The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

ME LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

' contending parties in that country to settle the
questions at issue between them, with their own
hands. It may be a startling announcement to
some, that this is our position—that we have only
to choose between a reversal of our present policy
towards Ireland, or the horrors of a civil war—but
the fact is so, nevertheless, and, if there is any such
thing as historical analogy, the time is not far
distant when choice will be no longer within our
reach. We ask, therefore, of all reflecting English-
men, to temporize no longer—to . look the hazards
of our national position in the face—and, to be
prepared.

CHESTER CATHEDRAL-REV. CANON

MiNEILE

On Sunday last, the installation took place in Chester
Cathedral, of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, into the Canonry,
to which, our readers will be glad to learn, he has been
appointed by the pious and distinguished bishop of the
diocese. The office is merely honor .rv, since the endow-

ments belonging to it, agr-e'eahly to late arrangements,
have lapsed to the Ecclesiastical commissioners. How-
ever we may regret that this is the case, on account of the
eminent individual upon whom the honour has been con-
ferred, our feelings of gratitude and respect are un-
diminished towards the good bishop to whom he is
indebted for it. An apppointment like this, of one, who
has laboured faithfully and consistently for upwards of a
quarter of a century in his great Master's service, and which
isbestowefl upon him by the very person (his own diocesan),
most competent from opportunity and observation, to
pronounce upon the value and fidelity of his services to
the church in general, and his own diocese in particular,
brings us back upon the recollection of the wise object for
which such posts of dignity and emolument were first
created in our Ecclesiastical polity. Viewed in this light,
the appointment in question appears alike creditable to
the bishop, as it must be gratifying to Mr. M`Neile
him-
self. By this act, the bishop lends the sanction of his
bonoured name in the face of the whole country, to the
course Mr. M`Neile has pursued, patiently, honestly,
openly and laboriously, through good report and evil—
more especially through the eleven troublous and eventful
years, during which his lot has been cast in St. Jude's ;
and, on the other hand, Mr. M'Neile must receive it with
the sweetest of all imaginable accompaniments,—the
inward consciousness that it has been well deserved.
It was to reward merit of this kind that provision was
first made for such offices in the cathedral establishments
of our church ; and so long as appointments to them were
influenced by such considerations as have led to this, over
which we now rejoice, they were hailed by the universal
respect and gratitude of the nation and the church. The
amount of their endowments was felt to be as nothing
compared with the advantages arising to society from the
learning and piety of the men who first filled them, not
to speak of that instinctive desire that every Englishman
feels to see a deserving servant advanced in proportion to
his merit. It is to these offices of dignity and endowment
in the church that we are indebted for the learned labours
of the Tillotsons, the Taylors, the Us hers, Butlers,
Barrows, Burnets, Sherlocks, Magees, &c. &c.. who,
though dead, still speak. It is to a similar exercise of a
wise and discriminating vigilance on the part of the good
Bishop Barrington, of Durham, that we owe the first eleva-
tion of the Bishop of Chester himself to the prebendal stall
which he holds in Durham cathedral, as well as that of
his learned colleagues, Drs. Townsend and Gilly, and
others, whose fame must be commensurate and coeval with
the literature and the piety of their church and country.

Associations of this kind were 'uggested to our mind
when we first heard of Mr. M'Neile 's nomination to the
canonry in question. Posterity has a claim on him for
some more lasting memorial of his learning, piety, and ex-
perience, than any that the pressure of urgent engagement s
has yet allowed him to produce. In writing thus, we do
not for a moment forget what Mr. M'Neile bas already
written and published, still less are we disposed either to
retract or qualify the meed of humble approval with which
from time to time we announced the appearance of the
Lectures on Jewish Prophecy, the Second •Advent of our
Lord, and his last work on the sympathies of Christ; but
still we affirm, that a stranger, judging of Mr. M`Neile
only from these publications—albeit high the estimate he
must form—would conceive, notwithstanding, a very ina-
, dequate notion of the amount of Scriptural knowledge and
Bibl?cal erudition, coupled with a depth of Christian ex-
perience and sanctified power which invariably charac-

LIVERPOOL JULY SESSIONS

The sessions of the peace for this borough commenced
Yesterday, before Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the recorder.
The calendar contained the names of eighty-four prisoners
charged with felony, and twenty-four for misdemeanors,
including about twelve of the parties charged with riot and
disturbance on the 6th instant. Of the whole, it is noted
that thirty-seven can read and write imperfectly ; five can
read and write well; twenty-seven can read imperfectly ;
and thirty-nine can neither read nor write. The follow-
ing gentlemen were sworn of the Grand Jury :

