The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-24 00:00:00

" The Times is not ignorant of the fact, that we owe prin-
cipally to the Chinch of England, under God, the large and
yet increasing majorities of Protestant Conservatives in the
Houses of Parliament. The House of Lords during the past
ten years has had between siity and seventy new peers
thrown into the ranks of the old nobility of the country ; and
the principles of these new members have, in nine out of ten
cases, been avowedly hostile to Conservative principles. And
yet, on the question of Want of Confidence, a majority of
seventy-one members decided against the Destructives ! The
Rouse of Commons, though returned under the influence of
a Whig-Radical Cabinet—though elected at a period of great
national distress—though called together at a moment of
considerable public excitement on a question of food—has
affirmed, by a majority of ninety-one, that those who hated
the Church, who caressed the Dissenters, who befriended
Papism, who set the example of bitterly deriding all religion-
ists, as religionists, and who governed the country without
reference either to God or his word, to the Church, or to the
Protestant faith and Protestant institutions of the country,
were unfit to bring forward any measure, or to submit any
propositions to a British House of Commons. This majority
of ninety•one we owe to Church influence, Church efforts,
Church exertion, Church example, and Church principles.
There can be no doubt upon this point Have the Dissenters
retuned us Conservatives? No. We are indebted to them
for such men as Roebuck, Ward, Wakley, Duncombe,
Hawes, and Easthopc. Have the Romanists returned us
Conservatives ? No. We are under no obligation to them,
speaking of them en masse, for any but Daniel O'Connell
and his still lengthy though somewhat diminished tail. The
Scotch Presbyterian Church has sent us a few ' good men and
true,' and we thank her for them. The godly, persecuted,
unwearied, patient, blessed Church of England in Ireland,
has added a few likewise to our ranks ; but it is the Church-
going, Church-loving: Church-prizing population of our
dear homesteads, our noble Church of England Protestant
yeomanry, gentry, aye and cottagers too, of our English and
Welsh agricultural districts, who have rallied round the
standard of their national faith and national altar, and have
supplied us with the principal elements of that majority which
will enable a Christian, a Protestant, and a Church of Eng-
land Cabinet, to remedy all the errors of the last ten years,
and to secure to this land an extent of moral and spiritual
good which it would be impossible for man either to predict
or to imagine.

" And the Church, in so acting, has not had merely po-
litical or even moral ends in view. True, she was
averse to democratical theories, and to demoralizing sys-
tems known by the appellations of Socialism and Char-
tism. True, she mourned over the Vandalism of the
political levellers who stalked abroad at noon-day under
the protection of a Whig-Radical Administration. True,
she had no confidence in the political measures of men who
had no permanent system to act upon, and no political power
or majority to carry it into operation. But the Church
looked beyond all this. The Church saw that, unless some
mighty effort should be made to overthrow the late Cabinet,
her Christian, wise, and salutary influence over the people
would be weakened; the very principle of her existence as a
National Church, would be questioned and attacked ; the
Christian education of the rising generation would be en-
dangered ; the Universities of the land would have forced on
them, contrary to the statutes which founded them, many-
headed Schism ; and Papacy, Political Dissent, and Infidelity,
would wage an impious and demoralizing warfare with the
old Protestant institutions and laws of the country. And
what did she resolve on doing ? The Church rose in all her
dignity and strength ; the Church called on her members to
come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against
the mighty—and what was the consequence? The return of
a very large, very enlightened, and very decisive majority in
the House of Commons for Christian Conservatism and the
Church of England.
"And let it not be said that this is an after thought.'
No—it is no after thought at all. The Church of England,
during the period of the French Revolution, presented in this
country the only rampart against the attacks of Jacobinism,
Whiggism, and Revolution. The Church of England, during
the period of the long continential war against all thrones
and all altars, supplied the navy with sailors, and the army
with soldiers to defend the soil, the liberties, the constitution,
and the religion of this highly favoured land. The Church
of England, in latter times, withstood, in moments of great
danger and difficulty, the vulgar cry for reform and revolution.
And now the Church of England, after years of anxious
trouble and fervent prat et% is once more enabled to return
to the national asseholy of the people a Christian, a Protes-
tant, and a Conservative majority—not to coax the Roman-
ists—not to flatter the Dissenters—not to fawn to infidels and
latitudinarians ; but to support the Church, to rally round
her, to call for Church extension, Church protection, Church
influence, and the triumph of those principles which secured
this country from moral as well as physical devastation when
the terror of 1793, and the armaments of later years in a
neighbouring country, were directed against British Churches,
British Altars, and British Christians.
; As, then, the large majority in the present House of
Commons is a Protestant as well as a Conservative majority,
and as that Christian Protestant majority has been returned
by the Church of England, we begin by requiring that the
Church of England shall receive the positive, avowed, and
prompt alliance of the new Cabinet."

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated,
G. Virtue, London.

