The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-19 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

WALSALL' ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAgD.ARD,

SlR,—Can you inform me the separate amounts subscribed
by some of the leading liberals of this town to pay—of course
the legal expences incurred by the anti-corn -law candidate
for Walsall.•

Report says, a recentlpmade knight headed the list for a
goodly sum, and not only so, but he also entertained most
liberally the foraging deputation, in search of funds.

Your obedient servant,
ANTI-BRIBERY.

[The worthy knight is probably an advocate of the—reei-
procity system, as he may have to call upon the Walsall re-
jected candidate and his friends for a similar contribution,
when he himself is scouted from the hustings at Liverpool.]

PRAYER-BOOK AND HOMILY SOQIETY,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Having noticed, in your last number that a sermon
had been preached on behalf of the above society by the Rev.
Dr. Byrth, on Sunday the 7th inst., after which the sum of
£2l. was collected; allow me to advert to the subjiet, with
the view of commending the claims of the society to the fur-
ther consideration and support of the' clergy and gentry of
Liverpool.
The following statement was made at an open meeting -of
the committee and subscribers, held on Monday last, at 38,
Church-street, G. B. Carter, Esp. treasurer, in the'chair.
During nine years and a half, that is, from Ladyday 1831,
to the 30th Sept. 1840, the society's agent at Liverpool liad
visited and revisited not fewer than 21,500 ships and other
vessels, in endeavouring to promote that department of the
society's objects.
That during the same period the seamen and
boys had been permitted to purchase 3603
prayer-books at reduced' prices ; the loss to
the society amounting to
Also, that there had been 1465 books of select
homilies in English, and 3250 homily tracts
in English and foreign languages, distributed
gratuitously on board the ships visited; at
the cost of the society, amounting to
The agent's annual stipend for the same period
amounted to
Likewise, books had been granted for use on
board the Mariner's Church, and loss sus-
tained on the purchase of prayer-books at a
reduced price, amounting to
Also, there bad been a loss sustained upon the
.sale of books to subscribers, and agents' com-
mission, amountingio

£lBo' 32 0

83 4 0

190 0 0

30 10 ft

54 I 4 2

Making a totsl of
The free contributions received by the Parent
Society in London, from the Liverpool Asso-
ciation during the same period, have amounted
to

538 11. .q!

248 0 6

Consequently the society has sustained the loss of £290 10

Every person who can duly appreciate the spiritual and
scriptural services of our church, contained in the book of
common prayer, in the use of them on shore, will most as-
suredly feel the importance of their use on board ships at sea.
Some few years ago, our sailors sadly neglected the duty of
prayer on board their vessels when at sea ; bgt, by the efforts
of various Christian institutions, and particularly by the in-
cessant labours of the agents of the'Prayer-Book and Homily
Society, in visiting ships in the several ports—under the di-
vine blessing—their attention in many instances hai been
successfully awakened to the importance .of this duty.; 'and
by a timely supply of prayer-books, issued with kind per-
suasive reasoning, many commanders of ships, with their
crews, have been brought into the practice of it.
The book of common prayer and the homilies of our church
have been the means of enlightening the minds of many
sailors, of the conversion of some, of consoling some in their
distresses, and of preparing others for a wlttery.grave.
Ah ! ye !—who enjoy the blessings of this life :—and, ye
who partake of the comforts of life, temporal and spiritual,
being satiated with all the means of grace onshore :—remem-
ber the hard labours and pet ilous dangers of seamen. Think!
Aye, think ! When howling winds, and thundering storms do
roar ; thou seated on thy soft couch, or easy chair; still on
the mighty seas—tempest tossed—or sick, or well, the hardy
seamen toil—toil 'midst dangers, oft times fatal to theircrazy
bark ; and in loftiest, strongest will, in nature sink, and die.
Let then the heart of sympathy, the hand of charity, the
voice of mercy, be extended to them when in port. Come
forward, relieve this society from its present difficulties of
debt—declare it free—and bid its agents be cheered in-their
labours, and still with diligence and perseverance proceed In
their work.

