The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-12 00:00:00

Scotch pig iron has been done as high as 81s
metals command full prices.

Spelter and most of

IRITS.-

'he market for rum is heavy, and the quota-
.. Proof Leewards, 2s 7d; East India, 2s 6d
;allon. The brandy market is firm, and sales
t brands of 1851, have been effected at 8s 6d

to 8s 8d per gallon

OILs.--ILinseed oil is dull, at 29s 6d to 30s, otherwise the

demand is steady,
TALLOW.—The transactions have slightl

increased

P.Y.C. on the spot, 65s 6d to 55s per cwt

SMITHFIELD MARKET
T. Aro+ maa %Tory nit pro tpl

YESTERDAY

Vol. which the demand ruled steady,, at as advance in the
prices of Monday, or 2d per lb. The supply of sheep was
limited: All breeds were in full request, at full currencies,

The best old Downs sold readily at ss. peT.ti lb. There was
less inquiry for calves. In their quotations, however, no
change took place. Pigs moved off steadily, at full prices.

THE REV. DR. M'NEILE AND THE REV.
J. W. CONEYBEARE.

The Rev. W.D. Coneybeare, has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Times of yesterday, in answer
to a letter from the Rev. Dr. M'Neile to the Rev.
W. J. Coneybeare, (formerly Principal of the Col-
legiate Institution of this town), respecting Mr.
Coneybeare, junior's article in the Edinburgh Re
view, on " Church Parties" :

SIR,—As you have inserted in the Times of Monday, a
letter, addressed to my son by Dr. M‘Neile„ demanding an
explanation of many opinions which he charges my son with
entertaining, and as I believe that I am myself in a great de-
gree chargeable with having instilled these opinions in his
his mind, I think myself called upon frankly, but, I hope,
not offensively, to explain the grounds on which I formed
those opinions. I shall, therefore, feel obliged if you can at
your convenience give admission to this answer of mine to
the Rev. H. M'Neile.

I remain your constant reader and servant,
W. D. CONEYBEARE

Llandaff, Nov. 8

"Llandaff, Nov. 8.
" Dear Sir,—As you have thought it advisable to publish
in the Times a letter, heavily criminating a most dear and
valued son of mine for an article in the Edinburgh Review,
on church parties, which you attribute to him, I trust you
will allow me in return to communicate, through the same
channel, some observations, which may, I trust, plead his
justification. The different schools of theological opinion
prevailing at the time in our country must surely be admit-
ted, on all hands, to form a very fit object for investigation
in a publication which professes to exhibit to the public a
general review of the opinions, &c., which have been intro-
duced to the public mind.
"In executing. such a task, it appears as difficult to treat
such a subject without a general classification of the several
prominent schools, as it would be to draw up an elementary
view of the Greek philosophy without a previous specifica-
tion of the various sects of the Lyceum, Academy, Portico,
&c. I conceive that, in treating of these schools and their
adherents, much must depend on general impressions which
have been conveyed to the judgment by various channels,
although the critic may have probably never thought at the
time of keeping a journal of the several items on which the
general opinion was founded. In some instances the opinion
may in part have been derivative from the judgments incul-
cated by parental education ; and I feel it very probable that
I may myself have been the party to mislead my son—l myself
(while warmly attached to the old evangelical party of Wil-
berforce and the Christian Observer, which all who have
known my Oxford life, know that I embraced at a period
when to do so was almost to attach a black letter to one's name
in the eyes of the then most influential clerical party, i. c.
from 1810 to 1820.) Yet I must confess, that the pages of
the Record from its commencement nearly were regarded by
me with strong regret, and, as I thought, deserved repro-
bation. I certainly thought, that it often took a very objec-
tionable view, tending to discountenance those practical
exhortations to morality which the Apostles themselves
never shrank from delivering with the greatest plainness,
fulness, and boldness. I have not preserved any reference
to individual passages, but I have a general recollection of
one which will sufficiently explain what I mean. I dis
tinctly recollect a paragraph in which that paper expressed
regret that our communion service had collected into one
series a body of scriptural texts like those which accompany
the collection of alms; fearing that such a collection and con-
centration of all the texts might give an undue weight to
the importance and meritorious character of such acts of
benevolence. Now, the scruple is in its motive certainly not
to be condemned ; but yet the allowing any scruple of our
own minds to lead us to suppress any portion of the
teaching of our Lord and his inspired followers has, I
think, a clear Antinomian tendency—tendency I say, be-
cause the Reviewer and myself would. equally feel averse
from asserting, or believing even, that the Recordites are
capable of wilfully and openly proclaiming doctrines which,
in their naked form, they would probably themselves shrink
from as hostile to the very foundation of Christian truth.
I have given this particular instance, although I cannot
at present exactly refer to it ; but if the Record shall deny
that it has ever published a paragraph substantially agreeing
with my citation, I shall willingly go to the expense of having
its columns searched and re-publishing its very words.
I must now proceed to a second point, in which I shall
be most reluctant to say anything which may hurt your
feelings, for my son has always taught me to look with
high respect (in exact accordance with the note in the
Review) on your general influence of character in the
second commercial city of our empire; and yet I fear that
I may have been the very person who first taught him to
consider you as a leader of the violent and extravagant
ultra-Evangelical party. I never, indeed, thought that you
meant deliberately to inculcate unchristian views, but I
thought you very commonly suffered yourself to be hurried
into the most intemperate and indiscreet language. I will
mention the circumstance which first impressed me with
this opinion ; it was the first time when I ever heard you
speak of the Bible Society. I cannot give you the exact
date, but I believe it was between 1830 and '35 ; the place
enann. and, therefore, I suppose, as I am not familiar
with any other Lund,— ,IQtforms given to that cause, the
locality was in Exeter-hall.
"The speech I allude to, of course—not having taken
any note of at the time—l cannot give very minutely ; but
I believe I report its substance and, particularly the phrases
I object to, very exactly.
"You bona by observing, that it .rag e. Lay gratifying to
you to feel the improvers freedom of expressing religious
opinions ; that tiziee or four years before you could not have
venturpd, even before a Bible Society meeting, to speak so
You then went on to observe, that the enemy of souls
had invented different delusions, accommodated to different
nations, most readily to beguile them ; that to the superior
levity and gaiety of the continental character he usually
addressed temptations to profligate dissipation ; but regard--
ing the English as too reflective and sober to be thus caught,
his trap for us was to send among us professed teachers of
religion, who perverted us by circulating 'the soul-destroy-
ing doctrine of repentance.' Excuse me for saying that I
was horror-struck by such a phrase, which to my ears
sounded like a direct contradiction of the great subject of
our Lord's Baptist forerunner's preaching ; of his own while
on earth ; and of that which, after the consummation of his
ministry, his inspiration directed his apostle Paul to preach;
and to oppose which I must regard as utterly subversive of
the very introductory stage of the Christian discipline of
the soul. Now, I am well persuaded that such was not your
real meaning, but that you meant only to reject the idea
which should consider our own repentance as the meritorious
cause, or as the real expiatory act producing our own for
giveness

