The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-27 00:00:00

BOTANIC GARDENS;

The second grand Horticultural Show for the present year
took place on Friday at these gardens, and the weather being
delightfully fine, was more than ordinarily well attended--
there having been altogether two thousand persons present.
Most of the leading families of the town and neighbourhood
icited the grounds during the show, and we may mention in
indred and fifty private carriages stopped at
great number of vehicles of other

lescriptions. The trees were in full leaf, and afforded a
;light protection from the beaming rays of the sun, which,
hough almost insupportable, contributed in no small degree
the beauty and gaiety of the scene, rendered still more
by the ehgant and brilliant dresses of the
-the ladies—who in considerable
Ardens with their presence. It is
Ll remark any of the splen-
xhibited in the tents—they wer.! all

fair and lovely creatures—

difficult almost to select for specia
'• •

will, however, mention

'ic.l► attracted the special attention of the
ips the first we should mention, us certainly
not iii the gardens, was a most splendid one
a Mosses." from the circumstance of Mrs.
►f John Moss, Esq., of Otterspoolz_having

Luc Tau N~nul, Vi mu moo in nower in tins country. Vi e were
informed that though Mr. Moss has had this plant iu his pos-
session for several years, and at each succeeding season it
134 s put forth buds, this is the first year that it has assumed
its present extremely beau

tut appearance—it having now a
multitude of blue flowers of a very rich and splendid descrip-
tion. The geraniums were remarkably fine—those forwarded
by Charles Horsfall and John Moss, Esqrs., and Messrs.
Skirvinc and Whalley being . especially deserving notice.
Mr. Skirving also merits our saying, that he not only sends
plants for competition, but he also enriches the specimens by
sendir -

1 number for the purpose of increasing the collec-
tion. The show of " Fuchsias" was also very good, as were
the Heaths. The marquee was plentifully supplied with re-
freshments by Mr. Lynn ; and we must not omit to mention
that the Royal Cheltenham Band of Mr. Parker, contributed
materially to enliven the scene.

IST OF PRIZES AWARDED

I 1 BATH

—First prize, Mr. George Cunningham, of Oak
Vale, nurseryman, for grandiflora, tricolor, west phalingia,
odorata, praznam pumila, ventricosa stellata, superba, glo-
bosa, and coccinea. Second prize, Messrs. Davies, of NV a-
vertree Nursery, for ventricosa, coccinea minor, cruc;flora,
quadriflora, cyllindrica.

ORCHIDACE.E.—First prize, John Moss, Esq., of Otters-
pool, (Noah James, gardener.) for cattleya roossire, brassia
candata, and oncidiutn ampleatum. Second prize, Charles
Horsfall, Esq., of Everton, (Thomas Lees, gardener,) for
erides crisputn, epideodrum, marocbilum, and oncidiutn
altissimum. Extra prize, John Moss, Esq., of Otterspool,
for oncidium sabolata, paplio, and luridum.

PELARGONIUMS OF 10 VAR.—First prize, Messrs. Davies,
of Wavertree Nursery, for enchantress, priory queen, Ma-
dellina, superb, sylph. victory, vests, jubilee, rising sun,
Alice, and Florence. Second prize, Henry Winch, Esq., of
Seacom be, (John Young, gardener,) for masterpiece, victory.
sylph, Joan of Arc, Louis Quatorze commodore, Vulcan,
Alexanderina. Deni's perfection, grand duke. Third prize,
Mrs. Foster, of Wootton, (John Reid, gardener,) for Deni's
sylph, grand duke, Elizabeth, Joan of Arc, Wild-
tion, erectuno, bridesmaid, Fanny Garth.
VAR.—First prize, Messrs. Davies.