Charles Hodgson Horsfall, Vauxhall-road,ironfounder, Foreman
Charles Armstrong, Exchange-street east, merchant.
William Bates, North John-street, merchant.
Thomas Brancher, junr. Tithebarn-street, commission agent, &c.
Samuel Marshall Bully, Chapel-street, cotton broker.
Henry Glazebrook, India-buildings, iron merchant.
John Higson, Exchange-alley north, broker.
John Began, Mersey-chambers. merchant.
John Lister, Nether field-road south, gentleman.
Daniel Dsnnill Maddock, Everton village, gentleman.
Thomas_Rowlandson Robinson Hatton-garden, wine merchant.
Thomas Vincent Higgins, Tabley-street, iron merchant.
John Harnett, Fenwick-street, corn broker.
Ilarmood Walclt Banner, North John-street, accountant.
William Taylor, Great Homer-street, brewer.
Daniel Simmins, Cleveland-square, drysalter.
The usual proclamation having been read,
The RECORDER addressed the grand jury. He said in
effect that the calendar on this occasion contained the
names of eighty-two prisoners for felony, and twenty-two
for misdemeanour, and considering that but nine weeks
had elapsed since the last sessions, this number appeared
to be large. Most of the cases for stealing, however, in-
volved but small amounts of property, the only exceptions
being a case of £2O, and another of £l5. Their attention
would also be called to one rather serious case of em-
bezzlement. In two cases articles had been removed, but
not taken away, and it would be for them to consider the
intent, and deal with them accordingly. In two other cases
in which money was taken.—in one a half-sovereign, and
in the other some copper—the circumstances were some-
what remarkable. In one of these cases the police were
watching in the house, and apprehended two of the pri-
soners (as we understood him); two others were after-
wards taken outside the p emises, and it would be for the
jury to consider whether these patties who knocked at the
door did so with a view to join the others within, and par-
ticipate with them. If so, they were clearly amenable as
regarded the offence. In the misdemeanors there was no
charge they w( uld find any difficulty in disposing of. But
there were several charges of assaults on constables, while
in the exercise of their duty. Now, if officers on any oc-
casion acted wrongly, or exceeded their proper line-of duty,
redress was to be had, and when they were proved to be
in fault, their punishment would fo!low. There were
several cases of riot and disturbance, that took place on
the sth of July, near Great Crosshall-street. If any of
the prisoners charged took an active part in these dis-
turbances, orjoined those who created them, they became
responsible for the offence of riot. It appeared that a
funer=al procession was moving along, and that many of
those forming it wore favours or badges, shewing them to
belong to a particular party, and which produced excite-
ment amongst others of opposite opinions. A division
to.,k place amongst them, and a small body of the police
got between them, and showed great gallantry in averting
a serious collision. Had they not done so, bloodshed
might have ensued, as there were several hundreds of
persons on both sides greatly exasperated against each
other. Differences in religious principles existed amongst
different parties, and it was not improper that they should
be entertained, or that (as we understood him to imply)
they should be conscientiously maintained in a peaceable
manner : but it was extremely desirable that persons
should forbear, individually and collectively, from giving
umbrage to others by unnecessary and useless parade of
their peculiar opinions. He alluded to the present
law that shortened elections, and provided numerous
polling booths, in order to prevent collisions or dis-
turbances ; and he hoped those who led political par-
ties in the town would act in the same spirit of modera-
tion, by restraining their followers, and thus prove them-
selves the friends of peace and good order. They would
thus do more service to society, and better deserve the
esteem of their fellow-countrymen, than by any idle
public display. He repeated, that it was clear, in
the case before them, that if the police had not
vigorously interfered, the most serious consequences
would probably have ensued. It was to be doubted
whether a funeral was a proper occasion for any such dis-
play]; but certainly no good man would, whatever his own
opinion, interrupt such a procession. H eying thus alluded
to this subject, he hoped he should not have occasion to
revert to it. The remainder of the charge conveyed the
usual directions for the guidance of the jurors, as to the
evidence to be laid before them, and the conclusions they
should come to upon it. The jury then retired,
Several true bills for felony were soon after brought in,
and the trials proceeded, but no case of interest, beyond
the usual routine of offences, was disposed of during the

GRATIFYING SOIREE

IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE WINE AND
SPIRIT TRADE.