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Anti he concludes in these words :

On other questions, I have nothing now to say ; to these,
eri, the excitement of the struggle has ceased, I may have
'ler opportunities of directing your attention. Meantime,

though I have not obtained the honour of serving you as
your reprsentalive in parliament, I will still labour for the
promotion of your welfare in other ways. If I cannot serve
you as I would, I will at least serve you as I may."

This is one of the strangest hallucinations that it was
ever our lot to meet with, and may possibly raise a
question as to the soundness of the man's intellect at

ime of committing such extravagancies to paper

To talk of this contest not being his last—of his having
other opportunities of conversing with us after the
excitement of the struggle has ceased—of his promoting
our welfare in other ways--of his serving us as he may,
if not as lie would—alas! this is really a touch of stark

-- What may this rnear ,
That thou, dead corse, again, in complete brass,
Shouldst revisit thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature,
So horribly to shake our disposition,
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls ?
We must speak to Father Butler about it. He, per-
haps, could lay the ghost, or get up a mass for his

repose

We would subscribe ourselves to have the job done;
and if his reverence will send, the first bad half-penny
we meet with shall be at his service.

In the account of the election proceedings for this
town, will be found a return of the voters polled in
each ward, together with the candidates in whose fa-
vour their suffrages were recorded. This is highly
important—as exhibiting a fair criterion on which to
found an opinion as to the result of the forthcoming
municipal election. In every ward—with the exception
of one—a majority is shown for conservative principles,
and therefore, with a little management and exertion,
all the radicals who in November strive to represent
any of these districts, may be treated with a defeat
similar to that which has deservedly fallen upon Sir
Joshua Walmsley and his phantom colleague. We
also give the number of votes tendered by the re-
nowned members of the Protector Society, in favour of
their munificent contributor. This, we understand,
was a device of Mr. 7eapot Atkinson, a gentleman
who has rendered himself sufficiently conspicuous
during the recent contest, but whose adherence to Sir
Joshua contributed, we have every reason to believe,
very materially to swell the majority against him.

It is with extreme reluctance that we ever notice the
conduct of any gentleman occupying a seat on the
magisterial bench, in terms of censure, but the inter-
ference of Mr. Rushton, on Tuesday, during the pro-
ceedings at the nomination, has been represented to us
as so extremely partial that it would be almost impro-
per to let it pass without comment. The presence of
Mr. Rushton might or might not be required at the
hustings ; but surely, when there, he should not have
shown the feelings of a violent partisan—in suffering,
without the slightest emotion, the grossest outbreaks
of the radical faction, and endeavouring to keep down
' by force any exhibition of enthusiastic feeling on the
part of the consevatives. It was unbecoming—to say
the least of it—for a stipendiary magistrate to suffer
the superior display of the party opposed to him so far
to get the better of his judgment as to hurry him into
petulant language and uncalled for interference. The
cheers of his opponents must have been annoying, but
in future if Mr. Rushton cannot command his temper,
he had better refrain from attending any similar de-
monstration. We believe the only return made to him
for the foolish attempt to exercise his " authority" was
to turnhim very quietly from amongst the conserva-
tives, in whose ranks he had flung himself, in the hope
of terrifying the constitutional supporters by the sight
of his portly person.

' THE ONE CATHOLIC S.: APOSTOLIC CHURCH."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

DEAR SIR,—Mr. M'Crea having called upon me to make
good my assertion that the Church of England is the only
branch of the Catholic Church existing in England, I felt
that 1 could not decline to do so. Instead of replying to
my arguments, he has occupied nearly a column and a half
of the Albion newspaper with personal abuse and railing_
This is a department of controversy in which, I thank God,
I am unprepared to meet him, and therefore beg you will
permit me, through you, to make some observations on his
letter.

