The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

do for the atmosphere of Conciliation Hall, for the
favour of whose patriots our contemporary appa-
rently is bidding ; but we can assure him that
here they only serve to detach British sympathy
from his unfortunate fellow countrymen. English-
men detest ingratitude in individuals or in a
nation.

EVEN a Controversialist—a man anxious to make
the wrong appear the better reason—would find it
difficult to wring out of any letter of the Rev. Dr.
M`Neile expressions upon which to found a charge,
or from which to claim a triumph over his opponent,
so coolly and so clearly stated is every position
which that reverend gentleman advances. A tem-

porary advantage may, however

gained over the

by d

rting or misrepre-

,enting I

flguage ; and we were most sincerely
sorry Co find the Rev. Edward Hull, a clergyman of
the Church of England, unwittingly, perhaps, re-
sorting to this species of tactics towards the reverend
doctor. Mr. Hull finds fault with the letter ad-
dressed by the Rev. Dr. M`Neile to his fellow-
townsmen upon the subject of the election; and
states that the general impression is that Mr.
M`Neile intended to represent "all persons who
voted in favour of those candidates who defend the
grant to Maynooth, and the grant which is con-
templated to aid the Roman Catholics in the edu-
cation of the poor, without calling on them to
forego, in their schools, the use of their own version
of the Scriptures, as persons who repudiate religion."
In the portion of the letter referred to, which
Dr. M`Neile has quoted at length in his most able
reply (which we give in another column), the party
for whose gratification Mr. Hull appears to have
written, will perhaps be astonished to find that
there is not a passage or an expression which gives
the slightest warrant to the interpretation which is
said to have been put upon it. There is not a word
as to persons voting for pro-Maynooth candidates
being " persons who repudiated religion." The

only the word repudiation is levelled against
the state, and is contained in the following passage,
against which we should really imagine that even

r. Hull himself cannot put in any objection

all the acts of an assembly so consti-
iful acts."

o repudiate r

.eligion are

We feel thankful, nevertheless, to Mr. Hull for
his letter, unadvised as we think it was. It has
given to Dr. M`Neile an opportunity of further
enunciating his opinion upon the whole subject
with that admirable perspicuity and force which
characterize all his literary productions.

IT is extremely cred

able to our Sanitary Com-

mittee. that they are straining every nerve to improve
the defective condition of the sewerage in this town.
We give in another column the particulars of a case

and immediately caused by the want of a
The details of the case, as furnished at the
stable in the extreme, and though
we are not aware that any death has taken place in
Liverpool, which has been brought home so directly
to the deadly influence of a fetid atmosphere, yet
that desolating cause is deplorably at. work in too
3 of the town and its removal cannot
brought about too speedily. Thanks to the pains-
taking and persevering labours of Dr. Duncan, Mr.
Harbord, and Dr. Watson—and such as they—the
public are now more alive than formerly to the
disease and the remedy. The London Times of
as the foil

est, are lar

many district

turday

s on the melan-

rifice to which we have called att
tardly credible that in a inm.

tion:—
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where labour

command, hu

,nt of a drain

las died of fever in a place called
tial vapo

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s that came from that