The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-13 00:00:00

A charity had t

instituted for the common benefit of a
and the parishioners, on an information filed for the
regulation of the charity agreed that education should form
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part or tne scheme. Sir X. Bruce, V.C., although the pit:
rishioners were of various religious denominations, refused
to sanction a system of education in which it was proposed
that particular selections from the Scriptures should be read,
and the schools should be closed on Sundays, and in which
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species. provision was made for the religions creed of the
schoolmaster.

" 'As the term education,' said his honour, `is
properly
understood by all the parties to comprehend religious in-

ieugious instruction is an essential point to be
considered. In my judgment, this scheme does not provide
for religious instruction in the sense in which the expression
ought to be understood. Its effect is not that it does not
provide for religious instruction according to the doctrines
of the Church of England, but that it does not provide for
what I atce able to consider religious instruction at all. If
education (of course including religious instruction) is to be
provided for, I apprehend it must be according to the doc-
trines and principles of the English church. I know no
other standard or guide to which the court can resort ; and
dissenting, as I do, from the present scheme, as far as it re-
laths to purposes of education, 1 must send that part of the
scheme back to the master for the purpose of review, unless
some other course can hereafter be suggested to the court.
If education is to be part of the scheme, it is clear, in
my judgment, that whatever may be the particular course
d, or whatever may be the course
a • from •~

on pursue

- - any particular points of
instruction, the masters, mistresses, and teachers must be
members of the church of England. I do not think it
necessary to declare that either the masters or teachers
should be clergymen ; but that the masters, mistresses,
and teachers should all be members of the church of
England, and that no other course of religious instruction
should be adopted than such as is in conformity with
the c' of r r;1; I

_aurch of England. make these observations upon
the hypothesis that it will ultimately be thought right
that a provision for education should form a part of this
scheme—a matter upon which Ido not bind myself by any
opinion, and which, perhaps, may require reconsideration.
Therefore, in sending this case back to the master, I mean
to refer it to him to consider whether, having regard to the
nature of the charities, and 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 should be
of opinion in the affirmative, then to declare that there is to
be no master, mistress, or teacher who is not a member of
the church of England, and that no other course of religious
instruction shall be adopted than in conformity with that
church! On the 24th of March last, Mr. 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 ;
that during one hour, at least, of each school day, the masters
should give religious instruction to all the scholars—such
religions instruction to be confined to the reading and ex-
planation of the Scriptures ; that on every Lord's day he
should give instruction in the liturgy, catechism, and articles
of the church of England, to such of the boys whose parents
were in communion with that church, and that all the scho-
lars should be required to repair twice every Lord's day to
church ; provided, however, that any two of the trustees, by
a note in writing, might excuse from attendance at church
any of the scholars who were not in communion with the
church of England.' The Vice-Chancellor said, that if the
parties had no objection to this arrangement, he had none;
but he wished to have it distinctly understood, that the
ground on which he had proceeded on the former occasion
was not a preference of one form of religion to another, but
the absolute necessity of adopting the course which he had
suggested.

P.S.—lt is industriously insinuated by the emissaries of
Rome that the Romish church is no longer tyrannical and
arbitrary, and that protestants have nothing to apprehend in
the present day. Protestants, however, should not forget the
Bull issued by Pope Pius VII against the establishment of
Bible Societies in Poland so lately as the year 1816, of which
extraordinary document a translation is given in Dodsley's
Annual Register of 1817, p. 244.

MILLINERS' AND DRESSMAKERS' ASSISTANTS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sig,—Under the conviction that the truly philanthropic
are to be found in greatest numbers under the banner of re-
ligion, pure and undefiled religion, I take the liberty of ad-
dressing the religious public, through your paper, as one of
their most efficient organs, on a grievance which, while it
remains unredressed, not only rests as a blot on the fair fame
of Englishmen as gentlemen, but cries aloud against us as a
Christian community.

We have emancipated in a short time thousands of human
beings in our colonies from the galling yoke of a body and
soul-destroying bondage; we have eased the chains of our
factory slaves at home ; and no one triumphs more than I
in these glories of Britain—brighter than her arms have ever
won her ! But Philanthropy, in her never-ending labour of
love, finds slavery, working bodily and spiritual death, in a
young and fair, a respectable and well-educated portion of
our own community ;—I refer to the milliners' and dress-
makers' assistants in our towns. Young men have agitated,
assisted by the press and the pulpit, and have gained much ;
and shall it be said that these dear creatures have silently
and uncomplainingly bent and sunk under the yoke, because
there was none to speak for them? No ! by God's help, it
shall not be so.

