The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS,

PROTESTANT MISSIONARY EFFORTS IN
CHINA AND APATHY OF THE BRITISH "
GOVERNMENT.
(From R. M. Martin's China ; Political, Commercial,
and Social.)
It is painful to note how little Protestant England, as a
government or people, has yet done for China. The at-

tention of the Landon Missionary Society was directed to
the subject in 1807, but their missionary, Dr. Morrison,
found some difficulty in locating himself at Canton, from
the East India Company ; and it was not until his services

83 an interpreter were required, that countenance, and—an
undisturbed residence, were granted him by our country-

The disadvantages under which he commenced wer
great, but not too much for his zeal and industry ; he ha

neither grammars nor dictionaries. For si
laboured alone,. devoting his time to th

language, and the prepaiatioi
ary. To this object his at
turned by the directors of the

ammar and dictio

ltion had been specially
issionary Society. _ " Per-

haps," said they in their instructions, `1 yc

lay have th

honour of forming a Chinese
sive and correct than any pr

tion has been full
by Dr. Morrison is still, in
Chinese scholar, Dr. Bridgman, the most valuable of-al
the books used by the students of the language.
The bigotry of the Portuguese government prevented
the co-operation of Dr. Morrison's faithful fellow-labourer
(Milne) continuing his services at Macao, and the head
quarters of the mission had to be transferred to Malacca.
Many of the obstacles which then prevented missionary

ized, and lite dictionary prep,

opinion of ti

are now, however, happily removed

According to Mr. Milne's retrospect of the first ten
years of the Chinese mission, tha object of the society
to prepare works that would facilitate others in the
sition of the language ; this Dr
formed

Morrison nobly Per-

He then commenced holding religious services with his
domestics, and others who chose to attend. At this
period the Chinese government were persecuting the Ro-
man Catholic missionaries, which circumstance increased
the caution of the East India Company's servants.
Notwithstanding these disadvantages, his efforts were
not without some success ; his first convert, Tsai-Ako,
who was baptized in 1814, proved faithful until his death.
All the English missionaries for China subsequent to
this period, arrived either at Penang, Malacca, Batavia,
or Singapore.

The number of Chinese emigrants at thes
is at all times very great ; and as they very generally r
turn to China, many opportunities occurred of distributir

tlemen

the Scriptures

among those to whom the missionari

could not go themselves.

Schools were established at the several stations, and the
preaching of the Gospel regularly sustained. A blessing
must always attend such efforts, when performed with
sincerity and truth ; many have been convinced of the
folly of idolatry, and a few have given evidence of a change

of heart, and we
Several Rapti

received into the Church by bapti

language, in the hope of extending the Gospel to China.
Among these, the Rev. J. Marshman's services are well
known. With the assistance of the Rev. Mr. Lassar, an
Armenian Christian, born at Macao, and speaking and

writing the Chinese language with fluency, he translated
the whole of the Scriptures into Chinese in the year 1822.
The American missions have been eminently successful in
the East, and their ministers, medical and clerical, are the
deadliest enemies to the corruptions of the Romish priest-

hood. The Americans have set us an example, of which
we should feel ashamed. They have been the principal
promoters and supporters of the medical mission, and
they have sent the first Protestant bishop to China. Let
us awake from our criminal apathy. It is our solemn
duty to send the Gospel to all nations ; the non-success
of it in some places does not release us from this resnnn-

sibility

merely lead to renewed exertion:

There appear to be two errors with regard to tIL cajuTe.
and effect of missions. Some think that throwing the
seed in uncultivated ground will produ

History informs us, that all nations have undergone a
change of opinions. What were the early Britons in the
second century,. when Christian missionaries came among
them ? China, that was formerly called the " great ur
changed," " the middle kingdom," has changed. '-
bent, and is exhibiting at this moment unerring
of further change.

