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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

" Now the Whigs

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they did not,

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government—we annihilated
that party. The Tories destroyed themselves, and Atte
consequence is, that the present government is a mongrel
of the best kind. Such occurrences have not happened
before in the history of England. Did you read Sir
Robert Peel's speech for equality—the man who was taken

tram his fiv.ber's t.piuning-jenny, and sent to preside over
the Orange lodges of Ireland? Why, be is taking the
gilding off my gingerbread completely. He is quoting
speeches of mine, and appropriating to himself doctrines
which I have spent my life in inculcating.• If the Whigs
deviate from the course they propose to pursue, I will
get some twelvepenny nails in the toe of my boot, and
kick Me renegades out of office again."

Coarse, but expressive. Admirably conceived,
indeed ! While he threatens the Whigs in futurum,
he spits by suggestion, in passing, on Peel, and
reminds him that be has been removed from office
by the undignified application of the toe of his
(Daniel's) well-nailed brogue. " The Liberator'?
speaks as the maker and unmaker of governments.
The Kerry man rules England, thanks to '29 and
Sir Robert Peel. The ball was opened by the chair-
man, James Meade Loughnan, Esq., T.C. Speak_
ing of the Russell ministry, he said,—

" We may now ask what will they do with the church
property ? O'Connell, with the will of the people, shall
force on England that she has no right to hold it. Why
should we not have it appropriated to give glebe lands to
our parish priests, and make them independent to the
state I"

Thanks, again, to Sir Robert Peel l Mr. Loughnan
of course we don't know, but inasmuch as he has
merely taken up the cue given by Sir Robert, and
admitted as correct by his successor, the thought is
not despicable. Surely this language is unmis-
takeable, and these claims are put forward with
sufficient plainness. Are Englishmen prepared to
yield them ? Let every Protestant look the alterna-.
tive in the face; but, in the name of common sense,
let us be one thing or the other,—let us either
maintain and extend our Protestant principles, or
turn Papists, and support the errors of that lament.
able system. But let us not be hypocrites, pro-
nouncing a thing idolatrous to-day and paying for
its maintenance and support to-morrow. Let us be
honest,—let us be Englishmen,—let us be all of a
piece, and not throughout inconsistent with our-
selves and with the professions of all our past lives.
Surely we ought now to have done with this
wretched pusillanimity; to rise up like Englishmen,
and either pronounce the Reformation a lie, the
Pope a universal Christian potentate, ourselves too
long rebel., and our countrymen all fools,—to rise
up and demand the overthrow of the Church and
of Protestantism, or else, believing as we do, act
consistently with our professions. Let us be one
thing or the other. If Peel and Russell be right,
then is Protestantism a lie, and away with it. If
Popery be an apostasy, let us manfully act accord-
ingly, and say, with M'Ghee,—" Mercy and salva-
tion to Roman Catholics, but no peace with Rome."

Mr. Ripley has published the following letter in reply
to the correspondence, a brief abstract of which we gave
last week : "Liverpool, 18th July, 1846.
" The Committee of Lloyd's Register of British and On Tuesday the foundation-stone of St. Simon's Parish
Foreign Shipping, Liverpool, having, by the not very Church was laid on the site of the old church in Gloaces-
advised publication of the correspondence between that ter-street, by the Rev. Rector Brooks. The friends and
body and Mr. Ripley, laid their official proceedings open subscribers assembled at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-
to observation, he, Mr. R., feels authorized to make street, about half-past nine o'clock, and formed a proces-
known to the public that the association is of recent sior% which was headed by several flags and banners. On
origin, and that they have classed a North American- reiching the ground, the Hundredth Psalm was sung.
built ship, the Anne Armstrong, A 1 ten years, whilst The Rev. Mr. CONNOR, addressing Rector Brooks,
Liverpool-built ships, and second to none in the world, then said that he had been requested to present him with
with even one material piece of North American oak in a silver trowel, and that he did not presume to do so in
their composition, are classed only A 1 nine years at his own name. but in that of the committee. By a recent
Lloyd's, London ; therefore of the degree of merit due to act of Parliament, he observed, that district had been
the Liverpool classification (the cause of the correspond- severed from the mother church, and when the new
ence) the public wilt judge by this comparison. The building had been completed and consecrated it would be
owner of a North American-built vessel under such cir. a parish church. He felt it a duty he owed to the people
cumstances, she not being classed at Lloyd's, London, around, first of all to present the rector with the trowel,
where the Anne Armstrong does not appear, is enabled in the name of the parishioners of St. Simon. Many of
to advertise his vessel as A 1 for years after she would them took a deep interest in the good work, and many of
have passed off the London classification under that letter. them looked coldly on,. and "cared for none of these
"The committee have classed the Anne Armstrong for thins •;" but this feeling proved the necessity which
ten years on the supposition of her being built of live oak. existed for having a church in the district. Those who
Mr. Ripley's belief is, that she was not so built, and had a hopeofofleve.rloaosctrg happiness should be fed with
therefore Riley'
so entitled. It may be that the Committee the bread those without any hope should
were mistaken on the subject of her build, but that does have their sensibilities awakened by a froe church and a
not lessen the objection to the classification itself, and on preached gospel. Secondly, be addressed the rector in
these grounds Mr. Ripley justifies his original observations the name of the congregation of St. Simon. That c ontgre-
on the subject. gation was not large. The old building in which h " Mr. Ripley, in further notice of the published corres- lately assembled was small, and therefore the smallness
pondence, and of a paragraph which appeared in the Li- of the congregation. No part of the wealth of Liverpool
verpool Standard, of the 14th instant, merely points out joined them; but, though they were the poor of the flock
that which, perhaps, is obvious already, that, so far from in the land, he could testify to their zeal in this good
evading, he has courted the inquiry, which has been met work, to their attachment to the cause of the gospel, and
by ambiguity and reserve. to their anxious desire to carry out the glorious Protestant
watchword of church extension, Again he addressed the
rector in the name of the building committee of the new
church. That committee had been formed of some of
the members of the congregation, and also of some of the
trustees in whose hands the old building was placed when
first it was purchased by the Church of England. The
duty of obtaining plans and receiving estimates had
devolved upon the building committee, and they had been
most zealous in the good work, and most anxious to see
it carried out. But he must take higher ground than
this. They bad been told that " unless the Lord build
the house their labour is in vain that build it." They
had also been told to " do all things in the name of the
the Lord Jesus ;" and, therefore, in the name of God,
the Father, the great builder—in the name of God, the
Son, the Saviour who loved them and gave himself for
them, the foundation-stone of the church, and the top
stone too, the author and finisher of their faith,—and in
the name of God the Holy Ghost, by whom the stones of
the spiritual temple were finished, he presented the trowel.
He bad only to add that the church was to be called by
the name of St. Simon. It was not called after the great
apostle Simon Peter, but after him who was called our
Lord's brother, and of whom it was written that be
'cached the gospel in England, and died for it in Persia.
name Simon signified one who hears and obeys; and

