The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-03 00:00:00

DR. WNEILE'S THIRD LETTER TO
PRIEST POWER.

SIR,—So, you have spoken ! btt I am sorry to say not
to the purpose—enough to betray your temper, but not
enough to defend your can=e—enough to attempt an eva-
sion of the argument, but not enough to attempt the
enlightenment or conviction of your adversary.
I might be excused if I took no notice of your letter,
considering what it is ; and in the eyes of the world
around I would be fully excused. Repeatedly, indeed,
since its publication, the remark has been made to me,
" the Priest's letter is too contemptible to deserve an
answer." I think so too. But, then, I could not excuse
myself, were I to treat you as you deserve. I am not, I
hope, so devoid of the sympathy of Him who came " to
seek and to save that which was lost," as to turn away
from you in unconcern.
I am grieved to think that a man, professing to be a
teacher of the religion of Christ, should avow himself so
utterly destitute of the mind of Christ, as to be uncon-
cerned about any one ; that a professed Prieit of the
Catholic Church should be so dead to the high obligations

of his boasted mission:as to tells man, whom he considers
a heretic, that he is not of such importance as to deserve
his attention ; that an avowed advocate of the charity,
which thinketh no evil, should insinuate a charge of in-
terested hypocrisy, of which he dare not, because he
cannot, attempt the slightest shadow of proof.

We of the OLD and true Church of Christ have not so
learned Christianity. An inspired Apostle has said, " being
defamed, we entreat." I desire to be found among those
who are successors of the Apostles, not in time only, but
in character ; and, therefore, I entreat you to consider
your false position. I am not afraid of being treated
with scorn, in return for anxiety to do good. My tender
loving Lord was so treated Himself, and the servant
is not above his master. I would consider any
patience, any argument, any persuasion, any forbear-
ance, any condescension which I could exercise towards
you, as more than rewarded, if I could be of use to your
precious immortal soul for which Christ died. What
have written to you is either true or false. The question'
of comparative antiquity is not one of opinion, but of facts-
and dates. I have given you facts and dates. If you can
prove them inaccurate, I will acknowledge my mistake.
If what I have written to you be true, then, you are in
the awful condition of a man spending his life in mislead-
ing his fellow men : taking advantage of their ignorance
to teach them that what is old is new, and that what is
new is old ; calling evil good, and good evil ; putting dark-
ness for light, and light for darkness ; bitter for sweet, and
sweet for bitter. Of such, the word of God pronounces,
with appalling solemnity, woe, woe unto them !

If what I have written to you be false, then, you are in
the disgraceful, as well as dangerous, position of a watch-.
man who has forsaken his post—a soldier who has de-
serted his colours : your very citadel is assailed, and,
instead of having recourse to the Sword of the Spirit,
and fighting the good fight of faith, you are endeavouring
to hide the real faithlessness of a deserter behind the
assumed superiority of an impregnable pre-eminence.
Oh ! Sir, let me return your affectation of contempt with
the reality of brotherly kindness and sincere concern, and
let me remind you of the fearful hardening of heart inse-
parable from perseverance in any way known and felt to be
indefensible. If you believed yourself— if you had confi-
dence of heart in what you teach and practise, you would
at least attempt to defend it. Better be beaten in an
honest fight, than dishonestly pretend to a victory. Even
your own poor people, ignorant as most of them are, will
see through your flimsy pretence, and require something
more at your hands. Affected dignity has been long the
convenient plea of impotence ; but neither its loftiness
nor its trappings can any longer conceal its weakness.
With all the help which you might have had in two
months from all the Priests and Bishops of Rome,
who have intruded themselves into this realm of
England, you can't (you say you won't, and I. am
sure you won't ; but it is because, and only because,
you can't) shew that the Creed to which you are
sworn, was ever sworn to, or even known, as a Creed,
before the year 1561. And, yet, you will go on
teaching it as the OLD Creed of the holy Catholic Apos-
tolic Church' If you say nothing in defence of its an-
tiquity, I shall be obliged to address your people, and
remind them of what our Saviour said about blind
guides, and those who follow them, as I now affectionately
(don't mock at it, for I feel it) remind you of what an
enlightened and eloquent disciple of our Saviour said
about an unfaithful or unskilful pilot—" He perishes with
the misguided vessel ; but he is denied the privilege of
perishing alone. His profession and his position bare
involved a whole crew in his ruin."

