The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-11 00:00:00

"THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.

(From the Newcastle Journal.)
For a considerable time past, the columns of our northern
contemporaries have been more or less filled with discussions
and reports upon the proceedings of the Church of Scot-
land, or, more correctly speaking, of the committee of the
General Assembly of that church. No dispassionate per-
son, removed from the scene of these discussions, can pe-
ruse the reports of those. proceedings without experiencing
a degree of regret that a church, long venerated for her high
religious character and usefulness, should have so unneces-
sarily and wantonly set herself in open hostility to the state,
and the law of the land. It is altogether in vain for the
Church of Scotland, in her present dilemma, to appeal
to the brotherly regard and compassion of the Church of
England—a church which, at an earlier period of our his-
tory, she scorned as heretical, and as little better than the
Church of Rome. We of the Church of England do not,
and cannot, any more than a vast portion of the thinking
population of the sister kingdom, believe that the Church
of Scotland is not a State Church. She is, in our humble
estimation, to all intents and purposes, a State Church.
The articles of her creed, contained in her Confession of
Faith, are all confirmed and authorised by act of parlia-
ment ; every act of her General Assembly is sanctioned by
the Lord High Commissioner, who sits in her supreme
court as the representative of Majesty, and who has power,
if we mistake not, to call and to dissolve this court ; and
many of her parishes are held direct from the Crown, and
are known as Crown patronages. Since the days of the
Revolution when the indulged clergy" fell into the mea-
sures of the government, and, with unworthy truckling,
accepted the double boon of place and patronage, down to
the present time, wheu they set themselves up in hostile
array against their patrons and the law of the land, no one
ever dreamed of doubting that the Church of Scotland was
a state church. The question may be put or twisted into
any shape they choose, the fact stands, and has been so de-
cided by the ablest judges both in Scotland and England,
that thh Church of Scotland has and had no right, implied
or understood, to pass any act, far less to enforce it, affect-
ing the right of patronage, whether vested 'in the crown or
in private individuals. She is under a solemn compact and
necessity of doing nothing of such importance, without the
authority and sanction of the state; and, indeed, were the
question once raised, it may fairly be doubted whether the
state could sanction or pass any act annulling patronage.
Whether or not the condition of the church would be im-
proved by the abolition of patronage, is a subject foreign to
the point in dispute, though the belief that her indepen-
cence would be. more secure seems io have taken such hold
of the minds of many of her clergy, that they have substi-
tuted it for the main question. The Church of Scotland
has always held forth a semblance of independence, by as-
serting that she had no temporal head. The meaning of
this was, that in spiritual matters she acknowledged Christ
alone as her head. This idea she appears desirous of now
enlarging, so as to be not only independent in spiritual, but
also in temporal matters, shutting her eyes in some mea-
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sure to the fact, that a church sfipported by the state must,
to all intents and purposes, be dependent upon the state.
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by which the whole nation is set it in an uproar from one end
to the other. At length it is proposed to make application
to Parliament, that it should sanction their veto act. Call
you this independence ?—First, oppose the law, and then ask
Parliament to sanction their violation of it! Why was this
application to Parliament not made at the time of framing
the veto act ? It will perhaps be answered, that Parliament
would not have sanctioned it. It may be added, that it will
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The Conservatives of Cork have a wajority of 41 on the
recent.eesiztrY•

