The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-13 00:00:00

Now "mark how a plain tale shall put him down

1. The name of Troupean's late agent is Emile Chappuis.
2. My name is Aubin Chappuis.
3. I do not even know Truupeau, nor have I ever owed him
a farthing.
4. In January last I became the purchaser of the business,
10, St. Mary-axe, as We name affixed to the door, bills, &c.,
shows.

5. lam the sole manufacturer of reflectors residing thereat.
Of these facts Troupean is as well aware as I am myself.
_

Lastly, in vindication of my rights, I am bound to declare
that I am the only manufacturer of the " MYRIASTRACTIC,"
OR PERFECT APPARATUS FOR THE DIFFUSION OF
LIGHT, FREE FROM THE GLARE OF ALL OTHER
REFLECTORS, AND IMPENETRABLE TO AIR OR
WATER, FOR WHICH LETTERS PATENT WERE
GRANTED 20TH APRIL, 1853, the Solicitor-General having
set aside the opposition of the said Troupeau, the proprietor
of a pretended patent. which is practically invalidated by the
fact of his having sold to the public the very article forjbe
preceding twelve months.—l am, gentlemen, yours respZet-
fully, AUBIN CHAPPUIS.
London, 26th November, 1853.
The very identical stories (I ought to say perversions of
truth) have been hawked about London for the last twelve
months, merely resulting in the defeat and confusion of the
originator. In order to silence him once for all, I now chal-
lenge him as follows :
I hereby pledge myself to pay M. Troupeau the sum of five
hundred pounds. by check on mybankers, if he can succeed
in obtaining an injunction to prevent my manufacturing the
Daylight Reflectors.
Further, I authorise my Liverpool manager, E. Benoist, to
furnish his customers with a legal undertaking, whereby he
will, in his name and mine, promise to refund any moneys
paid him for reflectors, together with fifty times the value as
damages, if the said Troupeau should at any time bring any
action against them to enforce the removing of reflectors sup-
lied by me ; and, lastly, I will undertake to defend them in
any such action whatsoever.
PATENT REFLECTOR FACTORY, 10, ST. MARY AXE,.
LONDON.

AUBIN CHAPPUIS.

FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.—" FOr Upwards of nine
years, (writes Mr. Thomas Province, of Winchmore Hill,
Andalesex,) I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent
medicine. I had long previously been afflicted with head-
ache and indivstion ; but a friend having induced me to
make a trial of Frampton's Pills, I now inform you that a
few doses gave me great relief ; and during this long period
of time I have taken them in preference to any other medi-
cine ; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a
better state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills.
I beg further to add; that this medicine is in general use by
my family, and we know of nothing to equal it." In any
case where an aperient medicine is required' they need only
be tried to be universally adopted. Sold by all medicine
vendors. Price Is. lid. per box. See the name of " Thomas
Prout. 229, Strand, London," on the government stamp.
f tCANCF.itOUS TUMOUR ON THE HEAD OF A PERSON 73
YEARS OLD.—Extract from a certificate, made by Mr.
Alexander Ayson, dated Marklands, N.8.,'N0v., 18.51.—" I
hereby certify that I was afflicted with a tumour on the head,
which the faculty termed cancerous. and that I was in the
Perth Infirmary for some time under most eminent medical
men, but deriving no.benefit from their treatment. I left and
was induced to try. Holloway's Ointment and Pills; after
using them for short period the tttmour began to disperse,
and lt is now perfectly cured, allllP:ughtalP 7e3 years of age."

PROTESTA.YT REFOR-MATION
SOCIETY._
WOREDIG MEN'S BRANCH.

