The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-07 00:00:00

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MERSEY" LINE OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS
TO SAIL ON THE TE ,Ttl OF JULY.

NOTICE

FOR M E LB 0 U RN E.
.\ The remarkably fine Clipper Ship
40,,, LADY WESTMORELAND,
Captain STRACITAM ;
870 tons register. Loading East side Prince's Dock

Freight by the Mail Steamers to Halifax and Boston, and to New
York direct, .tr 4 per ton and 5 per cent primage.
Freight on Parcels 5 s . each and upward s,according to size .
PAscuts for different Consignees. collected and made up in single
packages, addressed to one party for delivery in America, for the
purpose of evading the payment of freight, will, upon exam' nation
in America by the Customs, be charged with the proper freight.
BRITISH AND NORTH. AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL

A I at LI,

FOR SYDNEY.
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42;4 i `l/4 The fine Frigate-built Ship
' ~.', i DUNDONALD;
A i at Lloyd's, 1,372 tons register. Loading in Salthouse Dock.
Both these vessels have superior accommodations for a limited
number of First end Second Cabin passengers.—Apply to
EDMUND THOMPSON, 17, Water street.

STEAM SHIPS
APPOINTED BY THE ADMIRALTY
TO SAIL BETWEEN
LIVERPOOL & NEW YORK, DIRECT,
AND BETWEEN
~„
LIVERPOOL AND BOSTON.
The BOSTON Ships only CALLING at HALIFAX, to land and
receiv. Passengers and her Majesty's Mails.
Captains. Captains.
PERSIA . C. H. E. Judkins. AFRICA .. Neil Shannon.
ARABIA . James Stone. AMERICA.. J. G. Wickman.
ASIA .. Edwd. G. Lott. NIAGARA. John Leitch.
CANADA C. Lang. J EUROPA _.. Alex. Ryrie.

"MERSEY" LINE OF AUSTRALIAN PACKETS.
Carries a Mail and a Full Band of Masi
FOR MELBOURNE AND GEELONG.

TO S lIL lOra AUGUST,

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CAMBRIA .. .• .. Captain Douglas.
The under-noted or other Vessels are appointed to Sail
From LIVERPOOL.

The Magn,ficent new Clipper Ship
ACADIA,
H. H. KERR, Commander')

PFRSIA . .. For New York ...Saturday, the 12th July.
ARABIA .... For Boston .. . Saturday, the 19th July.
ASIA....
CANADA For Boston Saturday, the 2nd Ang.
AFRICA .... For New York .. . (4aturd.y, the 9th Aug.
NIAGARA .. For Boston Saturday, the 16th Aug.
PERSIA .... For New York Saturday, tl,e 23rd Aug.
ARABIA .... For Boston Saturday, the 30th Aug.

A 1 at Lloyd's, 2,030 tons register, 3,500 tons burthen. This splendid
shin (now on her second voyage), is one of the largest, finest, and
fastest Merchant Ships in the wort!. Her promenade neck is
upwards of 230 feet long, by 40 teet broad. Her cabins are fitted
up in the greatest style of luxury, and her general arrangements
will be found, on inspectiin, to be unsurpasse,l for comfort and
elegance.

FROM AMERICA

AMERICA .. From Boston ..
ASIA ........ From New York
CANADA.... From Roston— .

Wednesday, 2nd July
Wednesday, 9th July.
Wednesday, 16th July.

Her Commander is w.,11 known for his urbanity of manner, and
i 4 been long accustomed to the passenger trade. Intending emi-
a-ts should view this splendid vessel before engaging their berth

AFRICA .... From New Yolk Wednesday, 23rd July.
NIAGARA .. From Boston
Passage Money trom Liverpool to Halifax and Boston:—Chie:
Cabin, lwenty.hve Guineas ; second Cabin, Fifteen Guineas. To
New York, direct:—Chief Cabin, Thirty Guineas; Second Cabin,
Twenty Guineas, These rates include Steward's Fee and Provisions,
but without W'nes or Liquors, which can be obtained on board.

rn her great sailing powers, it is confidently expeqed:she will
the passage under 70 day9.—For terms of freight or passage
to the owners, Messrs DAVID GRAINGER & SON, or to
. .

nifUND TIDiMPSON, Drury-buildings, Water-street.

