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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-24 00:00:00

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Divine service commenced a few minutes past eleven o'clock
by the children singing the 100th Psalm..
_Mr. M. Maybrick

,bieinsiTunient the infantile choir

sang the praises of their Maker with peculiar impression and
effect. Prayers were then read by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks,
and the " cliaunts," as well as the hymn before and after the
sermon. were sung by the children.
The Right Rev. Dr. Terrott, having ascended the pulpit to
deliver the sermon, selected for his text the 14th and 15th
verses of the 3rd chapter of St. Paul's 2nd Epistle to
Timothy But continue thou in the things which thou
hast learned, and hast been assured of, knowing of whom
thou hast learned them ; and that from a child thou bast
known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise
unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."
The Right Reverend Bishop commenced by saying, that
as he had come from a considerable distance to address them
on this occasion, as he was totally unknown to them, and as
he was not, strictly speaking, a member of our national
church,—it would be proper, before entering upon the sub-
ject of his discourse, to inform them, in a very few words,
what he was, and by what authority he undertook, as a
minister of Christ, to preach the word of God in that place.
Taking, then, for granted that they believed as he did, that
the true church not only ought to be, but must necessarily
be, one over the face of the whole earth, he must regret that
circumstances forbid them from joining in the service of the
sanctuary with any portion of their fellow-creatures, and
they must rejoice.when circumstances were so changed that
they could, fully and without any sacrifice of conscience, join
in religious service with those from whom they were formerly
divided. Now, those with whom they could conscientiously
join, were those who, in their public service and their eccle-
siastical constitution, continued in apostolical doctrine and
fellowship, and who used all the means of grace appointed
by Christ himself and his inspired apostles. This was not
the time to examine why we had stood aloof as mem-
bers of the holy Catholic Church ; he would rather direct
attention to the history of his church as fellow-members
with ourselves of the one body of Christ. If we were right
in calling ourselves an integral portion of the one true
Catholic Church, it was impossible that those who were so
one with ourselves in all spiritual matters, should be wrong.
He alluded to the reformed Catholic Church, under episco-
pal government in Scotland and the United States of

•
America ; the former of which, two centuries ago, and the
latter, half a century ago, received their orders from the
Church of England, and had adopted the English articles

and that ea tended to the whole of their discipline and tl

ceremonies, and all the essentials of church government—
one and the same with the Church of England. Of the
former of these, the reformed Catholic Church in Scotland,
which was especially under episcopal government, it was
his privilege and comfort to be a member and minister.
From this short account they must see that there never
was any reason why the members of that church should
not, when in England, seek to carry this into effect, nor
why the members of the Church of England should not
receive them fully, as brothers ini Christ. But whilst
we had always a brotherly feeling of this sort with re-
gard to all lay members, there existed, till very lately, a legal
impediment to our receiving clergymen and admitting them
to the exercise of any spiritual function with our clergy. Two
years ago that impediment was removed, both as it affected
our Scotch and our American brethren ; and it was under
that relieving' act proposed in a catholic and fraternal spirit
by the spiritual head of our church, and most readily acceded
to by all the branches of our legislature, that he, as a Scotch
minister; with the sanction of our own venerable diocesan,
now preached unto them the words of the gospel of reconcili-
ation. And lie came before them, not as a volunteer, but at
the request of our immediate local pastors, to plead the
cause of general education in this great metropolis, under the
guidance, and according to the doctrines and discipline of the
established church. _ _

auction,
_the right rev. bishop pro

ceeded to the consideration of the subject before him.. He
remarked that it was a peculiar feature in English polity that
that the general government meddled as little as possible with
the internal arrangements of society ; and that many mat-
ters—some material, and some moral—which in any of the
continental states would be considered as under the direction
of government alone, were here left entirely to the good will
and the good sense of every local community. Which of the
two systems was the best, whether they had too much and we
had too little of the interference of government, it was quite
was quite unnecessary for him in that place to inquire ; but
whilst, as far as we were concerned, this system left a great
deal to individual benevolence, it imposed on us a very deep
responsibility. On this ground the right rev. doctor esta-
blished his argument that we were bound, if we provided the
means for education, to see that it should be one founded
upon true religion. He illustrated this grand principle in a
variety of ways, each tending to impress it strongly on the
minds of the congregation; and he concluded an able, elo-
quent, and most convincing discourse of about half an hour's
length, with a few words of impressive exhortation to the
assembled scholars.
The collection at the doors amounted to £74 Os. 6d.
The following is an account of the number of children now
in the several schools which walked in the procession :

SCHOOLS

I DAILY

INFANTS.I SUNDAY. Grand
Girls; Boys, Girls BoyslGirlsl Total.

