The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-02-21 00:00:00

exlremely important—in particular, the declaratior shat, in following out, in legislation, the doctrines of free trade, care must be taken to regulate the degree of their application to the capacity of the community tc sustain that application, without throwing establishe6 interests and institutions into disorder. Nothing, we submit, can be sounder than this principle. It drew forth, too, from Lord Francis rton, a more strik explanation of the cau, hitherto prosperous condition, which is just no fig the manufacturing classes, than we eve to have met with in so brief a form of e of that revulsion of t expression cause, or at least a leading cause, of Lordship maintained, and truly maintainea, found in the fact, that the power of steam—C• arm of our manufacturing industry—developed ther. selves during a period of almost universal war, wlie Great Britain alone was in a position to avail herself oi them, and to apply them to the aggrandizement of her manufacturing interest; and, by the return of the world to a state of peace, the monopoly which we possessed of that giant instrument is compelled to be shared with competing countries. There is a greater amount of the truth of our position, as a nation, in that one sentence than in all the laboured statements of the exclusively enlightened liberal faction. Another declaration of opinion, too, it drew forth from the same noble lord—one which, on the part of this great commercial community, we can with confi dence second. We believe, with his lordship, that no measure —no occurrence within the reach of proba hility--wou/d be so efficacious in promoting the return of the country to a state of healthy prosperity, as the cessation of the Anti-Corn-Law agitation, and the dis solution of the League And more than that, we be lieve that such is the deliberate conviction of nine-tenths of the people of this part of the empire LOCAL NEW. Ti PACK H I ET-S P the unfavo ura• " ASUBURTON."—In consequence of ble state of the weather yesterday, this mag nificent vessel will be open to public view again to-day. their Howard Douglas and Captain Gladstone were amongst turtle ests at Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary dinner on Sa y " e ning last. BErtur' s r. of Drury.lanue , "I"7SwEEP.—It will be seen th a t M r . B erry , meat of has started a Derby sweep—th e anianurice w hich will b e seen elsewhere. tock, of ' WARRINGTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL,—The Rev. Mr. Bos- AylesburY, has been appointed head master of this valuable i nstitution, in the room of the Rev. T. V. Bayne. A DISORDERLY PAUPER.—A woman named Ellen Roach was placed before Mr. Rushton, on Friday last, charged with disorderly conduct in the Workhouse. Mr. Rushton com bated her to prison for twenty-one days. PUBLICANS FINED. —The number of publicans and beer sellers brought before Mr. Rushton, on Friday, amounted to nine, the smallest number summoned since the act came into operation. Seven were fined, one acquitted, and the other remanded. . Loan Howicx's MonoNr.--Amongst those who voted In the majority on the divi s i on on t hi s mot i on we perce i ve the names of Lord Sandon, Sir El. Douglas, Lord F. Eger tan. Hon. B. Wilbraham, Lord Stanley, J. W. Patten, J. Tollemache, Sir P. Eg er t on an d , E . C ardwell. This neigh bourhood is Conservative on all sides. BIRKENHEAD COMMISSIONERS.—We are credibly in formed that these gentlemen have withdrawn most, if not all, the clauses in the Birkenhead improvement bill against Which objection has been taken—such as the purchase of Monks' Ferry, the foundation of the tunnel, the provision for a stipendiary magistrate, the power to grant licenses, and a few others ; so that, in all probability, the remainder of the clauses will be carried without opposition. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last one of Lord Derby's gamekeepers, who resides near Prescot, was just leaving his house, accompanied by a dog which was fondling about him, when the paw of the animal touched the trigger of a gun which the man had with him, when, unfortunately, it went off, and the contents lod ge d i n hi s s id e . Th e poor man only survived two hours. He was very much respected by his lordship, and has left a wife and family of six children. THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY AND MESSRS. PICKFORD AND Co.—The letters of Messrs. Pickford and Co., the eminent carriers, in reference to the • dispute b etween them and the Grand Junction Railway Company, have already been published in our advertising Pages. To-day we insert, amongst the advertisements, the reply of Captain Huish, the secretary to the company. The case on both sides is now, therefore, before the public, who will, from a perusal of the documents of the parties, be en abled to form an opinion on the points in dispute. On Sunday last, at the Holy Trinity Church, Woodside. after a touching appeal by the Rev. Joseph Baylee, M.A., from the text, 20th chapter of Acts and 35th verse, a collec tion was made for the relief of the suffering poor of the dis trict, amounting to the handsome sum of £36. The reverend gentleman explained that the mode adopted, in distributing relief to the poor, was through the instrumentality of 25 dis trict visitors, who inquired into, and reported upon, the cir cumstances of the applicants in their respective districts, by which means, as far as possible, impostors were detected, and deserving objects succoured. MERCHANT SEAMAN'S FUND.—Last night a numerous meeting of the merchant seamen in this port, was held in the Nelson Assembly Rooms, Lord Nelson-street, for the pur pose of uniting with the mariners in other ports, in forming a general association to procure a repeal or alteration of the act 4th and sth Will. 4 cap. 52, commonly called " the Mer chant Seaman's Fund act." Captain Lawson was called to the chair; and a deputation from Dundee and Glasgow, com posed of Mr. Bailey and Mr. J. Steele, detailed the objections which were felt to the law. The resolutions were unani mously adopted. NARROW ESCAPE.—On Friday, as a number of boys were sliding on the pond near the Scotch Kirk, at Woodside, a young man, supposing that the ice would bear his weight, ventured upon it, and bad just got to the middle of the pond when the ice gave way, and he went in up to his neck. For tunately, the wind that had collected under his top-coat pre yenned him going overhead. He attempted to get upon the ice, but it broke at each effort. The bystanders, seeing his danger, with praiseworthy promptitude procured ropes and Planks, and when almost exhausted with struggling he turned round, by their advice, and being a good swimmer, with a great effort got through the ice to a shallow part of the pit. CHEAP TRAIN TO LONDON.—We understand that already arrangements have been made with the directors of the Grand Junction and the London and Birmingham Railways, to have a special train to London at a cheap rate. in order to give those parties, who wish to see the metropolis, an op portunity of spending a few days there. We are also in formed, that the gentlemen who have entered into the ar rangement intend to give the inhabitants of Manchester, Chester, Preston, Bolton, North Wales, and other places the advantage of this economical treat. The train, we under stand, will leave about the latter end of May, or beginning pof June, and we are sure the respectability of the parties who ave un d ertaken the office of providing this accommodation, 15 sufficient to secure the comfort and convenience of any Person who intends to avail himself of it. THE WEATHER.—The severe frost, which we noticed in the glast p u bli cation, continued with unabated keenness rnugh Friday, Saturday, and during the greater part of bg ua daY. On th e t wo l ast d ays the cold was much increased 4 .Y a brisk an d b iting east wind. On Sunday evening the rest relaxed, and a thaw set in, though very rduall, the se r aPeratu re b e i ng still kept low by the wind, which veered a point or t wo to the southward of east. Shortly after dark there was a slight fall of snow and sleet, which was succeeded l ulo t r he nig h t by rain, and disappeared before daybreak in the • fling. Yesterday a " thow wind" prevailed' from S.E., twit thick rain and a remarkably humid atmosphere. The ( t r s a_t , which appears to have entirely gone, will doubtless effect suitabl e on the country, by rendering the land more friable and unable for the operations of the plough or the spade. Iss t . o ii . ; _ RTANT TO FARMERS.—Th e necess it y f or agricultu t'a's practising economy in r ear i ng th e i r li ve stoc k , was aesver m ore necessary th an a t present. Th e Pastural Farmer battl„_au ff ered extensiv e ly o f l ate years b y the death of his e, his horses, sheep, and pigs. To guar d aga i nst suc h a Vy.drawback s on hi s profits, and to improve the grazing 0 , lines of his stock, must be a chief consideration with him. tsiuratissist his endeavours, we strongly recommend him to base the new and valuable editions of Clater's two cele priattd works on the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Horses, and til l? , by the famous author of the' Horse,' and Mr. Spooner, env ell-knoyvn Veterinary Surgeon, as these works must w oo ld_Y • t a he best veterinary practice of the present day. The theirl.l valuablet, having to remunerate such practitioners for „i„, labours the publishers can afford to sell the 'tubes so cheap as they do. u t D look; FENNY THE ATRE N UISANCE. —Two ruffianly heformg fellows, one calling himself a carter, were placed l wi th FM r. Rushton, on F r id ay, at the Police-court, charged Vauxhall-fa ro assault e d a young man, the previous eveni in ad, and taking from his person 2s. 10d. ng, A h ie tt a lle i n ball of formidable size, to which was attached a string, v s i: Peen taken from one of the prisoners, as to the use of f or there there could be no doubt, it being evidently intended alt er eaavage purpose in case of resistance by the pa, ty k r. '„d : The case was fully proved. Mr. Rushton asked neo...yvehaty the character of the place where tile transaction rn e ,r, l ,.!trid he was answered that it was at a place of amuse- Theatre" 'Vauxhall-road, known as " The Prince of Wales' whi ch , where a boy was stabbed some time ago • and wh o w as a regular rendezvous for the worst of characters, ' Pluraerade,...a practice of getting up fights for the sake of sho u l d l ,_ Mr. Rushton advised that this sink of iniquity suppt_F reported to the proper quarter with a view to its "sloo, which Mr. Whitty promised should be done. eh..2i FONDS, SATURDAY EVENING:—At the Stock Ex ./inge there were no bargains of magnitude entered into. .