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to be contradictions has most likely read a large portion of
that book, and has, probably, a very extensive and superficial
knowledge of its contents. Now, the perfection, the very
Perfection of neutral education, of teaching no positive syste-
?natio religious truths, because all systems are objected to by
'tome one—the very perfection of this, we say, is to give this
Very same superficial, extensive, matter-of-fact information.
It h„ no way of reaching or impressing the HEART. It is
an education of the memory, but, most truly, it is no teach-
ing of the HEART."
The concluding passage of the same article is so
directly confirmatory of our views, as to what should
be the course of the Council, that we gladly displace
our own remarks to make room for them ; and at the
same time we would impress their truth and wisdom
upon some of our own local legislators, whose opinions
upon the subject are, we fear, unsettled.
" Let the council boldly and manfully select some ONE
definite, fixed, and intelligible system of religious education,
and let them select with reference to the intrinsic truth or
falsehood of the systems that are before them ; let them sup-
Port it in a large and comprehensive spirit, and not deal out
their grants in a beggarly system of niggardly economy; let
them throw their schools open, whilst rigorously maintaining
the principle of them, to every person who will choose to
Profit by them ; let them bricg their teaching home to every
man's door ; and they may rest assured that this great gift—
this very great gift—to the people of England will neither be
sPurned nor undervalued ; and that they will do more, by
that one act, to heal our dissensions, to promote brotherly
love and kindness among our poor, and to further, for gene-
rations to come, the cause of Christian peace, of Christian
unity, and of Christian charity, than they could have effe(!ted
by any other single course of action that the art of man could
have devised."

That delectable specimen of Socinianism, Mr. Thos.
Bolton, appears desirous to enact the part of an end of
bad tallow and wick ; and having shone offensively in
the Council, to go out, leaving the offensive odour of
the bad commodity behind him. By the report which
appears in our columns this day, it will be seen that
this gentleman has thought proper to favour ourselves
with a visitation of his, happily abortive, spite. It will
be remembered that in a late publication we gave
entire the Report of the Enquiry of the Paid Officers'
Committee into the Town-hall Department. We
judged, and rightly we think, that such a document
would be interesting and valuable to the public ; and
Certainly the last persons to exclaim against its being
Riven to the world, exposing, as it does, the maladmi-
nistration of the affairs of the borough, are the
liberals"—the PURISTS par excellence—amongst
whom Mr. Thomas Bolton has always figured as a
conspicuous member. The Report in question ap-
peared, however, exclusively, in the columns of the
STANDARD ; and this compound of bitterness and

stupidity forthwith ventured upon the assumption
that it must either have been conveyed .to us by a
betrayal of duty on the part of some of the officials of
the Corporation, or that we must have " stolen" the
document from which we copied.
Now we venture to say, that had we ventured upon
such a charge against Mr. Bolton, as that which he
has the insolence to make against us, we should very
Promptly have been visited, by some Dodson and Fogg,
With an application to us of the power given to thin-
skinned fools by the law of libel. We have too much
Contempt, however, for the present accusation and its
envenomed author to make either of them of the im-
portance which such a proceeding would imply. A
reference to the explanation given by Mr. J. B. Lloyd
will sufficiently inform our readers how we became
Possessed of the report in question; and we can afford
t° Pity and forgive the baffled and frenzied Socinian
for his expiring effort of malice towards us. Poor
Thomas Bolton ! This month will rid us of him; and,
thanks to a tolerably vigorous constitution, we can en-
dure even so great a nuisance until its close.

A BOROUGH RATE !—What would the constituency
of Liverpool think of such an imposition, in the pre-
sent depressed condition of the commerce of the
town? ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
POUNDS to be abstracted by this process from the
Pockets of the leypayers for the purpose of building a
a new gaol. " Monstrous !" will be the exclamation

of nine men out of ten ; and yet that such a propo-
sition is not at this moment being carried out—that
the fingers of the rate collector are not at this moment
in our pockets—we have to thank alone the consider-
ate firmness of the Conservative majority of the
council.
A reference to our town council proceedings will en-
lighten the electors and the inhabitants of the borough
with respect to this expiring effort of the Evans clique
to get hold of their purse-strings. The public will,
no doubt, be able to appreciate the kind of regard for
its interests felt by the men who would thus willingly
adopt precisely that mode of raising money for the ge-
neral purposes of the borough which would press most
lightly upon themselves, whilst the surplus property of
the corporation is left untouched, to be lavished here-
after upon the pet whirligigs of the projecting tribe
amongst our local legislators. Let the electors weigh
well the animus displayed by this attempt ; and when
they are asked, " how have we been benefitted by the
substitution of a Conservative for a Whig Radical
council ?"—they will at least be able to say that the
former is considerate of the convenience and the pro-
perty of the rate-payers, whilst the inordinate selfish-
ness of the latter cares nothing by what sacrifices of
Comfort on the part of the industrious portion of the
community, the money which it is so eager to lavish be
l'aised, provided such money is not drawn out of the
Pocket of Liberalism itself.