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GRAPES.—First prize, Archibald Sinclair, Esq., of Waver-
tree (John Robinson, gardener). Second prize, E. D. Falk-
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Thos. Orford, Esq., of Toxteth-park (R. Place, gardener).

(Alexander Morton, Bari

lker, Esq., of Calderstone•

CORRESPONDENCI

TRACTARIANISA

TO THE EDITOR

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Allow me to call your attention to a few cheering
circumstances connected with a subject which has of late oc-

copied ko large a share of public attention, and to which a
prominent place has been assigned in the columns of your
own valuable journal—l mean Tractarianism. First, let me

notice tire step taken by the University of Oxford to purge
herself from the stain which rested on her honoured name
connected with these modern errors; for surely reproach
must attach somewhere when men could be found dwelling
so long within her hallowed walls, teaching doctrines so-
lemnly repudiated by the University as a body, as well as by
that church with which it is identified. At length the au-
thorities there have affixed to this revived Romanism an

appropriate mark of their reprobation, and silenced one of
their teachers. Christian parents may now hope that the
unseemly, shall we say dishonest, spectacle will not again be
so flagrantly presented before their children's view, of seeing
and hearing men in the " seat of the reformers" busily en-

Next, let us gratefully acknowledge the bold, open, mas-
terly exposure of these fatal errors in the charge of the
Bishop of Lincoln during the past week, not forgetting the
triumphant overthrow of this " modified system of Popery"
in the visitation sermon on the same day.

Meantime tidings refreshing as cool waters to a thirsty
soul are borne to us from the east. The senior Bishop of
India has delivered his primary charge as metropolitan. The
alarm with which this vigilant watchman viewed the rapid
spread of these new opinions is known to many ; but the ex-
tent of his apprehensions was only known to those who had
nrivate sourct s of information—but will now
o will peruse the iin portant document
In this charge the Bishop of Calcutta
with a tone of decision which proves at once the fearful
racier of the evil in his view, as well as the solemn obli-

be understood liv all w

.bove alluded to

gation under which he feels bound, unshrinkingly, to expose,
refute, and denounce it. Bad we more of this straightforward,
honest, godly sincerity at home, and less of that mawkish
sentimentality which pervades England like an epidemic, we
would not have to mourn over so many writings, professing
indeed to oppose this vil, yet with so much tenderness for
the honour of these well-intentioned men, so much compli-
ment to their high characters, and so little tenderness for
God's honour, so little jealousy for his high glory, that, ex-
cept for the title-pages, we could scarcely tell whether these
pages were designed to write up Tractarianism, or to write it
down. Well may we say of such vapid things and their au-
thors-

Non tali auxilio nec detensoribtis istis tempus
Not that we desire abusive language : I hope we can
discriminate between decision and abuse. What I mean will
the chicken-hearted, drooping,
publications already alluded to,
line vigour of such a passage as the following
he Bishop of Calcutta's newly printed charge.
g to the tendencies of Tractarianism, and the
ions, Bishop Wilson thus writes—" For
of the system up to the very hour 1 am
sed approximation to all the corruptions

extract frc

Tie of t

and superstitions otipapal Rome—so that even her idolatrous
offices are being republished for the use of our Protestant
people! And what are the leaders doing ? Do they retract ?
Do they admit frankly the admonitions of the bishops?
Nothing of the kind. They stop, indeed, one series of pub-
lications at the request of a diocesan ,h ut immediately replace
it by another equally obnoxious : they turn aside all the con-
demnations in the charges of different prelates, by affecting
to consider them as founded on mistake : they pervert the
terms of commendation in which their learning, their mo-
tives, and the incidental good they may have done in awak-
ening attention to matters of discipline, have been spoken of
into an acquiescence in their doctrine.".