My complaint is, Mr. Editor, that these poor girls are, in
most of our principal dress-making establishments, kept
daily close at work from seven or eight o'clock in the morn-
ing till nine at night, very generally till eleven, and, when
busy, often till one or two o'clock in the morning, sometimes
a dozen in a small, low-roofed room, at the most tedious
work in the world. What is waiting in a shop from eight
till eight compared to this? Is the employment so unvary-
ing and disagreeable, the air so confined, or the position of
the body so injurious to the health? And yet how much
more has been spoken and written on the subject ! Shall
we, the male part of the community, any longer stand by in
silence, and witness the inroads made on health and beauty
in this way ? Shall fathers, brothers, lovers, see pallid
cheeks, and hollow eyes, and shrunk form, where once was.
and where still might have been, perfect health and beauty ?
Shall the ministers of the Lord Jesus Christ learn of the
total neglect of the immortal part, (which is, I would almost
say, the necessary consequence,) and be. silent?
'Where are we to look for the evil ? I fear it must be owned
chiefly in the thoughtlessness and abominable selfishness of
those of their own sex who make use of their labours.
Ladies generally send in their dresses at the eleventh hour ;
the dress must be ready at a time named, as the fair owner
intends to appear in it that night. The manager of the es-
tablishment, under the dread of losing future custom, pro-
mises to let her have the apple of her eye at the time ap-
pointed, and what consequences are involved in her fulfilling
that promise? Oh, if the fair one who delights in anticipa-
ting the beauty and symmetry of that garment could be
transported to that low, narrow room, where long after
midnight the unhappy victims of her carelessness are
at work—could she learn something of the throbbing fore-
head, the sick heart and the aching limbs, humanity makes
no doubt that she would forego all her pleasure to sooth their
pains. Does she rejoice in her youth ?—there are as young
as her losing the bloom of youth. Does she rejoice in her
beauty ?—there are forms as fair already under the blighting
touch of consumption. Does she rejoice in father, brother,
friend, or lover ?—oh, then let her think that hearts as fond
as her's are there longing for their society.

However, I do not mean to exculpate the mistresses of
these establishments ; a little firmness on their
i part in re-
fusing to sacrifice lives to avarice would never injure them
in the eyes of a candid and benevolent. customer. Let the
ladies who may read this resolve from this day to be in abun-
dant time with their orders—and let husbands and brothers
put their relatives in remembrance of these things when they
see them inclined to err, and the grievance may be remedied
without any other interference.

I am, Sir, yours, very truly,
PHILANTHROPOS

Liverpool, Dec. 1217 i, 1842,

THE INCOME TAX. —The commissioners commenced
hearing appeals from the western district of the city of Lon-
don on Monday, and made such progress as to warrant the
conclusion that their labours will terminate in the course of
the present week. The number of cases disposed of in the
eastern district was very great, but the pressure of new_exac
busi-
nesst
clerks ascertaining tbe_
has as yet prevented theamount.

ELOPEMENT.—A. few days ago Miss Manners,
fortune of
a young
lady, aged 23, of great beauty, and P h r near Sidcup,
£5,000, eloped from the house of her br.otn.
e 'The lady was
Kent, with a policeman of the R d s-
ivi(l:ho are of great re-
missed at breakfast time by her familyossessini a .
few hours afterwards a
spectability in the County), but f!
messenger arrived with a lettert in her own handwriting, an-
he policeman at Woolwich
Church. It appears th
an-
nouncing her marriageat in Julyh last a fete champetre was
with
held on the grounds of
Sir Thomas Marryon Wilson, at
funds
Charlton, in aid of the of the Royal Kent Dispensary,
at which Miss Manners, in company with her brother and
some friends, were
present; and on which occasion the po-
liceman formed one kof the body on duty. The lady, after
o
several glances, took his number, and on her return home
billet-doux to him at the station-house, Wool-
wich,h she offered him her hand and heart. A secret
correspondence
afterwards carried on until it ended as
despatched
in which
was
e a
cna
above described.—Observer.

