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

a... 3(% upon 1,11..1,1 1,4-san..u.a. iL1f,.,111-Mr respected chiet
magistrate was too tempting to be neglected, and so,
g overooard every sense of good feeling arid pro-

Tile next step:was
the Mercury, after in—

prietv, the attack must be a'tempted
to find a pretext. Accordiog

favours us with the foliowing reas)n for their omission

" It was contended by members of the committee, that
these gentlemen, Messrs. M'Neile and Ewbank, had no
peculiar pretensions to be asked, and that if the invita—
tions to the cleray went further than had been agreed
upon, each of the heads of the different sects and denomi—
nations in the town ought to be invited, in compliment to

their respective congregations. The point, we under—
stand, was hotly disputed. The mayor exhibited, as
usua►, his no-popery zeal—protested against an invitation

to the Roman Cath bishop—and went so far as to say,
that if it were determined upon, he would not undertake
to send it."

If the argument of our contemporary be worth any
thing, it must go to the exclusion of the bishop and the
rectors. bec.use of their vet), official character, (for it is
upon this alone it ventures Co urge the admission of the
Romish ecclesiastics>) and not of the rev. gentlemen who
have been selected by the May, r on the ground of persona
re.pect and private friendship. But we are bold to go
further, and to claim for Mr. Me.N.-iPe's public positiOrt
andic e professional
allofessitoinealhiegmhminienndceedr the emlire
eminence, aititestedby,t, erheuerny tributeaniouv
of respect that the town in which he lives and I.bours
could render unto him; any omission of which could only
renet tinfin t }inc. that mice:tr.:4l,l.r

upt../an uwar. LOUu, min. duly forgot themselves, in
overlooking him. 'Tis true, he bolds hut a subordinate
station in the church ; but be it remembered that he is
stlf•excluded by the stedfastness of that integrity that
rebukes the temporising policy of the present day. And.
if he prefers to continue am"ngst us in Liverpool, 'tin
notwithstanding the alluring offer of rank and emolument
from a noble patron in his own country. Nor will there
be a person present calculated to reflect more lustre on
the cause or the company than the honoured clergyman
whom party spirit would fain exclude.
In anothrr part of the same article, the Mercury at—
tempts to fasten an inconsistency on our firm and re—
pected chief magistrate, because of his refusing the same
hospitalities and attentions to the Roteish priesthood that
" he was only too happy and too proud to shower upon a
Mahometan, whose fellow-religionists look upon us as
Christian dogs, and amongst whom the sworn evidence of
a Christian is not admissible against a murderer." AS
there is no possible parallelism between the two cases,
there is no reason that they should he governed by the
same rule. To Ibrahim. Paella, as the representative of a
mighty dynasty, one that holds the power and possession
of the great a7enue of transit between Europe and the
East, that generously affords facility and protection to
all travellers, and to which England in particular is deeply
indebted forcommunicates
the rapidity
with h
ander vastregu regularity m
ty
Ibrahim Pacha, as such, the 31.iyor, with characteristic
propriety, extended such hospitality and courtesy as that
distinguished stranger had reason to expect and right
oriental t h e
whichp i res ,—ht oe
to receive at the hands of the first magistrate of such a
town as Liverpool. In all this there was not the slightest

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led astray by supposing that there was.
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official representatives of the principles of their church.
Let some of the loyal Roman Catholic gentry of the town
or county be invited by all means ; we never mean to hold
them responsible for principles with which we believe
them to be unacquainted, and from which, we believe,
that most of them, in their honest hearts, would most
righteously recoil. With the ecclesiastics, however, of
that church, it is otherwise : men who are indoctrinated
themselves into those ptinciples, and sworn to impress
them upon their subjects. And we quite agree with the
Mayor (even though the respected name of Rector Brooks
is alleged in the Journal as authority against u.), that it
would be a very questio lable way of honouring the Royal
Consort, were he to ask to meet him the executive of a sys-
tem that regards himself and his Queen as nothing better
than heretics (we thank the Mercury for the suggestion),
and that is ready, at a moment's notice. should only the
opportunity present itself, according to the authorised in-
structions of the church, agreeably to the rules of the
angelic Doctor Thomas Aquinas, to excommunicate
Queen Victoria, and absolve her subjects from all allegt-
unce to her.

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themselves, whether there was in Liverpool, or the
neighbourhood, another more entitled to any compliment
arising out of that cause and charity, than the very rev.
gentleman whom they seek so unworthily to exclude?. Is
the meeting forgotten, held for the establishment of this
very
jori inc.
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La)t
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than
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then delivered se
?Have
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the
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those
whoas etNwmiberlreeet
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committeeg
ever calculate
ll
how much of the generous response, with which
the appeal
ve any itas. idp merchant princes of Liverpool of the
from that meeting was answered by the town, is owing to
his powerful nlvocacy, and the manner touching and resist-
less in which he put forwardits claims ? Or has it occur...
ed to any of them whether they may not again be in a con-
dition to require his aid, whom they are not unwilling to
associate with them in the hour of difficulty, albeit reluc-
tant to admit him to the small tribute of an invitation to
dinner in their moment of triumph. These considera-
tions, however, will have as little weight with Mr. M`Neile
on the one hand as they appear to have had with the com-
mittee of management on the other, lie will be ready as
before, we ate sure, whenever either the glory of God or
the good of his fellow •creatures affords an opening for his
exertion. But this only serves to aggravate the slight
that it has been attempted to put upon him.

In the days of republican Rome, 'tis told that when
Marcus Manlius had incurred the displeasure of the fickle
multitude, and was put upon his trial in the Campus Mar-
tius, be pointed to the Capitol defended by his courage,
and preserved by his arm. The appeal was resistless. and
his ruthless persecutors had to lead him away to the Pceii-
line Grove, where the Capitol—the monument of his ser-
vices—should be at least " out of sight, if not out of
mind," before they effected his condemna ion. Compare
even with that spark of generous remorse the conduct
amongst us of the retainers of Rome, modern and Papal,
who would fain immolate Mr. M`Nrile upon the very cra-
dle of the institution that his hand and voice, more than
of any other individual, had called into existence. And
in kindness forsooth to the Prince, or with a view to pre-

_ae harmony of the evening, ac the Jonvou. .
ates. they could shut him out from the opportunity of
bearing such an address as that, for example, of subduing
tenderness, with whit!). Mr. 111• Neile, in urging the
claims and blessings of the Sailors' Home, associated them
with the prayers of a pious mother for a beloved absent
sailor son. vVe know not, of course, how it will end.
But if

serve t

Mr. M'Neile be not present, one of the brightest
ornaments of our town will be wanting, and the pithy
words of Taeitns remembered fny many :
"En magis preefulget quod non videtur negatus honor,
glorlam intendit."

BURNING A WOMAN'S LEG AND HAND WITH A BAH.
RED-HOT IRON.—On Wednesday lhst a case ot *sot=
irbarity was brought before Mr. Rushton, at the Police-