The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-26 00:00:00

THE BISHOPS.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL STAND.IRD.
SIR,—It is an ancient maxim that they who profess much
generally do little ; and this was never more clearly exemplified
than in the case of those who now hold the responsible offices
in the government of this kingdom, who, to draw the public
attention as much as possible from their own proceedings, are
continually abusing the conduct of those who hold opinions at
variance with their own; and when the principals have recourse
to deception, it is only likely that their supporters will be im-
pregnated with similar feelings. Consequently, we find the
public journals which uphold their principles frequently making
assertions void of truth, and calculated to mislead those who
place reliance upon their statements. From the " leading
journal," the London Times of Thursday last, the following
extract is taken. Speaking of the defeat of the Local Court
Bill in the House of Lords, they state :—" It is lost through
the virtuous instrumentality of the bishops and of proxies. What
do we infer from this? Is it that no more bills for cheapening,
facilitating, and expediting justice, will be introchiced or carried
through Parliament.? No! undoubtedly our conclusion is, that
bishops will sooner and more certainly forfeit their legislative
privileges, and that proxies, those automata of the art of law-
making, will be altogether abolished." Now any person who
refers to the list of voters upon this bill, will perceive that the
whole of the bishops who voted, either personally or by proxy,
were in the minority; and although it has been tile practice cif
the spiritual lords, for a length of time, to abstain from voting
upon any question, except some important changes in the con-
stituliou were contemplated, or the interests of religion at, stake,
still they have as equal a right to express their opinion upon
any proceeding in the house as any other member : so that if
this bill did not meet wiih their approbation they were amenable
to no man for opposing it. Thus it is that the liberal" spirit
of the present day is exercised in endeavouring- to traduce those
whose conduct is above reproach, and whose station in society
ought to protect them from such invidious attacks. But it is to
be hoped that such conduct will be placed to the proper source,
and the guilty parties meet with their desert.

101.1191MINIF.
patronized by the
although recommended by the Radicals and a
The inhabitants of Greenwich, disappointed that their Curate.
Times, has not got the living vacant• by the
'hearing that Lord
death, are, we are totd, in great alarm at incumbent's
to Bill Soames.
Grey has given this valuable piece of preferment,
acrovernment have l
op
latrtoo
The appointments recently made by the
out that the recently
ren-
dered it extremely probable, brita 1
of Lord Grey's, is out
presented gentleman, although_ protege
awe
i name.—John Bull.
the well-known individual of the
s letter was addressed by a veteran
seaman to Admiral B
The following humorous letterw adriressed by a veteran
seaman to Ad,ral floscaWen :___
,‘ Sir,—l had the honour of
being at the taking of
Port Mahon, for which one gentleman
also at the losing of Mahon, for which
was made a lord; I was
made a lord •eachof'
has been
menanother gentlemanl-,it one of those services; surely I, who Der
performed
tat least to be made a lieutenant.-• ' '--
fornied both, ought
honours humble servant," &c
all from your lion
H —III the ch - h *
A MoriEsT ErimPo.u..ar
.1
~ me of Saragossa is to be
seen the following s,,in, I. cpi aph on a chorister to one of the
Kings of Spain : tieie lies Juan Cabecca, chorister of our '
lord the King. When he was received into the choir of angels
• neitation of that hay
in agt . . company, his voice was so ilis-
the r that
est, God
tinguu ishable nomhimself even hearkened to
him with attention, and at last said rather severely to the angels,
'hold your tongues, ye calves, and let Juan Cabecca, chorister
to the king of Spain, sing my praise ! !'" We may talk of the
nonsensical ravings of the disciples of Mahomet, and of the
wild ignorance of the distant savages, but here, in haughty and
civilised Spain, the kingdom of his most Catholic Majesty, the
nation of monks and gloomy convents, we have specimens of
presumptuous ignorance and proud blasphemy that would shock
an infidel.
THE NEW STAGE-COACH ACT.—The bill now before Parlia-
ment for the purpose of amending the present stage-coach act,
we fear, if allowed to pass into a law, will prove a greater pub-
lic nuisance than ever, and the lives of his Majesty's subjects
will be
.placed in more imminent danger than heretofore ; for,
by the intended bill, it would appear that the proprietors of
stage-coaches may, by paying to the revenue extra duty, carry
as many passengers, as they please, which will be seen by the
following scale:—By paying 2d..a-tnile duty, a stage-coach may
carry 5 outside -passengers ; 2d.. 8; 3d., 11; 3P,, 12; P. 14;
a halfpenny
4d.,
16; •, 7 2. •97 carry a
-mile extra duty a coach proprietor may two extra out-
side
passengers. It is therefore quite evident that in the framing
of this bill the safety of the public has been a secondary con-
sideration,

SECOND EDITION.

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