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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

ENCROACHMENTS ON PUBLIC LIBERTY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD
—I beg

1r columns,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sin,—Your correspondent "Vincentius

has no just

)und of complaint against me for " concealing my

r.t. that, in

luthcious re

eputatiou,

he conceals his own. But it is not to retort a trifle of this

kind, neither is it to resent his misrepresentations of my
letters, that I now notice what appeared under his signa-
ture in your paper of last week. My letters speak for
themselves ; and my citations from the rubricks verbatim,
allow the Church to speak for herself. They require but
a re-perusal to be cleared of all the dust raised by your

I correspondent
But. S

my present object is of a graver character. I
have to charge " Vincentius," whoever he may be, with
three serious offences. First, a mistranslation, and thereby
a misrepresentation of St. Paul; second, a misrepresenta-
tion of the Church of England ; and third, insulting
language to the Bishop of the Diocese. It is of some
importance to have these things pointed out ; because, in
these things, your correspondent is a fair specimen of the
school to which he belongs.
1. He is guilty of a mistranslation, and-thereby a mis-
representation of St. Paul. His words are—
" Onr Lord left behind Him a command to show forth His
death till His coming again, entrusting to His Church a gift,
which, as St. Paul tells us, is nothing less than the communi-
cation of His Body and Blood."

COUXUNICA.TION!
Here is a mistranslation. The only passage in St. Paul's
writings to which allusion can be made occurs in the tenth
'his first Epistle to the Corinthians. There, at
-erse, the Apostle writes :—" The cup of blessing
bless, is it not the communion of the blood of
The bread which we break, is it not the commu-
'lion of the body of Christ ?" The-Apostle's expression is
Kotvwvia, in each clause of the verse, and our authorised
translation is communion. Where, then, does St. Paul
tell us that the Lord's Supper is the communication of
His body and blood ? I venture to say nowhere; and I
challenge your correspondent to justify, if he can, the
assertion he has made; If it be pleaded that the word

chapter of
the 16th v

the Bishop of Chester's own jurisdiction. The moment a
word is preached, or a service celebrated, in the new Liver-
pool church, in violation of the law of the Church of England,
the Bishop of Chester can, and is bound to, interfere. He
can stop unauthorised innovations most effectually ; and why,
therefore, should the Church be deprived for ever of an edi-
fice, because alßishop thinks that he has reason to dread some-
thing which the law requires and empowershim to put an end
to whenever it occurs?"

This simple scribe seems never to have heard of defiance
being set to episcopal interference, by those who so ex-
travagantly—in words—magnify the episcopal office. The
Bishop of Chester, however, has had experience of this,
and in this town of Liverpool. His known wishes, con-
veyed as from a spiritual father, have proved ineffectual
to "stop what he considered unauthorised innovations."
He has complained of this, and in vain. As to the scan-
dalising ultimatum of a law-suit, the Bishop appears to
have determined—wisely, as I presume to think—that
prevention is better than cure.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant, A CM/ROMAN or LIVERPOOL.
Jul,

24th, 1854.

REV. W. POLLOCK AND "THE TRACTARIANS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIB,-

Some apology would seem to •be due, botl

yourself and to your readers, for continuing to comment
so long after date upon the speeches delivered at the last
meeting of "the Working Men's Church Association ;"
and, had it been possible, I would gladly have concluded
in a single letter, while the matters treated of were fresh
in the public mind. But that was impossible : and equally
impossible to permit such attacks as we " TractarianP
were then subjected to, to go unnoticed. I proceed, then,
to the remainder of the speech delivered by Mr. Pollock.
The defence which he made of the course pursued by the
Bishop with reference to "the proposed Free Church," I
pass over, as not wishing even to appear to attack my
spiritual superior ' • only observing that, if the language
which he put into the Bishop's mouth—" I will not have,
under certain circumstances, the peace of the Church
broken, if I can avoid it, in this part of my diocese"—if,-
I say, this really sets forth the motive upon which the
Bishop has acted, he will, I fear, find himself grievously
disappointed by the result. Peace is not to be, and shall
not be, attained in the Church by forcibly suppressing the
honest endeavours of those who would fain present to the
people the Church's system in- its entirety. Mr. Pollock
next, after commending the course pursued by the Bishop

