The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE, MANUFACTURES, &c.

The demand for our leading staple—cotton—has been good
throughout the week, and especially towards the close, both
the trade and speculators purchasing freely. This revival is
in part attempted to be accounted for by, the fact, that whilst
the stock of all kinds on hand exceeds that of last year by
120,000 to 130,000 bales, the estimated receipts from the East
Indies are 60,000 bales less than the proceeds of last year's
crop. In addition, the nett yield, to the spinner, of the
American crop will decrease the apparent receipts from that
country some 30,000 bales. The stagnation, too, and we
may almost term it panic, caused by the recent awful occur-
rence at Hamburg, is fast being dissipated. It is now hoped
that the results, to the commerce of Europe, will not be
nearly so serious as was anticipated, the sound basis upon
which monetary operations in Germany are carried on in-
suring the commercial world from the serious embarrassments
which must have been created had the business of Hamburg,
with this and other countries, been one of merely paper and
credit exchange. The cost of the stock of goods destroyed,
therefore, will not fall, as was feared, upon the British ma-
nufacturer, whilst its almost total destruction will, for a time,
give active employment to our manufacturing industry. The
total sales of the week, ending Friday, amounted to 31,250
bales, including 4500 American and 500 Surat on speculation,
and 2000 American and 100 Pernam for export, leaving the
amount taken by the trade 24,150 bales.
On Saturday the market opened with considerable excite-
ment, and 5000 bales were sold, at the full prices of Friday,
and, in many instances, at an advance of d. per lb., which,
however, it was thought was scarcely maintained at the close
of the market. Yesterday, however, a firmer feeling was
manifested; buyers showed a disposition to purchase freely,
even at the advance noticed on the Previous day, and the de,
mand was at first scarcely met by holders. Ultimately,
however, a speculative demand, in addition to that of the
trade, sprung up, and an advance of an id. and id. was rea-
dily paid, and acceded to by the holders, at which rates full
7000 bales were taken off, at the established advance of It-d.
per lb. on the lowest business of last week. The market,
altogether, displays a more healthy appearance than we have
noticed for some time past; and a sanguine hope is enter-

Ulna, both by merchants and mantractnrcro, that t'
has seen its worst day, and that a (lane, to penman

business, is at length taking place

In the manufacturing districts, during this (Whitsun)
week, business has been, as usual, entirely suspended ; and
from the conflicting accounts given as to their condition, and
the feeling prevalent, which are as various as the political
views and particular positions of the parties reporting, we
can offer no determinate judgment. if we may be guided,
however, by the opinions of the most influential spinners
who have visited our cotton market during the week, we
should be disposed to say that the trade of the manufacturers
is at least in the way to improvement, if the agitators amongst
their body will only suffer confidence to be established.

LOCAL NEWS,

LIVERPOOL IMPROVEMENT BILL.—The report of the
committee upon this bill would be brought up to the House
of Commons last night.
MISDEMEANOUR.—An old man, named Samuel Davies,
was yesterday charged with having obtained two forms (seats)
from a Mr. Marsh, on false pretences. It appeared that he
had been in the habit of borrowing forms from that person,
for the use of another, but was not authorised to do so on
this occasion ; and when he got them, he sold them. He was
committed for trial, but was told that he might be liberated
on bail, himself in £3O, and two sureties in £l5 each.
On Thursday, three candidates were proposed for the mi-
nistry of the Scotch Church, Oldham-street, in the room of
Dr. Ralph, removed to Aberdour, viz., the Rev. Mr. French,
the Rev. Mr. Nicholson, and the Rev. Mr. Welsh. The
last-mentioned being withdrawn, an equality of votes was
found for the two former. There being no provision for a
casting vote, the election was deferred for a month.
ASSAULT ON A PRE A CllER.—Yesterday, a very tall,
athletic-looking man, named Daniel Greaves, was charged
with having committed an unprovoked assault. A police-
officer stated, that on Sunday afternoon he saw the prisoner
go up to a person who was preaching to a number of people
in Scotland-road, and attempt to strike him violently several
times, in which, however, he did not succeed. His conduct
was so violent that he was taken to bridewell. Mr. Rushton
said the case was clearly one of assault, and fined him ss.
and costs, or, in default, to be imprisoned three days.
SUICIDE.—On Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, as
the Queen Victoria steam-packet was upon her way from
Dublin to this port, a young man, who was a cabin passen-
ger, jumped overboard. The engines of the vessel were im-
mediately stopped, and the boat launched, but the young
man had disappeared. Before leaping overboard he placed
his watch and a purse containing £2 10s. upon the deck. We
understand that he belonged to Manchester, and left that
town on Tuesday. Ina note which he left behind bins he
informed his friends that lie was going to Dublin, and was
determined to destroy himself upon the passage.
STEALING Front AN OFFICE.—Two elderly women, Ca-
therine Jordan and Bridget Gibb, were yesterday charged
with stealing sundry articles from an office. Mr. Joseph
Taylor said, he was a merchant, and his office was at No. 6,
Union-street. About half-past six on Friday evening he
locked up the office, leaving in it a blue cloak, three coats,
two penknives, and a pencil case, worth, in all, about £2.
On the following morning he was told by his office boy that
he had found the door open, and he missed the articles. He
identified the cloak—the only article yet found. An assistant
to Mr. O'Donnell, pawnbroker, Scotland-place, said that the
two prisoners came to his shop to pledge the cloak, for which
they wanted is. One of them immediately left the shop, but
he suspected, them, and had her apprehended. The other
returned to the shop, was detained, and afterwards taken into
custody. The cloak was identified. The prisoners were both
committed for trial at the sessions.
THE CENTRIFUGAL AILWAY.—The Liver Theatre .and
its ingenious exhibition still continue to attract and amuse :
indeed, we do not wonder at this, for we think it but a just
criterion of the good taste of the inhabitants, who seem at
all times to prefer those amusements where the intellectual
is blended with the amusing. The centrifugal railway has
revolved again and again with many a fair occupant in its
car, who have expressed themselves delighted with this
journey of a moment. The impetus is so great that accident
is impossible : there is scarce time to think of it. The pro-
prietors are exceedingly obliging and attentive, and there are
little accessories to the exhibition which render a visit very
agreeable. All who have visited the Liver appear to be
highly delighted.
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMERS.—The British and North
American royal mail steamer Columbia, Captain Judkins,
sailed on Thursday afternoon, immediately on the arrival of
the London morning papers, for Halifax and Boston. She
carried out a fair number of passengers. On Saturday after-
noon, also immediately on the arrival of the London morning
papers, the Great Western, Lieut. Hosken, R.N., sailed for
New York. She had above seventy passengers, amongst
whom were Sir R. Armstrong, Captain Mayne, and Mr.
Horsley Palmer, the eminent London merchant. She carried
out a full cargo of fine goods on freight. The Columbia will,
it is probable, reach Boston about the 3d of June, and the
Great 'Western New York about the sth. The Caledonia,
which would leave Boston on the 16th instant, may be ex-
pected to arrive at this port on or before Monday next.

