The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

LONDON TIMES AND EVENING MA I*. Dr. ALLEN WakitS to take Ely, and Dr. LENOLEY is named
rmE Public is reAnectfully informed that T#47, TIMES to Ripbn, and has even
proceeded to fix on a residence.
larrives by EXP ESS every Morntug at tapast Seven, -
and will be on Sale at the Oillee, No. 3, Lo -street. In a word, if this bill do not pass, the affairs of the church.
THE EVENING MAIL three days r week, by post—
Price 7d. will be thrown into the most lamentable confusion.
Advertisements and communications for the Editor are re- Friday night was appointed for the third reading, after
quested to be left at the Office, as above, as a Parcel is for- an abortive attemt to get it throw that stage on a
warded to the TtmEs-oFFicE Nightly, pg g
L. T. GASKILL, Agent. previous evening. But on Friday evening there was no
house—an unprecedented occurrence on a Friday—
Ministers themselves determined there should not be, and
there was not, for the following reasons :
The Infidel party, with HOME at their head, have
been joined by the Dissenters, who suffer themselves to
be led by Waxs and BAINES. The latter oppose the
bill under the transparent pretence, that, if the income of
the Bishops and the Cathedral Establishments be not in
part " appropriated," they shall not get. rid of Church-
rates. HOME and Co. want no Church-reform at all;
they wish to sweep away the whole establishment, and
they are not backward in avowing their desires.

CHORAL MUSIC.
fIIIE FIRST PUBLIC P E RFORM A 'CE of the
LIVERPOOL CHORAL SOCIETY ill take place
THIS EVENING, (Tuesday,) the 26th instant n the ROYAL
AMPHITHEATRE, Great Charlotte-stre ,t, when Haudel's
grand Coronation Anthem—" THE K. G 3 SHALL RE-
JOICE," and a selection from the atorio " JUDAS
MACCBIEUS" will be performed.
Leader, Mr. EYTON.
The Orchestra will be complete in every department, and, with
the Chorus, will number nearly Two Hundred Performers.

Conductor, Mr. M. MAYBIIICK.
Subscribers of One Guinea per Annum will receive two
Tickets of Admission to each of Four Performances. Sub-
scribers' Addresses may be left at any of the Music Shops.
Single Tickets—for the Boxes, 3s. 6d.; for the Pit, 25.; and
for the Gallery, Is. Each may be had at the Music Shops, at
the Standard-office, and at the Amphitheatre on the day of the
Performance.

The storm thus raised has been pressing closely upon
!I, Lord JOHN RUSSELL for some days past; and on Friday
his lordship found himself under the disagreeable neces-
sity of calling a meeting of the incongruous factions who
uphold him in the Commons at the Foreign-office, where
the scene took place which is detailed .in the articles
which we have taken from the daily journals.
All the accounts agree that Lord JOHN complained of
ill usage, inasmuch as the bill had been permitted to
advance far on towards its last stage without any symp-
toms of hostility. He declared that it was too late to
recede ; and that if he were obstructed, he and his col-
leagues must resign their offices.
HUME acted as spokesman for the English Radicals,
and he declared that they could not consent to the bill;
that they expected the number of Bishops to be reduced,
and the funds to be applied to more useful public pur-
poses, instead of being distributed among those already
possessing too much, and applied to the making of new
Bishops. These sentiments found echoes in Mr. T.
DUNCOMBE, Mr. WARD, Mr. AGLIONBY, Dr. BOWRING,
Mr. POTTER, and others.

O'CONNELL, strange as it may appear, acted the part
of peace-maker, but from the same motive that he plays
the opposite part of peace-breaker. He thought that,
rather than lose a Ministry so much disposed to grant
" Justice to Ireland," the English Church Bill might be
allowed to pass for the present; trusting, of course, to
the future advance of the movement to do away with the
effects of present concessions!

Supported by O'CoNSELL. Lord JOHN is stated to have
raised his voice, and to have declared that Ministers were
pledged, and must pass the bill, at whatever cost; and
that if they had lost the support of gentlemen who had
hitherto so disinterestedly stood by them, why there was
an end of the MELBOURNE Cabinet—it must disappear
from the stage and be no more seen.
The noble lord, however, more anxious to trust to
management behind the scenes than to the justice of his
cause, adopted very active means to prevent forty mem-
bers from being present on Friday afternoon when the
Speaker took the chair, and thus had a respite until
Monday. What was done on that day we cannot at,sre-
sent inform our readers; but we think we may prepare
them to expect a further postponement, and a final aban-
donment of the only tolerable bill the Ministers have ,
brought forward.

