The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-11-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL .STANDARD,
_ It is of no use to reply to accusations of " ferocious

clergy to the Church in Liverpool to their labours

THEGERMANY OF 1848.—N0 man—says Dunshunner— I among the poor—to their efficiency in the pulp,.
-who has this year visited Germany, could believe that it is their acceptance among the educated—to the way in
the same country which he knew in the days of its tran- which they have made the glorious Gospel, the contra-
quiffity. In former times, the tourist, if his opinions versy for souls, the warfare with the spiritual wickedness
happened to be extra liberal, or slightly savouring of re- in high places, audible and felt throughout the length
publicanism, would have done well to abstain from pro- and breadth of the town. All this is answered by a
claiming them over loudly in the streets. I have myself threatened cry for a repeal of the union of the Churches—
seen a dirty Frenchman, of the propaganda school, cere- by the cry of " Away with the Irish league !—away with
moniously conducted from the hotel to the guardhouse of the Irish faction !—away with the criminators of our local
Mayence, by a couple of armed police, in consequence of
clergy !" and with the cuckoo note, borrowed so appro-
a tirade against royalty ; and I recollect that, for some
priately from the great model and fountainhead of inter-
time afterwards, there was considerable speculation as
nal strife and irreconcileable division, 4,1 Ireland for the
to the place of his ultimate destination. Now, the don-
Irish ! "
ger lies the other way. The more radicalism you can But, I ask, who among the Irish clergy has ever brought
muster up, the better you will be appreciated in such ci- railing criminations against the many faithful and devoted
ties as Cologne and Frankfort,—the former of which 1 men to be found among the English clergy in Liverpool ?
places, if I had my will, should be deliberately devoted Who ever made light of the sweet devotional spirit and
without mercy to the infernal gods. Always a nest of faithful preaching of Haldane Stewart ?—who ever spoke
rascality and filth, Cologne now_ presents an appearance against the fidelity, the earnest and honest labours of

.ich is absolutely reva

with scores o

miscrean

unholy hymns of revolution in your face, and execrating

pugned the various learning and the deep piety of the
late lamented Mr. Buddicom, upon whose true Church
spirit the Mail has been casting (in an article before us)
its unsupported insinuations, calling up the sainted dead,
the strong advocate of the great principle of Church unity,

aristocracy with a gusto that would be refreshing to the

soul of Cliffey

—Bl'ackwood's Magazin

. -
The late Air. Tegg, the publisher in Cheapside, gave the
following list of remunerative payments to distinguished

authors in his time

Fox, sold by

gments
. Lin-

of History, by Sir James

Mackintosh, at £5OO

extent, still it is notorious that some years ago large
masses of the population of Liverpool were in the deepest

Bards History of England, £4,633. Sir Walter Scott's spiritual want, perishing for lack of the bread m ..
Buonaparte was sold, with printed books, for £18,000; lying in fact in the sleep of death as to their souls' hope,
the nett receipts of the first two editions only must have and that these " immigrant Irish" were to a great extent
been £lOO,OOO. The Life of Wilberforce, by his sons, the cause of a more stirring state in religious things in
4,000 guineas. Life of Byron, by Moore, £4,000. Life these latter times. These were the angel visitants who
of Sheridan, by Moore, £2,000. Life of Hannah More, came down into those stagnant waters •, and although it
£2,000. Life of Cowper, by Southey, £lOOO. Life and may be, as was to be expected, that they troubled the
Times of George IV., by Lady C. Bury, £lOOO. Byron's sleeping mass a little, they most surely brought a healing
works, £20,000. Lord of the Isles, half share, £l5OO. power with them. They brought bread and to spare to
Lela Rookb, by Moore, £3,000. Rejected addresses, by those who were perishing for want. Soon, without in-
Smyth, £lOOO. Crabbe's Works, republication of, by vading the congregation of any English clergyman, St.
Mr. Murray, £3,000. Wordsworth's Works, republica- Jude's, Christ Church, St. Michael's, and, subsequently,
tion, by Mr. Moxon, £lO5O. Bulwer's Rienzi, £l6OO. St. Barnabas', Trinity Church and others on both sides
Marryatt's Novels, £5OO to £lOOO each. Trollop's Fac- of the Mersey, were filled to overflowing.
tory Boy, £lBOO. Hannah More derived £30,000 per an- But does this in any way derogate or detract from the
num for her copyrights, during the latter years of her life. excellence of the pious English clergy of Liverpool ?
Rundell's Domestic Cookery, £2,000. Nicholas Nickleby, Does it detract from the sweet Evangelical spirit of John,
£3,000. Eustace's Classical Tour, £2,000. Sir Robert or from the calm Christian dignity of James, or from the
Inglis obtained for the widow of Bishop Heber, by the affectionate fervour of Peter, that the more stirring spirits
sale of the journal, £5,000. . - of Paul and Barnabas and Anollos were called into the
_

