The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

MR. HERBERT'S "OUTCAST."

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Slit,—ln the notice to correspondents of -the Liverpool
Journal, of last week, there is an attempt to rescue Mr.
Herbert from the charge which I brought against him at
the sale of Mr. Clow's pictures.- It is there stated-Ist,
that " Mr. Clow's ` Outcast' was merely the sketch
knocked off in a few hours, and bought by Mr. Clow as
such ;" 2nd, that " Mr. Herbert wished to have it
engraved, borrowed it, &c. ; but Mr. Shand became
impatient, and the
_painting was returned to him before
the engraving w7tinished, and it in consequence remains
unfinished still.' 3rd, "That Mr. Herbert is known to
be one of the,most conscientious men living." To which

On Friday last, Dr. Baylee delivered a second lecture
on the " Inspiration of the Bible;" not in the usual course,
but in consequence of the indisposition of the Rev. J. B.
Lowe, who had been announced. The order in which he
treated the subject will appear from the following analysis :
I.—Authenticity and Canonicity. On the former point
no learning was not necessary, the Bible was to be acknow-
ledged as conveying the sentiments of the sacred writers,
as the Koran conveyed those of Mahomet. In allusion
to the frequent assertions that the canon of Scripture was
determined by the chance votes of councils, he said there
could be no greater error. The Christian Church, as a
whole, had always received it as the Bible. Our Lord him-
self had admitted the authenticity of the Old Testament
Scriptures ; and on this subject Jews and Christians held
the same views. The one party acts as a check upon the
other, so that corruption is impossible. There is the
same sort of evidence in favour of the authenticity of the
New Testament. There was the concurrence of all re-
specting their genuineness ; no fifth gospel had ever been
received, and no doubtful letters of Paul or Peter had
ever been the subject of controversy. If all the disputed
passages were rejected, there woreld still be enough to
prove all the important doctrines of the Christian religion ;
for the doctrine of the Trinity and the divinity of our Lord
followed easily even from the Unitarian. version. The
language of the New Testatament furnishes &strong proof
of its authenticity. It is not written in pure Attic Greek,
and it is contended that God would not instruct man in
bad grammar. The objector forgets that the deity
addresses us in human language ; and the language in
which Chaucer or Wickliffe spoke was that of their coun-
try and time, not that of our days. The argument makes
for revelation not s:qtthrsf it. The existence of gebraisres
in the Greek shows that the writing was addressed to
Hebrew people, who spoke Greek, but into which they
had imported the idioms of their native tongue:- Thus
the date was fixed : the' composition must have taken place
between the birth o Christ and the destruction of
Jerusalem.

2.—Scripture a DiviNekevelagion. With respect tothe
Old Testament, the general. proofs are both internal, and
external. The former arethe more valuable. They com-
prise many thousands of predictions, of which not one
had been disproved in any age,—they are therefore unques--
tionably divine. The predictions are not preserved alone,.
but the record of their fulfilment. For example, Daniel•
foretell the existence of four empires, and in the course
of 2400 years there has never been a fifth. With regard!
to the general character of tale Bible, the more it was.
examined the stronger it stood. The' whole of the books
on science before the time of Newton' exhibited a remark-
able amount of error ; but the Fale,.when properly inter-
preted, exhibited no error, no mistake..

Pure of Inspiration. This- subject was treated
more fully in Dr. Baylee's former lecture. It was no
evidenceazairtst it that use was made of previous docu-
ments. So Paul's directions to, Timothy about his
cloak and some parchments, and his dbubt respecting the
propriety of husband or wife separating from a Heathen
partner, are most readily explained on the supposition that
the apostle was under the influence or inspiration. All
other theories are surrounded with mare diffkalties.
4.—Scripiterece Divine Revelation. rt was a declaration
of the Divine mind. In the narrow use-of the term, tho
greater part was-no revelation at all, but the authority
and the impress of God was placed on it all by inspiration.
s.—. Nature 011ie Composition. Some v:ewit as a devo-
tional book, and some as a doctrinal book: It is very
varied, for it unfolds the truths that God shows in His
works as well as in His word. It contains h:story, science,
and philosophy, and is the centre of human knowledge.
Objections had been-raised by those who possessed a smat-
tering of astronomy or geology; but it was found that
though commentators had erred, the word was-still true.
On the subject of " Verbal Inspiration," some pertinent
remarks were made ;: and the wonderful accuracy-of quota-
tions from the Old Ti!atament in the New was noticed.
Dr. Baylee hoped to be able to conclude the subject in
another lecture. Dtring the present week three interesting
lectures would be given by R. N. Wornum, of the
Government Schools of Design.

THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT.—AdViCeS+ETB been
received from Port Lyttelton, New Zealand,.ttr•the 29th
December. They contain no intelligence of importance,
but the report of the general progress of the settlement is
satisfactory. The anniversary of its foundation had just
taken place, and from. some statements published. on
the occasion, it appears. that the population is•estimated
at 3,000 persons, that' there• are about 550) acres• of
land under cultivation, and that the live stock consists of
30,000 sheep, besidbs- cattle and horses. According to
accounts from Nelson,. coal had been discovered in that
neighbourhood.

