The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

The letter of " A Protestant OR

The salary of the First

ye and

ative" is argumentat
'enders it more suitable for a

.d of the Admiralty is

0 a year,

tu. nu °mem resinence, ana Zoe patronage is very extensive.
It is said that Sir James Graham declined the post because
his views with reference to the subordinate appointments
were not altogether coincided in by Lord John Russell ; but,
probably the right hon. baronet consulted with Sir Robert
Peel, who, no doubt, foresees, as do nine-tenths of the public,
+h.+ Anare 'IP r.

We in ad

1 and Ireland is now estimated
ibout 17,500,000 of the number

famed ha

place for him to

x last publication that Julien's
recent hospitable and splendid

Gerrard

y high praise to any otheif
ie them as Julien's ; but wi

from I

y statin

idolatry;
Baalism

ar gptanbarb.

23, 1849

erceive that

the chi

!ent dis

by the maii;l

the Mail, is so far recovered
mfiture. that he ventures again

charge against the

that he calls Romanism

it is to Christianity

laism, and the images

ruly worshi

seu in
)ed as

eathen used. It vas not
ly, that the classical idola-
-110. or Venus represented

liot the stone image finally,
an idolater worshipped, but Dagon,
ented by the image. It is not the
r of stone, or marble, or gold, or
V, that the Romanist idolater wor-
_ Anthony, or Bridget, or Al-
.
phonso, represented by the image. If idolatry can
be truly pronounced against the one, so it may
the other; but inspired writers pronounce
it against the one, and this is Dr. M'Neile's argu-
for pronouncing it against the other.
The Mail resents this; not, of course, in defence
of Popery : that would be unseemly, and bring an
evil report on Tractarianism ; but urging what the
lawyers call a plea in mitigation for poor maligned
Papists.
But what has

or Ba

silver, or iv
ships, but

British people. 'We have access at present on:y to
the expenditure in our own county; and this is
very imperfectly shewn, many items being, from
year to year, altogether omitted. The total amount
however, exclusive of the sums omitted, appears to
have been, in the year 1848, no less than £179,887
17s. 10d. But we must trace it back, so far as our
means permit us, in order to spew the steps by
which it has arrived at this amount. In 1824,
from which the tabular statement before us com-
mences, the total expenditure of the justices for the
county of Lancaster was £80,873 15s. O.Td.; in

, after having increased in all the intertnedia

, it is put down at
108 6s. 42d.

it was £7B

age of the previous five
by year from this poi

_
and pen
£121,39

£1 79,8

124,295; 1842,
713 ; 1834, £112,930; 1845,
2; 1847, £125,885; 1848,

1840, £90,440

t, °mitt'

in 1834,

g the shillings

; 1843, £l2

-Sll 1 ,C

In the sixteen years, commencing with 1824, there
was no increase, the annual average being £83,421 ;
and the expenditure of the later portion of the
period was actually less than in the first four or
In the following year we find for the

live years

ire under the head

of " Constabulary Police," amounting to £6148.
11 this item was £35,065; it was a little less
in amount for a few succeeding. years : in 1 R 45 if.

began t

;b increase until in the year just passed we
A,..i••••• _C A n ace

rma it put clown at £42,666, or more than one-half
of the annual average of the rates of the sixteen

years commencin

g in 18

In part, therefore, we may attribute the ad-
vance which has taken place in our county expen-
diture to the cost of our rural police, who certainly
do not appear to have done much for the money
at all -1"

