The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

INVENTION FOIL THE EASY CONVERSION OF ORDINARY
BOATS INTO LIFE-BOATS.—Owing to a press of assize
and other intelligence, we are reluctantly compelled to
postpone until Tuesday a notice of this and other ingenious
inventions by Capt. George Smith, R.N.

igbe Etherpool gPtanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING,

AUGUST 21, 1840

Our readers may remember that in the autumn of
last year a bazaar was held at the Adelphi Hotel, as the
advertisement told us, " for the relief of the poor du-
ring the inclement season," which realized about
.-€1,200. This bazaar was got. up by the Roman Ca-
tholics but was supported by a very great number of
Protestants. The word Roman Catholic was studiously
!oncealed in the advertisement, arid omitted altogether
In the placards, which latter merely invited the public
t° " come to the bazaar for the poor at the Adelphi."
Ake are now bringing this matter forward to show our
Protestant readers how they have been (as usual) duped
hY the " speaking lies in hypocrisy" of Popery. If
°llv information be correct, the proceeds of this bazaar
have been applied to the payment of the taxes and
rates of the Popish mob of this town, and from the
funds raised at this bazaar it is that the registra-
tion has been well nigh swamped, and that the repre-
-Bentation of Liverpool is nearly in the hands of the
it"lish priesthood. One of their priests (whose name
We know) at a vestry meeting, in Seel-street Chapel,
told his hearers that " he thought the poor would
°e best relieved by having their rates paid, to enable
them to vote at the next election for the candidate who
Would support religious liberty ; and therefore the funds
obtained at the bazaar would be applied to that pur-
Pose." We would ask that priest how, in the name of
"romon honesty, he could recommend such a thing?
Did he not remember under what colour that money
was obtained ? Was there not one present who had
the boldness which a good cause inspires to remind his
conscience keeper of this ? Not one ! It was for the
good of their church, and " the end sanctified the
Means." If this is not obtaining money under false
pretences, we never heard of a case of it. A more
flagrant act of pUblic rascality we really believe was
never recorded. The Protestants, in the honesty of
their hearts, were led, from purely philanthropic mo-
tives, to support a dimity which they believed was to
relieve the physical wants of their poor brethren; but
(we trust it will be a warning to them) they were feed-
ing a viper that seeks to destroy them. The Papists
may now thank the Protestants of Liverpool for the •
faggot votes placed on the register. Well might Sir
Joshua Wairnsley send them a " liberal" donation.
We trust that after this we shall not again hear of Pro-
testants supporting 'Popish halls, Popish bazaars, or
" musical entertainments" at Popish .chapels for " cha-
ritable" purposes. We now know the Popish inter-
pretation of the word " charitable." Protestants, when
Will ye be wise ?

The desecration of the Sabbath has always been one
of the grand means by which Popery has obtained its
ascendancy over the minds of the people. Corrupt as
Man is by nature, and ever prone as he is to choose the
evil instead of the good, we need not feel any surprise
that a system which extends its indulgence towards
those infractions of the Divine law which are so accord-
ant to the innate depravity of the heart should obtain
the meed of popularity. 'We see, on the continent, at
least in all those countries which are under the dominion
131. Popery, the subtle influence of this system. There
the theatres are permitted to be opened on the Sab-
bath, and other public amusements, calculated to charm
the senses, are lavishly provided for the mass of the
people. The priests take good care that their denun-
is,
atinns shall not interrupt an order of things which,
while it leaves the people slaves to their own vicious
13,s8i°ns, secures their attachment to a form of reli-
2'iun' Which not only connives at, hut even sanctions
the °Pen violation of that commandment which en-
je.l"
Us " keep holy the Sabbath-day." It must
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Occur to the observant reader that in this country
hale favoured England—in proportion as the nation
has approximated to Popery, so has the observance of
the
1 Sabbath been neglected, and its desecration encou-
eed• We find the strongest evidence of this fact in
Publication of the celebrated " Book of Sports,"
In the •
knew tune of King James. The wily priests of Rome
well that nothing was more likely to pave the
`en for the
Renee - ascendancy of the Papacy than the indul-
which was then extended to practices so conso-
tutt to
the _
nature of fallen man,

In fact, the whole history of Popery, in every age
and in every clime, is fraught with evidence of the
same system of indulgence. It is this system which
has induced the missionaries of the Romish Church to
assimilate their religious observances as much as pos-
sible with the idolatrous practices of heathen countries.

