The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-02 00:00:00

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poverty of our ow'a labouring elaiies to this very
Their Sisters. of Charity perambulate

account

our streets,

with bread or money in on

hand and a Popish

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radically upon the inst mom(
the purpose of their perversion

lo set us such an exi

iple ought to be the I Of artiel

last to complain if they, find

We rejoice at the

an I Call 1.14 await, uuLtam. a 4 picncitu tau 1 CUM.
• while at the same time all articles of food
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what appears to us to be a merely temporal calamity Eosses—celebrated,for their texture and durability ; linens
may have been visited upon unhappy and benighted woven in Ulster by people of both sexes, &c. He is not
Ireland for the eternal good of her population.' favorable to bazaars oncgeneral principles, but thinks that
in the present emergency, such a bazaar stocked with the
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i usual articles, and in addition to them those mentioned,
ponclo4) of the London Times has sug transmitted from Ireland by a committee, would result in
Bested; as one Means of lightening the pressure of
raising a large sum. Our respected townsman William
the existing. scarcity of provisions, the adoption of Mann, Esq., merchant, after alluding to the destitution in
some voluntary ledge, by which domestic waste Ireland and Scotland and the means, by Government, and
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may be prevented, and even the consumption itself by subsetion taken to. relieve it, is of opinion. that,
. . praiseworthy as both are in such an emergency,. subscrip-
,of food may. be • lessened. For this purpose he tion lists do not embrace the great body of the people who
urgea the holding of public meetings throughout would be desirous to give to the extent of their means, if
the country, at which statistical information could the opportunity were offered them. His suggestion is that
be given with respect to the extent to which the collections should he made in every church throughout the
existing and available supplies of food are capable kingdom, upon each Sunday morning, in the way pre-
of being increased. Our contemporary remarks r
'bed in our Book of Common Prayer, and adds :—_
Every churchman would then have the opportunity of
upon this proposition that— .. - contributing according to his means : those who had gained
' There is a more appropriate quarter whence the exhor- much during the week might, in faith, give liberally ;
tation might proceed, and with the certainty of produc- whilst those who earn their .subsistence within a more
ing a far higher. effect than could be achieved either by limited sphere, would be enabled, in equal faith, to give
the press or by popular discussion. If the miiiistersi of something to those who, in the inscrutable dispensation of
religion of all denominations, would devote a few minutes Providence, are perishing from hunger." He also sug-

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upon any one occasion to an emphatic appeal to their gests the vesting of the amount collected in each diocese
congregations, showing that economy constitutes the only with the respective diocesans, they remitting it to the
immediate remedy for scarcity, (since, however readily head of the hierarchy in Ireland, to be by him appropri-
we may open our pursess and thus enable. those to obtain ated, through the hands Qf the resident clergy, to such
food who may want.it most, we cannot by. that means in-. parishes as are in the greatest need. and!to all that need,
crease the stock;) the duty which each individual owes to without discrimination as to creed or otherwise. The
the great family would speediiy be recognized, and ckeise- suggestions are well worthy of immediate practical Oon-
queaces might be obtained which, although imperceptible aideration by the olergy,