The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD
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Liverpool, it might be expedient to make the society per-
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Liverpool, pith September, 1846

TO THE EOITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL. STANDARD

believe in Dublin and other large cities and
towns, individuals committing offences against public
decency in the streets or thoroughfare, are taken into
custody and severely dealt with. How many offend in
this manner in Liverpool, and how innumerable are the
nuisances of which our vigilant police do not take any
cognizance, I will refer to yourself, or any of your readers,
to determine ? Perhaps it may be requisite to provide
proper conveniences at stated distances throughout the
town ; and if, after this beieg done, any person attempts
to transgress, I should have him summarily dealt with
according to law.—Your obedient servant,

VIGILANS

Liverpool, 19th Sept., 1846.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ST.4ND.IRD,

SIR,—I am an elderly unmarried lady, residing near
Grove-street, and am much annoyed by a set of young
men who call themselves gentlemen, but who by their
conduct have lost all claim to that title. They are in the
habit of congregating near my house, and annoying me
and my neighbours by imitating the cries of various
animals. There is one young man in particular, who is
conspicuous by wearing a vest of a particular pattern ; he
stands under my bedroom window, and sings various
disagreeable but popular melodies; while another calls
every week to inquire whether I have any apartments to
let. The young men have formed themselves into a kind
of club, and distinguish themselves by wearing vests of
the same pattern.
I have been advised by some friends to apply to Mr.
Rushton for protection ; but I think that if you, by in-
serting this note, will make public their unmanly tricks,
they may be induced to reform in time.—l remain, sir,
yours obliged, —

A DEFENCELESS FEMALE

beg, through the medium of your valuable
Journal, to call attention to what I conceive to be a great
danger. and something, also, in the shape of a nuisance,
that exists in the town. I refer to the hurried and care-
less manner in which shutters are drawn up from the
cellar at closing time On Thursday evening, as I was
passing along Lord-street, I saw a lady knocked down by
one, and severely injured. If you were to bring your
power and influence to bear upon this point a little, I
doubt not that the evil might be remedied.—l am, Sir,
your obedient servant, _

ANTHROPOS

Liverpool, Sept. 19, .1846

HUGH M`NEILE, DOUGLAS JERROLD, AND

RICHARD COBDEN

TO THE EDITOR OF THE WORCESTERSHIRE GUARDIAN

SIR,—As your contemporary the Chronicle, with that
blind, infuriated bigotry, which has characterised him
from the commencement of his career, has thought fit to
quote the ribald Douglas Jerrold's libel on Mr. M'Neile,
you will perhaps give insertion to the following lines in
exculpation of him :
Mr. M'Neile publishes a sermon, entitled, " Every eye
shall see him," or " Prince Albert's visit to Liverpool in
illustration of the second coming of Christ." Douglas
Jerrold lays hold of this title, and in a tissue of blasphe-
mies pretends to prove Mr. M'Neile guilty of blasphemy,
because he takes advantage of a striking local occurrence
to illustrate the second coming of the Saviour. When
George the Fourth visited Scotland. an old woman was
said to have exclaimed, " Gude guide us ! If this be the
coming of an earthly king, what will the coming of the
King of kings be ?" But I never heard that this simple-
minded peasant was accused of blasphemy or irreverence,
and why should Mr. M'Neile be so?
No I The ire of this democratic scribe is kindled by a
single sentence, incidentally brought in, in which he detects
what he calls " that cut away and tarnished thing—the
Divine right ;" and he chooses to take it for granted that
Mr. M'Neile's object is to court Prince Albert by likening
him to the King of kings, instead of merels‘using Prince
Albert's coming, to turn the thoughts to that most stu-
pendous of all events, the second coming of the Son of
Man. Did Mr. Douglas Jerrold never read, " By M
kings reign, and princes decree judgment." "The
that be are ordained of God ?" And is he ignorant that

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Mr. M'Neile has only used a mode of illustration which
his Divine Master has used before him?" "A. certain
nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself
a kingdom and to return." In what respect does this
and our scribe's usual mode of illustrating truth by a
reference to common usages and occurrences differ from
Mr. M'Neile's ? Only think, for instance, of the bad
taste and impiety of illustrating so grand an object as the
Saviour's first coming to seek and to save that which was
lost, by such a degrading similitude as that of an old
woman losing a sixpenny•piece, lighting a farthing rush-
light, and sweeping the house with a broom till she found
it ! Salvator and a sixpenny-piece !*

Sir ; there is nothing we may not turn into ridicule, if
it suits our purpose, and therefore ridicule is of all wea-
pons the most contemptible. But Mr. Douglas Jerrold's
rhetoric is truly of that style which is calculated " ad
caplandum vulgus
In the same number in which Mr. M'Neile is thus at-
tempted to be held up to scorn, Richard Cobden is lauded
as the Man of the Age. Yet what are the comparative
merits of the two ? The one has propounded a question •
able nostrum for procuring a better supply of "the meat
that perisheth ;" the other labours to recommend to the
acceptance of perishing multitudes " the bread of God
which came down from heaven to give eternal life unto
the world." The one has succeeded in getting his views
ad d d • h •,t;

~opted by the multitude, the other has no. ,ne one is
rewarded with a national testimonial, the other is left to
the testimony of a good conscience. We need not go
farther for illustration of those two texts of scripture,
" When thou doest well unto thyself, all men will speak
well of thee ;" and, " If ye were of the world, the world
would love its own."
" In that day," when the second coming of the Son of
Man shall indeed take place (and he has said, " Behold I
come quickly !"), the state of things will he changed.
" Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous
and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him
that serveth him not." VIGILANTIUS.
Mr. M`Neile has published a third edition a' the ser-
mon, (which, instead of being the " most melancholy,
most wretched, and most degrading composition," which
Douglas Jerrold proclaims it to be, is one of those sound,