A FULL HOUSE.—It rained furiously in New Orleans on
the 20th ult. At the St. Charles Theatre there was such
an overflow from the sky-lights of the roof being left open,
that the audience had to decamp.
The'title of the forthcoming -new play at Covent Garden,
by Mr. Leigh Hunt, is to be " A Legend of Florence." The
principal characters are to be sustained by Mr. Moore (who
made his debut in Hamlet), Mrs. Walter-Lacy,- Miss Ellen
Tree, and Miss Charles. It was to be produced on Friday
last, for the first time.
PENNY POST.—In the year 1683, that useful conveyance
of letters and parcels by the penny post was first set up in
London and its suburbs by a private undertaker, named
Murrey, an upholsterer by trade, who afterwards assigned
the same to one Dockra; who carried it on- successfully for
a number of years, until the government laid claim to the
project as being Connected •with the General Post-office,
which was a part of the crown revenue, and a yearly pension
of-£2OO was settled-on Mr. Dockra for his life.—Lambert's
History of London, vol. 2, page• 103.
GYPSOGRAPHY.—This is the •new title bestowed on the
process patented by Messrs. Woone and Co., and heretofore
styled metallic relief engraving. The name is derived from
the "gypsum," or plaster of Paris, used in the first'instance
in the production of the design from whichthe cast for, print-
' ing is made. The patentees have opened an establishMeni
at Edinburgh, and announced their readiness to execute or-
ders, and a musical work has actually been commenced, frinn
gypsographic plates. The process appears to answer well
for this style of work ; but that, of course, affords no test of
its capabilities for rivalling wood engraving in the higher
branches of the art.—Mechanics' Magazine.
A MAN FINED FOR KISSING HIS WIFE.--A corre-
spondent of the Railway Magazine states, that a neighbour
of his, for kissing his own wife, in one of the Greenwich rail-
way carriages, was made by the directors to pay a fine of £2.
He inquires what has become of the money. This is the first
time we have heard of a man being debarred from kissing his
wife, either in a railway carriage or in a stage coach.—[lf
such. a monstrous power is really given to railway proprie-
tors, without a hearing before magistrates, why should not
stage coachmen have the same authority ?]
SINGULAR EESUSCITATION.—A few days ago, a widow
named Henriot, in the Rue St. Jacques, who-had been long
ill, was supposed to be dead ; and her two nephews went to
take the necessary steps for the interment of the body, and
to secure their inheritance. On the following morning, 'a
spark from the funeral taper, which was burning at the foot
of the bed, fell upon the sheet which covered the body, and
set it on fire, whilst the woman in charge was out of the
room. Piercing screams were immediately heard, and the
woman, rushing into the room, found the supposed corpse
struggling with the flames. It appears that the pain caused
by the burning sheet had restored Enimation. The fire was
promptly extinguished, and hopes are entertained of the re-
covery of Madame Henriot.—French paper.
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.—On Thursday morning
no little sensation was created in the family of a gentleman
of fortune, residing near Dulwich. During the last three
weeks a young lady, the daughter of a wealthy widow, resid-
ing in the Regent's Park, has been on a visit at the villa.
On Thursday morning, at breakfast time, she was missing,
as also the butler, a fine young man, aged 27. The mystery,
however, was soon cleared up, by a card being found on the
dressing table, on which was written " My kind love to all,
not forgetting Sir (to whom she was to have been mar- .
ried on the 13th of this month), I have eloped with my true
love." The young lady is in her 19th year, and will, on her
coming of age, be entitled to £14,000 a-year.---Morning
Post.

Prince George of Cambridge has been appointed to a super-
numerary lieutenant-colonelcy in the 12th, or Prince of
Wales's royal lancers, and is to take rank between Lieut.-
Colonel Stawell and Major Barton. Two rooms over the
officers' mess room in the Preston barracks have been fitted
up for his royal highness, who is expected to join the regi-
ment on Saturday se'nnight. Should the brevet rank of
major-general be conferred on Lieut.-Colonel Stawell at the
approaching royal marriage, which it is said is not at
all improbable, the command of this fine regiment will at
once devolve upon the prince.—Sussex paper,
CHICHESTER.—The vote of our city member, Lord Ar-
thur Lennox, on the question of want of confidence in the
present imbecile government, has given, we may almost say,
universal satisfaction to his constituency in this place ; it is
hailed as a bright omen, and we trust will be followed up by
a declaration on the part of his Grace of Richmond, that he
too has no confidence in the present ministry. We hope and
trust that the conservative vote of Lord Arthur Lennox will
prove the prelude to a more firm and uncompromising line
of conduct than his lordship has hitherto pursued. Would
that we could have seen his noble brother, the member for
Western Sussex, ranged on the same side ; but this, we fear,
is hopeless.—Brighton Gazette.
THAMES TUNNEL.—On Wednesday the Dundee, steam-
, ship, on her way down the river, about ten o'clock in the
morning, the tide having nearly run but, grounded upon the
Thames tunnel, and created the greatest-alarm to the spec-
tators on both sides of the river, both for the safety of. the
.vessel and the arch of the tunnel. The alarm on board the
Dundee amongst the few passengers was also very great,
from the wind, shortly after the vessel had struck, heeling
her over on her starboard quarter. Shortly before eleven
o'clock, however, the tide began to flow, and the magnificent
vessel was -observed'getting her steam up, and shortly after
slowly liialtig onwards, when she proceeded on her voyage,
without, it is believed, sustaining any serious injury. The
crown of the arch, upon which this ponderous vessel rested,
is not supposed to be injured, although the workmen in the
tunnel state that they could hear her grating along the top
of it. The Dundee is a steamer of the largest class, and
draws 13 feet water, and the propriety of her proceeding
down the river at low water may be questioned, especially as
it was only last week she went on shore at Limehouse, and
was not got off for nearly an hour.—Morning Chronicle.
We have the.pleasure to state, that a petition numerously
signed by the inhabitants of this city, for a grant of money
for church extension, has been forwarded to our respected
'representative, Sir. Wm. Follett, for presentation, and also
another from Honiton,—Western Luminary.

