The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

PROMOTIONS

Rev. John Russell Stock, 8.A., of St. John's College,
Cambridge, has been presented, by the Lord Bishop of Lon-
don, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cornish Hall End, near
Finchingheld, Essex.
Rev. John Osmond Dakeyne, M.A., of Downing College.
Cambridge, Perpetual Curate of St. Benedict, to be Evening
Lecturer of St. Mark, Lincoln.
Rev. John Frederick Benwell, of Reading, to the Rectory
of Neenton, near Bridgnorth.
Rev. John Horner, M.A., formerly Fellow of Clare Hall,
Cambridge, Rector of Mells, Somersetshire, to a Prebendal
Stall in the Cathedral Church of Wells.
Rev. Robert Cope Wolfe, to the Vicarage of Braithwell,
Yorkshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. A. Steuart.
Rev. William Buswell, 8.A., formerly of Queen's Col-
lege, Cambridge, Rector of Widford, Essex, to be Chaplain
to Chelmsford Union.

Rev. Horatio Samuel Hildyard, M.A., Fellow and Clas-
sical Lecturer of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to the
Rectory of Lofthouse, in the North Riding of Yorkshire,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Sir William Murray, Bart.

Rev. David Morgan, MA., Curate of Amport, to the
Rectory of Weeke, Hants, vacant by the death of the Rev.
E. Nott; patron, the Bishop of Winchester.
Rev. Richard Foley, 8.D., Fellow of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, to the Rectory of North Cadbury, Somerset-
shire, vacant by the death of the Rev. S. Blackall.
Rev. John Fletcher, M. A., late of the Grammar School,
Stonehouse, Plymouth, has been appointed by the Council,
Master of the King's College School at Nassau, New Pro-
vidence, Bahamas.
Rev. John Vignolles Brabazon, to the Curacy of Auchna-
cloy, Ireland.

fiev. John Bridge, M.A., to the Curacy of Castlecomer
Colliery, Ireland.
Rev. Robert Jones, Curate of Barmouth, to the perpetual
Curacy of All Saints, Deptford Lower-rood ; patron, the
Rector of Rotherhithe.

The Hon. and Rev. Philip
College, Cambridge, has been
Earl of Mexborough, P.G.M.
Riding of Yorkshire, one of ti

7orke Savile, M.A., of Trinity
appointed by his father, the
for the province of the West
ie Provincial Grand Chaplains
ice the Rev. Brother Clapham.

of the Order of Freemasons, vl

THE DIVISION ON TH
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E THIRD READING OF
IT TAX BILL.

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OPERATION OF THE POOR LAW IN LAN-

CASIIIRE

(From the Preston Chronicle.)
The Poor Law Amendment Act has been in operation for
nearly eight years, and what do we find the state of the case
now to be ? Pauperism in no wise abated ; our workhouses
so full that new and more enlarged ones are obliged to be
built—in our own union a fifth workhouse is about to be
added to the four already in use ; the rates increasing ; wages
so low that, in some departments of employment, as in the
case of the hand-loom weaver, a hard week's work will not
procure a man more than a wage of 4s. or ss. ; our power-
loom weavers and spinners turning out because of threatened
reductions in their wages ; and such a mass of poverty exist-
ing in their country, as to have occasioned that ill-suited
remedy to be resorted to, the issuing of a Queen's letter,
for the relief of the destitute.
We have before us a recent parliamentary return, showing
the average annual expenditure for relief to the poor, in the
parishes in this county, among others, in the three years
prior to the formation of the Poor-law unions in which they
are now placed ; and the expenditure of the same under the
new poor law for the year ending March 25th, 1840. And
what do we find the redttlt to be ? That, in nine unions out
of eighteen, there is a positive increase in the latter period
over the former ; and that, in most of the others where there
is a decrease, it is one of a most insignificant character, and
produced by a system of coercion horrible to think of. Thus,
in Blackburn, the decrease is £9OO out of £8,000; in the
Fylde, £7OO out of £4,000 ; in Prescot, £5OO out of £6,000 ;
whilst we find, on the other hand, that in Barnley the in-
crease is as from £8,694 to £9,319 ; Clitheroe, from £5,119
to £5,699; Salford, from £7,056 to £7,860; Wigan, from
£8,486 to £9,486 ; in our own union the increase has been
from £11,347 to £12,379 ; whilst in Bolton it has been
upwards of seven thousand pounds sterling, or from £9,363
to £16,502. At present the increase will be found to be
much greater in every case. That, however, it may be said,
must arise from the greater depression of trade. But that
cause did not exist in the year 1840, to anything like the
amount which it does now. Indeed, from the year 1835-6 to
the year 1839-40, trade was good—particularly so in the
former period—so that the amended law has had everything
in its favour; and yet what a miserable result do we witness!
Surely a law never was passed, which, inflicting so much
private injury with the avowed object of promoting the pub-
lic good, so lamentably and signally failed to do other than
incalculable mischief. Even when the screw has been pressed
the most tightly, it has not realised the extravagant expec-
tations proposed ; and it has not just because it could not
produce the effects predicated of it. And yet this law is to
be re-enacted, under the guise of an amended law ; and this
once gay, and blithe, and happy land, is to be cursed with
years,—nay, in perpetuo. Alas ! this system for another five
alas ! for " Old England ;" when shall she be " Old Eng-
land," in this respect, again? Echo, answers—when?