Dogs charged Five Pounds each.
These Steam-ships have accommodatior, for a limited dumber of

ships LADY WESTMORELAND (for M
)ONALD (for Sydney

.Ibourne),

lespatche l ou the
r only of first and second cabin pas-

'7l a limited amber

Passengers are allowed twenty cubic feet of personal luggage,
free of freight, hut the agents do not guarantee to reserva room
for more than that quantity, and they will be charged freight
on thf:ir personal luggage when it exceeds half a ton measurement.

ARRIES A MAIL

" FOX" LINE OF PACKE N TO AUSTRALIA
PACKET OF TIIM FIFTEENTH OF JULY.
Loading Berth lialthouse Dock.
FOR MELBOURNE,
11 The well-known splendid Clipper Ship
FULWOOD,
W. J. FIZSIMMONS, Commander
(Rho has had great experience in the Trade);

Farcelsivill be received at the Office of the Agents here until Sia
o'clock on the Friday Evenings previous to Sailing. _

Lettets for Consignees or'oth. ers, must i ass through the Post-
office. Noe will be rece ved at the Office of the Agents.

Apply, in Halifax, to Samuel Cunara ; in BostolZto 5. S . Lewis;
in New York, to Edward Cunard; in Havre, to Donald Currie, 21,
Quai d'Orleans; in Paris, to Donald Currie, 17, Bout. des !Wiens;
In London, to J. 13. Foord, 52, Old Broad-street; in Glasgow, to G.
and J. Burns ; and in Liverpool to

D. & C

MAC IVER, 14, Water-street.

A 1 at Lloyd's ; 1160 tons register,

The FULWOOD is a favourite ship, and mode her last voyage out
from Tuskar to Melbourne in 74} days, crossi-g the equator on the
21st day. She has magnificeot accommodation for passengers, and
to shippers presents a hist-rate opportunity.—For foeight or passage
apply to MeLsrs. Jsmes, Palmer, and _ Co.;• or to
HENRY FOX, 2, King-street.
To be succeeded by the splendid Packet-ship (augur( or THE
WEST, D. Robertson, 2300 tons.

The PERSIA, for NEW YORK Dititcr:will sail on Satur-
day next, the 12th inst. Thesteam-tender JATZLLITS will leave
the Landing-stage, opposite the Baths, George's Pier, at Two
o'clock, afternoon, of that day, with the Passengers for the
PERSIA.

AUSTRALIAN ROYAL MAILS, WHITE STAR LINE.
Under Contract with the Postmaster-General to sail for Melbourne
on the 20th of every month.
Ships. Tons Burthen. Commanders. To Sail.
MERMAID....

IVIII.ES BAR CON 1068. Kelly..
W H ITE STAR

20th July,
20th Aug.

'fiPTitF.E

20th Sept.

Passengers forwarded to Sydney, Geelong, Adelaide, Van
Dieman's Land, Hobart Town, and Launceston, at a through rate,
and by Steamers when practicable.

JOINT PACKETS OF THE 20TH JULY.
The magnificent A 1 Royal Mail Clipper Ship
MERMAID,
.M 4 kE. DitvEY, Commander. 1320 tons register, 3200 tons
hurthen ; and also
The well-known and fav,,urte Packet
MILES BARTON, _ _

KELLY, Commander, 1068 tons regist a*, 3000 tons burtben.
The ab ,ve splendid vessels will be devatched pu_letua ly on the
20th Ju y with cargo and passengers. Both ships have splendid
accommodation for all classes of passengers; description, dietaries,

and fare will be found in geueralCircuhirs, for which and rates of
freight apply to the Owners,
PILKINGTON & WILSON, 17, Water-street, Liverpool.

CARRYING A MAIL

"EAGLE" LINE OF PACKETS FOR AUSTRALIA.
To the consignment of BRIGHT BROTHSPS & Co., landing their
Pass.mters, Luggage and Cargo immediately on the Vessel's
arrival in Hobsou's Bay.

THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

Unites (m,tatO

Goods for the STALWART will be received tititil;konday, the

7th July. -
" BLACK DIAMOND"
Ipik LINE OF PHILADELPHIA PACKETS,
Sailing from Liverpool on the Ist, and from
Philadelphia on the 15th of each Month.
STALWART LUCAS ......1100 tons.. July 8.
PHILADELPHIA Pool. .1200tons..August I.
NONPAREIL. FAULK tember I.
WM. CHAMBERLAIN SHERMAN 1200 tons...tictober 1.
The Ships of this Line are built, of the very best materials, nave
superior accommodation for passengers, and are commandedby men
of experience and ability. These ships will take steam up the Dela-
ware. Apply to -

RICHARDSON SPENCE & CO.,
Corn Exchange, Brinswick-street.

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA
BY
?-I:=4 GRINNELL'S "SWALLOW TAIL" LINE
• ." OF PACKET-SHIPS.
ASHBURTON ...........HRADISH ......1150 tone July —.
AURORA
ONI'ARIO ..............Woon l6OO t0n5.......Aug. 6.
NEW WORLD KNIGHT l5OO t0n5.......Ang. 21.
...... KEnliNEIr tons Sept. 6.
AMERICAN UNION ....Ili/sunup .....1500 tons Sept. 21.
CONSTANTINE. lUsconuctc ....1500 t0n5......0ct 6.

Th. aubacribern contuou, to aiepatch ttic above eacket-thipb,
weekly. Proviaions will be supplied to thtpatpengersdusing the

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voyage according to the act of parliament. Parties residing at a
,listance can have berth,, secured by rernittin? a deposit of iel
for each person going. Partie, desirous of transmitting 'money to
their friencii,_tu America,ean have drafts at sight for ..t1 and up-

ward.. payable or our houa:> at New 'VOA' . For Cabin, Poop,
Second Cabin, and Steerage Vamp': apply to -

BOWMAN, GRINNELL Sr. do.,"a Regent,roacl, Clarence-,
dock, uiverpo( I; and 87. South-street, New York.
N.B.—Passengers going by these packet--hips can have their
luggage stored free, in a warehouse attached to the office.

explilsion ?

PROTESTANT-POPERY AT LIVERPOOL. I

(From the Leader).
The spirit of sectarian dictation will cease when men
completely trust in the proverbial predominance of truth, I
and believe that it " will prevail" by its own force. That I
it will do s,, we are convinced. Every day is giving us I
instances of truths established in the face of constituted
authority and of armed prohibition. In Austria, Rome,
France, and Spain, Pope and Caesar, judge and soldier, are
engaged in preventing the people from knowing facts hich
have been established by science on the clearest evidence of
human sense ; but the facts in science preveil without the
permission of Archbishop CuLen, or the Society De Propa-
ganda Fide; railways, magnetic telegraphs, improvements in
in navigation, getting into use just as if there were no Pope
to obstruct the path of science. Men who profess to speak
in the name of religion, however, are seldom anxious that
" the truth" should prevail : what they desire is, that their
own opinion should prevail; or they would be willing
enough for truth to develope itself, without their too devoted
agency. In their heart of hearts Pope and Caesar cannot
help a migiving that men will ultimately neglect to believe
that the sun moves round the earth, unless inquisitors and
armies are employed to compel belief. In like manner, the
Liverpool Clerical Society may entertain, in its own secret
conscience, some doubt whether all its tenets will be estab-
lished in the world, unless the leading members can expel
from their own body men who do not think with them
The society has been In existence for many years. It
was intended to promote social meetings of the Evangelical
elegy, for a pious, bat for the most part uncritical, study
of the Bible. They were "to discuss," but not "to
dehate." At the meetings of the society they brought for-
ward particular chapters of the Scripture; and the older
members having read up commentaries, reproduced their
recollections of these commentaries. Gradually a "divan--
cation of the Word" developed itself in the meetings. Dr.
M•Neile and the Irish Evangelists introduced high Calvin-
istic views