DOVER, rep. s.—There has happened a very large fall of
the cliff adjoining the Shakspear of GOO feet in length, and
from- 40 to 50 feet in depth from the summit, being at the
least 400 feet in height, and at the bottom the chalk covers
at least two acres of the beach below. It has fallen on the
direct line of the railway, and much labour will be required
to move it. Unfortunately, one poor man, of the name of
Broker, is supposed to be buried under the chalk.
FORMATION OF THE STATIONERS' COMPANY.—It being
found in the reigns of Philip and Mary. that 4,` many false,
fond books and ballads, and rhymes and other lewd treatises
in the English tongue, both heretical and seditious," were
being issued from the press, it was determined to unite the
printers into one body, the beads of which should be respon-
sible for the individual members, and the general conduct of
which could thus be naore easily Watched and more effectually
controlled. Letters patent were therefore passed, constitut-
ing the Stationers' Company, the 4th day of May, 1556. The
stationers' it would appear, were therefore,a company before
this date, but this was the commencement of their existence
as a corporation. By their charter they were allowed to
make by-laws for the guidance of their members ; and no
one but a member of their society was to be allowed to prac-
tise or exercise the art or mystery of printing within the
dominions of England.—Lowildes on Copyright.
CHURCHES OR GAOLS.—The following remark, taken
from Mr. Collins's " Statistics of Church Accommodation,"
will prove interesting at the present time, the subject of
church extension having been brought prominently forward.
" This is an age of economy, and if the state can secure the
peace and order of society more cheaply by extending the
means of religious instruction to the people, than by extend-
ing the police and other criminal establishments of our coun-
try, would it not be a wise economy in the state to adopt the
one in preference to the other ? The truth is, the people will
cost us much whether we will or not. If we do not build
them churches, we must build them gaols and bridewells."
.Have any accurate calculations been yet made to show that
the amount of crime differs in towns or parishes of equal
population, according to the greater or less amount of church
accommodation provided for the inhabitants? Within 30
years, from 1800 to 1831, about £4,000,000 were spent upon
gaols and lunatic asylums. Again, in the last 10 years, we are
told that the sums collected as poor rates fall short of
£50,000,000 or £60,000,000 sterling., Who shall say how
far this expenditure would have been diminished by an out-
lay of 1-20th part of the sums in support of the Church of
England parochial system by multiplying schools, churches,
and clergy ?—Morninq Herald.
OWEN THE SOCIALIST AND THE QUEEN'S MINISTERS.
—We know not whether Mr. Owen be, as reputed, the pa-
rent of the system promulgated as Socialism. Years ago,
when he first came into notice, we regarded him as a bene-
volent but extravagant enthusiast only. But if he be the
parent alleged, was it fitting to introduce him to the presence
of a maiden Queen? The ministerial patronage of Mr.
Owen, if rightly informed, has n6t rested, however, there ;
for it is asserted by his friends that he has been in habits of
more familiar intercourse with members of her Majesty's
Ministry ; that he has been admitted to dine more than once
with Lord John Russell, if not with Lord Melbourne ; that
he has been patronised by Lord John even to the extent of
giving or procuring him letters of introduction or presenta-
tion to crowned heads or ministers of high station abroad, to
the King of Prussia and Prince Metternich, for instance, by'
whom he was similarly admitted to the hospitalities of the
table ; and all this to enable him to explain and propagate his
own peculiar system of social life, as now said to be so largely
in operation here. If the facts be not as stated, it is high
time to avoid further scandal that contradiction should not
be delayed ; and truly glad should we be that such a blot
were once and for ever cleared off the reputation of British
statesmen.—Courier.

