The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-15 00:00:00

Juty 15, 1836:

lent to Mr. Henderson, an artist of this.town, who had wished to eoPlit
it, and who had erected a building for I hat especial purpose. His
copy, however, was not finished. hen it was sent to Dublin, and it
had now returned, he had thought it best, previous to its disembarka-
tion, to lay the subject before them at the present meeting, as it would
save expanse and trouble of conveying it to the Town-hall, unpack.'
ing it and repacking it again. Was it their pleasure that the picture
should be lent to Mr. Henderson till he had finished his copy of it
which was for a charitable purpose.
Mr. SHELL objected to the picture remaining any longer with Mr,
Henderson. The picture was the property of the public, and ought
nut to be lent to any private individual in order that he might turn it,.
to his own advantage. It was true the picture had been lent before.
by the old corporation, but it did not, therefore, follow that it should
be lent again. He decidedly objected to it, and should require a divi
sion upon the question.
Dr. CARSON said he was instructed to state, that Mr. Henderson wai-
taking a copy from the picture for a charitable institction, and that la'
would not detain it after the time specified.
Mr. W. EARLS thought Mr. Shiers objection exceedingly paltry.
It was the duty of the council to encourage genius wherever they'
found it,

Mr. SIIEIL thought the word paltry, as applied to what he had sad
a very inappropriate one. It was the custom tl•equently to gloss over'
with very smooth words the grossest jobbing, and Mr. Earle was not
justified in applying such an epithet to hi-n.
Mr. EARLE said, that in that room he should make use of what lan—
guage he thought proper, and in doing so he would not be restricted•
as to what words he should use, either by Mr. Sheil or any one else.
After some further remarks, Mr. CouLAN moved that the picture'
he sent to Mr. Henderson till the expiration of the time named by the'
old corporation, which was carried with only one dissentient, vis.•
—Mr. Sheil.

SCIP.NTIFIC INSTITUTION.

The NIAYOR gave notice, that at the next monthly meeting, he
should submit to the Councils subject of great importance. He wished
them as a body to invite the members of the Scientific Institution to •
this town next year. This year they held their sitting at Bristol
There were about 400 members in the society, and they generally re-
mained about one week in the town which they visited. He appre-
hended that beside the other great and obvious advantages of such
visit, the influx of so large a body into the town would be productive
of some benefit to it.

THE CORPORATION SCHOOLS.

Unless the members of the Town-council immediately rescind the
impious determination to which they came on Wednesday week, re-

specting the use of the Bible in these schools, the doors must of lie-

cessity be closed, in consequence of their being neither scholars to
learn, nor masters found to instruct them. Most of the parents of the
children lately instructed in the two schools have resolved not to send
them any more until the-new regime, attempted to be thrust upon the
town, is abandoned. The North School has, from the reason men-
tioned, been closed already ! Yes, we say, closed, notwithstanding
that Mr. Councillor Hope himself assumed the office of Teacher, and
invited the boys to listen to his instructions. The facts are shortly
these:—lmmediately after the meeting orthe council, on Wednesday
week, both the master and mistress sent in notice of their resignation
to Mr. Hope, who is chairman of the education Committee, which
was accepted. Upon that, it was agreed that a letter should be sent
to Blackburn, to a person residing there, who was well qualified to
take charge of the new system. Accordingly, Mr Hope dispatched a.
" flattering tale," he obeyed the command, and was at the
school-room on Monday morning, when he met with one of the corn•
mittee, who detailed to him the plan upon which he must commence,
the duties of his situation. Finding, however, that he had been
tricked, and that the scheme of the council was entirely at variance
with his views of what a religious education consisted, he pet•
emptorily refused to have anything to do with the school, and
mediately returned to Blackburn. The result was, that Mr. flop!

