The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

neath the dignity of the object sought to be advance°►
has too often degenerated into coarse and ribald vita'

peration. 'fiable
An instance of this intemperate and unjust'
malignity of advocacy has just been displayed bi the
l'ot
London Times, which has of late brought the sornewthe
doubtful aid of its very questionable character
to
world of journalism to the cause of the Tractari;
party. It may have been noticed, by those who glaried,
through the records of our criminal courts--lade,
the case was briefly reported in our own columns
that at the recent Staffordshire Assizes, an indiv:d of
of the name of GROVE was tried and found guilty
bot
a crime which is somewhat difficult of description, f
which involved in.the guilty person great distarrileod
moral principle. The individual in question was sta
to occupy the situation of a "lay assistant"
clergyman of the Church of England at Bursleo' ads
to have been maintained in that position by the fluid,
of the Pastoral Aid Society—a society of whose k.
fulness, in Liverpool, at least, we need not sPead
This society, however, is not favoured with the lovee,
the Tractarian party ; nay, its members and conaltni
are suspected of the unpardonable sin of disapPr°l
of the views and principles of that party ; and, p` nip
this hint " the Times proceeded, on Friday last,'.o
expend its bitterness upon the head of the offenul

body. the
After attributing, to the Pastoral Aid SocietY 01
introduction into the church of " a new descriptioll,o,
nondescript hangers-on called lay assistants," and.eit,4
pugning the constitution and practice of the S°clstii,
(in furnishing funds for the removal of spiritual de..vti
tution. and satisfying themselves:of the character übe
attainments of the men to whom those funds are °tile
accorded, and who are thus to be maintained in
spiritual office);'as "practically superseding and
f.°
ing contempt upon•thc Episcopal office, fettering •st
tian liberty, encroaching upon the' standards of d°cirid,
°.,11.d discipline established by the Church of Eligi ces.
~
VI r,‘,ting up a dangerous inquisition into the consciel! ,
' the clergy (!) and holding out, however unintelleils,(4lo
ay, a premium to cant and hypocrisy (H) ' r
pure and excellent friend of the church and °' so
'igloo remarks that "some light may be thrown e!tij
the question (as to the merits of the Pastoral
this
Society) by the circumstances of the offence of 0
man, Grove, which he characterizes, very prePerb,'o
revolting. Now, without going any further,
not ask, is this the kind of attack by which the "lear,
and pious men" of Oxford seek to advance theirviredie
or is it to be regarded as the attack, merely, In their
unprincipled Swiss who has taken service l°,
cause? What sincere. riend of the church or the
gion would use an argument so suicidal as tha off
declension of that man, or any individual, is date°3,6o4.
of the principles or practice of the Pastoral Aid S°clthe
The Socialist, or the Infidel, might argue, fro other
recent crime of the Rev. Dr. Bailey, or son'eleaci
unworthy occupant of the clerical office, the thew self
of episcopacy to purify the church, or of religion ;lose
to guard from crime; but assuredly no man o vii
religious convictions were not inferior in degree itioos
reckless partizanship—no man, whose procloc tiff
gra
were designed for any better purpose than to oaf
the diseased palates of the church-hating occuPaAri pot
a Whitechapel or Spitalfields dram-shop—wit, to
forward a doctrine so inconclusive. The lango*:
question is the language of the Times ; the sPir
that of the infidel Despateh! toll°
But the Times is not satisfied with the fact ka
who has been in connexion with the societY loat°
noxious to Tractarianism has fallen. The mere go of
ting over a circumstance so ordinary in this °aja
ours is not sufficient for the malignity of the lea pot
journal." It must be shewn that the societY batstiio
only been deceived—its tests not only failed--1)1/,011
its committee have winked at crime The defence%ai
for the unhappy man was that of insanity. °foal
proved, or at least sworn to by his father that' to
boyhood, he had been possessed of an ambit°,
shine in the church ; and that at length be Is'enfrota
lay agent to a gentleman. at Christ Church•
that gentleman," says the Times," he got testito°l
which he enclosed to the whole bench of bishoPso' be
hundreds of beneficed. clergymen :" and (vibewoolll
found that the bishops and beneficed del-013461.,
have nothing to do with him) he " applied fora -j.tss
troduction into .the Roman Cathdlic church?' Ata
last resource, he betook himself - to the Paster[cia
Society, and found no • difficulty in CO3f`fl
that body of his doctrinal orthodoxy, his
Dint'
rituality, and decided piety, and was by then.' a1):‘,
ed to minister, in a semi-clerical capacity"soitir
spiritual destitution of the people of 13ir
ham." After having vented a few bneeriiirsote
marks upon these facts, the Times goes un
in the same evidence, that "the societY ebad
to patronise him, after; on more than one trial, 00
been found wanting." Dismissed from a sittrlolire6,
Birmingham (in which he had been supported 'c'tboriti
months by the society) we are told—on the auti,vill!;
of the father which the Times unhesitatingly' ar;„ast"
out inquiry, adopts, in his zeal to damage tile j sit"
Aid Committee—he "obtained another similar 15,
ii
lion at Bristol. He was there nearly three I°°%," "
is about twelve months since he went to Bursich-•sali:,
But was he at Bristol and at Burslem—after 5",
conduct at Birmingham—still patronized by
ciety ?. The evidence itself upon which the 'll7n,esi,
says no such thing. It says he occupied a
situation," and it says no more. The olic
t'st.
ye
therefore, is that of the unscrupulous jouro'lle caseid".
us see, however, what are the facts of the wba,bat
The Times founds his case upon the fact roitr.)
criminal was at Burslem-at the time of ef:l3Chtly
his crime—a "lay assistant, in the pay of t'-'"
II
Pastoral Aid Society."ttf
The secretary of the society, Mr. Chati3l3o l,
liber"t
letter addressed to the limes—and we take the,
of believing the secretary—says, "IT is NOT r ;4°l;
the society -lead anything to do with Mr. Grove s 'ode
meat at Burslern ! He was there in no way, c°sioiofl,;
with the society ! The clergyrnau engaged s, of fr
aid from our funds! The society knew nothiflY

