The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

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a Union Com

would not be practicable for
have a small steamer upon
,nciple, to run up to Bootle.
sengers. We don't think it
le. We should rather suggest
ked to remove the numberless
fntly in the habit of bathing in
for ladies to travel on

the conveyance of pa

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.nt Draper" may

cl any arran

e assured that we should be
made by employers generally
less as much as possible of the
of the approaching visit of
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fiber of empl
s, and shot

expectation of any
laced voluntarily to close
an application to the antho-

3nio them todo so universally.
er of communications from parties

ed in arious branches of commerce urging a general
y during Prince Albert's visit. We expect confidently
uch a suggestion will meet with general compliance.

7Libtrpooi &tanbarTr.

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1846.

ispect, will hail with acclamation
effort which the Rectors, in co-operation with
ng to renew the work of
reroool. It is long enough,

town, we

Bishop, are mat

A extension in

he last undertaking of the
I was brought to a close. Every day is
lg an enlarged number of thinking men to
onvicion, that there is no other way of even
the masses of fellow creatures which

too long,

,manizing

e accumulating around us, than by spreading re-
;ions influences amongst them, That which we
I;re been slow to do, from the highest of principles,
are now finding the necessity of doing, from con-
lerations of prudence and self-defence. And is it
It time for Liverpool to bestir itself, when it finds
elf lying under the imputation of standing lowest
the scale of British towns in respect both of
;alth and morals.

The former stigma we are beginning to cope with,
f the introduction of extensive sanatory measures.
[cans are now proposed for abating the other evil
so, by extending that wisest, and best, and cheap-
_
hich seeks to prevent
he police which aims
thing what is good, instead of merely repres-

11 modes of poli
isteadof punishin,

e likes not to dwell on the full argument that
for making this effort, and for making it very
iously. To hear of the tens and twenties of
ands who are living at our very doors, in want
!ry means of Christian instruction, overwhelms
ith a conscious shudder; for, divide the blame
ch a state of things as we will, a painful por-
We would rather close
the magnitude of our work, until some
t shall have been accomplished—until
ht of morning shall show us some portion of
abour and peril past.
Who (asked the Bishop at the meeting the other
y) would have had the heart to set about raising
love £600,000 for the purpose of building churches,

emains to every one

d £40,000 a-year for clergymen's salaries, if told
1 years ago that such sums would be required ;
ace of time those sums have

within that s
sed.

e time, too, is surely auspicious for making
addition to the conquests already won. We
every day—and we grudge not to hear it—of
b.ousands which are shortly to be spent in pro-
ag loyal, and charitable, and social affections
---'

tic us for a single day. Some hearts must
glow with a desire of doing honour, with at
a equal portion of their earthly substance, to
ag of Kings, and of securing benefits to their

creatures Which are to outlast the day or the
or even the very bounds of time itself.

The new churches -which the present proposal con-
=plates, are to be built under an Act passed a few
ears ago, usually known by the name of Peel's Act.
is great recommendation is, that it provides a sti-
'end of £l5O a-year, out of the Ecclesiastical Com-
nissioners' Fund, for every clergyman appointed
ender its provisions as soon as a church shall have

cure such an endo

is, in fact, to re-
; which have been
of church building. The
is vested, by the Act, in

e one of the chief diflicul

Ind in ti

Crown and the Bishop of ti

diocese, ultima

of first nominator, his

e out of the four dis-

formed, in each of
tis proposed to build a church. And in two
districts the work has already commenced,

....iderable encouragement. Upwards of
,0 have been already collected by the indefati-
'ertions of the el. rgyman appointed to St.
non's district, whilst the clergyman appointed to
e Bevington district brings a sum of £353, a tri-
tte from his former parishioners at Bury. In such
proceeding one knows not indeed whether the
,re to admire the clerical conduct which called
`h such a testimonial, or the Christian munifi-
ce which thus devoted it to such a purpose. Can
higher security be taken for the zealous per-
ance of a Christian Minister?
vided as men's minds are at present respecting
we suppose, be impossible
t would give complete sa-

cheme t

vidual