•
QUESTIONS OF CONFIDENCE.—There are more questions
of confidence at this time agitating the country than the one
mooted by Sir John Buller's motion. How that was virtu-
ally decided is apparent from the fact already stated, that the
number of placemen who carried the vote of confidence in
ministers was about three times as great as their majority.
And, by-the-bye, two supplementary observations on this
point may not be here mistimed First, the placemen al-
luded to were those only connected with the executive or the
court, it being impossible to ascertain correctly those influ-
enced by commissionerthips, sinecure appointments, and.
divers other jobs. Secondly, may it not be asked whether
the sons and younger brothers of placemen should not be
taken into account in estimating the real value of the majo-
rity of 21 ? Is not Lord Fitzalan as much a placeman for the
purposes of the ministry as his father the Earl of Surrey ?
Lord Shelburne as his father the Marquis of Lansdowne ?
or even the Marquis of Tavistock as his uncle Lord John

Russell? The majority in fa;o—u7;f;lnisters analysed in this

way.would cut a very poor figure; but (to revert to the still
more important object of these remarks,) if it is true that
the independent majority of the house has not confidence in
ministers, is it not equally so that the country has not con-
fidence in the house? It is the policy of the Whigs just now
always to speak of " the people and their representatives" in
the same breath, but the people utterly repudiate the associ-
ation. There is not one question of any magnitude upon
which the people of England do not differ toto cte/o from the
decisions of the house. • The late elections are no proofs to
the contrary. In Devonport, Falmouth, ministers had
the choosing of their own dunghills, and valiantly do they
crow thereon ; but they know that in a fair, open, and gene-
ral contest the constitution of the house would be more ex-
tensively changed than by any general election since eight
score Whigs were turned out by Mr. Pitt. In short, as
regards confidence, we are in the singular, and by no means
in itself desirable, position of having the people and the Peers
leagued defensively against the Court and the Commons.
And this under a Whig government !—Morning Herald.

TRAVELLING IN FRANCE.—I can use no other epithets
than abominable and disgusting to travelling both in France
and Belgium. It was only a fortnight back that I denied
myself the pleasure of my annual visit to Count Duval, to
celebrate the fete of St. Hubert, the patron of the Belgic
chase, when he has a party of upwards of thirty of the Otte
of Belgium and other countries in his house—feeling some-
thing approaching to a horror of the journey, although not
more than about 130 miles. But, reader, you shall hear
how it is performed :—To Dunkirk, 24 miles, five hours, stop
there two. All the night going to Lille, 50 miles, stop there
an hour in a coach-office. Then a change from a five to a
three-horse diligence. When I was once condemned to a
seat in it, it weighed eight tons on the weigh-bridge, having
34 passengers ! Well, this " drags its slow length along"
until you can see before you the town at which you are to
breakfast (at about ten a.m.), distant some petite lieue, say
two English miles. But when will you arrive there ? Why
not until every box, and trunk, and pack which this huge
machine carries has been opened and examined by the Cus-
tom-house officers on entering the Belgic frontier.—Nimrod,
in the. New Monthly. . . .

Phillips, , hence off the Falkland Island 21st Dec.
Laurina, -, hence for Vera Cruz, off Antoinette 18th Dec.
Gossypium. Brown; John Bolton, Teuton; Jane Ross, M'lntosh,
and City of Rochester, Campbell, hence at New Orleans
Canton, Gibson, from Demerara, at New Orleans
Frances Lawson, Chaplin, hence at Mobile
Erin.go-Bragh, Sumpton, from St. Thomas, at Charleston
Scotland, Robinson, hence at New York 15th Jan.
Garrick, Palmer, hence at New York 16th Jan.

Thomas Gelston, , from Belfast for New Orleans, was
lost 20th Dec. near Key West; only two of the apprentices saved

SATURDAY; FEBRUARY B.—Wind W. very fresh.
ARRlVED.—Coriolanus. Wells, from Savannah—Eliza, Swan, and
St. Lawrence, from Charleston—and Minerva, Rawlinson,
from Baltimore.

