The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-14 00:00:00

blame that the Attorney- General toolr no trouble to investigate
the gigantic frauds of the bank, or to make James Sadleir
amenable between the sth of March and the 3rd of June ?
Was it I who was to blame that the Attorney-General did
not take out a copy of any affidavit from the Master's office
between the 3rd of June and the 24th of June,
or adopt the necessary proceedings to make James
Sadleir amenable during that period ? Was it my
fault that the Attorney-General took no step until
after the 20th of June, when he had ascertained that
James Sadleir has ceased to be amenable? The Attor-
ney-General, however, says that I have violated my duty
as a privy councillor. I deny it. One of these duties, as
Sir William Biackstone states, is "to advise fur the
King's honour, and the good of the public, without par-
tiality, through affection, love, meed, doubt or dread."
Have I violated that duty ? Am /responsible that James
Sadleir is not amenable ? I have no apprehension of
leaving to the decision of the public as to the person who
is guilty ; and the Attorney-General may rest assured
that no sophistry, n3ystitication, or misrepresentation,
can get rid of the plain, unvarnished detail of facts
which I have put forward, which can neither be gainsaid
nor denied.

At the conclusion of his lordship's observations the
applause throughout the court, which was densely
crowded, was marked and general.

THE "LIVERPOOL HERALD" AND ITS
• THEOLOGY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES.

Sir,—With reference to a letter, published by you on the
9th instant, I notice that the Lioe7 pool herald, of the 12th

instant, makes another attack on Mr. Macnaught, and " again

brands" that much-abused clergyman with infidelity.

The Herald, sir, was very anxious, a week ago, that the
Bishop of Chester should take formal proceedings against Mr,
Macnaught; but now the editor acknowledges that he knows

no statuto which would enable the bishop to adopt such a

course. Still the Herald declares that Mr. Macnaught
" repudiates Scripture being the inspired Word of God ;" an.l
still the Herald argues that the Bible must be infallible,
because it is so called in the Book of froinilies, and because
St. Paul wrote (2 Tim. iii. 16) " All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God."

Now, sir, I wish to ask the editor of the Herald a quostiotx

concerning each of these points

1. Does the Herald know that Wickliff, Luther, and many
other good and learned men—Roman Catholics and Protestants
—translate 2 Tim. iii. 16, in such a manner as to destroy
one ground of the Herald's argument, for they render these
words, "All divinely inspired Scripture is profitable ?" &c.

2. Does the lierald know that the _Homilies call some of
the Apocryphal writings the " infallib!e and undeceivable''
word of Alm'ghty God ? And does the Herald, therefore,
consider any clergyman bound to regard all or any of the
Apocrypha as infallible ?

3. Does the Herald know that Mr. Macnaught (vide
Free Discussion v. Intolerance, pages 62, 70,) believes the

Bible to be inspired ? and, if so, how does the Herald
reconcile his statement, above referred to, with the oidinary

rules of 'veracity ?

4. Will the Herald define that " Infidelity" with which Flo
las " branded" Mr. Macnaught ?
July, 1856

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