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none. The warehouses, so far as possible, are conducted
upon the much vaunted, and, we believe, excellent Lon-
don system, under the direction of two gentlemen tho-

ints against them, it is on account of the faithful-
nfss with which that system is carried out; and in few
cases—we believe in none—have the merchant,i of Liver-
pool themselves, on proper enquiry into the existence of
alleged grievances, come to any other conclusion than
that the management is excellent.
Again, we ask our sage contemporary to point to any
"shameful mismanagement"—tor that is the only tan-
gible part of his charge, with the exception of that which
imputes motives, upon which we shall ,ay a few words,
although they are scarcely required.

Our contemporary talks about a " predominant in-
owners in the Dock Committee
we to 1,,o1; f r that predomi-

fluence" of warehou&
and in the Council.

this year retired from the Council? In the Council, or
in the Dock Committee, ee are no aware of the p esence
of one individual who can be called a warel.ouse owner,
in the invidious sense of the term. ?dr. William Earle,
we know, is interested it► wan-house property; Mr, James
Brancker is rather a Leviathan in that way. Few
merchants of high standing and property in Liverpool
are without some property of this desc,iption. Are
all these men—some of whom the Mercury would faro
call his chuMs, but who repudiate him a, a clog upon them
politically—venal men? Some of the Dock Committee,
too, we dare say, have warehouses, although we do not at
present remember any such. Are all these venal! Is there
any man in that committee, or in the Council, capable of
the meanness and rascality imputed ro them by the Mer-
cury T If there be, we say point him out, by name!
We are not afraid of any member of our own party; we
should Izzl sorry to impute anything so scandalous, on
loose grounds, to any political opponent.

THE LATE REV,

DR. TATTERSHALL

As we announced in our last, the Rev. Hugh 11,1'Nei'e
preached the funeral sermon of the lamented Dr. Tatter.
shall, on Sunday morning, in St. Augu-tine s church.
The edifice was- completely thronged. Every nook and
standing place was crammed to exce s, and many—hun-
dreds we should say—retired from the doors regretting
their inability to obtain admission. Never, indeed, did
we see a desire so universally manifested to join in the
last service in reference to any individual.
It will perhaps be an appropriate sequel to the short
biographical notice of Dr. Tattershall gi'en in the last
Standard, now to print a portion of our notes of Mr.
WiNeile's sermon. We feel assured the report will be
acceptable to our readers, but at the sane time we hope
the discourse will be published in a separate and complete
form, as a lasting memorial of a good man's life and
works.

The text was taken from the 56th and 57th verses of
the 15th chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthi ns—
" The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the
law. But thanks be to Good who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ." Mr. M'Netle com-
menced his discourse by an affecting allusion to the rea-
son for hls occupying the position—" the request of one
whose circumstances were well calculated to awaken the
deepest emotions of Christian sympathy."
Having, in his usual felicitous manner, expounded the
words of the text, and enlarged upon their applicability
to the circumstances of the congregation—and, indeed, of
all—sheaving that the triumph over death and the grave is
by faith in Christ, Mr. M'Neile specially referred to Dr.
Tattershall in these words :

