,
whenever they find a tiresome, cross-grained cur snapping at
their heels, to act as the brave bruen did with the mastiff.
Take him by the neck and give him a toss over, and let him
go yelping to his kennel. By-the-bye, it may be as well for
the friends of the animal in question to chain him up. Let
them remember, that, as the hot weather is coming on, our
worthy magistrates may issue orders that all mad dogs should
be shot. Perhaps you will be prepared to say, let things take
their course—but no ; every dog has his day. and we would
rather see this worrier die a natural death. The animal has
been so snappish lately at an honest policeman, that one has
a notion that he feels an instinctive horror at the truncheon,
and has already ringing in his ears the frightful cry of mad
dog. At all events the creature should be muzzled.
Your obedient servant,
PINCHER.

On Friday a young woman jumped from the Greenwich
steamer into the Thames, and was rescued with the greatest
difficulty.
Lord Claude Hamilton, brother to the present Marquis of
Abercorn, is understood to be the successful suitor for the
hand of Miss Burdett Coutts.

" Trade is very bad," said Stultz, the fashionable tailor ;
"I do n't make near so many coats as formerly." " How
can you expect it," was the reply, " when there are so many
turivd coats among your customers in the Lords and Com-
mons?"

GERA, APRIL 26.—His Royal Highness the Crown Prince
of Hanover is betrothed to the Princess Mary. eldest daugh-
ter of the Duke of Saxe Altenburg. His serene highness
himself announced the news to the members of the Assembly
of the Estates, who were mustered yesterday to keep the
25th anniversary of his highness's marriage.
COPENHAGEN, April 29.—8 y a royal precept to the Bishop
of Sealand, the Rev. Mr. Tryde is commissioned to confer
with Baptists (the brothers Minster) who have been arrested
and thrown into prison, and to ascertain the doctrines of this
sect, with a view to find whether it may be proper to grant
them the free exercise of their religious worship. It is to be
hoped that this measure will lead to the desired end.
Last Wednesday morning, between eight and nine, a fire,
attended with the destruction of near 20 houses, broke out
in High-street, Beaminster, Dorset.

A terrific storm of thunder broke over the villages of Ban-
well, Worle, Wrington, and places adjacent on Monday. A
man and two horses engaged in ploughing a short distance
from Banwell, were struck by the electric fluid and instan-
taneously killed.—Sherborne Journal.

From a return of the number of accidents of a public na-
ture on railways, it appears that they are considerably dimi-
nishing. In the last five months of the year 1840, 28 acci-
dents, 22 deaths, and 131 cases of injury took place, while the
twelve months of 1841 give only 29 accidents, 24 deaths, and
71 cases of injury. It is very satisfactory to observe that a
marked diminution has taken place in the class of accidents,
such as collisions, arising chiefly from mismanagement or
defective arrangements. A great proportion of accidents
which occurred in the end of 1840, and beginning of
1841, were of the same nature, no fewer than 17 acci-
dents having occurred in eight months from August,
1840, to April, 1841, from the single cause of collisions
by trains or engines overtaking others travelling on the
same line. During the nine months from April, 1841,
to January, 1812, only five collisions of this nature occur•
red, and those, with one exception, unattended with fatal
consequences. This diminution in the number of collisionst.y
appears too great to be the result of accident, and niayefn i I,
be attributed in a considerable degree to the morsc
g r -1711.1:
adoption of the precautions suggested by the Inspector-6e
‘..‘`
the
neral, and recommended by the option of a
this departmeli
erection of proper fixed signals at stationas,..ials, the en-
better description of tail-lamps and h n. 4
servants,
forcement of more attention to signals on part t
P all trains,. iii-
ha of
and the adoption of proper time-tables
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1 regularity
eluding luggage trains, with a view toprep`4'
successive trains.
in the traffic, and proper intervals. betweea

