The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

THE " NEMESIS," IRON STEAMER

The following is an extract of a letter from Canton, dated
May, 1841 :

With respect to the Nemesis, I cannot speak too highly
in her praise. She does the whole advanced work of the
expedition ' • and what with towing transports, frigates, large
junks, and carrying cargoes of provisions, troops, sailors,
and repeatedly coming in contact with sunken junks, rocks,
sand-banks, and fishing-stakes, in these unknown waters,
which she has to navigate by night as well as by day, she has
enough to do, and must be the strongest of the strong to
bear it. In fact, latterly she has been the only steamer fit
for active service ; two having gone to India for repairs, and
the Atalanta having been ashore, and about to go to Bombay
also for repairs.
" As far as fighting goes, she has had enough of that,
being always in advance ; and most justly do the officers and
the merchants of Macao say, that she is worth her weight
in gold.'

She has sustained very little damage from shot, although
many have struck her. One passed through one side of her
funnel, and another through both sides of her steam chest,
besides a number striking her between wind and water, but
without passing through her side. One of them (a large
one) left an indentation several feet in length in her side,
when it glanced off. She has also suffered a little in her
rigging from the same cause."

CAPTAIN HALL, OF THE IRON STEAM-SHIP

" NEMESIS."

We are glad to hear that Captain Hall's hand is healing.
It is, we believe, a general order in boats, that when a
rocket, after being fired, hangs in the tube, the crew should
immediately jump overboard, as the only means of saving
themselves ; therefore the boat's crew of a vessel supplied
with rockets should be good swimmers. On the 25th ult.
the rocket had been fired, and yet it hung fast in the tube.
Captain Hall, knowing that not a moment was to be lost,
with instant quickness and the coolest daring, thrust his
hand up the tube, while the rocket was sending out its fire
downward, and pushed the rocket out. Nothing else but
this daring deed could have prevented its exploding on board,
and killing all around it ! A new administration will have
the pleasure and proud satisfaction of promoting this gallant
and highly-deserving officer to, we hope, post rank.—Canton
Register, June sth.

CORRESPONDENCE,

MARINER'S CHURCH YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Well aware of your earnest desire to promote the
Christian interest, as far as lays in your power, I shall plead
no apology for drawing your attention to the " Young Men's
Society" connected with the Mariner's Church, under the
superintendance of the Rev. Wm. Maynard, whose name
alone is a sufficient guarantee, that if properly supported,
the end for which it was formed, viz., the extension of the
knowledge of a crucified Redeemer, would be fully carried
out ; and, permit me to ask, is not this an important ques-
tion ? I attended the annual anniversary of this society a
few days back, and was delighted to hear of the proved bles-
sings of the Almighty that has attended the means of grace
through the instrumentality of this society. It was, Sir, I
regret to say, thinly attended, but that, I am certain, was
solely because it was not more known. To remedy that
effect I have stepped forward and assured the friends of the
society that you only required to be made acquainted the sub-
ject to bring it under the notice of the public—hence, this
letter. What information you may require on its nature and
objects shall be freely given, and its gratuitous insertion, you
need not fear, will cause the blessing of Christ, in whose
cause you serve, to rest on you.

I am, sir, your'obedient servant,
B. W. TRACEY, Lieut. R.N.

THE BISHOPS & THE MISSIONARY SOCIETIES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—I beg leave to avail myself of your columns, for the
purpose of noticing an incorrectness of statement which I
heard yesterday, at the meeting of the Protestant Association,
in the Amphitheatre.
_ _

The Re,;. Mr. M`Neile, in the speech which he delivered
on that occasion, referred to the step which has lately been
taken by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of
London, of extending the sanction of their names and sup-
port to the Church Missionary Society, and the Society for
Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. And he repre-
sented, indirectly indeed, but in express terms, that step to
have been, on the part of those prelates, a confession of their
own pa stneglect.

It would have been but fair if the reverend speaker had
not omitted to state that this act of the two prelates was im-
mediately subsequent to, and confessedly in consequence of,
certain modifications of the rules of these societies respec-
tively, which modifications were effected for the express pur-
pose of bringing the constitutions of those societies into con-
formity with the fundamental principles of church order.
It will be seen that this feature of the case alters its whole
aspect, and in fact reverses the nature of its bearing on the
reverend speaker's argument. He was desirous of exempli-
fying the usefulness of self-constituted associations for reli-
gious purposes ; and he wished it to appear that these heads
of the church had been driven to take the step alluded to by
the pressure from without. But the truth is, that the con-
stitutions of those societies were first corrected into that
accordance with the laws of church order which the general
voice of the church demanded as a condition of continued
support ; and that, after this concession had been made, the
above-mentioned sanction of authority was extended to
them.

I do not mean to insinuate that this omission was design-
edly made by the reverend gentleman to serve his own pur-
pose. lam very much disinclined to make any such suppo-
sition of a brother clergyman, concerning whom I, as a
stranger in Liverpool, know nothing except by report. But,
to say the least, it was not well for the reverend speaker, in
so large and so important an assembly of christian people, to
allow the order with which he pursued his own argument to
hurry him into forgetfulness of a fact which was so essential
a feature of the case which he adduced : and more especially,
when the omission was calculated to throw discredit on those
whom, both for their office and their character, we ought to
regard, and to teach our people also to regard, with unmixed
honour and reverence.

I feel assured that your sense of justice will induce you to
oblige me by inserting this letter in your next paper.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant, J. W.
Liverpool, Tuesday, October 5, 1841.

[We publish this letter, although we do not agree with the
writer of it. We believe that no modifications or corrections
have been made in the fundamental constitution or original
rules of either the Church Missionary Society or the Jews'
Society. _ _

In the working of the Church Missionary Society a NEW
CASE arose out of the contact of some of their missionaries
with some of onr colonial bishops, and it has been arranged,
that in all questions involving ecclesiastical discipline between
them, the final appeal shall be to the bishops at home. This
is a new case arising out of comparatively recent circum-
stances ; and the committee in announcing it have been
most careful to assure their constituents that no change has
taken place in the original and fundamental laws.
In the Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the
Jews, we are not aware of any modification, or even of any
new case whose arrangement might be mistaken fora change
in existing rules, and we believe there has been none. The
argument of our correspondent therefore appears to us to be
grounded upon an erroneous hypothesis.
In Mr. M`Neile's argument we fully coincide. The

societies in their origin and pr

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remonstrants against the comparativ(
Church generally with reference to tl
Jews ; and they have happily been inst
up the Church to the activity of the socic
looks upon the Protestant Association a
strant of the same kind against the supineness
with reference to Romanism, and hopes for a
result. In his language referred to by our corres,
there was certainly nothing in the slightest c
ful towards " our venerated prelates
On the contrary, he spoke with ardent
tion of the graceful dignity and undit
which their lordships had joined the societies, evinc....„,
by a noble superiority to all those petty feelings which In-dis
pose men from acknowledging auy past neglect.]

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