The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-08 00:00:00

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lent against the proposed govern-
ment grant to Maynooth has lain upon our counter

placed there has only been made known by a placai
in our own window, our office has been crowd(

many of whom have experienced considerable de-
tention before they have been able to approach any
of the six sheets which have been kept ready to re-
. Already thousands of persons,
the sheets will vouch, of respecta-

and information, and all of whom have
pended their trade or profession and address, have
signed this petition ; and we never remember, on
any similar occasion in which such petitions have
been lodged with us, observing so strong an anxiety

upon the subject to which they bore reference, or
hearing, from the various such grati-

_ .
ing expressions of opinion and such an unshrink-

Another strong fact, bearing upon this question,
and demonstrative of the feeling of Liverpool, is to

lions have ever been received as the conclusive tests
of the predominance of Conservative and Church of
England principles amongst the rate-payers of this
Radicalism never could make more than the
shew of a fight with us, in any contest where the
property and the intelligence of Liverpool was per-
mitted to have its legitimate influence. Yet, after
unparalleled efforts to rouse the feelings and ener-
gies of the Conservative ratepayers of the town nn
this occasion, we were defeated. Let us not be told
that this was the result of any strong opinions en-
tertained by Conservatives as to such matters as the
admission of reporters into the meetings of the Se-
lect Vestry. Let us not be told that this was, except
in pretence, a question of close vestries or open ves-
tries, or that the claptrap of " secret service money"
or the pomposities of the Mercury brought defeat
upon our heads.
_Emphatically, the cause of the

apathy which kept Conservative; from the poll was
the feeling of disgust, and almost of despair, excited
by the government measures. Men will not fight
in any cause when they see, as the only fruit of their
arduous struggles, abandonment and betrayal on the
part of those in whom they have confided. The

people of Liverpool will not' longer raise a hand to
advance to power or to sustain in power a part),
whose treatment of them in the day of prosperity is
as haughty and insulting as in the days of adversity
it is abject and fawning.

There is a leszon to he learnt in these displays of
public feeling. Would that Sir Robert Peel and
those who surround him, and cheer him on in the
destructive and innovating course which he is pur-
suing, would learn it in time !

We direct the attention of our readers, with pride
as well as pleasure, to our report of the proceedings
at the Amphitheatre yesterday. Of the various
speeches delivered, it would be invidious in us, if
not also presuming, to attempt to particularize the
hest. We may, however, point to the unanswera-
ble speech of the Rev. Mr. Nolan, as containing at
once a history and an analysis of the claim of May-
nooth upon us, and triumphantly negativing the
existence of anything like a national compact for its
support. Mr. Nolan has also blown tip completely
the flimsy structure of expediency which is at-
tempted to be set up by the ministerial advocates of
national endowment; and wound up his remarks
wi h a peroration, the fervid eloquence of which we
have rarely, if ever, heard surpassed. The speech
of Mr. Embank was also a masterly effort; and of
that of Mr. M`Neile, we need ouly say, that it was
worthy of that eloquent and uncompromising
minister of Protestantism.

Surprisingly able, however, as were the addresses
of the clerical speakers, we regard as first in im-
portance, and most calculated to tell with the coun-
try, and we trust with government as well, those of
Msssrs. Adam Hodgson and T. B. Horsfall.
Scarcely inferior in eloquence and talent, they pos-
sess a peculiar weight, as coming from men who, in
secular matters have so much cause to be satisfied
with the ministerial policy. It must he a deep and
conscientious conviction of the evil of their religious
and educational policy, which could impel such men
to stand forward and to agitate this question, and to
risk the fate of a ministry whose measures of corn
mercial and financial legislation are conferring such
a large measure of prosperity upon the nation.
Their Protestant fellow countrymen will appreciate
and admire their conduct.

