The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

CHURCH EXTENSION.

The following is the motion to be submitted to the House
of Commons by Sir Robert Harry Inglis :
" That an humble address be presented to her Majesty,
praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take
into consideration the deficiency which exists in the number
of places of worship belonging to the Established Church,
when compared with the increased and increasing population
of the country, the inadequate provision therein for the ac-
commodation of the poorer classes in large towns, and the in-
sufficient endowment thereof in other places, as such facts
have been severally set forth in the reports of the late Eccle-
siastical Commissioners ; to assure her Majesty, that this
house is deeply impressed with a just sense of the many bless-
ings which this country, by the favour of Divine Providence,
has long enjoyed, and with the conviction that the religious
and moral habits of the people are the most sure and firm
foundation of national prosper►ty ; to state to her Majesty the
opinion of this house, that no altered distribution of the
revenues of the Established Church could remove the exist-
ing and augmenting evil, arising from the notorious fact, that
an addition of more than six million souls has been made to
the population of England and \Vales since the commence-
ment of the present century, and that the rate of this increase
is rapidly progressive ; that the grants made by the wisdom
of parliament, on the recommendation of the Crown, in 1818
and 1824, have been inadequate to supply the national wants
and that, though private and local liberality has been largely
manifested in aid of particular districts, the greatest wants
exist where there are the least means to meet and relieve
them; to assure her Majesty that this house, feeling that God,
has entrusted to this nation unexampled resources, is satis-
fied, that it is the duty of the government to employ an ade-
quate portion of the wealth of the nation to relieve the spiri-
tual destitution of large masses of the people, by whose la-
bour that wealth has been enlarged; and humbly to represent
to her Majesty, that this house will cheerfully make good
such measures as her Majesty may be pleased to recommend,
in order to provide for her people in England and Wales
further and full means of religious worship and instruction in
the Established Church."

WAR WITH CHINA-JUSTICE TO IRELAND.

(From the Dublin Evening Mail.)

All the bad blood between Captain -Elliot and Commis-
sioner Lin, is now accounted for. The Captain, as our
readers are aware, is a Scotchman, from the border: the
commissioner, they will be surprised to learn, is a patriotic
Munster-man. Hence the innate antipathy which prevented
the Gael and Sussanagh from coming to terms at first, and
hence the war in which we are now engaged. Admiral Kwan
also—as we learn from the same authority that vouches for
the birth-place of the commissioner, and which we give be-
low in all sincerity and confidence, for we would be slow to
assert the fact on our own responsibility—is another son of
the Suir, who, in like manner, having left the green fields of
Erin in his youth, has now risen to a position in a foreign
clime, which enables him to resent the insults inflicted on
his native land by haughty England. Oh, miscalculating
and thoughtless statesmen of Britain, why do you delay to
render that meed of justice to our suffering country which
her grievances demand, and which, by disarming her sons
of all just cause of complaint, would not only render the
union permanent, but would deprive your great enemy, the
brother of the sun and moon, of two of his ablest ministers
of vengeance Flinn, who exposes the iniquities of your
opium merchants, with the ability and zeal of another Father
Mathew ; and Quan, who leans courageously, but gracefully,
against the mast of his junk, when hurling destruction at the
barbarian galleys? Here is the fact, as stated by an accurate
and trust-worthy cotemporary:—
" littsitsfEN IN CHINA.—It is said that the Chinese
High Commissioner Lin, and the Lord High Admiral Kwan,
are both natives of the county Waterford, the former having
dropped the first letter of his name (Flin), and the latter
(Quan), spelling his name differently, in order to assimilate
with those of the country of their adoption. This fact
would account for the bitterness manifested in all the at-
tempts hitherto at negotiation ; the deep sense of wrong
continued for centuries by England towards Ireland may
have actuated those Irishmen in high station to avenge the
insults to their native land, under the shadow of a violation
of the laws of the celestial empire."—Tipperary Free Press.

DR. BOWRING-GROSS CASE OF JOBBING.

(From the Morning Post.)

