The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-19 00:00:00

A branch railway to the City of Worcester from the Bir
mingham and Gloucester line will shortly be submitted to a
public meeting. It appears that it is proposed to make a
branch line from Bredicot to terminate in Sansome Fields.
WESLEYAN METHODISTS.—At the recent conference in
London, on adding up the number of members in society in
the different circuits, it was found that, on the mission sta-
tions, there had been an increase, during the past year, of
4,801, but that, in the home stations, the decrease this year
bad been 2,065. As there has been an increase this year in
Ireland, (notwithstanding their losses by emigration,) of
362—the nett increase of members, under the care of the
British conference is only 2,378.

Ai the present time, in addition to combinations for the
protection of trade, there are others for the attainment of
political objects. The fact ought not to be overlooked, that
large portions of the operatives and labourers of the country
are subjected to the exciting—we might even say, the goad-
ing—influence of an infidel repblicanism, as exerted by one
portion of the public press, which receives so much support,
by the adoption of its political conclusions, from another
portion, which, in its religious principles, professes to be
altogether at variance with it, And for the sake of the
secular parallelisms,—which yet, if examined to their origin,
would be found to require the admission of the principles
which refer to religion,—declarations are tolerated which go
directly to undermine the faith of all who allow themselves
to read them without abborence, and, thus, to become
familiar with them. A paper, of extensive circulation, is now
before us, and shall furnish an illustrative paragraph. The
writer is speaking of Lord Denman's address to the murder-
er Daniel Good, in passing the sentence of the law on him.
He thus remarks on it :

" Lord Denman told the culprit that his crime was unex-
ampled in atrocity, and that it arose from his indulging in his
inclinations for one woman after another; and that, being
tired of the first, he chose to get rid of her for the sake of the
second. This is atrocious, but it is not unexampled in
atrocity. It is a case strictly in point with that of our Henry
VIII., the founder of our religion, the only true religion in
the world. Henry VIII. got tired of his Queen, Anne
Boleyn, and he chose to murder her, and to mangle her body,
and to get another wife. What is Henry VIII. but a Royal
' Good ?' and what is Daniel Good but a vulgar Henry
VIII ? And yet the Royal Greenacre, or the Royal Good,
is the founder of the only true religion in the world. Lord
Denman told the culprit that his crime had been discovered,
though its perpetration had not been watched by any human
eye. The inference is, that the bloody deed had been
watched by the Divine eye ; and a humble thought arises,
whether it would not have been better for the watcher to
have prevented the crime than to have permitted the perpe-
tration—to have enjoyed the horrid sight, and then to reveal
the guilt, and bring the criminal to a painful death. Lord
Denman has a strange idea of a Divine eye—thank heaven it
is not a human eye. Were a mortal eye to behave itself in
this manner, he who possessed it in his head might be justly
hung as an accessary to the murder. Blood is ding-donged-
delled into our ears on every Sabbath, and a church bell
announces nothing without an admixture of blood in it."