The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-18 00:00:00

senters in those. districts furnished an equal number of Sit.
tings, and that not more than half the entire population can
be considered capable of attending public worship, still the
conclusion at which your petitioners arrive is, that upwards
of 1,300,000 of that population, and those chiefly of the
poorer classes, were totally unprovided for : and, bearing in
mind that uOwards of six millions have been added to the
population, of England and Wales since the commencement
of the present century, your petitioners believe that some
hundreds of thousands might be added to that appalling
number, of persons similarly -situated in other parts of the
country. •
" Your petioners respectfully submit that the duty of rulers
in reference to the public worship and -acknowledgment-. of
Almighty God, is clearly laid down in his Holy Word—that
momentous interests are at stake—and that it is a fearful ex-
periment for a professedly Christian legislature to try (whe-
ther in deference to sectarian opinions, or to the suggestions
of a mistaken or short-sighted econOmy,)'how large a portiori
of.the people can be safely left without the pale of Christian
institutions. And that is an act of the most grievous injus-
tice, to resolve that that experiment shall be made at the
cost of the poorer classes, who can do little to help themselves,
and on whom penal measures, whenever necessary, are apt to
fall with peculiar weight and severity.
" Your petitioners, therefore, implore your Honourable
House to take these matters into your mostserious considera-
tion, with the view, of providing, through the medium of the
Established Church, that religious and moral instruction
which alone can knit together the inhabitants and classes of
a great country.
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" And your petitioners will ever pray, &c., &c."
The Rev. JAMES HALDANE STEWART begged to second
the motion, and would only detain the meeting by stating
that now was the time for every one to sign their names, and
to come forward as those who had themselves felt the benefit
of church extension. (Hear.) He would put the question
to every individual present—" Can you lay your hand upon
your heart and say, I have to thank God for the church ex- -
tension that has taken place in this great town, for it has
brought me, by the grace of God, out of darkness into his .
marvellous light, and I desire to say blessed be God, the
father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for making known the Son
Of his love to me by his holy spirit ?" If they had,not them-
selves, found benefit from church extension in this town, he
would strongly recommend them to address their petition to
Him who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, that they
might receive that personal benefit ; and if they •had, by his
grace,. then he would say, " Conic and sign your names, that
others might." (Hear.) Remember, proceeded the Rev.
Gentleman, that we meet here for business. (Hear.) It is
not to hear speeches, to applaud those speeches, and then to
go home and do nothing, but to support that christian legis-
lator, Sir Robert Inglis, when he brings forward his motion
in the Ilouse of .Commons. Every petition that appears
upon the table of that house, will strengthen his hands and
the hands of those legislators who earnestly desire that ..
chriStian'principles and practice may be established through- ."
the land.' (Cheers.) I add no more. May the Lord so
incline all our hearts, that we may not find this evening go
off unprofitably, hut that we may be as ready to act as we ~.
have been to hear and to plead. (Loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN put the resolution and petition, and the .
meeting unanimously adopted them. -
C. S. PARKER, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the Rev.
Rector Brooks for his conduct in presiding at the meeting.
THOMAS Fonsynt, Esq., seconded it.
The motion was carried by acclamation.
Mr. BROOKS briefly acknowledged the compliment, and
the meeting separated about ten o'clock, having been occupied
from half-past six. . .

FOREIGN IN'I'ELLIGENCE.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 22.—The negotiations of M.
Zographos for the conclusion of a treaty of commerce with
the Porte, have suddenly taken a very favourable turn. M.
Zographos, who will soon leave Constantinople to return to
Greece, will be able to conclude the affair before his de-
parture, as all the stipulations of the treaty seem to be
settled. It is founded on the basis of the treaty concluded
between Great Britain and the Porte on the 16th of August,
1838.

The Grand Vizier, Khosrew Pacha, had an apoplectic fit
the day before yesterday. Medical aid being quickly applied
the old Grand Vizier was saved. He is tolerably well to-
day. The death of this man, who alone is able to see
through the crafty-devised plan of the Viceroy, would be at
this moment an almost irreparable loss to the Porte.