Ebt Etherpool ,Stanbarb.

Were they to pass it, as they may by aid of the Conser-
vatives, they would lose their radical and dissenting allies,
and down they must go. If they adopt the infamous
course of throwing it overboard, still they must fall; if
not by resignation, certainly by dismission, for the King
cannot retain a Ministry who, as the Standard observes,
are not permited by the peers to pass any bad, and not
permitted by the Commons to pass any good bill.
We have said that we do not expect that the Whigs
will voluntarily resign. We judge them by the past.
Yet the probability of a break-up is great; and we warn
our Conservative friends, in borough and county, to be
in readiness for immediate and vigorous operations.

The immense importance of the late proceeding with
regard to the Town Council and the Corporation
Schools is seen on. all sides by the effect that it produces
upon the friends and the enemies of our excellent Pro-
testant Church Establishment.
The friends of the Church have been roused from that
state of quiescence, we had almost said apathy, in which
they certainly have too much indulged of late; for while
they have dosed, the enemy has come in and sown his
tares, and the sorting out of these tares will be found a
much More painful and expensive operation than a little
watching, and a little occasional exertion. But in speaking
of these errors we do not wish to be construed as conveying
censure. It is in the nature of things that the lovers of
order and right principles should shrink from display ;
and those who have to act on the defensive must neces-
sarily await attack ; whereas the assailing party, the
seekers after a bad eminence, the strainers after a tyran-
nous dominancy, are ever on the alert, because their
very nature is impregnated with restlessness; because
they hate order; because they burn with a desire to pull
down and tear up; because they have objects to gain
connected with their supposed personal and political in-
terests. Of all selfish beings, your habitual canter about
liberality is the most selfish.

The enemies of the Church are excited for many obvi-
ous reasons; but chiefly because they have made the un-
expected discovery that they are not yet to get every
thing their own way ; because they now see that the
prey they considered as within their very claws and teeth
is yet beyond their power ; because they perceive
that the supporters of the institutions of the land have
the means of upholding them, and are determined to ap-
ply`those means with the requisite vigour.
With the state of the subscription our readers are
made acquainted by the usual authorised announcement.
The building fund is now about £8,800; and there will be
no want of annual support; erect the schools and supply
them with effective teachers, and pecuniary aid may ,be
commanded to any reasonable extent. The superinten-
dence of our able and zealous clergy will be a sufficient
guarantee that all is right. We hesitate not to say that
by their late efforts with regard to this question they
have greatly extended the sphere of their usefulness,
both in the pulpit and out of it, as well as increased their

Irevionsly high reputation. Men who practice what they
preach always speak with authority.
As to the miserable Town Council they are truly in a
pitiable situation, and that situation is made worse by
the stupid zeal of their advocates, who seem to think,
poor dolts, that in proportion as they abuse the opponents
of the invasion of the Protestant principle they whiten
their blackamoor patrons. We are greatly tempted to
take in hand some of these scribblers and show up their
want of honesty and sense; but as the performance of
that duty would just now occupy more time and room
than we have to spare, we must needs give them a
respite.

We cannot, however, pass over their Magnus Apollo,
the fount of their inspiration, the never•to.be-forgotten
Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE.

That mighty councillor, we observe, has addressed a
long letter to the Rev. AtrausTus CAMPBELL on certain
pas Sages in his speech at the Amphitheatre.

The compliments paid by Mr. CAMPBELL to the gen-
tlemanly demeanour of the polished Mr. WILLIAM RATH-
BONE were not considered a sufficient compensation for
the Reverend Rector's facts and arguments, which were
altogether unexpected from that quarter, because the
Rathbone faction had marked Mr. CAMPBELL for their
own with a confidence less complimentary than surpris-
ing.

Mr. CAMPBELL said in his speech, in effect, that while
the Catholic Clergy had been consulted by the Council,
the Clergy of the Church of England, who had been the
actual superintendents of the schools from the beginning,
were not officially consulted. Mr. RATABONE expresses
surprise at this in his letter, and declares, firstly, that
the Catholic Clergy were not consulted, secondly, that
he himself was in frequent commuication with Mr.
CAMPBELL.

