The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

THE

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1855

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING

THE shortening days and lengthening nights—the cold Winds
and plashing rains, and, above all, the tradesmen's intimations,
give token that that period which locks the rural districts in
darkness and an icy seclusion, but which opens wide the portals
of metropolitan mirth, is rapidly approaching. The Court and
the courtly throng obey the influence which returns the
country's life-blood to its mighty heart, and London once more
reveals its myriad attractions to the thoughtless and the gay.
The QUEEN herself, forsaking the enchantments of the heathy
hillside and the "bosky dell," has arrived at her southern
from her northern home, and, in the quiet of regal retire-
ment, has established her family residence at Windsor. The
journey from Balmoral occupied the days of Tuesday and Wed-
nesday last, the intervening night being spent by the Royal
travellers in HER MAJESTY'S ancient and romantic palace of
Holyrood. Happily, the progress southward was effected
without any of those stirring incidents or startling occur-
rences which marked the northward route as one more fertile
in adventure than productive of delight. After leaving Edin-
burgh, nothing worthy of notice is reported to have occurred
till the cortege reached Darlington, where a Quaker deputa-
tion, headed by Mr. H. PEASE, one of the plenipotentiaries
from the Peace Society to the late CZAR, waited upon and
presented an Address to Prince ALBERT on behalf of the
Darlington Polytechnic Exhibition. This bearer of peaceful
missions unfolded his present ambassadorial errand in the
shape of an intimation that the "Mechanics' Institute" of
Darlington, like many of its betters, is in debt, and is, more-
over, inclined to wipe off that burden through the charitable
aid of patronage, royal, regal, or autocratic. Whether the
mission was successful or not, the Court newsman does not
say ; but the idea of wrapping up the begging-box in a
loyal and patriotic address is now so stale a device, that its
practice on the present occasion leads strongly to the surmise
that the ingenuity of Darlington is exceedingly mechanical.
The return of the Court to the neighbourhood of London is, of
course, hailed as a joyful event by all classes, and_the arrival
at the King's-cross Station of Her MAJESTY and her Royal
Consort and children was watched and welcomed by a large
assemblage of the people.

