The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-29 00:00:00

Once more, a single word of "a verbal alteration" of Mr.
Wray, which, however it may tell on his ingenuousness, does
some credit to his ingenuity. He talks of his brethren now
but as "Enemies to these principles," and puts the word
"enemies" in inverted commas, as though it had been the
phrase at the first employed by him. Every one, however,
will feel how much this adept in the mitigation of language
has softened down his original phraseology, in which, when he
called for a bold assault on "the strongholds of Puritanism.,"
he simply and broadly declared, in all the power and solidity
of the singular concrete, that this chief town dthe provinces
was "in the hands of THE ENEMY."

But, in truth, I am weary, and so also must your readers
be, of these investigations of morbid anatomy; and I shall
merely draw public attention, in closing, to the following
facts which have been elicited in the present controversy.
They are worthy of our mest serious consideration.
1. It appears that there is a party within our Church to
whom such an appeal as Mr. WraY's Tan be addressed with
good hope of success—an appeal which ...consists of an elabo-
rate vilification of such a body as the Clergy of Liverpool,
(" only one Church" being excepted,) and which asks help
only "on the ground" 'that it is a matter of urgent necessity
to deprive them of their intluence, and drive them from their
position with their people.

2.—We have lived to see the day When a Clergyman of the
Church is no longer ashamed, at the:first secretly and more
bitterly, afterwards publicly and -still most offensively, to
lead this crusade against his brethren. For the first time;
we presume, in the-history of the Church of England, one of
her ministers asks for -aid in erecting to her a new•sanc-
tuary ; not because vice, and ignorance, and sin are rife
around not because of .the prevalence of angry dbisent, or
the. progress of soul-destroying Popery ; but that " 'ma
ENEMY" 'of our-so-called Puritanism may be dispossessed,
that the new church may be a-kind of ecclesiastical battery
froni which to open a fatal fire on ,the surrounding churches.
Truly, that Tractarian told nothing-but the truth who avowed
it as the single object of his party'to "unprotestantise the
Church of England."

Lastly, the Clergyman who does this, and the party to whom
he appeals in doing it, are putting forward all the white pleas
the most peaceful and sanctified. They are pleading for
Daily Prayer.and Weekly Communion ! Against such ob-
jects God forbid that•l should ever even seem to oppose my-
self. But, ohi let those who put them forward see to
themselves how they do so. It is an evil day for our Church
when her holy Love-feasts, her gracious worship, her burn-
ing intercessions, and her loving Litanies are solemnly
prostituted to the worst purposes of party strife ; when they
are openly regat dca but as so many useful expedients of
strategic policy.; when the practice of these things is only
despised and'hated, unless with the accompaniment of every
party badge, and the unfaltering pronunciation of every
party Shibboleth ; and when men deceive their own hearts
by invoking the solemnities of peace, in the very act of
levying war, and that upon their brethren.—Your faithful
servant, WM. POLLOCK.
August 25th, 1854.

COURT MARTIAL PROCEEDINGS

(PROM ME -TIMMS.)

any of our readers ever assisted at an investiga-

Lion before a military tribunal of -this kind ? We will
endeavour -to give them an idea of the same, and of the
form of proceeding.
At one end of the Infantry Barracks at Windsor, in
which the .46th Regiment is at present quartered, and
upon the ground floor, looking into the barrack-yard,
sere is a somewhat long low room, papered with an ex-
ively " seedy " green striped paper—if we remember
bedaubed with stains and spotted with fly-
- This room is the mess-room of the barrack. On
r is alining-table capable of dining sixteen persons
nfort, at one end of which sits .the President, and
les the other members of the Court, seven on
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