The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitutions
as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.—Dr.
Franklin.
CAUSE OF A SUSPICIOUS DISPOSITION.—One thing
you will learn fast enough in the world, for it is potent in
such teaching—that is, to be suspicious. Oh ! cast from
you for ever the hateful lesson. Men do not think how
much of their innocency they are laying down, when they
assume a clothing whose texture is guile. Beware of this
mock protection ; for you can hardly use it without prac-
tising deceit. Ido not ask you to trust always ' • but I
would have you think well of men until you find them
otherwise. When you are once deceived, either by an
acted or a spoken falsehood, trust that person no more. I
had it once laid down to me as an axiom, by a very dear
friend, (and I am so satisfied of the precept's truth as to
make it a rule of my life) that, persons rarely suspect
others except of things which they are capable of doing
themselves. Yes ; these shadows of doubting are generally
flung from some bad realities within. You are looking at
your own image when you see so much vileness in your
neighbour's face. How much better might not we our-
selves become, if we used more largely to others that
blessed charity which thinketh no evil !—Dublin Univer-
bill/ Magazine.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—We fully believe that, if we were
to look for the deepest misery that was ever inflicted in
this world, and the greatest mass of it, we should find
it in the slave trade. It is the misery, not as in civilized
life, of scattered individuals, but of multitudes, and a
misery comprehending every other; sudden separation
from every tie of the human heart, parent, child, spouse,
and country; the misery of bodily affliction, disease, fa-
mine, storms, shipwreck, and ultimately slavery, with all
its wretchedness 6f toil and tyranny for life. We cer-
tainly do not think it our duty to go to war for the object
of teaching humanity to other nations. We must not at-
tempt to heal the calamity of the African by the greatest
of all calamities and crimes—an unnecessary war. But
England has only to persevere sincerely and steadily,
however calmly, and she will, by the blessing of that su-
preme disposer of the ways of men, who desires the hap-
piness of all his creatures, succeed in the extinction of a
traffic which has brought a curse, and brings it at this
hour, and will bring it deeper still, upon every nation
which insults the laws of humanity and the dictates of
religion, by dealing in the flesh and blood of man.—Black-
wood's Magazine.

THE PACKED JURY COMPLAINT.—Just think, for a
moment, of any house-breaker, on being called on to take
his trial, demanding as a right that six at least, (one would
suffice)—six of the jury should have been practised burg-
lars—men who did not regard smashing a street door and
shattering a shutter as any great invasion of private pro-
perty, nor privacy—and who had certain free-and-easy
notions of their own about the distribution of this world's
wealth. Imagine the accused gravely demanding of the
crown prosecutor a jury of his peers in iniquity, his co-
mates in rascality—claiming as his birthright, that six of
the twelve in the box should, while trying his case, be de-
ciding on their own; that their own fortune should be at
issue, and the legal formula of "like case, like rule," be
able to transfer them from the jury-box to the goal. One
is insensibly led away to speculate on the strange scenes
such a line of practice would originate ; how miserable
would be all the bottled-up smartness of the cross-exa-
mining counsel, before the real knowledge of such a jury
as we should then see—how common-place all his home
questions, and how blunt his fiercest thrusts at the wit-
ness, compared with some pertinent demand of the " art-
ful dodger" who acted as foreman. Daniel is not content
with Ireland for the Irish, he had twelve natives of the
" gem of the sea," and yet they did not suffice him—his
exclusiveness goes further; they must be " Irish, and
something more.' Give me a few of the right sort, quoth
he, shilling-a-week men, wardens, or pacificators, or
whatever other humbug designation they rejoice in—fel-
lows that feel that the dock and the jury-box are all one.
Don't pack a jury, crieth the pickpocket, let me see plenty
of light-fingered gentry to try me. No infringement of
the liberty of the subject, exclaims the highwayman—
where are the robbers on the panel? If Mr. O'Connell
has not had a fair trial, there have been scandalous doings
at the Old Bailey—that's all ; and I hope something will
be done for the memory of Jack Sheppard, for, assuredly,
he was a murdered man.—Dublin University Magazine.

