The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

"Observer" is requested to give his came privately, as a vouch-
er fur the statement he has forwarded for insertion.
We have received the Dublin —university Magazine fur this
month, and regret that our limits will not permit us to review
it this week. On Tuesday it shall be noticed at length.

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FIUDAV HORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 183 G,

We have received the Paris papers of Monday inclu-
sive, but their contents do not add materially to the
information we furnished on Tuesday on continental
affairs generally.

The La Pair states that on Saturday forenoon another de-
spatch was sent off to Marshal Molitor at Compeigne, at the
camp of which he had, only a few days previously, tendered to
the prince royal a respectful but decided refusal of acceptance
of the porte fettil:e. There must be something " rotten in the
state" of la jeune France when the post of honor is thus refused
by its most chivalrous soldiers. Well, nous verrons /a suite, as
Napoleon said at Marengo. In truth the greatest object of a
French soldier's ambition is now going " a begging ;" for such
is literally the case. In other times the hands of ten thousand
Frenchmen would have been held up; as it is the ministry is still
incomplete. Even General Guillemmot had left for Compeigne
after, with General Delort, tendering a formal refusal; and, as
the marshal had been again sent to, it is supposed that Bernard
bad declined also. M. Lalam Mobaing had been appointed
ambassador to Madrid, a successor not yet being fixed upon for
Belgium. M. Martim de Nord had been attacked with enterites,
(an inflammatory affection of the intestines,) which it was even
fearful might prove fatal, and he was only accessible to the
Count Mole and his physicians. The whole of the journals
nearly are occupied in discussing the merits of the quadruple
treaty, and especially the question—'• Had France acted as an
honourable party thereto ?" On this discussion we found our
leading article of this day. No news of the events at Lisbon
appears to have reached Paris.
The latest intelligence from Madrid is to the 11th. The
vague rumours gave out that the Spanish ministry had been
formed, composed of Calatrava, Mendizabal, Lopez, Olozaza,
De la Cuadra, and General Hodil. The emigration from the
capital was most extensive.

We must not permit the recent proceedings of our liberal
Town-council to pass without remark, or we shall incur the
censure of a certain contemporary print, for delaying our anim-
adversions until the interest of the public in the subjects agi-
tated at the Town-hall has subsided. We enter the more cheer-
' fully upon the task of reviewing the extraordinary measures of
our muntcipal representatives from the consciousness that the
election is approaching, when these malignant advocates of the
voluntary principle trill have to appeal to the suffrages of their
constituents, from whom, we have no doubt, they will receive
that indignant negative which their tyrannous and irrational
conduct so richly deserves. But, considering all things—re-
flecting upon the just indignation, the absolute disgust, which
their proceedings have excited—viewing the silent but triumph-
ant prOgress of the reaction which is taking place in the town—
and calling to mind the many unfulfilled pledges, upon the
faith of which they obtained admission into the Council-cham-
ber—we really feel lather sceptical as to their courage, or, we
should say, their temerity, iu appearing again before the elec-
tors, to claim a renewal of their confidence. There is no
knowing, however, to what mad extremes the infatuated beings
may be driven, in their morbid craving after popularity. If
they should venture to propose themselves as candidates for the
future, we can promise them one thing—they shall obtain
notoriety enough to satisfy their most ardent longings; but it
shall be the notoriety of men receiving, iu the unenviable ele-
vation of the pillory, the merited execrations of their indignant
townsmen, whose opinions they have despised, whose persons
they have insulted, and whose rights they have outrageously
violated.

It appears that the Bye-Law Committee have framed certain
measures for the suppression of all nuisances in the town. We
shall be curious to know what these bye-laws are ; and we pro-
mise our readers, that, if they bear any resemblance to the
stolid instructions furnished, some time ago, to the police, we
shall have great pleasure in affording the wiseacres who may
have concocted them the benefit of our criticism. Of one thing,
however, we shall be greatly surprised : we shall feel asto-
nished if the churches are not enumerated among the most
conspicuous of our local nuisances. The actions of the town
council, ever since their accession to office, have indicated this
persuasion. In the first place we find them endeavouring to set
aside the act for the endowment of the clergy ; and, being foiled
in this their primary attempt against the establishment, we next
find them engaged in the laudable enterprize of superseding the
ministers of the established church in the management of the
corporation schools, for the purpose of making these institutions
nurseries of popery and socioianism. Here, again, they were
miserably disappointed. The sympathy of a christian public
with their accredited ministers frustrated theirnelarious designs.
This did not tend to diminish their rancorous hatred towards

thechurch, but rather to increase it. They have been, however, at
a loss for some time how to gratify the malignant antipathy which
they entertain against protestantisin. Th ey have been, for a
long time, prowling about for fresh victims. Their attack upon
the clergy has proved innocuous; their vindictive proceedings
in reference to the schools have been laughed to scorn ; their
violent, rhapsodical, and Quixotic tirades against the Bible have
only-served to cover them with confusion; then what are they to
do to signalise their attachment to the voluntary principle, and
their unmitigated hostility to the church of England? Whom
do they next pounce upon as the victims of their unconquerable
propensity for spoliation ? Against whom do they now carry
on their destructive warfare? Listen, gentle reader, and we will

inform you of the formidable antagonists against whom the re-
doubtable heroes of the council chamber have, at length, taken
the field. They are—not the bishops, the deans, the rectors,
the vicars, or other dignitaries of the church; no, but the organ-
blowers, the sextons, the old women who open the pews, the
organs, and the music books ! But we must be serious. Our
councillors will soon have to render a very serious account of
their doings; and our townsmen will also handle their preten-
sions with seriousness at no distant period.
Passing by the elegant phraseology of Mr. Thomas Bolton,
in which he characterises the clergy as "certain functionaries,"
whose exclusive privileges he bowed to, only because the law
rendered obligatory his acquiescence, we come at once to his
undisguised attack upon the church, upon which hateful object
he poured forth his concentrated venom. Ile makes it spear
that all the payments which have been made from the year 1552
to the different subordinate officers attached to our churches
have been illegal. Think of that, people of Liverpool ! Your
former corporate authorities, in defraying the expenses of your
clerks, sextons, organists, &c., have been guilty of ti serious in-
fringement of the law. What law ? Nay, we cannot tell.
It is quite consistent in Mr. Bolton, whose religious tenets
consist in a bastard kind of philosophy, divested of every super-
natural sanction, and stripped of every scriptural attribute—to
view the question of attendance upon public worship as a

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"mercantile question " But we are convinced that the en_
lightened protestant community of our good old town will view
the subject under a totally different aspect. They consider the
service of God in the temples of christian worship as an act of
religious solemnity. They learn with disgust that this gentle-
man has flippantly treated the matter as a mere question of pro-
fit and loss. They take their bibles, and not their ledgers, as
their guides in reference to the absorbing topic of religion. In
comparing' the expenditure incurred in providing church ac-
commodation for the inhabitants of Liverpool, with the receipts
derived froM the different churches, the people of Liverpool take
,into consideration the laryz praisioriMade fur. the attendance qf