Now, our dear departed friend participated in this holy
triumph. He entered by faith and hope i❑ the enjoyment of
this victory. He received, not in word only, but in power also,
and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance, the sublime
truth of the resurrection of the body. Frequent were my com-
munications with him upon this very subject; and whatever
difference remained as to some of the revealed details, there
was no difference in the "assurance" that entered into his
soul. The word of God, simply taken, was the paramount au-
thority to his cultivated mind. His earliest impressions, even
during childhood, were calculated to produce this unhesitating
confidence in the revelation. Much has been said of a Chris-
tian mother's influence, and of the benefits and blessings in
after life which may often be devoutly traced to that sweet and
sacred source. it 18 a precious theme, full of encouragement,
compensating the anxious cares and and trembling tenderness
of a mother's heart: True, indeed, it is, that saving grace is
not hereditary ; but it is equally true that the God of all grace
works by means, and is a hearer of affectionate, earnest, and
persevering prayer. And it is true that the great Apostle of the
Gentiles himself, the champion of free grace, was tilledwith joy in
the remembrance of his beloved Timothy, because of the unteign-
ed faith which in his grandmother and in his motherunited. 1 es,
it is a gracious blessing of God to be derived from a compara-
tively religious stock. This was the case with your beloved
pastor. The celebrated John Wesley knew his parents; and
upon the occasion of their marriage, his observation was,
" They are a God-fearing race, amid God's blessing must rest
upon them." It certainly was so in the case of their son
Thomas. He was taught to lisp his infant prayers and
hymns at his mother's knee; and his advancing powers of
mind and body were watched and watered with many secret
tears and aspirations. Upon his first removal from the imme-
diate care of his parents, be was placed under Dr. Johnson, of
Bristol. There, in addition to very valuable domestic and

classical advantages, he had the farther privilege of worship-
ping in the congregation of Mr.Viddal, an of hearing the truly

were soon manifested. It became the custom, and it was be-
lieved to have arisen mainly from the influence of Thomas
Tattershall, for the boys at Dr. Johnson's to perform church

service every Saturday evening, not as a part of the school
duty, but as a matter of private edification amongst them-
selves. A pulpit and desk were arrang,ea in their bed-room ;
and in that species of imitation and approximation which is de-
lightful in children, some portion of the liturgy was used, and
it sermon preached. This became so attractive to our dear
friend—then in his thirteenth or fourteenth year—that he was
almost invariably the preacher. Mrs. Johnson, without in-
truding upon them, contrived to be an auditor frequently in an
adjoininpr room. Silto raid the oormone dolivorod were carefully
prepared, and written out; and I have been put in possession
of a very interesting fact concerning some of theseuvenile
compositions of oar valued brother, namely, that Dr. Johnson
arranged a small volume of them from manuscript, and
_ . . _ them -

) a pious friend of his, the master of an Eait Indianian,
to read to his crew during their voyage. As our dear brother
advanced in years and knowledge, it became his ardent desire
to continue his education, and his theological studies, at one of
the universities. This wish was warmly seconded by his
mother. But for a time his father demurred. His father's
objection was not in the least degree of a sectarian cha-

the notion of training his son to the ministry of the
Gospel as a trade, and he disapproved of an entrance
upon that sacred office without the evident call and pre-
paration of the Holy Spirit. His wife asked their son whe-
ther he designed the sacred ministry as the result of bis theo-
logical studies at the University, and, if so, whether he thought
himself called to such an office. His reply has been transcribed
for me verbatim by a near relative; it was this ; " I will never,
my dear mother, enter the ministry unless I feel the same obli-
gation laid upon me as was laid upon St. Paul : " Woe be unto
me, if I preach not the Gospel." Both his parents were satis-

fled, and he was entered at Queen's College, Cambridge. Of
his academical career Ido not speak. It is written upon dis-
tinguished record. But eminent as his attainments were, es-
pecially in mathematical pursuits, the wisdom of this world

appearS never to have been his chief object. As a member of
the university, he was favoured with the friendship of Mr.
Simeon ; and whilst gaining golden opinions as a scholar, he
was gaining what is better than much fine gold as a Christian.
His call to the ministry of the church became manifest, and in
due time he obtained the curacy of the small united parishes
of Seygall and Charlton Abbott, in Gloucestershire. He
preached his first sermon. in the church of St. NVerbergh, in
Gloucester : his text was, " For as many as are led by the spirit
of God remain sons of God." He remained in Gloucester-
shire only a few months, and since that time his history be-
longs to Liverpool. He early attracted the attention, and was
long favoured with the friendship of Dr. Ryan, Bishop of Glou-
cester ; and it was principally through his interest that the
young pastor was presented to the church of St. Matthew.
The minds of many among you will readily anticipate anything
and everything I could utter, concerning the fervent piety, the