01/ transaction !" f into
What, then, becomes of the whole case 0. it
na.list,—if, indeed, he ever had a case at 3:lol)jei,e;
lion
of M`Naughten was just as pertinent 9.- 01'
n to the principle of the Pastoral Aid s°eietY
crime of this man Grove I too'
The Times asserts--upon his own authoritY'd toque
v tle have shewn—that " the society continite t.
onize him" after proved instances of inisconduccietf 6
r 11
secretary says '6 IT TS NOT TRUE" that the siijosvi,t
continued to patronize him, or had anythillg I°.
11.411
bun 0
' since the yeatlB4o, 'when he left 13°
Can the Times blush ? dized
Our journalist says that the society introneP
,h
new description of hangers-on of the church e:fiti,stitelit
assistants.' " The society did nothing of the l'hffore .'nf
"lay
assistants" existing in the church iong Os
Pastoral Aid Society was formed, The TiolesbesOf:ii
the society "appointing." The society, as allftortior
knows, never- appoints at all ! Need we g°t atPci‘iN
exposure of this shameless and tlisiwnes I°4
Surely we have said sufficient to vindicate
th O' fp;
from the scurrilities of such a writer. jotlay
ieti°
e
welcome his enmity, rather than pray for
of his support !

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TIIE COTTON MARNEI

We take the following paragraph from the city
3rtiCie
the Morning Herald of Friday last :
01
95 oil
A"triCtsl 10 ter
accountsliieltolg:Neiv`treiTcnvhilealaretn,egbe.ypsr from the manufacturing nif ,atio° re 9,4
observed on Monday, show a material atrien6;*- to g Itlifc
state of trade, which must necessarily give ri-,oneY,esPiro
naeotnedinnaceema
nofsor ers
aeltixinstyfeanesei, vwe3pdteornZtil
af orencruei actai 1;01
for?,
abroad in the cotton market at Liver Pool• Theices 0 co'eil
cotton, for not only is the stock on hlianctliii?linerttilieltillatllist?,
mon in former ears both in this country an ,ii 00 losttil,'e
States, but the late crop was more abunaa"tn the fot •re
former period, with a fair prospect accordin._ "cr01,...5 the„4
counts froth across the Atlantic of a very large..oble ''' of 1'
present year should the season prove as fav°"vos 0,5 t 9,,
was reason to expect, inasmuch as cultivationo,;tv ine
.4,4
extended. A rise in value in the raw comin
..u,' ith ;accii
ways tend in final result to depress consume ts'u(:.l;uocit. its;..criveolitiive:
factured article, and therefore discourage'Pre_f lab090105:ecl
as impede that improvement in the
can alone assure the comfortable subsistenco ii,i if ~10 .if
ner3' '4 ec" ott
of the community, afford the means 61 g, very •-P5 9 iti'
consumption, and benefit the revenue. :". all tinierido fiter
spirit is only too prevalent in Liverpool at allot t'rto it' On
ever the Bank of England and banks are c _ loch or, 017
reference to the interests of the community
_ustitiablYto ge;00,
fere rigorously it certainly must be most ibuiotiond poit'
repression of any attempt by rig and coll, routs 00
the prices of cotton, and run down,the in
ifigtiollieff
ssf
tauaclgirt,gui
ecerseaiti:raotavincte:ldeti
itill:eer
neNoval
yg s of operat i v e s . down
inPr Or $
the subject -of the someabovie)ailstteomegieitt, been it 153
bat Ilns 1. fto
aacricudrabtees to 0
50
?1:1;
Of all produce nothing can be named l n Woo 0
precedentedly low and eas Cmt.te be sot°
and is a decided index of l