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

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

of hich NA as very Inn teal, met a very heavy demand .A t
week's priccs. Prime k Mall Porkers were quite as dear, but all
other kinds of Pigs were a mere drug.

IM ITATION TO UNITED PRAYER,

FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ON WED-
NESDAY. IST OF JANUARY, 1845, BEING THE FIRST
DAY OF THE NEW YEAR.

Per Blbs. to sink the offal.
s d. s. d.. s. d. s. d
Inferior Beasts.... 2 8— 2 1n Second quality do. 3 2 3 6
Second quality do. 3 0— 3 6 Coarse do. 3 8— 3 10
Prime lar. e Oxen. 3 8— 4 0 Soutlidown Wethers 4 4 2
Prime Scots, &C... 4 2 4 4Do out of th... wool --
,Ciarse Calves ... i 3 0— 3 6 1 argi. O gs
small do.
Stickling do. each.; 8 0-31 a Qr. tld Pigs, each 16 o—.'l) 0
Inferior Sheep 2 8— 3 0 Lambs

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. 3,420 Sheep, 27,730.... Calves, 102 .. Pigs, 431

The Rev. Dr. Cramer. Principal ot• New Inn Hall, and
Professor of Modern History ;n the University (it Oxford,
s appointed by her Majesty to be Dean of Carli,le.
The Rev. Mr. Ward was sounnoned before the Vice
Chancellor of Oxford on Saturday: and requested two
day's lime to consider whether he should a, ow himself
the author of his notorious and scandalous work.

.....
May the Lord accompany these means of crace, or such
others as may he adopted, with his abundant blessing!
Oh! may it indeed be a season of special refreshment from
der presence of the Lord!
Let this be the prayer of all who read this paper; and
as the new year is now approaching, it would be a great
kindness if those who approve the otject, and have influ-
ence over the press, would republish and circulate this
invitation, which any one, into whose hands it tn,ty fall,
has full permission to do.
Peace be wi h all who love the Lord Jesus in sincerity !
This prays their aff, ctionate Brother,
And servant in the
JAM ES HALDANE STEWART.
Sl. Bride's, Liverpool.

• .S-e the s üblished liepolts of the General Assembly of the
Free Church of Scott nd. in May and August. 1811.
t Sam. xiv. 14. t Ezek. 19. _ _ .

See their Report, that of the Irish Society for 1844

CHESTER CATTLE FAIR.—The usual November cattle
fair was held on Thur.d.q. There were but few milch
cows shown. Fat Beef of good qn,dity was worth sd. per
lb. and sink. Fat sheep sold for 54d. and 6d. The horse
fair was indifferently attended. The show was poor and
the demand limited.

2.115 s AIARIINEAU AND MESMERISM.

