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

STATE OF TRADE.

LEEDS.—Our markets during the week have presented no
material variation from those of the last week. The princi-
pal demand is for fancy goods, which do not require the same
amount of labour in the dressing as the broadcloths of for-
mer days used to do ; hence th frequent slackness of our
cloth-dressing fellow-townsmen. The demand for home
consumption is moderately brisk.—Leeds Intelligencer.
BRADFORD. THURSDAY.—WOOL.—AIthough the supply
of wool is not considerable, it is fully equal to the require
ments of the spinners, who are buying only for immediate
consumption, seeing no prospect of any alteration, except a
shade in favour of the buyer.—Yarn : The demand for yarns
is very similar to what it has been for many weeks past—very
steady, but not extensive ; the shippers have not taken as
much as usual at this period. The spinners continue to act
on the defensive, and the continued short time run by seve-
ral of the most extensive houses has had the effect of pre-
venting an accumulation in stocks, or material alteration in
prices.—Pieces : We are sorry we cannot report any better
doings in this branch of our trade. Orleans and merinos are
the least plentiful in the market, and perhaps realizing the
best price of anything offering. The fancy trade is rather
dull, and the sales made are still at ruinously low prices.
MANCHESTER.—The only change to be noted since our
last report is, that more inquiry for power-lown, printers was
made on Tuesday last, and large offers were made by printers
to contract for cloth for spring styles at the lowest rates
taken prior to the turn-out. Two or three things have
operated very unfavourably for our market—viz., the stop-
page of the Bank of Manchester and the variableness of
prices, and fancy prints were neser worse to sell in conse-
quence of the great demand for plaids, which has completely
stopped the sale of most prints, and ceused the failure this
week of three Stockport houses. The country houses, mer-
chants, and printers, as also the wholesale houses in Lon-
don, are all bare of stock, and the least stimulation in the
market will create an extensive demand, for the printers will
be forced soon to commence buying to prepare for the spring.
Two failures have taken place in London ; one an old house
shipping to the East, and the other in the country trade (but
chiefly in prints,) owing to the print houses in this town a
serious amount. We learn that the country house is stopped
in consequence of the failure of the other. Power-loom
printers may be quoted as follow :-27-inch 86's, 4s. 3d. to
4s. 9d. ; 72's, 4s. 9d. to ss. 41. d. ; and extra cloth, ss. bd.—
Manchester Advertiser, of Saturday.
BOLTON.—The aspect of trade is still fathom encouraging.
Counterpanes, as might be expected from the season of the
year, have received considerable improvement in demand
during the last fortnight; prices, however, seem to be sta-
tionary. For muslins there is rather a falling off. Quiltings
and power-loom cloths are rather slack, though not more so
than they have been for a month past. In the demand for
cotton yarns there has been a great falling off during the last
fortnight. The hands in the greater part of the mills are
still working full time, but the stocks are again rapidly in-
creasing. ,The line harvest has done much to prevent desti-
tution from increasing, but it still prevails to a fearful ex-
tent.—Manchester Advertiser.
BLACKBURN.—Trade has again returned to the same dull
and languid state it was in some time ago. The briskness
we had a few weeks since is again at an end. At present
factory operatives have full employment, but it is reported
that manufacturers are for reducing wages, The hand-loom
weavers have had to submit to another reduction in their
wages this week ; 20's, 32's, and 36's jaconets have been re-
duced 2d., and in sonic cases 3d. per piece. There does not
appear to be any change in the yarn market. Calico block
printing
in this neighbourhood is almost at a stand, and ma-
chine printers are not so well employed as they were last
year at this time. In Accrington, Church parish, and the
surrounding towns, the block and machine printing trade is
dull, and hands are not half employed.—lbid.
Both the yarn and cloth markets continue without the
slightest symptom of improvement, and prices may now be
considered fully as low as previous to the turn-out; indeed,
as regards some numbers of yarn and descriptions of cloth,
prices are lower than were ever before known to have been
submitted to. Under these circumstances. the prospect of
approaching winter is but disheartening, notwithstanding the
abundance and cheapness of provisions, for we fear the few
hours' labour may, in many quarters, be curtailed, and that
many will die of absolute starvation, since it is thought this
next will be an early and a severe winter; indeed, his icy
breath has already blown upon us. We have some failures
of importance to announce this week. There has been one,
at least, in Stockport, that of a large spinner and power-loom
manufacturer, said to be indebted to the Bank of Manchester
some £5,000. There has also been a large failure in Glasgow,
by which some parties here will be affected. To-day we hear
of two houses in London having suspended, they also owing
considerable sums here.-21/anchester Chronicle.
LEICESTER.—There is certainly more business doing; but
it is the season for the Leicester trade, and no inference can
be drawn as to the general improvement throughout the
country. The great complaint everywhere is a want of pro-
fit. There is now full employment for workmen. The ope-
ration of the tariff, we hope, will soon begin to be felt ; and
the great mass of the people be in a condition to purchase
articles
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quence Wool is not much in demand;
the price is about 245. per tod, but the growers are unwilling
to sell at that price. Cotton yarn has advanced in value. A
contemporary last week sneered at a recommendation of
ours, and rejoicingly quoted us as an authority that the
growers of wool would be in a worse condition next year;
but we said no such thing. We have spoken, indeed, re-
peatedly, of the increased growth of wool in this county, and
remarked upon the accumulation of stocks in the hands of
the growers; but, above all, of the mixture and substitution
of cotton for wool in the Yorkshire district, leaving the gra-
ziers to draw their own conclusions from the facts we stated.
The worsted mills are working full time, and readily sell
their yarns. Many new branches of manufactures are spring-
ing up.amonest us ; and attempts are making to introduce
warm worsted clothing, both coarse and also of fine kinds,
here and at Nottingham. We hope the experiment will sue
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a great variety of fancy goods; and we believe those trades
are the most flourishing of any amongst us. If the labour-
ing classes should gradually get into a better condition, the
staple trade of the place may be expected to resume its for-
mer activity. Although cattle and wheat have fallen in
price, the consumer has scarcely derived any advantage at
present.—Leicester Journal.