`"e,nnlargest. operation of the day we believe, was the sale of eourn't 00fCAnsols by the . broke; who acts in behalf of the alsgrati_ s,,uancery. This, however, caused no perceptible elosi ng "'t 10 prices, Consols for money and the account Pat e e 1 " 95 i. The resu of the debate was tully auto -4 ' and be nce ti n o o w eff k e , ct was . looked for as arising from the the ef Lord 267 countr Bank smotion r l esEe t c o ti l ng_ to 263Y' E x b ezCents. Stock . left off 7 , Redu c ce embills, 6 , 3 f t ra t e o .ah 655.. 77 : t the dia distress staat o , f premium ; Three d a-Half per Cents. mreZetda, 1021 to i:L j oilg to Atn ; u't . lo f, s .. i ; and New Three-and-a-Half per e Cents.! i les, 12-1 ; I c nd n i t a s ß . o l i o nl i t :i 0 si : siuotwoclige securities Dutch Two-and. a-Half perr i Mexican, 14. 1 to 41 t ° i; Dutch Five per Cents., 103 g, ; were Z9i, to 1; ditto, Deterred, SA to ; 4 ' ; Portuguese Converted,ah.a., ~8 6 to 8, ; SPanish, 191 to 1; ditto, New, 251 . to 1 ; , ,,D ' n to iii; and eielgiat; ;Co toian, 231 to I f ; razilian, 761 , 103 i ll4l. ...1 1 , . reeet; Woltictrousg —The Times, in commentingork h ' magisi •1 • • •the state of the W i n , g, eria investigation into . us upon the ati,,,,—, contends that it shows the necessity, The ob sesvgniiiage, of out-door relief being administered. ur nwn - 'n la worth re eating The Timis, follog well as the l i Pt the It is lamentable to find t ia d re eent at i% t v e o ra st e.nr . , also s P ays, 18 orde Igations have tended to produce inmates than was ido l , r and i nsubordination, among the more general it • ' t e ver known . 44 _ .. a. before. • l authorities have for a kW. :f 41 ir heads that the parochia The parties, it appears, have got gibe Past been • In short, . misgoverning . rescue. tka.__r. valiantly come foward to their . - ' them, and that Mr. Rush hse consequence i n ..;ge ated accounts of the late proceedintg had obtained Lli , s, b e tY and credence among them, the week a con ie ch r ire r t some of the females creautnieiddiga disturbance in on Sunday last, and that dur ► a bsolutely been com- Ztlaei:l.ble. number of the inmates have Is s • I r'g the officers CO give them better food, ~,,t lety ° f The Select. , other things at their bidding." 'and Vestry,t.? d o a ,titilindeistand, mat on Thursday next to receive. tnt i r e ,_ l 7.. ". .. ! 'ear 811g g eSt i ( HIE of the Poor-law C o mmissioners , iv.i.lo y 9.,‘_: 'Cl e 4 , will be founded on the examination institute . d .o3 V r i e r . tortetOreirg.. The Vestry, last Tuesday, refused to au. of cli it „,..,, but it is very desirable that the proceedings ."" lin t, at least, should go before the public. ,• • ILLEGAL PAWNING.—At the Po lice-court, yesterday, a young man, named Richard Morris, was placed at the bar on a charge of stealing a watch from a fellow lodger, named Morrow. It appeared that he bad pledged the watch for 165., but had afterwards given himself up to the police-officer em: handed over the ticket. Mr. Rushton ordered that he si:ott id pay 165., and a fine for illegal pledging of 505., or be' i soned for two months. PETTY GAMBLING.—An elderly man, named Luke nee ney, was, yesterday, placed before Mr. Rushton, charged with having defrauded a number of boys of their half-pence by inducing them to stake them on " blue" or " red," ou circularly painted board with u moveable handle—the name of which we lia,c not got in our vocabulary. The prisoner said, " I had nuts in the barrow below, for which they were playing, and if it came the right colour they got the worth o their money,—and that's what the officer calls gambling." A gentleman who had witnessed the play, however, said, th a t the prisoner got the lads to stake their money, and that he ever and anon said " It's blue," and forthwith swept the board of all the coppers upon it. Mr. Rushton said that no doubt the prisoner knew how to make it come blue when ever he liked, and ordered that he should be imprisoned for a month, and that the board with its brass hand should be taken to the office of the commissioner of police to he de stroped—at least so far as regarded the object for which it was designed. TRAVELLING BY THE OVERLAND - MAIL—We inserted, a few publications since, a paragraph, stating that the ex pense of a journey from London to Bombay is £l3-1. A correspondent of the Albion says " six weeks are generally required for the passage, by land and sea, from Liverpool to Bombay. A trader returned a short time ago to this port in forty days. The fares hence to Marseilles are £6 14s ; from the latter to Alexandria less than £l2. :My travelling ex pet-Ise by diligence, in France, were invariably ss. per day ; on board the Mediterranean steamer Scamander, 3s. 4d. for breakfast and dinner, including a most excellent ein rouge, ad libitum; consequently, a voyageur, on his arrival in Egypt, would not have expended £25. This statement is made in reference to the second class. A French diligence contains four compartments; a steamer has likewise four divisions, or classes, but there was not a single traveller going to India at the first fare, nor yet one returning Le Minos, who paid the highest charge, though there were several both going to, and returning from Bombay, in the second. When at anchor in the Bay of Naples, a Spanish merchant, on his way to India, assured me that £4O would pay all his fares and expenses from Alexandria to Cairo, Suez, and Bombay. If this be correct, a journey from London to Bombay may be accomplished for £63, instead of £134." NEW STAGE AT THE SEACOMBE SLIP.—The improve ments at the Seacombe Slip (on this side the river) are rapidly approaching to completion, and will doubtless prove a great convenience to the public. The large stage for land ing and embarking at low water, and which will run out on the slip, or inclined plane, about sixty feet outside of the . sea-swell, so that steamers of large burthen may come up to its extremity, has been placed on the wide iron railways laid down for it. It weighs about twenty tons, and will be worked by a powerful winch in a new building at the top cf the slip—manual power being alone necessary; and as the drag required to move it upwards on the incline will not pro bably exceed five tons, it will be drawn up by 2 or 3 men. On Saturday night last, about eleven o'clock, a large cog wheel of the winch fixed to move it, accidentally broke in two, and the chain being consequently let loose, the stage (whicE is mounted on iron wheels) rolled rapidly down the inclined plane to its extremity, burying itself in the water— the tide being then over the lower part of the slip. No damage, beyond the breakage of the wheel, took place, the stage having stopped on the ways at the extremity of the slip, as if it had been let down on purpose. We notice the cir cumstance merely in consequence of a rumour having gone abroad that the stage had rushed far into the bed of the river, and disappeared after damaging the floating stage anchored opposite to it. It would certainly have gone further than it did but for its meeting with the resistance of ,the water. Wool. TRADE. — Messrs. Browne and C o .' s s t at i s ti cs o f . . the wool trade have just appeared, comprising the imports and exports of the general description of the article for the last three years ending 1842. According to these, it appears that the total imports of forei gn f or t h e last year have decreased to 96,827 bales, while in 1841 they were 148,980 bales, and in 1840 137,198 bales. For the last year the return shows the port of London as the receiver of 35,031 bales, Liverpool of 22,581 bales, and Hull of 39,266 b a l es . The decline which is exhibited in the import of foreign wool is made up in a measure by the increase apparent in colonial imports ; and the statements of those arrivals for the last year is a total of 70,499 bales, weighing 18,554,5571 b., against 67,936 bales, weighing 17,867,4001 b. in 1841, and 52,732 bales, weighing 13,159,0741 b. The supplies were received as follows :-37,627 bales from New South Wales; 14,071 bales from Van Die man's Land ; 6,431 bales from the Cape of Good Hope ; 11,865 bales from the East Indies; and about 500 bales from sundry places. Exports, including English, are stated as under for the three years : London. Liverpool. Total. lb. lb. lb. 1842.... 1,836,851 1841 .... 1,772,896 ...... 845,149 1840.... 