The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-24 00:00:00

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• MY MOTHER'S I; AME. -
Lines occasioned by hearing a Lady say her NA ME was ANNE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF THE " SUMMER NIGHT'S LAY."

THERE is a NAME that charms me when
I'm wounded with the world's keen spite:
'Tis sweet as songs from woodland glen,
As morning ends the reign of night.
O'er many a land and many a sea,
Through many a foreign city's throng,
I've wandered, cold as heart could Le,
Alike misoothed with love and song.

But soon as that sweet N AME has come
Across my mem'xv like a dream,
My heart has felt a glow of home
As pure and warm as summer beam :
Yea. like the fav'rite song of one
Whose singing first subdues the mind;
That NAME my wither'd soul comes on
As bland as woman's love is kind.

That NAME! oh ! 'twas my mother's NAME!
Who loved me with the fondest love!
Through health and sickness still the same,
Like you unchanging sun above.
Oh ! with that NAME, my MOTHER'S form,
In all its bloom and beauty, glides
A heavenly vision 'mid the storm
That roughens life's unsettled tides.

If other NAMES have charmed me long,
And won my heart's intenser love,
Repeated after in m', song,
Through many a flow'ry garland wove;
Yet none awakens in my mind
A melancholy half so sweet
As does my MOTHER'S: ever kind
It seems with peace my soul to greet.

Oh! moonlight on the placid lake!
Oh ! morning sunshine on the sea!
And nightingales, when first they wake,
Their thrilling midnight minstrelsy;
And Nature's thousand other things
Seen over this terrestrial round,
Just as they touch the hidden strings,
Which in my untold heart are found,
Give joy : but upon sea and land,
Mid moonlight ray, and summer flame,
There's nothing meets my soul so bland,
So gentle as my 31oTnEa's NAME.
Edgehill, Liverpool, 20th July, 1838.

CON7'EMPORARY PRESS.

WHIG APPOINTMENTS.
( From the Morning Herald.)
Lord Melbourne (it appears by the Brighton Ga-
zette) has, lately, appointed Mr. Henry S. Chapman,
a member of the commission of inquiry into the state
of the hand. loom weavers.

Mr. Chapman is a friend of M. Papineau, and has
been a sort of sub editor to Mr. Roebuck in his vari-
ous publications. He has therefore been, as a matter
of necessity, an applauder in chorus with Mr. Roe-
buck, of the proceedings of the Canadian traitors—if
not, like Mr. Hume, a direct instigator of their trea-
son. Such is a sample of the men on whom the whig
government bestows its patronage !
We own that we incline to feel surprise at the fact,
that Mr. Roebuck himself has been passed over, in
the various appointments which have taken place,
since his valiant, although somewhat feeble advocacy of
those injured " patriots," Papineau and Mackenzie !
We can only solve the difficulty under which we la-
bour, by supposing that no place good enough for the
acceptance of so distinguished a personage as Mr.
Roebuck has, within the period we have spoken of,
been at Lord Melbourne's disposal. Or, perhaps, Ca-
nada is Mr. Roebuck's destination. An influential
position in Lord Durham's council, were such assigned
to Mr. Roebuck, would, doubtless, exercise the most
favourable influence on the loyal dispositions of our
Canadian fellow-subjects.

The movements of our rulers .are, it must be ad-
mitted, in admirable harmony—be the scene of their
operations Canada or Ireland. Mr. Sheil, as a reward
for preaching sedition, during ten years, and for pas-
sively resisting the law during four, is singled out for
the especial approbation of the cabinet, and for the
enjoyment of a lucrative sinecure commissionership.
Mr. O'Connell, as a rew;ird for his f.nmity to England,
and in acknowledgment of the justice of the sentence
passed upon him by the House of Commons, as a
slanderer and caluamiltor, 1104 recently, offered

one of the highest judicial ap,i,))-iLm,-21.115. ti
Parliament is about to pay (for the second time) the
tithe debts of the resisters of tithe law. in Ireland !
Lord Melbourne has, moreover, just appoin'ed Mr.
Chapman—the friend and eulogist of Papineau—to a
lucrative commissionership ;—a commissionership, of
which the duties will consist in hashing up Malthusian
doctrines into the form of a report. Mr. Chapman,
in short, will pocket £l,OOO or £1,500 a year, for tell-
ing the starving hand•loom weavers, in the slang of
the economical school to which he belongs, that par-
liament, which has robbed them of the market for their
labour, can do nothing to lessen their miseries.

