The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-12-12 00:00:00

5 1-16

46 United. States ; 5 Peruvian
4 Irish.

TIMBER.—From t

Birkenhead, we extract the folio
" The arrivals during the month

he mon.

Timber from British North America into the doe

Pine Timber (St. John), during the month, three cargoes
have been sold, viz. :—One of 18-inch average, at 18d. per
foot; one stored, 18-inch average, at 184 d. per food; one
of 13k-inch, price not transpired. Ten cargoes of "Quebec
have been sold at from 13d. to 150. per foot; and a parcel
of Ricibucto, at 12d. per foot. Red Pine, with cargo, has

5 Australian ; and I

sold at from'l9d. to 14d. per foot. Of Baltic Timber the
arrivals during the month are 5 vessels, 1,057 tons, against
7 vessels, 2,310 tons, for the corresponding period last
year, and are mostly Swedish Deals, &c., and Spars. The
sales are by retail. Of Honduras Mahogany, on the 15th,
84 logs, 31,160 feet, ex Star of the East, mostly small
sized, sold at from 5-Id. to 110., or 7 29-32 d. per foot
average; 117 logs 32,741 feet, ex Crusader, at from 41d. to
111 d., or 7 3-32 d. per foot average; and 101 logs of very
small size, ex Atlantic, at £6 per ton ; 273 logs ex St.

Patrick

5 21-32C1. per foot. Of St. Domingo (City), fhe cargo, ex
Elizabeth, sold at from 62d. to 4s. 9d. per foot, or 10Id.
per foot average ; the cargo, ex Arctic, at from 7d. to
ls. 3i-d. or 8 11-32 d. per foot average ; the cargo ex Asia, at
from 6d. to is. '7d. per foot, or 8 5-32 d. per foot average ;
the cargo ex Ethiope (north side), at sd. to 3s. 2d. per
foot, or 7 13-16 d. per foot average, and 100 logs and
curls ex John Rutledge, at an average of 5 7-32 d. per foot.
Of Cuba, 227 logs sold at 4d. to 7d. per foot, or 5 5-32 d.
per foot average."

METALs.-:-We have no change to report in
manufactured Iron this week ; it may be considered
a little firmer. In Scotch Pig Iron there has been
a further advance in price, and a better business
has been done. Copper. and Tin still continue in
good demand, without change in price. Lead
rather easier.

STOCK

IMPORTS
Week his
ending, Year. IDec. 8
Dec. 8.

111397 5251771

26757'11028486'
_ _

I 342650

average

5 21-32 d. per foot

s, ex Texian

283 294931 8820
409 29099 12340
41724, 23230
74 572 180
374 773911 57060
587 5020 j 1570

}91731 2279411 153700
1

9741 3590

50054 1965807' 603140

PRODUCE.—A good demand for Sugar, but the
mafket. being freely supplied, prices are barely
maintained. No alteration in Coffee. Rice, quiet.
Bum, dull. Tea, in limited request. Saltpetre,
without change. Palm Oil, dull. Tallow, in fair
request. TO-DAY, both growers and refiners have
shown more disposition to purchase Sugar, and
the business done since Friday is considerable,
comprising 110 hhds. Jamaica, at 30s. 6d., to
345. 6d. ; 280 hhds. Antigua, at 30s. 6d. to 345. 6.d. ;

135 hhd's. Barbadoes, at 30s. to 375. 6d., including
grainy, at 38s. 6d. ; 150 hhds. Demerara, at
295. 6d. to 31s. 6d. ; 20 hhds. Cuba, at 355. 6d. ;
and 2,650 bags Bengal, at 355. for grainy, 38s. 3d.
for Benares, and 335. to 345. 6d. per cwt. for Dates.
Nothing has transpired in Molasses or Rum. Some
considerable transactions have taken place in Coffee,
chiefly for export, 1,700 bags Bahia being reported
at 41s. 9d. to 425., and 1,200 bags ordinary washed
Rio, at 48s. ; 3,200 bags Guayaquil Cocoa have
also been sold at 335. per cwt. The sales of Tea
have not been of moment ; prices of all descrip-
tions remain unchanged. 650 bags of Madras
Rice have brought 13s. 9d. per cwt. At auction,
150 tons of St. Domingo Logwood were disposed
of at £5 10s. ; 130 tons Campeachy, at £7lss. ;
and a small lot of Puerto Cabello Fustic, at £7 per
ton. We have also to notice 500 bales Jute, at
£lB to 219 per ton ; 70 cases East India refined
and 50 bags Pimento.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING TI
MENT OF ADDITIONAL C

)ool), the Revs.

765. per cwt
lb.

