The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

A RIE TIES

FASHIONABLE.—" Ma'am, your shawl's drageine in the
ud." "11, suppose it is, isn't it fashionable ?"
SWIFT'S COLD RHYME.—The eccentric Dean used to
y, "A_pigeon, a plover, a pig, and a lover should never

INQUISITIN'E people are funnels of conversation; they
do not take in anything for their own use, but merely to
pass it to another.—Steele.

that of all the banns of marriage he
ard, none gave him such pleasure as the union of
elicate Ann Chovy with good John Dory.
REFINEMENT.—A servant-maid, in a small town in
Hereford, last week left her situation in consequence of
her being incapable of " reconciling her feelings to the
very bad grammar spoken by her mistress."

Qui): used to sa

METAPHOR.—As a young lady was holding forth in one
of the conventicles in Rasen the other evening, she de-
clared that " sin was swimming down Rasen streets in a
*-- " Torrent, it is supposed, she meant.—Stanford

Mercury

A PATRIARCH.—The papers record the death of Mr.
-'l,qrles Boucher, of Boucher, district of Montreal, at the
He was married to three wives, with whom
60 children. He leaves 43 children, 66 grand.
13 great grandchildren, 28 nephews, 70 grand-

se of 106

and 18 great grand-nephews.-Boston Post

SET A GOOD EXAMPLE.—Nothing is so easy as to
write and preach, and talk of the obligations we are under
ly and walk humbly" ; but it is altogether a

" do j

different matter to write and talk simply by example.
And yet, though the former be useful, how much more
valuable and effective is the latter I What are the most
beautiful essays on the cardinal virtues, compared with the
excellency of a life in which these virtues have a living,
vital existence' It was not alone the doctrines advanced
with such dignified and persuasive eloquence by our Sa-
viour Jesus Christ, nor the wonderful miracles performed by
Him, which made the hearts of men follow after Him ;
these were rendered doubly effectual by the example

which He set at all times, even under the most trying cir-
cumstancos. And so it is now, in an humble sense, by
mere human hopes. Men may preach, and the world will
listen, but profit comes by example. A parent, for in-
stance, inculcates gentleness to his children by many
sound precepts ; but they see him treat his beast in a
rude and angry manner, and, in consequence, his instruc-
tions are worse than lost, for they are neither heeded nor
respected. His example, as a gentle and humane man,
would have been sufficient for his children, without one

word or command

FRIENDLY ADVlCE.—Fathers ! before you put your
sons in any particular path of life, study, if you can, their
various dispositions, characters, talents, and capabilities.
How often do we see men in the army or navy who, had
they been allowed to follow their true bent, would have
made excellent churchmen or lawyers, and who, on their
fathers' death, quit the profession of arms for more genial
pursuits. Again, how often do we see a languishing noncha-
lant clergyman, without feeling for his calling, perishing

with ennui, who would have made a distinguished soldier
but for the maternal will, which said " thatboy naustgo into
the church !" Then again we behold a barrister detesting
pen and ink, close, hot rooms, and law study and practice
—a being whose aspirations and talents all pointed to the
sea—but his father's taste pointed to an intellectual pro-
fession, and the boy, without the least love of study, or
much aptitude for it, is dragooned, bon-ore malgre, to
the bar. You wi

see such a one, during his vacation,
;mg in salt water, yachting, steaming, rowing, voyaging
a merchantmen, and returning to his gown and wig with
a weary heart ! It is a cruel sight to see a man's life
passing by in the daily avocations of a profession for which
—perhaps a positive dislike, and to which
ieraned him even before he could walk

a father's w

A NEW RELIGIOrS SECT.—It is a fact that, not far
from this metropolis, there is an extensive sect who never
call in medical aid to assist their women in childbirth •,
who never have their children vaccinated ; who, through
all the perils of the distempers incident to infancy and
childhood, never seek or use the aid of medical science ;

o, in any case where a surgical operation—nay, even

amputation—migt

_ieve suffering, or preserve life, re-
aid as sinful and superfluous ; who, in the vio-
te diseases, or the most contagious fevers, do
' put faith in nothing more, than the
praying, and anointing with oil. If
t is the Lord's will ." and that is the
! We heard brother Witness deliver
Sunday harangues. All the world
etrap Witness and his friends
4