ELARGONIUMS OF

of WavertreE

Nursery, for beauty, Alexandrina, assassin,
orange hoven, sylph, Reinzii, Victoria. Second prize, Mrs.
Foster, Woolton, (John Reid, gardener,) for Wildfire, Ura-
nio, Zenobia, Joan of Arc, Clarissia, RoSette. Third prize,
Henry Winch, Esq., (John Young, gardener,) for Prima
Donna, Alexandrina, Queen Dowager, bridesmaid, Louis
Quatorze, Corine. Extra prize, Charles Tayleure, Esq., of
Parkfield, (John Clarke, gardener.) for Alexandrina,
colos-
sus, seedling, sylph, commodore, Joan of Arc.
PUCUSIAS OF 6 VAR.—First prize, Messrs. Davies, of
Nursery, for Rohertsii, Youellii, racemeflora,
—y pennvii, conspicua, arbored, insignis, Venus victrix,
invinc►ble, insignus, Second prize, Charles Horsfall, Esq.,
Everton, (Thomas Lees, gardener,) for corymbiflora, race-
miflora, fulgius, multiflorar Dixouii, Thomsonii superbe,

Wavertree

'OVE OR GREEN HOUSE PLANTS OF 6 VAR.—First

Charles Tayleure, Esq., Parkfield, (John Clarke, gar-
dener,) for Vanda Roxburgia, Stanopea ornulata, catesetum
tridentatum, gesneria Cooperii ver, monettia coecinea, arde.
Second prize, Mrs. Foster, Woolton. (John
gardener,) for elichrysum humilis, clematis silboldis,
ixora coccinea, calantha veratriflora, baronia serruluta,
fuchsia fulgius. Third prize, Charles Horsfall, Esq., for
Miltonie spectabilis oncidium flexuosnm, thunbergire auran-
tie, metrie glabre, calanthe veratrifolia, cinerarie, jesnerii,
zebriha.

via credulata
Reid

STOVE OR GREENHOUSE PLANTS OF 4 VAR.—First
prize, Mr. Skirving, of Walton Nursery, for aclumenes
langiflora, do. roseastatice arborea, gloxinia new hybrids.
Second prize, Charles Tayleure, Esq., for Stanopea Hibernia,
oncidium flexuosnua, syningea, erropea lodigesii. Third
prize, Charles Horsfall, Esq., for brassia wrayii, angelonia
grandiflora, erythryna cristagatti, verbena princess royal.
STOVE OR GREENHOUSE PLANT.—One specimen.—Frst
prize, Chas. Tayleure, Esq., for oucidium boydii. Second
prize, Messrs. Davies, for ixora cochlea. Third prize,
"---rs. Skirving, for clirodendron specimen. Extra prize,
• •
for fuchsiaricartonia.

HERBACEOUS CALCEOLAMAS.—First prize, Chas. Bors-
tal", Esq., for Wilrnoriana, maculata superba, Geo. Hariot,
unique, Lavinia,. Gem. Second prize, Messrs. Davies, for
Faulknerii, Lady King, five seedlings, and Miss Little-

SHRUBBY CALCEOLARIAS.—First prize, Messrs. Davies,
for tigrina, ruby, Hendersouia, fegudia, Lady Byron, put-pu-
ll

PAN OF PlNKS.—First prize, Mr. Henry Thomas, of
Chester, for Bishop of Chester, Parry's union, snowball,
SuWarrnw, rose Diana, Robin Hood. Creenside's unknown,

Shrewsbury beauty, St. Alban's, beauty of Wollaston, aud
fearnought. Second prize, Mr. John Williams. of Chester,
for snowdrop, Cicero, Suwarrow, St. Alban's, snowball,
Shrewsbury beauty, perfection, beauty of Honle, Robin
Hood, fearnought, independent, and Rose Diana. •

Pan of 24 va

—First prize, Thos. O'Grady,
Second prize, ditto. Extra

cans, gardener
Whalley.

