The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK

Stove, Conservatory, Greenhouse, &e.—ln our last we
recommended an early application to the securing a stock
of young plants for autumn, winter, and spring display ;
we also alluded to such plants as were struck from cut-
tings : we now call attention to those which should be
raised from seed, and which, if sown at the proper time,
are now ready for potting, such as Chinese primroses
and cinerarias, which are worthy attention. Very many
plants would be available for spring show, if properly ma-
naged ; thus polyanthuses, hepaticas, scillas, winter aco-
nites, the beautiful shrubs Deutzia scabra, Jasminum
nudiflorum, Forsythia viridissima, and two or three of the
Berberis tribe, never look so well as when cultivated in
pots and slightly forced ; they can then be brought into

the greenhouse, and assist much in supplying that want
of flowers so much felt in the spring of the year.
Flower Garden.—The excessive wet leaves little to be
done besides mowing grass and keeping the borders free
of weeds, which appear with magical celerity. Biennials,
where they have shed their seed last season, will be
springing up in all directions, and these self•sown plants
should be secured and carried to the reserve ground, or
planted where it is wished they should flower. They
always form the beat specimens. Those sown in the seed
beds should be picked out without delay, the weather
being so favourable.

Kitchen-Garden.—The ground is gradually ykfcling
the various crops with which it has been stocked ; as it
becomes clear prepare it immediately for others, as celery,
savoys, kale, broccoli, &c.

MISCELLANE

CFUCORY will turn out to be one of the most important
agricultural as well as horticultural roots that, perhaps,
Nature has ever given us. Every part of it is of great
value—top and bottom, blanched for salads ; green for
cattle, sheep, and lambs; roots for cattle as well as for
coffee, 8.3 c. Immediate attention should be given to it.
Every seed merchant possesses the seed of it, and it is
exceedingly cheap. If chicory was largely grown by the
cattle and sheep farmers, much less-disease would prevail,
and more milk and butter would be produced, and more
healthy meat, as it is so fine a bitter and purilier of the
blood. This root is largely grown in Yorkshire, to mix
with coffee. Our fault is, that by trying to get a large
crop we injure the flavour.—James EstThill, Camberwell.

ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSIIONS.
BVRNING THE BIBLE.