O Thnrsday evening a meeting- of 'the-above society
was held.in the Toxteth-hall, Mill-street. The chair was
occupied: by Captain Purnell. Having called upon Mr.
Ware to open the proceedings with prayer; the Chairman
made a few remarks upon the nature of the association,
showing that its object was, not to war with individuals,
but with principles ; not to injure the- victims but to
destroy the Popish system itself,—and then.called upon
Mr. J. Parsonage to move the following resolution:—
"That the events of our own times and country bear con-
clusive testimony that the system of Papal power or the
Romish religion remains unchanged in all those features
which render it dangerous to civil and religious liberty."
Before he spoke to the resolution, Mn Parsonage said he
would explain the principles and object of the Reformation
Society. " Its name," he observed, " is. significant, and
carries our thoughts to the dark days-- of Bloody Mary,
who, according to the undeniable testimony of the his-
torian Hume, put Cranmer, and Latimer,and Ridley, and
many other excellent men to death for their Protestant
principles. By Protestant principles- we simply mean
those leading doctrines of the Gospel which
• were disentombed and brought to light from the sepul-
chre in which Rome had buried them. Not to enumerate
all, which would occupy much time, he had selected the
following :—Man's total ruin by sin.; the efficacy
of the Holy Spirit to quicken and convert his
soul; man's acceptance, first and last, before God only
through the merits of our Saviour Christ; the sanctifica-
tion of the believer ; the freeness and sovereignty of
grace : these, and other kindred truths, constitute, in our
judgment, the distinguishing doctrines of our never-to-
be-forgotten Reformation. To establish these principles,
our English forefathers willingly shed their blood, rather
than submit to Rome, because they could not surrender
justification by faith alone, or admit of any but the one
Mediator ; neither could they believe bread to be flesh, or
wine to be blood ; they could not bow down to images, or
speak of purgatory except as a pernicious delusion ; and
they would not ascribe to a fallible man the unerring
wisdom of the one living and true God. In this sense
we are Protestants, and every upholder of scriptural truth
will protest against Popish errors. and corruptions, which
are as irreconcilable with the word of God as they are
destructive of immortal souls. Our movement is
based upon Holy Scripture, and in unison with the
recorded sentiments of the Established Church ; for
we conceive that the great religious principle of the
Protestant Reformation is plainly stated in the sixth
article of our Church. It is this : " Holy Scripture con-
taineth all things necessary to salvation ; so that whatso-
ever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby, is
not to be required of any man that it should be believed
as an article of the faith, or be thought requisite or neces-
sary to salvation." We hold that it is the right of every
man to hold and exercise his private judgment upon Scrip-
ture, which is the only infallible rule of faith. Conse-
quently, we sympathise with our Roman Catholic fellow-
townsmen, who are under the dominion of a system which
has ever been hostile to the word of God : they hate the
light, their deeds and intentions being evil ! When
Martin Luther, the great reformer, gave to the world
his translation of the New Testament, the historian re-
marks, " The Reformation was thenceforward taken out
of his hand, God showed himself, and man was seen as
nothing !" And our confidence is not in man, but in the
use of those weapons which are mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds. We are determined
not to heed those who advise quietness, and counsel
peace with Rome. No, though we love Romanists, yet
we hate Romanism and detest it, and our cry, as
we oppose Popish superstition and tyranny, shall ever
be, No peace with Rome !" Some of our Protestant
brethren fancy that Popery has changed, and say that
she is not now in the 19th century what she was
in the days of her Innocents and her Hildebrands.
We doubt not their sincerity ; but we believe it to
be a delusion, and we propose to use means calculated
to expose this miserable deception, too successfully prac-
tised upon the credulous by the crafty advocates of Popery.
Something in this direction is already accomplished at our
North Institute, where weekly above 500 persons, chiefly
men, are instructed in Protestant principles. We are
about to form a Tract Distribution Society, to lend tracts
