The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

THE MAYOR AND THE RADICAL PAPERS

Our contemporaries, the Mercury and Albion, are in
extacies over a supposed error of ours upon the subject
the Mayor, and the alleged heaps of tickets which had
been returned and were lying upon the Mayer's table.
We stated that such a thing could not be, as " the invi-
tations were not at the time issued. The Mercury,
however, retorts, that they were sent out on the 4th and
sth of July ; and the Albion alleges that they were for-
warded ten days before our remarks were written, which
would be on the 4th.

We propose to convince the public tha‘both these great
authorities are in the wrong, and that our statement is
substantially correct. On the 10th of July, (Friday week,)
the Mercury stated that on the day previous (the 9th)
the Committee met to decide upon a selection of persons
to be invited, and that at this meeting the alleged rumpus
took place. How on earth could this Committee meet to
determine who were to be invited if the tickets had gone
out five days previous, according to both his own and the
Albion's statement? We never meant to assert that none
of the invitations were issued.

Our meaning obviously was confined to the invitations
to those parties whose claims the committee had met to
decide upon, and who were said to have taken the conduct
of the mayor in such high dudgeon. This is clear from
the fact that we expressly stated that " Mr. Rathbone
was reminded that many members of the Roman Catholic
Church were already invited, including Mr. Weld, Mr.
Blundell, Mr. Chaloner, and others." The members of
the corporation, the borough and county magistrates, and
a number of the neighbouring nobility and gentry, who
could not be passed over, had indeed had early invita-
tions; and that any of these were likely to he heaped on
the Mayor's table at the time the Mercury was penning
his assertion of the fact (en Thursday the 9th) on ac-
count of a circumstance which took !mice in a private
committee on that day is very improbable, to say the
least of it.

Substantially, therefore, our statement, although capa-
ble of affording a subject of cavil to some people, was
quite correct ; and the assertions of our contemporaries
are as obviously incorrect.

Lord and Lady Stanley arrived in town, on Saturday,
from Knowsley, Lancashire. Lord George Bentinek
went to town by the same train ; his lordship was among
the guests at Knowsley.

Mr. Moore, the active agent at Liverpool of the Lon-
donderry steamers, arrived yesterday from an inspection
of the Maiden City steamer, and he reports that the da-
mage sustained from the steamer's:being on shore at the
Mull of Galloway is not so serious as was at first antici-
pated. He fully expects that she will be got off next tide,
and that she will resume her place on the station in a few
days. In the meantime the Coleraine and Falcon steam-
ers have been chartered to supply her place.
DEATH OF CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.—This firm and
uncompromising champion of the truth breathed her last
at Ramsgate in Kent on Sunday the 12th inst. She had
been for two years afflicted with a distressing and painful
disease, but was able to continue her labours until within
a few days of her death. It pleased God to remove her
at last without lain or suffering: she gradually sank un-
der a total exhaustion of the powers, although able within
ten minutes of her death to speak with confidence of the
hope that was in her. She was perfectly aware of her
approaching end, and after speaking to those around her,
she peaceably closed her eyes at twenty minutes before two
in the afternoon, and resigned her spirit into the hands of
her Saviour. Few have closed a life spent more ardently
in the service of God, and in promoting the welfare of
their fellow-creatures. It may truly be said, " her works
do follow her." On Wednesday, the 15th, she was in-
terred in Ramsgate churchyard, being followed to the
grave by, a large concourse of people anxious to shew re-
spect to her memory. The Rev. Henry Beamish, who
for many years enjoyed the friendship of the deceased,
read the service over her.

THE LATE REV. R. P. Bunntcom.—On Sunday
week two sermons were preached in the parish church of
St. Bees, on the occasion of the lamented death of the
Rev. R. '. Buddicom, A.M., late Incumbent of St. Bees,
and Principal of the College there. The Rev. C. W.
Woodhouse, A.M., Theological Lecturer, preached in the
morning, from Heb. xi. 16; and in the afternoon the
Rev. J. Hughes, A. 8., Incumbent of Congleton, from
Rev. xiv, 13. All the studenis in residence, and a con-
siderable number of the inhabitants of the parish, ap-
peared in mourning, as a tribute of respect to the memory
of their lamented Principal and Pastor. On Sunday last
Ihe Rev. J. Jones, Incumbent of St. Andrew's, improved
the melancholy occurrence, by preaching a most affecting
and impressive sermon at St. George's Church, Everton
(so long the scene of Mr. Baddicom's christian exertions),
in the morning; and in the evening, at his own church in
Renshaw-street. Mr. Jones took for his text the very
appropriate passage, occurring at the ]9th, 20th, and 21st
verses, of the 20th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles,
" Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with
many tears an.l temptations which befel me, by the lying
in wait for the Jews : and how I kept back nothing that
was profitable unto you, but have showed you and have
taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying
both to the Jews and also to the Greeks repentance
toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ."
We believe Mr. Jones was selected to deliver the discourse
from his long intimacy with the lamented deceased, they
having been fellow-labourers, we believe, in the Christian
field for almost the same period. In the course of the
sermon Mr. Jones read a most beautiful letter of con-
dolence, written ny Mr. Buddicom (the last act of his
life), to Mrs. Horsfall, on the death of her late most excel-
lent husband, who was Mr. Buddicom's bosom friend
from early life, and who was removed from this world
only a very short period before him.