The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-19 00:00:00

TUESDAY .31ORNING, SEPT. 19, 1843

It is known most probably to many of our readers
that at a meeting recently held in London, at which
were present Lord Ashley, Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Sir It. H. Inglis, and other noblemen and gentle-
men, it was determined that a respectful address
should he prepared to his Grace the Chancellor,
and the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor, of the University
of Oxford, expressive of the concern experienced by
the memorialists, occasioned by the diffusion of sen-
timents through the academical body calculated " to
excite dissatisfaction with the principles of our
Reformed Church, as the same are embodied in the
Book of Common Prayer, and especially in the
Thirty-nine Articles of religion." The following is
a copy of the address, which we have received from
authority, and to which we gladly give publicity, in
the hope that some members of the Protestant
public in this town will take the matter in hand,
awl promote to the best of their power such an im-
portant movement :

" To His Grace the Chancellor, the Reverend the Vice
Chancellor, and the Heads of Houses of the Univer-

sit)/ of Oxford,

"We the undersigned lay members of the United
Church of England and Ireland, beg with much respect to
represent to you, the responsible governors of the Uni-
versity of Oxford, our deep concern on account of certain
sentiments which, we have reason to fear, are obtaining
an ascendancy over many in whom, as well for our own
sakes as for the sake of our country, we cannot but feel
a lively interest. . . .

"The sentiments to which we allude have been widely
diffused by means of various publications, sent forth,
within the last few years, by several distinguished mem-
bers of the University; and the tendency of which, it
has grieved us to observe, has been to excite a dissatis-
faction with the principles of our reformed church, as the
same are e•nhodied in the book of Common Prayer, and
especially in the thirty-nine Articles of religion.
" Certified as we are by the past history of our country
that our national piety, and no less the integrity of our
-constitution and the independence of the British Crown,
must be inevitably endangered, just so far as any devia-
tion from the Protestantism of the Church of England is
permit►ed, we are alarmed to observe the symptoms of
such deviation which have of late appeared, in the opinions
avowed by some, whose station in the university necessa-
rily gives them extensive influence over the younger por-
tion of the academical body.
" We do therefore venture to express our earnest
hope that the authorities of the university will take such
steps as are by the constitution of the whole body and of
the several colleges open to them, for protecting the
youth committed to their care from the dangerous in-
fluence to which we have referred, and for securing to
them, for the future, only such tuition as is in strict ac-
cordance with the principles of the Protestant Church,
and constitution of these realms.

We feel convinced that not one word need be said
to show the urgent necessity that exists for the
presentation of such an address, as it is the opinion
of most persons with whom we have conversed that
such a step ought to have been taken long since.

To such of our friends as feel an interest in the
matter, and we hope they are many, (though the
apathy of the Protestant laity is as extended as it is
extraordinary,) we may say that the readiest mode

for them to give expression to their wishes is to
copy the address on a sheet of paper, and on the fly
leaf to obtain the signatures of as many of their ac-
quaintance in the higher and middle classes of life,
as are desirous of appending their names and pro-
fessions. We will willingly take charge and trans-
mit to the proper quarter as many of these sheets
as may be left at our office prior to the end of the
present month.

The boasted loyalty of the Repeal party was cer-
tainly not very practically evidenced by the meeting
of the Irish population of our town, at the Amphi
theatre, on Tuesday last. In the speech from the
throne on the prorogation of Parlament her Ma-
jesty most emphatically declared her determination
to maintain inviolable that union between the two
countries which it is the object of the Repeal agita-
tion to sunder. 'What, then, ought to have been
the conduct of loyal subjects after such a declaration,
made by a Queen who has certainly never as yet
showed a leaning to the side of tyranny, and who
has, towards the Irish people, displayed an amount
of toleration a, d kindly feeling which ought to have
excited gratitude and deference to her wishes ? The
course of a loyal and grateful people ought to have
been to cease from an agitation which the Sovereign
and both Houses of Parliament believe to be danger-
ous to the peace of the country. The " monster "
displays of physical force which for months past
have threatened the public safety ought no more to
have been attempted ; but, on the contrary, relying
upon the known compassionate and affectionate dis-
position of her Majesty, her subjects in the sister
country ought to have been convinced that the

