The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-30 00:00:00

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put into our hands the mo
interesting judicial document to all Christians, th
recorded in human annals : that is, the identical death v
rant of our Lord Jesus Christ. We transcribe the documer
as it has been sent to us.

Sentence rendered by Pontius Pilate, Acting Governor of
Lower Gallilec, stating that Jesus of Nazareth shall suffer
death on the cross.

Caesar,

night and day, and had I worlds to give to obtain you I
would sacrifice them all for the possession of one I love so
dear. Will that day ever arrive? I hope, I pray it may,
and sometimes I am sanguine enough to believe, it will.
Then, oh, then, I shall, we shall be more than happY, I fear
too happy to last long, but again I trust the day will come,
for If I have your arm to lay my head on in the hour of
death, painful as the separation may be, I should calmly re-
sign my soul to my Maker, and my last fond look, faithful
prayer, and dying words would be yours, and should I never
have the bliss of possessing you, if sensible in t
death I shall send for you

dear, or

nd I hope I shall at least be
h you to be with me to
and blessing.
k head-ache. and

better ; you, my dear, 1

at, that will do me

half-past seven ; mind
my dear) but I should

I like better than

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sistence." And by this change Mr. Horner found that the
millowner made a saving of £3 16s out of £6 10s., or near 25
per cent. on the wages he had been paying.
Do we depreciate the use or improvement of machinery ?
We are guilty of no such absurdity : without machinery there
could be no human labour at all, for everything beyond our
naked fingers is machinery ; the needle, the spade, the distaff,
and the plough, are as strictly machines as the steam-engine.
We therefore shall never stoop to flatter the working classes
bidelusive declamations against machinery ; but we feel, on
the other hand, that when new machinery is likely to eject
an established class of human labour, those who introduce it
are bound—in justice as well as charity—to make the change
as gradual and the discharge of the poor people as little afflic-
tive as possible. We think, therefore, that some of the ex-
uberant philanthropy which the millowners of the League
have been expending at " Conferences" and "Demonstra-
tions"iabcut the country, would have been better employed
at home in'alleviating the immediate distresses of their own
people—in delaying rather than accelerating any unfavoura-
ble changes in the condition of the workmen ; and, when
,tich changes become inevitable, in making them gradual
" rapid." One might expect from persons of
city and benevolence, that they would not have
_.,issed, as the Factory Reports state that they do, faith-
ful and efficient servants fully equal to the work on which
they have been employed, but " too old to learn a new
" for the saving that might be made by the substitu-
+ion of "young persons and children." We are not tan-
' such indulgence could be exec-

h to dream th

cised for any long time, or on any extensive scale • but is it
ever attempted? Are these changes ever alleviated even by
the cheap decency of sympathy, real or assumed? We de-
sire these gentlemen to produce any circumstances in their
ement of their affairs or their dealings with their
, to show that they are, or ever have been, actuated