717,405 The quantity of foreign wool cleared for home consumption for the three ports of London, Liverpool, and Hull, gave as results a gross amount of 30,981,376 lb. for the last year, 33,553,3281 b. for 1841, and 38,304,1421 b. for 1840. Alluding to the large decrease which has occurred in the import of foreign wool, Messrs. Br owne an d C o. at t r ib ute i t pr i nc i pa ll y to th quantity of small bales imported from the west coast of South America, but also to the decline of German, Danish, and Spanish. The only increase alluded to is from Russia, to the extent of about 3,300 bales. It is observed that the quantity of foreign material actually paying duty for home consumption had not decreased in anything like the same pro portion as imports, the difference between 1841 and 1842 being but rather more than 2,500,0001 b., whereas the imports, at the lowest calculation, had decreased upwards of 9,000,000 lb. Taking into account the increase of the imports of colo nial wool, estimated at 2,576 bales, arid which it is stated would average about 780,0001 b. against the decrease, the de duction is th ence d rawn that th e t decrease in actual consump tion for the past year, as compared with 1841, is not more than 1,700,000. THE LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY This society's second undress concert took place last even ing at the Collegiate Institution ; there were at least 1,000 persons present. Mr. 11. F. Aldridge led, Mr. Tiveudell presided at the organ, Mr. William Sudlow conducted. The concert commenced with Weber's wild and beautiful overture to Oberon; it was executed with much precision and effect. Herold's overture to Ludovic was equally well done, which opened the second part. The madrigal, " When all alone my pretty love," was charmingly sung, and elicited considerable applause. We cannot say much for the glee, " Soft and safe •" it was about the performance of the evening. The solo and chorus, "Welcome lady fair," brought Miss Stott forward in the solo parts; her voice is greatly improved—her tones were bell like and clear—and her singing evidently created much delight; but, her enunciation is not a jot better than it used to be. In this composition her voice sounded like some sweet instrument—and as an instrument only. The words and the sense of the words were wanting. Some little curiosity was excited to hear a Mr. Shirmacher play on the piano, Thalberg's fantasia, Lea Huguenots. It is not pleasant to say anything in dispraise, but we may as sert safely, that if it was not the best description of piano forte playing, his was not the worst. Rossini's Ah se questo, and Bishop's " Lo u d l e t th e M oor i s h t am b our sound," con chided the first part of the entertainment. In the second part, the gem—indeed the veritable jewel of the evening—was a trio by Pucetta, " 01 dolce tranguitlata," which was encored, and deliciousty sung by an amateur (a capital tenor), Miss Stott, and Miss Aldridge. This might have been given anywhere, in any place, and would have proved a prominent and most pleasing feature amongst the best productions. It was done in a masterly manner. In Bishop's " Daughter of Error," Miss Aldridge sang the solo parts charmingly. She possesses a sweet, melodious voice, and evidently thoroughly understands what she is about. Goss's splendid glee, " There's beauty on the moun tain," was famously sung. Winter's sweet duet, " Vag hi Colli," by Misses Aldridge and Stott, may be pronounced to have been done with much taste and ability. The concert went off well, and gave further proof, if any were necessary. of the excellence of this society, and its claims upon the musical public for support. We were glad to learn that the subscribers are daily on the increase. It certainly for cheapness—if it had not great attractions on the score of merit—stands alone. There are eight concerts for two gui neas, at which three tickets to' each subscriber are given ; and two concerts (dress ones) to which two are allotted. At th 9 latter, metropolitan talent will be brought forward. CORRESPONDENCE SUFFICIENCY OF THE SCRIPTURES TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, SIR,-It was well remarked by two of the Fathers at the Council of Basil, that we must rather believe one simple layman alleging Scripture than the whole council to the con trary" ; nor is that sentiment less truthful now, or less im portant, than it was then. We live in eventful times, and change after change " comes o'er the spirit of our dreams" ; and we are falling from one heresy to another, until we are likely to be bewildered, if not lost, in the dreams and super stit ions of Paganism and Popery. To this the prevailing errors of the present day tend ; and we want, therefore, calling back to first principles in religion. These are only to be found in the Scriptures of eternal truth. It is no solid argument to say that some books are lost, and thus insinuate that all the revealed Word of God has not come down to us, and that the deficit, therefore, must be supplied by tradition. That certain books referred to in Scripture are lost, is readily admitted ; but were these books a part of the inspired wri tings? or can any man say that they contained a n ythi ng necessary for man's salvation, or what we have not in the Scriptures as we now possess them ? The books were lost before Jesus Christ came into the world, and, had they con tained anything necessary for us to know, would not he have revealed it? All the actions and words of our Saviour are not recorded, as St. John distinctly records; but have we not sufficient? What was not recorded is lost to us—irre coverably lost. Then how shall tradition supply these unre corded words and actions? What the Spirit did not think proper to record, we cannot supply. To the Scriptures as we possess them—and as God intended we should possess them—must all our appeals be made—" to the law and to the testimony." "If an angel from heaven should preach any other doctrines than those revealed therein, let him be accursed," says the inspired apostle. That many doctrines are now being put forward not enjoined, and others reserved which are positively declared, is a distinctive feature of, our days ; and as many simple laymen " have net such reten tive memories or quickness of perception that they can at once quote passages of Scripture to refute erroneous doc trines boldly advanced or gently insinuated, I would humbly suggest to some of the ministers of the Church of England, mighty in the Scriptures, the necessity of a few very cheap tracts on the subject, on something like the following plan : —Take, for instance, an erroneous doctrine, and under. or in an opposite column, give the passages of Scripture which refute the opinions put forth. Such tracts as these would, I think, be very useful. " Feed my lambs," says Jesus Christ himself ; and it would be following up the command, and a duty of heartfelt satisfaction to any one, thus to feed the lambs for whom our Saviour cared. May God incline the heart of some one to follow out these hints ! I am, sir, yours sincerely, A CHURCHMAN. On Saturday morning, Thomas Pickard, Esq., of South hampton-place, New-road, London, committed suicide by cutting his throat. He has left an in nnenbe property behind him. SAILORS' HOME.—At a meeting in aid of the lSa •lo -' Asylum, Durham, the Rev. Dr. Gilly, rel a t e d the followingrs anecdote :—" Many years ago," said the rev. doctor " a young midshipman was amusing himself with some of his companions in a boat near his ship , when a voice was heard overboard, and sa ve d th e shouting ' a man overboard , ' and a body was seen floating past. The midshipman jumped man's life, but it was at the cost of his own health for many years. Twenty years after, when tha t m idshipman had been promoted for his services, and was in com mand of the coast guard, a tempest occurred in a Novem ber morning, such as those we have lately witnessed, and a wreck was seen float ing by at some distance. He called on his men and said, ' who will volunteer to go to the relief of that vessel?' The whole party volunteered, and he was obliged to select V number. They approached the vessel , a fu riou s wave sr- ek the boat, and the whole party was drowned. That 0 18, waa my brother." CONSECRATION SERMON AT THE CHURCH OF ST. SILAS, LIVERPOOL. BY THE REV. HUGB WNEILF,, Nci'her pr iy I for tlicte alcre, 1 ilt for thrill nlco beiieve on me through their wcitl, ghat il,ey :Al in ther. art in me and in thee, that they also n:ay one in us, that the Well. may believe that thou I The election of another Louse of prayer, its sepatation from all the ordinary uses of this present evil world, its consecraticn to the special service of Almighty God, that in it tie united supplications and thanksgivings of adoring multitudes may be poured forth before Him, His own sacra mental institutions duly administered. and the everlasting Gospel of His grace fully end boldly proclaimed—these are circumstances of lively and unfeigned interest to the Chris tian heart, not for their own sake, ultimately as ends, but for the sake of the great and glorious end towards the at tainment of which they are among the most efficient of ap pointed means. We are zealous in the use of means. We set a high value upon the ordinances of the church. We entertain, and are neither ashamed nor afraid to avow and cultivate, an affec tionate fondness for the circumstantials of our religion, and for the order and regularity, the punctuality and perseve rance, with which they are performed. Accusations of irre gularity have indeed been ads anced against a class of the national clergy, but more, it would seed, for the sake of an antithesis in writing than for any foundation in fact. In stances of the kind are so rare, they are so notoriously ex ceptions, as to establish the rule of regularity instead of supplying any fair or impartial ground for general condem nation : the antithesis, however, between ultra-lormalism and ultra-spiritualism, between Popery and Puritanism, was too tempting to be emitted, especially as it went to soften, by dividing, the reproof which was deemed indispen sable. But, after all, everything is comparative; and thus far many of us are willing to plead guilty, if it be guilt, that while we sincerely love the courts and avenues and precincts which surround the royal citadel of our Zion, our soul's chief delight is in Him who dwells within the citadel itself, the light of the presence-chamber, the glory of the throne; all is but preface and introduction at the best till we come to Him: all our best means are but as temporal scaffoldings needful through our infirmity, for the erection of the temple of his body, and then to be removed for ever. Called upon, therefore, my brethren, in obedience to the commands cf our Bishop, to address you upon this occasion, I have determined to pass by all comparatively preliminary, although important topics, all statistical exhibitions, for ex ample, of the need of church accommodation, all arguments to shew that nothing short of the instruction we have to tire can really and permanently benefit the community ; and I have selected a portion of Scripture which will lead us at once to the contemplation of that " temple not made with hands," of which the Lord Jesus Christ is declared to be the " foun dation stone," the " chief corner stone," the " head-stone of the corner," and which is described as " an habitation for God through the spirit." Considering the Church of God thus, not in the narrow ness of any temporary or local interest, but in the genuine catholicity of all ages and .all nations, even to the end, the prayer of our Saviour in the 17th chapter of John may, with much proprie; y, be called his great coosecrational prayer. Having colic:tided his address of affectionate consolation to his disciples. he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and addressed himself to God the Father : his prayer was rot mental only, but vocal also ; the disciples beard it ; and the Holy Spirit, according to the promise, brought it with such clearness to the remembrance of John, that he was enabled to write it down that it might. be preserved from age to age without omission or adulteration at the hands of Math If it had not been written, it would, in all probability, have shared the fate of many other things which Jesus Christ said which were not written—that is, it would have been altogether lost or so misrepresented as to be worse than lost. A remarkable instance of this kind is supplied by an incident recorded in the twenty-first chap ter of this gospel. Hearing our Lord's prophecy concerning himself, and seeing John, Peter said— " Lord what shall this man do ? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee? Follow thou me. Then went tins saying abroad among the brethren that that disciple should not die, yet Jesus said not to him lie shall not die: but if I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee ?—v. v. 21, 22, *23." Thus, a saying went forth among the apostolic brethren pro fessing to be a saying of Jesus Christ, and yet Jesus Christ had hot said it ! How plainly does this prove that even those who had the advantage of hearing our Lord himself speak could not be trusted for the transmission of anything with accuracy from mouth to mouth ! And how humbly and heartily thankful it should make us for the statement con- I tamed in the conclusion of the 20th chapter— " And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written that ye must believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name."—v.v. 30, 31. It is strongly intimated here that if nothing had been written we could not have believed that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, at least with any confidence ; but in the divine mercy enough is written for faith and life :—" these are written that ye might have faith and life." Whatsoever more than is written man requires for the arrangement in detail of man's affairs, whether civil or ecclesiastical, must be acquired by the exercise of his own reason or from the instrnction of his fellow men ; and with regard to all such subordinate matters, every wise man will carefully exercise his own reason, and every prudent and modest man will gladly avail himself of the ex perience, wisdom and judgment of those 'who have lived be fore him. But whilst, with regard to such matters, he does so, he will as carefully guard against admitting any addition to the written Will of God as of necessity to salvation ; he will remember that it' anything beyond the boundaries of the written Word be admitted as divine, an indefinite &or is opened, and no man can afterwards with any accuracy define what or how much of what claims to be divine is divine in deed. That it does not carry with it its own evidence, and so put an end to controversy, is clear, because even its own advocates are not agreed as to its extent; therefore, instead of being the rectifier of interpretation and the terminator of controversy, such a claim becomes of itself a source of per petual contention. The interpretations of it vary as widely as the interpretations of Scripture ; and, therefore, in ad mitting it, whilst we gain nothing in point of harmony, we lose everything in point of definiteness and consequent sa tisfaction. If divine revelation be indefinite in its contents, which it must be if it be not all written, then no conscientious man of a tender spirit can ever enjoy what it is the privi lege of every Christian man to enjoy —peace with God, because he can never be sure that the whole of God's will concerning him has been made known to him, and the part which may not have yet reached him may contain something vital, of which he is still ignorant. To propagate such a view of divine revelation is to pro pagate tantalizing torture to the awakened. sinner, instead of " peace on earth, good will towards men." Our Lord's intercessory prayer is conveyed to us with written accuracy. It is first for himself in the concluding stages of his earthly struggles ; it is then for his first and immediate disciples, distinguishing them from the world, " I pray for them, I pray not for the world ;" then, ex-• tending his views along th e succee di ng - ages of his church to the end, he prays, not for those first disciples alone, but he adds " for them also who shall believe on me through their word." To this description of the persons here prayed for 1 invite attention. If we would interpret aright the unity implored in what follows, we must begin by understanding aright who are the persons for whom that blessing is sought,—" them which shall believe on me through their word." The distinguishing mark here laid down of the persons for whom Christ prays is, not that they shall hear the word of the Apostles ; it is not that they shall be baptised ; it is not that they shall be en rolled as members of any visible community however pri vileged ; but it is that they shall believe on Him. To be as sured that this contrast is not casual but real compare it with the description elsewhere given by our Lord of the whole company that should be called by his name. That company should not be confined to those that believe on Him; it should contain foolish virgins as well as wise ; tares as well as wheat ; bad fishes as well as good ; guests without a wed ding garment, as well as guests properly and acceptably clothed. He frequently describes that company in its inter mixture for a time, and then in its separation to the right hand and to the left, at the last. Speaking in parables, he also speaks in prophecy, the imagery of the parable supply ing a vehicle upon which the general outline of events is con veyed until the harvest, the end of the age. He describes as it were a great river, flowing through this lower world ; its course and its boundaries are visible to man, the margin of its banks is easily discerned and separated from the surround ing waste of heathenism ; it is all without discrimination called by the name of Christ, but advancing closer to it, and looking into it more carefully, he detects and invites us to contemplate a two-fold stream therein—one muddy and de filed from the earth through which it flows—the other clear, retaining, without pollution, the character of the spring in the rock from whence it originally issued. For this pure stream he prays that its purity fail not. He describes a large company of travellers passing through this world; they are all, without discrimination, called by his name : the king dom of heaven is likened to them all; but approaching them more closely, he discerns two companies, and describes them. Some have entered by a wide gate, and are travelling upon a broad road, which, he tells us, leads to destruction ; others have entered by a strait gate, and are travelling upon a nar row road, which, he says, leads unto life—for these he prays. He describes a large multitude of hearers; they all hear the word given by inspiration to the apostles and prophets : the seed is the word of God, which is sown indiscriminately among them all, but approaching them more closely, be de scribes way-side hearers, stony-ground hearers, thorny around hearers, none of whom bring any fruit to perfection. The word profits them not, riot being mixed with faith in them that hear it. He also describes good ground hearers, who receive the word, and keep it, and bring forth t'ruit, " some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred fold"—for these he prays. This serves clearly to point out the difference between the word considered in itself and the effects which may be pro duced by its instrumentality among men. Considered in it self the word is not necessarily attended with any saving effects. It is a communication from God to the senses of men : our eyes see it written, our ears hear it spoken, but no communication to the senses can, of itself, reach so as to pu rify the heart, and influence so as to save the man. This is true not only of the word as a communication to our eyes and ears, but also of water as poured upon our bodies, and of bread and wine as taken into our mouths. No external communication can, of itself, reach and purify the heart. Only by faith, " the evidence of things not seen," bringing men' into communicatku with the unseen world, and especially with God; only by faith can the heart be purified, and only by the immediate power of God, who made the heart, can that "evidence" be thoroughly con veyed into it. In so speaking 1: do not advance a private interpretation of the Scriptures but also the verdict unani mously pronounced by our chu; b reforn , :rs, who do, upon both sides, separate tile outward ~ •dinance, from the spiritual blessing, and upon both sides alike the ulessing with faith. 1 refer especially to the 29th article, is compared with a remarkable rubric in the Service for he Visitation of the Sick. The article says : "The wicked,and such as be vol. of a lively faith,although they do carnally and visibly press with the'r teeth the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, yet in no w.t, are they partakers of Christ." —Art. xxix. The rubric referred to says:— of " ,N l ar f a oi m og an io , e c i t t o h e er tto y oretaosoi iic `extremitycurate, receive with him, or by any o, xreceive just impediment do not re e t the sacrament of Christ's be and blood, the curate shall instruct t ..,,,, r forof s l i a c o k k n e o s f s , o or ooi f p o a t n want yt, o him that if he d o tru l y repe alin of ',lts sins and stedfastly beli • that Jesus Christ bath suff.ed death_ upon the cross for him, and shed his blood for his redemption, efirnestly remembering the be nefits he hath thereby, ara giving 'nim hearty thanks therefore, he Both eat and dri n k th e , dy and blood of our S av i our Ch r i st pro - fitably to his soul's her t . altho , ' , ;h he do not receive the sacrament with his mouth."