The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

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and' all ()the
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r of her dominions,

and to hurl from their
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who -would Counse

atal measure.

) I trust the nation will

detect anYreiect‘iheflirasy sophism urged in the shape of
argument,--that because we have been already betrayed
into a sort of retail idolatry in our colonies and in May-
nooth, therefore we may as well, nay, better, go wilfully
into it wholesale; or, that because the priests, living on
the contributions of the tenants, are already indirectly
supported by the landlords, we may as well give them
a direct 'national Eupport, independent of both tenant
and landlord- (Hear, hear, hear.) I can assure the
writer of this article .on my letter, that if it be wise, as
lie intimates, to refrain from agitation on this subject, I
have not the slightest intention to be wise; deeply per-
suaded as I am that such wisdom is the wisdom of this
world, which is, and always has been, and always must
be, foolishness with God. (Immense applause.i)

Of course, every well
.. ..
devised system of currency should he restricted to
represent wealth or property. The objection may
well enough he urged against the visionary projects
of M. Ledru Rollin and his confre;ies of the French
Committee of Agriculture, hut not against a urn-

dent reform of the currency of the country.
We cannot but think, from the peculiar tender-
ness with which he discusses the subject, that the
the shoe pinches
himself against

;inning_ to feel wh

picion are full of irxeonsistencie
_ . _

In the

first quotation which he has given, we
stating that "the currency in whatever form,
whether gold, silver, or paper, is an instrument of
spontaneous growth which adapts itself to the uses

find him

of society, arid rises and falls in anzaunt according
to the level of the national wants." How does this
square with the working of our present system,
under which money is in abundance, when it is not
needed, and, during a period of great national want,
when the country requires an increased supply of
food or any other commodity, is suddenly decreased
in quantity, and beyond our reach, except by sub-
mitting to ruinous sacrifices 3 What we want is

precisely the sort of currency described by the
Times—one which will expand with the expansion
of our commercial manufactures generally, not one
which is regulated and contracted by the diminished
possession by us of one commodity—gold—and we
expect to see the Times heralding us at no distant
period to the adoption of the former.

WE cannot imagine a spectacle so anomalous as
that which Ireland presents at the present moment.
We have recently been called upon to put down,
at a vast expense of money, and of the exertions of
our soldiery, although at no expenditure of blood,
a rebellion in that country, the object of which was
to separate her from Great Britain, and to place her
in the position of an independent and self-support-
ing power. We are still engaged in the duty which

mtinually reducing ibern to the
ondition of a nation. of paupers. Teach,. Irishmen
to become self dependent,—to cease to rely for sup-
port upon spoliation of their landlords,. or to stand
ever agape for the bounty of England;;; put down
agitation, whether priestly or lay ; above all things,
vindicate the law, and give security to:life and pro-
perty in Ireland ; and then only will the dreaded
`,.`dat)ger to Catholicity" have been, incurred. These
•
men, we repeat, are well aware of the fact, and
hence their protest against a state. provision for
their clergy is nrefaced with the whine of mendi-
cancy, anal a demand, for alm&for• the flocks they
refuse to: teach to live as men,searning their food by
the sweat of their brows.

,ness tirl

ley. J. H. Stewart, who is at
in Liverpool, as one of the deputation for the
)ciety for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, will
wolong his stay over next Sunday, and preach in the
norning at St. Bride's.

present

SERMONS BY A COLOURED CLERGYMAN.—On Sunday,
three sermons were preached by the Rev. Elie W. Stokes,
a clergyman of colour, ( in connexion with the F.,piscopal
Church in the United States,) in St. Michael's Church,
Pitt-street. The sermons in the morning and evening
were on behalf the South Church of England Schools ;
and the funds gathered in the afternoon were for the benefit
of the dusky gentleman's own church, in Providence,
Rhode Island.

MR. STEWART AS A COUNCILLOR.-At a dinner given
by Mr. Hay, the architect, on Tuesday, to the workmen
employed in erecting the new church at the south end of
the town, he proposed the health of John Stewart, Esq.,
the Councillor for St. Peter'S Ward, and in doing so said,
that he telt proud in saying that no man was of easier ac-
cess, none more ready and able to give his opinion and
assistance in anything connected with their profession.
lie (Mr. Hay) was prepared with a phalanx of evidence
in the case that day before Mr. Rushton, [reported else-
where] but that the magistrate was assisted materially by
Mr. Stewart, who gave his opinion on points of architecture
with great clearness. They were highly honoured in hsving
a member of the profession qualified to take his seat upon
the bench. The services of such a gentleman were inva-
luable to a town like Liverpool, and none knew this better
than those who were entrusted with the %payment of
tlAe corporate estate and local affairs.