" But I hardly think more than a small minority of
your audience would have been led to this candid explana-
tion, or caught anything but the coarse and abusive lan-
guage in which you stigmatized the preaching repentance
generally.
" Believe me, when I feel myself called on freely to ex-
press my sentiment, on what appears to me ill-advised and
misleading statements, still (with full conviction, that I
myself often run into heavier indiscretions of language,)
with general respect for your long course of Christian use-
fulness,

" Yours faithfully,
"W. D. CONYBEARE

" To Rev. Hugh M'Neile."

RAILWAYS BETWEEN FRANCS AND SPAIN.—It is stated
that the Spanish government have, in conformity with the
petition of the provincial deputation of Navarre, given per-
mission for a commission of French engineers to examine,
at the cost of the deputation, the point most suitable for
connecting the French lines of railway with Navarre.
In 1850, thirty-one of every hundred men, and forty-six
of every hundred women, who were married, were unable
to write their names, and were consequently obliged to sign
the marriage register with marks. This is a disgraceful
contrast to the state of education in the New England States,
where there is not one man in a hundred who cannot read
and write.

THE WOOL OF THE ANGORA GOAT. The council of
the Society of Arts has for some time past had under con-
sideration the introluction of the long-haired Angora goat
into the colony of the Cape of Good hope, with the view to
the export of its wool to Europe.
The coal trade is in a remarkably healthy condition, and
the demand is still in excess of the supply.
RUSSIAN EMIGRATION. The Alta Californian states
that a number of Russians (12,000) are preparing to
emigrate to the Sandwich Islands, under the immediate
auspices of the Emperor. The Fame paper calls upon the
*United States Government to look into this matter, as
assuredly such emigration cannot be supposed to be for the
sole purpose of colonization; and that it is improbable that
England or France will lookupon it as such.
OTHELLO AS " A LITTLE NIGGEII.." Booth's Othello
was much liked in America. An old Yankee, who had
never seen a play, was taken to witness Booth's perform-
ance of the Moor ; and on being asked, at the termination
of the piece, if he liked it, he replied, "Yes, amazing ;
but ens me if I don't guess that little nigger, (Othello)
played as well as any o' the white fellors—if not 'better. "
—A. Bunn.

It is stated by the Rev. John Kershaw, canon of the
Catholic Cathedral of Salford, and Bishop's visitor of the
schools, that he estimates the number of Catholic children
for whom no provision is made in existing day-.schools in
Manchester and Salford, at 14,017.
It is calculated that, in England and Wales, there are
843,750 youths between 13 and 14 years of age, and
consequently just passing out of the schoolan into active
life, who have received no efficient instruction' to fit
them for the duties thereof. This number of children would
require for their instruction annually about £1,000,000.
Not the most strenuous voluntary can tell us how,
without a government measure, this amount is to be
raised.

The Rev. Mr. Clay, the chaplain of the Preston House of
Correction, estimates the loss caused to the public by fifteen
pickpockets, whose careers he has traced, including the value
of the property stolen, expenses of prosecution and mainten-
ance in jail, at £26,500. At an annual exp.ense of £75 the
whole fifteen might have been trained in an Industrial school
and the majority of them, no doubt, would have become
honest, industrious, and useful members of society.