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hole, my friend

ravado ;
A at Toledo ! "
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Some such reason as this is the cause I presume, •
That this Wiseman (thus wisely) those bones would exhume,
To make some such ladder, (he'd do more than that,)
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Rome to a Cardinal's hat !
,ven St. Edmund himself,

If by this he could share some of Babylon's pelf I
And (who knows) but at last that his way he might grope
As high as the mitre of Babylon's Pope •

close, let me ask, I beseech,
ilinel" wholly leave out 111`Ghee's speech
subject I've one word to say,

Fie left Wellingt
Of Field Marsh,

) I feared

who had won us the day !

oi-INelle 1 was first apprehensive,
Content " to rest on the defensive ; "
to unwilling " to come to the scratch

its he and his slanderers were not a " match ; "
And said that he fairly might make a " demur,"
To "stoop " for the stone, should he throw at a cur!
That, as for himself, he ne'er dream't of promotion,
It was only his enemies spoke of the notion.
" Woe unto you when all men shall speak (well) of you.
How consoling (this verse) when they (falsely) ill tell of you;
Yet "Faith" -(God's word says) ever worketh by "Love;"
It is thus that we prove OUR creeds from above.
Some say wn " Cut at Rome" when, instead, we should

Aro! " we cut but the Mesh" which entangles the sinner !
Yes, this is the difference—be sure to remark—
We cut in the light while. Rome cuts in the dark!
Yes, she cuts at the HAND which would break her own chain,
And then turns round upon us to complain !
Were our Peel truly Orange, he'd give him a mitre,
When our Protestant hopes might begin to look brighter.
May the Lord show His pity by turning His rod,
To scourge those (who keep from her) the word of our God ;
Showing Christ 's not a rod for to punish a slave,
But a lightning conductor, the sinner to save.

Champion Baylee then came, who did only delay, sir,
To throw down the gauntlet to " Nebuchadnezzar"—
(He reserved his artillery all for the night)—
When Popery's darkness he held to the light.
One fact speaks a volume ('tis Popish to bide)—
Hisformer opponent's now gain'd to our side.
Yes, the man who, three years since, was Popery's leader
Now asks the appointment of Scriptural Reader !
Pray, where's Dr. Butler—can any one tell?
Do„ you think he's converted, or is he unwell?

Indispoid—(not at least indisposed fora run)—
He first makes a great noise, then goes of, like a gun
Or fearing, perhaps, "he'd a hole in his skin,"
Where some heretic ball might just hap to pop in! *

Then Hugh Stowell stood up for his "Thirty-nine Towers!"
(We could listen with joy, had he spoken twelve hours ;
He always has something so CHEERING to say,
As, already I said, we could hear him all day)—
Proving Christ their foundation, thew top-stone, and all;
Yes, they're built on the Rock, so they never can fall!
(Floods may wash off the dirt which schismatics have thrown,
Of the buildings themselves, they can't injure one stone!)
No confusion is here, as in Babel of old—
Every grain that is here is " a grain of pure gold."
So, in vain the blind Papist and Formalist rages ;
They've been sifted and " tried in the furnace" for ages.
Now the errors of Greece with Rome's seem to combine:
It is only what's NEW is deem'd WISE or divine!
When they see that those " Towers " they storm in vain,
Heaven grant they may join us to tnan them again ?

(To revert to 1111 Ghee) no, it was not his speech,
Though his talents and eloquence, few can e'er reach ;
For his force of expression could senates command ;
Yet, his strength, it was not in lira, but his HAND,
Like a Sampson, he wielded those " stubborn facts."
(No words are so forcible, ever, as acts :)
Yet, his tangible evidence, none could gainsay,
For what popery was—it is this very day!
Or, (for want of the suN) while this snow-ball as roll'd,
Its dimensions have rather (INCREASED seven fold .1)
Unchang'd and unchangeable, (sunshine or storm,)
(Until melted by Him, it can never grow warm )
0, the volumes (and medals) he held in his hand,
Should be read through the length and the breadth of the
land.

When we think of our tythes being diminish'd, forsooth
For what, PROTESTANT England ? To keep up MAY'
xrin,.

[N THIS VERY TOWN,
ry gut,_east this juggernaut down

gdonas arils) but our own
ud say, " leave them alone?"

The oath of our Queen, was our-pledge they should cease :
Notwithstanding, (E'EN THIS,) they are on the increase
Awake then, arise (to a man,) for our right,
'Tis " when bad me❑ combine," that the good should UNITE

With another Guy Faux, we'd have no chance at all
While the enemy's camp is pitched inside the wall!