The deficiency detected in the accounts of Mr. Hannay,
the managing director of the late Marylebone Bank, amount-
ing to £17,000, will fall upon the directors exclusively. By
means of mutual concessions, the claims of the creditors, it
is said, will be discharged in full.
A CARGO !—The ship America, Captain Fisher, arrived at
this port on Saturday, from the Pacific Ocean, after an ab-
sence of twenty-six months, with a cargo of 4,700 barrels of
oil (400 sperm), and 45,000 lbs. of whalebone. This is the
largest cargo ever recorded in the annals of the whale fishery
in any part of the world. Captain Fisher is a son of Edgar-
town, a thorough-bred whaler.—New Bedford Mercury.
It may be considered almost certain that Duncan M`Neill,
Esq., the present solicitor-general, will be immediately ap-
pointedghly probable that he will
also become candidate for the representation of Buteshire.
lord advocate, and it is hi
Mr. Adam Anderson, late sheriff of Perthshire, it is ex-
pected, will succeed Mr. M'Neill as solicitor -general.---
Edinburgh Mercury.

SEVERITY OF THE WEATIIER.—WiIIter is visiting us at
a much earlier period this year than usual. On Wednesday
there was a heavy all of snow at Ashton, and the hills on the
east of that town were clad in their wintry garb. The tem-
perature, as indicated by a self-registering thermometer,
placed with a north aspect three feet from the ground, in the
neighbourhood of Chorlton-cum- Hardy, has been remarkably
low for the season. On the 3d October it stood at 22i deg. ;
on the 4th at 21i ; on the 19th at 131 ; and on the 20th at 20.
—Manchester Chronicle.

SHIPMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.

Lieut. TRACEY delivered his second lecture on Practical
Navigation, at the above association, last evening, before a
numerous audience. Amongst those present we noticed Capts.
Chamley, Bissett, Hill, Jilt,. Greaves, Graves, jun., Simon,
Edwards, Davidson, M'Minn, Vero, Scott, Williams, Wil-
lett; Messrs. Ashbridge, Smith, Rowlands, Kilgour, &c.
He commenced by returninc, 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. Shipmasters 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 theiri 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 nextadverted 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 characters of our country, one
of whom had laid it down as ail incontestable truth, that the
evils incorporated in the systelon 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, be 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, had 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 prestnt. 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 kis 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
in his life, he stands exposed to the fire of temptation of no
ordinary magnitude! The admonitory 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,
be has foregone ; for seldom is it, after being once embarked,
that the agonized tear of maternal affection ever glistens on
his cheek, 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 Kamtschatka, 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 time capital 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 Bristql ; 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.— Cambrid.oe 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 be 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 baliff lor half-a-crown.
Hewas 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 of 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 residence, IN o. 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. Nailor, 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
for 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, posed 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. tie 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 Bickham-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 William Larcombe and
John Goodland, entered the field adjoininc, the wood with
guns, and after walking close to- where the pheasant was
caught, they expressed some suspicion as to whether they
might not be 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 blo.d
flowed in a stream from his mouth and nose. Whilst ho!d-
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 Saturday, 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 LIVERPOOL 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! 11 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 weigty 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 his 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 sake, 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 had 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 never to be separated from Him.