The following facts are stated in a paper recently printed
by the order of the House of Commons, being " Au account
of all moneys paid by the government, from the year 1830
to the present time, to Dr. Bowring, for services performed
by him ; specifying how much has been paid each year, and
and stating the collective amount thereof ; distinguishing also
for what services, and out of what funds, the several payments
were made :"

Ist. That from September, 1831, to October, 1839, a period
of eight years, the sums paid to Dr. Bowring, under the heads
of remuneration and expenses, amounted to £11,031 17s.
2d. That the sums paid to Dr. Bowring, under the head of
renumeration, within the above dates, amount to £3444 10s.
3d. That the sums paid to this gentliman, under the' head
of remuneration, within the above dates, amount to £7587 75.,
a large proportion of which belongs to the former head, of
remuneration, and is improperly placed under the head of
expenses, inasmuch as we are informed by the report that
"the payments to Dr. Bowring for expenses include an al-
lowance of £3 3s. a-day for expenses of living, &c.; 2s. a
mile for the distance travelled ; any expenses incurred in
procuring copies and translatione of papers and documents."
Three guineas a day for the expense of living ! How the
mouths of some of the O'Connell tail must water !

4th. That Secretary to the
Commissioners of Accounts, went on during much of the
time in which it is pretended he acquired his claim to the
above large sums of the public money, inasmuch as we find
in the official return the following item :—" 1833: August.
Allowance at the rate of £5OO per annum, during that part
of the time he was employed in the mission to France, for
which he did not receive salary as Secretary to the Commis-
sioners of Accounts, £494 10s."
sth. That the scenes of Dr. Bowring's inquiries were
France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Egypt, Syria, and Turkey,
in all which countries the British government maintains
permanent missions or consulates (in most instances both,)
the chiefs or attaches of which were, or ought to have been,
from their position, better qualified than Dr. Bowring could
be to collect all the information the British government can
require, whether as to the commercial relations of those
countries or their modes of keeping their public accounts.
6th and lastly. That the whole affair was a job.
[Yes—and a very gross and barefaced job, perpetrated in
favour of one of the most conceited humbugs that ever en-
tered the walls of Parliament, for no earthly reason that we
could ever discover except to continue the system of delu-
sion by which the whigs hold office, and to throw a sop in
the way of the corn law repealers.—E. L. S.]

BATR.—During the last few days, the cold and chilly state
of the atmosphere, accompanied by blight, has caused some
apprehensions to be entertained for the fruit • and the influ-
ence of the change has, to some extent, made itself felt on
vegetation. The mischief, however, has been but limited,
and shoula we be shortly favoured with a return of the warm
and genial weather which preceded the present cold, there
will, in all probability, be an excellent prospect as regards
produce of all kinds. When we contemplate the glorious
alteration which the last three or four weeks have made in
the face of the country, we cannot but see every reason for
not entertaining discouraging misgivings. But a compara-
tively.short time has elapsed since the almost incessant rains
by which we were so long visited excited the most serious
fears. Look at the state of things now. What can be more
beautiful or more cheering than the aspect of the country
around us ? The trees, so lately quite bare of leaves, are
" clothed to their fingers' tips" in foliage—the gardens and
orchards, having displayed abundant blossom. give good token
of excellent bearing—the fields promise prosperity to the
husbandman, and, consequently, plenty to the people at
large—in short, all the external world wears a countenance
of benevolence and gladness, teaching us that the more we
watch the operations of nature, the more cause we shall have
to admire the wisdom, and to be grateful for the unwearied
kindness, of that merciful Providence to which we owe all
the blessings that we have or can have. Viewed only
than
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source of delight to the eye, the present spring is ,Wore
usually fine. We certainly do not fecollect having seen the
lovely and diversified environs of our city pervaded by more
exquisite beauty than that which now meets the gaze in every
direction. The richness of the neighbouring woods and
copses—the luxuriance of the gardens—the fresh and delicate
tints of green which characterise all our hills and valleys—
combined with the stately architectural forms of this " city
of palaces," present an almost endless variety of noble and
attractive pictures, which, we think, taking them " for all
in all," are quite unparalleled in this country. It has always
been our opinion that the picturesque features of Bath and
its vicinity are by no means so generally known and appre-
ciated as they deserve. It is not properly understood at a
distance that Bath is not only a celebrated place of resort
for the fashionable, the distinguished, and the wealthy, but
that it also offers to permanent residents attractions which
it may be safely said cannot, of their kind, be found else-
where—Bath being not only a most splendid city in itself,
but situated in the midst of some of the finest scenery to be
found in the British isles.—Bath Chronicle.
THE HoN. THOS. KENYON. —We are happy to state,
that this estimable gentleman is recovering, although some-
what slowly, from the effect of his recent severe accident.—
Chester Chronicle.

The ships bound to China—namely, the Blenheim, 72, the
Blonde, 42, and the corvette Nimrod, were spoken with in
March, all well, in lat. 1 deg. N. long. 19 deg. w
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