against

Mary, a

tions,

1847. 1848.
Preston House of Correction £4,895 £15,386
Kirkdale ditto 8,745 23,401
Lancaster Lunatic Asylum 20,524 25,632
Constabulary Force 34,390 42,666
making an aggregate increase in these four items
, alone of £38,531. There is not, we venture to say,
-.come of the Mail's Anglican or- a single individual in the county, except perhaps
thodoxy ? Where is his professed subjection to
the magisterial caucus by whom these things are
the rubricks, articles, and homilies of our national managed, and we question whether they them-
Church ? Does he forget the rubrick which says,— selves have any distinct notions on the subject—
"adoration of the sacramental bread and wine who can account satisfactorily for this addition in
1848, of upwards of one-fourth of the expenditure
would he idolatry to be adhorred of all faithful
Christians ?" Does he forget the article which of 1847, which was itself nearly £ll,OOO more than
y pronounces masses to be blasphemous fables and that of the ear preceding.
dangerous deceits ? Does he forget that one of As an instance how severely the county rate
presses upon the resources of the community, we
our homilies speaketh on this wise ?
"It is impossible that images of God, Christ, or His present to our readers a copy of a document, pre-
saints can be suffered ( specially in temples and churches) seated to the Newton meeting by Mr. Cleaver and
any while or space, without worshipping of them ; and deputation from the West Derby Union. We may
that idolatry, which is most abominable before God, can- explain that it relates only to the position of the out
not possibly be escaped and avoided, without the abolish- townships, those portions of West Derby and ing and destruction of images and pictures in temples and
Tox-
churches, for that idolatry is to images, specially in tem-
teth which are included within the Borough of
ples and churches, an inseparable accident, (as they term Liverpool, and the whole of the townships of Ever-
it,) so that images in churches and idolatry go always both ton and Kirkdale, which are within the borough,
together, and that therefore the one cannot be avoided, being omitted, as not contributing to the county
except the - -
stroyed. Wherefore to make images and publicly to set
them up in temples and churches, places appointed pecu

of religion, and not only against this precept,—"Thou
shalt make no manner of image," but against this also,—
Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them."
For they being set up, have been, be, and ever will be
worshipped. And the full proof of that which in the be-
ginning of the first part of this treatise was touched, is
here to be made and performed, to wit, that our images
^f the Gentiles be all one, as well in the thinrs

again

into our

also in that our images have been before,
will be worshipped, in like form and
As of the Gentiles were worshipped, so
Tered in churches and temples. Where-
'lint our images in churches have been,
') he none other but abominable idols, and

arned and

simple only, but the learned

only, but the bishops ; not the
s themselves, being blinded by
, as blind guides of the blind, fell
'able idolatry. In the which all
awned, continued until our age,
[red years. So that the laity and
rued, all az

, sects, and degrees
ldren, of whole Christendom, have
,ble idolatry, of all other
most damnable to man,
pace of eight hundred years and more."

,rise us to find the Mail using
t against this, and saying that
fell into idolatry, then the
failed, which is contrary
c that the gates of hell

Does the Mail, the
? What! the An-

e true authoritative exposition of
the golden mean between Popery
A 7... TT •7 . . .

IVeile speaks trul

ctor is co:

events in diminishing the ccst of prosecu-
, although their number has decreased. There
ire, however, a few items which have contributed
to produce the extraordinary increase during the
past year, which require a little explanation. They
are as follows :

r own

Townsl,i

amount re•

y. If t'ie Homily
klas! our contem-

e studied

Aintree
Allerton

Crosby, Great.
Crosby, Little
Fazackerly

filar influent

Yet we have been

Carsten
Ince Blundell

Kirkby

maininv, foi
amount of Amount of the relief o
calls. 'county rate. the poor ark
all other ex.

NS 8 8 122 3
337 18 2 207 10 7

£ S. d.
26 4 11
130 7 7

it herian

I and

Netherton
Orrell and Ford
Sephton
Thornton

143 16 8, 109 9 8 34
728 4 31 480 19 3 247
280 7 8i 137 7 8 143
554 8 6' 269 8 2 235
1044 19 2 648 011 396
459 17 2 252 7 3 207
637 1 4 333 17 101 333
504 17 6 348 17 41 156

.ch rich

119 18 10,
95 17

199 6 01
141 68; . 5i 45 9 3
214 9 6 141 13 01 72 16 6
120 11 0 97 15 0; 22 16 6
1181 17 6 578 1 10, 603 13 8
1358 11 1 857 13 4, 500 17 9

e, it has entirely cea

Walton. on-the-Hill

Wavertree,

5439 0 11

nty in

Thus, out of calls upon the rate-payers amount-
ing to £8,956 17s. 6d., four-sevenths of the whole,
or £5,439 Os. 11d. were absorbed for county rate,,
only £3,517 16s. Bd. remaining for the relief of the
d other purposes. Surely this is a state of
gs which demands the earnest attention of the
community. We shall return to the subject.

