The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-06 00:00:00

GLEANINGS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.

We take the following scraps from the New York and
other papers just received, the dates of which are from
the 9th to the 17th November.
IMPORTANT, IF TRUE.—The National lntelligneer of Saturday
says :—" There is a rumour in circulation, entitled to we do not
know what credit, that the Secretary of the Treasury has ap-
prised the President that he finds he cannot get along with his
administration of the finances, now that the treasury is deprived
of the services of the Bank of the United States. It is even ru-
moured that already the folly of the change in the government
deposits has become so apparent, that they are to be restored !
Our readers will not understandus as vouching for the iruth of
these rumours, which come thick and fast one upon another.—
When We•believe them, we shall plainly tell them so. For the
present, we doubt whether the Treasury has yet had a taste of
the quality of its new financial agents; it happening very for-
tunately for the government .that there are fiands still in the
Bank of the United States to be drawn upon. When the time
comes for drawing on the pet banks, we shall see how they shall
bear it, and how the Secretary of the Treasury will get along
with them." •
Another new ship, named the Caledonia, was launched from
one of the ship yards. of Baltimore, on Saturday last. She is
140 feet long and 550 tons burthen, and is intended for one of
the packets to ply between Virginia and Liverpool. Messrs. J.
J. Brander and Co., merchants, of Petersburg, are her owners.
We rejoice, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, at these evidences of
Southern enterprise in the way of commerce. They will in
their results, prove excellent anditotes to nullification.
BOSTON, November 7.—lt has been very cold here for the
last week. Every one is wrapped in furs and cloaks, and all
we want is a little snow to make it as dreary as the dead of
winter. " Quincy Lake" alias " The Frog Pond," the nonde
script lakelet (to coin m word) on the common, has been frozen
completely over, although the water is six or eight feet•deep in
the middle., We are looking forw,ard to a sleigh ride on
Thanksgiving. . - •
METEORS.—One of these most extraordinary phenomena of
nature was witnessed before daylight yesterday morning, by
huudreds,of our citizens, which commenced at twelve. About
four o'clock, .invriaes of shooting meteors were observed in
every part of the horizon, producing such an effect as to induce
the belief that there was an extensive conflagration in the city.
The scintillations resembled the falling sparks from the pipe
of a steamboat, or those which are visible from a descending
rocket. We have heard several circumstances related as to
the influence occasioned on the minds of many persons. One
is, that a servant woman in a large hotel, in the lower part of
the city, on going into the yard, and beholding the singular
appearance of the heavens, ran into the house in great conster-
nation, and exclaimed that there was a great fire in the neigh-
bourhood. Again, the passengers on board the Albany steam
boat were very much terrified, being unable to explain this
mysterious phenomenon.-14th November.

MEETING OF THE CLERGY TO ADDRESS THE
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

A meeting of the clergy of this town and neighbourhood was
held in the Chapter House of the Collegiate Church, on Tues-
day week, for the purpose of agreeing to an address to his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the manful resistance he
made to the Irish Church Spoliation Bill. About thirty cler-
gymen were present, including several from the neighbouring
parishes.
The Rev. C. D. Wray took the chair, and addressed the
meeting in the following terms :—Gentlemen, in the absence of
the Very Rev, the Warden, and as his deputy, I have taken
the liberty of calling you together, for the purpose of agreeing
to an address to his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. You
are all aware that his grace, when the Irish Church Spoliation
Bill was before the House of Lords, most manfully came for-
ward to resist that measure ; and you are all aware, too, that
his grace, although a most learned and pious man, is yet very
diffident, and needs support. Now what support can be so
good as the assurance that his conduct meets with the appro-
bation of the clergy, of whom he is the head ? It is now very
evident, gentlemen, that the church cannot stand by concilia-
tion ; the more we give up, the more the enemy demands ; this
was so with the Ke_peal of the Test Acts, with the Catholic Eman-
cipation Bill:and -ivittie-the Reform Bill; and it would be so
with the Church Bill. The' dissenters now want the church
rates to be given up, but if church rates are relinquished, you
may rest assured that the abolition of tithes would follow, nay,
all the revenues of the church must be thrown open, if not to-
tally surrendered to her enemies, before they will be satisfied.
I have lately read a letter in one of the Manchester papers,
headed "The -Rights of the Dissenters," in which they are ad-
vised not to let the government rest until they have obtained
the following. points, which I will read to you now, for the pur-
pose of showing what it is we have to guard against. " First, a
total disconnection between church and state; second, the pre-
venting the bishops from sitting in the House of Lords ; third;
a repeal of all laws which support any church whatever; fourth,
a repeal of religious tests on-admissions to the universities;
and fifth, equal rights in places of public burial." The writer
of this letter, Mr. Hadfield, adds, "no government whatever
could long resist any otthese just and reasonable requirements,
if perseberingly demanded. Less than this will never, be submit-
ted to; our local members are most favourable to our views and
wishes, and prepared to render us every assistance."—How far
(continued Mr. Wray) our local members are prepared to go,
I know it; perhaps one day it may be learned from their own
lips. With respect to church-rates, about, which so much has
lately been said and done, I have, only one remark to make,
which is, that the church rate is a tax upon the land, and no
man now living, or for centuries back, has either bought land
or houses, or obtained them by inheritance, but he came into
possession of them subject to this tax. It is a rate or tax im-
memorially granted for the support of the fabric of the church.
The clergyman keeps the chancel in repair; the parishioners
the body of the church; for the church is for the use of the pa-
rishioners ; and whoever would throw off the church rate, might
with equal propriety refuse to pay, the chief rents so common
on the buildings in this neighbourhood. It makes no difference
whether the man who occupies a house or field, knowing at the
time that it was subject to that rent charge. If that house
were free from the church rate, he would pay more annual
rent for it, in the same way that any one purchasing a house
which is liable to a ground rent to a third party, pays pro-
portionally less for his purchase than if it were subject to no
ground rent. Suppose some pious person should at his
death charge his estate with certain payments to be made
to the chaplain of the Infirmary, and that estate should
be afterwards purchased by a dissenter, could he with any
reason say, "1. do not approve of the religious doctrine of
this chaplain ; it is different from my own creed, I will
therefore, no longer make this payment to him." I say,
could the purchaser either legally or justly act in this way ?
—Similar to this is the church rate ; to suppose that the
churches, as is often asserted, were- all built by the monasteries
or other religious houses, is not founded in fact; they were
built by the Lords of Manors for the use of their tenants, who,
in consequence, were bound to keep them in repair. To say
any tiring more to you on this subject would only be to waste
your time. We live in dangerous times • and it is only by man-
fully opposing the machinations of evil men, that we can hope
to stand, as an established Christian ministry, under the bless-
ing of Divine Providence. If the church of these realms should
be overturned, not England, not Europe, but the whole Chris-
tian world might have cause to lament such a catastrophe. But
there is no part of the community who have a greater interest
in our church establishment than the poor of this country; for
though dissenters may be numerous in the great towns, and
able to provide religious instruction for their own poor, yet in
the country places, in the agricultural districts, they form but
a very small body. If the churches, then, in these parts, were
allowed to fall into decay, what must become of the poor in
regard to religion? The same result would follow as is said to
be rapidly taking place in America—the people would become
infidels. Gentlemen, I beg your pardon for having wandered
a little from the objects oft' our meeting, which are, first, to
address the Primate of England, and secondly, to mention
that Congregational Associations of the clergy and laity,
which it is intended hereafter to form on a broad scale, will be
of the greatest use in the support of our venerable establish-
ment. I will now read the address, which has been so care-
fully drawn up that it is hoped no clergymen will have any
hesitation in signing it. The rev, gentleman then read the
following address :
" To the Most Reverend Father in God William, by Divine Pro-
vidence, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all Eng-
land. _

