The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-01 00:00:00

PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION

Last evening a crowded meeting was held in St. Jude's
School-room, Oake's-street, for the purpose of considering
the propriety of petitioning against the continuance of the
parliamentary grant to the Popish college of Maynooth.
chair was occupied by the Rev. H. M`Neile :
The CHAIRMAN having opened the proceedings with
prayer, delivered an eloquent address, for which we regret
that we can find room for only the following passages.
Doubtless many of you have seen Dr. Butler's letter to
me. I have not written any rejoinder, for two reasons :
first, hie letter is not an answer to mine ; and, secondly,
instead of containing argument, it contains language more
characteristic of Billingsgate than of religious discussion.
In the reckless use of opprobrious personalities, which dis-
grace only those who use them, I readily concede the palm
of victory into the hand of Dr. Butler. In this branch of
the controversy with me, he is, I am happy to say, facile
prin cepa. - .

I.—l wish now to put you briefly in possession of the rea-
sons for calling Romanism a schism in England. You have
all heard of, and many of you have read, what is called the
Creed of Pope Pius IV. It is the avowed Creed of Roman-
ism. It consists of 24 articles—twelve ancient and twelve
modern. The twelve ancient articles of it were compiled
by the Fathers of the Christian church in the year 325.
The twelve modern articles were compiled by the Pope in
the year 1564.

Now observe ! The twelve ancient articles were, and are,
the creed of the Church of Christ here in England. They
compose what we call the Nicene Creed. This was the creed
of the English Church for centuries before Pope Pius IV.
was born. This is the old, the real ancient Christian faith ;
and as such is held and constantly read in the Church of
England. But what is Romanism ? Romanian. consists in
the twelve modern articles. It is a novelty, intruded into
the Christian church. It is a heresy opposed to the ancient
faith. It is a schism from the body of Christ. And we say
nothing more than the grave and stern demands of historic
truth, when we say that the priests of it are priests of the
Roman schism in England. _ _ _

Here is a case containing a bottle of good old wine which
cheers the heart of man. The bottle is open; its contents
are unadulterated ; and the invitation of its great Owner is
free, to every one that is athirst, to come and drink, without
money and without price.
Now, here is another case ! It contains two bottles : one
of them is labelled the good old wine, but it is close corked;
the other is open, and full of new drugs. which stupify and
degrade all who drink them. These dregs are carried about
for sale. The prices asked are indeed accommodated to the
circumstances of the purchasers, but all must pay something.
Yet so palatable to sinners are these drugs, that the thou-
sands of fallen men prefer paying for them, to drinking the
good wine without pay.
The first case represents old genuine Christianity as ex-
pressed in the Nicene creed, and retained without any delete-
rious mixture in the Church of England. The second repre-
sents Rotnanisrn, with its label of antiquity on a corked
bottle, and its open bottle put up for sale filled with modern
palatable poisons„such as cause men to nauseate the good
wine, and to take pleasure in the intoxicating stupor of the
drugs.
Take a specimen of each. First. " The offering of Christ
once made, is that perfect redemption, propitiation and satis-
faction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and
actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that
alone." Here is good old wine, the wine of the Kingdom of
Heaven, administered freely to all her dear children by the
scriptural church of England.
Secondly. " I profess likewise that in the mass is offered
to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living
and the dead. Here is a modern drug full of deadly
poison, poison for eternity, sold at accommodating prices to
all her superstitious customers by the Church of Rome.
2.—1 wish to guard you against deception in the matter of
Mr. and Mrs. Galwey. What I allege is, that a Romanist
bishop in Ireland endeavoured to coerce Mr. Galwey in his
political conduct, by refusing to allow the ceremonies of their
faith to be administered to his sick wife. This is proved by
Mr. Galwey's letter, who says,
" Whatever differences your lordship and myself may have on
the subject of politics, it is an act of cruelty that a religious
female, in a bad state of health, and enable on Christmas Day
to leave her bedroom, should be the sufferer."
And again Mr. Galwey writes :
" I beg respectfully to ask whether any act of my life, as a
Catholic, merited such conduct either towards myself or any of
my family, and whether it is not solely on account of political
differences, this system of tyranny is attempted to be practised
towards me ?"
Thus, Mr. Galwey charges his bishop with cruelty and ty-
ranny. But Dr. Butler says, " Let it be remembered, no act
of tyranny, as appears by Mr. Galwey's letter, was exercised."
It is a pity that Dr. Butler did not enable his Romish and
liberal readers to judge for themselves by printing Mr. Gal-
wey's letters. If Mr. Galwey's letters showed that no act of
tyranny was exercised, I venture to express my conviction
that Dr. Butler would have reprinted Mr. Galwey's letters.
I reprinted them ; and if Dr. Butler, or his friend the Mer-
cury, be lovers of truth and fair play and honest discussion,
they will reprint them also. But they will not. They dare
not allow their readers to see such an exposure of Rocaish

