The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENC]

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST

SIR,—In the 13th number of your paper appeal
e Chronicle, that rather alarmed me for your sal'.
:ombat with the Albion and Journal, two such
.ature, so point device in their periods—" so ph
currility, audacious without impudency, and le
)pinion," that I am surprised how you have stood
io long against these specimens of " matchless"—
ake another foe !—really, Mr. Editor, have a ca:
You have escaped this once, however; for I
:Ircmicle, jealous of your attention being directei
o the Albion, is quite delighted—" aninsed",—witb
tim. I hope this humour may last, and that the oti
Ai the opposition side (I beg their pardon) ministi
side, " utrum horum mavis," will abate somewha
once, self conceit, and spleen, and be content t'
lifTexences in civil terms. To be sure such " rac
graphy". must needs, occasionally, cry out at the
41riperfect contributions of your correspondents, a
bars are outraged by the performance of a piece
is not the most skilfully managed in the world.
Pass over, in pity to the frequent and poignant d
4ccasion them, and in gratitude for that modicum
enables us the more philosophically to endure 1
,t. berrations of our neighbours. It falls to the lot
d very very proficient, as these illuminati; but
hey do not acquire this ascendancy on misera
.eing their lives are one continued fret. Lot
hey may be, but •" shadows, clouds and darken

What pod has produced such another bean, as
6ranchcs, like the famed one in the fairy tale
into the clouds, have enabled the Albion to tc
what other Journal possesses such lofty and
tribes as Dicky Sam, Dick Liver, and the aut
braccioli, as " familiar with men's names as house
(I as reckless of personally offending, as thou/
of the subject was their monopoly, and to them
xclusive privilege to pervert the motives and
yings into other people's mouths, so to " mal
appear the better" reason.
Such helps were forestalled ere you appeared; an
intent with the assistance and patronage of hones
As Sir Andrew Aguecheek says, " methinks I I
than a christian, or an ordinary man has—(
Followed the arts!" then had I been alive to the I)(
expression as " motives personal to myself al(
i'arison with the simpler and old-fashioned term
motives;" and been able to enjoy the possibility
Indissoluble interests," and ruminate on the co)
fey are kindly vouchsafed to us by a lordly Ps
.43)aimunion. I confess Ido not see "the logic, tl
e wit," of these learned flights and sallies, and
There Sly, notwithstanding the pains taken to c
Qtat he was not a tinker, but a lord, have such
and regard for things as they have been, and so litt
ilk the newfangled doctrine and brewage of the pi
t° give the preference to and " call again for
kkallest age."
now kind in these people to teach us our a
lißhten. our darkness, and manage our affairs! A,
profurus. This liberal show of learning and t
'Sadness would look the finer, and sound the gi
tkeurred to the good Vicar of Wakefield, on his se
tte with, the "cosmogony and creation of the wc
not " heard of all this before' The news is, as
•old as the hills ;" that there have been, and ni
, Illbe those discontented spirits who are ever in I
never find;—blind to the comforts of their of
4% of exceeding quick sight to the advantages
harp enough to behold the mote in their broths
Qud to the beam in their own :—such be your con
`` How the Radical apples swim!"

Like the earthen and the iron jar in the fable, ti
tetr friends are being carried down with the flood
ittt fear of the earthern Whig pipkin is, lest it she
'2elltct with its heavier associate, and so sink, ti
chance of getting securely embedded in the ruche
Worst, being deposited high and dry with its "spo/i .
shelving shore or snug creek. These are s
6.114 We shall have a stormy Commons ;—let those w
Zthe sustaining power of cork, and are likely to
.14t tempestuous sea, provide themselves with a
Dl4O v e d material, as manufactured by your cont
,m
' Chip of state is as likely as not to be bumped ;
to
the want of a proper pilot, with such a disunit
I'l4 crew on board.

Your's,

THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMEN

TO- THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STA
t%itt,—One of the most frequently urged objet
141111trch of England, in the present day, is the pre
t,sl)s in Parliament, which is said, in the first plat
; in proof of which the text principally c
previously adverted to :—"My kingdom is
',(11.1(1." But I hope this has already been shown I

The Jews expected their Messiah to be a warrior
:°4e of our Saviour's chief objects was to disal

141 s pre. ;7 he t•uniformly refused to act with aut
M ace,
I:4kt their private disputes ; and when the adultress
Fore hill; would not even condemn her. As ,
I~tut his practice be adduced to prove that adulter
Z4l e, as it is to prove that the clergy may not be
NI Ist in legfslation, when called upon by the suprem
4i40 so. Legislation is the first and noblest of sci
kt 4 administration of which men may imitate the
it
rgY they
be excluded, on exercise the attributes, of God. Why, tl
otk? principle, from a share in E

Ip Agross error it is," says Hooker, " that tern]
\rt to serve for the good of the body and not
ty-.4 teen's temporal peace, and not for their (
1.0 1.:8 if God had ordained rulers for no other purp
ht--1113 men like hogs, and to see that they have t
11/4" it is said the admission of Bishops into Parlik
i;Qaable in practice : it renders them secular, gel
y 7 arnbition, induces subserviency to superiors, an
klieriors. I fear these are vices incident to hu
ht:l tillo exist whether Bishops sit in Parliament or
tl,-, been the policy of this nation, and a. wise
ttiit. a gradation of clergy for every rank,--fhe
344;e1.4, ey, the gentry, and the people ; and if ti
Itkteat secularize the clergy, the clergy chris
Ikt ' 4,414 the good preponderates over the evil. I
)ol,:t a secularized clergy is somewhat exaggerai
ta of insulating them, and forming them into
dl :e has already been proved. It generates selfil
Ilkil '' and spiritual pride. The more they mix u
tifil,:33l4Pothize with their feelings, without co
144 g secular spirit, the better. Levity and secul
L.. lit v„
Nett
the odious in an ecclesiastic, but not in
Nd'i,., and spiritual pride; and, as human natu
ts„- the object is not to eradicate evil entirely, fo
Itt2)le, but to choose the least of those that are 1
'uleOce to afflict mankind. Remedies might 1

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