CHILDREN IN EDINBURGH
the High-street, the harvest is too thick to be computed. too, it was said—" These, who . have turned the world
"They cover the ground, like the brushwood beneath a race upside down, are come hither also." But of whom was
of taller growth. They swarm like a plague of locusts this the cry ? Was it of the friends or .of the enemies of
in Egypt, only the west wind does not carry them off. the spread of Christ's kingdom ? They, too, had their
They lie in shoals on the pavement ; they gather hu differences of opinion in matters of private judgment and
clusters in the streets ; they sit in rows on the kerbstone ; supposed expediency. Paul disputed with Barnabas re-
they pour in legions from the wynds ; crowds of them specting the value of a fellow-labourer. Peter and Paul
are playing upon every heap of coals or dirt ; whole bat- differed on the Jewish question, and Paul used some
tallions of them are lying at ease in the gutter. Down sharp words too in the discussion. But did it ever enter
every stair a couple of little naked feet are seen patter- into the heads of these men that one or the other was to
ing ; up every cellar a little dirty head is peeping. They be ejected out of their field of spiritual labour, because
run and riot without hindrance ; they tumble and roar they did not always agree together on every minute point
without pity; they thump, and get thumped, without of their common ministry, or because the temper and
mercy ; they are too dirty to be touched, and too ugly, character of the one class of the Church's ministers and
.one would think, to be loved,—yet, even in this infant faithful servants were more ardent, enterprising, and ad-
pandemonium, there are little imps who fasten on your venturous, and of another more calm, soberminded, and
sympathies. Here lies a ragged, filthy, innocent little stationary ?
-thing, stretched out asleep on the pavement, whom you Away, then, with this schismatical cry for a repeal of
can't help looking down upon with tenderness ; and then the union of the Churches I.- Away with this, not Irish,
a little curly-headed, limpid-eyed monkey, lifts his face but Celtic note of " Ireland for the Irish 1" Let us give
trustingly up to you whom you could almost run away God glory for the various gifts which the one and the
with,—and it would not be missed ; for it is five years same spirit bath so happily and so usefully distributed
•old, and the mother has, doubtless, at least half-a-dozen over the different members of the one and the same spi-
.others to bring up under it. Next to children, herrings ritual Church Catholic body.
are the most plentiful things in the High-street, andthere It is the principle of true Churchism to unite into one
teems to be a kind of natural bond between them. glorious whole all varieties of gifts and talents and tern-
Every slut of a woman carries a baby on one arm, and a peraments, preserving inviolate the great elements of
bundle of herrings on the other. Babies are sucking raw Gospel truth and salvation. It is the principle of sect
herrings to keep them quiet; children are playing with and schism to conform all men to some one narrow pat-
utrid ones ; while the most popular tov going seems to tern, and to make men offenders for a word. It is the
be those same delectable herrings' viscera I—Fraser's principle of the great enemy of souls—" Divide et im.
Magazine. pera." CLERICUS CATHOLICUS.

ren of J field of Christian labour and Gospel warfare ?_ Of them,