The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The
eoncluding lecture of Dr. Grant's course upon the struc-
ture and history of the articulated classes of animals shall
appear ill our next.

!be Eiberpoot ,Stantiarti.

FRID,IY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1838.

. _
ta• The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this

morning at 5 o'clock

IATIL EFFECTS OF SUPERSTITION AND IGNORANCE
,"1 iItILAND."—The LIVERPOOL STANDARD of Tuesday
last contained a hideous and revolting narrative of
cruelty and
and filthy murder, committed by one of those foul
vagabonds—those base and unprincipled im-
Postors--which infest and prowl through Ireland un-
der the naive and mask of "monks." As a deed of
cold-blooded atrocity, when perpetrated in Ireland, it
Is neither a novelty nor a wonder ; for, unhappily for
that wretched country, such acts of iron-handed bar-
barity, such desperate malignity of heart and pur-
Pose, are of too frequent, and even ordinary occur-
rence, to require any other comment than the indig-
nant reprobation which every member of society must
utter at the fierce infraction of its laws, though, as in
the case with the sister isle, that reprobation will fall
powerless and ineffective upon the habitual defiers and,
outragers of every social and moral obligation. It is,
therefore, that looking upon the murder of the inno-
cent and helpless infant by the monster Carmelite,
*ten horrified as we may be at the slow and lingering
proses' of brutality and starvation by which his end
Was accomplished, still, as an isolated act of blood-
guiltiness and ferocitv,cotnmitted in a land which reeks
from one end to the other with the same dark and in-
effaceable stains, it is not perhaps (politically speak-
ing) entitled to a tithe of the notice we have already
given to it.

But there is a consideration which takes this act of
murder out of the mass of similar enormities, and
places it before our 'eves in a distinct and separate cha-
racter. There are reflections which, while they de-
stroy its identity with the system of terror and vio-
lence for centuries the only distinguishing qualities of
our Irish fellow-subjects, give to it a hue and colour-
ing of depravity that deepens in shadow and intensity
the more they loom before the shuddering gaze.
They are these :—The act of the monk Garrick is only
a part and parcel of the system of monkish trickery
practived upon the credulity of an ignorant and be-
nighted population—it is only one of the many fatal
effects of that dark and perilous superstition in which
the wild and exciteable fancies of a mercurial nation
are enwrapped, and which has in this, as in every other
example of the kind, brought them blind and wondering
to the feet of their spiritual tyrants, either the partici-
patbrs of their guilt or the victims of their perfidy. It
is true that the act is, in the words-of modern times,
without parallel or precedent—that is, undiscovered
and unconvicted. It is true that the statement of a
hypocritical pretender to sanctity, trading upon the
lives and sufferings of deserted orphans, and earning a
criminal as well as a polluted livelihood by a phara-
'mical affectation of tenderness and duty, only for the
purpose of indulging the cravings of a ruffian spirit
in its hunger after cruelty and torture, is as novel as
it is startling. It may, perhaps, seem almost conjec-
tural to many, that a wretch could be found so kith
and kindred to " the son of perdition" as thus to set
up a. huatei!s depository for the rejected portions of
outcast humanity, and without the avarice to make
them a barter of blood, to .keep them as the morsels
of his own savage enjoyment. Aye, and it will seem
stranger far than even this, that his den of infamy
should be found in the very heart of a populous city,
and that the victims of his murderous propensity should
be voluntarily supplied by the individuals who should
most shudder at even an allusion to wanton and cause-
less atrocities.
But whatever may have been the feelings with which
the afflicting narrative may have been perused by those
unacquainted with the moral and religious degradation
of the people of Ireland, to those who are painfully
. familiar with the aspect of their spiritual debasement,
and who bitterly know how low and helplessly they are
wallewing in the mire of ignorance, superstition, and
immoral dependency upon the perverted knowledge of
their priests, can find in it nothing calculated either to
excite their scepticism or surprise. Any man who has
seen the miserable and demoralising thraldom in which
the surpliced impostors of Popery have prostrated the
intellectual faculties of every follower of that dark and
. perilous creed; every one who has preceived the work-
ings of that system of jugglery and craft which has for
its object the hoodwinking of the reason and the judg-
ment, but to give liberty to the fancy, the prejudice,
or the passion; and every one who has seen how the
volume of revelation and inspired knowledge has been
closed and sealed up from the inquiry of the great
bulk of the people, and instead thereof, their minds
• filled with every naonstrous and improbable tradition,
every wild sad imaginative fiction—every seductive
'ad plausible- theory which-prepare the willing and
ready dupes fer the successful imposition of any fraud
set of political or religious swindling;—every
64e "'ha has had this experience can at once see into
4.1
Very ettiffie which first prompted the monster in
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to his course of diabolical deception, and
tehmaitie the unfortunate inhabitants of his neigh-
- ogrhood the .ready ministers to his coarse yet hellish
,
4 Can it be for one moment supposed, that if there
tbtre °tie solid and genuine principle of religion in
, tainds of the people; if they had been at all accus-
h`omed to the exercise of private judgment, and if they
11d been early taught to adjudicate, in matters of reli-
gion, between the unauthorised assertions of indivi-
dual' and the authority of holy-writ, that any vulgar
Cod impostor, like the murderer Garrick,
, !lave established himself amongst them as a pre-
tender
to sanctity and devotion, and incline them to
the melancholy
to his appetites of. avarice and cruelty under
alelancholy belief that they were ministering to a
the God ? We will doubtless be told, in reply, of
• followers of the maniac Thom, and those who
*coldtake upon themselves the honourable task of
apologists for the ignorance and subserviency of the
deluded Irish will say, that the instance of so many
becoming the fanatic disciples of that raving madman,
a bible reading and free judging country like Eng-
tal
of nd' is a more than a counter-balancing example to
•—1 the blinded and superstitious dupes of the
blood stained monk. But here we have the infidels
upon the hip. It is to guard against this hazard of
Upon
4tici*ta---it is to oppose a barrier to the progress of
"clismatical inquiry and incipient heresy, that the
scriptures are surreptitiously withheld from the body
of the /Hell people, and only explained to them accord-
itlP; to the caprice or the policy of the priest. Hence
it IS to be coecluded, that the acts of the unlearned
sad uninitiated are traceable to the craft of their teach-
ers, and that the vices and the delusions of the unre-
fleeting and the unthinking, are to be inscribed on the
threaltoldi of those who prohibited them from the exer-
cise of,the.one,:and denied them the opportunity for
tbei(adtalgetice of the other attribute.
Arguing, upon these premises we come to consider