SCIENCE OF NAVIGATION.-It is a remarkable instance
of the slowness with which science advances, that almost
the whole scientific portion of seamanship has grown up
since the middle of the seventeenth century, though
America bad been reached in 1492, and India in 1196;
and thus the world had been nearly rounded before what
would now be regarded as the ordinary knowledge of a
navigator had been acquired. England has the honour
of making the first advances. It was an Englishman,
Norwood, who made the first measurement of a degree
between London and York, and fixed it at 122,399 Eng-
lish yards. The attention of the world thus once awa-
kened, Huygens and Cassini applied themselves to ascer-
tain the figure of the earth. The first experiments of
the French sarans were in contradiction to Newton's
theory of the flattening of the poles ; but the controversy
was the means of exciting new interest. The eyes of the
scientific world were turned more intently on the subject.
New experiments were made, which corrected the old ;
and finally, on the measurement of the arc in Peru, and
in the north; truth and Newton triumphed, and the equa-
tor diameter was found to exceed the polar by a two hun-
dred and fourth part of the whole. This was perhaps the'
finest problem ever solved by science ; the most perplex-
ing in its early state—exhibiting for a while the strongest
contradiction of experiment and theory, occupying in a
greater degree the attention of philosophers than any be-
fore. or since, and finally established with a certainty
which every subsequent observation has only tended to
confirm. And this triumph belonged to an Englishman.
The investigation by measurements has since been largely
adopted. in 1787, joint commissions were issued by
England and France to connect the Greenwich and Pari-
sian observations. Arcs of the meridian have since been
measured across the whole breadth of France and Spain,
and also near the Arctic circle, and in the Indian penin-
sula. In navigation, the grand point for the sailor is to as-
certain his latitude and longitude; in other words, to
know where he is. The discovery of the latitude is easily
effected by the quadrant, but the longitude is the diffi-
culty. Any means which ascertained the hour at Green-
wich, at the instant of making a celestial observation in
any other part, would answer the difficulty; for the dif-
ference in quarters of an hour would give the difference
Of the degrees. But clocks could not be used on ship-
board, and the best watches failed to keep the time. In
the reign of Anne, parliament offered a reward of £5.000,
perhaps not far from the value of twice the sum ia the
pretitat day, for a watch within a certain degree of accu-
racy. Harrison, a watchmaker, sent in a watch which
came within the limits, losing but two months in a voy-
age to the West Indies; yet even this was an error of
thirty miles. But, though chronometers have since been
considerably improved, there are difficulties in their pre-
servation in good order which have made it expedient to
apply to other means; and the lunar tables of Mayer of
Gottingen, formed in 1775, and subsequently improved
by Dr. Maskelyne and others, have brought the error
within seven miles and a half. Improvements of a very
important order have also taken place in the mariner's
compass; the variation of the needle has been reduced to
rules, and some anomalies arising from the metallic at-
traction of the ship itself, have been corrected by Profes-
sor Barlow's experiments. The use of the marine ba-
rometer and thermometer have also largely assisted to
give notice of tempests; and some ingenious theories
have been lately formed, which, promising to give a know-
ledge of the origin and nature of tempest-, are obviously
. not unlikely to assist the navigator in stemming their vio-
lence, or escaping them altogether.—" The British
Fleet," in Blackwood.
