The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

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CORRESPONDENCE,

THE MERCURY AND THE CHURCH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sin,—The Mercury of to-day destroys its cobweb, as
you will see, by being at its " dirty work again." Re-
iterating the foul charge against the Protestant operative
body, upon the vague and anonymous statement of some
Achan in the dark, he still would fasten the charge of
giving money, &c. to that body, though admitting that it
was not done through the agency of the chairman or
treasurer. This is the extreme of jesuitry; and one of
those many slimy and sinuous remarks with which that
many-faced journal did always abound. In his paper of
this day, the editor endeavours to escape (or rather slyly
wipe off) the charge of being hostile to the Established
Church, by a cunning paragraph in favour of the bazaar
for defraying the debt on St. Silas's Church ; and, in a
feigned notice to correspondents, asks any one to make
out a list of the established clergy of the town, and put a
mark against the name of those whom he has ever publicly
attacked, either as ministers of religion, or as men: This
is " matchless impudence personified ! ! I perfectly re-
collect the history of this mercurial organ, from its birth
to the present era; its "concentric" phalanx of Smiths,
and Nobles, and Johnsons, not forgetting its memorable
Caseys and Jordans, and Rushtons, down to the present
period ; and I have been, (with a slight exceptio❑ of about
three years,) a constant reader and observer of its leading
articles; and the truth warrants me in asserting, that,
throughout its whole career, the Established Church of
England, and its ministers, have been the object of its in-
vincible slander and rancour. The clergymen of this
town, from the two present (and a deceased) rectors, to
above twelve more, can be pointed out as having been un-
justly maligned in his columns, both as clergymen and as
men ; and I hereby offer to prove it from those columns,
in almost innumerable instances! If any clergyman of
that church committed an impropriety, an error of judg-
ment, or in any way acted in a public capacity contrary
to the jesuitical aim of the Mercury, he, and the church
also, were forthwith assailed in:theicoarsest phraseology,
and the finger of scorn directed at it, and them, by:the
very " minnows and small fry," who now wish to crawl
and live in the circle of the salmon's waters, fearful of
that one lash of his tail that would crush them for ever as

gning slanderers ! That lash must now come : the
crisis has approached : delays are now dangerous ! Talk
of " pictures." View the Rev. H. M'Neile, open-
miuded, resolute, firm, faithful, flinching not,—as he has
been attacked and vilely abused by this journal !—nay, a
black list might be collected fitting for a St. Giles's voca-
bulary therefrom,—lnd contrast that abuse with the cant-
ing, crawling, and hypocritical paragraph about St. Silas's

church, of this day ! - Why, the most radical and revolu-
tionary palate must be gorged with such a nauseous dose
of advertisement and subscriber-hunting sycophancy !
I had intended to say something about the public career
of Mr. W. Rathbone, the " hanging" of his picture, &c.
&c. ; but am afraid of occupying too much of your va-
luable space, knowing that your duties, for three weeks to
come, will demand and require your every vigilance ; so
shall reserve it for your next paper. But I will"make one
general remark, that all the sophistry, all the soft-soapy-
ness of the times, cannot controvert; and that is, that
not the most liberal charity, the widest declarations of
philanthropy, can countervail, or counterbalance, the
struggles of twenty years efforts to upset the constitution
and -p:-

..., institutions of the country . :icture revolution an
passionate anarchy as you may, in " robes and furred
gowns" withal, the true historian must still depict and

and morality, the dangerous shoals which landed La-
fayette and his tribe of philanthropists in temporary foot-

ing.—l am, &c.
Oct. 6th, 1843

LYNX

of a new descri

ption of night clock, that exh

lights fixed to the points of the hands and the centre of
the dial, was tried on Monday evening, at St. Nicholas's
church, with perfect success. One light is stationary and
It is distinguished in size and colour,

ks the centre

and serves as an index, pointing out the situation of the
lich is always that of the hour and minute, res-

showed the tine a great way off, whilst the illuminated
dials now in use, look at a short distance only like so
many full moons. The other advantage of this invention,
which is that of a Mr. Hughes, is in the reduced cost,
which is but from one-third to one-twelfth of that of the
old plan, according to the degree of the distance. By
dispensing with the incumbrance of the old " figures,"

the. day dial affords a large and clear field for th,
of the indicators, which also make the time vi

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