on the idolatry, treason, immorality, absurdity, cruelty,
and priestcraft of the Popish system ! In reference io '
the disloyalty of Popish priests, he read from Dr. Cahill's
lecture on the Social Condition of Ireland the following
extract :—" I perceive now there is no slander or articles
against us in the Times. And do you know why ?
Because Napoleon 111. stands at the head of 500,000 men.
* * * * Austria has turned the Times newspaper
out of her dominions ; the Queen of Spain has prohibited
it also ; Bulwer was turned out at forty-eight hours' notice
from Spain, in consequence of his interference with the
Catholic worship. We have now seven Catholic thrones ;
and when Leopold dies, his son, having married into a Ca-
tholic family, we may expect an eighth. So,as God is just, we
may expect the triumph of the true faith!" He continued :
Mark the language of this loyal priest. Now, Napoleon
is still at the head of ins 500,000 Frenchmen, and yet the
Times has written against Popery; and in last Friday's
paper it represents the Roman Catholic Church as rampant
rather than triumphant throughout the whole of southern
Europe, and tells us that the Papal Government is exe-
crated
by its own immediate subjects ; and that it needs
but the first burst of war to shatter the system on its very I
centre. Now, let us ask, where is the fear, on the part of
the Times, of Napoleon, or his French soldiers ? But the
Times says more :—" There is no stronger revolutionary
element in the European system at the present time than
the growing despotism of the Roman priesthood." Is it to
succeed ? No. " Whether it will be chastened by the
immediate action of the persons aggrieved, or whether it
-.411 fall Lu pieces to LILC ptc;.,ru,c kyr Al eat, polltleal events,
it is not for us to determine, but fall it will, and that ere
long !" Where is Dr. Cahill's triumph of the true faith ?
Allow me to ask, what are we to understand by Dr. Cahill's
allusion to Napoleon's (3.0,000 men intimidating the Times?
I believe it may be thus interpreted. Dr. Cahill hopes that -
there will be a war between France and England, and that
France will conquer England, so that his Church may have
a chance of recovering her long lost supremacy in our beloved
land. The priests of Rome are dangerous subjects,—and we
cannot wonder at their sentiments when we call to mind
the fact that their sworn fealty to the Pope must neces-
sarily destroy their allegiance to the Queen. Nay, more, it
is their opinion that our Sovereign's title to the throne of
England ought not only to be set aside, when an effort to
that effect can be safely and successfully ventured on,
but cannot be legally ratified by the coronation, inas-
much as that ceremony was wholly invalid, having been
performed by a Protestant and heretical Prelate ! What
can we expect from men of such principles ? And if you
doubt that they hold such principles, hear the oaths taken
by Jesuits on being admitted to that society. Mr. Parson-
age then read the oath taken by Jesuits, laying particular
stress upon the following words—" he (the Pope) hath
power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, common-
wealths, and governments, all being illegal without his
sacred confirmation, and they may be safely destroyed."
These are the men who put themselves forward as
the advocates of liberality and philanthropy. Their
charity is akin to that which Cardinal Bellarmine, in his
standard work on Maynooth College, explains in the
following significant language : " When heretics (Protes-
tants) are strong, they should be committed to God ;
when weak to the executioner, because it is an act of
kindness to obstinate heretics to take them out
of this life, for the longer they live, the more errors they
invent, the more men do they pervert, and the greater
• damnation do they acquire unto themselves." And in
Liverpool there are Romanists who are not quite
divested of this sanguinary spirit of persecution—men
who countenanced that shameless perverter of history,
the vindicator of the diabolical and bloodthirsty cruelty
of the infernal Inquisition ! Yes, our Roman Catholic
townsmen heard, with delight and cheers, the following,
among other statements, from Mr. Northcote " The
inquisition made use of torture, as one of the judicial
means of getting at truth ; and it is not to be denied that
the inquisition did deliver heretics (Protestants) to the
arm of the secular power, knowing that they would be
put to death I" What can we think of men who presume
to vindicate this seven-headed monster, which destroyed not
