The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-10-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIB,—I beg to call your attention to the leading article in
the Liverpool Mail of Thursday last, relative to the school
question in this town. The editor is very laudably desirous
of preserving unanimity amongst the conservatives, lest their
watchful and wily enemies should take advantage of any di-
vision. But, in endeavouring to secure this desirable end,
he appears to be much mistakn as to the proper means to be
adopted. He has suffered himself to be drawn into, I be-

lieve, an unconscious imitation of the worst feature of whig-
radical policy—viz., the sacrifice of important principle for
the preservation of place and power. It was the want of
principle and of consistency, the adoption of what for the
moment seemed expedient, rather than the maintenance of
what was right, that deprived the whlgs of the confidence of
the country. For a time their "liberal" disregard of what
were termed antiquated prejudices and uncharitable distinc-
tions gave the promise of an era of good improvement, and
they appeared to have discovered the mean between the
extremes of high toryism and the levelling principles of the
chartists. Time has, however, shown their boasted philo-
sophy to be false, and their plans mischievous. and vain. The
triumphant majorities in parliament and in the town-council
are a sufficient indication of the esteem in which the " new

lights" are held. It is thus seen that there is in the nation
a degree of strong common sense and sound principle, on
which we may confidently rely, and that we are not drawn
to the necessity of sacrificing the right to the expedient. The
editor of the Mail indignantly enquires—" Will the conser-
vatives never take a lesson from experience?" This ques-
tion may with much force and propriety be retorted upon
those who are travelling in the Mail to `• Expediency-ball."
It is true that the whigs and radicals were ejected because
they were haughty, selfish, arbitrary, and urgent. It requires,
however, to be proved that some conservatives are chargeable
with similar crimes because they refuse to leave the school

" question open," Are the conservatives to have any princi-
ples at all, and are those principles to be boldly and con-
sistently maintained, or not? The truth is, that with some,
undoubtcdly loyal, and far from Whig or radical persons,
religion is classed amongst the " fag-ends and cheese-parings
of principles ;" it is, if we may be allowed the comparison,
what water is to wing, and ought to be regarded as having no
" odour " or " perfume," but as insipid and not suited to
cultivated tastes.

