The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-15 00:00:00

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ADDRESS TO THE LION OF ENGLAND,
ON THE RECENT ATTEMPT TO INTRODUCE POPISH INNO-
VATIONS INTO THE NATION AL CHURCH.

Come, rouse thee, bearded monarch, from thy ocean-girded
den;
Silent too long has been thy roar, now let it peal again ;
Chill to the hearts of all thy foes that voice shall send once
more,
And drive them from the beetling cliffs which circle Albion's
shore.

They come ! but not those gallant hosts, proud Gallia's
gilded pride,
Who chronicled on Waterloo her glory as they died—
They come! not fierce Hispania has sent them o'er the deep,
In turret-like Armada ;—nor from the summit steep
Of Himmalay, nor far away from China's ancient wall,—
They come the hearths and altars of our country to enthrall.
Ho f to the van, old England's strength ! rouse, yeoman,
from thy rest,
And thou, the son of noble sire, whose old baronial crest
Has come to thee front Agincourt and Cressy, tented fields,
Ho! high and low, speed young and old—now woe to him
that yields!
'Tis not the crown, that glorious crown, your hundred—mo-
narch's pride,
That peril'd is, altho' for it each one had gladly died ;
Nor e'en your homes, your happy homes, where lovely virtue
dwells
To guard whose heaven-encircled peace each bosom nobly
swells :
Still dearer is the gnerdon now, more holy still the call
Which bids you to the battle-field, it is your Faith, your all!
Now, Britain, to thy Temple see! it stands upon thy hills,
Its shadow is thy safety guard, Jehovah's presence tills
Its walls, cemented by the blood of all thy martyr'd sires,—
Its beacon-light, pure Faith's bright torch, enkindled at their
fires.
Guard, England, guard thy Temple well! false sons are in
its bound,
And Rome's embattled legions have its walls beleaguer'd
round.
Strange voices come at eventide adown yon sacred height,
Not heaven's accustomed psalmody; nor is that dingy light
The holy flame which brightly burned within those sacred
walls,
When our own RIDLEY trimmed the flame which lit these
• holy halls.
Those are the sounds of enemies ! the mumming Mass of
Rome,
And Superstition's deadly voice from England's Temple
come,

God's Holy Word, our charter-right, our guide, our stay,
our all,
Before Tradition's meanless page, is hidden slow to fall !
Rome's myrmidons are thronging fast around each holy pile,
And, locust-like, seem covering the green sward of our isle.
And where are those whose high behest is watch and ward to
keep,
With mitred brow and crozier'd hand, o'er Christ's most
precious sheep
Where are they ?—rouse, ye shepherds, rouse, ere yet too
late it be ;
Shame, shame! the wolf is at the fold—will ye like hirelings
flee?
Oh! will ye bask in silken bow'r, or rest in lordly hall,
While holiness and Gospel truth aloud for succour call?
Thanks, gracious Heaven, it is not so !—thy servants silence
break,—
Good CHESTER leads the glorious charge, and follow in his
wake
High Canterbury, Exeter, Ripon, and Lincoln too,
Old London's shepherd, Chichester, and others brave and
true.

While, far away from Erin's shore, the noble Armachan
And Dublin's prelate lift their voice, nor fear the face of man.
Up, guardians all ! and lead the way : truth's champions
ready stand
To shield the faith, and far away drive error from our land.
Come, rouse thee, England's Lion, then! no monkish cowl
may hide
The dastard Roman from thy frown—he will not, dare not
bide.
The thunder of thy waking roar true sons shall rally ronr.l.
'Till not a hoof of Popish herd within thy shrine be found.
But hark ! " a sound of going" on the lofty hills is heard
Is it the tempest's hidden might that on their tops is stirred ?
No! 'tis the coming of Hts foot—the Lord of floats, 11 is
name:

Elie ear has heard His people's prayer; and, as of old, he

came
To be their " Strong Deliverer," and pontiff-chain to burst,
So comes He now to save them from its bitterness accurst !
Who follows in His glorious train ? Ho, PROTESTA.NTS,
arise !
Unfold your banner of the Cross, and bid it kiss the skies!
There plant it in the solid rock, where stands your church,
for aye ;
Be Christ your King, kupreme and sole! Amen ! amen!
we say.

CRUCEAItmiGER

The Right Honourable Henry Ellig, formerly ambassador
to Persia, is mentioned as the probable successor to Lord
Elphinstone, at Madras.

Viscount Seabarn, son and heir of the iNfarquis and Mar-
chioness of Londonderry, will attain his majority on Tues-
day, the 26th of April.

Yesterday, SUDDEN
aD n iErli FROM Dial ASH Or THE HEART
q ' uest was held before Mr. Statham, deputy
coroner,
on View of the body of Mar) Cannon. rlic de-
ceased, who was 75 years old lived with ber son, a stone-
mason,
thed a
Ifason, in a cellar in Henderson-street, Toxteth-park. Mary Hale,
y deceased morning's
Hale, a married woman, who lived opposite, said that on
bnattou
,cietlilacro,nsequence of a girl calling, she went
and found her lying upon the ground
upon her face. A little blood was flowing from her forehead,
and some also got into her mouth. She never spoke, but
breathed once, and almost immediately died without a
struggle. The son of the deceased had left her getting her
breakfast about balf-past ten on Saturday morning, and she
then appeared to be quite well, and did not complain of any
ailment. Mr. James Bruce, surgeon, said he happened to
be passing along the street on Saturday morning, and seeing a
• crowd collected went into the cellar, and found the deceased
dead. He made a post mortein examination of the body,
and found the cause of death to have been disease of the
us, tawnod is not undeserving'' o-
heart. The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
'VOYAGe Ezra
red
very singular '
circums
stance,
letter now before . 0 at Ctiddalore it
urred a week or
cord. A boat with three
permanent re . . . . burmese on board
describe7ihinid:
a short time since, blown in upon the coast . was,
of about ten metes from Cuddalore. at a distance.
These
they had been out on a fishing excursion men stated, that
when a typhoon suddenly came on i
straw rope by which their boat n the night and broke the
were immediately blown out to was made fast, when they
only rice for three days on h sea. They had, they said.
days, for they drifted about oard'
and for the remaining 17
nothing more than for a period of 20 days, they had
which this ordinary rainwater to subsist upon. The boat in
long, made of a single trY voyage was performed is 46 feet
originally many more in ee, and it is surmised that there were
hunger, or diy.
. may even I iduals on board who perished from
their companions. have been sacrificed to the necessities of
the three men who This, however, is mere conjecture. Of
and a second withinreached our shores, one died shortly after,
in a few days ; the only survivor is, how-
ever,gnod h
to have ealtli and excellent condition; not appearim:
suffered at all by the unprecedented hardships he has
Undergone
been at The distance this boat has drifted must have
leastther._,_,. 1000 to 1200 miles, probably, indeed, much fur-
Al atu paper,