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THE BISHOP OF OXFORD'S CHARGE

In all probability many of our readers are aware that the
Bishop of Oxford delivered, at his quadrennial visitation on
the 23d instant, the charge usual on such occasions. We
should not have alluded to the subject had it not been at-
tempted to be shown that his lordship was very severe in re-
buking the opposers of Tractarian doctrines. We are free to
admit, and it might have been predicted with considerable
probability beforehand, that the leaders of the Tractarian
school have availed themselves of their personal intercourse
with their diocesan to produce the most favourable impression
on his mind in relation to their principles and practices; but
at the same time his lordship repudiates, with becoming pre-
cision, many of their positions, after the example of those
" whose honoured names," he says, " need no praise of
mine, who have unhesitatingly and utterly condemned them."
No doubt these censures are mingled with much personal
commendation, and may possibly be so construed as to show
that the party are " more sinned against than sinning ;" and
whether his lordship has thus done as much as circumstanees
admitted, we do not stop to declare, but he repeats his former
opinion of the ninetieth tract, that "it was objectionable,
and likely to disturb the peace of the church. I thought so
last year. I think so still. I deeply regret its publication."

With respect to other numbers of these publications, his
lordship is not similarly emphatic ; but the following conveys
his meaning generally; and his lordship says, he could not
speak otherwie than generally upon them. It is faint
praise, indeed, and the party are welcome to all the encou-
ragement they can derive from such an episcopal commen-
tary. " I feel also bound to say, that the authors of the
tracts have seemed to me far too indifferent to the discord
and distraction which their actions and-writings have caused ;
thereby hurrying on a crisis, from the acceleration of which
nothing is to be hoped, and everything to be feared. How-
ever, as public attention has been, and is so strongly directed
to the tracts, there seems no fear lest any errors in them
should remain undetected. God grant that what there is of
error in them may be rendered inocuous, that what is good
may be yet further blessed to,the church of God, and that
those who contributed to produce them may in all their future
writings so benefit by past experience, as to keep ever before
them the apostolical injunction, "not to let their good be evil
spoken of," and to " abstain from all appearance of evil."
But perhaps there is no part of the charge which conveys
so strong a denunciation of the errors of Tractarians as that
which refers to RoME. We are truly rejoiced to see such a
denunciation of the evils of Popery as that which has here
issued from the episcopal bench. The bishop says, " There
is an_ almost incalculable amount of error and superstition in
the Church of Rome ; the Tractarians speak of her as ' the
Saviour's holy home.' " But to give our readerg an idea,
how completely opposed in sentiment are his lordship and
those who are so desirous of having one bishop in favour of
their views, we subjoin, in juxta position, an extract from
the charge already alluded to, and another from the British
Critic, the avowed organ of Tractarianism, which bas just
come under our notice, and for ever seeing which we are in-
debted to our contemporary the London Standard. The
bishop, as will be seen on this point, speaks without reserve,
though he advances nothing but what we have been contend-
ing for during a series of years, and on account of which we
have been virulently assailed by the Tractarian party. Where
are " the rebukes which the bishop administers to certain
popular declaimers in our church," to whom a contemporary
yesterday alluded with such unbecoming freedom ? If the
following statement of the bishop is not diametrically op-
posed to the principles and teachings now so prevalent at
Oxford, we have -lost all power of discrimination ; and we
shall not stop to say on whose heads the following dignified
but masterly animadversion falls. Mr. Newman knows as
well as we do. We may premise, that his lordship is speak-
ing of the rising generation, and we now say to our readers—
" look on this picture and on that."
THE BRITISH CRITIC. TAB BISHOP OF OXFORD.