The gross breach of that hospitality and safe asylum which
the majesty of British institutions affords to all classes of poli-
tical exiles, by the ferocious Red Republicans, to which I re-
ferred last week, has called forth a storm of indignation from
every corner of the British kingdoms. The indignant burst of
condemnation which has everywhere greeted the knowledge of
the insolent ingratitude has nowhere found more practical ut-
terance than in Jersey, where the easy license accorded to the
press was taken advantage of ; and it was made the instru-
ment of publishing the scandalous rubbish. The obnoxious
and pestilent matter which has been so justly and so generally
condemned appeared in a democratic journal, named L' Homme,
edited and owned by members of the ultra-republican party,
aided by the, most violent and democratic refugees of every
land, including Spaniards and Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and
Frenchmen. The article chiefly complained of, although others
are nearly as bad, was a letter addressed to the QUEEN of
ENGLAND, and signed by three refugees, FELIX PYAT,
ROUGEE, and G. JOURDAIN. The letter had been read in
London at a meeting of the Comite International, et de la
Comune Revolutionaire, held on the 22nd of last month; but,
happily for the world, it was buried in the obscurity of that moral
pest-house where it had been uttered, till it obtained the wider
circle of notoriety conferred on it by publication in the demo-
cratic journal of Jersey. It would be difficult to conjecture
anything more coarsely or grossly insulting than the air of in-
solent familiarity assumed by the authors of this letter. It
commenced, " Madam,—ln return for the hospitality which we
enjoy, under the laws of your country, permit us to address to
you some useful reflections on your recentjourney." The pro-
ceedings of HER M4ESTY, on her late visit to France, are then re-
counted, the narrativebeing thicklyinterspersed withscurrilous
jests. The letter goes on to ask: "What does this visit mean ?
What do you really think of it ? What was your object in going
to see this man ?" It next launches into a most indecent string
of accusations against LOUIS NAPOLEON, whom it denounces
with the most unmeasured plenitude of abuse. Having gone
so far, and swelling into a climax of audacious insolence, the
letter reminds HER MAJESTY that, surmounting her natural
antipathies, her legitimate repugnance, her contempt, and even
her horror for the EMPEROR of the FRENCH, she has placed
her hand in his hand, has permitted his cheek to touch her
cheek; and having said thus much, goes on to say that, in
doing so, she has sacrificed her dignity as a Queen, her scruples
as a woman, her pride as an aristocrat, her feelings as an
Englishwoman, her rank, her race, her sex—all even to her
modesty. It then makes ribald suggestions as the motives
and inferences such conduct is held open to in certain localities,
and among certain circles of society in Paris and elsewhere.
The attack on Lours NAPOLEON is conveyed in terms as
blasphemous and seditious as they are insolent and absurd. So
gross an outrage on the general feelings of the country could
not be permitted to pass, and it has been vigorously repudiated
and denounced wherever it has been made known. In Jersey
a large and influential meeting was held in the Queen's Assem-
bly Rooms, St. Heliers, the Constable or Mayor presiding. At
this meeting, resolutions in the strongest terms condemnatory
of the publication, of its spirit, and sentiment, were passed; a
deputation was appointed to wait upon the Governor, request-
ing him to suppress the publication of the journal called
L' Homme, as a paper which " not only openly preaches infi-
delity, the suppression of Christianity, and the propagation of
Socialism, but also the destruction of all thrones, including that
of the gracious Sovereign" under whose mild sway it has been
unfortunately permitted to be published. In obedience to this
request, and in compliance with the requirements of the law,
the proprietor, the editor, and the distributor of the dangerous
journal were ordered to quit the island on or before Saturday
last. No subject has of late operated so completely as a means
of amalgamating all classes of people, and all shades of political
opinion, in the metropolis and elsewhere, as the desire to put
a stop to the publications of such inflammatory and flagitious
audacity.
The hoax about the GLADSTONE, BRIGHT, and DISRAELI li
coalition continues still in some degree to agitate the nervous
system of those who are mainly dependent on the crumbs of
club gossip for political vitality. The metropolitan journals,
daily and weekly, having expended their stock of surmise, and
taxed their ingenuity to the utmost, in a vain attempt to ex-
pound the riddle, have resigned the task in despair. Probably
More skilled in the unearthing of vermin than their metro-
politan brethren, the provincial journalists have taken up the
task with vigour, and pursued it with discriminating vigilance,
most of them arriving at the conclusion that there is, indeed,
nothing in the affair beyond " a peace-at-any-price ruse, in
which `the wish is made the father to the thought.' " The
GLA.DSTONE cum BRIGHT lot find themselves so thoroughly
" out at elbows" in the public estimation, that they are glad to
lay hold of anything to keep their heads above water. The
pretended coalition was too absurd to have ever been seriously
thought of by any one. Even the discomfited GLADSTONITES,
and the BRIGHT, STURGE, and PEASE rump of Russian sym-
pathisers must from the beginning have seen that the whole
matter was a burlesque. All classes, with the exception of
the two spoken of above, are united in the opinion that, how-
ever desirable it may be to secure peace, a truce which shall
be.merely as brief as it would be hollow and illusory can never
be accepted as the termination of hostilities ; but that the war
must and shall be prosecuted with vigour, till the true end and
object of the war—a guarantee for the safe tranquility of
Europe—has been obtained. The allies, as a matter of course,
are at all times ready to listen to terms of peace, so soon as
these shall be propounded, and to accept them so soon as
honourable and safe terms can be secured. Till these objects
are fully attained, ninety-nine out of every hundred of the
British people would disdain to think of peace.
From thoughts of coming peace, the mind reverts at once to
the conduct of the war as one of the means, or indeed the only
means by which the desired blessing of European tranquillity
can be brought about. Since the capture of Sebastopol, the
allies have been so far relieved that they are now enabled to
direct their attention and manoeuvre their forces upon different
points of the enemy's position and line of operations. This
fact alone renders it difficult to collect comprehensible intelli-
gence as to the movements of the Allied armies, or fully to
understand such information as is communicated. From the
scraps of news, however, with which the public is supplied, it
is no difficult matter to perceive that great advantages have
been already obtained over the enemy. The Allies are ob-
viously operating in a series of combined movements, having
for their object the selection of such points of attack as will
secure for them complete command of the Russian lines of
communication, cutting off their supplies, and circumscribing
their means of retreat as well as of defence. The information,
as already said, is scanty which now reaches this country from
the Crimea, but the little with which we are favoured is of
such .a nature as to show that in a prolongation of the contest
the Russians have little to look forward to beyond a succession
of defeats. The fleet also has been so far set at liberty, that
formidable squadrons of heavily-armed ships threaten the
northern shores of the Euxine, and have captured Kinburn at
the mouth of the Dnieper, about forty miles east of Odessa.
At Kinburn, the fleet succeeded, after a sharp bombardment,
in capturing the three forts, mounting seventy guns, and in
taking, according to one account, 1,600, and according to
another, 1,300 prisoners. The next movement of the fleet,

it was anticipated, would be directed against Oczakow,
on the, oppesite shore of the estuary, thus completely
commanding the month of the Dnieper. Having se-
cured these points, Odessa presents itself invitingly to their
attack. At this famous depot there are six hundred maga-
zines of grain, and every day it is understood is adding to the
stores of corn arriving from the interior. A successful attack
upon Odessa would place this vast accumulation of corn at the
disposal of the Allies. Such a mark is worth aiming at with
force and decision ; and once secured, the campaign of 1856
might indeed be closed with :safety, as it would with honour,
to the Allied arms.

