The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-14 00:00:00

epared after the 31rt January

iew league free-
holders should have a bond fide interest in the soil,
of forty shillings per annum. He is not to be an
independent man, but the most dependent goose
that ever was tethered on a common. John Nokes

iat the

or Th

Snooks,

•arehouseman, or clerk, is to

take his ten or twenty pounds from the Savings'
Bank, invest it in some piece of brick and mortar
rubbish, give his free-trade master a note of hand
_ .

his till

)ond slave of

that master, to

n to the

poll, under a penalty

h we need not hir
to the Le

) vote for whatever ca

4ue mpy select as most likely to do its
be persons asinine enough to
atarilv under such thraldom
to risk - -

bidding ! There ma

thews

n who are ready

venture

But we

h I would

io think their number cannot be many. " This last is a subject on whici.
'.ook a little further, however, into the de- But lam desirous of saying. with reference to some inch-
'- There is ;he ordeal of viduals of high station, on whose public conduct I deemed
it necessary publicly to remark, that I rejoice to believe
n registration court to be gone thrcugh. Is it in- that there was much of misapprehension of motives—
;ended by the virtuous free-trade plotters that their
something, it may be, of mistake of facts.
faggots should swear to the possession of a bond fide "In respect'
to one eminent person, in particular, I
rroperty, worth 40 shillings a-year, where the real cannot doubt the statement made by him of his own
',Twenty pounds, or perhaps actual conduct; it is plain, therefore, that the terms in
Could Dr. Blackburne, for which he had claimed a right to act and speak. in resist-
ance
expressly
notah denied)
, who has told us that the plan of operations by him to
the lawful
foorrdheer ohfa s slhishbeieshpPeox,
League involved " nothing dishonest or im- hehad
t o imply
exercisedly that right, as his Worlds ethern)setlveta II
y and ,hear his mortar grinder, or induced me to conclude.
c,.oona, swear to the possession of a clear income "Of all the harassing and painful incidents of the last
if 40 shillings a-year from a property, of which few weeks, these personal c,nflicts have been by far the
eaid mortar-grinder or groom did not in reality siotshtev harassingh i
o e
v e
rand e painful.eol
But, May they
fever
m hencefortha
have behe
been
than the door-steps or the window-shut- the temporary results, Ido not arid cannot mayyregret that I'
title deeds of which the said Doctor i deemed it necessary publicly to assert those principles of
Can any honourable and Church authority which it is alike the duty of all of us
~..anly contemplate and vindicate to recognise and to inculcate. The very vehemence with
which the assertion of them has beoefnthreeisrl,teidogprr,sosveerst,
d,if
. such a premium upon perjury as this
ould create ? We cannot think it. We . and of fwe
ourre nueecveesrs avrayfietrhi
suffering
gn
themecT) fall into oblivion.
Aibden has gone a little too far—calcu- 1 "In conclusion, I congratulate. you on the prospect of
too securely on the laxity of conscience those principles being, ere long, practically asserted and
free-traders ;—and yet we find that enforced by our revered Primate, and thus of his effect-
being done in all directions!" The I ing, if it he Gou's good pleasure, a final and peaceful
m settlementmost part,
art ofar
arequestions the
s uwhichf
them)(inconsiderate
mmust
he f
'repared, and the foundations for aas,
settled~
the
subjects
cad and deliberate perjury are be- 1 the Church of England is to continue to us anytning
*ions" I Well, indeed, may we better than an empty name.
el the professions of a party l " I am, rev. and dear brethren, your affectionate friend
'-ad their dueei, blinded and brother, "H. EXETER."
of falsehood, so gross Here, then, is clearly an abandonment, by the
-.! anticipate the cer- right reverend prelate, of those episcopal and autho-
`it them, pure and ritative directions which emanated from himself to
of their purchase, the clergy of his diocese, with respect to the revival,
' trample them be- by them, of those rubrical observances which, as
being regarded in the light of novelties in the present
justification of I day, have led to such heart-burnings amongst the
that " the and j laity. The use of the surplice or the gown in tae
