The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

Other communications stated--
" That the rioters in the late outbreak were not church-
men, as might be proved by an inquiry through the chaplains.
of the county gaols; that those trained up in the church
schools, by their adherence to their country's laws and in-
stitutions, stopped the torrent of disorder; that none of
those belonging to the national school joined in or approved
of the late agitation, although nearly all of them worked in
factories and were suffering many privations ; that among
the youthful mob not one pupil out of 1,200 belonging to
the national schools could be discovered, although the atteu-
tion of the teachers had been specially directed to the subject."
Now look at the reverse of this picture. Some of the
writers—

" Describe parts of the country where, Church influence
being weak, and education neglected, the people were more
disposed towards lawless proceedings."
In one of these places where " church influence was
weak," 6,000 people were without a single school ; in an-
other, containing 10,000 persons, with no daily school for
the children of the poor, " the place was notorious for vio-
lence and insubordination ;" while a third, containing 14,000
inhabitants, having but one church with only 800 sittings,
was so over-run with chartism and disaffection, had " actu-
ally contained a so-called Sunday school in which 300 poor
children were initiated into infidel and seditious principles."
By its fruits the tree is known. We hail with unfeigned de-
light this opportune evidence of the fruit which is gathered
f.-om the blessed tree of church-of-England teaching. Facts
like these are worth a whole library of argument. They let
in a welcome light upon the motive of many of the dissent-
ers ; too many, we fear, who, being " liberals," and some-
thing more, for the most part, in politics, naturally detest a
system which works so badly for them. But these same
facts should be links of adamant to bind churchmen, and all
who desire peace, order, obedience, and loyalty to flourish,
closer and closer to the only system of religious worship
which secures these blessings.

ATTACK ON A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN.—The follow.
ing facts show how desirous the Protestants of Ireland ought
to be to see their lives and liberties placed at the mercy of the
people and their bigotted and intolerant leaders :—On Sun-
day week, as the Rev. Gyles Eyre, rector of Kilmeena, was
returning from Buckfield church, after divine service, he was
assailed by a mob of twenty or thirty persons, who pelted him
with stones, shouting at the same time for " O'Connell and
repeal." They followed the rev. gentleman some distance,
continuing to throw stones at him, and when he at length
stopped, and endeavoured to identify them, they ran off
across a bog. Mr. Eyre called on several other persons who
were on the road, and who were witnesses of the ruffianly
conduct of his assailants, to assist him in apprehending some
of them ; but they refused. Numbers of persons who where
on the surrounding hills, on their return from chapel—where,
no doubt, " repeal " formed a suitable text—cheered those
who attacked Mr. Eyre, and. testified their joy- at the failure
of this effort. •- •
DR. PUSEY.—It is affirmed, by an Oxford paper, that on
Sunday week, " Dr. Pusey preached to a large congregation
at Cairi3t Church, and pc.htiely, ond without rt,arve. pro-
the great furitlattisancnf auetrinc or th" e Ro-
man Catholic Church—namely,; Transubstantiation. An
Oxford correspondent of a London paper says, " The sensa-
tion created at Oxford last week by Dr. Pusey's sermon at
Christ Church Cathedral, in which the reverend professor
avowed his faith in consubstantiation and the doctrine of the
mass, has been increased by the announcement that a copy of
the discourse has been demanded by the university authori-
ties, with a view to examination and probable censure. It is
stated that Dr. Pusey has, however, requested two days for
consideration before complying: with the request, and that it
is conjectured that he intends to plead the circumstance of
the sermon having been preached in his own cathedral at
Christ Church, of which, as professor of Hebrew, he is a
canon, as a reason for exemption from the cognisance of the
academical authorities." A subsequent communication from
Oxford states, that the sermon has been delivered to the
Vice Chancellor, who has appointed a Board of Heresy to
examine into the truth of the alleged charges. The members
of the board are—the Vice Chancellor; Dr. Faussett, Mar-
garet Professor of Divinity ; Dr. Ogilvie, Professor of Pasto-
ral Theology ; Dr. Hawkins, of Oriel College ; Dr. Symons,
Warder of Wadham ; and the Rev. Dr. Jeff, Canon of
Christ Church