in this matter, after declaring

we ought all to thank

him most heartily, and to say, Yon havedone your duty,"
goes on, with wondrous consistency, to express his own
approval of each separate feature of the plan proposed by
the promoters of the Church in question ! Of daily
prayerannd weekly Communion he says, "God speed the
work !" If thirty people in his own. district wished for
them, they should have them ; though he forgot to say
why three have not just as good a right to them • and,-as
regards the daily service, he forgot that the Church re-
quires him to say it privately, if he cannot succeed in
inducing two or three to join him. However, he approves
of these things. He even asserted that "we cannot too.
often celebrate together the feast of the Holy Communion
of the body and blood of Christ." Why, then, I ask, does
he net endeavour to bring his people to a like mind on:
these points ? He is popular among them ; and it is in-
credible that hia efforts should not be crowned with some
success ; that none should be brought to regard frequent
public prayer and Communion in the same-light as him-
self.- But, "if we have not these things," he continued,
" it is simply from the circumstances of the times, from
the pressure of other duties, and from the fact that every
man, and even woman, at present is so incessantly occu-
pied. We are all working at such a high pressure, that
really-people have no longer, as it were, an opportunity of
going together into our churches." In other words, the
age is so intensely worldly, every one is so, bent upon
pleasure or temporal profit, that religion is thrust into a
corner, except for a few hours upon one day in seven ;
and thousands make precisely the same excusefer ignoring
it even on that. So tar as all this is truer- so far is it
the duty of the Church to protest against it ; so far is it
the duty of the Church'S ministers to endeavour, by all
means, to bring about a: reformation, by inducing their
people to give the first piece to religion, and to Lawful
business or pleasure the second ; or rather to. show them
how religion, while it ought to take visible precedence,
should pervade and sanctify every act of their -life. And
if the world persist in altering its hours of business or re-
fection, then is it the diaty of the Church to alter her
hours of worship, and so still hinder the one-to clash with
the other. Bat Mr. Pollock's representation is only par-
tially true, for there are lirindreds in all rankS who have
ample time to avail themselves of the Church's services
without interfering with any ordinary occupation of busi-
ness or pleasure, and a few at least who would gladly do
so were the opportunity offered. Under any circumstances,
there can be no good ground for withhold'i'ng from our
people the opportunity of communicating weekly. The
great practical difficulty which stands in the way of a
revival in this respect is= the inordinate length to which
most of our popular preachers extend their sermons.. A.
little self-denial of the cacoethes loquendi, and the exci-
sion of two or three unauthorised hymns, would enable
them to have a weekly celebration without any perceptible
addition to the length of the morning service.
But how could Mr. Pollock approve at the same time
both the Bishop's veto upon the proposed &arch, and each
separate feature of the plan brought forward by its pro-
moters ? Surely there is an inconsistency here. Nothing.'
of the kind. By a peculiarly Christian process of ratioci-
nation, he had convinced himself, and endeavoured to con..
vine his auditors, that' the clergy, when, appointed to the
church u*en built, might possibly do some very naughty
things. He had heard that " some of our clergymen in
Liverpool" had pinned a print of the crucifixion on the
curtains of a dying man's bed. No, matter that this
involve& two misstatements: he had heard it, and how
could he tell but that the clergy of the new church might
do the same? "Another thing which may, perhaps* be
wished for is auricular confession." He had not heard of
anything of this kind in Liverpool.; but what then P He
had only to go to Plymouth, and what had been-done
there, might be done here. And, lastly, a Liverpool
clergyman had told " a most intelligent and dear-friend"
of his, that-the Prayer-Book calla matrimony a sacrament,
and that he objected to two clergymen officiating at a
'marriage, because in the administration of such a sacra-
ment one is enough ! True, it- turns out, the clergyman
in. question never made the former assertion (which no
one can vouch for with more. certainty than the writer),
and that the " most intelligent and dear friend" never
even charged him with the latter. But no matter : the
tale was equally well adapted to engender a. pious and
wholesome fear of what might possibly be taught, and
consequently answered Mr: Pollock's purpose every whit
as well as if it had been true.