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Thus speaks Bishop Wilson in a passage deserving to be
read and pondered by every Protestant in the land.
Ireland, too, is another battle-field for this controversy on
a small scale. It is not likely from the prevalence of sound
Protestant truth, on the one hand, and the exhibition of full-
blown Popery on the other, that Tractarianism can ever ex-
tend greatly in the church in that country ; still attempts have
been made to introduce it. Your own journal_ furnished
proof of this on a late occasion, when it cont

li, the hero of Chin.

len a corres-
- The
is brother of the gallant Sir Hugh
a,) alive to the evils of this modern

,nd Dean of Derry

heresy, and knowing the Protestant tone of his congregation,
having also two licensed curates to assist him, deprecated the
bishop's introducing to his pulpit, under such circumstances,
a young divine, a stranger, holding neither benefit nor cure
in the diocese, and a Tractarian to boot.
The chief merit of this juvenile theologian consisted in his
gift of preaching unseriptural novelties with a smoothness of
diction, a softness of manner, and an imperturbable confidence
of assertion, for which the school he belongs to is remarkable.
It was in vain that Dean Gough, with all that blandness of
manner for which those who know him say he ins distin-
• guished, respectfully reasoned against the risk of sowing
dissension in a congregation hitherto undivided, and cordially
attached to our Protestant church. The bishop was valiant
enough to undertake the• responsibility of all consequences.
When the consequences camp and began to be felt, like a
fresh-water sailor the bishop wsonuldfiohav;y
the
thesto dealt,
,i:
al-
layed, he himself had created.; d by whom?
who, foretelling the tempest, and counselling the bishop not
to put, to sea at such a time, was courteoltelaslrylinrgemthienrdeebdvtilltoa_t
a pilot would be at the helm fully able to steer the ship
safe through every danger ; his lordship n
the worthy dean but himself. All this was set forth in the
t
bishop's letter, copied into the :STANDARD, a letter which
we' on this side of the channel would say savoured as much
of the courtier as of the bishop, and betrayed not a little of

that sang froid which is more generally found in pleasant,
easy-going gentlemen than grave and reverend divines. At
all events, Mr. Editor, there was a very great contrast be-
tween the letter and the honest-hearted, open, feeling, bene-
volent answer of Dean Gough.
But we have not done with this juvenile Tractarian's
doings ; rumour ascribes' activity to him in the press as well
as in the pulpit. It so happened that a rector in the diocese
of Derry, whose character would attach weight to any cause,
(Rev. George Scott,) published an address delivered at a
church missionary meeting in Derry. The bearing, style and
tone of this address may be judged of by the following spe-