temporal tyranny, exercised by means of what they call
spirituals.

'Evading this, which is the main 'point at isstre;Dr: Butler
makes much of another point, inferior in itself, and imma-
terial in its consequences. Against my sermon upon the
subject, he has nothing to say. My charge of tyranny
against the Papal system remains unanswered I When I
preached the sermon I had heard nothing more about Mr.
and Mrs. Gnlwev, and knew nothing but the facts as exhibited
in Mr. Galwey's letters. I afterwards heard that they had
become Protestants. I did not know this to be the case,
and I never asserted that it was the case. At the meet-
ing in Manchester, when I had stated the facts as they
appear in my sermon, and read Mr. Galwey's letters, I was
about to pass on to another subject, when a gentleman on the
platform called out, " What was the result 7" 1 replied, I
can't say; I HAVE HEARD that Mr. and Mrs. Galwey have
become Protestants, but that is immaterial to my object :
my object is to illustrate Popish tyranny.
When Dr. Butler saw the report of my speech at Man-
chester, he did not dare to touch the important facts which I
stated as facts ; but evading all these (for reasons suffici-
ently obvious) he fastened upon an unimportant circumstance
which I (lid not state as a fact, but as a thing I had heard,
and in itself immaterial to my object. And now he has done
the same thing again. He dares not to meet the facts of
the case, by reprinting Mr. Galwey's letters ; and he ingeni-
ously endeavours to turn away public attention from the
facts. He proves himself afraid of the facts, by suppressing
from his readers Mr. Galwey's letters. I heard that Mr.
and Mrs. Galvvey had become protestants. I did not say it
was so, but that I heard it and that it was immaterial whe-
ther or not. It appears that they continue Romanists.
Well ! what then ? It is immaterial, wholly immaterial to
the question in hand, 'whether or not. The papal system is
stamped with tyranny in its accredited standards : and that
tyranny, iii its modern working, in this country, is illus-
trated by Mr. Galwey's letters. Will Dr. Butler reprint
those letters ? No. Will the Mercury ? No. Why not ?
An answer is needless : judge ye what I say.
3.—A few words in conclusion about St. Bernard. My
sermon on Antichrist contained two quotations from that ce-
lebrated writer. Dr. Butler, after telling us with some pomp
of his reference to the original in the library at St. Anthony's,
charges one of my quotations with forgery. He proceeds to
give a translation from St. Bernard himself, and in it, behold
the very passage quoted in my sermon and called by Dr.
Butler a forgery! This speaks for itself. Of my other
quotation he conveniently omits all notice. Now it so hap-
pens that the copy of St. Bernard's works in the library at
St. Anthony's is not the only copy in Liverpool. I also re-
ferred to the original. Ifound my quotation, and reprinted
it, with all its context, both in the original latin and in a
translation written for that purpose. In Dr. Butler's letter,
professing to be a reply to mine, he prudently avoids this
troublesome passage, and leaves his Romish readers, as he
found them, in profound ignorance of what St. Bernard said
upon the subject. If I don't greatly mistake, some of them
have read my letter, (a second edition of which is already
sold,) and will not henceforth be so easily satisfied with the
ipse dixit of the doctor, or the Mercury.
The Rev. Chairman concluded by some observations rela-
tive to the excellent Protestant charge delivered in the fore-
noon, by our venerable Diocesan, which elicited great
applause.
The Rev. J. BAYLEE, and the Rev. W. FALLOON next ad-
dressed the meeting, and all the resolutions were unanimously
carried, after which the meeting separated. The petition
against the grant received a great number of signatures.