But I have a word or two more to say upon these three
points ; and first, with regard to pinning a print of the
crucifixion to the curtains of a sick man's bed. Where is
Mr. Pollock's authority for condemning such a proceed-
ing ? He can produae none, and ho knows it. Neither
canon nor article can be found to his purpose. Were such
a thing put up, and the sick man urged to worship it in
any sense or in any degree, we should want neither canon
nor article to justify its condemnation. Scripture alone
would suffice to condemn the whole procedure. But what
Mr. Pollock asserts to have been done Scripture does not
condemn, neither-does the Church ; and it is intolerable
that he should erect his private puritanical fancies and
prejudices into a. standard, and endeavour to excite odium
against his brethren because they do not happen to con-
form to it. I have never used. religious prints myself in
the manner alleged, because I have never been able to
afford them; but I gladly would do so if I could. To a
sick person, unable to read., I see not why they should not
afford assistance similar in kind, though different in
degree, to that afforded by the Bible to those who can
read—that is, by bringing certain Scripture narratives
before the mind, and enabling it to dwell upon them. It
is quite conceivable that in such cases they might be
useful; and if the Anglican Church has condemned or
forbidden such use of them, I am very greatly mistaken,
and shall be glad to be set right.
Again, I would ask, when or where has the Anglican
Church forbidden confession ? She has not only not for-
bidden, but in certain cases she has recommended it, and
Mr. Pollock must know this. In this she may be right or
wrong; but this is not the question. Her most faithful
and consistent sons, from the Reformation downwards,
have deemed her right, and he may eat her bread and at
the same time deem her wrong ; but let him not denounce
as unfaithful those of his brethren who, while they have
the misfortune to differ from him, have the Church unmis-
takeably on their side. And why did he speak of
auricular confession ? Merely because he knew that his
audience would connect this epithet with something
Romish ; and yet he knows that auricular confession is
neither more nor less than confession made by word of
mouth, and heard by him to whom it is made—confession
such as is recommended in the exhortation in the Com-
munion office, and in the " Service for the Visitation of
the Sick."

I would mention, as a singular fact, that Puritans cannot
allude to this subject of confession but their imagination
must straightway run riot in sins connected with the
seventh commandment ; and more nastiness connected
with this subject has been brought forward by them upon
public platfbrms within the last few years than has been
listened to by all the priests of the Anglican Church in
the same period. I would ask Mr. Pollock a simple ques-
tion. If one troubled in conscience on account of sin,
comes to me for " the benefit of absolution, together with
ghostly counsel and advice," what right have I to prohibit
him or her to speak of any one particular class of sins of
which he or she may have been guilty ? If he is so U/1-
accustomed to visit what Dr. Wiseman calls the back
slums as not to know it, I can, from painful experience,
tell him that vast numbers may be found, whose moral
sense is so utterly blunted that it is necessary to enter
with them upon subjects of the most painful nature, and
that without any confession upon their part. And nothing,
to my mind, more completely justified the accused clergy-
man in the Plymouth enquiry than the proof which was
given, that the sins confessed to him were of an almost
unheard-of character. All honour to his noble-hearted
bishop, who did not fear, in spite of popular clamour and
prejudice, to uphold him in the faithful discharge of his
duty ! It will be recollected that the Puritan party here
held a public meeting at the Amphitheatre upon this in-
delicate subject, and forwarded an address to the Bishop
of Chester ; and I do not think that the public have ever
been informed what answer they received.
It has often been asserted that the Puritan party, as a
body, are excessively ignorant; and that a good divinity
training generally makes a man a good Churchman : and
certainly, so far as Mr. Pollock individually is concerned,
the former of these assertions would seem to be borne out
by the horror which he evinced at hearing matrimony
called a sacrament ; for this horror he could not honestly
have manifested had he been tolerably acquainted with the
writings (I say not of ancient, but) even of post-reforma-
tion divines. Not only the Homilies directly, and the
Articles indirectly, admit more than two Sacraments ;
but Cranmer, Taylor, Seeker, Overall, Mason, Calvin, and
the Confession of Augsburgh and its Apology, besides a
host of other authorities, might be cited to the same effect.
And now, Sir, I have done with the meeting at St.
James's school-room, and am perfectly ready to comment
upon any future proceedings of the same kind if the party
please to give me an opportunity. Hitherto we have
submitted to Puritan attacks with contempt : for the
future we will try whether the love of fair play, prover-
bially attributed to an English public, will give us a fair
hearing and do us justice.
I_ am, Sir, &c.,
K. MACZENZIE Puanza
Liverpool, July Mils NU