SMUGGLING TOBACCO.—A SHIP SEIZED.-At the Police-
court, yesterday, a seaman, named Henry Miller, was brought
to the bar charged with having smuggled a quantity of foreign
manufactured tobacco. Police-officer M'lnnes said, that on
Saturday he saw the prisoner passing through the south-east
gate of the Prince's Dock with a bundle, and on stopping
him found it to contain twelve pounds of tobacco. On being
questioned, he said he had brought it from the ship Emily.
He was remanded until Friday, by which time the Board of
Excise, in London, will have sent down directions how to
proceed against him. Another man, also named Miller, was
also brought up for a like offence, eight pounds of tobacco
being found in a chest which he was carrying out at the north-
east corner of the Prince's Dock. The tobacco was from the
same ship. He too was remanded till Friday. We under-
stand the Customs' officers, in afterwards searching the ship,
discovered about three cwt. of foreign manufactured tobacco
on board, and that the vessel has consequently been seized.

SHOP-LIFTING.—Ann Kelly, a young girl was yesterday
charged at the police-court with stealing from a shop. Mr.
Peter Williams, linen-draper, Price's-street, said that about
eight o'clock on Saturday night, the prisoner and another fe-
male came into his shop and asked to see some calico and
some print. They were served by one of the assistants, the
witness being then in the middle of the shop. The prisoner
purchased a yard of print. Mr. W. suspected she had taken
something from the counter, as she went out, and conse-
quently followed her, and on detaining her, found one piece
of print of nine yards in length in her hand, and another
piece under her clothes. The two were worth about 12s. 6cl.
He gave her into custody. The prisoner, a decently clad girl,
who cried bitterly, said nothing in her defence. She was
committed for trial at the sessions.—Another girl, also well
dressed, was charged with a similar offence.. Mr. Walter
13o1er, draper, St. James-street, said that the prisoner came
into his shop on Saturday, ostensibly to make a purchase.
While she was in he observed her put a piece of mouseline-
de-laine under her apron, and got one of the assistants to
hold her in conversation until a police-officer was brought.
On his arrival she was taken into a back room, and chal-
lenged with the theft, which she denied. The piece was,
however, found under her apron. It was ten yards in length,
and was worth ten shillings. A new pocket and two pieces
of print were also found upon her. She was committed for
trial.

THE REV. HUGH M`NEILE ON SCRIPTURAL POLITICS—It
will be remembered by some of our readers that a sermon,
upon the duty of subjects to " submit themselves to every
ordinance of man for the Lord's sake," was delivered some
four or five weeks ago, at St. Jude's Church, in this town,
by its talented minister the Ilev. Hugh M'Neile. In this
eloquent discourse, delivered at the time when the imposi-
tion of the income tax by Sir Robert Peel's government was
agitating men's minds, the rev. gentleman took the oppor-
tunity of enforcing upon his congregation the duty of con-
ceding cheerfully to the sacrifices, by that measure required
of them ; and, it appearing to several of his admirers that
the circulation of the sermon of one so deservedly respected
and listened to by his fellow townsmen would be productive
of benefit, a requisition was got up, soliciting the privilege of
so publishing it, which, in a very brief space of time, was
numerously and respectably signed. In the interval, how-
ever, the rev. gentleman had left Liverpool for a short so-
journ in France, and consequently his reply to the request of
his fellow-townsmen has been delayed. We have now the
pleasure of announcing that an authentic report, from the
rev. gentleman's own pen, of the substance of the sermon in
question will appear in the LIVERPOOL STANDARD of Friday
next; and here suggest to those of our fellow-townsmen,
who wish to possess themselves of so interesting and valuable
a discourse, the importance of making prompt application
for a copy of our paper on that day, as it will be impossible
for us otherwise to insure them against disappointment.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—We gave on Tuesday an account
of a robbery committed at Eastwood's Royal Hotel, on Sun-
day last, by a person described as a foreigner, with black
whiskers, ruddy complexion, speaking broken English, &c.
On Monday morning, Mr. S. Samuel, engraver, printer,
and stationer, Great Charlotte-street, who has the proprie-
torship of a pair of black whiskers, in which respect alone he
comes within the description, went over to Woodside on bu-
siness, calling on a friend residing near Hamilton-square,
and was proceeding with him towards the ferry, when he was
stopped by a policeman, who required him to go to the ma-
gistrate's office, on suspicion of the robbery at the Royal
Hotel. Mr. Samuel told time man who he was, offered to
accompany him to his friend's house, to take him to several
respectable housekeepers at Woodside, or to accompany him
to Eastwood's hotel, but all in vain ; the man's faith in black
whiskers was so strong that he insisted on taking Mr.
Samuel to the magistrate's office. Thither they went ac-
cordingly, and no magistrate being there, the policeman said
he knew where to find one, and took Mr.. Samuel to Beide-
well, where he was searched, deprived of his watch, private
letters, and papers, and then locked up. Mr. Samuel's
friend then went to the house of Mr. Case, and stated the
circumstances to that gentleman. Mr. Case, however, said
that nothing could be done until the parties arrived from
Liverpool, and declined interfering. Mr. Samuel was, in
consequence, detained in custody for several hours. At last
Mr. Whiteman, of the Brunswick Hotel, and two other gen-
tlemen, arrived from Liverpool, for the purpose of identify-
ing the supposed thief; and then, the mistake being disco-
vered, Mr. Samuel was released, the only consolation he re-
ceived being an expression of sorrow on the part of the ma-
gistrate that such a thing had happened.

AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the
subscribers and friends of the Liverpool Auxiliary Bible So-
ciety, was held in the Royal Assembly-rooms, Great George-
street. last evening, and was most numerously and respect-
ably attended. The ministers of various denominations
occupied seats on the platform. Upon the motion of Adam
Hodgson, Esq., seconded by John Cropper, jun., Esq., the
chair was taken at half-past six o'clock by the Rev. Dr.
Tattershall, who expressed his attachment to the society in
strong terms. The Rev. Mr. Davis read the report, from
which it appeared that last year 100,000 copies of the scrip-
tures had been issued, making a grand total of fourteen mil-
lions since the commencement. There were at present 137
translations of the Bible, and 7,000 kindred institutions had
emanated from the Bible Society. The committee regretted
that the Liverpool auxiliary was not occupying that exalted
position among the other institutions of the town, which its
importance demanded. They had appointed an assistant
secretary in the room of their late valuable one, Mr. John
Radcliffe, and they had reason to believe that the new ap-
pointment would be attended with beneficial results. The
annual subscriptions last week had amounted to £363, being
£3B less than in the former year. There had been an in-
crease in the donations to the amount of £39. The want of
female collectors had been much experienced. The number
of copies of the scriptures distributed last year by the Liver-
pool auxiliary and its branches had amounted to 9,030,
making a total of 228,249 since the year 1841. T. J. Bourne,
Esq., the agent for the parent society, stated that the in-
come for the twelve months had amounted to £95,000, which
was £6,000 less than that of the former year, but which in
reality was greater, as a considerable reduction had been ef-
fected in the price of Bibles and Testaments. It was be-
lieved, he said, that Napoleon, while in exile in St. Helena,
and during the last six months of his earthly career, had been
very often employed in reading a New Testament which was
presented to him by a gentleman of the committee of the
British and Foreign Bible Society, and that, from his having
often spoken of Jesus Christ as the Saviour, it was confi-
dently hoped that that book might have raised his affections
above earthly thoughts and desires to heaven and heavenly
objects. The expenditure had amounted to £91,000, and
the obligations to £31,500. The Hon. and Rev. Baptist
Noel and other ministers subsequently addressed the meet-
ing.

