The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-30 00:00:00

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tl;ce' usual manner, the respect in which the noble dojo is
held by all classes of his countrymen. We hope some de-
.ations will take place on the occasion.

GEORGE'S PIER BATHS.—We are happy to announce that
these baths are now open for the season, under the superin-
tendence of Mrs. Penn. and we are certain, from the accom-
modation afforded, and the attention to the comfort of visit-
ors always shown at the establishment, that a continuance
of the patronage of the town will be given to the widow of
the late lessee.---See Add.

INQUESTS.—An inquest was held on Friday last at Wal-
lasey, on the body of John Metcalf, who was found lying
dead in a sandhole, at Wallasey, with a deep wound in his
throat. The deceased was " boots" at the Victoria Hotel,
New Brighton, in Liscard, and had been for a few days in a
bad state of health. His master, Mr. Garratt, was very
kind to him, and told him on the Wednesday morning, that
be would send for a surgeon, bidding him at the same time
not to go out of the way. The doctor arrived, but the de-
ceased was not to be found, and on the following day he was
discovered lying on his face quite dead, in a sandhole at
Wallasey, with a razor beside him.—On Saturday, an in-
quest was held at Ellesmere, on the body of James Leech.
The deceased was a flatman. and had been drinking in a
public-house at Whitby Locks until he became intoxicated.
He was then taken to his flat, which lay in the basin, and
being missed on the following day, the basin was searched,
and his body was discovered. Verdicts were returned in
each case according to the evidence.
THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.—We beg to refer to a notice of a meeting which
will take place this day, of the American merchants and
others, on the subject of shewing some mark of respect on
the occasion of the death of General Harrison. Some en-
quiries having been made, by several of our correspondents,
whether a new election will take place, we beg to state that
the present vice-president, John Tyler, Esq., who is presi •
dent also of the senate, steps into the president's chair, and
serves the time out ; and a new election of vice-president will
take place, that office to be chosen by congress, and not by
the people. Mr. Tyler is a retired planter, from Virginia, a
person of considerable wealth. Now that we ate on this sub-
ject, we cannot help expressing our surprise that the Mayor,
connected so closely as he is with the United States, has not
given orders to have the colours at the Town-hall hoisted
half-mast ; and we think there is a want of respect shown by
many of the masters of vessels in the port, in not paying a
similar mournful compliment. We have observed that the
Americans at all times exhibit the greatest attention in this
respect, on occasions relative to public events in this
country.

MAYNOOTH COLLEGE.—If there is one institution more
than another which requires investigation, and demands im-
mediate reform, it is that of the College of Maynooth. Al-
ready have the blasphemous, doctrines and the treasonable
principles inculcated therein been brought before the atten-
tion of the public, through the painstaking and persevering
labours of a committee of the House of Lords ; but our le-
gislators are too much imbued with the fashionable indiffer-
entism of the present day to attend to any of these things,
and, unless the are compelled to feel the pressure from with-
out, they will continue to foster and support any and every
teacher and false opinion, if they only minister.to the vile
passions of an enslaved population, who are willing at all
times to obey the mandate of the priest, and he, as is well
known, is the mere tool of a foreign potentate who abhors
our liberty, and seeks to destroy our social privileges. Let
our Protestant readers, then—all of them—attend the meet-
ing to be held in the Music-hall on Wednesday next, for the
purpose of petitioning our rulers to withdraw the annual
grant from Maynooth College. It is expected that the Rev.
Hugh M`Neile will preside, and the Rev. Hugh Stowell has
been requested to lend his powerful assistance.

LIVERPOOL PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.—On Wednesday
evening an eloquent sermon was preached in Christ Church,
Hunter-street, by the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, in aid of the
funds of the Liverpool Protestant Association. The weather
was peculiarly unfavourable, and a smart shower, which oc-
curred at the commencement of the service, must have kept