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS,

Rev. J. Bedingfield, M.A., Rector of Bedingfield,near Eye,
to the Rural Deanery of Hoxne.
Rev. J. B. Burne, 8.A., to the Perpetual Curacy of Alder-
maston,Berka.

Rev. E.F. Clayton, to the Curacy of Stapleton, bear Bristol.
Rev. T. H. Clark, M.A., to the Curacy of Tidenham, Glou-
cestershire.

Rev. J. B. Cobham, M.A., to the Rectory of Dingley,
Northamptonshire.

Rev. If. J. Dampier, M.A., Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, to
be a Surrogate._ _ _

Rev. H. -Hardy. M.A., Curate of Jurby, Isle of Man, to be
Diocesan Inspector of Schools in the Diocese of Sodor and
Man.

Rev. R. Harrison, 8.A., to the Curacy of Christchurch.
Bristol.

Rev. J. Haskoll, M.A., to the Rectory of East Barkwith,
Lincolnshire.

Rev. J. R. Hogg, MA., Incumbent of Lower Brixham, to
be Secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
in Foreign parts for the_Archdeaconry of Totness.

Rev. R. W. T. Hunt, M.A., to the ft e c t o ry. of Ryton, near
Presteign, Herefordshire.
Rev. Jackson, M.A., Curate of Hurstmonceaux, to be
Secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts for the Archdeaconry of Lewes.

Re-17. E. J. Jonas, late Incumbent of St. Camp-
beltown, to be Curate of St. John's Church, Greenock, in the
Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway.
Rev. W. Jones, M.A., to the Rectory of Bedwas, with the
Incumbency of Ruddry annexed, near Caerphilly, Mon-
mouthshire. _

Rev. H. W. Long, RA., to the Rectory of Hilperton, near
Trowbridge.

Rev. J.-bleredith, M.A., Vicar of Abergele, Denbighshire,
to the Rural Deanery of Rhos.,
Rev. H. D. Millett, M.A„ Third Master of the Collegiate
School, Leicester, to. be Chaplain to the Blaby Union.
Rev. G. Morgan, M.A., Curate of St. Paal's Church, Poole,
Dorset, to the Incumbency of that parish.
Rev. W. Mears, 8.A., to the Curacy ofßurstow, Surrey.

,
Rev. C. H. NeWmarch, to the Curacy of Brockworth, Glou-
cestershire.

Rev. S. A. Pears, 8.D., one of the Assistant Masters of
Harrow School, to the Head MastetShip of Reptott School.
Rev. C. B. Penrite,-to the Rectory of Bracon Ash, Norfolk.
Rev. E. 0. Phillips, M.A., to the Wardenship of the Llan-
dovery Institution, Carmarthenshire.