" took his seat on the bench," and, with ferule in hand, undertook to;
commence the business of the school himself. But soon tired of hit
occupation, he left his pupils, to the number of from twenty UP,
twenty-five to the care of a senior boy to act for him in his absence.
Presently order was broken. Mirth and joy prevailed, and the no.'
velty of the popish-socinian plan had not the effect of preventingeven
a score of boys, out of between three and four hundred, from putting-
on their hats and running home—such was the fact. The lads left,
the doors were locked, and the key was in Mr. Hope's possession iR
about an hour after he left. Thus matters remained till yesterdni•
when the school was re-opened. in the course of Wednesday even'
ing, placards, of which the following is a copy, were plentifully posted
in the neighbourhood of the school :
" The North Corporation Schools are now open at the usual hours.
for the instruction of children of all religious denominations.
Signed—SAMUEL Horn, Chairman of the Committee."
We hear also that there has been a systematic beating up for scho-
lars by some of the hangers-on of the Corporation, in the streets ad'
jacent to the school. Nevertheless, all would not do, for yesterday et
half-past two o'clock, we state it upon the best authority, there were
only thirty-one ! boys, and thirteen I girls in attendance. A veil
miserable proportion, to be sure, of the 70J children who went to the
school prior to the insulting decision of the Council. Where the re.
maining number are, certainly is a matter cf no trifling consideration
—some are perhaps running about the streets in bad company, °there
doing what is still worse, and all probably receiving no instruction at
all. The education committee and their fellow-labourers in the couu.
cii have incurred a fearful responsibility by their rashness. It °nil
remains, now for the friends of true scriptural education to make
speedy exertions to procure the erection of new schools, In order that
the evils which may be justly apprehended from this lamentable state
of things may be remedied with as little delay as possible.
Since the above was written we have much pleasure in stating, that
the committee appointed at the meeting on Wednesday. have taken
commodious premises for school rooms ; the one for the south dirt.
sion of the town is situated in Tabley-street. opposite the end of
Shaw's-alley, and that for the northern division at the Caypentere
Rooms, in Bond-street, for boys; and another room in Grosvenor.
street, Rose-place, for girls. The rooms are capable of accommodating
upwards of eighteen hundred children, and v/ill be opened on TvitS-
nax MORNING NEXT, at before 9 o'clock. All the masters and Inief
tresses recently engaged in the Corporation Schools (with one
tion) have been appointed, under the superintendence of the two
rectors, and the ministers of St. Thomas's and-St. Martin's thurclies*''
to take part in the management of the schools. It is only justice to
the Committee to add,_ that in acting in this prompt and efficient luso"
ner, they have entitled themselves to the gratitude of the subscribers.
in particular, and to the lasting thanks of every man who values bts,
bible as a treasure of too sacred a nature to be wrested from WM or
mutilated by the ruthless hands of the Socinian or the Papiit.

O'CONNELL'S LAST.

LIVERPOOL:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED
BY RICHARD PArI'ISSON,
At N 0.4, NORTH CHRSCHNT, CASTLI-STRis."