GREAT SUCCESS OF JOHN TOLLEMACHE,
ESQ., AT BIRKENHEAD.

Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, this gentleman, who is
a candidate for South Cheshire, arrived in the township of
Birkenhead, in the progress of his canvass through that part
of the county, accompanied by J. D. Case, Esq., and Messrs.
John Peacock, Wm. Sharpe, C. A. Watson, John Robin,
W. W. Perry, Latham, &c., at Poole's Hotel, Woodside.
He proceeded with his friends on his canvass through the
principal part of Birkenhead, and met with a most cordial
reception throughout, having 'received promises of support
from three out of four of the electors, besides those of many
parties who had voted against him at the last election. The
parties afterwards went to Tranmere, where Mr. Tollemache
visited the Regent's Society, in the character of a private
gentleman. On his entering, the band struck up " See the
conquering hero." He addressed those present, congratu-
lating them on the advantages of such societies—his own
tenantry having flourished under them ; and on retiring,
a lively shout was raised of " Tollemache for ever ! " The
success of this highly respected gentleman at Birken-
head has been far beyond the expectation of himself
or his friends, exceeding, indeed, that of any former candi-
date on the conservative side on any former occasion. Mr.
Tollemache has also been highly successful in Northwich,
Nantwich, and Congleton, and his ultimate success is beyond
aldoubt. The Wilbraham party will scarcely venture. we should
think, to show " their diminished heads." This day the
highly popular candidate, whose head-quarters are at Poole's
Hotel, will, with his friends, go through Tranmere and
Higher and Lower Bebbington, and during the week will
visit other parts of the hundred of Wirrall, where he will
doubtless meet with an equally flattering reception. We have
elsewhere noticed his visit to Rock Ferry.

ROYAL ROCK FERRY AND BEBBINGTON
CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of the members of this association took place
last evening at the Royal Rock Ferry House, for the purpose
of having an interview with Mr. Tollemache, and hearing his
sentiments and political principles. Joseph Ackers, Esq.
briefly introduced Mr. Tollemache to the meeting, congratu-
lating the members of the association present with the suc-
cess that had hitherto met that gentleman in his canvass in
the Hundred of Wirrral. Mr. Tollemache commenced by
stating how highly gratified he was in meeting the gentlemen
present, and he felt most proud when he reflected upon the
handsome way in which he had been everywhere received in
that neighbourhood. He had a large stake in the county,
and he felt that unless a very great change took place in the
administration of government, that stake would be worth
nothing. Mr. Tollemache was totally opposed to the unholy
alliance which had taken place between the government and
the catholic party. He came amongst them a perfect stran-
ger, but he considered it a duty to his country to come for-
ward—it was contrary to his feelings ; but he hylieved that
the battle of the constitution was about to be fought, and un-
less those who supported him did not believe him sincere, he
could not ask them for their votes. He was a stanch sup-
porter and uncompromising adherent to the protestant faith,
and therefore, opposed to the grant to..Maynooth. (Cheers.)
He was a warm supporter of the church, and considered it a
most invaluable institution, by which means a man would be
qualified to enter the kingdom of Heaven. He was not a
bigotted churchman, he had a great respect for dissenters,
there were many men in his own immediate neighbourhood
for whom he entertained the greatest respect and esteem, and
he believed that the Wesleyans as a body were greatly at-
tached to the church of England. (Hear, hear, hear.) Mr.
Tollemache dwelt strongly and forcibly upon the conduct of
O'Connell, and the adherence and support of him by the ad-
ministration, which had at one period denounced him as a
'rebel. He knew for a fact that he (Mr. O'Connell) had been
offered a judgeship. (Oh ! Oh !) Mr. Tollemache would
avow his intention of supporting Sir Robert Peel and Lord
Stanley, so long as they did their duty to the country. (Loud
• cheers.)

