The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

genuineness

just the conduct with which we

are compelled to charge our eontemporar3
with such elegant expressions as " Tory doings,'

Because larded

and ini-

puting " Bottling," " Guzzling," Bribery, and subsequent
dishonesty to Conservatives, a vulgar and glaringly offensive
letter has been admitted into his last publication, under the
signatiire of " Paul Pry ;" and whilst the authors of the
hoax laugh at the readiness with which our contemporary is
duped, the falsehood or the string of falsehoods, go forth
into the world as undoubted and accredited facts, or at all
events as facts which rest upon some shadow of evidence.
The letter itself, at foot, is sufficient as to the " Tory
doings" in Pitt. street Ward ; and we trust our contemporary
will confess the sin into which has fallen, and set about
amendment. It would be cruelty were we to say all that has
come to our knowledge connected with the affair; for the
Albion doesn't like to be laughed at, as he has been on this
occasion, even by his own friends, the Radicals of Pitt-street,
who are at this moment subjected to legal proceedings for
the recovery of the very " guzzling" and "bottling" ex-
penses which have been placed by him, on such slender
evidence, to the debit of Conservatism. Would the Albion
like to be furnished with the names and particulars?

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.
SlR,—Having seen in this day's Albion a communication
purporting to "show up the doings of the immaculate Tories
of Pitt-street Ward,"
I beg leave to assure you, that it is a gross fabrication from
beginning to end; and I must request your. insertion of this,
that the base calumny may have the earliest contradiction.
I believe that the expense of our committee-room, in-
cluding all the previous committee meetings, as well as the
public meeting night, did not amount to £lO.

We had no private houses fitted up for " bottling" or
" guzzling" rooms. What the other party may have dune in
this line I cannot say ; but my present impression is, that
"Paul's" communication smells very strongly of liberality.
Yours respectfully,
WATKIN WILLIAMS, Chairman.
Noveraber 21, 1841.

MEETING OF THE SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION

-MR. GAGE'S PLANS

A highly respectable meeting of the members of the Ship-
masters' Association was held at their rooms, on Friday,
Lieut. Holden, R.N., in the chair, for the purpose of inspect-
ing and examining Mr. Gage's plans for the construction of
a new dock, and of comparing them in juxtaposition with the
plan of the new dock as designed by-Mr. Hartley, on the
same site. The following resolutions, on which a memorial
is to he founded, were moved by Captain Ramsey, seconded
by Captain Stroyan, and carried unanimously :
"Resolved,—That the thanks of this meeting be conveyed,
in writing, to Mr. Gage, by the chairman, together with the
unanimous approval of his plans for the proposed new dock,
ail of which are considered preferable to the one designed by
Mr. Hartley, and approved by the Dock Committee ; but the
one more particularly approved of is the one with the horse-
shoe basin communicating with the river Mersey.
" That a memorial be drawn up and forwarded to the
Dock Committee, signed by the chairman of this meeting,
objecting to the design of Mr. Hartlty's dock, as ill adapted
to carry out the spirit of the act of parliament, viz., The
more expeditious unloading and dispatch of vessrls by the
the erection of transit sheds and the construction of an addi-
tional wet dock, with warehouses on the quays thereof for the
reception of goods, wares, merchandise, &c., &c.
" That, if Mr. Hartley's design is carried out, the en-
trance being from the Canning Dock gut, will present a
most serious and fatal obstruction to the working of the
Canning and Salthouse Docks, and will be contrary to the
spirit of clause 53 in the New Dock Act, viz., 'And be it en-
acted, that the said wet dock shall be formed and constructed
with entrances and basins into and
.from the same to com-
municate as well with the ricer Mersey as with the ad-
joining docks or basins, or any of them.'
" That Mr. Gage's design ' not only affords more water-
' space, but more discharging and loading room, or, in other
words. more transit-shed and warehouse room, in addition
to a direct entrance from the river Mersey, with a spacious
horse-shoe basin, with can be worked as an export dock,
adjacent to the sheds and warehouses.

This meeting, therefore, respectfully entreats the Dock
Committee seriously to entertain and adopt Mr. Gage's de-
sign in preference to the one submitted by Mr. Hartley."