Important as the advantages gained by the conquest of
Sebastopol unquestionably are in an immediate military point
of view, it is not in that light, probably, that those advantages
are to be most clearly perceived. Exterior to the Crimea, and
far removed from Sebastopol, the moral influence of the con-
quest of that formidable fortress begins rapidly to make itself
apparent. It has already begun to act on the politics of
Europe. Nearly every country on the continent begins to
show a swinging round. Before the present war commenced,
the ear of all Europe was abused with the delusion that as a
military power Russia was impregnable. This consideration
held the timid aloof from our connexion. The protracted and
stubborn defence of Sebastopol gave countenance and currency
to the delusive notion of Russian invincibility. The fall of
that stronghold has dispelled the prestige. The German
States already indicate a more friendly feeling towards the
Allies ; no overt acts have as yet evinced this feeling ; such
speedy declaration would seem indecent ; but every one is
aware that straws thrown up indicate pretty surely how the
wind sets. The Prussian journals, ever most friendly towards
Russia, have changed their tone, and speak with res-
pect instead of with reviling of England and. France'
The southern European States evince even more alacrity
than those of central Europe in recognizing that Russia
is vulnerable. The KING OF NAPLES has become con-
siderably more amenable to reason than he was prior to
the Bth of last month. The affairs of Spain, too, in which a
considerable amount of Russian influence was believed to
mingle, have had "a change come o'er the spirit of their
dream," and the denounced ESPAHTERO and O'DorrNELL are
now no longer the butts of court sneers. The fall of Sebas-
topol appears to have so shaken the political elements of the
small courts of Europe, as to insure new and altered com-
binations in the sympathies of those exceedingly sensitive
agglomerations of political wisdom. In a remarkable manner
has this been displayed in a rumour which reaches this country
via Berlin, to the effect that LEOPOLD, King of Belgium, for-
saking the game of fast and loose, and coquetting with both
parties, has donned the white robe, and assuming the palm
branch is to appear in the character of mediator between the
contending parties. The channel through whieh this rumour
comes is open to grave suspicion. The character and ante-
cedents of the Belgian King render the rumour, if correct,
liable to even stronger challenge. His position as a European
Sovereign scarcely entitles him to the dignity of a volunteer
mediator; and if he is to fall back upon the Divine assurance
that "blessed is the peacemaker," his interference seems open
to the objection that it has been delayed till considerably past
the eleventh hour. A more serious ground of hesitation and
dislike to his interference, on the part of Britain, exists in the
fact that while he was, and still continues to be a pensioner on
the British bounty, he has not only delayed the offer of his
good offices till they cannot benefit us, but actually till the
allies have gained such an advantage that the office of a medi-
ator is not required by them. In addition to this, he has
exhibited such a neutrality on one side, that his interference
must be regarded in the light of a Russian advance which
would have been withheld if Russia had 'had the
best of the contention. To make this plain, it is
only necessary to bear in mind that the journal Le Nord,
the most violent of the pro-Russian journals, has been
published in his kingdom, and, if he is not belied, counte-
nanced by his patronage. Beyond this, it is well to keep in
view that nearly every warlike weapon wielded by Russians
has been of Belgium manufacture ! and yet he is our
Sovereign's uncle. While those facts are patent and noto-
rious, what, it may be asked, is the connexion of LEOPOLD with
France and Britain ? A glance at his personal history tells us
that more than forty years ago he applied for, and was refused,
the position—of an aide-de-camp in the French service by the
first NAPOLEON. Not long after that it was his good fortune
to win and secure the affections of the heiress-presumptive to
the British crown, the lamented Princess CHARLOTTE, whose
husband he became. Consequent upon this marriage, he was
ensured a princely income, and at her death, in 1817, the
widowed husband became the possessor of a pension of
£30,000 per annum, paid out of the British taxes. Sixteen
years after the lamented death referred to, chiefly through
British influence, he became the King of Belgium, but still
remained the stipendiary of Britain which he continues to be,
since the time first referred' to, having for his own personal
use received nearly two millions and a quarter of pounds
sterling of British money. Yet this respectable potentate
only had has eyes opened by the fall of Sebastopol, and
gratitude impels him Ale, it seems, to save his friend, if
possible. Such, howev the way of the world. Every
day's experience makes men more freely acquainted with
heroes who are

