Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-18 00:00:00

MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Thursday Evening.
The Cotton Market
.to-day was dull, and the
sales were slow, without leading to any material
-change in prices. The sale reported amounted to
6,000 bales:: of .which 500 (were for -,'export or
taken on speculation.
•- In the Liverpool Share Market lower prices
•have been submitted to, and the market ex-
hibited a mo're' feeble 'tone, closing nearly at its
included
the point. The business .reßorted
the sate of Birkenheads at 77, -1- ; Eastern Counties
11; -Lancashire and Yorkshire 96i, 1:;. Lancaster-
and Carlisle, con. stock, 1974 ; London and
North Western, 951- ; do. t• shares, 15-16 d.
Berwick-Stock, 91; Midland, 105.1 1 ; Scottish
_Central, 1141 ; Shropshire Union It. and C„ 4.61,
South Eastern, 238; Dutch Rhenish, 4d. ; Great
Western of Canada, 131; Chester and Hoyhead,
leased to L. and N. W., 481-itc. ; Liverpool and
and London Fire and Life Insurance, 71p. ; Royal
Insurance, 41c.p. ; Liverpool United Gas, 204.

' • " • - CLOSING PRICES.
Ches. & B'head.. 741 77:1 N. Stafford 4-,id
Caledonian . .. 903: 91,71, N. R Ber. c. Stock 904 91
E. COunties. : 104 11 Yorkcapital Stock 76 754
E. L. Stock Leeds.Stoek 461,- 471,
G. N. Stock... .102 103,. S. Eastern 23 1-16 231
Great Western.. -6477 644 Dutch Rhenish .. 5 4:7A
Lan. and: York .964 ;964 Gt: Luxemb'g 67- 7
Ln. Sc Nor. West. 9514 95 NG. T.Ca'da .. 91 91.,
' 1.-shares , 1 .15.-16 d W.Qanada 131 131
M. -S.• arid Lincoln 354 35 „• 'new shares 7T 7d
Midland Stock ..105? 1.05-; Buffalo &L. Huron 41 5
N-. British 'St-= 5-Bt, -59 i Gre-t--"Ship ..`.. --13 0 -14 0
, •

LONDON
.STOCK r EXCHANGE.
• _ Thursday Evening.
The market for English Securities has been flat
and, inactive throe ;hoot the day, and although quo-
tations had not materially changed, the•tendencY
has, on the Whole, been adverse, and thiS notwith2:
standing that no change haS taken place in the rate
of discount. At the meeting-Of the Bank Direc-
tors this forenoon Consols did not at any period
of the morning reach the best,priees of yekiter=
day, whilst the latest qnotation,stands at 96 to
for money, and 961 for account,
.Bank, Stock has
been negociated at 226; Reduced Three. per
.Cents., ; Five per Cent. Annuities, 111;
India Stock, 228;- Ditto Debentures, 961 9577,- and
96 ; Exchequer Bills, 305., 285., and 275. prem.
In the English Railway Market, business has
been .wholly without activity.; and all-through the
day great dulness prevailed, combined with an
almost
.general: flatness in prices. Caledonians,
Eastern .Counties, ,Great Westerns,: and London
.and North Westerns are respectively ss. lower
per share ; Great Northerns haYe. declined 10s.
The Market fOr Foreign Securities. was dull,
and in most eases values were affected adversely.
Mexicans for account have receded per cent.,
Spanish to • like ' amount, Dutch per cent., and
Brazilian 1 per cent. Original, Turkish brought
only 76k, and- the New Sixes haveifallen t 0.65-
and. 66. . New Victoria Loan is quoted 1094 t 0
. 110, and the New Indian ditto at 103.4 to
The quotation for .French Rentes at -twelve
o'clock was 69 80, thence to 69 85, and again to
69 80, with a fiat market.

THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES,

Con. Money 951 i 6
~.Account . . . 964
Exchequer Bil Ls. 27 30
RAJLWAY
A. Not. &E. J. . . 6 '

Bank Stock . 226 8
Three per- Cents.. 94+
Next Account• --
SILARES.
Lanc.&Yorkshire 96 -4'

,aledonians
Dutch Rhenish..
Eastern Counties 514 5
East. Lancashire.
Edinbgh.-& Glas. 784 94
Great Northern..loll,
'
, „ A. 891- 901
Gt. Western..... 64?-,
Gt.W. Canada 13.3-16 5-16
Gd. Tk. of Ca. .. 91,
Gt. S. and W... 109 110

L.& N.We'stern. 951 ;I-
L. and '5.W.... 941. 54:
Lends Northern.. 461. 71,
Man.S4eff.&Lin. 35
.. •
nidland Stock —lO5l
North Dritish „ 59' • 1.
N. StaffOrdshiie.•
S: E. and Doirer -76 7
York,New &Per, .90i. 1
York &N. Mid.. 75 4-

The following appeared in a part of our
impression of yesterday :1--

MONEY MARKET, &c.

Applications have been made for 300,000 shares
in the_ new Ocean Marine Company, on which a
deposit of Li is required. The number to; be
allowed is 40,000.
Referring to monetary prospects, the Times
hays, although the general rates in open market
have now, for two or three weeks, been equal to
.chese of the Bank, there is no immediate sign of
any pressure that can alter the current terms.
The demand for India and China is all that has
to be met, and although this is enormous, it is not
likely to exceed the aggregate of the periodical
Supplies from America, the West Indies; and
Australia.

A somewhat firmer tone was observable to-day
in the Stock Exchange, especially in the morning,
when an improvement of per cent took place.
In the afternoon, in the advance of business, the
receipt of dull accounts from the Paris Bourse
sufficed to cause a relapse. Consols are the
same as yesterday. There is no abatement in the
demand for money. Few bills are discounted
at 2*. About £5,000 in bar gold was sent into
the Bank ta-day.—Daily News.
Owing to the steady *chases of the public,
there is a constant tendency to firmness in the
stock market. In the absence of any fresh causes
for positive disquiet, consols opened at an ad-
vance, but the accounts from Paris showing
weakness, there was subsequently less steadiness.
The applications at the Bank continue moderate,
and are likely to be heavy for some days. Among
other public payments to be provided is about a
million and a half for the East India Railway
securities. This amount, however, will find its
way to the Bank immediately on its being paid.
In the railway market to-day the principle
British stocks show little change from' yesterday.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.—Noy. 17.

There has been a dull market for Cotton to-day, with-
out material change in price. The sales—including 80
Pernambuco, at lid. to 82d. ; 10 Ma.rfnham, at ;
300 Egyptian, at 70. to 91d. ; 700 Surat, at 41d. to
51,c1.—are reported 6,000 bales, of which 500 are on
speculation and for export.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. Nov. 17.
We have no transactions to report in Sugar.
MOLASSES.-Two-hundred puncheons St. Vincent
have changed hands at 15s. per cwt. Seventy puncheons
DeMerara Rum have realised previous rates.
There is nothing further to notice in Coffee.
RicE.-The Bengal Rice offered by public sale was
not sold ; but by private, 760 bags have realised 13s. 3d.
per cwt.
Ibmicto.--The 60 chests East India Indigo at auction
this day met with a spirited competition, at full prices •
the
Oude realised 4s. to, 55. 3d., and the Bengal.
INDIA RUIII3EII. -At the public
30 cases of fine dlindlp.
10d. to 6s. Ild. per lb.
realisepdu2s.icssda.le;s4oof
blangsdiamßidudbibeinrg,
bagsold dry is.N
ls. ; and 15 ti; 90
is. 101 d. to 28,
LGinseed,
e9grd.opheerad,lb.ls. 7id. to
SEEDS.-300 bajs
Rapeseed, at 538.; and
at 51s. per quarter for
FLOUR.-GOO bags, at 168, per cwt.
960 bags of Bombay
sound.
anderswood £5 lOs •
SAGO
tlyE WOODS.-10 tolls red S
20 tons St. Domingo Logwood, at £4 12s. '6d., and.;
few tons Campeachy Logwood, at £6 15s. per ton,
DRYSALTERIES, &C.--30 casks red Oporto Argols, at
435., and 15 casks white, at 498. ; 6 casks of Tartar
Cream, at 1275. 6d. ; discoloured, at 110 s. ; 10 chests
Shellac, at 1305., and 1355. for, fine orange. Nothing
worthy of notice in Brimstone. Small sales of Nitrate
of Soda, at 14s. 3d. to 14s. 6d. Ashes dull-Pots, 275.
6d. ; Pearls, 275. 9d. 25 tons 'Linseed cake, £9 ss. to
£9 12s. 6d. ; 50 tons Valonia, at £l5 15s. per ton.
One, &c.-Palm, £45 lOs. to £46 ; little doing in
Tallow, prices firm; steady demand for Olive, and a
moderate business doing at, the late advance ; 110 casks
Gingelly Oil at 31s. 6d. • Fish Oils quiet;. Pod, £3l ;
Seal, £33 lOs. to £34 ; 800 brls, common Rosin, 4s. to