Strenuous, however, as have been the efforts of Lord
Melbourne in exalting the friends of law and order
to their proper elevation, the first movements of Lord
Durham give promise that he will not be easily sur-
passed in the judicious and becoming distribution of
patronage. Already have Mr. Turton and Mr. Wake-
field been advanced to posts of confidence and emolu-
ment. Mr. Thomas Duncombe, too, has lately started
for the court of the dictator—no doubt, for the purpose
of sharing the duties and blushing honours of Messrs.
Wakefield and Turton. Mr. Roebuck will, probably,
form the next of the ministerial exports to Canada.
His ptesence there may, doubtless, be of use in "con-
ciliating" the disaffected, and checking the progress of
treason :—nay, the elevation of Mr. Roebuck to office
in Canada may, perhaps, counterbalance the loss which
England roust sustain in the retirement of Sir John
Colborne !

THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN CANADA.
( From the Standard of Saturday.)

In the House of Lords last night the Bishop of
Exeter accompanied some questions upon the ecclesi-
astical policy pursued towards Canada—addressed to
the Colonial Secretary—by observations equally pro
found .and just. The questions of the right rev. lord
concerned the neglect of a provision for the members
of the Established Church generally, and the marked
favour extended to the Church of Rome in the Lower
Province. The bishop's observa•ions referred to the
injustice to British settlers involved in this neglect and
this favour. We beg to extend the consideration, as
we have done before, to the case of the many, very
many, British subjects .vho are not settlers, but who
would be settlers if the state should render the colo-
nies a fit residence for Christian Englishmen. We
speak from our own knowledge when we affirm, that
the want of an adequate religious establishment deters
hundreds, nay thousands, annually, from fixing their
lot in these young, and, as well as soil, climate, and
temporal circumstances go, most inviting provinces—
where their loyalty, industry, and habits of morality
and order, would, beyond calculation, augment the
wealth and strength of the empire. Do not these men
suffer a grievous injustice ? In common with their
fellow-subjects they pay for the defence of the colonies
from which they are shut out, and have paid their full
share of the cost of acquiring them ; but the injustice
to the empire is still greater, if possible. The neglect
of providing the means of religious instruction limits
emigration to classes by no means the best in any
sense—to classes the least regardful of education or
of manners, or of whatever civilises man—the least
attached to British habits and the British connection,
that men of British birth can be.

The presence of a clergyman of the Church of Eng-
land, within an easy distance of every family of colo-
nists, would be a guarantee that the manners and prin-
ciples of civilised and gentlemanly life would not fall
into disuetude—that the advantages of education, and
the taste for letters, would be still held in sight of the
rising race. The presence and services of such a man
would offer a constant check to the. tendency to li-
centious and irreligious habits inseparable from the
wild life of the woods—that tendency which is hurry-
ing back the rural population of the United States to
primitive barbarism. Is it to be supposed that without
such a guarantee, thoughtful and moral Englishmen of
the higher, or even yeoman class, will abandon Eng-
land, its soft and secure and enlightened society,•its
decent parish churches and orderly population, for a
continent where, perhaps, taken as a whole, the wild
native Indians supply the best home raised examples
of life and morals ? And are settlers so indifferent to
the faith of their fathers as flippantly to dispense with
this g-uarante,, 1,1 o“, ;t1'.14/Pri sub
jects of the Briti,!) crown?
•
feeling, the amor patrite occup•A „
ligious feeling
happily holds among sincere Christians,
the ideassentire de republica was held to be the most
secure and the only infallible bond of friendship. How
much stronger bond is the idem sentire de veritate in
our age, was nobly proved by the conduct of the Arne_
rican loyalists during the war of separation—is proved
by the unshaken loyalty of the Irish Protestants under
the provocation of a thousand wrongs and insults from
this country. This principle has preserved Ireland to
the empire for three centuries—this principle would
have prevented the alienation of the United States,
had it been effectually and honestly applied—this prin-
ciple will yet ensure a greater empire in the remaining
American colonies if it is boldly and liberally acted
upon. If, however, we send out no colonists but those
who are so indifferent to the services of the church as
to dispense with those services in pursuit of temporal
convenience or some temporal gain, the -fate of the
United States will tell us the destiny of the adjacent
provinces—the colonists will have proved their indif-
ference to the British soil, to British habits, and to the
religion of Britain. While the connection may seem
to Offer present advantages, they will, perhaps,sullenly
submit to it ; hut let this appearance of advantages

cease—let temptation from arm: Ttttertrwrter offer,
and, bound by no patriotic, religious, or other moral
tie, they will disclaim the link—
the link of merely
worldly interest, the only one that they ever acknow-
ledged, and one that will seem no longer to exist. We
own that it is in this view that we look with most alarm
in the conduct of Lord Durham. How can the
patron
of Messrs. Turtoo and Wakefield assume the patron-
age of religious institutions? Even if he should sin-
cerely wish to promote the moral and religious im-
provement of the colonies, Lord Durham has disqua-
lified himself for doing so by conduct which would
present his best exertions in tliat behalf as acts of gross
hypocrisy. Mr. Jefferson, under a constitution that