Blue Coat Hospital .... 250 100' ..
Female Orphan School.. .. 44 . .
Old Church
Ilunter-street
St James and St. Philip's 130 80, ..
'Welsh School
St. Paul's
St. Mark's l2O 135 -GO
Everton and Kirkdale
Mill-lane School
St. Simon's 138 • •
Edge-hill 97 70 84
St. Clement's, Windsor 72 76 40
St. Andrew's l4O 130 70
North Church of England 343 165 125
South Ditto 155 191 170
St. Bartholomew's
St. Augustine's l5O 125 60
St. Bride's 196 170 110
St. Jude's
St. Catherine's
St. Luke's 75 45 53
Christ Church
St. John Baptist
All Saints
Mariners. .. 46 ..
St. Barnabas
West Derby Union With 66 50 ..
Liverpool Ditto 260 11Q 70

1101 9'

70 12 ..
..I 105 10

901 201 31
30 69 4

. I GO 171
ill 15 Z

. 260.
. 210
. 474
10 515
41 455
40
6 211
'0 368
n 304

62 25
85 30
134 ..
70 40
40 I 0
60 12

761 201
86 11:1

'Ol 283
;0 447

27 .
114 80 1C
111 25

0 515
7 402
200

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13811 7021

There is an increase this year, over la
children.

JO 838
GO 613
, . 354
46
130
. 116
490

PHRENOLOGY

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Lst, of eleven hundred

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
—Having received a copy of a challenge which I am
informed is to be inserted in the Liverpool papers, I beg to
offer a few remarks upon the same through the columns of
your highly esteemed journal. The gentleman who chal-
lenges me is Mr. J. Q. Rumball, whom I met in public dis-
cussion on the same question in the city of \Vorcester, about
three years ago. The result of that discussion was perfectly
satisfactory to myself and those who thought with me, that 1
am a little surprised after this lapse of time to be again called
upon by Mr. Rumball to defend my views on phrenology.' I
beg, however, to say, that if Mr. Rumball will appoint a
committee of gentlemen to confer with a committee appointed
by me, I am quite prepared to place myself in their hands,
and act in accordance with their determinations. I never
yet flinched from discussion with any man. where I conceived
the truth was at stake, nor am I disposed to do so now, al-
though Mr. Rumball, as a medical practitioner of some
years standing, has greatly the advantage over me in a ques-
tion of this kind. I look upon phrenology, in principle, as
thoroughly unsound, and will prove it so in the face of any
man living; in practice I consider it most mischievous,
leading directly to Socinianism and infidelity. Combe's
Constitution of Man, in a cheap form, has now had a circu-
lation of 53,000 copies, and is now advertised as a school
book 1 than which I never met with a more insidious admix-
ture of Socinianism and infidelity in the whole course of my
experience. Ido not hesitate to say, from close observation
extending over twelve years, that the Constitution of Man
has led to more scepticism among the middle and upper
classes than any other single book in circulation.
Your insertion of this communication will greatly oblige
me, and asslta, I trust, to place me right with the public in
relation to Mr. Rumbold's challenge.
1 remain, Sir,
Your obliged obedient Servant,
JOHN BRINDLEY.
Chester, Tune 21st, 1842.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIRS I received a short time ago a small case of Cham
pagne, as a present, from abroad. Can you inform me,
it
your paper of to-morrow,if, on its landing, and the landing
waiter examining the same, he (the landing-waiter) is autho
rised to drink, and give to those about him, the whole con
tents of one bottle?—Yours, obediently,

Liverpool, June

3d, 1842

A SUBSCRIBER

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[The landing-waiter was notjustified in tippling abottle of our
subscriber's wine. He should bring the matter before the
Surveyor-General. Had the man been a tied4rait-er,he
would have been bound to stop and drink it.—ED• L. .

The sale of the Strawberry-hill prints concluded on Sa-
urdaY, realizing in the whole the sum of X 1,400.
THE /1
_ XFORD " TRACTS FOR. THE Trioxs."---The Rev.
Francis T. Hill, of Cheltenham, who pledges himself for the
truth of the assertion, says that " The Roraish Priests in
Ireland are busily circulating the Tracts for the Times
amongst their flocks, as a proof that the Church of England
is fast approximating to the Church of Rome.