The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-17 00:00:00

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The rev. ientlemari delivered a brief and effec-
tive speech in support of the resolution, in the course of
which he adverted to the history of the society, which
shewed that the blessing of God rested upon it. What,
however, were we doing for it? Should it go before the
world that England contributed only £3OOO towards this
noble object ? He suggested there should be another col-
lection; and that every one present should become either
a contributor_ or subscriber to the society. In this way

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real "justice" would be done to Ireland, and we should
shew that we valued the Scriptures which were circulated
among us in our mother tongue.
Mr. CARPENTER here rose and said the appeals made
on behalf of the Society were beginning to tell, for he had
received from a gentleman on the platform, who did not
wish his name to be known, the sum of £5. (Cheers.)
The Rev. HUGH IV-- _ . _ _

MULE seconded the reso,
a most effective address, which he commenced by a want
tribute to the memory of the lamented Dr. Tatershall.
The resolution, he said, implied a very solemn opinion for
the meeting publicly to entertain and publicly to record.
It implied that Romanism was a system of error and su-
perstition ; ane - - '

ution in

ills was a solemn sentiment to maintain
publicly, because it -placed that meeting in immediate an-
tagonism to the great legislative assemblies of the country.

the realm had declared that Romanism was
Christianity ; they had opened their doors to the members
of the Church of Rome, whom they proclaimed to be
equally true Christians with us Protestants. Yet here
was that meeting, a set of dutiful subjects, owing and
owning allegiance to the powers that be, unanimously and
publicly declaring that Romanism, instead of being Christ-
ianity was error and superstition. (Cheers). Was the

meeting right or were the powers that be wrong? [A
VOICE :—They are wrong.—He agreed—they were wrong.
Cheers.) But see bow the matter stood. In one estate of
the realm six hundred and fifty-eight gentlemen were

selected who were supposed to represent

11 the wisdom

for thepurpos

or the three kingdoms: They were sew..
of making, altering, and repealing laws ; and in their ag.
gregate wisdom, in the very last session they repealed all
the laws enacted against the Church of Rome from the
days of Henry 111. down to the reign of George 111. Yet
here was a public meeting in Liverpool, coolly assembling
by thousands. passing resolutions declaring that the MIMI

vereign upon the throne, had acknowledged to be Chris-
tianity, was error and superstition. (Hear.) England,
then, was divided against herself. There was a nation in
the midst of the nation. It was in vain to bide this fact
from ourselves, and it was wise to look at it. They
might pass resolutions declaring Romanian) to be error
and superstition. but what availed that declaration if the
moving power of the nation took another view, and if the
nation were moved on by that power until it would be too
late to stop. (Hear, hear.) But the fact was, that
a little explanation was required of the absolute

declaration that " the people manage everything."
Never at any period in the history of England was the
fact more true than at present, that an agitation got up
with care, supported by funds, and conducted judiciously
from stage to stage, came eventually, through its influence
upon electors, to be influential upon government. Thus
agitation, finding a " squeezable material" in power. ef-

upon one side, if it were all in the direction of favouring
Rome, and if Protestants had become so cool, so prudent,
so gentlemanlike, so fearful of incurring reproach, or so
filled with horror at the notion of mixing up religion and
politics, that they would not attempt to move the govern-
ment, but yet would allow themselves to be moved, what
must the result be ? (Hear.) The result must just be,
that we should be hurried on by the movement, and that

the government could not help it. The current' must run
forward if there was no obstruction in the way. The end
was then plain. (Hear.) But he rejoiced to find, from
what he had seen that evening, that the battle was not so
easily to be lost. Protestantism had yet many able cham-

pions, and it had the great armoury of defence—the pure
word of the living God. (Cheers.) The rev. gentleman
then proceeded to dwell at length upon the thesis of the

ution, that the pure and unadulterated word of God
can overthrow error and superstition ; after which be re-
ferred to the operations of the, society, and testified to the
laborious zeal of the Irish clergy in the cause of Scriptural
education.

The resolution was unanimously carried, and the doxo-
logy hating been sung, the proceedings terminated.
_On Tuesday moining a number of the principal friends

ion at a

the Adelphi Hotel, when a number of 'interesting

The collections at the various churches on the Sunday
.evinnn simminteri to

A FEW HINTS FOR OUR HEALTH

COMMITTEE

Os the first sf January the Health Committee of the
Town Council will hare thrown upon their hands a most

onerous respons.

,usiuess, w

will require earnest attention and untiring energy, to en-
able them to perform it satisfactorily to themselves and

watching over the removal of those impurities which ge-
nerate disease, compelling the removal of cellar occupants
to more healthy habitations, ventilating.courts already
aou mgoniting me erection or others in course of
construction, they will take upon them the important du-
ties of the existing Highway Board, the sewering, paving,
and flagging of streets ; and they are also engaged in an
of

rt to provide the population of the town with an
abundant and cheap supply of water. The bleb character

for intelligence and business habits of the gentlemen com-
posing the committee, is a guarantee, to• some extent,
that its functions will be well performed. The evils to be
grappled with, however, are so various and so complica-
ted, as to render it no great act of presumption in any
one, capable of offering to the committee, in a proper
spirit, any hints for their guidance, to do so ; and we
trust that we shall not be considered presumptuous in
availing ourselves of this, or any, opportunity of offering
a few such- hints.
Every one whose avocations, or inclinations, take him
occasionally to the outskirts of the town, must have no-
ticed, during the last two or three years, the great num.
ber of new houses springing up in every direction; some
of them to supply habitations for the working classes,
driven out of their wretched courts by the Improvement
Act, and some for the more wealthy classes. From the
south end of the town, round by Wavertree, Edge-hill,
Low-hill, Everton, and Kirkdale, to Bootle, every vacant
site is being taken up for cottages, or for more pretending

taken by the committee, we feel convinced, ought to be
to enter into a thorough and firmly-conducted examina-
tion of the construction of all these new buildings ; and
the result, we have no hesitation in affirming, of such an
examination, will be, that very many of them will be as.
certained to be wretchedly built, and worse contrived ;
and that some are not fit habitations for human beings.
We do not refer particularly to the cottage erections,
Many of which, however, are as bad as they can be, but
to those villa-formed erections, detached or semi-detached,

as well. Some of these—and we have watched them
during their building, and before they bad their smart co-
verings of lime and gravel, or stucco, and their fantas-
tical wooden pendants, aspiring to imitate stone—are
equally bad. Drainage has been neglected in most, and
solidity of construction in all.
We know it will be urged that all the buildings which
have been erected of late, have undergone a sort of in-
spection ; that is, that their windows are of the Parlia-
mentary size, the joists and the outer walls of the Parlia-
mentary thickness ; the rooms above the minimum capa-
city laid down in the act, and the slates supported by