Rei. R. Smith, 51.A.,.t0 the Vicarage of Kirkby Fleetham,
Yorkshire.

Rev. H. Twells, M.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to
the Mastership of St. Andrew's House, Mells, Somerset.
Rev. F. Young, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul's Church,
Ball's. pond, Islington.

DIOCESE OF CIIESTER

PEETTIMENTS.—The Rev. John Blucher Wheeler has
been instituted, by the Bishop, to the Rectory of Coppen-
hall, in the county of Chester, void by the death of the
Rev. John Cooper, on the presentation of the Lord Bishop
of Lichfield; the Patron. Value £216, with n house.—
The Rev. Robert Curteis Hubbersty has been licensed, by
the Bishop, to the Perpetual Curacy of Cartmel, in the
county of Lancaster, void by the -resignation of the Rev.
Thomas Remihgton, on the nomination of the Right Hon.
William, Earl of Burlington.—The-Rev. Edmund Edwards
Allen has been, instituted, by the Bishop, to the Vicarage
of Millom, in the county of Cumberland, void by the
death of the Rev. H. Pickthall, on the presentation of the
Queen, Patron in right of her Duchy of Lancaster. Value
£lB9, with a house.
OBDINATXoN.—The Bishop of Chester will hold his

next Ordination at Chester, on Sunday, the 2 Ith Sept

ConsEcnknone..---Marp/e.—Tlie. Piece of Land re-
cently added to the Churchyard of 3larple, near Stockport,
in the county of Chester, is to be consecrated, by the
Bishop, on Friday-next, the.2Bth inst., at one o'clock.—
Ince, Cheshire.—The Church of Ince, which has been
entirely rebuilt, will be consecrated, by the Bishop, on
the 15th of August, together with the addition to the
Churchyard.

THE WIGAN CIIVRCIT-MiTE.—Theepponents of church -
rates. at Wigan have triumphed. It will be remembered
that when he was defeated by a show of hands at the vestry
meeting, the Hon. Mr. Lindsay demanded a poll,, but, late
ca Saturday night week,. a placard appeared, announcing,
on. the authority of the rector, the. withdrawal; by Mr.
Lindsay, of his motion for the adoption of a church-rate,
and signifying that therefore no such rate will be laid.
SEHTENCE IN. THE ST. SMWELL'S " CREDENCE
TARLE" CASE.—The Rev. Chancellor Martin delivered
judgment in this case on Friday. He said that the defen-
dant, Mr. Palk, was clearly in the wrong, as he himself
had admitted, and admonished him not to commit the
like offence again.. The costs were ordered to be divided
between the incumbent and the defendant. No order was
made as to the restoration of the table.

BISHOPRIC OP THE MAURITIITEL—The Queen: has. been
graciously pleasedto sanction the erection of the Mauritius
and its dependencies, including, probably, the Seychelles,
into a separate diocese. The Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel has appropriated the sum of £3,000 out of
its Jubilee fund towards the endowment ; and the Society
for Promoting Christian Knowledge has voted. a grant of
£2,000. The name of the Rev.. Vincent Ryan,. principal
of the metropolitan institution at Highbury, is announced
as being destined to be the first bishop.
CANADA.—The Toronto Chronicle contains an appeal
to the Churchmen of the province to return at the next
election members opposed to the secularization of the
Clergy reserves, and a petition from " the Bishop, Clergy,
and Laity of the Diocese of Quebec, met together in Con-
ference,' protesting against the measure in question, and
setting forth' other grievances to which the Church in
Canada is subjected.
NEW BISHOPRIC IN AUSTRALIA.—The Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel. in Foreign Parts has contri-
buted the-sum of £3,000,, and the Society for. Promoting
Christians. Knowledge will at its meeting in :October grant
£2,000 towards the immediate establishment of a Bishop-
ric of Perth in Western Australia, the extensive See of
Adelaide being subdivided for that purpose. The sanction
of Her -Majesty's Government to the formation of the new
diocese has been obtained,