A NAMELESS PRISONER.—On Thursday, before the mayor
gh magistrates, a man, dressed as a countryman,
about forty years old, was placed at the bar, to
answer
tobacco. On being asked his
name,aaPna borough
apparently
a lotelucyshaairdg eh
he ofsmuggling believed it was Henry Yeo, or Yole, or
something of that sort. The Mayor: What! don't you
know your own name? Defendant replied—Not exactly.
i
He didn't know how to spell t ; but he was called Yeo, or
something like it. He thought it began with aY, and that
there were three letters in it. Mr. Roe, collector of the
customs, said, from the man's statement, that his name was
composed of three letters, and that Y was the first; the
officers had written it Yeo, to which the prisoner assented.
The bench asked if he was content to answer to that name.
He
force repliedthe in the affirmatiye,—apparently feeling the full
of poet's query, " What' sin a name? and the
charge was proceeded with. It appeared that the " anony-
mous" arrived in the Lady de Saumarez, from Jersey ; and,
"
on his box being searchedby the officers, 17-41 b. of tobacco
was found secreted under a false bottom. He was remanded
till Tuesday next, to afford time for communication with the
Commissioners of Customs, a penalty of £lOO baying beau
incurred,—Sottehampfox paper.

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THE CORALS.

(From Richardson's " Geology for Beginners.")
Beneath the realm which the waves o'erwhelm,

In the seas of the torrid zone,
Our ancient race have a dwelling-place
In a world that is all our own !
Earth boasts no spots like the fairy grots,
Where we build our sparry cell;
Nor can its bowers produce such flowers
As in depths of ocean dwell.
And our forms so strange we ever change,

As over the deep we roam ;
And our varied hue is ever new,
As we vary our ocean home.
In tranquil calms we wave like palms,
Or bend like the drooping willows ;
Or we climb to the verge of the foaming surge,
And dash to the winds its billows !
In peaceful haunts, like tender plants,
We twine our fragile forms ;
Or we build a rock to the tempest's shock,
That mocks its fiercest storms !
And we rear the walls of those marble halls,
As a precipice high and steep,
Till a new-found isle is seen to smile,
Like a beacon o'er the deep !
By reaveless hands, those new-born lands
Are strewn with blessings rife ;
Till man appears. and claims the spheres,
To being raised, and life !
And we join the piles of those fossil isles,
Till they spread from shore to shore ;
And we build from the caves of the ocean waves,

A world unknown before. •
Then say, proud man, how poor the plan
Of thy pyramids, castles, towers ;
How vain the boasts of thy mightiest hosts,
Or their labours, compared with ours !
Though such our lot, yet we are—what ?
In the scale of being vast,
The meanest germs ; of life's poor worms,
The lowest and the last !
Yet though obscure, and low and poor,
And lost in distance dim ;
We still can raise our Maker's praise,
And pour our thanks to Him.

THE GARDENER OF THE HALL.

When She was born, I bad been long the Gardener of the Hall.
The shrubs I planted with my hand were rising thick and tall ;
My heart was in that work and place, and little thought or

care
Had I of other living things than grew and flourished there—
Beneath the happy shelter of
The Old Manorial Hall.

At first She came, a rosy child, a Queen among my flowers,
And play'd beside me while I toil'd, and prattled on for hours :
And many a morning, in the plot of ground she call'd her own.
She fonud an unexpected show of blossoms freshly blown,
And sent her merry echoes through
The Old Manorial Hall.

Thus eighteen summers, every day, I tended her and them ;
I watch'd the opening of the bud—the shooting of the stem ;
And when her childly laughter turn'd to silent maiden smiles,
I felt in heaven whene'er she pass'd, and scarce on earth the
whiles :

How could I ever think to leave
The Old Manorial Hall ?
One day, when Autumn's last delights were nipp'd by early

cold,
It felt like death upon my ear, that she was bought and sold!
That some rich lord, she hardly knew, had come to bear away
The pride of all the country round—the poor man's hope and
stay,
The glory and the darling of
The Old Manorial Hall.

I heard her plight to him the troth she could not understand,
I saw her, weeping, turn away, and wave her parting hand :
And from that hour nothing on earth has gone with me but

wrong,
For soon I left the garden, and the home I loved so long,—
It was a haunted house to me,
That Old Manorial Hall !
And now I wander up and down—l labour as I can,
Without a wish for friend or rest—a weary-hearted man ;
Yet, at the bottom of my thoughts the saddest lies, that She,
With all her wealth and noble state, may none the happier be,
Than 1, the poor old Gardener of
The Old Manorial Hall !

LITERARY NOTICES.

THE MONTHLY'S.

SECOND NOTICE.

Handy Andy. Samuel Lover. Illustrated by the Author.
This month's number brings Handy Andy to a conclusion.
It has been throughout a well sustained tale,—replete with
interest, and presenting good portraits of the Irish charac-
ter. The closing portion of the story is well managed, and
the dramatis persons capitally brought together—the good
rewarded, the bad punished, as it should be, at the fall of the
curtain. We perceive that Mr. Lever announces, on the Ist
of January, a new work, to be entitled " L.S.D., or accounts
of Irish Heirs." We hope this new story will jump at once
into a large circulation. The success of " Handy Andy"
warrants public confidence in the author. The illustrations
will be executed by Mr. Lover himself, as in his present
publication.

