The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-05 00:00:00

ARIETII-4_:S

HASTY PEOPLE drink the nectar of existence scalding
hot. - - -

RESERVE is no more essentially connected with under-
standing than a church organ with devotion, or wine with
good nature

HOPE is the sweetest friend that ever kept a distressed
soul company ; it beguiles the tediousness of the way—all
the miseries of our pilgrimage.

LIKE MASTER LIKE MAID.—A servant to the geolo-
gist of a country seminary, in describing to her master
how she had stoned a cow out of the yard, said, " I saw
her come in, and threw a ' specimen' at ber, and off she
Went."

A PERSON meeting an old man with silver hairs, and a
very black bushy beard, asked him how it happened that
his beard was not so erev as the hair of his head ? " Be-
cause," said the " it is twenty years

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The performance last even-
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such as might be desired. The
n so powerful for a long time.

PHILHARMONIC-HALL.—The weather was the most
nnfavourable possible for the grand conceit given here
last Tuesday, nevertheless a large and fashionable as-

sembly greeted that charming vocalist, Madame Viardot
Garcia—and who would not ?—for where have we such

classic taste and artistic execution, ruch purity of style
and perfect vocalization, as in the sister of Malibran !
Very beautiful was her rendering of the cavatina, Una
rote poco fa, from the " Barbiere ;" and great was the
pathos of Meyerbeer's .Ah anon fits—one of those songs
which one desires to be perpetual; and subdued, solemn as
the occasion, was her " Ye Sons of Israel," from the

mighty opera of " Samson." The concert was a very effec-
tive one, the selection being made from the works of
Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Spohr, Bellini, Horsley and
others. Herr Carl Formes was scarcely equal to himself,
`hough great. Sorge was exceedingly good in clarionet
from " La Sonnambula ;" and Miss Hill, a new
pianist, equalled our highest expectations. The chorus
gave the madrigals and other music well, and the band
showed care in the opening symphony and overtures of the
evening.

ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS.—MISS JESSIE HAMMOND'S
CONCH I:T.—This concert was as well attended as it was
excellent, and the choir of the Blind Asylum acquitted
themselves most satisfactorily. Miss Hammond and her
vounge

Eygpt," the IL,
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ter introduced a pretty duet:, from " Moses in
'firmer playing on the harp, the latter ac-
ig on the concertina. Mr. Wray conducted.

THE LIVERPOOL LITERARY AND DRAMATIC SOCIETY
resume their meetings on Thursday evening next.

Mr. RYALLS announces his annual concert for Monday
next, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street.
AT THE LORD MAYOR'S COURT, on Tuesday., an at-
tachment was issued, under the custom of London,
against Catherine Hayes, the celebrated singer, to recover
the sum of £3,000 due to Thomas Frederick Beale.

EIGHT LIVES LOST BY THE UPSETTING
OF A LIFE-BOAT.

PRESTON, SATURDAY

An appalling casualty, by which eight women have been
rendered widows, and eight families of children deprived
of the means of snbsistence, took place yesterday after-
noon. Lytham, the scene of the unfortunate occurrence,
is well known as a watering-place, and is situated at the
estuary of the Ribble, some twelve miles from Preston.
In consequence of the numerous vessels which have, from
time to time, been wrecked off Lytham, it was deemed
expedient to purchase a life-boat. For that purpose a
considerable sum was raised by subscription among the
visitors and residents, and a few months ago a fine boat
was obtained from the establishment of Messrs. Beechin
and Son, of Great Yarmouth (the successful competitors
for the Duke of Northumberland's prize of £100). The
craft (which was adapted either to rowing or sailing) was
highly spoken of by nautical men, and pronounced fit to
go anywhere or through any sea, her superiority over
other descriptions of life• boat being said to consist in,
first, her power of self-ballasting, with water ballast, in
secure compartments ; secondly, of relieving herself of
water in case of shipping a sea, which she could accomplish
in about eleven seconds; thirdly, and lastly, of instantly
self-righting in the event of her being capsized. Her
draught of water, in ballast, and with a crew of thirteen
persons, did not exceed twenty inches.
Yesterday afternoon, eleven hardy seamen, all natives
of Lytham, set out to test the capabilites of the new boat.
Three out of the eleven were all who reached the land
again—one, named Shannon, owing his life to being
transferred as pilot on board the Thomas Clifton, a vessel
bound for Preston ; and the other two narrowly escaping
the fate of their comrades. The life-boat left Lytham
about one o'clock. Though the weather was squally,
many persons were congregated on the beach to witness
her fleparture, and the little craft seemed to make way
very satisfactorily. What is called a " lug sail" was used
on the occasion. It was observed by some experienced
persons, as the boat proceeded on her course, that too
much sail was carried, considering the weather. When
she got a distance out, a sea was shipped without any da-
mage, the boat righting herself immediately. Between
two and three o'clock. when dashing through the break-
ers at a distance of about three miles, the boat leaned
over alarmingly, owing to the quantity of sail she carried.
About that time a heavy shower came on, and concealed
the boat for a brief interval from the view of those
on the look-out. When next seen, she was keel
uppermost. Some men on the hills skirting the sea
rushed down to the beach, and gave an alarm, and
it is needless to say, that the most intense excite-
ment speedily prevailed. Two boats were got ready
with the least possible delay to proceed to the scene of
disaster. The smallest of them was taken to the edge of
the Horse-bank, (a large sand-bank in the Channel,)
where it was moored. The crew then hastened across the
bank, plunged into the water, and waded to the ill-fated
boat, which had drifted towards the sand, underneath or
inside of which they discovered two of the crew, named
Richard Gillet and James Parkinson, the latter when
taken up being nearly exhausted. It is almost miraculous
that these two men should have held out so long, it being
about four o'clock when they were rescued ; but as the
life-boat has six apertures in her bottom, which formed a
sort of dome over the two sufferers, these enabled
them to breathe freely. None of the other unfortunates
being visible, the boat returned to Lytham about seven
o'clock with the two survivors. The scene on its arrival
was painful beyond description ; to say that it was heart-
rending in the extreme were indeed to convey but a very
faint idea of the frantic excitement of the bereaved. The
following is a list of the names of those who are lost :
Hardman, leaving a widow and six children; Cookson,
widow and two children ; T. Gillet, widow and two chil-
dren ; J. Gillet, widow and five children ; Swann, widow
and three children ; Davis, widow and three children ;
Whiteside, widow and three children ; Winder, widow
and two children. Thus, besides widows, no fewer than"
26 children are left to bemoan the sad end of their
parents. The wife of Winder, we regret to say, is near
her confinement.

