The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-23 00:00:00

VARIETIES.

REPEAL REDUCED TO ITS LAST PENNY.—The price
of admission to Conciliation Hall is now one penny. The
car boys in Dublin call it "TheO'Connell Peni-teutiary."
—Punch.

A physician stopped at the shop of a country apothe-
cary, and inquired for a pharmacopoeia. " Sir, said the
apothecary, " I know of no such farmer living about these
parts."

How calm and unpretending is everything in God's
visible world ! no noise ! no pretension ! You never hear
a rose growing, or a tulip shooting forth its gorgeous
streaks. The soul increases in beauty as its life resem-
bles the flowers. Addison said that our time is most
profitably employed in doings that make no figure in the
world.

In a lecture at Gloucester, Mr. G. Dawson said of
Cromwell's Ironsides: " With the Bible in the girdle
with the sword, they first read from the book and then
laid on with the weapon. And, however much he and
his hearers might think the Bible and the sword incon-
gruous, he hated the excessively detestable peace fanati-
cism of the day, which undervalued and cried down the
unconquerable valour and sterling piety of our fighting
forefathers."

THE JEWS.—At the meeting of the Evangelical Alliance
at Glasgow, last week, the Rev. Ridley H. Herschel' said,
" The position of the Jews throughout Europe was differ-
ent now from what it was fifteen or twenty years ago. A
vast change had taken place in their character and condi-
tion. They now studied general literature, which was not
then the case. Throughout all Germany, extending even
into Russia, a movement has taken place among them, so
that. there is no country throughout Europe (except Eng-
land) that has not one or more Jews in high office. In
Germany, also, the newspapers are generally under their
control. In their religious movements they are also
undergoing a striking change. They have got quite a
new idea in the minds of many of their leading men ; it
is this—that Judaism and Christianity should never have
been pieced in antagon'sm to each other. Now this is a
very remarkable thing, though arising in an infidel feeling—
that religion is a philosophy for an age. But still there is
an extraordinary mysterious desire for union."
THE WORKS AT THE BRITANNIA Tune BRIDGE.—
The locality selected for the formation of the tubes having
been cleared, a substantial platform, composed of balks
of timber covered with planks, was very quickly laid down.
In the rear of this immense wooden stage, which extended
along the shore no less than half a mile, covering about
three acres and a half, there were erected three large
workshops, containing forges and machinery of various
descriptions, for belabouring, punching, and cutting plate
iron. There were likewise constructed five wharves, with
cranes for landing materials, as also six steam-engines for
constant work. The number of men to be employed was
—on iron-work, about 700 ; at stone work, for the towers,
800; total, 1,500. Temporary shanties or wooden cot-
tages, whitewashed on the outside, like mushrooms, sud-
denly appeared in the green fields and woods immediately
adjoining; besides which accommodation was provided for a
school-room, schoolmaster, clergyman, and, in case of ac-
cidents, a medical man, the whole being agreeably mixed
up with a proportion of wives, sweethearts, and children,
sufficient for cooking, washing, sewing, squalling, &c.
Nevertheless, notwithstanding these alluring domestic
arrangements, many sturdy and independent workmen
preferred sleeping in villages four or five miles further off,
to and from which they walked every morning and night,
in addition to their daily work ; the remainder gipsving in
the encampment in various ways, of which the following
is a sample :—An Irish labourer, known only by the name
of " Jemmy," bought for himself a small clinker-built.
room. As " lodgings," however, soon rose in price. and
he had not time to keep a pig, he resolved to be satisfied
henceforwards with half his tiny den, and he accordingly
let the remainder to a much stronger fellow-countryman,
who, being still less particular, let half of his halt to a
very broad-shouldered relation, until, like other Irish
landlords we could name, poor " Jemmy" found it not
only very difficult to collect, but dangerous even modestly
to ask for, " his rint !" and thus, in a short time, in con-
sequence of similar " pressure from without," almost
every chamber was made to contain four beds, in each of
which slept four labourers. As soon as the preliminary
wharves, platforms, shanties, and workshops were com-
pleted, there instantly commenced a busy scene, strangely
contrasted with the silence, tranquillity, and peaceful soli-
tude that had previously characterised the spot.—Quay.
terly Reuietc.