the crime of the Monk Garrick in its true and per-
chance profitable light. In the first place it is a strong
palpable evidence of the state of moral and religious
prostitution in which the Catholic population of Ire-
land is at this moment steeped. It shows how fatally,
how deplorably ignorant they are of those very rea-
soning faculties which distinguish even the cautious
and wary savage; and how blind and groping they
wander on the path, both of this world and the next,
unsuspicious of the thousand perils and difficulties
which beset their unguarded footsteps. In the second
place, it exhibits the fatal facility which their igno-
rance and enthusiasm gives to every impostor, politi-
cal and religious, for converting them into the tools of
his avarice and guilt ; and that no matter how mon-
strous the notion they are to swallow,—no matter how
repulsive to their innate scnse of decency and pro-
priety, so it comes gilded t 9 them from the laboratory
of priest-craft, and is administered to them by some
subtle rogue and knave, with the cowl of a Monk and
the leer of a Jesuit, and they are ready to gape wide
at his bidding, and do their best to gulp down the
nostrum. In the third and last place it is a melan-
choly proof of the mischievous and truly perilous de-
rangement in which the frame of society must be in
Ireland. Trust the fact before you Englishmen.
Millions of people whose religious opinions are of
such a nature as we have been describing cannot be
safe and secure fellow subjects. There must be, and
there is, lurking treason, sedition, and disaffection.
There must be, and there are, the germs of anti-En-
glish, anti-protestant prejudice growing up and ma-
turing under the fostering hand of those monastic
gardiners. And above all, there must, and there will
be, some stronger and more alarming proofs of the
doings of the clerical impostors of Ireland than the
blood-stained tragedy before us.

THE UNITED STATES.—By the packet-ship inde-
pendcnro, C,aptain Nye, which arrived here yesterday,
we have received ;Yew York Papers to the 7th instant
inclusive. We subjoin the most important extracts :
(From the New York Courier and Enquirer of August 6.)
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN.
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM ENGLAND.

By the arrival of the steam-ship Great Western, Captain
James Hoskin, we are placed in possession of London and
Liverpool dates to the 20th July, and Bristol of the 21st.
The Great Western sailed from Kingsroad, Bristol Chan-
nel, at 8 o'clock, p m., on the evening of the 21st of July,
and arrived this morning at 8 o'clock, a.m.,—thus accom-
plishing her third voyage from Bristol to New York in 14
days and 12 hours, notwithstanding her having experienced
more rough weather than on any former occasion. She
brings out one hundred and thirty cabin passengers, and a full
cargo of freight ;—among the passengers we notice the names
of Mr. Power, the justly popular comedian; Mr. and Mrs.
Mathews, (late Madame Vestris,) and Mr. Maywood, the
manager of the Philadelphia Theatre.

BERMUDA.—The British brig Queen Victoria, arrived
yesterday from Bermuda. By a paper published there on
the 28th, we learn the arrival there of the Canadian exiles
from Quebec in H. M. ship Vestal. They are admitted on
their parole of honour to a residence in the main island, and
will experience no interruption in their excursions to any
part of it.

THE GREAT WESTERN.
(From the New York Courier, of the 7th instant.)
This noble ship is once more in our harbour; and if there
existed any sceptics as to the entire success of the great ex-
periment to navigate the Atlantic with steam, the regularity
with which she has made her five passages to and from New
York and Bristol, cannot fail to carry conviction to their
minds that all doubts iu relation to this great undertaking
should at once be discarded. _ .

We have been permitted to copy from her log the following
full particulars of her last voyage ; and we believe we may
with safety assert, that for four days in succession, she en-
countered rougher weather than is usual at this season of
the year. During this period of successive gales of wind, with
a heavy sea, an admirable opportunity was afforded of testing
her qualities as a sea boat; and never did a vessel give greater
satisfaction, or elicit greater admiration from those on board
of her than did this noble ship.
And now that foreign capital has thus tested the great su-
periority of steam in navigating the Atlantic, we confidently
expect that our enterprising merchants will at once make ar-
rangements to secure to our city the same superiority i❑ steam-
ships that we have heretofore exhibited in our unequalled
sailing packets.

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