The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-06-06 00:00:00

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO LIVERPOOL

THE St. George's Hall Committee have been indefa.

tigable in their exertions to complete this magnificent

building, and we have now the satisfaction to be able to

state that Liverpool will be honoured with the auFms

presence of Hint MAJESTY on the auspicious occasion of

the opening. In order that due eclat may be given :to
the affair, the Committee will be doubled for the purpose

of making the necessary arrangements for the reception
of the QUEEN and her RorAL CONSORT; and no doubt
it will be the most exciting and brilliant affair ever wit-

nessed in the capital of commerce. It was intended to

Lave secured the aid of the celebrated JENNY LIND, to

take part in the musical services with which HER

MAJESTY will be welcomed within the Hall, but the

indisposition of the Swedish nightingale, after her recent
confinement, has caused her to decline the pressing inci•

,ation. The Committee have, however, engaged the

eminent composer, Sir HENRY BISHOP, as leader, so
that the most ample guarantee is afforded for the quality

of this part of the entertainment. The charge for ad-

mission on this occasion will, of course, be high ; but we

ieve it is the intention of the Committee to arrange

afterwards for a series of concerts at a much lower

charge, so that the public may have an opportunity of
hearing the magifieent organ.

r The day for the opening has not yet been definitively
fixed ; but as it must be arranged to suit the convenience
of HER 111AsasTr, who will probably leave Osborne for
the north about the latter end of August, so it is more
than probable that it will take place the first, week ,

in September. It would, of course, be premature to
hazard any conjectures as to the accommodation to be
provided for the Royal party, as it is not yet known
whether they will come by rail or by the royal yacht.
It is stated, however, that Childwall Hall, the residence
of the late EDMUND MOLYNEUX, Esq., will be placed at
the disposal Of HER MAJESTY.

ELECTION OF BIRKENEAD COMMIS-
SIONERS.

TnE annual election of Commissioners for Birkenhead
will take place this day (Tuesday), at the Town-hall. The
object of the contest on this oc.lasion is one in which the
ratepayers of Birkenhead are deeply interested. An
attempt having been made to increase the local taxation
of the township, which attempt is again intended to be
proceeded with, the ratepayers are bound in self-defence
to return, on the present occasion, men who will study
the interests of Birkenhead, apart from any clique or
party feeling.

If the object be to drive all residents into the adjoining
townships, then, of course, lay on an additional tax. But
if the ratepiyers, the house-owners, the tradesmen of Bir-
kenhead, are anxious to secure the welfare of the place,
now is the moment effectually to oppose all such attempts.
Ratepayers ! Be early at the poll, vote for the following
gentlemen, and your object will be accomplished
_Mr. Charles Cook, 1 Mr. Henry Hilliar,
Mr. Henry Watson, 1 Mr. John Dixon Hore

_
Mr. H. Fox, ,
I Mr. James M`Whirter;
Mr. Thos. B. Golborne, I Mr. James Highton.
*** In the Albion of yesterday, the name of Mr. John
Dixon Hore was accidentally omitted. That gentleman
will go to the poll, and will make, if elected, a most useful
Commissioner for Birkenhead.