The ateam•shtp Great Wat.lrn was open to the publia
Tuesday and Wednesday last. The admission money v

One shilling on the first and sixpence on the second di
Above seventy pounds were collect(' I, and the_money I

been divided between the North and the South Hospital.
We understand that the splendid new organ erected in the
parish church of Walton will be opened on the first Sunday
in June, by Dr. Wesley of Leeds, celebrated as the first. or-
ganist of the age, and who was recently selected for a similar
duty at Preston.

FINE ARTS.—We understand that Mr. Wilson positively
leaves Liverpool at the close of this week. He has still some
choice specimens of ancient and modern art, which we trust
will fall into the hands of the connoisseurs previous to his
departure. They are all extremely well worthy of the notice
of amateurs and collectors.
THEATRE-ROYAL.—Business is decidedly mending here.
" The White Cat" is likely to prove " a hit." It is a capital
extravaganza, and never fails to excite much merriment. To-
night " Guy Mannering" will be performed, with new and
appropriate scenery. Several new dramas are in preparation,
to make up for the absence, if such is at all felt, of which we
have our "gentle doubts,".of the stars. It is said that an
agreement has been entered into by the London actors, to
refuse an engagement here under the present management.
" Very like a whale !"
On Friday evening last, the grand and district officers,
and a numerous body of the brethren of the Loyal Orange
Benevolent Institution of Liverpool, assembled at the house
of Mr. Griffiths, Phcenix Inn, top of Mount Pleasant, for
establishing a new warrant. The usual Orange forms having
been regularly gone through, a number of members having
been initiated, and the regular business of the lodge trans-
acted in the usual form. The rest of the evening was spent
in harmony and good fellowship, The following toasts were
given, with the honours peculiar to Orangeism :—" The
Queen," " Grand Master of England," " Glorious, pious.
and immortal memory of the great and good King William,"
" the Grand Officers," • " the Worshipful Master of the
Lodge" and a number of other truly loyal Protestant toasts.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The east wind again
prevailed on Wednesday and Thursday, and the atmosphere
was exceedingly cold, but on the evening of Thursday, several
copious showers of rain fell, which continued over yesterday,
and the wind changed a few points, rendering the air more
genial. The fruit blossoms are now carefully expanded, and
seldom indeed have the gardens and orchards given greater
promise of abundant produce, and in the agricultural districts
crops of all kinds are looking remarkably well. On the whole,
produce of all kinds gives hope of great abundance, and if
fine weather continues, an early harvest will afford to the
country a great relief from the pressure of the times which
now prevails to a great extent among the labouring poor.
TITE ROOK SHOOTING AFFAIR.—Some of our contempo-
raries are perpetrating a vast quantity of wit, and others of
excellent indignation, against the two gentlemen who last
week displayed their love of field sports, or of HOOK PIE, at
the expense of the sable colony located in the Mount Gar-
dens. We can say nothing in defence of the somewhat Gothic
taste displayed in this affair; but we would just hint that the
laugh raised against conservatism, on account of the doings
of a conservative member of the watch committee, might very
discreetly be hushed, when it is remembered that a radical
member of the same committee was, if not aiding and abet-
ting it, at least an approver both before and after the act !
By the bye, may we inquire if this is the first time that the
rookery has been invaded?

CHURCH SERVICE FOR THE 29TH OF MAY.—It is not,
perhaps. generally known, that it is imperative on all clergy-
men, according to act of parliament, that an act " for a
perpetual anniversary of thanksgiving on the Twenty-ninth
of May," which was passed in the 12 Car. 2, chap. 14,
should " be read ` publicly and distinctly' in all churches, at
morning prayer, immediately after the Nicene creed, on the
Lord's day, next before the 29th of. May, and that every
clergyman is required to give notice for ` the due observance
of that day.' " The 29th of May, in this year, it will be ob-
served, falls on Sunday; and it is the intention of our excel-
lent rector to fulfil the requirements of the act in question,
by reading the service pointed out by it duly to his congre-
gation, at St. Nicholas's Church, on Sunday next. For the
guidance of the congregation copies of the act have been
printed, and were distributed in flthe church on Sunday last.
We have not heard if any other clergyman complied with this
act of parliament.
To show how anxiously railway engagements are sought
after we may mention, that a recent advertisement brought,
in one day, upwards of SEVENTEEN HUNDRED applications,
the salary offered being extremely moderate.—Railway
Times.--[We have no doubt that the fact mentioned by our
contemporary may be, in part, accounted for by the idea of
permanancy, and the hope of progressive advancement, ge-
nerally attached to railway situations. Does it not however
equally show, the deplorably depressed condition and pros-
pects of the middle classes of our population, when, in one
day, upwards of seventeen hundred men, possessing education
sufficient for infinitely superior employments, may be found
ready to perform the duties of book -keepers, clerks, &c., for
the salary perhaps of a common porter ?—Ed. L. S.]
TULIPS.—We had an opportunity yesterday of seeing in
the garden of a gentleman resident at Holt Hill, a collection
of very beautiful tulips ; amongst them we noticed several
remarkably fine specimens of yery rare plants. The tulip,
at this season of the year, is the very queen of the garden.
Some of the choicest specimens, we believe, were purchased
at Mr. Branche's annual autumn sale (of last year,) many of
them exceeded 40 inches in the stem, and were double headed.
We observed several ladies, who appeared deeply versed in
floriculture, paying great attention to these beautiful flowers,
—one lady from Durham remarked, that famed as her own
county was for tulips, these exceeded the best collections in
colour and variety.