poor, a

IF we were called upon to state what are the
objects, towards which the energies of our ultra-
free traders are now being directed, we should un-
!iesitatingly say that these were the alienation of
England's colonies, the destruction of her commer-
cial marine, the surrender of her naval supremacy,
and ultimately, and inevitably following the
achievement of these objects, the fall of this once
mighty British empire into the position of a third-
rate power, if we did not fall even lower, and
become the scourged, insulted, and plundered
serfs of the other nations of the world. Every
step taken, every measure announced, and every
fresh agitation commenced by this party, point
directly to these results ; and the practical oneness
of action, hidden beneath apparent differences of
opinion and degree, with which they are pressed
forward, is most striking. The extreme free trader
and enemy of the greatness of England boldly
knocks at the doors of the admiralty, with the
miserably incompetent Chancellor of the Exchequer
squeezed, as if in a vice, under his nervous arm;
and boldly demands the surrender of upwards of
one-third of the effective strength of the navy,
whilst he proposes to abandon our colonial empire,
unprotected, to whatever fate may befal it. Another
and a more timid, but not less dangerous, section
of the party, make their advances towards the same
end, in more Jesuit fashion. Our mere Whigs
would only strike, at present, at the existence of
our mercantile marine, the nursery of our navy,
and the source of our maritime supremacy. These
men would only carry out in the case of our ship-
ping interest the principle of free trade, which they
say has not fully answered their expectations,
because it has not been applied to the whole of the
Their argument, addressed to a
under the effects of a partial appli-
stem, is, in the language of the

community.

nation reetin,t

on of the

" Your wound is great, because it is so small

forgetting the reductio ad absurdum,

" Then 'twonld be greater were it none at all !"
From this party we fully expect, during the ap-
proaching session of parliament, a repetition of
last year's onslaught against our existing navigation
laws; and against the specious arguments and
fallacious statistics, with which this onslaught will
be backed, we wish to put our readers, and the
ship-owning interest, on their guard.
It was one of the boldest assertions of the free
traders, when urging us to a repeal of the corn
laws, and the relaxation of the protection afforded
to other -hev ,d

aranc, .8 of ne national industry, that
other countries would be impelled, both by interest
nnti

If we had ever entertained any expectation of the
kind, we should certainly have been doomed to
very severe disappointment. Not a nation in the
world has made the slightest -relaxation in our
favour, or appears disposed to do so. On the con-
trary, we see our manufacturing rivals, even those
from whom we have drawn our chief supplies of
bread-stuffs, hedging round more closely their own
industry against foreign competition, and obviously
looking forward to the day, when they will be able
to dispense with our products altogether. Should
we be told then, by the advocates of a repeal of the
navigation laws, that other nations will imitate our
liberality, we hive the disappointment of previous
assurances of the sort to point to as our reply.
With respect to our navigation laws themselves, too,
we have already made large concessions; and we
know in what a niggardly and tricky spirit they
have been met by foreign governments.

A few striking- instances of the injurious position
in which our shipping is placed by the foreigner,
as compared with the fostering care which he be-
stows upon his own, we extract from one of a series
of very able letters, which have recently been ad-
dressed by Mr. W. S. Lindsay, a gentleman largely
interested in shipping, to Lord John Russell. We
take first, the following :
. .

" Some time since I paid a visit to the city of Glasgow,
and my attention was directed, to two vessels advertised
as loading for Manilla. They lay contiguous to each other
—one was a Spanish, the other was a British ship. The
latter was in every respect the finer vessel, and on inquiry
I found that the owners offered to take goods by her at
from 15s. to 255. per ton freight, She had, however, very
few on board, whilst the Spanish ship was loading bales,
boxes, and every description of merchandise as fast as it
could be stowed away in her hold, and to my great sur-