nthing more, an
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phrase

an learning or
and very bad

3 e clav

ie ordinary teachers of

ifz2 day and

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THE ANCIENT GREEK SCULPTORS, PHIDIAS AND
ALCAMENES.—These two masters received orders, at the
same time, to set to work on two statues, which the
people of Athens wished to set up on lofty pillars which
they had erected before the temple of Minerva. Ales-
menes wrought his statue with all possible delicacy,
finishing off to the eye the whole work to the minutest
feature—a proceeding which gave exceeding pleasure to
the neople, and increased infinitely the reputation of this
sculptor. But Phidias, who, by the knowledge he had of
optics, knew the effect which his figure ought to produce
when it was raised to the place for which it was intended,
made the face thereof of a monstrous width, the eyes
staring horribly—the nostrils swollen—tbe mouth a
gash, setting only strong and deep marks in the marble in
those places where he wished his work to appear most
delicate, without finishing or softening off any part—
giving, in fine, to his statue a countenance capable of
rror into the beholder. When the people saw
ew down first their merriment, but at last their
o that they were on the point of stoning both him
work if he had not had recourse to entreaties,
to do his best to correct it. From that timelhe
figure enveloped, feigned to be engaged in re-
; nor would he allow any person to see it;
after it had been set up on the pillar, would he
permit the veil to he removed until the statue of his com-
petitor had been likewise placed. When this was done,
and he had uncovered his work, the people, in despite of
their envy, could not help admiring the capacity of Phi-
dins, or giving him the praise and approbation which he
merited, while they expressed contempt for the statue of
kleamenes. And, in fact, says Tzetzes, nothing remained
",aci and meretricious colouring of the

striking to

promising
kept tlit3

nor eve

of all the fine chi

figure of Alcamenes, which appeared scarcely more than a
strai:,,ht trunk, without form or art ; whilst in that of
Phidias, with its strong and deep lines, those parts which,

seen close, appeared so ir
p.req of !'11:1 snpntntnr

,gular and uncombined to the
into parts so just, so delicate,
and well-proportioned in their remoteness, that one could
0 ! wonderful Phidias; 0 ! fortunate

gaze at it for ever

JOHN WESLEY AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—
Wesley, though driven by the force of circumstances, to
do many things which a churchman must severely censure,
ever retained his attachment to the Church, and until the
is period of his life was accustomed to maintain that
he was still a consistent member of the Church of Eng-
land. His opinions with reference to the Church of Eng-
land may be gathered from the following extracts mad-
from his works :—" I, John Wesley, hold all the doctrines
of the Church of England. I love her liturgy, I approves
her plan of discipline." [TVesley's Sermon on the Mi-
nisterial Office.]—"We do net, we dare not separate
e Church. Never let us make light of going to
Minutes of Coilference,

Ler by word

R Scpa
bn ii

the Church."

[De-
cember, 1780. Jon, —" If you are resolved,
you may have your service in Church hours ; but remem-
ber, from that time, you will see my face no more. This
struck deep, and from that hour, I (John Wesley) have
heard no more of separating from the Church.' [Wes-
ley's last Journal.]—" They who dissuade people from
attending the Church and Sacraments, do certainly draw
them from the Church." [John Wesley's Letter, Dec.,
~o Liturgy in the world, either
.cmguage, which breathes more of a
onal piety, than the Common Prayer
[Preface to Tr eL-ley's Prayer
rower and I closed the conference by a

in ancient or modern
solid Scriptural rat
of the Church of England

solemn declaration of our purpose, never to separate from
the Church." [Extract from Minutes of Coaference,
25, 1756.]—" We believe that it would not be right
us to administer either Baptism or the Lord's Supper,
,s we had ^-- 'on so to do from those bishops
succession from the Apostles."
.]—" They no more take
upon themselves to be priests than to be kings—they take
not upon them to administer the Sacraments, an honour
peculiar to the priests of God." [Wesley's Appeal to
Men of Reason, part iii., vol. xii. p. 253.]—" I believe one
reason why God is pleased to continue my life so long is,
to confirm them (his followers)in the present purpose not
to separate from the Church." [Wesley's Sermon on the
Vinisterial Office.]—" In flat opposition to these I`de-

comr
whom we apprehend to b
Wesley's Journal, vol. ii. p. 829

dare once more, that I will live and die a member of the
Church of England, and that none who regard my judg-
ment or advice will ever separate from it." lohnWesiey's
Further Thoughts on Separation from
_the Church.]—

Surely at a period when Romanis; and Pantheism are
from opposite sides assailing the truth as it is in Jesus,
the Methodists and the Church of England should en-
deavour to re-unite. Concessions on both sides would be
necessary ; on the side of the Church it might be fairly
conceded that Methodism should be attached to the Church
of England, as Papal institutes are to the Church of Rbme,
submitting to the general discipline, but preserving its
peculiarities. Methodists might retain their conferences
their classes, their chapels, their hymn books, and even
their local preachers. On the other hand, the chapels
would have to be episcopally licensed, and extempore
prayer only used at class meetings, the Liturgy being
strictly observed in the chapels; and the minister officiating
in the chapels would have to be episcopally, ordained. It
is to be feared that the pride of preachers would resist
this, and yet this point the Church of England could not
yield without renouncing her status as a Church. Surely
there is nothing derogatory from true dignity, in receiving
something in addition to what is now possessed. The
past is not interfered with when the future is made regular.
—Hook's Ecclesiastical Biography.