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Earl of Derby, at the recent Liverpool Banquet, when he said,
"I speak of that Conservatism which is not obstructive, but
which is the best promoter of safe and gradual social improve-
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the old machinery of the Constitution, adapts from time to time
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tions of blustering demagogues, either to shrink at the voice
of menace, or timidly to make concessions to large bodies of
men for the purpose, of obtaining a temporary popularity, when
in our hearts we believe the concession of those coveted boons
would be the worst injury we could inflict upon the classes it
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with what efficiency this their Daily organ of the Press shall
be maintained. Its success has so far been Considerable,—
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1859

THE }JAY'S NEWS.
•
The Central Italian question. appears to get
more complicated as its settlement is attempted,
although the King of Sardinia, through the
pressure of _his 'lmperial brother of France,. has
been under the necessity of yielding to the virtual
prohibition of his, sanction of Prince Carignan to '
the regency of the Central States, he has yet left
to the latter to name or recommend a substitute ;
and the Prince has accordingly nominated M. de
Boncompagni, who will no doubt be at
once accepted , by the Assemblies. This,
however, is also, in its turn, disapproved of by
the Emperor Napoleon ; but we have not yet an
intimation of such disapproval havingbeen of any
-avail. It is evident that the King of Sardinia-
must have incurred the anger of the Imperial
Government, which asks him how he can presume
to prejudge the decision of the Congress, which
has still to meet and deliberate on the whole
question. " Rut," says the Times, "we have yet to
learn what right a Congress has to dispose of the
destinies of the Italians, or why they should be de-
pendent on its sanctions. In a Congress various
States meet to deliberate and to settle their own
position with regard, to any new events, but they
cars in no 'way interfere with the proceedings of
States as sovereign as themselves. The Convess
may refuse to recognise a state of things diplo-
matically, and it ma advise an alteration ; but it
would be the height of tyranny for a mere
majority of the great Powers to declare that
nothing shall be done in Europe without their
consent. This, we are sure, is not the conception
which the British Government has of a Congress,
and we think that these views will be generally
accepted." These are views of the question
which the public opinion of England will doubt-
less concur in.
Those States of the Church which have thrown
off the temporal yoke of the Popedom, are
already manifesting the spirit of enlightened
freedom in which they are disposed to act. At
Bologna, for instance; the Inquisition has already
been abolished, by a decree suppressing that
tribunal as one utterly incompatible with modern
civilisation.
The Liberals are making the most of the Scotch
victories they have achieved in the results of the
University elections that have recently taken
place. Edinburgh has preferred Lord Brougham
is its Chancellor to the Duke of Buccleuch, and-
Mr. Gladstone as its Rector to Lord Neaves ; and
Glasgow has selected as its Rector Lord Elgin
rather than Mr. Disraeli. Some
,people are, of
course, quite ready to take it for granted that the
results of these University contests, into which,
it must be admitted, political spirit enters only
indirectly, are significant and complete indications
of the prevalent political feeling ; and some of
the Liberal journals are holding up the two
victories at Edinburgh and at Glasgow, as
retrieving the signal defeat at the late county
election in Ayrshire. "All we can say is,"
. observes the Morning Herald, and we quite agree
with it, " let. us have more of such triumphs as
that.of the
.county of Ayr, and we can very well
afford to lose such battles as those of Glasgow.
The University victories are personal, and nothing
more. That of Ayrshire was a triumph' of prin-
- sipleS and of party."
The long-suspened doom of Dr. Smethurst has
• at length.. been decided. He has received a free
pardon, so far as the alleged murder of Isabella
Bankes is concerned. This decision of the Home
Office has been communicated by the Secretary
of State to the Lord Chief Baron who tried the
case. The medical evidence, and all the papers
bearing upon the medical points of the case,
were submitted, it appears,- to Sir Benjamin
Brodie, who came to the opinion that
although the facts were full of suspicion
against the prisoner, there was not absolute
and complete evidence of his guilt. The
Secretary of State informs the Lord Chief Baron,
therefore, that the necessity he felt for granting
a free pardon did not arise from any defect in the
constitution or proceedings of our criminal
tribunals, but from the imperfection of medical
science, and from the fallibility of judgment in
an obscure malady, even of skilful and experienced
medical practitioners.
The official inquiry into the circumstances
attending the loss of the Royal Charter, after
extending over three days, has been adjourned to
Wednesday next. At the close of the proceed-
ings yesterday, Mr. O'Dowd, intimated, on the
part of , Board of Trade, that the matters to be
next inquired into would be the construction and
the strength of the vessel, and also the quality of
the material of which she had been composed:'
This would necessarily involve the examination of
scientific witnesses, and it would require some,
time to make the requisite arrangements and
inquiries. On this representation further cori
sideration of the case was adjourned as above
stated. As on the previous- day, great interest-
seemed to be taken in the proceedings yesterday,
the Crown Court, in whiCh the investigation was
held, having been crowded all day.
At the weekly meeting of the Mersey Docks
and Harbour Board, held yesterday, the question.
of Life-boat efficiency :was again made a promi-
nent subject of discussion. The conduct of some
of the men connected with the Formby and with
the Liverpool life-boat service, on a late occasion,
was again under review. The inquiry, so far as
it has gone, completely exonerated the crew of
the Formby life-boat; the behaviour-of the crew
of the Liverpool life-boat, however, is still under
consideration. The other matters before the
Board were .not of very general interest.
The weekly meeting of the Health Committee,
yesterday, although a protracted one; offers few
points for observation. It seems curious, how-
ever, to find that, since January last, the building
surveyor should have found it necessary to in-
terfere with 628 dangerous buildings, 530 fence
walls, and 2,141 chimneys. On looking over such
an enumeration, the question naturally arises;
Is this the average annual rate? or have any un--
explained causes led to so heavy a visitation on
decaying property ? Another interesting. feature
of the proceedings of this committee is to be
found incidentally. in,discussing the propriety of
releasing a contractor for a sewer from ME! en- .
gagement, on the ground that he entered into-the .
engagement on the supposition that the material
to be operated on was to be clay, whereas it
turned out to be red sandstone rock, full of
.water."
The electors of Scotland Ward were again
addressed, in two meetings last nigh I:, by Mr. Came
and several Of his friends. The favourable impres-
sion which Mr. Carne hag made on the municipal
electors of Liverpool has increased on each occa-
' siert of his meeting with them. Let all who
4 value their own independence, and appreciate