EFFECT OF A CONCILIATORY POLICY.—The other road
is indeed open to you, and we fear you show too many
leanings towards it, that admirable legacy the whigs be-
queathed you—Conciliation. Popery may be pampered ;
treason,caressed; the loyalty of those who it is supposed
must be true under every defeat and under every discou-
ragement may be insulted ; the repealers may receive that
mild correction which evinces love and affection rather
than anger, and a few years more of distuibance purchased
without the final result being attained. For this course,
apparently, you are prepared. Like Eugene Aram you
are " equal to either fortune." You have so trimmed
your sails that you can stand out to sea, or sun for shore,
as you deem fit. Already your declarations in parlia-
ment give a foretaste of your intentions. With what
shrinking delicacy you receded from any defence of Pro-
testantism on the ground of its truth ; with what sensitive
tendeeness you avoided attributing any corruption to
Romanism, or idolatry to popery. How admirably just—
what Irish justice !--your letter to Lord de Gray regard-
ing Mr. Howley's appointment, that of two men equally
qualified the Roman catholic should be preforred, because
of the previous disabilities under which he rose to the
equality. And so, because one man has embraced christi-
anity according to the state religion, and another in oppo-
sition to its avowed preference, this latter is more to be
trusted, sooner employed, and higher honoured for his
opposition sake—the question of eternal truth or false-
hood, either way, being a matter quite beside the point,
and one which, not to ruffle certain susceptibilities, muss
not be agitated at all. You may follow this path—is is
smooth worn and easy—Lord Normanby's footsteps are
still there to guide you ; but we would ask you, is at as
safe for you as for him; can you do with impunity the
acts he performed with such success? No: very differ-
ent are the hopes men conceive of your government.
They know you to be independent of that faction by whose
aid your rivals held places; they hope, as you have the
power, you may have the will to be honest. They regard
you as the depository of that trust which secures to them
the advantages of their free constitution, and the enjoy-
ment of that religious truth which you have sworn to up-
hold. Take care that you betray not these expectations;
take care, lest in your efforts to conciliate the traitor you
discourage the true man; above all things, take care lest
you suffer this miserable land to linger on under the slow
and consuming fever of decay. If concessions are to be
made, make them ; if the axe is to be laid to the root of
the tree, do not begin by lopping off the branches; it you
mean to remodel the social system of our island, let us
not first moulder away to ruin; do not halt between two
opinions. " I would tnat you were cold or hot." The
capricious bestowal of the patronage of the crown may, for
a time, stimulate that even-banded justice it affects to be ;
but men grow weary of this at last. The zealous and the
active grieve to see that the rewards of government are
bestowed upon the cautious and expectant poltician who
consults his ease and his interest together, and who, by
doing nothing for his country, does every thing for him-
self. Every country abounds in such " artful dodgers"
of politics, but their promotion disgusts honest men of all
parties. Take care then—the time is creeping on —some
vague assurances of respect for the church as by law esta-
blished, and for the rights of property generally, will not
suffice. Men are beginning even now to exclaim—
Quousque tandem Catilina abuteris patentia nostra ?
Approach your ta-k in a spirit of determination, and re-
solve that, acting under the dictates of that constitution
you have sworn to defend, you will govern Ireland.— s
Dublin University Magazine.

A. LANDSCAPE IN SOUTH AMERICA.—A new and sur-
passingly beautiful landscape burst suddenly upon our
view, seeming to dance in the transparent atm .sphere.
On either side mountains, those on the left in deep sha-
dow, those on the right standing forth like colossal figures
of light, in a beauty and splendour that seemed really su-
pernatural, every tree, every branch shining in its own
vivid and glorious colouring. There lay the valley in its
tropical luxuriance and beauty, one sheet of bloom and
blossom up to the topmast crown of the palm trees, that
shot up, some of them a hundred and fifty and a hundred
and eighty feet high. Thousands and millions of con-
volvoluses, paulinias. bignonias, nendrohiums, climbing
from the fern to the tree trunks, from the trunks to the
branches and summits of the trees, and thence again fall-
ing gracefully down, and catching and clinging to the
mangroves and blocks of granite. It burst upon us like a
scene of enchantment, as we emerged from the darkness
of the forest into the dazzling light and colouring of that
glorious valley.—" Two Nights in Mexico," in Black-
wood.

THE QUARTERS OF LIFE.—The seven ages of man
have become proverbial : but in respect of the condition
of our minds, there are granted to the best of us but four
periods of life. The first fifteen years are childhood. 'We
know nothing—we hope. The next fifteen are passion
and romance—we dream. During the third period of fif-
teen years, from thirty to forty-five, we are what nature
intended us to be. Character has formed : we pursue a
course of life ; we reason ; we meditate. This is the pe-
riod in which we may be said with most propriety to live.