assumption of a hostile attitude was not necessary,
but that all that was good for her would be granted
to Ireland at peace, though it could not, and would
not, be conceded to Ireland in rebellion.
Such, however, has not been the course advised
by the frantic disturbers of Ireland's peace, and the
cruel and dishonest betrayers of her suffering popu-
lation. That popul,tion is still to he urged to the
verge of outbreak, if not beyond it ; still to be plun-
dered by the vampires who have fastened upon
them ; still to be drained of their shillings and pence
by priestly robbers and interested hirelings. But
his is not all. A portion of the kingdom in the

attitude of rebellion was not sufficient. Ireland
alone had not pockets and purses sufficient for the
"itching palms" of the tribe of the O'Connells and
their reverend coadjutors. To insult and defy their
Sovereign—the object once of their luathesome
adulation—in one quarter of 'ner dominions was not

sufficient. Spoliation and mo(:kery of her rule must
advance nearer to her eye—nearer to the seat of
government ; and hence the loyal people of Liver-
pool were insulted and their feelings outraged on
Tuesday by a Repeal display, with the usual foul
abuse of " the hated Saxon," and the same insolent
threats of physical force to carry a measure which
they conscientiously accord with their Sovereign in
believing would be fatal to the security and prosperity
Ind of Ireland herself as well!

of their country

Can we for a moment doubt the objects of the
party who drew together this rabble assembly—for
a rabble assembly indeed it was ? Of what have
the Irish residents of Liverpool to complain ? They
come here, the great bulk of them, wretchedly poor.
They come, some of them, to get beyond reach of
the exactions which had made them poor. Have they
met with any want of toleration ? Have we told
them that they should not work around our docks
and warehouses whilst Englishmen were starving ?
Not at all, They have been treated as subjects of

the same Monarch—not with toleration only, but
with kindness; and hundreds, nay thousands, of
them have prospered, and are prospering ! Why,
then, urge these men into a position so distasteful
to a people whose bread they eat ? The answer is
obvious. The object of the leaders of the agitation
was to insult and defy the loyalists of our town ; to
stir up party bitterness, and, possibly, to excite out-
rage. And in part they have succeeded. The
spirit displayed towards the meeting by a strong
portion of the people of Liverpool is an unmis-
takeable evidence that a recurrence of similar meet-
ings will lead to a collision, the consequences of
which need scarcely to be calculated.
Rebellion and treason may rave themselves hoarse
in Ireland ; and Englishmen may grieve, though
they only grieve, that they are not put down. But
they will not submit to be menaced and insulted at
their own doors. They will not see the peace of
their town and the personal safety of their fellow-
townsmen perilled by bands of furious ruffians, led
on by meddling and insolent strangers, with patience.
" The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear ;" and
if legislative means, local or otherwise, are not re-
sorted to for the prevention of such scenes of excite-
ment as that of Tuesday, men will be tempted or
impelled to take their prevention into their own
hands. Such a course—such an issue—all loyal
and peaceable subjects must deprecate ; but where
is the alternative ?

The anti-rent movement we have always believed
would be the next of the great Agitator's weapons
of offence against the Saxon loyalists of Ireland ;
and it is already plain that we are not far from its
extensive adoption. During the past week an in-
stance has occurred (which will be found amongst
our Irish news), from which we may judge not only
the disposition of the Irish peasantry to resort to
this plan of operations, but also the mode in which
it may be successfully turned to accomplish the ruin
of the Protestant landowner, and the endangering of
the peace of the country.
It has always been supposed, by those who reso-
lutely shut their eyes against an accurate knowledge
of the social condition of Ireland, and the objects of
the repeal agitation, that little was to be feared from
the withholding of rent. The farmer, it was said,
will not court a struggle with the law, in which he
knows that ultimately he must be the sufferer. Sol-
vent men, at all events, will not, to serve the pur-
poses of agitation, sacrifice themselves in an attempt
to withhold the just rights of the owner of the soil.
But, in the case before us, such was not the mode
of operation. It was not the farmer himself who
withheld payment. On the contrary, he was, or
was understood to be, solvent and willing to pry.
But agitation decreed that his landlord's rightful
claim should be defeated, notwithstanding the te-
nant's willingness; and a turbulent mob forthwith
carried off, in the open day, his stock and his crops,
leaving to himself no means of payment, and his
landlord nothing to distrain upon. By the exten-
sive adoption of such a system of outrage, it is plain
that the confiscation of half the lands in Ireland may
be effected ; and the inefficiency of an armed force,
or a local police, to put down a similar description
of outrage in Wales, ought to tell us that in case of
the determination of the repeal masses in Ireland to
direct the same efforts against rent, which the Welsh
insurgents are directing against toll-gates, nothing
short of martial law, accompanied by an army suffi-
cient to garrison Ireland, could withstand them.
The government of Sir Robert Peel assert that
they are prepared to put down any outbreak in Ire-
land ; and we believe them. Let the repealers of
that country rise in open rebellion ; and there are
loyal men enough, and troops enough, to put them
down. But they will not do so This is not the
kind of warfare which repealers contemplate. They
know too well their real weakness to hazard such a
conflict as would occur when their untrained and
half-armed masses met the onset of trained and dis-
ciplined soldiers. But they know their strength in
the description of warfare which they are now de-
claring. They know the ruin which it will inflict
upon those whom they have been taught to hate,
and the almost impos ibility of putting it down
when once it has gained head. The anti-tithe con-
tests years ago, and the anti-poor-law struggle last
year, have taught them a lesson which they will not
forget, and by which England, were she wise, would
take warning..