, MR. FEARGUS ePCOINIZOR'Sr- PRANKS.—OR Tuesday
afternoon, application was resale at the Hammersmith-
Police-court, by Mr. Danford, a• printer and news-agent,
in High-street, Notting-hill, for- protection against Mr.
O'Connor, member of- parliament for NottinOiamovho
was accustomed to go frequently, into his office, .and, if he
found Mrs. Dunford‘ or her apprentices (dressmakers)
engaged in their work, he would take the fabriccsrhether
or silk, merino, or whatever it happened to be; and tie it
round their heads A' few dais since he again called at
the shop. Applicant and his family were abeeot sitting
down to dinner. MK O'Connor rushed in and went to
the rear of the premises; where he conducted himself `most
indecently. He then returned to the parlour; took np a
hot leg of mutton, which was-in adish upon the table,
and held it in his hands, at the same time cutting oft the
meat and placing large slicer in his mouth. Applicant's
little boy was sitting at-the tables-and because he happened
togook at him he threatened to cut off'his head:—Another
freak of Mr. O'Connor's has- excited a good deal of
laughter. Mr. Reynolds, the-member for Dublin, is the
happy possessor of; what is popularly called in' London, a
I "'most nobby head'of'hair"; the hon. gentleman's locks
;being at once voluminous and' " fuzzy". He was dining,
the other day, at a well-known eating-house ism -the Strand,
bwhen Feargus, who was similarly engaged. getting slyly
ehind him, seized the bushy, head of the Dalin senator
in both hands, and rubbed it until the wire roughness of
his locks was exaggerated into a perfect wilderness of
bushy disorder—the entire roomful of people looking on, of
course in a perfect roar of merriment. The correspondent
of the Dumfries Courier, after describing therecent fracas
between Mr. Herbert ancliMt, F: O'Connor, in the lobby
of the house;.which consisted in the former,levelling the
latter to the earth for presuming to slap him in the face,
says that the records of the house have been searched,
with the view of finding whether there is-any precedent
for dealing with a member whose mind' has become
affected, but none has been found.

MORMONISM,—The Swansea Hera/flingilishes a letter
just received from a Welsh miner, named. Eran Powell,
who embarked last year, with his wife-and 'family, to join
the Mormons in Ameriea. It is datediSt. Louis, Dec. 7.
The deluded' victim, says :—" Myself, together with my
wife and child, have been ill here for- free months, and
now I am somewhat-better, but I have lost all my com-
forts, for I-have buried both wife and. child in the same-
grave in Illinois. 1' am now living at Missouri. It is
very unhealthy here, and I beg oflonto use all your in—
fluence to persuade my friends to, stay where they are,.
rather than suffer themselves to be-blindfolded into such
a system of roguery and plunder as Mormonism. It is-4
notiiing but a mere humbug—l have found it to my heart's-,
sorrow. It would have been better for us not to have
been born than to have come here to-be Mormons. They.
take all from you at home,.and starve you when they
come here, if they have the chance, and take your wives
from you.. Their chief, Bingham Young, has twenty-four
wives, and nineteen of them,have infants at their breasts
at present, and those lower in,office than he have a smaller -
nnmber, in proportion to their- office, according to- their-
station. Some have fourteen, some seven, and others
different numbers. And now they are trying their best to
insult the-officers of the- United' States, who have left
their places and have gone to Washington,. and as
Congress is now sitting, we shall hear what they will
do. The Mormons era- very unkind one to another..
I had' to, dig my wife's grave myself. She had &decent
burials,, but the Mormons did not put their hands
to help at all. The men who gave them so much
money had promises of land and everything- else when
they- reached here, but they have been left to die in the
workhouse. I wish to tell you also that the Sabbath is
no more regarded' here than any other- day. There is
gaming of every description here on the Sabbath—such
as horse racing, rolling the ten pins, playing cards, &c. ;
and the leaders of the Mormons indulge in these to a
great extent, together with dancing, swearing, and every-
thing else that is.beyond decency."
LOLA MoNTes IN BOSTON, U.S.—The danseuse has
created quite a revolution at Boston. After speaking of
the extraordinary excitement in that " staid and exem-
plary city,"' the Boston correspondent of the New York
Herald says :—" Like other great personages of the Old
World, Lela Montes surrounds herself with all the pomp,
circumstance, and paraphernalia of a sovereign. She
holds her levees and rnatinales every morning, reclining
In state on her luxurious bed in the Tremont-house.
Thus she holds her cabinet council, issues her mandates,
consults with her ministers, and directs affairs, just as she
was wont to govern her quondam kingdom of Bavaria in
her palace of Munich, or as Kossuth used to held his
levees in the Irving-house." He also states that she has
engaged a literary gentleman to write an epic drama,
" embodying the principal events of her wayward life,
and introducing into the play the eminent characters with
whom she has been brought in contact. It will be in five
acts, the first two embracing her European life, in which
will appear, as leading characters, Louis the First, ex-King
of Bavaria ; his son, Maximilian the Second ; Count
Pepin, private secretary to Louis; Eugene Sue, and other
Parisian literary characters. In the third act will be
introduced Kossuth, Prince Bobo, tabooed in his native
African style, little Ravmond, of the Times, and M.
Arpin, of the Courrier des Etats Unis. Of course, Lola
will play the leading rule herself, and she anticipates a
complete triumph on making her second debut in New
York, with the introduction of this new and piquant
drama." It is said that Lola Montes will bring actions
against the before-named Paul Arpin, Greeley, and
WElratb, of the Tribune, and Raymond, Weed, Jones,
Weely, and Co., of the Times, for defamation of character,
damages to be laid at $30,000 in each case ; but that, in
mercy to the defendants, and to save the time and
trouble of a contested suit, she will compound with them,
and allow them a discount of from 15 to 20 per cent. for
prompt Payment of the whole sum demanded, but she is
determined to make no greater relaxation in their favour.

X £
Russia 1,602,742 2,153,491' 1,454.771
Sweden and Norway 197,441 287,242 362,947
Denmark...::.•... 201.462 258,558 454,304
Prussia 219.315 577,999 424,480
Germany..... 5,401,4991 6.517,796 7,033,116

Holland.
Belgium

France

Portugal, &c.
Spain, &c...
Gibraltar....