The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

WARRINGTON

CHURCH INSTITUTE.—A meeting of the members of
this institution took place on Monday evening last. The
Hon. and Rev. H. Powys, rector, president, occupied the
chair. There
was a.full attendance .of members and their
friends present. Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., and Mr. G.
Greenal, M.P., and others, addressed the meeting.

MORE. HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.—On Wednesday two
stout men, named John Allen and William Jones, were
brought before Thos. Lyon, Esq., at Warrington, charged
with attempting to rob John Young and his wife, at
Walton, on their way to Chester. The case was clearly
proved, and both were committed to the next assizes.
RATES.—On Friday evening last, at a special
meeting of the overseers and guardians of Warrington, it
was unanimously agreed upon to lay a new rate of 2s. Gd.
in the pound for the remainder of the half year ending the
25th of March, making in the whole 7s. Gd. for the year
for poors'-rates alone. Also, the borough church ,and
highway rates will average about 10s. Gd. in the pound on
all property within the town.
THE SAvIN as' BANK.—The trustees of the Warrington
Savings' Bank have, during the past week, published their
annual account for the year ending the 20th of November,
1837, from which it may be seen that the payments to the
depositors have exceeded the amount of deposits by
£10,779 lls. 10d. for the year, which is a dear sign of the
state the town has been in during this period. We hope
the next report published will be a very different one.

THE LATE ACCIDENT TO EARL POWIS
DEATII OF THE NOBLE LORD.

We regret extremely to learn, from our correspondent
at Welchpool, that the Earl of Powis died at his seat,
Powis Castle, yesterday morning week, at four
o'clock. It will be remembered that the noble lord was
shooting last Thursday week with his son, the Hon.
Robert Herbert, when the gun carried by the latter
accidentally went off, and the contents lodged in the side
of the noble earl, and ultimately proved the cause of his
lamented death.

The whole neighbourhood of Powis Castle is plunged
into the most sincere grief, as his Lordship was one of
the most benevolent men living. It may be remembered
that his Lordship recently stood a contest for the Chan-
cellorship of Cambridge, with his Royal Highness Prince
Albert ; and his efforts in defence of the Welsh Bishop-
ricks, and every interest connected with the Church Es-
tablishment, will never be forgotten.
The late Earl was Viscount Clive, of Ludlow, Baron
Herbert of Chirbury, Baron Clive, of Walcot, all in' the
county of Salop, and Baron !kiwis, of Powis Castle,
county of Montgomery, iu the peerage of the United
Kingdom, He was Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire,

and Knight of the Garter.. His lordship, who was the
third Earl of Powis, was grandson of the celebrated Lord
Clive, Baron of Plassy, in the county of Clare, who for-
merly entered into the civil service of the East India
Company, subsequently adopted the military profession,
and acquired station, fame, and fortune, by his gallant
achievements as a military commander in India ; and,
having attained the rank of Major-General for his ser-
vices, was elevated to the peerage of Ireland on the 16th
of March, 1752, and was made a Knight of the Bath, in
1760. His lordship's father, the second Lord Clive, was
created Baron Clive, of Walcot, in 1794. In 1784 his
lordship married the sister and heir.of the last F.arl•Powis,
and was elevated to the earldom of Powis in May, 1804.
The late Earl succeeded his father on the 16th of hlay,
1839. He married, in February, 1818, Lucy, third
daughter of the Duke of Montrose ; by whom- survive
Edward Arthur Herbert (now • Earl Powis), born 1818;
four other sons and two daughters.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, SANCTIONED• BY