,coed priz

OF CUT FLOWERS.—First prize, Mr. Skirting.
e, Messrs. Whalley. Third prize, Henry Moss,

Aiguurto (ratrick Manley, gardener).
BASKET OF PLANTS.—First prize, Isaac Hadwen, Esq., of
Edge-lane (John Armstrong, gardener). Second prize, Mrs.
Thomas Foster. Third prize, Messrs. Whalley. Extra
prize, Chas. Tayleure, Esq.

GRAPES.—First prize, Archibald Sinclair, Esq., of Waver-
tree (John Robinson, gardener). Second prize, E. D. Falk-
ener, Esq., of Fairfield (Jas. Smith, gardener). Extra prize,
Thos. Orford, Esq., of Toxteth-park. (R. Place, gardener).
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•
PlNES.—Prize, J. N. Walker, Esq., of Calderstones
Alexander Morton, gardener).

LEMONS.—Extra prize, Mrs. Preston

CORRESPONDEACA

TRACTARIANISIVI

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin.,—Allow me to call your attention to a few cheering
circumstances connected with a subject which has of late oc-
cupied so large a share of public attention, and to which a
prominent place has been assigned in the columns of four
own valuable journal—l mean Tractarianism. First, let me
notice the step taken by the University of Oxford to purge
herself from the stain which rested on her honoured name
connected with these modern errors; for surely reproach
must attach Somewhere when nvm could be found dwelling
so long within her hallowed walls, teaching doctrines so.
letnnly repudiated by the University as a body, as well as by
that church with which it is identified. At length the au-
thorities there have affixed to this revived Romanism an
appropriate mark of their reprobation, and silenced one of
their teachers. Christian parents may now hope that the
Unseemly, shall we say dishonest, spectacle will not again be
so flagrantly presented before their children's view, of seeing
and hearing men in the " seat of the reformers" busily en-
gaged in " traducing the reformation."

- Next, let us gratefully acknowledge the bold, open, mas.
terly exposure of these fatal errors in the charge of the
Bishop of Lincoln during the past week, not forgetting the
triumphant overthrow of this " modified system of Popery"
in the visitation sermon on the same day.

Meantime tidings refreshing as cool waters to a thirsty
soul are borne to us from the east. The senior Bishop of
India has delivered his primary chiirge as metropolitan. The
alarm with which this vigilant watchman viewed the rapid
spread of these new opinions is known to many ; but the ex-
tent of his apprehensions was only known to those who had
access to more private sourct s of information—but will now
be understood by all who will peruse the important document
above alluded to. In this charge the Bishop of Calcutta
speaks with a tone of decision which proves at once the fearful
character of the evil in his view, as well as the solemn obli-
gation under which he feels bound, unshrinkingly, to expose,
refute, and denounce it. Had we more of this straightforward,
honest, godly sincerity at home, and less of that mawkish
sentimentality which pervades England like an epidemic, we
would not have to mourn over so many writings, professing
indeed to oppose this vil, yet with so much tenderness for
the honour of these well-intentioned men, so much compli-
ment to their high characters, and so little tenderness for
God's honour, so little jealousy for his high glory, that, ex-
cept for the title-pages, we could scarcely tell whether these
pages were designed to write up Tractarianism, or to write it
down. Weil may we say of such vapid things and their au-
thors—" Non tali auxilio nec defensoribus ixtis tempos
eget." Not that we desire abusive language : I hope we can
discriminate between decision and abuse. What I mean will
he understood by contrasting the chicken-hearted, drooping,
wavering style of some of the publications already alluded to,
and the masculine vigour of such a passage as the following
a the Bishop of Calcutta's newly printed charge.
Refer. ,g to the tendencies of Tractarianism, and the
conduct of its champions, Bishop Wilson thus writes—" For