ever strong
Upon the stronger side.
Mediators of this class have been familiar to the world from
a period long antecedent to the " march of intellect."
Among the singularities which have marked the past week's
singular history, none have been more amusing or amazing
than the wry faces and flaming wrath exhibited by the Times.
Spoiled by success and rendered insolent by toleration, "like
a tall bully" the Times has been assailing all who come in its
way, if they refuse to bow the knee and worship its sublime
wisdom and impeccable virtue. Every one is aware that
Donnybrook Fair and its pugilistic wonders are no more;
but few may have expected to see the absurd pugnacity of that
great national display transferred to Printing-house-square.
Every one is familiar with the "tall bully" of that exhibition,
who, maddened by self-conceit and a large application of Dutch
courage, used to rush through the fair trailing his tattered
coat after him, challenging any one or all to tread on its skirts
as a gage of desperate battle; and many will grieve to witness
in the freaks of the Times a repetition of that braggadocio's
bullying. Which of the two champions may be the better at
the use of the cudgel, is an open question ; which is the
greater adept in the shrew's vocabulary, admits of no dis-
cussion. It is very ludicrous as well as somewhat melan-
choly to behold the journalistic•JurrTEß trailing his party-
coloured garment through the mire, and daring any one to
tread on it ; yet " to such base uses has he come at last." Last
week appears to have been the Donnybrook period of the
Times saturnalia, and throughout the whole week it "has
kept up the spree." On Monday it stormed, at the
Edinburgh Review. The venom it then spit forth might
under ordinary circumstances have cleared the• stomach of an
ordinary scold, as a violent thunderstorm, is understood to
clear the air; but no, gathering up its metaphorical strength,
it once more charges its figurative gun, and bursts it on the
unhappy Radical organ of political criticism. Wednesday
saw its whole armoury of invective and vituperation concen-
trated against its quondam friend and ci-devant valued
contributor, the Rev. SinNyr GonoLparx OSBORNE, the re-
doubtable S. G. 0. of the Times. Tuesday was a day especi-
ally set apart for abuse of the Scotch in general, and of Sir
ARCHIBALD ALISON in particular; Thursday and Satuntty
were the days devoted to the abuse of all comers ; so that the
whole week was expended in the undignified as well as un-
unseemly distribution of unanswered defiance and the foul-
mouthed exhibition of a privileged tongue. What could have
led to so varied and mild a tilting match ? Jealous vanity and
captious self-conceit. The unhappy reviewer, while admitting
the potency of the new Jupiter's thunder, insinuated a doubt
as to the invariable wisdom of its application—he went further
—he ventured to suggest the danger proverbially admitted to
exist in allowing fools and children to play with edge tools
hence the atrabilarious grumbling and mild denunciations of
the self-elected deity. Poor S. G. 0. in delivering an address
to those whom the Times calls "the temperate symposiasts of
Wilton," forgot to mention the surpassing virtues of the
Times, and that too while he even eulogised the bravery of
Russian soldiers, and, sinful man that he is, ventured to
suppose that they were possessed of human feelings, and were
actuated in some degree at least by human sympathies
and human motives. He did more—he glanced at the
hospitals at Scutari, and even incidentally alluded to Miss
NIGHTINGALE, but remained cruelly and significantly silent
upon the all-important subjeet of the Times—its special fund

—its villent vituperation of our Generals and our military
system—its erudite suggestions upon strategic tactics—and its
impartial criticism upon men and things, were utterly for-
gotten by the remorseless S. G. 0. Flesh and blood cannot
stand neglect so cruel—how could it be expected from a wind-
inflated god ? Last and saddest of all, Sir ARCHIBALD
AxasoN, and many of his countrymen, conceiving that the
victories gained in the Crimea were sufficient justification for
them to meet and in mutual gratulation celebrate the gallant
deeds of their gallant countrymen
By the festal cities' blaze.
Whilst the wine cup shines in light.

Now, somehow or other, the Times has never been pleased
with the Crimean victories, or Crimean conduct ; its position
in that arena from first to last has been that of a grumbler,
and above all things it cannot bear contradiction. At this
meeting,the rank and the talent, the genius and the-patriotism
of Scotland, assembled to do honour to the living and the dead,
through whose dangers, daring, and death, the victories had
been achieved. In his place at this banquet, Sir ARCHIBALD
ALISOIT, avoiding to some extent the cosmopolitan feeling
which the Times so severely castigates in its beloved S. G. 0.,
confined his observations and limited his panegyric to the

brave deeds of his countrymen. Determined that so great a
champion as Sir ARCHIBALD should tread, accidentally or
otherwise, upon his soiled coat-skirts, the Donnybrook bully
strikes fiercely out at what he calls the "provincialism" of the
great historian, in alluding to those brave deeds which won
from our gallant Allies for the men who did them the signifi-
cant and proud appellation of "The Wall of Iron." This was
the pretence on which the Times grounded its attack, the real
casus belli being, as all the world knows, the fact that Sir
AILCHIBA.LD ALISON condemned the shallow criticism upon
military matters which, gleaned from the gossip of the mess-
table, the Times compounds into hebdomadal and sometimes
daily doses, and insists upon the public swallowing. The
thoughtful historian, calmly surveying the events which have
arisen in the Crimea, ventures to differ from the dicta deli-
vered with oracular pomposity by the journalist; the weight
carried with the objection is too great to be overthrown—the
labouring JUPITER cannot displace the load, but like THER-
SITES he can jabber and call foul names.
At Drury-lane, CHARLES MATHEws has made a decided
impression in the regular drama ; eschewing vaudeville, in
which he used to occupy the largest space, if not entirely to
fill the picture, he now contents himself with taking his place
among his histrionic brethren, and that place he sustains, as
was to be expected, well. As Mr. Mopus, in " Married for
Money," he sustains the character throughout, in all its various I
1
phases, admirably. In one scene, where driven to desperation
by the tyranny of his wife, he seeks consolation in the bottle,
and becomes inebriated, his acting is most characteristic and
admirable, reminding the elder portion of the audience of the
palmy days of the stage, when CHARLES KEMBLE or Wxtra.s.st
MURRAY, in the character of Cassio, showed how a gentle-
man could deport himself when drunk. At the Haymarket.
Miss BLANCHE FAME wins her way steadily and derservedly
in popular favour ; and she is well supported and played up to
by Miss SWA.NBOROITGII.

