The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-03 00:00:00

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TO THB EDITOR OP THE .urzßrooz
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protest will not be made in vain.—We remain, ,gre.. t(
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TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHURCH
MENT OF THE BOROUGH OF LIVERPOOL,
ENDOW.
AND THE WORSHIPFUL THE MAYOR ALDER-
MEN, AND TOWN COUNCIL.

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—Brsitor BARRINGTON.
GENTLEMEN,—Our attention has been serious
the report of an intended arrangement of the —'n to
question, which has lately appeared in the public
this town ; whereby, it seems that St. Paul's Church, all °f
the voidance, &c. of either of the present clergy,
priced of one of its ministers, without an allowance suicide;
to enable the one, and only future minister to en,e°l
curate, to assist him in the discharge of the various ingtV a
Lions necessarily required at this church ; and in immediate with the ecclesiastical district and school
proposed thereto
Arrange-
appertaining.
Without wishing to arrogate to ourselves too great import-
ance, or to magnify the office of wardens, or guardians of the
interests of St. Paul's Church, and commissioners of it and
St. John's Church; the interests of the former being most
h without
tphrooup
especially in our care, the charge of the same being legally
rennet
ur entrusted st toe db
et to
prematurely
t feeling our-
selves publicly called. upon to declare our heeling but
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cannot
enteredallow
i into,
earnest protest against such an arrangement; and respect-
fully beg permission to lay before von, and the publii: of Li-
verpool at large, our reasons for so doing.
1. Because, under the authorities of the two acts of par.
liament, by virtue of which St. Paul's and St. John's
churches were erected; it is therein legally provided, by the
piety and munificence of our Protestant ancestors, that the
services of two ministers should be continued at St. Pi tit's
Church in perpetuity.
2. Because, it is also provided under the 2d Geo. 3, cap
68, sec. 25, that the ground floor of St. Paul's Church snail
remain free for ever, and that therefore the congregation
thereof, who merely occupy the pews in the gallery, cane"
be expected of themselves, (besides paving half yearly the
reserved, or tenants' rentals of such pews, the same gellek,
e ws being the private property of individuals, and all , I,
legally subjected to such reserved rent,) to be enabled to
make a suitable provision for the respectable maintenance 1, ~-1
of two clergymen at that church. Neither can the poor who •-,
occupy the free pews be expected, much less required, to_ .
subscribe their pence, towards such maintenance, -the \ ..).
clergy, eadorning ch ,: •
3. Because, at this church, (t e aracteriaric of -'s
our municipal ward and neighbourhood,) t ere are now three
full services performed every Lord'sday, and one full service 1
of a Thursday evening, during the winter months : cure of
souls, an ecclesiastical district, and a day and Sunday school
are also attached to this church. That A is situated in the
midst of a very dense, and proverbially poor population;
,
built upon a spacious plan and design, requiring 1
great ex-
ertion of the officiating clergyman to be heard by the
con-
gregation ; and, therefore we are well convinced, from our
intimate acquaintance with the localities of this church and ,
t
neighbourhood, (for one of the undersigned
has resided
nearly 40, the,other 12 years in the immediate vicinity
of
this church; one of us, a member of this church upwards of
20, and the other six years; the second time also of both of
us serving the honorary office of churchwarden of St Paul's)
that the numerous pastoral duties required at this church
when the same are faithfully performed, are too burthensora;
for any one minister to undertake : the said duties heio
now performed by three clergymen, (no legal provision
being however made for any future Sunday Evening
Lecturer), one minister only having cure of souls, and resi-
dence enjoined in his appointment : convinced that the coo_
scientious discharge of the said pastoral duties, requires the
joint, and efficient labours of two district ministers, each
having cure of souls, and residence within the parish of Li-
verpool enjoined them, and a suitable provision afforded
also for their maintenance, becoming their high and import.
ant calling, and their rank and station in respectable society,
4. Because, as members of a Trinitarian Protestant Church,
as lovers of those institutions which the Providence of
Almighty God has happily established in this land; "for the
preservation, extension, and perpetuation of which the Pro-
testants of past times contended so valiantly and so success.
fully," we are not, therefore, ashamed to confess that we feel an
anxiety that the blessings and privileges of our holy religion
(which we believe to be, under God's blessing, the best sup.
port an
• d safeguard of our country) should be handed down
unsullied to our latest posterity, and that therefore we can-
not remain neutral spectators to the proposed measure pass-
ing into a law; a measure which appears to us, fraught with
considerable mischief to the continuance of the Protestant
religion, as the common Christianity of our beloved country.
5. Because the prescriptive Piotestant privileges ~)!
joved
at this church for three-quarters 4 a century, cannot be suf-
fered to be compromised; the Ptotestaut poor deprived of
one of its legally appointed ministers; nor the church at
large consequently injured, by finally adopting the comm.
plated measure.
The bright page of history records,
,that at the period of
the glorious reformation, when darkness and superstition bad
almost overspread the land; that the pure light of the gospel
was eagerly sought after by the people; doubtleste. because it
"was precious in those days." But in these das, when
churches are multiplied, and almost brought to our doors,
when our worthy and esteemed Diocesan, ably supported by
the Clergy and Laity, are using great exertions to increase
the usefulnees of the established church; the Clergy and
Laity of this Protestant nation almost everywhere exercising
similar means, that the blessings of our leily religion may
be extended throughout the length and breadth of the land;
surely neither the commissioners of these two churches espe-
cially, nor the Protestant public generally, will ever delibe-
rately consent to such legalized sacrilege as herein referred
to. Otherwise our Protestant posterity may have just cause
to reproach us for having wilfully neglected " in this our day
the things that belong unto our peace," and their more dis.
taut security and happiness !
As commissioners of St. Paul's and St. John's churches.
and independent of our duties as churchwardens of St:
Paul's, (both situations being honorary,) we are willing to
entertain a cheering hope, that a special meeting of the corn.
missiouers of these two churches will be speedily convened,
to take into their most serious consideration the Proposed
measure of the Trustees of the Endowment and Town Coun-
cil, now laid before the public, and to adopt such proceedings
as will best protect the interests of either, or butiLof them_
important branches of the spiritual Zion of our land, fry
suffering in the general calamity by the Proposed arrange.
meat. . .
Under these circumstances, we beg respectfully to enter
our protest against the contemplated measure herein referred
to. We remain, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servants,
WILLIAM ROBERTS
JOHN BRISCOE. '
Liverpool, 2d July, 1838.