THE BISHOP OF EXETER AND THE EARL
OF SHAFTESBURY..

A correspondence has taken place between. the Bithei,
of Exeter and the Earl of Shaftesbury, in reference to a
statement made by Sir C. E. Eardlev at the meeting of
the Protestant Alliance, charging the Rev. G. Prynne, of
Plymouth, with having " interrogated a child in con-
fession as to her thoughts of uncleanness," and calling on
the Bishop of Exeter to " exercise discipline on saoh of-
fenders," on pain of being considered " a' party to these
offences," to which the Earl of Shaftesbury, as Chairman,
added that " if they could not bring the Diocesan to exer-
cise discipline over the Ministers, they would bring' public
opinion to exercise discipline over the Diocesan." The
Earl of Shaftesbury having in hisanswer, enclosincsletter
from Sir C. E. Eardley, admitted the substantial correct-
ness of the above statements as reported, the &shop in
his reply says :
Sir Culling being a Dissenter, I do not deem ityneces-
sary to make any remark on anything which he may have
said. But as your Lordship, if I mistake not, professes
to be a Churchman, I cannot doubt that, before you per
mitted yourself to use the language which you avow, you
had ascertained that there is some law of the- Church
which visits with ecclesiastical censure such conduct on
the part of a Clergyman as was narrated by, Sir Calling
Eardley. I therefore undertake to enable your Isprdship,
on your making a regular complaint, to proceed against
any Clergyman of my diocese whom you may charge with
any ecclesiastical offence whatever.
Meanwhile, your Lordship must permit me to express
my astonishment, that if not your feelings as-a Church-
man, yet at least your courtesy as s gentleman, and even
your sense of ordinary decency, did not restrain, you from
venting such a menace before such an assembly against
one whose office at least entitled him, to some respect.
And this astonishment is not diminished by; my finding
that, even when your words are brought to-your notice in
an hour of calm consideration, you, seem tchbe perfectly
unconscious of having violated even common decorum.
And yet your Lordship ought not to need-to.be reminded
of the well-known rebuke given by a wiser man than I am
to a nobleman not less eminent or less wise thanyourself—
" When men in your rank lose decorum, they lose every-
thing."
At the same time the Bishop enclosed to the Noble
Earl a copy of a letter, written by him. to.a gentleman at
Stonehouse, in answer to an application, on the same sub-
ject, of which the following is the substance :
I am very sorry to find thatoccasion of scandal has been
given by Rev. Prynne, and I shalt not be backward in
taking such a course as shall seem. to be due both to the.
Church and to him. You must, however, be aware that
a Bishop has not (and certainly ought not have) a des.
potic power over any of his Clergy. He can proceed
against them only for actual offences against the law, not
for matters in which the law leaves a discretion to them,
even though the Bishop himself, as well as others, may
think that they do not exercise a sound discretion.
It is also necessary, before the Bishop can take any.pro-
ceedings, that there be a regular complaint, founded on
the positive allegation of some offence against ecclesiasti-
cal law, and this by parties connected with the parish.
Statements in newspapers cannot properly be made the
ground of any proceeding. I have not seen, nor am I
likely to see, nor should I attend to, any statements in the
newspapers to which you refer me. Common jotice re-
quires that Clergymen be dealt with in the same manner
as other persons, both as respects the admissionof charges
against them and as regards their protection against irre-
gular accusations.
I have thus informed you of the course which I feel it
my duty to observe in all such cases. If any parishioner
of Mr. Prynne shall make such a charge,, and in such a
form, as shall be fit to be entertained, he will find sea
ready to entertain it.
The Earl of Shaftesbury has since addressed to the
Bishop the following rejoinder :
Lord Shaftesbury presents his compliments to the Lord
Bishop of Exeter, and thanks him for a sight of the letter
addressed by him to a gentleman at Stonehouse, which,
however, Lord Shaftesbury cannot regard as by any, means
satisfactory.

Lord Shaftesbury had no intention of giving offence
to the Lord Bishop, and he regrets that his Lordship
should consider himself aggrieved ; he trusts, however,
that the Lord Bishop will find relief by the letter that
Lord Shaftesbury has had the honour to receive from
him.

HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES OF ENGLISH STOCKS
*NcE 1720.—Considerable interest being felt at the
-nt time in regard to the prices of stocks during the
--:bjoin a table, which gives the highest
notations of all the English securities for the
rs, the most distant date embraced in the
mmnanson, extending as far back as 1720 :

and lowest q

Name of Stoat

Date.
June, 1737
Aug., 1791
Aug., 1791

Four per Cent Annui

Oct., 1822
May, 1768

'eC., 1768

Name of Sto

T PRICES

1071
1221
251
111