The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-16 00:00:00

REPORTE

ARRIVALS OF CORN.

From the 13

th to the 15th Jan. inclusive.

1 IRE- COAST- FO- BRITISH
TOTAL.
DESCRIPTIONS. LAND. WISE. REIGN AMER.
.-...._...
WHEAT Qrs 3217 100 1239 4356
BARLEY... Qrs 244 . • 510 : 754
OATS.
• -
PLors. Sacks 1422 705 2127.
Do ..Barrels • .
BRAN..
•
OATMEAL Loads 679 679
MALT Qrs• -• • 1346 . , 1346
BEANS Qrs 628. 628
PEAS ........ .. Qrs: 100 . 100
RYE
611ELLRD BARLEY OWt
RAPESEED- .. Barrels.
INDIAN CORN. - QTS _

COTTON MAIIKET.—Tw•o o'CLocK.

There is a moderate inquiry from the trade today,
and'the- sales will amount to about 2,000 bags, at yester-
da

Tices.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
St. Cloud, Rich, New Orleans.
Jahn Baring, Huff, Savannah.
Louisa Augusta, Kruger, Danzig. •
Ricardo, —, Havana.
Trinidad Packet., Griffiths, Bahia„
Thomas Worthington, —, Punta Arenas.
Sir John Beresford, Punta Arenas.
Castor, —, Buenos Ayres,
Perseverance, Gibson, Canton.
Lady Sotrmont, Maranham.
John Bentley, Robinson, St. Johns, NIB,
Lady Hannah Ellice, Liddle, New York.

DR. CHALMERS.

In the present number of the Church of Scotland
gazine we perceive an article from the liiniinonS.Pen of
the above reverend gentleman on the subject of alnirch
accommodation, from which we have great pleasure in
taking the following extracts :
fg A. dissenting place of worship,.as it.forms.,no guarantee, so
it furnishes ao index fur the church-geiug habit of. its conti7
guous families. Its attendance at the.first is founded, not on
the demand of new, but on the discontent of previous worship,.
pers. And, generally speaking, it .coutiaues as it, began, to
draw its iecruits.from the latter quarter rather than from the
former. In as far as en additional congregation,' instead of
being reclaimed from the moral waste; ,is but a, reassemblage
front thinnings of pre-existeut,congrege,tions there ,has been
no addition made to the number of the people under Christian
,instruction=ne step iu advance on the mighty outfield of That
heathenism which is so fearfully and so constantly upon the in,
crease.. it has but effected a transference, •not a creation of
worshippers... This last is the proper office of a territorial esta-
blishment; aud, if not furnished with the means for such a ser-
vice. in a sufficiency both of ministers and churches, then let
the feeble supplements- of sectarian chapels be multiplied. as
they may—they are but the signals of a great scarcity, instead
of the symptoms of abundance, and we shall. behold the profli-
gacy and irreligion of our land to be multiplied along wish them.
Churches on the purely voluntary system may sometimes
retard the tide of degeneracy; but by
.their
.very nature they
are unable to arrest it, far lesi to turn it back. They draw
hearers who come to them spontaneously, from all directions
and at all distances; but they are iu no way responsible for the
religious habit of the local or territorial vicinities in which they
are placed. Where there is a predisposition for the lessons of
the gospel, it is a service of incalculable value to prevent the
extinction of it; and, in many instances, that service has been
theirs. They often keep alive the habit, but they seldom re-
store it from the dead, and so have made a comparatively slight
impression on that untold multitude,_ whose rising families are
permitted to grow up without the habit—and just because the
establishment has been
It
to fall short of the rapidly
increasing population. It is thus that the voluutary system has
but wretchedly repaired the deficiencies of the church. It bas
made little or no inroad on the heathenisai of overpeopled pa-
rishes. It scarcely ever operates at all on this raw 'material,
which, nevertheless, is yearly augthenting apen our bhnds.
There seems no other way of combating the evil, now grown
to an otherwise irreducible mass, than by proceeding against
it in sections—by erecting in each little territory a church,
which families abandoned to the voluntary system would never
have provided for themselves, and there stationing a minister,
who might charge himself overhead with the households of the
district which has been thus assigned to him.
''The necessity for new churches lies altogether in the state
and numbers of this outfield population. It is quite in vain to
tell them of the room in either the existing churches or meet-
ing-houses, which, from Sabbath to Sabbath, is left unoccupiel.
That room is not only in .utter disproportion to their numbers,
but there is a barrier both physical and moral, in the way of its
ever being occupied by them. The distance of the place of
worship, its appropriation, or high rent of its sittings,--Ahese
make up the physical barrier, in virtue of which, this house of
prayer and Sabbath services might be as good as shut against
the general mass of families. The moral barrier lies in the utter
want of those appliances on the part of its minister, which are
necessary to overcome the native indisposition of the human
heart to religion and its ordivances. This barrier might exist
even in the establishment, when the parishes are too large and
too populous to make the trial, and the frequent household cul-
tivation of them is impracticable. And it is universal with dis-
senters, to whom these family ministrations on the local prin-
ciple are about altogether unknown. 'Co remove these obsta-
cles, there remains no other possible alternative than to have
churches planted within distances small enough, and so endowed,
as that its sittings may be open to the residing families, on terms
low enough for the general means of the population; and, above
all, ministers who, reemrding the people of the newly assigned
parishes as peculiarly their uw n,• will work amongst them accord-
ingly. In other words, 'the good, or rather th indispensable
need of an ecclesiastical establishment, is a lesson forced upon
us by the actual state of the population,—only to he reclaimed
from their present degeneracy by the extension of that church
which irreligionists on the one baud, and sectarians on the other,
are now labouring to destroy.
i° of the greatest services done to our cause, then, is to
institute and pursue such inquiries as might make this state pal.
pable. We should no longer confine our statistics to such gene-
ralities as the mensuration of churches and enumeration of the
people. It was right to begin with these; but there is still ano-
ther estimate to bomade,—a scrutiny of greater pains and pati-
ence to be taken, ere the whole truth of our present destitution
and helplessness can be known. It is, only when, one by one,
we enter into every,plebeiau habitation, and take account by
name and number of their habits of churchgoing,,—comparing,
and in units, the amount of sittings which they possess, or have
purchased the right to occupy, with the, amount of individuals
among whom they are shared. It is only then that we come
into close engagement with the real materials of the question.
lf, instead of the amount of church room which exists, we could
ascertain, the amount of church room which is averagely and
habitually occupied, we might in this way approximate more to
the real ecclesiastical condition of the labouring classes in cities
and large parishes. But there are many difficulties and many
delicacies in the way of this investigation. And we shall not
'have arrived at the truth, in its, complete and most impressive
form, till observations have been made and multiplied on another
arena ; or till, passing from door to doer, we make inquiry in
every household, and learn either of their actual provisiou or
actual wants at the mouth of the people themselves.