The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

is addressed to the Rev. James

This lett

Dwyer, and is circulated by hitt
me request your par
tence :—" In this p
struction from t/
roofing HAS BEI

Bearing this in mind, let
cular attention to the following sen-
Ws undertaking he suffered much oh-
spirit of the fanatics, and a chapel fit for
CONSIDERABLY INJURED." You, sir,
aware that the injury complained of has
legal investigation. Mr. Dwyer charged
y employment with havirg injured his
chapel; his complaint was heard before the magistrates at
the petit sessions of Newport, and dismissed by them. A
second investigation was held in reference to the same charge,
by Daniel Cruice, Esq., stipendiary magistrate, at Achill
Sound ; when the decision of the Newport magistrates was
confirmed. Yet Dr. M' Hale still persists in connecting the
alleged injury with us. Farther, Dr. M`Hale asserts that
the chapel was "CONSIDERABLY INJURED;" and as this
statement constitutes one paragraph in a short letter, and is
evidently made a plea for the pecuniary aid which the letter
solicits, a person not cognisant of the fact must conclude that
the injury complained of must be considerable indeed. Yet
the sergeant of police who was examined at both the hives-,
tigations alluded to above, swore that the only injury done to
the chapel was the breaking of two splinters from the casing
of one of the window frames ; and that those splinters were
so small that they quite escaped his scrutiny and that of
another policeman (a Roman Catholic) who accompanied
him, with the view of ascertaining and reporting the alleged
outrage to the government and on the same occasions the
Rev. Mr. Dwyer himself admitted ON OATH, ON HIS CROSS-
EXAMINATION, THAT ONE SHILLING WOULD REPAIR THE
INJURY DONE TO HIS CHAPEL.

are not, perh

been the subject of

two persons in it

Now, sir, mark the predicament in which Mr. Dwyer
stands before the public. He swore distinctly on two occa-
sions " that a shilling would repair the injury done to the
chapel;" and then in a few weeks after, when he wants to
spur the liberality of English Roman Catholics in supplying
him with funds, he circulates a document „stating that his
chapel was considerably injured. In a word, Dr. M`Hale
states what Mr, Dwyer has sworn to be false, and yet Mr.
Dwyer lends himself the willing agent for circulating the do-
cument which his recorded oath has branded with falsehood.
I say, sir, his recorded oath, because as Mr. Cruice, the sti-
pendiary magistrate, held the investigation to which I have
alluded, by special direction of the government, he took ac-
curate notes of the evidence. I therefore refer your readers
to him for con

is Daniel Cruice

;ladly refer tc

testimony must

far as I am con

of what I have stated. His address
;q., Ballina ; and I the more
because, being a Roman Catholic, his
from every suspicion of partiality so

lusion, permit me to ask, what is the specific benefit
to be received from the monthly mass in perpetuity," the
premium which Dr. Nl` Hale holds out in the concluding
sentence of his letter to those who give their money for the
furtherance of the object which he recommends ? This much
is clear to my mind, that a spiritual benefit is offered on one
condition, viz., the payment ;of money. We read in the
New Testament (Acts viii. 18, 19), that St. Peter was so-
licited to bestow a spiritual endowment for a similar consi-
deration, and the feelings with which the holy apostles re-
ceived the proposal is also recorded—" Thy money perish
with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may
be purchased with money," verses 20, 21, 22, 23.
need not inform you that Dr. WHale claims for the
body to which he belongs an exclusive connection with St.
Peter ; but so long as the Doctor continues to promise a
supply for the "spiritual necessities" of professing Chris-
tians on the terms proposed in his letter, it seems to me that
the holy apostle disclaims the relationship.—l am, sir, your
faithful servant, EDWARD NANGLE.

In con

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)

The Rev. Waiter A
New College, and Arc
Prebend of Uffton, in

limstus Shirley, M.A., late Fellow of
'deacon of Derby, is appointed to the
he Cathedral of Lichfield.

His Grace the Archbishop of York has appointed the Rev.
Stephen Creyke, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, and Vicar
of Sutton-in-the-Forest, to a Canonry in the Cathedral
Church of York.