The Rev. Mr. T. F. REDHEAD, (Intended incumbent of
the new church at Rock Ferry,) said that he was most happy
to meet so influential a body of gentlemen as that he now
saw before him. As a clergyman of the church of England,
he did not like mixing in what are termed politics, but he
thought the present was a time when all men ought to wave
their private feelings, and he trusted he should have the
pleasure of seeing Mr. Tollemache go hand in hand with his
friend, Sir Philip Egerton, into the House of Commons.
(Cheers.) The rev. gentleman dwelt most forcibly upon the
strides made by Popery in the country, and that it was the
duty of every man to stem the tide—it was now a question
of life and death. He would do all he could, and use all the,
influence at his command in forwarding the interests of Mr.
Tollemache. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. PEACOCK congratulated Mr. Tollemache upon his, re-
ception in the township. They were all eager for battle, and
never were in a better condition. The registration was in a
most prosperous condition. He had been disgusted by the
apathy ahewn by the conservatives, and he had deelared that
he would never have any thing to do with them again; but
he now came forward, seeing that there was an intention of
making a strong demonstration.
Mr. TOLLEMACHE said he felt confident that the welfare
of England depended upon the result of the forthcoming
election.

The Rev. Mr. REDHEAD begged to inquire whether it was
Mr. Tollemache's intention to support Sir H. Inglis's efforts
in advancing the cause of church extension?
Mr. TOLLEMACHE said that his conduct, in reference to
the Weaver Church building question, he thought, would
show what his opinions were upon that subject. Sir H.
Inglis was his friend, and he would give him his support, and
he thought that perhaps it would be as well for him to enter
into an explanation of his masons for encouraging the building
of the Weaver churches. He briefly detailed the circum-
stances under which he considered it was necessary to erect
those churches, and dwelt upon the ignorance of the flatmen
and navigators on the Weaver. They had been prevented
working on the Sunday ; but as they had no religious instruc-
tion, their idleness had made them in a worse condition. He
considered that it was the bounden duty of all who had pro.
perty to promote the religious instruction, and. promote the
moral welfare of those who were dwelling around them.
Mr. ,LYON said he was a manufacturer and an agricultu-
rist, and he should certainty like to hear Mr. Tollemache's
opinion on the subject of the corn laws.
Mr. TOLLEMACHE denounced the fixed duty on corn as a
complete humbug, and said that a fixed duty would end in a
total repeal. Mr. Tollernache entered briefly upon the ques-
tion, much to the satisfaction of those present.
Mr. NELSON WOOD, after a few remarks, put the follow-
ing resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. RED..
HEAD; who expressed his pleasure at Mr. Tollemache's
straightforward and manly exposition of his principles.
" Mr. Tollernache having explained his political views—
Resolved that this meeting do pledge themselves to use every
legal means in their power to return him in conjunction with
Sir Philip Egerton as members to the House of Commons
for the southern division of the county of Chester."
Mr. TOLLEMACHE, in conclusion, thanked the gentlemen
t, and said he hoped that he would not be found want-
rg. presenHe could do his juty.—Three cheers were then given
for Mr. Tollemache, when the meeting separated.