extract fro

. . . . ..... _....
what is the tendency of the system up to the very hour I am
writing but an increased approximation to 'all the corruptions
and superstitions of papal Rome—so that even her idolatrous
offices are being republished for the use of our Protestant
people! And what are the leaders doing? Do they retract?
Do they admit frankly the admonitions of the bishops?
Nothing of the kind. They stop, indeed, one series of pub-
lications at the request of a diocesan,l3 ut immediately replace
it by another equally obnoxious : they turn aside all the con-
demnations in the charges of different prelates, by affecting
to consider them as founded on mistake : they pervert the
terms of commendation in which their learning, their mo:
0
tives, and the incidental good they may have done in awal:,
cuing attention to matters of discipline, have been spoken 1
into an acquiescence in their doctrine."
Thus speaks Bishop Wilson in a passage deserving to be
read and pondered by every Protestant in the lancl;oversy on
Ireland, too, is another battle-field for this cont
of sound
a small scale. It is not likely from the prevalence
ition of full-
Protestant truth, on the one hand, and the exhrn
blown Popery on the other, that Tractariantiisi
i attempts have
tend greatly in the church in that country ; s.furnished
been made to introduce it. Your own ink,t'anieci a corres-
proof of this on a late occasion, when it c(0. ,erry. The
pondence between the Bishop and Dean t 1
gallant Sir Hugh
can ever
latter, (who (who by the way is brother of t
evils of this
gallon,
heresy, the hero of China.) alive to the
of his congregation,
. deprecated the
ban,
having also two licensed curates to assisrt
heresy, and knowing the Protestant tone
smoothness cure
• ' a stranger, holding neither
a young divine, , .
bishop's introducing to his pulpit, Linde
If onsisted in his
in the diocese, and a 1 ractarian to boot. clibceinrectintuansotaroces,
giftT The chief
preachingn ieri t. on
IS. et rhi ipst u r a l 11 juvenileo v e tt
bablecoi f d s of
softness of manner, and an inmertut . 1 i enee
diction, a
; for which the school he belongs to is remarkable.
of assertion,
' that Dean Gough, with all that blandness of
It was in vain
burn say he is a' •
manner for which those who know ...lStll-
loeg.
,ruished, respectfully reasoned against the risk of sowing
"'❑ a congregation hitherto undivided, and
dissension in cordially
attached to our Protestant church. The bishop was valiant
enough to undertake the responsibility of all consequences,
When the consequences came and began to be felt, like ,',
fresh-water sailor the bishop would fain have the t s orrn al-
layed, he hiroself had created; and by whom?
By the dea
who, foretelling the tempest,, and counselling the bishop 4,
not
to put to sea at such a time, was courteously reminded that
a pilot would be at the helm fully able
to steer the ship
safe through every danger ; his lordship meaning thereby
the worthy dean but himself. All this not
bishop's letter, copied into the 'ST was set forth in the
we onthe channel say savoured as much
this side of
would '
of the courtier as of the bishop, and
bet
rayed not A little of

