The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN SPAIN.

In Spain, as most of our readers are aware, there was,
until within a very recent period, nothing in the remotest de-
gree resembling toleration for any religious worship what-
ever, excepting that of the established church of the
country. This was the state of things, from the days of
Isabella and Ximenez until the commencement of the
late series of resolutions, when religion may be said to
have undergone as complete a change as every thing else.
In the numerous treaties between the British and Spa-
nish governments, no stipulation has ever been made for
securing to British subjects the exercise of their own reli-
gion on Spanish territory, not even at the conclusion of
the late war in the Peninsula, when British arms had re-
placed the reigning family on the throne. Far different
in this respect was the conduct of Cromwell : when in-
formed that the Portuguese refused to allow the English
merchants at Oporto to assea,ble for Protestant worship,
his reply was, " We will send a few stout frigates to cruise
on the coast." We are as far as possible from desiring to
see our faith propagated at the edge of the sword or the
mouth of the cannon, but still we think it might fairly
have been demanded, in return for the signal services
conferred by this country on the Spanish government,
that British subjects, who may be resident in Spain,
should be allowed the exercise of their religion, without
at any rate greater restrictions than those imposed by the
Austrian, Sardinian, Neapolitan, or Papal governments.
Yet, this was so far from being insisted on as a general
concession (we do not believe it was even asked as a favor),
that to this day no chaplain is appointed to the embassy
at Madrid, and until within the last ten or twelve years
no Englishman dying in Spain was allowed to receive
even what we may call decent burial : at the places on the
coast they were buried, usually at night, in the sand, as
near as possible to the edge of the water. This, however,
is no longer the case ; at Cadiz and Malaga land has been
purchased and appropriated, with the consent of the au-
thorities, as a cemetery for the English. Both of these
have been consecrated ; that at the latter place is a beau-
tiful piece of ground close to the town, laid out with much
taste and at considerable expense by the late and present
consuls, and kept in the neatest possible order. The ce-
remony of consecration, which took place last year, was
quite public ; it was attended by all the English, amount-
ing to a considerable number, including the workmen at a
large iron-foundry and their families ; and there were also
a good many Spaniards present, who all remained unco-
vered during the performance of the service, and showed
all possible respect. Still, this is nearly all that has yet
been actually accomplished : there is not as yet a single
English clergyman established in any part of Spain,
though there would be no longer any difficulty experienced
from the civil or ecclesiastical authorities, excepting, of
course, some restrictions similar to those enforced in Italy,
and Portugal, as to the external appearance of the cha-
pels, and on one or two comparatively important points.
The Bishop has, however, we understand, a prospect of
being enabled shortly to provide funds sufficient, with the
assistance which he hopes to obtain from government
under the Consular Act, to maintain chaplains at a few of
the more important places, such as Barcelona, Alicante,
Malaga, Cadiz, and Seville, at all of which the number of
English residents is considerable. These, er at any rate
some one of them, might visit from time to time the
smaller and more scattered communities, administer the
sacraments among them, and keel) alive amongst our
countrymen some feeling of religion and of attachment to
their own church, until a more permanent and adequate
provision could be made for their spiritual welfare. The
English themselves have, in almost all cases, expressed
their anxiety to have a clergyman settled amongst them,
and their willingness to contribute, as far as their means
will allow, to his support. At the same time, as a consi-
derable portion of them are either workmen in the iron
and other works along the coast, or employed in the mines
in the interior, they are. of course. comparatively poor;
and they are, besides, scattered often at considerable dis-
tances from each other, so that much cannot be expected
from their unaided exertions. The largest number in any
one place we believe to be in Seville, where, in addition to
several highly respectable families of merchants and
others, there is a large pottery established on the opposite
side of the river, in what was formerly a Carthusian con-
vent, in which several English workmen are employed.
The proprietor of this, though a Roman Catholic, has set
apart a portion of the churchyard of the convent as a
burial-ground for his countrymen, and has also expressed
his willingness.to contribute to the support of an English
clergyman, and to give up either the old chapel or some
other part of the.building for the performance of the ser-
vice of the Church of England; provided the consent of
the Dean can be obtained, which is not likely, it is said, to
be refused. To the establishment of clergymen where
there are British subjects residing, and to their ministra-
trations, whether public or private, amongst their own
people, provided they abstained from proselytism, little
or no obstacle would, as we before observed, be opposed
by the authorities ; nor, we are convinced, would popular
feeling create any greater difficulty. The present state of
Spain; ecclesiastical and religious, makes it, if possible,
more important than ever that our countrymen living
there should no longer be debarred from the profession
and exercise of their religion, nor compelled to appear,
what but too many of those around them really are,
utterly indifferent to, and indeed devoid of all, religion
whatever.—Colonial Church Chronicle.