THE BIBLE,

[We have been favoured with the following admirable
article by a clergyman in this town.]
In Gen. ix. 6, we find the great principle of righteous
retribution laid down by the Judge of all the earth, and
.that at a time when His gracious and Providential deal-
ings with His creatures had assumed no peculiar-form of
economy, and for a reason that must hold good under any
dispensation,. " Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man
hall his blood be shed : FOR in the image of God- made
He man;" just as in the matter of the Sabbath, the
command to observe it stands-forth•to the notice of the
world, irrespective of any peculiar dispensation, the Lord.
having sanctified it, we are told; in Gen. ii. 3, imme-
diately upon the Creation of Man, and therefore for man.
All through the inspired volume the principle of righteous
retribution is clearly acknowledged. The sixth com-
mandment, compared with other parts of the revealed
law, has evident reference to it. See Leviticus, xxiv. /7;
God plainly says, " he that killeth any man shall surely
be put to death ;" and even in the merciful_ provision of
the cities of refuge, the announcement made by God's
own voice is, " Ye shall take no satisfaction for the life
of a murderer, which is guilty of death." (See Numbers,
xxxv. 31.) Again, in the dying charge of David to his
son Solomon, we find the royal monarch giving such di-
rections with reference to the enemies of God, who had so
treated the representative of God, as can only be recoil•
ciled upon this great principle of righteous retribution..
By his son, Solomon, again is recognised the principle
(Prov. xxviii. 17) " A man that doeth violence to the
blood of any person shall flee to the pit let no man stay
him." And even when the dispensation changed, and the
law that came by Moses was succeeded by the grace and
truth that came by Jesus Christ. when, as our blessed
Lord shews, in Matt. v., the grand distinguishing feature
of a believer's character under the new dispensation was
" Love," in contradistinction to the distinguishing feature
of a believer's character under the old dispensation—
" Justice—which distinguishing feature is thenceforward
pressed more urgently and frequently upon the notice
of the Church—still our Lord Himself, in the face
of the new commandment of love that he introduced,
recognises the principle of retribution, when He says,
Matt. xxiii. 34, 35. " Wherefore, behold, I send unto you
prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye
shall kill and crucify •, and some of them shall ye scourge in
your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed
upon Ike earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew be-
tween the temple and the altar." Our Lord's object in
His first Advent was not judgment, as it will be at His
second Advent, it was mercy,—as we are told, John iii.
17, "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn
the world; but that the world through him might be
saved." And again, Luke ix. 56. " For the Son of man
is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save." And
more especially in Luke iv. 19, where he closed the book
at the annunciation of mercy, and proceeded not to ven-
geance ; yet He seems for a moment to anticipate the
period when all judgment shall be committed to the Son,
—" the Judge of all the earth"—the Christ before whose
judgment-seat we must all stand—and recognises this
principle of righteous retribution ; and again, when He
says "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's;"
and again in the matter of the tribute money he fully re-
cognises the executive in whatever department of rule.
When He pronounces upon the exemption of Himself and,
followers from the demands of any worldly economy,
upon the ground that they were joint heirs in prospect of
the earth, He adds, " Notwithstanding, &c." In Matt.
xxvi. 52, He also says, " Put up again thy sword into
his place : for all that take the sword"—i. e., evidently
with a design to kill with it—" shall perish with the
sword," recognising the principle again ; and be it ob-
served, He was addressing an individual at the time, and
not the " executive." Our Lord's servants, the Apos-
tles, maintain the recognition of this principle; Paul,
in Rom. xiii., talking of the executive, says, He is a
minister of God to thee for good. He beareth not the
sword in vain, for he is the minister of God, a revenger to
execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." And again
Peter, in his Ist Epistle, ii. 13, 14—" Submit yourselves
to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it
be to the king as supreme ; or unto governors, as unto
them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil
doers, and for the praise of them that do well."--•
And in the last book of the New Testament canon,
" He that killeth with the sword must be killed with
the sword." Nor is it irrelevant to the subject, perhaps,
the
will pour upon those " who know Him not," and " obey
not His Gospel," when " He shall be revealed in flaming
fire, taking vengeance." Yea, have we not reason to say,
from a comparison of Isa. lxvi. 23, 24, with Rev. xiv.
10, 11, that there will be even in millemal glory, amidst
all the tokens and triumphs of Redeeming love, one soli-
tary monument of the justice of God, flaming the solemn
warning, that though He is long-suffering, and abundant
in goodness and truth, He will " by no means clear the
guilty" ! But it may be said, if the executive is thus to
remain the representative of God's unswerving justice, if
this principle of righteous retribution is still to be main-
tained, why should the blessed Saviour introduce a new
dispensation of love to which you have alluded ? We re-
ply—there is all the difference possible between an exe-
cutive for the world, which will not listen to the claims of
this new dispensation, and a law of love for the Church,
which will. The world will pursue its own purposes of
selfishness, to the utter setting aside of the welfare of
others, and therefore must be met by a stern retributive
justice. If all were true Christians, we would'have no
occasion for the executive, and justice would stand forth
to all sufficiently vindicated in the Cross, as it now is to
the believing Church. Accordingly the Apostle Paul says,
I. Tim. i. 9, The law was not made for a righteous man,
but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and
for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fa-
thers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers." Be-
sides, the principle of love implanted by the Spirit in the
breast of the believer under the new dispensation, and
which rejoices to overcome evil with good, is an individual
feeling,—so that a true believer rejoices when the provi-
dence of God may not require his presence in the execu-
tive; and it was the snatching from the executive the
principle of righteous retribution, in order to cater to the
spirit of revenge that lurked in the breasts of the cor-
rupted Jews of our Lord's day, which he so utterly con-
demns in that chapter already referred to (Matt. v.),
" Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth ;" while he at the
same time shews, that, as regards the individual, the
principle of overcoming love is the feature of the dispen-
sation he introduced. We would ask the opponents of
these views, why they would not do away with all exer-
cise of the executive, seeing our Lord and his disciples
discountenance the Church having recourse to it, but
rather " suffer loss." But no ; this would not do. The
world must have its executive, while, thank God, the
true believer is ready to suffer loss rather than appeal.
In conclusion, we would be bold to say that the oppo-
sition to these principles is a secret blow at the Atone-
ment ! In this dread act the principle of righteous retri-
bution, which we advocate, meets its full and fearful con-
firmation. The wages of sin were death, and therefore
the Son of God had to die—" the just for the unjust.".
Nothing short of this could atone for the injury done to
God's eternal justice ; not that the mind of the Father
was different from that of the Son, or that one was as
stern as the other was benevolent, as the unhappy Sod-
nian would dare to represent the matter ; for " God was
in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not impu-
ting their-trespasses unto them ; and bath made him to be
sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the
righleousncea of Cod in Him ! "
We ought to bless God, that amidst the many oral
testimonies borne by all sound believers of every denomi-
nation to the above principles, one recorded one still
lives in the formularies of our beloved and scriptural
Church, to attest their scriptural truth—" that it may
please thee to bless and keep the magistrates, giving
them grace to execute justice and to maintain truth ' • "
and again—" and grant unto her whole council, and to all
that are put in authority under her, that they may truly
and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of
wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true
religion and virtue."
' Lord, lay to thine hand ! Is it not time for thee to
work, for men have made void thy law" ! ! !