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION

A PARALLEL CASE TO THE EDUCATION QUESTION IN THE

LIVERPOOL TOWN COUNCIL

We have been repeatedly told, by the opponents of the
present system of education in the corporation schools, that
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that quantity or that lack of religious instruction which
might square with the religious, or the non-religious, pre-
judices of all classes of the community,—by which Maho-
medan and Pagan, Jew and Mormonite, Atheist and
Christian might lovingly imbibe learning and morality to-
gether, and be taught to worship their various deities by the
same teachers, and under the same roof. A case, however,
has just been tried in a superior court which will test some-
what severely the doctrines of the philosophers by whom
this version of the law upon such matters has been put forth.
The case, or rather the cases, to which we refer were those
of " The Attorney-General v. Cullum," and "The same v.
Le Grice," and related to the disposal of a surplus fund,
arising from some charities in Bury St. Edmunds, to the pur-
poses of education. The circumstances were stated briefly
to be the following :
" In 1547, the parishioners agreed amongst themselves to
sell the church plate, weighing upwards of forty stone, and
bought with the money arising from the sale a large portion
of land belonging to the crown. A small portion of the in-
come arising from that estate, which amounts at the present
day to £9OO per annum, they appropriated to the repairs of
the church, and the remainder to the support of the poor. In
1833, the information was filed by the Attorney-General at
the relation of certain inhabitants of Bury : and, in 1836, it
was referred to the Master to inquire and ascertain, amongst
other things, the amount of the property, and to approve of
a scheme for the future management of the estates and ap-
plication of the income. The Master had found, amongst
other things, that it would be proper to build and support
three schools in Bury out of the surplus income, namely, a
commercial school, for the instruction of 150 boys; a poor
boys' school, for the instruction of 300 boys ; and a poor
girls' school, for the instruction of 150 girls. The Master's
report left it to the trustees to appoint mastersand mistresses,
without stating of what religious persuasion they should be ;
and went on to provide, that a sufficient and convenient por-
tion of the school-monies should be set apart daily for read-
ing the Scripture lessons prepared for the use of the Irish
National Schools, and the authorised version of the Scrip-
tures, or such part thereof as the trustees should think-
per; •and that no other religious instruction should be intro
duced into the schools. To this portion of the scheme, the
defendants, who were some of the trustees, objected, and pro-
posed, that the masters and mistresses should be members of
the Church of England, and should give general religious and
moral instruction to all the scholars in such books as the go-
vernors should select, and on Sunday should give religious
instruction according to the doctrines of the Church of Eng-
land, to those chiltn whose parents did not object to their
receiving the same.
We have here then—setting aside the difference of the
source from which the funds to be expended are derived—a
parallel case to that of the Liverpool corporation. It is
agreed on all hands in the St. Edmunds case, that the fund
and the education to be provided by it is intended fbr the
benefit of all the inhabitants of the parish; and the widest
application contended for by the opponents of the
_present
system has never gone beyond this.
The objection, too, urged against the adoption of a scrip-
tural system, was precisely that of the liberal party in this
town, for it was argued, on the behalf of the Dissenters of
Bury St. Edmunds, that as the education in question was to
be provided " from funds, to which the children of Dissenters
are equally entitled with those of members of the Church of
England, unless the former are to be permitted to participate
in the advantage of education thus to be provided, they can-
not but feel that they have just cause of complaint. If it be
directed, that the schoolmasters and mistresses should be
members of the Church of England, the schools will he im-
mediately impressed with the character of Church of England
schools. to which conscientious Dissenters will not send
their children. All that is now asked is, that no such direc-
tion shall be made—not that it shall be directed that the
master shall be a Dissenter."