For some time past the streets of London have
been infested by a parcel of dirty people in the dress
of Roman Catholic ecclesiastics. There are few of
our metropolitan readers but must have come across
some of these gentry in our most crowded thorough-
fares. They generally hunt in couples.- A more
unpleasant sight cannot be encountered in the
course of a mornings walk than a brace of these
dirty creatures as they glide about amongst the
people with downcast eyes and hasty step. Of
course, the object is to familiarise the public with
their presence. if Cardinal Wiseman and his Privy
Council in Golden-square could once, in defiance of
the English law,- establish the custom,. we should
soon have our street crowds diversified with every
conceivable costume of monkery. It is- notorious
that when the ROman Catholic Relief Act was
passed a clause was introduced, enacting- " that no
Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, nor any member of:
any of the religious orders, communities, or societies--
of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or-
religious vows, should 'exercise any of the rites or
ceremonies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear
the habits of his order; save within the usual places-,
of worship of the Reiman Catholic religion, or in
private houses." Such' is the law of England, and'
it is perfectly well known to the persons who have
for some time past set it at defiance. It cannot be
said that'this is an old worn out regulation. such as.
the one which forbade-undertakers to- bury the
dead in-linen shrouds.. The same provision was,
no doubt, introduced into various old statutes ; but
when thee-Roman Catholic-Relief Bill was passd in
1829, its was retained,, and solemnly re-enacted.
Nor is there any reason why such a provisionshould
he suffered to fall into-, desuetude. The, Roman
Catholic- chieftains have not eontentei themselves ,
with sending their noisome emissaries, about the
streets ; it would seem as though they had issued.
orders directing them to disturb the Protestant con-
gregations -while engaged in the celebration.of public
worship. To put the existing law in force is, then, .
a simple act of self-defence. But evemewere it not
for this. additional aggravation, the reasons for
maintaining the law in 1852 are stronger than they
were for enacting it in 1829:: It was supposed at,
the time-that the presence of Roman: Catholic
priests—the-passage of &imam Catholic-precessiona,
through the-public streets—naight lead to a violathre,
of the peace. The same danger exists still, and to:
a yet greater extent. We do not praend- to argue
the point as feeling any espedal sympathy for per.-
sons who, .with their eyes -open, set the law at
defiance. Still it would be a deplorable' thing, and
a great reflection upon those who arecharged with
the duty- of maintaining the public peace, if, from
want of timely forethought, any broil. should occur
in the thoroughfares of the metropolis-. It would
only need, It:brace of P-e.eeeslionists, a rabble of little
boys, and a gang of Irish badmen, to-get up a :ow
which might lead to the most seeious casualties,
possibly‘to the loss of life.
It wilt be seen that the Queen, by a proclamation
issued on:Tuesday, has expressed thedetermination
of the government to put down thenuisance. The
proclamation itself will be found subjoined. It is
therein, stated that the Roman Catholic ecclesiastics
do wear the habit of their orders in places of public
resort—that Roman Catholic processions, with all
the pomp,. pride, arid circumstances usual cm such
occasions, do perambulate our streets—that banners
are displayed—symhoh elevated:in the publieeview,
and that consequently the peace of the town is en-
dang.ered. The offenders are solemnly warned that
the law will be put in force against them to its
fullest extent if they, give further occasion of public
scandal. We trust that strict orders may he hence-
forth issued to the police to conduct them to the
nearest station-house.. We would not—all consi-
derations of turmoil apart--have the streets of
London become as the streets of Rome, along
which swarms of unwashed-beings in robes-black,,
white, brown, or grey, are.to be seen passing_ at alle
hours of the day, like clouds over a landscape. The;.
Roman Catholic priests.must make up their minds.
;to submit to the same regulations as.. practically,
-affect the Protestant clergy. Although it is. not
'illegal, no one ever saes a Protestant clergyman
bustling about Fleet-street or the Strand in pudding
sleeves andta square cap. There ise no , law on4the
subject, for- none is. needed. The tacit good. sense
of the Protestant clergy prevents them from. drug-
ging their sacred, vestments through the mud, and
even running the risk of exposing religion to con-
tempt in. the persons of its ministers- merely on a
question of costume. Let the Roman Catholic
clergy follow the wholesome example.. So, again,
with, the practice of out-ofedoor processions and
ceremonials—the thing is simply impossible in
England. However much the moderation of the
bystander& may endeavour to stave off such a result,
the moment would surely have come when a shower
of black mid would lime expressed the state of
public opinion upon this. feature of " Papal Agres-
. sion.". Much more is this likely to be the case if
the processions are absolutely directed as hostile-
movements against the tranquillity of a body of
Protestant worshippers.. It has been reported tous
that in the immediate neighbourhood of Orchard-
street, Portman-square, a platform is erected,, on
which, from time to time, copies of the Protestant
Bible are committed to the flames. We warn the
promoters of such proceedings, as they value their
own safety, to hold their hands while it is yet time.
The Times.
By the QUEEN'.—A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA R.

Whereas by the Act of Parliament, passed in the 10th
year of the reign of His late Majesty King George IV.,
for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects,
it is enacted that no Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, nor any
member of any of the religious orders, communities, or
societies of the Church of Rome, bound by monastic or
religious vows, should exercise any of the rites or cere-
monies of the Roman Catholic religion, or wear the habits
of his order, save within the usual places of worship of
the Roman Catholic religion, or in private houses ; and
whereas it has been represented to us that Roman Catho-
lic ecclesiastics, wearing the habits of their orders, have
exercised the rites and ceremonies of the Roman Catholic
religion in highways and places of public resort, with
many persons in ceremonial dresses, bearing banners and
objects, or symbols, of their worship, in procession, to
the great scandal and annoyance of large numbers of our
people, and to the manifest danger of the public peace ;
and whereas it has been represented to us that such viola-
tion of the law has been committed near places of public
worship during the time of divine service, and in such a
manner as to disturb the congregations assembled therein,
we have, therefore, thought it our bounden duty, by and
with the_ advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our
11 those whom it
' to protect our

subjects in the undisturbed enjoyment of
hts and religious freedom, we are determined
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