DOMESTIC LIFE OF JACKSON KEMPER, D.D.,
BISHOP OF MISSOURI AND INDIANA.

(From the Calendar, published at Hereford, Connecticut.

U.S.)
From Waukeshaw it is twelve miles to the residence of
Bishop Kemper. Most of the way is through oak open-
ings, by which, in the west, they mean country covered
with oak trees in clumps, and without underwood, pre-
senting the appearance of a natural park. Here they
stretched on, mile after mile, far as the eye can reach, so
that we could imagine ourselves in the middle of one of
the beautiful parks of England. They present, indeed,
precisely the same appearance. At last, through an open-
ing among the hills, we begin to catch distant glimpses of
lakes, from which we knew that our journey was drawing
to an end. About three o'clock we reached a tavern,
surrounded by a cluster of a dozen houses, the beginning
of a town to be called Delafield, where we were directed
to take a side road into the forest, with the information
that the second house was Bishop Kemper's. A mile
further brought us to the gate, and in a moment the
Bishop, attended by the Rev. James Lloyd Breck, head
of the Nashotah Mission, came forth from the house to
receive us.

Would my readers like a description of the episcopal
palace, or do those who are living amid the luxury of the
east desire to know how a missionary bishop lives in the
far west ? We might tell them to imagine a clearing of a
few acres in the depth of a mighty forest, and then on the
verge of the woods a small cottage-like building, which,
as you stand in front of it, presents the appearance of a
single story, with but three windows and a door. It was
the first building erected by a settler, from whom the
bishop purchased the land for a farm for his son, and
then, at the expense of a few hundred dollars, he endea-
voured to make the house habitable. For probably eight
months of the year he is travelling incessantly over his
wide-spread diocese, "in perils by land, and in perils by
water,"—now, under the burning son, crossing a prairie
two hundred miles in length, without a sign of habitation
—now in districts where roads there are none, following
the deep-worn lnoian trail through the otherwise path-
less forests—and now, on some of the rivers of the west,
trusting himself to the frail canoe—always, unwearied in
labour, " seeking for Christ's sheep that are dispersed
abroad," far from the sound of church-going bells, that
he may win them to the true fold. I was told by a lay-
' man of the diocese, that the bishop would land at Mil-
waukie, after a two months' tour of duty in Indiana, and
without even taking time to go home, set out at once for
the more distant west, to confirm the scattered churches
in lowa. Were he to hear that five persons desire confir-
mation at a thousand miles' distance, he would set off in
three hours.

When a visstation is finished, and he is able to return
for a short time to his family, this is his home. Without
a room large enough to contain his library—with his
books and papers often most inconveniently packed away
in boxes—exposed to difficulties which would horrify our
dwellers at the east, he cheerfully furnishes to his fellow-
labourers an example of primitive simplicity and self-de-
nial—sharing their hardest toils, and showing himself
everywhere, the first missionary of the diocese. His own
private means, and his missionary salary, are devoted un-
sparingly to this cause. In making these statements, I
trust I am not passing the bounds which delicacy would
prescribe, for I am only writing what I everywhere heard
through the diocese. Neither is it to honour the indivi-
dual that it is done. His record is on high, and t'aere
will he receive his reward. But it is well that our bre-
thren at the east shouln know how it fares with those who
are labouring beyond the Great Lakes, and while they
too often give to this cause with stinted avarice, let them
compare their self-denial with that endured by those who
are here breaking up the fallow ground, and striving to
sow the seed where a few years will see a scattered popu-
lation expand into a great nation.
We might add that the bishop shows not only the sim-
plicity, but also the open hospitality, of early times, where
the hearty welcome placed us at once at ease, while the
taste and refinement which his accomplished daughter
has imparted to her home, made us forget that we were
1,500 miles from the capital of the empire state, in the
far west, with its primeval trees rustling around us.