As we have remarked elsewhere, the Irish Re-
pealers are attempting to extend what her Majesty
has well and wisely called their " pernicious agita-
tion" to this country. Lord Brougham, in one of
his electrifiers during the late session of Parliament,
said that Repeal was strictly an Irish doctrine, and
could not be propagated in England. The " de-
monstration" of last week in this town seems to
justify this opinion. It was, indeed, a failure, as
complete as any well-wisher of the United Kingdom
need desire. The Head Pacificator could (?) not
come, and young Dan, who like other lads follows
his father baud passibus (eguis, could not set on
steam enough to rouse even the willing enthusiasm
of those "exiles from Erin" who find it convenient
to receive English wages and eat English bread, but
who at the same time scorn slaving, and comfort
themselves at their daily tasks with the ennobling
notion that Ireland shall be a nation, able to feed all
her own that are rale Irish, as soon as the Liberator
shall command the hereditary bondsmen to strike
the blow. Wretched dupes ! As long as the pick-
pocket magic of that notion proves efficient in bring-
ing in " the rent," the Liberator is at home, busily
engaged iu disgracing himself more and more, if
advance in that direction be now possible, and cer-
tainly in retarding for years to come the progress of
all those improvements which might eventually ele.
vale Ireland.

We strongly recommend to the serious conside-
ration of the rent-payers the following extract from
a speech of the Rev. Hugh M‘N elle, as reported in
the Belfast Chronicle. The occasion wag the laying
the foundation stone of a new institution for the
deaf and dumb and blind in Belfast. The time
selected was during the great agricultural meeting.
After commending the infant institution as a matter
of pure benevolence, and before he proceeded to en-
force its claims as an exercise of practical Christianity,
Mr, M`Neile thus touched ;:,pon the patriotism of
such works as the people of Belfast were then en-
gaged in—

" It is by well-directed efforts at Self-improvement, at
social improvement—industry developing her agricultural
resources—enterprise enlarging her commercial con-
nections—and self-sacrificing liberality multiplying her
Christian institutions—that Ireland is to become a nation.
(Hear, hear.) I may here, my lord.; gay how sae never
can and never will be naticmall:t elevated. She is not to
be raised by complaints undo, imaginary or exaggerated
grievances—not by enticing the thousands of her popula.
tion to neglect their proper businesses, and waste their
precious time in congregating for miles from their resi-
dences at monster meetings—not by delusive expectations
of land without rent, held out fraudulently by orators. who
know well that their predictions can never be fulfilled—
that they could never take one step towards that about
which they continue to declaim without inevitably
plunging the country in all the, horrors of insurrection and
bloodshed. (Loud applause.) It is not by hypocritical
pretensions to loyalty on the part of men that have the
audacity to charge our gracious Sovereign with not per-
sonally. meaning what she had personally, plainly, and
most constitutionally declared to her faithful subjects.
(Renewed applause.) It is by such exhibitions
as these,
my lord, that Ireland is weakened—that she is kept in-
sulated from the pale of Christian nations—that the
strength and determination of Britain are roused, not to
the congenial work of inaproTing and nairoilating to her-

self an affectionate younger sister, but to the vigilance
which is necessary for keeping a mad woman in order.
(Hear, hear ) And what, my lord, are the appropriate
responses to such maniac outbreaks? I am disposed to
say, personally a strait-waistcoat, and politically pity and
contempt ; for it would be to treat them as of too much
consequence to suspend any of the civil privileges which
they so grossly abuse. (Applause.) She is never to be
nationally elevated by the exertions of a man whose cou-
rage, if he has any, is caprice, and his cowardice, calcu-
lation; a man whose rapacity is covetousness itself, while
his generosity is but the dividing of the spoil—a new
edition of Sallust's great conspirator " alieni appelens,
sui profusua :" or as Tacitus has more briefly and
pointedly expressed it, rapti prodiyus. (Loud cheers.) "

There are words of wisdom here, and the descrip-
tion of the Beggarman Rebel is capital. When will
the thousands of the people of Ireland learn to dis-
tinguish truly between their real friends and enemies,
between improving landlords and avaricious dema-
gogues, between the ministers of the Church of
Christ and the subaltern officers of the great
usurper?