The Rev. Thomas William Weare, M.A., Student of
Christ Church, has been appointed Under Master of West-
. •

minster Sell(

The Rev. William S. Lendon, M.A., of Christ Church,
has been appointed Rector of Newton Bromswold, North-
amptonshire, void by the death of the Rev. John Cooper;
patrons, the Warden and Fellows of All Souls College.
Rev. John Hutton, Rector of Knipton, to the Rectory of
• —la void by the death of the Rev. John Cleath-
Rutland.

ing ; patron, the Duk
Rev. T. Pitts, to

Halifax

St. Georg

the Illustriou
Rev. P. So
the Warspite,

3 tht (

Curate of Sowerby Bridge, near

The red-hot political dissenters arc ever ready to dmounco
the " State Church" as au incubus whieli ought to be rooted
out from the land, and in their zeal for what they call " civil
and religious liberty" they would deprive the Established
Church of its revenues, which they would " appropriate" to
secular purposes,—thus leaving the ministration of the gos-
pel to be provided for by voluntary means. Our opinion as
to the obligation of the state to provide for the maintenance
of the established religion is well known, and probably some
of our political opponents will be somewhat surprised when
we quote the authority of a dissenting minister in favour of
an established religion. The Rev. John Gray, minister of
the Dutch Reformed Church in New York, and formerly an
Independent minister in England,—whose experience adds
some weight and authority to his opinion—has recently
written to a friend in this country, and his observations on
the subject of an established religion are worthy of a careful
perusal. He says—
" I see that the dissenters in England plead the example
of America in support of the voluntary principle being ap-
plied to the support of the gospel ; Americans laugh at you,
and all from England pity you. Did you know how it works
here in nine cases out of ten you would not be so in love with
it. The voluntary principle will do where all, or most, are
desirous of the gospel ; and only there. Come and see our
vast moral desolation in populous neizhbourhoods, and then
you will be convinced what voluntaryism will do for the
Church of Christ. Suppose the parish of Polesworth was se-
lected for example. First, then, the majority are wicked,
worldly and careless ; they do not want a church built, nor a
minister to preach, and they will give nothing for either pur-
pose. Then others, who desire it, cannot agree among them-
selves to what denomination the church shall belong. Here
are Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Dutch Reformed,
Unitarians and Universalists ; each presents their claims and
demands that the church shall belong to their body. They
cannot agree, and the consequence is, the place continues
without the gospel at all ; or some two or three small churches
are got up by the different parties, and then each party is too
weak to support a minister ; and again, there is no preach-
ing ; and this is more the case in the country parts where the
population is scanty. Thousands and tens of thousands for
these reasons live as heathens ; no churches, or no ministers,
no sabbaths, no religion, and why ? Because of the voluntary
system. Happy for America if it had a good Established
Church, or something in its place, in which the gospel is
faithfully preached. For want of an establishment, every de-
nomination must have a Home Missionary Society' to as-
sist these little handfuls of different denominations, who are
so few and weak as not to be able to support a preacher ; and
yet this provision by no means reaches the hundredth part of
the necessity and destruction of the land. Hence the aged
are forgetting the God of their fathers,' and the whole youth
are growing up without the very form of religion. Open and
avowed infidelity is everywhere to he met with ; and men
openly work, hunt, &c.. on the Sabbath of the Lord. Their
fathers could not build a church or pay a minister; hence
they had no church to attend--no gospel to hearken unto ;
and they grew up wicked, ignorant, profane, and careless;
and all for want of an establishment or some such thing. If
anything will destroy our union (the United States of Ame-
rica) and overthrow our republic and bring ruin on the land,
it will be the want of religious instruction. Voluntaryism
will never evangelize America, unless we can get more men
like Paul, who will make tents for their support, and preach
for nothing. No, no ! You miss, sadly miss, your mark,
when you plead America in support of voluntaryism. Very
many of our most eminent ministers, who deprecated an
establishment like England's as much as you do, begin to
write against your reasonings in our religious newspapers. If
the gospel is to be universally preached, it must be by an
establishment or a Missionary society ; and no Missionary
society has yet been formed either in England or America,
who can support the gospel to the hundredth part of the na-
tion which stands in need of it. But an establishment can
support it in every parish. In what I have written, I have
expressed the sentiments of every Dissenting Minister I have
met with in this country."