many away; nevertheless, the church was almost filled, and
the upper gallery was crowded with protestant operatives.
Mr. M'Neile selected foiihis text the 2d chapter of St. Paul's
Epistle to the Colossians, and the 18th and 19th verses :
" Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary hu-
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mility and worshipping of anels, entering into those things
which he bath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
and not holding the head from which all the body by joints
and bands, having nourishment ministered, and knit together,
increaseth with the increase of God." From these words
the rev. gentleman traced the sources of the corruption of
Christianity, which had been taught from the beginning by
unenlightened men. They were two-fold, Judaism and
pagan philosophy ; and it was against both Judaiiing and
heathenizing teachers—who had intruded themselves into the
Christian church—that St. Paul was to be found strenuously
contending in the chapter from which the text had been
taken, at every step contrasting the truth which he com-
mended with the falsehood which he deprecated. He laid it
down as a scriptural axiom that a voluntary humility and
worshipping of angels, as both existed among the Roman
Catholics of the present day, was a humility existing in
man's own device, and not in any commandments of God,
and that it was a wilful humility tending to beguile Christians
from the course, which they ought to pursue. For a long
time Christendom had slumbered over those things, and
though there had been many winning their way to God with-
out either saint or angel who grieved in silence, yet their
number had been but few, and to all appearance the truth
had departed; darkness covered the land, and gross darkness
the people, but, after a time, light sprung up again. The
egregious corruptions of the day affronted even the common
sense of some men, and the reformation was'effected. The
church in England was then purged from the surround-
ing error—the holy scriptures were brought out—the
voluntary humility and worshipping of angels were con-
demned—and the church contained a noble protest against
those inventions. If the protest of the church of England
had been kept plainly before the people, there would be no
occasion at present for protestant associations, because the
whole church would be a protestant association, and the whole
country members of that association. But there had been a
declination ; and in proportion as men declined, and the pro-
test was not made, reiterated, and repeated, the human heart
returned ; there had been a relapse into what had been con-
genial to men's minds—there had been a falling away and a
slumber, both on the part of laity as well as the clergy ; this
pervaded all ranks of the country—it extended to our rulers,
and, indeed, had chiefly been confined to the highest ranks,
all in consequence of the needful protest not having been
properly attended to. This it was which had given rise to
the establishment of such a society as the present—a society
whose duty it was to sound the alarm, to remind the country
of its protest, to remind the clergy of their pledges, and to
ask the latter to redeem them ; for what were those pledges ?
Why, the fact was, that every clergyman in the kingdom had
given thirty-nine pledges. Was it sufficient for a man who
had given such a number to redeem the pledge in fourteen,
fifteen, or sixteen cases, and to leave the remainder of them
unredeemed? Surely they should redeem them all, and go
their rounds, inasmuch as they were, not intended to be use-
less. The object, therefore, of ,the society was, to sound
the alarm among the clergy, to invite them to consider their
pledges, and to ask why they permitted some of them to be
so long slumbering in their prayer-books, after baying
pledged themselves to speak out boldly upon the invocation
of saints and the worshipping of angels, and further to
why they had continued to slumber in this respect, and
why, from the day they were ordained, to the present
hour they never opened their mouths on the subject?
The reverend preacher next addressed the laity as citizens of
the state, and told them plainly that not only was their salva-
tion hereafter at stake, but that their civil privileges here,
and those of their children after them, were at stake also. He
asked why it was that the Bishop of Rome should haie any
jurisdiction in this realm, and where it was stated in the
protest that he should possess such jurisdiction over the
heads of the clergy and laity of the land ; Two courses were
left open for the protestants to pursue—either to blot out the
protest altogether, or to revive such a protestant tone as
would give it utterance. There were some who would blot it
out, and there were others who would revive the tone ; which
of those courses would the protestants pursue ? The protes-
tants of Liverpool had associated for the purpose of making
the prayer-book speak. and to continue sound doctrine and
civil liberty in the land ; to hear the " one sacrifice for sin"
universally promulgated, and to have one sovereign in Eng-
land, and no jurisdiction upon the part of the Bishop of
Rome. Those were the glorious tones of the protest, and for
those purposes they were associated. But means should be
used—they did not expect miracles—and it was by means of
meetings, sermons, publications, petitions, associations—
means such as they had been using for the last few years in
Liverpool, and he thanked God they had not been used in
vain. Mr. M'Neile then appealed to the congregation to be
liberal in supplying the means for carrying on this work. The
sermon occupied about an hour and a quarter, and Was highly
interesting and instructive.

