The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-29 00:00:00

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THE NEW 'CoAiiV.ION COUNCIL.

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Yosterday, at, one o'clock, the Mayor, as returning officer,
made the official declaratiOn of Councillors elected, with the
numbers for the successful as *ell as the uusucceisful candi-
dates. They. were as follows :
EVERTON AND KIRKDALE WARD.
• Conservatives. " • I • • - Rejiirmers.
Charles Horsfall, E5q.....214 [John Holmes, Esq. 224
Adata Hodgson, Esq ' 193 Samuel Hope, Esq '2ls
W. C. Alolyneux,"Esq:... 175 Josept! Horuby, Esq 2ll
&aqm A No-uuA ;WARD. ,
Richard Houghton, E... 118 Crawford Logan, Esq 177
James He.iworth, 96 William Thornhill, Esq l7l
William Vaster, Esq...;. 89 Richard Shed, Esq
VAUXHALL WARD.

John Wright, Esq 74 Enoch Harvey, Esq.- 92
Joseph Aelters, J..D. Thornely, Esq BO
Henry Copeland, Esq.... 76 .4erton Smith, Esq. B6
ST. PAUL'S %VARD. -
R. B. B. Hollinshead, Esq. 102 Christopher Rawdon, Esq. 137
William Shand. E5q..... 89 William Stuart, Esq ll7
John Barton, Esq.. 'll9' Alexander MtGregor, Esq 124
EXCHANGS • WARD. .

Thomas Sands, Esq 13- Lawrence Heyworth, Esq. 167
G. B. Irlam, Esq llB Henry Holmes, Esq 179
John Bent, Esq.. 126 James Mellor, Esq l6l
CAS' M-STltfil. WARD.

Sir Thomas Brancker.. , 96
George Grant, Esq B3
John Nelson Wood, Esq. 78.
ST. PETE it

Thomas Bolton, Esq. 248
Joshua Waluisley, Esq 26U
Charles. Birch, Esq 259
's WARD.

Thomas Tobin, Esq 142 John Wooßright, Esq.... 205
William Potter, Esq. 145 William Rushton, Esq... 200
N. Litherland, Esq 143 Richard Bright, E5q..... 190
PITT ST !MET WARD.

John Bibl;y, 1 William Rathbone, Esq.. 193
Peter Bourne, Esq l5l Hugh Hornby, Esq
T. C. Molyneux, Esq.... 140 W. R. Preston, Esq. lB4
GREAT •GEORGE WARD.

Charles Lawrence, Esq.. 131 James Aikin, Esii • 135
James Lawrence, Esq.... " James Lawrence, Esq 237
Joseph Cooper, Esq. lOB Wel'wood Maxwell, Esq 146
RODNEY-STREET WARD.
Dr. Brandreth 192 Thomas Holt, Esq. 194
Henry Lawrence. Esq l9B Eyre Evans, Esq 179
J. H. Turner, Esq lB'2 William Lassell, 199
ABERCROMBY WARD.

Robertson Gladstone, Esq. 146 William Earle, jun., Esq. 186
William Ripley, Esq 129 James Carson, M.D...... 18-1
Thomas Kaye. Esq l4l Thos. Brocklebank, Esq.. 172

bili-STREET WAR!).

Ambrose Lace, 190 Thomas Blackburne, Esq. 302
J. Todd Naylor, 170. JOSeph Langton. Esq.... 308
Robert R igby, 'Esq 176 .;Robert Ruskell, 292
ST. ANNE-STREET WARD.
Richard Jones, E.q 127 Richard Allison, jun., Esq. 288
F,dward Gibbon, Esq 139. Edward Cropper, Esq.... 191
John Davies, 132 Thomas Coglan, Esq 195
WEST DERBY WARD. "

John Shaw Leigh, Esq... 172 W. Blain, Esq i
Joseph Sandars, Esq.... ..153 George 'Holt, Esq l6d
W. P. Bushby, Esq. 136 'W P Fretne, Esq 153
SOtTH Trixt•srfri WARD.
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______,,,, Nich,la. 1 i ~himt or., F.,,,q ___ .,lah.n crgnuer_ iqq. - Eso-- 41
Alexander Smith, Esq.... 7, Pr au eis Jordan, bsq
John Fletcher, Esq
' • • • NORTH fr arricru WARD.
John Troughton, Esq 132 W. W. Currie, Esq ' 242
James Dempsey, Esq.... 90 Charles Tayleur, Esq
Joseoh Gibbons, E5q....1 130 W. M. Duncan, Esq 223

EDINBURGH pßonlsrANT ASSOCIATION.

