The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
'Sza,—ln the 13th number of your paper appeared a notice of
the Chronicle, that rather alarmed me for your safety ; having to
combat with the Albion a.nd Journal, two such Goliahs in lite-
tature, so point device in their periods—" so pleasant without
scurrility, audacious without impudency, and learned without
)pinion," that I am surprised how you have stood your ground
to long against these specimens of " matchless"—and to under-
take another foe !—really, Mr. Editor, have a care.
You have escaped this once, however; for I find that the

Chronicle, jealous of your attention being directed so especially
to the Albion, is quite delighted—" amted",--with your notice of
dim. I hope this humour may last, and that the other gentlemen
sn the opposition side (I beg their pardon) ministerial or radical
tide, " Ijrum horum marls," will abate somewhat of their vio-
lence, self conceit, and spleen, and be content to contest their
iiireirnces in civil terms. To be sure such " rackers of ortho-
iraphv't must needs, occasionally, cry out at the imbecile and
mperfect contributioni of your correspondents, as very critical
tars are outraged by the performance of a piece of music that
is not the most skilfully managed in the world. This we will
puss over, in pity to the frequent and poignant distress it must
'occasion them, and in gratitude for that modicum of talent that
tuables us the more philosophically to endure the occasional
aberrations of our neighbours. It falls to the lot of few, to be
to very very proficient, as these illuminati; but I question, if
hey do not acquire this ascendancy on miserable conditions,
e .eing their lives are one continued fret. Lofty mountains
hey may be, but ." shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon

What pod has produced such another bean, as the one whose
ranches, like the famed one in the fairy tale that ascended
ato the clouds, have enabled the Albion to top Parnassus?
''hat other Journal possesses such lofty and independent
tribes as Dicky Sam, Dick Liver, and the author of Poggio
Ilraccioli, as " familiar with men's names as household words:"
d as reckless of personally offending, as though the liberty
of the subject was their monopoly, and to them pertained the
xclusive privilege to pervert the motives and put their own
yiugs into other people's mouths, so to " make the worse
appear the better" reason.
Such helps were forestalled ere you appeared; and you must be
tentent with the assistance and patronage of honest simple folks.
as Sir Andre-.v Aguecheek says, " methinks I have no more
than a christian, or an ordinary man has—Oh, had I but
rqlowed the arts!" then had I been alive to the beauty of such
expression as " motives personal to myself alone," iu coin-
hrison with the simpler and old-fashioned term of " personal
motives;" and been able to enjoy the possibility of " severing
indissoluble interests," and ruminate on the consequences, as
they are kindly vouchsafed to us by a lordly Pundit of their
toramunion. I confess Ido not see " the logic, the wisdom, or

a wit," of these learned flights and sallies, and like Christo-
Phere Sly, notwithstanding the pains taken to convince him
kat he was not a tinker, but a lord, have such remembrance
kd regard for things as they have been, and so little confidence
ih the new-fangled doctrine and brewage of the present age, as
t 44 give the preference to and " call again for a pot of the
tallest age."
.I.levor kind in these people to teach us our accidence, en-

tighten. our darkness, and manage our affairs! Alieni appetens
hci profusus. This liberal show of learning and trumpeting of
"(14dness would look the finer, and sound the grander, if, as
Burred to the good Vicar of Wakefield, on his second rencon-
tk with, the "cosmogony and creation of the world," we had
!lot ‘4 heard of all this before.'" The news is, as they say, as
old as the hills ;" that there have been, and no doubt, ever
*lll be, those discontented spirits who are ever in quest of what
Li`eY never find;—blind to the comforts of their own fire-sides,
of exceeding quick sight to the advantages of others ;
44arp enough to behold the mote in their brother's eye, but
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to the beam in their own :—such be your councillors.

`` How the Radical apples swim!"
Like the' earthen and the iron jar in the fable, the whigs and
teh friends are being carried down with the flood,—,the great-
tlt fear of the earthern whig pipkin is, lest it should come in
intact with its heavier associate, and so sink, thus losing its
sgance of getting securely embedded in the rushes ; or, at the
Worst, being deposited high and dry with its "spolia opima," on
shelving shore or snug creek. These are stormy times,
-114 we shall have a stormy Commons ;—let those who have faith
illl4 the sustaining power of cork, and are likely to be afloat
I,in
1 tempestuous sea, provide themselves with a collar of that
l:Ptoved material, as manufactured by your contemporary: for
te Ship of state is as likely as not to be bumped on the rocks,
t the want of a proper pilot, with such a disunited and muti-
,4o44 crew on board.

Your's,

FIDELIS.

TIIE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST✓INDARD.

t%lß,—One of the most frequently urged objections to the
1411trch of England, in the present day, is the presence of Bi-
4Ps in Parliament, which is said, in the first place, to be un-
,,11 Mural ; in proof of which the text principally quoted is the
previously adverted to :—" My kingdom is not of this
ih,id." But I hop 3 this has already been shown to be wholly

11Plicable.
i the Jews expected their Messiah to be a warrior king; and,
,'114."1" of our Saviour's chief objects was to disabuse them of
' Is Prejudice he uniformly refused to act with authority, even
their private disputes ; and when the adultress was brought
fore him, would not even condemn her. As justly, then,
41i?ht his practice be adduced to prove that adultery is a venial
:4il4e, as it is to prove that the clergy may not be employed to
ki4iBt in legislation, when called upon by the supreme legislature
!0 so. Legislation is the first and noblest of sciences, in the
;tae administration of which men may imitate the perfections,
tile)" exercise the attributes, of God. Why, then, are the
eN 1t
rgY to be excluded, on principle, from a share in so religious a

k gross error it is," says Hooker, "that temporal power
'l't to serve for the good of the body and not of the soul,
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'r
t men's temporal peace, and not for their eternal safe-
Y; a s I
`iLf God had ordained rulers for no other purpose but only
illa-i'111) men like hogs, and to see that they have their mast."
Ile ,- it is said the admission of Bishops into Parliament is ob-
lPtraable in practice : it renders them secular, generates pride
1,) ialabition, induces subserviency to superiors, and arrogance
Itiatiors. I fear these are vices incident to human nature,
Is :411 exist whether Bishops sit in Parliament or no. It has
:14 been the policy of this nation, and a wise one too, to
Iti ,
tn- a gradation of clergy for every rank,—the court, the
1144,..eta, cY, the gentry, and the people ; and if the state does
kte-waat secularize the clergy, the clergy christianizes the
kit' and the good preponderates over the evil. Besides, th
hilit°' a secularized clergy is somewhat exaggerated; the im-
e
At /of insulating them, and forming them into a separate
te
lcl, has already been proved. It generates selfishness, pre-
'id -' and spiritual pride. The more they mix with the laity
Itilihe/I:apathize with their feelings, without contracting a
litoct. secular spirit, the better. Levity and secularity are no
Not:ieg odious in an ecclesiastic, but not more so than
Ited-' and spiritual pride ; and, as human nature is consti-
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ttlei, Is' Lae object is not to eradicate evil entirely, for that is im-
i"thiqe, but to choose the least of those that are permitted by
tlice to afflict mankind. Remedies might be applied to