Mr. Ewbanic,-a pious and charitable man,
corrected these extremes by what we call, though the word
would perhaps be repudiated by the gentleman himself, a
naturalist view of theology. Mr. E vitanlc died, and Mr.
INlacnaup...ht, a young memt er of the s,)eiety, api,.ears to have
received his mantle. One evening the subject was Acts,
vii. 1-16 :
Several speakers have pointed out the discrepancies between this
part of :stephen's speech and the Old Testament history. Doubts
have been ais•d, and miserable, pairing explanations have been
give,) of the five or six difficulties in these first ti•teen verses of the
proto-martyr's speech. The chairman of the evening invites Mr.
Macuaught. in due course, to make any remarks he likes. Mr. Mae-
naught settles on the 15th and 16. h verses. He notices that Stephen
says, Jacob and the patriarchs were buried in Sychem of Samaria;
whereas the hook of Genesis (1. 13.) makes Jacob to have been
buried in the cave of the field of Machp•lah before alamre." or
Heteon, to the South of Jerusalem. He not ccs that Stephen says
that Abraham bought the sepulchre at Sychem from the sons of
Emmor, the father of Sychem; whereas Genesis (1. 18.) states that
it was a burial-place at Ilfachpc•lah that Abrahamibought. ar•d the
same book cf Genesis (xxxiii. 19) declares, that it was r•nt Abraham
but Jacob who bought a fild in Si, echeiti at the hand cf th - children
of Hainor. Mr: Macnaught observed that here was an obvious dis-
crepancy. The usual modes of explaining away this difficulty he
supposed evrry man felt to be wholly unsat:sfactory. Could the
brethren—ha asked for information—throw any light on this point?
And if not, and if they must in candour confess that either Genesis.
or ^tephen. or Luke, was in error on a simple matter of historical
fact like this, then what security had any stu ent of the Bible that
those sacred penmen, who mllit err in pain mat era of fact, might
not also err in the mysteries of the faith ?

These questions' appear to have fallen like bombshells
among the members. The Irish Evangelists declared that
it was interfering with the doctrine of inspiration. The
managing committee itself invited discussion "on the ques-
tion of inspiration," and here the new schism became
wider. At this meeting Mr. Macnaught " argued against
the popular idea that inspiration implies infallibility,"—a
subject on which be has since published a volume:* Ile
insisted that the Bible was inspired, but that this did not
prey( nt there being errors in the Bible. If rightly regarded,
he said, this recognition of errors in the inspired volume
rather helped Christian faith than otherwise. In short,
as the chairman said, " Mr. Macnaught questioned the in-
spirational infallibility of Holy Writ, though not its inspira-
tion." Loud was the denunciation on the other side. Dr.
Baylee had already said that there is no logical resting-place
between verbal inspiration and atheism—a man must either
believe that every word of Scripture is inspired, or he ought
logically to deny the existence of a God. Mr. Minton
" would not stoop to pick up a Bible that would lie at his
feet unless he thought it was the infallib!e Word of God."
" Infidelity" was thrown in Mr. Macnaught's face. The
young clergyman asked to be assisted in his doubts, asked to
be aided with explanations, asked to be helped to further
information. Dr. M 'Neile proposed to pay him " a friendly
visit," and at that friendly visit discovered that there was no
common locus standi between Mr. Macnaught and the
society. May came, that month of revising nature and
religious sweetness, and with it the formal notice for Mr.
Maenalight's expulsion from the society.

He had not only "discussed" The Bible, he had " criti•
cised," he hid " debated," he had doubted 1 He had found
one mode of reconciling the human instrument, the pub-
Rated volume under all its liability to misprint and other
errors, with the broader truths of Christianity ; but the man
who could admit any doubt—;•hat is he but the subject for

