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thought teaching ignorant men the trade of man-killing was a 

 very wicked employment. 



" 3rd. I should think it wrong to give a dinner at guinea 

 tickets (including wine) to anybody, even if I wanted to 

 show them the greatest respect. I do not care to ask whether 

 any of the persons assembled were drunk, in the common 

 sense of the word. It is enough to know that such expenditure 

 for sensual gratification cannot be reconciled with Christian 

 sobriety, as so well explained by Bishop J. Taylor in his " Holy 

 Living." 



" Let the Warrington people who dined the officers at the 

 "Lion" last Tuesday remember that, to honour those that teach 

 the trade of man-killing, they have guzzled and drunk, in one 

 evening, the cost of a Ragged School for a whole year ! 



" Yours, etc., 



"Philip P. Carpenter." 



The same paper contained an account of the Sunday school 

 treat at New Brighton : " The Cairo Street school is the first 

 which commenced the practice (some twelve years ago) of 

 going out of town on ' Walking day.' They have often pitied 

 the formal walks of the other scholars, when gambolling on the 

 shady lawns of Dunham, or seeing the beauties of Chester, or 

 the Prince's Park. Another circumstance is worth mentioning : 

 that the children pay for the treat themselves, instead of their 

 teachers being obliged to beg through the town, as is the case 

 with some other schools. An allowance of one half-penny for 

 every monthly punctuality ticket is the only tax upon the funds 

 of the school." 



The formation of new railways threatened the removal of 

 several ancient footpaths ; and a Society was formed for their 

 protection, which induced the Company to preserve them, 

 though (in one case especially) at some expense. On this 

 decision being known, a requisition to reconsider the arrange- 

 ment was circulated amongst the wealthier and trading classes. 

 When the working-men heard of it, they invited Mr. Roberts 

 from Manchester (" The People's Attorney-General "), " who 



