The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-15 00:00:00

THE GRENVILLE BAY WHALER.

( From the Newcastle Joana.)
This ship, recently embayed in the ice at Davis' Straits, has
escaped from her perilous position, and happily arrived in the
;Tyne, amidst great rejoicings, on Wednesday last. We have
been favoured with the following authentic and interesting par-
ticulars :

"This vessel is one of the seven whalers which were beset in
the middle of Davis' Straits in the early part of October, in lat.
68 55 ; and front the accounts of the description of the ice, and
its progressive movement southward, brought up the vessels
which have arrived, and were similarly situated, her arrival,
and that of the Lady Jane, have been most anxiously looked
for. The Grenville Bay has three fish, which will yield about
70 tuns of oil. Captain Taylor is in tolerable good health, con-
sidering the untoward circumstances he has had to contend
with, and his crew, as might be expected, are rather feeble, and
some laid down with the scurvy. One poor fellow, in a very bad
state, was sent to the Infirmary immediately on the vessel's
arrival. The Grenville Bay drifted upwards of 800 miles in
the ice, and early in December, from the prevalence of easterly
winds, and a strong in-draught to the \Vest Island, was car-
ried, with the Lady Jane and Norfolk in company, into Hud-
son's Straits—passing Resolution Island, down the Bay of
Ungava, where they were apprehensive they would have had to
winter; in fact, they bore up to endeavour to reach the settle-
ment, as a place of security and to obtain supplies. From the
haziness of the weather they did not know with certainty where
they were; but fortunately •meeting with a strong current,
they were driven rapidly out of the Strait, passing Button's
Islands, and got clear of the ice in lat. 58 51, about 30 miles
from the Labrador coast, on the 16th December. She made
her passage across the Atlantic in 21 days. Captain Taylor
saw several fish in lat. 61 30, but front the state of the ice, and
the feebleness of his crew, the attempt to capture them proved
unsuccessful. The Abram, of Hull, was last seen on the 29th
November, wheu she bore to the north-east in lat. 63. The
temperature varied from 28 degrees above Zero to 20 below.
Captain Taylor unfortunately lust his cook overboard on the
passage home. The Lady Jane was in sight the day before
Captain Taylor got clear of the ice, and was set by the current
to the westward, but there was no doubt of her getting clear,
and therefore she may be looked for. The Norfolk, of Ber-
wick, has arrived at that port."

THE ANGT.o•SP%NISTT LEGtorc—Cork had a "good riddance"
of some of the heroes who volunteered to do battle in behalf of
her youthful Majesty of Spain. The public need not to be re
minded that they consisted generally of the most disorderly and
depraved characters in the city, and, if report speak truly, they
have been nothing improved by transference to another clinic.
It is stated—we know not on what authority--that four or five
of them having been concerned in a burglary in Spain, they
were given up by General Evans on the demand of the Spanish
authorities, tried, convicted, and hanged. They were all from
theneighbourhood of the Marsh.—Cork Constitution.

EARLY ORIGIN OF CHURCH ENDOWMENTS.

We extract the following statement. of an important fact in ear-
ly ecclesiastical history, from the Rev. Mr. Sinclair's valuable
Dissertation, Vindicating- the Church of En,,land, &c. It ex-
hibits the sentiments which christians during the purest ages of
their faith, entertained regarding the necessity of making a per-
manent provision for the support of religion, instead of leaving
its existence and moral influences contingent upon the precari-
ous bounty of its professors :
It may here be interesting to remark, that the endowments
attached to churches, and the distinction bestowed on church
officers, are much more ancient than is generally supposed.
The settlement of lands and houses upon ecclesiastical bodies is
commonly regarded as of later date than even the political es-
tablishment of christianity in the reign of Constantine ; and the
Apostolic poverty and purity of the church antecedent to that
late period, has often been the theme of dissenting panegyric.
Yet at the very beginning of the third century, we find from
public records that landed property, even withil the limits of
Rome itself, was attached to christian churches• Before the
close of that century not only the church of Rome but also those
of Milan, Carthage, Antioch, and Alexandria, are descibed to
have been opulently endowed. A decree was passed by Con-
stantine in the early part of his career, and while he only shared
(with Licinius) the imperial dignity, (A.n. 303.) that the gar-
dens, lands, and other possessions, which had previously belov-
ed to the church, and which had been confiscated in times of
persecution, should he restored. And St. Chrysostom, raised
to the patriarchal see of Constantinople, reproachfully contrasts
the poverty of that church, in his time, with its wealth and pros-
perous state in preceding ages.