The remarks of the Mail are somewhat extraordinary,
especially when announcing the fearful threat, " We have had
too much of this, and we can stand it no longer." Is this tin
man of peace and expediency ? The reciprocity, we perceive,
is all to be on one side. The anti-scriptural party are to be
allowed to increase their forces, and no opposition is to be
made, lest division should weaken the conservative party
through fighting " for cheese-parings of principles." Is
there no fear, then, that by thus quietly yielding, the schools
may be lost again ? A conservative council may regard
religion as only the fag-end of a political creed. In fact, the
editor of the Mail contemplates the possibility of " church
and constitutional principles" being in danger, and in this
case inconsistently recommends a policy which exactly ac-
cords with that which he had just before so indignantly
reprobated. lie says, " If, for instance, there were a
doubtful majority in the council in support of church and
constitutional principles, we could understand the policy of
strengthening the majority by removing the trimmer and time-
server." What is become of the sagacious editor's fear of a
division in the camp ? In this supposed case there is a seeming
expediency of submitting to an evil which could not be removed
without endangering a conservative majority. In attempting to
remove the trimmers or the time servers, we might possibly
remove the conservatives from place and power. But the
truth appears to be, that the editor is very angry that "Tri-
nity College, Dublin, should presume to dictate to Oxford
and Cambridge ;" and that whatever was dictated from that
quarter would not meet his approbation. Why this is so,
the editor can probably explain ; if we had heard, we should
be inclined to report accurately what had been told us. But
to proceed with what the editor of the Mail " dictates" on
this difficult question of " policy." 1 find, in reading his
closing remarks again, that he is exceedingly angry. We are
told that " when the majority is powerful and unassailable"
then is the proper time for abandoning the cheese parings of
principle, called religion, and that this contest for " fag
ends will earn for the majority the scorn and indignation 01
an insulted public." Let us hope better things of the pub-
lic ; let us hope that consistency in maintaining religious
principles will be more truly estimated by the public than is
supposed by the angry editor. Let us believe that the public
will approve those men who. "seeing the evil afar off," take
immediate precautions against it—rather than those who cry
peace ! peace ! when there is no peace. If the battle for
scriptural principles is to be fought, it is manifestly better to
fight when we possess a " powerful, unassailable majority,"
than when it is a " doubtful" one. In the one case we can
afford to lose a double-minded man or two, even if they
should " join the ranks of our opponents," and we are pre-
pared for ever manoeuvre of the enemy. In the other case,
in endeavouring to strengthen our position, we should
endanger our very existence. But the editor of the Mail
does riot approve of going out of our way to contend
for religion. It is only when " church and constitu-
tional" principles are in danger that we are to show any
disposition to contend. Now, observe the conjunction
"and." The church alone, we might conclude from this, is
not worth contending for, at least such a church 'principle as
teaching the Bible in our schools. It is only when the pre-
dominance of the conservative party is endangered that we
are to remove the " trimmer and time-server"—" cheese-
parings and fag-ends of principles" again. To contend for
these trifles when you are in secure possession of political
power, " there is in this conduct a savour of meanness and
malignity (to use the Mail's words), which cannot be too
much reprehended." What college is now dictating to " Tri-
nity College, Dublin, Oxford, and Cambridge?" it sounds
like a Jesuit College, is it Maynooth ? Is not this rather the
language of practical infidelity and indifference to truth
Can the charitable editor discover no other motive than
" malignity, meanness, and an appetite for discord," which
is likely to influence those who esteem it a sacrifice of sin-
cerity and religious principle to sanction the partial with-
drawal of the Bible from the corporation schools? We
would ask him what sort of persons those are described to
have been—Acts xvii. 5 and 6—who complained to the rulers
saying, "These that have turned the world upside down
have come hither also." But it is time to draw our remarks
to a close, for few words ought to be necessary on so plain a
question as whether the corporation schools ought to teach
blasphemy and heresy or not. We must pass on to the ap-
palling catastrophe which awaits the town, if the Mail's ad-
vice be not taken. The editor evidently labours under a
morbid fear of St. Jude's—the preaching there appears to
be " foolishness" in his esteem, being, I suppose, one
of the wise of this world. Now, the more absurd the
doctrines and precepts proclaimed from St. Jude's pulpit
appear to the editor of the Mail and other advocates of
indifference to religious truth, the more convinced, will
sincere, and consistent believer of the Bible be that they are
truth, because we are informed that the " God of this world
bath blended minds of them that believe not.' But we must
desist, for we are realizing the prophecy of the editor of the
fearful increase of preachers to be expected. That, how-
ever, we are not uncharitable towards the editor let his own
words testify, for by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
Can anything less than the malignity of infidelity and the
blasphemy of a pot-house have dictated such language as
" What will the Town-hall become? Nothing more than an
adjunct vestry-room for St. Jude's—a place of indulgence
for lay preachers—a sheep fold for prayer meetings." It
would be enough to say in answer to language like this,
" Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh,"
did we not know that they who approve of the opinions of
the Mail on the school question, are so totally unconscious
of their infidel and depraved tendency as to be proud of
them as liberal and enlightened. What a horror conies over
the editor when he thinks of the vestry-room of St Jude's—
preachers and prayer meetings. He has not the slightest
apprehension lest the Town-hall should become, by the total
exclusion of religious principles, more like a pandemonium
than a Christian assembly. It is only M`Neile, Fielding
Ould, and St. Jude's that, like fearful spectres, flit athwart
his affrighted imagination, and force him to ask, indignantly,
"What honourable man will aspire to a seat in the Town•
council if he is to be perpetually worried with religious ques-
tions, and forbidden to think, except through the mind of
the little lion of the day." `The little lion,' Gentlemen,
did you note that? " Have you read my book, in which I
call my adversary Goose ?" Farewell, angry Editor; I, tco,
begin to have a distaste for " lay preachers," at least,
preachers of infidel indifference. It is to be hoped that few
" honourable" men will listen with patience to one who, in
his anxiety to propagate his own peculiar notions, would
dare so much to offend against good feeling and good
principle as to indulge in low and wicked sneers against
" preachers and prayer meetings." According to the spirit
displayed by the editor of the Mail, religion would always be

