The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-30 00:00:00

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THE .LATE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM

THE FAILURE OF
LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO FORM A MINISTRY,
EXPLAINED ON AUTHORITY.

of Saturday last, has
to the death of Dr. A

The Sheffield Mereur,
affecting particulars relating,
At length we have an authenticated testimony to the der, contained in a letter fro'
course which, companions of his journey,
Blackburn, of Abbercliffe Parsonage, near S
give the most important passages. The Bish
was, at the period of his lamented death, m
Cairo, and had written to a friend in that city,
band of Mrs. Lieder, to prepare him for his arriva► ..
in a few days. He was then in that ancient branch of the
Pelusiac or Eastern Boundary, called the Ras el Wady
(Head of the Valley), that belongs to the W- -
or Land of Goshen.
" How remarkable !" pursues +'
five. "It seems just as if th,
should not leave the Land of PI
Land of Bondage.
" Yes, he was just permitted tc
the ancient residence of his peopl
galling oppression, when the Le
him to the noble host who have

Mrs. Lieder, on

sed to the Rev

'"
Ater much fiddle faddle,
Caused the egg to prove addle,"
as Butler sings. We ate at length assured by one of the
parties, who gave his name, that it was Lord Grey who
broke up the nascent Cabinet of Chesham-place. Here

IL seams
is way tc

is evidence:—
PRINCIPLES OF LORD J. RUSSELL'S PRO-

JECTED MINISTRY.
(From the Scotsman.)
The following short note from Mr. Macauley will be
read with interest. It was written in reply to one from
the S tcretary of the Chamber of Commerce, transmit-
ting the memorial from that body to the Queen, in favour
of opening the ports

Lord bad willed ti

' London, December 22nd, 1845

" You will have beard the termination of our attempt
to form a government. All our plans were frustrated by
Lord Grey. I hope that the public interests will not
suffer. Sir Robert Peel must now undertake. the settle-
ment of the question. It is certain that he can settle it.
For we shall to a man support him ; and a large propor-
tion of those who are now in office would have rcfused
to support us. On my own share in these transactions
I reflect with unmixed satisfaction. From the first, I
told Lord John that 1 stipulated for one thing only—
total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws ; that my
objections to gradual abolition were insurmountable ;
but that, if declared for total and immediate repeal, I
would be, as to all other matters, absolutely in his hands ;

g possession—n,

Canain

" We learnt from the messeng
not been well for some previou
night before his death he had eat
much better, and then went to
Mrs. Alexander called out that
but all others thought he had on
rible night, we can imagine -

It was a ter-

As to cr

hours through one of the most
deserts ; tor although the Ras
boundary of Israel's former ab(
any fertility—Goshen having sh
on Egypt.'
The melancholy event took

1 Wady is on the very

:t it is dest

that I would take any office or no office, just as suited
him best ; and that he should never be disturbed by any
personal pretensions or jalousies on my part. If every-
body else had acted thus, there would novs have been a
Liberal ministry. However, as I said, perhaps it is.
I do not think that, if we had formed a government,
we should hive entertained the question of paying the
Roman Catholic priests of Ireland. I cannot answer
for others; but I should have thought it positive insa-

ed equally

.ce on the 23

Immediately on its occurrence tl
by the Bishop's attendants in hi
covered with a tarpauling, was tn
companied by his sorrowing wi
where it was deposited in the Bil
tian Mission. On the following
Abbott, the Christian physician
French Doctor and his assistants
dosed in three coffins—one of tii

fastened up

bed, and having been
sported on a Camel, ae-

ife and friends to Cairo,
ible Room of the Chris-
ned by Dr.

nity to stir the matter.
I will send your petition to the Secretary of State for
the Home Department as soon that it clear that the go-
vernment is settled. Ever yours truly,
T. B. MACAULAY.
.1. F. Macfarlan, Esq., Edinburgh.

ternal one of wood covered with
cording to his Lordship's N
Holy City for interment

EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF BIBLES

The Manchester correspondent of the London Record
furnishes that paper with the following interesting parti-
culars relative to the recent extraordinary sale of Bibles
in the Mot named town:—
We sannot trace the first gradual increase of sales,
commencing in July and August, to any apparent cause.
But some gentlemen who went at that time to spend a
few days at Blackpool, were surprised to find the extreme
facility with which they sold Bibles and Testaments in
every hotel and lodging-house in the place. Encouraged
by this success, they resolved, and one of them especially,
to discover whether a similar facility might not be found
in Manchester. lie began in one of the mills, through
the instrumentality of the Sunday-school scholars of the
Sabbath-school he attended. The demand began and in-
creased—new and increased interest was excited—fresh
demands poured in, till it reached the marvellous result
now known.

I bear

It is not. so far, a temporal y excitement, but is as active

as ever.
One school has sold 1,000 a-week for eight weeks toge •
ther, and is still going on.
One girl in a Sunday school has sold 700 in seven weeks.
From the 16th of November to the 18th of December,
2,800 were sold by another Sunday school—a Dissenting