In addition to this general plea it was urged also that the
funds having originally derived from the Roman Catholic
church, ought, in part at least, to be devoted to the education
of children in the faith of that church, in reply to which it was
well and truly maintained that the donors of such funds
were members of the Catholic church, though an erring
branch of that church ; and that, as the Church of England
is that Catholic church purified by the reformation, but still
the ancient Catholic church, the application of the funds for
the benefit of her members will be, in fact, to apply them for
the benefit of persons professing the same faith as the do-
nors." And with respect to dissenters it was equally well
agreed that " It cannot be said that dissenters, as such, are
entitled to the fund ; for, at the time of the donations, which
were of the periods of Edward VI. and Queen Elizabeth, no
dissent was allowed ; and no one could be what is now under-
stood by the term,' dissenter.' Under these circumstances
we contend, that a direction should be made, that the masters
of the schools should not only be members of the Church of
England, but also clergymen of that church."
The following judgment was then delivered by Sir
Knight Bruce, V.C. :—lf there be any education, it must
clearly be accompanied by instruction in religion, for
without religion education would be a by-word and a mere
mockery. If there be education, and therefore instruction
in religion, what possible standard can the court have, or with
propriety adopt, other than the established religion of the
country ? Suppose the schoolmaster to be a conscientious
Anabaptist, what then? Is there to be no exposition of the
Scriptures ? If there were to be, then the parties must look
out for some gentleman professing all the tolerated religions
in the country. A master, not believing in the doctrines of
the Trinity, may be called on to interpret such portions of
the Scripture as relate to that doctrine, and he may do that
which is unfortunately but too general with regard to the
Bible, namely, skip those parts which present the difficulty.
I can very well understand the argument, that no part of the
funds of the charity ought to be applied to the purposes of
education, that is perfectly intelligible; but it would be worse
than mockery to say, that there should be education without
religious instruction. If it be held, that religious instruc-
tion is to be given, the court can see no guide, no standard,
by which it can be governed, but by the Established Church.
If any other were adopted, the varieties of religions taught
would be as infinite as the changes of dissent are perpetual.
The scheme, in my judgment, does not provide for religions
instruction. The defect is, not that it does not provide for
religious instruction according to the doctrines and practice
of the Church of England ; but that it does not provide at
all for what, I can consider, religious instruction. If educa-
tion, of course I mean education including religious instruc-
tion, is to be provided for, I apprehend it must be according
to the doctrines and principles of the Church of England. I
know no/other standard or guide to which the court can re-
sort. Dissenting as Ido from the present scheme, so far as
it relates to the purposes of education, I must send that part
back to the master, for the purpose of his reviewing his re-
port, unless some other course can be hereafter suggested.
If education be part of the scheme, it is in my judgment
clear, that whatever may be the particular course of instruc-
tion, or of exemption, if any, as to any part of the instruc-
tion, the masters and mistresses must be members of the
Church of England. I cannot think it at present necessary
to say, that either of the masters should be aclergyman ; but
certainly all of them should be members of the Church of
England, and no other course of religious instruction should
be adopted than that which is in conformity with that church.
I make these observations, upon the hypothesis, that it may
ultimately be thought right that a provision for education
should form part of the scheme, a matter upon which I do
not mean to bind myself by any opinion at present, but re-
serve for future consideration. 1 shall, therefore, refer it
back to the master to review his report, and to consider whe-
ther, having regard to the nature of the charity, and to the
present state and condition of the town of Bury, it is fit and
proper that any provision should be made for education ; and
if the master shall be of opinion in the affirmatkye, then that
it shall be declared that there is to be no master; mistress, or
teacher appointed, who is not a member of the Church of
England ; and that no other course of religious instruction
shall be adopted, except in conformity with that church.
The master, upon this, will send back a scheme, either in-
cluding or not including education. If he include it, he must
include declarations, one affirmative and one negative. By
" affirmative," I mean, that every master, mistress, and
teacher shall be a member of the Church of England ; by
" negative," that no other course of religious instructiom
shall be adopted than in conformity with that church. If
the master find in the negative, as to a provision being made
for education, then he will suggest some other scheme for
the employment of the fund, which is now proposed to be
applied to the building of the schools. I would willingly
have disposed of the question without sending it back to the
master if I could have done so ; but as I see there are views
which have possibly not been brought with sufficient clear-
ness and fullness before the master, I cannot take upon
myself to do so.