The three superior planets—Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn,
are now to be seen any clear evening in the west.
The Duke of Cleveland, we regret to state
serious relapse.—Gateshead Observer

has had a

The Conservatives have gained nearlyfive hundred on the
new Registration for the city of London.

An opera, composed by Benedict, has been accepted and is
expected shortly to be brought out at Covent Garden.
The death of the Marquis of Lot:.
seat of the dowager Lady Suffield on Sunday.
We are informed, upon authority in which we have every
reliance, that important changes in the Stamp Office are un-
der the anxious' consmeramni ,Jr
Post.

'-'an, took place at the

MR. BISTIOP.—In round numbers this gentleman has
composed 100 operas, and other dramatic productions, be-
sides adaptations. His songs exceed 1,200, and his orches-
tral parts fill 150 volumes of 500 pages each, equal to 700 of
ordinary transcribers.

It is an extraordinary fact, that a cuckoo was heard pour-
ing forth its well-known note on Tuesday, the 2nd instant,
near Dorchester.

The question now asked is, what will •be the name of the
heir apparent, and Henry, Alfred, Edward, and William,
have each their admirers and advocates. The Morning He-
rald has declared for Edward.

The time at which the infant prince can be created Prince
of \Vales must necessarily depend on the state of her Ma-
jesty's health, it being the act of the sovereign solely.
George IV was created Prince of Wales five days after his
birth.

Barrett, a letter carrier who voted at the last election for
this borough, in defiance of a cautionary notice sent him by
the post office, has had a qui tam action brought against him
for the £lOO penalty.—Cheltenham Journal.
The Boston Times acquaints us with the singular fact that
a stream of emigration is setting in at that place for Jamaica.
The Queen Dowager has been graciously pleased to send
a donation of £lOO to the Society for the Civilization of
Africa ; and the Earl Howe one of £3O.

We learn that numerous inquiries for good family houses
are being made in Bath. Bath is more full at the present
moment than it has been for many years at this period of the
year ; and there is every prospect that the season will be a
very prosperous one.

ROYAL PUNNING.—The jubilant is generally addicted to
the jocular, and it is not wonderful that a multitude of jests
are sported upon a late happy event. Among the best we
have heard is the revivnl of the worthy old qutere, why the
heir apparent was born Duke of Cornwall ?—Because he was
a minor ; and an entirely new hit (for it could not he old, the
circumstance never having happened before)—Why when
made, his patent passed, the Prince of Wales would be like
a twin?—Because, on this occasion, he would be the second
creation of his mother !

A few days since, nine valuable ewe sheep, the property of
Thos. Raxworthy, Esq., of Upton Lovell, died in consequene
of feeding on clover.
MunnEn BY A Bov.—A boy only ten years of age, named
George Barber, has been committed to Norwich gaol for trial,
on a charge of murdering a boy one year younger named
Smith. The little wretch has since confessed. It appears
that there had been a sort of quarrel between the boys, and
that the deceased threatened to tell his father of some con-
duct of Barber's on his return home. This led to the crime !

SUFFOCATION.—A lamentable occurrence took place in
the neighbourhood of Ardee on the morning of the sth inst.
Mr. James Crawley, a respectable farmer, had, on the pre-
vious night, before retiring to rest with his wife, introduced
into his apartment (in which there happened to be no chim-
ney) a quantity of ignited turf, the night being cold. In the
morning the unfortunate pair were discovered quite dead.—
Newry Telegraph.
TUE EVANGELICAL PARTY.—The Manchester Courier,
of Saturday last, the organ of the high church party in that
town, has the following just remarks on the conduct of the op-
posite party .—" To their piety and zeal true religious feeling
in this country is under a deep and lasting obligation. 'Twas
that party that was instrumental in throwing off the religious
torpor which reigned in the bosom of the church under the
deadening influence exercised by the whips of 1688. 'Twas
that party that awoke the spirit of devotion, that quickened
religion into vigorous life and activity—teaching men to pray
with their whole hearts and souls, who previously went me-
chanically through a form of words without penetrating their
sublime and vital meaning—at a time when the national reli-
gion " was recognised rather as a branch of public decency
than the vital principle of the nation." In those days when
a passive protestation against the too-credulous, too-conti-
ding, too-extensive faith of others took the place of a lively
and pious devotion to its own creed, that party stepped in
and brokn the spell which had so long held the church in a
trance lengthening towards death."