• (Abridged from the Edinburgh Evening Post.).
On Wednesday last a numerous meeting was held in the As-
sembly-Rooms, Edinburgh, for the.purpose of forming a Pro-
telstant Association in that city. •
-The Marquis of Tweeddale took the chair, and was supported
by Lord Ramsay, Sir James M. Riddell, Bart., Sir Robert
Abercromby, Bart., Sir William Setotr, Bart., Alexander Prin-
gle, Esq., M P., &c. • ; -
.The Chairman said he felt it an honour on any occasion 'to
preside at a meeting of so numerous and respectable a body of
individuals; but when he recollected that thei:- sole object of
meeting was to renovate and perpetuate the protestant faith,
which they held -in so much reverence, and which had been
tiought at such a high price by their forefathers. (Cheers.) It
was to him a source of unqualified satisfactieu, as well as a feel-
ing of peremptory duty to do what lay in hiS power to carry the
objects of the meeting into efficient and,exteusive operation
(Loud cheers..)• _
The Rev. Mr. Candlish moved the first resolution in a short.
bat pointed speech. Speaking of the political influence of popery.
he said he entertained his own opinions and feelings regarding
the influence of popery on the political interests of men; he be-
lieved that popery was.-the essential ally of despotism; but he
had no faith in any set pf mere worldly politicians being ever
fully alive to the danger of popery, for he had no faith in worldly
politicians ever seeing the sin or acknowledging
.the danger of
an alliance.with Antichrist, and he had no faith in worldly po-
liticians shaking themselves loose from such an alliance, unless
the minds of the people were leavened with the fruits of right-
eousness. But he looleed upon political interests as compara-
tively insignificant, and such as the association ought to overlook.
After a few. remarks, the reverend gentlemen concluded by say-
ing that popery, stung by its political defeats in other parts of
Europe, was now concentrating its forces for an attack upon
the moral interests of the world at large. They had already
seen the preparations for what even a worthy statesman had sa-
gacity to forsee--the war of opinion; and the time was coming
when popery, not by political armour, but by the souls it had
enslaved,.would marshal its thousands and tens of thousands to
battle against the Lord. Let protestants. then, be up and. be
doing—let them do something to rouse protestants to prevent
the advance of popery, and leaven the minds of men with just
views of truth, and to maintain the views of the Lord against
the mighty. (Loud cheers.) -
. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. Pringle, M.P.,
was carried ur.aniinously. - .
The Rev. Mr. Cunningham, in seconding the third resolu-
tion, observed that the papists were continually alleging that
they were misrepresented, that .protestants did not understand
their 'doctrines, that. they ascribed to them Practices they ab-
horred and detested ; they did ,not say that popery was
changed—they left their protestiuit friends to tell that falsehood
in their defence, but they. dare not take up that ground them-
selves, though .he dared to-say they rejoiced to hear the protes-
tants make that iellegsitioti. in , their favour: He would say, that;
they were not te inquire Into the 'opinions of individual papists,
but into the doctrines of the church of Rome; and in judging
of,these, they were to look to, the standards of that church;
now, we have those standards 'in our hands, and are able to
• judge of them, and to. take our opinions of what popery is from
them.- There was one observation he could not.overlook; and
though it might seem harsh to`the papists, there was no help for
it, because it was a plain fact established by the whole history
of the popish church 'that the
.ptiiiists were continually in the
habit of mystifying their views, and accommodating their state-
• ments with respect-to (*trine
.according to temporary views
and circumstances, without regard to the standard of truth,
whitheseas the same in all ages. The rev. gentleman then ex-
patiated at some length upon the corruptions which the church
~ of Rome had introduced into the doctrines of the gospel, neutra-
lising the doctrine of fhe atonement by the system of penance
gad purgatory, profaning the worship of God by images, and
rendering void the doctrine of salvation by grace by theinculca-
tion of supererogatory merits. Many had heard a curious state-
mentuaade in the House of Commons by one who was at the head
of the papists, and who, he was afraid, was also at the head of a
very different class of persons; he had lately professed himself
a voluntary, and •he gave the following graphic description of
the voluntary principle—that clergymen ought to be paid like
. lawyers and doctors, by a fee for every job. •He mentioned this
because it was literally following out the voluntary principle,
and it was thus point's, had attained its tremendous influence.
He stated this as a plain matter of historical fact, and no,--inan
who had a character to lose would attempt to deny it. Thii ex-
hibited the plain origin and cause of the host of rites and cere-
monies of the Church of Rome and her five bastard sacraments,
as our ancestors called them. the object being by the increase
of jobs to increase the fees. Such being the character of popery,
they ought to-regard it at'all fillies, and under all circumstances, •
and to see in the increase of its strength and influence, an ad-
ditional reason for th;in to be up and to be doing. Its friends
were active and ingeoious. It was a curious fact, that the re-
porters of the London newspapers *ere nearly all papists. Now
the protestants would never have thought of that, but the papists
were alive to its importance, and had succeeded in stealthily
tilling the offices of the London newspapers with these men to
accomplish their purposes, and it was well known they could do
a great deal; but this was nut all. One or two of the. London
newspapers were in the pay of the papists—they were not paid
to profess popery, that would not be half cunning enough—but
professing protestantisra, they were to overwhelm with torrents
of abuse the protestant associations-=they were to explain away
all that was offensive in popery, to declare that there was no
material difference between the two systems, and to declaim
. upon the topics of charity: brotherly kindness, and universal
benevolence; and if he might judge, some papers nearer home
were also in the pay of the papists, for they used the same style
and mode of writing. Mt. Cunningham sat down amidst 10-ud
cheering. -• ,
The meeting was, afterwards addressed by Mr. Dunlop, Rev.
Mr. Begg,Rev.Mr. Drummond, and Lord Ramsay, who moved
the thanks of the meeting tri the chairman, which haring beta
carried, the assemblage broke up.