VULGAR DISCOURSE.—A correspondent of the Here-
ford Times says,—" One among the innumerable evils
prevalent in man is low conversation ; it makes one's
heart tremble as it were, to bear it upon times. Where
the public more frequently hear it is among that low set
of men who frequently stroll about our streets. But is it
only with these we hear it ? Alas, no ! Even a great
number of those we suppose to be respectable moral men,
are in the habit of employing it when assembled together
at public-houses, workshops, offices, and such like places.
Let me say a few words to you who are in the habit of
conversing in a low, unbecoming manner. Is it not dis-
gracing the very name of man to apply it to you filthy-
tongued. You scarcely mention the worthy and meek
name of woman' without profaning it, and disgusting
one with your filthy comments! and you scarcely mention
the blessed name of the Almighty (He who could destroy
you in the twinkling of an eye) without blaspheming it !
It is through ' low conversation' you bring upon yourselves
disgrace ; you get the name of being blackguards,' and
many other abominable names. Will nothing shame you ?
What name will express fully your great wickedness ? If
some name from the depths of hell, written by Satan him-
self, was engraven on your foreheads in large black let-
ters, it could but express your fiendish wickedness. MEN,
BE MEN ! do not disgrace the name. Remember what
the Scripture says—' The tongue is a fire, a world of ini-
quity : it defileth the whole body.' "
SUPERSTITION.—Mr. Wordsworth had taken the All-
foxden House, near Stowey, for one year, (during the
minority of the heir,) and the reason why he was refused
a continuance, by the ignorant man who had the letting
of it, arose, as Mr. Coleridge informed me, from a whim-
sical cause,or rather a series of causes. The wiseacres of
the village had, it seemed, made Mr. W. the subject of
their serious conversation. One said that "he had seen
him wander about by night, and look rather strangely at
the moon ! and then he roamed over the hills like a part-
ridge." Another said "he had heard him mutter, as he
walked, in some outlandish brogue that nobody could un-
derstand !" Another said, " It's useless to talk, Thomas,
I think he is what people call a wise man'" (a conjuror!)
Another said,. " You are very wrong ; I know what he is.
We have all met him, tramping away toward the sea.
Would any man in his senses take all that trouble to look
at a parcel of water ! I think he carries on a snug business
in the smuggling line, and in these journeys is on the
look-out for some wet cargo !" Another very significantly
said, "I know that he has got a private still in the cellar,
for I once passed his house, at a little better than a hun-
dred yards distance, and I could smell the spirits, as plain
as an ashen fagot at Christmas !" Another said, How-
ever that was, he is surely a desperd French Jacobin, for
he is so silent and dark that nobody ever heard him say
one word about politics !" And thus these ignoramuses
drove from their village a greater ornament than will ever
again be found amongst them."—Cottle's Reminiscences
of S. T. Coleridge and R. Southey.

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,
ON THE IST DECEMBER, 1847.

