The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

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Is it then, to be sup-
_ ..ere . received of God,' and after the
~on of His favour they are now cut off as unwor-
,y ? It would be so with any earthly father, and any
mortal man may find reason to hold those in abhorrence
whom he has once regarded with esteem and love. But
-reable God, to whom and in

an unchar

Smurthwaite, the clerk of the Scarborough savings'
bank, and who embezzled its funds, has been sentenced
to two years' imprisonment.
The trial of the parties who took a lead at the disturb-
_.aceect by supposing that tna ances at the Stafford protectionist meeting has been post-
sniritual benefit of baptism, ' a death unto sin and new poned until the next assizes.
birth unto righteousness,' is only received where there At Wakefield, recently, a young man accidentally shot
has been an antecedent act of grace upon the part of God. a girl, disfiguring her face. The gallant and generous
Hooker alludes to this as ' a seal perhaps of the grace of youth has agreed to marry her on her recovery.
election before received.' Usher says that ' the sacra- A widow in poor circumstsnces, but of good character,
ment of baptism in infants is ineffectual to all those, and drowned herself the other day, whilst waiting her turn to
to those only, who belong to the election of grace.' apply for relief at the board of guardians at Keynsham.
Bishop Taylor says that ' baptism in its effect may be Abraham Hicks, carter to Mr. Hicks, near Swindon, is
separated, and not always go in conjunction ; the effect in custody, charged with attempting to violate and mar-
may be before, and therefore much rather may have been der a married female named Elizabth Denley, whom he
after, its susception, the sacrament operating in the virtue had allowed a seat in his cart.
of Christ, even as the Spirit shall move. Indeed, at one The agricultural commissioners of the Times have re-
time this doctrine was authoritatively taught in our church, centiv visited the Duke of Wellington's Strathfieldsave
for it is uniformly laid down in the Decades of Bollinger estate, and report his grace a truly liberal and model land-
that 'in baptism that is sealed and confirmed to infants lord.
which they had before,' so that ' the first beginning of Those of the great Scotch banks which attempted the
our uniting and fellowship with Christ is not wrought by introduction of the London system, in regard to interest
the sacraments ;' and in the year 1586 it was ordered by on current accounts, have found it objectionable and it is
the Queen and Upper House of Convocation that these now abandoned.
Decades of Bullinger should be stated and taken as a The Rev. Mr. Wollastan, rector of Dreham, states, in
model by every minister who had not passed his Master a letter to the :limes, that the Hounslow explosion was
of Arts' degree. Without concurring in those opinions, heard in that parish, which is a hundred miles in a direct
I cannot doubt that a minister of our church may justly line from the mills.
maintain them, sanctioned as they have been by some of There is now in the possession of Miss Jeff, of Low
her worthiest members, and relating to a subject on which Ellington, near Masham, Yorkshire, a hen that lays eggs
onfessedly the scripture does not speak definitively. The of theton,
enormous size of three inches in length, and two
•nture declares the general necessity of baptism without inches in diameter, and weighing four ounces each.
.., the actual effect of infant baptism. There is The Rev. R. P. Blakeney, of Nottingham, has been
nothing in such an opinion to prevent an honest use of presented with a beautiful model of ancient Jerusalem,
the formularies of the church. All her formularies are for his successful controversy recently with a Roman
formed, and must be formed, upon the charitable pre- Catholic priest.
sumption that theinfants are regenerated and made by bap- The Ulverstone Advertiser records the case of a fat cow
tism ' children of grace i' because we presume, and are jus- that was turned out from its feeding stall, and then ran
tified in presuming, the effect to be on them what we about, apparently mad, until it broke the whole of its legs,
know it to be on those who being comeof age, and believing just above the first joint of each.
in the Lord Jesus Christ, ' wash away their sins, calling on Two foreigners, one a German and the other a Hol-
the name of the Lord,' and are saved by the laver of rege- lender, have been committed to York Castle on a charge
neration and a ' renewing of the Holy Ghost.' We presume of robbing a number of hotels at York, Scarborough,
this, because, as Bishop Pearson says, 'when the meansare Hull, &c. They were respectably dressed, and got ad-
used, without something appearing to the contrary, we mission to the inns as travellers, in the usual way.
presume the good effect—we speak of infants and the rite The Carlisle Journal says that a few nights since the
as charity
Bland loweth,
tified, we speak
tout of them as children of God Armathwaite postman, who had allowed the hair to grow
regeneratejus forthey must be taken for on his upper lip, was waylaid by some men, who cut off
such in charity until they show themselves other.' The his moustaches, and, in thus shearing him, inflicted a deep
service of the church uniformity proceeds on this princi- gash on his cheek.
plc, and requires some ' favourable construction,' and A correspondent of the Derby Reporter says that a
that the Savoy Conference have defended against objec- large shawl pin, nearly three inches long, lately worked
Lion on this very ground. All that consistency requires its way out of the back of an unlucky cat, which is sup-
of a clergyman who denies or doubts of the universal effi- posed to have swallowed it, as puss had long been lan-
es of infant baptism is that he address his congregation guishing, and the pin had long been missing.
as partakers of the blessings of the Christian covenant, At Ilighgrove, near Pethbury, on Wednesday evening,
unless their own sin deprive them of it, or unless the at the mansion of Mr. Paul, his daughter feinted, and
state of their hearts
overpro that they are not believing in fell on the lighted candle which she was carrying, and
the Saviour whose nam ey bear, and unless the babits ianited her clothes, she sustained such injuries that she
of their lives profea that they have no part or lot in His died a day or two after.
salvation. They have been treated as regenerate in the lan- Henry John and Henrietta Stanley, two well-known
guage of the church, and yet may be very far from becora- begging letter imposters, with several aliases, have been
lug such 'new creatures' as the true Christian must be; just remanded on various charges of obtaining from the Duke
as multitudes, we fear, who have been consigned to the of Wellington and other persons varied sums amounting
grave in the charitable presumption of Christian hope to £450.
will wake to no ' joyful resurrection,' but to ' shame and The last of the Lincolnshire jibbet posts was blown
everlasting contempt'—for whatever the preacher may down by the late gale. It was that on which, forty years
think in his inward mind regarding baptism, he must, if ago, the notorious malefactor, Torn Otter, was hung in
he is faithful to God's word, treat his people according to chains for the murder, near the spot, of a young woman
what they are, and not according to what he may suppose whom he married in the morning and killed before night.
baptism has made them. Whether or no we believe that A grand entertainment was given to Lord Gough, on
they actually became ' children of God' when they were "Wednesday, by the United Service Club. Among those
charitably pronounced such at their baptism, we must present were the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of
judge of them when they come to age according to the Anglesey, Lord Hardinge, Sir Howard Douglas, and a
qualifications by which the children of God are charm- great number of the nobility and officers of both services.
teased in scripture ; their baptism made them unques- EXHIBITION OF 1851.—The little town of Llanelly
tionably ' God's children in word and in name,' but they (Carmarthen) held a preliminary meeting of 12 persons
are not his children 'in deed and in truth' unless they only on the 18th, to support the exhibition, and then and
are led by the spirit of God."
there spiritedly subscribed £l2O 65., at the same time
modestly expressing a hope that they would be able to
add another hundred or two to it.
The Rev. E. R. Larken, the rector of Burton, and
brother-in-law of Lord Monson, is about to commence a
London weekly paper, called The Leader. We have read
the prospectus, and we find the rev. gentleman intends to
advocate universal suffrage, vote by ballot, annual parlia-
ments, &c.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Saturday week,
Mr. Richard Stopford Taylor, veterinary surgeon, Hope
Cottage, Tanshelf, Pontefract, was found drowned in the
Aire and Calder, naar Wheldon, in the parish of Ferry-
bridge. The deceased had been coursing in the neigh-
bourhood on the preceding day.
Verdi's opera of "Nino" was produced on Tuesday
night, at her Majesty's Theatre, for the debut of a Signor
Lorenzo, who enacted the part of the Assyrian monarch.
He possesses an agreeable, but not powerful, baritone
voice, and seems to be an excellent actor. His appear-
ance, too, upon the stage is very striking.
At Derby, on Friday week, a matt and woman, named
Dabin, loft their dwelling for their work. Their three
children were left in the house, and by some means one
of them set herself on fire, and the flames communicated
to the others. When found two were dead, and the third
is in great danger.
The prisoner Johnson, who was convicted at the late
Appleby Assizes, on a charge of maliciously shooting at
Robert Orphan, one of the Earl of Lonsdale's gamekeep-
ers, escaped from Appleby gaol on Tuesday last, in the
day time ; he was observed by several people, who did not
suspect him to be a prisoner, until the alarm was given.
An active pursuit almost immediately took place, but the
prisoner still remains at large.