211ar0 24.—0 n this day, Cooper informed the court, that
all parties had agreed to modify the scheme as to education
as follows :—That the masters and mistresses of the schools
should be members of the Church of England ; and that,
during one hour at least of each school day, the master
should give religious instruction to all the scholars ; such re-
ligious instruction to be confined to the reading and explana-
tion of the Scriptures; and on every Lord's day only ho
should give instruction in the liturgy. catechism, and articles
of the Church of England, to such of the boys whose parents
are in communion with that church ; and that all the scholars
should be required to repair twice every Lord's day to
church. Provided, nevertheless, that any two of the trut•-
tees, by a note in writing, might excuse from attendance at
church any of the scholars who were children of
ueparents t
understood,
in communion with the Church of England.
Sir Knight Bruce.—Had the parties. not agreed,
have referred the scheme, as far as it relates. to eidaucation,
that
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umaster.
which I wish
I proceeded,it to he d iswtienrcetl
not
conse-
quence of my entertaining any preference for the Established.
at the bar,
Church, but from the absolute necessity of the case,
that
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dified shape. It is clearly more beneficial ItroL its
se
members of
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that all the teachers
must be members of the Church of England • by which I
mean that religion cannot be taught without int'erpretaticn.
The court is bound to state some standard of interpretation,
and there would be insurmountable difficulties in statinz any
other rule of interpretation than that which accords with the
doctrines of the Established Church.

TRUE BENEFICENCE.—A gentleman of the name of Slatic„,
an eminent and opulent merchant, a native of the town of
_
Poole, has undertaken to build at his own expense, tine new
churches in the colony of Newfoundland. _ . -

- - -------- A Dunstan,
CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—An old man nameu_..--u-ri
-bill,
now upwards of 80 years of age, and resident Quay
at
exception,
Falmouth, has actually slept every night, without
azette.
since his birth, in the same house.—Cornwall
.ship, no,
THE BRITISH QUEEN.—This splendid.
d h Capt. Keane.
the property of the Belgian Government,.arri_vsyet
aropton Water, on Thursday, commaTa_e_en, and the officers
The crew consists of nearly one hundreaurar.y
~, i from Antwerp.
steam-ship,
the South-
are all Englishmen. She is to go rseguthampton. She had
to New York, and back, calling 'angers from Antwerp, and
on board nearly one hundred Passhennee she sailed, on Satur -
received more at Southampton. cv
day, for New York.
a in...ielemfornotrah, :11l
raining an old and exerienced
of Stevens, and three menservants,
boAatmsmanal,lofsatihleingnabn::? „astings, was upsct in a sudden
belonging to families. at I.the shore ofl St. Leonard's on
board perished B• P r
when a on .--- rtn,i, on
Wednesday morning,
squall, about
order to head his regiment,
Herald.
rton comes to Worsley Hail, Lancashire
Lord Francis Ea
early in the ensuing ter's yeomanry cavalry
-of Lonna' - , which corps
the Duke arable on the 10th, for eight days
is ordered to as permanent
duty.
T., ~,,tjty'S CHARITIES.--Th •
e judges are, on next
LADY “E - morn to deliver
Tuesday, (this_ m their opinion in the
the 1
f Lords, on law House oquestions submitted for their
..eration, with respect to the case
cons!a .
elding £3,000 a of Lady Hewley's
charity, yielding year. Her ladyship b i T '
eng a 11-
nitariau-Presbyterian, it was decided
by the Vice-Chancellor,.
and afterwards by the present Lord
Uni-
tarian-Presbyterians could receive Chancellor, that
Unitarian trustees were also no part of it, and the
Unit
Objeetions were taken displaced by the court. On ap-,
Chancery, and the jud en to parts of the evidence read ira
these objections, which es were asked for their opinions on
(this day.) Th they are now to pronounce on Tues-
day,e case is,of important to the
parties, but it isalso '
. important to the public, in order to
have settled the principle of the 4w, of evidence which it in,
volves.

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