HEALTR OF THE TOWN.—The medical officer reports
that, with the exception of measles, which continues more
than usually prevalent, the town remains free from
epidemic disease. The deaths registered fell from 260 in
the previous week to 230 in the week ending last Saturday,
the average mortality of the same week of the preceding
six years being 215. The number of deaths from diseases
of the zymotic class was 76, of which 26 (more than one-
third) were from measles, 14 from typhus, 4 from scarla-
tina, 5 from diarrhwa, 2 from cholera, 2 from syphilis.
Small-pox was fatal in a greater number of cases than in
any week since September, 1851; of children who have
died from this disease there is stated to have been one vac-
einnted unsuecessfully. Rowel complaints are not more
than usually prevalent. The deaths from consumption
were 32, and from other diseases of the lungs 36. A
brewer's labourer died of delirium tremens, and two females
under 30 years of age, from excessive drinking-.
PEw-REar.—WEST DERBY CHURCTL—On Wednesday
last, Mrs. Sarah Twentyman sued Mr. Thomas Fletcher,
wheelwright, 'rue-brook, in the County Court, for the
sum of £l3 155., being the amount of two-and-a-half
years rent of' a pew in West Derby Church, at £5 Rt.—
per annum. From the evidence given by the son of the
plaintiff; it appeared that the pew had been in possession
of the plaintiff's family, it having been bequeathed by
Mr. Humphrey Holme, to his nephew, the husband of
the plaintiff, as an appurtenance to a certain dwelling-
house, situate in the parish of' West Derby ; and that
ten or twelve years ago the defendant took the pew at the
rental of £5 108. per year, which he paid up to midsum-
mer, 1851, which was subsequent to the decease of
the plaintiff's husband. On being applied to for the usual
rent after the date named, the defendant refused to pay,
alleging that Mr. Haywood claimed the pew as his pro-
perty, and hence the present action. For the defence
it was contended that the church at West Derby was not
a chapel of ease, but a parochial church, and that conse-
quently, by the old ecclesinsticA lee', no individual could
claim a right to the pew save the
rector. This was Lail
down in Burns, vol. i, p. 358. Formerly the parishes of
TAE QUEEN held a.Court on Wednesday afternoon, at West Derby and Walton, were united;
but e
Rev. Mr
• in 1843 they
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Buckingham Palace. The Chevalier Bunsen had arm were divided into distinct parishes, and --' audience of Her Majesty, and presented his letters of recal. Stewart was now the rector of the former•
Moreover
ail Envoy Extraordinary • and Minister Plenipotentiary supposing that the pew was an appurtenance to the dwel-
December,
from the King of Prussia.
ling-house estate, the property let been
d sold, in
VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS COMPERNIERE gave a 18.13, to Mr. John Pentherton,
had paid rent for the
grand banquet to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of along with it ; and if the defendantt_vaintin; he had done
so
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, on Wednesday, at their said pew since that period to the h I
WB5 not, therefore, legally
mansion in Belgrave-square. The same evening Lady in ignorance of the law,_istzis of St. Michael's Church, in
Hume Campbell gave a grand ball at Hill-street, to which liable. The chure!iwroa
t ed personal right to pews. The
aiflol course the pew
the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary proceeded this town, had de"
after leaving Lord Combermere's.
1850.—His Honour said
1 to London
.in
shioner of West Derby,
distinctly stated that, originally,
Tun BIZAAR.—The receipts from the bapar at the thatavi the act of parliament
chapel of ease, whatever
Musie-hall, Bold-street, on Tuesday, Wedifesday, and the church of West Derby h
i etas
eiaidered it 'been he was of
hplai.iiiitgiffrewmasoivie,ot even 1130. iv a pa. ri
Thursday, amounted to £460, exclusive of what was i a subsequent act may _ a.
realized by the sale of tickets, in aid of tile fund for the ' anion
that, prima ,fade- a title had established
new Wesleyan Schools, to be erected at Seacombe.
twelverearspaid rent
during a period o ten or , • ,
RonnEar.----The house of Mr. England, in Ann's-place, 1 having,
Ito tile pew on the
.par
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Hopwood-street, was entered on Saturday night, and A ; for it ; nevertheless,. that fact did not legally establish a
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Beech Lawn, June 5, 1854, TABAICRAUCHER.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
wish you would remind your Birkenhead read-
ers, that the annual election of
.conunimioners will take
place to-morrow (Tuesday). It is all-important to the
interests of that township, that such parties should be
elected to assist in the conduct of its affairs as, from their
knowledge of business and standing, can secure both suc-
cess and respect. It must give much pleasure to all to
notice an amalgamation of the two parties known as the
Red .and Blue, as, by this means, such a list is now pre-
sented to the electors as cannot fail to secure the most
complete confidence. The names of the candidates re-
I commended by the united " Red and Blue" will be found
signed by Messrs. Ileary Curry and Henry Watson, as
chairman and secretary; gentlemen who, from their expe-
rience in Birkenhead affairs, well know what is required,
and who are the most suitable parties to supply those re-
quirements in the conduct and management of Birkenhead
affairs• There is nothing now required to place these
affairs in the best possible position, but a long pull, a
strong pull, and a pull altogether.
Birkenhead, sth June, 1854. A WOODSIDE-3fAN.