Ti e .Atheneetim contains a lung communicati .n from
Mies !Martineau, detailing the particulars of a wonderful
cure which, she says, has been effected by mesmerism.
DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD,—It is with feelings after a serims illness of five years and a half. Of the
of grreetul thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father, that I character of the disease under which she suffered, she
now, for the ninth time, renew my annual invitation for a thus speaks :—" This is not the place in which to give
et neral concert fur Prayer for the outpouring of the Holy any details of disease. It will be sufficient to explain
Spirit, which, by divine permission, will be held on the briefly, in order to render my story intelligiele, that the
fist day of the New Year, Wedm-soay, January Ist, 1845. internal disease under which I suffered appears to have
Upon entering upon so spiritual a service, it will be well been coming on for many years; that, after warnings of
re bear in mind that striking passage in the 59th chapter failing health, which I carelessly overlooked, I broke
of the Prophet Isaiah—" Behold. the Lord's band is not down. while travelling abroad, in June 1839 ; that I sank
shortened, that it cennot save; neither is his ear heavy, lower and lower for three years after my return, and rea
that it cannot hear: but your inequities have separated mained nearly stationary fir two more preceding last
between you and your God, end your sins have hid his June. During these five years I never felt wholly at ease
face from you, that he will not hear." for one single hour. I seldom had severe pain, but never
For, whilst this scripture shews us the Lord's readiness entire comfort. Ab, setting sickle ss, almost disablirg
to beer our pet titans, and his ability to grant our utmost me from taking food for two years, brought me very low,
desires, and thus encourages us to draw nigh to a " throne and, together with other evils, it confined me to a condi-
of grace," it will lead us to do this with a deeper sense of tion of almost entire stillness—to a life passed between
ous minnifola infirmities, with a humble confession of our my bed and my sofa. It was not till after many attempts
individual -hortcomingseand with a personal application at gentle exercise that my friends agreed with me that the
to that " precious blood, which cleanses from all sin." cost was too great for any advantage gained ; and at length
Thus it was that holy Daniel offered up his prayer. it was clear that even going down one flight of stairs was
First, with humble catifeesion, and then with earnest sup- imprudent. From that time I lay still, and by means of
plication. this undisturbed quiet, and such an increase of opiates as
And, surely, at this time such a course is peculiarly re- kept down my most urgent di-comforts, I passed the last
quisite, to give us that confidence in prayer, without two years with less suffering than the three preceding.
which it cannot be effectual. For,- without referring to There was, however, no favourable change in the disease.
those open transgressions of the ungodly, for which " the Everything was done for me that the best medical skill
Lord is angry with then. every day," consider the present arid science could sugeest, and the most indefatigable
state of the church ot Christ Who that compote s his own humanity and amily affection devi-e, but nothing could
Personal religion with the standard laid down in the Word avail teyond mere alleviation. My dependence on opiates
of God, but will be ready to smite upon his breast, and was desperate. My kind and vigilant medical friend—the
sey, with the publican, •' God be merciful to me a sinner." most sanguine marl I know, and the most bent upon keep-
For reflect upon the description given of the minister. of ing his patient hopeful—avowed to me last Christmas,
Christ, and of the trust reposed to them. They are drilled and twice afterwards. that he found himself compelled to
•• Men of God," " Ambassadors for Christ," " the glory give up all hope of affecting the disease—of doing mote
of the churches ;" they are "in Chri-t's stead ;" they are . than keeping me up, in collateral respects, to the highest
set as " examples ot the believers in word, in converse cticable point. This was no surprise to me, for when
Lion, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity ;" they a specific medicine is taken for above two years without
" put in trust with the gospel ;" they "watch for souls. as a ecting the disease, there is no more ground for hope in
they that must give au account;" and such is their love reason then in feeling. In June last. I suffered more than
for their divine enlister, that. they "count not their lives usual, and new measures of alleviation were resorted tn.
deer unto themselves, so that they might finish their As to all the essential points of the disease I was never
course with joy, and the ministry which they have received lower than immediately before I made trial of mesmer-
of the Lord Jesus." ism." Miss eiertineau then gives the following 'arra-
Such is their high and holy calling. Who that minis- tire :—" On Saturday, June 22, Mr. Spencer Hall and
ters before the Lord, when he compares himself eitt, this my medical friend came, as arranged, at ray worst hour
standard, will not feel as the prophet did when he said, of the day, let tween the expiration of one opiate and the
"Wois me for I am undone, for lam a man of unclean taking of another. By an accident, the gentlem,n were
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips." rather in a hurry—a circumstance unfavourable to a first
(I,iiiali vi. 5.) experiment. But result enough was obtained to encou-
Then mark the description given of the Lord's faithful rage a further trial, though it was of a nature entirely
people. They are "the salt ot toe earth," " the light of unanticipated by me. I had no other idea than that I
the world," " a city set upon a hill ;" they " have their should either crop asleep or feel nothing. I did not drop
conversation in heaven ;" they are directed •• to li ld forth asleep, and I did feel something very strange. Various
t e word of life in the whist of .a croaked and perverse paws were tried by Mr. Hall ; the first that appeared
generation ;" to be follower, of God as dear children; to effectual, and the most so for some time after, were passes
walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, arid given him- over the bead made from behind, passes from the forehead
self f•rus; to be "as servants who wait for their Lord, to the baa of the head, aid a title way down the spine.
