The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-13 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A notice of the phamptitetio defence of the passenger brokers,
shall appear on Friday.
EH RATA.—In our report, in our last paper, of the annual meet-
ing of the Liverpool District Society for promoting Christian
Knowledge, we erroneously stated the balance of £6-I 2s. 9d.
to be in the hands of the treasurer, instead of due to him.
In the report •of the Rev. H. M'Neile's speech instead of
"They nut with a statement in those publications (the publi-
cations of the Christian Knowledge Society) which delared
Christ to he mere man," read " They met with a statement
which declared Christ to be mere man" it being an error to
attribute such a statement to the publications of the society.

Tin aitniptigi ,S=tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNhVG, FEBRUARY 13, 1838.

-The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this MOTII-

ing at 4 o'clock

THE QUEEN.—Several ridiculous paragraphs are now
" going the round of the papers" respecting her Majes-
ty's supposed partiality towards a young nobleman, of
" high family conoexions, and possessed of extraordi-
nary personal attractions." The young nobleman al-
luded to is said to he the eldest sob
.of a Scottish Duke.
We believe that the absurd rumours which have been so
extensively propagated on this most delicate subject have
all originated with the Court Journal—a newspaper
which rests its sole claim to public support upon the
amount of scandal with which its columns are supplied.
Resting on no better authority than the on dit of the
Court Journal, our readers may 'be assured that the pre-
posterous stories about our youthful Queen are a tissue
of falsehoods from beginning to end. It is impossible
that any information on such a topic could find its way
into the columns of a newspaper from any authentic
source. The correspondents, upon whose statements the
rumours of the. Court Journal are founded, are chiefly
Waiters in club-rooms, domestic servants out of livery,
and the coteries of fashionable milliners. It is, of course,
not likely that any of these " confidential informants"
can know any thing of what is passing in the private
circles of high life.

CONTRAST BETWEEN SLAVERY AND POPERY.—The.
Lirerpool Mercury of Friday last contains a long, dry,
and vet hose critique on a pamphlet recently published by,
the Rev. Hugh APNeile, on the consistency of opposing.
Popery and Slavery, and the inconsistency of advocating
the extinction of the latter, and refusing to declailn:
against the `former. The remarks-of the Mercury have
been promised fur
.several weeks, and we may reason-
ably suppose that they were only placed in abeyance in.
order that they might be published in as perfect a shape'
as possible. The pamphlet on which the Mercury ani-
madverts appeared upwards of a month ago; we may,
therefore, justifiably conclude that the " senior editor"
has had ample time to examine the arguments which it
contains, and that the reply has only been deferred in
order to render more mature the observations by which
the Mercury seeks -to demolish those arguments. Be
this as it way, tie can safely say that we have rarely
met with a more silly and nousenscal production than
this reply. ft is as destitute of reason a::; it is of cutn-
Mon sense. We can only characterise it as a tissue of
falsehoods ma string of impudent assumptions. The
materials of which it is composed seem to have been
scraped together from one of the editor's counnon-place
hooks, as is the case with most of the " original" articles
in the Mercury. The originality of these lucubrations
chiefly consists in the ludicrous manner in which the he-
terogeneous common-places are blended together. But
as it is possible that the confident and blustering tone of
the Mercury may deceive certain persons, we feel called
upon to offer a few remarks upon the reply to the Rev.
Hugh M'Neile.

Bjore we proceed, we would just remind our readers
that a singular alteration of tone is perceptible among
the class of politicians, to which the Mercury professes
to be attached, on the subject of Popery. Twenty or
thirty )ears ago the liberal presq was loud in its denun-
ciations of the Papal system. The Dissenters generally
joined most lustily in ridiculing the superstitious mum•
!aeries and the damnable heresies of the Roman Catho-
lic faith and practice. The Evangelical Magazine ,of
that period was incessant in its attacks upon Popery.
Indeed, among the earlier advocates for the emancipation