The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-24 00:00:00

SUGGESTED PUBLIC MEETING

Having now shown the superiority of Liverpool over
Southampton as the home station of the West India mail
fleet, not only as regards the transmission of correspondence,
and the transit of passengers, to and from the populous ma-
nufacturing districts in the north of England, and in Scot-
land, as well as with Ireland, with which it is in daily and
rapid communication, but as respects its capabilities and ac-
commodations on a large scale, for all the purposes of steam
navigation, combined with the advantages (should that be
required) of a suitable port of call,—having, we think, es-
tablished those points beyond dispute in the minds of all truly
disinterested, commercial, and nautical men who have given
their attentio►► to the subject, it only remains for us to throw
out the suggestion promised at the close of our last remarks,
with a view to induce the government to re-consider and
amend the decision to which they have, we apprehend, pre-
maturely arrived, in selecting Southampton as the exclusive
port:. . . . .

What we propose is, that public meetings of the merchants,
traders, and other inhabitants of the towns of Liverpool and
Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Glasgow, Dublin, Cork, &c.,
should be held, respectively, or by deputation, at one or more
of them, to consider and adopt the best means of placing the
claims of Liverpool (to which the others arc decidedly favour-
able), before parliament, at an early period of the approaching
session. Evidence of a much stronger nature than that ad-
duced before the committee might be brought forward at such
meeting or meetings, which it would be scarcely possible—
taking all the relative advantages of this port into account—
for any government, looking to the general good and the
effective and economical working of the mails, to resist. All
we desire is a common measure of justice, and if, after a
full, fair, and practical investigation of the question in all its
bearings, we fail, conjointly, to make'out a case entitling us
to a preference, we shall be contented to forego the point at
issue, and leave, if for a national good, a comparatively small
port to the enjoyment of all the advantages it may derive
from its being the home station of these ships.
We could furnish much additional " practical" evidence
in behalf of Liverpool, but shall refrain from further discus-
sion of the subject until the question is again generally
mooted, or brought before parliament.

LITERARY NOTICE.

The National Church of England : Ancient ; Apostolic

The above is the title of a sermon preached by the Rev.
Robert Eden, minister of St. Mary's Chapel, Lambeth, for
the Winchester Diocesan Church Building Society, and we
are happy to say that the discourse very ably maintains the
thesis withont any admixture of those exclusive or bigotted
theories which so strikingly characterise that school of
churchmanship lately set up, or revived by the Rev. Doctor
Pusey, and his associates. We have read the publication
with much pleasure ; the views put forth are moderate, sen-
sible, seasonable, and judicious; and we hail all those who
advocate them as the truest friends, not only to our most
holy church, but to the church of England, as, perhaps, its
very best expounder and teacher. We recommend this ser-
mon to those who would wash to examine our ecclesiastical
constitution by the light of scripture, and to reconcile a de-
cided preference for its polity, with a tolerant and charitable
consideration for other forms, and °that Christian communi-
ties, not of our kindred.