Now everybody, knows—at leaSt everybody in Liver-
poOtt-that Mr. WILLIAm RAMIBbNE is a famous special
ple'a'der.' We never met with a man more zealously in-
clined. to make the' *orie' asppeid. ro,w46,if

are bound by love of truth to add that we have seldom
seen a man with a smaller endowment of ability to per-
form that difficult task. Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE, how-
ever, always does his best, and in his contest with Air..
CAMPBELL, though he altogether fails, has not come off
with less than usual success,
First with regard to the Roman Catholic Clergy. Mr.
RATHBONE says—" Mr. HORSFALL was requested to
ask Mr. WILCOX a .simple question as to one of the
regulations of his church. This is the only instance in
which the Committee had any communication with the
Catholic Clergy. It was a simple inquiry as to a matter
of fact----not a consultation."
By this we learn three things. That a " simple in-
quiry" is not a consultation ; that Mr. RATHBONE speaks
with a mental reservation, drawing a distinction between
what was done by the Committee, as a body, and what
was clone by the Committee as individuals; and that
when a " simple" question had to be proposed to Mr.
Wilcox, the office of questioner is deputed to Mr. HORS-
FALL in order to lug that gentleman in for his share of
the blame which the majority of the Committee who
sanctioned the Rathbonian innovation in the first in-
stance felt to be so great that it was desirable to divide it.
What was the "simple question" asked of Mr. WIL-
COX ? M. RATHBONE shirks that point; but Mr.
CAMPBELL lets us into the secret. " I stated in my
speech," says the rev. gent., " that the Roman Catholic
Clergy had been consulted as to whether they would
permit the children of their communion to join the others
in prayer. You say they were not consulted, but that
Mr. WILCOX was spoken to by Mr. HORSFALL as to a
matter-of-fact. This matter-of-fact related to the per-
mission of joint prayer. The permission was not grant-
ed, and prayer was disallowed." -So much for casuistry.
The liberal Roman Catholic Ministers—those who, when
it suits their purpose, talk about one God, one common
and universally-benevolent Father—refuse permission
to the children within their communion to join other
children in a plain and non-doctrinal prayer of praise
and thanksgiving for ordinary daily blessings, and what
is the • consequence ? Do the Council reply to the
answer given to their simple question, that if the Roman
Catholic children are refused permission to conform to
the regulations of the school the consequences must be
submitted to by the party raising the objection ? Oh
no: but the Protestant children are immediately de-
prived of the privilege and advantage of prayer; and
this Councillor RATHBONE says is not consulting the
Roman Catholic Clergy !
Mr. RATHBONE is still more unhappy in his other quib-
ble. Mr. CAMPBELL, be argues, was spoken to several
times by himself on the subject of the schools; and he
adds that a copy of the Irish selections was sent to him.
He admits, at the same time, that Mr. CAMPBELL gave
no answer with regard to the copy of the selections so
sent; and we learn from the Reverend Gentleman's own
letter that he never saw but one of the plans proposed by
the Education Committee. That did not go the length
of
,excluding the Bible in school hours, yet Mr. CAMP-
BELL decidedly objected even to that. The Committee
afterwards went the whole hog without a word having
been said to the Rev. Rector : and yet Councillor RATH-
BONE pretends that he was consulted.

But the worst part of Mr. RATHBONE'S jesuitism re-
mains to be stated. His argument, on one side, is, that
the Clergy of the Establishment were consulted beOause
Mr. CAMPBELL was spoken to on a minor matter, to
which minor matter a distinct disapproval was expressed.
On the other side, he denies that the Roman Catholic
Clergy were " consulted" because the individual Mr.
WILCOX Was only spoken to and asked a single question,
which single question embraced a vital principle and in-
volved the schoot-regulations and practice; and the indi-
vidual answer to which simple question caused a funda-
mental change. Moreover, he terms his individual

conversations with Mr. CAMPBELL "consultations," bu
he denies that a similar individual communication witl:

11r. NVILcox was a consultation, though the question

put had reference of extensive and vital import, and the

answer given ruled the decision of the Council.
But if the Committee only communicated with Mr.
WlLcox through. Mr. HORSFALL, it does not follow that

no other communication was had with the Roman Catholic

Clergy. Will Mr. RATIIBONE be so obliging as to inform

the public of the nature of his own private communica

tions with the Roman Priests and with members of their

communion in their confidence. And while he is abou

it, lie may go a little farther and give us some informa-
tion as to what has been done by other members of the

Education Committee with his' knowledge and consen

The worthy champion of the Council would give us only
a fraction of the truth, and that fraction with a gloss upon
it which he vainly hopes will disguise it. The public
want the whole truth, and in order to a right appreciation

of it do not need any of Mr. RATIIBONE.; commentaries.

