The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

A REBUKE FROM RIPON

(From the Church and State Gazette.)
The following are extracts from the reply of the Bishop
of Ripon to the altered address from Leeds, signed by one
hundred and sixty of the clergy, and so " craftily quali-
fied" to accommodate Dr. Pusey. It is a glorious rebuke ;
and most happy are we that the attempt to deceive the
bishop has tailed so signally of success :
"The immediate cause of anxiety for us all, to which you
especially allude, is the lamented departure of several of
our brethren who have lately forsaken our communion. It
is indeed matter for much sadness and sorrow that any of
its members should have bee❑ so deceived as to lend their
talents, given them, as I truly believe, for far other ends,
to support the cause of ecclesiastical usurpation, of crea-
ture worship, and of religious imposture. But, unhap-
pily, their minds being thus over-clouded, and their affec-
tions alienated from the Church in whose bosom they were
born anew to spiritual life, and nourished by the ample
means of grace therein mercifully afforded to the children
of God, and their influence once exerted to seduce others
from their allegiance to her, it is, indeed, well that they
have gone out from among us, and can no longer misuse
the power committed to them by our Church to her own
hurt and hindrance." _ .

"For these fallen brethren we shall never, I trust, cease
to pray, in the spirit of compassionate love, that their
hearts may be led by the Eternal Spirit of Truth to dis-
cern the error of their ways, and to return to the fold
which they have forsaken. _ _

" But their unhappy trespass will surely read a lesson
of seasonable warning to each of us, and remind us that
we cannot, with impunity, pour contempt upon the Church
of our baptism, in which we have grown in grace, and in
the saving knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ ; that if we wantonly dispise the spiritual privileges
we hive enjoyed within it, instead of thankfully and re-
verently using them, where God has appointed us our
place, we may well expect that He will, in his anger, take
them from us, and that if we indulge a morbid yearning
after an earthly visible centre of union, while we have the
Lord Jesus Christ as our spiritual head, ever living to
dispense to us from above the rich blessings of His Cove-
nant of Grace, we may be provoking the Lord of Hosts to
punish us as he did the Israelites of old, by giving us up
to our hearts and lusts, and letting us follow our own imtk-

gins tions.
" The lamented fall of our brethren will likewise teach
us the danger of tampering with practices which may seem
to us innocent and even edifying, but of which history
sad experience have so forcibly proved to us the peril,
and which tle Church of England has either expressly
reprobated or tacitly discountenanced. For my own
part, I confess that I feel little temptation to despondency
or discouragement, when I look to the many signal marks
of God's providential care vouchsafed to our Church, to
the truth and purity of the doctrines she teaches, and to
the many evidenc's of spiritual life within her, among
which I would thankfully acknowledge the assurance given
me by such a body as yourselves, of your anxiety to de-
vote yourselves more earnestly than ever to the duties of
your sacred calling in the Church whose vows are upon
you. Let us only hold fast her doctrines of primitive
awhority—let us but carry out, in the spirit of fidelity,
her recognised teaching as embodied in that definite ex-
pression of Gospel truth set forth in her Liturgy, Articles,
and homilies, remembering that, in subordinatiGn to the
enlightenment of the Spirit of God, we have accepted
these as our interpreters of His holy word, and we may
humbly believe that we shall be safe ourselves, and, like-
wise, through grace, save them who bear us."

SPORTING IN TEL LIGENCE.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE COURSING CLUB

The meeting of this club was held at Chatsworth, on
Wednesday and Thursday last, under the patronage of
his Grace the Duke of Devonshire.
The Chatsworth Cup, for 16 all-aged dogs, was won by
Mr. Bake's Butterfly ; Mr. King's The Baron ran up.
The Devonshire Puppy Cup was won by Mr. King's
Miss Sarah ; Mr. Hardman's Mayflower ran up.
The Burlington Cup, for 16 all-aged dogs, was won by
Mr. Richardson's Reserve ; Mr. E. Taylor's Harpurhey
Lass ran up...

The Cavendish Stakes. Both the dogs which would
have to run the deciding course belonging to one party
(Mr. Jepson), the stake was divided between them—viz.,
Flisker and Peter.