eannedr a
. . • -,-,
P,
that WI; gentle Men than gray!
and the honest-hearted, open, feeling, belle"
Mr. Editor, there was a very great contrast be-
sang Troia whiati is racil'e
of Dean Gough. aefrenlindddini:linPleemsan's. Aft;
1 t answer vo en
tatiseeyev-inthts; letter
But we have not done with this juvenile Tractarian's
doings; rumour ascribes activity to him in the press as well
It
whose character would attach weight to any cause,
as in the pulpit. so happened that a rector in the diocese
of DerrY,
G e Seott,) Published an address delivered at a
(Rev. oil
ben Derry. The bearing, style and
church missionary meetin
Judged of by the following spe-
cimen. •
king of Tractarianism in our Indian possessions, and
speaking
of the friends of evangelical truth in reference to
of the
progress there, Mr. Scott expresses hiti.).sell in the follow-
ingiis address may
graphic terms :—.
tone of this
Tit it appear that a system which mystifies some of the
&no' doctrines of the gospel, and wraps up others in the
leakiness of reserve, a system which disparages the ordi-
nance r
...resehing, and questions the sufficiency of scripture
of p .
guide to salvation—a h which depreciates
system
alone as a g
• . the work of the ►
reformers—of Hooker, Ridley,
and decries
„ er, Latimer, and others, men of whom the world was
uratv,i,ioiirtily_
men who in faith and patience, through tribu-
not
ns
an •
hyl„d persecutions unto death, accomplished for the
lati for emancipation ever achieved,
mind the most e the gospel first went forth on its emancipating career,
oft;to to
men from darkness unto light, and from the power
from Sa
the hank tan unto God. If
is for a system bas been transplanted
s othe shores of the Ganges ; if the
, abeabettors f the Is
of that system are to be found in the populous plains
seeking to make
0 India, proselytes to attract admiration,
a-nfd to acquire influence, surely this fact should stimulate all
who love the truth, as it is in Jesus, and stir them to lift up
their voice in more earnest prayer, and to put forth more
strenuous efforts, that the messengers of truth may outstrip
the dispensers of eriror,hand that the gospel may be brought
into contact with to ,„
minds all the light, and heat,
a d energy of its life.giving power."
in
an
address, of which the above is a short extract, was too
faithful a testimony against error and too elouent apeal in behalf of truth for ally of the restless Tractarian schopol,
much less a theologian of a fevv
summers' growth, to be re-
garded with complacency. The note of war was instantly
heard in the little northern Tractarian camp. Whatever
artillery they may havehad in reserve, one solitary gun was
was brought to bear on this Protestant address. In
all that
other words, a long letter was Published in reply to Mr.
rhis letter, like all the school, is distinguished for
Scott. '
an affectation of candour, along with plenty of real disinge-
nuousness, for its loud praises of church principles, along
with lamentable perversions of them,
ut int occasioned
one great benefit to the cause of real reßligio.has It has called
forth a pamphlet from Mr. Scott in reply, entitled a " Pro-
test against Tractarianism," and a
more calm review of
Tractarian errors, and a more concln refutation of those
-
handled in it, is not every day to be slue
met with. It is every
way satisfactory in its contents and in its spirit. Mr. Scott
has adduced such an array of authorities from Scripture and
our church. and from the recent cliargeti of our bishops, as must make his pamphlet exceedingly v i .
a uahle as a book of
reference. But this is not all ; for he
g,ves co pious extracts,
and, generally speaking, the ipsissitna verbs of the Tractarian
writers themselves. It is a valuable manual indeed in a
small compass,
especially for those who Is
..ave no leisure to
enter fully into the controversy now being waged. In addi-
tion to all the tone of earn
itestot serious piety pervading the
" Protest" m everY candid and reflecting
mind. Mr. Scott has indulged in no personalities. His letter
(for it is in the shape of a
of language
to ors, own diocesan) is di-
vested of those asperities olanguage hich too often accom-
defensive writings. But as there is n firmness
pany
temperate style is
throughout, his
_.
as morelikely to win the
reader's assent, as well to allay all those violent heats so
often kindled in controversial discussions to the injury of
personal religion.
ill old writer, referring to the vision of the four horns
that scattered Judalhoand the four carpenters that came to
fray them, says, •
breakNepetnies horn is so strong but God
bath an hammer to . it to pieces.' I hope, Sir, we have
seen the truth of this in the warfare waged" this day against
and for the truth.
spectator of this battle-field it is ch •
cheering to notice
To a
b conduct tl
how the eon' or rath )enaselves. Of the four mi-
'sters named betore„
Dean er five, including, as be well de-
suel;ves, the faithful
haveof. n
---errY. all in their respective
dignities, indeed s heres and
quit themselves like
I, ~ these are cheering facts, calculated to stimulate the
men.
lover of the gos i ies of every . . I el. Above all, gratitude is
energ
se up and . •
due to him who rai qualifies every defender of the
truth.
Mr. Editor, and your uncompromising jour-
To yourself, ,
üblic ow .
Protestant p e a large debt of gratitude.
nal, the
f r the stand you
Thanking' you 0 have always made against
errors,
Tractarian i am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Licerpool, June 26th, 1843