The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-17 00:00:00

God help thee. Church a

In this thy time of nee

God be In this th
A present help
For foes are ores

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But they who hear th

Do work the deepest moron

Thoo'st been a champion for the truth,
And wielded well the sword.
Nor bast thy arm lost his strength
To battle for the Lord.
No, there are hearts within thee

Hearts that care not ti

The truth they loy

in their blood

Thy Ridleys. Cranmers, Latimer',

In spirit live again;
Yea. hosts of living saints bast thou
Like to those martyred men.
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,ra in thy walls

Who give thee secret thrust,
Who neath the robe of holy truth
Betray their sacred trust.

God help thee, Church of England,
Thou art in dang'rons straits
And foemen the

pressing hard
,Gainst thy beleaguered gates
But O' may stre

Amid the

battle's d

e given thee

To stand upon thy watch and guard

treachery within

ish thy armour, make it bright,

Plt on the helm and shield,

And fear not now t

two-edged sword

On right and left to wield.
Just to thyself and to thy God,
Fight manfully and true.
And lie. tho' earth and hell combine,
Shall bring thee victor through.

The prayer of faith is on thy side.
Unshaken trust in heaven,
And hearts that spurn the Romish chains
By their forefathers riven :
Thou standest on the word of truth.
The sure foundation stone.
Thy faith—'tis to he justified
By Christ and Christ alone.

Fear not, old Church of England,
Thou shalt securely stand,
When God has swept thy enemies
Like locusts from the land.
The hoary walls cemented strong

ed towers to heaven

With blood of martyrs slain
Shall lift their hall
While Engla

d shall remain

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THE WARS OF NAPOLEON.—From a rough calculation,
taken from the returns of those left dead on the fields of
battle in which Napoleon commanded, from Montenotte
to Waterloo, we make the amount 1,811,500; and if we
add those who died subsequently of their wounds in the
petty skirmishes, the losses in which are not reported, and
in the naval fights of which, though Napoleon was not
present, he was the cause, 2,000,000 will he far under the
mark. A picture of the fathers, mothers, wives, children,
and relatives of these victims receiving the news of their
deaths, would give a lively idea of the benefits conferred
upon the world by Napoleon.—Blackwood's Magazine.

THE FACTORY SYSTEM OF ENGLAND.-It seems to be
settled amongst observant and intelligent men of all par-
ties, that one of the most important questionb in our do-
ovhieh a minister can devote his at-
condition of society in the manu-
Within the past half cen-

mestic governmen
tention, is the
factoring distr

tnry, an entirely new element in our social•economy—a
kind of imperium in imperio, independent of the general
laws which govern societ-r, and out of its own sponta-
neously-created necessities calling for special rules and
special remedies—has presented itself. The anomaly of
the factory system is, that contemporaneously with its
growth, no salutary power of check and control has sprung
up, the consequence being, that whilst the whole has be-
come vast by constant accumulation, it has also become
intractable and dangerous. Rudi sindiyestique moles, it
is politically powerful without being constitutionally
sound, a treacherous volcanic mountain, ever trembling
with the workings of intestinal mischief, rather than a na-

tural bulwark, promising security and ensuring peace—an
impending peril rather than an enduring strength to the
nation of whose social structure it has become a part.—
Dublin University Magazine.

DESCRIPTTON OF SIIEZ.—Suez is not very inviting at
the distance of three miles from the shore, where large
vessels usually anchor. It gains nothing as you approach
in a boat rowed and tracked by swarthy Arabs, and when
you get fairly within its walls, you are satisfied that its ex-
terior has not deceived you. Every thing, excepting the
court-yard of the Caravanserai, which does duty for a cus-
tom-house, and contains numerous bales of silks, drugs,
grain, &c.—denotes poverty and wretchedness. The
houses, built of rough-hewn lumps of rocks cemented by
mud, or a clay composed of sand, water, and coarse lime,
have a dun-coloured exterior, in capital keeping with the
dirty faces of the people and the soil on which the town is
built. Still, there is enough in Suez to interest, at the
first view, a traveller who has never before beheld a purely
Mahomedan town. The place is thickly inhabited by
Arabs, Egyptians, Copts, and a few Turks. Caravans of
camels, which have just arrived, laden with merchandise
from Cairo, or awaiting, recumbent, their loads of wealth
from the further East; mules and donkeys saddled for
travellers; an occasional horse covered with gay trap-
pings ; the long, dark bazaar and the lofty minaret ; the
'veiled and masked female, and the swarthy, bearded male,
present a picture perfectly new even to the eye of an
Englishman fresh from India, and attest the character of
the land.—Overland Trips, in the Asiatic Journal.

AN EGYPTIAN WIFE.—Poor Fatima! shrined as she
was in the palace of a tyrant, the fame of her beauty stole
abroad through Cairo. She was one amongst a hundred

in the harem of Abbas Pasha, a man stained with every
foul and loathesome vice; and who can wonder, though
tened to a daring young Al-
) obtain but a sight of her ;
r not none can ever know, but the
arnaut's arms as he leapt
nd vanished in the dark-
)llowing night a merry Engl sh party dined
rd Lord E-'s boat, as it lay moored off

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whether she did list(

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together on
the isle of I

the calm ii

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