The Edensor Stakes were won by Mr. Thomas's Rapid;
Mr. Bake's Blythe ran up.
The Bakewell Stakes were won by Mr. Bake's Little
teas; Mr. Chew's Mostyn Lass ran up.

To AVOID CRUELTY TO THE HORSE IN HUNTING.—
That fox or stag hunting is the frequent cause of a great
deal of cruelty and suffering to horses is quite clear ; that
is, when they get into certain hands. I have some years
since seen the Hon. Mr. P., with his horse spurred from
shoulder to flank, and that because, from want of com-
mon sense and j udgment in the early part of the day, he
had beaten a good horse before it was half over. If this
is not cruelty, Ido not know what is. Depend upon it,
the man who would be guilty of it towards his horse,
would be equally the brute to his wife or child. God
forbid that he should have either the one or the other !
Let no man tell me that enthusiasm in the chase is an ex-
cuse for premeditated and wanton cruelty. I maintain it
to be wanton cruelty to butcher a good horse, when the
only plea we can produce for so doing is a wish to see
more of the end of the run, as if a man could never see
another during his life. I can assert from experience and
observation—and have bad no small share of the former,
or want of opportunity for the latter, in these matters—
that 1 never knew one of these real butchering riders in
the field who was not a brute in all his relative connexions
with society. Let it not be supposed, that I mean in any
way to infer, that riding straight to hounds necessarily in-
volves cruelty to the hunter; quite the contrary. I am
perfectly satisfied, and I am quite sure the best judges in
these matters will agree with me, that the man who rides
straightest to bounds, generally speaking, distresses his
horse the least; he keeps near enough to watch the lead-
ing hound, or couple or two hounds, by which he is
enabled often to avail himself of sound ground instead of
heavy, and perhaps cut he whole angle of a 50 or 60 acre
field. If hounds throw up their noses for only half a
minute, he can give his horse the full benefit of that half-
minute ; and half a minute, aye, ten seconds, is an age to
a horse all but blown. When they hit it off, he is off
with them ; they don't gain an inch on him ; he has no
ground to make up, for lie is ready to take his place.
Long may he keep it both here, and in his chase through
life.—Harry Hieover's Stable Talk and Table Talk.
Caunt has abandoned his action against the stakeholder,
to recover back his stakes in the late fight, thus leaving
Bendigo in quiet possession of the needful.

Total Income 112,705,693
Deduct Decrease

12,800,798

855,1211 760,016
760,016

Increase on the Quarter.... £95,105

The returns are in the highest degree satisfactory, ex-
hibiting a steady progressive prosperity in the finances of
the country, and, by a necessary consequence, in its in-
dustry. The net revenue for the year just terminated
amounts to £50,601,988.
The net revenue for the year ending January 5, 1845,
amounted to £51,235,538. There has therefore been a
decrease of £635,550.
This decrease is, howevei, to be accounted for in a
manner the most encouraging, namely, by the reduction
of the taxation, viz.:—

Customs reduction in Sugar duties ...... £1,300,000
Coal ..
Sundries.. ..
Cotton Wool . ....... 680,000

£2,418,000

Excise, Auction duties
Glass

£890,000

Customs and Excise

£3,308,000

Here then we have a reduction of three millions three
hundred thousand pounds of taxes, and a decrease of six
hundred and thirty-three thousand pounds of revenue—
equivalent, as every one must see, to an actual increase
of the difference, namely, two millions six hundred and
fifty-three thousand pounds.

The great amount 'of decrease is necessarily under the
head of the Customs ; under which, as we have seen,
there has been a reduction of £2,518,000 ; and even under
this head the decrease falls considerably short of the re-
duction—though, as must be apparent where so much
revenue has been given np, absolutely and totally, as it
has been given up in the case of cotton wool, coals, and
sundries, there can be no compensation from increased
consumption.

In the Excise, notwithstanding the sacrifice of the
auction and glass duties to the extent of nearly £900,000,
there is an actual increase upon the year to the amount
of £17,000; while on the Stamps, the index to an active
commerce, as the Excise is to the ease and comfort of
the mass of the people, the increase upon the year greatly
exceeds half a million. Upon the Postoffice, too, there
is a considerable increase.