The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.

Lieut. TRACEY delivered his second lecture on Practical
Navigation, at the above association, last evening, before a
numerousaudience. Amongst those present we noticed Capts.
Chamley, Bissett, Hill, mnu. Greaves, Graves, jun., Simon,
Edwards, Davidson, M`Minn, Vero, Scott, Williams, Wil-
lett ; Messrs:- Ashbridge, Smith, Rowlands, Kilgour, &c.
He commenced by returning thanks for the honour that had
been conferred on him by electing him an honorary member
of the institution. He had ever, he said, felt a lively interest
in its prosperity, feeling fully convinced that :in its ultimate
attainment the interests of the service were deeply and vi-
tally interested. Shipma;ters had been too long obscured
from that public consideration to which their important po-
sition and confidential responsibilities (even in a national
point of view) eminently entitled them. That this has been
so is a melancholy truth, the result of many causes, among
which may be reckoned their own supineness : that they will
allow it to be so no longer was the fervent wish of all their
friends, who hailed with-delight, as the harbinger of future
renown to the service, the establishing of the " Liverpool
Shipmasters' Association." He then dilated on the gratifi-
cation it afforded him to have had the "right hand of fel-
lowship" extended towards him, and to be accepted as a
companion and a brother in the great national work of nau-
tical regeneration.

Lieut. Tracey next adverted to several positions laid down in
his last lecture, and proceeded to argue from them to shew
that he did not in the present course (whatever he might do in
a future one,) consider himself called to take into considera-
tion the higher branches of any of the sciences connected
with his subject, but, only so far as a certain degree of attain-
ment in each could be considered as indispensibly requisite
in producing an able practical navigator ;—it was, therefore,
his intention to commence with what he considered would
be the best course to pursue with a boy, of seven years of
age, till, at the expiration of his apprenticeship. he should be
deemed worthy of advancement, and the confidence of his
superior officers. In adopting this course, as the one most
likely to prove of practical utility, he was solely guided by the
opinions of the most celebrated charactersof our country, one
of whom had laid it down as an incontestible truth, that the
evils incorporated in the system of a grown-up person could,
at the best, be only ameliorated. When you wish, says he,
to regenerate your country, you must begin by educating
your children. It is true, he said, those who heard him
might not all be bound by the ties of paternity, but theirs was
a moral tie; and a very responsible one too, which should in-
duce every ship captain to look with more than ordinary
solicitude to the welfare of the helpless apprentices com-
mitted to their charge.
Lieut. Tracey then proceeded to call attention to the fact,
that of the thousands of elementary books published for the
benefit of youth, there was not one extant that had for its
object the formation of a practical navigator, commencing
from infancy ; and that, out of the various systems, the coun-
try, as a nation, bad not impressed on any the seal of its ap-
proval. He closed this part of his subject by a very eloquent
appeal to the sympathies of all present. Who can contem-
plate, he said, without emotion the fair lad of promise, docile
and ductile, leaving his paternal roof for the last time, to
hold his occupation on the " great waters " ? How much
does he, at such a moment, stand in need of the kindly
countenance of a friendly captain, when, for the first time
i❑ his life, he stands exposed to.the fire of temptation of no
ordinary magnitude! The admonitoiy warning and faithful
counsel of an affectionate father are no longer his ; and where
—oh ! where—in the hour of his soul's peril, is the fond mo-
ther of his childhood ? There was a magic in the name of
mother, on which he loved to dwell. Who like her can
discern the seedling germ of good in her erring boy ? and,
fostering it with maternal solicitude, who like her hath that
patient hope—so often realised—of beholding the errors of
her child obliterated in the virtuous integrity of the man ?
These preventives to error, and diligent incentives to virtue,
he has foregone ; for seldom is it, after being once embarked,
that the agonized tear of maternal affection ever glistens on
his cheeks to check, by the sweet unction of its tenderness,
the aberrations incidental to his nature and position.—Lieut.
Tracey afterwards illustrated his views by numerous dia-
grams. . . .

At the conclusion the lecturer was loudly cheered, and,
after a vote of thanks moved by Captain Chamley had been
responded to, the meeting separated.