Although the crew had been furnished with belts and
other appliances for the preservation of tlife, yet, strange
to state, all these were left behind when the boat went
out. At an early hour_ this morning several boats were

despatc

but when our cor-

been received of

t of the accident is to the following
afternoon the Lytham lifeboat was
Tt was manned by Captain Wm.
The wind was very heavy and
After being cut a short

ordered out for practice
Swann and nine men.

home, when she was upset by a
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exceeded them.
" in spirit" that David called him " Lord."
ther occasions our Lord appe-' to the Old
as being verbally true.

same way, referred to the words of Scripture as
being of divine authority, and teaching divin
In the third chapter of Galatians hi
Old Testament, and said, " Now to
seed were the promises made," &c

Abraham and his
. The argument

turned upon whether the word should be in the singular
or the plural, whether it should be " seed" or " seeds."
The apostle hinged the testimony to the covenant of God

3 Christ on the difference between the singular and the
Aural form of a single word. A still more instructive ex-

Ater of I

where the apostle not only argued on the meaning,
the very order of the words, showing, from Alelchi
preceding Melchi Salem, that w
eousness before we could have peace
The second principle derived f

'e first must have right-

examples

ment in the New, was, that the Bible was historically
true. Our Lord gave no countenance to men claiming to
be men of Christian piety, and yet denying the historical
truth of the Old Testament. Some well-known passages
were quoted by the lecturer, in which historical facts were
referred to by our Saviour as being true because they were
found in the Bible. If the Bible had been a book of du-
bious historical authority, our Lord would not have ap-
pealed to it as be did.
Thirdly, the Bible was mystically true. Not only did
the narratives contain historical truth, but the historical
narratives contained deep mystical truths. This was illus-
trated in the conversation of our Lord with Nicodemus,
when he spoke of the lifting up of the serpent in the wil.
derness, of the manna, and of rebuilding the temple in
three days. How strikingly, also, did St. Paul set forth
mystical truth, as built upon the historical events of the
Bible, when, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, he referred
to two historical events in the Old Testament, the resting
from the six days' work, and the journeying of the
Israelites through the wilderness ! Most beautiful was
the mystical teaching from these two passages. The
apostle was pointing to the Sabbath which was yet future.
Here were two distinct, yet very connected, truths. In
the first. place, there were the counsel and providence of
God without creature co-operation. God said, " Let
there be light," and there was light. God said, " Let
the dry land appear," and the dry land appeared. God
said, Let the earth bring forth," and the earth brought
forth. God in counsel, God in power, God in action, were
here. The completion of the creation and the rest of the
first Sabbath set forth God. And the church of God would
acknowledge, in the Sabbath yet to come, that salvation
belonged to God, and that it was not human agency, but
divine power, that produced out of a ruined world a per-
fect temple to God, a glorified church. Israel in the Nvil-
derness was a typeof the church on her way to the heavenly
rest. Israel must go with Moses ; must willingly go
through the Red Sea ; must abide under the cloud ; must
follow the guiding pillar ; must drink of the stricken rock ;
must cross the appointed Jordan. While the first truth
set forth God doing all alone, the second represented man
following whore God led. And on these the apostle founded
his argument.

