The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-10-09 00:00:00

COAYTEMPORARI" PRESS.

•It now appears certain that our ambassador to the
Court of St. Petersburgh must signalize his entrance into
the' plack Sea by, a fresh recognition of the supremacy of
Russia,. and a new instance of humiliation to the British
flag. This is only what we anticipated. Our corres-
pondence from the East has recorded only • Russian
triumphs, Russian insolence, and disgraceful acts of sub-
mission on the part of those who ought to assert the
honour and protect the interests of Great Britain ever
since the present ministers first came into office. For
directing the attention of the British public to this im-
portant subject, the unblushing sycophants of the Lord
of the immortal protocols hive been ordered to assail us
with all the impotent energy of their feeble malice.
Their zeal, it must be admitted, is great, though their at-
tempts to silence the voice of truth are hopeless. Nothing
can make the. conduct .of ministers more contemptible
than it is, except to be so defended.
This list act of national disgrace which Lord Durham's
voyage to Odessa brings upon us might surely have been
avoided by his Lordship choosing another route to St.
Petersburgh, in the first instance, than that by Constan-
tinople. Why did he not travel by ,the route which he
took before, on his former abortive mission to the
Autocrat, which cost the country more than the diplo-
macy of the radical admirer of the Autocrat will ever be
worth r Why should Lord Durham and the ministers
be ostentatious of the disgraceful position of England in
the East ? Knowing that they had not the sense and
spirit to vindicate the honour of the British flag against
the insolent demands of Russia, why did they wantonly
and unnecessarily expose the weakness and degradation
of English policy to the world, by contriving that the re-
presentative of his Britannic Majesty should take the
only route to Russia that could lead to a new demonstra-
tion of the almost incredible meanness with which our
" liberal" government submits to the insults Of that bar-
barian power ?
Was it not enough that Mr. Ellis should have been re-
cently smuggled in a steamer through the Bosphorus and
the Black Sea to Trebisonde, without the same act of
humiliation beino' gone through in conveying our am-
bassador to St. Petersburg ? The public recollect our
explanation of the affair of the Afesange and the Volao'e,
which the French ministerial papers, being ashamed to
dis Close the truth, so elaborately mystified. The French
government were ashamed Of' confessing that they sub-
m'itted 'to humiliations similar to those which the anabi-
tibus and insolent Autocrat imposes upon us ? As to
Louis Philippe, he has a strong selfish motive for sub-
mitting to the insults of the Northern despots. He en-
deavours, by the basest sacrifices of principle, to propi-
tiate the absolute powers towards ' his yet unsettled
dYnast.V, and to wipe out the stain of his revolutionary
title. But what motive can the English government
have for submitting. to such insults ? Why is-it that in
every skip which they have yet taken in the East, or in
every step which they have omitted to take, they have
shown themselves always more ready to uphold the ab-
surd• and auctacious pretensions of Russia, than to assert
the honour anif-maintain the interests of their own coun-
try ? Even the poor fallen Sultan insults us to gratify
his Russian lord and master ! When did England, that
howedc riot tb NapoleOn, ever fell in, low before ?
gorn!ng Herald.

ORDINATION AT GLASSNEVIN.—THIRD CENTENARY OF
THE REFORMATION.-:-OR Sunday last, being the third
centenary of the glorious Reformation, three candidates
far the holy office of Priesthood, and twelve for the Dea-
conship, were ordained for the saved service in Glass-
nevin Church, by the Lord Bishop of Kildare.
It is truly a delightful thing to behold so many young
men of high education, sound morals, and Christian piety,
coming forward at this rnoinent of distress and persecu-
tion, and devOting their talents and their lives to the
service of true religion in a church from whose dilapi-
dated revenues they can expect no adequate compensation
for their labour—not even entertain the prospect of an
adequate support. If ever men can be supposed disin-
terested in their holy calling, these must be considered
so; nor can any impulse be imagined to have led them
to these offices, save the pure motive of preaching faith-
fully to all men the everlasting truths of the Gospel, and
of fulfilling that solemn engagement unto which they
bound themselves by their ordination vows of endeavour-
ing diligently to banish all pestilent heresies him) the
church;- and (as an inclusive duty) removing all popish
error from the land.

It has been said that our Church is a falling—a decay-
ing Church :—that the number of its ministers is super-
fluous and ought to be reduced. Here is the answer.
Fifteen clergymen have on one day been called into
actual and immediate service in the several districts spe-
cified; and the demand fur young clergymen of pious
minds and active habits is every day increasing more and
more, not because the profession is beneficial to 'them,
but because their ministry is more and more required by
the wants of the protestant population. It is a fact, that
on the very day of their ordination several of these gen-
tlemen were required to assist in the celebration of that
auspicious epoch dhosen for the commemoration of the
great and glorious. reformation of the Church: the third
centenary of the day on Which the Bible was first pub-
lished in an English version. The omen is a good one.
We trust the persons thus set apart for the ministry will
remember the duty involved of faithfully preaching and
propagating the contents of that Holy Book.—Dublin
Evening Mail.