-Th(

s no new feature to note in the

he past week ; there has been
piry for almost all kinds of Wool. The
that Wools have seen their lowest point is
f.r, more general ; and at the time of the

Wool market dur

year we may look for considerably more doing at
improved prices, particularly if the news from the
seat of war is more favourable by then. Good
her skin can now be bought at £lO 10s.
Import for the week, 4,008 bales, viz.:
kvres • 2,336 Mediterranean Porte,
104 East India; 10 Portugal;

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVE

RATES:

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which are not contributin,

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in their respective
warm thanks of the

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y of Liverpool and its
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deaneries only one or two churches Contribute to either.
"The number of curates employed in this diocese, and
connected with this society, is twenty-four. The amount
granted is £1,185 per annum. This sum calls forth local
contributions to the extent of £856, restricted to the loca-
lities in which they are raised.
" There are eight unaided applications from the diocese

before the society.
"In Liverpool eight curates are now on the society's
list, a second curate for St. Philip's Church having been
placed on the list under the Society's 6th rule. In
the district of St. Barnabas, the first grant from
the Liverpool Special Fund, continues to produce the best
results. Many of the inhabitants have become regular
attendants at church, after attending service at the
licensed school-room. The statement of the Rev. D. T.
Barry is highly gratifying.
" The second statement of the incumbent of Kirkdale
also gives evidence that the work of preaching " the
gospel to the poor" has produced a change in the
state of that very large district. The Rev. Mr. Lester,
who laboured so efficiently at St. Barnabas and Kirk-
dale, has been promoted to the incumbency of a
densely populated district in Manchester, where he has
already gathered a congregation of 600, and many commu-
nicants, in a licensed school, preparatory to the erection of
a church. If Mr. Lester's removal from Liverpool be a
subject of regret, it is hoped that his services will be fully
appreciated in another part of the Lord's vineyard. The
grant of £45 made to Mr. Dover has been met through
his exertions by a further sum of £55 to complete the

stipend of his additional curate.
" In Trinity district, much difficulty was experienced at
first in finding a room suitable for service; but your com-
mittee felt justified in appropriating part of the sum
which had accumulated in their hands, to the rent of a
room in Wilde-street, where service has been held regu-
larly twice every Sunday for six months. The statement
of the curate is very interesting. A proposal has been
made by the curate of Trinity Church to take a small
share of the parochial visiting of the district with Mr.
Tomlins, and to give the use of Trinity Church for an
afternoon service, upon condition of receiving assistance
at the other Sunday services, and it is thought that some
arrangement may be concluded.
"Your committee beg to express their thanks to the
committee of the 'Welsh School for the handsome
offer of the use of their school-room for a Sunday
service. Several small sums were expended in this
room for repairs before it could be used for public
worship. The failure of this service is a matter of great
regret, especially when masses of people are living "in vice
and neglect of all religion." Nevertheless, the statement
of the curate shows that an extensive system of house to
house visitation has been effected.
"Your committee beg to reiterate the statement made
last year, that there are no schools in either of these dis-
tricts. Together they contain 13,000 inhabitants, and in
the adjacent district of St. Anne's, containing 8,000 people,
chiefly of the working classes, there is no school. One
benevolent • member of the committee has offered £5O
towards the erection of schools in this locality, provided
the remainder of the requisite fund can be procured.
"The fifth grant of £55 has been given to the incum-
bent of St. Matthias's Church, in augmentation of a
grant of £45 from the parent society. After active
employment for a few months, the curate ordained to this
district has been removed to the incumbency of a new
district, formed out of the district of St. James, Toxteth
Park. His successor has only recently entered upon his
duties.