We will not add anything to this plain Christian state-
ment, except that we should like to see the dissenter who has
the hardihood to attempt to answer it. With all rational
men it must be conclusive.

VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY OF HER MAJESTY'S
SHIP EREBUS, &c., IN THE SOUTH SEAS.

A letter from a petty officer on board, to his freinds in
London :

" Hobart-town, Her Majesty's Ship Erebus,
April 20, 1841.
_

" I shall now describe to you a little of this exceedingly
interesting voyage, which, when I embarked in the London
Docks, on board the West Indian, I little dreamed I should
have made, Hobart-town being to my uninitiated eyes quite
as far south as it was desirable to go.
" We sailed from the river Derwent, Nov. 10, 1840, and
thence proceeded to a certain cluster of islands called the
Auckland group, where, having procured the necessary ob-
servations, the dipping-needle, and a sight of a transit of
Venus, or some other beauty, we again sailed towards another
island, a little further to the southward, called Campbell's
Island, whence having performed a second edition of the
last, we again proceeded. Of these islands it is only
necessary to say, that they are covered with wood, and totally
uninhabited, except by a few pigs, which were put there by
the French discovery ship. We procured a great many
albatross's eggs, which are good eating; they weighed 21
and 22 ounces each, and are rarities of their kind. How-
ever 'nal-a-propos your allusion to India was, that which
regards sending the treasures from the depths of the sea was
not at all so, as every day we try for bottom and for the
temperature of the ocean, at 600, 1500 and 3600 feet below
the surface, and sometimes more. This water so procured
is weighed, measured, and its temperature taken in compa-
rison with that at the surface, which latter is taken account
of every hour, day and night, together with many other me-
teorological concerns, too numerous to mention : we like-
wise sink a machine, which draws up stones, coral, or what-
ever it takes hold on. These experiments take all hands the
best part of a day to haul in the line, which is a stout rope.
Besides all this, upon occasion, in the deepest part of the
ocean, we let go a piece of iron ballast, about three cwt., at-
tached to a small line, to the length of four or five miles in
depth, invariably getting bottom, but the line, of course, is
cut away, and lost. The French, after going to about 60 or
70, went home with a most astounding account of what they
had not done. The Yankees, however, after coming some-
where about the same as the French, made out a very inge-
nious chart of land, which, in my belief, they never saw ;
for, where they described the peak of the highest mountain,
we cruised three days, but got no soundings within 800 fa-
thoms. Well, we proceeded in company with our consort,
the Lenon, till we came to lat. 69 S., where we first fell in
with the ice, extending over the whole visible horizon. This
was what was called field ice, i. e., loose pieces, closely
packed together, and having a flat surface. We had previ-
ously seen some bergs floating by of a tremendous height,
which I can only describe to you as a huge mountain adrift
in the sea ; but the transparency and the celestial blue tint
of the hollow parts destroy the comparison. All ice floats
are two-thirds under water; therefore you have the satisfac-
tion of knowing, when you see an iceberg 600 feet above
the water, that there is 1200 feet under, all the buoyancy
it possesses being acquired by the expansion produced in
freezing. We sailed, or rather ploughed this field for up-
wards of 120 miles, and then got clear seaway. We found on
the top of a berg a large piece of rock, having very much the
appearance of lava, but no signs of land near. Some days
after this we fell in with some small islands, bare rocks, in
fact, to one of which the name of Prince Albert was given,
a flattering comparison, truly ; a like compliment was paid
to the Queen. There is not the least vegetable life upon
them ; they are covered with perpetual snow, which of course,
as it never thaws, has been increasing since the creation; it
puzzles me to know where it comes from, as I never saw any
fall where we have been, for the temperature will not allow
the existence of vapour or clouds unless they come from. vol-
canoes ; the thermometer very rarely rises so high as freezing
point. These remarks, of course, apply to all land which we
have seen still further south. We kept on our way to the
southward for some time, occasionally meeting with field-ice.
I am describing the incidents without the effects, for if I tell
you all our small troubles, from the inclemency of the wea-
ther and the frozen state of the ropes, rigging, &c., and the
work with the sounding-lines, I should fill a quire of paper ;
suffice it to say that hands and legs were of little use, and the
pieces falling from aloft were enough to break any head of
moderate thickness. In latitude 76, or thereabouts, we fell
in with Victoria Land, a vast continent of high mountains,
having the appearance of a perpetuity of snow-white tint with
lofty peaks. The only dark places to be seen are next the
sea, or more properly the ice, for the warmest day in sum-
mer, which is the 21st of December, makes no material differ-
ence, there being always a space of seven or eight miles of
barrier ice, like a wall of masonry, and of great height, bound
to the coast, which is so vertically steep as to be quite inac-
cessible, setting aside the cold. We continued sailing south-
ward by slow degrees till we came in sight of the burning
mountain, which we named the Erebus. This is the first I
have seen—therefore I cannot compare it with others ; but
when I describe it hereafter, I shall have the advantage of
not being contradicted by the cockneys, who talk so large
about Vesuvius. This, then, is in sight of the magnetic pole
of the earth, in latitude 78 degrees odd, about 300 or 400
miles further than any former discoveries to the southward,
considerably further to the eastward, and consequently more
latitude still, as the magnetic pole has longitude, while the
pole of the earth, or 99, has none. The magnetic dipping
needle is an instrument similar to a compass needle, only
suspended perpendicularly. At the equator it hangs nearly
horizontal. At 12 south it is quite so, having no dip—that
is, it has no more attraction to one pole than the other • but
where we were it hung vertical, this being the test Of the
situation of the pole. The steering compass began to vary
till they showed the opposite points, so that what they were
directed towards consequently were useless until we came
away. From this to 9 south there is a solid block of barrier
ice, with Tani in one part of it."

