The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

MEDICAL ETIQUETTE.

TO THE MEDICAL PROFES.FION OF LIVERPOOL.
GENTLEMEN,—The town has been annoyed by pamph-
lets recently published by members of your profession,
in which the names of Dr. Dundas, Dr. Vose, and Mr.
Ellison shine prominent. Without entering into the
merits of, what you may consider to be, Professional
Etiquette, I am of opinion that interested parties, or
partisans, are decidedly the worst judges. I therefore,
out of regard to yourselves, beg to suggest that a meeting
of the Profession should be promptly called, which I have
no doubt would be attended by every gentleman belong-
ing to it who has the real honor of that profession at
heart ; and that in order to remove all jealousy a chairman
of talent and character, one who never sullied its purity,
should be appointed. I may name Dr. Brandreth who,
though now retired from his arduous, long, and honour-
able career would, I have no doubt, act, out of the regard
which he entertains for that profession of which he was
an ornament. Should this course be adopted, truth
would come cut, character assailed would be established,
or the attack upon it proved to be wrong, and the public
would be spared the pain of reading or listening to the
conflicting statements of, as you style yourselves, edu.
cated men.

I have never heard of petty jealousies emanating from
the army, the navy, or the law—why then from the sons
of Esculapius.

am, gentlemen.
A PATIENT.

Liverpool, July 8, 1850.

TIIE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sir,—The life of Sir R. Peel, which has just been so
suddenly and sadly closed, will furnish to the impartial
Protectionist's mind many redeeming features. We can
well afford to discharge the honourable and becoming
duty of reviving the good deeds of his eventful life, and
interring the bad " with his bones." For myself, freely
as I have criticised his actions, I "an say as earnestly, as
sincerely, as feelingly as any man, " Requiescat in pace!"
It is to him that, as Conservatives, we owe the numbers
of our friends, and the dignity of our position in the House
of Commons. The Reform Bill almost destroyed our par-
liamentary existence, when, by the inspiration of his ap..
peals and exertions, the country wrested itself from the
incompetent spirits that grasped its greatness. For along
time he fought valiantly for the creed which we subscribe
to, and rebuked with power those foes whom we still com-
bat ; he furnished us many of our weightiest arguments,
and endorsed them with the sanction of his high autho-
rity ; he spent the greater part of his life in a right ser-
vice, and the last action before his death was a vindication
of our party's policy. With these traits in his varied
character, we can pass by the BEACON which he has left
as a warning to future statesmen, and heave a heartfelt
sigh for his departure, and drop a sorrowing tear into his
yawning grave l. _ _

Our iYmpathies turn instinctively to those on whom this
affliction fell with crushing force, but who yet survive his
melancholy fate, to mourn their serious loss !

A PROTECTIONIST.

6th July, 1850.

CHURCH ACCOMMODATION FOR THE POOR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sir,—Since I wrote to you last week, making a sugges-
tion or two on church accommodation for the poor, I
have received information on the subject which cannot, I
think, when generally known, but tend materially to en-
list the sympathies of every really true-hearted church-
man who may have the means of rendering aid in so glo-
rious, £0 heavenly a purpose as to provide those who have
not now the liberty of joining in the service of our church
the opportunity of doing so,—the opportunity of hearing
of Heaven and of learning the way thither ; hence I beg to
trouble you again for a small space in next Tuesday's
Standard.

Out of many I will now take one particular district in
the town, and that one not much, if any, less remarkable
for the want of church accommodation for the poor, than
other districts. It contains about 11,000 inhabitants, for
whom there is provided only one church, and there are no
other places of worship, except those few houses in the
district to which the clergymen of that church go to meet
the poor, and there to instruct them " in the ways of God."
The church in that district is built to accommodate 1150
persons in pews, and about 300 in free sittings, which free
sittings are chiefly occupied by the children in the Sunday
schools. There are not more than thirty persons living
in the district who are pewholders, and there are not many
snore than that number there who can pay the pew rents,
even though they be, as indeed they are now, let at an
extremely low rent.

Now I think it exceedingly desirable that that church,
situated as it is, in the midst of the poorest people in the
town, should be so rendered that few or none of these
poor should be refused admittance, which indeed they
almost all are now. 'I he church is an ornament to the dis-
trict, worthy its benevolent founders ; the clergymen there
are hardworking men,—men who work in their master's
vineyard by day,—ascending the ricketty garrets, and de-
scending into the low, damp holes in the earth called
cellars, to find out their fellow-mortals, as where often
they find them, on a bundle of straw, the only place of all
the world these poor creatures can find to stretch their
emaciated frames, and where their souls (oh, bow dark !)
bid adieu to their earthly tabernacle. Nor are the labours
of these clergymen confined to the day,—they are in the
district not less than four evenings each week till a late
hour. Verily, verily, they eat not the bread of idleness.
Their stipends are small, very small, and consequently
they cannot overcome the difficulties they meet with in
the requests made to them to afford church accommoda-
tion, unless the friends of the church go to their help.
As the church is already built, and built where it may be
useful to the really poor, would it not be much better for
those who are about to build churches, and especially for
those who wish to prevent the spread of error, Romish
and all other, by the teaching of the pure word of God,
without delay to make that, and all similar churches, as
nearly free as possible, if not entirely so. A great part of
the church to which I have alluded can be made entirely
free, for ever, for a sum of about £l5OO, and to do this,
is, in the matured opinion of many, much more likely to
be serviceable to the poor, than to build other churches
amongst them which would cost much more money, with
less advantages. I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
A FRIEND.
Liverpool, Gth July, 1850.