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CORRESPONDENCE

OUR PAROCHIAL MEDICAL STAFF.

TO THE EDITOR OF TEE LIVERPOOL BTANDARD.
Liverpool, 7th March, 1850.
Sin,—l read with much pleasure in the STANDARD of
the 19th February your able and temperate article on
what certainly does appear to be a very lavish and prodi-
gal expenditure of the parish rates. I have also read a
letter which you published on Tuesday last, from " A
Friend to the Parish Surgeon and a Ratepayer," with
your brief note appended thereto, and I feel persuaded
that many, equally with yourself, are dissatisfied with a
system which is evidently open to so much abuse.. The
letter inserted in your paper on Tuesday last contains so
many fallacies that I shall feel greatly obliged if you can
find a corner for a few remarks thereon.
In the first place, no reasonable person can for a mo-
ment suppose that your article was intended as an attack
on individuals, or written with a view to injure the parish
doctors. If they are injured, I apprehend it will be only
in their pockets, and I cannot but think that the rate-
payers' pockets have been, and still are, very unnecessarily
and improperly taxed to the great benefit of those persons.
Your correspondent says, that £5,000 per annum can-
not be considered a large outlay for a parish like Liver-
pool. I differ widely from him on this point. It must
13C remembered that Toxteth-park, Kirkdale, and Ever-
ton are not included in this sum : those localities form a
part of the West Derby Union. It must also be borne in
mind that a vast amount of relief is afforded to the sick by
the dispensaries and the hospitals of the town. Aud then