:het, when he cometh and koocketh, they may open unto A very short time after these were tried, and 20 minutes
him immediately." from the beg airing of the aiance, I became sensible of an
If it be asked where shall we meet with Christians of extraordinary appearance, most unexpected, and wholly
th•s scriptural standard ? Will not the most devoted unlike anything I had ever conceived of. Something
among the Lord's people be ready to say, •• My terseness, seemed to diffuse itself through the atmosuhere—not like
my leanness. Wo unto me, the treacherous dealers gave smoke, nor team, nor haze—but most like a clear twi-
dealt very treacherously." (Isaiah xxiv. 16.) How ne- lighe closing in from the windows arid down from the
cessary, then, is ii, when we enter upon this spiritual ser- ceiling, and in which one object after another melted
vi, e, to bear in mind the scripture to which I have refer- away tell scarcely aeythitig was left visible before my
red. wide-open eye.. Fleet the owl ne of all objects was
For the new year approaches under such interesting cir- blurred : then a bust, standing on a pedestal in a strong
couastances, as may well call forth our most ardetit pray- light, melted quite away ; then the opposite bust ; then
ere. Thus, through the good provideece of God, there i 3 the table with its gay ever; then the floor, and the coil.
at this moment peace tareughout all the week'. .1 he So- jog, till one small picture, high up on the opposite wall.
vereign Ruler of the Universe, also, has given to our gra- only remained visible, like a patch of phosphoric light.
cious Queen so large an extent of territory, and such a I feared to move my eyes, lest the singular appearance
commanding influence among the nations, that there is should vanish ; and I cried out, '0! deepen it! deepen
scarcely a portion of the habitable globe, into which either it !' supposing this the precur-or of the sleep. It could
our Christian missionaries, or the pure Word of God, not be deepened, however ; and when I glanced .aside
may riot find art entrance. Such is he present position of from the luminous point I found that I reed not fear the
the British empire, so peculiarly favourable for the spread return of objects to their ordinary appearance while the
of divine truth. t es-es were continued. The busts re-appeared, ghost-
Frirther, whilst in England there are, alas, many things, like, in the dim atmosphere, like faint shadows, except
as noticed in torreer athiresses—which, to use the words that their outlines, and the parts in the highest relief,
of the Prophet Ezekiel "are for a !mention,' and shall be burned with the same phosphoric light. The features of
tor a lamenta ion," still the new year will come in, under one, an Isis wish bent head, Deemed to he illumined by a
tree encouragieg auspice:,. That there is a general feel- fire on the liter, though this bust has its back to the win-
ing amongst the influentitl o•.ders of society. that the dews. Wherever I glanced all outlines were dressed in
pi osperiry, it not the absolute safety ot our country de- this beauthul light; and so they have been, at every
trends upon diffusing sound Scriptural religion among the *trance, without exception, to this nay ; though the ap-
wurking classes ; raisin:A their moral condition by eecou- pearance has rather given way to drowsiness since I left
raging them in habits of industry, temperance, and fru- off opiates entirely. This appearance continued during
eality ; arid in promoting their geeeral comfort by short- the remaining 20 minutes before the gentlemen were
erring their hours of late ur, improving their dwellings, and obliged to leave me. The other effects produced were,
assietmg them in husbanding the resources which their first, heat. oppression, and sickness, and. for a few Fours
own geed conduct may supply. Various steps have been after, disorde ed stomach. Mitre ed, in the course of the
taken for carrying these benevolent sentiments into effect. evenine, by a feeling of lightness and relief in which I
May we tot expect that these plans, if the Lord be en- thought I could hardly be mistaken."
treated, may prove the germ of tar greater b!e.sings. That The second application of mesmerism was made by
they may produce kindlier feelings amo• g all classes, a Miss Martineau', maid. " Mr. Hall," says Miss Mar-
closer union arnoeg the members of our church, and es- tineau, " was prevented by illness from coining over, too
peeially A greater readiness to receive the glorious truths late to let n e know. Unwilling to take my opiate while
of the Gospel of Christ. in expectation of his arrival, and too wretched to do
In Scotland, also, the dawn of hope appears. For whilst without some resource, I rang for my mai.d, and asked
at the do-e of the last year, we had but to lenient a dis- whether she bad any objection to at!empt what she saw
ruption in the established church; during this year, we Mr. Hall do the day before. With the greatest alacrity
might have seen the general as-embly of those who left she complied. Within one minute the twilight and ',hos-
tler communion, meeting in a truly Christian spirit, with- phonic light- appeared ; and 'in two or three more a deli-
out using any reproachful words against their brethren, eious sensation of ease spread throtigh me—a cool com-
bat, in deep abaseurent of heart, humbling themselves be- fort, before a hich all pain anti distress gave way. orteirte
tore the God of their Fat hers, for their own personal out, as it were, at the soles of my feet. During that hour,
short coming., and for the low state of relizion through- arid almost the whole evening, 1 coup no more help ex-
vat the laud.* Surely this is a favourable si.ei—for if hu claiming with pleasure than a person in torture crying
mil ty be the soil in which Christian love flourishes, may nut with pain. 1 became hungry, and ate with relish, for
we not hope that this lowly spirit, if earnest prayer be the first time for five years. There was no best, opprea-
mane, will read to a fervent desire that every separating aion, or sickness during the ye-once. nor any disorder af-
cau'ke may be removed, and that all who believe it, the terwards. During the whole evening, instead of the leis,
Lord Jesus Christ, may as His disciples of old, "be knit hot ease of opiates, under which pail is felt to lie in wait,
t settler in love," and brotherly union. Oh ! that it may I experienced something of the indeserib eble sensation of
re thus, that He. " who devises means, that his banished heel h. which 1 had quite lost and forgotten. I walked
