The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-11 00:00:00

Nor, 11, 136,

reprobamus"—" We condemn and reprehate that sevin2.,
AnOther statement is—" the daferenre between the Jewish and
the Christian (els-emu!: is, that, in the JewiSh covenant, God
requires avoid:L.l'ae of sin, and a fulfilment of his law by a sin-
ner, leaving him dependeut on his own werkS; brit iii the tither,
God gives to the sinner that he condemos purification by his.
grace." Here agulin is what We delight in; and bonCerning
this the Church of Itoune sags, Dainuarrnia et reprotaimus."
Oh! sir, this is the gravaineo of the charges, after all, Which I
bring against the Church of [tame, and those charges ale sup-
ported by the truths of God's word. these truths, the propagation
of which, by God's grace have, and Will be the means of salvo-
tien to sinful inert. ([Tear. hear, and cheering.) AnThagainsl
this—against the grace of God—against the word of God, the
Church of Rome erects herself in a condemning .attitude.
Against all that Gel has sent for bonging sinners to gliiry, she
pronounces an anathema—she intredet•es a barrier between the
g,oodaess of God and the dependence of man. She has snatched
the sweetness that hung on the lips 111 our adorable Saviour, and
has given to her votaries instead thereof a poison. We may'
well congregate ouasel yes together iii protestant associations,
not for the hatred, but for the love that we hear to ieti• fellow-
men, fir the desire that the grace or God should be felt—that
they may learn and know what Jesus did for us—that they may
learn and know that the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all
sin—that they may hear the delightful saying, that " through
this man is preached to them the forgiveness of sin," and that
"all who bedeve in him are justified in all things from which
they could not he justified by the law of Moses,"—that they
may learn that Jesus Christ is " the end of the law for right-
eousness to every one that believet —that believing, and being
justified by faith, they may " have peace with God," and find
themselves within that holy embrace where sanctification is im-
bibed—that they may find themselves on a foundation pure anti
holy, whareathe sinner is invited to stand as a sinner, that,
standing there, he May be embr -:ed as it saint. it is that they
may know his glorious gospel—it is that they may win their way
through all by faith into an atmosphere of holiness—to find
their hearts eleYated—desire to glorify God, and look forwards
to the scene beyond the grave. It is this that swot tens the
calamities of life—relieves all its difficulties—and sweetly soothes
all its fears ; —which triumphantly overeoines the fears of death,
by the "love of God shed abroad in their hearts through the
Holy Ghost giveu unto them." It is that the hive of God may
be shed abroad in the hearts of every one in Ireland, as well as
in England, that we thus toil, that we may have than satisfaction
of glorying in the salvation of our sinful fellow-creatures.
(Cheers.) Oh, sir. the Church of Rome draws sinners front
this happy consolation. She interposes between God and the
sinner certain conditions which draw hint back from the enjoy-
ment of the happiness purchased by the blood Of the Lamb.
This unnatural stepmother keeps him hack, and after death
purgatory must free him and fit blue for eternity.' ( Hear.) But
there is a consolation when I look aru,s.nd anti see that the
councils of Ahithophel were turned into foolishness, for iu the
recent attempts to import into Great Britain mutilated portions
of the word of God, the perpetrators I will call them of that
deed, in endeavouring to do so have removed front the greet
building of our constitution a stone that will grind their seheine.s
to powder. (Hear.) I, sir, however, have in my mind's eye
what will effectually counteract this novel importation df scraps
of God's holy word. I wish that it may be heard quietly—that
it may be received determinate's% and acted upon perseveringly.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) 1 wish—von wish it to r.ei gieeted as
your forefathers would greet it. I will mention it in two words,
and I know you will receive it as Englishmen ought to rereiva
it. I mean the cry of "no popery." (Cheers Which lasted for
some tune.) Union is indispensably necessary fur this purpose.
Perseverance is indispensably necessary. Decision is indis-
pensable. It is not only necessary in order to carry that Cry
into effect, that it should be well received in a public meeting.
