The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-09 00:00:00

REV. HUGH STOWELL,

The following address of sympathy was unanimously
adopted by the Liverpool Protestant Operative Association,
at a meeting in St. Mark's School-room, on Tuesday, 22nd
September, and transmitted to Mr. Stowell by the chairman,
who had signed the address on behalf of the meeting.
" TO THE REV. HUGE STOWELL.
" Rev. SIR,—We, the Members and Friends of the Li-
verpool Operative Protestant Association, in public meeting
assembled, desire to express our Christian Sympathy with
you, and to assure you that the late legal proceedings, car-
ried on against you by the Popish party, only endear you
more to our affectionate regards, and call forth our earnest
prayers to Almighty God, that you may be enabled to go
forth in the strength of your Divine Master in spite of the
malice of the enemies of true and undefiled religion, fear-
lessly and boldly to expose the false doctrines and supersti-
tious practices of the Apostate Church of Rome. The tes-
timony of yourself, sir, and those other champions of pro-
testautism, who have stood forth with you in defence of our
religion and liberties, has been too deeply felt not to call
forth the opposition of the Popish party, and we have no
doubt whatever, that the late attack was intended as the first
attempt to put down free discussion, by means of which
freedom, the light of the reformation first dawned upon this
land. But we feel assured, that the attempt will be in vain;
that thousands and tens of thousands of our fellow-country-
men will arise with righteous indignation, and demand, am
their undoubted birthright, free discussion, free inquiry, ant]
a freely-circulated bible ; and that the result will be, that
Popery and Superstition will flee away like owls and bate
before the rising sun. We, therefore, would respectfull3
encourage you to persevere in spite of all opposition, '
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be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work o
the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour is no
in vain in the Lord
(Signed)

" B. A. MARSHALL,
" Chairman and Vice-Presiden

To the above we annex the letter which accompanied
and Mr. Stowell'a reply.
" Liverpool, St. Mark's, 23d September, 1840,

" REV. AND DEAR SIR,—I am the honoured instrument
of conveying to you an address of sympathy on the part of
the Protestant Operative Association of Liverpool, and allow
me to add (that which gives me unmixed pleasure in the re-
collection), that but one feeling pervaded the large and crowd-
ed meeting wherein this address was voted—a feeling of gra-
titude, under God, towards yourself, for your bold and manly
conduct, and of unanimous sympathy on account of the re-
cent attempt to stifle, in your person, the exposure of that
fatal system which tends to rob Immanuel of his glory, and
man of the salvation of his immortal soul. I have the ho-
nour to remain, rev. and dear sir, your faithful servant and
brother, " B. A. MARSHALL.
" To the Rev. Hugh Stowell, Manchester."

" Manchester, October 3d, 1840.
" MY DEAR SlR,—Will you assure your Protestant fel-
low-soldiers in Liverpool, thaLzny delay in acknowledging
their very gratifying and animating address has not arisen
from insensibility to their kindness ? Next to the approval
of my God and my conscience, I value the approval of the
good ; but I have been literally overwhelmed with letters and
addresses, so as to be quite unable to keep pace with them in
my answers. Will you also assure them, that the " things
which have happened to me have fallen out rather to the
furtherance of the gospel,' and that, so far from being daunt-
ed or disheartened, I am only the more inspirited in our holy
warfare by recent events ? The late trial has constrained me
more than ever to compassionate Papists, and more than ever
to reprobate Popery. May God enable us to pursue the de-
fence of this truth, with the wisdom of the serpent unalloyed
by his subtlety, the harmlessness of the dove undebased by
its timidity, and the boldness of the lion unaccompanied by
his ferocity. I am, my dear sir, your's in truth and affec-
tion, HUGH STOWELL.
" To the Rev. B. A. Marshall, Liverpool."

DEAFNESS.—We have great pleasure in directing
tention of our readers to the success attending Mr. Swift's
practice on the human ear.—( See advertisement.)
ASPHALTUM PAVEMENTS.—We beg to draw the atte
of our engineering friends to an advertisement which ap
in another column of our paper this day, relating to the la
ing down of bitumen pavements. It appears that the price
of the Parisian Bitumen Company are considerably lowe
than others. and we are assured that the material is of a su
perior quality, whether in respect to its durability or hard
ness. The South-Eastern and Blackwell Railways have
used it to a great extent, and it has been found to answer
most admirably.
We understand that the ladies' committee of Christ Church
School have presented the Rev. Fielding Ould with a hand-
some gown and cassock, &c., as a tetimony. of their high
estimation of his zeal and affection in the discharge of his
pastoral duties to the congregation at large, and particularly
in the superintendence of the school under their direction.
The gift was accompanied by an appropriate letter from the
secretary of the committee.

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The ministers and elders of the Welsh Calvinistic Metho-
dists of this town, having understood that some of their
church-members have allowed their rates to be pLid for them
by parties wishing to secure their votes at the ensuing muni-
cipal election have passed a resolution expressive of their dis-
approbation of such a proceeding, as being nothing better
than a species of bribery, and have given the parties in ques-
tion strict injunctions to refrain altogether from voting on
the coming occasion. This resolution was made without any
reference to the political sentiments of the parties. It would
well, we think, if the leaders of every other religious deno-
mination would adopt a similar course of proceeding.—Cou-
rier.