It ought not to be for no- Rome has her eye upon
thing; no, nor for anything them, and adapting herself to
short of some very vital truth; their tone of mind, represents
some truth not to be rejected her creed, not as it is, but as
without fatal error, nor they wish it to be ; she keeps
embraced without radical what is essentially Popish as
change, that persons of name much as possible in the back-
and influence should venture ground, brings what is Catho-
upon the part of " ecclesias- lic prominently forward, and
tical agitators ;" intrude upon so in the end wins them over
the peace of the contented, to her side, because they are
and raise doubts in the minds too impatient to learn that
of the uncomplaining ; vex the " middle way" of truth,
the Church with controversy, the way of the English church,
alarm serious men, and inter- is as far removed from Popery
runt the established order of on the one side; as from Pun-
things; set the " father a- tanism on the other. I must,
gainst the son, and the mother therefore, exhort you, my
against the daughter ;" and reverend brethren, that as on
lead the taught to say, " I all other accounts, so especi-
havemoreunderstandingthan ally on this, you extend at
my teacher." All this has the present time a double
been done ; and all this is measure of care and watch-
worth hazarding in a matter fulness towards the younger
of life and death; much of it members of your flock. If,
is predicted as the character- with me, you believe that
istic result, and therefore the there is an almost incalcula-
sure criterion, of the truth. ble amount of error and su-
An object thus momentous perstition in the Church of
we believe to be the unpro- Rome ; if, with me, you be-
testantising (to use an offen- lieve that she is not altered
sive, but forcible, word) of one jot or tittle of her ancient
the National Church; and ac- character; if, with me, you
cordingly we are ready to en- believe her to be as subtle, as
dure, however we may la- dangerous, and as false as she
went, the undeniable, and in has ever been, as shameless a
themselves disastrous, effects perverter of the truth, and as
of the pending controversy. cruel a persecutor; if, with
But if, after all, we are not me, you feel that any attempt
to be carried above the doc- at union with her, while she
trine and tone of the English is what she is, is to be depre-
Reformers ; if we are but to cated utterly, and that all
exchange a congenial enthu- concession must come from
siasm for a timid moderation, her, and not from us; if, with
a vigorous extreme for an un- me, you have (because you
real mean, an energetic Pro- know her real character) a
testantism for a stiff and ne- deep and increasing dread of
gative Anglicanism, we see her workings and artifices; if,
but poor compensation for so with me, you look upon her
extensive and irreparable a as schismatical and anti-chris-
breach of peace and charity. tian ; if, with me, you feel
The object, important as it that our own church is pure
may be in itself, is quire in- in doctrine, apostolical in mi-
adequate to Ore sacrifice.— nistry, and that if a man will
We cannot stand where we liveas our Prayer-book would

are ; we must go backwards have him live, he will not
or forwards; and it will surely miss his salvation, you will be
be the latter. It is absolutely more than ever zealous to
necessary towards the con- keep those who have been
sistency of the system which baptised among us within our

certain persons are labouring pale. You will leave nothing
to restore, that truths should undone which a sense of your
be clearly stated, which as tremendous responsibility,
yet have been but intimated, which your feelings of devo-
and others developed Which tedness and affectionateness
are now but in germ. And, can suggest, towards preserv-
as we go on, we must recede ing those of your flocks who
more and more from the prin- are most exposed to them
ciples, if any such there be, from the perils of these dan-
of the English Reformation. geroua days.
Ilere one party says that we must " unprotestantize our

national church," and ought " to recede 'more and more
from the principles, if any such there be, of the English Re-
formation ; " whilst the Bishop declares that to " unprotes-
tantize " her would be to make her schismatical and anti-
christian, and nothing can be inferred from his lordship's
language but that he considers the " principles of the Re-
formation" the only principles worth contending for. So
say we, and all consistent members of the Church of England.

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ORANGE BENEVO-

LENT SOCIETIES

The Grand Lodge of the Loyal Orange Benevolent Socie-
ties held their annual meeting, at the Pitt and Nelson, Ash-
ton-under-Lyne, on Monday last. We are given to under-
stand that the district reports were exceedingly gratifying,
having exhibited the increasing growth of church principles
in parts of the country that have almost been looked on as a
forlorn hope ; several Roman Catholics sought admission
into the order, but not having read their recantation, or been
admitted publicly into the body of the church, they were
referred back to the several clergymen who had recommended
them, the brethren considering that no person, having been
brought by the light of the " Spirit of Truth" to eschew
error, and rejoice in the christian privileges of our apostolic
church, should be either ashamed or afraid to testify to the
same before assembled worlds. The result of the brethren's
decision in this respect will be, our having several services
similar to what the Rev. H. WIN:6Ie commenced, in Liver-
pool, in the course of a few weeks. It is really delightful to
see how God is calling his people out of the darkness and
slavery of popery, that worse than Egyptian bondage.
We are gratified also to find that the unanimous wish of
the brethren, for union, has led to the appointment of a de-
putation to the Grand Lodge of Confederated Protestants,
(which will be held this year in Glamorganshire,) for the
purpose of uniting and consolidating their efforts.
At three o'clock the brethren adjourned to dinner, but in
consequence of the multiplicity of business one hour only
was allowed ; it is, however, but justice to Host Barrow to
acknowledge that everything connected with his arrangements
were admirable, and elicited from the brethren unqualified
approbation. Business was resumed at four o'clock ; and
after it was concluded the brethren sat down to enjoy the
" feast of reason and the flow of soul." The following were
the toasts, and the order in which they were drunk :
"The Queen," (with all the honours.) Tune, " God save
the Queen."
" The Grand Master," (purple fire.) Tune, "No sur-
render."
"The glorious. pious, and immortal memory," (in solemn
silence.) Tune " Peace to the souls of the heroe.4."
" The Deputy Grand Master," (Kentish fire.) An origi-
nal song by brother Allen.
Grand Treasurer and Secretary," (Kentish fire.) Tune,
" All's well." _