ones be not expelled from Him," •l• would yet so unite the about my no ins, and was gay and talks lees Someteing
two churches, that they might, like Ephretm and Judah, of this relief remained till the next meriting; and then
be "as one stick in the hand of the Lord."e• there was tio reettion. I was no worse than usual ; and
in our sister land also more pleasing prospects appear. perhaps rather better.
Those " monster meetings;" as they have been termed, " Nothing is to me more unquestionable and more
which last year distracted the country, are now no more : striking about this influence than the absence of all re-
and by tire blessing of God newt the society for edecating action. Its highest exhilaration is followed, not by de-
the native Irish iu their own language, and other religious pression or exhaustion, but by a further renovation.
institutions. a deep impress-ion has lately been made in From the first hour to the present, I have never fallen
several places, and a great desire produced for the Holy back a single step. Every point gained has been steadily
Scriptures, and for the faithful preaching of the Gospel of held. Improved composure of nerve and spirits has fol-
Christ. lowed upon every mesmeric exhilaration. I have been
The cause of God's ancient people also is assuming a spared all the weaknesses of convalescence, and carried
more interesting state. The influx of the Jews into the through all the usually formidable enterprises of return
holy land has been very great of late.' There is no more from deep disease to health with a steadiness and trate
reom in Jerusalem for them, and they have already spread quillity astonishing to all witnesses. At this tinte, before
over a part of the Turkish quarter. Tire number of in- venturing to speak of my health as established, 1 believe
quirers after the truth are increasing. Some have been myself more firm in nerve, more calm and steady in mind
publicly baptized under roost trying t ircurristances ; per- and spirits, than at any time of my life before. So n.uch
nrissioir has also been given to erect our Protestant Church in considerations of the natural and common fear of the
in Jerusalem ; the building of which will be again ream. mesmeric influence as pernicious excitement—as a kind
med. - Added to these tokens of God's returnieg faaour to of itttexicre ion."
his people, the Sultan has issued a decree, wit hdrawing in Miss Martineau mentions several incidents. " Another
souse cases the punishment of death from those who re- striking incident occurred in one of the earliest of my
flounced Mahotnedanism, thus abrogating to that extent walks. My mesmerist and I had reached a headland
the laws of their prophet, and this in the 1260th year of nearly half a mile from home, and were resting there,
the Hegira! when she proposed to mesmerize me a little—partly to
Such are the circumstances with which the new year refresh me for our return, and tartly to see whether any
approaches. effect. would be produced in a new place and while a fresh
Do not these favourable tokens afford powerful reasons freeze was blowing. She merely laid her hand on my
for our again uniting in fervent prayer for the outpouring fore' sad, and in a minute or two the usual appearances
of the Holy Spirit, and for doing this under a sense of our came, assuming a strange air of novel y from the scene in
own manifold shortcomings, with humble confession of which I was. After the blurring of the outlines, which
our sins, and with earner supplication, that nothing may made all objects more dim than the dull gray day had
separate between God and us; hot that /ravine all our sins already made them, the pkisphotic lights appeared, gin.
put away through "the blood of the Limb," and our souls rifying every rock and headland, the horizon, aid all the
chatted with His perfect righteousness, we niay "draw vessels in s,ght. One of the dirtiest and meanest of the
near to the throne of grace with a true heart. in till assu- steam tugs in the port was passieg at the time, and it was
ranee of faith," remembering that the Lord has said all dressed in heavenly radiance—the last object th.t any
" open thy mouth wide, and 1 will fill it." " Ask what imagitiation would select as an element of a vision Then,
thou wilt, and it shalt be done unto thee." and often before and since, did it occur to me that it 1
Allow me then to renew my annual invitation, and to had been a pious and very ignorant Catholic, 1 could not
request all who love the Lord Je-us in sincerity, to corn- have escaped the persuasion that I had seen heavenly vi-
mence the new year, by uniting in the general concert for sione. Every glerified object before my open eyes would
prayer for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, on Wednes- have been a revelation, and my n,esnielist. with the white
nesday, Ist of January, 1845. halo round her head, and the illuminated profile, would
Tire following suggestions are respectfully offered, to have been a saint or en angel "
assist those a he are, desirous of a similar union on Wed-
nesday, Jan. 1, 1845:
"Ist. Let Christians follow the example of our blessed
Lord, (Mark i. 25,) who rose up a great while before the
day tor secret prayer. Let them thus secure the blessing
' of Him who says, " Pray to thy Father which is in secret,
and thy Father which Teeth in secret shall reward thee
openly.
" 2nd. Let them call upon the Lord in their families,
for his Spirit to be poured upon themselves and their
households, their neighbours, their country, includitig
Great Britain and 'retired arid our Colonies, the ministers
of The Lord, the churches of Christ, the remnant of scat-
tered Judah and outcast Israel, and upon the Gentile
world.
" 3d. Where circumstances will admit of a morning
service, let the congregation be assembled, and, in r ddi-
lion to the appointed prayers and a sulable sermon, let
`all who are devoutly disposed partake together of the
Supper of the Lord—or, as may be mere convenient, let
the whole congregation meet in the evening for public wore
ship, and let'an appropriate discourse be preached,
"4th. Let the ministers of the Lord meet on the fol-
lowing day, with their brethren of their own communion,
in earnest prayer for themselves, their flocks, the whole
body of Christ, and the world at large; and then especi-
ally coesult together wren the most effectual means for
hasteiring the coming of the Lord's kingdom, and parti-
cularly for the continuance of such a general concert for
prayer, that the year may proceed according tothis devout
commencement."