ENGLAND'S PATRONAGE OF ROMANISNI.—The fact of
endowing Romanism in the colonies ; the fact of appoint-
ing Roman Catholic chaplains to gaols and workhouses in
Ireland ; the fact of the city companies in London, who
hold estates in Ireland, giving grants of land for the build-
ing of Roman Catholic chapels: the fact that Irish land-
lords have done the same ;—none of these touch the prin-
ciple. None of them reach the conscientious scruples.
None of them interfere with the fact, that England as a
nation is teaching and paying them to do what God has
forbidden any man to do—viz., bow down to images, and
commit small thefts. And if the question be retorted,
and we be asked, as practical men, what should be done
under such circumstances I think the answer is a re-
ference, in the first place, to what should have been done
from the beginning. Were we mistaken when we thought
that the mission of England was to extend over the world
a pure and reformed church ? Were we mistaken when
we thought that England, blessed with a reformed religion,
and, in the providence of God, made the mistress of so
many colonies, should have made an effort to introduce
that religion among all the people over whom she acquired
influence by commerce or conquest ? Were we mistaken
in this ? It appears so. England, it appears, had not
confidence in her own creed. Instead of saying, as I
humbly think she ought to have said in all her colonies,
" We will not molest you in your opinions, whatever they
are, but we will not teach you any except those we think
true; we will not injure feu whatever you think; we will
endeavour to teach you to think aright; but if we respect
your conscience, and refuse to enforce upon you opinions
that you disapprove of, we ask you to respect our con-
science, and not request us to endow opinions of which we
disapprove." Instead of this, Englaud has acted as if her
own creed were no better than other creeds, and as if she
were at full liberty to teach them all alike. Are the peo-
ple in every colony to have their conscience and their
religion respected, and is England herself not to have the
same ? Is England to present, in the aggregate of her
colonies, an exhibition upon a large scale, similar to the
picture so pointedly drawn of an honourable member by
Mr. Wilberforce, in a debate upon this very subject of
Maynooth ? A noble lord, on the opposition side of the
house, made what is called a " liberal" speech. Mr. Wil-
berforce got up to reply, and he said he was one of those
who believed the New Testament, and he had no ambi-
tion•to be an honorary member of all religions. Then,
if it would have been right in the first instance for Eng-
land to have refused to teach anything but what she be-
lieved true, surely it is right now that England should
cease to teach anything but what she thinks true. We
advocate no persecution. We advocate no coercion. We
would not force a single individual. however helpless, to
learn of us against his conscience. But, sir, while weutterly
repudiate the sin of propagating truth by the sword, we
equally repudiate the sin of perpetuating falsehood by the
treasury. This is our answer, then. 'Why should the
British government pay for instruction in what England
as a nation has declared to be false ? by should Eng-
land volunteer the gross inconsistency of requiring us, the
clergy of her national church, to make a solemn declara-
tion concerning certain doctrines, that they are " blasphe-
mous fables and dangerous deceits," and that they involve
" idolatry to be abhorred of all true christens," and then
give £lOO,OOO, or £9OOO or £lOOO, or even one, penny, to
pay for instruction in those very doctrines? Should she
not rather say, to all her subjects who bold such opinions
—whether in a part of her United Kingdom at home, or
in any of her colonies at a distance-1 have a conscience,
as you have : I respect your's, I ask you to respect mine ;
I will not require you to learn contrary to your's, and
you ought not to require me to teach contrary to mine.
Learn as you will, instruct yourselves as you please, in-

terpret Scripture as you please, add tradition as a rule
of your faith if you please, have what teachers you
please: but do not, in the n me of common sense, in the
name of fair dealing, in the name of our God, who has
given me a conscience, and who holds me responsible for
the use I make of the power he has given me ; do not ask
me to teach what I believe to be wrong and false, what
I know to be false, what the clergy of my national church
have sworn to be false, what my Sovereign upon the
throne has solemnly proclaimed to be superstitious and
idolatrous : do not, I say, ask me to teach this, because
in me this would be sin.—National Sin—What is it ?
By Dr. M'Neile.

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