—bp - r le Communion of Sick. Here, upon the , whete there is no faith, a man may receive the ke• -.lent with his mouth, and yet be in no wise re partaker 'f mast,' And upon the oth er s id e, where the a i s faith, r man eat the body and blood of Christ c m r a a d ru e e t n h t e P , ; fo a cf b oc . nosni E dv ee x yr t ,i e , nt r ig n o a nf l a, thin itthh att g s ti hn m e a t hh y ei as itn; indeed tebruc et be is e_t " profitably -0 his se - health," without receiving the sa n"shtwrouhrnii,st- ..:,. .prcher :e prayer of Christ, the only external in ssist°rle:3:%.e.ervnt7Y fai,4 he mentions is the 'Word. His other ex tettlaVar„,p-o=iitycients in his church —as water, and bread and r knt-- -are, ri her, instruments for the conveyance of snore •:,rEoe where faith already exists : " faith is confirmed and grate increased" by them when rightly received, but they cannot be rightly received except where faith already exists, and it may be confirmed. The Word, upon the contrary, is the divinely-appointed instrument fcr conveying the first actings of faith into the human heart. So writes St. Paul— " Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." So writes St. James—" Of his own will begat he us, with the Word of Truth." A most comprehensive statement ! " He," the agent, God ; the instrument, " the Word of Truth" ; the act, " begat he us," the first movements of savin; grace; and, to complete the list, the originating the distinguishing blessing " of his own will." ed a description of the persons for nut next observe that he in tl anwer to that description, lie prays nct for those who V,ilo " that they all shall believe upon him in any cue cot but fo or in any one age; nil all who shall believe on him in all countries ages, so long as he is au object of faith, that is,nitil his com. ing again, when faith shall be changed into sight. If all these be not included in the prayer, how shall it be proved that we of this age are included? If he prayed for only some of those that shall believe upon him, the persons so specified may have all lived and died ages ago, and we may have no interest, no part or lot, in this precious prayer; but, _ . upon the contrary, if we be included, if the prayer bare application to us of this age, upon what principle shall it be denied that it has application also to thew that shall believe in ages future also ? Thus we are naturally, I had almost said irresistibly, led to the conclusion that the period con templated in this prayer has not yet arrived. This is cha- racteristic of him who uttered the prayer, of him who sees the end from the beginning, whose truly catholic talon could not be localised or circumscribed by any temporary or any local interests in his church, and whose soul cannot be satis fied in the result of its travail until the work shall be com pleted, until the last of the living stones that are to compose his temple shall be set upon their appointed places, polished into the reflection of his image, and the head-stone brought out with consecrating shouts of " Grace, grace !" The next point to be considered is. the unity for which be prays; and now I hope this will not be a difficult exposition. future unity. This is proved by the reason just now as .d—many of the persons included in the prayer who are to enjoy the blessing, are not yet in existence. Some of those included in this prayer are horn in the flesh, and not yet horn again in God; some have fallen asleep in the faith ; their spirits, absent front the body. are present with the Lord, and their bodies are mouldering in the dust. The prayer includes them all. Their unity, that is, their visible unity, is clearly, under existing circumstances, impossible ; a unity they have certainly, but it is only in the mind and purpose of Him who calls things that are not as though they were. And in no other sense as yet— " One army of the Living God At his command we bow ! Some of the host have passed the flood, And some are passing now;" : , onie stand matured in years and grace Lipe ripening shocks of corn ; Some are jest stating on the race, And some are not yet horn ! When all these should be ready, when all who shall believe on him have believed on him, then—but not possibly till then—shall the perfected unity anticipated in this prayer be manifested to the world l Then they shall be all one in Christ Every one shall then have the mind in him which was in Christ Jesus; and the body or every one of them shall be changed and fashioned after the similitude of Christ's own body! This is what St. Paul calls " the manifestation of the Sons of God," for which he says " the whole Creation is waiting, groaning, and travading in pain " until now; and even we ourselves, be adds, who have " first fruits of the spirit," and do " groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body." Till then, though there be sons of God in every age, yet are they hid den ones; the world knows them not, even as it knew not their Lord and Master; the world, unbelieving and uncon cerned till then, shall then be constrained to acknowledge that God sent his Christ, and that his work is divine. Let it be c 'refully observed, that this is what Christ prays for — riot that tie: world may believe upun Him to salvation. In that sense the Lord had said, " I pray not for the world " : his language here is, " that the world may believe that thou had sent me"—which is a very different thing. The devils believe it now and tremble ; the world does not. believe it now, and is careless; but the world shall believe it then, and then it is that the unwilling confession, so frequently antici pated in the prophetic Scriptures as giving glory to God, shall he extorted from the world. " Verily," they shall say, " verily, after all, there is a reward for the righteous ; verily there is a God that judged' in the earth." What, now, I would ask, has this passage to do with the supposed unity in visible things of the Christian church during the present dispensation ? And yet this passage, for want of better authority for the notion, is perpetually cited, and cited with triumph as if it were conclusive, to prove that the unity of the Christian church now ought to be a visible unity, such as would produce converting effects upon the world ! If we understand our Lord as praying for a conti nuous visible unity in each succeeding generation of his church upon earth, then we must admit that, so far, lie has, in point of fact, prayed in vain : no such unity has existed. This interpretation, then, as it regards the world, is self destructive; for if the unity of the church in any age had been such as to lead to the conversion of the world, the dis tinction between the world and the church would have ipso facto ceased, and the consummation he desired would have been at once attained. The interpretation, therefore, is ir reconcileable with the efficacy of the prayer and the facts of the case—a serious consideration ; for if the Lord's inter cession be proved ineffectual on this point, what confidence can be placed in it upon any other point? The unity here prayed for must be such as should strike the observation of those who are not included in it ; yet it must be such as should include all that shall believe on Jesus Christ. Contemplating the successive generations of the Church of God upon earth we observe that of those that • shall believe upon Jesus Christ, and for whom he prays here, but a small number have ever bee❑ at any one time upon the earth; and even those few have been so separated, inevitably so. as not to have been conscious of one another's existence. But they must all enter into the enjoyment, into the conscious enjoyment, of the unity here prayed for: an unity has existed among them, but not such as this, not such • as the world could see or themselves appreciate—an unior which has been an object of faith not of sight, an unity in the truth which God teaches,and which is the same here ancrevery where, but not an unity in the ceremonies and traditions, the rites and ordinances which men teach and which have been and may he divers. " There is one faith," says an inspired apostle ; and another says, " it is the faith once delivered to the saints"—delivered, we observe, duripg the time of the apostles in its oneness, and in its complt it-hiss, and, there. fore, not waiting for any vital addition to be added by their uninspired successors. Concerning this one faith, St. Paul writes with unswerving, with war " But though we, or an angel from heaven, I.reach any other Gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As NVQ said before so say I now again, If any man preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."—Gal. i. 8, 9. Here is no liberality! Here is no compromise! Here is no admission, falsely called " charitable," that differing state merits may be eq ua ll y true ! No ; Divine truth is one ! It is possible for a man to err from that truth ; it is possible for an apostle to a p os t at i ze — one did so; it is possible for an angel to fall into falsehood --many have so fallen ; but it is not possible for the word of God, once delivered by his au thority, to alter or to deceive any who confides in it. Such is the tone of the Apostle when he writes concerning the faith revealed of God; bnt hearken with what conciliatory sweet ness this same bold Apostle sings when his subject is differ ent, when it is not the unvarying faith which God has re vealed, but the many and different forms and ceremonies which men with different degrees of light and equal sincerity of conscience may, or may not, adopt. He says when this is his theme : "One believeth that he may eat all things : another who is weak eateth herbs. Let n o t hi m that eateth despise hi m that eateth not ; and let not him who eat et h not judge him that ea t e th, for God hath received him. One man esteemeth one day above another; another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded hr his own mind. He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord ; and he that regardeth not the day to the Lord he doeth not regard it. He that e a t et h eateth to the Lord, f or h e g i ve th G od thanks ; and he that eateth not to the Lord h e ea t et h not and given' God thanks. L et us not therefore judge one another any more ; but judge thi s rat h er, that no man put a stum bli ng bl