The fourth principle to be deduced from the use mode
of the Old Testament Scriptures by the writers of the
New was, that the Bible was multiform in its applications.
We should never think we had exhausted its meaning
when we found that it meant one thing. Inattention to
this bad caused a great deal of disputation, As an instance
in point, the lecturer referred to the Bth chapter of
Matthew, where a quotation was made from the 53d of
Isaiah ; and, if we stopped there, we should agree, he
said, with the Socinians, that the passage in Isaiah, as
applied to Christ, meant only that he should heal diseases,
and not that he should make an atonement for sin. But,
in the Bth chapter of the Acts, the same prophecy was
referred to, and the suffering, the crucified Saviour, was
clearly set before us. Both truths were contained in the
one place ; and, from a comparison of the passages, we
got this very important principle, that the Bible was
ambiguous nowhere, but that it had many applications.
It was necessary that the Bible should be brief, and, if it
had been brief without being multiform in its applications,
it could not have been full ; and, if not full, it would not
have been suitable to all times and occasions. As it was,
it had the qualification of fullness with brevity, and was
thus most peculiarly suited to be to all men, without ex-
ception, a lamp to their feet and a light to their paths.
Another very important principle was, that correct
inference was of equal authority with direct statement.
An instance of this was afforded by our Saviour. in speak-
ing of the resurrection of the body. He drew the proof
from no direct statement, but from the circumstance of
God having called himself the God of Abraham ; and to
be the God of Abraham was to be the God, not of a
spirit, but of man, spirit, soul, and body. The epistles
were also full of illustrations of the same principle.
A sixth principle, and one that would alone allay many
painful controversies in the church, was, that spiritual
terms were twofold in their application. There was the
outward and visible application, and there was the inward
and spiritual application. He might go through every
term of the kind in the Bible as examples of this. It
was said in the Church Catrchism, that, by baptism, they
were made members of Christ, children of God, and in-
heritors of the kingdom of heaven. Many found fault
with this, as if it were teaching too much. If it meant
the spiritual things mentioned it would be teaching too
much, for baptism never yet converted a single soul, or
was the appointed instrument of bringing any soul into
the spiritual kingdom of Christ. This was not its office.
It was to bring them into the visible kinedon of Christ.
H they were to suppose that spiritual terms had only one
meaning, what confusion would result ! In Matthew it
was said, " The good seed are the children of the king-
dom, the tares are the children of the wicked one." Let
it be supposed that the " children of the kingdom" here
meant the really good people, as contrasted with the profes-
sors. Well, in another passage of the sarnebook, also spoken
by our Lord, it was said that the " children of the king-
dom" should be cast into outer darkness, where there
should be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
What ! Were the really good people to be cast into outer
darkness ? Or were they to say that there were two
meanings to these spiritual terms, one when the compari.
son was between the church and the world, and the other
when it was between the converted persons and professors?
If we were to ask a Turk how many Christians there were
in Constantinople, he would not suppose we meant how
many converted men; he would not enter into that ques-
tion ; he would tell us bow many were called Christians.
But if we asked a minister how many Christians there were
in his congregation, he would understand at once that we
wished to know how many converted persons there were.
He would understand our meaning by considering what
we were speaking about. Such was the distinction between
the outward and visible meaning of the terms of Scripture
and their inward and spiritual meaning.
In applying the rules he was laying down to the inter-
pretation of the precepts of Scripture, Dr. Baylee showed
how the conduct of Christ illustrated the precept about
offering the cheek to be smitten. When he was himself
smitten upon the one cheek he did not offer the other, but
mildly rebuked the smiter ; showing that the injunction
was not to be taken literally, but as inculcating the spirit
of non-resistance to injuries. The promises of Scripture
were of two classes, the ordinary and the covenant. The
difference between the two was pointed out. The former
were given for encouragement and warning, and were
changeable ; the latter were made with Christ, and were
unchangeable and unconditional. Instances were cited in
proof of this distinction. The ceremonial law was next
brought under notice. It was shown to be moral and
mystical, and a corresponding principle of interpretation
was laid down with regard to it. From the words of
Christ respecting the law of divorce, " Moses, because of
the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your
wives," it was argued that laws should be adapted to the
state and circumstances of society. The true principle of
legislation was not to give the best possible laws, but the
best practicable laws.
After noticing the social, the political, and the

ations of Scripture, and 'showing under

be understood, the reverend lecturer said a few w,rds
respecting the analogical view of his subject, in connexion
with which he remarked with much beauty and felicity of
application upon the peculiar character of the Garden of
s a plantation. Out of the rest of the earth the
node the plants to grow of themselves, but

Eden
Lord God

of itself in Eden

Every tree that e

there als-first placed there by the handof God ; it was a
transplantation out of the other part of the earth to that