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operation of the proposed water bill, it was decided that
such a request could not be entertained.
Some routine business was then disposed of, and the
Board adjourned.

CORR A SPONDEIVCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

O quid agis ? fortiter occupa
Port um. * * *

* * Tu nisi ventis
Debes ludibrium, cave.—Hon.
SIR9—A state of uncertainty and doubt respecting the
intentions or the sentiments of public men and lukewarm
legislators, is, in the greatest degree, prejudicial to our
interests and detrimental to our strength. The covert
designs of secret enemies and professing friends are al-
ways the most dangerous, because the most successful.
Disaffection in the camp, or the mine under the fortifica-
tions, are more to be dreaded than forests of enemies and
roars of artillery.
The purposes of Sir Robert Peel—disguised, but suffi-
ciently apparent to the man of more than ordinary obser-
vation, who, elevated above the multitude, like the astro-
nomer in his observatory, takes more than an ordinary
view—were expounded to an incredulous people six
months ago, amongst others very confidently and im-
pressively by yourself, before experience had verified
Your lamentable anticipations, and what was thought
prophecy had grown into fact. But now, sir, no one can
plead ignerance. Simple fact is the object of discern-
ment, without the chances of probability, or the mystifi-
cations of prophecy. The measures of the betrayer have
been folly developed, treachery has avowed itself, and
moral turpitude can no further go. The once sceptical
people stand amazed, and the only advantage gained is
that lessors which experience never fails to teach, and
which I now exhort my countrymen to treasure in their
memories and impress upon their minds.
The position of the Church, it is almost needless to
premise, is one pregnant with alarm to every faithful
Protestant and anxious adherent, solicitous for her wel-
fare and devoted to her cause. It is not, sir, that it is
assailed from without ; it is not that the " great whore"
rears its head from Rome; but that the secret stab of
perfidy is aimed at her existence, and the " worker of
iniquity" is developing himself at home, avowing himself
in our parliament, and creeping into the breasts of our
statesmen, infecting our universities, and poisoning our
bishops. The unqualified opposition of Popery we were
fully expectant to see, if not prepared to meet : the roar-
ing of the " beast" did not surprise, however it might
alarm; but we naturally started with horror and amaze-
ment at the hissing of the " auguis in herba," the snake
in the grass. 'We have long implored Providence to pro-
tect us from our enemies; but, alas ! the day has at
length arrived when we must with equal fervour cry,
" Save us from our friends!"
But, sir, amidst our execrations of Government and
opposition to their measures, we must not lose sight of
the dangerous heresy which has lately partially receded
from public view. People are too apt to imagine, that
because its spirit has recoiled from that observation which
is not yet ripe for its more mature developement, " Pu-
seyism" has had its day; but, with great earnestness, I
would warn my countrymen against this delusion. The
English character is constitutionally inclined to the desire
of quietude and repose; and whilst John Bull can soothe
his conscience with such a consideration, he sits down
indolent and inenergetic, if not lulled into perfect indif-
ference. This apathy is exactly for what the enemies of
Protestantism—Mr. Newman, Dr. Pusey, and the Jesuits
—are anxious. They have well studied this peculiarity in
the English character, and, with all the detested arts of a
Machiavel, have shaped their policy in accordance. Let
us not be deceived ; let us foil them with their own wea-
pons ; let us spoil their chosen game. Think not that,
because it is somewhat hid, Tractarianism is extinct.
Though suppressed, it is not destroyed ; though we see
not the smoke, the fire is not yet extinguished ; though
the flames are not visible, they still smoulder. Jugglery
is the very essence of Popery; and whilst, nay because,
candour is the principle of truth, it is only by this that
success can attend the system of evil. Let us strip it,
then, of its new-fangled dissemblance, and drag the latent
confederady of darkness to the searching light of day.
Believe me, there are at this moment, and increasing
every day, Jesuits ordained into the Established Church
—Romanists preaching the " doctrine of devils" from
Protestant pulpits, and, under the appearance of expound-
ing Protestant tenets, inculcating to a deluded audience
the errors of Popery. 0 what need had ye to endow the
polluted College of Maynooth, when, from the classic
seminaries of Oxford, the poison of heresy and schism is
circulated through Protestant England !
Heu pietas, hen prisca fides."
" Quis. talia fanda''
" Temperet a lacrymis ?"
These statements cannot be denied. .They are facts
which have been repeatedly proved, and shown incontro-
vertible. It has been proved that those destroyers of
domestic peace are insinuating themselves into families
the least open to their attacks, or apprehensive of their
machinations; that their presence is poisoning and blast-
ing where it is thought most distant, and that even Pro-
testant pulpits have been used as the means of conveying,
to a Protestant clergyman's own daughter, the instru-
ments of perversion from her faith, and corruption of her
fidelity to her home and parents! Can it be doubted that
it is through the agency of Puseyism the genius of Jesuit-
ism is asserting itself in Protestant England,—yea, and
developing itself in England's Church? Whilst we are
apathetic, they work secured from observation and pro-
tected from interference.. Whilst the watch-dog sleeps.
they effect a surer entrance into our Master's mansion
like the mole or the rat, that hides its head beneath the
covering of the soil, they are feeling their way unheeded
and unseen. There is, indeed, no circumstance that in
the slightest degree tends to show that Puseyism has
ceased its apostate work, or that its supporters are para-
lysed in their secret efforts. Is not Dr. Pusey—(a man
whose countenance, it is said, is remarkably significant of
the deceitfulness of his heart)—is not Dr. Pusey yet the
head of one of our callezes?—are not those entrusted
with the education of England's youth, tainted with the
deadly schism ?—and is not the university choked with
those who deem it no dishonour, in the Jesuitical distor-
tion of all their finer sympathies and feelings, to think
one thing and avow another—to walk with a " lie in their
right hand" ? What, then, can we expect, but that, in
conjunction with the detested disciples of Ignatius Loy-
ola, who derive their name from a blasphemous and pre-
sumptuous perversion of the sacred cognomen of the
Saviour of men, they are covertly, and therefore more
surely—in the camp, and therefore more successfully—
screened from public observation, and therefore more
atrociously—exerting all their powers, and using every
base advantage, to poison the fountain of truth, and open
the sluices of error—to uproot the foundation of our
" Catholic faith," and to subvert the holy consequences
of the Reformation—to destroy the national principle of
Christianity, and erect the " worker of iniquity" in its
place—and, by laying in the dust all that has maintained
her in her proud position and placed her above all the
earth, blot England from the records of nations, and
England's Protestantism from the annals of religions ?
For my part, sir, I am free to confess that I would rather
see the workings of this dangerous heresy, and witness its
proceedings, than be conscious that it is mustering its
efforts, managing a catastrophe, and sinking a mine, that
shall one day burst for h in all the terribleness of matu-
rity, and astonish affrighted Christendom with the explo-
sion