RELIGION AND ITS TEST.-

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sxn,—There is oue test by which, better than by any other,
the reality of our religious professions may be tried; and that
test is LOVE. I speak with reference to this world, not to
the next; with reference to the judgment, or rather opinion,
which we form of each other, and without all reference to the
final judgment of Him who cannot err. Man may err, and
frequently does so, in the opinions which he forms of his fel-
low-men. However perfect the test which he applies, error
will arise from his unskilfulness in applying it ; and, as he
cannot search the heart and scan the secret motive, he may
not only be led on some occasions to condemn where condem-
nation is undeserved, but also on others to give credit for true
religious principle to those who are in fact neither more nor
less than canting hypocrites. Notwithstanding all this, how-
ever, there are certain rules which we may safely apply in a
general way ; and one of these is, that real religion will ever
manifest itself by deeds of charity or love. For this we have
the warrant of an inspired Apostle, of that Apostle who, more
than any of his brethren, appears to have been imbued with
the gentle and loving spirit of his Divine Master. That
Apostle declares the man who, hating his brother, yet pro-
fesses to love God, to be a liar. The language is strong; polite
society would pronounce it coarse, ifit occurred anywhere else
but in the Bible. But coarse, or polite, it is true;; and eminently
necessary for these times. Of this rule, then, this test of true
religion, I would make a general application, not daring to con-
demn individuals, but not hesitating to assert that there must
be a vast amount of sham religion somewhere.
Liverpool bears the reputation, in other parts of the king-
dom, of a religious town. I recollect many years ago hearing
it characterised by an enthusiastic young lady-, as " quite a
land of Goshen." And, not only does it bear the reputation,
but to a certain extent it makes profession of being so ; as
witness its meetings for various religious and controver-
sial purposes. And yet, in spite of all this, poverty and suf-
fering in their various forms are very inadequately relieved.
Neither the spiritual nor the temporal wants- of themaeses
elicit from the professors of religion those acts of love which
form the only tangible evidence of the sincerity of their pro-
fessions. Let me not be misunderstood. I do-not intend! to
assert that none are sincere, for, so far as this test of love-is
concerned, there are not a few whose religion I have every
reason to believe is "pure and undefiled," and these• by no
means the loudest in their professions. What Ido intend is-
this,—that there is more profession of religion than practice•
of love; and, consequently, that there must be a large amount
of insincerity somewhere: In proof of my charge- I would'
point to the various charitable institutions, and especially at
this moment to the Infirmary. The history of each one is a•
history of struggles to keep.above water; a history of begging
and dunning, of fancy-fairs and bazaars, of charity-sermons and
public balls, and all the• other nineteenth-century expedients
for wheedling people out of their money and making them
believe that they are charitable: ' Many people endeavour •to •
excuse themselves to their own• consciences for their neglect of
the poor, by urging their liability to be imposed upon r and Is
-
doubt not that many a. man of kindly feelings has had those
feelings hardened, by discovering the roguery whichhad suc-
ceeded in exciting them. Ido not say that such ought to be.
the result; and I am quite sure that-where true religion exerts
its influence, it will not.. The discovery of imposition will;
make the charitable man more careful, but will not convert
his lore- towards the brethren, into indifference. However,. I
have chosen to speak of the public institutions of the town;.
because this excuse cannot be urged for neglecting to support
them. Even these may be abused, but the chances that they
will be so• are very small. The disinclination on the part of
the poor to go into a. hospital of any kind; is itself a guarantee •
that they will not apply for relief unless- they need it ; to say
nothing of the skill and care of those under whose manage-
ment they are placed- And yet, in Liverpool, such an imstitu,
t ion as. the Infirmary is allowed.torun.into debt, and languish.
-for want of funds : and I mention this institution, not because
it is the only one which is insufficiently supported, but, be-
cause it happens at this moment to be appealing to the public
for relief.

