The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

vable exertions of the cl r

an appointed to St

Amon's district, whilst tne clergyman aupointe'd to
the Bevington district brings a sum of £353. a tri-
bute from his former parishioners at Bury. In Such

eding c

not indeed whether the
wore to admire the clerical _conduct which-called
forth such a testimonial, or the Christian munifi-
cence which thus devoted it to such a purpose. :Can
any-higher security. he taken for the zealous per-
"fotmance of a Christian 'Minister?
Divided as men's minds are at present respecting

hurch affairs,

uld, we suppose, be impossible
to devise any scheme that would give complete sa•

isfaction to all

Here, however

uld su

vidual

s a proposal as fair, as reason-
bine the favourable opinion
s perhaps human ingenuity
for the sacrifice of
tainment of a high

lv to corr

won ,Rood. The true mother was once disco-
by her readiness to give up the indulgence of
to save the life of her child. The
I try who is the true mother

n attec

present undert

d of thousands more than his
own private or party views—who can trust God for
Pie guardianship of his Church through future years,
instead of relying only, for that purpose, upon his
-own devices and forethought—who, in short, would
rather let the patient die than abate one iota in the

---who values ti

general wrangle of physicians.
The times certainly demand a very diffe•ent spirit,
and we are sanguine enough to believe that they will
meet with such a one. We have hopes, from the
Piet f, as well as the prudence of our fellow-towns-
men. Four churches, we know, are not to be built
without cost, especially when the very prosperity of
wn, which is rendering them so needful, is in-
-rearing• so considerably the price both of land and

the to

labour.
ißut if twenty thousand pounds are needed for the

aster may be sown, with a professing Conservative
looking on approvingly, and ready, at the proper
moment, to step in and consummate the ruin. The
history of past inroads upon the constitution is in-
s! ructive as to the duty of loyal British men. Whig-
radical tampering with our institutions, and contem-
porary mismanagement of the financial affairs of
the kingdom, have, in every successive advent of
that party to poxirer, paved the way to large en-
croachments upon the integrity of the former, and
for the admission to office of a subtle and plausible
minister, armed with powers dangerous to the liber-
ties of the-people. Let us ask what circumstance it
was which enabled Sir Robert Peel to betray the
confidence of those who placed him in office, avow-
edly for the purpose of resisting the very measures
which he has just carried. It was his 'overwhelm-
ing majority in Parliament, and the impression so
generally entertained; that no other statesman pos-
sessed the ability to guide us out of the difficulties,
into which the partial adoption of. Whig-radical prin-
ciples, and the incapacity of that party to administer
the financial affairs of the country, had hrou4t us
The bulk of the Conservative portion of his sup

ers voted for his corn importation bill, to preserve
such a minister in power. The nation had allowed
itself to be pushed to the brink of a precipice ; and
he alone was looked upon as the man who could
carry us over; and if we fall asleep now—if we rest
confident that no mischief is being done to our in-
stitutions, because we see a Conservative party ap-
parently controlling a weak and incapable adminis-
tration—the time will come again when—our affairs
in utter disorder, the public mind exasperated, no
sound constitutional leader to fall hack upon, and
no strong constitutional power organised—we shall
have to call in the aid of some talented worshipper
of expediency, to patch up our financial prosperity,
and to appease disorder and discontent amongst the
people, by further inroads upon tho sources of the
country's greatness and happiness.