Speaking of Tractarianism in our Indian possessions, and
of the duty of the friends of evangelical truth in reference to
its progress there, Mr. Scott expresses himself in the follow-
ing graphic terms :
" If it appear that a system which mystifies some of the
leading doctrines of the gospel, and wraps up others in the
darkness of reserve, a system which disparages the ordi-
nance of preaching, and questions the sufficiency of scripture
alone as a guide to salvation--a system which depreciates
and decries the work of the reformers—of Hooker, Ridley,
Latimer, and others, men of whom the world was
worthy—men who ia faith and patience, through tribu-
lations persecutions unto death, accomplished for the
hnCuormtalaialr
o e
andmnd the most glorious emancipation ever achieved,
since the gospel first went forth on its emancipating career,
to turn wen from darkness unto light, and from the power
of Satan unto God. If such a system has been transplanted
from the hanks of the Isis to the shores of the Ganges; if the
abettors of that system are to be found in the populous plains
influence,
;171 makeenee,proselytes, to attract admiration,
surely this fact should stimulate all
who love the truth, as it is in Jesus, and stir them to lift up
their voice in more earnest prayer, and to put forth snore
strenuous effbrts, that the messengers of truth may outstrip
the dispensers of error, and that the gospel may be brought
cis
ue
rkei
into contact with heathen minds in all the light, and heat,
and dlntdoiaac,
and ene,rgy of itsllife, life-givrng power."
The address, of which. the above is a short extract, was too
faithful a testimony against error and too eloquent an appeal
in behalf of truth for any of the restless Tractarian school,
much less a theologian of a few summers' growth, to be re-
tarded with complacency. The note of war was instantly
['mud in the little northern Tractarian camp. Whatever
artillery they may' have had in reserve, one solitary gun was
all that was brought to bear on this Protestant address. In
other words, a long letter was published in reply to Mr.
Scott. This letter, like all the school, is distinguished for
an affectation of candour. along with plenty of real disinge-
nuousness, for its loud praises of church principles, along
with lamentable perversions of them. But it has occasioned
one great benefit to the cause of real religion. It has called
.forth a pamphlet from Mr. Scott in reply, entitled a "Pro-
test against Tractarianism," and a more calm review of
Tractarian errors, and a more conclusive refutation of those
handled in it, is not every day to be met with. ,It is every
way satisfactory in its contents and in its spirit. Mr. Scott
has adduced such an array of authorities from Scripture and
our church, and from the recent charges of our bishops, as
must make his pamphlet exceedingly valuable as a book of
reference. But this is not all; for lie gives copious extracts,
and, generally speaking, the ipsissitna verbs of the Tractarian
writers themselves. It is a valuable manual indeed in a
small compass, especially for those who have no leisure to enter fully into the controversy now being waged. In addi-
tion to all, the tone of earnest serious piety pervading the
" Protest" must commend it to every candid and reflecting
mind. Mr. Scott has indulged in no personalities. His letter
(for it is in the shape of a. letter to his own diocesan) is di-
vested of those asperities of language which too often accom-
pany defensive writings. But as there is point and firmness
throughout, his temperate style is more likely to win the
reader's assent, as well as to allay all those violent heats so
often kindled in controversial discussions to the injury of
personal religion.
An old writer, referring to the vision of the four horns
that scattered Judah, and the four carpenters that came to
fraY them, says, • No enemies horn is so strong but God
bath an hammer to break it to nieces.' I hope, Sir, we have
seen the truth of
and for the truth. this in the warfare waged this day against
To a spectator of this battle-field it is cheering to notice
how the combatants conduct themselves. Of the four mi-
nister,nm fd b
ithfefoul re, or rather five, including, as he well de-
the a Dean of Derry, all in their respective
spheres and dignities, have indeed "quit themselves like
men." 1 h CAC are cheering facts, calculated to stimulate the
of the gospel. energies of every lover
Above all, gratitude is
due to him who raises up and qualifies every defender of the
truth.
To yourself,
Mr. Editor, and your uncompromising jour-
nal, the Protestant public owe a large debt of gratitude.
Thanking you for the stand you have always made against
Tractarian errors,
ry

1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,

Lieerpool, June 26th, 1843

SPECTATOR

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THE GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION,

iverpool Journal there is an
ofL delegates at Newton, for the
Saatmueredtaiyn'gs
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
purpose of opposing the
.Factories Education Bill. The ac-
t states that the meeting took Place in
count consequence of a
meeting held in Mauchester for the like purpose, at which
accSolultn'Tgliiv'enlasotf
meeting it had been agreed that delegates should meet at
Newton from every part of the county palatine of Lancaster,
to consider the question ; that 270 delegates. did assemble,
and it would appear that the greater number of them were
reverends. The following resolution being put, was unani-
mously carried, viz., " That this meeting records, as its deci-
ded conviction, that the best means to resist this and all similar
attacks upon the rights of conscience in this country, is to
enunciate, to hold fast. and t -0_ spread by all constitutional
means, the fundamental principle that the government ought
not, and that it is not competent,„l
to provide religious instruc-
tion for the people." No
„,I would submit to any rational
man, at all acquainted with the Scriptures, whether this
"fundamental principle " does. not decidedly oppose both
the whole tenor of Scripture and the very nature and intent
of all government. The Scriptures plainly state, that when
God established on earth a public church, or worshipping
assemblies,
he
al,, appointed a civil commonwealth or king-
dom, over which he appointed rulers or governors, arid to
these rulers he committed the care and government of the.
church : they were to see that the religious ordinances which
God had appointed should he observed, and the ministers of
religion properly supported. In proof of this, see the in-
structions given at first to Moses, and after to the different
rulers ; and for a most decided proof that the care of the church
respecting its religious observances. was the bounden, duty of
.the civil rulers, see Nehemiah, chapter 13, verses 10 and 11.
He charges the rulers with) having neglected their duty in
not seeing that the worsbq of God and the support of the
ministers of religion were enforced. And We find, that during
the whole period of the Jewish church and nation, when the
government attended to thei d
r.e !Ity of causing the ordinances
and worship to be duly attend d to, the people became pious
and moral, and of course b.aPpy and prosperous. And that
the principle of the resolnitlion is opposed to the nature
and intent of government, wlappear by considering that the
sole reason for appointing . government, and the sale use for
inted, is to give happine which they are LIPP°
inted with th ss to the people ;
anti any one at all acqua e Christian religion
i huut aknowledge and
will grant, that without
be no really line practice of its
principles, there can happiness on earth.
Yet the principle of the resolutiont teaches, that an irreligious
man, or an unbeliever of the c r.istian religion, would be just
as good a ruler as the most pious christian ; how different
this is from the teaching of scripture, sec 2, Samuel
xxiii.
3.:
He that rule
_tii over man must be just, ruling in the fear
resolution speaks of
of God." But the the rights of consci-
ence, and attacks on these rights, do the holders of such
opinions ever consider, that the conscience of any
•
y man, is
he has formed respecting merely the belief
d hence the 'g any moral or re-
ligious subjects, . , Saviour conscience is far oftener
t. Our
erroneous than correct.
would
of some men he so erroneous, that they
consciences
,and pleasing t
should think it their
•neighbour; rarely who passed the resolu-
tiondering their t or sanction such
would not respect .
..
_conscience. It is a
. l ell-known fact, thatevery child born in these king-
sdimpibe British government, is born a child of the
under the
government takes the charge of it, and
arit;' and as such
will.a 'take it from under the contarnoslhof its parents, should
they injure or use it improperly;t,l educatecince government are
bound to see that it is propey
impartialand preserved from
erroneous principles. A•n),,' , would, 1 think, person reading the ac-
count of the above meetin be led to some-
thing
reflection
:—That any
1,
9 such hold and idea adopted,
and long cherished, ma.
of the possession of the
withstand the force plainest facts, which
mind as to .st it; in fact, that a kind of infatuation
would militate again
d that hence arise
conies over the mind, and .
ng word of Gott,
great neces-
sity of trying, by the unerri every principle
Proposed for our acceptance.
P
or which may be Pro
we hold,

pool, June 22, 1843

A. M.

SPORTING NEWS,

NEWTON RACES.-FRIDAY.

t he assemblageraee-t
ratilni this a t
day ma be
gleanedT half-Past
t
twelve, there were not less than thirteen first-class and four_
teen second-class carriages, carrying 540
henufrmoeuriietailiestfraecntg,ththoaft,thbey
passengers. The
arrangements were all that could be required. Alr. Ettv
officiated as clerk, and Capt. White acted for Mr, vansittari,
one of the stewards. ,
The ST. HELENS PURSE of 50 soya, added to a Sweepstakes
of 15 sovs each, 10 sus ft, for two-year-olds, bat 71b ;
three, Bst 10Ib ; fillies allowed 31b. The winner of the
Golborne or St. Leger on Thursday, to carry 41b extra.
The Golborne Course. The second to save his stake..
Ten subscribers.
Mr Meiklam's ch c Philip, 3 yrs
.... 1
Mr W'hitworth's br I Gipsy Queen, 3 yrs
Mr F. It. Price's h f The Lily, 3 yrs
Mr Talentire's b c Batwing, 3 yrs ................... ... 0
M r King named ch Iby Muley Moloch or Jupiter, 2 yrs. 0
yrs
Mr B. Milner named b c Mandarin, 3
.............. 0
Sir J. Gerald's bl cby Sheet Anchor, 2 yrs
The BOROUGIi Cur of 100 sovs in specie, added to a Handi-
cap Sweepstakes of 20 soya each, 10 ft, and only 5, &c.
The winner of the Manchester, or Lord of the Manor's
Cup, this year, to carry 31b extra. The owner of the se-
cond horse to receive 25 says from the stakes. One mile
and a half. Twenty-one subscribers.
7 9 Mr Meiklarn's b c Aristotle, 4 yrs 1
6 7 Mr Thompson's b g Hudibras, 5 yrs
7 11 Mr B. Buckley's b c David, 4
yr 5..........
8 2 Mr Toke's br ni Ermengardis, 5 yrs ..
7 8 Sir J. Gerard's ch f Meal, 4 yrs 0
7 3 Mr Harrison's ch c Wilfred, 4 yrs
6 12 Mr Legh named br f Atalanta, 4 yrs
The NEWTON STAKES, a
Handicap
of 5 sous each, will 30
added, for three-year-olds and upwards.
7 G Mr Price's gr f Valentina, 4 yrs
7 2 Mr Clifford's br g Palmmon, 5 yrs
9 0 Mr Harrison's b g Pickpocket, aged ..
7 2 Mr Langshaw's Lady Alice, 3 yrs
A PLATE of £5O, for three-year-olds, GA 71b; four, Ist 916 ;
five, 9st 31b;. six and aged, 9st 61b. Mares and geldinr,.,,r
allowed 31b. Heats, one mile and a half.' The winner tri
be sold for 150 sov,, if demanded.
Mr Ni. Jones's ch c Delamere, 3 yrs
Mr Jones's b g '
Pubalcain, aged...
Mr King's br I Atalanta, 4 yrs ...
Sir J. Gerard's ch I Meal, 4 yrs.. .
Mr Court's c
11 g Bedalian, 6 yrs •
Mr Heap's b f by Liverpool, 3 yrs

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The races terminated at nine o'clock.

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A N D
late T
Duchess.— of
se
tf.o
Alba l o winnsg
"Pcaossnatgaeinsi-na sad
ten
of h
" Memoirs t e 4,
god boom truth :--1 ' lew persons have seen so much of the
m'e various aspects, I may say of the two extremes of life, as
yself; and few persons, therefore, can be better judges of
the difference between great poverty and great wealth ; but,
after all, this does not by any means constitute the chief and
most important distinction between high and low states. No ;
the signal—tile striking contrast is not in the external cir-
cumstances, but' in the totally opposite minds of the two
classes as to their respective enjoyment of existence. The
res of the present
y cared for no-
society in which I formerly moved was all cheerfulness, 11l
hthigiihigs, ptiirwitusg,
thought
tlol
of nothing ntuoi
t,
hing b frolic,e
yaonnddvtihvaecpitlyea;suthe
hour, and to those they gave themselves up with
thing keenest
relish,
be ook at the circn which I now movthe ; e can any
L more ' weary, stalles i
e, Hat, and unprofitable' than
their whole course of life? Why. one might as well be on
the treadmill as toiling in the stupid, monotonous round of
what they call pleasure, but which is, in fact, very cheerless
and heavy work."

1N V 4

Pres d'un humble autel

ifant dort a I'ombre

Du lit maternal

Tandis qu'il repose

S'ouvte you

Le sable des g

Des soleils de flamcn
Et de belles dames

portent

nes d'enfav

Dans leur bras charmans

'encbante

nge qui
II voit des rtusseaux

Une voix qui cbante

Sort du fond

Ses sceurs sont plus belle,

pare est pros d'ellcs

Sa mere a des- wiles

Cornme

t mille choses

..core ;

Plus belles e

Des lis et des roses

Plein le corridor.

Des lacs de dace
Oil le poisson plisse,
Oil I'onde se plisse

ti des roseaux d'or

nt! reve encor

Dors, 5 mes amours

;one ame ignore

Ou s'en vont tes jours

Comme une aigue morte

Tu vas, qui t'importe

Le courant t'emporte,
Mais to dors toujours

Sans soin, sans etude,

Tudors en chemin

inquietude

X la froide wain,
g,le aride

De son or

front candide

Qui n'a point de ride

N 'ecrit pas

It dort, innocence

Les anges sereins

Qui savent d'avanet

T des humains,