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averages of quantities as well as of price

Of course the person to send-up the returns must not be
entiiely inexperienced, as is the case in many districts at
present ; but a " competent " person, who has sense enough
to know " good, merchantable " wheat when he sees it, from
damaged and soft, and honesty enough to return the market
price of it. Ido not press, particularly, the period of a week
over a fortnight for making the returns and fixin the duty,
though 1 certainly do give it the preference.

But, however opinions may differ as to this comparatively
minor point, all will, I think, admit that the mode here
suggested of taking the averages, combined with the limited
range of prices and duties, must be a vast improvement
on the present system, by its direct tendency to prevent
fraud and a tampering with the averages ; and, by checking
speculation, to lessen, if not entirely to destroy, the influ-
ence exercised on the averages by the dealers and factors.
In conclusion, allow me to express a hope that this be not
regarded as a " party question," but, rather, one for ar-
rangement between two great Interests, which hold the des-
tinies of our country in their grasp, and in the united
strength of which, in harmony and goodwill, has ever con-
sisted the prosperity and integrity of the empire.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
E. W. JACKSON.
Liverpool, 22d December, 1841.

CHRIST CHURCH CHARITY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Strt,—May I request that you will insert a few lines in
your paper of Friday, in contradiction of a statement which
appeared in the Courier of Wednesday, from an anonymous
correspondent. The statement is to the effect, that persons
in Christ Church district, in this town, who have been in no
need of relief, and who are undeserving characters, have been
partakers of the charity which is now being distributed to the
poor of the district.
As the person who is responsible to the minister of the
church for the right distribution of the charity, and through
whom he principally discovers whether the persons receiving
it are fit objects or not, I beg to give, through your paper,
the earliest contradiction to this statement of this anonymous
writer, and to declare that what he says regarding the distri-
bution of the charity in Christ Church district is altogether
untrue—no such persons as those described by him having
shared the charity, nor any persons but those on whom it
was well bestowed, as being persons of moral character, who
are in great distress. I have been between four and five
years living among the_poor of this district, and know them
well ; I am, therefore, able to speak with confidence, and I
do declare that a more unfounded calumny was never put
fnrth ; I know the names and residences of every one who
has got relief, and I defy any person to come forward and
prove what this anonymous writer states.
I would not notice this anonymous slander, were it not
that some persons might be influenced by it, and withhold the
relief which they are disposed to give, to the great injury of
many deserving poor, who are suffering much, and likely to
suffer more, from the inclemency of the season and the great
difficulty of getting work at this time of the year. And I
hope I may be allowed to add, how melancholy it is that such
base calumnies should be circulated, and good prevented, by
such wickedness as this anonymous writer is guilty of.—l
am, sir, your very obedient servant,

JAMES MARTINDALE,
Clerk of Christ Church, Liverpool
Hunter-street, December 23d, 1811.