A railway is about to be laid down in the island of Barba-
does.

The favourite pleasure yacht of Napolean has been trans-
formed into a Scottish merchantman, named the Thomas.
SYMPTOMS OF REVIVING TRADE.—During the last few
days, since the new tariff came into operation, about 3,500
loads of colonial timber have been taken out' of bond at this
port.—Sunderland Times.

On Thursday morning the hills which divide the counties
of. York and Lancaster exhibited a covering of snow and hoar
frost, not very usual on the 20th of October. The showers
of leaves that followed both on the hills and in the plains are
stripping the trees of their richly variegated autumnal garb,
and presenting the appearance of a premature winter, after
one of the finest harvest seasons in the memory of man.—
Leeds Mercury.
FISHING BEARS.—During the height of the fishing season
in Kamtscbatka, the salmon, is so plentiful in all the rivers
and creeks of that country, that the bears catch them with
the greatest ease, and will then only eat of the heads and
backs. The Kamtschatdales say that a large bear will spoil
between twenty-five to thirty fish a-night. As the season
advances, and the fish get scarcer, the bears become less
choice in their selections.

Up to the present timeocapital executions in Algeria have
been performed with the yatagan, and our readers will re-
member the horrible scene that occurred there not long ago,
when, from want of skill on the part of the executioner,
several minutes elapsed before the criminal was put out of
his agony. To prevent the recurrence of such a circum-
stance, executions in Algeria are in future to be performed
as in France. A guillotine has been made in Paris, which is
to be sent immediately to Algeria.
THE REGIUS PROFESSORSHIP OF DIVINITY.—We hear
that the following rev. divines are likely to be candidates
for the important office of Regius Professor of Divinity :
—The Rev. John Graham, Master of Christ's : the Rev.
Samuel Lee, Queen's, Professor of Arabic and :Prebendary
of Bristol • the Rev. W. Mill, Trinity, late principal of
Bishop's College, Calcutta, and Chaplin to the Archbishop
of Canterbury ; The Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, Trinity,
and Head Master of Harrow.—Cambridge Advertiser.
Early in the morning of Tuesday a considerable fall of
snow took place at Keswick, and the summits of the moun-
tains were covered. The snow•has fallen fully eight days
previous to the first fall of snow last year, and its early ap-
pearance is considered to he a warning of a severe winter.
A great number of the winter migratory birds have arrived
in the neighbourhood, and woodcocks in particular begin to
be plentiful.—Carlisle Patriot.
ASSASSINATION AND ABSOLUTION.—We have heard o
an instance of a Popish assassin, who had agreed to shoot a
gentleman for thirty shillings, and a bailiff tor half-a•crown.
He:was hung for some other murder; and while in prison,
was visited by the bailiff, who asked him "Why he had not
murdered him" on a certain occasion. He replied, " How
could I send your sowl to eternity, while you had a mortal
sin unabsolved on your head." The bailiff was in liquor
when the assassin had his loaded pistol at his head, ready to
do the deed, and this saved his life. Such is the superior
force of Popish superstition over the power of conscience.
DEATH OF GRACE DARLING.—This heroic and interesting
female expired at Bamburgh, on Thursday, the 20th instant,
in her 25th year. She had been in a delicate state of health
for a considerable time past, and her medical attendant re-
commended her removal from the sea. She, in consequence,
went to reside with a friend at Wooler, and afterwards re-
moved to Alnwick, accompanied by her sister, where lodg-
ings were engaged for them by their Graces the Duke, and
Duchess of Northumberland, by whom the greatest attention
was paid to the amiable girl. Her complaint having assumed
the form ofi decided consumption, and all hope of her re-
covery abandoned, her father anxiously desired that she
should return amongst her family, and she was accordingly
removed from Alnwick to Bamburgh only about ten days
ago.

THE NEW COMMISSIONS.-BANKRUPTCY AND LUNACY.