God works by means. It is our privilege to he intelligibly in-
structed in the nature of those means —and we are accountable
to God for their employment. If you will revive that cry with
effect let each begin it at home—let every christian mother be-
gin it in her nursery—let every christian schoolmaster begin it
in his school, pointing out, not the opposition of man against
man, but the opposition of the creed of Pius the dth, with all its
adjuncts, against the Word of God, and rearing the young
man with a reference to the Bible enthroned upon every faculty
of the moral and spiritual being of the child. (Cheers.) Yon
must net in this matter look for assistance from government.
do net speak politically, but no acts of Parliament can achieve
what I now desire, no act of men or ministers can do what we
want to be done. It is not to he done by whigs. It is not to
be dime by tories. -Bet it is to be done by readers avid lovers of
the Worth of God. The middle classes of this nation have been
practically addressed by the legislature, and' political power
has been placed in the hands of the community at large. I
do not allude to this politically, neither do I express my opinion
upon late political measures; but in the existing state of the
country, I have no hesitation in saving to you who are now as-
sembled here, that if you do not exert yourselves, you will have
the Scriptures torn front the hands of your children by a people
who jesuitikally profess to universal charity, It, then, you des.
dare that you will not have the Bible wrested from your hands,
you must be determined to have a government of men who will
make the Bible the basis of all wive, neient, for what is scrip-
turally wrong can never be politically right. We would be
liberal, and give to all protection to property, and freedom of
opinion; but perish England, rather than the Bible should
perish out of England. (Cheers.) Ile begged, to remind the
audience that they would have an opportuhity of giving a prac-
tical prbof of their attachmeht to the principles they were that
day met to advocate, by contributing at the doors to a collection
that would be made on behalf of the schools which had been-
established since the Corporation Schools haul been deprived of
the Bible. The rev, speaker then said, he Would take the liberty
of reading to them a passage from a speech delivered by into
some time ago in Scotland, and which contained his deliberate
sentiments, and much better expressed than he could express
them, then, in his exhausted state. [The rev. gent. then read a
portion of a speech which appeared in the Liverpool Standard a
few weeks since.] I cannot conclude wit hout congsatidatirig
this meeting and the whole town, upon the gratifyieg fact that
the resolution of our town council,-;tilopting the Irish sv,t,ot of
education in their schools, and themel.y excluding the Puilita, h s
been practically rescinded. If it be not rescinded, the Bible is
still excluded; but upon the combined and unanswerable testis
mony of Mr. Rathbone, Mr. Blackburn, and Mr. Withusley, .1
proclaim the cheering intelligence that the Bibld is not ex-
cluded, and, consequently, the resolution of July is practically
rescinded! 1 have much pleasure in moving that the following
gentlemen be requested to act as the committee of our associa-
tion for the ensuing year. The rev, gentleman read the names
of the committee, and sat down amidst tumultuous and pro-
tracted cheering.
The Rev. FREDERICK BARKER then came forward. He said,
he would not detain them any time by pointing out what he had
intended, had sufficient space beau given, but he would just
take the liberty of reminding them that there was a Protestant
Association'established, and that if its funds were increased its
objects could be extended ; and these objects were, the diffusion
of information amongst teir Protestant and Catholic fellow-
tnwnsmen for the propogation of truth, and to destroy error.