MONUMENT OF THE LATE BISHOP RYDER.—The monu-
ment to the memory of the lamented Bishop Ryder has. been
finally placed in the Cathedral at Lichfield. The rev, pre-
late is represented in the attitude of devotion, with his knees
supported on a fauldstool, and his hands gently inclined
forwards, as in prayer. The likeness, it is said, though not
a striking one, owing to the want of an accurate portrait to
work from, will be readily recognised by those who were in
habits of the closest intimacy with his lordship. The pedes-
tal bears the following inscription :
To the Memory of
The Hon. and Right Reverend
HENRY RYDER, D.D.,
Successively Bishop of Gloucester, and of Lichfield and Coventry,
This Monument is erected,
In testimony of affectionate respect,
By many who revered and loved him.
His unsparing self-devotion to the duties of his high office,
His unaffected humility,
His Christian. simplicity, his expansive charity,
His terycnt and cheerful piety,
Endeared him to his friends, and conciliated universal regard.
Constrained by the love of Christ,
He strove to extend the means
Of worshiping and serving him, both at home and abroad ;
And to diffuse the light of His Gospel
Among Jews and Gentiles.
As a PREACHER, affectionate, faithful, earnest,
Persuasive, practical;
As a BISHOP, paternal, vigilant, apt to teach,
Given to hospitality.;
Mild and forbearing, yet, when duty called, inflexible;
He exhibited,
In his daily walk and conversation.
A bright example to the flock over which the Holy Ghost

H
a made overseer.
In meek reliance on the grace and intercession
Of the Redeemer,
He lived, he laboured, he died;
Entering into his rest,
In the fifty-ninth year of his age, & the tweny-first of his Episcopate,
March 31, uncccxxxvz.,
At Hastings,
Where his mortal remains are deposited.

CORRESPONIMM.

A. PROPOSAL TO THE PUBLIC AND THE PRE-
SENT TOWN COUNCIL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
(CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST.))
But why should I advocate for a bishop, Jima we might
have more clergymen and more churches, diffusing the sweet
influences of Christianity, without a bishop? Simply be-
cause, by having a bishop, we should more honestly follow
the apostolic plan for the conversion of nations, and for the
extension of dioceses. I am sure John Wesley would not have
objected to our having a bishop, and I am equally sure George
Whitfield would not have objected to our having a bishop ;
otherwise I have misunderstood what I have read of them.
Advocating, however, for our having ,a bishop, I do not ad-
vocate for any other description of a-bishop, but such an one

shall manifest the qualifications mentioned by St. Paul,
and reiterated by certain of our own bishops at the time of
the Reformation ; and if I would point to a living exemplifi-
cation of such qualifications, for our first bishop, my selec-
tion would fall on that " wonder of the age," the Rev. Hugh

Can the energies of our present conservative councillors
be better employed than in agitating for a cathedral? At
present Ido not see how they could. Liverpool was years
ago the second town in England ; Liverpool has now a popu-
lation of three hundred thousand. Does Liverpool want
funds, with a corporate estate worth nearly four millions ?
No, truly. Can Liverpool afford to pay a bishop's salary,
when she can afford to lavish two thousand a-year on a
town clerk, fifteen hundred a-year on a stipendiary magi-
strate, eight hundred on a constable, and seventeen thousand
a-year on a police force? Yes, truly. Then, what reasons
exist for not making Liverpool a bishop's see ?
One of the main causes that has issued in so many sects
among our dissenting brethren, is the absence of episcopacy.
However pious, however laborious, however orthodox the
early dissenters were, the fabric of the government they de-
vised and reared, for the spread of the gospel, was not the
government devised and reared by the apostles, for the same
purpose. Under such circumstances, is it to be wondered
at that it should issue in different results ? A careful study
of God's dealings in his church throughout all the world,
will shew that episcopacy is God's instrument for the cure
of every disruption therein.