The match could not fail to be put to the train ' •
Then adieu to the Protestants left to complain !
How Judas-like is it, then thus to compound,
But, between the two stools, they must come to the ground.
It they Antichrist love then, why should they thus trim,
Or, if Jesus, be Lord, why not (wholly) serve Him?
But, it's plain, all their fault, and thence our disasters
Consist in the attempt at thus serving TWO masters. •
May Christ, the good shepherd, who died for their sin,
Briny them back to His fold, and, (like Jews,) graft them in.
(Own BOTH testaments—Jews—from " one Christ" over all,
Fitting into each other, like socket and ball.)
Like Diastole, Systole, dear " ELDER BROTHER,"
'Tis THE VERY SAME BLOOD runs from One to the other.
0, may Gentiles and Jews soon unite in one host,
Only striving in this,—Who'll love Jesus the most!

I would that the public would thus take a hint !
Pay the Protestant Standard to give a re-print;
(I don't mean to say, they should give their commands.
And then leave them " unsold" on the publishers' hands !)
And then, tho' the " Sentinel" sleep at his post,:
While " our Standard" 's unfurl'd still the day is not lost.

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1 in twelve-42,

I've one other remark, (di
It seems " Edmund" was bur
Which, subtract from the year in the which we now live,
You'll find that 600 (exactly) 'twill give.
Now if to each cipher a head you affix,
You at once shall have 6 hundred and 66,
And then—ev'ry one knows—even down to the least,
'Tis the CRITICAL NUMBER defining The BEAST!!!

It was thought of the bones, only some would be found,
Yet the skeleton (whole) lay unchanged, under ground.
What an emblem of Popery (this) to my eyes;
When the Church says the word, then (en masse) it will RISE !
It is true, when she chooses, 'tis ever conceal' d ;
But as true that (when summoned) 'twill stand in the field !
(A Bartholomew medal being ready for all,
When Papists ride rou4lishod o'er Protestants' fall !)
God said, "Let there be light;" nor commanded in. vain:
When the Pope calls for darkness 'tis chaos again !

0, Thou " Spirit of Truth !" who alone can give light,
Brood again with " dove's" wings o'er this " mystical" night,
And, Thou Saviour of Sinners, (this hairier unfurl'd,)
Revisit, renew, and restore this dark world !
Make us meet for those mansions preparing above •
Thaw the cold in all hearts with the beams of Thy love.
Then will end all our darkness, distraction, and pain,
When, Thou, (mighty to save,) cona'st Almighty to reign !

Sir, I feel quite asham' d thus to take up your column;
But it is my "first fault," (though 'tis almost a volume!)
I am no politician, ne'er wrote in my life;
I'm a lover of peace, and a hater of strife :

" Curse ye Meros," says God, (did she ever oppose 7)
(Thrice curs'd) since she did not CONTEND with lies FOES !
(Semper ego auditor's,) the cry of a heathen ;
(And numquamne reponam's,) re-echoed by me then ?
When the enemy's fast "coming in like a flood,"
On the Laodicean shall rest his own blood !
Yes, when Christ is depress'd, and when Antichrist 's prais'd,
The Standard of Christians must ever be rais'd !
And, like Gideon of old, tho' each vessel be clay,
'l'he lamp of God's truth will drive darkness away !
Although every pitcher be broken in twain,
Like fam'd Latimer's light, 'twill blaze brighter again!
And the torch-light illurne but the "night of the grave,"
While the TRUMP shall proclaim Jesus mighty to save.

But methinks that I hear some unfortunate fools
Say, " We'll meet your objections with National Schools!
" Till we educate all, leave God's word on your shelves ;
" When their taste, then, is form'd, they'll judge for them-
selves."

0. Judas, betrayest thou thus with a kiss !
(Was craftiness (ever) seen equal to this?)
Then the TREE (yielding knowledge) (for this is your creed)
To the TREE (giving Life) must infallibly lead.
Ah ! this was the doctrine (we know to our cost)
Whereby Eve was deceiv'd, and this world of ours lost!!!

Sir, when doctrines like these are held up to applause,
And back.'d, Protestant England, by Protestant laws!
When those (sworn as guides) to this Protestant realm,
Let the ship run adrift while they sleep at the helm!
When a mutiny rises—to scuttle the ship,
Pa the lights out (MORE SLILY the cable to slip,)
When the compass is lost—Oß (WORSE) THROWN OVER-

BOARD,

How, then, can the anchor of Hope be restored ?
Still our captain is Christ, (tho' ourfoes haveforgot Him,)
All hands to the pumps, (oR) ALL HANDS TO THE BOTTOM
Liverpool, November 12, 1842.