THE MAIDEN'S SONG.

I LOVE and Love hath given me
Sweet thoughts to God akin :
And oped a living Paradise
My heart of hearts within :
0 from this Eden of my life
God keep the Serpent Sin
I love ! and into angel-land
With starry glimpses peer I
I drink in beauty like heaven-wine,
When One is smiling near !
And there's a rainbow round my soul
For every falling tear.

Dear God in heaven l keep without stain
My bosom's brooding Dove :
O clothe it meet for angel-arms,
And give it place above !
For there is nothing from the world
I yearn to take, but Love.

GERALD 311SSEY.

REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

Poems by Melanter.

London : Saunders and

Otley.
The principal poem of those published by the
gifted author who gives his effusions to the world
under the nom de plume of Melanter, is a drama
of Swedish history named " Eric and Karine ;"
besides which the volume contains also a collection
of miscellaneous poems, and several admirably
rendered translations. In all of them the author '
displays no small amount of poetic fancy, wedded
to a delicate and well-cultured dear ; while in not a
few the afflatus is of true inspiration. Among the
poems which, from the place he assigns them in the
volume, he seems to consider secondary, several are
meritorious in a high degree, conspicuous among
which is " St. Paul at Athens." In this poem,
which is pervaded by a true devotional feeling,
there are numerous passages of great beauty com-
bined with great subtlety of thought. The follow-
ing contains a fair exposition of his style, and will
be readily admitted as imbued with the true spirit
of poetry :
Behold yon sister hill ! the virgin-fane
Hath fenced the void from half her chaste domain,
While on each side, the pillar'd vista through,
Gleams in a marble verge aerial blue;
In front majestic semblance breathes on high,
The rival Godheads leaning from the sky ;
Neighs the wild steed the mean award to brave,
And monarchs shrink bet.re their destined slave.
What ! can there be ambition in a god,
And all it craves, to name a salient clod?
Not long, I crow, shall superstitious awe
From yonder pile the qnailing glance withdraw,
For Paul bath marked the glorious disgrace,
And all the kindling soul illumes his face;
He lifts the arm by heavenly aid bested,
And wakes the voice that shall reclaim the dead.
Ye men of Athens, armed to fight the air.
To trust the dark, and doubt where all is clear;
Whose haughty reach bath quenched perception's ray,
The spark of nature on your twilight way,
Blind leaders of the blind, in vague default,
Ye grope the maze of Superstition's vault;
For you the earth, the air, the waves, are fraught
With powers that menace all and promise naught.
Of late I passed where crowding votaries trod,
And 10, an altar "To the Unknown God!"
Whom then ye worship nameless, and unproved,
His gifts unthanked, his excellence unloved,
Him w,ll I manifest, Supreme, Alone,
The Almighty Father, the Eternal One,
Realmed inaccessible, but ever nigh,
The present God, the Dayspring from on high.
He lited while yet there was no life but His,
He made of nothing everything that is,
The swift light flashing through the dazzled void,
The earth unzoned, unbalanced, and unbuoyed;
Her yearly voyage He shaped, and o'er her bent
The unechoing arch, the crystal firmament,
And shut the seas their warder capes between,
And garbed the purple hills and valleys green ;
Then lifted the creating arm on high,
And scattered worlds like dust upon the sky,
Empowered the sun, and graced the moon with light,
And stars that watch the slumbering fold of night :
No trident swung, nor cleft the several birth,
But snake the word, and quickened the young earth,
Each life astir with instinct of its kind,
Unvexed by thought, yet compensate of mind.
Then last, and paramount of the wondrous plan,
He made of dust, in God's own image, man,
At first a friend, in bliss and glory placed,
Ere long a rebel, anguished and abased,
From heavenly commune sunk to earthly scope,
And driven beyond the verge of all but hope.
This poem abounds in rich imagery, and its
pictures are rendered in sonorous verse.
Of his chief poem, the drama of " Eric and
Karine," it is necessary to speak in more measured
terms. As a poem in the dramatic form it is excellent;
as a drama, intended for theatrical representation,
it is scarcely so successful. Its story is that of an
impulsive and impassioned North King, devotedly
attached to his queen Karine, who, in return, loves
him with an affection as high and holy as it is
intense and pure. Her influence over her warm-
hearted but somewhat blunt and barbarous hus-
band renders her obnoxious to the hatred of
Peterson, an astrologer, who, aiming at dominion
through the power he exercises over the supersti-
tious and credulous mind of Eric, finds himself
opposed, and in some degree thwarted, by the
gentle and innocent persuasions and generous feel-
ings of Karine, who, ever eloquent in favour of
virtue and suffering, pleads, in many instances
successfully, in opposition to the astrologer's
designs. This wily and malignant old man, to rid
himself of her authority, determines on her ruin ;
and for this purpose poisons the ear of Eric with
tales and foul suggestions, that Nils Sture, a young
noble, is the object of her guilty love. To aid in
this nefarious device he has recourse to all the
machinations of his art, aided by the more dan-
gerous promptings of his own fiendishly fertile
disposition, and succeeds in corrupting the ear of
the king. The workings of Peterson's devilish
devices are well put forward in the second scene of
the second act. It is as follows :—.