the practical good sense of Mr. Came; be :earlyat
the poll this day. They may depend on it .that
an early vote is almost worth two late ones. Let
them ponder this, and act accordingly,' .

THERE are several considerations which the elec-
•i
tors of Scotland Ward may well bear in mild
this day.

First ; On personal grounds, ~we think-that;the
claims of the Conservative candidate, Mr. CARNE,
contrast favourably with those of his competitor.
He has a considerable stake in the toiirn and.
trade whose interests in the Council he would be
called upon to protect and advance. But not
only so; he is also a large ratepayer in the Ward
he aspires to represent, and is connected ,with it
by the most influential of ties, the ties of pro-
perty. It is not only, and not chiefly, a mere dis-
tinction that he seeks ; he aims at a more useful
object than a mere opportunity to show off
flashy qualifications,—the talents of a debating
club, or the ready verbosity' a! the Police Court ;
he desires to be of practical service to his fellow
citizens, with whose substantial interests, with
whose commercial requirements he is himself in-
timately involved, and in which he-and they
have common and equal concern. Nothing
can be more fitting, or, indeed, more necessary,
than to fill the Connell with men endowed, not
only with adequate intellectual readiness, but
with commercial knowledge derived from expe-
rience, and whose efforts for the general benefit
of a trading community are open to the spur
which individual interests can most vigorously
apply-.