ay, is the end ? pulpit ; the reading of the prayer for the church
militant ; the revival (?) of the offertory, and other
:ors in dispute, are now, as far as th bishop is
,oncerned, left to the discretion of the individual
utter want of scruple of the part., ...et to members of the clergy, at least until some steps
the means which they are ready to adopt for the can be taken by the entire church which will insure
furtherance of their scheme:,, of spoliation ? Grant, uniformity of practice, and prevent dissensions, in
aid of the League machi- parishes and amongst congregations, such as have
ea representation of South Lancashire is, at recently occurred, to the great scandal of the estab-
vt election, wrested from the hands of Con- lishment and the injury of vital religion.
what then ? What is proved ? That By whatever instrumentality or interference this
operty and the respectability, or even the step of the Bishop of Exeter has been brought about,
rs, of the population of the county are in fa- we cannot but regard it as a heavy blow dealt against
your of the repeal of the Corn-laws ? Not at all. that party in the Church to whose extreme opinions
The legislature and the nation are only assured his lordship was understood to incline; and we are
thereby that there is no sacrifice of money or of cha- led, moreover, to entertain a hope that it will have
1 mercantile and millown- I the effect of, in a great measure, restoring harmony
oot submit in pursuit of a measure in his own diocese, and diminish materially the
subsidise their own pockets at the ex. number of those of his clergy who—although,
best interests of the entire community. with their diocesan's authority for them, they might
~... refore, is attained by the success of the have been willing enough to rush into collisions
League's registration projects. Its announcement with their flocks, and maintain unpopular oh-
would fall a dead sound upon the ears of the legis- servances—may not be so greatly disposed to enter
iature. The liberal members, who might, by means i upon those collisions single-handed.
of such a dubious character, be returned to Parlia- Another important event connected with the
i.e representatives of South Lancashire, Tractarian movement in our Church is, the an-
e their seats there as the liveried menials nouncement, by the Rev. W. Palmer, of Worcester
What is, then, the very College, in a letter addressed to the editor of The
'hese unconstitutional I Churchman's Newspaper, of his intention to vote for
‘gain we turn to Mr. Cobden for the proposed statute in reference to subscription to
Again hear the member for Stock- the Articles, and of his approval of, and ability to
sign, in perfect faithfulness of conscience, the de-
"e done in No' th Cheshire too. claration agreed upon by the framers of that statute.
tier, son, and grandson, had It will he known to all who have watched the pro-
w ''h very slight intermis- gress of the 'rractarian question that, for some trine
-I, if we wanted to strike a
,t especially in London, during the earlier portion of the movement, Mr.
were supposed to have Palmer was one of the most earnest writers, and not
-y. That was the bird I the least talented, of the party to which he belonged.
..„ no use trying to shoot mere spar- Of late, however, whether startled by the extreme
like our lately. elected member for South Lanes- I lengths to which some of his colleagues were carry-
(Laughter.) They would not believe in London ing their opinions, or by what other considerations
could turn out Lord Francis Egerton, till it was
L.-, it was done, it would be felt as a body or convictions actuated we know not, this reverend
taeger under. And next to turn- gentleman has shown symptoms of flagging in tho
Ns,--5 mean standing as high u any 1 agitation, and even been suspected of an inclination

f such a nice seri,

investment
i made is only

only twenty pen

stand t

ed man c

iystem
lope Mr

his fe

thus willing to 1

e, and

)etray,

' But what, r

Is her

n sense who will say
favour of libe-

that a

beyond the
with res^

n will be held to prove any thing

stance, that .by t

servatism

numb

.to which the libera

racter

ing classes
which is t

pence of the
No end, thei

!onspirator

served by

one end t)

port :
He wanted

Teen airs ing f

"ion, jor about
blow t"-•

auld tell

a distance,

ruled the

for half a centT

,
blow which they would st