Woodside, 19th October, 1842. iGLO CATHOLICUS. AI•

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

beg to call your attention to the leading article in
the Liverpool Mail of Thursday last, relative to the school
question in this town. The editor is very laudably desirous
of preserving unanimity amongst the conservatives, lest their
watchful and wily enemies should take advantage of any di-
vision. But, in endeavouring to secure this desirable ens,
he appears to be much mistaken as to the proper means to be
adopted. He has suffered himself to be drawn into, I be-
lieve, an unconscious imitation of the worst feature of whig-
radical policy—viz., the sacrifice of important principle for
the preservation of place and power. It was the want of
principle and of consistency, the adoption of what for the
moment seemed expedient, rather than the maintenance of
what was right, that deprived the whigs of the confidence of
the country. For a time their " liberal" disregard of what
were termed antiquated prejudices and uncharitable distinc-
tions gave the promise of an era of good improvement, and
they appeared to have discovered the mean between the
extremes of high toryism and the levelling principles of the
chartists. Time has, however, shown their boasted philo-
sophy to be false, and their plans mischievous and vain. The
triumphant majorities in parliament and in the town-council
are a sufficient indication of the esteem in which the "new
lights" are held. It is thus seen that there is in the nation
a degree of strong common sense and sound principle, on
which we may confidently rely, and that we are not drawn
to the necessity of sacrificing the right to the expedient. The
editor of the Mail indignantly enquires—" Will the conser-
vatives never take a lesson from experience?" This ques-
tion may with much force and propriety be retorted upon
those who are travellingin the Mail to " Expediency-hall."
It is true that the whigs and radicals were ejected because
they were haughty, selfish, arbitrary, and urgent. It requires,
however, to be proved that some conservatives are chargeable
with similar crimes because they refuse to leave the school
" question open." Are the conservatives to have any princi-
ples at all, and are those principles to be boldly and con-
sistently maintained, or not? The truth is, that with some,
undoubtedly loyal, and far from whig or radical persons,
religion is classed amongst the " fag-ends and cheese-parings
of principles ;" it is, if we may be allowed the comparison,
what water is to wine, and ought to be regarded as having no
" odour " or " perfume," but as insipid and not suited to
cultivated tastes.