(From Colburn'a Unite
[Where two places are mentio
which the dep6t of the
Ist Life Guards—Regent's Prk
24 Ditto—Hyde Park
Royal H. Guards—Windsor
Ist Drag.Guards—Birmingham
2d—Newbridge
3d—Piershill
4th—Nottingham
sth—York
6th—Dundalk
7th—C. Good Hope, Maidstonel
Ist Dragoons—caw r
2d—Athlone
3d—Bengal, Maidstone
4th—Dublin
sth-
-6th—Newbridge
7th Hussars—Dublin
Bth—Baliincollig
9th Lancers—Bengal, Maidstn.
10th Hussars—Bombay, Maid-
stone
11th Hussars—Coventry
12th Lancers—Hounslow
13th Lt. Dragoons—Longford
14th—Bengal, Maidstone
15th Hussars—Madras, Maid-
stone
16th Lancers—Brighton
17th—Dublin •
Grenadier Guards—
(lst batt.) Windsor
(24 batt.) St. George's. Bar.
(3d batt.) Portman-st. Bar.
Coldstream Guards—
(Ist batt.) Chichester
(2d batt.) Wellington Bar.
Scotch Fusileer Guards—
(Ist batt.) The 'rower
(2d batt.) St. John's Wood
Ist Foot—
(Ist batt.)—Antigua, Paisley
(2d batt.)—Bury
2d—Athlone
3d—Dublin
4th—Madras, Chatham
sth—Mauritius
6th—Cape G. Hope
7th—Barbadoes, Dublin
Bth—Bombay, Chatham
9th—Winchester
10th—Bengal, Chatham
llth—N. S. Wales, Chatham
12th—Mauritius, Isle of Wight;
Reserve batt., Mauritius
13th—Birr •
14th—Plymouth
15th—Ceylon, Chester
16th—Corfu, 'Youghal
17th—Dover
18th—China, Chatham
19th—St. Vincent, Castlebar
20th—Canada, Isle of Wight;
Reserve batt., Canada
21st—Madras, Chatham
22d—Bombay, Chatham
23d—Halifax, Isle of Wight ;
Reserve hatt., Canada
24th—Bengal, Chatham •
25th—Madras, Chatham
26th—Buttevant
27th—Cape G. Hope, Fort G.
28th—Bombay,. Chatham
• 29th—Bengal, Chatham
30th—Newcastle-on-Tyne
31st—Manchester
32d—Bengal, Chatham
33d—N. Brunswick, Stirling C.
34th—Corfu, Waterford
35th—Mauritius, Jersey

•d Service Magazine.)
fined? the last-named is that at
regiment is stationed.]
36th—(1st batt.) Corfu.
(2d batt.) Cephalonia
37th—Ceylon, Chatham
38th—Jamaica, Boyle
39th—Canterbury.
40th—Galway
41st—Limerick
426—Bermuda, Isle of Wight ;
Reserve batt., Bermuda.
43d—Newport
44th—Newry45th—Cape. Hope, I.of Wight;
Res. batt., Cape G. Hope
46th—Halifax, Guernsey
47th—Clonmel
48th—Enniskillen
49th—Dublin
50th—Bengal, Chatham
51st—Madras, Chatham
52d—Portsmouth
53d—Bengal, Chatham
54th—Malta, Kinsale
55th—Templemore
56th—(lst batt.) Gibraltar
(2d batt.) Isle Wight
57th—Hull
58th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
59th—Templemore
60th—(1st bt.) Bombay, Chatm.
(2d bt.) Gosport
61st—Bengal, Chatham
62d—Winchester
63d—Chatham
64th—Limerick
65th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
66th—Gibraltar, Cork
67th—Cork
68th—Mullingar
69th—Malta
70th—Fermoy
71st—Glasgow
Reserve batt., Canada
72d—Gibraltar Charles Fort
73d—Cape G. Hope, Birr
74th—Belfast
75th-Dublin
76th—Edinburgh
77th—Canada--1 enagh
78th—Bombay, Chatham
79th—Gibraltar, Boyle
80th—Bengal, Chatham
st-Devonport
82d—Halifax, N. S., Brecon
83d—Kilkenny
84th—Madras, Chatham
85th —Dublin
86th—Bombay, Chatham
87th—Weedon
88th—Barbadoes—Tralee
89th—A shton-under-Lyne
90th—Cape G. Hope, Sheerness
91st—Cape of Good Hope, Isla
of Wiglit
Reserve batt., Cape of G.
Hope
92d—Dublin
93d—Canada, Aberdeen
94th—Madras, Chatham
95th—China, Naas
96th—N. S.Wales, Chatham
97th—Malta, Isle of Wight
Reserve batt, Malta.
98th—Bengal, Chatham
99th—N. S. Wales, Chatham
Rifle Brigade—
(lst batt.) Cape of G. Hope,
Bristol
(2d batt.) Canada, Isle of
Wight
I Reserve batt., Quebec.
COLONIAL CORPS.
• Ist West India Regiment—Jamaica
2d Ditto—Nassau •
3d Ditto—Demerara, Sierra Leone, &c.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon & China
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Canada
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of Good Hope
Royal Newfoundland Veteran Couapany—Newfoundland
Royal Malta Fenciblea—Malta -
St, Helm Regiment—St. Helena