Times are bad; it will be-said.; and war-taxes, combined with
war-prices, will not permit people to give as much as-they'
could wish. A good: excuse, no doubt, in the mouth of one
who has hitherto given as, much, as rigid self-denian would
enable him to give: But the fact isi that few ever deny them-1,
selves to give at all;_ and most of those who do give, de so of
their superfluity. The reply so often received, "11 cannot
afford it,!' does not mean, .I: have it not, but, I have itr not to
spare : in other words, if I give I cannot have all I want for
myself, and therefore I will not give. As for the war„l know,
that it costs money;. and L fear thatit will cost a vast deal
more yet before it is finished; Bat what then ? It was not
only commenced with the full concurrence of the peep& in all
ranks, but was coaled for by them ; and, now that they have
got the war which they demanded, are they to expect God •to
pay for it ? Undoubtedly, they who endeavour to counter,.
balance their increased expenditure by, diminishinp,:or wholly
withdrawing their alms, do, so far as-in them lies, endeavour,
to make Him pay for it:. And this they would perceive, if only
they would recollect that the poor are His poor, and His spe-
cial representatives in,earth, The plain truth is, that the state
of our public charitable institutions is a disgrace to the town,
and gives the lie to nine-tenths of' the religious profession of
which we hear so much. And if this be true, as M. heard a past
Mayor of Liverpool publicly assert some time ago; that all the
charities in the. town, are-supported by thirieen hundred
individual, the disgrace is.much deeper than at a first glance
appears.—l.ara, Sir, your's, &c„ X, Y. Z.

PROPOSED, NEW CHURCH.

TO 7HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD.

SlR,:—The laudable •effbrts you make fro= time to time to •
rouse the attention of Churchmen to the state of spiritual's
destitution in which so many districts of our populous town is
suffered to continue, deserve the grateful acknowledgment of
all earnest and, consistent members of our communion.

I am anxious on the present occasion.to second your general
endeavours, by pointing to one district in particulcr. where.
nothing but the purest neglect can suffer the erection of a.
new church to be longer delayed. I. allude to the thickly and ,
respectably-inhabited district around the ZoologicaZGardens,
which has only one church (St. Chrysostom's) for the vast po-
pulation residing between St. GeorKe's, Everton, and Edge hill
the great majority of whom are no. doubt Church people.
The pressing want that exists of further chureh accommo-
dation is deinonstrated by the fact, that, (notwithstanding. XI:
Caine's figures, which are as grossly, inaccurate iu.this case
in that of St. John's,) the church of St.. Chrysostoni is. often
inconveniently crowded—that families wishing.to engage pews
therein have generally to wails some months. before they can
be accommodated—and that seat-holders, though they reach
the church before the service has commenced, often find their
sittings occupied-by strangers. --
There is at present plenty of vacant land at the back of
Wellington-terrace, West Derby-road, which would be -a cen-
tral and excellent situation for a new church ;_ but as building
is going on rapidly in the neighbourhood, a-site should be se-
cured without delay. In the United States- it is the custom,
when laying out a village, (from lucrative motives, if for
no other,) to mark out a site, and often erect a small place of
worship, before any other buildings are put up. Oh, that such
a custom, with a purer motive, existed in England.
To raise a church in the locality I have indicated ought, it
seems to me, to require no other movement than the forma-
tion of a committee to collect subscriptions in the district and
superintend the erection. I cannot suppose (hard times
though they be) thatthere could be anygreat difficultyin raising
a sufficient sum in so respectable a neighbourhood.—l am, Sir,
yours, respectfully, VOX.
West Derby-road, 20th Oct., 1855.

WHAT OUGHT THE DIRECTORS OF THE
BANK OF ENGLAND TO DO ?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Stu,—We are fast approaching another money crisis ; and,
if the government do not interfere, no man can tell the result.
The drain of bullion goes steadily on week by week ; and the
Bank of England goes steadily on raising the rate of dis.
counts. Where is this to stop ? Is the commercial body of
this country to be laid prostrate, because the Emperor of
Russia (and the Emperor of France, in self-defence) is bent
upon drawing every sovereign from us he can obtain by
direct or indirect means ? He well knows his strength by so
doing, and our weakness. It is not a question with either
him or the Emperor of France of expense ; they must have
and will have it, so long as we adhere to our present monetary
laws. In other panics it was a matter of over-trading, and
consequent inflated prices of Produce and Manufactures. Now
it is nothing of the kind—Commerce is unusually sound.
It is a mere question of putting a stop to the
export of gold. And this is the question—what will
put a stop to it ? No doubt there may be and is
considerable difference of opinion on this point ; but in my
humble opinion it is not a question of 8, 10, or 12 per cent.
which will stop it. It is a political necessity both with the
Emperors of Russia and France to possess it, and the drain
will continue, and most likely increase. Is the commercial
body of this country to stand quietly by, and be mulcted and
panic-stricken by the Jews and Bullionists, who are gloating

over their harvest, when a stroke of the pen or an order in
Council would obviate the whole difficulty? The directors of the
Bank of England must wait upon the Government and insist
upon cash-payments being suspended for a time,—it may be
so long as the war lasts. We live in extraordinary times, and
extraordinary means must be resorted to. Having arrived at
this point,let them issue 10 or 15 millions of one-pound. notes,
and the commerce and industry of the country will go on
independent of any imaginary value of gold. A mere suspen-
sion of Peel's Bank Bill of 1844 will not meet the case. To
keep the bullion in the country, the Bank of England ought
to suspend making cash-payments. Should the Bank of
France still require four or five millions, then we could lend it
to them without any disastrous consequences resulting.—Your
obedient Servant, FREE TRADER-IN-MONEY.

SANITARY CONDITION OF GREAT
CROSBY AND LITHERLAND.

