The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

THE REV. HUGH M'NEILE.

We have great pleasure in giving insertion to the following
letter, which, it may be proper to state, we du without any com-
munication with the reverend gentleman whose signature it
bears. The addition of £2OO a-year, which it menbons, does
but bring up Mr. M‘Neile's emoluments to the amount (E 600)
which he surrendered in accepting the ministry of St. Jude's.
The augmentation must be the more gratifying, inasmuch as it
is not an act of the trustees of the church, but a voluntary testi-
monial of gratitude and esteem from members of the congrega-
tion .

TO THE CONGREGATION OP ST. JUDE'S CHURCH.

My dear friends and brethren,—Estimating my services in
the balance of your own affectionate partiality, you have added
£2OO a year to my salary as your minister. You have an-
nounced this to me, during my absence, in terms highly honour-
able to yourselves and flattering to me. I haVe written to you
in reply, but without power to give adequate expression to my
feelings.
I am unwilling that our correspondence on the occasion, dic-
tated as it has been by the overflowing fulness of brotherly af-
fection, should be exposed to public view. At the same time I
feel it due to you, to myself, and to the cause of our holy
religion, in which it is my privilege to labour among you,
that the fact itself should be made public.
It supplies additional proof. if such were wanting, that where-
ever a clergyman of our church really gives himself to his
sacred work, with all his powers, however moderate those powers
may be, he finds, in his intelligent lay brethren, such a re-
sponse of cordial affection as longs for opportunities of maul-
festing itself in acts of kindness.-1 am, my dear brethren,
your affectionate pastor and faithful servant for Christ's sake.
Belfast, May 4, 1838. tiuG 111'Ni:tit-E.

PROP HETICS,

[The following jeu d'esprit appeared some years ago in the
John Bull. We trust that another opportunity may soon
occur fur a repetition of such language.]

E.ceunt Omnes !
The Whigs !—How they have clung to poser,
Let sly-boots Tierney tell :
The bud that pineS for April's show'r
Loves not that show'r so well.
They're out ! —Yet all, from Knight to Earl,
May hope once more to reign ;
For when a swine regards a pearl,
They'll rule the land again.
When winter sheds his whit'oing snows •
O'er gentle Summer's green;
When Brungh'm shall cease to twitch his nose,
And Lambion to be mean;
When I ruder fell ipecac-
uanha to champagne,
A od ducks shall sing, and linnets quack,
The Whigs will rule again.
When beauty's eye shall love to squint,
And beauty's cheek to fade,
And lamb, divore'd from sauce of mint,
In oyster sauce be. laid ;
When tailors' legs refuse to cross,
And fops no more are vain,
And misers deem their gold but dross,
The Whigs will rule again.

When face of soot-hedizen'd sweep
Shall match the lily fair ;
And head of butcher's boy (to keep
It warm) a hat shall wear;
When hackney coachmen dread to toe
A sky portending rain,
And loathing doctors spurn a fee,
The Whigs will rule again.

When Jews shall lick the watering lip .
if roasted pork appear;
'When bees snail gall, fur honey, sip,
And spring commence the year ;
When Hunt and Wright shall cease to puff,
And Calintre hate Tremaine ;
And ev'ry female chin grow tough,
file Whigs will rule again.
When with'ring age shall love inspire,
And blooming youth disgust ;
And water freeze upon the fire,
When
jealous husbands trust ;
When tears from hypocritic eyes
Shall wash out knavery's stain ;

And slander deal no more in lies,
The Whigs will rule again.
They'll get their places as before,
When gout shall soothe the toe;
When shipwreck'd seamen dread the shore,
And fleas to lobsters grow;
When Christians all forgive their foes,
And Crockfrrd vice restrain •
And 'not an eye in church shall doze,
'the Whigs will rule again.
When blacklegs act on honor's laws,
And black eves melt like blue;
When silliest coxcombs gain applause,.
And truffles spoil a stew;
When English beauties smoke cheroots,
Like the brunettes of Spain;
And glorious Warren dims my boots,
The Whigs will rule again.
When these three things shall me delight-7-
An old mans tale twice told—
And on my bead a hat that's tight,
And in my head a cold ;
When toes thrice blest with corns shall choose
(What makes them now complain)
A hard and pinching pair of shoes,
The Whigs will rule again.
When true wit means a manual jest,
And beards are shaved with axes ;
When addled eggs make custards best.
And we are freed from taxes;.
And when most copious draughts of gin
• Shall not disturb the brain;
God bless the (Queen) !—She'll then take iu
The snivelling whigs ag►ain.

Ei.was, Trts Misge.—l asked him (Wilberforce) if be re-
membered the miser Elwes, in the [louse of Commons. " Per-
fectly; and that question rensinds me of a curious incident which
one day beret that strange being. In my youngerdays we °Pen
went to the house in full chess, on nights, for example, when
any of us were going to the opera. Bankes, on an occasion of
this kind. was seated near Fibres, who was leaning his head
forward just at the moment when Baukes rose hastily to leave
his seat, and the hilt of his sword happening to come in contact
With the miser's wig, which he had probably picked off some
scarecrow, it was unconsciously borne away by Baukes, ""
walked in his stately way down the house, followed by Elwes.
full of anxiety to regain his treasure. 'rile house was in a roar
of merriment, and for a moirent Bankes looked about him
wondering exceedingly what bad happened. The explanation
was truly amusing, when he became conscious of the sword-hilt
which he acquired."— Wilberforce's Life.