The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

TRACTARIANISM.

Sir,—Being anxious to see and judge for myself as to
the proceedings in the churches under Tractarian
fluence, I went last Sunday to Margaret-street Chapel,
London.

It was the afternoon servir.e that I attended, and I via
there nearly half an hour before the time. I could not
help being struck with the prominent and imposing aspect
of the communion-table. Its elevation, the large cross
in basso-relievo, the gorgeous display of candlesticks, 1104
embossed books, and sacramental service. I could no
have a doubt but that there was a significant meaning in
all this, and that it is intended to have a devotional in-
fluence on the worshippers. And I am much mistaken
if that prominent cross is not used as a help to devotion.
The curate, Mr. Richards, came in early ; and after
staying a few minutes in the vestry, went into a pew, Iti
front of the communion-table. He was engaged in pig-
vate prayer, on his knees for ten or fifteen minutest
during which he more than once lifted up his head from
under his hands, and looked earnestly for a minute or two*,
towards the table, and then renewed his devotions. I
saw others do the same. Of course I cannot say positively
what was the fact, but certainly the impression was fully
made on my mind that the cross was gazed upon as a help
to devotion.

Then for the reading-desk. I have no wish to quarrel
with its abandonment, on the contrary, I felt thankful for
the hint that was immediately suggested of the advantage
of so simple a contrivance, especially in small churches,
where there is often a difficulty in arranging the pulpit
and reading-desk ; and I at once saw the expediency of
such an arrangement in a new church with which I have
at present to do myself. But then the position of the
desk, at right angles to the pulpit, and not facing the
congregation, the use of it only for the lessons, the entire
turning from it during the prayers, with the clergyman 'e
face to the table; and during the psalms the turning of tbe
minister's body round from the desk to the east, with
solemn bows during the Gloria Patri every time of rte
repetition ! What impression would all this make?
And would that 1 could end my account of Mr. Oaklel,'
chapel here ; but in a sermon on Christ's temptation,
which there was an absence of everything that was call;
hated to cheer and encourage, and succour those that am.
tempted it was expressly stated, twice over, that penance
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manner fast in the wilderness of the Lenten season, that
we may atone for the sins of our past lives.—From a
Letter published by the Rev. W. Carus Wilson.

[EXTRAORDINARY SURGICAL OPERATION. -- The
Siecle, of the 3d instant, contains the following para-
graph :—" Dr. Canquoin's mode of treatment has recentil
been applied by his colleague, Dr. Millardet, to M. Du-
menii, a watchmaker, Rue due Faubourg-Montmartre.
No. 32, for the cure of a cyst in the palm of the hand.
This gentleman has thus cured, without compromising tin
ion
rea uatcrtit,least
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statement,
Calton
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life of his patient, an ailment that the most celebrateq
surgeons feared to attack with the knife. The success
termination of this case demonstrates, the advantage °,,
the new method in removing a foreign body from 013!
large joint." The mode of treatment referred to is, we
believe, that of applying caustic round the base of the till'
moor, and gradually eating away, as it were, its founds'
tions. Dr. Canquoin is celebrated for his cures in cases
of cancerous affection.
RENTS AND BREAD.—Practical men have calculated
that from Bs. to 10s. is the utmost that the rent adds tt°,
the price of a quarter of wheat—say 10s. ; then take the
value of the refuse of the wheat, after the flour is abstracteFti
and the number of pounds of bread which the flour 'oil'.
make ; and it will be found that the rent of land ad'
about one farthing to the price of a pound of bread. Frol
this the working man may calculate what he would gate
and lose by a repeal of the Corn Laws—remembering that
the reduction of is. a week from his wages would beetle°
to the reduction in the price of 481bs. of bread; for neee:
sity he must reckon upon a reduction of wages, if, by 111
cibmaeleculation which
nihilating landowners' rentals, those who are now de-
pendent on their rents, from being customers for the Pr 2;
ducts of labour, become themselves competitors in t',.,
labour market. The working man may therefore easitY
itfh than they and
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not recommend its being tested by practical experiments,
may be profitably and safely made in theory,
lest there should be no opportunity of retracing the stePh
if it should be found that they are in a wrong direction-
STRANGE STORY.—The Rev. Fredk. Day, of Calton,
but we would
near Ashborne, Derbyshire, has addressed to the Editor
of The Times the following account of a singular circuren'
stance, which has just occurred in that village :—:re".
days ago, a person of gentlemanly appearance and COO
versation stopped at a small public-house here, being el!:
able to proceed further on his intended journey, fr°—
illness. He was without any money, and unable or ii.,z,
willing to give any satisfactory account of himself. 1,8
was visited by the clergyman of the parish, to whom ',,i
confessed that he had run away from home for a triviro
offence, and he gave up the direction of his parent, '„,
order that the clergyman might acquaint her with his 00,,
row and desire to return home. His sickness increastf
and the fear of death prevailing, he declared, after a 10
days, to a lady who visited him that his former atoll lea
false, and the application of a blister to the chest disci° 0,
the fact that the pretended boy was a young woe,/
She positizely refuses to give any account of the canter
her disguise, declaring that she will never disgraCe %Ay
family by the disclosure of their name. She ls. Prareg.
19 years of age, hair rather inclining to auburn, cOmpe ~,
short, ladylik4;
manners, and very familiar with the Scriptures. lii,
Macclesfield Courier of Saturday, has the following Ole
tional particulars of this case :—" She mentioned r.,
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Saturday
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death, she said her mother was Mrs. Newton, who reside;
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Wednesday
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be presumed, was made with a view to prevent fartilha.
solicitations on that subject, or that her intellect had(
that name resident in this immediate neighbourhqn;
even a relative. So studiously had she concealed her
name, that it was afterwards found that the marks on
obliterated. She expired on Monday evening about "0
ces,
and passed by the name, before the discovery of her ,4111
of Arthur Fitzherbert, she had letters written to 01;00
persons of that name in Ireland, none of which hav,BA/ Pi
answered. She had also a letter written to a 00
Devonshire, who she said had been kind to her; but beg
has not been answered. She passed several days irl,,ftef'
disguise at the Green Man Inn, at Ashborne, and qbeoe
wards at the Isaac Walton, at Dovedale, at both, too
places she paid freely for what she had, but took 00110 to
shillings with her to Calton Moor House. She gavel'
the the landlord's daughter a new octavo prayer book, 601
somely bound, which had the following inscription W, Tell
in a female hand, on one of the blank leaves, 400;
Friend, from one who wishes them the spiritual ble%bot"
January 29th, 1844.' Her person is thus described' ;bite.
5 feet high, dark grey eyes, dark hair, teeth vela th!:
and regular, fair complexion, with a slight scar un age tui
left eyebrow. Alter the discovery she stated hque die'
be twenty-two, but she appeared rather older. °'"
of bronchitis."
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