The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

Standardoffice, Ralf-past 7en

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Last Night.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Sir R. PEEL, on moving that the orders of the day be
read, said he would take that opportunity of inform-
ing the house what business it was the intention of her
Majesty's servants to proceed with during the present
session (hear.) And he was sorry to say that the great
mass of public business in arrear would prevent many
bills from being proceeded with during the present ses-
sion (hear). Tue government, however, intended to pro-
ceed with the Poor-law Bill, the Metropolitan Im-
provements Bill, the Bill for regulating joint-stock
banks, and some others. He had already announced
that it was not intended to proceed with the Registration
of Electors (Ireland) Bill beyond the second read-
ing during the present session. With respect to the
Municipal Corporations (Ireland), which extended to
that country the enactments of the English bill, he was
afraid it would be impracticable to pass it during the
present session. With respect to the Railway Bill, that
was a most important measure, but one which he hoped
would not meet with much opposition, and therefore that
would be proceeded with. It was necessary for the gui-
dance of railway companies that the intention of parlia-
ment on the subj.ct should be fully made known. The
Savings Banks Bill would be proceeded with. He could
not state what his intentions were with regard to the
County Courts Bill until that day week. The Ecclesias-
tical Courts Bill would not be proceeded with this session
(hear). There were certain other bills which he hoped
to proceed with, but could not at present mention a defi-
nite time. There was one bill not before the house rela-
ting to controverted elections petitions, which would be
introduced in a few days, and which he hoped would pass
this session.

In answer to a question by Mr. MACAULRY,
Sir J. GRAHAM said, it was intended to proceed with
the Law of Settlement Bill.

In reply to Mr. FERRAND,
Sir R. PEEL said, the Poor-law Bill would be proceeded
with on Thursday or Friday next, and the Railway Bill
would take precedence on Monday.

REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The repealers met yesterday,
as usual, in the Conciliation-ball, Valentine Maher, Esq.,
M.P., in the chair. The receipt of several large sums of
money having been announced, Mr. O'Neill Daunt
stated, as a proof of Mr. O'Connell's undiminished influ-
ence, that he bad been nominated Lord Mayor elect on
that day by the Corporation of Dublin. Mr. O'Connell
had declined the offer, but the moral effect was the same,
and the fact showed the futility of the measures taken by
government to extinguish his influence. A letter was
read from Mr. Luke Shea, a justice of the peace for the
county of Cork, enclosing a subscription of £3 to the
funds of the association, and requesting to be proposed a
member. Several other new members were proposed and
admitted. It is expected that the rent for the week will
considerably exceed £2,000.

LEANDER OUTDONE.—On the banks of the Pelice,
near Luzerna, tradition has consecrated a spot to the re-
collection of an exploit more memorable than the achieve-
ment of Leander himself. A Romanist had paid great at-
tention to the lessons of a Vaudois friend, and gave such
proof of his heart being touched that the latter thought no
opportunity ought to be lost in pressing his conversion
while he appeared to be in a favourable mood. His visits
used to be nocturnal. On the night when be flattered
himself that his arguments would prevail, the floods had
cut off the usual means of access. It was winter, and the
torrent was alarmingly broad and rapid ; but the Christian
hero was not to be interrupted or daunted in his holy en-
terprise; he boldly plunged into the waters, swam across,
and reaped his reward in the conversion of his friend from
Popery.—Gilbey's Researches among the Vaudois.

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THE BIBLE ON MAN'S EARTHLY CONDITION.—We
aver, that in God's Word, and that throughout its pages, I
not in a few places, but in many—not dubiously, but with
the greatest clearness—there are given doctrines, and re-
proofs,
and instructions in righteousness, for legislators,
for statesmen, and for mtal of wealth and influence; and
that the general tenour of these is directly opposed to
what a set of philosophers, falsely so-called, of our own '
times, have conspired to dignify with the name of political
economy. And accordingly, and very naturally, as the
Bible and they are at variance, they agree to lay the Bible
on the shelf, and to assert that, however necessary and
supreme in its own department—the concerns of God and ,
the soul—yet in sublunary matters, the management of
nations, &c., it is either wholly silent, or speaks without
any divine authority, or any claim to our respect. Thus
it is that one of the beat men and ablest divines in all
Scotland can write a treatise on political economy, in
which scarcely a single reference is found, from the first
line to the last, to the only infallible source of instruc-
tion—the word of God. But if by really great divines,
and eminent teachers of religion, the Bible is thus thrust
out of sight, who shall wonder, that the consequences to
the nation are of the fearful kind described by Mr. Bo-
sanquet. In his valuable work, he entitles a chapter,
"THERE Is No FAITH," and thus does he prove his
assertion :—" Want of faith is the very characteristic of
this generation. Concurrent and consistent with this. is
a WANT OF CHARITY. The Bible is boldly and practi-
cally denied in every particular. No class or body of men
believe and obey it. And strange as it may seem, it is by
no nation, or people, or churches, or sects of men, less
implicitly believed and followed, than by those very peo-
ple and sections of the church who talk so much about it.
There are no persons less obedient t the plain sense and
mandates of the written word of God, than those who
most speak of and uphold it as the sole authority and
standard, and reject all assistance from the history of the
church, and what is spoken against as tradition. The
Bible is denied in every particular. Men do not believe
that we are really to be Christians ; that we are to imitate
our Lord. They do not believe that the world could pos-
sibly go on, if all men were to act upon pure Christian
motives, and up to a perfect Christian rule; if they were
to forgive and forget injuries; if they were not to resent
an affront; if they were to give to people, because they
asked them; if they were to lend money, without looking
far interest ; if we were all to give up luxuries, and style,
and costly furniture, and equipage ; if we, our cattle, and
servants, were strictly to observe the day of rest. How
many are there who appear to believe that it is not right
to be anxious about the future ; that riches are not a good
thing ; that the entrance into heaven is easier to a poor
man ; that we ought to return a tenth to God ; that it
would bring a blessing, to give freely and largely to the
poor; that children are a blessing and a gift from the
Lord, and that the man is happy who has his quiver full
of them ? It is evident that, in all these points, the Bible
is disbelieved, and is practically denied ; and does not
control or guide us in our habits and principles of life and
of society. Still less do we believe that the public mea-
sures, the laws and the government of the state, and the
intercourse with other nations, ought to be, or can be,
carried on, and conducted on Christian principles. What
number or classes of persons believe that righteousness
exalteth a nation ; that the conscience of the government
is the conscience of the people ; and that our rulers are
bound to take the first care for the pure religion and
morals of the country ; and that, if they do so, their
righteousness will bring down a blessing upon the nation."
That the fault committed, in the disregard of God's own
counsel and instruction, is as deplorably foolish, as it is
fearfully profane, is unquestionab'e. There is but one
sure and unerring standard of truth in the world—but one
code of morals which is unpolluted by immorality—and
that is the book which God has given us for our guide.
To cast that aside, and either to reject or disregard it, is
not more irreligious and atheistic, than it is SENSELESS
AND IRRATIONAL.—Remedies for the Perils of the
Nation.