•
PETERSON. Ay, yell away, good burghers !—honest fools I
Too fat to scowl, but powerful to look blank;—
Bacon unstreaked —broad beans without the eyes !
And ye, proud shop-dames, in silk kirtles puffed,
And satin gorgets, rumpling back from me,
As I were what ye call " vulgarity,"—
I'll raise the price of widows' hoods ere long !
Well, I had rather to be knave than fool;
Though knave, set in comparison with me,
Is an ant-lion to the desert's lord;
Me who have met, and crushed the horns of fear !
But fool's a sop, whereon to wean the wise,
Born to fill gaps, and christened to supply
An alias for scorn. [Enter Elm.
ERIC. And what is madman?
PETERSON. Nor birth, nor baptism ; but.of death is he—
The death, and oft the suicide of the mind ;
Which being buried, the soul, its widow, can scarce
Live, or have feeling of her friends, or turn
From foes; nor bath intelligence to man
The ear's gate, or the embrasures of the sight.
Only the body with a monster's strength,
And eyes that are the hoods of fury's crest,
Hugs the dull cunning of a double self,
Or dungeoned, gnaws its flesh and pets its shackles.
ERIC. How is my star, thou Goran Peterson,
How is she, since I mortared up her foes ?
PETERSON. Her foes ! What, all her foes ? Oh, rare
equation,
Three crowns, enemies !
ERIC. Now, Peterson,
What man bath patience ? Rude be as thou wilt,
'Twill save much toil : but be not roundabout.
PETERSON (aside). Now, now is the time for it ; otere
she come
To urge her prayer, and while he bath no arms.
(Aloud) One there bath been, whom scarcely fit to pass
'Mang falling stars (the evedrops of the sky),
Thy royal planet took, and set in state,
To shine beside her, and to light the world.
ERIC. Thy tale—what is it ?
PETERSON.
Would push thee thence.
Bum Karine t my own Karine I
PETERSON. She is in foul conspiracy with the Stares,
To set Nils Sture, her lover, in thy place.
ERIC. A sword I a spear ! By hell robbed of my arms !
Come here, good fellow. Oh, I will not hurt thee.
PETERSON. The king shall weep (if throne he bath or eyes),
So soon as e'er he ceases to be mad. [Going.
ERIC. Mad ! no, come back, come back ! Now look at me.
Stand closer, closer ! Wedge thy keen glance now
Deep into mine, as blade-crossed duellists
Plumb for the impulse in each other's eyes.
Well l Am I mad ? Is there a wildness here ?
A stealth of something conscious, or a lack
Of reason's crystal, in the glass of thought?
What lam clear ; I tell thee lam clear : •
What mean'at thou, glaring thus into mine eyes,
As murderers, o'er the pool, after the plash?
Stand back. It is a lie, to say my thoughts
Are whirled and wandering. I will think straight.
Thou art come on purpose with some tale, to try
If aught could madden me : thou bast tried well.
PETERSON (aside). Who tempts him further, is more mad
than he. (Exit.
ERIC. Now let me try if I can think ;if still
Within this dark and unsurveyed fiord,
Where, to the ebb and flow of sense and sleep,
Trim reason, and o'er canvassed fancy ride,
If still i have—of that 1 cannot think ;
It is not fair to test my brain with that;
Intrigues and tricks, and things that have more skies
Than nature's front and hack ! But nature's self—
The hillside morning, and the sunset brake,
The lowing cattle, and the hush of leaves,
Of these, at least, I may think, and liarii;e.
Karine'. 1 clutch the implements of thought,
As watchmen grasp their spears to keep awake.
He bath bedrenched me with some cursed I rue:,
Siberian fungus, atropa, or hemp.
Or blood bath fouled that pearly camera,
Which shapes, and renders to the seated will,
The pictured flow and landscape of the mind.
Whate'er I love, whate'er I own, or am,
Even those elements, which eternity
Shall not impair, dejected are, and
we,
Like death-bed view of good resolve sun done,
my own.
Or like my funeral, and
Oh sight most strange, sickening much
kening and maddeningl
I see my mind—a solid mind though mad !
What art thou, cloudy and unshapen thing,
No more substantial than the wings of sleep,
Or nightfall, or the flake in eyeballs dim?
Yet owing duty to the sense of sight,
In some half measure, as a vision cloth.
Thou spawn of immortality, oh cease,
Thus horribly to curdle and to melt,
Now liquid, like the juggler's phial'd blood,
Now pulpy, like a woman nine days drownet!
Writhe on, thou dead alive worm in my skull.
* * *
Oh God, great God ! if for my, youthful sins,
By me forgotten, but in force with thee,
Cast forth I am from all self-consciousness,
(Save reasonable horror of myself)
Grant, in thy mercy, that she know it not,
Andinat I may not die at play with death.
„ * • * • [Enter KARINS.
n-AnINE. My lord, I have a favour. What, my Eric,
My husband, why look you at your Karine,
As if she might be arty one to you ?
Speak to me,-Eric. Oh, what shall I do ?
His head is burning, and his poor hands clenched,—
§9 colds oh I could Break my court-spoiled fingers,