Yours greatly obliged,
THE VISITING SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.

*** We beg to call the attention of the public to the so-
ciety's advertisement in another column, where•it is stated
by whom contributions to the society are received,—En. S.

THE NEW POOR LAW

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Can you inform your readers whether the select
vestry intend calling a meeting of ratepayers on the subject
of the introduction of new poor law commissioders? It is
really too bad to hare the well-regulated and popular system,
at present in operation uprooted without even a protest.
Let the public meet and express their sense of this iktrtni-
nable attempt to legislate for us without our wills, and I
have no doubt that such statements would be made as to
satisfy even the bashaws of Somerset House, that any change
here must be for the worse. This is not a political matter,
but amounts just to this—either we are not competent to
manage our own business, or else we are to be dragooned
into submission to a plan which takes away the controul of
the people over their purses, the poor, and the parish.—l
am, sir, yours, &c. DICKEY SAM.

THE TOOTHACHE.—We beg leave to recommend Mr. Eg-
gleston's remedy for the toothache. It is very efficacious.
Mr. Clarke, the lessee of the Liverpool and Manchester
theatres, has taken the Theatre-Royal, Chester.

ARRIVAL OF THE SOUTH AMERICA.—We were indebted
last evening to Mr. J. H. Revis, Liverpool agent, and daily
correspondent to the London Globe and Shipping Gazelle,
for a file of American papers, brcught by the steamer South
America, Captain Barstow. The inormation which these
papers furnish will be found in another part of one paper.
POSITIVE.—The working people would rather pay a little
more for their loaves than see thousands of their countrymen
who work upon the land of England turned adrift bec•+use
corn could be got cheaper from Poland or Hungai y.—Post.