There are greater promise

symptoms
of success

to the Christian missionary in China, than any other
country in the East. First, the great majority of the pe-
ple are instructed in principles of morality ; and
their modes of superstition are comparatively modern
the oldest or Confucian (n.c. 530) is a code of morals

pised by the majority of the higher classes, who have no
idol worship. Let not individuals despair, when they
reflect on the single effort of the orphan of Mecca, who
planted his standards, with shouts of victory, over the
ruined thrones of Constantine and Chosreos.
Religious opinions are continually changing ; all sys-
tems, except Christianity, are in a state of continuous

But wherever Christianity exists, in any pur
augmentation of the numbers of man
visible improvement in their condition, s

irm, there is
ind, and

that the balance between the Christian and Unchristian
portions of mankind is undergoing a marked alteration.
Truly the prophecy is now in course of fulfilment : " God
shall enlarge Japhet, (Europa,) and he shall dwell in the
tents of Sheen (Asia) and Canaan—Ham (Africa) shall be
his servant." [Gen. ix. 27.]

at the wonderful t

sition of England in, the .
—in the territories of Shem. Can we refuse the evid

before us, that great power has been bestowed on England
as a nation for some nobler purpose than merely to sell

buy tea anc

cepts could not have been intended for the-w.o
so many nations have been in ignorance of if

version of the What

arth, as it most undoubtedly do'

then it has only received as
.yet a very partial fulfilment.
This should, encourage us to persevere, until all may re-
joice with the prophet, who follows up his prediction with
such a remarkable aspiration, as that the " heavens shall
sing, and the earth be joyful, and the very mountains shall

break forth into singing,

Our Governmentt-appears ashamed of Christianity, as if
its principles were poison, and its professors demons. At
the treaty of Nankin we made less mention of our religion
than any heathens would have done ; we did not require
permission to erect a place of worship at the consular
ports, or even to form e Christian burial-around : thanks

to the French and Americans, these two points have since
been obtained. We do not appear to have given ourselves
the least trouble on the subject ; it is as well we did not : we
were far more solicitous about licensingopium smoking shops
at Hong Kong, than of building even a Protestant church
there. Even the circular to our consuls in China, from
Her Majesty's government in England, was hostile to
English missionaries at the consular ports !

THE PRESS IN ENGLAND, AND ON THE
CONTINENT.

One great re

on of the low

Jayment for contribl

is, of course, the limited sale of the Revue. At the time
when the Revue des deux iliondes had only one rival in
France, its circulation, we believe, never exceeded 3,000

time, there were five quarterlies, Frase;
&c., most of them counting ti

A the sam
31ackwood, Tait

eir subscribers by thousands,
in spite of a public limited to our island. The explana-
tion of this somewhat remarkable fact is, that in France,
Paris is only to be reckoned ; the provinces purchase
novels, and such books as produce " a sensation ;" but
the reviews are scarcely ever seen out of Paris.

In England, the reverse is the c

3rovincial

übscribers exceed the metropolitan. But if the French
.eviews are stinting in their payments to writers, what

Vierteljahrschrift was established, we remember a con-
tributor assuring us, with some pride, that it was very
liberal in its payments. This new magnificence was eight
dollars (four-and-twenty-shillings) a sheet ! Amazed,

made further inquiries; the result was, that eight dollars
really was a handsome honorarium
" Why," said a publisher to us,

" two dollars was the

The inauguration of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the
University of Cambridge, will take place on Thursday.
OXFORD, Mattel" 18.--In a congregation held this day,
the following degrees were conferred :—Masters of Arts—
Rev. Paul Bush, St. Mary Hall; Rev. Richard 8.. C.
Chermside, Exeter; Rev. John S. Wasey, Trinity.
Bachelors of Arts—Daniel Matthew Lempriere, Pem-
broke ; Benjamin Joseph Drury, Lincoln.
OXFORD, March 13.—1 n a Convocation holden on the
11th, the Rev. William Jephson, and the Rev. Robert
Evelyn Roy, Masters of Arts of Corpus Christi College,

Cambridge, were admitted ad eundern.
In a Congregation holden at the same time, the follow-
i ing d .oes we -,referred :—Masters of Arts—John
,10 Barr "onge, _ ; Rev. Frederic Temple, Fellow of
udy of the Balliol H. E. 1 Lambert, Balliol ; E. F. Perceval, Bra-

Tes Yonge, Exet,

sennose ; Rev Evan H. MacLachlan, Scholar of Pem
broke; Rev. W. C. Jowett, Magdalen Hall; Rev. Thos
-arcroft, • Rev. W. F. Stirling, Trinity

Queen's
Bachelor of Mu

--:Charles W. Corfe, Organsk of Christ

PROMOTIONS.—The Rev. Joseph Eaton, M.A., Minor
Canon of Chester, to the Vicarage of Eastham, Cheshire.
—The Rev. James Metcalfe, M.A., to the Incumbency
of West End Chapel, Fewstone, near Harrogate, York-
shire.—The Rev. John V. Lloyd, 8.A., Curate of Gres-
ford, Denbighshire, to the Perpetual Curacy of Llandeilo
Graban, near Builth, Radnorshire.