The remarks of the Mail are somewhat extraordinary,
especially when announcing the tearful threat, " We have had
too much of this, and we can stand it no longer." Is this tht
man of peace and expediency? The reciprocity, we perceive,
is all to be on one side. The anti-scriptural party are to he
allowed to increase their forces, and no opposition is to be
made, lest division should weaken the conservative party
through Lighting " for cheese-parings of principles." Is
there no fear, then, that by thus quietly yielding, the schools
may be lost again ? A conservative council may regard
religion as only the lag-end of a political creed. In fact, the
editor of the Mail contemplates the possibility of " church
and constitutional principles" being in danger, and in this
case inconsistently recommends a policy which exactly ac-
cords with that which lie had just before so indignantly
reprobated. He' says, " If, for instance, there were a
doubtful majority in the council in support of church and
constitutional principles, we could understand the policy of
strengthening the majority by removing the trimmer and time-
server." What is become of the sagacious editor's fear of a
division in the camp? In this supposed case there is a seeming
expediency of submitting to an evil which could not be removed
without endangering a conservative majority. In attempting to
remove the trimmers or the time servers, we might possibly
remove the conservatives from place and power. But the
truth appears to be, that the editor is very angry that "Tri-
nity College, Dublin, should presume to dictate to Oxford
and Cambridge ;" and that whatever was dictated from that
quarter would not meet his approbation. Why this is so,
the editor can probably explain ; if we had heard, we should
be inclined to report accurately what had been told us. But
to proceed with what the editor of the Mail " dictates" on
this difficult question of " policy." I find, in reading his
closing remarks again, that he is exceedingly angry. We are
told that " when the majority is powerful and unassailable"
then is the proper time for abandoning the cheese parings of
principle, called religion, and that this contest for " fag
ends will earn for the majority the scorn and indignation en
an insulted public." Let us hope better things of the pub-
lic ; let us hope that consistency in maintaining religious
principles will be more truly estimated by the public than is
supposed by the angry editor. Let us believe that the public
will approve those men who. " seeing the evil afar off," taks
immediate precautions against it—rather than those who cry
peace ! peace ! when there is no peace. If the battle for
scriptural principles is to be fought, it is manifestly better to
fight when we possess a " powerful, unassailable majority,"
than when it is a " doubtful" one. In the one case we can
afford to lose a double-minded man or two, even if they
should " join the ranks of our opponents," and we are pre-
pared for ever manoeuvre of the enemy. In the other case,
in endeavouring to strengthen our position, we should
endanger our very existence. But the editor of the Mail
does not approve of going out of our way to contend
for religion. It is only when " church and constitu-
tional" principles are in danger that we are to show any
disposition to contend. Now, observe the conjunction
"and." The church alone, we might conclude from this, is
not worth contending for, at least such a church principle as
teaching the Bible in our schools. It is only when the pre-
dominance of the conservative party is endangered that we
are to remove the " trimmer and time-server"—" cheese-
parings and fag-ends of principles" again. To contend for
these trifles when you are in secure possession of political
power, " there is in this conduct a savour of meanness and
malignity (to use the Wail's words), which cannot be too
much reprehended." What college is now dictating to " Tri-
nity College, Dublin, Oxford, and Cambridge?" it sounds
like a Jesuit College, is it Maynooth ? Is not this rather the
language of practical infidelity and indifference to truth ?
Can the charitable editor discover no other motive than
" malignity, meanness, and an appetite for discord," which
is likely to influence those who esteem it a sacrifice of sin-
cerity and religious principle to sanction the partial with-
drawal of the Bible from the corporation schools? We
would ask him what sort of persons those are described to
have been—Acts xvii. 5 and 6—who complained to the rulers
saying, "These that have turned the world upside down
have come hither also." But it is time. to draw our remarks
to a close, for few words ought to be necessary on so plain a
question as whether the corporation schools ought to teach
blasphemy and heresy or not. We must pass on to the ap-
palling catastrophe which awaits the town, if the Mail's ad-
vice be not taken. The editor evidently labours under a
morbid fear of St. Jude's—the preaching there appears to
be " foolishness" in his esteem, being, I suppose, one
of the wise of this world. Now, the more absurd the
doctrines and precepts proclaimed from St. Jude's pulpit
appear to the editor of the Mail and other advocates of
indifference to religious truth, the more convinced, will
sincere, and consistent believer of the Bible be that they are
truth, because we are informed that the " God of this world
bath blended minds of them that believe not.' But we must
desist, for we are realizing the prophecy of the editor of the
fearful increase of preachers to be expected. That, how-
ever, we are not uncharitable towards the editor let his own
words testify, for by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Can anything less than the malignity of infidelity and the
blasphemy of a pot-house have dictated such language as
" What will the Town-hall become? Nothing more than an
adjunct vestry-room for St. Jude's—a place of indulgence
for lay preachers—a sheep fold for prayer meetings." It
would be enough to say in answer to language like this,
" Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh,"
did we not know that they who approve of the opinions of
the Mail on the school question, are so totally unconscious
of their infidel and depraved tendency as to be proud of
them as liberal and enlightened. What a horror comes over
the editor when he thinks of the vestry-room of St Jude's—
preachers and prayer meetings. He has not the slightest
apprehension lest the Town-hall should become, by the total
exclusion of religious principles, more like a pandemonium
than a Christian assembly. It is only 11,1`Neile, Fielding
Ould, and St. Jude's that, like fearful spectres, flit athwart
his affrighted imagination, and force him to ask, indignantly,
"What honourable man will aspire to a seat in the Town-
council if he is to be perpetually worried with religious
ques-
tions, and forbidden to think, except through the mind of
the little lion of the day." ' The little lion,'
Gentlemen,
did you note that ? " Have you read my book, in which I
call my adversary Goose ?" Farewell, angry Editor; L too,
begin to have a distaste for " lay preachers," at least,
preachers of infidel indifference. It is to be hoped that few
" honourable" men will listen with patience to one who, in
his anxiety to propagate his own peculiar notions, would
dare so much to offend against good feeling and good
principle as to indulge in low and wicked sneers against
" preachers and prayer meetings." According to the spirit
displayed by the editor of the Mail, religion would always be