Echo, Crowell, from New Orleans, at this port ; sailed from the
bar 4th Jan. On 3rd Feb. in lat. 47, long. 18, experienced a very
heavy gale for 18 hours from W.N.W. lost sails, binnacle, &c.
Vandalia, Soule, from Savannah, at this port; sailed 16th Jan.
On 3rd Feb. experienced the same gales as the Echo ; had galley
stove, &c.
Garrow, Henderson, from Samarang, at Batavia
Peru, Hughes, from Batavia, at Sourabaya
John Francis, Cotter, from Cork for Charleston, at Plymouth,
towed in by the Sirius, (steamer) with loss of main and mizen masts
Lady Louisa, , from Rio Janeiro, for Cowes, was totally
lost off Scilly, 3rd Feb. ; crew, and about 200 bags coffee in a
damaged state, saved
The ship at anchor yesterday, near the entrance of the Ribble,
was the Powhattan, from 'New Orleans, for Liverpool ; she got
under way yesterday about two o'clock, and stood to the N.N.W,
wind at the time W.S.W. blowing hard
Joseph P. Dobree, Hayes, hence at Berbice
Ardent, Hartgrave, from Honduras for Cork, at Bermuda
Panope, Chandler, sailed from Alexandria 11th Jan. and Beceles,
Manthorp, 14th Jan: both for Liverpool
Alligator, Cook, hence at Constantinople
Albanian, Winsor, hence at Leghorn
Jenne Esther, hence for Marseilles, at St. Martin, with slight
damage

North Star, Benedict, hence for Philadelphia, at Falmouth ; sails
split
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Mary & Jane, Osborne, hence for Leghorn, at Falmouth
La Delphine, Chauvelin, hence for Nantes, at Milford
Jane, Goldask, hence for Youghall, at Studwell Roads, with loss
of topmasts, and mainsail split
Mary, Harvey, from the Clyde for Berbice, at Larne, leaky
Triton, Scorgie, from Gonaives, at Cove
Woodstock, Simpson, hence for New Orleans, at Bristol, with
damage, having been iu contact with a ship off Bardsey, ath Feb.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9.—Wind West, moderate.
AR RI VED .—Berwick, Harding, from Savannah—Amelia,-Franks,
from St. Michael's—Venus, M'Donald, from Islay and Valparaiso—
Hereford, , from Cuba—Albree, Whitney, from New Orleans
--Marion, Parsons, from Apalachicola—John Cumming, Thayer,
from Savannah—Eliza Warwick, Davies, and Brooklyn, Richardson,
from Charleston—and Eliza, —, from St. John, N.B.

Majestfc, Cornforth, from Bombay, at this port, with loss of fore-
topmast and maintopgallantmast, and fore and mainmast and jib-
boom sprung
Indefatigable, Lister, for Apalachicola, has put back •
Marchioness of Bute, for Mobile, off Holyhead, putting back
York, for St. John, N.B. has put back, having been as far as the
Banks of Newfoundland

Lucy Sharp, , Camoena, , and Shannon, Killick
hence at Rio Janeiro

Heroine, , hence at Algiers
Concord, , hence at Malta

Edwitrds, hence aTiCilly, for Constantinople
Patriot, Sawbridge, hence for Naples, at Milford
Dominica, Harrison, sailed from Ramsey for Barbadoes 28th Jan.
A Ship with a black cross in her foretopsail, supposed to be the
Algonquin, from Liverpool for Philadelphia, was spoken sth Feb,
in lat. 48, long. 12 30 • •
Covs, Feb. 7.—The Hannibal, Mumford, from Liverpool" for
Mobile, put in here to-day, with head of foremast damaged. Was
in company with the St. Petersburg, and Byron, for New Orleans.
off Tuskar. A dismasted Ship anchored upon the Maid Bank thii
forenoon, but parted; and is driven to leeward. The vessels that
sailed hence a few days ago, bound to the westward, will most
likely have to put back, as it is impossible for them to make West-
ing.

STRANRAER, Feb. 7.—The Agnes, from Glasgow for Liverpool,
has been brought In here, with loss of mainsail, boom, and gaff.
On entering the harbour, took the ground, and broke her rudder
bands, &c. It is blowing a hurricane •
CARDIGAN, Feb: 6.—The Perseverance, Magub, from Liverpool
for Southampton, arid the Elizabeth, Jenkins, • from Liverpool for
Waterford, were abandoned on this bar yesterday; the former is
expected to go to pieces
ST. IvEs, Feb. 6.—The Thames, from Liverpool for Newcastle,
was brought in here "dismasted, after being abandoned by the crew