"District Masters," (heart, pocket, and hand.) Tune,
" They are hearty good fellows."

" Masters of Warrants," (heart, pocket, and hand.) Tune,
" Croppies lie down."
"The Protestant press," (enthusiastic cheering.) Tune,
" Hearts of oak."

" Our lisiting brethren." Air, " Boyne Water."
The brethren, in responding to the various toasts, were
exceedingly happy in some of their hits. An allusion by the
Deputy Grand Master to the difference between the Grand
Master and the Pope on account of infallibility, elicited
roars of laughter and applause. The District Master of
Liverpool also gained considerable credit for the admirable

instructions delivered to the brethren for their guidance when

the procession takes place on the ensuing 12th of July.
There was one point in the Deputy Grand Master's speech
that cannot be too widely circulated, namely, that the pros-
perity of the order solely originated in the discipline of the
society ; and so long as they continued to be obedient to the
officers of their body in all lawful matters, so long might
they depend on the preservation of harmony, and rest assured
of finally obtaining the victory over rebels of every denomi-
nation ; and so long might they congratulate themselves on
the diffusion of those universal principles of charity towards
all who differed from them in politics that it was the highest
aim of the order to attain, and this could only be done by
showing, as a disciplined body, that we acted in joyful obedi-
ence to the Gospel precept, of "loving our enemies, and
doing good to them that lute us and despitefully use us."

Two young women and a young man were drowned on the
Thames, on Sunday afternoon, whilst on parties of pleasure.
BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—We understand that
the directors of this line, finding their long-protracted efforts
to form a tunnel under the turnpike road at Hartford Green,
near Chorley, of no avail, have determined to throw it open.
The attempt to form a tunnel has cost many thousands of
pounds.—Preston Chronicle. _ .

•
FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—OR Saturday night, a fire took
place on the premises of Mr. Hadfield, pawnbroker,
Canal-street, Ancoats, Manchester. The fire spread to an
adjoining beer-shop, and considerable damage was done. The
total loss is supposed to be £l2OO.
THE CREW OF THE SHIP WILLIAM BROWN.—Holmes,
the seaman, recently tried in Philadelphia on an indictment
the Penitentiary.
for manslaughter, in throwing overboard certain passengers
indo
dollars,
boatar
s,
andat sea has
ipma so
nbtehesn,
imprisonmento
in
The prisomer bowed respectfully to the Court on receiving
A p sentence,Aß AttpriLdEl._e_ftTthe e
following court ap p apparently satisfied with it.
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pitaph is on a grave
stone at Atberstone on a child four years old, who was burnt
to death :—" Ohl says the gardener, as he passes down the
walk, who destroyed that_ flower—who gathered that plant ?"
His fellow-servant said, " The master ;"and the gardener
held his peace.

CORRESPONDENCE.

QUIXOTIC ELOCUTIONISTS.
Quousque tandem Jonathanus, abutere patientia nostra!