A REPORT to the General Board of Health, on the sewerage
and other sanitary matters connected with the townships of
Great Crosby and Litherland, has been presented by Mr. R.
Rawlinson, C.E., and has just been published. As is usual

with the reports of this gentleman, he commences by a pains-
taking statement of all the preliminary matters connected with
the townships in question which can be supposed to exercise
any important influence on the general salubrity of the dis-
trict. After discussing the geological formations on which the
townships are situated, and glancing with the eye of an en-
gineering artist on the topography of the locality, he proceeds
to investigate the effect of these natural peculiarities on the
district. Having thus arranged an a priori view of the case,
his subsequent attention is directed to ascertain how far those
natural peculiarities are favourable to the sanitary condition
of the various places contained in the townships, and he next en-
deavours to show how far the natural facilities have been taken
advantage of; and, lastly, he adduces his own views as to what
can and ought to be accomplished, and lays down proposals
by which he considers those views are most likely to be suc-
cessfully carried out.

In the commencement of his report, Mr Rawlinson shows
that, from the flat surface and low level of the land adjoining
the Mersey, considerable change is continually going on in the
neighbourhood of the coast, chiefly occasioned by the action of
the waters of the river as these are operated on by tides and
storms.

Among the topographical, geological, statistical, and meteor-
ological data adduced by Mr. Rawlinson, we learn that—
"There are no local acts in force• for any of the purposes
contemplated by the Public Health Act, in either Litherland
or Great Crosby, but as he shows—
" The Liverpool Gas Works Company, under their local act,
may extend their mains into and over the townships-, and they
have to some extent done so. But therris no general; public
lighting by gas, although it has become a necessity.
" There is no local supply of water but that obtained from
open wells and pumps, or rain-water. Many of the wells are
shallow ; and, as cesspool's' are sunk in the same sub-soil, near
to. the wells in many instances, contamination takes place:
The. cost of a supply of water obtained from wells, pumps, and
rein-water tanks or cisterns, is considerabFe. A well and
pump, it is stated, may, in many cases, cost £2O, and 10s. per
annum for repairs. Rain-water cisterns cost in proportion to,
their size, and this may be from 10s., the cottager's tub, to
£100;-the cost of slate, lead, or cement-lined cisterns in larger'
houses. Pump-water must be carried, and this adde materially
to its pricer.even to the poor. Water may be supplied to a
local boardan bulk, by any company, at a much less cost than
individuals can obtain it ; or a Focal board may construct
works for the ratepayers which shalt give each a supply within
the house; and also have water at command for public purposes,
fires, street-washing, flushing sewers, and other purposes.
"The evidence proves that fever pre/ails in the townehips.
A difference of opinion was, however, expressed at the inquiry
as to the origin of local fevers, some contending that they
are imported from- Liverpool. The vexedquestion of impede.;
tion and contagion need not be argued; neither is it necessary
to prove that excess of disease prevails, to show how desirable
it is that additional; local power for good government should
be granted. Sewers require to be formed, or houses cannot
be drained ; and where there are cesspools, • either within or
without the walls-Cf dwelling-houses, there will be excess of
disease. Foul ditches poison the atmospher a. and unforme&
roads generate wet and discomfort.
"The population of the township of Great Orceby, in 1801,
was 425; in the year 1851, it had become 2,403'i. and there has
been an accelerated rate-of increase since the census. There
has not been much increase in the adjoining townships, which
remain purely agricultural. Little Crosby township con-
tained, in 1801, 317 persons; in 1851, 407 persons. Ince
Blundell, in 1801, 419 persons; and in 1851, 501: Thornton,
1801, 230 persons; 1851; 298.
"The population of Litherland, in 1811, was 338'; in 1851,
it had risen to 2,252 ; the adjoining agricultural' townships
remaining almost stationary. This increase of population re-
presents a corresponding,increase in the price of, land for
building purposes, offering: pecuniary inducements for better
looal government, as also for sanitary improvement..
" RECOMMENDATIONB.—Taking into consider:AlM the
wishes of the inhabitants- within the townships of Great
Crosby and Litherland, 11 beg to recommend that a new
boundary be formed, to he called " Waterloo." That the
Public health Act be applied: within such boundary: That
the local board to he elected tinder the said Public -Health
Act ooneist of nine persons,- That every person shall, -at the
time of his election as a member of the said local board,: and
so long as he shall continue in office- by virtue of such electinn,
be resident, as in the said Public. Health Act, 1818;; is. re-
quired,and be seised and possessed; of real personal estate,. or
both, to the value or amount.. of not less than £l,OOO, orshall
be so resident and rated to thenrelief of the poor of the parish
upon =annual value of not less than £30."
In the course of his remarke;.Mr..Rawlinson throws outsome
eminently practical suggestions for remedying the evils wiliala
are demonstrated in the evidence to, exist, and the remedy of
whichia counselled in the report: He says, in reference-ts
Croaky, "many nuisances exßetthroughout the township,vvltich
cannotbe.remedied under the-Highway Act. The village.re-
quiresto-be sewered, and in aeeornplii3hing this work facilities
may be-given for land drainage. Public lights will be a great
convenience, and one local' governing body can alone/ar-
range for these and other ireprovements et the least cost:?
So in regard to Litherland, he observes, "The villages
require- works of improvement ;. fever is common ; . the
guardians cannot do the work. necessary; and if extended
powers, be Dot given, locall nuisances will increase with the+
addition, of population." Whiled fully concurring in the value
of the suggestions, we would, call special attention to- the
assertion which we have marked ire italics. Its importance
is aliViOuil to every one, andlita truth: will be gainsaid by few:

