The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-05 00:00:00

THE PARISH CHURCFI.

What are the sources of that veneration and affection with
which we regard our parish church? It is a rude and humble
building; its walls are rough, and composed of flints, pieces of
stone, of all shapes and sizes, masses of mortar mixed with peb-
bles, here covered with a patch of plaster, there entirely bare.
Its windows are of different forms and dimensions, exhibiting
no uniform plan, no relics ofarchitecture.. Regarded as a build-
ing, what is there to engage our attention? You would not
find a house, perhaps; in the neighbourhood which would not,
as a mere building, be more attractive. What, then, is it which,
in this building, Inspires the veneration and affection it com-
mands ? We have mused upon it when its grey walls duly re-
flected the glory of the noon-day sun. We have looked upon
it from a neighbouring. hill, when, bathed in the pure silver light
of a summer's moon, its lowly walls and tiny tower seemed to
stand only as the shell of a larger and ruder monument amidst
the memorials of the dead. Look upon it when and where we
will, we find our affections yearn towards it; and we contem-
plate the little parish church-with a delight and reverence that
palaces cannot command. Whence„ then, arises this? It
ttai
arises, not from the beauties and ornats of the building, but
from the thoughts and recollections associated with it. 'lbis is
our parish church ! How many subjects of the deepest iuterest
de these words call forth ! In this lowli•building God is wor-
shipped. It is consecrated to him. ii;must pot be set apart
for any secular purposes. Here we,,offer up the sacrifice of
prayer and praise. Here we have met Our brethren in Christ
—to join in seeking pardon and support from our-universal
Father. Here,we meet our friends, families, and neighbours,
in the kindliest and most binding work of love, to make, with
one accord; our common supplications to-God. Here we meet,
each Lord's day, God's authorized ministers and ambassadors,
and receive frOm their mouths the graeious-message of peace
and reconciliation—that " they have power and commandment
to declare and pronounce to God's people, being penitent, the
absolution and remission of their sins." Here we were re-
ceived by haptisin into covenant with- God through Christ.
Here we have been supplied with spiritual strength for our
Christian warfare, when, with a lively faith; we joined. in the
feast of love, and received the sacrament of the body and blood
of Christ. I-lore we look upon the tombs and graves of those
we revered and loved—nut through the dreary, heartless, and
hopeless medium of unbelief, but in contact' with the temple,
and associated with the worship and promises of Him who said,
" I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me,
though he were dead, yet shall he live; fatid 'whosoever liveth,
and believeth in me, shall never •dig." (John xi. 25, &c.)
Here, too, we ourselves look, in hope orthe resurrection through
Him, to lay our mortal remains, when the " dint shall return to
the Barth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who
gave it."—Reader, whosoever thou mayest: be, if thy soul hath
caught one spark of the pure fire of Christian devotion, if thy
bosom bath been penetrated by anyone, ray of the free light of
Christian charity, wilt thou refrain thy lips, or withhold thine
heart, from the prayers which we oftei for blessings-on these
holy uses to which the parish church is dedicated.—Scouish
Guardian.

LORD JOHN 'RUSIVELLT*AND 'ME WESLEYAN&

(From COrrespoileni.)

•
In a morning paper,a letter has appeared, signed by Mr.
Rogers.of Bedford (who, by-the-bye, is the agent of •Mr. Craw-
ley, the radiCarmeniber, for the laid -tinte, for that borough,)
stating that, se far,from ;he Weslevans•heing against Lord John
Russell at the electien in 16.30 (when Captain Polhill heat him-
bv one) they supported him, and.theirMinister.especially Voted
fur his lordship. Mr. Rogers must ingsly; have forgotten the
existence of the poll book, from the 19th page' of which we ex-
tract the following entry:— •• W. P. 11.
Wilson. Maximillian, Wesleyan Minister„
Angel-street
The Rev. Maximillian Wilson polled' a.:otiaper for Captain
Polhill, and not only this, but travelled from .Leeds, whet e' he
had been attending the conference, for this purpose. So much
for Mr. Rogers's assertion • and we think that be would have
done better. if he had consulted the poll book 6r any respectable
Wesleyan 'in Bedford, who would hare told 'hint that they all
voted against Lord John Russell. with the excePtion of one,
who is not acknowledged by the Weshivan as of their body:
We hope South, Devonshire will imitate' tedfurrf.