I have time for no more at present, but to subscribe
myself, in all sincerity and earnestness, a lover of your
soul and a Protester against your new creed.
HUGH 114 NEILE.

Aigburth, 2nd Miv, 1853.

MODEL STEAMER FOR THE DUBLIN

GREAT EXHIBITION.

ON Saturday we had the opportunity of inspecting a
beautiful model steamer, prepared under the superinten-
dence of Mr. Clarke, jun., of the City of Dublin Steam
Packet Company, for the Dublin Exhibition, whither it:
will be sent in a few days. It has been constructed in
every particular on the scale of a square half-inch to the
foot; carries a figure-head representing the Countess St.
Germans, whose name she bears ; is fitted with Trotman's
patent anchors manufactured by Wood Brothers, Liver-
pool ; the patent windlass, by the same makers ; winches
at each mast for hoisting cargo and for general purposes ;
binnacles, with Liliputian compasses, by Mr. Chadbourne.
of Lord-street, in perfect working order; life-boats and
a gig of beautiful model ; hawsers coiled ready for use;
Commander Fayrer's patent steering-wheel, with the
break, all perfect, manufactured by Marts Brothers, of
this town ; life-buoys, and flags, made according to scale.
The figure-head is a bold and graceful work, executed
by Messrs. Hammond and Kenwright, and the name is
painted on a new Scotch pattern, which is exceedingly
neat. The bow-lights are at a perfect angle, and the
lamps are trimmed from the inside, so that, if a sea
breaks over them, they are safe. The fire-buckets, ar-
ranged in the simplest order possible upon the platform,
land can be got at easily whenever they are required.
• The platform is constructed so as to give every accommo-
dation to the captain and crew, and at the same time to
send a plentiful supply of air down the engine hatch.
There is a brass rule all round the vessel, which forms a
chaste and effective ornament. There is a comfortable
saloon on deck, an improvement in the Channel packets
which we have no doubt will be introduced in future into
every vessel made for the Dublin Company. In the
summer time passengers like to dine o.s deck, so that they
may be removed from the sultry sleeping rooms below, and
those passengers who are suffering from the effects of the
passage. The rigging is as perfect as if made for actual
service, and the splicings have especially excited the
admiration of nautical men. The model is being fitted
with everything appertaining to a comfortable steamer,
and all the work has been done with the greatest nicety
and exactness. No expense has been spared, and the
result is the production of one of the smallest and most
complete models. A. vessel built, according to the scale
of a square foot to half a square inch, would be about 900
tons burthen, 236 feet long, and 350 horse-power. The
model is represented as in the Graving-dock, and on the
blocks. The blue Peter has just been hoisted, as the
signal for the ship going out to make her trial trip. The
dimensions of the model are : length, 10ft. Gin. ; extreme
width, over the paddle-box, 21t. tin. She is fitted with
patent paddle wheels, which, acting on the water verti-
cally, prevent any back water from being carried round.
The bulwarks are made of satin wood, in imitation of
oak, and are very highly polished. The platform
is made of oak. The model will be covered with plate
glass, and so placed in class eight of the Dublin Ex-
hibition. We believe that an excellent place has been
assigned it, at the top of the grand centre staircase, and
that it will enjoy an excellent light. The rig of the steamer,
we may mention, is that of a three-masted schooner, the
most useful, it is found, in these fast times. Several.
members of the 'Dock Committee, and many nautical
gentlemen have inspected it, and pronounce it the finest
thing of the sort ever produced. The amount of labour
and ingenuity expended in its execution may be estimated
by the fact, that the model at first occupied two years in
its completion ; and that three months have now been
expended in finally fitting it for the approaching Ex-
hibition. As to its ultimate destination, we hope that
this model will be returned to Liverpool, and that the
necessary measures may be adopted to have it placed in
some one of our public buildings, as an ornament emi-
nently appropriate in a Liverpool institution, and well
worthy of a place in our finest public rooms.

