The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

ANOTHER. NEW SCHEME.

Mr. Feargus O'Connor has found out another new scheme
for gulling the people. In last week's paper he calls on
them to "perform an easy and pleasant service for three
short months, in order to ensure an eternity of bliss !"
Alas, poor Feargus ! who ever knew of any true scheme by
which an eternity of bliss could be had as a reward for three
months easy and pleasant service ? As to whether any of
his readers will believe him, that is another question. He
has already more than once promised that the people will
have their liberty in three months, but his promises have all
failed. " Will you hear what I prescribe to you—what I
advise to you—and what, if necessary, I will command you
to perform ? Will you perform an easy and a pleasing ser-
vice for three short months, in order to ensure an eternity of
bliss ? Yes ; let your enemies revile you—let your oppressors
condemn you—let your foes despise you as they may, still I
do love you in my heart, because, in the bottom of that
heart, I believe in your virtue, your worth, and your pa-
triotism. I now speak to you only with the blistered
hands, the fustian jackets, and the unshorn (tins ; I seek
not to associate you with any other party in the state.
I tell you that their warfare is that of the rich oppressor
against the poor oppressed ; that you must stand alone or fall
together. My editor--as good, as honourable, as conscien-
tious and virtuous agentlernan and patriot as lives—together
with many other good friends, has endeavoured to induce the
middle classes to join you. I tell you, and I tell you truly,
that they never will join you. Your weakness is their strength,
and from your poverty springs their aggrandisement.
" As well may the lamb with the tiger unite,
The mouse with the cat, or the lark with the kite!"
Take this, without further explanation, as a truism. The
law has been turned against you—the institutions of the
country have been perverted for your ruin; how then,
independently of the law and the institutions, can you
right yourselves? I will tell you. For three months
show your real sympathy for your incarcerated leaders
by subjecting yourselves to the regimen imposed by law
upon them. Abandon all orders but your own—desert the
house of profligacy and dissipation—rnark with your strongest
indignation the man who violates the sacred pledge of absti-
nence—and let that pledge be, the sacred oath to abstain
from every thing profitable to your taskmasters. Thus you
cut off the very sinews of war, and carry desolation into the
ranks of your oppressors. This is but one step—for Ido
not wish you to give up your constitutional agitation, and
your persevering demand for the establishment of the char-
ter of your rights."

Lady Skelmersdale is gradually approaching convalescence.
DATES OF POPISH ERROItS.—The Church of Rome often
boasts of her antiquity, and her members taunt Protestants
with the falsehood, " Your church came into the world 1500
years after ours." Now, if antiquity is to decide the matter,
we do not know whether the Jew might not say to the Ro-
manist, " Our faith must be right, because it is the most an-
cient of all." But we have no fear for Protestantism on the
score of antiquity. It is not one day younger than Christ and.
His Apostles. Let the Papist, if he can, point to a single ar-
ticle of the Protestant faith which was not held by our bles-
sed Saviour and the Apostles. We appeal to the Bible, and
we defy Popery to find one doctrine in our creed which we
cannot abundantly prove from Scripture. But the case is far
different with Popery. We challenge Roinanists to prove
their doctrines from Scriptures. We ask them to show us
where in Scripture is the doctrine of Image worship—of seven
sacraments—of purgatory—of indulgences—of forbidding to
marry—and so on. And not only so, we can fix the date of
many of their abominable doctrines. So far from their being
old, they are modern inventions. Protestantism is, in fact,
the old religion—the religion of the Bible—the religion of
Christ—the religion of the first Christian ages. But Popery
is the new religica. We ask Romanists, " Where was your
doctrine of Purg ory before the year 1432 ?" We defy them
to prove it a day older. We ask them, " Where was the
doctrine of Transubstantiation before 1215 ?—Of Venial Sins,
and the Sacrifice of the Mass, before 1563 ?"—We defy them
to prove them a day older. We might go through the list of
their errors, and prove them to have been brought in by
wicked Popes and corrupt Councils. But we will content
ourselves by furnishing our readers with a table of the dates
of the principal Popish errors, so that they may say to their
adversaries, when accused of holding new doctrines, " Your's
are the new doctrines, our's are the old."

Invocation of Saints A.D.
700
Image Worship 787
Infallibility 1076
Transubstantiation
Supremacy
Half Communion
1415
Purgatory
Seven Sacraments 1547
Apocryphal Books 1547
Priestly Intention
Venial sins
Sacrifice of the Mass
Indulgences introduced in the fifteenth century, but
not sanctioned by a Council till A.D. 15637-Penny Protes-
tant Operative.
THE WEATHER.—We continue to enjoysingularly delight-
ful weather in this quarter—the weather of July rather than
of April ; and the face of nature already presents much of the
bloom and beauty of refulgent summer. No rain has yet fal-
len—it is still dry, serene, and sunny, with the atmosphere
sometimes even sultry—and still does vegetation in all its
forms, appear to be making rapid progress. We find that
similar weather prevails all over England and Scotland ; and
it is justly regarded as the promise of a most auspicious season
for yielding, in great abundance and perfection, the kindly
fruits of the earth.—Scottish Standard.
A FRIEND INDEED.—An Irish physician at Naples, in
writing to a friend in Cork, says :—" 1 know you are fond of
a laugh,—what do you think of the following ? A priest
here bad long.been dunned by his candle-maker, with whom
he had run up a long bill. One day lately the candle-dealer
was called on by a stranger, who demanded the Padre's bill,
paid it, and took away a receipt. The following day came
the priest himself, who, upon hearing the circumstance, and
receiving a description of his friend in need, declared that it
must have been St. James or St. Anthony. Come with
me,' he says, 'to the church.' Upon arriving there what
was the astonishment of the man of tallow and the spectators,
to see the statue of St. Anthony holding in his hand the
receipt for the muttons. The dunning chandler was horri-
fied at having taken money from a holy saint. He instantly
refunded it through the priest, and the latter has received the.
personal congratulation of the king upon his interest in
heaven."