She, who shares thy throne

Too weak to open them ! A pillow; quick,
I A pillow for his head I There, look not so,
i Not at the door so wildly.
Enic. Where is Karine ?
KARINE. Here, my own dearest, to thy side as close, •
As even she could ever long to be.
But art thou better ?
ERIC I have been asleep.
What was it that I dreamt of thee, Kathie ?
Art thou in trouble, that thine eyelids thus
Are moist, and glistening, and thy cheeks so pale ?
KARINE. No, lam happy, very happy now.
Thou boldest all the compass of my soul :
No sorrow yet bath learned the road thereto,
Nor shall, except through thee.
ERIC. How strange it is !
I feel thy gentle voice repose on me,
Like sunset on a shattered pine, or as
A hermit's shadow on a troubled brook.
Now, at thy smile, the snowdrift of my heart
Melts to a flood of h ppiness, too calm,
Too deep, and still, to murmur into words :
lAnd it bath drowned the snake, the hissing snake
KARINE. Ah, could I only keep thee ever thus ;
And little Gustave, so like thee in all,
His quick eyes kindling, when the maids in play
Make mouths at him, or feign to threaten me :
And then the laugh, which from his jutting lip,
' Breaks, like the ripple from a coral marge,
Soon as his infant dignity is soothed.
ERIC. Poor little man ! I trust he may not show
j A darker likeness to his father's moods.
KARINE. Now promise this, this little thing to me:
When, at a quick affront, or hasty word,
Thou art aglow to forge the sentence-brand,
Remember, he. whom thou wouldst hurt, may hare
His own poor Gustave, and his own Karine.
ERIC. When lam chafed, my memory is short.
KARI NE. And shorter afterwards : men call thee harsh,
"The King is quick of mood and terrible;"
But thy wife better knows her lord. And now
I will entreat thee for a little proof,
That s,,e bath not mistaken thee.
ERIC. What is it?
Long must thou search ere thou couldst find a thing,
I would deny thee.
KARINE. 'Tis only this :
Release, and take again into thy grace,
The noble Stures.
Ham Woman, say that again !
If this be true, I have been always mad.
KARINE. My lord, have I said harm ? I only meant
Swante Sture, and his noble son.
ERIC. His noble son !
• ' ris in the stars ! Thou lovest him—thou dolt 1
'I bou wouldst kill me, to set him in my throne.
Not in my brain the snake, but in my heart ! [Exit ERIC.
KS RIME. What, Eric ! then all I trembled at is true.
Gone ! And such words as those ! Oh, gracious Heaven,
Look down on her who bath no hope of earth !
My husband must be—yes, great God ! he is—mad. , .

