The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-19 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL,

On the Four Race Nights (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday) the I er.formances will not cominenceloltitEight o'clock.
The Public is respectfully inform/ that
Mr. and Mrs. KEELEY
Of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, . engaged for Ten
Nights previous to their departure for merica, and will ap-
pear this Evening.
Miss TLRPIN,
Principal Vocalist of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden, who
is engaged for a Fortnight, will make her secund.appeanince
here these three years.
Mr. BROUGH,
Of the Theatre-Royal, Dublin. whose success in the American
Theatres, during his recent visit there, has been must decided,
and Mr. HENRY HORNCASTLE.
Of the Theatre-Roval. Drury-lane, who are engaged for a
limited period, will likewise appear this Evening.
1 riIHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 19th instant,
will be performed Mozart's Opera of
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO.
• Fioreilo—Mr. Henry Horncastle I Basil—Mr. Brough.
Count Altnaviva..Mr. Horncastle I Figaro.. Mr. Browne.
Cherubim). ... (the Page) Miss Chaplin.
C9uutess Almaviva.. Mrs.W. H. Bland. (late Miss Somerville.)
Susanna. "Miss Turpin.
In the course-of the Evening the Glee of " Mynheer Van
Dunck," by Mr. Henry Horncastle, Mr. Broug,h, and ik r. G.
Horncastle, and a Pas de Deux by Mr. J. Ridgway and
Wladlle. Marie.
To conclude with the Musical Farce of
WHY DON'T SHE MARRY?
Natz Tieck .. Mr. Keeley I Lisette Gierstein —Mrs. Keeley.
To-moßnow, (Wednesday,) the Musical Play of GUY
lIANNERING. Henry Bertram, Mr. Henry *Horncastle;
Gabriel, Mr. Broug,h; Dirk Hatteraick, Mr. Browne; Lucy
Bertram, Mrs. W. H. Bland; Julia Mannering, Miss Turpiu
conclude with the Musical Farce of THE LOAN OF A
LOVER. Peter Spyk, Mr. Keeley; Gertrude, Mrs. Keeley.

WE owe an apology to our numerous subscribers, especially
those of then, not resident in the town, for the delay in the
delivery of our last publication. The entire proceedings at
the glorious meeting of Wednesday being of considerable
importance, and, being desirous that nothing which was said
upon that occasion should be lost to the reader, we were
obliged to postpone getting the paper to press nearly four
hours beyond the usual time—hence arose the inconvenience.
.We have, however, such arrangements in contemplation as
will, when made, prevent similar disappointment in future.
We have received several communications respecting the vari-
ous published reports of the proceedings at the great meeting
held on Wednesday—We have nothing to do with any co her
report than that which appeared in the STANDARD of Friday,
and which, it is only bare justice to state, is by far the longest
and most accurate extant.
If H. R., will call at the Standard-office we will explain to him
why his letter has not been inserted.

Zbe I,ll.'crpool g.:tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 19, 1836.

The news from the seat of war in Spain continues to
be in favour of the Carlists.
There have been disorders at Figueras, where the po-
Pulace rose and murdered the governor, TENA, but what
his offence was no one can tell.

CABRERA has published a notice to the effect, that for
every Carlist shot by the Queenites he will shoot ten of
the latter. Both parties appear to be equally savage and
Worthless. Yet the British arms are permitted to be tar-
nished by being employed in this contest.

Rumours prevail at Paris of another attempt upon the
life of the King on the part of a connexion of FIESCRI'S.
There is nothing tangible in the story.

The English Church Bill is likely to pass the House of
Lords without material alteration ; so that this question
may be considered as settled. The conduct of the clergy
has been most exemplary, and it has extorted the praise
even of the bitterest enemies of the church.

The Irish Church Bill was read a third time in the
Commons, on Friday night. The English Church Re-
form Bill is making rapid progress.

Mr. SPRING RICE again returned to his Newspaper
Stamp Bill last night, and, we presume, got it through a
committee. The'ri,ght honourable gentleman is slashing
away to wind up the session.

On Friday night, Mr. CLAY made an attempt to force
on Government that part of the Danish claims relating
'to ships and cargoes seized in the Baltic, the claims for
book debts and goods seized on shore, having been pre-
viously admitted, and the former liquidated.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer resisted the motion
on the ground that the seizure accorded with the law of
nations, and if compensation were allowed in this case,
why the principle would lead to compensation for all
other captures of the same kind; and it was clear, he ar-
gued, that no such principle could be listened to.
On a division, however, Mr. CLAY'S motion was lost
by a majority of 8 only ; 51 having voted with him, 59
against him.

A vast deal of fine florid indignation has been flung
out against the peers for rejecting the South Durham
Railway Bill; and a journal near home, ever ready to
adopt every complaint against the Lords, however stupid,
however unfounded, gravely inquires if their lordships
are not now to be deprived of the power of doing mis-
chief?

