The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-16 00:00:00

GREAT GEORGE'S BATHS,

COI{ NEIL OF
GREATGEORGE-STfiEETandGREATGEORGE-PLACE,.

RICHARD BIRD, Proprietor.
THE BATHS of this Establishment have been completed'
on the latest and most approved principles of Medical,
discovery, under the immediate inspection of a Gentleman of"
acknowledged professional experience, and embrace in their•
various arrangementaseparate Apartments for Warm, Vapour,.
Shower, and all the Medicated Baths recommended by the-
Faculty, and are fitted up in a style of elegance and comfort;
scarcely equalled, and not surpassed, by any of t e must cele-
brated establishments in London, Dublin, &C.
TERMS: /
A Warm Bath 2s for 20s.
A Vapour Bath 3s Od 6 for 15s.
A Medicated, Hot Air, or
Sulphur Bath
Cloaks, Couches, Blankets, and Hot Towels included.
The Proprietor presumes to hope, by strict persooall
attention to the Visitors of these Baths, and the moderate tames
on which they are conducte;l, to insure that shore of patronage,
which a liberal public will, he is confident, not fail to confer..
Respectable attendants for Ladies and Gentlemen, and no.
fees allowed to be taken.

EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS.
HE Contioisseuts and Patrons of the Fine Arts, re-
spectfully invited to view a COLLECTION o plendid
ORIGINAL PAINTINGS, carefully selected fr the Wolk&
ofthe most celebrated Artists, both of the Aliketi.tuft and Modern
Schools. The greater part of which have eu very recently,
imported from various parts of Europe, a are now deposited.
at JACK'S COFFEE-HOUSE, Clayton-square, where they
may be seen on and after Tuesday. the 16th instant,,from nine
until four. AomissioN FREE.

\Ve have been obliged through a press of interesting matter
to curtail our observations on those subjects of policy, which
at present engross a considerable, share of public attention.
The approaching session of Parliament will afford us oppor.
tunity of expressing our views on these various subjects.

Ilrbe Eiberpool

TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 16, 1838.

(1:2- The
,Publication of the STAN DA at D commenced this mora•
ing at 5 o'clock.

THE CANADA QUESTION.—Since the date of our last
publication we have received no further intelligence re-
specting the movements of the hostile parties in these in.
teresting colonies. We. look with considerable anxiety
for the arrival of the next packet, which is expected in
course of a few days, and fully ant icipate that the successes
which were detailed in our last have been followed up
by .the loyalists, and the death-blow given to the hopes
of the rebel faction. The ultra-radical party *lto favour.
revolution and rebellion wherever it msr is fumd•

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exist, are zealously endeavouring to prejudice the public
mind in favour of the insurgents, by describing the con-
duct of the British Government as most oppressive and
tyrannical, whilst they carefully lose sight of this simple
fact, that the instigators of this rebellion are either de-
signing knaves, who make a profit of agitation, or those
who are the hereditary enemies of British ascendancy,
tend therefore anxious to deprive Great Britain of one of
her principal sources of strength—her colonies. It
would be vain to enter into a statement of the political
circumstances of these colonies, but we are fully con
vinced that they participate in the advantages of the
British Constitution, and enjoy as great a share of pub.
lic happiness and freedom as is consistent with the well-
being of society. Thi•i subject must very shortly engage
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the attention of the British' Parliament, and the most
• energetic measures will, we doubt not, be adopted for
the maintenance of the connexion between. Great Bri-
tain and her North American colonies. . During the
recess measures have been taken for the preservation of
this connexion, which, we doubt not, will receive the
sanction of the -Imperial Parliament, and also audio-
' rise the sending out additional troops to maintain
. the rights and interests of Great Britain. We have
perused with considerable interest an extract from the
Merthyr Guardian, which treats this subject in a novel
light, and argues that the great secret of agitation in
.Ireland and disaffection in Canada is rather the result of
our bad policy in encouraging popery, than from 'any
hostile design on the part of the British Government.
In the views of the writer we most cordially concur.
Protestanism is the main stay of the British Constitu-
tion,
and its sacrifice will be attended with national dis-
honour and defeat. But we are anxious to put the pub-
lic in possession of the views of our contemporary :
• - " The last news from Canada was what is termed fa-
vourable. In other words, wherever the insurgents have
exhibited themselves they have been beaten. A few
sharp and short conflicts have done the business, but it
is quite clear that an atrocious spirit lurks in the Cana-
dian population. Our original folly in treating a con
querecl people, as if they had been a country of generous
• allies, was often predicted as the sure source of final ali-
enation. By allowing all our public acts to be in French,
all the proceedings of the courts, and, in fact, treating
the colony as if it were to remain French for ever, we
keep it French. The result was smothered hostility,
ready to rise upon any favourable opportunity into open
war. But a still more fatal source of disunion was our
national neglect of Protestantism under the form of our
Established Church, a form which more especially com-
bines with English feelings, English allegiance, and
English constitution. It is true that we have had an
English bishop at Quebec, but forfifty years no step was
taken, that we ever heard of, to give the French Cana-
dians the advantage of having the scriptures put in their
hands. They were, and are at this moment as supersti-
tious as if they were living in the heart of Italy. It is
true we have now established a bishop at Montreal, but
this is only a late and feeble exertion. Much too will
depend on the characters of these two individuals, who,
we believe, have been utterly unheard of in this coun-
try, and utterly passive in Canada. We must send en-
ergetic men were we to send at all. We tell the govern-
ment that it is neither on their troops nor their laws that
the allegiance of the colonies will finally depend, but on
their religion. The Papist will be always a dangerous
subject to a Protestant throne. We abhor all persecu-
tion ; but it is not persecution, but mercy to declare the
divine truth to those who have only lived hitherto onhu-
man falsehood, to substitute the divine justice for the
false and cruel rules of spiritual tyranny, and to rescue.
the unhappy and bewildered slaves of idolatry from the
desperate and ruinous delusion of soliciting divine for-
giveness through the mediatorship of stocks and stones!
Let Protestantism be spread by the honest means of
education, and tile presence of an able, active, and elo-
quent clergy through the Canadas, and instead of an
encumbrance and an alma), they will become a tower of
strength to Britain."
We hOpe that the Government will at length be con-
vinced that the encouragement of popery is perfectly
incompatible with the spirit and temper of the British
.Constittition.—The Protestant religion inculcates loy-
alty and submission to the powers that be ordained of
God, where popery encourages treason, rebellion, and
-revolution. The principles of the two systems can never
be reconciled. Protestantism must either break the
-neck of popery, or popery will obtain the ascendancy
under the favour and patronage of an unprincipled and
interested administration. The battle must be faught,
-and the sooner we engage in the strife the better fur our
civil and religious interests.

