The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-18 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE,

A RADICAL PEER AND CONSERVATIVE

COACHMAN,

The Times has published a correspondence between Lord
Rancliffe, and George Frisby, " whot drives the Leicester
—which is a good thing in its way. It relates to
' lying, bribery, -and such matters. What

" thumbing

" thumbing" is, the reader must endeavour to collect as well
as he can from the noble lord : it is not to be found in the

slang dictionary, at least in our edition of it

We have called the letters a correspondence between the

peer and the coachman; but they are not exactly so, as
Lord Rancliffe addresses himself to a Mr. Hardy, and

George Frisby in reply addresses himself to the Editor, of the
Times—so that, though there is an interchange epistolary
between them, it is not direct, but carried on through third

church, and a protester against sin, the world, and the devil,
in whatsoever form they may appear.
Birkenhead, May 15th, 1841. H. C.

WHO IS INCOMPETENT?

TO THE REV. DR. BUTLER

SIR,—In your published lecture you admit that you con-
sidered your corning to Liverpool an excellent opportunity
to DISCUSS THE POINTS OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU
AND YOUR PROTESTANT FRIENDS, and accordingly yielded
to the intreaties of those who wished for such a discussion.
Having made this admission, you have put it out of your
power to decline a discussion, except you are willing to sub-
mit to the suspicion that A. ONE-SIDED DISCUSSION is the
one best suited to Romish divinity. Your Protestant friends,
sir, are well aware that Romish doctors have very good rea-
sons for preferring ONE-SIDED DISCUSSIONS. Sandy divi-
nity will not bear the storms of controversy, and therefore
they do not wonder that the Pope's chamberlain and divi-
nity professor is most unwilling to submit his baseless fabric
to the dangerous test.
Needing some excuse to cover your retreat, you allege that
it was tenderness of feeling which induced you to refuse to
meet Mr. Bay_ lee ! You say, "I am induced from a feeling
of Christian charity to decline meeting him ! This gentle-
man should ever bear in mind that, in entering the lists with
me, he does so with fearful odds ! 1 have studied in the
universities of the metropolis of Catholicity, and have been
long in the habit of teaching the Catholic doctrines in the
same metropolis and other cities. I have already published
scriptural lectures in defence of our holy religion."
Well, then, sir, notwithstanding this formidable prepara-
tion, Mr. Baylec is still rash enough to be ready to meet
you, and offers to give you the following test of competency.
He only requires that it should not be a one-sided test.
A professor of divinity ought to be skilled in the Scrip-
tures, the languages in which they were written, the early
versions, the principal theological writers, and church his-
tory.

Will you venture, sir, to submit to the following test?
Let a meeting be held of 100 educated Romanists and 100
educated Protestants. In their presence lam ready to be
examined by you, for two hours, on the following subjects,
provided you give me the same public opportunity of exa-
mining you :-
1. The Scriptures in English.
2. The Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, and the Greek
Testament, including an inquiry into the influence
of the Hebrew language, or Biblical Greek.
3. The Chaldee Targums, the Samaritan and Syriac
versions, as found in Walton's Polyglott.
4. The Latin Vulgate, and the influence of some of its
phrases on modern errors.
5. The views of the principal theological writers of the
Christian church.
6. The influence of Jewish and heathen theology and
philosophy on the early Christian church.
7. The history of the Christian church.

I pledge myself to give no questions on minute points of
which no man need he ashamed to be ignorant or forgetful,
but to confine myself to such an examination as a divinity
professor ought to be prepared for.
The questions and answers to be afterwards printed.
You have now, sir, an excellent opportunity of doing Rome
a service, by shewing the value of her divinity school. If
you refuse to meet, your Romanist friends will begin to sus-
pect on whose side the charge of incompetency lies.
Of this, sir, I am quite assured, the limited education of a
Romish priest would not enable him to undergo the trial.
There is not a Romish priest, or even vicar apostolic, in
England, who would dare to do so : at least if there be, I
am prepared to meet him. _ _

01)tpping

FRIDAY, MAY 14.—Wind W., calm

ARRIVED.—HeIen Stewart, from Manilla—Scotia, Governor, and
Lancashire, from Mobile—Fairfield, Wilson, from New York, sailed
18th ult. On the 21st ult., at 10 p.m., spoke the Great Western,
(steamer,) from Bristol to New York—Harmony, Jamieson, from
Mobile—Miranda, Wilson, from Belfast—Christian. Thompson, tin
Leith—Unity, Griffiths, and Brigand, Poole, from Swansea—Earl of
Lonsdale, from Whitehaven—Reindeer, Head, from Belfast—Bir-
mingham, Church, from Dublin—Duchess of Lancaster, Kennedy,
from Lancaster—Coleraine, Johnstone, from Coleraine.
SAlLED.—Richard Anderson, Bennett, for New York and Vir
ginia—Queen, Huggins, for Quebec—Shannon, Collins, for Prince
Edward's Island—Jonge Louis, for Konigsberg—Vrow Trentje, Dc
Beat, for Rendsborg—V ietoria, Ahrens, for Riga—Agatha, De Groot,
for Zwolle—Julie and Marie, Bartells, for Pillau—Actif, Vander-
brook, for Ostend—Margareta, Bromgard, for Groningen—Marys
and Ann, Thompson, fur Frederickstadt—Louise, Rooms, for Ant-
werp—Margaretta Wilhelmina, Vos, for Anisterdzm—Jonk Vrow
Elizabeth, Hens, Narva.

Letitia, Black, hence at Batavia
Lowell, , hence at Manilla
Severn, France, from Mauritius off Cove
Columbus, Barstow, hence at New York
Diadem, , hence at Naples
Maria Agnes, De Weerd, and Gezusters, hence at Harlingen
Pieter, Weerd; Carl Elsina, Schurg ; Ariane, Muntendam ; Reina,
Voss ; and Lenwarda, Mebar, hence at Texel
Harriet, Beasley, and Jantina Roelfina, Kniper, hence at Helvoet
Leopold, Zotloff, hence at Antwerp
Emerald, Thomas, hence for Marseilles at Scilly
Galatea, from Alexandria for this port, was spoken let April, off
Candia

Falcon, Turner, hence to Bonny, was spoken in lat 7 N, long 16
W, 38 days out

John Brooks, hence to St Thomas, was spoken 11th April, in lat
25, long 34

Alpha, for Newport, that was on shore on the North Bank, got
off last night
Allihies, Peters, hence at Waterford, with loss of bulwarks, &c.
Nothing to report by the telegraph