The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-31 00:00:00

A POPISH TE DEUNI

We copy the following offensive paragraph from the Lime-
rick Reporter of Tuesday :
" J. T. Devitt, Esq., J.P., having had intimation that
Judge Ball was to attend at the catholic church of Castle-
council, on Sunday last, was in attendance to receive him.
Mr. Devitt conducted the learned judge to a pew, and re-
ceived from his lordship one pound for the poor-box. After
the celebration of the holy sacrifice, the Rev. Mr. Kenny
delivered a sublime discourse on the gospel of the day, at the
termination of which he added the gratifying reflection—
after ages of persecution had gone by—of beholding a catholic
judge once more amongst them in their temples, and joining
in the celebration of the mysteries of their holy religion."
Time was, when we should have commiserated Mr. Justice
Ball on the mortification which he must have endured from
the intrusive impertinence of a partisan priest, magnifying
the political importance of his church, and indulging in a
party triumph by making his religious exercises the theme of
fulsome panegyric and sectarian boast; But with sorrow we
observe the line recently taken by this judicial functionary—
and as it appears to be of choice, rather than necessity—a
matter of taste, or expedience, and not of duty—we cannot
help saying that it removes him beyond the sympathy of the
classes amongst which he should have contin
ed to move ;
and we, therefore, consign him to the tender mercies of that
spirit of admiration which his new character appears to have
engendered. If Mr. Justice Ball ever blushes, what must
he have felt upon the delivery of such a Personal address
from an altar, and the direction of the whole eyes of a o
gregation upon his countenance ?' 'We can scarcely imacginne.
anything more dreadful.—Dublin Evening Mail.

ZLESSNESS.-It is well that there is no one without
for he would not have a friend in the world ; he would
belong to a different species.—Hazlitt.

kORDINARY PROLIFIC BARLEY.-Mr. S. Barnes,
;?ar drilled in two acres with six
and, dibbled one acre with less than one peck of
and most astonishing to relate, there are at this time
to be seen from 100 to 150 stalks of grain growing from one
corn, and some of the ears contain from 30 to 40 corns in
each ; and last year the same gentleman grew nearly 24 sacks
of grain per acre, of good quality. Its properties for malt-
in have been tried, but of course on a small scale, and found
to answer well. Mr. Barnes will be happy to show the
barley as now growing to any gentleman who may be desirous

Westbury, has this

ALARMING POSITION OF MANY SCHOOL ROOMS.--In a
previous part of this work, I have stated that over some de-
positaries for the dead, children of both sexes are educated.
In some instances, indeed, school rooms have been erected
or employed immediately over the emanations given off by
human putrescency, and in others, the spot chosen for the
purposes of education is in the immediate vicinity of such
emanations. This hazardous exposure of the susceptibilities
of youth to malarious influence, must be the result of igno-
rance or thoughtlessness on the part of those who have pro-
jected so unwise and dangerous a measure. It cannot for
oue moment be imagined, that the benevolent feeling which
prompted the desire to promote the moral improvement of
the young would, intentionally, be instrumental in exposing
them to influences that must inevitably deteriorate their ge-
neral health and bodily vigour. I venture to anticipate that
the mere allusion to the circumstance will be sufficient either
to occasion the removal of these places of instruction, or that
the causes, operating to render them so highly objectionable
and destructive, will be annihilated. Children, the minia-
tures of an enlarged existence, are a valuable property of the
empire ;—remotely they may contribute to its joover or re-
sources. to its strength or its weakness.--Gatherings from
Grave yards.