MR. LEVI, THE CHIROPEDIST.—I referring to the ad-
vertisement of this clever extractor of one of the greatest
pests to which pedestrians are liable, we may say that it is
necessary that parties wishing to avail themselves of Mr.
Levi's assistance should be careful to notice the address
of that gentleman, or they may unconsciously apply to
another party. _ .

WOMBWELL'S ZOOLOGICAL EMU BITION.—This mena-
gerie is now located in the Haymarket, fronting the Rail-
way Station. The collection of animals is quite equal to
those previously exhibited here, while the sagacity they
display is certainly most surprising. The Lion Queen
enters the den with a numuer of animals of various-spe-
cks every hour, and puts them throuph their various and
strangely-trained evolutions. The exhibition is well wor-
thy attention.

'IIIAN : —The benefits of steam to a community con-
sist not in the convenience of individual transit alone,
but, by shortening the time usually occupied in distances,
creates businesses that could not otherwise have existed;
and no one has felt this advantage more than Mr. John-
son, of Queen Square, who, being a large contractor for
game, is now enabled to supply it from the finest moors
and preserves in Scotland, the day after it is killed. Any
one who will take a glance at his shop will acknowledge
that in the Land o' Cakes there is neither scarcity nor
lack of excellence. Amongst the most curious importa-
tions are the celebrated white hares, from the Grampian
Mountains, which are said to be most delicious. So rapid
is communication now that, as will be seen by an adver-
tisement in another column, Mr. Johnson is commencing
the supply of almost every article the south of Scotland
produces—fresh fish, butter, eggs, &c., &c. ; and as we
learn they can be sold much chaper than usual, the public
will doubtless be benefitted.

GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL
STEAM-PACKETS.
•
,101.0 The respective Steam-packet Companies'
sels are intended to sail (with or without
(Pilots) as under :

FROM LI'VERPOOL.
COMMODORE This Day, Jan. 25, at 1 o'clock, Afternoon
ADMIRAL Thursday, Jan. 27, at 2 o'clock, Afternoon
PRINCESS RovAL.Saturday, Jan. 29, at 33 o'clock, Evening.
*iia Goods intended for shipment must be alongside the ves
sel at least One Hour before the advertised time of sailing.

FARES .; Steward's Fee, 25.; steerage,lis.
Agents for the N and COMMODORE :
T. MARJIN and BURNS and Co.,
• 7, Water-street, Liverpool.

Agents for tke IDI9Xer
DAVID MACIVIER and C:s.,
14, W4ex-street, Liverpool

Agent for the PRINCESS ROYAL •
ROB MONT,
39, Water-street, Liverpool

STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DUNDALK
AND LIVERPOOL.
THREE TIMES EACH WEEK
THE DUNDALK STEAM-PACKET CO.'S
Splendid and powerful new iron Steam Ships
4 PRIDE OF ERIN,
AO; (800 tons burthen, and 420 horse power,)
JOHN WILLIAMS. Master, and
DUNDALK,
(600 tons burthen, and 300 horse power,)
JOHN licTcussoN, Master,
Are intended to sail as under :
FROM LIVERFOO DUNDALK,
(From the CI ce Dock Basin,)
Dc.NDALK This Da th Jan., at 12 o'clock, NOOR.
PRIDE or Eotio.Thu ay, 27th Jan., at 2 o'clock, Afternoon.
DUNDALK y, 29th Jan., at 3 o'clock, Afternoon.