ROBBERIES AND ASSAULT.—Yesterday, Thomas Doyle,
William Doyle, John Keenad, John M`Donald, Sarah Jones,
and Elizabeth Alum, all young people, were placed at the bar
of the police court, on respective charges of having been
concerned in robbing and assaulting in the street (Moor-
fields) a man who resides in Shaw's-brow, and breaking into
and robbing a shop in Dale-street. The person asssulted
and robbed was so ill, in consequence of the injuries he had
received, that he could not leave his bed, and that part of the
case was gone into so far only as a general .statement made
by the police officers. that he had stated he was robbed of
his watch, value £2 55., and violently struck, particularly on
the head. He gave information immediately after to the po-
lice, and had spoken to two of the prisoners as being amongst
those who assaulted him, at about one o'clock yesterday
morning ; and all the prisoners were found together in one
house, in which several articles produced were found. It
further appeared that on Sunday night, or very early yester-
day morning, a small shop in Dale-street, belonging to Mr.
Wolf, a pencil manufacturer and cigar dealer, had been broken
open, and a number of articles extracted. A police officer
found the door open at five in the morning, and watched it
until Mr. Wolf came. A number of small articles found in
the house where the prisoners were apprehended, or on the
persons of some of them, were produced, including a pair of
spectacles and a pair of odd gloves, which it was stated could
be sworn to by the man who was robbed. Mr. Wolf said
that his sister had locked the shop, and he saw the door se-
cure on Sunday. On coming down to his shop in the mor-
ning, he found the door had been forced open, and he missed
sixteen gross of pencils, of the respective value of Cs. and
14s. a gross, also two or three snuff-boxes, an old knife, and
five boxes, full and partly full of cigars. The two tin snuff-
boxes produced were precisely like his, but he would not
swear they were of those lost. The bundle of cigars were,
he said, no doubt his, and he showed three from the same
parcel, which corresponded in colour, make, and quality.
These three had been dropped on the floor by the thieves.
The three short pencils produced were also his. He pro-
duced one of exactly the same length, and said that no other
manufacturer in the town made the same kind. The knife
produced was also his. It belonged to his sister, and had
been in the family for twelve years. Several of the prisoners
said that they were elsewhere when the robbery must have
been committed. Mr. Rushton said their defence would be
heard hereafter ; and meantime the surgeon who had attended
the man who had been maltreated and robbed came into
court, and deposed that the man had received severe injuries
in the head, and was dangerously ill, so that he could not be
removed. In reply to Mr. Rushton, he added that he con-
sidered him sufficiently sensible to speak to the identity of
any of the prisoners if they were taken to him. Mr. Rush-
ton said he should remand all the prisoners on both charges,
and that they should be taken to the man's house, where he
would himself attend to take his evidence on the rising of
the court. The prisoners were then put down, prior to being
taken to Shaw's-brow in a car.
The British merchants residing at Smyrna have recently
addressed a letter to Lord Aberdeen, representing the expe-
diency of a direct steam communication between Great Bri-
tain and the Levant. According to this memorial, the ad-
vantages in the way of communication possessed by contin-
ental over }latish inanufecturers in the Smyrna market are
so great, that, in default of some alteration of the present
system,. there is danger of the British being driven out of
competition altogether.
THE DUTY ON COALS.—The Cbanceror of the Exche
quer is slow to communicate the definitive intentions of the
government with respect to the proposed duty on coals
exported to foreign parts. The measure will not be aban.
doned, but there is reason to believe that the amount will
be reduced from four shillings per ton, as first announced,
to about one-half that sum, and that the duty will ie
equal on all descriptions of coal. The tariff will be again
brought under the consideration of the House of Com-
mons next week, and the fate of this question, so impor-
tant
to the counties of Northumberland and Durham, will,
'therefore, be soon determined.

ALARMING CIRCUMSTANCE.--About ten o'clock on
Thursday se'imight a noise as if of thunder was heard pro-
ceeding from Messrs. Sturge's new corn warehouse, at the
docks, Gloucester. The alarm may easily be imagined as the
noise continued for hours, and the grain kept falling from
the windows. The first impression naturally was that the
building was about to give way. It is of great dimensions,
and the weight upon the six floors could not be less than 4000
tons. All that could be done in course of the night was to
prevent, as far as possible, the grain from being lost or
damaged by falling from the windows. In the morning it
was ascertained that the accident had been occasioned by the
foundations on which the internal iron pillars rested giving
way, owing to the immense pressure. The floor had in con-
sequence yielded, and the startling noise which was heard
was no doubt occasioned by the grain pouring from one loft
into another.

DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.—The hitherto peaceable and tran-
quil village of Brynmawr, Breconshire, has lately been the
scene of atrocities committed by wicked and designing night
marauders. About three weeks ago they took away a cart,
the property of Mr. Davies, grocer, dragged it about a quar-
ter of a mile from his residence, and threw it over a high
arch, where it was dashed to pieces, the most of which they
afterwards threw into a pit belonging to Messrs. Bailey,
leaving only one wheel and the axletree. Although Mr.
Davies offered two guineas reward, no clue to the perpetra-
tors of the diabolical act has been obtained. Since then they
have been amusing themselves by breaking the windows of
an unoffending old widow. About thirty panes of glass were
smashed, and a stone upwards of ten pounds weight thrown
through the windows with such force as to destroy the sash.
Mrs. Lloyd obtained a summons against a young man, who
appeared before the magistrares at Criekhowell but their
worships thought there was not the least foundationfor the
charge, and the case was at once dismissed. Such inhuman
acts are committed by what are called respectable young men !

STANNARIES COURT.--BEFORE lIIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
PRINCE ALBERT.—The early hour of eight o'clock on Sa-
turday morning having been fixed by Prince Albert, the lord-
warden of the Stannaries Court, for hearing an appeal in the
case of " Thomas v. Vice and Bennett," his royal highness
arrived at Somerset-house shortly before the time appointed.
The Prince had been preceded by the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Langdale, the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, Vice_
Chancellor Wigram, and Baron Parke. The Prince having
been conducted to his robing-room by Mr. Gardiner, the au-
ditor of the court, was received by the Lord Chancellor and
the other judges present. At a few minutes after eight his
royal highness entered the court, habited in his splendid robe
of green velvet, collared and trimmed with white ermine, and
lined with crimson satin,
and carrywinhgiteinerhmisinreig.ht.AlTira.nGdhis
crimson velvet cap, turned up with
diner carried the purse before him, and an officer of the court
bore his train. His royal highness bowed graciously to the
persons present as he entered, and took his seat in an elegant
gilt chair placed on a raised platform, the Lord Chancellor
and the Master of the Rolls sitting on his right hand, and
Lord Brougham, Vice-Chancellor Wigram, and Baron Parke
on his left. His royal highness loJked remarkably well.
The Prince was also attended by the Earl of Lincoln
Lord
Portman, Sir Henry Wheatley, Mr. Pemberton, and Mr.
Anson. members of the Duchy of Cornwall. The title of the
case having been read, and counsel having been heard, the
judgment was deferred. Prince Albert took his departure
shortly after two o'clock, having sat in
his court for more
than six hours.

OHURCEI

lISSIONARY SOCIETY.

niversary of the Liverpool and West Laneastlire

Church Missionary Society commenced in this town on
Sunday last. In the-morning, afternoon, and evening of
that day, sermons were preached in the churches, and by
the ministers who were named in our last, and collections
made in aid of the society. We understand that the follow-
ing is a correct list of the sums contributed by each congre-
s. d.
49 10 1
15 0 0
58 0 0
0 0
13 10 . 0
100 0 0
60 0 0
51 0 0
16 0 0
6 2 0
29 0. 0
28 0 0
5 9 0
40 0 0
14 15 0
15 0 0
12 0 0
12 0 0
16 0 0
4 11 10
24 0 0
49 10 8

3t. Andrew's

AU Saints'

St. Bride's ..
Christ Church
St. David's ..

St. George's, Everton

St. Jade's
Edgebill

Kirkdale .
Mariners' .
St. Mark's
Aigburth .
Crosby ...

