The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-16 00:00:00

CORPORATION POWERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,
Sri,--A correspondent iu the Albion questions the power of
the Town Council, to bestow an allowance to Lieut.. Low, the
government emigration agent here for office, rent, and lodgings
I beg leave, as a professional person, to say, most decidedly.
that, according to the strict legal interpretation of the municipal
act, they are so completely fettered that they cannot give any
part of the corporation funds for such a purpose. If they do,
they act cum periculo, will be in fault, and probably provoke
their constituents. •
Although Lieut. Low got £l5O from the late Town Council,
(who were not so pointedly restricted by any statutory enact-
ments, and had certainly, and, perhaps properly, in many cases,
a more extensive discretionary power.) and may stand in need
of another grant or gift. The precedent cannot now be acted
upon or sanctioned. The finance committee, to whom the-mat-
ter is referred, will perhaps report accordingly to the next
meeting.
Neither in Greenock, Bristol, Leith, Hull, and other ports,
where officers of the Navy are put on full pay for performing
the important duties of emigration agents, ( having been all
previously on half pay,) has any such demand as the present
been made. If the pay is inadequate, let government be applied
to for an increase, or an extra allowanee for rent.
The act ought to be softened, for at present the council can-
not even give assistance to the poor at this distressing period
of want and starvation. I am, &c.

OBSERVER.

SCRIPTURAL EDUCATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE I,IVERPOOL STAND iIRD,

SlR,—The desperate efforts which have been. made with la-
mentable success, and are now making, tifhatilsh scriptural:
instruction from our schools of every grade, (and 1 believe, in-
cluding, at least, one of our new Universities,) are so fraught
with some of the worst evils, that every friend to the best inte-
rests of his fellow-creatures should strenuously use every endea,
your to prevent the evil from spreading; and to root it out
where it has been adopted.
Towards these desirable objects, I beg you"to insert ifi'an
early publication the following extract froth a valuable work
entitled "ELIJAH THE TISHBITE," p.. 221 and 222, art. •Work-
day Evening,' by the Rev. Frederick W ilium Krummacher,
D. D. of Elberfeldt, Prussia, translated from the:German, and
published in 1837, by the Religious Tract Society.
It describes forcibly what we have to dread among ourselves
for the unholy designs and labours of .tuen styling themselves
"liberal" and " enlightened ;" papists, deists, infidels, socin-
ians, and nothing-at-all-arians. Oh ! may the example of Ger-
many, and our duty to God awl the rising generation, be
seriously laid to every heart ; "a Christian is the highest style
of man :" the'contrary is its lowest.
I earnestly recommend the perusal of the "TISHBITE" to
all vour readers. It. P.
Liverpool, March 13, 1838.

"O my brethren, what sorrow fills my heart, upon turning
from the picture of these ancient and-piously-devoted seminaries
back to our own times, to contemplate the establishments for
instruction, which modern wisdom has devised, and of which it
boasts. oye sons of Israel, how much better were ye provided
for than most of our youth in the present day -! and yet we are
Cut i s'rt Ns ! Where are institutions at present to be found
in which another spirit rules than that of the world and the pro-
fane? Where can we. behold flout ishing seminaries in which
a Christian hopes for his children to flourish also ? Alas! they
do but rarely, very rarely indeed, exist; notwithstanding our
systems of education, those boasts of the age we live in. In
what, then, consists 'the vaunted perfection' of such systems?
14 it in those fragments of classical literature which are crammed
into our youths; or in those ornamental aCcOmplishinents to
which our daughters are made tosacribce their health and men-
tal cultivation ? Or, is it in the almost general separation of
modern instruction from the word of truth, the gospel of our
salvation ? Or, is it in the more popular Manner in which in-
dividual branches of knowledge are treated, apart from all
deeper investigations, apart from their general' connection,
and above all, apart from the knowledge of God as their chief
end and perfection ? Or, does the excellence of our modern'
education consist in purely heathenish conceptions of liberty,
morality, and justice, as accredited to our youth in many semi-
naries, by blind leaders, who never study the sacred oracles
with half the diligence, zeal, and respect with Which they study
the ciassie writers of ancient Greece and Rome? And here I
cannot refrain from inserting the remark of an enlightened
writer upon 'the present state of education in Germany :--
"Education," he says,' "is become a system of seduction—
youths, awl even school-boys and apprentices are trained into
instruments of faction and rebellion, and are found the most
active associates of tumult and revolt in the present day." Yes,
the most audacious blasphemies and execrations ate uttered in
the ears of listening youths, and even of childreu,against clergy,
magistrates, and public institutions, while the minds of the
young are thus easily excited, and drink in these iniquities like
water. A monstrOus ignorance of the Word of God, au affect-
ing and deplorable want of scriptural knowledge exists far and
wide; for during the last thirty years, our youths have been
beguiled of all the blessings of holy things, in our public and
private seminaries; yea, even our very universities, and those
who have most distinguished themselves iii—pii:petrating theie.
spiritual robberies, have become the most respectable, popular,
and best rewarded. The most superficial talking passes for re-
ligion and moral instruction; and school -books full of subtle
omissions, or of the most daring attacks upon religion, are in-
troduced by authority. Instruction in history—that memorial
of Divine justice and human sins, is commonly abused to the im-
planting of national pride, and the dissetnituitiou of the most
pernicious principles and doctrines."

METHODIST BAZAAR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.MDARD.

--
Stn,-1 am glad to find the Editor of the Mail has anitnad-
verted on the letter which appeared in his letter of Tuesday
last, and signed " A Wesleyan Methodist," relative to the
propoSed bazaar for relieving the exigencies of the schools in
connection with that respectable body.
It strikes me, however, that the tenor of his correspondent's
remarks is so very discreditable both in spirit and in language
as to require further notice. It has seldom or never fallen to
my lot to read observations evincing such a manifest want of
Christian feeling as those appearing iu the letter referred to.
Ills insinuations (more particularly) thrown out against the
young ladies who have expressed their readiness to assist in dis-
posing of the articles for sale are really disgusting, and such as
should not come from any one laying claim to the title of gen-
tleman. And here I put out of question the consideration that
his profession, as a Christian, ought to have taught him to "put
on charity which is the bond of perfectness:" "and to study to
be quiet and mind his own business.." And this last remark by
the way is worth his- attention; for the ignorance he displays
relative to the rules of the society (as shevin by his making a
distinction between being members of the society.aud meeting
in class: none are alb:1%113E11s who do not MEET IN CLASS) affords
internal evidence that the signature is, to use the least offensive
term, an " assumed" one.
In reference to this insinuations can his correspondent have
forgotten, if perchance he has ever known it, that "purity is
the essential ingredient of woman's nature, is firm and durable
as the clearest and brightest diamond, and is tet so delicate
that a blemish once thrown upon it, however lightly, is never
removed—that this charm of her character 'Once gone, is gone
for ever ?" is it then a light matter to cast into shade, as he
has done, by calumny, that belies

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" All corners of the ieorld, kings, queens, and states,
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave
This viperous slander enters,"
thus to cast, I say, this bright jewel into shade, and rob her
of that which could not enrich him, but make