The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-16 00:00:00

-A Dramatic Poem By George
London : C. Mitchell.

[innCe of the, author of " The
" Manuscript of Erlely," is
might inspire minds to which
total strangers. We have not

it is sufficient to say that it is
e author to be possessed of

orrespondent with his poetic genius.
that with very slight adaptations to
e stage managements, it would become
iely interesting of our " stock" plays.
:ason to complain of the impediments
resentation of such dramas. Owing to
ost probable the Hungarian Daughter
patent" theatre, whilst only
d not be appreciated as it ought ;

1 at an

structive of dramatic excellence

3ri on this question at present, we strongly

(resent production to all who are
nd who are interested in the ad-

ational drama

is in North Wales. Part 1. By
London ; Waring Webb, Liver-

lately describe the splendid style in which
)." The illustrations in the part before

and are really magnificent

As worl

.eap : indeed, nothing but a ver:
pirited publishers for the lavish ex

,ssarily have incurred

OF ENGLISH COLONISTS UPON
rIAN ZEAL AND LIBERALITY OF
LOW-COUNPRYIVIEN AT HOME.

nportance is now very urgently pressed
ntion by the Colonial Church Society—
,ed for the purpose of increasing the num-
and extending the means of religious know-
es of Great Britain and their offspring,
nergy of emigration throughout the habit-
ritish subjects, wander wherever they may,
I from their allegiance to their rightful so-
till considered in the eye of the law as the
sofa common country, so it may be inferred
t of the established church is to contemplate
sts as entitled to participate in the Christian
by the two-fold benefit of institution and
enjoyed by the inhabitants of England.—
tht arguments urged in behalf of the Heathen
the .larth, the arguments in behalf of British
be irtich stronger. Towards the Heathen we
ound to feel, a spiritual solicitude, sitting, as
thick darkness of Paganism, and destitute of
of the ply true God, and Jesus Christ
sent." But a holy zeal for the spread of the
rst to manifest itself for the welfare of those
ally connected with us ; yea, who are united
ple bond of birth, lineage, and language. Such
onists and emigrants ; dispersed, not only
dependent possessions of this great empire,
umerable spots of continental Europe ; and
stances, are exiles from the ordinances of re-
least, as relates to the public worship of Al-
' we survey the whole of our colonial popula-
still more distressing to the pious mind.
ast regions constituting our eastern empire
Canadas, and various other portions of
—the Cape, and New South Wales,
Dieman's Land, we have a large and
ting population, among whom are to be
aacquainted with the Divine consolations,
aints of Christianity. This, not from the
fforded, but from the entire absence of
ual instruction which are the ornament,
fence of our own land. We have in
most freely received. Can it be said,
i? In this respect, are we not
ig our brother ? The British
cs and arms—the power, the pros-
ieur of this unrivalled realm, are
lands, whether trod by savage or

land's peculiar glory,
her na-
" God of all grace," •in the

~lc wormnp, and by the sanctities of
,nip tends to beget, this glory hath never
sh residents in other countries, in a man-
s Christian nation. Multitudes of Eng-
ling for those Christian benefits which we
and of their fathers alone can they look for
efits. Shall it be said, that tens of thou-
into the eternal world, and no man caring
.e rejoice at the efforts put forth to evan-
but let us not shut our eyes to the dis-
c to the heart-rending appeals made by
, "to come over and help them." In
Ilia' welfare of our colonists, we say to
women, " This ye ought to do, and not
Indone." There is perhaps something
the thought of overthrowing the might of
preserving the life of Christianity among
but the latter we conceive to be the more
ounselled as we are by the unerring Word
at repentance and remission of sins should
name among all nations, BEGINNING AT
iy furt' )articulars, as may be seen from
, may be obtained from Mr. Joseph Crisp.

the late severe frost, a gontleman
rshire, had a rick of barley attacked
number of rooks, and such was the

:ors, that "nearly one-third of the con-
fore they could be forced to relin-

RSTITION.—On Tuesday, the 22d
voman, who had been unwell for
tea with her aunt, who had joined
there; the subject of Mormonism
efforts were made to induce the
and be dipped. Being rather sim-
I at length persuaded into compli-
positive assurance that if she only
le out of the water quite well, and
2r stork. One of the Mormonite
id about half-past nine at night, the
ble ; and the unfortunate victim being
and clothed in a long loose robe, in
acied and barefooted, the night being
alked from the Marsh-lane to the
d for some minutes on the ice, while
ing a hole to dip her. During this
k ten, and the poor girl would, at that
e been plunged in the river by a pro-
ion, had not faith failed her at the cll-
• own words " she turned soft,") and
ssential to success, the ceremony was
eturned home. Need it be added that
ever since, and there is scarcely the
Strange as this account
true in every particular, We are in
lames of all the parties.—Preston Chro-

f her recovery