The harvest home has during the past week made
glad the hearts of thousands of the yeomanry and
peasantry of Great Britain. A month of unpa--
ralelled fine weather has witnessed the ripening and
securing of abundant crops ; and as the farmer lifts
up his eyes to survey his corn-fields yellow in the
glowing sun, and their produce filling to overflowing
his barn-yards—as the thrasher whistles over his
task—and the humble gleaner is winnowing in the
gentle wind his little store—where do we see the
evidences of a nation's thankfulness to that benefi-
cent Providence whose dispensations have so abun-
dantly rewarded its toil and fulfilled its most sanguine
hopes ? As yet we see it not.. The silent uttering
of praise has risen, indeed, from beneath many an
humble roof ; but the nation is as yet mute. From
the church throughout the land no voice has gone
forth, as in early and better times. This should not
be : it must not be. A Christian people and the
heads of a Christian church must not permit the
scoffer and the scorner to brand them as ungrateful,
and forgetful in the day of their prosperity of the
beneficent hand who has showered down plenty
upon their heads.
It is not yet, however, too late to avert this re-
proach and shame. May it yet be averted !

A NEW WAY TO SELL A BAD BOOK.-At a
meeting last week, at the Corn Exchange, Dublin,
a Mr. O'Callaghan gave notice that at the next
meeting he would move " that there be ordered a
number of copies of the Liberator's 4 Memoirs of
Ireland, Native and Saxon,' to be distributed as re-
wards to such repeal wardens, in Ireland, England, and
Scotland, as shall during the present repeal year have
actually collected and transmitted to the association
twenty pounds." Of course " the rent" suffers for
this ; and a very decent speculation it will be for
the publisher and the disinterested author of " Me-
moirs of Ireland, native and Saxon." Truly our
neighbours on the other side of the Channel are a
most gull.ble people !

MR. WM. EWART AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.---
The extreme attention which your " liberal" par-
liamentary philosopher pays to his constituents is
proverbial ; and accordingly we find that Mr. Wm.
Ewart, the rejected of a dozen places, has just
vouchsafed to enlighten the electors of Dumfries
with respect to his sayings and doings during the
past session. The following notice of his visit, which
we extract from the Dumfries Herald of the 14th
instant, does not satisfy us that the honourable
member has gained many " golden opinions," or is
in much better odour amongst the community
which he represents, than amongst others which
have commenced by regarding him as a phoenix,
and concluded by regarding him as a tomtit or a
hedge-sparrow. Our contemporary says :

" He comes down from London; pays a visit to his
private friends in this neighbourhood ; rides round to the
different burghs ; delivers duly to each his set string of
♦ague generalities about free trade and education, (which
every constituent here can say now by heart,) with an
account of what ministers have done and what they have
not done, but what he himself has done and still intends
to do; answers a harmless query or two ; makes his best
bow—and makes an end of his friendly personal inter-
course with our burghs. which see him much seldomer
than they do the man in the moon"!

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY EVENING.—The final quota-
tion of Mexican was 331 to 4 ; the Deferred 91 to 1; Por-
tuguese, 44 to 4 ; Spanish 18 to 19 ; the Three per Cents.
26 to 1; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 to 531 ;
the Five per Cents., 1011 to 4 ; Danish, 864 to 874 ; Bra-
zilian, 73 to 75 ; Belgian, 1041 to 1054 ; Colombian, 251
to 4; and Russian, 1144 to 115. The English stocks
I ave fluctuated very little to-day, business having been
limited. Consols for money closed 941 to 4; and for the
account, 941; New Three-and-a- Half per Cents., 1014
to 102; India Bonds, 68s. to 70s. premium; and Exche-
quer-bills, Gof. to 625. premium.
CHANGE OF BANKINti HOURS.—We understand that
the bankers in this town, during the last week, have una-
nimously signed an undertaking to close their establish-
ments on Saturdays at one o'clock, instead of Friday, as
heretofore, and that this alteration will take place imme-
diately. The public generally will find it an advantageous
change, for ever since the acceleration of the mail, Friday
has been a post day to London, and is now almost uni-
versally adopted for paying wages, instead of Saturday.
It is said that the merchants, brokers, &c. intend holding
a meeting, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the
same regulation could not be extended to their business.