out of place. He would consult only the false prophets of
iiberality ; of the others he would say, " There is yet one
man by whom we may inquire of the Lord ; but I hate him ;
for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil.'
Allow Allow me to express a hope and a belief that the time of
wavering and expediency is passing away, and that the ma-
jority of public men are now awakened to the wickedness and
uselessness of sacrificing principle in order to secure the
possession of power.
Infidels, heretics, and blasphemers, are insatiable as the
grave ; the more you yield, the more do they demand. Let
our government, our parliament, and our town councils, be
bold, courageous, consisknt, and inflexible ; and let them
dare to advocate the truth, in confident reliance upon the
good sense and good principle of the nation; they will thus
give ardour to virtue and confidence to truth, courage to
the timid, steadiness to the • waverer, and unite the good in
one victorious phalanx which few will have the hardihood to
oppose.
1 conclude in the words of Joshua to the captains of the
men of war which went with him.:—" Fear not nor be dis-
couraged; be strong and of good courage, for thus shall the
Lord do against all whom ye fight."
I am, Sir. your obedient servant,
" TENAX PROPOSITI VIR."
Liverpool, October 22, 1842.

PAID OFFICERS' REPORT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In reading your report of the debate on the Paid
Officers' Report, 1 was very much struck with the fact that
the committee of the Borough Coat and Court of Requests
had left their proceedings unrecorded. This fact appears to
have been condemned by themselves in a very striking man-
ner, by their having left upwards of 40 pages in blank, for
the purpose of doing, although in an irregular manner, that
which after all remains undone. But although these pro-
ceedings appeared to me surprising, yet, I was still more sur-
prised at the ingenuity displayed by Mr. Aiken and Mr.
Earle in their defence. They actually turn the tables on
those who have had the hardihood to condemn this novel sys-
tem of doing business, introduced by the Corporation Whigs
of 1836. They think their Tory opponents must be persons
of not very guilty consciences. What, condemn such an in-
nocent omission, and, still more, suspect that such an omis-
sion had a sinister object ! Oh, horrible ! Know Ye not,
they exclaim, that innocence suspects nothing ; 6ut the
guilty mind is full of suspicion ? And thus they would incul-
cate that because the Whigs, when they predominated in the
Corporation Council, professed many virtues, the Tories
were bound to believe them, under the penalty of being stig-
matized as being destitute of those virtues, (and particularly
of charity,) of which the Whigs made such loud professions.
Honi soft qui mal y pense is their charge against those who
suspected that the Whigs did not practise all the virtues
which they professed.

No doubt when the Whigs came into Corporation power
they followed the example of their great Prototype, the Whig
Administration. They exclaimed, " You have seen the
wickedness of the Tories ; now, behold the virtues of the
Whigs ; of the no-patronage Whigs—of the no-jobbing
Whigs." Yet, amongst the first acts of the Corporation we
find the dismissal of a Tory treasurer, and the advent of a
Whig treasurer in his place; and, behold, if we suspect that
this exchange was not founded on patriotic motives, we are
assailed by Honi soil qui mal y pence, and we must hold our
peace, or be told we have no patriotism, no charity,—we
have guilty minds.
The professions and the performances of the Whigs have
been a long time before the public, and have been pronounced
discordant. They did not fall short of their predecessors in
those acts of patronage and jobbing which they had before
held up to public execration.

