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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

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was splendidly sung by Signor Tagliafico, and well de-
served the encore which it received. The chorus from

"William Tell" closed the first part, and was well sung
and supported by the band.
The overture to Part Second was fairly played. The
violins, however, were out of tune. The recitative and
•- by Madlle. Alb- -f of

aria, U, tiooni, was a wonderful piece . vocali-
sation, her voice extending from G below the space to C
in alt. In the duet from " Don Pasquale," by Signora
Corbari and Signor Tagliafico, after hearing thisi and La-

blache, we expcted to be disappointed, but the playfulness
of the pretty Corbari, and the exquisite manner in which

whole audience. The solo of young Joachim, by
Ernst, was a treat of the highest class. It would
be impossible to describe his luscious tones. We never
heard such since the days pf Paganini. In power he is
short of other players we have heard. His execntion,is,
howeycr, wonderful, his style of the highest order, and
his intonation clear ds a bell.. His legato passages are

Ilbom's (

zetti was another triumph, and was loudly encored. The
remaining portion of the concert we were unfortunately
unable to listen to, on account of the lateness of the hour

xnd the necessity of being in time for post. On the
whole, a more gratifying concert has never been given by

the society

CORRESPONDENCE

THE POTATO DISEASE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Having heard it reported that the potato disease had

as on Saturday last I went over the parish, and the unifornri
answer to my question, as to the existence of the disease, was,
" There was nothing'of the kind, and the plants never looked

grass, &c. is equally good

if syou can find room for the above in your paper to-morrow,
you will oblige me, and I enclose you my name and address,

which you may show if you think proper.
I remain, your obedient servant, P.
Liscard, 7th June, 1847.
[Our correspondent will find in another column a contradic-
tion of the report on the authority of our reporters.]

DISSENTING VITUPERATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,
Stn,-71Vith your permission, iyeoy!d follow up the observa-

and -unwarrantable conduct of Dr. Cam

the editor o

le Christian Witne.s.
Precisely the same course of unjust and disreputable pro-
„...

ceeding, upon which "Nigel' very properly animadverts, has
this man been pursuing in reference to the Wesleyan Methodists.
In the January number of this Witness, his readers were treated
with an elaborate essay on what he conceives the unscriptural

ana aespotic cnaracter of our church government. This is only
what might be looked for in a publication noted for its advo-

rizfit of Dr. Cam

emocratic principles. While we concede the
,)bell to hold opinions howsoever loose and

destructive, we very much question his right, unprovokedly
and wantonly, to attack another Christian community? whose
chief sin, in his estimation, seems to be the conservative cha-
racter of its government ; but this by the way. What we
specially complain of is the course he afterwards pursues in
courting and giving insertion to some couple of dozen anony-
mous letters, containing the vilest aspersions on. and accusa-

tions against, the characters of our ministers; while, with one
solitary exception, and that an amazing act of grace on his

not by Controversy but by facts,"—which means, the editor's
vagaries must be supported by such communications as any
anonymous scribbler, or mischievous and quarrelsome soul
might think fit to furnish him with. To say this is the way to
elucidate truth is a burlesque on common sense; rather ►s it
the direct way to spread falsehood and to promote strife and
contention.

Now suppose, Mr. Editor, you should feel disposed to take
up the subject of "Independency," and show its unscriptural
character and downward tendency, and how unfitted to carry
out the design of the Saviour, in the salvation of sinners, as
exemplified by the experience of dissenting churches in our
own town ; and then, to support your position, seek for infor-
mation from those disaffected within its pale, as well as from
parties who have left it in disgust, and not a few of such are to
be found. What a hue and cry would be raised! flow lavishly
would the charges of bigot►y and unfairness be rung in our

ears, and by none more so than Dr. Campbell; and yet this is
precisely his method of dealing with Wesleyans.

It is high time that the respectable members of the "Con-
gregational Union," whose organ the Christian Witness pro-
fesses to be, should arise and rid themselves of such a deadly
incubus, which, as at present conducted, is a standing disgrace
to the Christian name. Many of those gentlemen profess to be
zealous friends of the Evangelical Alliance. We call upon them
to act consistently, and either withdraw from the Alliance, or
discountenance a work the direct tendency of which is to pro-
..

mote disunion and strife.