NEW CHURCH AND SCHOOLS.
OUR advertising columns contain the announcement
that, after several years of delay, a new church is about
to be erected to meet the requirements of the populous
and irreligious district of Vauxhall. It is one of the four
new parishes in Liverpool, and its incumbent, who is
desirous to remain connected with it till every re.quire-
ment is fairly met, has brought its condition before the
public reratedly. The Church Building Society have
surely " bided their time," and, though other objects of
interest are before the pub'ic, there can be none more
pressing. The same effort secures a secondary object of
inferior, but still of very great importance, the erection
of schools in the district. The appeal of Archdeacon
BROOKS is well-timed and wisely expressed, and we have
no doubt will meet with a suitable response. Several
have shown great liberality; but there are very many
others who ought to be equally prompt in so good a work.
whose names we are certain will appear by and by.

THE LANCASHIRE HUSSARS are expected in South-
' port to-day.
THE DEAD BODY OF A CHILD was discovered yester. (lay morning about half-past six o'clock, in No. 20 Court,
Frederick-street, by a boy named Thomas Nicholas, re-
siding in o. 25 Court, in the same street. The deceased,
re-
which
hich
in seemed to be a newly born female child, was
a coarse cloth. it was taken to the dead-
house, there to await the inquest, which will be held to-day.
THE Exonus via LIVERPOOL.--At present the greatest
proportion of the emigration is to the United States; and
this is caused by the continual drain of Irish, German,
and Dutcb, of the inferior class, who are flying from
their native countries as from a plague. The floodgates
are opened, and the flow of people continues to increase
in volume and rapidity. The exodus from the county of
Mayo, Ireland, is so excessive, that it is calculated that
in three years it will be entirely divested of its native
agricultural population.

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IMPROVEMENTS AT EVERTON VILLAGE.—The high
mound at the corner of Everton village, celebrated in the
local annals as the site of Prince Rupert's Cottage, has
within the last few days fallen before the strop arm
from arm of
modern " improvement." A road is being made
that point across the waste ground into Shaw.street, op-
posite William Henry-street. This will form a line of
communication between Everton and the town. which
has long been required. When finished it will relieve the
somewhat narrow thoroughfare of Brunswick-road of a
considerable portion of its over-burthene4, traffic. Ru-
pert's cottage was pulled down on the 22d Nptil, 1845.

J9OK S FOR REVIEW, &c.—Books, New Prints, Music, &c.,
intended for review, may be left at Mr. C. Mitchell's, Red-
lion-court, Fleet-street, London, addressed " to the Editor
of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD," when they will be forwarded
and receive attention.

Blackwood's Magazine. Edinburgh : Blacksvoods.
It is always a pleasure to notice a magazine
which has done such good service in the promotion
of healthy literature and sound Conservative policy;
but the present number coming so immediately upon
our publication, we must be content to point but
briefly at its interesting contents. It opens with a
continuation of the charming story of " Lady Lee's
Widowhood," the monotony of which is disturbed
by a variety of lovers, presenting the most striking
contrasts in character and eligibility. " Count
Arensberg, or the Days of Luther," is a review of a
novel under that title, by Mr. Sortain, of Trinity
College, Dublin, whom the reviewer describes to have
been faithful to history and fair in his polemics. The
lovers of science will be delighted with the next
article, headed "The Circulation of Matter," which
is drawn chiefly from Johnston's " Elements of Agri-
cultural Chemistry," a subject of increasing in-
terest. " From Brest to the Island of Bourbon" is
a pleasing- description of a voyage in two French
frigates, in 1843, .as detailed by Dr.
.Yvan. The
next article is also from a French source, being a
notice of " Lord Wellington in Spain," by Jules
Maurel, a Frenchman, who has earned for himself
the reputation of having written the best eulogium
of our departed Duke. In " Dr. Chalmers as Poli-
tical Economist" the reviewer, while praising. his
author, exposes some of the errors into which he has
fallen. Aft,r "A Tale from the French Stage,"
which shows that Blackwood is devoting more and
more attention to French literature, the magazine
concludes with a humorous yet withering sarcasm
on the miserable American delusion of " Spiritual
Manifestations." We may observe that this number
is without any political essay, which most readers
of Blackwood have learned to look for.

General History of the Christian Religion and

Church.

London : H. G. Bohn.

We have here the eighth volume of Neander's
celebrated work, and with it is concluded the his-
tory of the Christian Church, as published by the
great German. Since his death a posthumous
volume has appeared, compiled from his papers, by
his pupil Dr. Schneider, so that there is some pro-
bability of a further continuation. Mr. Bohn has
determined upon having the remainder translated
for his excellent and truly cheap edition ; and at
its completion he promises to give a general index
to the whole. Mr. Bohn, by the selection of such
a work for his " Standard Library," has conferred
a boon on the students of history, the value of
which we can hardly estimate too highly.