'0 THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Elocution, English elocution, is a neglected art; it
is so with us, from south to north. The theory may be
otherwise ; but practical delivery may be said to be one of
those open questions, subject to the arbitraries of opinion
and taste, which present a field, at once tempting and safe,
for trading and itinerant pretenders to exercise their calling,
upon dupeable meetings of subscribers to our public institu-
tions.
I have been at the Mechanics' Institution in Mount-street
three times of late, and was one of an attentive but not sa-
tisfied audience, desirous to hear what really new matter the
lecturer, " Jonathan Barber, Esq.," (whose name has been
pasted on the walls, in large letters, and by which it appears
that he was a professor of elocution in the U-nited States,)
had to advance, or say for himself. 1 assure such of your
readers and their families who were not present, that the
lecturer, who is an elderly gentleman, advanced nothing new
or important with reference to the art of elocution, although
he talked what in the Rhetorical States would be collo-
quially called a " tarnation creation in uncommon quantity"
in praise and glory of himself. He is a rig'lir self-advertiser,
and takes extrayordinary pains to make the public disbelieve
what he is about to do, and his manner of doing it; both of
which, however, if people hadn't been foretold to the con-
trary, they would have found to be the very deeds and ways
which he had verbally repudiated ! Seriously, a more prosy,
self-opinionative lecturer has seldom occupied the ear and
time of the public; and this estimate is not confined to my-
self—it is general. He has some ability, and has lectured
himself into a belief that he has discovered a new way as a
Demosthenes-maker, nothing like which has been propound-
ed in this country, or which anybody else could teach but he
himself ! That's modest, is n't it? But you could not but
admire the reckless and boldly-confident tone and manner
with which his views are advanced, were you to hear and see
so as to judge for yourself. If one-third of his audience
knew anything of the groundwork of elocution, as ably set
forth in the works of Sheridan and other departed men, and
of respectable competent and livinc, professors of the science
and art, neither if Brother Jonathan " nor any other adven-
turer of old wares in new forms would have the modest as-
surance to "go a-head "at the Colonel-Crocket rate he has
been suffered to do for three successive nights at the Me-
chanics'. This want of general knowledge of the subject
may be, and no doubt to some extent is, a national reproach;
but is it fair or respectful that a lecturer should take advan-
tage of the neglect, and its concomitant ignorance, to trade
on both, under an overrated expectation that, through igno-
ranee or forbearance, he is not likely to be found out and

exposed? Par be it from me to insinuate that it is my opi- 1
nion that Mr. Jonathan Barber is one of a cruising class of
tolerated and self-important Quixots. lam willing to think
better of him or any professor who comes before the public;
but he has, or he has not, laid himself open to suspicion—a
suspicion which is extending that " all is not gold which
glitters." If what he said is true, either the present teach-
ers of elocution within the walls of the institution should
resign, or have a hint given to them to " clear out ;" and
parents of lads under former " professors " should instruct
their attorneys to bring an action for the refunding of their
fees paid for value professed but not received. I say either
such is the alternative, or Mr. Jonathan Barber should be
made to eat his words as a pretender to teach what he has
yet to learn.
There is no real novelty worthy the appellation in his elo-
cutionary nostrums. Attempts were made in England over
and over again by known, and with modification by obscure,
Quixots, to " demonstrate" and to teach the art of speaking
by the musical scale ! We know that one after another of
such new methods of reviving old schemes were successively
got up, and lived long enough only to be derisively exploded.
The law and will of God, as the common experience of all
the spoken languages of nations attests, have made the
speaking-voice totally distinct from the singing-voice. It
may be all very well for illustration and comparison, that
lecturers point out occasional analogies between singing and
speaking as sciences or as arts; but such analogies are not
only occasional—merely occasional, but are analogies of de-
gree only, not of kind. Speaking is not singing, nor is sing-
ing speaking. Any attempt to blend them, as all of us know,
sets up a feeling and sense of the ridiculous in every one's
ear and breast who listens to it. Recitative and sing-song
uniformly suggest ideas of travesty and burlesque; and, as
schoolboys and grown persons of taste are aware, a sing-
song, whining, canting mode of reading or speaking provokes
disgust, and is treated as offensive and ridiculous.