Why they have done nothing of the sort—they have
simply extinguished a job, the principle of which, once
admitted and acted on—though recognised in this in-
stance by a slovenly and unreflecting House of Corn-
illmls—would lead to the invasion of property of all kinds
for private purposes.
The South Durham Railway was the project of per-
sons interested in certain coal-fields, the produce of
Which they wished to convey over the property of other
Proprietors of coals, to the sea, without the consent of
those proprietors, and without offering any material pub-
lie advantage, inasmuch as the supply of coals from Dur-
ham and Northumberland is already greater than the
'latnand, and the works are carried on at a bare profit.
In all other cases of railroads to the sea, as Lord
WHARCLIFFE stated, the consent-of the owners of pro-
Aerty had been obtained gratuitously, or purchased by
large sums of money. The South Durham Railway pro-
jectors sought to push their bill without this ingredient;
they were interested in getting it ; the owners of the pro-
perty over which they wanted to pass were interested in
resisting it, and the latter prevailed, in the House of
Lnrdst for the incontrovertible reason stated. What would
our liberal friend of the Mercury say to an Act of Podia-
%mit to authorise the printing of some rival Liverpool
journal at his machine, without his consent—without
money and without price ?

We bear nothing farther of O'CONNELL'S " National
Association ;" and the Big Beggarman is himself, strange
to tell, silent. We suppose he is exhausted for a time
With the unusual exploit of subscribing the immense sum
cl £33 in the names of twenty-six members of his pre-
c►ous family. It is indeed a wonder that he let a penny
*lip through his fingers.

We said, by anticipation, that the meeting at the Am-
ltitheatre would be one of the greatest, as it was one of
the most important, ever held in Liverpool. On most
obcasions such assemblies have to discuss and consider
some mere party or secular question. Higher duties
tlevolved on the memorable meeting of Wednesday. Not
°illy were momentous principles involved, but the souls
of present and remote future generations were at stake.
At such a meeting, therefore, the Clergy of the Church
of England were most appropriately the organs of the
Public will, and the directors of the public voice. One of
the radical prints stupidly affects to " consider the meet-
ing insignificant as an expression of popular feeling ;"
Ytt this same radical print admits that more than five
thousand people were present, including persons of both
saxes and all classes; that the most enthusiastic feeling
Pretrailed ; that the speakers were much applauded ; and
that every allusion to the wickednesses and absurdities of
the levelling Town Council were received in a manner
'hid' indicated sovereign contempt mingled with glow-
, int indignation ; still, says the complacent simpleton' to

whom we allude, " we are quite confident that when the
matter comes to be properly understood, the proceedings
of the town council will meet with the approbation of
every reasonable being in the community whose good
opinion is worth having,-." Comes to be understood

We are quite confident that the blockhead who penned
this stuff is himself a councillor—no other man upon
earth could have been guilty of perpetrating so exquisite
a sample of absurdity.
Such of our readers as have attended to our report will
have seen that the meeting was an extremely strong and
most decided "expression of public feeling ;" that more
than five thousand persons were present, and double that
number would have attended had there been room; that
such was the public anxiety to obtain tickets large sums
of money were offered for them ; that seventy clergymen
were present, and several dissenting ministers, in-
cluding the much-respected Dr. RALPH of the Scotch
church, and the equally-respected Rev. JAMES DIXON of
the Wesleyan Methodist connexion; that the laity were
as influential and intellectual as numerous; and that hut
one sentiment pervaded the congregated mass, namely,
a determined yet in all respects Christian resistance to
the presumptuous and scandalous attempt of the Town
Council to deprive the rising generation of our populous
borough of the free and unrestricted use of the Word of
GOD. Yes, the meeting was in the best sense of the
word a glorious one, and the subscription list shows that
its OBJECT IS FULLY ACCOMPLISHED. The
new arrangements are already in operation. In a short
time capacious schools will spring up in various parts of
the town ; so that the effect of the Council's effort to
O'Conneilize and Socinianize the children of the poor will
not only be defeated, but a spirit is excited which will
send to the new schools thousands of children who other-
wise might never have entered a place of sound Protestant
scriptural instruction.
We are told that the Town Council will persevere in
its " liberal" plans, notwithstanding the utter desertion
of the Corporation Schools. That is probable enough;
wickedness and folly are proverbially obstinate. A ma-
jority of the Town Council have prescribed to themselves
certain courses in order to produce a political effect pro-
motive of their ulterior views with regard to Church
and State, and in order also to enhance their local power
and authority. They reverse the fine sentiment of the
great Bard. They practically cry, 'Tis excellent to have
a giant's strength, but profitless not to use it like a giant.
They forget the instability of mundane things—the vanity
of human wishes—that there is a Power greater than that
of the Socinian Liverpool Town Council anti Mr. (at
present) M.P. EWART to hoot;—that the battle is not to
the strong, but to him who is permitted to conquer.
It would be to distrust the goodness of Providence even
to fear that such men and such designs will be long per-
mitted to prevail. Their first open step, indeed, against
the unsophisticated faith of the Bible is likely to he their
last, and, whatever the extent of their obstinacy, we are
persuaded that the day is not far distant when we shall
find them upon their knees imploring forgiveness of that
public whom they have so grossly outraged. This they
will do from worldly and trading considerations. We
confess we despair of seeing them soliciting a pardon
where it is more important to obtain.