out of place. He would consult only the false prophets of
iiberality ; of the others he a ould say, •` There is yet one
man by whom we may inquire of the Lord ; but I hate him ;
for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil."
Allow me to express a hope and a belief that the time of
wavering and expediency is passing away, and that the ma-
jority of public men are now awakened to the wickedness and
uselessness of sacrificing principle in order to secure the
possession of power.
Infidels, heretics, and blasphemers, are insatiable as the
grave; the more you yield, the more do they demand. Let
our government, our parliament, and our town councils, be
bold, courageous, consistent, and inflexible ; and let them
dare to advocate the truth, in confident reliance upon the
good sense and good principle of the nation; they will thus
give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth, courage to
the timid, steadiness to the waverer, and unite the good in
one victorious phalanx which few will have the hardihood to
oppose.

• 1 conclude in the words of Joshua to the captains of the
men of war which went with him :—" Fear not nor be dis-
couraged ; be strong and of good courage, for thus shall the
Lord do against all whom ye fight."
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" TENAX PROPOSITI VIR."
Liverpool, October 22, 1842.

PAID OFFICERS' REPORT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,—ln reading your report of the debate on the Paid
Officers' Report, 1 was very much struck with the fact that
the committee of the Borough Court and Court of Requests
had left their proceedings unrecorded: This fact appears to
have been condemned by themselves in a very striking man-
ner, by their having left upwards of ,10 pages in blank, for
the purpose of doing, although in an irregular manner, that
which after all remains undone. But although . these pro-
ceedings appeared to me surprising, yet, I was more sur-
prised at the ingenuity displayed by Mr. Aiken and Mr.
Earle in their defence. They actually turn the tables on
those who have had the hardihood to condemn this novel sys-
tem of doing business, introduced by the Corporation Whigs
of 1836. They think their Tory opponents must be persons
of not very guilty consciences. What, condemn such an in-
nocent omission, and, still more, suspect that such an omis-
sion had a sinister object ! Oh, horrible ! Know ye not,
they exclaim, that innocence suspects nothing ; but the
guilty mind is full of suspicion ? And thus they would incul-
cate that because the Whigs, when they predominated in the
Corporation Council, professed many virtues, the Tories
were bound to believe them, under the penalty of being stig-
matized as being destitute of those virtues, (and particularly
of charity,) of which the Whigs made such loud professions.
Honi soil qui nzal y pease is their charge against those who
suspected that the Whigs did not practise all the virtues
which they professed.
No doubt when the Whigs came into Corporation power
they followed the example of their great prototype, the Whig
Administration. They exclaimed, " You have seen the
wickedness of the Tories ; now, behold the virtues of the
Whigs; of the no-patronage Whigs—of the no-jobbing
Whigs." Yet, amongst the first acts of the Corporation we
find the dismissal of a Tory treasurer, and the advent of a
Whig treasurer in his place; and, behold, if we suspect that
this exchange was not founded on patriotic motives, we are
assailed by Honi soil qui mal y pease, and we must hold our
peace, or be told we have no patriotism, no charity,—we
have guilty minds.
The professions and the performances of the Whigs have
been a long time before the public, and have been pronounced
discordant. They did not fall short of their predecessors in
those acts of patronage and jobbing which they bad before
held up to public execration.

Mr.-liarie appears to think that he is the personification
of the liberalism of the Corporation : he says Mr. D. Hodg-
son has had a slap at liberalism{ and therefore he will have
a slap at him ; this slap is given in an uncourteous style, ac-
companied with offensive personalities,---a line of conduct,
which, for the credit of the Corporation, I hope will not be
generally pursued.
For public bodies to leave blank pages, instead of a record
of their proceedings, is a dangerous precedent, and cannot be
justified, because " charity thinketh no ill." G.

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—As I wish to become an examiner for the Board of
Shipmasters, I have found out a new method of getting the
latitude and longitude of a ship by taking a back observation
through a fog any time of the day; and as regards seaman-
ship, I can make a splice in a ten-inch hawser any time of
the year in North America ; more than that, I can handle a
ship in a gale of wind without any sails or spars ; and I think
I am qualified for a situation, for I have been three months
to sea.

AN EXPERIENCED SHIPMASTER.
Liverpool, October 21, 1842.