The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

THE MAIL AND ST. MARTIN:S CHURCH.

We would with pleasure have inserted the ably-written
letter of Nigel had we received it a little earlier. The only
passage we can possibly find room for is the following;
and it is the only notice we will condescend to take of
the scurrilous attacks to which our correspondent's letter
is so effective a reply.—".lf that which prompts the im-
puted presumption and censoriousness of his neighbours
have as the Mail says, the least palliative character of
" religious (though mistaken) zeal" in it, how naked
stand your contemporary's malevolence and rancour,
when their only excuse is the mercenary motive of previ-
ous pay or of expected gain, or the diabolical desire of
befouling and calumniating an antagonist. You are
accused, sir, of applying insulting and abusive expressions
to a clergyman, yet after all his blustering lisservation not
one such expression can he adduce. The only expressions
quoted to justify so serious and blackening a charge are
directed not to the minister but to the ceremonial, and
those of the most harmless kind. You have insulted a
clergyman, how ? by designating his proceedings " eccen-
tricities,' and ' extraordinary gyrations' ! Parturi-
unt montes ridiezdus mus' ? But pray who is this
vindicator, so scrupulous, so tender, so jealous of the
clerical character, so keen in his perceptfon of clerical
conventionalities ?—Who ? The very man,—the same
low-minded reviler, lost to all refinement of delicacy and
impervious to all reproach, who, in giving publicity to an
afterwards admitted falsehood and libel on the character
of a clergyman, could not desist from befouling an unof-
fending minister of Christ's holy church " with his
ill-mannered epithets, stigmatising him as one of a class
of ignorant, stupid, and malicious Irish fanatics, who did
more harm than good in their ministrations ! Who, then,
I would ask, is the low assassin of clerical character and
usefulness ?—who the Swiss mercenary of the press ? A
candid public may be left to judge ; but what shall we say
of his paraded tenderness and respect for the clerical
character ?—what of his pompous professions of reverence
to religion ? What, but that his pretended championship
of Mr. Wray is only a cloak for his personal malignity to
the Standard newspaper,—same ancient spite still un-
spent, some private grudge still unrevenged ?—what, but
that his hoarded malice no time can diminish, and that
an unworthy desire of revenge still rankles in his mind ?"

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

The supplies of all descriptions of Grain and Flour have been
moderate during the past week, with the exception of foreign
Wheat, of which we have received upwards of 30,000 quarters,
chiefly from Mediterranean and Black Sea ports. The show of
Wheat samples, by land carriage, from Essex, Kent, and Suf-
folk, was again small, and, the demand being good, a clearance
was speedily effected, at an advance of fully 2s. per qr. upon
last week's rates. There was a fair retail trade in foreign
Wheat, but previous prices could not be exceeded. In some
instances Is. more money was obtained for fresh-barrelled
Flour. Barley was a slow sale, with the turn in price in favour
of the buyer. Oats were in limited request, and last week's
rates were barely maintained. Beans and Peas without altera-
tion.