O'Connell has published his promised letter, contain-
ing the particulars of the " family subscriptions" to the
funds of what be calls "The National Association of
`lreland." We hare no desire further to The
our ce-
lumns with the brutal abuse of this man. The tollowinK
excellent observations, however, carry with them the ea-
tidote, and put the agitator's blarney in its proper posi-
tion. They are from the Times of Wednesday : • ,
" Words cost less than nothing to Mr. Daniel O'Connell-
Yesterday's post from Ireland brought with it another letter,
addressed to the members of the National Association of Ire'
land,' wherein, as usual, the incendiary instigates rebellion,
but professes to counsel peace.' It is nut difficult to perceive
in this instance that the real object next the rapacious heart
od
the agitator is to lay his fingers on other people's money, ell
he therefore sets going a subscription (there is much to be don .a
by a subscription) under the name of justice rent' for Ire-
land; the handling of which, of course, is reserved for some
creature or creatures of Mr. Daniel O'Connell; the amour
fr
for 26 individuals of the O'Connell tribe, which he tenders or
promisei, as a decoy-duck to his intended victims, being £3Bl,
a sum which may be about 1.3,000 th part of what he has 01
ready, in other shapes, extorted from the paupers of 'reline,
and no doubt he will make a good thing' of it.
"The grave twaddle which runs through the present letterl
not the least amusing part of it. His new association is td,
partake in its character of the celibacy of the popish priesthoo _
It is not to have any species of connexion' with any other
body. Trades' unions, central committees, parochial
mittees, registry societies, all excellent, all ravishingly beaentle
ful in their way, are to be eschewed and fled from by
abstemious martyrs of the National Association. The
must have nothing to do with them whatever, any More thantbet
.
virtuous Father John with the blue eyed nun of St. Cat!:
rice's'—that is, now and then drinking their good health.' If.q
if we set aside the trades' unions, central committees, parecb!,t,
societies, and the rest of them, it perhaps may puzile the.
genious Daniel how to fill the ranks of his projected associatioll,„
Will it not be somewhat like turning our backs upon cu
es
selves?' The agitator will not suffer his utifortunates &Po
to endure for one acquiescing moment the brand of slaverif
of unjust inferiority.'
" There remains, then, no second inflammatory topic lost
present but the established church, being that of the reforio
worship ; and what is this save the confirmation of all that
have been pressing upon the country for three or four years got.
—namely, that the real grievance of the papists was differ,
from the professed one—that they pretended t want only aro
lief from tithe (of weich all the world knowso that the bur
falls not on them. but-on the landlords), while the true grays bay
was the existance of any protestant established church; Oat of
while they avowed no further wish than for the modification, a
the tithe system, the only modification for which they cereevt;
straw was the re-transfer of all church property to the it
priesthood? When, therefore Mr. D. O'CoNNELL %
his slaveito endure no longer the 'brand of unjust inferiotl'A,t
it is obviously but another phrase for declaring war on the
of his (so-called national) association against the protesif%
church establishment which has already, from the samequargo
been the subject of such repeated and irreverend calumny!
.tr.
remainder of the letter is mere rubbish, unredeemed by or -17"
t cle of reason, tiuth, or honour.
"He assume!, with his accustomed modesty that rrissieLl-
men—church protestants and dissenters, as well'as paoisisoo
friends and abettors of his disloyal machinations. He striod-'
wholesale the county constituency of England and their, '`Ws
lords for being operated upon by the cry of No poperY• . to
congratulate our protestant countrymen that the shoe begint, it
pinch. He tells the English farmers that their best inteZ7o,4
the prosperity of Ireland. Then' who, in that case,-is 010; that
deadly foe but the grand disturber and obstructor 0' "O.
prosperity? With glaring and ungrateful impudence be: abet
the people of Ireland that we know well Stanley, pee
Wellington; we know tbeir conduct when the' two latier,rel.
in office!' Av, and so do we; for it was Wellington set peO,
who brought Daniel and his mob into the 'house of kellt,cniee,"
though the mounted beggar, in enumerating their 'o,oeas- the
chooses to pass over that mistake. fie slanders and ,c,1"`"", tbd
Irish bench because they are not vet
P4Pist3. 'He attact3
periodical organs of the conservatives inr proposing to ru.,,`001;
land by another Cromwell. A deadly poison requlres per SDI
t
ful antidote. When a venomous creature crawls o alll
pollutes the land, what so much to :be prayed for as° IS, 'A°
eagle to pounce upon and tear the reptile with his taleil,%l
for dealing with Ireland while a prey to priests and bvt%nov
magogues by the mild maxims of free and popular gover.s eve
g
the thing appears to men of common sense Mote hopeltrilli
hour. Such incendiaries do not tolerate in people of ano•s w
holo
those equal rights for which they themselves es,erlastinglif 00c
While anything like independence is left in possesorin.
lisp protestants, the O'Connells and WHiles -raise 4;001
against it, as if it were an infringement of limit own,Perwhic,
rights. We repeat, therefore, that any shadow of, pow .
can be turned to offensive
.purposes, is-te such men Tht.
concession. They are intrinsic and incorrigibletan's
sole desire is to make English protestants their slaves.,,o VIP!
alternative is to come, and whenever it does come, erce victifg
the depositories of despotic power, or its irrecoveve,o_: od
we tell Mr. Daniel O'Connell that our choice is made'
not England, shall surely perish."