Alison's History of Europe. People's Edition.
Edinburgh : Blackwood and Sons.

When the nineteenth century shall have passed
away, the publication of Alison's " History of
Europe," in its present shape, will be remembered
as a momentous event in the history of that cheap
literature which forms a distinguishing feature of
the age we live in. rew " first parts," so suggestive
as the present, have ever fallen into our hands. We
have turned over the one hundred and twelve com-
pact pages of letter-press, which are offered for a
monthly shilling—or for the poor man's three half-
pence a week ; and we have done so with a deep
sense of gratitude, and the most unfeigned wishes
for the success the Messrs. Blackwood so well
merit. It is not the time now to argue that perio-
dical literature is the bane of our age, and the
destroyer of true knowledge and greatness. Perio-
dical publication and cheapness are now unques-
tionably the two requisites for success; and the
right way to counteract evil influences, is to send
into the market good books, with all the attractive
adjuncts (if possible) in which the useless and the
positively wicked are almost sure to excel. The
Messrs. Blackwood, with none of the arrogant pre-
tensions to cheapness which disgrace too many
publishers, have published what all must admit to
be the most moderately priced work ever given to
the British public. Sir Archibald Alison's great
work is to be completed in forty-four shilling parts.
The paper, type, and illustrations, are of the first
quality. --
The Annals of Roger de Horeden. London :
H. G. Bohn.

One of the oldest and richest treasures in the
cabinet of English history, is here presented to the
reader in a fresh form—comely, and all unlike the
cumbrous editions of the past, which were not only
cumbrous, but frequently incorrect. Roger de
Hoveden, by some supposed to be a native of
York, lived and wrote in the reign of Henry III.;
and, although a professor of theology at Oxford, it
is believed that he united the study of the law with
that of divinity, and acted as one of the clerks or
secretaries to the king. From the union of eccle-
siastical and court influence, this industrious and
learned man had of course access to the most
reliable sources of information ; and, although
Leland has charged him with surreptitiously bor-
rowing from Simeon of Durham, it must be ad-
mitted that he gives a clearer and more correct
view of English history, and pays more respect to
chronology, than his Northumbrian predecessor.
We value Hoveden's book, because it is the fullest
account of the same period extant, and for this
other reason, that it reveals the character of the
English educated mind in the twelfth century—
believing in Christ, yet daily visited by the Devil in
person, or by omens, or by frightful astrological
predictions ; uttering pious ejaculations, and in the
same breath condemning to summary punishment
Jew, Saracen, heretic, and pagan ; delineating with
some measure of sadness the frailties and miseries
of mankind, but never on any occasion wasting a
word of sympathy on their sufferings. That Mr.
Riley is the translator of this work is a sufficient
guarantee for its faithfulness and ability.

Australia Visited and Re-visited.
London : Addey and Co.
We have here a narrative of recent travels and
old experiences in Victoria and New South Wales,
by Samuel Mossman and Thomas Banister, the
former the author of a valuable work on "The Gold
Regions of Australia,"—the latter favourably known
as the author of " Britain and her Dependencies."
Although, in a literary point of view, the present
book is capable of improvement, still we have no
hesitation in pronouncing it the best account of
Nugget-land which has yet been published. The
authors are plain, conscientious, painstaking men,
who describe what they have seen, and in doing so
have evi 'ently repressed all Bights of the imagina-
tion—feeling the responsibility of their task, as it
related to those who might determine upon hazard-
ing their fortunes in Australia, and even as it con-
cerned the general reader. We have derived from
its pages the clearest and most distinct view of our
golden colony which we have yet been permitted to
enjoy through the medium of books. To all who,
keeping pace with the increasing knowledge of the
age, wish to learn something of Australia, we
heartily commend it ; while to the intending emi-
grant we deem it indispensable, if he wishes to
avoid the painful condition of being ignorant of the
voyage, and of his adopted land. The maps,
which form a most valuable feature, are by Mr. A.
R. Johnston, geographer to the Queen. The
publishers have done their part well; and a more
tasteful, as well as useful, addition to the drawing-