ock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way2t—ltorn xiv. 2, s, 5, ti, Is. Here is no bigotry ! Here is no exclusiveness! Here is no schismatical demand for outward uniformity because here God had not commanded, and therefore men might be per mitted to prefer. This is the true secret of Christian unity, to its utmost practicable extent, during this present fallen estate. It is rendered utterly impracticable by the rigid demands of outward uniformity. U n i ty by coercion may b e secured for a season by h uman tyranny: unity by conviction can only be secured by divine truth ; and, therefore, where God has not spoken, no man, or class of men, has any right to insist upon un it y , There may b e reasons w h ich appear good and satisfa c t ory to themselves for pre f err i ng cer tain ecclesiastical arrangements, as not only more conducive in themselves to the attainment of the desired end, but as also more in accordance with the general tenor of the Holy Scrip ture and with the practice of Christians in ages past ; but even so, though it may be right and fair to require compli ance with these arrangements as an indispensable condition of membership in any particular or national society, it may still be unfair and false to represent them' as indispensable conditions of membership in our common Christianity. A practice, which may be existing for any given number of centuries, is still an esse nt i a l ly different t hi ng f rom a com mandment of God. A pr act i ce, obtaining for a time, without any rigid scrutiny comes, upon the first enquiry, to be de fended upon the ground of its having been a practice : that defence being once admitted, and the practice thereupon continued, the plea of pre scr i ption is, of course, upon every subsequent examination, urged with increasing cogency. The practice becomes m ore general as it b ecomes more ancient, and thus gathering numbers as well as years, it pre sents itself at last in the overwhelming attributes of the semper, the übique, and th e a b onimibus ; and yet, after all, the origin of it may have been neither more nor less than a mistake. A wise man will not rest simply contented with a practice because it is old, but he will carefully examine whether it deserves to grow old by having been good when it was young. This distinction between the truth of God and the ordinances of man, and this combination of intole rance and charity which we have traced in the apostle, are strikingly characteristic of the protesting purifyers of the church in the sixteenth century ; and the whole is admirably condenced in the celebrated aphorism of Martin Luther— " Charity bears all things—faith nothing." And this serves to explain the position in which we ourselves now stand—a position in which, I trust, we shall be all found standing and maintaing our ground with meekness and firmness in these days of trial. As touching the truth of God revealed in Scripture, and therein declared to be necessary to salvation, we are inflexible, exclusive, intolerant: we deem it no un kindness to any man to reiterate faithfully what was spoken plainly by Hi m w h o t as t e d d ea th for ev ery man; and, there fore, concerning " the faith once delivered to the saints," we have no h es it at i on i n d eclar i ng that "except a man b e li ev e it faithfully, he cannot be saved. ' Here, therefore, we are entrenched in a S cr i ptura l po sition of i nterminable hostility against Ro man i sm an d aga i nst Unit ar i an i sm in all its grades, o fr t o t m ha t t hheelrieigshye.st But,Ari chtaongthheig our subj ect, descending fromlowest Soci n i an mod i ficat i on this high ground, and proceeding to speak of the ceremonies which men have constructed with judgment and discretion as seemed to them most in accordance with Scripture, and most attainable under the circumstances and times of each, here we become tolerant —here we become charitable —here we become conciliatory. We do indeed say, and we publish our reasons for saying, that we think our own arrangements the very best, and mo s t i n accor d ance w ith Script ure, that are existing in the world ; b u t, even so , a lthough we fi n d therein excellent reasons for prefe rr i ng th em o urselves, w e d o not find therein reasons for imposing them as of divine authority upon others. What man, with th e commo n reason and can d our of a man, ‘w,einthtuSrecrtioptsupreeakanodf the y ce b s e a C n him, w ou ld , for divisions exam p le,or o f our kingdom, the effectual oversight of some of which has been rendered pity ' sically impracticable by the prodigious increase of population —who would speak of those divisions as we all cordially speak of the divine institution of episcopacy itself rightly administered? I cannot, of course, atte m p t to define at present what appears to me to belong t o i ts right adminis oPri.daPYse t r ;tb o l t e, of our ecclesiastical ar chitecture sponsor s i n b apt i sm. of adminis tration present tipnes mode sentiail without y ' orwh fllatadteaviy deviations might be m a d e f rom our vitiating th e di v i ne institu tion; but I ask agai n , what man of commo n sense w i ll take our permanent kne e ling upon him to speak of our parochial divisi ons , o f our printed and f a o t r ntshse L of in its details, of our singing or not singing before the prayers are read, of our reading or not reading any par ticular prayer after the sermon — who will venture to speak of these, or of such things as these, as we all speak of " the faith once d e li vere d to t h e saints," that unless a man be lieves it faithfully, he cannot be saved? Concerning these things, we do indeed say, speaking of our own countrymen— j ud gment willingly and pur poselyio and ceremonies of the ns W h d o o s t o h eve o r pe t n h l r y ou b g r h ea l k iis church which be not repugnant to the word o f G o d , and be or dained and approved by co mmon authority, oug h t to b e rebuked openly (that other s ma y f ear to do the like) as he that offendeth thPerivtraatedi t against thatommon colter of the church, arid hurteth the autho rity of the magistrate, and woundeth the consciences of the weak brethren." And therefore we do earnestly and affectionately insist upon regularity and order: but if we be asked is the same order necessary for our brethren in other countries—is the same order indispensable towards the Christianity of, our brethren in France, in Switzerland, or Germany, or Scotland—w unhesitatingly answer " No." the " words of truth and soberness ": and we sustain our answer " It is not necessary that traditions and ceremonies be ii places one and utterly like; for at all times they have been di, and may be changed according to the diversities 01 conut times, and men's manners, so that nothing be ordained agi' God's word. Every particular or national church-" " Every particular or national church "—I pray you t attention to this concluding portion of the article— " Every particular or national church hath authority to change, and abolish ceremonies or rites of the church or only by man's authority, so that all things be done to edit In det 1 be d hall nc done most differ. (Jr extemporaneou We to deviation into ther man extemporanc hove the free, more fervent easily api. exigencies of the Let not him that rejects a uses it; and let not hit rejects it, for God bath received him apply to everything that is not c Let us persuade or judge one another, but rather jut a stumbling block on auy occasion to fal How far this rule is violated by those wi let us no this, that no man p brother's v would imi ecclesiastical ceremonies as lation ; how far the affectio the people of this country, would b church, tor, rather, to speak more cc , , church of this country would be alienated from t such clerical tyranny became prominent and pr questions which can no longer be kept fun! tear, from practical discussion shown themselves of resistance, and I feel at ___ Scriptural resistance, to the unscriptural usur. thority by their pastors among s ome o f the l a y men church. My dear brethren, let it be our privilege and not to divide—to love that church with incre Already )erty to call tion as our ow❑ sanctuary, and to enlarge her boundaries, that she may embrace as a mother all our teeming populatic to pray that her rulers may be guide power and light, by the teaching an, the Holy Spirit—to multiply such see] ness this day to see brought to consecrating build church after church, to locate pastor after pa open school after school, that all the people and all children may at the least hear of the tutu into all wisdom ar is abov every name, whereby he may be saved. His hands have lai the foundations of the temple of the Lord ; and his ham shall finish it. The day of the great consecration is at th door, when all the believing worshippers shall be manifesto in the beauty of the holiness and unity, and all the rest mankind compelled to admit and to admire what it will the be too late for them to seek to enjoy : the temple will filled, but the door will be shut. Every tongue will resou with the praises of Him who shall be the light of the temp praises derived from the word, the written word, which every part was the testimony of Jesus Christ, the eteri word. Imploring you, then, to manifest your abiding svmpat with us by making a liberal collection in behalf of ti wherein multitudes that are upon that precious pa praise of that name le, I will conclud ;us Christ., in the with the Script ferings, and in the power of his resurrection, is the great 1 stone whereby the heartis draw n from the world and the th of the world, and sweetly attracted unto God. There knowledge of God, there is no peace wiihGo(,Therei;;cVu7 knowledge of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, no true sorrOv for sin, no pardon for sin but by Jesus Chris therefore, attracts your attention to Jesus CI tends to promote and prolong your meditatio.._ Jesus Christ, is, indeed, a blessing to you. Various any ous are the methods in which our gracious Father is pleased t. waylay the thoughts of his Saints, and carry them captive t( his dear Son. The day speaks of Hi m, he is " the light o the world ;" the night recalls him, he is the star of Jacob the bright and the morning star; seed time tells of him-11( is the sower that