"We, the undersigned clergy of England and Wales, are
desirous of approaching your grace with the expression of our
veneration for the sacred office, to which, by Divine Provi-
dence you have been called, of our respect and affection for
your personal character.and virtues, and of our gratitude for
the firmness and discretion which you have evinced in a sea-
son of peculiar difficulty and danger.
" At a time, when events are daily Passing before us which
mark the growth of latitudinarian sentiments, and the igno-
rance which prevails concerning the spiritual claims of the
church, we arc especially anxious to lay before your grace the
assurance of our devoted adherence to the Apostolical doctrine
and polity of the church over which you preside, and of which
we are ministers : and our deep-rooted attachment to the vene-
rable liturgy, in which she has embodied, in the language of
piety, the orthodox and primitive faith.
." And while we most earnestly deprecate that restless desire
of change which would rashly innovate in spiritual matters, we
are not less solicitous to declare our firm conviction, that should
any thing from the lapse of years or altered circumstances re-
qthre renewal or correction, your grace and our other spiritual
rulers may rely upon the cheerful co-operation and dutiful
support of the clergy in carrying into effect any measures that'
may tend to revive the discipline of ancient times, to strengths n
the connection between the bishops, clergy, and people, and to
promote the purity, the efficiency, and the unity of the church."
A short conversation afterwards took place, in the course of
which it was stated that the addiess would be left in the Chapter
House for a week or ten days, in order to receive the signa-
tures of the clergy who were not now present. With respect to
the Congregation Associations to which allusion had briefly
been made, we gathered that their object is to bring the real
friends of the church into closer communion with each other, to
ascertain their real strength, and adopt such means from time
to time as may be deemed necessary to defend the church from
the open or insidious attacks of her enemies.
The gentlethen present having signed the address, the meet-
ing separated. We understand that the signatures obtained in
each parish will be transmitted to a gentleman at Oxford, who
has undertaken the duty, and the whole will be appended to an
engrossed copy of the address, which will be presented to the
Lord Primate.—Manchester Courier.

• MENTAL CHARACTER OF THE CoantEn.--.-Seated.all day ou
a low seat, pressing obdurate last and leather against the eni-
gastrium, dragging reluctant thread into hard and durable
stitches, or hammering heels and toes with much monotony—
the cobbler's mind, regardless of the proverb, wanders into re-
gions metaphysical, political, and theological; and from men
thus employed have sprung many founders of sects, religious
reformers, gloomy politicians, "bards, sophists, statesman,"
and all other " unquiet things," including a countless host of
hypochondriacs. The dark and pensive aspect of shoemakers
in general is matter of common observation. It is but justice
to them, however, to say, that their acquisition of knowledge,
and their habits of reflection, are often such as to command ad-
miration. The hypochondriacal east of their minds is pro-
bably, in part, induced by the imperfect action of the stomach,
liver, and intestines, in consequence of the position in which
they sit at work;—li'oreign Quarterly Review.