The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF T,TVER POOL

THE WiROTIGH
of LIVERPOOL require the services of GENTLEMAN
fully co,petent to undertake the Office of 1! EA 0 CA INSTA-
BLE and SUPERINTENDENT of the FIRE 1-OLICE.
'('he Constabulary Force consists of about Nine Hundred
Officers and Constah!es.

The Salary fixed by the Wat.:l' Committee. subject to the
approval of the Council, is £5OO per Annum; and, in addition
thereto, a House, free of Rent and Taxes, and an allowance of
£5O per Annum for a Horse.

Pei•sons under the Age of Twenty-eight, or more than Forty-
five. will be ineligibie.

sor
vie Applications. with Testimo 'al's of Character and fitness for
the Office, addressed to tl • airman of the Watch Committee.
and endorsed " A ppli ion for the Office of !lead Constable,"
must he sent to . TOWN CLERK'S Office. Town ball, not
later than Ten ock a.m. on SATT7 nDA v, the 20th instant.
As a d. I he set apart for the due consideration of the
Applications, no Candidate need attend until he receive a
written communication to that effect.

By order,
SIIUTTLEWORTH, Town•clerk
Town-hall, 61h 3!,,rch, 1852.

[A DVERTISEM ENT.]
The Barons of Beef cut from the prize oxen fed by Messrs.
Littledale and Ton•, will he roasted at the Merchants' Dining-
rooms, This Day, (Tuesday,) the 9th, and Thursday, the filth
instant. rhe roasting of each baron will commence at ten
o'clock the night preceding, and may he viewed by gentlemen
and ladies from ten to twelve o'clock on each morning of the
above (lays. In cut from one to four o'cloCk. Fish ordinaries
during Lent will be provided on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at half-past twelve, half-past nne, half-past two, and
haltpast three o'clock. gtarge, Is. 3d. each. The daily
ordinaries, as usual, one, two, three, four, and five
o'clock. Two soups o fish, roast and boiled joints, stewed
steak, Harricot ton. &c., ,ncludinz cheese, Is. 3d. each.
N.B.—Octaves-a fine sherry and porr, 6d.; half-pint ditto, Is.;
pint. 25.; bottles. 3s. 6d.

TO CORR ES PON D ENTS,

BE EBWINn.—We regret that, in consequence of the late hour
at which it reached us, we could not insert h s communica-

Ct.i.nictiF.--It is quite unusual to announce ordinary public
lectures in a church, from which private persons derive any
interest. The lecture on Church Music is neither an open
meeting:, nor is it connected with any public ins '
A PC, ICE- F

him with undue part

)ur letter to Mr. Mansfield, charzing
bias in a recent decision, is too tier-

'on on the Ist inst.was much larger than

London circular, of the sth instant, we find the quantit)
therein named to be 7,991 puns., against 10,329 at same date
in 1851.

JUSTU s.—Want of space has compelled us to defer his letter.
Cts,- We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communications
on subjects of local or general interest ; and if our friends
will be good enough to .utlienticate the same by their signa-
tures, for our own satisfaction. we shall feel obliged.

Kibtrpoot *tanbarbf

TUESDAY MORNING. MARCH 9. 1852.

DR. M'NEILE AND HIS ASSAILANTS

HE who aspires to be a great man, would do well
to reflect that he must pay a heavy penalty for the
distinction. He is nominally a leader, but in
reality a slave; he has the reputation of swaying
the minds of the multitude, without the liberty to
think for himself, unless his cogitations square
with the abstraction called the conscience of a
party.