The fourth period is that of. commencing decay. We may
grow wiser ; but it is the wisdom that speaks in a shake
of the head. Pain and penitence begin—we sorrow. Ne-
vertheless, if the third period has been passed in _pro-
viding against the fourth, nature is changed, our declining
years are lighted with happiness and love, and as they ap-
proach their destined end, instead of the gloom naturally
accompanying decay, they are tinged with a ray from be-
fore them, the shadows are cast behind us on our path,
feelings spring up, unfelt even in the magic periods first
traversed by us—we rejoice.—Dublin University Mag.
ORIGINAL STYLE OF Boz.—Boz has achieved a great
thing—he has created a STYLE. Perhaps lam wrong to say
created—a term which implies independence of materials
—whereas the singular circumstance in this case is, that
by careful study ofprevious styles, by imitation of them,
by more, perhaps, than by imitation in the first instance,
this author has produced out of the heterogeneous ele-
ments a compound essentially differing from all its com-
ponent parts, and claiming—claiming justly—the high
merit of being original. That such a result should follow
such a course ought to encourage writers who aim at true
celebrity, to adopt this humble and painstaking initiatory
system, which though in other arts it has admittedly led
to the grandest results (in painting for instance) in litera-
ture has been too much overlooked and despised. Boz
now stands alone in his style, he has had no models, he
has no imitators, he will probably have no disciples. But,
besides this, he has a moral code of his own, akin to no
other, except, perhaps, that of Sterne, from whom he
appears in part to have derived it. The exquisite ap-
preciation of the finer phases of feeling, the employment
of the most wayward humour in forming character, the
undeviating firmness of a humility which acknowledges
and courts no elevation but that of the heart, the humanity,
the simple pathos, the brevity of expression even, and the
sly yet innocent comicality which enlivens the whole—all
these are to be found in Sterne, but are transferred to
Boz with so much of transmutation as to shine a different
substance, having got rid of one alloy in the process—
affectation, the great depreciatory ingredient in the metal
run from Yorick's skull. I have been led to remark these
peculiarities from having found in the " Christmas Carol,"
illustrations of them all on a small scale. Chuzzlewit is
an improvement on Boz's former novels—it is stronger,
more fearless, more condensed, more masterly. The
Carol exceeds Chuzzlewit in the exquisite moral, and
rivals it in its other qualities. Not even Sir Walter
Scott's wholesomest fictions ever left a healthier flush
upon the mind than does the perusal of this "tin)" vo-
lume. We rise from it, happy, smiling, and good ; ani-
mated with benevolence and charity. We have been
obliged to sob as we laughed, and to chuckle through our
tears. It softens and subdues the heart, and preaches
powerfully though indirectly that creed which in the
breasts of the best of us is acknowledged and adored as
Christian. Let this eminent man continue to instruct
and benefit while he delights us. It is thus that fiction
may lay claim to be called literature, and its authors earn
a niche—more than a niche—a chapel, in the temple of
Fame.—Dublin University Magazine.
THE LATE STATE TRlALS.—Blackwood for this month,
after combatting the desperate attempts made to fasten
charges of unfairness " on the fairest of all recorded
trials," thus winds up. " And with an interest so keen
in promoting the belief of some unfairness, was there ever
yet a t rial that could have satisfied the losing party ?
Losers have a proverbial privilege for being out of tem-
per. But in this case more is sought than the mere grati-
fication of wrath. Fresh hopes spring up in every stage
of this protracted contest, and they are all equally ground.
less. First, Mr. O'Connell was not to be arrested : it
was impossible and absurd to suppose it. Next, being
arrested, he was not to be tried. We must all remember
the many assurances in Dublin papers—that all was done
to save appearances, but that no trial would take place.
Then, when it was past denial that the trial had really
begun, it was to break down on grounds past numbering.
Finally, the jury would never dare to record a verdict of
guilty. This, however, being actually done, then was Mr.
