The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

THE BRIBERY DEPARTMENT!

Thursday morning.
The overland mail is in, and that stupid Elliot has apset
all. Don't tnention tnyforeign policy if you can avoid it ;
but what the deuce else can you mention, that will help me
We've blown up the Bogue Forts, you will see, and Aueklaud
has furnished us a flaming despatch from the " swat" de-
partment ; but it won't go down. Confusion upon that
China! "Tea and sugar" has upset our administration.
We arc in perfect desperation !

Yours, &a

THE SAME TO TIE SAME

Downing-street, Saturday morning.
MY DEAR KNIGPITt—We've tried everything, and vet
we're beat after all upon that unlucky motion of the baronet's.
Her Majesty's ball on Thursday night we thought would have
saved us this crowning blow. What's to be done ? We am:l
pass the bribery prevention bill before we dissolve ; Peel won't
let us Bhirk that : and what is to become of all our plans for
propping up our strength in the new parliament, I can't tell.
011—if some lucky " Rathcormac affair" would tura up !
But those confounded vagabonds of Dan O'Connell's think
of nothing now but shooting landlords ; and that kind of
pastime of theirs don't help us a bit. We've lost his high-
ness of Hanover too; un was a capital osrd for electioneering
with, and we daren't try the " Oxford" business again. That
pretty " starling" of ours is comfortable enough in Bedlam,
and may sing for lifetime his " can't get out," as plaintively
as Sterne's bird ; but he'll scarcely find another ready to
purchase " meat, drink, washing and lodging" at the SAW
price. It's " all up" I'm afraid !

I can't tell you yet what Lord John will ratolve nylon.
lie's taken time to think about it till Monday. In the nivaa-
time, bon-ever, look about you. The dissolution will come
like a thunder-clap. Eivons.ious LYIN6 awn a sooratse
is our last chance. Oh that confounded Charley Elliot and
his Chinese jumble !

Year dervaisin

LITER:I Rl' NOTICES.

On the Duty of Civil Rulers to provide Religious Insiruc-

3n, preached at St. Aug

•ch, Liverpool, at the request of the Young
iblished Church Society. By Tilos. BYRTH,
—With a Letter to

of Wallasel:

?cr. Dr. Byrth, containing Observations on a Lecture
i delivered in this town by the Rev. James Harper,
t of the Liverpool Voluntary Church
y. TATTERSHALL, D.D., Minister
erton, and law Fellow of Queen's

4ssociat

By Tx(

Liverpool : Perris. pp. 72.
ivil Magistrates in relation to the Support
he Rev. DAVID YOUNG,
Jas. Harper

Lecturt
.—With a

Here we have t

disting

)Iy by the Rev

Dr. Talley

all. Liverpool

'cry different publications indeed

:onnected in subject, we include them in one
severally illustrate the spirit and temper which

church and its dissenting enemies

Berth's lecture is ar

careful reas

ble production, marked by very

me interesting quotations from the
We only wish that the rev.

of note

splay as unyielding a front to

'ery sort as he here does to the

The letter of the Rev. Dr. Tattershall ex-

of arrangement and precision of view
divine is known. He handles Mr.

a a harpoon. It is almost pitiable to see the
exposure which the unscholarlike blundering of this cham-
pion of independency has brought on him. Every tyro in

as wit

logic is aware tha

hypothetic syllogisms we argue from

the position of the antecedent to that of the consequent, and
from the remotion of the consequent to that of the antece-
dent; but not vice versa. Poor Mr. Harper, however, in
the face of this principle, of which he appeared to be per-
fectly ignorant, thus concludes from our Lord's words:—

J .
' If my kingdom were of this world, then would my ser-

♦ants fight

But my kingdom is not of this world

" Therefore m

•cants must not fight,"—i.e., as he

enforce just claims by legal prdeess

)n of the antecedent to that of, the

something of blasphemy, attri-

her, w

ows that our Lord's argument, in fact,

If my kingdom were of this world, then would my ser-

ants fig

my servants do not fight

s my kingdom not from hence." Correctly
the remotion of the consequent to that of
ndly pointed out the blunder to

concluding from

ent. Having

the Rev. Harper, what, reader, do you think this musical
instead of gratefully thanking the
learned divine who corrected him, he sticks to his point,
n the correctness of his method of reasoning.