went forth to sow ; harvest tells of him—h( is the reaper upon the cloud, putting in:his sickle to reap the ist, wha earth; the trees of the field speak of pin_ life; the flocks bear testimony of him— he is the 1: God; our houses speak of him—he is the door and - the ter, moreover, from storms and tempests when they around ; our garments—he is the white raiment to nu that the shame of our nakednesss may not b tables— Je is the bread of life, the living water, wine, milk, marrow, and fatness, honey and the honey-comb. His name is, indeed, the key-note of all creation, and of all Holy Scrip ture! Whatever form the letter of the passage may take, whether to announce the victory of the seed of the woman, to proclaim blessings:to all nations by the seed of Abraham the gathering of the people to Shiloh, whether to detail th types of the Mosaic tabernacle, to enlarge upon the victori , of David, or the peaceful triumphs of Solomon to describe the fruits from the tree of Jesse celebrated Isaiah, or to diffuse the fragrance of Jeremiah's righteous branch, or to open new channels for the vivyfying waters of Ezekiel's vision; whether to proclaim with Haggai the desire "of all nations," or with Malachi the whether •" rising of the Sun of Righteousness" __ letter of the passage may be, the meaning, the true spiritual, saving meaning still is JEsus CHRIST! And then an angel comes from heaven and tells Joseph concerning the child, " Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins ;" and from that time the sound, as well as the meaning, is Jesus Christ—Jesus Christ circumcised, prt Jesus Christ baptised, Jesus Christ anointed by the Holy. i Spirit, Jesus Christ led into the wilderness and tempted of the devil, Jesus Christ victorious aver Satan, Jesus Christ work ing miracles, Jesus Christ as suffering , betrayed, deserted, tormented, crucified, dead, risen again, ascended, receiving and sending the Holy Spirit, waiting in long-suffering pa- , tience, coming again in glory; and at that word "coming I sor again" the last chorus "salvation." Hallelujah! creation is delivered from toil and trouble; and the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord and his Christ, and are singing "blessing and honour and power unto Him that sitteth upon the throne !" Still the chorus swells, and still the praises cfJehovali roll along until . . . every creature that is in heaven and that is in earn., is under the earth, arkl that is in the sea, and all that ts them join in that great consecration hymn of everlasting triumph, " Blessing and honour and glory and power unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for Augustus ( ever." Amen, amen. VICE-PA The Cambridge Advertiser cautions clergymen agains, persons advertising in the public journals, professing to be able to give a curacy with title, and who, on being applied the to, pretend to offer a nomination, not-only on payment of a Con sum down, but on condition that the nomination shell be accepted without stipend, or perhaps on payment of so'- - trifling sum during the first year. PLATE MISSING FROM WINDSOR CASTLE of the royal plate is missing at the Castle. It appears that this plate had not been used since the return of the en •••••• Windsor, but on packing up the plate reoni" - ham Palace, the articles were missed. _ Thursday afternoon despatched to town for the purpose of making inquiries into the affair, and intelligence was after- um-. wards received at the Castle that the package was sent from promise t town to Windsor by waggon ; but whether it ever reached its name, we destination or not is yet to be ascertained. present —A quantity I u A. mesSenger was Oa At Marlborough -street Police-office, London, on Thurs day, Joshua Jones Ashley, member of the Junior United Ser vice, and several other clubs, and formerly one of the mem bers of the firm of Ashley and Son. the bankers and army agents, of Regent-street, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing plate belonging to the Junior United Service Club. A number of witnesses were examined, and the prisoner was remanded until Thursday nex t. I t was stated that the pri- t soner is a member of five or six of The clubs at the west end t of London, an d th at most o f t h em have lost plate, but could never fix suspicion upon any one individual. The butler of the Reform Club lost £7O worth of spoons and forks in one gard e w table Ca 4;EUONIJ Standard-office, Three o'clock , IVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tms DAY (From Messrs. R MAKIN & SONS' Circular.) 'ith a change in the weather we have had a good deal lain yesterday and to-day, but the wind continuing in tE same adverse quarter, very few vessels have arrived here since Friday ; the fresh supplies of Grain are therefore un• important, and of Flour only moderate, but of Oatmea ather liberal, the two last named articles ha veyed chiefly by steamers been con- The indifferent state of the surrounding markets toy the close of last week, and similar accounts received from London this morning, serve, in addition to the causes t t:ced in the preceding report, to render the trade at our Corn Exchange to-day wholly unsusceptible of amendwer Upon a very slow, limited, retail demand merely, all de scriptions of English, Irish, and foreign Wheats were offered, with little effect, at a decline of Id., and in some instances 2d. per 701bs. below the rates of this day week was accepted. English and Irish Flour was in fair request, the former a t la., and the latter at 6d. per sack abatement; whilst States and Canadian nearly maintained late prices. Barley and Malt, although taken off less freely, remained steady in value. Beans and Pease continued to ru une dull state as for some time past Oats, although good qualities are still very scarce, a peared to attract little notice, and barely sustained former prices ; Oatmeal, at the same time, moving sparing ly into the bands of consumers, at a reduction of 6d. per 2401 b ARRIVALS OF CORN From the 14th to the 20th February, 1843, inclusive CANADA.! sj— REIGN. I TOPA L ana- DESCRIPTION. ,t,":11 LAND. WISS Barley Slalt . Oats . Rye.. 88 1489 271 899 1537 1111 Indian Corn Oatmeal Flour .. Ditto .. . Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise ley, qrs. ; Malt, qrs.; Oats, 312 meal, 3273 Ids.; Flour, 388 sacks. EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat,— q qrs. ; Pease, qrs ; meal, 1 load; Flour, qrs. ; Barley Corn Barley, 0 qrs.; 0 Beans, qrs.; Indian Corn, , 3 sacks, 13 brls.—lreland qr.; Beans, qrs. ; Pea s e, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ; Flour, 10 sacks Wheat, 412 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Mt ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 30 qrs. ; 1 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 26 Ids. ; Flour, 116 sac Coastwise Oats, 19 yrs Indian Corn, barrels. kveraKe prices of Grain, for the week ending Feb. sd. I Barley 275. Id.) Oats.: 165.1 Iti. I Kyc Beans.. :275. sd. I Pease. _ nos. Id. IVhcat Aggregate average of the six wee Id. I Barley 265. ed. I Oats .. 165.1 Beans.. 275. 7d. Pease.. 2vs. 11 c e.. 29" 7d Duty on Foreign Grain &c. this week. Wheat 205.0 d. I Barley 9s. Od. Oats ' . Bs. Od. I IV , •11 5 . " Beans II s. 6G. I Pease.. lls k 6d. I lnd. Corn Os. On. Flour 125.01 d Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe. Wheat.... 9s. Od. I Barley.. 2s. tid. I Oats .. 25 . Od. I Rye.... as. Od. Beans 3s. Od j Pease.. 2s. 66. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. I Flour 3s od Liverpool Averages, week endin' Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Qrs I 596 t 68? Prices 459. Od. On. od. 160. Feb. 7. 1813. i Beans.li Pease. 9d. 30s. Od. I Os. Od able to t lrs. ; Oa Wheat, ass 75.; Indian LIVEkPOC Asylum was laid by espectable assembly. TI given gy the Gardens, and instructed in excited, t Let them to all t hen the ( them parent heartfelt acknow Aticiate 'IF male Orph D those (Cheers.) you have so teeter may realise (Great appl t Hon. a indatic y instruct nurtur .d in true fa Thy ho] eral sur I grace, 1 and all of • ulll , LIM I and eternal Thy mercy c of him who died for CTOP. tt perished in the recen inEr he had been atter A BOMB-SHELL ( rssrs. Daniel Woc ,ed. It s town ht inch It was the only one th the de bylon Atlas. voltirrg murc 'ere Mrs Hannah Partingtc t of ti 'ery of t ooa stet Sown u From various circumstances c ye men, named Ja antes Ashcroft, t s Ashcroft, the el younger, Willie! ended, and tried Robinson, Baron Riot: and the three, shcrofts and Holden wer calling their God to wit -folden, (the uncle, we believe, of the man who was hung,) iving at a very disreputable place, called Egypt, on the right rand side of the road between Leigh and Chowbent, finding imself on the point of death, confessed to two women. -horn he called to the bed-side for the purpose, that he was m perpetrator of the murder above referred to, but that he id not commit the robbery. On the following day he died. hs subject is far too painful for comment.