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We understand that the Queen has graciously signified her
intention of honouring the annual examtnntion of the children,
of the city of London national schools With her presence, at the
Mansion-house, on the 27th of this month.
THE wEAT,En.SILK.—Patits, April is not-in our
country only that a very violent and told north wind has for
some time prevailed. While the cold prevented at Paris the
promenades of Longchamps, on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday in. Easter week, the snow was falling in. Piedmont and
Lombardy. The letters just received. from Milan and Turin
state thisfact, and express fears of a frost that may injure the
mulberry trees, but does not say
.that any frost has taken place.
Let us hope that this misfortune will not happen, and that a
speedy change in the temperature will removetallaTiprehensions
respecting the produce of silk, both in Italy and France. It is
well known that a sudden and considerable, rise in the raw
material, in consequence of a real frost, would impede some time
our silk manufactures ; but we repeat it, we have not yet any
news of such calamity. On this subject we cannot help making
one assertion. If. France had in its colony of. Algiers some
millions of mulberry trees, as it easily might have, the most
important of the French manufactures would in a few years no
dependlonger
on and thousands of hands
on a
would
liahletofst.rboeeoin spring,
d to remain idle_ for a year,
b e
by a sudden change of temperature in a night. The English,
seeing the immense and progressive extension of the consump-
tion of silk in Europe, planted in 1825 .and the following year's
above 20,000,000 of mulberry trees in their Indian possessions.
Most certainly if they had, as we have now, a vast and fertile
territory, within 48 hour's sail of their. coasts, where the thermo-
meter is never below five degrees, and ,where consequently it
does not freeze, they would not have made this gigantic plan-
tation at the distance of 3000 leagues froM the seat of their
me n ufact ti res.—Co u rrier de Lyons. • ,

MAY Moutitt4G.—An ancient auth,r; describing "Sfav-day,
says at the time he wrote' at the beginning of.the month or May,
"The citizens of London (of all estates) lightly in every
parish, or sometimes two or three parishes joining together, had
their several Mayings,.and did fetch in- May"-lioles, with divers
warlike shewes, with good archers, mos:rice dancers,, and other
devices, for pastinte all the day long,. and row4rds the evening
they had stage plafes and bontirei in ttie"street: Of these May-
fogs we read in the reign of Henry the Sixth that the Alder-
men and Sheriffs of London being, on
,May-day, at the bishop
of London's wood,.in'the parish.of Stubeuheath, and having
there a worshipful dinner for thernseliies aud other corners,
Lydgate, the poet, who was a monk at Bury, sent to them by a
pursuivant and joyful commendation of the season, containing
sixteen staves in meeter royal." • •

IRE I. AN o.—DUBLIN, April V.—The Commissioners for ex-
amining the witnesses in the case of the Dublin election peti
tion will commence their labours on Saturday next. Iloweyer
that inquiry may terminate, it is quite• certain' that the present
members, or any others professing their politics, will never be
re-elected for Dublin. Since the last general election 354
voters have been registered, out of which. the conservatives
claim 296; and for the next general registry, which takes place
on the 2nd of May, upwards of 4,500 notices have been served,
3,0000 f which are from supporters of the conservative interest.
In fact,. nine-tenths of the inhabitants of the leading streets and
squares were ineligible to vote at the last election, from ne-
•glecting to register their freeholds. • They are no*, remedying
this omission, and it is probable the coustitaeucy of Dublin-will
be doubled before the expiration of the present year.
A HAPPY SCHOOLBOY.—I have described a wretched school-
•
boy, let us now view a happy one. It is a fine and breezy
summer-morning, the sun about an hour old., Remark the tall
youth springing over the garden railings. The gate is fastened
only with a latch, but the exultation-of health disdains to lift it.
There is a vast and heathy common before him,- bounded by
lofty hills, behind, an immense expanse of Champaign country.
.
On his right is a lovely lake, crisping to til'e 'fragrant winds;
and on his left, nestling in •foliage of antique 'auks and. majestic
elms, sleeps, in rural repose, the village. Ole pauses. for one
moment on the green sward—his eyes are' upon the golden
fretwork of the heavens. You may see by the mantling cheek.
that there is a gush of rapture thrilling through his bosom;
and' his glistening eyes are beautiful, for'in them is silent Ivor-
Ship. Perhaps the reverie is too joyous, the *swelling sensation
in his bosom too overpowering, for see,.withahotind like that of
a startling stag, he is off and away. He is •racifig with the
winds—he is competing. with the viewless -9atessengers, that
bring health upon their swift wings. ILe seems to have
no object but the enjoyment of rapid motion'. 'He' leaps' over
bush and brake exuaingly ; and even while we adinire him, he
is down in the fair vale. The chirping lark rises front the
dewy grass; he stops, and his unconscious voice bursts out in a
shout of imitative rapture. Now lie p!untres into the lake, and
dives, and swims, and gambols amid the tiny waves. He is the
personation of animal spirit. He is wild with • the sweet and
Innocent intoxication of nature's beauty. It Ws-ix o'clock, and
he hears the •bell that summons him. to his innrning studies.
The sound strikes him with no dismay. His 'Greek and Latin
are prepared; and he well {chows that•the'..hour of his exami-
-nation will be the hour of his .triump'3„ He • looks round, and
he sees his master proud of him and his talent's' ; add school-
fellows, that have-all for him the greetings of a love that not
venal, had the homage of admiration that is sincere. Is nut all
this delightful ?—Metropolitan.