The Rev. N. Atkinson, B.A. of University College,
Durham, has been presented to the perpetual curacy of
Horton, Northumberland, by the Vicar of Woodhorn.
The Rev. J. L. L'ow, B.A. of University College, Dur-
ham, curate of St. Margaret's, has been appointed by the
rector of Middleton in Teesdale, on the recommendation
of the Lord Bishop of Durham, to the curacy of Forest
with Harwood,in the above parish.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has, with her accus-
tomed munificence in aid of every good work, been gra-
ciously pleased to convey through her almoner, a sub-
scription of £lO, towards the fund for the erection of a
parsonage house, to be attached to the incumbency of St.
George's, Chorley.
Various rumours, more or less authentic, of plans of
church extension, entertained by the ecclesiastical com-
mission, have lately been the subject of conversation in
circles understood to be well informed on such subjects.
The last rumour we have heard is that of a bill actually
for a new and very extensive interference with church
property.—Morninr Post.

FUSEYISM AT FALMOUTH

-The church of this place is
ldlestieks on the "altar."

which are usually covered with black lace, are covered
now with black crape, and the worthy clergyman who,
at other periods of the year, preaches in white kid gloves,
now preaches in black. These are the outward and visible
signs of humiliation in Lent.—Devonport 7'elegraph.
The valuable and important rectory of Houghton-le-
Spring, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Edward South
Thurlow, has been conferred, by the Bishop of Durham,
on the Hon. and Rev. John Grey, Rector of Wolsingham.
Mr. Grey, we hear, is likely to be succeeded at Wolsing-
ham by the Rev. ohn Alexander Blackett, M. A., Vicar
of Heddon-on-the-Wall. The Vicarage of Heddon-on-
the-Wall, vacant in such case, is in the gift of the Lard
Chancellor, which, it is expeeted, will be conferred on the
Hon. and Rev. Geo. Denman, son of Lord Denman, and
now resident at Bishop Auckland.
The Rev. W. Clarke, 8.D., Incumbent of St. John's the
Less, has been appointed, by the Lord Bishop of the Dio-

CC6C, 0-ulluay .nvening Lecturer rutcr
Chester, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Robert
Yarker, M.A., on his accepting the vicarage of Neston.
By the appointment of Mr. Yarker, the parishes of St.
Michael and St. Olave become united, the Rector being
the Rev. J. Eaton, M.A., F.R.S., Precentor of the Ca-
thedral. The number of Minor Canons by Mr. Yarker's
removal is reduced to four, as required by the Act for

regulating Cathedrals, so that no successor to the Rev

.eman is neec

Led in t

hat office

FATAL EFFECTS OF ETHER

A case of considerable importance, as affecting the
practice lately introduced into the medical world of sub-
jecting persons about to be operated upon to the influence
of ether, by causing them to inhale its vapour in order to
render them insensible to pain, has just occurred at Spit-
tlegate, in the parish of Grantham, in the county of
Lincoln, in which death has resulted from that mode of
treatment. It appears that a respectable woman of the
name of Ann Parkinson, aged 21 years, the wife of a
hairdresser at Spittlegate, who had been married eighteen
months, and had a child nine months old, had been af-
flicted with a tumour on the under part of her left thigh
for about twelve months, which had gradually increased
in size. until from its situation it became a perpetual tor-

ment to her, as she was unable either to sit down or lie
in bed with any degree of comfort. Under these cir-
cnmstances, having read of the many successful cases of
operations performed without pain under the influence of
the vapour of ether, she expressed a wish to her medical
attendant, Mr. Robbs, of Grantham, to have ether ap-
plied and the tumour

moved. To this, after consultit;g
other medical men, he consented ; and on Tuesday, the
9th inst., at 1 o'clock, she was subjected to the influence
of the ether, and the operation was performed by Mr.
Robbs in the presence of three other medical men. ,Un-
fortunately, however, the poor woman never rallied; but
remained in a state of complete prostration until 5 o'clock
on Thursday morning, when she died without the slight-
est re-action having taken place subsequent to the opera-
tion. An inquest was held upon the body, and from the
evidence adduced, it appeared that the operation was per-
formed in a proper and scientific manner. She was a very
delicate woman ; and the ether appeared to have produced
great excitement upon her. The verdict was—" That the

vapour of ether, inhaled by her for the purpose of allevi-
ating pain dnring the removal of a tumour from her left
thigh, and not from the effect of the operation, or from
any other cause."