less than fifteen millions of human beings ; who justify the
massacre of the Albigenses, the most peaceful, industrious,
and godly people on earth, who were persecuted, pillaged,
burnt out, and murdered, simply on account of their
religion ! When such men are applauded for falsifying
history, and misrepresenting Protestantism, are we to be
idle ? No ; we resolve, through Divine assistance, that
our efforts will never cease until we convince every work-
ing man in Liverpool that Popery is essentially what it
ever was ; that it inspires its votaries with a similar spirit
to that which of old led to the murder of Cobham, and to
despoiling the grave of Wickliffe, and which has been
ready, in every age, with the fire and faggot, to put to
death every one who dared to dissent from its tenets.
Look at the priests in Ireland, who endanger the lives of
harmless men by publicly denouncing them in their
chapels. No wonder that the laity should drink in the
same spirit, for, like priests like people ; therefore they
cheer the advocate of torture and murder, even of the
horrible Inquisition ! In speaking of such a system, we
cannot use gentle terms.
" Away with charity that soothes a lie,
And thrusts the truth with scorn and anger by;
Shame on the candour and the gracious smile,
Bestowed on them that light the martyr's pile."
Come then, Protestant townsmen, unite with us in our
efforts. By the noble army of martyrs, by the sacred
ashes of confessors, and by the scattered dust of a thousand
witnesses for the truth, who died rather than crouch to
Antichrist, be staunch in defence of the Protestant reli-
gion and the liberties of England.—(Great applause.)
Mr. War. CLARKE seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. THOS. WORRALL (missionary) moved the second
resolution, to the effect that "the meeting, being fully per-
suaded that Popery is the great apostacy, and contem-
plating the large amount of good which is likely to result
from the operations of the Liverpool Working Men's
Branch Reformation Society, in exposing the same, desire
to give it its cordial support." Mr. Worrall referred to
Scripture for proof that Rome is the seat of apostacy, that
the Pope is Antichrist, and that the Church of Rome is
apos ate. He then invited the working men to join the
Reformation Society, and to bring Romanists to its meet-
ings, to defend the doctrines of their Church, from time to
time ; but not to bring men like William George M`Ewan,
but honest, sincere Romanists. To show them what he
meant, he would read to the meeting the " Recantation of
William George M`Ewan," written with the latter's own
hands, and presented by him to the Rev. W. F. Taylor.
Mr. Worrall then read as follows :
" Having been led, by hasty and unfounded data, to re-
ceive the doctrine of Transubstantiation, and having had
reason, from more mature judgment, to consider it as an
imposition, and as a traffic in the souls of men, I consider
it my duty to declare that I now abhor that Christ-killing
doctrine ; and that I am sorry, to the bottom of my heart,
that I should have ever lent myself to the support of such
a soul-clestroytng dogma. I now beg, in the spirit of deep
humiliation, to recant my former error, and to declare my
conviction that the doctrine of Transubstantiation, as held
by the' Church of Rome, is blasphemous in theory and
idolatrous in practice. " I rev et that I should ever have
connected myself with Deicides, who profess to adore their
God, and then to eat him ! I wish to be reconciled to the
Protestant Church of England, as a branch of the Catholic.
Church of God. As part reparation of my error, I am
willing to make this a public- statement.—Williern George
ArEwan_, formerly master of St. Mary's school, Kirkdale."
Mr.. NYPS44-14. SOMO few days after 11ir.. 7g,EwajA

gave in this recantation, he (Mr. W.) was informed by his
friend Mr. Bennett of very inconsistent conduct practised
by this same professing • penitent. Consequently, he was
not received into fellowship with the Church of England;
and now this same recantation-writer is coming forward,
with unblushing effrontery, to dispute about religious doc-
trine. He thought such a man's conduct should be ex-
posed ; therefore, he made these remarks. After stating
that they feared no man; but did not like to encourage
impostors, Mr. Worrall moved the second resolution.
Mr. EATON seconded it, and it was carried unanimously.
Mr. WARE moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
which Mr. Grindrod seconded, and the meeting separated
after singing the doxology.
Several workin,;-men afterwards gave in their names as
members.