—Manchester ourier. lie oDJ ORPHA layor of the borough, 11( rection cquain s already in e to kno 1 which v 'pool, Leriff of .he folk i ordere y to oil y grad r, the elm y bless heir God on, and li he was ally were ci)ggin be channel, 'ge iron with the powde Lters of the .0 of the identity of .er, Pendleton 'he vict naa u Mrs. I i built up in Chi ksgiving, they a t put it into the hear for carrying its lau ,Ord, by Tb their endea and ended in Thee Iromote the present ures, and finally by h the atoning merit! Jesus Christ Eieter Cathed tyro sons the met rhaps be reme ted in broad d Lady S 'ern not re hereaf aith : t thi: opron d with three c f the lay v having been r 1775 rou man and D IHE f peciME TECH El at the ocrEl Visiting , t crumbl clay at a 11r. Adie, Dr. NV; an opinion tbat shown, which v ii it w conversion of iron into copper w iou in t Lese sera! be converted into copper. The modern practice Iticed of sending, from towns, clippings of tinned of 30 or 4( the heap, v rcely bear tout here was nothin Tian an ( iews by addu 1 of rocky masses Dr. Waldie remarked th ineering establi ,e action of nal organi- ordinary I in the at it was '-mime, who had nd on taking it out Tuesday evenin the evening, and the members had consequently an oppor- No specific E iety took tunity of incidentally communicating any scientific or me- chanical inforr ,tetl unt a copper mine ri the exiaer rovidential Itastitut )pper-mines in Wales, &C., issuing from the ore, they • annually sent from _this and not improbable but .ian may .cross the Atlantic in a ves sel, part of the bottom of which is sheathed and protected with plates of copper that were formerly the iron utensils in so that it that a gentle be born which his sumpttio . us meals were for years prepared! A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Caine for his commu- ELOPOSED PEI, T POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION The CHAIRMAN the aght under the not rs or a pro the town. [ion had for ost modern inventions an address and prospectus from t Permanent -Politer " the exhibition Tiering with other so- and scientific dia. : that the pro, 'ore it could begot ready for public reception ; but that having IA that the prin.: neouragement of our worthy Mayoi 1 of the first en - - Is of se ;entlema Dents, and vino their approbation of it, o lay the subject before the (the projecwi bers of the Polytechnic Society, trusting for their sup materially 'assist in the s aiso stated, that Mr. co-oper 1, winch Would Av. The Icldr( ,ible building on the r at a fixed rent, or institut Chairman read portions of the prospectus, detailing the objects e fully, one of which was to afford facility for the sale of his subject, and Mr. THOMAS c projectors of the proposed tions in reply to questions. on that the circumstances hold out a prospect of success to such an more nurtured, they could not award its establishment,— eir society with it, if hey coul Ily LILA. U 3 pi ,5uut....4. ere contemplated—although they wished it every pros . They must be cautious how they committed them by prematurely disturbing their own present arrange- The CHAIRMAN, in conclusion, said that it appeared to be general feeling of the meeting that all they could do in meantime was to wish the proposed institution every ssible success, inasmuch as its objects were praiseworthy. yond this they had no power to forward it, and he had charged his duty in bringing its views and objects f a ir l y ore the member _..,.crated, and a number of the members 1, to the committee-room, where they partook and colt THE PERMANENT GALLERY OF ART (CONTINUED.) The room in which the pictures are exhibited is a very fine And the light is delightfully introduced. The pictures idiciously hung and well contrasted, but there are too le subject,—in fact, we never saw nilies" congregated together before. c pictures,—some undeniably rare ng quality, and two or three not ley nre hung upon. Of the fine class we ). 125. The Entombment of Christ, by k Landscape with figures, by John he Stag, by Rosa di Tivoli ; 92, The Holy Family in their Flight tended by the Archangel :h a number of " hol vnoletto dseape, with n tel. This fine - picture was Heywood, Esq ;ented to the gallery by e collection of the late a remarkable picture, by Domenic Nos. 62 and 64 are singular pictures, by representing the history of Christ. They are splendidly coloured, and in a fine state of pr ugh more than three hundred years old. / reservation, No. 65 is a .y finished r cribed in the catalogue to Hans a a, probable to be the work _of rn its ex isite handling and bennty. No. bed to Francis Snyder:, but it aore likely to be the work of Abraham Honchos, a native Rotterdam, born in 1638. His performances, in many :ances, were almost equal to Snyders. He painted scenes the present with great spirit and fidelity. No. 84, A w of the Entrance to the Arsenal at Venice, is stated to )y Canaletto : it is more likely to be the work of Francesco zrdi,an eminent scholar cf Canaletto's, who greatly ex ed in the came dpseriotion of subject as his master. His orks are often taken for those cf Canaletto; but any one wilier with the performances of the latter will at once dis nguish them from the absence, to a certain extent, of the Imirable effects which Canaletto produced in his lights and adows, as well as in the correctness of his perspective. o. 69, A Winter Scene, is called a Molinaer, while on it is e signature of Cornelius Ilfaans, a Delft artist. This pie ce greatly resembles the productions of A. Vanderneer for e brightness of the atmosphere and the spirit of the scene. o. 100, Head of a Rabbi, is a very fine painting. 101, se portrait of a Spanish General in full costume, was pre nted by Mrs. Winstanley, 'and will be greatly admired. iis picture is said to be by Velasquez : it is worthy of th e me, at any rate; it is clearly of his school. 102, The head i old man with a long beard, is catalogued as emanating the "school of Rubens ;" and why it should not be at attributed to the master we know not ; it is a remark- Id is full of life and spirit. This picture was gallery by Mr. Thomas Hargreaves. 115, Interior; a gentleman sitting with a lady playing the ir, and a child dancing, is a charming picture. The ease gracefulness of the child is remarkable, as well as the lom of the attitude of the two adult figures. If the eye ie lady had been on the 'child instead of on the spectator, affect would have been better. le whole of Mr. Roscoe's collection will be greatly ad d and appreciated by the lovers of art. It very appro. ely surrounds his statue, placed at the end of the room. statue was one of the last works of the immortal trey, and has been deposited in the gallery by the sub rs to it. . . . . fine head, al nted to the __ the gallery ought to be visited and highly appreciated, ie can deny. It is the first commencement of what may very splendid collection ; and we only regret that the by possessors of pictures in this town have n o t more __ally come forward and made presentations to it. S u p pose One good picture—we will not go so far as to say fine one, but one really good picture—were to be given by every gen tleman who possessed a few works of art, it would greatly enhance the value of the collection, and reflect honour on the donors. CONVERSIONS FROM POPERY.—OR Sunday last, the 12th • slant, two young men solemnly and publi c l y renounced the instant, of Popery in the Church of Pettigo, and subsequently received the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, for which they had been diligently prepared for some weeks previously. We understand they have been for some time under a serious in quiry, and weighed the subject seriously before giving up their former opinions. —Erne Packet. REDUCTION IN TIIE AILMY.-It has been determined that a reduction shall take place in the infantry of the army, the following regiments are gradually to be reduced to 740 rank and file each :-Ist (Ist and 2d battalions,) sth, 6th, 7th, Bth, 11tbth, 36th, 14th 37111, 15th 16th, 24th, 2 6th ' 27 t h , 3 0th, 32d, 33d, 34th. 35, , , 38th, 41st, 43d, 44th, 46 t h , 47th, 48th, 49th, 52d, 53d, 54th, 56th, 59th, 60th (Ist and 2d battalion,) 61st, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, 70th, 72d, 73d, 74th, 7 5 th, 76th, 77th, 79th, 81 s t, 82d , 13th, 85th, 87th 88th, 89th, 92d, arid 93d. The service companies to 540, and the depots 200 rank and file. The 19th, 90th, 95th, and lst battalion rifle brigade will remain as heretofore, at 800, their service com panies being 600, and their depots 200 rank and file. The 2d, 3d, 4th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 17th, 18th, 21st, 22d, 25th, 28th, 29th, 31st, 39th, 40th, 50th, 51st, 55th, 57th, 58th, 62d, 63d, 78th, 80th, 84th, 86th, 94th, 96th, 98th, 99th are to remain at 1000 rank and file. The 12th, 20th, 23d, 42d, 45th, 71st, 91st, 97th, and the 2d battalion of the rifle brigade, will re main at 1200 rank and file ; 100 supernumeries will, however,_ be allowed to all re g i ments serv i ng i n Ind i a or China, an d re cruiting to those serving i n a ll ot h er foreign stat i ons, and i % le of the se reg i ments w il l b e regulate d acco rd in gl y. di y. 1 The standard for th - e b iniantTy w of n tl; tlTeexeepliUn of those regiments serving in India, China, and New South Wales) will be raised to 5 feet 6i inches for men not exceed ing 25 years of age, and 5 feet 6 inches for growing lad under 18 years of age. Regiments serving in India, China, and New South Wales may take recruits at 5 feet 6 inches, but not under 18 years of age. .• • ~, MR. RICHARD CARLISLC.—The body of this eccentric 1 man was, on Monday night, removed to St. Thomas'sstll and os -1 vital for dissection, in compli a nce with his dying reque, - with a long expressed desire that it might be subjected to ,; anatomical purposes for the public good. Mr. G lee tured upon his body on Tuesday. The report that he died ! in want of the common necessaries of life his andwants of medi were cal most as -1 sistonce is completely groundless. All abundantly supplied, and at the moment of his death his house was well s upplied with every necessary.—(London paper.) On Tuesday the theatre of St. Thomas's hospital was consequence of it being announced that Mt. crowded, in Grainger would lecture upon the body of Mr. C ning. arlisle It , which had been conveyed there on the previous eve h ow. ever, appears, that, although the executive of the hospital not pproved of it altogether, only expressed a wish that his body should be brought to the is s a o doing, it would identify hospital for anatomical purposes, but also paid the expense of its conveyance, the governors, who had not, it would seem to Mr. lestbee been consulted might be s o u n p t p l 0 1 :s that, by them with the peculiar religious principles of the deceased. a d n e a c t e o a m se li d:. ; delivered d be after- The result of this ur,easiness on the part cd the governors was, that Mr. Grainger, instead of lecturing upon the body, oo • er to St. Tho fined himself to the benefits conferred on e d society o v and, in conclusion, disowned 011 his part and that of the ho : - pital, any connexion with the principles of Mr. Carlisle. I s ; was proposed to place the skeleton in the museum of the . hos... p it s !, hut to that deceased's family would not consent. Carlisle directed that his body should be deli Lowrance for dissection, and that his bones should Mr. wards burned. Mr. Lawrance declined ha • g any thing t o . do with the body; it was, therefore, hand tras's Hospital. — Globe.