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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

ORIGJJc.

CORRESPONDENCE.

SCOTTISH RIGHTS,

TO TICE .E 1

:TOR OF Tit

LIVERPOOL STINDAM

SlE,—When one is almost tempted to suppose that a
long period of friendly intercourse, and mutual interests,
between England and Scotland, has failed to produce in
the English mind that respect for their northern fellow-

subjecti which might naturally have been expected; when
we see certain respectful representations from the north,

against injustice, (real or supposed, it -matters not,) me
by a torrent of unnecessary contumely, from the leader

.nd opinion in the south,
.g to see the course followed by theLiver-
is gives one some assurance that intelli-
Rnelishmen do not all indorse the sentiments of the
that those matters of

or exponents of public sentiment
it is really gratifying '
pool Standard. "
gent

London journals, and
~mplaint may yet be discussed with something like com-
if well founded, redressed; and if baseless,
A NORTH BRITON.
tilasgow, 3rd December, 1853.

affords a hope

non sons(

shown to be so.

NOTES

NOTICES, AND OPINIONS.

JOHANNES EUSTICIIS

XVII. IMPORTANCE OF UNITY AMONG PROTESTANTS.
—There appears in a recent number of the New York
Morning Courier the " Decision of the Superintendent
of Common Schools" an certain questions of religion—a
decision deeply affecting the_ future character of the
American people, and highly interesting and instructive
to ourselves. The questions were—" 1. May the pupils of
a common school be required to 'join in prayers,' as a
matter of school discipline ?" "2. May Roman Catholic
children be required, contrary to their own wishes and
those of their parents, to use the Protestant version of the
Bible as a reading-book in the schools ?" 13. May Roman
Catholic children be required to commit to memory por-
tions of the same version of the Bible as, a part of their
school exercises ?" To these questions, propounded to a
public officer whose government ignores all state religion,
there can be but one description of reply. Accordingly,
the superintendent decides that—(l) No pupils can be
compelled to attend such prayers, and that such prayers
cannot properly take place in school hours. (2) That
religious education must be banished from the common
schools. And (3) that the reasons are everywhere stronger
why children should not be compelled to learn and repeat
texts of Scripture. Thns the whole of the poor children
of the United States are to be brought up as heathens, (so
far as the government cares,) because infidelity and hea-

thenism, and a spurious Christianity, have iiined some
footing in the country ! But let it be observed that it is
not heathenism nor infidelity which makes the open stand
against reading the Scriptures and the use of school
prayers. It is Popery—that spiritual and temporal tyrant,
which claims the right to dictate a religious belief and a
civil polity to every man and every nation. Pc
which, in its Index Expurgatorius, pr
of every age and nation that does not
claim. Popery—which offers to its

monise with this

ri votaries a cor-

rupted Bible

in a barbarous to,

ie, and encumbered
It is to this

with and overgrown by a pervertinc,
foe to learning, to religion, and to freedom, tha

s the grand principle of giving a Christian ed
stant people. Let us be warned in tine

to Prot(

tcation
. The
," and

same hollow pretences of " liberty of conscience,
"entire religions toleration," which have induced the over-
whelming majority of Protestants in _America to hazard
the very existence of their creed, are put forward
among ourselves, seeking an advantage in our divisions
and party strifes to make us damage and destroy one an-
? other. The P

Aomanist acts on the principle of propagating
his religion by every means in his power—fair or foul,
liberal or illiberal. If the Protestant cannot adopt this
course of action, surely he need not have recourse to the
opposite, and yield everything to " liberty of conscience."
Protestants of all sections and all denominations, who
agree in the fundamental truths of evangelical religion,
should and must, in self-defence, cordially unite in giving
to the rising generation a sound scrintnwil education —an

education that will give them at once the highest princ
pies of industry,

ity, and

honour, and perfect

from the insidious snares of RoManism% and ever
and variety of scepticism and infidelity.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. A. H. Barker. M.A., to the vicarage of Rickmans.
worth, Herts.

Rev:
Suffolk

R. M. Bingley, 8.A., to the Rectory of Braiseworth,

Rev. W. Bonsneld. M.A., Fellow of Lincoln Colle7e, Oxford,
late Assistant Chaplain at St. Helena, to the Rectory of
Cublington, near Aylesbury.
Rev. J. Brunskill, 8.A., to the C
Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland.
Rev. F. G. Biuett, M.A., to the Incumbency of Ballina•
clash, Ireland

racy of Mallerstang, near

Res-% C. J. Cartwright, M.A., to the Rectory of St. Mary-
at. Steps, Exeter.

it,v: A. B. Crosse, 8.A., to the Curacy of Trimingham,
near Cromer.
Rev. C. W. Doherty, to the Rectory of Pilhorn, Lincolnshire.
Rev. N. A. Garland, AI.A., Vicar of Sibertswold, near
Dover, to the Rectory of Deal, Kent.
Rev. J. S. Green, M.A., to the Rectory of Witton and

Brundail annexed, STorfolli_
Rev. F. NV. Harris, M.A., to the Sole C
of Medmenham, Henley-on-Thames.
Rev. H. L. Hussey, to the Perpetual CUracy of Withecombe
Raleigh. Devon.
Rev. J. H. Isles, M.A., to the Chaplaincy of Bromagrove
Union.

rge of the parish

Rev. W. A. Ormsby, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. James-
wuh-Pockthorpe, Norwich, to the Rectory of SmalltiUrgh,
Norfolk.
Rev. W. Outton, to the Rectory of Ballyrashane.
Rev. C. T. Rust, S.C.L , to the Perpetual Curacy of St.
Michael-ftt•Thorn, Norwich.
Rev. J. Stephenson. to the Living of Clonfeacle, Irelanc
Rev. J. `4. Wasey, M •

Raptor], near