The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

Tilt uurntrooL STANDARD.

and Townsend, and Ms'. Thos. Lloyd,. secretary •to the
Owners' Guardian Society, all the spare copies of the bill
he had. Mr. Lloyd • moved that benches be placed along
the new road leading to the Prince's-park, for the conve-
nience of aged and infirm persons who proceeded by that;
road to the Piince'i park.—The medical of of health
had to report a•considerable increase in the mortality of
the borough during last week, the deaths registered being
246, of which 173 were in the parish, and 73 in the extra-
parochial wards. This shows an increase of 47 as com-
pared with the previous week, of 32 as compared with the
corresponding week of two previous years, and exceeding
the number registered in any week, with one exception,
since the prevalence of epidemic cholera in 1849. The
increase was chiefly in diseases of the lungs, which caused
102 deaths—a number which has been only once exceeded
since the spring of 1848, when consumption was more than
usually fatal—in consequence of the influenza,

GRAND PROTESTANT DEMONSTRATION,

On Thursday evening_ a large number of the gentle-
men who recently took a prominent part as supporters of
the principles of Protestantism, in calling the meeting at
Birkenhead to oppose the Papal movement, held a public
dinner at Mr. Gough's, the Woodside Hotel. The large
room was decorated in a very tasteful manner for the oc-
casion. The walls were covered with different shades of
calico, fluted, to represent panelling, and over the chair
was a large mirror, wjth flags disposed on each side, and
tapestry radiating from the centre. Union jacks were
displayed in other parts of the room. There were about
two hundred present. The chair was occupied by John
Laird, Esq., and the vice-chair by Percy M. Dove, Esq.
Amongst the gentlemen present were—T. B. Golborne,
Mr. H. Laird, Mr. H. Watson, Mr. J. Fry, Mr. R.
Hughes, Mr. James Holme, Rev. A. Knox, Rev. J.
Baylee, Mr. J. J. Conway, Rev. R. H. Lundie, Mr.
Higgin, Mr. W. Pike, Rev. R. Wall, Mr. J. Greatly,
Mr. E. Watson, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Ferns, Mr. J. Tyrer,
Mr. R. Lamont, Mr. J. M'Cormick, and Captain Cooke.
The dinner was served up in a style of liberality and
elegance highly creditable to the taste of Mr. Gough, the
proprietor of the hotel. Grace was said before and
after dinner, by the Rev. A. Knox. The proceedings
were enlivened by the efforts of a party of glee singers.
The CHAIRMAN gave the usual loyal toasts of" The
Queen," " Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal
Family, &c., which were drunk with peat enthusiasm,
followed by the National Anthem, and the glee of " Hail,
Star of Brunswick."
The CHAIRMAN proposed "The bishop and clergy of
the diocese," which was drunk with loud applause.
The Rev. A. KNOX responded to the toast. It was a
source of great gratification to the bishops and clergy of
the Church of England to see that noble Protestant
Christian spirit now manifested throughout this realm by
the laity. (Cheers.) It had ever been the distinguished
honour of the Church of England that she was a faithful
witness against the Church of Rome, and against her un-
scriptural principles and practices. They had to acknow-
ledge, with regret, that for a long period of time that
solemn protest against the Church of Rome had not
resounded throughout this land, as it did in the days of
the Reformation. Some few among the clergy had kept
up the protest, and he was sorry to say that many of his
brethren had been esteemed as bigots, because they never
failed to protest against what they considered to be anti-
Christian. They were then the exception to the general
rule, but now matters had changed, and the exceptions
were those who did not protest against the errors of the
Church of Rome. (Cheers.) He was, however, thankful
to say that the exceptions were comparatively few.
(Cheers.) Never since the days of the reformation had
the protest been sounded throughout the length and
breadth of the land more distinctly and more boldly, or
more faithfully, than within the last few months; and it
was with such clearness that he believed, at that moment,
it had reached the Vatican of Rome. (Loud cheers.)
The bishops of their, church had taken a leading part;
they had charged the clergy to follow them, and the
clergy had listened to their call, and, with few excep-
tions, they had boldly borne their protest against this
daring invasion of the Pope of Rome against our beloved
Queen and her country—(cheers)—an invasffin which
involved an interference with our civil and religious li-
berty. (Cheers.) It was a cause of unspeakable thank-
fulness that within the church there lay those scriptural
principles that only wanted stirring up to manifest that
she is built on the foundation of the apostles, and that
Christ himself was the chief corner-stone. She did not
assume to herself infallibility, or universal supremacy,
for then she might be charged with anti-Christ. She
claimed to herself the pure type of the apostolic church
of Christ. Here she was scriptural, and in her principles
and practices she was tolerant to all sects and parties.
(Cheers.) Those who talked of the intolerance of the
church in the present day were not worthy of the civil
and religious privileges of the land. He hailed the
movement which was going on in the country, as it would
tend to drive out from the church all who had claimed
relationship with Rome. (Cheers.) He hoped that the
protest would be sounded in Parliament on its reassem-
bling, and if not responded to, that it would be sounded
again, and again, and again, until we had a legislature
that would, by proper enactments, restrain the intole-
ranee, and the presumption, and the audacity of Rome.
(Cheers.) The Parliament should not persecute, but they
ought to oppose this country being brought under the
iron despotism of the man of sin, and show that if they
wished to remain in England, it must be as British sub-
jects, and not as vassals of the Chuich of Rome. (Loud
applause.)
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and briefly proposed the
" Army and Navy." Drank with the usual honours.
Lieut. HOOKEY returned thanks. The army and navy
had ever done their best to deserve, and receive the ap-
probation of their fellow-countrymen. (Hear.) Although
he trusted the horrors of war were far from them,—so far
that they might never return ; but should they be visited
with the calamity, they would find the army and navy
ready to defend the rights of the crown, the glorious con-
stitution by which they were governed, and their civil and
religious liberty. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave the " Marquis of Westmin-
ster, Lord Lieutenant of the County," and then the
"Members for the County."