O'Connell to bring writs of error ; he was to " take the
sense" of the whole Irish bench ; and, having taken all
that, he was to take the sense of the Lords. And after
all these things were accomplished, finally (as we then
understood it) he was to take himself off in the direction
pointed out by the judges. But we find that he has not
yet reconciled himself to that. Intimations come out at
intervals that the judges will never dare to pass any but a
nominal sentence upon him. We conclude that all these
endless conflicts with the legal necessities of his case are
the mere gasconades of Irish newspapers, addressing
themselves to provincial readers. Were there reason to
suppose them authorised by the repealers, there would be
still higher argument for what we are going to say. But
under any circumstances, we agree with the opinion ex-
pressed dispassionately and seasonably by the Times
newspaper—that judgment must be executed in this case.
We agree with that journal—that the nation requires it as
a homage rendered necessary to the violated majesty of
law. Nobody wishes that, at Mr. O'Connell's age, any
severe punishment should be inflicted. Nobody will mis-
understand, in such a case, the mitigation of the sentence.
The very absence of all claim to mitigation, makes it im-
possible to mistake the motive to lenity in his case. But
judgment must be done on Cawdor. Two aggravations,
and heavy ones, of the offence have occurred even since
the trial. One is the tine of defiance still maintained by
newspapers under his control. Already, with one voice,
they are ready to assure the country, in case of the sen-
tence being incommensurate to the case, that government
wished to be severe, but had not courage for the effort;
and that government dares not enforce the sentence. The
other aggravation lies in this—that he, a convicted con-
spirator. has presumed to take his seat amongst the sena-
tors of the land—' Venit in senaturo, fit particeps consilii.'
Yet Ca,iline, here denounced to the public rage, was not
a convicted conspirator; and even his conspiracy rests
very much on the word of an enemy. It is true that, in
some formal sense, a man's conviction is not complete in
our law until sentence has been pronounced. But this
makes no reel difference as to the scandalous affront
which Mr. O'Connell has thus put upon the laws of the
land. And in that view it is, viz. as an atonement for
the many outrages offered to the laws, that the
nation waits • for the consummation of this public
example."

WILLIAM AND MARY HOWlTT.—William Howitt is
of the niends ; but, as we have frequently heard him de-
clare,was much more indebted to a steady practice of self-
instruction than to any school or teacher whatever. He
early showed a predilection for poetry ; and in a periodical
of that day, called " Literary Recreations," a copy of
some verses " On Spring," may be found, stated to be by
" William Howitt, a boy thirteen r-nrs of age." During
the time that he was not at school, he was accustomed,
with his eldest brother, to stroll all over the c untry,
shooting, coursing, and fishing, with an indefatigable zeal
which would have delighted any of the Nimrods from
whom he was descended. As a boy, he had been an eager
birds' nester; and these after-pursuits, together with a
stro.,g poetical temperament, and a keen perception of
he beauties of nature, made him familiar with all the
haunts, recesses, productions, arid creatures of the coun-
try. In this manner the greatest portion of his early life
was spent. Af er he arrived at manhood, however, those
pleasures were blended with an active study of chemistry,
botany, natural and moral philosophy, and of the works
of the best writers of It .Iy, France, and his own country.
He also turned the attention of his youngest brother, now
Dr. Howitt, to the study of British botany; and the doc-
tor has since prosecuted it with more constancy and suc-
cess than himself. General literature and poetry soon
drew his attention more forcibly ; and his marriage, in
his twenty-eighth year, no doubt naturally contributed to
strengthen this tendency. The lady of his choice was
Miss Mary Botham, of Uttoxeter, in Staffordshire, also
a member of the Society of Friends, and now familiar to
the public as the delightful authoress, Mary Howitt.