[Our reporter received instructions, from Mr. Tollemache
to apply to our contemporary the Liverpool Mail for a copy
of his address to the electors of South Cheshire. On making
application for it he was refused the document ; we are,
therefore, sorry we cannot present our readers and the sup-
porters of Mr. Tollemache with it—but we shall not fail to
lay it before them on FridaY next.—[E.L.S.]

LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.—The annual
meeting of the friends and subscribers of the Liverpool branch
of the British and Foreign Bible Society was held at the Mu-
sic-hall, Concert-street, on Friday evening. At the com-
mencement of the proceedings the attendance was thin and
scattered; but in the course of an hour after the room began
rapidly to be filled, and presented, towards the close, a large
array of respectability. The chair was occupied on the occa-
sion by the Rev. Dr. Byrthe. We noticed the following clergy-
men and gentlemen on the platform :—The Rev. Frederick
Parry, Rev. Mr. Carter, Rev. Thos. Dwyer, Rev. Dr. Raffles,
Rev. Dr. Pinkerton, Rev. Robert Davies, Rev. Dr. Beau.
moat, Rev. Charles Havdon, Rev. James Lister, Rev. Wm.
Rawson, Rev. Edmund Spencer, Rev. William Vevers;
Messrs. Thomas J. Bourne, John Cropper, William Kay,
John Priestly, John Edon, Thomas 0. Cooper, W. J.
Thomlinson, Isaac Harrison, Thomas Rimmer, Thomas
Eccles, Joseph J. Godfrey, Wm. Cook, William Rushton,
Michael. Ashton, Thomas Sands, and Alderman Bulley.
The meeting was addressed 'by the chairrn-an, the Rev. Mr.
Davies, Mr. John Cropper, the Rev. F. Parry, Mr. Thos. J.
'Bourne, the Rev. Mr. Haydon, and the Rev. Dr. Pinkerton.
BIRKENHEAD TEA GARDENS—FIREWORKS,
&c.—yes-
terday evening a splendid display of fireworks, by our talented
townsman, Mr. James, professor of Pyrotechnics, took place
at Mr. Willoughby's pleasure-grounds, Birkenhead Hotel,
and was roost numerously and fashionably attended. The
artist produeed a most successful and highly-applauded series
.of beautiful devices in fireworks, including wheels, stars,
rockets, &c. A good military band was on the ground
there were numerous variegated lamps, and the whole scene
was moat exhilirating. A beautiful view of St. Jean D'Acre
formed the back-ground, to be exhibited with a line reprer
entation of the siege on Monday next.

CORRESPONDENCE

ON THE PRESENT POSITION OF OUR WEST
INDIA COLONIES,
AND THE BEST MEANS OF RESTORING THEIR PROSPERITY

LETTER II

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND.IRD,

In our last letter we endeavoured to show the advantages
to the Indies, both East and West, which would result from
the establishment of a system of migration from the one to
the other, on the most extensive scale ; and to prove the ur-
gent necessity which exists for the immediate organization
and legalised use of the means for effecting so desirable an
object. But it is not alone to Hindostan that the West In-
dians look for the supply of their deficiency of labour.
Another fruitful source presents itself in that country which
has hitherto been the scene of the inhuman slave trude—the
unhappy shores of Africa—and though such a proposition
may at first have startled the friends of the negro race, it is
one which has now, we hope, begun to engage their most
serious attention, and one which promises, above all others,
to produce a favourable effect on the destinies of that un-
happy race. _

