The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

stated by Dr. Hook, took ifs rise

mnour.
was Ta

,t a meeting of dis-
ernment. In attack-
ing agitator made the

his, as stated in one of the Leeds
the auspices of this new school :

have a general commission to represent

iod, and to act in His name in His several trans-
h mankind ! The writer affirms, that ' the rite of

_..cr of schism in a conven-
Any teacher whatever, unless ordained by a

marriage administered by a r

1.1,1 G,
bishpp, is a most blasphemous invasion of a holy office ; that
the 'conventicle rites do not bind the parties ; that marriage
by the statute law, without the benediction of a priest of the
Catilolic"Church, is no marriage at all: it is but legalised
(Strong, disapprobation.) Is that the religion of
)lished Church of this country. into whose bands

„..
you are asked to entrust the educatipn of the risiug genera-
tion ?. God forbid! Oh, let not our legislators, by passing
this bill, aid 'and abet this proud assumption of a priestly
caste—let them not follow their example and throw down the
gauntlet into the arena of conscience—let them not place- in

opposition man's allegiance."
Dr. Hook, against whom this general attack on the church

was more particularly, though covertly, directed, immedi-
ately wrote to Mr. Stansfield, requesting a. sight of the tract
containing the above quotations. After some days' delay,
Mr. Stansfield returned the following answer, which we quote
in full, as it affords an unmistakeable clue to the real source
of the calumny

" Headingley Lpdge; April 21, 1843,

" REV. SIR,—I have delayed replying further to your note
of the,lsth, in the daily hope of being able to furnish you
with a copy of the original tract on matrimony, which I un-
derstand is in the possession of the Rev. John Burnett, of
Camberwel/. I have written to him, but have as yet no
reply.
In the meantime I enclqse you a reprint of the tract, and
that the original existed and was sent from Leeds, the fol-
lowing extract of a letter from Hugh Miller, editor and
printer of the Witness, on Edinburgh journal, incontestibly
proves.
" The letter was addressed to a friend who had madc inquiry

respecting .it.
" I am sorry to find that the Puseyite tract to which you
refer, and which was presented some time since to the readers
of the Witness, was cut up into slips by the printers, and can-
not now be recovered. I can refer, however, to the factjof
its existence to very unexceptionable testimony. It was
sent me anonymously through the post-office, under a cover
bearing the Leeds post mark, and, before using it, I showed
it, among others, to the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, High Church,
to Mr. John Hamilton, to. the Rev. Mr. Goold, and to the
Rev. Dr. Symington. I read parts of it alsd to Dr. Chal-
mers. " •
" The difficulty in procuring a copy arises from the tract
not having been published as usual, but circulated privately.
" It may perhaps assist you in your endeavours to meet
with one to mention that report ascribes the authorship to
Mr. Ward, formerly, I understand, one of your curates ; at
any rate it will enable him to contradict the report if desirous
of so doing.—l remain, reverend sir,
" Yours respectfully,

HAMER STANSFIELD

To the Rev. W. F. Hook, D.D."
„ e regret we have not room in to-day's paper for the re-
ply of Dr. Hook to this singular epistle. In that reply he ex-
most ably the pitiful explanation of Mr. Stansfield.
'ook utterly denies the truth of the allegation that any
containing the sentiments quoted by Mr. Stanstield,
emanated from the Leeds clergy, and he as strongly re-
uMates the doctrines laid down in the tractlwhich had been
ascribed to him. He further gives a letter from Mr. Ward,
his former curate, contradicting in the most distinct terms
statement that he was the author of the tract, or pre:

tended tract.
The Edinburgh Post says that the truth of the affair ap-
pears to be as follows :—Some enemy of the Church of
England, being aware of the hostility entertained towards it
by the violent members of the Church of Scotland, printed a
paper containing the assertions quoted by Mr. Stansfield, as
well as other gross misrepresentations ; and then forwarded
c.....,,r1u1e❑t document to the editor of the JVitness, as the

readiest recipient of such 'calumnies. The editolappears,
then, to have communicated with his advisers, Messrs. Bu-
chanan, Hamilton, Goold, and Dr. Symington, and also Dr.
Chalmers, who appear all to have thought it a capital ground
for attacking the Church of England. Accordingly, the
forgery was given to the world classed with their other proofs
of the alleged popish tendencies of the Episcopal Church.
The same weapon seems to have been equally acceptable to
the Socinians of Leeds ; and Mr. Stansfield, finding it so
paraded in the Witness, attempted to turn it to his own ac-
count. There appears, indeed, to be a regular manufactory
of falsehoods and slanders against the Church of England,
and these fabrications. nowhere find a readier market than
amongst the schismatical party of our own Church,. with
their fitting representative, the editor of the Witness. -

THE RANGERSHIP OF THE PARKS.—We understand that
the Commissioners of Woods and Forests do not intend to
cancel the appointments of the deputy-rangers, Sir Augustus
D'Este and Mr. Stephenson, under his late Royal Highness
, who receive salaries for the duties they
r formerly derived an income, we believe;
from " the grazing" of sheep in the
1 transferred to the depart-
nd embellish

The ra

- .
nd St. James's Parks, &c., al
arce are paid into their office.

CICAL SOCIETY.-A numerous meeting of this
s held yesterday week, 4, St. Martin's-place, Lon.
i a paper was read on traffic and accidents on the
n • Great Britain, in 18,12, by C. K. Weld, Esq.
'• consisted of an analysis of the various returns
department at the Board of Trade. The

while observing
!ar, was only tut

s while travelling

,ses of injury amounted to fourteen.
accidents that have happened to th 6
any. A new clause in the act of Pailia-
railway companies to give returns .of all
nts of a public nature, unattended with pe-

These dO not incluc

ent compels

sonal injur

rid it appears

The ag!

past yea

ay l►nes r

-one accidents of this

The number of pas-
irried .
upon fifty railways amounted to 18,153,504,

of railways is now 1.829 miles

2,501 third-class, and 2,592,057 passengers

se class is not distinguished. The gross receipts from
,engersamounted to X2,731,687,and from good £1,088,835.

amber of trains was z

)98,97-1, which gives 61, persons

reatest speed, exclusive of stoppages :—North-
__ •n, 36 miles per hour; Great Western, 33, ditto;
astl—eand North Sheilds, 30, ditto : North Midland, 29,
; Midland Counties, 21, ditto. The average speed (ex-
-ive of stoppages) on all the lines is 211 miles per hour.

lowing are lines upon which the- trains

avet-at Lac 6

Tr. W. Rol

!nick-batted at.
He escaped with his life.
Letters from Champagne state, that, in consequence of the
injury done to the vines by the late frost, a considerable rise
has taken place in the-price of_wines.

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anon, Missouri, a few weeks since