The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

there no compromise
it? Was t'

ere no c?"', ill;

he Collegiate Institution itself t
could not carry on wit,Pti
vould be the state of
on ? God forbid ..4

how many
.ed bv concession and C0':"0
w Irish -agitators and cbartibe
would have been the state of t 0
on to our present troubles, the Rcm3B,4
nad not passed, or the reform' bill had ere
o long as differences in opinion lasted, til
lon somewhere; and he did not th;

k yid
• -ng to his proP°'al
ble pain and hesitation in interforibeo%
acknovvleged that it was with He
de any proposal of this sort. test
... those who surrounded him with the gr,e3; of
; but looking at the question in a municipal POlll4
ew, he really could not arrive at any other conclusion, Ice
he had come to it honestly and fairly ; they must folk
him—he hoped •they would forgive him—they might t'llp
could not come to any other cone r,
Dr. Tete,.
to ss'i;
ng, was pleased
sot
and those who agree,' to
h
)ecause they had not give, ice
Now he must beg Je-
be•

in this matter, and h
greatest difficulty he t

sion. There was a gentleman—it
shall—who, at a late Protestant m(
that he (Mr. G. H. Lawrer
him had got into their troubh
the subject sufficient cot

as the Re

to differ from that reverend gentleman, and say, it via.„s;ibt
cause they had given it too much consideration. They ":-6or
say, perhaps, that he allowed the situation of those, .
ite
children to have too deep an impression upon his roin°:o
had a morbid sensibility upon the subject, they might shad
but still it existed, and he could not get rid of it. If hetbst
contented himself with the common-place argumentcer,
because the reformers had chosen, when they were in Ptk,fts
to exclude the Church of England children, the conservatiaje
must, now that they were in power, do the same, and exc
the Roman Catholics, he might have swam with the stillelt
and not have given a mere negative vote. But he he", the
that, in a religious point of view, he could not meet
question in that way. Then again, there was a gentleloo
who was constantly reminding him of the equivocal Pllsitee•
he occupied in that council; who told him he must be
e
minded of the position in which he stood, and threntlijtbe
him with the fate that awaited him in the ward be bed He
honour to represent. (" Bravo," from Mr. EARLE.)
regretted that he should have any difference with the body
he had the honour to represent, but he had taken 85ea
deal of pains to explain to them, that if they were dissat' it
his seat was at their disposal in November last, as %TR.:lusty,
was in November next. He was always ready to do his.'„"ut
but it must be done with honour and independence ;
that he should feel himself as nobody, and he did trusty be
this subject was settled, either one way or the other,oi.
should not be looked upon as the great heretic he wast?ft be
dered at present. In conclusion, he begged to say, ti""„•oo•
must do what he considered to be his duty on this oeeales
He, therefore, called upon the council not to lend thanslose
to extremes, to beware how they joined themselves to t 0•
who deemed the mere negation of Romish error more ess'oo
tial than the propagation of christianity ; he called aro
them to be charitabl, and support some such system as to
had suggested ' • and above all things he called upon Wald.
"be just, and fear not !" He begged to move the ame
ment. A thtil
Mr. BLACKBURN spoke 'o order. He apprebende- be
the proposition just made by Mr. Lawrence could 13°.„," it
entertained, without notice having been given. To 0
appeared to be a substantive and distinct motion, ul3;',
special subject: notice of it, therefore, ought to hav"
given

He agreed with Mr. Hornbv, that the " ma°ifes7e'
was quite out of place ; and he considered also that the
sent proposal was informal in itself, for it was brought cod.
ward in the shape of an amendment when it was no alopOr
ment at all, and it raised the very question (though, Per_bicb
not intentionally) which would supersede a motion of
he (Mr. Blackburn) bad already given formal notice.
, -Nes that ,"

At if there was 11° Stye
Eaucation Comrnitteetibere
ntormal ; but as the system was_ Avg

~.11r. H. LAWltis submitt
declaration as that made by tb
amendment would be

i certainly competent for
3nt upon it. Jn fact, if one