The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-24 00:00:00

A LETTER OF MEDEATION

Pattison
Baring.

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TO THE CONGREGATION OF
!ST. ANDREW'S CHURCL

RODNEY-STREET

FATHERS AND BRETHREN,—The disruption of the
Church of Scotland has begun to work divisions among
us, who were till lately a united and harmonious congre-
gation. It is, doubtless, our unanimous wish that these
divisions should be crushed at the outset. In order, if
possible, to prevent them from arising at all, our trustees
and committee of management proposed for our choice
three qualified ministers of the Free Church of Scotland,
in terms of the new constitution, which was before unani-
mously adopted with that view by the shareholders of our
place of meeting. Some of the shareholders, however,
have since applied for and obtained an injunction from
the Court of Chancery against our choosing any minister
of the Free Church to officiate as pastor in that place.
One of three courses, therefore, must be taken by us.
1. We may submit to the injunction ; or 2, we may an-
swer it; or 3, we may agree with the adverse parties to
settle the matter amicably by arbitration of some eminent
barrister who shall be furnished with the necessary in-
formation through fit persons selected to represent each

This last course—friendly arbitration—would be far the
most summary and expeditious, as well as the least ex-
pensive. How distressing will it be to have one place of
worship closed and the flock scattered during the twelve-
month or more that may elapse while the suit is pending!
How sad to spend in law expenses one, two, or three
thousand pounds, that may build one or more chapels, or
be otherwise better employed in promoting the gospel!
But further, this last course (seeing the first alternative—
unqualified submission—cannot be entertained) is the
most consistent with the letter and spirit of the New Tes-
tament. Let the 6th Chapter of Ist Corinthians be read
as far as far as verse 7, where it is said, " But brother
goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers
[a term too applicable to many civil judges] ; now, there-
tore, there is utterly a fault among you because ye go to
law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong ?"
&c. There is reason to hope that the parties at whose
instwce the injunction was sought will be willing to accede
to such a proposal if made, and surely it will be unbe-
coming in us to refuse to make it. Let us try what can
be done in this way, and if our proposal is scouted, which
I am confident it will not be, we can go to law with a
safer conscience, and may expect a greater blessing on
our cause.

We cannot but regret that some misapprehension of
motives, not perhaps amounting to bitterness, has already
been engendered on both sides. 1 beseech the congrega-
tion to regard our adversaries in the suit as brethren,
seeking like ourselves the good of the Scotch population
of Liverpool, but differing from us as to the means of
eff,eting -it. They believe tho Established Church of
Scotland the best medium ; we believe on the other hand
the Free Church, or our own English Synod, the best
medium. They conceive the first constitution and original
design of the Rodney-street Church bind it inalienably
and exclusively to the Establishment; we are led to con-
clude the shareholders had full power to unite it equally
to the Free Church. There is, therefore, a difference of
opinion certainly, but we are onein doctrine and in attach-
ment to the gospel. While we know not the secret prin-
ciples of their heart, shall we claim for ourselves more
love to Christ, more submission to His holy will ?—nay ;
I rather think were we and they to reverse our positions,
we might act very much as they are doing. If the friends
of the Free Church had built a splendid edifice, and from
some alteration of feeling their representation had changed
its understood original destination, and allowed it to tall
so thoroughly into the system of the Established Church
as Oat no minister of the Free could thereafter officiate
there, would we not complain and seek redress? I say
this to remove any undue harsh construction of our ad-
versaries' conduct. If some of them condescend to read
my remarks, 1 trust they will not think the less seriously
of the very solemn responsibility they are bringing them-
selves under, that of taking a course which may deprive
the congregation of a minister of their own choice, or drive
many of us from our accustomed place of worship, never
again to assemble in this world as one flock. Such con-
sequences we may well deplore and deprecate. May the
providence and mercy of the Almighty Head of the Church
save us from enduring them by bringing light out of dark-
ness, and restoring peace and unity.—Your affectionate,
faithful servant,