If this proposition be granted,.wordil it not be for the
inte-
rests-of: the proprietors and other ratepayers in thesetown-,
shipato pause in their solicitation. fora separate application.of
the Public Health Act ? The Corporation of Liverpelli it is:
understood,. is about to applyto Parliament for such anexten-
sion. of the borough boundary,. particularly with a view to.
sanitary purposes, as will; include some portion, and might
eaailyhe made to include the wholes.of these townships... Hit
be true, as there is no reason Ao. doubt that it is, that 4 one
local governing body Can ,alone arrange for these and other
improvements AT THE.IJEAaT,COST: can it be doubted, that it
would be for the benefit of the ratepayers and inhabitants of
those townships to coalesce and eo.operate with Li7orpool in
the endeavour to carry out a general scheme of improvement,
instead of pursuing the .less .efftctive-project.of isolated local
action? By such ca-operation they could be at orce and effi-
ciently supplied in reference to. water, sewerage,. and light
by the isolated plea . they may indeed ultimately meet a tho-
rough sanitary rearm in both townships, but it more than
merely problematie.tbut they. will be able to do :ie. with ,equal
efficiency and celerity, as if united in a general measure of the
same nature, in ,common with the borough of Liverpool.

THE CIRIMBER OF COMMERCE- A,NI):
. . MONETARY AFFAI2M.

. .
A requisition, as, on Thursday, addressed to the chakman
of the Chamber of Commerce, requesting him to call.a meet-
ing of the Chamber, to, consider what oourse should be in-
stantly adopted for the relief of the community under depre-
ciation of property,. consequent upon our present monetary'
system. The requisition was signed by T, and.ll. hittledale
and Co.; Molyneux, Taylor, and Co.;, Thomas.Haigh and Co.;
R. Z%vilchenbart, Forer, and Co.; Buchanan, Brown, and Co.;
and other influential names, and was.presentea on. Friday to
Mr. Edward, Heath, chairman of the Chamber, by Mr. J. Torr,
asittledale and C 0.,) Mr. Charles. Parker, (Sandbaeh, Tinne,
and C 0.,) Mr. Thomas Haigh,, Mr. Ravenscroft, Mr. M. S.
Beckwith, Mr. G. Griffith, and Mr. H. C. Beloe. Mr. Heath
said, he heartily sympathised with the requisitionists, both in
his capacity as a merchant, and, as chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce, and was desirous of using every endeavour to
promote the objects of the deputation. He would remind.
them, however, that if the .Chamber had obtained influence in.
high quarters, it was owing to the moderation and cautious,
ness of the measures which it had. urged, and it could only
heipe to maintain that influence by the use of the same means.
He suggested, therefore, to the deputation the propriety of
bringing the matter first before a special meeting of the
Council, instead of peremptorily calling the Chamber, which
comprised six hundred metnbers, together. Were the latter
course adopted, it was probable that, in a crisis of this kind,
strong resolutions, not calculated to meet the object in view,
would be adopted. He was not aware whether the requisition
was signed by twenty-one members of the Chamber ; if so,
he had no discretion, but was bound by the rules to call a
meeting of the Chamber. Mr. H. C. Beloe observed that the
requisition came from gentlemen deeply engaged in commerce,
who looked up to the Chamber as their representative in a
crisis like this. He did not think, therefore, that, even sup-
posing there were twenty-one members, the chairman should
receive the requisition as from members of the Chamber, as
they did not sign it in that capacity. Mr. Heath was obliged
for this information, as it made his course clear. During the
last fortnight he had had conversations with various gentle-
men upon this subject, and his intention was, at the next
monthly meeting of the Council, to have brought the subject
before them, if no member introduced a specific motion on the
subject. The Chamber would probably have taken up the
subject on its general merits, even if it had not thus been
brought before them, because they had always anticipated the
taking into consideration, at the next Parliamentary session,
of the great question of the renewal of the Bank Charter, which
was now merely contingent upon a notice from the govern-
ment, which might terminate it at any moment. Present
events, however, would compel an anticipation of this discus:
sion, and having received the numerously signed requisition
just presented, he should take the earliest opportunity of con-
vening a special meeting of the council. Having retired for
a few moments to consult with Mr. Aikin, (the deputy-chair-
man,) Mr. Heath announced that the meeting of the Council
would be held on Mond#, (yesterday=). The deputation then
withdrew,