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. By William

Carleton. No. 5. Curry and Co., Dublin.

We have seen nothing of this serial since the first num-
ber, and can therefore say little about its contents, as they
are the conclusion of an old story, and the commencement
of a new one. " The Battle of the Factions" is a horrid
detail of a fight, at which the blood runs cold with horror.
The illustrations, of which there are several, are very good.

The Governess, or Modern Education. By Madame Roofrey.

This instructive work continues its useful career, in a
simple and unpretending manner. The contents are well
written in the English, Italian, and French languages.

The Magazine of Domestic Economy. Orr and Co., Pa-

temoster-row.

This usful work contains many extremely valuable com-
munications. Amongst other matters, we observe a bio-
graphical notice of the late Dr. Channing. A continuation of
the article entitled "Domestic and Mineral Waters" is ex-
tremely well worth reading—as also the directions from the
Humane Society on the subject of " Suspended Animation."
As some of our skaters, at the close of this month, or the be-
ginning of the next year, perchance, may come in for a dip,
we draw attention to the subject. On the subject of
" Frosted Potatoes " there is some valuable information.
" The Larder of the Kitchen" contains many good hints,
which the lover of good eating will, no doubt, avail himself
of. A communication on " Salted Pork" will prove inte-
resting to the housekeeper ; besides various other things
ably discussed.

Ainsworth's Magazine.

Wareing Webb, Liverpool.

" The Editor's Tale of Windsor Castle" is continued at
some length in the present number. It is admirably illus-
trated by George Cruikshank ; on steel and wood cuts by W.
Delamothe. Serjeant Talford has three very charming son-
nets. Mr. Brooks, the Hon. Julia Maynard, Laman
Blanchard, Edward Kenerley, Miss Pardoe, John Oxenford,
W. Francis Ainsworth, Miss Costello, Camilla Toulmin,
Miss Skelton, Uncle Sam, George Raymond, and others have
talented and amusing contributions. This number is a very
good one. Ainsworth has made a stand amongst the perio-
dical literature of the day, and maintains his ground. In our
notice of the Dublin publications we ought to have acknow-
ledged Mr. Walmsley, bookseller, Church-street, as the
agent for them.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland. No. XL.

Edinburgh : Blackwood and Sons.

The present number of this valuable publication gives ex-
tensive detailed descriptions of Dunnottar, Strachan, and
several other places in the county of Kincardine. The ge-
neral observations on the county are very just, and they de-
serve to be extensively read. Forfarshire is commenced, and
the accounts of the several townships, of the trade, their ec-
clesiastical condition, and their general aspect, seem to be
drawn up with great care ; indeed they underwent a complete
revision immediately prior to the issue of the number. The
work, therefore, brings down all the existing information to
the latest date, having been revised in October last. On
referring to the previous numbers, we find we can now re-
peat the praise we have often acceded to the work, of being
distinguished by uniform accuracy and continued interest.

We perceive that Boz issues a new serial work entitled
" Martin Chuzzlewit."

A monthly work is about to be issued in this town, which
will be highly interesting to the inhabitants, and those who
an customs and things gone by." We regard "old times
believe it will be entitled " Ancient Liverpool."

Punch.

" Punch" continues as amusing as ever—his tone is as in-
dependent as usual—his wit does not seem to gag, while his
artists and designers appear to be blessed with surprising
faculties for inventing queer things. Our having frequently
quoted his waggaries will prove our estimation of his talents.
The review of the Times newspaper is a happy bit of plea.
santry. " Punch" considers " The Times" a very reapeda_
ble publication.

Singing for the Million. By Joseph Mainzer. London

Mainzer.

This is the sixteenth edition of Mr. Mainzer's practical
course of musical instruction. It is written in a simple, easy
style ; and the examples are both appropriate and instructive.
As an exposition of Mr. Mainzer's system, this little work
is complete.

The Post Magazine Almanackfor 1843. London : Patetnan.
One of the cheapest and most useful almanacks which have
hitherto been published.

SINGULAR REWARD FOR THE DETECTION Of A FELONY.
—A reward of 1.:5 10s, and an acre of land for five years rent
free, to any poor man, has been offered for giving information
which may lead to the conviction of some persons who, on
the 9th of November or early on the following morning, wil-
fully and maliciously cut down au avenue of young trees, the
property of Richard Norton Cartwright, Esq., growing in the
abbey grounds of Ixworth.—Suffolk Herald.

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