Soon after their marriage, they undertook a walk into
Scotland, having long admired warmly the ballad poetry
and traditions of that country. In this ramble, after
landing at Dumbarton, they went on over mountain and
moorland wherever they proposed to go, for one thousand
miles, walking more than five hundred of it—Mrs. Howitt
performing the journey without fatigue. They crossed
Ben Lomond without a guide, and, after enjoying the
most magnificent spectacle of the clouds alternately shroud,
ing and breaking away from the chaos of mountains
around them, were enveloped by a dense cloud, and only
able to effect their descent with great difficulty and with
considerable hazard. They visited Loch Katrine, Stir.
ling, Edinburgh, and all the beautiful scenery for many
miles rotted it ; traversed Fifeshire ; and then, taking
Abbotsford in their route, walked through the more
southern parts, visiting many places interesting for their
historical or poetical associations, on to Gretna Gieen,
where all the villagers turned out brimful of mirth, sup-
posing they were come there to be married, especially as
they entered the public-house where such matches are
They
ours rteotuirinteerdary pursuits. Here they
by way of the English
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the most delightful journey imaginable.
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Soon after their return they settled in Nottingham ; Mr.
Howitt, though actively engaged in business, still de-
soon published another joint volume of poems, called
The Desolation of Eyam," which was received with
equal favour by the public. The attention which these
two volumes excited brought many applications from the
editors of annuals and magazines; and both Mr. and
Mrs. Howitt for some years contributed a great va-
riety of articles to these public ' N
airons.— ew Spirit of
the Age.

April 9, 1844._

COMMISSIONERS OF BIRKENHEAD•

On Tuesday ev;:ning, the usual monthly meeting
the Coto tri-sionerii of Birkenhead was held at the Town
-
hall. John Deane Case, Esq., presided.
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officers had hcen found drunk.
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The Fire Committee reported that the new boa
Queen, was now completed and ready for work, and tI31:;
the receipts of the Ferry for the past month had shown
satisfactory increase.
Upon the motion of Mr. W. JACKSON, Messrs. Stake
field, Cole, and Hind were appointed auditors of
ferry accounts, preparatory to the same being subrnittes
to the Clerk of the Peace.
Mr. JACKSON said that more money would not be lig:
mod'
if for some time, but that they should not take 7,
,
if his suggestions were adopted, at a higher rate of iatet
rest than four per cent. (Hear, hear.) He was o
the
prepared at present to bring forward the reduction of
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ferry-rates ; but his view was, that they would be enabLto
to reduce the rates to contractors as follows :-2°si •
adults, and 10s. for every one belonging to each fee3ll;
and by the Ist of January be hoped to be able to Tea°
the rate across to hi. for children, and all besides.
The Road Committee were requested to obtain cr.;
mates for six water-carts, and the cost of making thelff
against the next general meeting.
The Market Committee were authorised to look out fedi
a suitable site for an additional weighing machine; and
also for a convenient site upon which to erect a bridell'"
and magistrates' room.
A memorial to the Post-office authorities was adoPted'
praying tbem to continue the mail which reaches Birktl:
head at seven o'clock in the evening, and not, as proPo
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to take it off at Harford, and to convey it from thence,.
gig, to Chester.
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Corporation. All the principal clauspselasyrhlacadfftbtehereehnLarvievitileaFel
and one or two saving clauses bad been introduced wt
Lord Shaftesbury. He had not the slightest doubt ah4l-
- obtaining, in the present session, a bill for the e°,,'"
struction of docks at Wallasey Pool ;—(hear, heafr,
and, while he was speaking on this subject, he might
well add, that the estimate for the dock, about whiehlw
much was said, had been gone into by several most en3loi
nent contractors. One of them, Mr. Tomkinson,
Liverpool, was anxious to get the contract many the
sands below the estimates. Mr. Brassy would take it
even less. Another individual would take it many tbete
sands less than Mr. Tomkinson, and a fourth would till
it for less than him again. (Hear, hear.) He hat"
moreover, the opinion of Mr. Cubitt that it was pate!,
cable for the amount specified • and they had those fw_t
eminent contractors who would' execute the work for le"
than the amount stated in the original estimates. (gear?
hear.)
The subject here dropped, and the board adjourned.

MEETING OF THE TOXTETH OPERATIVE

PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION.