The Senior Rector opened the business of the meeting
in a speech in all respects worthy of the cause and of his
own high character. He was firm, yet as mild as the
doctrines he so ably preaches. Rightly did he consider
it "a very high honour, and a very high privilege," to
have been placed in the chair; such an event is a bright
link in the chain of any man's life. It must be added, in
justice, that in coming forward as the Rev. Gentleman
has done, at the head of his clerical brethren, he has ren-
dered a public service that will be remembered to his
advantage after he shall have gone to his rest. Oh how
the paltry but tyrant majority of the Council must blush,
if they have any shame, at his simple exposure of their
sophistry about using their selections and concoctions as
an introduction, as a guide to the Scripture?. "We use
selections in our schools (said the Senior Rector,) but we
use them with a different intention and in a different
principle from what they do in the Irish system. We
hold the selections in one hand, but we keep fast hold of
the Bible with the other. (Immense applause, thrice re-
peated.) We use our selections as aids, as helps, as steps
to a better knowledge of the Bible ; they use them as a
substitute for the Bible. (Long .continued applause.)
The knowledge which we teach toour children when they
come to our schools is tantamount to this : we teach them
that there is a book which contains every thing that is
necessary for their guidance here and for eternal happi-
ness hereafter." This is the true distinction. Do the
RATHBONE clique misunderstand it? Oh, no, no, no;
they fully comprehend it; but their object, disguise it as
they may, is to prevent the Bible from being read. In
this vital error the Socinian and the Papist Priest concur.
The one knows that the Bible will put down his corrupt
and delusive Church; the other feels that if the Bible be
received and understood, the recipient cannot entertain
Deistical notions, because he must see that Christianity
is based upon the Atonement which the Socinian both
doctrinally and practically denies.

In Mr. CHARLES HORSFALL'S speech we have not only
sound argument, and an accurate sense of Christian duty,
but testimony that will not be disputed to the fact that
the meeting which the Mercury " considers an in-
significant expression of popular feeling," was one of
the largest and most respectable ever seen in Liverpool
within living memory.

The Rev. Rector CAMPBELL spoke well, and to the
purpose in all respects. One of his facts is decisive as to
the animus of the Town Council. While the Education
Committee, as they are called, consulted and advised with
the Romish Priests resident in the Borough, they did not
seek the advice of the Clergy of the Establishment, in the
same sense, under whose guidance and direction the Cor-
poration Schools have been carried on from their com-
mencement. This, we say, is decisive. It more than
justifies the Clergy of the Establishment for withdrawing,
were there not other and even weightier considerations.
Mr. CAMPBELL was one of those who were "captivated"
with the Irish system at first. But then he only saw it at
a distance, and looked at it as a single measure, the pro-
fessed design of which was to produce harmony where
harmony seldom comes. He has now seen the working
of the system ; he perceives the design of the thing ; he
has discovered the cloven foot under the robe of charity
and peace ; and the Rector is himself again and in his
right place—namely, contending for the Church and the
Monarchy—contending for an education of the poor the
basis of which shall be the unadulterated scriptures and a
pure faith ;—contending, in short, for the Word of God.
We know that the scoffing Socinian and the Infidel will
sneer at this, and say, in the impious jargon of the hour,
that GOD can protect his own Word without man's aid.
He can. He can also sustain man without man's labour
and foresight, if he pleases. But GOD has imposed du-
ties upon mankind, and woe to them who wilfully shut
their eyes to those duties.

There is one passage in Mr. CAMPBELL'S speech that
we must not pass over. He complimented Mr. WILLIAM
RATHBONE'S gentlemanly courtesy towards himself, and
declared that he had not detected in him a disposition to
throw the clergy of the Establishment out of the schools.
The mere mention of Mr. RATHBONE'S name called down
a storm of disapprobation, so " disgusting" have the " ig-
norant" meddlings of that pragmatical Socinian become.
Mr. CAMPBELL did not, we are very sure, express his
strict meaning in the sentence adverted to. He must
have intended to say that, professedly, be did not detect
in Mr. WILLIAM RATHBONE a desire to drive the clergy
from the schools by dint of Town-Council stave and hal-
bert. But Mr. RATHBONE has been head and front in the
O'Connellization experiment ; he insisted upon the new
system; he fell like a tiger upon the opponents of his
schemes; he went out of his way to assail and misrepresent
the Rev. H. WNEILE, (whom he hates for his. talents and
the efficient use he makes of them ;) and therefore Mr.
WM. RATHBONE has done all that in him lies to expel the
clergy from the schools, for he has been instrumental in
introducing therein a syStem which he well knew the
clergy ought to resist—Which they could not tolerate
without a desertion of that duty which they owe to both
God and Man. We therefore cannnot acquit Mr. RATH_
8010 in the unqualified sense of Mr. Rector CAMPBELL'S'
wordg but we are. willing to tecsii•e his eta Bence in