The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-20 00:00:00

A VISION.

,pfror. Liverpool Standard.)
ster m yision, 'mid a stormy sea,
" ICtty fitatidifig on an island lone :
!ll‘Loud raved the tempest, yet undauntedly
4,-,she bade defiance to the wild waves, thrown
With quick succession and increasing reach,
4eti for their prey, upon the rocky beach.
q'w`fs night, and all the treasury of storm
...s'eiiilta'grither'd there, to crush the lonely one :
'On e:temTaut heat upon her slender form;
.t bewhite foam-girt her, with a narrowing zone;
The lightning rent the darkness of the sky ;
The thulider raised its voice, and shouted from on high.
4 '4l.7iiinov'd slie'fook'd abroad upon the night,
Nor shrunk; es every billow reach'd her feet :
,-,,1;1-c,3r pale face, lit up by the arrowy light,
ditas radiant with a smile, most calm and sweet,
nd glorious to behold : it spoke of trust
11!1Poti some shielding arm, which was not form'd of dust.
Her robe was white, ancistired not with the gale:
e,;-; Ia one fair hand she grasp'd a gleaming sword;
...11.w.other held a lamp, which glimmer'd pale,
~Yet radiantly bright ; though on it pour'd
'"Tife teinpett's fury, still unquench'd it shone,
Far o'er the- stormy waves, which else were dark and lone.
I:Upon herhead a golden helmet gleam'd,
ebErom.whicla,there rose a crest of snowy white,
t,,,,,Ap,4„,,in-whgse, centre, through the darkness, beam'd
A priCelgiVemerald,fla.shing back the light
wilf the tailtM lightning, which destructive burn'd,
'bit glancing on;that. gem, to beauteous fires was turn'd.
More fierce the wind rush'd through the angry heav'n,
And louder grew the trumpet of its might;
The rocks and mountains; in its path, were riv'n;
'The firm earth shook and quiver'd with affright !
—And how fared she, the Lady ?—could she brave
The gathered force of lightning, wind, and wave ?
hopefully; for o'er the sea
rn'ti, to where aside were drawn
trkness, and all radiantly
, up the banners of the morn.
first, was but the messenger
-i, and joy, and daylight, unto her.
glorious ; and the warring wave
calmness, and the wind no more
on its breast to rave;
Aceful on the island shore.
unhurt, the Lady stood beside
y billows of the conquer'd tide.
past, and now she raised a song
Deliverance—and of Praise :
strains of living rapture long,
But all that reach'd my hearing of her lays
Was, " Glory to CHRIST ! supported by His hand,
• His Church hath ever stood, and shall/be ever stand."
Liverpool, Aug. 8, 1839. F. H.
MR. KINNAIRD'S SECESSION FROM •THE
MINISTERIAL RANKS.
.71> , (From the Standard)
minds were forcibly led, by the recent secession
of gr; Kinnaird, to revert to a splendid passage in a
speech of Mr. M‘Neile's, delivered at the last church
xneeting at Exeter Hall. We have sought and found
t):. passage, and now report it, for the especial benefit
Gibsons, and Baring Walls, of the conservative
lanes
Now, in a case like our own, where the nation is divided
iiigs opinion, and the members of the legislature (I suppose
aAtiight,sp.y, the government also) are divided (laughter,) then.
4.4-focitAnnekto ask that each individual should be sincere—
t tat h indilidaal shall use his influence, in the station he
is acid int to propagate what lie himself personally, in his
o: fl Tr 1, believes to be the truth of God ? Is it too much
; ' ithai every man shall consider his conscience towards
aalliving a paramount claim over his kindliness towards
mitllVeLAnd When they come in collision, when consideration
cif t~liei'fithirfa`rtiea (as he most think them) of his fellow-sub.
jeetsawould induce hitn-la take one course, and his own
conviction of Divine truth would induce him to take another
---when'eensideration of the infirmities of men would induce
him to the propagation of what he himself thinks false,
and conscience towards God calls for the propagation of what
he himself thinks true, is it too much to ask of men profess-
ing religion at all, that they should hold conscience towards
Gbd paramount above kindliness towards men ? (Hear.)
My lord, I allege, not indeed without fear of contradiction
(in,the full foresight of vehement contradiction, and perhaps
abuse,) but without fear of refutation (and if I should ever
see what I honestly believe a real refutation, I' will openly
ilia publicly acknowledge it,) I venture at present to allege,
4at if. each individual acted this personally sincere part, the
ikAat questions which agitate this nation would soon be
eit.lect, Not being any further connected with politics, my
16i-4; than I have already expressed, I may take the liberty
Ot:Xrientioning individual names, without meaning any
ogenee. I will say, therefore, by way of making plain the
il,Aenieait that I have advanced, that if Sir Robert Peel,
far (cheers,) would boldly announce to the nation
140iiiilionest, conscientious, religious sentiments, and tell
the nation that he felt his duty towards God his chief of
duties--that he will use all the influence he has, or may have,
to propagate to the uttermost that which he consider's God's
truth; that he would not force any man to subscribe to his
creed or to -conform to his worship, but that he would vote
public money for the propagation of that creed and that wor-
ship, and would make Dissenters pay money to it, though he
Ira conform to ; that he would leave their
but he could not afford to leave their
fiat no earthly inducement should ever
consent to give any of his influence to
. what he believed in his soul to be false;
A Russell did the same—if my Lord Lens-
same—if Mr. Daniel O'Connell did the same
:h declaring broadly and honestly what
ions are—each declaring that he would
,ost to propagate that until it was the wi-
sing would induce him to be such a hypo-
to propagate anything else—my lord, if
would the result be ? I allege that the
be speedily settled. (Hear, hear.) It
sight, that this is to say too much ; but
foment how this sincerity would detach
,hemical test it would prove, my lord !
tetonating gunpowder in the country that
f an explosion as this sincerity would.
result, it may be alleged, after all, would
- would be carried by the majority. What
decision of what shall benational must,
after all, be determined by the nation; right or wrong it
must be determined by the nation. Right or wrong must be
ituti Oi;Other grounds; and there is the value cav-
ing Christ's Church—a witness for the right and against the
Tong must be determined otherwise ; but
lonal,' must be determined by the na-
why (I must, to avoid cumloeution,
Inentioning names again)—why should Sir
''‘'d John Russell consent to allow them;
fluence in the propogation of what they
be false ? How often have they both
false I How often have they both voted
dug of it at Maynooth College! (Hear,
You see my lord, I am no party man.
'When these things are—and in like
midi O'Connell allows himself to use his
mogation (for the present) of Protestant
a conscientious Papist, must believe to
hear, hear) ; when these anomalies are
ary, then, my lord, we arc brought into
!it by Job in the text I quoted just now,
id the people are ensnared' (great cheer-
called evil, and evil is called good ; the
is worn out ; public consistency is ajest ;
lual sincerity is turned into ridicule ;
is trampled in the streets, and present
o the throne. (Prolonged cheering.)"
--Jinni test would this prove !" well
might Mr. M'Neile exclaim. It has been precisely this
t which has separated Mr. Kinnaird from the whig-
hdicals, and Mr. Gibson from the conservatives. The
'OM is happy enough to possess religious principles,
those religious principles have proved, as they al-
3rays ought to prove, more powerful than ties of blood,
nti friendship, and party connexion. He has aban-
whom he loved, and those who possessed
bestow wealth and honours upon him,
+ne this simply and solely in obedience to
of conscience. He has not suddenly
principles or his party ; he has not crossed
a moment's notice; he has simply paused,
late companions that, in the course they
ig, he, for one, cannot accompany them.
'orking of what Mr. M‘Neile so eloquently
-Sincerity ; and such ought to be the
qie same principle in more hearts than