ONE OF 'YOUR COMMITTEE

It is a fact that the people never contemplated, except
as a last and very improbable alternative, going to war
for the object of their agitation. They relied upon
O'Connell's cunning and knowledge of the law to keep
them from a collision with the authorities: and only
dreamed of the necessity of resorting to violent measures,
if the government should interfere with the proposed as-
sembly of 300 gentlemen, who were to compose O'Con-
nell's illegal parliament. Such an interlerence would, un-
doubtedly, have been the signal for that war of extermi-
nation, which the Irish peasantry contemplated as the
the means of arriving at their end by violence.
Again recurring to the temperance movement and its
connexion with repeal, we are told that—'• Although the
organisation of the temperance societies preceeded the re-
peal movement, that organisation has been adopted into
it. The congregation of each Roman Catholic chapel
generally forms a temperance society. The repeal war-
dens are the officers, the temperance band—the members
of which are dressed in uniform—are the rallying-point;
and when it is determined to show the strength of the
country, the male members of the temperance societies
are marshalled under their respective bands and colours,
and march out to the monster meeting. The people ap-
pear to take a pride in displaying their fixity of purpose
and the supposed moral excellence of their cause, by an
obvious abandonment of their previously habitual vices.
They feel ashamed when a drunken man appears reeling
in the streets, and I have seen them rebuke mendicants
whom they have observed in the act of importuning a
stranger. Intoxication is now rarely seen in Ireland. I
visited three crowded fairs, and did not see a single in-
stance of it ; and I did not observe more than six or seven
drunken people all the time 1 was in Ireland."
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beforera i nn egn
The most serious phase of the state of feeling in Ireland
is the implication of the great body of the priesthood in
the agitation, and their contemplation of violence as the
means of working it out to a triumphant issue. The
priests of the old school, most of them of foreign educa-
tion, held themselves for a time aloof ; but they were given
to understand that a lose of temporal comforts and spiri-
tual power would be the result of a perseverance in their
isolation ; and they ultimately submitted. The eleven of
Maynooth, however, most of them the sons of small far- ..—......5..............
mers, and allied in feeling with the mass of the peasantry, SUICIDE.—On Tuesday last, Samuel Hanvey, an ap-
have entered into the agitation without hesitation, and prentice to Mr. Owen, plumber, Williamson-square. ter-
with determined resolution to rush to their purposes, minated his existence by hanging himself, in a cellar
through all the risks and bloodsheds of a rebellion. The under his master's shop. Mr. Owen having occasion to
feelings of this class are correctly represented by the fol- go down into the cellar in the evening, found the deceased
lowing extract from the speech of the Rev. Mr. Cantwell, suspended from a beam. lie was cut down directly, but
parish priest of Tromore, at the late monster meeting at was quite dead. The deceased was of a livelydisposition,
Lismore. " lie could support O'Connell with his voice; and had been seen about half an hour before in the shop;
but he would support him with more. Look at that sun" and no evidence was produced calculated to furnish: t :
(said the rev. gentleman stretching forth his right arm). slightest reason for the commission of the dreadful act.
After the magnificent scene I have this day witnessed, Verdict accordingly.
11l die a death, or see Ireland free." (Tremendous
crs —The circular of Messrs. Daniel
cheering and waving of hats.) 'ibis disposition of the TRADS PR°SPE .
priesthood has given the repeal movement all the weight Buchanan,
.of Liverpool, gives the
Sons, and Co.,
of a religious cause in the eyes of a superstitious people; mg satisfactory description of the state of business
and furnishes a clue to the causes of that excitement, in this port and the. manufae turing districts :—" The
which Englishmen and the world have always set down favourable change which has of late been so perceptible
as resulting from a disposition to be gulled by mingled in
.bu.siness, daily becomes more established, and public
non (always_ very influential) goes to confirm the
folly and knavery. By this interference and agency, the
opinion
1 an early return to former good times; so
organization of the people has been rendered complete.
Alter service every Sunday the nricat puts off his sacred though favourableanticipation
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character and assumes that of the demagogue. The
temporaryexcitement ; whereas now it is produced by
women and children are sent out of chapel, and the men
are lectured on political subjects for hours together.d business doing in the mangene. goo
The object 3 of all parties are thus described by the
rally is sure to lead to greatly increased consumption.
ampaptaldre(nrt:ycene
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writer of these letters : The demand there experienced comes from almost every
etwsahsaspenrohtap.exiested since 1828,
" The primary object of the priest is, no doubt, to get
quarter, and is to supply actual wants. The great in-
have temporalities of the Established Church but they crease strictly
e naturalilhome
maeudd e
toTbh: have also a further object, which lies muchr!earertheir.
us) is, undoubtedly, the most cheering feature of all.'
heart, which is to make Ireland a Catholic country.. Throughout the next months we shall,
Everybody in
'the south of Ireland, both Protestant and
experience the full and beneficial effects of
, most probably,
Catholic, admits that if an insurrection were to succeed,
vests, of an of money•4l- two good bar-
the Protestants must either conform, or quit the country. abundance
A.)
regular employment '..
min a sound currency,
O'Connell does his utmost to keep the religious character _ , -t ternunerating wages, for the
nking clasres r; . Pnor,ll ..,

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION

On Friday the nomination of candidates to represent
the city of London in parliament took place at the Guild-
hall. Mr. Pattison was proposed by Mr. W. G. Prescott
and Mr. Travers, and Mr. Baring by Mr. Alderman
Brown and Mr. Russell Ellice. After an address from
both candidates the show of hands was taken, and declared
to be in favour of Mr. Pattison.

The polling commenced on Saturday morning, and was
carried on with great spirit and animation during the
morning, but in consequence of the excellent arrangements
made by the sheriffs, not the least inconvenience or diffi-
culty arose in recording the votes of electors ; although
between eight o'clock and ten o'clock nearly 5,000 votes
were registered. The sheriffs appointed 98 poll-clerks,
each candidate appointing a check clerk ; therefore the
number of clerks employed amounted to 294.
Mr. Pattison ha.l a majority of nearly 250 the first two
hours; but from ten to eleven o'clock Mr. Baring re-
duced that majority nearly 200. It was calculated that
all the members of the Jewish persuasion having votes
polled before nine o'clock, in order, as little as possible, to
interfere with the religious duties of the Sabbath.
The neighbourhood of Guildhall was densely crowded
during the day, and, as the electors arrived, they were
greeted with cheers and hisses by the partisans of the dif-
ferent candidates. The following was the state of the poll
at the close :
Mr. Barin,g's Comp:Wee

31r. Pallison's Committee
Pattison
Baring 6334

Majority .... 145 Majority
In 1832, Mr. Grote won with 8,412 ; Mr. Lyall lost with
5,152 votes. Since that period the Liberal majority has
progressively declined—that of the Conservatives increas-
ed. In 1835 Sir M. Wood headed the poll with 6,418
votes. In 1841 the unsuccessful candidate (Mr. Attwood)
polled 6,212 ; Sir M. Wood, 6,315 ; and Mr. Masterman,
6,339 votes.

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