THEATRE RovAL.—Every exertion is made by the
management of this theatre to present a continual series of
novelties to the public. Mademoiselle Celeste continues
pie, and Monsieur
melo-dramatizing and dancing; and
_this week the vocal
attractions of the Misses Smith are added. Taglioni is en-
gaged for next Monday and Tuesciai.i 'We shall grow quite
saaans in dancing. Afterwards rioni, Lablache, and
Madame Centi Damoreau, will lend the aid of their vocal
abilities,po eh te
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pianist, their B
busna;i:llleledhairnstrurnental skill for
the amusement of the public.
THE QUEEN.—A copy, in water colours, of Chalon's meg.
nificent whole-length portrait of her Majesty, also a proof of
the engraving, may be seen at Mr. Lacey's Reposito4., of
Arts, 64, now 100, Bold-street, for one day only, on Iles.
day, July 3d, from 9 a.m. till 6 p.m.
DIORAMA.—The Diorama now open in Bold-street eon_
tains two views, one of St. Peter's. at Rome, and the other
the Valley of Chamouni. The pictures are both changeable.
and exhibit the effects of light and shade in a.very striking
manner. This exhibition is well worth seeing. The move.
able figures are very ingenious, and cleverly managed.
about the
ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.--Last night, about half-past
eleven, the servant left in charge of the premises of Messrs.
Franklin, the bullion exchange, at the top of Lord-streak
was alarmed by a noise in the house. On going to see what
Messrs.
it was she discovered a man on the top of the stairs. and im-
mediately ran for the police. Three or four policemen shortly
arrived, and on searching the premises a young two() w4s
several striking
foundu,hole coofntcheeadleady.. HTehehajaboe,sennaombseertvsecdalruterkr,inagnd
he can"
clever aid of Messrs.
over to this country from the United States as a sailor in the
Powhattan, now in Princes Dock. One of the policemen
ballets LIVER
of
actionTx E A Tilsit.
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said he had discovered the same fellow concealed in
1r ates and Hess' premises last week, but he was allowed to
go away.
Brown, King, and Gibson, assisted by Madame Rosier. The
searcher after amusement will there find a resting place.
PRIMITIVE METHODIST TOWN MISSIONARY,SOCIETY,..
brought—Att this
outis little iwttilteh theatre, several
Last evening, a m?eting of the friends of the above society
was held in Maguire-street Chapel, Mr. Michael Ashton in
the chair, for the purpose of advancing the objects of the
society, namely, obtaining increaeed resourses for sendin
missionaries amongst the lanes and alleys of that denselyg
peopled neighbourhood, to lead its inhabitants from the
thoughtless pursuit of vice and forgetfulness of God, to have
some care for eternity—a missionary field of exertion wide
enough for the overflowing energies and pockets of the
Christian world, for the salvation of the souls of our iname
diate brethren, and which ought surely, from •
.consistent
christians, to obtain as much support as missionary efforts for
the saving of the souls of distant and unknown heathen na-
tions of Africans and Hindoos. We were glad to see the
chapel well filled. A number of appropriate and wiring
speeches were delivered, and a collection made in aid of the
funds of the society.