* (To the English) who are uninitiated in the (po2e/raja)
of Popery, it may be as well to explain, that this alludes to a
circumstance which occurred in Ireland during the Rebellion
of 1798. In the summer of that year, (lest the Protestant
tares should run to seed,) the Pope thought it advisable to
give them a little pruning, or (so scorch them with gunpow-
der) as to arrest vegetation. The priest who (as usual) was
in the van when a shot was fired at this wise husbandman,
used to take a bullet out of his pocket, in order to encourage
his followers, by sheaving that (he) was invulnerable. This
knowing shot " was, however, finally killed ; when the
accident was accounted for as above.

THE " POOR" PRIESTHOOD.--The Rev. Mr. Kearney,
the Ronan Catholic parish priest of Clane, in the diocese of
Kildare, who died last Wednesday week, left by his will,
£B,OOO to the Right Rev. Dr. Healy, for the college of Car-
low; £5OO to the poor of the parish of Clane; £3OO to the
Society for the Propagation of the Faith; and £2OO to the
convent of Clane.

LONG COMITSHIPS.—Married, on the 27th ultimo, at
usea, Mr. Isaac Harries, draper, to Miss Jane Harries,
ner, Castle-street, Swansea, after a courtship of about
....us. Lately, at Reidead, after a thirty-nine years'
courtship, Mr. Bicker, butcher, to Miss Daniels. Had the
xample of these prudent couples been more generally fol-
lowed, we should not hear of such a numerous lot of indis-
creet and unhappy marriages.

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CORREST'aND.ENCE,

WHAT IS THE CHURCH ?
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
I beg to offer to your correspondek. " Vindex Ecclesite"
my sincere thanks for his reply, to question—What is
the Church ?—though I am bound to say, because I feel it,
that it does not fully satisfy. The fault may be in myself, not
in his answer. be thinks that "A. M." in particular can
and will answer the question. I hope that "A. M." will;
and I now more especially appeal to him, and I beg that the
answer may he as simple and conclusive as possible.
I will read the sermon which Clericus commends.

TO THF.

I am, Sir, &c.
IURCH OF ENGLAND CHRISTIAN

F.: EDITOR OF THE LIY

Sin,—You will greatly oblige
ing the following in your valuab;

(L. STANDARD

constant reader

As I wish to become an examiner of the Board of Ship-
masters and Mates, I am thinking of joining the Shipmasters'
Association, as it appears the officers of that society have but
one object in view, that is to get a snug berth these bard
times.

Hoppning to hove the misfourton to lose my vessoll in en-
deavouring to explore a passage from Liverpool to London,
but sorry to say the rocks brought me up all standing, I am
now badly off for the want of a situation. If I could get a
ship I could circumnavigate her all round the world, without
chronometer or barometer, no place to sleep in, and nothing
to drink but water and small bear. I can handle a vessel
when the storm is up, but reather afrade of exomination, all-
tho would be quite competent to exomin others when I have
larnt my lesson. A SHIPMASTER
Liverpool, Nov. 131'

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN INDIA

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVI

TOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Every Christian philanthropist must feel anxious for
the extension of the inestimable benefits of his holy religion
to the immense population of the dark and idolatrous regions
of Hindostan, and, consequently, solicitous for the removal
of every impediment that may oppose its salutary progress;
at least as tar as British authority and influence can effect
that object, in that interesting country. But there appears
to be a most formidable obstacle in the way of the extension
and profession of Christianity in India, which it is in the
power of the British Government to remove, in reference to
its own subjects and dominions there, but which, it is stated,
it rather unhappily perpetuates. In a recently published
quarterly number of a periodical sketch of the operations of
an influential foreign Missionary Society (the Wesleyan Me..
thodist,) now flourishing in and by the liberal support of the
British nation, I find the following extraordinary, and by no
means encouraging statement :—" The old Hindoo law,
which deprives every landowner who changes his religion of
all civil and even domestic privileges, is still enforced by the
British Government. Whenever, therefore, a Hindoo, who
may be fully convinced of the errors of his own system, visits
the missionary for the purpose of ascertaining the conditions
necessary to his becoming a Christian, and in reply is told to
"repent and be baptised," he immediately adds, " Will you
maintain me then. All my friends will forsake me : will you
give me rice and clothes."