Mr. Jonathan Barber has some personal pretensions to
illustrate a sound system of elocution, which his mode,
" peculiar to himself !" is not. His voice, at the best, never
has had range or variety of modulation. It is not squeaky,
but is full enough for ordinary purposes of tuition. He is
best when he speaks low and without excitement. When
colloquial and speaking his own sentiments, his tone espe-
cially, and often his accent, betray the Yankee locality which
has influenced his " parts of speech." Upon the whole, he
delivers the language of others in very good English ; but his
action is bad, and savours of that pot-house " free and easy,"
such as the young bloods of every town may see practised by
frequenters of clubs and debating societies, who fancy them-
selves Pitt or Burke, and equal to follow them in parliament.
He saws the air, yea like a top-sawyer; his right terminus,
the while, working up and down in the air like a pump han-
dle. Now, the most finished enunciation of the most manly
organs of speech, per se, is tame, and can only be an inevita-
ble shortcoming if looks and emblematic action are not su-
peradded as appropriate accompaniments. Practically, there
is no ELocutros in the proper bearing of the epithet, un-
less equal attention—equal science and art—equal taste and
judgment—be exemplified with regard to both, in felicitous
and harmonious co-operation, by the party who addresses an
assembly of his fellow men. That this is the true view of the
matter, every observer must be aware who has analysed dif-
ferent

•
between the comparative failure and success of three
or any hundred men who rise to convey their meaning to
those on whom it is their purpose to produce some desired
impression. If effects, whether of success or failure, be traced
to their causes, each class or group of them find their foun-
tain-head in first principles, referable to the play of the feel-
ings, the passions, motives, &c., as made manifest, not merely
by the organs of voice, but by the physiognomy, and by con-
contributions of judicious and tasteful gesture of the whole
body, as so many subtle means to ends which the patriot and
the scoundrel—the noble and the vile—all mankind in short
rth turning to account. Accord-

nd feel to b

ingly, if Mr. Jonathan Barber's pretensions be tried by this
true standard, those who have listened to his ways and
means will be enabled to determine of what estimate they are
intrinsically worthy.
Candour would not justify omitting to mention that the
lPehirer seems to be a member of the Established Church ;

and although he coquets for attgntion to this—whether aware
of his position or not, is irrelevant—yet not only are his il-
lustrations irreverently frequent from the Holy Scriptures,
but his texts and readings must be the reverse of palat-
able or delicate to Unitarian ears, and to others also of his
auditors. He is evidently confined in his resources, and the
poverty of his illustration being meagre in the extreme, he,
as a consequence, is reduced to the shelter of technicalities
that are hacknied, to pet phrases, and even to groups of
words, which he falls back upon as if they had been set up
in stereotype, to meet emergencies. His style of reciting is
also confined, and therefore is inapplicable to the varied re-
quisites essential to a mastery of elocution—which, be it ob-
served, is a comprehensive and subtle art. This is so ; it
being, not matter of opinion, but of fact, that his prevailing
manner of reciting poetry or prose is " mock-impressive."
As a lecturer, too, no less a fault of his is this :—he repeats
himself over and over again, like a man who has exhausted
his stock of drill manoeuvres at the review, or show-day of
his first " introductory."
On Saturday, he was so very tiresome, through overful-
ness of himself, and of a letter of remonstrance which his
injudicious and babbling self-praise had drawn upon him,
that he was called to order by a mild and feeling voice from
the body of the house, " that he had better proceed with his

lecture:"
To conclude, Mr. Jonathan Barber's novelty is no novelty,
except in form or degree. Nil novi sub sole—which, trans-
lated, literally, means there are no new eggs under the hen—
is applicable to any thing he has yet advanced. That he has
invited exposure is clear, and that he deserves it, will be ad-
mitted by every one who is in any way competent to an opi-
nion with knowledge.—Yours, truly,

INDIGNATION

[Since the above was ;n type, it seems that, at the com-
mencement of his lecture on Wednesday, Mr. Barber was
under the necessity of retracting apologetically many random
and wild strictures he had obtruded, when insulting the ac-
tual knowledge of Englishmen with reference to the neglected
but known subject of vernacular and English elocution. This
was as it should be; and, from representations that are cur-
rent, he may congratulate himself on getting off, " slick
away," so cheaply. Much objectionable and puerile matter
was foisted on the ears of his audience ; and such fishings
for pupils as, by palpable implication, attended his anecdo-
tage of some silly speaker in parliament, of whom he " brrot
(as the writer of this paragraph understood him to say) se-
veral " hundreds of pounds " for teaching him how to score
Milton, were disrespectful to the audience, and unbecoming
the dignity of the lecture-room.]

