The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

Etteraturr.

VARIETIES

Mrs. B

LOSING THE KEY

Allington, the Queen of all
English singers, came one night to Drury-lane Theatre to
perform Mandane 'n Artaxerxes, so hoarse as to render it a
question as to whether it would be possible for her to ap-
pear before the audience. To add to her perplexity. her
maid bad mislaid the key of her jemel-box, but persisted
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PING POULTRY

ROMANISM AND THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—We
look with considerable apprehension to the objects'
which the Alliance may be disposed to take up. Such an
organization must be too vast, and must be constituted of
elements much too diverse, to be competent to much
practical action. There will be sharp war during the
present century, between Romanism and Protestantism ;
and a still hotter conflict, so far as regards the educated
classes, between Revealed Religion and the Literary Pan-
theism which is now everywhere taking hold on the liter-
ature of Europe. But the Evangelical Alliance will not
be the power to grapple with these evils. Church-
men and dissenters are not agreed as to the true grounds
of controversy with the Church of Rome. In both con-
nexions, also, the difference between the educated and the
uneducated is such as must prevent their seeing alike as
to what should be conceded, and what should be denied,
in respect to the infidel, or the semi-infidel theories of the
age. Such labours may be better left to smaller and less
responsible organizations, and best of all to that spirit of
private enterprise which, on questions of this nature,
rarely fails of being equal to the demand. On such sub-
jects as we have mentioned, even the speech-making of
the Alliance would be likely, we fear, to do more harm
than good ; and to its publications, in relation to such to-
pics, we should look with a most painful distrust.—Bri-
lish Quarterly Review.
THE MAHOGANY TRADE OF HONDURAS.—The quan-
tity of unshipped mahogany of last season's cutting at
pt

esent in this settlement is said to be less than at the
same period last year. whilst the average demand in Eng-
land is greater, and the stock in hand lees than in the
month of December, 1844. These facts induce us to in-

quire into the prospects of the present season, and ascer-
tain, as far as practicable, what results may be produced.
At no former period have so many gangs (120 to 122)
been engaged; but we doubt their proving as effective as
when la ger gangs, composed of these same men, were
employed. Tile high rate of wages (21 to 24 dollars a
month) may have induced some few additional hands to
join the mahogany works this season; yet there is no de-
nying the fact, that the great majority of the gangs are
but scantily manned. As an offset to this disadvantage,
however, it is said that the gangs are well supplied with
good conditioned cattle, and that, in consequeuce, the
deficiency of hands will not be of material importance.
We are of the opinion, founded on information derived
from various sources, that the cuttings of the present sea-
son will not exceed these of the past—say 10,000,000
superficial feet.—Simmonds's Colonial Magazine.
THE CRURCEI AND THE CHIMCIIES.—Under the Old
Testament, " all were not Israel who were of Israel."
There were two Israels. The one—national and visible,
including subdivisions of Pharisees and Sadducees, who dif-
fered in many things one from another, but were identical
in this, that they were all separated openly and avowedly
from the Gentiles by the ordinance of circumcision. The
other—individual and spiritual, not certainly distinguish-
able by men, but seen and known of God, who had in

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Under the New Testament, all are not Christ's
who are of Christendom. There are two Churches The
one—Collective and visible, including many sub-divisions,
who differ in many things one from another, but are iden-
tical in this • that they are all separated openly and avow-
edly from all the rest of mankind, by the ordinance of
baptism. These are the Churches of Christ visible and
militant here on earth, and the aggregate of them all, at
any one time, is the visible Church Catholic. The other
—lndividual and spiritual, scattered among the baptized
communities, not certainly distinguishable by men, but
seen and known of God, who has, in spiritual grace bap-
tized their hearts, making them ' new creatures' in Christ
Jesus. This is the Church of God in Christ ; and the
true idea of its catholicity ranges not only throughout the
aggregate of visible Churches at any time, but also

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distinction between Abel and Cain, till the separation be-
tween believer and unbeliever, at the second corninc, of
the Son of Man. In the spiritual sense here referrdto,
which I hope has been satisfactorily shown to be one—not
the only one, but I think undeniably one—of its true
scriptural senses, the Church signifies the especial elec-
tion of God out of the Churches ; including in one aggre._

gate, all the men, women, and children, fi.om among all
mankind, who have been and who shall be saved. These
were all chosen of God in Christ before the foundation of
the world, or as Ignatius expressed it ' predestinated be-
fore the worlds to glory.—The Church and the thurches
by the Rev. H. M. Neile.
INSTINCT OF NEWFOUNDLAND DOGS.—One of them,
belonging to a grocer, had observed one of the porters
of the house, and who was often in the shop, frequently
take money from the till, and which the man was in the
habit of concealing in the stable. The dog, having wit-
nessed these thefts, became restless, pulling persons by
the skirts of their coats, and apparently wishing them to
follow him. At length, an apprentice had occasion to go