characterised his course'there

Many there are who sti

back to tbe little church in Key-street, and the schools con-
nected with it, as the scenes of some of their best and happiest
hours. His ministry there was of a truth gr,ounded on God's
blessing. No fewer than six of his young friends rose up
around him to tread in his footsteps in spreading the truth.
One went abroad to preach the Gospel to the heathen, and died
in his Master's work. Who shall estimate how many of those
who were called of God, through the instrumentality of our
friend, have " crossed the flood," and are now hailing with de-
light the accession to their number of their beloved Father in
Christ I Those, and others who yet remain and are alive, shall
appear with him in the day of triumph—his joy, his crown of

Referring to Dr. Tattersh%ll, as the beloved minister of
St. Augustine's, the Reverend preacher said :

About fifteen years ago the church in which we are now as-

sembled was erectec

for our values

labours was in some measure changed. The rest is known to
you all. Whilst his mind was stored so as to reciprocate full-
ness in the communications of the most educated men, his
disposition and character in matters practical continued those

touch .the very depths of a subject of difficulty, and wheni
compared what I then heard with what I knew of the imposi

tions continually practised upon his unsuspecting heart, i
often thought of applying to him in my own mind, the exhor-
tation of St. Paul to the Corinthians, which says, " Brethren be
not children in understanding "—in malice be children,—but
in understanding be men. Ile thoroughly understood, and was
cordially attached to the Church of Engldnd. He rightly ap-
preciated both her fidelity and her toleration. He knew how
to distinguish between unhesitating condemnation of false doc-
trine, and the slightest approach towards the persecution of
them who held it. He would not have hurt the finger, no, nor
needlessly have wounded the feelings, of any member of the
church of Rome ; yet he was always ready to take his place—
and it was a prominent place—in our dutiful defence of our
National Protestantism. When some persons, alas I too many,
either for want of real and therefore of permanent interest in
the subject, or from prudential motives with regard to their
their worldly interest, or from vain unexamined apprehensions
of mixing politics with religion, or from any other cause, with-
drew themselves, and considered it their duty no longer to

countenance or 'co-operate in our Anglican irotest, he was
N ever steadfast—he was always to be depended upon. o world-
ly prudence, no sickly liberalism, no secret want of confidence
in the word of God, ever interfered with his frank and free, and
earnest advocacy. Oh I with what simple kindness he took and
maintained his important post That post is now vacant. **.
A sketch of Dr. Tattershall's charac' er as a minister
followed ; and Mr. M'Neile, referring to the final event
which separated the pastor from bis flock, said :

It was a fortnight yesterday since he was seized with his
last illness. Up to that day he was in his usual health, going
his usual rounds of affection and love. Only a day or two be-
fore, hearing of the serious illness of Mr. John Topham, he
hastened to his bedside, to mitigate his `sufferings, and dispel
his fears, by the glad tidings of redeeming love. I specify this

the same day, and upon the same day were committed to the
earth—" earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Our dear
brother's case, up to Saturday, was such as to render him wholly
unfit for the discharge of his public duty next day ; but, in the
face of kind and repeated remonstrances, he persevered, to re-
deem the pledge which he conceived he had given to you, in
the public announcement that he would plead the cause of
schools. You were witnesses of the unusual and alarming
weakness which attended his last effort. You were afflicted
with the intelligence that in the afternoon, and evening of the

was accomplished. His disease rapidly progressed. Tile nature
of it, and the frequently recurring necessity for the administra-
tion of opiates, rendered any prolonged conversation impracti-
cable, neither was it needed. A few things he did say. In his
bodily agony lie observed, "This would be a bad time for a man
to ask for his pardon." Mid in reply to a very different sort
of comment upon the same subject, he said, Beloved, there is
no occasion to despair.' He said he was quite happy,' and he
repeated the expression " quite." He said "it would not be
easy to realize----" he was unable to finish the sentence. The
last connected sentence he had the power to utter was ad-