Now we are not going to say anything,uncom-
plimentary to lawyers.. Every pursuit of life to
which-men can devote themselves, ministers to some
peculiar inclination more than to others. This
is not the fault, but the accident of the pursuit ;
and when men of any profession are questionable
or dangerous or untrustworthy characters, they
are so, not as members of the profession, but
simply as men. They would. be the same in any
other work of life—transport them to a society
of saints, and still, coelum non alumni. mutant.
Class depreciation is as unjust, as it is essentially
vulgar. We say, therefore, that not only do the
lawyers, who are at present in. the Council, do it
honour, but we should not wish the Councir
to be destitute of lawyers. Yet there are times
when we may well recollect the nature of the
relation which they bear to a commercial and
trading community. We decidedly think there
is room for lawyers in the Council, we think therm
an acquisition and an advantage ; yet, we shoidd
have no hesitation—were other considerations
absent from the case, or not of much importance—
in fixing our choice upon a merchant to represent
us, rather-than upon a. lawyer. It is natural that
a merchant, being a fellow-tradesman and fellow-
ratepayer, should possess the :widest sympathies
with all classes of the community, Not only
may his general interests and theirs be said tolbe
consistent and connected together, but they are
the same ; they meet together at all points
and can never incidentally conflict. But a, law-
yer's sympathies are those of- an advocate; they
are likely therefore to be narrow in their range,
and beset with qualifications and obstacles., His
is a noble calling ; yet in its daily practice it is,
no doubt, often quite consistent with his interest
to array one man against another, and to reap
advantage from. the dissensions of his. fellow
citizens. Though, therefore, we even need law-
yers in the Council, we need as much that they
.may not be many; and the tone which not im-
properly pervades the conduct of their own busi-
ness, would be a most improper and injurious one,
if allowed to give a character to Town Council
deliberations.
A gentleman, then, who has already shown
himself an efficient public servant, and that, too,
in a post which involves more labour and respon-

sibility, than honour, even in the most successful
discharge of its duties;: who is a merchant of
high character and position, and connected in-
timately and directly with :the trading interests
of the town ; who , may be supposed to have: a
general knowledge of commercial requirements,
and of the necessities of that large labouring class
: whom- commerce supports, and who support com-
merce ; who is moreover a large ratepayer in
Scotland Ward, itself, and therefore has a
direct communion, of interests with those, whose
votes he solicits—this gentleman, than whom
it would be scarcely possible to imagine
a more : fitting representative in every par-
ticular, is opposed by one who has no. connec-
tion With the Ward, who has no direct interest in
the public business of the town, belongsto a
profession possessing indeed high intellectual
advantages and opportunities, but which; so far
as they are laudable,, are far wide of the require-
ments of the post he. now solicits,—and,, indeed,
may be considered, of themselves, rather disquali-
fications for it. Mr. ASPINALL'S sole admitted re-
commendations are, his inheritance of a name
which, in this town, is nothing except as a symbol

of a political faith to which he has'proved rene-
gade,—and his desir' to earn distinction in a new
field, for that:volubility, WhOsehighest s,chievement
is " to make the worse appear the better reason"
at the bar of -a Pollee 'Court, and rescue petty
larceny from magisterial supervision. •
We really cannot think that, after the stultifi-
cation of their last-choice through the, political
defection of Mr j WobbiteFF, the ConserVatiVe',
electors of Scotland Ward, will so far accept and
endorse the apostasy, as' to stultify themselves by
tthheeyreejleectetieoan
Mr.
fna
wCoonospernviraFtiFv ,e theycandidate.
did it with
hhaenn
intention to add one to the Conservative majority
Ti
in the Council. Why tihould intention faint
in them on the Present occs on P We' rather
ex pet that Mr. WOODRUFF'S conduct will arouse
them to a new vigour; and that their old zeal

will acquire a new motive—namely, to repair
that gentleman's foolish deertion___of his Prix'
ciples.

