The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

The Farnham Rectory Bill was read a second time, after
some discussion, and a division.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, no contract
had yet been entered into for government steamers between
Falmouth and Alexandria.

The third reading of the Weaver Churches Bill was fixed
for Monday. _ . .

The house then went into committee on the Ecclesiastical
Duties and Revenues Bill. The discussion of its clauses in
detail occupied the rest of the evening. The main point was,
that Lord J. Russell proposes to give the deanery of Exeter
to the Crown by the main force of an act of parliament,
having been defeated in his attempt to bestow it on a poli-
tical ally by the decision of the Queen's Bench. Of course
the act cannot have a retrospective effect. The conversation
on the several clauses continued till one o'clock, when the
house adjourned, Mr. Greene having previously obtained the
appointment of a committee to inquire into the expenses of
select committees.

COURVOISIER

(From the Times of yesterday.)
Yesterday the Rev. Mr. Carver, the ordinary of Newgate,
preached what is called the condemned sermon in the chapel
of Newgate. The sheriffs, in consequence of the innume-
rable applications made to them for admission to the chapel,
determined to open once more the gallery which had been
closed since the execution of Fauntleroy, and to issue cards.
Although the service was not to commence till half-past 10
o'clock, the avenues to the common door of entrance to the
prison, as well as to the door of the governor's house, were
completely blocked up before 9 o'clock by those to whom
the sheriffs had given the privilege. The arrangements
were, however, so judicially made by the sheriffs, and the
governor, that not the slightest inconvenience was sustained
by the numerous congregation. _ _ _ __ _

'We observed amongst the congregation Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, Lord Coventry, Lord Paget, Lord Bruce, seve-
ral members of the House of Commons, and a few ladies.
Immediately before the service commenced, Courvoisier
entered the chapel, attended by two of the turnkeys, and sat
on a bench before the pulpit. He appeared to be quite aware
of the situation in which was placed, and never once raised
his eyes during the service. In fact, his looks denoted ex-
treme sorrow and contrition, and he seemed to suffer great
inward agitation when the ordinary particularly alluded to
the crime for the perpetration of which he stands condemned.
He was as attentive as possible to the service, and held the
prayer book with a steady hand.
The ordinary took his text from Job, c. xxxiv. v. 21, 22 :
—" For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all
his goings. There is no darkness nor shadow of death where
the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
The following are the passages which referred to the
wretched criminal more especially. The preceding portions
of the sermon illustrated, from the Oldand New Testaments,
the omniscience of God

" How awfully true must the lessons and illustrations of
our text appear to one amongst us this morning, and how
fearfully and dreadfully appropriate the adaptation of its lan-
guage to his special and almost unparalleled case. ' The eyes
of the Omniscient were indeed upon his ways, and he saw all
his goings.' There was no darkness nor shadow of death
where he could hide himself.

" Yes, and that special deed of darkness which has sub-
jected you, the midnight assassin of an aged, amiable, and
unoffending master, to prison and to death, has yet, and in a
few hours too, to be judged of by Him ' whose eye is upon
your heart (as well as upon your ways,) and who sees all
your thoughts as He saw all your goings.'
" In the solitude of your confinement, far more appropri-
ate for serious reflection on your part, and profitable minis-
tration on mine, than on this exciting occasion, before a large
and public assembly—in that retired cell I have daily endea-
voured, in simplicity and fidelity, as the minister of God, to
prepare you to meet Him, urging the duty and necessity of
penitence, abiding, abject, abundant sorrow, godly sorrow
for your dreadful sin, which ignominiously closes your earthly
career, and ushers you to your eternal destiny. With other
matters, in which 1 have sought to be faithful and serviceable,
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and small indeed it is, to outraged society, by a voluntary,
ample, and explicit confession of all the circumstances con-
nected with this unprecedented deed of darkness. The enor-
mous crime itself has been by you tardily, though, I trust,
penitentially, acknowledged; but the evasions, subterfuges,
and inconsistencies, which have appeared in your recorded
verbal statements on minor details, have very naturally in-
duced the fear that your heart is not right in the sight of
God.' You had almost reached the very verge of a triumph
that would have included the deepest sorrow to the guiltless
at almost the eleventh hour. So strong was the impression
of your innocence, from your long-established character for
mildness and probity, tha a mortal stab was about to be in-
flicted upon the reputation of your fellow-domestics and
other innocent persons. You reposed in quiescent security
of acquittal. At the critical juncture, God, in the wonderful
workings of His providence, by a marvellous chain of circum-
stantial evidence, with unerring certainty, fixed upon you the
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indulge in secret sin—' Be sure your sin will find
The book before me, from which alone I derive authority to
preach glad tidings of a free and full salvation to lost and
perishing sinners, through faith in the all-cleansing blood and
righteousness of the Lamb of God, says indeed—' Blessed is
he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered;'
and, again,
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