I shall enter a little further into the subject in another
letter. Yours, &c.,
NIGEL.

ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH, TOXTETH PARK

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Ssw,—lt is with a mixture of pleasure and pain that I
beg most respectfully to announce, through the medium
of your valuable and widely-circulated paper, that the
congregation of St. Thomas's, Toxteth Park, are about to
be deprived of their much-esteemed pastor, the Rev.
Walter Butler, A.M., the present incumbent. It is a
source of pleasure that the Directors of the Grand Junc-
tion Railway Company have manifested to the inhabi-
tants of Crewe a glorious Christian philanthropy for the
spiritual welfare of their immortal souls, by erecting a
place for the public worship of our Creator on the Sab-
bath-day, and appointing the Rev. Vvva:terißutler to the
living ; and may those objects which they have in view be
crowned with blessings, which I have no doubt will be
followed by the appointment of such an indefatigable and
zealous gospel minister as the reverend gentleman of whom
they have made choice. And it is additional pleasure
that the congregation have almost unanimously signed a
memorial to John Gladstone. Esq., in favour of the ta-
lented curate, the Rev. Chas. Marshall, being successor to
the vacant incumbency, which selection will be very much
esteemed by a many of the poorer classes in the district,
and especially the poor children now assembled in the
schools connected with the above church.—l am, sir, &c.
ONE OF HIS HEARERS.
April 13th, 1516.

DANGEROUS DRlVlNG.—Yesterday, at the police-
court, a respectable looking man, named Littler, was
charged by a female and a police officer with having
driven his gig furiously down St. John's-lane, on Satur-
day night, by which the complainant was knocked down
and hurt, and some articles of grocery which she was car-
rying scattered and lost in the street, to the amount of
Os. The defendant said that his mare was skittish, and
he could not restrain her; also that he did not see the
complainant. It appeared, however, that he was rather
intoxicated:at the time, and he was fined 40s. and costs
for furiously driving, and informed that he must compen-
sate the female for the injuries she had experienced,
otherwise he would grant her a summons against him, to
enforce the payment of a fair amount.
CORNS.—Those who are troubled with these abomi-
nable excresences on their feet, should refer to the ad-
vertisements in our paper of to-day. Mr. Picard, an
acknowledged skilful practitioner, extracts them at one
shilling each.
SATURDAY EVENING CONCERTS.—On Saturday even-
ing last. Mr. Lover gave his entertainment, entitled
" The Queen's Vi-it to Ireland." The attendance was
very numerous, and Mr. Lover gave great satisfaction,
particularly in the relation of his anecdotes. It will be
seen, from the advertisement, that Mr. Itarisford gives
his " Gipsy entertainment" on Saturday evening next.

SIGNOR CAMILLO SIVORI.—This unrivalled violinist
appears at the two arand concerts which will be given
to-night and Thursday next, at the Concert-hall, Lord
Nelson-street. The public will also have an opportunity
on the same evening of hearing Mr. J. L. Hatton, the
popular vocalist, in the style of Mr. John Parry, our tn..
leated townswoman Miss Whitnall, and Mr. W. H.
Reeves.

DEATHS THROUGH INTOXICATION.—On Sunday night week
John Dickinson fell into a cellar in Leeds-street, while in a
state of intoxication. The deceased was taken home, where he
died shortly afterwards from the injuries received. On Satur-
day week John Gaskell, of Bevington-hush-road, took an over
dose of laudanum, while in a state of intoxication, and died in
a few hours afterwards.