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The half-yearly meeting of this association, held tieseeeetl
before last at theToxteth-Hall, wasso numerously aitende'r
that many persons couldnot obtain admittance shortly aft„
the opening of the doors. The Rev. Heinle M'NEll''
presided ; and we noticed present the Rev. Messrs'
Nolan, Butler, Irvine, and Lea, and Councillors Glalf;
brook, Sheppard, Trotman, &c. The proceedings opener
with prayer, after which the Rev. Chairman addreesel
the meeting at great length, and with much energy; 1/11,3
we regret that, on account of our Assize reports, we
at
only afford room for an outline. He began by stating t""'
it was written in the Book of Proverb that " as iron sharp;
eneth iron, so does the countenance of a man his friend!,
and as the weapons of their Christian warfare require"
sharpening, and to be kept sharp, they met from time t,°,
time for this, amongst other reasons,—that every lenii„,
countenance might sharpen his friend to increased activll4
so as to counteract the efforts of those whose business',
seemed to be to blunt every thing. There were tot
who seemed in these times to be trying to deal with
vine truth as masters of gymnasties did with the 011
when they fixed corks upon the points of them so that
they might not take effect; or. as when they put stuffed,
gloves on little boys to teach them to box and fight-
muffled sort of battle. Now, what would the meeting
think of soldiers in her gracious Majesty's service who
muffled up their swords so that they would not cut; theire
guns so that they would not shoot ; their drums that ti!e7e
would not beat, or their trumpets that they would give
but an uncertain sound? Why, that they were trait.°o7
for thus rendering their weapons useless, while wearing
her Majesty's livery and taking her pay. But what would_
they say of soldiers of a greater than her Majesty, ante
pledged to be faithful,—and not only the clergy but teef
laity were the soldiers of Christ,—what would they sal of
those who would muffle up the bright blade of the laeon__
the Lord, so that it carried no conviction to consci,
th'''s't
and who would so muffle up the everlasting gospel and
the trumpet would give forth an uncertain sound,
were
carry no consolation to the heart of a poor condoms:ere
penitent. (Hear, and cheers.) This was what rneß.ae it
doing now. They muffled the law of God so ;Paled
brought no conviction to the conscience, andrgilernen",
up the gospel, mixing it with ecclesiastics' 6
t t was highe
so that ,t carried no consolation to the heal-. 1 e sue
time they should conside the real nature of the Pro e
antism they were defending, and not be misled by natnee!
for there were enemies abroad, who said that Protestaq,
ism was only a name and a cloak for party politics. 1,1.
there were any such present, they would hear him y7l_l'l;
impatience, for they would rather see the meeting all '',,,
the move about some party politics, and abusing sL,
protestants of the nation. But he would tell such herp 04
that all the parliaments in the world could neither neat,
nor mar a real Protestant, because a true Protestant Or.
of God's own making and keep ng. (Cheers.) The Preit
testantism they met to defend was of the genuine sort i.,
lay at the foundation of happiness hire, and of salvatto,r,
hereafter. What, he asked, had given power and strengt.l
to the English nation? Not the name, but the realite ie.:
Protestantism. If they had had only nominal Protestsl4
at first, they would never hay- had the reformation; for
nominal Protestants would have shrunk from the trials i'll
which true Protestants were exposed in the reign of Quest
Mary, and denied all they had before said to save the
necks. But they had real Protestants then—real Pn4;
testant people, and real Protestant bishops; and when
Mary tried, and put forth her powers to try them, t"''";,
proved themselves true men, and sufficient to light up
.1
candle in England that was never yet out. (CbeerU
These men had not the parliament on their side—nor t+
Queen, who was herself a Roman Catholic—nor the seen ,
diers. They had but a few faithful sound-hearted 00`;$
who loved the Lord Jesus, who believed in the doetrtalte
of Christianity, who preached' them, who &eclat the s stee
to maintain them, and who handed them down to P°_..ea
rity in their articles and homilies. Such were the ID!'__A
who existed at the time of the glorious reformation:
(tau;
what had they now? Talk of Protestantism beinng
the in..
ger. No such thing. Talk of Popery being n it?
