Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

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his place, at a salary of £'soo a year

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by three months'

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resolution, as illegal; and,

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three months' notice

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that some provision would be made for that ge]
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alary of £230 a year

This concluded the business Wore

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LECTURE ON CROMWEI

nexion with the Young Meri's Christian Association. The

casion was very considerable. - The title of the discourse
was " Cromwell and his Age—A Study ;" and the mas-
terly manner. in which the subject was treated elicited
frequent applause_ . .

„ .
'the lev7o. WINSLONV, in his opening remarks,
served that until the day of the:general regurrection,
which will form #ho aria anhlimest act in the great
rlronin of Ij-in;rnria9C tian4. 1-10-r1

Him whose
,government extends to all things that cer-
tain epochs-in human history should be marked by what
Milton termed a resurrection of reputation, in which the
names, characters, and ideas of the illustrious and good
long .entombed and well nigh forgotten, and whose
monuments and tombs were crumbling to decay, should
be called back from the deep oblivion of the past, and
Should live in amore agreeable age, In soliciting the
attendance of the audience to a kind of -moral dis-
interment of Cromwell, he was not insensible of
the difficulties of the task he had selected. No
individual in history presented a more perfect type
of:his age; he was created for his times, and was created,
by his times. With the particulars of his.carly life he
would assume his audience were familiar. Milton said
he sprang from a glorious family, whilst the royalists of
his time 'delighted in recording the fact that his father was
a brewer, and that his mother continued the business,
when left in widowed loneliness to struggle for a young
and numerous family. At seventeen, Cromwell was sent to
Cambridg,e,- where he made great proficiency in the
Greek and German classics. He then, it is said, com-
menced his studies at Lincoln's Inn, but of this, how-
`here was no proof. It is clear, however, that
.rly life he yielded to the softer passions, and wedded
zobm.l-. "' "lumrliter of Sir James Bowcher. After

talc uaue,
his marriage he returned with his bric

ai ttllnf

cation- of his children, The age in which Crornw
was an age of intense religious eicitement. Religious
enthusiasm prevailed at that time to a much greater
extent than at any other period since the first
dawn of the Reformation. Religion was with

princip

. .
notion but a reality. , It was the great business and
battle of his life. ' He exchanged the attractions of
his peaceful house for the conflicts and dangers of public
life, and whether his eloquence- guided the deliberations
of the senate or his sword was raised in defence of his
viztorious legion; the advancement of religion was the

subject of his ambition ; it was the cause he espoused
and the principle he defended. It was a fact in Ororn-
well's history but little known that long before the cir-
cumstances passed
meditated a retiren
more perfect free&
kinsman, had even
the New World: t'
the white sails

'lle had seriously
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