The Duke of Northumberland has liberally offered a thou-
sand pounds towards the cost of the reduction of the observa-
tions of Sir John Herschel!, in the southern hemisphere.
The Rev. Mr. Cotton has resigned his office of chaplain of
Newgate.
By the promotion of Lord Dundas to the Earldom'of Zet-
land, his lordship's eldest son, the Hon. Thomas Dundee
M.P. for Richmond, will take the title of Lord Dundas.
Among the subscribers to the military memorial of th
Duke of Wellington, is the Archbishop of York for 100
guineas.

It is rumoured that our neighbour, Sir F. L. Wood, Bart.,
will be added to the House of Lords, by the title of Brron
Garrowby.—Doncaster Chron.

The House of Lords have decided that Lord Dungannon
and the Earl of Arran had established their claims to vote in
the election of Irish Representative Peers.
Lord Nugent has established his claim to vote for Irish
representative peers. , It seems the original of his lordship's
title has been lost, as it cannot be found among the muni-
ments of the Grenville'family.
It is not generally known that the House of Lords has its
whippers-in as well as the Commons. At present, on the
part of the Whigs, the office is filled by Lord Strafford; on
the other side, by Lord Redesdale.
The Hull Operative Conservative Society, which has been
established just a year, already numbers 2.55 members.

The hatchment at St. James's Palace, in memory of
William IV., was removed yesterday week.

Mr. P. Thomson has given notice thht the new regtitations
on the exportation of sugar will come into operation on the
10th of October next.

THE NEW LORD OSBORNE.—They say at Westminster
Hall that the Marquis of Carmarthen succeeds to the Peer-
age in right of his wife. The Marchioness is a Roman Ca-
tholic. The Marquis is not. —Post.

LORD CASTLERRAGH.—His lordship is progressing slowly
towards convalescence ; he has suffered much from fever
arising from his wound.

GUILT.-Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour,
can never confer real happiness. The evil consequences of
our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghost,
of the murdered, for ever haunt the steps of the malefactors
The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness-
are always those of pleasantness and peace.—Sir Walter Scott.
Joseph John Gurney, the well-known English Quaker, is
expected to be present at the approaching yearly meeting of
Friends to be held in New York.—NcwTork Paper.
The marriage between Viscount Milton and Lady Frances
Douglas, daughter of the Earl of Morton, is finally settled
to take place in about two months.

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INATION SONG.

".• BY C. SWAIN.
(Prom the Literary Gazelle.
Thou music of a nation's voice,
Thou pace of old Britannia's throne,
Thm 2.M round which all hearts rejoice,
GasUitysland guard thee, Eno.land's own !
Whaethousand- thousand hearts are thine,
And Britain's blessing rests on thee,
Pure may thy crown, Victoria, shine,
And all thy subjects lovers be!
Come, wives ! from cottage-home and field?
Come, daughters ! oh, ye lovely, come !
Bid every tongue its homa,re yield ;
Sound, trumpets, sound; and peal the drum!
God save the Queen ! ring high, ye bells !
Swell forth a people's praise afar ;
She's crowned, the acclaiming, cannon tells :
The Queen!—God save the Queen !—Hurrah
Long may she live, to proire the best
And noblest crown a Queen can wear,
Is that a people's love hat h blest
Whose h.appine,; is in her care!
God bless the Queen ! ring sweet, ye bells!
Swell forth old England's joy afar;
She's cro weed, the exulting cannon tells;
The Queen !—God bless the Queen !—hurrah!

CORONATION ODE FOR VICTORIA I.
JUNE 28, 1838.
Sceptre in a maiden-hand,
reign of Beauty and of Youth,
.Ice to gladness all the land,
Love is Loyalty and Truth.
Rule, VicTont A' rule. the Free;
Hearts and hands we offer Thee.
by the tyrant-law of might,
by the Grace of God, we own,
by the People's Voice, thy right
't upon thy Fath.ers' throne.—
Rufe,,VicTon lA, rule the Free;
HeaYeu defend and prosper Thee I
isles and continents obey,
(reds and nations, nigh and far,
:een the bound-marks of thy sway
Morning and the Evening Star.—
Rule, Vicront A, rule the Free,
Millihns rest their hopes on Thee.

dave within thine empire breathe,
.re thy steps oppression fly ;
'rho I amb and i.inn play beneath
ine meek dominion of thine eye.—
Rule, VICTORIA, rule the Free,
Chains and fetters yield to Thee.
With Mercy's beams yet more benign,
Light to thv realms in darkness send,
Till none shall name a God but thine,
None at an Idol-altar bend.—
Rule, VICTORIA, rule the Free,
Till they all shall pray for Thee.

At home, abroad, by sea, on shore,
Blessings on Thee and thine increase ;
The sword and cannon rage no more,
The whole world hail Thee Queen of Peace !
Rule, VICTORIA. rule the Free,
And the Almighty rule o'er Thee !
Blackwood's Magazine. JAMES MONTGOMERY

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