The rules of the association had been originally for this end ;
and he would call the attention of the labouring classes in par-
ticular, (many of whom he was glad to Sea around,) and of all
.classes professing the Christian faith, that those who subscribed
5s annually, or gave a donation of one guinea at any one time,
could become a member of this essociation ; and all persons
of the poorer classes who might subscribe to the sub-collectors
going round, ltd per week for one year, should also be members
of the assocation. An annual subscription fiont a tradesman
of ss, constituted a member of the society ; or, one penny a-week
paid to any of the collectors constituted a member of the asso-
ciation. The reason why they should thus combine haul been
so very ably stated, that he felt it might be impertinent to at-
tempt to offer any additions. But he would just remind them
that they hail frequently been taughtby one whose conduct had
been marked more by the success which had attended his pro-
gress, than the upholding of any-true principles, " that nothing
could be done without uutty of action." 'l'lo were the wools
of the great agitator O'Connell in prosecuting the work which
he haul so fearfully begun, when addressing one of his co-auSiu-
tors,
"that nautili{ could be done without unity of action."—
He therefore csi:ed anti them to unite with them in securins the
truth which they had received, and preserving it for themsel-
yes and their children. And it should be borne in mind, that it
was not a matter in which the clergy were alone concerned;
they were helping the laity to maiutaia their own rights,—they
were helping their poor brethren to have their children educat-
ed according to the truths of God, and they were helping those
who had great rights to secure to maintain those lights, and
hand them down as they haul received them from their fore-
father'. This could only be dime by unity. And'if it was a
time when "rogues were combined," it surely was a time when
" henest men should be acting; in unity." (Cheers.) In order
to do this, they must have one common business of action, and
that common business was the word of God. (Heat.) Setting
out on this, they found it as necessm yto maintain the truths uf
Gird, as the government of any coil-01.y. They found what was
to be done evil, must he practised against ; evil must be kept
under. found it was according to the principles of
army bod
y i,f men to slight some of the first,
Wh, t they
the holiest see-
saws of God's truth, (and they brought this charge agaiust the
Roman Catholics.)—they nut only protested against the evil of
their tieing permitted to dictate as to the mode of their (the
Protestants) operatiohs, either political or social, but they must
take such measures as would prevent them doing this. When
.they found that a large body of individuals' who were sworn to
observe that the law as regarded property and the church. suouh!
be upheld as appointed, though in thus oath which they took
there was no exemption of ecclesiastieat property, d ye
late late this oath ;it was high time for them to lift up tieer :el,
against such a procedure. He would ask them to loolso.t?..'ne.,
oaths that the Roman Catholic members of
the il"'e„lietMnlT
mons took before they became legislators. They
;‘,)hreth'e settle'
to the utmost of their power to support utto ueoi()
Church and
ment of property in these realms—the Protest.
to weaken the Protestant faith as established in t • -
govertiment—arid never by word or deed attelni'lt:iine,apny:xsa:
( Hear.) This, too, they swore, and declared
to do in the plain and ordinary sense of the
u'iath which the
thtiey..,wereitti:oreutt.tarlelyd
mental reservation whatever. (Hear, hear.)
wan
these
words.
Catholic members of Parliament have to take. iniii
the
When they contrasted with the laustuars
n—Ph(), dinti keent
(Ili het
aoe
vo (lf)
con-
duct of many members of parliatnehioa,c,,,,
he would say that it
both in the house and out of the
such evil principles' as
was time for the protestant cemmudn
of
their danger, and join heart,nsicet
counteract and obviate the c
these. (Cheers.) ut die resolution to the meeting, and it
The CHAIRMAN then p
was onanimly
The Bev.ous Mr. TATTBBSWALI, saij ,understanding t •-
he last re=
d amt also )
solution to have heath else , g
be
being informed that it
was the last resolution was
to submitted to the present
adopted.
meetings he had taken the liberty of (main_ forward under cir-
cumstances somewhat different front those in which his rev.
brethren had come forward before him on the present occasion.
The res. gentlemen who haul spoken had each been followed
by one seconder, but he hoped the resolution he was about to
propose would not requirehe to have one seconder, but would have
several thousands. resolution he haul to pro; osO was,
"'that the cordialhathvainng taken thisksonftthe chi
meet;iir g d
presided meeting; be
oC n this.
oFeaeratest.n%,"
Esql for
le should not wait for env seconder, but should
lo„); for that expression on the part of the meeting which the
occasion called for. (This announcement was received with
great cheering.)
The Ctlatast AM then stepped forwards. Ile said, for this
unexpected mark of their kindness, they wo illut believe him, he
begged leave to return Ahem his most sincere and cordial
thanks. fie thanked them fur the indulgence which they haul
given him, and which, during a meeting seldom equalled in
point of numbers and unevalled in point of dura-
tion, by their exemplary patience, had rendered his offiee almost
a sinecure. Ile had only one request to mnke—that this meet-
ing, which had commenced with prayer, would most appropri-
ately conclude with praise, which he hoped wont(' be the case.
"'Praise God from whom al! blessings flow" was then snug,
the whole assemblage joining in the hymn. The effect of the
united voices of such an immense concourse W 39 peculiarly
solemn and impressive.