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

o.

W. Y. Peel, Esq., has resigned the representation of
Tamworth, in consequence of the death of his wife and
the illness of one of his sons.

In the House of Commons, on Friday, Lord John Rus-
sell confessed that " the advantages of free trade, like
those of every other measure, had been greatly exag-
gerated."
The petition against Mr. Grantley Berkely's election for
West Gloucestershire for want of qualification was pre-
sented on Monday " amidst audible marks of disapproba-
tion from both sides of the house."

SUNDERLAND.—Mr. Barclay is expected to retire from
the representation. Sir Hedworth Williamson and W. A.
Wilkinson, Esq., are candidates. They are both Whigs,
but the former is an advocate of the navigation laws, and
being likely in consequence to gain the Conservative votes
is almost sure of being returned.
IRISH ARMS BILL.—The following Lancashire m em-
bers voted on Monday night. in favour of the first reading
of Sir G. Grey's bill for the more effectual suppression of
crime and outrage in Ireland :—E. Cardwell, Sir Thomas
Birch, Dr. Bowring, J. Brotherton, J. Duncuft, J. W.
Fox, T. M. Gibson, C. P. Grenfell, T. Greene, G.
Greenall, J. Heywood, Col. Lindsay, J. W. Patten, J.
Pilkington, and R. A. Thicknesse.—Against it: W. S.
Crawford only.—Absent : Sir G. Strickland, J. Hornby,
J. Bolling, S. Gregson, W. Brown, R. Walker and John
Bright.
IRELAND.—In the year just ended, as compared with
the corresponding period of last year, Irish murders have
increased in the ratio of about three to two, the numbers
being— 1846. 1847.
Murders .
Attempts to shoot
Robberies of arms
Firing houses ..

381 868
Yet, on this state of facts, Sir George Grey only asks for
an Arms Bill. The Lord-Lieutenant may proclaim a
district and disarm it.

1813 AND 1837.—The following contrast by Prof. Alison
needs no comment :—ln 1813, the population of Great
Britain was about 13,000,000 ; it is now nearly 20,000,000.
The income tax in that year produced £15,000,000 at ten
per cent. ; now, at less than three per cent. it produces
about £5,500,000 ; in other words, at ten per cent. it
would produce about £19,000,000. It is not going too
far to affirm, that both the accun.ulated capital of the
empire, and the annual increment to that capital, is now
double what it was at the close of the war. But during
the war, which lasted twenty years, an addition of nearly
£600,000,000 was made to the national debt, being at the
rate, on an average, of 30,000,000 a-year borrowed by
Government. In the three last years of the war, 1813,
1814, and 1815, the sums borrowed by the State amounted
to the enormous sum of £154,910,982, being at the rate
of above £50,000,000 a-year. Yet so far were these
copious drafts from exhausting the capital of the country.
at the close of a struggle of twenty years' duration, that
the loan for 1814 was borrowed at £4 Ils. ld., being a
lower rate than that paid at the commencement of the
war. NOw if thirteen millions of men, with little more
than two-thirds of the present taxable income, could then
produce this immense annual surplus to lend to Govern-
ment at the close of twenty years of war, is it extravagant
to suppose that twenty millions of men, with double the
capital, could now be strained, if the currency of the
country was equal to its wants by producing £33,000,000
annually for railway undertakings, after thirty years of
unbroken peace ?