The shout of the conetlerq
crease. Let it increase; what had they to fear from
Talk of certain men being led away, and going to Rome',
H e was We
afraid of either of them. In the name of the Lord Go'
olLafue tgbhe.i them
gwaefgrowa,iadanntodefd ppneooaptceseruycb
such people.
rpir with
ppines.tehymeimsamn.
y.
people(Hear, ea r,
talked and
which he held in his hand, which contfayly—irn
strong-hold of the enemy.
becameb.goer:eandth tehheabdutrrndueoent
achievedfoanitdow he traottfhoeCf hytrihicestto,dr
And here they were in OM'
sition to the Church of Rome, for she was still in bona:
saints. The rev. gentleman here referred to a little boo
of one of the Roman Catholic saints—made I te•.s
so a eit
1830. By the bye he saw they going make sal"
were to a
~..p.
of O'Connell—a queer sort of canonization—St. Dar"'
contained
isdather'arl
description. captain
rl
li aeddh 51
l
the First. (Great laughter.) He would read to then
what O'Connell would have to do when he became a salt;
from the account given in that little book of a man 9:r
was a cardinal, and was put on the list for his great I;
tues in 1830. The author said, " I know for a certallthe
that he constantly scourged himself;" well, perhaps' te
deserved it. It was no part of the Christian's dutt;
scourge himself, for where was it enjoined in the Bit,
" Bloodily, and sometimes unbloodily, he scourged bomog
self." He read other passages 'describing the freetleo,
flagellations which the saint gave himself morning, non"'
' ofw
Heh it
hce h
alludedw
and night, showing the melancholy state of the Rooolt
erei
Redeemer,n t
strongo be i
n atonedthose
language fwo who
too? 1
mind, even in the present day. But flagellations One
most
iwaelmboogennutehniints theaopb pi
ledarletuo promulgationcarlile dtrfuoeorfib,trrhoeetaedlhsarbnistoot:4l?
tnhortouwgihpethaewmayersciiness
apathyttiliaenma
na man who, of parliament
people;woun dlikuepnebdy iatntoafftehceticnogndcoblicted
giver theireiigi t iohrneumas
amongst
stand by the faith of their fathers, as the only sound In''''
of happiness here and salvation hereafter. et
The Rev. Mr. BUTLER then addressed the meeting if
considerable length, imploring them to rouse from • to
indolence indolence, and illustrating his argument by eeu"
an an 10,
related in Catlin's account of the North Annericanef4
diens, showing that a lesson might be derived even American
savage life not to be misled by the evil genius, 10 de
cling to that which was good. What alone they had to
was to abide by the Gospel. fill The Rev. THOMAS NOLAN followed him in a povel.iir
address in behalf of Protestantism. The object of tO6
meetings was to settle and establish in their faitb•oh
alluded to the act of union between England and Ire.`"„,eln
showing that the churches of both were our united clill'bet
and that the church in Ireland must be maintained litnele
integrity against all machinations against her, itlesnieer-
as an injury could not be sustained by one without a Jill
responding weakness being felt by the other. The lea
principle of Romanism was hostility to the simplicitlo• 6
easily understood doctrines of Protestantism. 'ow
aimed, by the most insidious means, at universal 6 t're:
macy • the ruling of her dupes by tyranny the cocis„speA
morseless, and the crushing of those who stood be Post
truth. The Protestants of Ireland deserved the wat. ell
•
sympathies of the Christian population of England'etateS,
alluding to parliament, he lamented that Protestant 'e, ano
men had not been more true to their professiol6_, to
concluded an eloquent appeal by calling upon the Well
cling to the good cause for the sake of themselves 6
as their ne'g'nbours.
lagri
Mr. SHEPPARD proposed, in a highly eon,Rleb iner be.l--„
speech, a vote of thanks to the Chairman, woe by se
seconded by Mr. Councillor Trotman, was carried
clatnation, and ably responded to, after which she o c
siastic assemblage peaceably dispersed.

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