THE NEW PARISH OF ST. BARNABAS.

(Abridged fiorn the Manchester Gv.nrdiun.)

Most of our remos are aware that the parish of Man-
chester is a very extensive one ; comprising an area of
34,507 statute acres, and containing thirty townships (of
which the ptircipa are Manchester, Salford. Chorlton-
on-Medlock, Hulme, and ArdWick), and 353.390 inha-
bitants. lts ecclesiastical government is vested in the
dean and chapter of Manchester; and the whole parish,
up to the passing of a recent ac-, has hitherto been main-
tained intact, not. ithstanding its great extent and immense
population. An act was passed. however, in July, 1843,
(6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 37.) the ninth clause of which,
recognising the existence of large distrcts in which the
provision for public worship and pastoral superintendence
was insufficient for the spiritual wants of the inhabitants,
enacts, that the ecclesiastical commissioners, with the
consent of the bishop of the diocese, may constitute such
districts, having no consecrated church or chapel in use,
separate districts for spiritual purposes, provided that the
minister of such district be permanently endowed with not
less than .£100; and, if of 1-ss value than £l5O, to be in-
creased to that sum, at the least, so soon as the district
shall have become a new parish. The fifteenth clause
enacts, that when any church or chapel shall be built,
purchased, or acquired, in such district, such district
shall, from and after the consecration of such church or
chapel, be deemed to be a new parish for ecclesiastical
purposes, and shall be known as such by the name of
" the new parish of -," instead of " the district of
;" and such church or chapel to be the church of
such new parish. Thereupon it is to be lawful to publish
banns of ma.rimorty, and to solemnise marriages, bap-
tisms, churchings, and burials; receiving fees thereon,
(except for baptisms,) to be fixed by the chancellor of the
diocese, and the like Easter offerines and dues as, before
the separation, were payable to the incumbent of the
principal pariah church. • The sixteenth clause enacts,
that on the di-trict becoming a parish, the minister shall
become perpetual curate of the new parish. Toe seven-
tent 1., t at two churchwardens, "members of the united
Church of England and lieland," shall be chosen ; one
by the perpetual curate arid the other by the inhabitants
of the new parish, within twenty-one days from the con-
secration of the church. The 19th clause provides for the
endowment or augmentation of income of the minister or
perpetual curate, and gives an annual sum as compensation
to the incumbent of the mother church. Clauses 20 and
21 relate to the patronage to these, new churches ; and the
24th section enacts that the church-bUldinz commission-
ers may make grants for the purposes of this act. Then,
another short. art (chiefly explanatory of the former) was
passed, on the 9th August last, (7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 94,1
the first clause of which enacts that the crown may tio-
initiate the minister or perpetual curate; and the 9th
clause Rives power to vary the bounds of districts within
a limited time.