of the Standard will hardly require us
stinction between this case and that of
yet, for the sake of the casual or the
will just point out the grand feature
:es the two cases.
taird, at a considerable sacrifice of feeling,
dictates of religious principles, and secedes
to were doing what, in his conscience, he
wrong. Mr. Gibson, on the other hand,
Ted' in January, divers violent orations
must' whip and Whig radicals, openly joins their
fetkS'. in 'June, and can suggest no reason for the
...flange, except that the conservatives show signs of
coming more " bigotted ;" in other words, of acting
i;;*ith sincerity, and of making religious principle what
'it ought to be—the paramount rule. Thus, the very
same thing which disgusts Mr. Kinnaird, attracts Mr.
Gibson. " Bigotry," as we all know, means, in mo-
-Iderri'political language, an inflexible adherence to what
~.ischelievedsto be true, This Mr. Kinnaird possessed
1-10r-hiitiSelf; and not finding it in his party leaders, he
. -cvetrigioperly deserted them. This Mr. Gibson did
,'
#'`'tittlYgEiess, and, like every other person who does not
~,ntsetNit, himself, he hated every one who did. The
A:W*44 Uplifting of the banner of TRUTH on the con-
.T-hscrvitive.benches scared him away; just as the enmity
•;ito,thathanner displayed by his own friends, drove Mr.
-c:Kiiiria*ll6 sever himself from their connexion.
:A. 17.1, -in6st earnestly do we hope for a further and
ItAllt?-:,deVelopement of this feeling. Let the sifting
;;;TrocOd. 'Let the Gibsons and Walls quit our ranks,
-tke name of truth, eternal truth, can appal or dis-
-0 fhem ; and let us hope that all that is sincere, or
OlfriStian;, or manly, on the ministerial benches, will
:itgraduilly, follow Mr. Kinnaird's example, and more
thOl'initiVeigh the secession.
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NlictiNoli OUTRAGES ON BRITISH TRADE.
.
'''roin the Morning Herald.)
possible that under any government,
of British feeling and patriotic con-
;ional honour and interests, France
. to commit the outrages upon British
has committed on the western coast of
and unavenged.
treacherous government of the bar-
which some of our conservative and
contemporaries are too much prone to
has done many things hostile to Bri-
insulting to British honour, but no-
t), insolent and seriously injurious as
iption which it has given to the Bri-
,ym at the port of Portendic, on the
Africa, where British ships and pro-
piratically seized and confiscated, and
_flag deliberately fired on by a French force,
- all which-things have been done, and five years have
warsefilvithout the French government condescending
to atrofltilie plundered subjects of .the British crown
-!_tha.sligtEest satisfaction, or to make any amends to
TiOnour of the nation for the flagrant anti-age
on its flag.