" The local committee are permitted to give publicity
to the appeal of the incumbent of St. John the Baptist's
Church, Toxteth Park, with a view to assisting, under
certain limitations, in obtaining a curate.
" If the Bishop of New Zealand's computation be taken
as a rule, that no clergyman can properly discharge the
duties of his office with more than 1,000 parishioners, here
is occupation for fourteen incumbents. If the minimum
of population to which a curate is granted by this society,
namely, 3,000, be taken as the rule, here is room for four
incumbents and four curates, and a district of 2,000 left
unprovided for. Within a few years, the district of St.
Thomas has taken off 12,000 souls from the responsibilities
of this clergyman ; and St. Paul's, Prince's Park, has re-
lieved him of 8,000 ; yet, he is now alone in the midst of
14,000 souls, and the increase of population is estimated at
1,000 per annum. All efforts to establish dissenting con-
gregations in the district have failed, and, with the excep-
tion of a few hundreds, the people are nominally members
of the Church of England. Surely this is a state of spi-
ritual destitution, which no Christian community ought
to permit. Let any Christian man traverse the streets of
that district, and it is much if his heart be not sickened
with the fearful sense of responsibility, and let him reflect
that many of the inhabitants have refused to become dis-
senters when soliciteditheir old attachment to the Church
needing only to be awakened. What can one man do
amongst fourteen thousand?
" In former reports the poverty of the clergy in the
newly-formed towns was brought before the friends of the
Church. This year no reference will be made to the sub-
ject beyond the citation of an example, which finds a pro-
minent position in the Report of the Parent Society. The
Incumbent of St. Michael's, Burleigh-street, has raised
£7OO for the benefit of his church, and his exertions are
put forward as an example for imitation.
" In concluding this report, it is impossible to refrain
from appealing to the compassion of the whole church,
her wealthy clergy, and her wealthy laity.:," If one mem-
ber suffer, all the members suffer withlt." The suffering
must exist, whether the body should be too insensible to
feel the pain, or the pain should excite the instant sympathy
which produces the effort to relieve. The Rector of a large
parish, who received £5O a-year for a curate's salary, has
recently resigned the grant, after having been stimulated
to build two new churches and schools in his parish. One
of these churches has already contributed to the funds of
the society, and the Rector is now maintaining two curates
from his own income, which is by no means large. The
noble contribution of one of your own wealthy bankers,
and the subscriptions by which it has been met, are yielding
a large spiritual blessing. These examples furnish the
best comment upon the words with which this appeal
may be concluded :.---` Now ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.' "
The LORD BISHOP said the diocese had lately sustained
a great, indeed, an incalculable loss, in the death of the
late Chancellor Raikes, who, was an able and zealous clergy-
man, a sincere Christian, and a truly good man ; while
lamenting the loss of him, it afforded him (the Bishop)
great pleasure to see at his right hand his venerable
friend, the Archdeacon of Liverpool, whom he hoped
long to see labouring in a career of usefulness, and whom
he would call on to move the first resolution.
The Venerable Archdeacon Baooas moved the first
resolution, that " the report now read, be adopted and
printed, and circulated." In doing so, he expressed his
concurrence in the opening remarks which had fallen so
persuasively from the chairman, and also remarked that
the report contained so much valuable matter that it
could not be fully understood from merely hearing it
read He remarked, with regret, that the London So-
ciety had been necessitated, through straitened means,
to curtail its allowance, but hoped ere long that that
cause of regret would be removed. As to the utility of
such a society, there could not be any doubt ; and, if any
one had a doubt on the subject, a glance at the large and
increasing population of such towns as Liverpool, com-
pared with the means of affording religious instruction,
would speedily remove that doubt. He was old enough
to remember the time when there were not more than
six or seven churches in Liverpool, but then the popula-
tion was comparatively so limited that the relative
amount of church accommodation was greater than at
present. Indeed, when one looked on so large an aggre-
gation of people as four hundred thousand individuals,
the idea was somewhat appalling, if contrasted with; the
means of Christian instruction. The benefits conferred on
the public by having the people continually reminded
of the necessity for attending on church ordinances, as
more particularly alluded to in the report, was generally
admitted, and thus the value of the present so-
ciety became more obvious and appreciable. True, we
now have about forty churches for our four
hundred thousand inhabitants; but this is by no means
an adequate number to meet the wants of the commu-
nity ; and we learn with satisfaction from the report that,
by the exertions of this society, many have been induced
to attend church who never before thought of such an
attendance. This, if there were no other evidence, would
prove the great utility of this society, which has already
done much good. He concluded by expressing a hope
that it would still receive such an extent of encourage-
ment and countenance, as would increase its usefulness,
and lead to its conferring yet more important benefits.
He had much pleasure in moving that the report be
adopted, and printed, and circulated.
Mr. J. B. BRANCKER seconded the motion, and in
doing so remarked on the advantages to be obtained by a
hearty co-operation in seconding the efforts of this society.
As a matter falling somewhat within the range of his
ordinary avocations, he might be permitted to make an
observation on the value of numerous small contributions.
In illustration of this, he might say he had seen a state-
ment to the effect that, if every parish in England were
to contribute the sum of fourteen shilling and ninepence
annually, it would amount to a fund sufficiently large to
support a hundred and twenty-nine curates. Again
urging the importance of numerous small contributions,
he concluded by seconding the motion, which was carried.
The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL moved the second resolu-
tion :—" That the decrease in the income of the society,
and of the portion derived from this diocese, and from
Liverpool, is a subject of great regret, and that, with the
approval of the Diocesan, the co-operation of the Arch-
deacon and Rural Deans be again sought to further the
appeal for moregeneralassistancethroughout the Diocese."
He proceeded to say that, viewing, as every Christian mi-
nister must do, the thousands who, in such a population
as this of Liverpool, wander about like sheep without
shepherds, the prospect, as remarked by the Venerable
Archdeacon, was indeed an appalling one, and one calling
for lively effort on the part of every one for effecting a sa-
lutary change. He was glad to hear from his Lordship in
the chair the declaration that he made no distinction be-
tween the two societies to which reference had been made,
and further to hear that both were usefully engaged in an
important, though extensive, field of operation. .In a
church which, like ours, recognized the right of private
judgment, differences of opinion on minor points must
necessarily occur ; but all must agree with his Lordship
that such differences of opinion must not lead to conflict-
ing operation.
The Rev. C. H. BURTON seconded the motion, and in
doing so bore willing testimony to the gratifying harmony
and cordial co-operation which prevailed in those instances
which came within his knowledge, where curates ap-
pointed by both societies worked together, happily in car-