The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-04 00:00:00

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THE MOUNTAIN OF MERCY.

BY THE REV. J. B. M'CREA.

(For the Liverpool Standard.)
My song shall not of Seneh be,
The " dreadful" mount of God,
.Where, clad with might anti majesty,
The Lord Jehovah trod,
When, issuing from the fervid flame,
'Mid thunder loud and long,
His awful voice to Moses came

Like trumpet waxing strong,

I sing not that clear mountain top*
Where Jordan rolls beneath,
Whence skies far stretch that fatness drop,
And fields that fragrance breathe ;
From which, his travail well nigh done,
Up gone at God's command,
The hoary prince of Jeshurun
Beheld the promised land.
Nor tune to llermon's fruitful breast,

Which fall the dews upon,
Nor Caramel's rich enameli'd crest,
Nor Cedar'd Lebanon.
Gilead, with'varied flowers bedight,
In em'rald circlet set,
Renowned Tabor's summit bright
Nor vine-clad Olivet.

Than these a mountain lovlier far
Attunes my grateful lay,
O'er which the bright anti morning star
Emits his lucent ray.
That ever-glorious hill of God,
With thousand charms bespread
Where long-desired Emanuel trode,
On which Messiah bled.

This mount of mercy and of grace
Uplifts its head on high ;
Iler fence surrounds the unmeasured base
Of heaven-crown 'd CALVARY.
The feeble frame, the languid limb,
And all in heart depress'd,
Its smiling innocence may climb,
And find relief and rest.

Waters of life adown its steep, .
••I6 Copious-current; flow ;
The're stlowets their illoorn ',perennial. keep,
There frnits immortal grow.
IN'ATCY, the mountain of the Lord, .
Wheke peace and justice meet,
Altar of the 'lncarnate Word,
And-sinners' safe retreat. .
* Pisgah.

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

CAN SUCH THINGS BE?
(From the Essex Standard.)
Nay, such things are, and thousands upon thousands
of Protestants, as they would be called, are as indiffe-
rent to the fact as if it were unalloyed and unmitigated
and unmitigated fiction. The yearly grant•to the So-
ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel has been long
since withdrawn by the present government ; and, hear
it, Englishmen, £70,000 per annum is actually being
paid, by a professedly Protestant Government, for
teaching what, until lately, they were accustomed to
affirm, by oath, to be " damnable doctrines." Yes,
this is the sum which we are actually dealing out, like
Jezebel of old, for the purpose of supporting idol
priests, teachers of Baal, bowers down to images ; and
yet Englishmen will not awaken. Are they waiting
for the re-kindling of the Smithfieldfires? Have they
a wish to experience .the pleasure of the Inquisition ?
0 let them look to the facts whicji we will set before
them in a very few lines, and be warned before it is too
late. Here is the parliamentary paper containing an
account of the grants already made by government :

FOR POPERY:

. Gibraltar
Cape of Good Hope
Mauritius
Lower Canada
Upper Canada
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Jamaica
Trinidad
Demerara
Berbice
New South Wales
Van Diemen' .
And besides all this, were is—
Maynooth
Education Board (which is
almost entirely in the
hands of Romauists)....
Board of Works..

£3OO a year.
200 „
2,595 ~
2,000 ~
1,600 ~
50 ,11
75
550 ~
3,262 ~
1,370
532 ~
1,830 ~
300 ~

