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afford to employ you; there are no sales." They heard
this cry in every direction ; but no effort was made to-in
vestigate the subject and get rid of the nuisance. Whs
was it that intervened to prevent those who were willing
to consume from doing so ? It was nothing but bullioti
ism, which said, " You shall produce up to a certain
point, but no further." He would show them the nature
of the check. In order that the employer might get god
profits, and the laborers good wages, prices must be high,
They could not receive high profits or pay high wages out
of low prices. When prices rose, all the population were
comfortable. The foreigner came and sold cargo. He
partook of all their high prices, because all commodities
were high. He brought, say a cargo of wheat. When
he had sold it, he considered what he would take back.
He thought of iron, perhaps; but he found that iron was
£l2 a ton, and he could buy it in Sweden for £6 a ton.
He said, " I find that by an act introduced by Mr. Jones
Lloyd, and passel by Sir Robert Peel, there is one com-
modity that is always cheap—which never rises in price;
that is gold." He went to the bank of England with the
notes he received for his cargo, purchased gold, and car-
ried it away, instead of their manufactured goods. So
that they were hit double. They lost their gold, While
their manufactured goods were left on their hands. The
lecturer pursued this part of his subject at some lenth, and
proved from returns of declared and official value, that
from £60,000,000 to £70,000,000 were annually lost to the
country by the way in which the foreign trade was carried

At the conclusion of the lecture he was loudly cheered
as he had frequently been during its delivery.

CORRESPONDENCE.

CONVERSION OF CHUN-AH-YOU.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—Should you deem this communication of suffi-
cient interest to be entitled to a place in your columns, I
shall be obliged by its insertion in your next impression.
My chief motive in visiting the Chinese Exhibition was
with a view to enter into religious conversation with the
native of China who accompanied it; for until last Satur-
day I was not aware that any clergyman had had any
conference with him previous to my having spoken to him.
When I had surveyed the contents of the Exhibition, I
fixed on three colossal gilt statues as a pretext for my
introducing the subject of Christianity to Chun-ah-You,
but, now that he is a Christian, called Dili Qoung.
Taking an opportunity of seeing him quite disengaged, I
approached and asked him which one of those three sta-
tues represented Jos. He said they all represented Jos.
I then observed to him, that to make an image in a•
matter of religion was very wrong. He said, " How so ?
Catholics make images." " That is true," I replied,.
" but the Catholics do wrong in this; because the Bible,
which is the word of God who made us, says, ' non
shalt not make unto thee any graven image. or any like-
ness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.' "
" But," said he, " Catholics read the Bible." " Suppose
they do," I replied ; " it does not thence follow that they
are at liberty to make images in connexion with religion.
The reading of the Bible, without doing what it com-
mands or abstaining from what it forbids, will not be
sufficient to please God and to save us from punishment.
Those who make an image in connexion with religion,
are idolaters; and the Bible says that idolaters, as well
as the fearful and unbelieving and other wicked charac-
ters, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with
fire and brimstone. Those who read the Bible, and do
contrary to what the Bible tells them, drag the Bible
after them ; whereas the Bible ought to be allowed to
lead, and not made to follow them." Hereupon he
laughed. I observed that the subject about which I was
speaking was no laughing matter. He said, "You please,
sir, excuse my laugh, I could not help; you said so funny
about people dragging Bible after them." Upon my
asking him whether he were a Christian or a pagan, he
said that he was not yet a Christian, because he had not
been baptized. " There is another reason," I continued,.
" why we should not make any image of God; because
having never seen him, we do not know to what he is
like." He then said, "If you never see him, how you
know he is ?" " Very easily," said I ; " for there are
many things which we have never seen nor can see, which
we believe exist nevertheless. You have within you that
which fears, hopes, loves, &c., that is, your soul ; which,
though you never saw it, you know to exist within you.
You have been at Canton ; but though I was never there,
and so never saw that city, I believe that there is such a
place as Canton. Why, then, should we not believe that
there is God though we never saw him, when we have
ourselves and his other creatures above and all around us
as witnesses of his existence? Besides, his Son, Jesus
Christ, has declared him to us, and is the brightness of
his glory and the express image of his person, and, there-
fore, we must not make any image of God, because Jesus -
Christ Christ is the image of him, and that one image is suffi-
cient; and those who do not believe in him and know hum
through Jesus Christ will be destroyed, for " there is none-
other name under heaven given among men whereby we
must be saved." He then said. " They will not be de-
stroyed if they never hear about him ? " " Certainly
not," I replied. " The heathen or pagans will not perish
because they have not believed in Jesus Christ, about
whom they had not heard, but because they did not wor-
ship God rightly, but made an image through which to
worship him ; and you will be without excuse if you con-
tinue to do as you were taught from your youth, because
you have heard of Jesus Christ ; for it was with a view to
make him known to you that I entered into conversation
with you. Ile came into the world to obey and die for
us, that whosoever hears of and believes in him should
not perish, but have eternal life; and he will come once
more, as a judge, to call all men, who have heard his
Gospel preached to them, to an account es to their having
received and obeyed it, and to reward with the joys of
heaven those who have believed on him as the sacrifice
for their sins, and as the Lord their righteousness ; and
to punish with everlasting destruction those who did not
repent of their sins, believe in him for their pardon, and
did not obey his Gospel." "Do you say," he then asked,-
" that there shall be anything after this life?" " Yes,
there shall be; because the Bible tells us that it is ap-
pointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
and we shall assuredly meet again, and then if, notwith-
standing what I have said to you, you shall be found to,
have paid no attention, you will be punished, but I shall
have delivered my soul, because I warned you to flee-
from the wrath to come, and to believe in Jesus. Christ
for salvation." I then told him that I would see him
again ; and the substance of my subsequent interviews
with this interesting young man, shall form the subject
of a future letter.