DR. BYRTH AND THE DISSENTERS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-4 perceive that your remarks upon the inconsistency
of the Rev. Dr. Byrth in attending a dissenting missionary
meeting, have called forth the displeasure of several of your
liberal contemporaries. I think, however, that your remarks
were very just ; for I cannot understand how any clergyman
of the Church of England can pray, Sabbath after Sabbath,
to be kept "from all false doctrine, heresy, and schism,"
and yet lend his aid in promoting schism. But especially do
I consider it inconsistent in Dr. Byrth ; for I distinctly
recollect, that at a meeting of the Young Men's Established
Church Society," held some time ago in the Amphitheatre
in this town, the reverend gentleman denounced dissent as a
" monstrous evil." Let your readers, then, judge of Dr.
Byrth's consistency, and of the justice of your remarks upon
his conduct.—Y our's respectfully,

June 2d, 1812,

A CHURCHMAN

The decease of the venerable Lord Manners, formerly
Lord Chancellor of Ireland, took place on Tuesday, the 31st
ult. His lordship was in the 87th year of his age.
DEANERY OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.—OH Wednes-
day morning, Dr. Radcliffe gave judgment in this long liti-
gated cause, and decided that the Rev. Dr. Daly had been
duly elected' Dean of St. Patrick's. The principal point in
the case was the claim set up by his Grace the Archbishop
of Dublin to vote as a member of the Chapter in the capa-
city of Prebendary of Cullen. The legality of this claim
was admitted by the learned judge ; but he contended that
his Grace not having previously taken the oath of canonical
obedience as a preliminary measure, he was not in a position
to exercise the privilege on the day of election. Another
question was raised as to the legality of Dr. Todd's vote,
who claimed in right of being Treasurer to the Chapter.—
The jud_e decided that that was an office suspended under
the Church Temporalities Bill, and that Doctor Todd was
merely a ministerial officer appointed by an act of the Chap-
ter to discharge certain duties in relation to the office of
Treasurer ; but that he was not at the time of the election
entitled to a stall in the choir, or a seat in the Chapter, and,
consequently, not entitled to vote. These two gentlemen
having supported Dr. Wilson, and their votes having been
declared invalid, leaves Doctor, now Dean Daly, in a ma-
jority. Dr. Wilson gave notice of an appeal.
COPYRIGHT OF PICTURES.—The Court of Cassation,
the day before yesterday, decided the question whether the
sale of a painting by the artist withont any condition or
reserve conveyed to the purchaser the exclusive right of
taking and publishing an engraving of it. The question
arose out of the picture of the Battle of the Pyramids,

painted by Baron Gros in 1809, by order of ihe Imperial
Government, but not delivered before the restoration, during
which it was carefully concealed by General Bertrand.—
Baron Gros, however, had granted permission to M. Vallot
to make an engraving from it. The painting was latterly
purchased by the civil list for the museum at Versailes, and
M. Gavard included it in his series of engravings
from those galleries. On its appearance, actions for e!
f mraron
were commenced against M. Gavard by the widow 05 taken
Gros and M. Vallot. These have taken the round„_
fjehree
different courts, with varying decisions, and at were
different de.
brought on appeal before the Supreme C9urtr,e
passes with it
tided that the entire property of the P e
contract-I:and publish en-
on a sale, and the consequent right to 02
gravings from it, unless there be in
to the contrary. The
I,: or bill of
sale any express reserve or
.stip.ulabonith costs.—Galignane s
appeal has therefore been dismissed vi
Messenger•.

LITERARY

NOTICES.

The Scriptural Argument for Episcopacy, including the
Substance of a Lecture delivered in St. Mary's Church,
St. Helens, on February 17th, 1842, by the Rev. William
Pollock, A.M., Incumbent of St. Helens. Seeley, Lon-
don; Perris, and Newling, Liverpool; Griffith, St. Helens.
The extravagant pretensions advanced for some years past
by the Tractarian divines have produced one of the results
that might have been obviously anticipated, viz., that of
bringing sound churchism into danger, by exaggerating the
powers of the church and the claims of her ministry. This

growing evil rendered it necessary for scriptural churchmen
to come forward, and interpose between the church and her
self-styled champions, by exhibiting church principles, in the
accuracy of scriptural completeness, no less than in the in-
tegrity of their scriptural fulness. This we think Mr. Pollock
has done, as regards the question of episcopacy, in the ar-
gumentative pamphlet before us. The history of the series,