9,000 „

50,000 „
2,000

There, Englishmen, is more than £70,000 which
your government is paying in your name, for the ab-
solute cultivation of the Romish apostacy ! Will you
not think it worth your while to exercise your elective
franchise at the next election, or have you no interest
in a matter so utterly insignificant.—Essex Standard.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
(From the Watchman) ,
It would seem from the lavish grants of money pro-
posed by ministers for the maintenance of Prince Al-
bert, notwithstanding the Queen's ample income of
£300,000 per annum to support any conceivable ex-
penses consequent on her approaching marriage, that
as little attention is bestowed on the state of the re-
venue, as on other neglected public interests. Hap-
pily there are those non-official guardians of the com-
monwealth, who, ever and anon, thunder in Lord Mel-
bourne's ear some disagreeable truths to chafe the cur-
rent of his otherwise easy and pleasurable existence..
The Earl of Ripon is one of these wakeful sentinels on
the battlements; and he has just blown a note of alarm,
not loud but deep, respecting the unsatisfactory state of
t
. revenue. What public interest, in short, it may be
asked, is in a prosperous condition ? Verily the ma-
terials to sustain Sir J. Y. Buller's vote of censure on
ministers lie scattered thick as hail, and whatever im-
pression they may make on the faction-proof minds of
the present House of Commons, they cannot fail to do
great execution throughout the country at large.
It might seem, indeed, from the results of the late
elections in favour of ministers, as if nothing would
arouse the public to a sense of the dangers which me-
nace our beloved country. Various local circumstan-
ces and other influences, however, might be success-
fully pleaded against any general ' unfavourable infer-
ence to the cause of Conservatism being drawn from
those elections. But certainly. they ought, if anything
can, to arouse every true patriot and Protestant from
the delusive
freedom as day-dream, that the cAuse of constitutional
versusti that of the movement, can he won
without efforts commensurate with the energetic influ-
ences combined to secure its overthroW. In a late
number of this journal, we pointed out, at some length,
how completely unrepresented in the House of Com-
mons are " the Protestant people of England." We
anxiously desire, that that appalling fact may lay hold
of the
public mind; and put it into a right state of feel-
ing prior to another general election. . Alas ! that there
should prevail in the
community, who professminds
of those classes of the
general indifference to reli-
giousmtvreuttho, entablea an instance of what even
they
s Protestantism,olanl liberty. as the fountain of civil, as
well as religious
But to return to theEgaertlatf. Ripon's appalling state-
ments—statements alto
feeling, and reflecting no .. blameparties either on the Govern-
uninfluenced by party
ment or on any other
Theirthe appeal is to the
interests of posterity, on whom.evil will probably
. more even than to those
fall with accumulated weight
of the men of this generation.
perhaps
different," said the noble Earl, "to Nyheatw‘nn'iihl‘trnpreo,i,slii:
bly happen after their own times, might
feel very anxious about such a question as this."(l) N
it will be - recollected,- as was asserted by thei on'
Earl of
Ripon, that -the Duke of Wellington, when at the &,ad
of the Treasury, " introduced an act, by which all the
then existing laws relative to the Sinking Fund were
abrogated, and which.provided that the Sinking Fund
shall only be assisted out of any actual surplus revenue
to a certain extent, and, beyond that, that the surplus
shall be applied to the reduction of taxes. For five
or six years subsequently, with the exception of one
Year, there was a regular surplus of income over ex-
penditure, which was applied according to the provi-
sions of the 'new act. By the noble Duke's policy;
both:irelief was given to taxation, and an annualrre-
duction, to some extent, of the National Debt was ef-
fected.. But now, for the last three years, so far from
there having been
surplus, there has been a consider-
able deficiency o
owing to any real
falrrenue. This,. however, is not
but rather to an increase off of the national resources,
as,,of an expenditure of the coun-
try, and that too in the Earl Ripon insisted,does time of general peace. Nor, as
hoping for a curtailment of this single reason exist for
heavy expenditure,"—
which, on the contrary, has too,ent a character,
being partly owing to fresh additionsilestto the
.National
from the
militaryrorig neeessity
Debt, and partly resulting
r .which.exists to ,:-.—i, our naval and
arrange-
ments in a.condition to grapple with the
of disaffection at home or in the coloniesgaZ:Nevgi
at spirit
the
emboldened • enemies of the empire. Again
this a time for government to play ducks and drakes
with the contents of-the national purse ? We regret sot'
extravagant a prOposal, under all the circumstances,
for Prince Albert's pocket-money, for surely he will
need no other establishment than the Queen's. we
regret it as a needless addition to the national burthens,
but much more as calculated to widen, the breach be-
tween Government and the operative classes, who see
in such palpable proofs of a want of economy, what
they consider unanswerable objections to the present
system of administering public affairs.
Whichever way we look, danger stares us full in the
f
ace ;—the interests and ascendancy of Protestantism
compromised,—lreland secretly arming for undoubted
rebellious objects,--the peace of English society at the
mercy of a suppressed but notextinct Chartism,—pub-
lie lie morals undermined by the. impious emissaries o
Socialism,—religious harmony interrupted by the rest-
less spirit of political dissent the one hand, and a
semi-popish ecclesiastical into. lenr e. on the other,—
the manufacturing and agricultural
sources of
in open
wars
conflict,—colonial ,and foreign . discord, a
crippled commerce, and expensive
,—a fluctuating
monetary system,—an oppressed pauper Population,_
and, to complete the picture, a relatively DECLINING
REVENUE!


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