Mr:Earle appears to think that he is the personification
of the liberalism of the Corporation : he says Mr. D. Hodg-
son has had a slap at liberalism, and therefore he will have
a slap at him ; this slap is given in an uncourteous style, ac-
companied with offensive personalities.—a line of conduct,
which, for the credit of the Corporation, I hope will not be
generally pursued.
For public bodies to leave blank pages, instead of a record
of their proceedings, is a dangerous precedent, and cannot be
justified, because " charity thinketh no ill." G.

EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—As I wish to become an examiner for the Board of
Shipmasters, I have found out a new method of getting the
latitude and longitude of a ship by taking a back observation
through a fog any time of the day; and as regards seaman-
ship, I can make a splice in a ten-inch hawser any time of
the year in North America; more than that, I can handle a
ship in a gale of wind without any sails or spars; and I think
I am qualified for a situation, for I have been three months
to sea.

AN EXPERIENCED SHIPMASTER.
Liverpool, October 21, 1842.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL
INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD. OCT. 22.

On Thursday, the Rev. T. Shadforth, Fellow of University
College, was nominated a Master of the schools.
Responsions commence on Wednesday next.
The Camden Professor of Ancient History will lecture on
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at one
o'clock. The first lecture will be on Tuesday next.
The Laudian Professor of Arabic will resume his lectures
on Wednesday next, at three o'clock.
The Savilian Professor of Geometry proposes to commence
a course of lectures on Monday next, at two o'clock.
The Savilian Professor of Astronomy will commence a
course of lectures on Saturday, the 29th inst., at two o'clock.
The Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History will begin
a course of introductory lectures on Thursday, November 3,
at two o'clock.

The Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology will begin an
introductory course of lectures on Wednesday, November 2,
at eleven o'clock.

The liegius rrofessor of Hebrew proposes to continue his
lectures on the Prophet Isaiah, on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Saturdays, at nine o'clock ; beginning on
Saturday, the 29th instant.
The two Elementary Classes, on Wednesday, the 26th,
and Thursday, the 27th.

The Professor of Anglo-Saxon will continue his lectures
on Mondays and Fridays, at one o'clock; commencing on
Friday, the 28th instant.
The Clinical Professor of Medicine proposes to recom-
mence his attendance and lectures at the Radcliffe Infirmary,
on Tuesday, November 1.
The Rev. G. D. Wheeler and the Rev. C. Nevinson hava
been admitted actual Fellows of Wadham College.
Mr. T. J. Hearn has been admitted an actual Fellow of
New College, as Founder's kin.

The L'ord Bishop of Gloucester has presented the Rev.
Dr. B. S. Claxson, of Worcester College, to the incumbency
of St. Mathew's, Twigworth, Gloucestershire.

CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 22.

lAt the last congregation the degree of M.A. was conferred
on Mr. W. Atkinson, of Queen's College.
LECTURES.—The Jacksonian Professor's course on Mecha-
nism, Statics, and Dynamics, will commence on Tuesday,
November the Bth, at the room in the Botanic Garden. Pro-
fessor Walmesley's Lectures on Vocal Music commence on
Monday (this day), on Wilhem's method ; the course to
consist of 20 lessons, to be given on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays.

DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.—In the town of Duxbury, in this
State, resides a man named Baker, who has been blessed
with eighteen children—seventeen girls and one boy I The
last was a male.—American paper.
THE ANTIPATHY OF THE MONKEY.--Most animals en-
tertain a morbid antipathy to the serpent species, but in no
one instance is that antipathy more sensibly manifested than
among the monkey tribe, as the following narrative may tend
to elucidate :—A company, consisting of about 20 monkeys
the Hoonoomuns), or black-faced monkeys of Bengal, had
colonised in a lofty tamarind tree, near the little village of
Rhannaserye, a short distance from the town of Dantoon.
This tree was situated on the road side on the route to the
temple of Juggernaut, and was resorted to during the sultry
tide of noon by viatory pilgrims and others, who occasion-
ally indulged the inhabitants of the tree with fragments of
plantains and other fruits (for the Hindoos enumerate the
lidonoomun monkey among their numerous divinities),
On one occasion an extraordinary excitement manifested
itself among the Hoonoomun corps. A general whooping,
chattering, and screeching simultaneously burst forth from
the tree, which had become the seat of the utmost confusion.
On our approaching the spot, the scene was utterly indescri-
bable; the whole of the branches of the tree were agitated
by the manual exercise of the black-faced fraternity, as if
they laboured under the convulsive influence of a north.
wester ; in short, had not the cause of this very extraordi-
nary commotion been elicited, any cool reasoning person
would have been led to believe that Bacchus had misled this
sober society from the routine of their wonted gravity ; but
upon our casting our eyes upon a bough half way up the
tree, we perceived a huge cobra capello snake lying at full
length, which bad ascended thither, with a view, no doubt,
of satiating his appetite with a squirrel or two, with which
animals the tree was furnished. The tree standing by itself,
none other being in juxtaposition with it, the alarmed colo-
nists could not effect their escape 'by a transit, and to de-
scend one inch nearer their scaly foe than where they then
were, would have been worse than undergoing the Chance
of
breaking their necks by leaping down upon the ground from
their elevated situation. At length one of the troop made a
but the horror with which the sooty
countenanced felt at the serpent's encroaching
upon their dormitory was so impressive
that they were never
again seen near the tree, although many a weary pilgrim
afterwards found a grateful shelter under its umbrageous
branches.
of Catalini will always
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interest the present gener"ation in England. Mrs. Trollo ,
in her " Visit to Italy, has the following :—" Instead of
ttgloaoPkisrneeognemCmuerdiuloesmpuoe's wilom wonder and delight. Madame Catalini
Valabrique. She resided in a very beautiful villa, which
stands in the midst of an extensive podere, of which she is
the owner. Nothing could be more amiable than the re-
ception she gave us. I think, of all the nations who joined
in the universal chorus in praise of her high, character, her
charming qualities, and her unequalled talent, she loves the
English best * * * perhaps they best understood her
worth, and the rare superiority of a mind that, in the midst
of flattery and adulation which really seems to have known
no limits, preserved all its simple purity and goodness un-
scathed. 1 Ras equally surprised and pleased to see to what
an extraordinary degree she had preserved her beauty. Her
eyes and teeth are still magnificent; and I am told that,
when seen in evening full dress by candle light, no stranger
can see her for the first time without inquiring who that
charming-looking woman is. A multitude of well behaved
rmentedthree
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reasons would have prevented me, especially at this my
from naming the vehement desire
first introduction,
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me ; and I think 1 rentured to ask if her mother ever sang
now ; to which she most gaily ands promptly answered in the
Her charming daughter, Madame de V--,
affirmative * * and then * what happened next I
hardly know. lam afraid that I must have • 'dsomething
about
about my secret longings * * for the daughter •
whispered
to the mother a few words, and in a moment Madame Cata-
lini was at the piano. * * * No, in her very best days
she never smiled a sweeter smile than she did then, as she
prepared to comply with the half-expressed •
wishes of a stran-
ger, who had no claims upon her kindness but that of being
an Englishwoman. I know not
what it was she sang; but
scarcely had she permitted her voice to swell into one of those
bravura passages of which her execution was very peculiar.
and so perfectly unequalled, that I felt as if some magical
process was being performed
upon me, which took me back
again to something * * 1
which I had neither heard know not what to call it * *
nor felt for nearly twenty years.
Involuntarily, unconsciously, my eyes filled with tears, and
I felt as much embarrassed as a young lady Of fifteen might
do,who
suddenly found herself in the act ?f•betraying,eme-
tions which she was very far indeed from wishing to displlly.l, '