WLEOD'S CASE

(From the Morning Herald.)

There is a point in the case of Mr. M`Leod which seems
to be overlooked. That gentleman was arrested on a civil as
well as a criminal process, and should he be acquitted on
the charge of felony, we shall not be surprised to learn that
he has been detained in prison in an action for damages at
the suit of the owners of the piratical vessel the Caroline.
Mr. Webster, in his instructions to Mr. Crittenden, the late
Attorney-General of the United States, while admitting that
Mr. M`Leod ought to be released on the criminal charge,
expressly declared that the federal government could not and
would not interfere in the civil suit.

Should, then, the Utica jury of " Quakers and other per-
sons favourable to peace and justice" acquit Mr. M`Leod,
and the mob be willing that he should be released unscathed,
his detention is still at the option of the owners of the Caro-
line—at least until he be bailed, or the civil process decided
in his favour.

Every step in this disgraceful and dishonourable affair may
be traced to Lord Palmerston's original !aches. To England
it is comparatively unimportant whether M`Leod be con-
victed or acquitted ; he has been imprisoned eight months in
defiance of our solemn remonstrances, and his safety, if ulti-
mately secured, will be accomplished only by our national
degradation.
As Mr. Fox is to remain in the United States during this
scandalous trial, he will, we trust, appear in the dock with
Mr. M`Leod, in order to testify to the world the real posi-
tion in which the British Crown is placed by his arraignment.

Braham is probably the only instance of a native vocalist
realizing*by his profession a fortune of £BO,OOO.
SINGULAR CASE OF INSANITY.—A young divine was one
wintry day employed in snipe-shooting with a friend ; in the
course of their perambulations a high hedge intervened be-
tween the companions. The friend fired at a bird which un-
expectedly sprung up, and lodged a part of the shot in the
forehead of the clergyman ; he instantly fell, and did not re-
cover the shock for some days, so as to be deemed out of
dagger ; when he was so, it was perceived that he was men-
tally deranged. He was to have been married two days sub-
sequenta"peui to that on which the accident happened ; from this
a full SPo combination of circumstances the phenomena of the
case
top,
to rise, for all sanity of mind seemed to make
became P. L!‘s it. were, at this spot of the current, and he soon
a mild, Pleasant, chronic lunatic. All his conversa-
tion was literally cofinned to the business of the wedding;
out of this circle he
every-
thing relating to it with neverm•
vanciug one step further foinrhaelirss'
deviated, but dwelt upon
g,
andaticentur
never retreating or ad-
a young, active, expectin y, being ideally still
the tardiness of time, although it brought bridegroom, chiding
age of 80 to his grave. `This sufferer"ght him gently at the
was never
known to
complain of heat or cold, although his •
window was open all
the year round.— Wiligkir.