A PEEP IN THE PRINT-SHOPS.—We must confess that
we like dearly to stare at the print-shops. it is a habit we
acquired in our boyhood, while perambulating through the
mazes of the great metropolis, before we
knew what was ex-
cellent in art, true in nature, or capital in execution. How
many a ten minutes have we not spent gazing at the caricatures
in the corner-shop in Pilgrim-street? How we used to revel
at Tilt's, feast at Akerinan's, and banquet at Colnaghi's,
Moon's, and a hundred other pleasant places, all endeared
to us by the happy memories of boyhood! We confess that
we still enjoy a good stare in the printshops. Lacey's often at-
tracts. us, Linnecar's has always fine specimens of fine works,
Hunt's is sure to pull us up, and in -Holden's we can always
find something to admire. Good or bad, a print is a print,
and has given employment to many, from the artist who
sketched it, to the publisher who sells it; and, therefore, let.
it be honoured. It has been said that in Liverpool the arts
are not encouraged. Now how can this be main-
tained, when we see so much money yearly laid out on
the paintings at the exhibitions, the numbers of pictures
sold at auctions, the quantities of fine engravings dis-
posed of by the various printsellers P Why we could
adduce a hundred other reasons to shew and prove that
art is encouraged in Liverpool, and liberally paid for.
Not only do we readily purchase the works of London pub-
lishers, but the printsellers here issue themselves at their
own risk, and
upon speculation. Theie have been.many
very beautiful engravings published in Liverpool, that are
highly esteemed in the world of art. Now that we'are upon
this matter, we may notice a very admirable engraving of
the Rev. Mr. Haldane Stewart, by Lupton, just published,
from the picture by Patten, which was exhibited a year or
two ago. This picture, it may be remembered, was painted
at the desire of the rev. gentleman's congregation. It has
been esteemed so excellent a likeness, that a demand has
been excited for an engraving from it.—Another local work,
we may here notice, is now in contemplation : we allude to
the portrait of the late Mr. W. W. Currie, by. Phillips, now
in the Town-hall. This portrait will be readily purchased.
The late Mr. Currie's virtues are still fresh in the recollec-
tion of his friends.—Besides these, a very large plate is now
in progress (we believe by Mr. Hague) of a view of the river,
and the port in the distance.—Quitting local works, we now
turn to those of general interest. The first is one which all
sporting men will look upon with great pleasure : we allude
to the portrait of John Mytton, of Halston. The celebrated
sportsman is seen mounted on his famous horse Sir Oliver,
and is surrounded by some of his crack dogs, and accom-
panied by his whipper-in, Edward Evans, on the celebrated
Little Grey. This engraving is full of character : the like-
nesses are most faithtul; the grouping is excellent. The
landscape is chosen from a portion of the Halston estate.—
Amongst other works now complete and in progress, there
are the Waterloo Banquet, from a painting by Slater ; a mili-
tary portrait of the Duke in his uniform of a field marshal,
painted by Lucas ; the Queers, receiving the Holy Sacrament
Horace Vernet.—Roberts's Views, now in pro-
gress e
at her Coronation, by Leslie ; and Napoleon and his Gene-
nerals, byublieation are occupying much attention. They
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are extremely beautiful, and replete with interest.

Railway travelling -must be apprecicted by gentlemen of
most vocations, but none perhaps so much as auctioneers,
because their busy timeis confined to a few months, and
they incline to the good old practice, to " make hay while
the sun shines. Referring to our journal of Saturday last,
it will be seen that Mr. G. Robins sold, at Ludlow, on Mon-
day last ; he goes then to Newmarket to sell, on Friday next;
on the 4th and sth of May, the following week, Lord South-
ampton's estates; and the 6tb and 7th, estates at the Mart ;
on the 9th, to be at Windermere, in Cumberland ; on the
13th, to sell estates at the Mart ; on the 15th, to be in
North. Devonshire ; on the 18th; in Cornwall ; and the 20th,
in South Devonshire ; on the Ist of June, he sells at the
Mart. After a little breathing time and selling large estates
in London, the 17th and 24th of June, he goes to Liverpool,
the 29th ; and to Dublin three days after'; and in Shropshire,
the 7th of July. This is indeed active employment, and
could only be accomplished by the aid of railways.