Seafoith......
West Derby..
Knotty Ash ..
St. Barnabas's
St. Clement's

St. James's
St. Simon's
St. Silas's
Collected at the Meeting in Music-hall

£669 8 7

MEETING IN THE MUSIC-HALL

The anneal meeting of the members and friends of the So.
ciety was held at eleven o'clock yesterday in the Music-hall,
80ld-street, and it was attended by a numerous and respect-
able auditory. Among many other gentlemen we observed
the following :—" Revs. Aug. Campbell, H. Carpenter, W.
W. Ewbank, A. R. C. Dallas, T. Gardner, F. Owen, T.
Nolan, W. Maynard, E. B. Chalmers, H. Hampton, F.
Barker, C. W. Lawrence, R. Davies, F. Parry, J. Wood,
W. Falloon, J. Cordeaux, Longueville, J. Baylee, A.
Knox, C. J. Hamilton, J. R. Connor, W. Rawson,
Douglas, P. Brown, S. Cragg, J. Bush, B. L. Wilts,
Townsend, Cox, J. E. White, Baptist Noel, Bold, S.
Fenton, B. N. Marshall, J. Baylee, F. Ould ; Messrs. A.
Hodgson, J. Rigby, W. Jones, C. Inman, J. Howard, J.
Eden, C. Boutflower' and W. Maples.
On the motion of the Rev. H. CARPENEER, seconded by
Mr. BOUTPLOWER, the Rev. AUGUSTUS C.IMPBELL, junior
rector, was requested to take the chair : and the proceedings
commenced with a supplication for the divine blessing npon
them, by the Secretary.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting as follows :
—As I am well aware of the interesting matter which will be
laid before you, by the deputation from the Parent Society,
and those gentlemen who have consented to address you,
I will not detain you by any lengthened observations of my
own, but content myself with a brief remark, expressing
principally the satisfaction I feel at again being l ermitted,
by the mercy of God, to preside at the annual m!eting of the
Church. Missionary Society, for this town. Having felt it
my duty to do so before, notwithstanding certain objections
which were felt by the Primate and other Bishops of our
church, under the impression that it was not necessary for a
person in my very humble station, to be deterred by the mo-
tives which influenced them, I have, of course, much higher
satisfaction in performing that duty, now that their objec-
tions are removed, and the operations of the Society brought
into full conformity with their desires. As I conceive that
the clergy cannot act very usefully in matters ecclesiastic,
without the concurrence of their own Bishops, so I.conceive,
they could not act very satisfactorily without the concurrence
of all the Bishops of our church. Unity is strength. It is by
unity of purpose and action, we have the best means of se-
curing success under divine providence ; and although no
doubt all our doings without charity are nothing worth, still
unity is a very essential part of charity, for without unity
charity runs a risk of being destroyed. It is by the principle
of unity, unity in discipline, without which unity is but a
name, that the enemy of pure and undefiled religion has suc-
ceeded in enslaving the fairest portion of the globe ; and it is,
I think, for want of unity in discipline that the Protestant
cause, both at home and abroad, has failed in ensuring that
success which its truth deserves. (Hear, hear.) And if the
dominion, the justly dreaded dominion, of the Church of
Rome is to be restored, its restoration, I think, will be ow-
ing to the divisions of Protestants—(hear, hear)—divisions
that are not only injurious to the Protestant cause, but to the
higher and holier cause of Christianity itself, a subject, the
charitable but very serious consideration of which 1 should
wish to invite the attention of those Protestants who dissent
from us upon matters of discipline alone. (Cheers.) I
therefore rejoice most unfeignedly that the Church Missio-
nary Society is now the society of the whole united church.
(Cheers.) I thank God that our venerable mother is begin-
ning to assume the position that she ought, and to extend her
influence in the manner that she ought, that her cords of love,
the cords of her episcopal discipline are not only co-existent
with the boundaries of that vast empire upon whose flag the
sun is never seen to set, but the isles of the gentiles hear her
voice, and that her sound is gone out into that sacred land
trodden with the footsteps and sprinkled with the life-giving
bloOd of the Son of God. (Cheers.) And I trust we shall
no longer permit the proud title of uatholicity to be assumed
by any church to the disparagement of our own—a church as
catholic, as apostolic, and as pure as any in the world.
(Cheers.) I will not detain you any longer, but call upon the
secretary to read the report.
The Rev. H. CARPENTER, secretary to the society, then
read the report, of which the following are extracts :
" While we rejoice, in common with all the friends of the
society, that such a blessing from above follows its missions
abroad, we have, on the other band, cause of deep humilia-
tion and sorrow on reviewing the society's pecuniary diffi-
culties at home. So inadequate was the supply to meet the
demands, that the expenditure of the past year exceeded its
.income £19,000. Not that the receipts of the society were
less in the last than in the preceding year,—on the contrary,
they were somewhat more; but the growing expenses of the
missions, in consequence of enlarged success, have outrun
the liberality of our friends at home. In this way, the so-
ciety has incurred a considerable debt in the past year. And
this has occurred at a period when new and promising fields
of enlarged labour were opened all around. in distant lands.
Urgent appeals for missionaries have come from Syria, from
the Himalayah Mountains, and elsewhere, but owing to the
crippled state of the society's finances, the parent committee
were forced to refuse every application for help, though their
refusal might peril the salvation of immortal souls. :is it not
mournful, is it not reproachful, to a Christian church and nation
that the Heathen should be stretching out their hands for the
bread of life, which we have in abundance, and that we, who
ought to be its dispensers, should withhold that of which they
might eat and live for ever? Nor is this the only evil we
have to lament as the result of the insufficiency of the so-
ciety's funds. Old fields of labour are about to be aban-
doned—our msisionaries are forthwith to be withdrawn from
stations where they and others had long borne the burden
and heat of day, and-where God gave them many souls to be
their joy and crown of rejoicing in the day of Christ's
coining.' Our mission% are to be contracted because men
will not rise to the occasion, and enlarge their gifts as God
requires them. It is true the past year was one of unusual
commercial embarassment. But who can tell how much of
our difficulties may be traced to our neglect of God, and sin-
ful withholding of that which ought to be consecrated to his
service. It is his own promise Honour the Lord with thy
substance, and the firstfruits of all thine increase : so shall
thy barnes be filled with plenty, and thy presses burst out
with new wine," Prov. iii. 9, 10. Let us then honour God,
and he will honour us. Let us be concerned for his affairs,
and we maybe assured He will be concerned for ours.