Believe me to be, sir, your faithful servant,
SAMUEL FENTON

TVaverlree, 26th Sept., 1848

THE " BIRKENHEAD PROPHETIC HERALD.'

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Stn—l am obliged by your publication—last week—of
my note respecting the " Birkenhead Prophetic Herald
it has brought me the following, which perhaps you will
be so good as to insert for the satisfaction of the subscri-
bers generally.

" Dear Sir,—lf you wish it, I shall gladly return you
any balance due on the Prophetic Herald ; my doing so
to those subscribers who have paid me would save me
about £5O. I hope however to have a number printed in
about three weeks, as the matter is already in manuscript.
The delay has been totally unavoidable on my part.—
Faithfully yours, THE EDITOR."
Birkenhead, Sep. 27th, 1848.

Now, Sir, I think the subscribers cannot do better than
accept the editor's offer to return their money, for it ap-
pears that the number for January, 1847. is now only in
manuscript, and with the many duties the editor has un-
dertaken, they may rest assured there is no prospect of
the work being more regularly published. For my part,
I shall be quite satisfied with having the numbers already
published put into a readable form, they being yet with-
out index or title-page ; and I have written to request my
subscriptions may be returned to me.---I am, Sir, your
obliged, A SUBSCRIBER.

THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS.—A special meeting of the
bondholders was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern,
Mr. W. Ellice in the chair, for the purpose of sanction-
ing, or not, the raising of £50,000, on preferential mort-
gages, in accordance with the act.—The Chairman said
the money was required to complete certain works which
would benefit the undertaking.—Baron Goldsmidt, in
moving a resolution, said there was now a brighter pros-
pect of these great works being carried out than before.
The bondholders, if they chose to make a sacrifice, in
some degree, of the materials, had still within themselves
the means of accomplishing that part of the undertaking,
which would give ample accommodation to the timber
trade, by damming up the pool; but in the first instance
it had been deemed better to propose the issue of prefe-
rential mortgages. The resolution thereby empowered
the trustees to borrow £50,000, the tenders of which
would have a prior claim for their interest upon the reve-
nue that would be derived from the damming up of the
pool by the money proposed to be borrowed.—Mr. .1.
Bailey, jun., M.P., seconded the resoiution, to raise the
money as stated.—Mr. Rendel, the civil engineer, went
into some statistics of the docks. The works already
completed comprised the Woodside Basin of 16 acres, the
Morpeth Dock of 31 acres, the Egerton Dock (leading'
from Morpeth Dock to the Great Float) of 31 acres also,
making altogether 16 acres of basin and 7 acres of dock_
accommodation. In order to make the Great Float appli-
cable to the trade of the port, it was necessary to impound
the water ; and preparatory thereto a large culvert, neces-
sary to carry off the land water from Bidston Marsh, bad
been made at an expense of £30,000. The Morpeth Basin
and the Egerton Dock had been completed at a cost of
£160,000. It remained only now, therefore, to impound
the waters in the Great Float, in order to, make that ex-
tensive space available for the timber trade—a trade of
great importance, but very inadequately accommodated
at Liverpool. The Liverpool dock trustees went to par-
liament last session for a hill to construct a dock for the
timber trade, upon which they proposed to expend
£500,000. This work could not be executed under five
Or six years. He thought, therefore, it was prudent 10
the bondholders upon the Birkenhead Docks, who had
already expended upwards of £200,000 on works, and
£60,000 in plant, to spend £50,000 more to impound the
waters of the Float, fur the accommodation of this trade.

He had no doubt but that he could procure a contractor
who would execute the works altogether for £65,000.
Baron Ooldsmidt said he had no doubt whatever of the°
ultimate prosperity of Birkenhead, and that if he had not
so large a sum as £150,000 in the undertaking, he would-
not hesitate a single second in advancing the £50,000
hicnse"

f, so great was his confidence.—Theresolution
carried.—Another resolution, giving the preference of the
mortgages to the existing shareholders till the 16th Octe"
ber, was also carried.