He, indeed, is very bad authority in any matter relating
to the scriptures and the education of the rising genera-
tion. We,observe, that in his letter to Mr. CAMPBELL,
be uses the expression "those who consider the 14th

chapter of the Romans as a part of Revelation." Would

he wish us to infer that lie is not among the silly ones who
so easily believe ? But if he do allow more authority to
the 14th chapter of the Romans than to what he terms

the "filthy scene in the Garden," we tell him that then

he is bound by the same rule to allow authority to the
other Epistles of St. Paul, and that Paul bears witness

against his creed, his principles, and his practice, in
terms that might make Mr. RATHBONE reflect and trem-

ble, were be not wholly absorbed in self-worship. We

would particularly direct his attention to the third chapter'
of the second Epistle to Timothy, Where he will find per-

sons spoken of " having the form of godliness, denying
the power;" and where it is written that " all scripture
is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doc-

trine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in riglite

ousness."

We must, however, dismiss Mr. RATHBONE for the
present, (as our article is growing too long under our
hands) for the purpose of paying our respects to that
greater personage who rejoices in the flame of "William
Ewart," and who, by some strange accident, happens to
be a Member of Parliament for the Borough of Liverpool.
This comical M. P. has addressed a public but short
letter to the Rev. H. WNEILE on the subject of a passage
in that Rev. Gentleman's speech at the Amphitheatre.
Mr._ M'NEILE said that Mr. EWART had lately formed an
alliance with the commander-in-chief of the movement
troops, and that it was within the bounds of probability,
that, in the society of the great leader, he Might have be-
come acquainted with some of the Romish patrons of the
system that had worked so well for Popish purposes in
the sweetest isle of the ocean ; and he jocosely went on to
say that on such a subject "he might be allowed to indulge
his imagination a little in tracing the connexion between
the Priests and the member, the member and his con-
stituents, the constituents and the Town Council, the
Town Council and the Education Committee, and the
introduction of the Irish syStem into Liverpool." It ap-
pears, nevertheless, that Mr. WNEILE had greatly over-
rated
the powers of Mr. EWART'S mind. M.P. though
he be, and for Liverpool too, he is obviously incapable of
working out so ramified a train of communication. True
it is that lie has " lately formed an alliance with the
commander-in-chief of the troops of the movement ;"
true it is that lie has become one of the joints of the Tail;
that is not denied, for it is a matter of public record and
and notoriety; but if Mr. EwART's word is of any value,
we must receive his assurance to Mr. WNEILE " that he.
has never had the slightest communication with Mr.
O'CONNELL, with any of the Priests, or with any of the
Town Council, on the subject Mr. WNEILE alludes to."
And with the gravest of faces 'the brilliant Member for
Liverpool begs permission to remind his reverend cor-
respondent, " that facts are precisely the things on which
a man ought not to be allowed to exercise his imagina-
tion." Come, come, Mr. M‘NEILE, be aisy; it is not
fair to disturb the repose of our good man DULL in this
manner. We admit that you were not imagining of facts,
but of probabilities; yet you ought to be aware that the
Member for Liverpool was not likely to discover the dif-
ference; so let him alone, sir,let him alone. Yet if you
are determined to tease him, whatever you may say, or
whatever you may think or do respecting him, you can-
not deprive him of the consolation that he is not likely to'
be eharged with the exercise Of his imagination, with one

exception, namely, the ridiculous fancy that he is an
orator and statesman as well as member for Liverpool.
But although Mr. EWART has not in this case acted the
part of secret agent to Mr. O'CossELL and set our con-
temptible Town Council in motion; it, notwithstand-
ing, as true as that Mr. EWART is no Solom.n that a
Popish influence dictated the expulsion of the Bible from
the Corporation Schools. That is a fact which cannot be
successfully questioned. If the experiment had succeed-
ed, we should soon have heard of others. Thanks, how-
ever, to our Clergy, and to the truly Protestant spirit of
the great mass of our population, the fowler is caught in
his own snare, and a warning is given which will at once
awaken the public vigilance and deter the guilty.