The toasts were well responded to.
Mr. DOVE then rose to propose the toast of "Protes-
tant ascendancy." It was well they should call to mind
the hedges that had been thrown up to protect the throne
and the constitution of the country by the wisdom and
the piety of their ancestors of old, One of those was the
subject of the present toast—Protestant ascendancy. (Ap-
plause.) He was happy to have to connect with the toast
a name that was well-known for his labours in the cause
of truth, and for his lingual research, and who ranked se-
cond to no controversialist of the present day. He had
much pleasure in proposing the toast of Protestant ascen-
dancy, and in calling on the Rev. J. Baylee to reply to it.
(Applause,)
The Rev. J. BAYLEE had great pleasure in responding
to the toast. In the 16th century a voice was heard from
an obscure cell, and that voice uttered a sentiment which
shook the throne and cleansed the altar, which reached
the minds of men and set them all a thinking—(hear,
hear,)—that voice awaked a chord in the human heart
which had been slumbering for ages, and this was the
right of private judgment. (Applause.) The right of
'private judgment was also accompanied by its responsi-
bility. And there was also a right of public judgment,
and by a combination of the two they were banded
together in a great and most holy cause. In the Church of
,Rome public and private judgment would be crushed.
Bibles would be closed, and liberty put under ban. But
they would never permit England to be the slave of
Rome. Why had the Church of England the hearts of
Nonconformists ? Because they gave liberty. He loved
the gospel better than the church, and would become
a Nonconformist should the church commence to teach
error. He asked, would England hold the position she
now held if the right of public and private judgment did
not belong to the people of this country. (Cries of "no,
no.") Who split the Greek and Romish Churches ?
That haughty power, which had unity in her lip, but dis-
sension in her acts. He concluded by saying that Pro-
testant ascendancy was the ascendancy of liberty, the
ascendancy of truth ; not the ascendancy of libertine
liberality in liberalistic form, but the ascendancy of that
which recognised no power contrary to that of God,
which, whilst it bowed low before God, made them de-
sirous to be free in the liberty wherewith Christ had
blessed them. (Great applause.)
by thny other excellent and eloquent speeches were made
e Rev. Mr. Wall, Rev. R. H. Lundie, Mr. Gol-
borne, Mr. Watson, Rev. T. F. Redhead, Mr. R. H.
Sherlock, &c., &c.

The items, which were as follow, were moved seriatim by
Mr. Hornby •—The Dispensaries, .e 137 10s. ; Northern Hos-
pital, .elOO : Southern Hospital, .elOO ; Opthamic Institution,
X3O; Refuge for the Destitute, .£25; Royal Institution, £h)0;
Ladies' Charity, .e3O; Lying,in-Hospital, ; and-that the
sum of .elOO be subscribed for the present year to the-District
Provident Society.

Mr. HOLT objected to the principle of contributing to chari-
table institutions out of the fOnds of the Corporation ; but,
after some discussion, the -grants were carried, with only a
nominal amount of dissent.. The subscription to the Opthal-
mic Institution was increased, to .t'loo. The donation to be
given to the Infirmary was referred to the Finance Committee.
Mr. J. A. TOBIN moved. a grant of -e5O to the Ragged
Schools, in Soho-street ; but this being contrary to the stand-
ing orders, the matter was also referred to the Finance Coln-
mittee.