We need not here enlarge on the importance that has for
many years attached to the civilisation and elevation of the
benighted African in the scale of humanity. We need not
dwell on the self-denying exertions of all the benevolent
philanthropists, who, since Wilberforce took up the glorious
theme, have distinguished themselves in the good cause. We
need not enumerate the sacrifices of treasure, and of the
lives of her hardy sons—from the enthusiastic Mungo Park
down to the lowest seaman, who year after year perishes in
the discharge of his duty of rescuing the defenceless victim
of slavery from the hands of his ruthless ravager—which
Britain has offered up as her tribute on the shrine of this
great principle. We need not point to the many settlements
she has made on the pestilential shores, as places of refuge
for her hapless sons, and as centres for the diffusion of the
arts of civilisation through the neighbouring districts. We
need but mention these numerous evidences of the spirit of
earnest anxiety which is abroad in this country in this great
cause ; but, alas ! that we should have to allude to them only
for the purpose of lamenting that they have all so signally
failed in their object, and that the great work of African
civilisation seems just as remote, if left to the operation of
these means, as ever. In whatever direction we look at the
evils which afflict the negro race out of the British domi-
nions, either in their fatherland, or in their passage across
the Atlantic ; in the islands or on the continent of America,
on both sides of the line, so surely do we find, that from the
time when Las Casas, the Wilberforce of the Indians, from
one-sided motives of benevolence, first founded the African
slave trade, down to the present hour the course of events
has been only from bad to worse. It is very evident then
that we must look to some other plan for the attainment of
this object : and where will we find one so pregnant with pro-
mises of mighty import. as in the opening up of a stream
of voluntary emigration between that country and the West
Indies? The African race will by this means be brought in
contact with the arts and customs of civilised life, in a country
where they flourish—will be stimulated by the prospect of re-
ward to habits of industry and honesty—will acquire a taste for
the comforts of life—and will, after the lapse of years, when the
work of moral regeneration has taken effect, perhaps return,
and, by the force of example,sstimulate their countrymen to
follow in their footsteps, and become like them useful mem-
bers of the social system. We might compare the production
of this artificial current of migration, to an,operation very
similar in practical engineering, by which the waters of a
sluggish river—that, from some obstruction, have spread
themselves over the face of the country in the form of a pes-
tilential swamp, under the influence of a tropical sun, teem-
ing with evidences of animated nature in its most repulsive
form, and exhaling the noxious miasmata, which blight with
their poisoned breath whatever comes within their baneful
influence—are drawn off through a well-regulated channel, to
spread the blessings of fertility and the beauties of vegetation
over the " dry parched lands wherein no waters be." Thus
bringing to a state of wholesome consistence the soil formerly
destroyed by stagnant moisture, and with that very element
of injury, when transferred to another scene, making the
land to smile with the cheering fruits of industry.
The preventive system, as applied to the suppression of the
slave trade, is confessedly quite inadequate. Lord John
Russell himself acknowledges that the whole British navy
would be insufficient as a marine guard to suppress the in-
famous traffic, along the extensive shores of Africa. What '
then can be expected from the efforts of a few small cruizers,
whose efficiency is always more or less crippled by the effects
of the dreadful climate to which their operations are con-
fined? If we are unable, with all our complicated machinery
of coast guard and revenue cruizers, to prevent the smuggling-
of French brandy, and lace, upon our own circumscribed
coast, how can we look for any useful effects from any system
of prevention we can possibly put in force in Afrita ? For
not only is the risk of capture so much less in the case of the
African smuggler, but the temptation, from the profits of his
speculation, is infinitely greater.
The result of all our efforts in this direction is, therefore, as
might have been expected from the inadequacy of the means
that can possibly be brought to bear upon it, that the slave trade
has increased in extent, and deepened in atrocity. Why, then,
continue the unavailing sacrifice of so much valuable life and
treasure, in the face of such woful results as must be obvious
to any one, when, if a mere moiety of the expenditure were
directed into another channel, we should have every reason
to hope that the most beneficial consequences would follow ?
—a course which would just bear the same relation to the one
now in operation, that the act of laying the axe to the root of
the tree bears to that of lopping off a stray twig here and
there, when the object in view was the destruction of the pa-
rent stem ; for, destroying the sources of the profit, by ren-
dering free labour cheaper than that of slaves, would he to
this traffic precisely what the cutting off of the supply of sap
from the roots, by a well-directed blow, would be to the tree;
while the effect of capturing now and then a solitary slave
vessel with its hapless cargo, is precisely analogous to that
of endeavouring to stop the growth and vigour of the tree by
depriving it of a few superfluous branches. Alas ! that there
should be so wofully striking a confirmation of the truth of
our position in the wall-known fact of that inhuman tratli
still " flourishing like a green bay tree," or rather like the
deadly upas, spreading out its poisonous branches with des-
tructive luxuriance, and blighting with its baneful shadow
the useful vegetation, now struggling on for a sickly exist-
ence, which might otherwise soon overspread the land with
its heneficial fruits.