The assembly then quietly dispersed at about hill-paint four
o'clock, the meeting havicg lasted five hours and
The collection made at the doors amounteds...ll, J 5.

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THE MONEY MAI:KET.—RA PELF. Ex-rusoapi dwity.—S is uCh
is the estimation in which the King's picture, sec in gol, he:(1
at Bury, that the other night a sovereign Iva!, pa up and actually
raffled fur at 225. The u Miter and owner spending each half-
a-croven. If this is disputed, inquire. at " Italph•onlies,"
King's Head, King-street, 13.ttry.

TowN_cot! NCI L PROCEEDINGS,

On 7ednesday th 6 ni!W Town Council hcld its first itiarttif
ply. 11r.
tzT, tthe late Mayor; ?laid his lahodri
that meeting.
‘A at yC u
werenirl o
a,w re; were very light. He took
the chair Merely to give them an optiortunity of appointing hid
successor ; and he had ne doubt, on whomever that choice
might, tall, he would be interested solely by this deSire of pro:
moting the welfare of the town.
propose Councillor RaTiseask fseggen to Mr.
Earle, junior, as a fit aud proper man to rid the office. of
Mayor. In Si) doing, he thought the retinen counrel ceind not
better repay the oblinations which they owed to hini i'ur his
exertions in the cause of reform.
Mr. Councillor Joust HoLsius begged to sebehd the
Mr. Cc time having put the tinestion to the comiell; IFITs
Earle ‘i•as iicattimausly elected. Mr. Currie then resigned hid
seat to the newly elected Mayor.
The NIA viiit then said—" If ever I aptike the truth I do so
now, when I say that I. nr7er was ambitious of a seat in thid
Chair. considering the corrupt meanswhirls- were farmerlk
taken to attain it. I never could then attach any hntiour to the
situation ;.And it is only surprising that so 111.10,idrlivldoals
should be foolish enough to spend vast dtims Obtiiieini, it;
especially when it kinwit that It will next lit imptrisibie td
screw a single shilling nut of their,,tiorkets, except it Were hi,
the gratification of their own selfish vanity, though at the
time the gold vas absolutely greWing mouldy in their coffers.
A fundamental change has since taken place. It would ill
become nie to think lightly of the honour Yief have dotie tit
this day, seeing so many around me so much better able to fill
this chair. It is- sn honour I had no right to aspire to, to
preside over a council of so enlightened and respectable a
body or my fellow townsmen ; a burly, too, chosen by the
people at large,—it in an honour I never could have aSpired to;
I am well aware that I am indebted to your opinitin of thy
feeble advocacy of the cause of reform for the position which
new occupy, when I was not supported by friends as I now run
bid when it was endeavoured to strangle et its birth every
measure which had for its object the advantage of this great
cornmeicial community. Last year the saute feeling iduced
yo 4 to elect my excellent; and worthy friend, our lath e)t;
celleut chief magistrate. Ili hint vou found Many, if tin; all
the qualifications necessary to till this situation with satisfac;
tion to the town at large—f hear), lam sure you must be
aware—if not, I am—that Ido not possess those qualifications...
However this deficiency on my part edhances the compliment
on yours, and I can only say I am gilt aware in my preSidinf.f
here when my pi edeees,or will be fresh in your recollection, it
must naturally make me suffer by the comparison. I shall;
howevat, endeavour to discharge my duties faithfully and td
the best of my ability —(Hear.) It only remains for me td •
thank yon ; and I only regret that I cannot call any language
slifficirenly strong te express all I feel on the occasion.—;
(Cheers.)
The Towsr-cLane then said, the first besinss the
would have to pertortn would be to fix the days on which
should be held the three quarterly counetli. Thek were gene;
rally held in the months of February, May, and August, for the
bowing year, in addition to the one appoinW by Act of Par•
liament. The terttre adopted on a former occasion was that,
they should tie heel, on the first Wednesday in the months of
refirnarv, May, and Nitgest, and at the hour of eleiien
'rhe Mason then pet the question if the council Would ti/t
tiff t first Wednesday of these months fur the meeting of did
quarterly councils at l I o'clock, which was agreed ta: