The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

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the entire length ; _
aly enforced the flourish about laying down an
crown and taking up a celestial one, by talking of
,nt period," that, in fact, people unaccustomed to
English might have fancied the deep-dogs
-y. Esdras Barnevaldt, the learned apo-
that the Rape of the Lock was a learned

Lincolnshire

meant purgat

thecary
defence

ut the Chnrch of "tome, and why not allow that There has azain been a large business doing in Cotton,
the aldermen of Boston are as learned as the Dutchman. the trade thinking it prudent to stock at the late comna-
Lord Palmerston is the only minister left in town—and ratively moderate prices. Speculators have also operated
ow could they have made a better selection to represent freely, and prices for the current descriptions of American
em all—being, as they are,_ of all possible shades of and other sorts have been enhanced id. per lb. Even at

)e really worth all it is rated
lerston, who knew all who

this advance spinners are literally coining, and it only re.
mains to be seen how long merchants will continue to
purchase for markets already glutted with goods. The
only thing, to be said is, that goods now going out cost
some 10 to 15 per cent. less than those already there; but
this must be temporary. How this forced and temporary
state of things can be construed into commercial.prospe-
rity, we are at a loss to conceive ; but oven the London
Times has lent itself to the fallacy. What next !..Surely
this must be an age df vast improvements on all past ex-
vrience, when the failures of old houses, twelve .months

many) years, and
•ge Grey is cruising

,fily, that there is

he " dangers of the

adopted a scheme

least edu-

ago literally rolling in wealth, are brought forward by a
leading journal as signs of commercial prosperity. ""
is little new from America regarding the gro,--
- the weather was generally fine, and it is expected

ing crop of

I cotton

to be a bouncer.
Messrs. M`Nair and Co., of Manchester, in tl
cular, dated Saturday last, state that " through

LOUt till

month there has been-a
st,

t 1 for almo'

goods and yarns, and from the quantity of
orders offering in the market, it is apparent that there is
a confidence in prices having for the present reached the

lowest poit
TIMBER

—From Messrs. Mackay's monthly circular,
just published, we learn that since the Ist February last,
175 vessels. 113,949 tons register, wood. laden, have ar-
rived from British North America, viz., 71 from Quebec
43 from St. John. N. 8., end 61 from other port
like time last year, 129 vessels,

75.864 tons, arrived. This
shows a large increase of tonnage this year, compared with
last, and, as might have been expected, under forced sales,
the market has receded, more especially on the article of
Quebec yellow pine, from St. John, but little of the new
timber has yet come forward, and prices for this descrip-
tion are firm. Deals are also largely imported, and vary
but little in price ; for these there is an extensive con-

sumption, unequalled in any previous year at this port.
Our Share Market continued heavy until Saturday, when
it rallied a little, and it has to-day again shewn symptoms

of the week was from £2 to £3 per share on the principal"
lines, and the improvement has reached about one half of
this. There does not appear to be much fear of any seri-
ous decline below present prices, nor yet is much'improve-
ment looked for until commercial mattersassu me a brighter
aspect, though it is admitted on all hands that most shares
are much below their intrinsic value as compared with the
interest paid on other securities ; and to this extremity of
depression they have been driven, not by the pressure of

actual sales, but by the machinations of speculators. We
look, however, for a better state of things before the close
of the year. The quoted prices of this day arc—

Caledonian

Do. Fifth;

4tiarters, 1 I
Halves, 2014;
Midland, 16i ;

9d ; London stock,
Vin ; Midlands, 411
Old Dovers, 191 4

M'chester Shef

The following is a t

le of the f

shares during the past month

.esent those sever

CHURCH EDUCATION FOR IRELAND.

The annual meeting of this society was held last night
in the hall of the Collegiate Institution. The Rev. Au•
gustus Campbell, junior rector, presided ; and there were
on the platform the following clergymen and gentlemen :
The Revs. J. Hassall, D. D. Stewart, W. Warre, P. W.
Brancker, R. Pilkington. C. A. Graham, Williams, W.

Brewster, J. B. Loa-e, James England, W. M.' Falloon,
T. D. Barry, R. Anderson, T. Rawson, Dr. M`Neile, J.
Crump, D. Barry, J. Marland, R. W. Wolseley, W.
Rawson, T. W. Moeran, Z. Barry,C. J. Hamilton, John
Stone, Amos, and T. Moore; John Campbell, Esq., T.
Halhead, Esq., CAnman, Esq., Adam Hodgson, Esq.,
D. Hodgson, Esq., and Charles Cotesworth, Esq.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the
evening, said—He must request the indulgence of the
audience while he explained his reasons for occupying his
present position. He must say that he felt a consider-
able degree of hesitation in taking the chair, and that for
two reasons. In the first place, the Church Education
Society for Ireland admitted that it had peculiar difficulties
in finding itself most unwillingly and unnaturally placed
in a state of separation from the powers that be. This,
he must admit, was a difficulty. In a work so intimately
connected with the moral and religious condition of the
people, he considered it to be the duty of the clergy to
co-operate with the government to the utmost extent of
their ability, and this struck him as being the peculiar
purpose of an " Established Church." Its purpose WS
to add the persuasive sanctions of religion to the penal
terrors.of the law, and to co-operate with the government
in the preservation of social order and national peace.
This duty, however, had its limitations, the submission
which the church owed to the powers ordained of God

was to be subject to the power which ordained them ; and
whenever she felt—not capriciously or vexatiously, or
with doubtful mind, but firmly, unmistakeably, conscien.
tionsly felt that the government was pursuing measures
contrary to the holy word of God, then of course she
must obey the word and law of God, instead of the word
and law of man.—(Cheers.) Under such circumstances
he felt that he was not wrong in placing himself in oppo-
sition to the government. 1600 clergymen and five
bishops of the Irish church had come over to this country
under these circumstances to ask for help, and as far as
his, not very ample means, would er.able him, he held out
the right hand of fellowship to them, and bid them God
speed. He reverenced these ministers as the successors
. of the ancient Irish Church, but he reverenced them still

more as the preachers of the pure Word of God, and as
the administrators of unaltered and unmutilated sacra-

ments. It was upon these grounds that he felt con-
strained to respond to the call they had made, and
endeavour to help them in their hour of need. If ever

there were a time when combination was necessary, this
was the time—if ever there were a call to union among
the members of the united Church of England and Ire-
land, that call was clamorous now. He thought the
same liberty should he granted to the Irish Church which
the English Church enjoyed ; he thought that they should
be allowed the free and unrestricted use of the Word of
God in their schools ; that they should have the means,
not of forcing religious instruction upon the people, but
of affording that. religious instruction to those who
were willing to avail themselves of it. While the Irish
Church asked for fraternity, they only only wanted liberty
and equality. His second ground of hesitation arose from
the contemplation of the vast array of talent which bad
been engaged in forming the rules of the Irish National
System of Education. These rules had been sanctioned
respectively by some of the most eminent statesmen of the
day, of all political views, of whose ability, honesty, and
consistency, and attachment to Protestant principles
there could be no doubt. The reverend chairman, aftzr
alluding to the fact that it was principally through
the influence of the present Earl of Derby that the
national system of education in Ireland was made law,
under the supposition that the exclusion of religious
education would tend to conciliate the Catholics, and
engender good feelings and peace amongst all portions of
the Irish community, he (the Chairman) although he
must plead guilty to once having inclined to this opinion,
yet the late Papal aggressionshowed how fallacious these
views were. After some further observations to the
same effect, and reading a vast number of 'extracts,
he called on the Rev. J. B. Lowe to move the first
resolution.

The Rev. J. B. LOWE on coming forward to do so was
received with loud applause. The resolution was in effect
that the Church Education Society recognising the prin-
ciple, that instruction in the Holy Scriptures shall be
given to every child in attendance at their schools, it is
well worthy the support of the English porgen of the
United Church of England and Ireland. The rev. speaker
addressed himself at very considerable lenth to the subject
of the resolution. He contended that all education to be
correct education must be founded upon the doctrines of
christianity. In alluding to the fact that it was contended

that Popery in Ireland ought to be the dominant creed on
account of the vast excess of the Popish over the Protes-
tant population, the rev. speaker said that at the
present moment the Popish population of Ire-
land exceeded that of the Protestant population
only by half-a-million. And if they would remember the
intelligence, the wealth, the physical :energy of. the Pro-
testant over the Papist population, there was an end at

nce of the Irish difficulty. Taking all these things into
account, the overwhelming weight was in favour of Pro-
testantism. In allusion to the National Board
..of
Education, the rev. gentleman said the principle
~of
it was indifferentism to all religions. He was glad,
however, to be able to say that at present . there
were no fewer than 40,000 children of Roman Catholics
receiving instruction in the Scriptural schools of Ireland.
They (the Protestants) must be up and doing. The pre-
sent was a time when Protestants were called upon to
strain every nerve, in opposition to the exertions of their
ancientienemy, the Church of Rome. Whereverthe Papal
influence reigned, Protestants could not propagate their
opinions ; if they did so they were cast into dungeons, or
banished to pestiferous regions; and whilst the papists in
this country were crying out that they were persecuted,
they were, at tbe very time collecting subscriptions to
build an Italian cathedral in London ; whilst they (the
Protestants) could not get permission to worship in a small
room in. Rome, what then were they (the Protestants) to
do ? He Loped a public 'effort would be made to obtain for
their Protestant brethren on the Continent and other places
abroad the same liberty of worship, and the same right of pro-

.
selyting that the Church of Rome enjoyed in our own country.
The Ven. and Rev. the Archdeacon of DERRY came forward
to second the resolution, amidst most tremendous applause.

As regarded the maintenance of our Protestant religion in Ire-
land his opinion might be expressed in two words—no sur-
rander. (Hear, hear, and great applause.) Had they
consented to compromise the principles of the reformation,
they need not now have had to 'solicit the aid of the people of
this country. One great principle of the reformation was that
the Word of God should he free to all as the

r they breathed
or the light they enjoyed. Great surprise had frequently been
expressed at the little progress which the principles
of the reformation had made in Ireland ; but when he told
them that, within his own recollection only one in every three
hundred of the population of Ireland could read or write, they
might well conceive what great obstacles stood in the way of
the spread of those principles. The Roman Catholic clergy did
all they could to oppose the spread of education, on the ground
that the- people would become ungovernable. Notwith-
standing this, • however,. parties were found who peti.
tionkl Parliament for an increase of the number of Protestant
rectors on the ground of their benevolence and charity. The
first Scriptural Educational Society in Ireland was an associa-
tion for discountenancing vice and for promoting the knowledge
_ _

room in Dublin; the great instrumentality which was brought
into operation being the diffusion of the Holy Scriptures, and
they studded the country with their Protestant schools, and
the system ultimately received the sanction of Government.
The Romish clergy denounced this as a foul injustice? and
stated that it was merely a proselyting society, because it in-

sisted on the teaching of the Church Catechisth; A. new society
was then formed, from whose system the Catechism was re-
jected. This was approved of by the ,Roman Catholics, and
O'Connell and the Archbishop of Troy joined it. By this
means the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland put the extin-

guisher on the former society; hill now having succeeded so
far in their opposition to industry, they turned round upon
the very society they had applauded before. _ Now, after they

had done this; it niight haVe been supposed that they would
be quiet ; but such was not the case. He had entered into this
explanation in order that the meeting might see what kind of
enemy they had to deal with. The object of the Romish clergy,
in their opposition to the schemes of education which had been
propoimded, was, that no master or mistress of a school should
be allowed to teach in any Catholic neighbourhood unless they
held a license from the Romish Cln The rev. gentleman,
after exposing the machinatiolis of the Romish priesthood,
concluded by seconding the resolution.

ge of the proceedings the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL
apologised for vacating the chair; and having done so, re-
quested Mr. ADAM HODGSON to supply his place. That gen-
tleman did so, and during the interim of speaking a hymn was
sung and a collection made,

At this st

The Rev. Dr.O'SuLLivnx rose amidst loud cheers, to propose
the next resolution, to the effect that the spread of religious
principles by the dissemination of the holy scr►ptures amongst
the people was_the only safeguard to civil and religious liberty.
The rev. doctor delivered a long, eloquent, and argumentative
speech, the burthen•of which was a continuation, from the time
of his last visit in Liverpool, of his condemnation of the Go-
vernment system of education in Ireland. To attempt a con-
densation would be but to mar its arguments and spoil its
beauty; and the lateness of the hour at which it was delivered
renders it totally impracticable to give anything like a report
of it.

The Rev. Dr. M'NEILE, on risint to second the resolution,
was received with boisterous applause. He said he found him-
self in a sort of difficulty, but to which he must say he was not
per unused : that was, in being called upon to address a
ness was over,—when the time was all
ttience was all over .(laughter and cries

Lnd the

erits which-had beer
said he had

embraced in them, the

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me litre to say upon a
touched upon that eve