The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-12-07 00:00:00

Vo2ir n.

A ROVER AM I
SONG AND CHORUS.

Prom Me neto Opera of " The Nunnery, or St. Mary's isle.")

KIND HAROLD, PRINCE ROSTIG, AND NORWEGIAN ROVERS.

KING ll&noi.n.
A rover am d, a rover bold and free,—
A rover on shore, a rover on the sea ;
The gallant rover, a bark when he espies,
Soon, sodas he hails her, his concjuest and his prize.
Then, should the clouds lower with cold, unfriendly skies,
Aloft his sail,
I3efore the gale,
Away, away he flies.
cuonos.
Rovers on the shore, and rovers on the sea,
Jolly rovers all—all rovers bold and free.

PRINCE Roma.
A rover au I, a rover bold and free,—
A rover on shore. a rover on the sea ;
The gallant rover, when beauty he espies.
Soon, soon she hails hint; her conquest and her prize ;
But should hdr brow lower vith cold, unfriendly eyes.

Aloft his sail,
Befpre the kale,
Away, away he flies.
cuontis.
Rovers on the shore, and rovers on the sea,
roiera all--all rovers hold mud free.

NOVEMBER.

(PROM FRAZRR'S MAGAZINE,)

FAIT fall the leaves, zttutsoon shall none

Rennin to quiver through the air ;
But all my hopes have, ono by one,
This heart left lone andhare.

At the dead crowds that -rustle by
I.stsrt, as at some spectre's feet ;
cvcr3 leaf my boding eye
Sees my owu winding-street.

The Haft that waves the pines on high,
In hollow murmurs moaning loud,
iugs :iad my dirge ; this lowering sky
lteiniuds ine of my shroud. . •

Life's Winter, Death, then spread o'er me
The slumber of the gra-ve ; my- Pall,
Sh;111 thu.s t test erablem be
01 the year's funeral.