Fares—Cabin, M. 6d., including Steward's Fee; Steerage, 51
• A Sleet:ldes: attends the Ladies' Cabin.

One of the Company's Vessels sails from DUNDALK for
LIVERPOOL every TUESDAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY,
about two hours before high water.
Goods for shipment to be down at least two hours before the
time of sailing.
For further particulars apply to the Agents, WILLIAM
M'UASTER, Steam-packet Quay, Dundalk, or to
JAMES METGE, 3.5, Water-street. Liverpool.

FOR DUBLIN, BELFAST, BANGOR,
BRAUMARIS, and CARNARVON.
I,ITHB CITY OP DUBL
MPINS BATM-PACKBT
1i COANY,
INCORPORATED BY ACT. otPARLIAmENT.
The above Company sail their Vesseler(with or without
Pilots,) taking Goods and passencers..,/
For DUBLIN,
This Dar, January 23, at 1 o'clock P.m.
WeDmisnar, January 26, at 1 o'clock P.M.
THURSDAY, January 27, st 2 o'clockie.m.
FRIDAY, January 29, at 9 O'clock P.M.
SATURDAY, January 29, at 4 o'clock P.m.
MONDAY, January 31, at 6 o'clock r,:at..
THa PRINCE, PRINCESS, IRON DUKE, or other First
CMS Steamers, sail EVRRY EVENING, at Seven o'clock, from
George's Pierhead, LIVERPOOL, for KINGSTOWN HAR-
BOUR, carrying Her Majesty's Mail and Cabin Passengers
rog•

For BELFAST. the WINDSOR.
Tuts DAY, January 25, at 1 o'clockP.M.
SATURDAY, January 29, at 4 o'clock P.M.
Leaving Belfast for Liverpool every alternate Tuesday, Theirs•
day, and Ratwrdey.

?or BANGOR, BRAUMARIS. and CARNARVON,
The PRINCE OF WALES,
Of 400 tons burthen, and 200-horse power,
W. H. WARREN, Commander.
The PRINCE OP WALES will sail from George's Pierhead
every WEDNESDAY and SAtURDAY, at Nine teCloCk in the
Yorning ; and from MF.NAI BRIDGE every MONDAY and
Pal DAY, at Nine o'clock in thellorning.
All Goods for the Prince of Wales must be bent to the
t la-
once Dock the day previous to her sailing.
Goods for Carnarvon will be landed at the Menai Bridge and
forwarded at Ship's expense, but Shippers' risk.

Farther information given at the Company's °See, 24, Water
strut. JOHN N. ROTJNTLIWAIT, Agent.

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THIS DAY

t Twelve o'clock

CHARriS STEWART, and Broker
JOHN B. BRANCKER and SON,

;;i4TCH PINE TIMBET

WEDNESDAY

Bales and Cases
n Stewart's Wars

Wooller.

hence to Valpar

r-m era ant,

RED GOODS,

C. Dickson-street, near the

Baizes, Worsted

Linens, Carpeting,

THURSDAY

logues are now ready

irlam,itnd Higglizso

On THURCDAY next, the 27th it
Brokers' Office, 14 at
About 60 Cwt. Barba LOES,
The same will be op or inspection one v
sale.—For further particulars apply to
SAMUEL LINN INGTON sad Co., Broker

it,at Twelve o'clock, at the

in Gotirds and-Blocks.
k previous to the

an account of whom it may concern.
On THURSDAY ❑ext, the 27th instant, at One o'clock, in the

80 Boxes Messina L NS
60 Bags TU R C,
10 Tons T lERIC, loos,
1 from the fin

Union-court

:Apply tc

FRIDAY

On FRIDAY next, the
Broker

Bth instant, at Twelve o'clock, at the

4_6_Tolfice, swee Oil
pply to ARNOL TB, ROSCOE, and Co., Brokers

On FRIDAY next, th

Ath it
Broke
150 Pad

t Twelve o'clock, at the

Apply to

BRODRIBWISd COATES,

22, North John-street

On account of whom it may concern.
On FRIDAY next, the 28th instant, at Twelve o'clock, at tlal

Brokers' 0111
About 140 Bales da gyptian TOW,
Ex St. George; lying in ester's, Sefton-street.—Apply to
JOH ILKS, Broker, Atherton-buildings.