The Chronicle of Saturday last, under a feeling of
deep vexation for the loss of a single advertisement,
chose to make a personal attack upon the gentleman who
holds the office of Treasurer to the Blind Asylum.—
Like. the fox in the fable, they have made the discovery
that the grapes are sour, and therefore persuaded them-
selves into the belief that the advertisement was not
worth having, and ostentatiously boast of a long list of
Quack Advertisements as a proof that the public favour
is most liberally lavished upon them. BUt what new
born zeal is this ? Is our contemporary so enamoured
of liberality in the distribution of public favours? If so,
we. would beg him to look at the columns of some of our
Radical contemporaries, and advise the Corporation to
give the Conservative press an equal slime of their
favours. We complain not of this, inasmuch as we
know that the liberality of liberals is but a word em•
iployed to deceive and delude the unwary.

Mr. M'Ghie has addressed a letter to the Rev. Thomas
11Iaguire,.which will be found in another column, invit-
ing him to a public controversy on several points of doc—
trine believed and taught by the Roman Catholic church.
We perfectly concur in the propriety of Mr. M'Ghie's
censure, that this " champion of the catholic faith" has,
by his conduct, disentitled himself to anv notice, but we,
nevertheless, are pleased that this public challenge has
been given, and the catholics of the United Empire have
now the opportunity of judging between the two parties.
We are especially glad, that Mr. M'Ghie has, with the
tact and foresight of a wisecontrOversialist, bound his an -
tagonist to a certain line of argument, which will, if
adhered- to, prevent much of that obscene, kw, and scur-
rilous language which has invariably distinguished the
.speeches of this " champion of the church." We have
mo fear for the result. Truth must triumph, and the mum-
%merles, the superstition, and the lying miracles of Rome
must bow to the authority of Christ.

The editor of the Albion in introducing a pamphlet
written by the Rev. thigh M'Neile, entitled "The Paral.
between Slavery and Popery," has chosen to indulge
tin,some gratuitous observations respecting the consisten-
cy of -this eminent minister in advocating alike the
emancipation of the slave and that of the Roman Catho-
lic. It is evident that our contemporary has mistaken the
intention of Mr. M'Neile, and to serve a parry purpose
flras, on a very casual perusal of the book, thought proper
,to prefer the charge of inconsistency. Thebest answer we
,can give is—that all who read the work carefully, tasst
,admire both the spirit and ability which charactetises it.
The opinion we formed was simply this,,--that the Rev,
gentleman advocated the civil and moral liberty of the
slave and the civil and moral liberty of the poor Roman
Catholic., We have in common with our contemporary
a great hatred of popery, but God forbid that we should
meet them with any species of persecution for their faith.
We would .redeem thern,.from the degrading thralchel
which enslaves both body and mind, but at the same
time we would enforce those testrictions %lhich are ne-
cessary fur the security of that unrivalled constitution to
which they are and ever must be opposed so long as they
retain their„allegiance to the Pope of Rome. But we
doubt not our contemporary will receive a satisfactory
reply from the Rev, gentleman against whom he has in-
solently preferred the charge of inconsistency.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MONEY.
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MARKET.
(Front the Sunday Times.)
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CITY SATCRDAY.—The total destruction of the Royal Ex-
change, Llo.yd's Coffee-house, and the several departments in
Which important branches of business were carried on, has in—
(hived a total cessation of those commercial operations which
are most essential to the active prosecution of ;uercatitile pur-
suits. As most ample details of this great calamity will br
found in other column; of our paper, it is unneces,ary further
to advert to an event Which has eiemed but one feeling. in the
vii.‘that of regret at the destruction of an impOilaiit
public building With which are assot:iated'recoilectiOns of the
most' description. .The 'ltiialJ' Exchange by
effort:Hui, complete means.for,lhe.:ntetting of the, ItIVA:hi1411!, to
trans.act their business, added more than perhaps antis other
circlmastatice to increase the commerce, and to raise this c'oun-
,