CORRESPONDk."INCE.,

TO THE L'LECTOBS OP LIYERPOOL, ESPECIALLY THE
DISSENTERS.
Sias,—You have been invited to support Mr. Thornely as a
fit and .proper person to represent you in Parliament. You
have been told that you ought not to object to him on the
ground 6f his riEtauloos SENTIMENTS; and you have been
warned that men, who have no regard for Religion themselves,
will use this objection to Work upon "the minds of the weak and
the ignorant" among you.s
Although I cannot boast that ‘cl would give place to no man
upon earth in zeal against the Religious Sentiments of Mr.
Thornely," yet 'I trust I may say, with truth, that I have some
regard for Religion. I reverence its authority, and my first de-
sire is to drink of the cup of its consolation. Yet I. oppose
Mr. Thorneiy on the ground of his Religious Opinions. And I
rejoice to believe that I address many who, on the same ground,
join most cordially in the same opposition,- and who, notwith-
gtanding, are neither the weak nor the ignorant among you.
oppose Mr. Thornely because he is a SOClNlAN—because
he denies the Deity and the Atonement of Christ, and rejects
the scriptural truth, that all power is committed to Him in
Heaven and on Earth. It is my dearest hope—it is my greatest
glory—that Jesus my Saviour is God over all and blessed for
ever. It is my steadfast belief that He is King of Kings and
Lord of Lords—that by Him kings reign—that government is
leis ordinance—that all power ought to be held in his name,
and administered for his glory. On thess points, which are not
only the foundation of all Christian hope, but the foundation
also of all Christian government, Mr. Thornely and I hold no
sentiments in common ; and I affirm that all other questions,
secular or sacred, touching his fitness to legislate for a Christian
p'eeide, shrink into insignificance in comparison of these.
But you are told that "it is properly no part of the duty of
Totir. Representative to legislative for you in matters of Reli-
ion!' 'So then the Nation is to have no laws against the vio-
lation of the Sabbath; and those Members of our Legislature
may do Well who oppose all inquiry into the desecration of that
sacred day. A law may be framed in reference to a visitation
of Divine Providence—such, for instance, as the late desolating
pestilence--and our Representatives may do right when they
blot out the name of God; and refuse to acknowledge his hand,
in the preamble of their enactment. The Poor of Ireland may
require Parliamentary aid, to enable them to obtain the blessing
of Education, and our Representatives may grant the boon, but
may think it no crime to banish God's Holy Bible from the
Schools, in order to' conciliate a party whose principles that
Bible rebukes and condemns. Mr. Thornely declares him-
self favOurable to a System of National Education; but does
any Christian Parent consider hire competent to legislate on
such a subject.
'But it is urged upon you again, that "to object to a Candi-
didate on the score of Religion, is, as far it goes, an attempt to
unite Christianity with the State." And is this a crime? is
it taken for granted, that Christianity is so vile a thing that its
presence ought not to be tolerated in the State, lest it mar its
'beauty; or impair its usefulness, or transform it into an instru-
ment of tyranny and wrong ? Was it Christianity that held
'the rod of the oppressor in the days of the Stuarts ? Is it
ngainst her influence in the Councils of the Nation that the
Youth of Liverpool are addressed in words of solemn warning?
Alas ! such words savour little of ardent zeal against the prin-
ciples of Socianism. They libel Christianity. They wound
her in the house of her friends.
But some one may say, the controversy is not with Christi-
anity, it is with the union of Church and State. But I reply
that this is not*the controversy. We are speaking of the Reli-
gion of a Statesman, not of the support of the Church. Sup-
' pose the point of an Established Church were yielded to its op-
ponents, the Religious Sentiments of our Representatives
would be as much our concern as before. The question now at
issue is this,—Whether a Christian ought to return as his Re-
Cresentative to Parliament, a man who openly denies Jesus
hrist as the Lord, and consults to cast him down from his ex-
cellency ? And in pressing this question, may I not adopt these
words, With what consistency, oye DiSsenters, can ye ob-
ject to Mr. THORNELY, because of his Religion,"- if, while
you feel that 'Christianity is the most precious thing that ever
'entered into your own hearts, or into your own families, you
believe, at the same time, it is the thing 'of all others which you
ought to exclude from the State ?
I have alluded to the union of the Church and State. This,
as I have said, is a separate question. Ido not identify Chris-
tianity with the Church of li:nglatid. Christianity is all glori-
oils, and its spirit 'cannot be too much infused into our Institu-
tions and our Laws. But there' is much to lament—much to
condeinn—inuch to be corrected in the Church of England.
And what then ?—Aivay With its abuses; 'they belong not to
Christianity'. Woe be to them by whom they are practised :
Avoo.be to them by whom they are defended. Bert because there
are evils in the Church, is that any good reason why we should
hartish Religion from the State ?—I .speak as unto Wise men ;
jiidge ye what I say. Yon havebeen told, indeed, " you mis-
take the nature of Christianity, if you think it needs the 'sup-
port of the State," And this is true. But it is not less true
that yon iniStake the duty of the State, if you think it ought
not to support Christianity, Religion needs neither your sup-
. Dot-C.l'm mune ; but it issour duty and our privilege to support
I 'hate no feelingtdWards Mr. THORNELY personally, 'on
-..ae'f*oartitt-of this Religious Opinions, save only that of es:impas-
sion: for if the Bible be true, and if Jesus of Nazareth =be in_
deed' God mauifest iu the flesh, he, and those who think like him,
are in a fearlid state. Ent I haVe a strong feeling against his
being iny Representative in Parliament. Were'i there anVself
I should see it my duty to-do all things hi the mime of the Lord
Jesus, from whout all power comes, and for whose glory all
power is to he exercised; and sandy, If I send mie_to represent
me there whose knee refuses.to how to Him, and whose tongue
contbss that Ile is Lord, I ant in this•thing a
Ina toniv SaYtotie and my Goo.
A CITRISTIAN ELECTOR.
",See a tract adaressed ss the above,-and signed ANNOTATOR.