In our last number we gave a letter from the
pen of the Rev. Canon NPNEILE, in which, like a
sensible man, he advocated the plain principle of
union among the various sections of his own party,
and stated that he was ready, for himself,to sink the
minor differences, in order to secure two repre-
sentatives for Liverpool who would be at once
Churchmen and Conservatives. This announce-
ment has met with serious disapproval among the
members of one section of this party, who hold
that their views exclusively should he entertained
by all candidates for the representation of the
borough ; at least by all whom Dr. M‘NEILE can
or may approve. It has also led to his views being
called in question by the Courier. And a clerical
correspondent has written to the Record; in two
articles of which paper there is great lamentation
about the supposed defection of a master in Israel.
There are some men with whom it is difficult to
reason, for they ignore frequently or habitually the
axioms of common sense, upon which sound argu-
ments are based. It is a rule in reasoning that,
"the greater the comprehension, the less the exten-
sion ;" or, in other words, the greater the number
of qualities that must concur, the fewer the exam-
ples. Now, we are hardly in a position to prescribe
twenty articles for the creed of a Liverpool M.P.,
when we are quietly submitting to men with only
ten, and when those with fifteen are slow of ap-
pearing. Those who talk out of doors, do not know
all the points where the shoe pinches.
On the subject of the Maynooth grant, our own
sentiments have been freely spoken, but we are
aware that many, whose Protestantism is in no
respect inferior to our own, take a different view.
They believe that the agitation of the subject, at
present, even though unsuccessful, will only aid in
helping forward the scheme miscalled a " Catholic
University," but which is, in reality, the founding
of a Roman Catholic Collegiate Establishment. If
the Maynooth question, therefore, is to be erected
into a test, we separate these friends at once; or if
none are to receive the impress of approval but the
opponents of the National System of Education in
Ireland, we divide the question similarly. Strange
it is that those who coincide in the decision on the
GORHAM case, now kick against a fair application
of the principle laid down in that decision. There
must always be a point where, though men may
individually differ, they will yet agree in common ;
a separation, in fact, between the essentials and the
accidentals. The Anti-Maynooth advocates are
numerous in Liverpool—Protectionists are, per-
haps, more so—Non-Tractarians are still more so
—and the same may be said in an increasing ratio

of Churchmen, Conservatives, and Protestants. If
the Dissenters be as bitter against " Prelatists," or
Churchmen against " Schismatics." as some of our
friends are against Lord JOHN MANNERS, the
battle of our common Protestantism is lost; and
the motto of the evil one, divide et impera, will
receive a painful exemplification in ourselves. By
sinking the question of Church Government, for
the time, neither party compromises his private and
cherished principles ; and it is surely even more
impolitic to agitate the peculiar views entertained

of Church matters, among those who all hold con.
sistently and conscientiously the thirty-nine articles.
The carrying out of the principle of the objectors
would lead to some very awkward results. A man
of narrow views on Theology would not go to
church at all, but would he classed with the masses
of Heathenism that recognise no spirituality and
no future. A man of one idea, and such monoma-
niacs are found everywhere, would divide the whole
human family into friends and foes, or angels and
demons, according as they thought with him or
not. And we do not see how the human
species could be preserved, for young men
and maidens would not consent to tie the
nuptial knot till they were conscious of possessing
perfection. This is what the "consistency" would
do, for which some cry out so lustily. They would
divide the camp as they did at the last election,
giving a vote to Lord JOHN MANNERS or Sir
DIGBY MACKWORTH, and the other to one of our
present representatives. They would reject a Pro-
testant, and perhaps get a Romanist; they would
throw overboard a worthy companion in arms of
Lord DERBY, to take a double-tongued Peelite or
a slippery Whig; in short, they would vote against
SOLOMON for not possessing sufficient wisdom, and
then thank their stars for REHOBOAM. The
Roman Catholics in general play a safer game. They
are not put to the trouble of thinking for them-
selves ; by surrendering private judgment to the
law of authority, they vote in unison as directed.
Sometimes, however, they take a pet, and throw
the advantage into their opponent's hand. They
opposed "the brutal and the bloody Whigs," de-
claring that " Scorpion STANLEY or SATAN would
he preferable" ; but the very association of such
titles shows how hollow the sincerity. They left the
House of Commons in a body one evening, and
within an hour the Ecclesiastical Titles' Bill had
gone against them.
We speak as to wise men ; we warn them not to
fight the battles of opponents, but on the contrary
fas est ab poste doceri.

In these remarks we have said nothing respect-
ing the opinions advanced by Dr. 111`NEILE on any
former occasion; for though it is allowable to he
wiser to-day than we were yesterday, there are many
who think that it is sufficient condemnation for a

man to have advocated two views of any subject at
two different pericds. We have directed our atten-
tion only to the sentiments advocated in his letter
of the 6th February, sentiments which, notwith-
standing all that has been said upon the subject,
have our hearty concurrence. When we hear the
nonsense that has been said and written about " a
standard bearer fainting," we reply that there are
canting sectarians and wily Jesuits who would sell
both Church and State, and then say that they did
it through tenderness of conscience.

Dr. WNEILE has addressed the following let-