GUARDIAN Gas BlLL.—This bill goes into committee
to-day and will meet with a fierce opposition.
The subject for the lecture at St. Andrew's this evening
is " The Christian pursuing things wh ch are lovely and
of good report.' "
Sir Howard Douglas voted against the motion for leave
to bring in the bill fur increasing the grant to Maynooth
College.

We understand that the contractors for the glazing of a
building now in course of erection in this town will save
on that contract alone above a thousand pounds by the re-
duction of the glass duty.

PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—On Sunday morning last,
after an appropriate sermon by the Rev. Thomas Nolan,
the sum of £lB 6s. was collected at St. Mary's Church,
Bootle. in aid of this excellent society.
The Bishop of Chester has licensed the schools belong-
ing to Trinity Church, Woodside, for the performance of
divine worship. The Rev. Mr. Baylee the incumbent of
the church has been induced to resort to this step in con-
sequence of the free sittings in the church affording alto-
gether inadequate accommodation for the rapidly increas-
ing accommodation.

On Sunday last, a sermon was preached in St. John's
Church by the Rev. W. Falloon, in behalf of the funds of
the Eastern Dispensary, and the hand.ome *um of
£3O Is. 611. was collected by the congregration.—We hope
that some other of our churches, whose districts have the
benefit of this charity, may be induced to follow so good
an example.

The Pistin Family gave a concert last evening, which
was well attended, and they base announced another for
t.iis evening, their last appearance in Livernool at present.
The well-krriwn merits of these performers, who lave
been so highly arid justly spoken of by all the leading
journ,ls of the day, we anticipate another crowded as-
sembly this evening, and we can strongly enj in all tho e
who have not heard their performance on these new in-
struments—the Sax Horns—riot to lose the opportunity
of tire entertainment for to-night.
M AYNOOTH.—PRESTSYTERY OF DUNFERMLINE.—The
following petition, on the motion of Dr. Ralph, formerly
of this town, and now of Dalgstty, respecting the grant to
Maynooth, was unanimously adopted by the Pre•bytery,
at their meeting last Thursday, and transmitted, for pre-
sentation, in the House of Lords. by the Marquis of Bute,
Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland, and by Mr. Colquhoun, in the Com-
mons :—" That it is reported, on authority, that a bill is
about to be introduced into Parliament, having for its ob-
ject to increase and render permanent the endowment of
the College of Maynooth, and thereby to give the highest
and most solemn national recognition to a system of doc-
trine and discipline, contrary, as the petitioners believe,
to the Word of God, adverse to the Protestant faith, as at
present established by law. and also injurious to the best
interests of t • e country, wrong, therefore, in principle, and
dangerous as to its results.—May it therefore please," &c.
EXHIBITION OF LANDING STAGES.—A very numerous
meeting of the projectors of the many ingenious plans,
now before the Dock Committee, was held on Wednes-
day evening last, at the Brunswick Hotel. Mr. T. Rum-
mens was appointed chairman ; and Mr. Walker, on be-
half of the provisional committee, laid before the meeting
their proceedings up to that time, and explained the re-
sult of an interview with Mr. J. Bramley-Moore, the
chairman of the Dock Committee, who had kindly voted
the use of the room in the Revenue-buildings for the pur-
pose of an exhibition. The chairman then read a very
able letter from London, which contained many valuable
suggestions on the proposed exhibition. It was unani-
mously resolved that an exhibition should take place, and
a committee of 12 gentlemen were appointed, and em-
powered to select from the disinterested scientific men of
the neighbourhood a further committee, who should be
solicited, previous to the closing of the exhibition, to di-
vide the models and plans into classes, and that a future
public meeting should award to such classes—or vote in
such other way as they may think fit—the proceeds of the
exhibition. After several talented addresses—many, we
are proud to say, from operative mechanics—the thanks
of the meeting were voted to Mr. Walker and the pro-
visional committee, to the chairman, Mr. Rammens, and
the vice-chairman, Mr. Boult, for their exertions.