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND HER

DOCTRINES

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

May I solicit the medium of your estimable paper to ex-
press a few reflections which may be of service to members
of the Church of England at this trying juncture. I give
them in all humility, having by them alone the well-being of
the church and her people in view.
After a long season of spiritual declension, it has pleased
Almighty God- to make the Church of England an instru-
ment of disseminating more zealously His saving truths in
the land ; and there has been a large increase in her members,
who have also taken up the cause of scriptural truth with
great ardour. The cry of the disaffected portion of oar
countrymen against her form and constitution is becoming
less and less heard among us, and when it is heard it comes
to ears of those who are too well instructed to credit the
worn out sophistries of some, and the gross mistatements of
others of our opponents.
But this change has not been anattended with evils. While
a faithful portion of our clergy were, by their preaching and
exemplary labours, gathering around the church many of her
hitherto wandering sons, there have been and still are others
who, having the same end in view, that is, as concerns the
visible unity of the church, have not held forth those distin-
guishing and vital doctrines of the Bible which the church
had commanded them to teach, and upon which alone she
hopes kir the accomplishment of the great purposes of her
Divine Head. These words may appear to some harsh and
unfounded, but I am persuaded they are capable of proof, and
it is the object of this letter to draw the particular attention
of our working and deeply interested population to the evi-
dence by which they may not only:test this, but be the mewls,
I hope, in bringing those who will study the subject into a
closer attachment to the church, because—as they will find—
she faithfully and unreservedly declares those things which
concerns the soul's everlasting health. But Ido not antici-
pate, from observations that I have been able to make, there
ought to be any great objection to this statement, when it is
considered that teachers of the description alluded to are
contending more for the observance of forms and ceremonies,
and for church authority, and who moreover declare their
opposition to the unreserved communication of religious
truth. Besides, their preaching is directed more to the out-
ward performances of religion than the protection, under the
divine aid, of that true and lively faith from which good
works do necessarily proceed.
I point more particularly to the Book of Homilies for this
test. It appears to me that the free circulation of this book
at the present time is extremely nesessary, when we witness
men in high quarters tossed to and fro upon novelties in re-
ligion which yet are not novelties, and when we see also the
dissent to these doctrines among the middle and lower classes,
we cannot but look forward to severe trials and contests
amongst us. What can be more calculated, humanely speak-
ing, to moderate the clash of contending parties than such a
standard, coming to our hands fully authorised, of what the
doctrines and mode of teaching the church really adopts and
communicates ? It will be found to ground its final appeal
to Scripture alone, in full accordance with the Gth article,
appealing to the Fathers only for their testimony as to mat.
ters of fact and not for the foundation of any doctrine. This
feature, with the simplicity of the language employed, recom-
mends these writings to our fullest confidence, and we cannot
fail reverencing that church which provides for our wants—
as creatures very far gone from original righteousness—in
preaching the above merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, as our
only ground of acceptance with God.
Let, then, the Homilies be circulated more freely than they
have been hitherto ; and let all those who would desire a guide,
in these times of novelties, in the doctrines and practice of
religion, furnish themselves with the book of homilies ; they
will then be led to attend to those teachers who echo the
voice of the Reformers ; and, as it is to be hoped, brought to
admire and extend mote and more the Scriptural Church of
England.—l am, Sir, your most obedient Servant,

A CHURCHMAN,

Liverpool, 23d December, 1841

THE IRISHMAN'S CAT —A short time ago a poor Irish-
man applied at the churchwardens' office of Manchester for
relief ; and upon some doubt being expressed as to whether
he was a proper object for parochial charity, he enforced his
suit with much earnestness :—" Och, your honour," said he,
" sure I'll be starved long since but for my cat." " But for
what ?" asked his astonished interrogator. "My cat!"
rejoined the Irishman. " Your cat! how so ?" " Shure,
your honour, I sould her eleven times for sixpence a time,
and she was always at home before I'd get there myself."
BRUTAL CONFLICT.—The Journal du Nievre gives the
following account of a ferocious contest between two bro-
thers, forest-keepers, on the 2d instant, near Carvol l'Ar-
gueilleux, where they had been celebrating the feast of St.
Eloi, at the house of a miller, who had given them too much
liquor. Returning home they quarrelled, and, after fighting
sonic time with their hands, fell together, and continued the
struggle on the ground for three hours, when one became
exhausted, and the other was probably unable to continue
the fight; at the end of which, he who may be considered
the conqueror, had had torn from him by the teeth of his
brother the whole of his under lip, down to the point of the
chin, while the other lost half of one of his ears in the same
manner. They each had a gun, but neither thought of using
it, and the stronger carried both away with him, arriving at
his home about midnight. Having called up one of his
neighbours, he sent him first for a surgeon to dress his own
wounds, and then to go for the body of his brother, which
would, be said, be found dead in the wood. He, however,
was not dead, and both are recovering,
mutilated for thank frightfully