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rgument of our contemporary be worth any

rectors, because of their vet y official

A character, (for it is

have been selected by the May( r on the ground of personal
respect and private friendship. But we are bold to go
further, and to claim for Mr. M'Nrile's public position
and professional eminence, attested by the unanimous
voice of all the highminded in the empire, every tribute
of respect that the town in which be lives and labours
could render unto him ; any omission of which could only
react upon those that miserably forgot themselves, in
overlooking him. 'Tis true, be holds but a subordinate
station in the church; but be it remembered that he is
self-excluded by the stedfastness of that inteerity that
rebukes the temporising policy of the present day. And
if he prefers to continue amongst us in Liverpool, 'tie
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• r •••••• ••,./.V.1....0".11U1116 ‘IIC gailUiriiig Viler of rang anti emolument
housing" had taken place under the Imperial British from a noble patron in his own country. Nor will there
Possessions Act. The Ministers could have no possible be a person present calculated to reflect more lustre on
motive in in•iting on the passing of this specious but the cause or the company than the honoured clergyman
barren resolution, unless it were one simply political, whom party spirit would fain exclude.
'oor I one which we shall not conjecture, or perhaps it were to In another part of the same article, the Mercury at...

e for the next reso

the Governor, under the like condition of the British Act
being passed, to allow American grain to be imported and

pected chief magistrate, because 01 his refusing the same
hospitalities and attentions to the Romish priesthood that

ground by millers, duty free, under bond of re-export.
This is some small concession to sound principle, but a
very small one, and has provoked much hostility. The

" he was only too happy and too proud to shower upon a
Mahometan, whose fellow-religionists look upon us as
Christian dogs, and amongst whom the sworn evidt nee of

ments is shown in the made of dealing with analogous
cases. Sir Rob ,rt Peel and the Lords of the Treasury

here is no possible parallelism between the two
here is no reason that they should 1

governed by

grant licenses for the free importation of foreign produce
for domestic consumption, subj,ct to bond for the pay-
ment of the extant duties, shbuld Parliament refuse the
Bill for their abolition. Lord Cathcart and his Council
allow the import of foreign wheat for grinding in bond

same rule. To Ibrahim Paella, as the representative of a
mighty dynasty, one that holds the power and possession
of the great a'ienue of transit between Europe and the
East, that generously affords

for re-export only, but take the duties, subject to the
condition of returning them, if the Governor is in a posi-

all travellers, and to which England in particular is deeply
indebted for the rapidity and regularity with which she
to

now communicates wit

ental e

be effected

. _
We now turn to the remarks of a great statesman,
better conversant with the political position, at least, of
this colony, than any other who ever occupied the post of
Colonial Secretary, and whose definition of ' responsible
government,' in his memorable despatch to Lord Syden-
ham, has been generally accented by the constitutional

propriety, extended such hospitality and courtesy as that
distinguished stranger had reason to expect awl right
to receive at the hands of the first magistrate of such a
town as Liverpool. In all this there was not the slightest
recognition, much less sanction, of the principles of

great debate of the 15th ultimo, in his reply to Mr
D'lsraeli, Lord John Russell is reported to have said :
.

led astray by supposing that there was. cm the orner
hand, in the case of the Romish hierarchy, the very _

" • The hon. gentleman referred to our colonies, and
asks, are we going to ruin them? Now, I do not think
that we run anv risk with respect to our colonies. (near.

official representatives of the principles of their church.
Let some of the loyal Roman Catholic gentry of the town.
or county be invited by all means ; we never mean to bold

e which they may enjoy from the differential
The law for the colonies, I think. ought to be
proceeded with mote gradually than that with respect to
the people of which they are the representatives; but be-
ing, as they are, united to this great empire, they will not

them to be unacquainted, and from which, we believe,
that most of them, in their honest hearts, would most
righteously recoil. With the ecclesiastics, however, of
that church -" "

And we quite agree with the
Mayor (even though the respected name of Rector Brooks
. I
is alleged in the Journal as authority against Ix.). that it

Consort, were he to ask to meet him the executive of a sys-
tem that regards himself and his Queen as nothing better
than heretics (we thank the Mercury fur the suggestion).
and that is ready, at a moment's notice, should only the
opportunity present itself, according to the authorised in-

c Doctor

Queen Victoria, and absolve her subjects from all allegi-
v.nce to her.

In dealing with the principles involved, we have for—
gotten for a moment the particulars of the case and of the
charity, that has given to Liverpool the honor of receiving
and entertaining the Consort of our beloved Queen.
h is the establbhment of a Sailor's Home for the much

neg'ected seamen that resort to our magnificent port
Did it occur to any one of the gentlemen of the,

'se unanimity is so vaunting

y spoken of, to as

Iverpool, or

_ the
neighbourhood, another more entitled to any compliment
arising out of that cause and charity, than the very rev.
gentleman whom they seek so unworthily to exclude? Is
the meeting forgotten, held for the establishment of this
very Sailors' Home; under the presidency, and during the
mayoralty of Mr. Sands ? Does Ai r. Aikin forget the part
that Mr. M`Neile took at that meeting? Can any of those
who were present ever forget the thrilling effect upon the
assemb!e d merchant princes of Liverpool of the speech he

re ever calculated

how much of the generous response, with which the appeal
from that meeting was answered by the town, is owing to
his powerful advocacy, and the manner touching and resist-
less in which he put forward its claims ? Or has it occur-
efl to any of them whether they may not again be in a con-
dition to require his aid, whom they are not unwilling to
associate with them in the hour of difficulty, albeit reluc-
tant to admit him to the small tribute of an invitation to

dinner in their moment of triumph. These con'idera-
tions, however, will have as little weight with Mr. M'Neile
on the one hand as they appear to have had with the com-
mittee of management on the other. He will be ready as
before, we ate sure, whenever either the glory of God or

the good of his fellow•creatores affords an openir

for his

In the days of republican Rome, 'tis told that when
Marcus Manlius had incurred the displeasure of the fickle
multitude, and was put upon his trial in the Campus Mar-

he pointeC

lot defended by his courage,
The appeal was resistless. and

and preserved by his arm

his ruthless persecutors had to

him away to the Pceti—

line Grove, where the Capitol—the monument of his ber—

mind," before they effected his condemna ion. Compare
even with that spark of generous remorse the conduct
mongst us of the retainers of Rome, modern and Papal,
ry cra-

mild fain immolate Mr. M`Neile upon 110

) existence

in kindness forsooth to the Prince, or with a view to pre-
serve the harmony of the evening, as the Journal insi❑u-
ates, they would shut him out from the opportunity of

hearing such an address as the
tenderness, with which Mr

for example, of subduing
M'Neile, in urging the
..,' Home, assoriattd them
titer for a beloved absent

gs of the Sailer

sailor son. tTe know not, of course, how it will end.
But if Mr. Al'Neile be not present, one of the brightest
ornaments of our.town will be wanting, and the pithy
words of Mints rernetnbe,ed foy many:—

WOMAN'

OF RED-HOT IRON

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