Working on the insanity he has produced, Peter-
son succeeds in causing the king to imbrue his
hands in the blood of Nils Sture and his father,
both of whom he slays in prison. This flagrant
act of injustice and murder is resented by the
nobles, led on by Milne, the mother of Nils and
widow of the elder Sture. Eric is driven to extre-
mity and flies, and Karine, after enduring much
ignominy, insult, and suffering, is allowed to escape
in peasant garb, and to take with her their only
child. She rejoins her exiled and dethroned lord,
now restored to a sad sense of the wild deeds he
has committed in his hours of phrenzy. There is
something beautifully touching in his feeling out-
burst, when Karine tells him that their child is

Borne, in peasant dress,
Beyond the frontier.
ERIC. ➢fy baby exile, God preserve the sane,
• Discrowned of pride, but monarch of thy mind !

The captive king is in the hands of Maline, and,
by her condemned to drink a poisoned cup, the:
fatal draught of which shared by Karine, and both
die together. The closing scene is one of great'
power, and is finely wrought. The character of
Maline is designed and filled in with masterly skill.
High tempered, energetic, and unbending, when
once bent on her revenge she pursues it with
unswerving firmness and relentless hate ; she forms
in all respects a striking contrast to the gentle
and pure-minded Karine. The leading characters
are well and skilfully drawn, and the piece abounds
in interesting scenes and situations ; and the draw-
backs which will weigh upon it as an acting drama
are of a technical, rather than of an artistic or
poetic order. The dialogue is in general well-
sustained, and is full of noble sentiments. From
the specimens before us we should be inclined to
augur hopefully of Melanter's future efforts, and
feel assured he has drank too deeply of Castalia's
stream to withdraw his devotion from Melpomene.

Brazil, the River Plate, and the Falkland Is-

lands. By Wm. Hadfield. London : Longmans.
The beautifully got-up volume before us has
numerous claims upon public attention. It is par-
ticularly suited to the mercantile community, and
must possess an especial interest in the estimation
of the intelligent commercial population of Liver-
pool. The work, although setting up few claims
to high literary character, is written in a clear,
forcible, and comprehensive style ; and, from the
thorough practical knowledge displayed by its
author on the various and important subjects
which fall under his review, it unostentatiously
advances claims on public consideration, which it
fully sustains and justifies. It may be termed the
codified result of matured experience, in a commer-
cial and social sense, of the condition and prospects
of Brazil and La Plata ; of a similar knowledge of
the chief of the Falkland Islands, and contains in-
cidental, but pleasing and shrewd, remarks on
Lisbon, Madeira, the Canary and Cape de Verde
Islands ; and has also sagacious observations rela-
tive to the advantages and disadvantages of the
Cape Horn route to Australia. The object Mr.
Hadfield started with in planning his volume, and
which object he has kept steadily in view through-
out its prowess, was the development of the com-
mercial resources possessed by the respective
countries he treats of, and to show the means by
and the direction in which these resources could
be made available to the British people, and most
conducive to the advancement of the countries
themselves. Keepinc, this philanthropic purpose
steadily in view, he has nevertheless had skill and
tact sufficient to embellish his narrative with nu-
merous important historical and physical facts,
which add to its liveliness without Impairing in
the slightest degree its utility. In his capacity of
secretary to the American and General Steam Na-
vigation Company, Mr. Hadfield was necessarily
brought to consider attentively the wants of the
important traffic of that extensive section of the
world treated of in his volume, and the best means
for accommodating them ; on this point it will be
best to let him put his own case in his own way.
This he does, after a sensible review of the existing
trade between the eastern coast of South America
and Europe prior to the application of steam to its
navigation. In this review, he finds that, so long
ago as 1851, Liverpool employed shipping to the
amount of 30,000 tons annually in the Rio Janeiro
and Rio de la Plata trades alone ; that the value
of merchandise transported hence to these regions
amounted to upwards of three millions sterling
yearly ; and that that large export consisted chiefly
of goods manufactured at Manchester ; and, above
all, that that traffic might without difficulty be
vastly increased with increased facilities for its
transport. To be once convinced of a commercial
improvement in Liverpool, is to secure the means
of its accomplishment, and in this, as in other in-
stances, one facility lead rapidly to another, till the
American and General Steam Navigation Company
was instituted and organised under the provisions
of a royal charter ; and in August last year their
first or pioneer steamer sailed from Liverpool for
the River Plate, which, on the 24th of the follow-
ing month, was followed by the Braziliera, a mag-
nificent ocean steamer, under command of Captain
Green. Mr. Hadfield gives the following sum-
mary of the