—On Friday, at twelve o'clock, the new commissioners of
bankruptcy, whose names have recently appeared in this
journal, attended at the Lord Chancellor's residence, No. 25,
George-street, Hanover-square, for the purpose of being
sworn into their respective offices. His lordship arrived in
town at an early hour, accompanied by his private secretary,
and the usual preliminaries having been gone through, the
customary oaths were administered by Mr. Nailer, of the
Crown-office. The appointment of a second commissioner
in lunacy having been conferred within the last few days on
Mr. Winslow, for many years his lordship's private secre-
tary, that gentleman was sworn in at the same time, and in
conjunction with Mr. Barlow (of the Chancery bar), who
entered on the office about a month since, will carry out the
provisions of the act of parliament passed last session, by
which the law of lunacy has been entirely remodelled. Mr.
Richard Clarke (the Lord Chancellor's nephew) has been
appointed to succeed Mr. Winslow, as private secretary to
his lordship. It is understood that these appointments have
given very general satisfaction to the profession throughout
the country, and much good is expected to result from the
efficient working of the two measures. The Lord Chancellor

;who looked extremely well) left town during the afternoon
or his country seat.—Standard.

DEATH IN A CAB.—At a late hour on Friday night, an
inquest was held at the King's Arms Tavern, Kent-road,
London, before Mr. Payne, the City coroner, on view of the
body of Mr. Robert Wall, 47 years of age, who was found
dead in a cab under the fol owing circumstances :—Caleb
Robey, driver of cab No. 1,784, deposed that on Thursday
night, about 10 o'clock, he was engaged by the deceased at
the coach-stand on the Surrey side of London-bridge, and
was directed by him to drive him to the corner of Pitt-street,
in the Old Kent-road. He was then apparently quite well,
and had in his hand two parcels, which he placed in the cab,
and then got in himself. On witness arriving at Pitt-street,
he opened the door for the deceased to alight, when he found
him reclining against the side of the cab, as if asleep. Wit-
ness endeavoured to rouse him by shaking him, but without
effect. Witness knowing the deceased was Mr. Wall, and
that he resided at the corner of Pitt-street, he knocked at the
door, and informed a gentleman, who came out, of the cir-
cumstance, and assistance being procured, he was taken in
doors. Samuel Thomson said, he was in the employ of the
deceased. He lifted the deceased out of the cab, and went
for Mr. Taylor, a surgeon. The deceased was quite dead.
The deceased had had a fit about three years ago. He left
home about half-past seven o'clock that evening to go to
Stoney-street, in the Borough. He was then quite well.
Mr. Taylor stated that he knew the deceased. He had for
seven or eight years been subject to a disease of the heart.
He was of opinion that that was the cause of death. The
jury returned a verdict accordingly. The deceased was a
gentleman highly respected in the neighbourhood. He has
left a widow and four infant children to lament his death.
AFFRAY WITH A POACHER.—CHARD, OCT. 17.—0 n
Thursday last, as Mr. W. C. Coles was shooting in a cover
called Bickharn-wood, the property of his father, a hen
pheasant was discovered to be caught in a wire placed in a
run close to the feed which had been deposited for the phea-
sants. A watch was consequently ordered by that gentleman
to be kept during the night, and a man named William
Boyer and another remained in concealment for the purpose
of detecting the offender. About 10 o'clock two men of