Standing out, however, as this fact does, in striking, but me-
lancholy relief, from the open page of history, we cannot refuse
to the reality of its existence our reluctant assent ; and the
time must very soon come when this country, seeing the folly
—the destructive folly—of persevering in her former course,
must turn her attention to some other expedient than any of
those that have already so signally failed. Let her at once
abandon her costly and destructive preventive system, and
devote at least a portion of the sum expended on it to the
conveyance of the thousands who will gladly embrace the op-
portunity of removing to a country where, under the opera-
tion of just and equitable laws, they can live happily on the
fruits of their honest industry.
There is another feature in the working of our slave
trade preventive policy, which shows in a very striking
view the very unaccountable manner in which the framers
of it seem to have studiously endeavoured to prevent our
own colonies receiving the smallest benefit from the results
of their exertions. We allude to the law by which all cap-
tured negroes are sect to be adjudicated on by the mixed
courts inthe Havana, Rio Janeiro, or Sierra Leone, by whom
they are distributed out among the planters, under in-
dentures of eight years duration, on payment of £3 a head
as a bounty to the captors. It is now well authenticated,
that the poor beings thus abandoned by their captors, are us
a much worse condition than if they had been smuggled into
the country in the regular manner, and sold to the planters.
The reason is obvious : in the latter case the planter will
find his own interest best consulted by treating his slave in
such a manner that he may expect to have the benefit of his
services during his lifetime, while in the other, he has
manifestly no motive (that of benevolence excepted—by no
means a very powerfully-moving principle in the slave
owner's breast) for treating his slave in any way but that
which will extract the greatest amount of labour out of him
during the period that he remains his bondsman. The
planter is in no way under a stipulation to account for him
at the end of his period of so called apprenticeship—say
rather of aggravated slavery ; and indeed the court with
whose sanction the engagement was made, entirely lose sight
of the poor wretch after he passes through their judicature, and
his identity is so completely lost that it is a very common
practice for such slaves to be smuggled into some other slave-
holding state, such as Texas, Mexico, and even the Southern
States of the American Union, and again sold to the highest
bidder, like any other beast of burden.
_ _

Mr. Turnbull, in his work on Cuba, states, that from his
own actual observation these " apprentices" were the worst
treated and most dejected of all the unhappy victims which
he saw, and that so apparent is this even to the negroes
themselves, that the regular slaves actually look down upon
those " emancipados" with contempt, as an inferior order of
beings. So that here, by the operation of our most unjust
interference, we have given a most melancholy practical
proof that " in the lowest depth of human woe there is in-
deed a deeper still."
With these facts before us, how can we, if the slave-cap-
turing system is continued,—how can Ile persevere in such
a mode of disposal of our unhappy captives ? Why continue
to send them jute a state of aggravated bondage, when, in
the same neighbourhood, we have free communities of their
brethren, to whom, as we have already endeavoured to show,
and to themselves, such a disposal of them would prove so
great a benefit ? Really, of such a course of perversely in-
jurious policy the history of modern times affords no parallel.
So long as we were ourselves slave-owners, there might be
some semblance of an excuse for thus giving a preference to
foreigners ; but now that we should continue to pass our own
colonies by, when their wants are so much increaser, and
their claims to a preference so obviously paramount, to enrich
the slave-owner of Cuba and Brazil at the expense of the
hapless being who has thus " met us in an evil hour," is, to
say the least, one of the greatest anomalies which the history
of our legislative enactments affords. Britain, before she
car, with that proud feeling which springs from a conscious-
ness of benevolent intentions, guided by judicious measures,
to results of practical utility, say to the negro race; at least,
" Opifer que per orbern dicor,"