The French have succeeded in their object, which
was to cut up the British trade in gum, for which pur-
pose the French government called to its aid the basest
falsehood and fraud. We w e these words deliberately,
for they are fully borne out by the clear, forcible, but
to England most humiliating statement o?Lord Strang-
ford on this subject in the House of Peers. The Go-
vernor of Senegal picked a quarrel with the tribe of
Moors called Trazars, engaged in the trade, to afford a
pretence for blockading the British port of Porteridic.
The British traders, alarmed at the report of the in-
tended blockade, applied, through Earl Granville, the
British ambassador to the court of France, to know
whether the French government really intended to
blockade that port. The answer was, that the French
government had no such intention. In the face of this
solemn assurance the threatened blockade was carried
into effect—British ships captured—British subjects
made prisoners—and the British flag fired upon .1
Now what has been the result of all this falsehood,
fraud, and force, upon the part of the government of
our crafty and deceitful ally, the citizen-King ? A
passage prom the petition of the injured British traders
to the House of Lords explains it. The petitioners
say, " the practical result Of these proceedings has
been in the, first place, to inflict actual losses on your
petitioners to the amount of £lOO,OOO, and in the se-
cond place to cause, in the intercourse between the
English and the Moorish dealers in gum, a derange-
ment which has not been since found susceptible of
any permanent remedy, and the trade may be said to
have passed from the English almost wholly into French
hands."

Thus signal success has crowned this nefarious en-
terprise of French fraud and force against a lucrative
branch of British trade on the African coast, because
England is inflicted with a frivolous, indolent, talent-
less bedchamber ministry, destitute of feeling, courage,
or energy, to protect the national interests.

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