The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

Catholics express

I have often het

lv attend

chapiam:preat

in to moral conduct, repentance, and prayer. Ile
has: taken the prison rules, gone through the wards, and in-
Culeated.obedience to them on the prisoners. I have Wit-
nessed a great burst'of emotion among the prisoners during
his preaching. I have approved greatly of his ministry. I
have walked from Kirkdale on Sunday night twice to his re-
sidence to hear him preach. I cannot say that I have hea
anything from Dr. Back in my opinion co
trines of the church."

trary to the dog

Mahon.—" I cannot say that any fernaleprisoner has com-
plained to me of the subject matter of Dr. Buck's sermons.
I believe the females in general like to attend the chapel. 1
think they would consider it a puttshriaent*be kept away."

School-mistress.—" The catholic females have never mani-
fested auk disinclination to Dr. Buck's attention. They. Once
told me of his mentioning something. in his sermon which
offended them. They said it was that the catholics worship-
ped image I told them that they must have misunderstood
him• Only that once have I heard them complain."
Surgeon.—" I have found some of the prisoners have been
greatly pleased with what Dr. Buck has said to them, that
()Users have felt indignant at what has been said to them with

regard to points'' doctrine. I should rather say one, not
others,' of the prisoners. There is one man, a butcher, who
appeared indignant at what Dr. Buck had said to him as to
what salvation depended on. Dr. Buck told me he thought
ke was not right in his mind."
This is the testimony of officers of a prison where more
than 600 persons are confined. After the chaplain has preached.
nearly 1000 sermons in the place. His ministry, he ventured
to believe, would not be thought to have been very, injudici-
ous, nor his partial disuse of forms any very grievous or un-
pardonable offence,—considering that nearly 12,000 prisoners
have been under his instruction, professing every variety of
creed.

I believe I have gone through my answer to this charge i.
a way that will satisfy you that I have not purposely avoide

any part of it.
I. really had the bishop's permission, though' he thinks
that permission was only limited to week day duty. I honestly.
thought I had that permission, and made such entries into
my journal as could not fail to arrest the attention of the ma-
gistrates, and of the insoector of prisons. I made a bona
tide division of services, which was not departed- from, nor
the schoolmaster allowed commonly to take the afternoon
prayers, until the state of my health required the rest thereby
obtained. I have faithfully and fully performed more than
every duty required of me, without unnecessarily wounding

the feelings of those obliged to hear me. I have studied their
comfort, their welfare, without sacrificing any essential truth;
and men have been benefited. That I shall be able to satisfy
the Bishop of Chester, I have .no doubt ; I hope my reply
may be deemed as satisfactory by the gentlemen I now ad-
dress.

NINTH CHARGE, AND CONCLUDING CONSIDERATION

Ninth.—Whether the general conduct of the chaplainims,
from the evidence produced, tended to union amongst the
officers, and the general good government of the prison.

Tentll.—The consideration-of the chaplain's fitness for his
peculiar office, as adduced from the general evidence on

tTlis enquiry

ntlemen, if laborious c

rtion, if unwearied dili,genc(
f a constant endeavour to bear an
ring, if hatred of oppression

)1* my c

radian

. .
.3ed for the truth of what I say) abundant cause to dis Miss
ne from your employ, and to hold me up to the Contempt of
ny fellow-men ; but not otherwise, as the Lord is my wit-

n who will bring the hidden things of darkneSs to
rho will not sit quietly and see injustice prepared—

who will, notwithstanding rebukes, speak to his superiors
with an unflinching brow, nod without fear or dismay—mav
he troublesome, but ennobled minds will approve him. I
have not inherited noble blval without feeling something of
its influence on my mind I have not passed my youthful
manhood in the profession of arms without being indignant
at the imputation of dishonour : I have not exercised for
many years the office of a minister of Christ, without feeling

something. of the dignity of my position amongst men :
cannot but burl back with indignation on the man who hr
putes dishonoUr to me, his own charge; under the 4"
conviction, that as charity, so true
things, and, equally with that lovely grace,
than exaggerates the multitude of sins.

I should sin against God, against
;out, if I did not fearlessly tell you, that r

walk wit

di sirer

11 in al

you have been in err 3

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. I claim an honest avowal that
I claim the solemn assurance, that
lot be subjected to the law of

henceforth your chaplain w

(To be cont

OUR DEAF AND DUMB -INSTITUTIW
PRESENT CONDUTCTED.

S, AS AT

IVERPOOL ST4NDARD

SIR,—I Mil most anxious, through the columns of your
valuable paper, to address the patrons of all deaf and dumb
institutions, and in particular the patrons of the Liverpool
Deaf and Dumb Institution, and indeed all benevolent per-
sons who take an interest in those helpless fellow-creatures

of ours, who enter into life bearing in their imperfect bodies
the marred and withering blight of a fallen world.
It is :a generally received opinion that education must, even
with the most intellectual mute, be partially defective ; the

sure basis with them as well a
is, the revealed Word of God

; education on
bough are dul

some mut

_
of comprehension, hard to impart head my
le to learn to do any thing with

tion to, yet activ

ds, cipabl

,ught of

).e entrusted in the-world by diemsel
liildren of the noor : if the mute is a gir

deaf and d

moral percepti
't to err.

)r practical je
:ft to herself,

more 1

I wrong not clear,.sl:

sent into the world with
a into vice from mere inabi;

hy not conducted on the same princ
ere, the mutes would
over the blind, beine able to see to do t

lose for

attention to it would be more fixed. Look at our Blind In-
stitution in this town, it is most flourishing.
A large sutra has been expended in building the new Deaf
and Dunlb Institution here, yet no mutes can enter it unless
a sum is paid for their education, after they have been edu-
cated in any of the deaf and dumb institutions, it is a rare oc-
currence for any of them to be retained as servants, no matter
how destitute they may be. _