It is deeply to be lamented that the British Government
should continue to enforce so barbarous and injurious a law
as that above referred to ; and as all missionary societies, and
indeed the whole Christian world, are deeply interested in
its repeal, or abrogation, I would beg leave, through the me-
dium of your paper, to direct the public Attention to the sub-
ject. Surely, Sir, upon a proper application to the British
Government of India, that cruel impediment to the propaga-
tion of Christianity and the destruction of idolatry, under the
auspices of a British Episcopal Christian establishment, in
those eztensive regions, would not be suffered to remain.

I am, Sir, &c.,
PHILO CHRISTIANUS

Liverpool, sth Nov., 1842

THE LEAGUE MONOPOLISTS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SIR,—As Cobden, O'Connell, and Co., are about to make
a glorious lift of " fools' pennies" this week, for the purpose
of continuing their retailers of thread-bare speeches in office ;
it may not be amiss to propose a question or two, the answers
to which would furnish matter for a speech from Cobden of
two or three hours duration, and enlighten very considerably,
the working classes, whose co-operation the League so ar-
dently desire, but of which, hitherto, they have been so
severely disappointed.

Without further prefix the questions are subjoined, with
the belief, that should the League orators forget them, more
sensible persons will not :

1. Is it not a fact, that while the working classes attached
to the establishments of the factory leaguers have been gra-
dually sinking into a state of abject want and wretched po-
verty, the factory lords have been making rapid and immense
fortunes?

2. Is it not a fact, that one of these leaguers, who a short
time called himself a sufferer from the corn-laws, has realised
during the last twenty years somewhere aboat two millions
sterling, or about £lOO,OOO annually ?
3. Is it possible for any set of men to realise such enor-
mous and rapid fortunes compatibly with a fair remuneration
to the working classes?
4. Is it not a fact that in the manufacturing, or League
districts, the labour of the adult male has been superseded by
the employment of WOMEN and children ?
5. Is it not a fact that nineteen-twentieths of the working
population place no confidence whatever in the sincerity of
the League leaders, and deem them a batch of interested
hypocrites ?

6. Is it not a fact that the league are, notwithstanding
their rapidly-made wealth, aiming at the reduction of wages?
How these sir queries should be answered, every man who
thinks will at once see. They are questions, however, with
which such men as Richard Cobden, Esq., 211. P., will not
seriously meddle in.the presence of an intelligent English
audience.

Hoping that you will be able to sfford a small space in your
paper for these remarks, I am, sir, yours, &c.,

CERE

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

Sin,--=Has it not been proposed to preserve the good old
town from fire by the use of- brine, and also to wash the
streets with the same? -Would it not therefore be well to
consider the consequence's of such a pickling?
In extinguishing fires it not only is often necessary to
deluge the building in which the fire originates, but the ad-
joining ones also, to prevent the fire from spreading. Now,
would not a house saturated with salt water be almost as
useless as one consumed by fire? Floors, walls, and all con-
tained within them would, doubtless, well denote any hygro-
metrical changes that took place, and may thus far conduce
to the amusement of any interested in such things, but would
hardly add much to the comfort of the inmates, or be at all
suited for the storing of goods liable to damage from damp.
But will not the watering the streets with salt water have
much more serious consequences upon the comforts and the
property of the inhabitants of the town ? Let us make a
little calculation. Now, suppose that the streets to be wa-
tered daily in dry weather measured altogether 10 miles in
length, by 30 feet wide, that would give us 1,584,000 super-
ficial feet ; let the water be laid on 1-50 of an inch deep,
which will give 2,640 cubic feet of water; then one cubic
foot of sea water contains at least two pounds of salt, we
have, therefore, 5,280 pounds of salt as the produce of one
day's watering, and a moderate watering too. What would
be the consequences of introducing such a body of salt upon
our thoroughfares ? Is it not a constant complaint with our
shopkeepers that on a windy and dry day all their precau-
tions are useless for the exclusion of dust; that the enemy
steals through every crevice? What, then, would be the
effect of such a visitation if a large quantity of that dust was
composed of salts in the form of an impalpable powder, salts
attracting moisture from a damp atmosphere, forming nu-
merous active combinations with matters that they would
meet with, destroying colours, acting upon metals, penetra-
ting wood, brick, mortar, and stone, and rendering them pe-
culiarly sensible of all atmospheric changes? What would
be the effect of a few years continuance of such a salt-water
system? Would there be a dry house in the town? But
without waiting many years for the full development of the
evil, what would be the immediate effect upon those traver-
sing the streets? Would double their present expenditure
in clothing keep them respectably dressed ? Would not one
dusty morning, followed by a shower, turn black hats to
brown, and coats, &c. to all known shades, while a wet day
would make wholesale destruction amongst boots and shoes,
leather and salt water being deadly enemies ; and, moreover,
would not dry feet be a luxury much to be desired but seldom
experienced ? But if the rough sex would thus suffer, who
can point the woes of the softer sex ? Alas ! for silks and
satins, bonnets and trimmings, they would be known only as
things to be mourned for, not that they would be mourned
for if they could be replaced as quickly as destroyed, (for
rumour says that our fair friends love change, but rumour
sometimes fibs,) but what husband or father has a pocket
strong enough to withstand an everlasting shower of brine,
so Mr. Editor I trust you will raise your voice, and exert
your influence, to ward off so great a calamity, and thus pre-
serve to us, in all their beauty, the ornaments of our fire sides,
(spoilt dresses would banish smiles,) and, amongst others,
you would oblige your humble correspondent,
AN INQUIRER.
12th November, 1842.

TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE SCOTCH SECES
SION CHURCH, MOUNT PLEASANT.

GENTLEMEN,—As a member and a seat-holder in the
above-named church, I beg most respectfully to ask, if it is
by your permission that a political clique of " anti-corn "
ladies meet every three weeks within the Scotch Secession
Church, Mount-pleasant, to discuss the corn-law question ?
I ask this question in consequence of seeing a long circular
in last Monday's Albion, dated from that place.
Yours, &c., A SCOTCHMAN,
Liverpool, Nov. 10th, 1842.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE AT SANDBACH.—On Thurs-
day night, about a quarter past eight o'clock, Mr. J.E.
Williams, solicitor, was seen running as hard as he could in
a direction towards Mr. Percival's pool. In a shott time
after a person was heard in the water of the pool. Assistance
was rendered, and in five minutes the body of the deceased was
taken out, quite cold. His hat was found on the grass close
to a lath fence, through which he had broken in his
,w`
aluntid
the pool. The coroner's jury returned a verdict of 'f
drowned."

r • assaults, by
FRIGHTFUL STABBING.—Very ierocious
occurred
which the lives of two men were nearly sacrificed,dnesdaylast. The cir-
cumstances Ellesmere, Shrewsbury, on
of Ellesmere
party of countrymen from the neighbourhood
of Van Amburgh, who was ex-
cunastances are as follows :—On Wednesday evening, a
went to see the performance o•
repn returning home, about
hibiting his feats in that town.ar
I ensued between Edward
a labourer. Tho-
mas o'clock at night, il
of Edward Williams, endeavoured
Williams, a sawyer,
mas Judson, a companion of
when Williams turned round
to persuade him to god stabbed him with a clasp knife in the
upon him (Judson)an
abdomen in such a shocking manner that
and Tbqoumas Mason,
lower part of the He immediately stabbed him again,
the bowels protruded.
on each side 0
near the heart to the depth of two
inches, and this
the breast
would have, undoubtedly, proved fatal had
the knife a
woun glanced against one of the ribs. He then in-
notd about four inches long and nearly half an
flicted
inch deep,
at the back of the neck, and another severe cut from
the crown
e
f the head to the forehead, where the knife glanced
st the bone of the forehead. He also got two severe cuts
again
on the rig
ht hand, in endeavouring to save himself After
having stabbed Judson, Williams went on his way towards
home, and on the road he was told by Thomas Mason that he
was no man for having stabbed Judson, and for having made
use of a knife at all. Williams immediately turned round,
and struck Mason on the bottom of the belly. Mason ex-
claimed
has " Don't knock me there." Some one cried out,
"He stabbed thee ;•" when Mason put his band down
and found his trowsers were cut, and the blood flowing from
a wound two inches deep in his thigh. This cut hadjii,. aiitEd
the scrotum, and was within an inch of the fenlarar ATM\
Mason, on finding he was stabbed, knocked With-anis 4tivi 1....
into a ditch. Williams, on getting up,
immedititelytraii
away, and was seen to throw something out of his hand.', a,..
The knife was found a short distance from the
spot where 10, .
Mason was stabbed ; it is a clasp knife, very sharp, and was. • . ‘,-
bent in the blade, supposed from striking against the ribs of '. •*
,•. Judson. Williams has been committed to prison. Botlithe ‘ ,
wounded men are in a very precarious state. 4
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