There are no misprints in the Bible ; there never were
any. No man can really have taken part in the putting
forth of that sacred volume, without being infallible in all
that related to it. The writing of the text is without
human error ; the printing of the text must of course be on
an equality with the writing, so that there can be no mis-
print in it. Printers could not print without misprints
unless they were superior beings. They have all been moral
persons; there is no instance of a compositor employed on
any page of that volume who has gone astray in life. The
publishers have been persons of irreproachable character.
The shopkeepers that sell it never make mistakes. The
banker who comments on the Bible must of course be per-
fectly strict in all his transactions with his neighbour. The
opponents of Mr. Macnaught must must sustain this thesis;
for if they admit of any qualification of the statement,
" where are they to draw the line ?" Admit that the
banker commenting on the Bible, as one John Dean Pat 1
has done, could be incorrect in his accounts, and they admit
the possibility of human error in connexion with the vol-
ume. Admit that the publisher may possibly cheat even in
the price of selling the volume, and they must admit that
the printer as well as the publi-her may be liable to error.
Admit that the printing-press can err, and how can they
vouch for the pen But if the pen can go astray, may not
the penman ; and if the penman
We will not pursue Mr. Macnaught's very natural in-
quiry further. The Clerical Society cut it short by two
modes; they expel Mr. Macnaught from their body, and in
order that he might not go forth to scatter his doubts upon
an injured world, they send him out with a mark upon him.
He bad bad his doubts, had he, of the infallibility of the
text? Well, they avenged doubt with doubt. The Rev.
C. E. Titterton, curate of St. Augustine's, called on Mr.
Macnaught's curate, " saying he thought Mr, Macnaught
had been very ill used, but that people had great doubts as
to his moral character." Some insurance office would not
take his word, and something is said about a disputed
church paving bill. That is the usual form in which the
avenging angel of Galvanism executes his doom. If some
unfortunate man, too earnest for the regulation piety, con-
fesses a doubt as to the construction of texts, his fellow
members at once conceive a doubt as to his " moral cha-
racter." It is doubt for doubt. If he doubts the infalli-
bility of Stephen, as Mr. Macnaught did, they doubt the
infallibility of his commercial morals ; and, surely, they
may say, the commercial character of the Reverend John
Macnaught is unimportant compared to the character of
Stephen, or of the whole of the sacra d volume.
In turn, we have our doubt. We doubt whether this
mode of meeting a polemical opponent by the trick of
backbiting will any longer serve the purpose. On the con-
trary, the effect is decidedly injurious to faith. The vulgar
are beginning to think that truths which need the expulsion
of the inquirer, and are supported by the device of back-
biting, are not of the kind which are " great and will
prevail." The true traitors to Christianity are men like
those who travesty the inquisition in Liverpool, and supply
the place of the rack with petty calumniation.

* litacnaught on Inspiration
Longmans.

Longman, Brown, Green, and

PUNCH AFTER DINNER

TO TRH EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES,

SIR,—In the Daily Post of Saturday, I see the account
of a dialogue, which took plate in the law courts of Dublin,
entirely misrepresented. The following is a copy as it
appeared in that paper :
In a libel case tried at Londonderry, this week, a clergyman
of the Established Church having stated that he dined with
another clergyman, the following dialogue took place:—
Chief Justice—And is it possible that you did not take a
glass of punch after dinner?
Witness—To the best of my recollection we had no drink
after dinner.

A Juror--As a general rule don't you take a glass of punch
after dinner ?

Witness—lt is too bad for a clergyman to be asked those
questions by a puppy, in this manner.

The Chief Justice said the witness was wrong to make the
reply.

The witness stated that he had been a clergyman for sixteen
years, and that during that time he had never missed a public
duty.
The Chief Justice said that might be, but the juror merely
asked whether he was in the habit, as many respectable
persons were, of taking a glass of punch or wine after dinner;
was such the habit of witness or was it not ?
The witness said that, generally speaking, when he got it he
took it.
The juror demanded an apology from the witness.
After sonic discussion the witness said he was sorry if by his
hasty reply he had given offence.
This is substantially correct with this difference, that the
trial took place is Dublin and not Londonderry. The
witness was not a clergyman of the Established Church, but.
a roman Oath 'tie priest, who so far forgot himself in a court
of justice as attemptto act with the same tyranny there that he
would in the con.essional ; however, he succeeded ba'lly, and
had to e:,t his humble oie. I anpe,l to your sense of justice
to set this dial.ogue in its true light, fur, where a priest
utterly forgets himself, and deserves blame, it is unfair to
remove the blame from him to a clergyman of the Established
Church.—Your obedient servant, A PROTESTANT.
July 5,- 1856.