TESTIMONIAL TO TILE REV. WILLIAM.QUEICETT.—The
Earl of Aberdeen having appointed the Rev. William
Quekett, M.A. (incumbent of Christ Church, St. George's
East), rector of Warrington, Lancashire, a numerous
meeting of his friends was held on Monday last week, at
the, schools in Johnson-street, to witness the presentation
of a candelabrum. of silver, bearing the following inscrip-
tion—viz., "Presented to the Rev. Wlllian Quekett,
incumbent of Christ Church, St. George's East, by many
a his congregation and parishioners,, as, a memorial of the
sincere attachment of those to whom he had endeared
himself through a faithful ministry of 24 years, upon his
preferment to. the rectory of "Warrington, Lancashire,
July, 1854." The rev. gentleman feelingly returned
thanks after the presentation for the additional mark, of
respect and.regard which had been evinced towards him
on, vacating the sphere of usefulness in which he had
successfully laboured for nearly a quarter of a century.

WA.EMTNG AND VENTILATION OF CHURCHES.—TO
warm and ventilate has ever been a great difficUlty,
because the two seem incompatible. But, as regards
churches, the difficulty is not so great ; because the
church, is not, or at least ought not to be, occupied by the
congregation for more than two hours, and less than that
yould be better. To warm is the main question; to
ventilate is easy. The church should not be warmed by
stoves inside the church, but by some apparatus that
would diffuse warmth over the whole building, and of
sufficient power to raise the temperature to 62 degrees ;
and this should be watched by the wardens, and not left
to the church servants. The doors should be double,
about 6 or 10 feet apart, with springs; so that when the
inner door is open' the outer door shall, be shut, thus
keeping out a great rush of cold air, upon the principle of
lock-gates, keeping back the main body of the stream.
All the windows should be close ; but the church should
be lofty, so that the foul air that would accumulate
during two hours should not be sufficient to be offensive, and
from the roof I would have means of clearing off the bad
air between, the services. By this means warmth would
be secured, draughts prevented, and the ventilation would
be sufficient.—Builder.

Tun NEW BIBUOP Or SODOE AND Men.—ln conse-
queuee of the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, for twenty-
three years past the rector of Warrington, having been
appointed to the vacant bishopric of Sodor and Man, on
Thursday, between 300 and 400 of his parishioners assem-
bled in the upper room of St. Elphin's schools, adjacent
to the parish church, to make a presentation of plate to
him, as a token of their esteem and high regard for his
services during the long period he had resided amongst
them. The presentation consisted of four silver corner
dishes, and an elaborately-wrought silver salver, made by
Mr. Mayer, of Liverpool, at a cost of upwards of £l5O.
On each of the dishes and on the salver there was en-
graved the arms of the Bishop of Sodor and Man, im-
paling the family arms of the Hon. and Rev. Horace
Powys, and in the centre of the salver there was engraved
the following inscription :—" Presented to the Honourable
and Rev. Horace Powys, D.D., Rector of Warrington, in
token of the esteem and attachment of his parishioners at
the close of his earnest labours for their spiritual welfare,
on the occasion of his elevation to the bishopric of Sodor
and Man." Mr. S. Hill, the senior churchwarden, was
called on to preside, and amongst those present were Mr.
Gilbert Greenall, the member for the borough ; Mr. Peter
Rylands, Mayor of Warrington ; Mr. Perrin, deputy-
mayor; Mr. J. F. Marsh, town-clerk; Mr. J. Nicholson,
Mr. Reynold, Mr. Isaac Picton, Mr. Owen, Mr. Goulden,
&c. The presentation was made by the Mayor of War-
rington, after which the Rev. H. Powys acknowledged the
compliment paid him in suitable terms. Dr. Powys will
be consecrated in York cathedral, this day (Tuesday), the
festival of St. James. His Grace the Archbishop of York,
assisted by the Bishop of Manchester and probably the
Bishop of Ripon, will perform the sacred rite.