NOTWITHSTANDING that, in the Report ,of tile
Police on the state of crime in Liverpool--4
notice of which we gave a few days since—the
Head Constable was "glad to be able to direct
"attention to the very great decrease in the
", number of indictable offences," an examination
of the statistics in detail affords anything but
satisfaction with regard to the moral and social
condition of large masses of our population.
Even as respects the decrease, it is only, be it
remembered in "the number of indictable offences.
And the Head Constable is constrained to declare,
that this decrease does not warrant the COn'
" elusion which would be naturally arrived at, 11
" comparing these tables with those of preceding
" years, that the criminal population has decreased
" to such an extent, but may rather be found ill
" the cause assigned in his report of last Year'
" viz The greater numbers committed for trial'
" ' and consequently 'longer periods of impris°e'
" ment.' " That is to say, that a stricter Police
administration, and a severer punishment, 13311
combined to deter, to some extent, from the cerr
mission. of "indictable offences. " But this 05
not necessarily indicate any improvement
moral condition of that class of the people aolneg
whom such offenders are generally found.
There is, for instance, this startling fact,
about one-fifth of the whole apprehensions for the
commission of crimes are those of persons 'vier
twenty-one years of age.. Again, even under sir
teen years of age, there is a very large proportion
of what are called depredators at large ; and, or
these, a very great proportion are girls--proStk
tutes. And this, dreadful vice of prostitution is
shown, in the Report referred to, to be the greatest
plague-spot of all' upon society in Liverpool. The
number of brothels and prostitutes, it is, stated'
has steadily increased in this town every year, Of
the last three years. And. the prostitutes theCO
selves are estimated at as many as 2,583: of who°
more than one-half have been twice apprehended
for crimes within the- cognisance of the - laW•
The number of brothel's is set down at 666--the
greatest number that has-yet been noticed by the
police—and of these, upwards of 500 are kept by
women.. Most of them, it appears,. hale men re-
siding in them, as well as women;. and they are
the resorts, very naturally, of infamous charoe"
ters of both sexes, not only for their avowed pill•
.
pose, but as places of-rendezvous for criminal and
immoral eharacters,--of men and women alike.
There is another circumstance connected with this
painful subject, whichis startling and significant*
Nearly one-third of all the prostitutes aPPre-
hended this year,. have been apprehended fni. tile
first time ; and of these, it is stated, nearly
It
hundred were under eighteen years of age'fore,
May be not unreasonably calculated, there ,1
that this is a fair indication of the number ached
annually to the ranks of prostitution fro'

young. •
Now the-question arises—What is to 'be_ 011-e'
with all these vicious characters of both. sexes • ;
They are evidently increasing upon us. TV:
vigilance of the police, and the strict admini°:,
tration of Sustice, may keep down in some slier
degree the actual commission of crime--that is,
of "indictable offences," as they are specified in
the Report before us,—but it is evident there is 11°
improvement whatever—on the contrary, there
still a most serious degeneracy going on—in the
morals of those classes of the people among whom
such characters are generally found. Nor it
to be imputed to ignorance altogether, that there.
is such a deplorable state of things exiStilig
s ted— a a
amidst all our boasted enlightenment ancliir
provement. Nearly fifty per cent. of thel"-tora.
ers
world sc
i lti t the
; ad .of those who are apprehended as c irS
more I'4
education : that is to say, they can rea.".,;be:ile,writet e
with less
more educated-
or ca
less f
indeed, that inany of them are in the l bit
1, Co
reading very improper publications, to
tribute, no doubt, in a 'very great degree 0,
aggravate their degeneracy and deraoratbe
But they are not educated, any of thou. in' a
proper sense of the term. There is no el°l6
religious influence exerted over them. P
10'
pular system of the day is opposed to the if
tion of anything that is really and distinetcbe
calculated to j'prtzkcz...such an influence.
great idea of education, to
hey a-days, seems -
the cultivation Of the.understanding alone, il"teler
out giving to tlia morals any direct bias wh'_tio
_without prejudicing it in favour of any Chr'it,
doctrine, or any religious belief. And this 7./
a very liberal object in view, as they tell
of
in order, namely, that persons of all sects a„ifer
all doctrines, may wholly lay aside their (11`"
ences, and resort to a common • instrael:oe,
secular knowledge._ The question is ligiog
times tauntingly asked, whether re
,ror
is required for the study of the law, or the
tice of medicine, or the pursuits of cannierri' o
whether "'soldiers require to be drillecio'oec"
artisans to be exercised in their trade, in C 00•
tion with religion ? But this is not the quea for
None of these things will educate the reik
moral and social life. And, as regards 1%03
gious principle, there is only too much trto port
the argument of one who has done WO hot lid
mote right views of Christian morals)
epoi
says, " that as you cannot teach a false til 'el'
without infusing comprehensive 'errors,
oita
" will finally, but inevitably, eat their .svl.st sire
into the very extremities, into the 1("ve
as t
" meanest parts of the . human fralne"- ofe°
vrill tixe
...
" fountain of life, once pnisone,
"all the water that -flows frtira it
j- A.,,ra
dth z
3°
" divergence of a • bales broil. ~../00
w-
QS
" straight Hue will run out into coo
" diversity; so, on the other hand, you