Mr. M'Crea charges me with misquoting Scripture, assert-.
ing that there is not one word about apostleship in the text:
to which I referred. The reference was inadvertently made•
to I Thess. ii. 7, instead of to v. 6. It seems that it is con-
sistent with Mr. M'Crea's ideas of integrity to avoid an ar-
gument by making a serious charge of misquotation in wri-
ting v. 7 for v. 6. The force of the argument will be best.
seen by quoting the passages at length :-
1 Th. i. 1. " Paul and Silvanus and Timotheus unto the
Church of the Thessalonians.
* * * * * *
ii. 6.
the apostles of Christ."

From this passage I had shewn that Silvanus and Timotheus
were apostles, and therefore that apostleship was not con-
fined to the twelve.

A second charge is mistranslation, and he adduces as a
proof a passage in which I gave no translation ! My words
were—

" A Scriptural ministry must be threefold :
" Apostle or Angel }ln modern Bishop.
" Deacon
" Bishop or Presbyter Priest.
language
Deacon."

A third was the misapplication of Scripture, because I
have given the view of Epaphroditus's title " apostle,"
which has the sanction of eminently learned and pious men.
Even Dr. Gill (a Baptist) is constrained to acknowledge, in
commenting upon the passage, that " ordinary ministers of
the word were sometimes called apostles."

Because the first apostles needed credentials in testimony
of their commisssion to promulgate a new dispensation,
therefore, argues Mr. M'Crea, there is no apostleship now !
" The signs of an apostle" were, having seen the Lord, and
the working of miracles ; therefore the sign having ceased,
the office has ceased!

How strangely this would tell upon the very existence of
the Christian religion !
These sizns shall follow them that believe if they
drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them ; they shall
lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Mark xvi.
17, 18.

those signs have ceased : are there, then, no true believers
now ?

Towards the close of a long letter, Mr. M'Crea asserts
that the Church of England " is not and cannot be an apos-
tolic church." Two years ago he was willing enough to
seek for episcopal ordination, and talked over the matter
with a respectable clergyman of this town. He agreed to
our doctrines and our discipline, and only gave up the idea
when he learned that the Bishop would not ordain him
without two years' education at St. Bees! I state this
upon the authority of that clergyman.
I have now, sir, done with Mr. M'Crea, and in conclusion
beg to restate the evidence that the various sects with which
this land is disgraced are not Christian churches, although
many true Christians are to be found amongst them.
There is neither precept nor example in Scripture to war-
rant the rending of the visible unity of the church.
We have no example of any other ordination in the New
Testament than episcopal.
The modern episcopacy is the New Testament apostolate
in its ordinary functions : that apostolate is declared to be a
permanent office in Mat. xxviii. 19, 20; Eph. iv. 11-13.
We have no body of persons designated a Church of
Christ, in Scripture, who are not ruled over by a threefold
ministry.
Until these statements can be disproved, my position re-
mains unanswered, that " the Church of England is the only
branch of the Catholic Church existing in England."
I have no desire to embroil myself with dissenters, many
of whom I respect and love as " brethren in Christ " ; and
therefore gladly take leave of this controversy, with the ear-
nest application of our Redeemer's prayer, " That they all
may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee." -
I remain, dear sir, yours faithfully,
JOSEPH I3AYLEE.

-~r----

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.

To show the means which were resorted to by the radical
faction to obtain all the votes they could muster at the recent
election, we subjoin the copy of a letter addressed to a per-
son "at the largest watch-maker's shop in Mold, Flint-
shire : "

sir,—As your name is on the register as a voter in
our ward, say Exchange Ward, we shall be obliged if you.
will come over to give your vote on behalf of Lord Palmerston
and Sir Joshua Walrnsley, the two reform candidates at the
present election, and the necessary expenses attending your
journey will be defrayed by the committee.—l am, &c., on.
behalf of the Reform Committee for Exchange Ward,
" RICHARD RAWLINSON, Chairman.
" Earl Grey Tavern, hale-street,
" Liverpool, June 26, 1841."