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

IS LORD STANLEY A CONSERVATIVE ?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
_ .

Strc,—l was glad to see that in onerof your leading
articles to-day you notice the suspicious conduct of Lord
Stanley, M.P. It is certainly high time that the Conser-
vative press should notice it.

Another instance of his lordship's backsliding was
his recent speech at Ormskirk. Speaking of what books
they should exclude from the proposed Free Public
Library, he said, as well as I can quote from memory,—
" * * And on this subject I hold a very strong opinion.
* I should advise you to exclude from your library
all works on religious controversy and party politics."
He also voted with Lord John. Russell on the Jew Bill
last year.

When Lord Stanley holds such opinions, it is inconsis-
tent in the Lynn Conservatives to retain him as the
colleague of the son-in-law and nephew of Lord Roden.
His lordship's vote on the Church-rate question, although
displeasing to you, seems to meet with the approval of a
Romanist contemporary, who slily hints that he (Lord S.)
would prove a suitable M.P. for Liverpool on a fature
occasion. If he be ever brought forward, it will not be by
those who voted for Liddell and Horsfall in 1833.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
Liverpool, May 30, 1854.

ALPHA.

PROPOSED CHURCH FOR DAILY PRAYERS
AND WEEKLY COMMUNION.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—A letter appeared in last Tuesday's Standard,
from Mr. Hampton, of St. James's Church, in which he
is at some pains to defend himself from charges which
have not been made against him, and to assure the public
of his zeal and activity, which no one has questioned. He
has also charged me with acting with discourtesy, and in
a manner " neither English nor Christian," in not con
suiting him before the committee fixed upon the site of
the proposed church in the neighbourhood of his district.
To such a charge, publicly made, I suppose that some
answer will be considered due. I would therefore beg
for myself, and on the part of the committee, to disclaim
any intention to interfere with Mr. Hampton and St.
James's district, or with any district or clergyman in the
town, or to impute to them any neglect of duty according
to their own appreciation of duty. Indeed, we thought
ourselves fortunate in meeting with a site which was in no
ecclesiastical district, either conventionally or legally
assigned; while it was at the same time in a position
which will, in a short time, be covered all round by a
dense population.
The object of the promoters of the proposed church,
many of whom are inhabitants of Toxteth-park, is to
provide for themselves and others those advantages of
frequent church worship which are not to be found in any
of the churches in that part of Liverpool. So that it is
not St. James's district only, but all the surrounding dis-
tricts, comprising half the population of Liverpool, which
might be benefited by the erection of such a church. We
contend for a great principle, and have no wish to come
into collision with individual clergymen, or to interfere with
their religious prejudices. But weprotest most emphatically
against a claim being set upbyany clergyman that allpeopla
are bound to worship according to his individual inter-
pretation of the Rubrics, or his peculiar mode of " using
the Book of Common Prayer in its integrity." In our
opinion, those clergymen who omit one-third of the Prayer
Book, in the neglect to observe the Holy Days—who omit
one-half of the Marriage Service—who occasionally change
the appointed lessons—not to speak of the omission, nay,
disparagement, of the prescribed daily prayers—those
clergymen, in our judgment, do not "use the Book of
Common Prayer in its integrity." And if it is proposed
to offer to the multitudes of any neighbourhood these
additional services, why, because a person has no heart for
them himself, should he grudge others the enjoyment of
them ?