Parts VII and VIII of this work have appeared, and fully
bear out the high character of the former numbers, not only
in the beauty of the illustrations, (from drawings by the
celebrated W. H. Bartlett,) but in the literary department,
by that deservedly popular writer, N. P. Willis, Esq., author
of " Pencillings by the way," Ste. &c. There are four fine
engravings on steel in each part, executed by first-rate artists,
all admirable specimens of the art, and forming admirable
pictures, combining the bold and graphic with extreme
delicacy and minuteness of execution. Each, indeed, may
be pronounced a gem, which, some few years ago, could it
have been produced at all, would bave been considered cheap
at the price of the whole number. We have " Dublin Bay,
from Kingstown Quarries ;" the " Approach to Cashel,"
with its castle-topped rock, reminding one of St. Michaels'
Mount, Cornwall ; the " Head of Glenmalure," Wicklow,
a wild and interesting mountain scene ; the " Entrance of
Temple AV Durmot," Clonmacnoise ; " Ciu ndalk in ;" "Holy
Cross Abbey," on the Suir ; " Dunkerry Cave," Antrim ;
and " Leenane," Connemara. We can scarcely decide which
of these are the more highly finished. They must be seen to
be appreciated. We need scarcely add that the accompany-
ing letter-press is of corresponding interest—full of pleasing
description, topographical and historical, and enlivened by
anecdotes and traditions, by a masterly hand, who wants
nothing that is interesting in detail, yet never incurs the
besetting sin of the day of tiring by becoming diffuse. The
price of the work is extremely moderate, and independently of
all former acquisition will be found to be an elegant and even
novel addition to treasures of the library or the drawing.
room.

DESTRUCTION OF TT SEA. HE SHIP INDIA BY FIRE,

" RIO JANEIRO, JULY 25.—1 t is my lot to describe to you
one of the most melancholy events in the annals of ship dis-
asters which has occurred for years, tempered with the mer-
ciful interposition of Providence in saving multitudes of hu-
man beings from certain destruction.
" On Monday, the 19th inst., our ship the India was in
14 degrees south latitude ; after breakfast one of the passen-
gers came to the cabin and reported that a strange sail was
in view. Not having seen one for the previous 14 days, we
were all on deck instantly ; but it was too far distant to no-
tice our signals, and as she was sailing in the same line with
us, we kept in view of one another all the forenoon, and came
rather nearer after lunch, at 12 o clock."
The writer states that he returned to the cabin, and then
proceeds with his narrative :
" I had not sat above half an hour, when I was sur-
prised by a cry for water, and, horrid to relate, mixed with
oaths, by the second mate, who was running from the stair
leading to the store-room in the direction of the saloon.
I immediately sprung towards the door of the stair
which leads to the store-room, where the cause was but
too apparent from the smoke and light. Not a moment was
to be lost; the men were immediately called aft, with all
the pails, pitchers, and everything they could lay hold of.
This was done with the utmost alacrity ; the supply of water
was, however, far from sufficient. We had a pump behind
the binnacle, but its bore was very trifling ; some flung
buckets over the ship's sides, but in the hurry these Were
drawn up scarcely half full. All this time, although some of
the hands were breaking up the vessel to get at the seat of
the fire, it was rapidly gaining ascendancy. It being evident
that we could not save the ship, our whole energies were
directed to the preservation of our lives.
" When I came forward all was one scene of confusion and
despair, the women wringing their hands in the most heart-
rending manner, and this, mingled with the screaming of
children, presented a scene it would be vain to attempt to de-
cribe. During this interval guns of distress were fired to
attract the attention of the vessel in the distance. But in the
meantime we sent away the jolly boat, with five seamen, to
overtake or attract her attention to our situation ; as it was
apparent that unless she came to our assistance every soul
on board must perish. They next commenced clear-
ing the long-boat of p:gs, goats, &c., which were tossed over-
board. The boat was strong and heavy, and it was with
difficulty got over the side. After it was over, it was im-
mediately filled with rhildren and as many of the females
as it could hold, with four men to row them towards the
vessel, and the gig was lowered and lay off about fifty
yards to prevent its being swamped."
The writer goes on to state that it was by this time evident
that the strange sail was as are of their situation, and several
of the crew and passengers H ho could swim were now floating
towards the vessel. Nothing but despair was depicted on
every countenance, and every one was anxiously in search of
some means of deliverance. So great was the rush when the
boats of the strange vessel reached them, that one of the
boats was upset, and five or six men drowned.
" The total number on board the India was 214, of whom
eighteen perished, viz., sixteen steerage, one cabin passenger,
and the boatswain.

" The fire originated thus : the second mate and one of the
boys were drawing off some gin, and as the candle was too
short for a lauthorn, they too it out, and when placing it, it
fell between two barrels, where some of the spirits had been
spilled, and in'a moment the whole was in a blaze, the store-
room being full of canvass and other combustibles."

Mr. Thomas Dibdin, the well-known author of " The Ca-
binet," died at his house, Myddelton-place, Pentonville, on
the 16th instant, aged 70.

YARMOUTH, SEPT. 20.—Last; night four vessels got on
the sands, and it is feared they will be all lost ; one is the
Sir Robert Peel, of Whitby, from Dantsic, laden with wheat,
14 feet water in the hold ; another is the brig Utela, on her
bea-_-a-ends, within sight of the jetty, and two others, at
present, names unknown. The captain and crew of the Utela
left her hi their own boat. About six o'clock this morning
the life-boat went to take the crews from the other vessels,
ztwhen they observed a boy on board the Utela running about
shVieck, and on coming alongside told the boy to leave the
not
care;
she was fast sinking, but he refused, saying he did
him tore he
would not leave the ship, as the captain told
keep on board to mind it ; but it has been since
ascertained thathe was
of the lif&-boat, how
obliged to use force trer,
left on board by accident. The men
then made for the other • got the brig and were
puiton board
he boy on board their boat. They
saved!asels, and we are happy to state
that all hands were