The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

NOTICES.

A Word for the Church. By the Rev. E. G. Carr, 8.A.,
Minister of St. John's, Guernsey. Perris, Liverpool.

This little work is an answer to the Rev. C. Hargrove's
" Reasons for retiring from the Established Church, and
joining the Plymouth Brethren." The author does not
profess to enter into any formal defence of the general
reasons which may be advanced for attachment to the
Church of England, but he certainly has presented an
irrefragable reply (which he alleges to be his object) to
the objections brought forward against the Establishment
by a seceder from her pale. This secession on the part
of Mr. Hargrove, Mr. Carr proves, even on the showing
of the former, to have been most unjustifiable and,
though we marvel that any one with ordinary intelligence
or scriptural perception could forsake the church of his
fathers for the reasons advanced by Mr. Hargrove, yet
those reasons have, in the good providence of God, only
afforded the groundwork for this triumphant defence of
the Church's faith and discipline. The following remark
of Mr. Carr is entitled to much more weight than may
appear due to it on a first reading. We wish it were
candidly pondered over by some who so flippantly bandy
objections against the Church :
" Undue importance is attached to the alleged causes
of separation from the Church of England, and no suffi-
cient weight (perhaps I might say, no weight) attached to
the strong reasons for adhering to her communion : and
thus, in magnifying to the greatest possible degree mat-
ters of difference, and passing lightly over the advantages
of union, many have been led to adopt a course which, it
is to be feared, is more the result of bias or instability,
than of sound and sober views of scriptural truth."

Churchman's Monthly Review. Seeley, London.

We wish we could recommend this periodical as it de-
serves. Both in the style of its articles and the force of
its arguments, it accords more with our taste than that of
any other religious publication with which we are ac-
quainted. The reviews are extremely vigorous, but equally
temperate; and whilst the articles and formularies of the
church are defended in their entireness and truth, it is
only from a manifest conviction in the minds of the wri-
ters that they can be proved to be true by " most certain
warranty of holy scripture." We see here no tampering
with political dissent, no compromise with infidel liberal-
ism, and " no peace with Rome" ; whilst, at the same
time, we are not pained and shocked with that vulgarity
and unseemly trifling with common sense which meet one
at every page of such publications,, for instance, as the
Christian Rernembrancer. 1,1:e think we recognise, in
many of the articles, the inimitable pen of the author of
" Essays on the Church and " Peri▪ ls of the Nation."
The number for March contains an admirable paper on
Baptismal Regeneration, in which the following points
are established :—First, that neither scripture nor general
usage fixes and confines the term "regeneiron" to one
exclusive sense ; secondly, that scripture views the new
birth as a spiritual and permanent change, and nowhere
connects it with baptism as its exclusi▪
ve cause, but the
very reverse; and lastly, that the absolute construction
of the church services is contradicted, in the fullest man-
ner, by those formularies themselves. The writer, who
is evidently a person of matured judgment and sound
scriptural knowledge, expresses his deliberate conviction
at the close of the article, that " the doctrine of a vital
change of heart, effected always in baptism, and baptism
only, is one main opiate of Satan for the delusion and
destruction of immortal souls." Amongst the other no-
tices is a paper on the appeal to the members of the So-
ciety for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

The Christian's Monthly Magazine.

Simpkin, Mar-

shall, and Co.. London.

This is another sound defender of the " faith once de-
livered to the saints," and of the church as by law es-
tablished. It is rather a more elaborate publication than
the preceding one, but combats successfully the errors in
faith and discipline of those who, neglecting the fountain
cf living waters, and resting. chiefly in the "stinking pud-
dles of man's traditions," have fallen into all sorts of
fancies and vain conceits. We have the number for
March—being the third since its commencement—and in
it we have various excellent articles under each of the fol-
lowing heads, which constitute generally the divisions

under which the Yart4 contents of the magazine are ar-
ranged : Theology and Phibilophy—Art and Antiquity—
Miscellaneous Literature Correspondence Monthly
Register—Editorial Retrospect.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-qffice, Two o'clock,

SERIOUS GALE in the 'RIO CHANNEL.

SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE AND
DAMAGE TO SHIPPING.

For the last few days a heavy gale from the south-east
has prevailed in the Channel, and occasioned serious de-
Caction of life and property. The following particulars
have been kindly afforded us by Mr. Court, the master of
the Underwriters' Rooms.

" Wexford, 17th March, 1844.
" Thomas Court, Esq.
" Dear Sir,—l regret to state that the Georgina, 'Wil-
son, master, from Liverpool to Arica, with a general
cargo, struck on Black water Bank this morning, and sunk
about a mile from the shore, part of her masts over water.
Twelve of the crew were lost coming on shore in the boat.
William Curran, mate, and David 111`Lean, seaman, were
saved."

The Georgina is, we understand, owned by the executors
of the late John Worrall, deceased, and the loss of ship
and cargo is estimated at upwards of £lO,OOO, little of
which, we are happy to learn, in insured in Liverpool.

" Pwllheli' 17th March, 1814, 10 p.m
Wind S.E., blowing fresh.

" Thos. Court, Esq.
" Dear Sir,—Since my report of last night, the gale
continued with great violence all night, and most part of
this day. At daylight this morning there were only three
vessels that rode out the gale at St. Studwell's-roads,
viz., the schooner Myriam, of Pwllheli ; the Content,
Roberts, of Pwllheli ; and the French brig. In all, 12
are now on shore, including those I reported last night,
viz., schooner Hope, of Milford ; schooner Roberts, from
Bangor for Exeter; schooner Elizabeth, from Barrow for
Swansea; smack Gelert, from Portmadoc for Bridge-
water ; smack Ellen, from Portmadoc for Swansea ;
smack Unity, of Cardigan ; smack Hopewell, of Cardi-
gan; brig Catherine, of Whitehaven, from Whitehaven
for Cardiff, with iron ore, carried away windlass and
bitches, slipped both anchors, and makes a deal of water."

" Dublin, 18th March, 1844.

" Thomas Court, Esq.
" SlR,—The night of the 15th instant, and all the sub
sequent day, it blew a perfect storm from the N.E., and
continued until yesterday at noon. Several colliers and
light craft have been wrecked at Kingstown Harbour, of
which the names are annexed. The Kish Bank light-ship
also broke her chain, and ran for this port, but we expect
will be replaced this tide, or, at furthest, the next tide, by
a relief light-ship, as every exertion is making to get her
out to her station. The schooner Active, of Leith, Capt.
Norman, with wheat, from Derry to Drogheda, went to
pieces near Clogher Head ; crew saved. The schooner
Majestic, Corkhill master, of Ramsey, from Runcorn to
Dublin, with coals, is on shore on the Velvet Strand, near
Baldoyle, but expected to be got off if the weather keeps
moderate. The schooner Mary, of Milford, James mas-
ter, with oats, from Killala to London, is stranded badly
on the Wicklow Bar, and has damaged her cargo. The
schooner Seymour, of Bray, struck on the Burford Bank,
and capsized, crew drowned. Weather now moderate.

LIST OF WRECKED AT KINGSTOWN HARBOUR.
Brig Honour, of Maryport, with coals.
„ Mary, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Schooner Betties, of Liverpool, ditto.
Brig Tom, of 11 hitehaven, ditto.
Schooner Agnes, of Preston, ditto.
Schooner Belview, of Greystones, ditto.
Schooner Jane & Francis, much injured.
Brig Pandora, ditto.
Sloop Catherine Mary, ditto.
Brig Maria, of Whitehaven, ditto.
Sloop Colonel Smith, of Carnarvon.