. . .
must pursue a widely different course with reference to them
than she has vet followed. Let her people with them those
magnificent colonies, where every individual is as free as the
wind, and now pointed out by Providence as the garden of
civilisation for the benighted sons of Africa as well as for the
perishing outcasts of India. Then may we hope to realize
what Mr. Fowell Buxton, in one of his energetic appeals in
favour of the negro, states, " That Providence must have
overruled slavery for the purpose of ultimately civilising
Africa."

(To be concluded in our next.)

THE GOVERNMENT AND MR. EASTHOPE'S
CHURCH-RATE ABOLITION BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sist,—When I took up your valuable paper this morning,
I was somewhat disappointed to find that you had not ex-
posed the very obvious trick of Mr. Easthope's bill for the
abolition of church-rates. The omission, however, is easily
to be accounted for on looking over your miscellaneous co-
lumns, subjects of local and evanescent interest requiring
more immediate attention on the part of a generally read
paper than matters which involve contested principles.
I do not, when speaking of Mr. Easthope's bill, mean to
shrink from the application of the phrase " contested prin-
ciples" to church-rates. Church-rates, I contend, and
every matter appertaining to the church, involve contested
principles, but principles contested only'by two parties, one
of whom is verbalised by the term popery, and the other
comprises the restless class who years ago were denominated
political dissenters. Singular to state, the united efforts of
these bodies, combined with persevering agitation and the
circulation of most novel doctrines as far as constitutional
evidences and biblical truth are concerned, have produced
and are producing the opposite consequences to those in-
tended. To prove this, I lay before your readers the follow-
ing table of the church-rate contests at Brighton, which,
although sometimes the abode of monarchy, has achieved
some degree of eminence for maintaining principles which
must eventually lead to republicanism. The subject of. a
church-rate has been contested there four times since tue
Manchester voluntaries formed themselves into an agitation
committee [1835] to overthrow the established church, and
the following are the results :
Date. For the rate. Against. Majority for the rate.
Nov. 24, 1836.... 1702 1389 313
May 2, 1839.... 1157 747 410
Jan. 9, 1840.... 737 62 657
March 9, 1841.... 804 236 568
In all of these cases the majorities have proportionately in.
creased.
The trick of Mr. Ealtbope'm motion is to eatch rolunta-

ries' votes. He asked for leave to introditaa kis bill an
Tuesday night, the day after Sir Robert Peel had given
notice of his, want-of-confidence motion, and the government
consented to its introduction, but with beautiful consistency
spoke against it—not, however, upon the ground that to
establish church-rates would destroy the nationality of the
establishment, but because the bill proposed to accomplish
the designs of its promoters in too straightforward a manner
for them. Her Majesty's present ministers, it seems from
Lord Morpeth, are willing, then, to destroy the impost;
hut, say they, something must be provided in its stead—
that is, a wet blanket must be thrown over the church esta-
blishment, by which it may become palsied in an important
extreme, and a lingering though certain death be the ulti-
mate issue. The truth is, there is a mutual understanding
between the mover of this bill and the existing administra-
tion, just as there is a compact between them and the great
Irish mendicant, for a common object which is sufficiently
obvious.

There remains, I am bound to say, but one hope for the
Church of England—that is, in the zeal, energy, learning,
Christian faithfulness, and evangelic laboriousness of her
ministry being devoted to the religious progression of the
people. Sound gospel principles sown in the soil of a prac-
tical Christian population never return unprofitable.
I am, sir, yours respectfully,
PENSATORE.
Fridap Afternoon, 28th May, 1841.