ST. SIMON'S PARISH. CHURCH

"THOMAS RIPLEY

[We can assure Mr. Ripley that we had not the most
remote idea of insinuating that he had in any way

" evaded" the inquiry. Our object was to give, as impar-
tially as possible, the substance of the correspondence.
We did not suspect the paragraph could be so read as to
imply a leaning either way.]

it was his prayer that the ministers who might officiate in
the new church would hear and obey : first of all, that
they would hear the voice of their God, and be well
instructed in the Scriptures. More than that—that they
would hear and obey the church ; carry out the glorious
doctrines of the Reformation contained in the articles of
the Church of England ; ever offer up their devotions in
"the fervid and glowing language of the liturgy ' • always
walk in the steps of the apostles, rendering obedience to
the rulers set over them ; observing. apostolical order;
and believing, as he believed, that bishops were ordained
of God. He then banded the trowel.

The inscription plate was here inserted, and the mortar

laid on the bed. The inscription set forth that the first
stone of the Parish Church of St. Simon, erected by
voluntary contributions, was laid by the Rev. Rector
Brooks, on the 14th of July. 1846. Then followed the
names of the building committee and minister, and
three_passages of Scripture, showing that Christ was the

ton-ston

ttle placed

of the coins of the realm, a copy of one of

the Liverpool papers, &c.
The Rev. Rector BROOKS, having spread the mortar
and laid the stone, proceeded to address the assembly.
lie said he could not allow the ceremony to pass over
without assuring them of the great pleasure with which
he had complied with the request of the committee, and
laid the first stone of this new church. As rector of this
large town, it could not but be a source of gratification to

him whenever a work of the kind was Cronght to the
probability ate completion. When be considered the
vast population of the town, the rapidity with which it
had increased, and the inadequate means which were
furnished for the worship of God within it, it was impos-
sible that he could not but feel delighted and gratified
when be found the first stone of a building laid, the
object of which was the honour of God and the salvation
of the souls of men. The town had long been celebrated
for having within it a number of splendid buildings to
alleviate the different miseries to which nature was liable.
They could hardly conceive a single case of misery or

Cilstiess which bad not some corresponding means of
alleviating its pressure ; nod surely when so much was
done for the temporal wants of man, they should be ill
performing their duty if they bad not some regard—yes,
and a much higher regard—to that which was connected
with his eternal interests. It was, he said, creditable to
the zeal of the people that the number of churches built
throughout the whole of this diocese of late yeara was
greater than the number erected in any other part of the
United Kingdom ; but still, although much had been
done, much remained to be accomplished. He then
enlarged upon the necessity of setting vigorously about
the important work, particularly in four districts o
and
Liverpool, where there was a population of 32,
not a single building in connection with the Established
Church.
The Rev. Mr. CONNOR then offered uP an
sappropriateseleag
prayer ; after which a hymn was sung, and the
separated.
In the evening a tea party, to celebrate the event,
sat
was
held at the Concert-ball, and several hundreds
down.