Who, that reflects on the achievements of Christianity in
England since its first introduction in it, will be unhappy at
the thought of raising additional supports to its already hea-
vily-laden framework? Who, that contemplates with delight
on the conquests the Great Captain of our salvation has al-
ready wrought for us, will refuse officers and generals to
those numerous regiments which have been recently enlisted
under his banner? Christianity has civilised, as it has evan-
gelised Britain :it has drained the wastes,—it has furrowed
the corn-fields,—it has opened the mines,—it has raised
" cloud •capped towers, and gorgeous palaces, and solemn
temples," where all was once a wilderness; it not only
loosened the bands of Saxon slavery in. Britain, but it'caused
the winds of Britain to carry the breath of liberty into the
bosom of every slave throughout the world that reached
their influence; it has given us an easy access to the world's
remotest corners in the swiftly-gliding barque and the stu-
pendous steamer; it went forth with our fleets, when they
sounded the depths and shoals of honour at Aboukir, when
they rode the waves of glory at Trafalgar, and when their
thunder echoed a message of mercy to every captive in Al-
giers ; it went forth with our armies when a dynasty perished
from the earth at Waterloo, and the flag of our country
-aved in the breezes of discomfited France ! What, that is
-tot brought with it, when welcomed?
ble, will it not continue

good and noble, has

What, that is IT

good and more not

to bring, when it is made more welcome?
Within our own local circle, our present wants are many.
We want an easier access to ecclesiastical courts ; we want
something to give a stability to our Protestant and our con-
servative cause ; we want a general to the clergy of our
local church militant. All these wants will be supplied when
we have a local cathedral, throWinE its reverend shadows
over out streets. We want to bear the moan of the dungeon
exchanged for the sweeter music of penitent thankfulness,
Where, through the long drawn aisle and fretted vault,
The rolling anthem swells the note of praise."
But our liberal friends would rather give us the moans of
the dungeon. To whom, then, shall we look for the fulfil-
ment of our heart's desire? To God, to Christianity, and
to conservatism. He, who has often heard the songs of
Israel's sweet singer rising to his temple in the heavens,
from the walls of his temple on the hill of Zion, will delight
to hear the same songs from our humbler temple. He, who
has heard the prayers once offered by the saints with gracious
beneficence, will display the same gracious beneficence, to
their utterers, as they rise in clouds of incense from our ca-
thedral altar, and in kind responses will

my o'er our smiling land.'

Then let us agitate for a cathedral, such a cathedral as
Saxon princes delighted to worship in; a pile, rich in the
pleasingly solemn beauties of gothic arches, broad towers,
and minaretted buttresses ; whose bells shall spread every
pleasing intelligence in peals that vibrate gladness to every
Christian ear, within or about our local boundaries ; whose
vestibules shall be adorned with the monuments of patriot
Christians, whose ashes await a glorious resurrection within
their precincts ; whose altar light shall fall on its interior
arches blended with the hues of the iris of love, which God
sets in pastdiluvian clouds as an emblem of the covenant he
made with the patriarch Noah, beaming mercy on us all, and
the trefoils and quatrefoils in the insterstices of whose
tracery smiling suggestions on the flowers that once bloomed
in Eden, shall discourse of him, who seated at God's right
hand, exalted high,—

" Thence shall come
When this world's dissolution shall be ripe,
With glory and power to judge both quick and dead,
To judge the unfaithful dead ; but, to reward
His faithful, and receive them into bliss,
Whether in Heaven or Earth—for then the Earth
Shall all be paradise: far happier place,
Than that of Eden, and far happier days."
Commending these suggestions to all who feel a lively in-
. .
national establishment ; respectfully soliciting
to our present municipal statesmen;
dvocacy in their behalf ; and sen-
- s under which they are submitted

f the many defici

vho will

ed in them,

CONSE'RVAtIVE

Nov. 13th, IS

LITERARY THBFT,

LINES BY H. M. HANSBROW,