In conclusionTyou;committee have to announce that
the whole amount received by this association for the past
year was £2,174 16s. 11d. Compared with the preceding
year there has been a falling off to tlie amount of about £7O.
But we have reason to cherish sanguine hopes that, through
the divine blessing, the funds of this association will be en-
larged in the present year. New friends have been raised up
amongst us, and those kvho have hitherto supported the so-
ciety in this place have not relaxed in theirzeal for the cause.
They are convinced that the society possesses undiminished
claims on their support. She has never abandoned her prin-
ciples, and those principles have now received, through the
Society, the sanction of the heads of our church. These
great principles of evangelical truth, on which the-society is
built, are the life-blood of the body, and constitute the
secret of all its activity and success. To these the society
has hitherto adhered with- firmness and consistency ; and it
is by still maintaining unadulterated these principles,—the
principles of the bible, the principles of the reformation, the
principles of our articles,—that the society can look for a
blessing on its proceedings. Only let the society be con-
stant in doing the Lord's work in the Lord's way, and none
of its works will be lost. Such is the Apostle's declaration,
exhorting the Corinthians to stedfastness in the work of
God,—` Be ye therefore stedfast, unmoveable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you
know that your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord.';'
Mr. ADAM HODGSON said, that in the absence of Mr. Jones,
who was appointed to move the first resolution. he had been
requested to move it, having previously only undertaken to
second it. Had this been a society of which it was necessary
to state the objects particularly, and to vindicate its utility,
he should have felt some difficulty in moving a resolution
which he was not prepared to move ; but he was sure that
any deficiencies in him, as the mover, would be supplied by
the gentleman who would follow him. He was sorry to find
that the subject to which the resolution specially referred,
and to which reference was made in the report, was a de-
ficiency in the funds of the society to an extent that rendered
it necessary to abandon many of those useful labours which
the society had undertaken. This deficiency was much to be
regretted, but there was nothing in it to lead to despondency.
-W hen he looked around and saw the various churches erected
in this town and diocese—thanks to our invaluable bishop—
and not only in this town and diocese, but in every part of
the kingdom, he could not but see new drifts open which
added greatly to the funds of this society. In connection
with this subject, he could not but strongly feel that we
knew not to what extent the Church Missionary Society had
contributed to the erection of churches in this land. (Hear,
hear, hear.) He was well aware it had been often said,
with great truth and propriety, we ought first to supply the
spiritual destitution of our own country, before we look
forward and endeavour to supply the spiritual destitution of
those abroad. Nothing could be more true than this ; but,
at the time when missionary exertions were first brought for-
ward in this country, and missionary societies founded, atten-
tion had never been directed to the erection of churches either
by individuals or associations in this country. It had always
been considered as resting upon the government of the coun-
try,thispiritualsour
t wasinstruction
oa
s; i
earn
tdo,
perhaps, and pthrorpneurgliyi stoh,otio supply this
ofnature,
nobleenlist enffnorrstysnalspsaotchiated with foreign y, and offer our exertionsenery, s' for great and
avage life, and
simple :nature, than for the
spiritual destitution destitution ,which had
grown familiar to our eyes.
(Hear)But
it when
was o n ce
impossibleour
re-
ligious sympathy existed for
it would long remain foreignunexcited for lands,
our wn population ; it
impossible p fble we could attend meetings of this kind year
after
year, and hear the solemn responsibilities resting upon
us to send Christian instruction to distant countries, and to
see at our own habitations, and among our own neighbours,
the destitution of our own land, without neglect ; it was im-
possible to go from meetings of this kind, where the most
feeling arguments were urged on the necessity of supplying the
destitution of the heathen, and to look upon our own Pofula-
tion, and sit down satisfied with the destitution in which they
had been left. When it was found, from whatever cause, that
goverment, upon whom certainly did rest the responsibility,
did not supply a remedy for this religious destitution, it was
felt,
from sympathy already excited, and the reponsibility al-
ready laid upon us, impossible to contemplate the mass of
almost heathen destitution, which existed in our own land,
without feeling that whosoever's duty it was to supply.the
deficiency, or whatever the circumstances under which it ex-
isted, it was impossible we should remain easy, if, with means
to contribute to its alleviation, we allowed it to exist.
(Hear.) 'We did not know, therefore, how much we were
indebted for the spiritual instruction now scattered through-
out the land, to the early and continued exertions of the
Church Missionary Society. (Hear.) He had no hesitation
in expressing his firm conviction, that had the Church Mis-
sionary Society never been established, so far from more in-
dividuals having contributed to the erection of churches in
this land, there would have been far less ' • that had we ne-
glected our duty to the heathen, we should also have
with foreign cities, ncglear,
uct-
population. (Hear,
heat.) leide lonerar.)
And
anndd
surely,niore,oiunr
ourdu t y
intercourse
eoruoto•
we would not wish religious instruction left out. We had
made many treaties, and carried on many negociations with
foreign lulls, and what was the object of them all? It was to
secure guarantees against the epidemic selfishness of human
and to secure respect from other nations ; but
Britain never presented herself in an aspect so venera-
GnarteuaitT,
ble and generoUs as when she stepped forward, not to assert

or her privilege)!

oat as a religions benefactress,
..,tering the seeds of divine truth over the habitations of the
globe, and sending forth her Christian ministers to preach
among the heathen the unsearchable riches of Christ.
(Cheers.) It had been said by an eloquent advocate of mis-
sions, though not in connection with the missionary subject,
that the more we multiplied and diffused ourselves for great
objects of benevolence, the more we guarded against the ex-
cuses and palliations which usually were in our power. Per-
haps nothing was more true, and he believed that the more
we extended and multiplied ourselves for sacred objects the
more we guarded against the acrimonies that embittered and
met us in the course of life. He knew, indeed, of no field of
exertion more sacred than that which was the object of-this
society ; and if it were true (and no man could doubt it) of
those who remain, ignorant of that truth, if the silence of na-
ture h'id not been broken, that there is joy in heaven over
one sinner, what enjoyment could be more important, or
more eloquent or safe, than the undertaking in which they
were that morning engaged ? (Cheers.) The result of efforts
of this kind would flow on concurrent with ourselves through
all eternity ; but our connection with both exertions and re
sults in time would be short,
forward to assist in-them
Ilodgson concluded by moving
that the repert read to the nice,
lated under the direction of the committ
mittee be re-appointed.
The Rev. F. OWEN, one 'of
parent society, seconded the
risen so much to make a speech as in the way of a witness to
give some testimony upon the state of the heather: world. It
had been his lot, under Divine Providence, to visit a portion
of it, and to return to his

our opportunities of coming

he first resolution, to the effect

)pted and circu-

and that the corn-

ion from the
►id he had not

►ve couurty again, with the
view, he trusted, of stirring up in the minds, it it were of but
a few individuals, a sense of the perishing condition of the
heathen. Yet it was but a small portion of the heathen
world which it had been his lot to visit. The population of
Southern Africa was exceedingly thin, there being, perhaps
in the whole of it, not more than half a million of people.
Among the Caffre tribes whom he journeyed through, there
were abuut 70,000, or 100,000: the tribe to which he was

4.0
sent as a missionary, the Zooloos, contained about 50,000 ;
and after the abandonment of this mission (of which he
might have an opportunity to give some account,) he went
into the interior of Southern Africa, to the northward of the
colony of the Cape of Good Hope, where there was a scat-
tered population over an immense extent of country, within
the reach of Europeans, of perhaps not more than 160,000,
if so many. Perhaps one might be disposed to say that
the population of Southern Africa being so exceedingly
thin, she had not so great a claim upon our benevo-
knee as other countries where the population was so
much greater. Yet it seethed to him, and he was im-
pressed with the conviction, that the circumstance of the thin-
ness of the population of the south of Africa, was a reason
why we should more abundantly commisserate the heathens
there, who were walking in darkness. (Hear.) Especially
when we considered to what the thinness of the population
was owing, and the reason why there were immense tracts of
country wholly without inhabitants, through which, indeed,
he had.travelled from day to day, and week to week, without
meeting a single soul. \N-liat was the reason of this ? It was
crime that thinned the country of its inhabitants. It was not
that the country was unable to support the population, be-
cause in some parts it was very fertile ; but it was crime which
had emptied the country of its inhabitants. And what was
the crime owing to? It was owing to the circumstance that
the heathens of that country were not acquainted with the
grounds of moral responsibility—because they were unac-
quainted with the first principles of religion; because they
were ignorant of the being of a God, and did not acknow-
ledge the doctrine of a Providence, or the superintendence
of an invisible Being over the affairs of men, nor believe in
a future state of rewards and punishments. (Hear, hear.)
This being the case, we could easily comprehend how there
could be no restraint to crime—how the passions of men,
being uncontrolled by religion, must break forth and produce
the most disastrous effects ; and the consequence of this had
been, that nation had risen up against nation, tribe against
tribe. They had, by their weakness and their injustice, pro-
voked Europeans to attack them ; and the effect had been,
that society could not in that country hold together, the very
bonds of society were dissolved, and society itself melted
away. This was the reason why there were in that country
so few inhabitants ; and it appeared to him that this was the
reason why we should more abundantly commiserate these
wretched persons. (Hear, hear.) He believed the object
of the committee, in requesting him to attend this anniver-
sary, was, that he should give some account of what he had
seen with his eyes, and some of the details of the mission,
the unprosperous mission, to the Zooloos. He would remind
the meeting that, although he had retired from the mission-
ary work, it was not because be himself had turned his back
upon it, but because he was not supported in his sphere of
labour by the society which had sent him out, and which
could no longer support him because they were not helped
by the funds of the Christian public. (Hear, hear.) After
the abandonment of the Zooloo mission, and having encoun-
tered great difficulties and perils for ayear or two, he could