very suspicious character, named WilliamEarcombe and
John Goodland, entered the field adjoining the wood with
guns, and after walking close to where the pheasant was
caught, they expressed some suspicion as to whether they
might not he watched, and without touching the bird got
over into the cover, and had two shots, but escaped without
being taken, although clearly identified. About 8 o'clock
the following morning, Larcombe, one of the men who
were seen the preceding night, came into the wood and
walked direct to where the pheasant was, and was just in
the act of taking it, when he saw Boyer, who was there
alone. Larcombe immediately commenced a violent assau t
on him, and succeeeed in getting him down, and forced Lis
hands within his neckcloth, and drew it until the blood
flowed in a stream from his mouth and nose. Whilst hold-
ing him in this position, he, with violent oaths, declared,
unless Boyer would promise not to tell of him, he (Lar-
combe) would murder him, and it was only by an extorted
promise of this kind that he obtained his freedom. A war-
rant was issued on Sattirday, and both Larcombe and Good-
land were taken and immediately conveyed to Lyme, before
Sir Henry Bayly, Knight, and Mr. John Hussey, county
magistrates, and both prisoners being convicted on the first
charge, namely, for being armed by night in pusuit of game,
the other charges were not preferred. The prisoners were
severally committed to Dorchester gaol for six weeks, at the
expiration of which period they are to find sureties for their
good behaviour for twelve months, or a further imprisonment
for six months.—Dorchester Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE ALBION AND THE ESTABLISHED
CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERIPOOL STANDARD.
The editor of the Albion appears to have a peculiar plea-
sure in endeavouring to depreciate the Established Church,
and knowing her constitution and doctrines to be unassaila-
ble, embraces every opportunity that he thinks affords him
an occasion to lower her ministers in public estimation.
In last Monday's paper he directs attention to a portion of
the Bishop of London's late charge to the clergy, under the
head " Episcopal trifling." Oh, what a charge from the
editor of the Albion! if his lucubrations be the standard of
sobriety and seriousness, how low will the trifles stand?
I cannot sufficiently express my contempt for the man who
could thus comment on a charge delivered by a prelate of
unquestioned ability and learning, to the whole body of the
metropolitan clergy on a most solemn occasion, and, doubt-
less, composed under a deep sense of his responsibility.
By far the greater part of his lordship's charge is taken up
with a consideration of some of the most weighty questions
that can occupy the human mind ; having discussed them
with the most serious attention, and with the greatest ability,
he proceeds to allude to many circumstances of minor im
portance having reference to the celebration of divine ser-
vice, on which a difference of opinion existed in many quar-
ters, and a consequent want of uniformity in public worship.
His lordship did not, nor will any well-ordered mind,
think any matter unimportant that has reference to the mode
of worshipping God—that Being who has stamped on the
mounted parts of hit creation the same proofs of omnipotent
wisdom and design that he has manifested In the construc-
tion of a world.

But his lordship discriminates between points—essential
and non-essential. It would, indeed, have been worse than
trifling to have placed these questions on a par with those
blessed truths which are the Christian's spiritual life and
food.

His lordship's allusion to them was with the endeavour to
produce more complete Christian union, and to comply with
the injunctions of the Apostle, " Let all things be done de-
cently and in order." How different the spirit of that body
to which I believe the editor belongs, which made similar
questions a ground from whence to disturb the unity of the
church, and schismatically to separate from her communion,
its ministers—introducing such points into their discourses,
not for peace sakq, but to indulge in bitter invective against
the church. How often has Christian love and charity given
place to a lecture on the abominations of a surplice, and in a
similar spirit do many of their descendants in the present
day speak of the church a "destroying more souls than it
saves." "As a polluted sink of iniquity fit only to be cast
into hell." Oh ! what sentiments to be uttered by any as-
suming the character of Christian teachers. And spoken
too against a church that in every authorised formulary holds
the purest and most Scriptural doctrines, and challenges the
most scrutinising comparison of her profession of faith with
Holy Scripture.
The same editor lately bad a leading article on the subject
of the dissension within the church, and displayed a not very
Christian joy in speaking of her divisions.
Good, this, from a dissenter, a member of a body which
would appear to glory in division, comprising almost every
variety of opinion, their only bond of union, hostility, to the
Church of England.
He would indeed be sanguine who expected here perfect
unity in the visible church. To expect this would imply
forgetfulness of the wiles of our ever active enemy, who never
ceases his efforts to harass and disturb the Church of Christ,
and either by assaults from without, or divisions within, to
wound what he cannot destroy.
Alas the seamless robe of Christ is not an emblem of the
external church, but still I trust that the English church will
never have the mottled aspect, which the dissenting com-
munion exhibit.

May the time soon come when all who love the Lord Jesus
Christ in sincerity will see the sin of causing divisions, and
consider that Christ has appointed but one church, the
outward visible church, one in external communion, con-
taining within it that one redeemed church united to Christ
by living faith, and sever to be separated from Him.
ANGLO CATHOLICUS.
Woodside, 19th October, 1842.