Mr. Hampton takes comfort to himself that his people
are not "pining after a daily service and weekly com-
munion." He "knows their views and tastes, and can
confidently assert that no such desire exists in any con-
siderable number of Churchmen in the 20,000 embraced in
this scheme." And we too can assert that if any of this
number, nay, if any of the 200,000 inhabitants of the
south of Liverpool do desire the privileges of daily prayers,
or of weekly communion, they must, indeed, pine for them
in vain in any of the churches of this populous neighbour-
hood.

But what a confession is this, that the people are so far
departed from the piety of primitive times as to have no
taste for those Church privileges which were then in uni-
versal estimation and practicer The incumbent of St.
James's throws the responsibility of this state of things
upon the people, observing that "till they have made
known their wishes, they cannot say they have been re-
jected." Are, then, people wont to pine after spiritual
privileges until they are taught to value them ? Or are
they likely to ask for more frequent communions than
their pastors recommend by their own example ? It is not
thus that souls will be trained upwards. Such arguing as the
above is the best proof how much such a church is needed,
and how little sympathy and co-operation we could expect
from consulting Mr. Hampton.

Without any intention to offend others, we cannot help
taking a very different view of the religion of the Church
of England from that which is current in this town ; and
in proportion to the jealousy with which we are treated,
shall be our determination to proclaim and defend our
conscientious convictions ; and to maintain the right of
the people to more frequent services than are at present
afforded them, and that too in churches where the best
places are not appropriated to the highest bidder. Mr.
Hampton will pardon me for asserting that the Lord's
Day cannot be duly honoured without the offering of that
sacred memorial which He ordained as the peculiar service
of His religion. As ton monthly 0p1ebv.+.1.,..
Supper, it is a disgraceful abridgment of the Church's
office three Sundays out of four, without warrant from
Scripture or antiquity, and is a reproach to us throughout
Christendom.--I am, yours faithfully,

CECIL IVRAY.

THE PROPOSED "FREE" CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR Or THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sru,—ln your paper of last Tuesday, I perceived a letter
from the Rev. Mr. Hampton, in which, it seems, he takes
offence at the laudable attempt to provide a Free Church
for Daily Prayers and Weekly Communion, and at the
neighbourhood of Toxteth-park being selected for the
purpose. .

Mr. Hampton appears to have exerted himself for the
welfare of his district, for which he is deserving of all
praise. He admits, also, that there is room for further and
increased exertions. Then why object to a scheme for
building a church where Daily Prayers may be said, and
Weekly Communion administered ? What is there—what
can there be—to object to in this ? One would imagine
that one like Mr. Hampton, who finds so much to do, and
means so few, would have been the first to hail such a
design, and only too happy to promote it. At St. James's
church, Mr. Hampton says, the Prayer Book is used in
its integrity. As a Church of England man, I should be
glad to know such to be the fact. Is there the Daily Ser-
vice ? Are the current Fasts and Festivals of the Church,
which occupy so large a portion of the Book of Common
Prayer, observed at this church ? Is the Prayer for the
Church Militant regularly used ? It is some years since I
was in the church, and know nothing of its services. But,
unless these questions can be answered in the affirmative,
it appears to me that the Prayer Boole is not "used in its
integrity." It is said " that no desire exists in any consi-
derable number of the 20,000 churchmen, for whom this
church is intended, for Daily Prayer and Weekly Com-
munion." Again, Sir, I would say, all honour on those to
whom it is due for what has been done in the neighbour-
hood of St. James's ; but Mr. Hampton must forgive me
for reminding him that, on his own showing, this is a field
wide enough for further exertions, and, could he produce
and foster such a desire amongst even a few of these
20,000 people, it would not be an unworthy part of the
fulfilment of his mission. Who dare put a limit to the
blessing that might descend on this busy town, if every
church poured forth its daily supplications to the Throne
of Grace from no matter how few worshippers.
Mr. Hampton wisely avoids Mr. Radford's "long" letter.
To my mind it is unanswerable, and, though a poor man,
I intend doubling my mite in the list of subscriptions, and
only hope the undertaking will not be abandoned.
I, for one, should feel thankful for the opportunity, when
practicable, of joining in the daily public prayer and praise,
feeling assured that where two or three are gathered toge-
ther in God's name, there is He in the midst of them.—
Yours faithfully,
June 3, 1854. A CHURCH:WAN.