MR. WAKLEY.—This gentleman, in the speech. Which he
delivered in the House of Commons last week, against the
second reading of the Poor Law Bill, pronounced the follow-
ing commentary on the " liberal" administration :—" In the
term 'liberal,' according to some honourable members, was
included everything that was great and generous. Doubting
of these meanings, he had looked out for the word in Todd's
Johnson, and there he found that its meanings were given as
generous,' noble," magnanimous," the opposite to par-
simony and parsimoniousness. He owned, however, that he
did not think those terms applied to the term liberal' in its
modern political applicatim." He also observed that " the
great landowners of the conservative body were the natural -
protectors of the poor, who looked to them for protection.
They were not alarmed about the corn laws, for they knew
that with the rise in the price of bread there must be a cor-
responding increase in the rate of wages."
THE INDEPENDENT WEST MIDDLESEX ASSURANCE
COMPANY, AND ITS VlCTlM.—Amongst the sufferers is a
very worthy old man, of the name of Samuel Cole, who was
formerly in business in the Market-place, in this town, as a
clogger. He travelled regularly from the neighbouring
towns of Milnethorp, Ambleside, Hawkshead, &c. •, but,
notwithstanding the most exemplary steadiness and industry,
he was unfortunate, and failed. He afterwards went to
Liverpool, where he long stood in the streets with a coffee
stall. In this way he managed to scrape together as much
money as enabled him to open a small cook-shop. There he
succeeded so well, that he managed to remit small sums,
from time to time, to his creditors in Kendal; and, in the
end, he came over and paid off every one of them, even with
interest, though he was not at all bound to do so, for by,this
time the " statute of limitations" had completely cleared him
of the debt. When he declined business in Liverpool he had
.£5OO clear, which he sunk in the Independent West Middle-
sex Company, and came, with his wife, to Kendal, to live the
remainder of his life in independence. He has .lost his
" all," and is now going to return to Liverpool, betwixt
sixty and seventy years of age, to re-commence business in a
cook-shop, which, to a man so far advanced in years, must
be a very precarious means of earning a livelihood: It has
been proposed that a subscription should be raised for our
unfortunate Kendal victim; and certainly a little from each,
who have something to spare, might mitigate the pain and
privation of the cruel loss which this honest old mast has
suffered from his confidence in the integrity of villains.—
Kendal paper.
CLERICAL.FIRMNESS.—King George IV., desiring in his
sickness to receive the holy eucharist, had appointed an hour
at which the Bishop of Winchester should administer to him
that blessed sacrament. Through carelessness of one of the
attendants of his majesty, the bishop received a summons for
half an hour after the time appointed by the king.. His
majesty was, not unjustly, angry with, the -attendane; but
when he seemed to carry his anger beyond.the bounds of a
Christian temper, the pious prelate. warned his sovereign of
the danger of celebrating.the holiest mysteries of our faith in
so improper a spirit, and refused to administer the sacrament
under such circumstances. His majesty immediately re-
called the attendant to his presence ; and it was not till he
had expressed his sorrow for his too hasty expression, that
he was admitted to the communion.—The Right Rev. the
Lord Bishop of London, with similar effect, exercised the
like discretion with our present gracious sovereign. Her
majesty was desirous of receiving the Lord's supper, and
being, doubtless, ignorant that it was only to the sick that
the sacrament ought to he administered in private according
to the rites of the church, she desired the Bishop of London
to administer the sacrament to her in the prlace. His lord-
ship represented to her majesty the impropriety of his com-
plying with such a request ; and her majesty, conforming to
the ecclesiastical rule, received the communion in the Chapel
Royal.—These anecdotes are related by the writer from
whom they are borrowed in illustration, of the mingled firm-
ness and discretion with which ecclesiastical discipline should
be exercised, so as to promote the object it has in view. This
combination is secured in the clergy of the English Church
by two circumstances of their condition. They pen dare to
be firm, because they are in no way dependent upon the fa-
, your of those to whom they minister ; while a liberal educa-
tion, and intercourse with the higher ranki of society, pre-
; vents their firmness degenerating into brutal coarseness or
unfeeling violence.—Enylisionan'a Journal.
CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCESS (AFTERWARDS QpEEN)
ELIZABETH.—The following curious details of the chris-
tening of the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Ann Boleyn,
will not prove altogether uninteresting at the present time,
when so much of the public attention is drawn to the cere-
monies attending the christening of the Princess Victoria
Adelaide Louisa. The details are contained in the " Or-
doniaces" of the Countess of Richmond and Derby. It is
there directed, " That there should be provided for the
Queen's bed two pair of sheets, of linen, each four yards
broad and five yards long ; two head sheets, three
yards broad
and four yards long; two long and two square, pillows of
fustiau-, stuffed with fine down ; a pane of scaihtfurred with
ermine, and embroidered with crimson upon velvet or
rich cloth of gold, and a head-sheet, of like cloth of gold,
furred with ermine. A kevertour of fine lawn, offive breaoths,
and six yards long ; a mattress -stuffed .with wool; ac feather
bed, with a bolster of clOwn ; a spawerof crimson
tueesua,sma.remms-
broidered with crowns of gold, the-King
and other devices lined with double
cushions
sished with
of crim-
fringe of silk, blue, russet, and
9utondrmantle of crimson
son damask cloth, cloth of gold;
foar
velvet, plain furred with ermine, round
Queen to wear about
her in her
should carry the child ;if '
a prince, an
that a duchess
pallet. In the ahrtstenwinttgh perloocthesosifogno,
lidt
.wbaes re-
quiredfor
countess was to bear the train. Th
earl; if a princess, a
hung
torches, 200 which, on thereacwhainsgto
church and altar were to be
the child
placed round the foot • the desk
be
elevated, to afford the people,an opportunity of witnessing
the ceremony. In the infants hand was placed a small ta-
wewreasallborne
church,
ta-
per, to be deposited on the altar. At the church door stood.
the serjeant of the King's pantry, with a towel of reynes
about his neck, and a s ilt-cellagrodth;°ir'sleulanaaannendud. ready to take a
grain of the salt before it was hallowed. In like manner the
serjeant of the ewer was ready to present to the bishops and
sponsors the basin to wash ; and the officers of the spicery,
as usual, were at hand with the voider of spices." Such
were the eererconiesattending a royal christening in Os 16alt
century.