In this month's number, the learned Dr. is fairly rampant
ith rage. Nothing but the entire disruption of the present

either by the fate his bantling has met with down at liover, in
being taken up as an unclean thing with the tongs and crammed
into the fire ; or, that the excellent Sir Culling E. Smith should
have had the daring to preside at our late missionary anniver-
sary, held in London, and at which meeting both clergymen
and dissenting ministers were seen delightfully amalgamating.
This was too much for our Witness man ; hence be is very
wroth. The speakers, he says, contented themselves with
lauding and praising one another, without saying one word about
the nature of Christ's kingdom. Now, a great deal was said at
the above meeting, by the different speakers, concerning the
dissipation of darkness and the diffusion of Gospel light, on
the destruction of sin, and the spread of Christian holiness;
but these blessings seem not to enter into our editor's ideas of
Christ's kingdom. No, the Church must be separated from the
state, and Methodism must be rendered democratic in its con-
stitution ; and then we are to have the Saviour's kingdom in all
its pristine glory set up on the earth. From such may we long
be preserved, is the ardent wish of
Yours truly,

A WESLEYAN,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Allow me space for a few remarks, elicited, on the spur
of the moment, by reading a paragraph in the Mercury of this
day, respecting Scotland Ward Election,—a paragraph of the
most vicious and malignant tendency. I allude to the remarks
about some officials of the Albert Dock, &c.

, -
I was not in any way present during the late contest for that
ward, but I know the parties so sneered at to be highly re-
• ...1,;1.t I nm en determined an Englishman (and

Lancashire man, too,) as
.to

lest national

and action in pirbliC affairs is one or 00. ~•.-.-_____
boasts—the very germ, bud. and fruit of our free Constitution,
which will allow no man to be deprived of his right of citizen-:
ship, let his situation be what it may, unless under the
immediate pay of the crown. This ungentlemanly remark
in a paper professing (alas!) to be liberal, is fearfully
ominous of what will he resorted to at the next general

election; although such modes of partisanship can only
be viewed with disgust and contempt by every well-regtt-
•

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to be a chain upon the mind ! He ought to be able to thank
the Omnipotent that he can not only "live and think," but
lire and speak, and act, in all matters in which the weal of his
country is connected. Cardinal Wnlsav _

• Be just and fear not; V,11)
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy Count

,
As in the case of the Oxford contest, the uncharitable remark
about Mr. Round troinr. to a thssentint
Chanel brnitoht fnrth

private domestic pain to a respected and honourable family,
once of this town, that ought to have been spared."
The same veritable Mercury has, in the pruriency of its po-
litical hate, once called me "a wretch," and "Jackass," but
calling names is only the resort of certain characters, and harm
not the truly liberal.
I am. Sir, your constant reader,
Mount-pleasant, June 4, 1847. J. S.

NEW PEILVERSIONS

-The Rev. R. ()rushy, M.A.,
inity College, Oxford, and pub-

lic examiner for the responsions examination in that uni-
versity in 1845, has resigned the assistant-curacy of St.
Paul's, Chichester, to which he was lately appointed, and
conformed to the Roman Catholic faith. Mr. Ornsby

was, according to a statement in the Standard of Wed-
nesday, originally a member of Lincoln College, and took

the degree of B.A. in the first class of Litermilitmaniores
in 1840. The Rev. F. Oakeley, late fellow and tutor of
Balliol College, Ox

from the Popish Bisho

d, receive(
a Griffiths,

the order of deacon
at St. Edmund's Col-

perhaps, generally known, that this reverend gentleman,
when a candidate for a fellowship at Oxford, which re-
(aired that the party to be eligible should be in priest's
orders, found himself moved to take on himself the office
of a deacon in one week and;the next that of a priest.
These orders were obtained in that unusually short neriod

of time through the indulgence of our present metropo-
litan ; and Mr: Oakeley within a few days found himself
in the enviable position of fellow of his college.--Church
wiel State Gazette.

Is EMPLOYMENT WANTED ?—A crowd is besieging the
Legislature with cries to provide occupation for the people.
" Make a thousand miles of railway in Ireland. "Compel
the bank to lend us all money to take up our acceptances,
and keep our factories going and our warehouses full."

" Lend us money fer cl;ainhig," " Send two millions of
people across the Atlantic, and make a railroad from Ha-
lifax to Quebec." "At least half a million for one er
two Irish railways, if you will not help them all." We
will venture to say that never were demands more utterly
unseasonable. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is worried

tor employment. Employment ! There is too much already.
There is much more employment undertaken than
.there are wages to pay. Railway companies pledged to
find employment, are obliged to break their promises to
the people and the legislature. Factories are closing
Machinery is be

coming useless. Our difficulty is im-
mensely increased by our having " too many irons in the
fire." Yet the Chancellor of the Exchequer is asked to
put a few more in. Providing employment under present
circumstances is sending coals to Newcastle. The Trish
companies are finding employment beyond their means ;
so are the Lancashire manufacturers ; and so are many
other classes. The employment is too much for the means
of reumeration..—London