PAYNE.% LATITUDE CALCULATING SCALE. - Our
clever townsman, Mr. Payne, of the firm of Melling and
Payne, opticians, instrument makers, chart sellers, &c.,
South Castle-street, has invented an ingenious instrument
for correctly calculating the latitude at sea after an obser-
vation. It resembles the sliding Gunter scale, and, by
an easy operation, performs at once calculations which,
on paper, require fire lines of figures; and it renders an-
necessary the application of the rule for adding or sub
tracting the declination. The true altitude and declina •
Lion being given, the latitude, north or south, is instantly
found by mere inspection. The instrument will, we doubt
not, be valuable even to the navigator, who still adheras
to the usual method of calculation—by which the declina-
tion is sometimes applied the wrong way, so that the ship
may become endangered, or her voyage retarded—as it
will furnish a test of accuracy, while its use is at once
simple and pleasing.
CHARGE OF HORSE STEALING.—OH Saturday, at the
Police-court a man named Parkinson was placed before M r.
Rushton charged with this offence. A. man of the
name of Waddington said that the prisoner was at the fair
at Oraaskirk that week, and bought a horse from a gentle-
man of the name of Nightingale, of Skipton, in York-
shire, for £23. The horse was to be delivered at the
Castle Inn, in this town, and it was agreed that when the
witness delivered him he was to receive £25, and return
£l. Waddington took the animal to the inn named, and
delivered it ; upon which the prisoner sent for a stamp,
and gave him his promissory note for payment of the
amount. The prisoner took the horse away, and the man
packed up the horse cloths and left the parcel at the
Castle. Prisoner and witness went together to several
places and ultimately arrived at the railway station, where
Parkinson gave witness 15s. to carry him home to Skipton.
The latter spent this money, and being in a delemma,
went to the police, and charged the prisoner with felony.
Mr. Rushton after examining Waddington discharged the
prisoner, as it clearly appeared that there had been a
sale and delivery, and the charge could not be legally sus.
tained ; but he recommended the prisoner to give np the
horse. Mr. Wardle appeared for the prisoner, but did
not deem it necessary to put a question to the witness,
CONGREGATIONAL PSALMODY.—Last night Mr. HUT-
lah (the adapter of the Wilbem method of vocal tuition)
delivered his announced lecture on this subject at the
Amphitheatre, before a very numerous and respectable
audience--assisted in his illustrations by upwards of 100
of the pupils of Mr. Crowe's upper singing school, (un-
der the superintendence of the latter gentleman,) and who
occupied the stage. The lecturer, who has a pleasing and
distinct enunciation, furnished an interesting history of
psalm music from the earliest times, and of the various
metrical versions with music that had appeared over a
long period of years of the Psalms of David. Many of
these collections were extremely faulty in the music which
was to aceoinpany them, and many of the fine old melo-
dies had become sadly mutilated by modern bands. The
pupils sung a number of psalms in proof of this position,
including the tunes called " Chichester," " Cheshire,"
" The Old 100th," " The London New," &c. He con-
tended against the idea that had seemed to prevail, that
in churci. music the notes should be generally of one
great modulon and effect.
length, which rendered the music tame and monotonous—
expressing an opinion that psalmody, consistently with its
high urpose, was cap of
He npoticed the variousable celebrated authors who bad con-
tributed to the improvement of our church music, and
furnished a practical demonstration of the ancient system,
now exploded, of substituting the tenor for the soprarrO in
the melody itself—a remnant of the observance of the;
Romanists, in whose churches the males were the sole
choir. Several of the psalms sung by the pupils were
beautifully pathetic, and were loudly applauded. At the
conclusion they gave " St. David's' and the original
" Evening Hymn." Their proficiency, after a very short
practice, and without in some instances a rehearsal,
showed, he remarked, how easy it would be, by grounding
congregations in the elementary prib:iples of musier to
improve and elevate our whole congregati;:nal psalmody.
He was listened to with great attention, and .7as,warrarY
Applauded ifl 1144 lovciul clucidgtins of his subject,'

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