The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-11 00:00:00

THE REV. HUGH APNEILE.

We have great pleasure in giving insertion to the following
letter, which, it may be proper to state, we do without any com-
munication with the reverend gentleman whose signature it
bears. The addition of £2OO a-year, which it mentions, does
but bring up Mr. M‘Neile's emoluments to the amount (i.:600)
which he surrendered in accepting the ministry of St. Jude's.
The augmentation must be the inure gratifying, inasmuch as it
is not an act of the trustees of the church, but a voluntary testi-
monial of gratitude and esteem Irons members of the cougrega-
lion
TO THE CONGREGATION OF ST. JUDE'S CHURCH.

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My dear friends and brethren,—Estimating my services in
the balance of your own-affectionate partiality, you have added
£2OO a year to my .salary as your minister. You have an-
nounced this to me, during my absence, in terms highly honour-
able to yourselves, and flattering to, me. 1- have written to you
in reply, but without power to give-adequate expression to my
feelings.
I dill unwilling that our correspondence on the occasion, dic-
tated as it has been by the overflowing fulness of brotherly af-
fection, should be exposed to public view. At the same tiute I
feel it due to you, to myself, and to the cause of our holy
religion, in which it is my privilege to labour among you,
that the fact itself should be male public.
rt supplies additional proof, if such -were wanting,, that where-
ever a clergytnau of our church really gives himself to his
sacred work, with all his powers, however moderate those Powers
may be, he finds, in his intelligent lay brethren, such a re-
sponse of cordial affection as longs for oppottonities of 'mani-
festing itself in acts of kindness.—l am, my dear brethren,
your affectionate pastor and faithful set vant for Christ's sake.
- • Belfast, ilfay 4, 1838. ArNiftLE.

PROP ti Enes.
[The following jeu d'esprit appeared some years ago in the
John Bull. We trust that another opportunity way soon
occur for a repetition of such language.]

Exeunt °mites!
The Whigs!—How they have clung to pow'r,
Let sly-hoots Tierney tell :
The -bud that pines for April's show'r
Loves not that show'r so well.
They're out ! —Yet all, (ruin Knight to Earl,
May hope once more to reign;
For when a swine regards a pearl,
They'll rule the laud
\\Theo winter sheds his whit'ning snows
O'er gentle Summer's green;
When Bough' m shaft cease to twitch his nose,
And Lambtoit to be mean;
When I prefer fell ipecac-
trauha to champagne,
And ducks shall sing, and linnets quack,
The Whigs will rule again.
When beauty's eye shall love to squint,
And beauty's cheek to fade,
And lamb, divorc'd from sauce of mint,
In oyster sauce be laid ;
When tailors' legs refuse to cross,
And fops uo more are vain,
And misers deem their gold but dross,
• The Whigs will rule again.

When face of soot-bedizen'd sweep
Shall match the lily fair ;
And head of butcher's boy (to keep
It warm) a hat shall weal ;
When hackney coachmen dread to see
A sky portending rain,
And loathing doctors spurn a fee,
The Whigs will rule again.
When Jews shall lick the watering lip
If roasted pork appear;
When bees shall gall, fur honey, sip,
And spring commence the sear;
When Hunt and Wright shall cease to puff,
Aud Coburn hate Tremoine ;
And ey'ry female thin grow rough,
The Whigs will rule again.
When with'ring age shall love inspire,
And blooming youth disgust ;
And water freeze upon the fire,
And jealous husbands trust ;
When tears from hypocritic eyes
Shall wash out knavery's stain ;
And slander deal no anorein lies,
The Whigs will rule again.
`They'll get their places as before,
When. gout shall soothe the toe;
When shipwreck'd seamen dread the shore,
And fleas to lobsters grow;
When Christians all fur give their foes,
And Cruckfrrd vice restrain •
And not au eye in church shall doze,
The Whirs will rule again.
When blacklegs act on honor's la(vs,
And black eyes melt like floe;
When silliest coxcombs gain applause,
- Aud truffles spoil a stew;
When English beauties smoke cheroots,
Like the brunettes nf Spain;
And glo, ions lirurrerrfuns any boots,
The Whigs will rute.again.
When these three things shall me delight—
An old man a tale twice told—
And en my head a hat that's' tight,
And ix any head a cold ;
When toes thrice blest, with corns shall choose
(What makes them now complain
A hard and pinching pair of shoes,
The Whigs will rule again.

W heu true wit means a manual jest,
And beards are shaved with axes ;
When addled eggs make custards best.
And we are freed from taxes;
And when np.t copiau: draughts of gin
Shall not disturb the brain;
God bless itie ( Queenj! —She'll then take in
The snivelling whirs again.

ELWES, TUE MISKIL-1 asked him (Wilberforce) if he re-
membered the miser Elwes, in the House of Cotninons. " Per-
fectly ; and that question reminds me of a curious incident which
one day hefel that strange briog. In my younger days we of en
went to the house in full dt44, on nights, for example. when
any of tis were going to the fluent. Bankes, on all orcasion of
this kind. was seated near El mes, who was leaning his head
forward just at the moment it hen Bankes ruse hastily to leave
his seal, and the hilt of his sty' Ed happening to com. in contact
with the miser's wig, which he had probably picked off•some
scarecrow. it was unconsciously hurtle away by B;1„1.,, whit,
walked in his stately waC down the house, tollowed b% Elwes.
full of anxiety to regain his treasure. 'l'he house was in a roar
of merriment, and for a mon cut Bankes looked about him
wondering exceedingly what had happened. The explanation
was truly amusing, when he became conscious of the sword-hilt
which he acquired."— Wilberforce's Life.