The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

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f the wind being eastward,
riot
In consequence partly o
last -three days, lutve .
during the
recedmg
plies entering this port
d it arrivals of the two p
to a
kept pace with the superabun a
and Flour, they are 4
weeks; stilt a 'Wheat, Indian Corn,
COEN EXCHANGE,.
general have not appeare_,
fair extent ; and though holders
in j'uLY 2.tward, the sup-
mauling o .
trahle
the large surplus of most articles re
ether and fay°.
to preps the market so urgently as ignigoll.t
wants, combined with continued tine we
demand during the in-
tert-al since Tuesday to be trivial,
reports of the crops, have caused theto
amle
pave
vbeerenfonie.ecatedeat
purchase generally on lower terms.
Although
,our Corn Exchange this morning
~t•e}e extremely
well attended, both town and country millers ''ere s Foreign
inactive, and all descriptions of British as well A
~I.
'Wheat, therefore, met a very dull limited Bale at a declinetpau!
our last quotations of 4tl to 6d per 701 b. Flour being offere 1 t-
a further abatement of 2s to 2s 6d per barrel, induced a rather
*nambiewdasi:Yleevrgably
better demand, Western brands obtaining 34-s tid to 35s 'per
barrel, and othcr
:equalities on proportionably low terms.
Earley, upon very larumid inqm.."ry, reeeded 3d per 601 h,
and Malt remained dull at late prices.' Beans, also,
very sparingly to consumers alone, were again 2s to 3s per qr.
cheaper. (hits and Oatmeal attracting little notice, the foriner
}Lust be noted 3d per 451 b, and the latter 3s per 2401 b lower.
Indian Corn, commanding a fair degree ot attention, nearly
supported our, last quotations ; and Corn Meal, being mere
Fateuble WAS, the turn dearer, moving

TIDE TABLE.
DA VST MORN. !EVENO.I lifiHT. HOLYDAY-S,
July. h: m. h. m. ft. in.
Tuesday.... 6 451 526 14 5
)90 +1563 11155 1g 6th 0u1.4 41Y aft. rrril
Wednesday. 7 6 3 643 14
Thursday.. 721 758 13 7
10,S
2i 9 2 14 2
.10P dsy ) !) 4 1) 54 s 1
Ss Friday
ttlt
dr
atil 1:0:11

6th Ou)Apy aft.
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Prices marked thus "p" are at a premium ; those marked
"d )2 are at a discount.
"R" denotes Shares calk?, in for ItAyistration.
" F " denotes •;erip kihart* faded iu for Itegistratiost,

PACKET LIST, GENERAL POST-OFFICE,

JULY 5.

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Malta &lonian Islands 3rd and 20th Endul
Greece and Egypt of every June 20
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muds, and V.thltates I i July 4 ' July 15

OPERATION OF GODLESS COLLEGES IN FRANCE.—
We said at the beginning of this article that schools were
amongst the solemn realities of life. It is impossible, as
we think, to overrate their civil, and political, and religious
importance. The fierce outcry against the measure of
the present Government is but a just compliment to the
transcendent importance of the question of popular edu.
cation, for the men of a country are but its grown-up
schoolboys. Our advocacy of schools of all kinds how-
ever, is directed more to their moral than their literary
structure : the latter is easily attainable, and is so much
a matter of course that it seems difficult to conceive how
a man can be impudent enough to offer to teach what he
himself does not understand ; the former element, there-
fore—the moral machinery—is the real cause of the con-
tention, and is the " one thing needful," whether in the
schools of the poor or the rich. Very few can or need be
made good scholars ; but all can be, and need to be,
grounded in the principles of religion and virtue. The
education which does not primarily aim at this, recognis-
ing by its specific arrangements that it is an integral
element in the constitution of the school, we hold to be
radically defective. The natural means of creating a
nation of infidels are to fill its schools with infidel or
semi-infidel teachers. We may wonder at the open dis-
regard expressed foireligion by the men and women of
France ; but the wonder ceases the moment we under-
stand the character of its schools and universities. We
deem this topic so full of instruction to ourselves, as
teaching by example, that we shall draw largely upon Dr.
Wordsworth's proofs of the moral condition of Freneh
schools and universities :—" Since the time of this visit
to the college of Louis le Grand, I have made enquiries
in various quarters concerning the moral character of
their Parisian schools, and I regret to say that in no case
has the report been a favourable one. I cannot but feel
some hesitation in making the statement which I have
done with respect to the morality of their great establish..
ments, the colleges of Paris. j am not only recording
the result of private enquiries, but am echoing, and that
very faintly, the language of the official report of nine
chaplains of their colleges themselves to their ecclesias-
tical superiors, in the year 1830, the terms of which am
so serious and fearful that it may well be considered a
matter of surprise that these colleges should now be
overflowing with vast numbers of students who resort to
them : indeed, that they should be accredited places of
education for the youth of this great country." The
following are extracts from the report :—" The opinions
we have now to express do not refer to one college more
than another, nor are they of mere local or special con-
cern. We are filled with sentiments of despondency and
horror, which no words can express, when we reflect on
the almost utter futility of our office, although we have
spared neither pains nor study to render it effective. It
is not indifference or the force of passion which leads
them to a general forgetfulness of God ; it ispositiveinfi.
delity. In fact, bow can we expect they should believe
in God when they see such contempt for religion, and
when they listen every day of their lives to lectures of so
contradictory a character, and when they find Christianity
no where but at chapel ; and then, too, an empty Christi-
anity of hare forms end technical routine ? They arrive
at the age of fifteen without any rule for their thoughts,
g
and withnut any rein for their actions, except an exterior
discipline which they abhor, and masters whom they treat
as mercenaries; and, at length, when the course of their
studies is complete, of time who issue from the cow ee
the average number of the students who have presery
ed
their religion to the end of their career dose not amount
to more that one stuk'ent from every e.c,1.104e in each year. 7.
Church of Eaytand Quarterly.