of which the present lecture was the first, and what gave rise
to it, is stated in the preface and appendix. We recommend
it for general circulation, and, from the cheapness of the cost,
we anticipate it will be extensively read. The scriptural ar-
gument for episcopacy is faithfully condensed and accurately
stated. The testimony of scripture is fairly examined. The
analogy of the Jewish Church, recognising and insisting upon
three distinct orders in the priesthood, the model of the in-
fant Christian Church—the consecration of the twelve—tbe
ordination of the seventy, by our Lord himself;—subse-
quently of deacons, by the laying on of hands of the Apostles
—the churches of Ephesus and Crete—the seven. Asiatic
churches and the angels of the churches—the seven stars and
seven golden candlesticks—are all clearly and concisely ap-
pealed to in support of the system of diocesan episcopacy, as
it at present obtains in the Church of England. To church-
men desirous of information, who cannot consult the more
elaborate publications, this is invaluable as a manual of scrip-
tural evidence; and again we beg to recommend it. Might
we venture to suggest a similar series to our zealous clergy
in Liverpool?

A Voice from the Town; and other Poems. By John Bol-
ton Rogerson, author of " Rhyme, Romance, and Re-
velry." Thomas Miller, Newgate-street ; Walmsley,
Liverpool.
A book bearing the above title has been left with us. On
the inside of the cover we find inscribed, " Presented to the
editor of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD, for the author, by
Robert Rose." On the fly-leaf is written, " With the
author's compliments." We were greatly puzzled to under-
stand what " Robert Rose " had to do with this book, and
why he should have favoured us with his autograph, his
name not appearing in connection with either the author,
printer, or publisher. On looking, however, through the
work, we find several pages scored down in which allusion
is made to " Robert Rose, Esq. (The Bard of colour)" ; and,
by a mark placed in page 146, our attention is drawn to a
" Friendly Tribute to Robert Rose, Esq. (The Bard of co-
lour)." On further investigation, we find a pencilled cross
on the index against the title of this tribute. Now, really,
this is " coming it very strong"—this is showing a " longing
after immortality" with a vengeance. Here we have a poet
sending us his book for review—making another poet (a
" Bard of colour") his messenger: the author inscribes mo-
destly enough " his compliments " in a single line, while
the messenger flares up with a quarter of the cover, makes
pencil-marks on the index, and takes a further liberty with
our book, by drawing his pencil down page after page. The
book, to say the least, is disfigured by the ink marks, though
those in pencil we can rub off. We shall thank the next
Manchester poet who favours us with his work to send it
through a bookseller or direct, as we have no penchant for
autographs generally, and none for Robert Rose, Esq.'s,
(The Bard of colour,) in particular. This is a strong case of
Ego et Rex meus. Mr. Rogerson writes a poem—incurs
the risk of printing and publishing ; but Robert Rose, Esq.,
(The Bard of colour,) presents it, and writes his name upon
it with all the assumption of being a somebody that has taken
a very prominent part in the business. " Did n't we play
the organ well to-day ? " ." You! what had you to do with
it ? " " Why. I blew the bellows ! " Mr. Rogerson writes
the book ; Robert Rose, Esq. (The Bard of colour) presents
it for acceptance. We consider two liberties to have been
taken in this matter : firstly, in Robert Rose, Esq. (The
Bard of colour) marking our book; and secondly, in pre-

sinning to point out any portion of it to our notice.
But dismissing this as of very trivial importance, let us
speak of the work itself. Manchester is becoming as famous
for its poets as its manufactures ; every now and then a
clever book emanates from it, courting the favour, and claim -
ing the attention of the reading public. This goes a long
way to disprove Byron's adage, that " Commerce fills the
pocket but it clogs the brain." Manchester, the very seat
of manufacture and science, may be " proud of its poets"—
John Bolton Rogerson is one of them—he is not new to U 3.
We read and reviewed, if we forget not, his former work,
and spoke of it praisingly ; we may equally commend this
one now before us. It contains a poem in blank verse,
strongly, spiritedly, and cleverly written. It is divided in
three parts. in which we find many interesting subjects con-
sidered with a depth of feeling and fervour that will enlist the
sympathy of the reader before he has gone very far into the

matter. It is a very fine poem. Of the miscellaneous por-
tion, we most admire " The Poet's Home," it is full of warm
fancy, and shows how charmingly bards can build " castles