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houses, as would positively have foiled the bill !" We really
should not wonder ; and we could further hint to Mr. Evans
that, if the Council were at this moment to be elected, a still
greater difficulty would arise.
We are quite prepared to believe, with the illustrious Al-
derman, that " the whole advantage" of the proposed Ware-
housing Bill " will depend upon the Dock Committee (query
the Council?) having the management of the warehouses in
their hands." Not a doubt of it, good sir ! The deprivation
of such an advantage would " take away in detail the great
materials for municipal good government," which, doubt-
less, means municipal Whig government—government with-
out patronage ! ! It might also " lessen the inducement for
men of the highest orders to enter the Council !" We won-
der
what the worthy Alderman means by men of the highest
orders, and how many are to be found in the present Coun-
cil. It is possible, however, that all the difficulty and the
darkness, the mystification and moonshine, which Mr. Evans,
who is not a councillor, but " only an Alderman," contrives
to wrap around his subject, may be dispelled by a few words,
which that indiscreet gentleman Mr. Earle, who is also an
Alderman, suffered to escape him, and to which we beg to
call the particular attention of our readers. " Talking about
political interest"—exclaimed Mr. Alderman Earle, " why
there is a political interest. lam not ashamed to avow it.
Is any man more anxious than Mr. Evans to have on the
Council, good, right, staunch Radicals ? And why : For
THE PATRONAGE-THE POWER IT WOULD GIVE US OF
COURSE ! ! and it is in vain to talk that it does not give us
power and a certain degree of influence."
Weigh this last sentence well, electors of Liverpool. We
leave you to ponder upon it for the present.

A COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE LIBERALITY OF

CHURCHMEN AND DISSENTERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR, I had occasion some months ago, through the
medium of your valuable paper, to vindicate the Established
Church from the charge of illiberality brought against it in a
published lecture, by a Dissenting Minister of this town.*
The effect of that vindication has been this,—that the author
of the charge has felt himself compelled to cancel it so far as
regards all institutions which have for their object the relief
of human suffering, and the bettering of the condition of the
poor. With the manner in which he has partially withdrawn
his accusation I have nothing to do : it is in perfect keeping
with the usual tactics of dissenting ministers, when called
upon to substantiate their charges against the church and its
usages. When the preacher in question stated in general
terms, and without making a single exception, that " Civil
Establishments of religion exerted an influence in destroy-
ing the grace of christian liberality," I of course understood
it as a general charge, involving every form of charity ;
and when in illustration of his view of christian liberality,
he quoted a passage from St. Paul's second Epistle to the
Corinthians (ix. 12-14.) which speaks exclusively of supply-
ing the temporal wants of the saints, I could not do otherwise
than receive that passage in the sense in which it stands in
holy writ. But it now appears from the Preacher's ex-
planation of his own lecture, that when he made a general
charge, he meant a particular or special one ; and when he
quoted a passage from Scripture, speaking of temporal
relief, he meant " the support of Gospel ordinances,
and the diffusion of Gospel truth." But, sir, there was
no mistake, and there shall be none ! The church must be
defended against insidious as well as open attacks. England
is not more distinguished for its constitutional liberty and
commercial enterprise, than for its public institutions of
charity and noble monuments of christian sympathy; and
the funds for the erection and continued support of these
splendid institutions have mainly been supplied by church-
men. Let the following statistical tables show how the
matter stands, and enlist in defence of our national church
every operative and labourer in the kingdom, for the church
is their best earthly friend. She provides munificently for
the accidents and disasters of human life, not forgetting the
example of her great Head, who healed the sick, the deaf, the
blind, the lame, and the lunatic, and took the children that
were brought unto him in his arms, and blessed them.
Here are the proofs of the church's care for such people t

BEDFORD—GENERAL INFIRMARY.- 1834.
Sums subscribed.
I Churchmen. Dissenters.

Annual Subscriptions £1,036 0 0
Life Governors
Total of Legacies and l 16,500 0 0
Donations.

Total £27,481 0 0
In this instance Churchmen have giv,
POUNDS for every one given by Dissenters.
BRIGHTON CHARITIES. l
Sums sul
Churchmen. I

Institutions.

£9O 0 0
161 0 0
500 0 0

£751 0 0
THIRTY-SIX

!834.
mcribed.
Dissenters.