0-
have returned to the quiet labours of his own country. but
he went to another part of Southern Africa, to the north of
the Cape of Good Hope, where he would have laboured to
this day had the Church Missionary Society been able to
support him there. It was the Zooloo mission, however,
which was more properly the mission of the Church Mis-
sionary Society. They did not assist him in the Bettuanah
country. He went thither upon his own suggestion ; but
when the society received the tidings of his departure to that
country, they felt they were not able to curry on a mission in
that remote region, although there were circumstances which
rendered it peculiarly favourable to missionary enterprise,
and it would have opened a way into the very interior of
Africa; for beyond that particular place were innumerable
tribes which had not been explored, and who would, from all
accounts, be willing to receive missionaries among them.
But as he had said before, it was the Zooloo mission which
was the mission of the Church Missionary Society, and with
which the attention of the meeting must be principally en-
gaged. He sailed to that country about five years ago, along
with his friend Capt. Gardner; and having travelled irough
the tribes of Caffre land, and a large extent of uninhabited
country beyond, he arrived at the south-east coast of Africa,
from whence he went upon a visit to the Chief. The Chief
might be considered, if the place had no idol, as the great
idol of the nation. He was the object of their worship :
they felt accountable to none hut to him; and the posture in
which they approached him was the posture of worship. They
used terms towards him applicable to no human being ; they
talked of him as if he had neither beginning of days nor end
of years ; and they ascribe immortality to him. When he
gave, as was customary, food to eat to the people who live in
the town where he resides—when the meat was cut up and
distributed among the people, they were accustomed, in their
way of exclamation, to send out his praises in these terms—
" Thou that art greater than the heavens." Many other
terms of flattery they were in the habit of applying to him.
This chief allowed him (Mr. Owen) to reside in a hut which
he built for him in his own neighbourhood, about a mile from
the town, in view also of a hill upon which criminals were
wont to be executed for the most trifling crimes. On this
spot he remained for four months, beholding from time to
time—every morning almost—criminals dragged thither
and butchered in the most summary way, being knocked
with hive knobsticks upon their heads, and so instantly
murdered.' It was not possible for him to carry on the mis-
sionary work there with much success on account of the
hostility which this tyrannical chief showed to the word of
God. It seemed indeed as if he could not endure to hear of
another being greater than himself ; it seemed as if he could
not endure that his people should be instructed that there
was another being whom they were to serve and regard
above him, for when he (Mr. Owen) spoke to him and his
people of God, it plainly appeared they had no conception
of the spiritual essence of that Being, to whom he glory, for
ever. (Hear.) Although by his questions to him (Mr.
Owen), and his own answers thereto, he spewed that he con-
sidered he was himself some deceased chief of the white peo-
ple. According to his own ideas, they have a way of vene-
rating and worshipping the spirits of their ancestors, and
particularly the spirits of their chiefs, to whom they offer
propitiatary sacrifices, which spirits they suppose to exist after
death. When, therefore, he spoke to them concerning a
spiritual being, the creator and governor of all the world, the
chief supposed he was talking to him of some deceased king of
England ; and when he enumerated to him the list of kings and
queens of England, from William the Conqueror, he asked
which of them were our Gods. (Hear.) Where the mind, there-
fore, was without religion, and it did not know the grounds
upon which moral responsibility rested, there was no knowing
to what extent their evil passions might carry them. This
was the case with the king in whose dominions he lived ; he
was a tyrant ; be acted according to his own will and fancy ;
he was not restrained by any moral or religious considerations
from putting any of his subjects to death whom he suspected,
or whose cattle he desired to obtain, upon the slightegt pre-
tence, either by public prosecution, or otherwise by secret
assassination. He was the only being to whom his subjects
looked up to with any reverence. They had, indeed, no no-
tion of any being superior to him, and thus they were desti-
tute of all the spirit of liberty. He might have another op-
portunity of giving a detailed account of the actions and
manners of this cruel heathen king, which might not only
interest, but show what a miserable and unhappy creature man
is without religion, when he is left to his own evil passions.
He felt, however, that he could not at that time, addressing
them at the early part of the meeting, when so many of his
rev. brethren were waiting to speak. He should at the follow-
ing meeting bring before them, on the part of the Church Mis-
sionary Society, the general state of the heathen, and give a
further account of his mission to the Zoloos ; but at present
he should sit down by seconding the resolution.
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN said that, by the arrangements
for the meeting, he found himself privileged to introduce the
next resolution :

" That the success which it has pleased God to vouchsafe
to the labours of our missionaries during the past year, espe-
cially in Western Africa, India, and New Zealand, calls for
devout thankfulness and renewed prayer that the Lord of the
Harvest would continue to own this society in gathering souls
from among the heathen."
To every true Christian the terms of the resolution affirmed
only what he acknowledged at once to be an obvious duty,
and felt, in the discharge of it, to be an exceeding great and
happy privilege—to offer prayer and to render thanks. It was
a good and pleasant thing to give thanks. The heart that is
constrained, by an abiding sense of mercies past, to praise
and bless the Lord for his goodness and the wonders that he
doeth for the children of men, is the most likely to engage
again with cheerfulness and vigour—the best elements of
success—in fresh efforts of practical benevolence and active
love. So that the frame of mind, implied in the spirit of
this resolution, while it is the only becoming one for the
Christian, is unquestionably the best also for the interests of
the
cause which he seeks to advance. A spring of latent
energy is detected, a fountain of exhaustless hope is opened,
an ardour is awakened in the mind, duly thankful for the
past, and humbly trustful as regards the future, that will
neither be deterred by difculty, chilled by delay, nor even
defeated by disappointment, inasmuch
as the cause to which
they are devoted must needs be a good one, and the zeal
thus tempered must certainly be according to knowledge.
When the uncertain future*iscontemplated through the
prayer of faith, the buoyancy, excessiveperhaps, of hope is
tempered, that might arise from a remembrance of former
success; and, as the tide of pious thankfulness is poured out
for that success, new energies are enlisted, and high as well
as holy resolves are formed, the harbinge+st,iis under God, of
renewed and increased triumphs again. , he took it,
was the great principle of missionary
_elieving it to be
enterprise, as well as
the great secret of missionary success. B
sound and scriptural, he give it an humble but most- cordial
support. The Church Missionary Society went forth in
obedience to the command of the Lord Jesus, " Go ye unto
all nations and make Christians of them," nor would it
cease
from its labour of love so long as that command was uncan
celled ; and certainly they could not for a moment doubt of
eventual success, so long as the accompanying promise was
unrecalled, " Lo, I am with you always even to the end of
the world." Without furtherespassin on the time and in-
he begged leave to propose the re-
dulgeuce of the meeting.
solution.
Mr. Jonx HOWARD seconded the resolution, and in the
course of his observations, he stated that some years ago, a
gentleman, a friend of his from York, named Graham, on
hearing that Liverpool only ty
then contributed .1:800s 0 per
e,
sa
annum to the Church Missionary ocie
tonished at it, especially as the little town of York, with a
population not exceeding 30,000, remitted £lOOO, whilst
Liverpool, with 200,000 inhabitants, sent only £BOO. Mr.
Graham threw out the hint, and it was not without its use,
for the contribution eventually reached £2OOO. This cir-
cumstance showed that Liverpool only wanted to be stirred
up in order to do more ; and the best argument to address
to her on the subject was the word of God, expressed in
the command of our Saviour, " Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature, for there is joy in
heaven over every sinner that repenteth." (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was then unanimously carried.
The Rev, A. R. C. DALLAS proposed the next resolu-