We have been led to make these remarks from.ob-
serving, in the Dublin papers of the present week, a
notification that the teetotallers are to have a regular
field day next Sunday, :under the patronage of a priest,
the Rev. Dr. Doyle: A public dinner is to take place
in one of the national schools, after which a dessert,
it la Francais, is to be served, with tea and coffee
After these festivities, dancing is to commence. This
is the way in which the Popish priests of Ireland in-
gratiate themselves with the people. Need we wonder,
therefore, that all the vicious and dissipated portion of
the populace--in all countries comprising an over-
whehning majority—should eagerly flock to the stan-
dard of Popery ?

The trick of Alderman Evans has succeeded. Five
gentlemen have been selected as members of the Dock
Committee who are favourable to the proposed scheme
for erecting warehouses on the dock quays _
these gentlemen, individually, it would be wrong in.us
to write a single syllable. No one can say anything in
disparagement of their personal character or public
conduct. They are all men of the highest standing in
town. Their political principles are in perfect unison
with those which we have alWays advocated. They
have, however, committed a fatal error of judgment in
permitting themselves to be made the instruments of
Alderman Evans and his clique. We feel inure strongly
persuaded than ever that they have, unconsciously, and
therefore innocently, thrown the weight of their cha-
racter and influence into the scale against the party to
which they belong. We feel convinced that they will
hereafter acknowledge 'their error, but ire fear they
will, not discover the-false position in which they have
been placed until it becomes too late to retrieve the
mischief which they will have effected.
The chief parties who have been agitating the questio
of dock warehouses, during the last two years, hay
all along had ulterior objects in view, to which th
proposed schethe was' to be rendered subservient
Alderman Evans and his tail have been actuated b

Against

political motives while seeking to carry out their plan

What care they about the accommodations of the port?
Their professions of solicitude for the convenience of
the shipping interests are clearly all moonshine. Their
object has been the creation of an overwhelming amount
of patronage, so as to secure to the faction which hat
now the ascendancy in the Town Council the entire
controul of the representation of Liverpool, both parlia-
mentary and municipal. This is the true secret of the
zeal and pertinacity with which the warehouse scheme
has been prosecuted.
We have repeatedly stated that there can be no
rational objection to having warehouses built on the
dock quays. No one denies that they would be an
acquisition to the port of. Liverpool. The warehouse-
owners themselves have acknowledged the utility of the
plan. But in Securing so important a boon, let there
be care taken that no injustice is done. A public con-
venience would be dearly purchased, at so costly an ex-
pense as that of the ruin of hundreds of families. If we
are to have warehouses, let the public have the benefit
of competition in the matter. Let not the Dock Com-
mittee have the monopoly of these warehouses in their
' hands, with all the patronage to which it would neces-
sarily give rise. Here is the rub. The Whig-radical
Action cannot long maintain their ascendancy without
multiplying their patronage. "No penny, no pater-
noster," is their maxim. If they are to be deprived of
the gigantic amount of patronage which will be associ-
ated with the expensive brick and mortar scheme on
which they have lately lavished so much money, they
will not care one fig for dock warehouses. The mer-
chants of Liverpool may whistle for " increased facili-
ties," unless accompanied by increased patronage.
We do not, however, wish it to be taken for granted
that the Corporation will succeed in carrying their
monopolising dock bill through Parliament. Far from
it. The result of the recent investigation into the
merits of the bill, before a committee of the House of
Commons, ought to convince them that the difficulties
in their way are almost insuperable. They have already
expended some twenty thousands of the public money
in their Quixotic attempt; And are, after all, just as near
the goal to which they aspired as when they first
started.

The opposition which they provoked by their iniqui-
tous plan has, hitherto, proved too powerful for them.

Their withdrawal of the bill was an evidence of a weak

cause,

The agitation of the dock warehouse question is, in-
deed, likely to be attended with far different results
from those which were calculated upon by Alderman
Evans and his tail. Instead of consolidating and in-
creasing the power of the Corporation—the ultima
ratio of the faction by whom the dock warehouse pro-
ject was set on foot—it is probable that the constitution
of the dock Committee will be radically changed—that
the ratepayers will have a larger share of controul over
the appointment of its members—that the monopoly of
the Mersey will be effectually broken up—that Man-
chester will have other docks than those of Liverpool—
and that competition will eventually be the order of the
day, not only in reference to warehouse accommoda-
tion, but also as regards dock room. The proprietors
of the Herculaneum and Harrington Docks have al-
ready acted as pioneers in the work of reform. Their
example will not be lost upon the powerful body of
landowners in Cheshire. Let the Corporation " see