tion. The meeting hadjust heard, read a resolution which
expressed thankfulness and gratitude to God Almighty,
for the success he had been pleased to vouchsafe to the la-
bours of the society during the past year. He trusted
they felt thankfulness and gratitude when the resolution was
put, that they perceived how much cause there was for
gratitude, and how much their hearts ought to rise up and
sing the praises of God. He was afraid, however, that he
should be found to have risen, to alter the key in which this
music was set,—rather to take their harps of praise, and
hang them upon the willows. The resolution he bad to
move, as the meeting might have gathered, was therefore of
a different character to the last. I t was as follows That
feeling deep regret that at a time when God is so manifestly
blessing the labours of the Church Missionary Society
among the heathen, the Parent Committee should be com-
pelled by financial difficulties to adopt measures for contract-
ing the sphere of missionary labours abroad, this meeting
would earnestly press on the friends of the society the ne-
cessity of renewed activity in behalf of an institution
which has proved an instrument of blessing in many lands."
This resolution spoke a painful truth. It referred to the
financial difficulties, to the contracted sphere of theoperations
of the Church Missionary Society, and it told the necessity
for renewed exertions. To bring this appeal before them
would require much of the power of the Spirit of God, to
do it effectually. Oh, that his Holy Spirit might be with
those who had to speak upon it, and enable them to put
plainly, boldly, truly, and honestly before the meeting the
real state of the case ! In the motion that was made, and in
the report generally of the state of the society, there was
too much of the habitual supposition that things would go
right; too much of general statement without going into
particulars; too much of the kind of feeling of the difficulties
of a commercial position when men were begining to feel
they were going a little wrong ; and that they might possibly
find something very differentlin the balance from what they ex-
pected. He feared this was too much the case with regard
to the Church Missionary Society ; but it was precisely a
state of things which required a close investigation. On this
occasion it was nothing more nor less than a duty,—they
must look the matter manfully in the face. He did not
scruple to say that the society was in a very serious con-
dition. It had arrived at a criiis which the active members
of the society had been endeavouring, should he say to stave
off? Tbat would be the expression they might apply to
the case, but he would rather say, bear off, to ward off
putting their faith in the Christian liberality of the public.
But it had come at last. The society was in debt ; and the
debt had been a growing debt, inasmuch as the funds which
had been laid by to meet the emergencies of the society had
been gradually swallowed up one after another. A very
earnest endeavour had been made from time to time to bear
up against the falling off, and calls were made upon the
whole of England upon this great subject. Those efforts bad
been responded to to a certain degree ; funds had been raised ;
and although they had been raised during the year before last
and last year, the society now found itself £13,000 in debt.
(Hear.) Now this was a fearful condition; and in such a
place as this, where strict honesty in all commercial pursuits
was the very life of society, it was a bounden duty to shew
how such a state of things came to exist. It must be taken
into consideration, then, that there were continually fresh
openings for missionary exertions ; and the society was con-
tinually falling back upon that large and inexhaustible fund
of Christian love which they had hitherto been able to draw
upon continually, and upon which, with the blessing of God,
they would still continue to draw. It only remained to shew
that there were peculiar circumstances of necessity
for drawing much more largely upon the great fund of Chris-
tian love. The committee calculated upon the fund of Chris-
tian love in proportion us particular cases opened for sending
forth the power and the blessing of the gospel. There had
been such openings, and oh, how very abundantly ! Who
had not read of the great opening at Tinnevally ? Who had
not read the religious history of New Zealand, of the Western
Coast of Africa, of Sierra Leone ? Let the meeting glance
over them in their minds, and consider what, under such
circumstances, would have been the duty of the committee ;
would it have been their duty to go forth and enlighten these
people, or would it have been their duty to stop and enquire
whether they ought to go on ? They had been drawn on,
and they could not have done otherwise; they could not re-
sist the opportunities ; and when they looked back to see
whether they had the means to go on, they looked back not
to the balance sheet, but to England, to the Church of
England, to the glorious spirit of Christ shed abroad
so largely in the length and breadth of the land. (Ap-
plause.) They knew this was the spirit which distinguished
England ; they therefore went on and said, " the money
will come, the means will be brought, we will trust' in
God ;" and they had gone on. (Hear, hear, hear.) It had
pleased God, however, to give them a very serious check ;
but if there were any person present, who, in the strictness
of commercial honesty said, "they ought not to have done
this, they ought to have seen that the means were supplied
beforehand," let them just put this case :—Suppose there
was a house here which stopped payment—a house of the
highest honour and probity, and when enquiry was made it
was found that their agents in America had withheld the
supplies which they expected—would they blame the house?
They would at once say it was a lamentable case, but none
would be found to say it was dishonourable. Letters of
credit had been given but not answered, in the one case, in
the other it was not written down, but it was founded on the
impulse of the heart, and did not want writing. It was felt.
When the public gave their money to support this cause, they
gave a warrant for supposing it to come from Christian love ;
and that was the letter of credit which the committee of the
Church Missionary Society had used. (Hear.) If it came
to this, that the Society had stopped not payment, but work,
and the public said it was dishonourable, they must look to
themselves. He said, " stopped not payment, but work."
Did they not weep when they heard the report of the Church
Missionary Society in London, to the effect that they
must give up three missions and stop all the others from go-
ing on any further ? How lamentable was it that when young
men, qualified for the work of missions, presented themselves
at the institution in Islington, to be sent to on that labour,
they found the door locked and barred ! And who made
those bars and locks? Those who refused to grant the letters
of credit. (Hear.) They had no means of admitting ano-
ther missionary ; and the answer to all at present was—" you
must wait." Having enlarged on this state of things, the
rev, gentleman made an earnest call upon the public to in-
crease their subscriptions and to present liberal donations to
the society.
The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL seconded the resolu-
tion in an able speech, in which after some prefatory observa-
tions, he said he should speak of the finanical part of the
question at the meeting to-morrow (this day). At present
he would simply say that he believed the committee had never
for a moment shrunk from the full examination of the finan-
cial condition of the society, had never shrunk from the re-
sponsibility of meeting their engagements, neither had they
failed to provide for the important emergencies before them.
The present emergency had arisen from a matter, the investi-
gation of which would, he doubted not, fully justify them
to every considerate mind. The rev. gentleman then took
a rapid review of the state of the African missions of the
society, and from which he showed the necessity of sup-
porting the society in all its extended operations.
The resolution was then carried.
On the motion of Mr. RIGBY, seconded by Mr. BOUT-
FLOWER, the thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Rec-
tor Campbell for his conduct in the chair.
Mr. CAMPBELL having returned thanks, a Doxology was
sung and the meeting separated.
The adjourned meeting will be held this evening in the
Amphitheatre.