The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-28 00:00:00

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THE " LAY CHURCHMAN" OF THE ALB lON.—The
anonymous ass, whom we reluctantly condescended
to notice in our publication of Friday last, has, we
observe, been emboldened to amuse himself and the
public—suo pretio—with a few more of his nasal
notes, through that favoured organ, the Albion. Still
imagining himself "pelle Leonis indutus," enve-
loped In the formidable and imposing tegument of
signature, " A Lay Churchman," his innate obtuse-
ness and stupidity render him incapable of remarking
the loud guffaw bursting from all quarters at him,
while the exclamation is as general as it is true—
"lVomen, et preterea nihil !"
We, however, are free to confess, that had this long-
eared animal been as rude ishly disposed in his for-

vier, as he is anxious to appear in his present, tilt
against our local clergy, we might have mistaken—
no, no—impossible! No one, acquainted with the
first principles of natural history, could possibly mis-
take the " ignarus asinus"—with head and tail equally
Pendent, and as admirably depicted in the Albion—
for the majestic lion, from head to other extremity
erect, and with eye and voice ingenuously indicative
of his real title and character.

It is not for the purpose of following that despicable
creature through all his vagaries and doublings, that
we once more " cast a look over our shoulder" at him :
were it so, we would richly deserve to be pointed at
as "asinus asinurn fricans"—a notoriety and dis-
tinction we have not the emulous spirit to court, how.
ever naturally it may come to the present object of
our notice. But whatever disinclination we may feel

to comfort the brute by friction—(the few wholesome
stripes we inflict on his tough hide serve only to
quicken his drowsy intellect)—we have no reluctance

to come forward to rescue the monarch's skin from
degrading contact with the asinine back. In our
former article on this subject, we are pleased to learn,
we fully succeeded in doing so, to the satisfaction of
true lay Churchmen ; but, should any gentle reader
still feel sceptical as to the identity of character we so
happily succeeded in giving, we need only refer him
to the animus pervading " A Lay Churchman's" last

letter, to see all the lineaments fully and faithfully
developed,—the only difference being, that darker
shades of depravity and venom distinguish it. He
presume to style himself "A Lay Churchman," who
would insidiously endeavour to sow dissension in the
sanctuary ? Monstrous! He have the assurance to
assume the name of " A Lay Churchman," who dares
to designate as "locusts," &c. &c. (merely because
they are Irishmen)—men who, having been trained

for-the ministry in a land where our Protestant Church
is an oppressed and persecuted one—in a land where
Popery tries every stratagem to beguile the unstable
and unwary—in a land where bigotry, superstition,
and their attendants, misery and wretchedness, neces-
sarily excite the tenderest Christian sympathies, while
they call forth the most strenuous and active ministe-
rial exertion for their removal,—have been, as it were,
driven, by the providential economy of an all. wise and
beneficent Being, to drink deeply at the fountain which
purges away all artificial, worldly, idolatrous daubings
from the naturally fair features of Religion, and thus
rendering her a beautiful transcript of the Bible itself?
Preposterous! Sure we are, we only speak the sen-
timents of the English clergy and Protestant laity,
when we affirm, that for piety and zeal—for deep
Scriptural knowledge and sound orthodox principles—
for Christian sympathy, fidelity, and benevolence, the
clergy resident among us from the Sister Isle are
unsurpassed by any body of Christians in this or any
other country. True—if it be a crime now-a-day—
they have assumed the elevated and intrepid tone of
the persecuted Reformation martyrs, who were heed-

less of praises or censures of man, whilst the convic-
tions of their own consciences were established and

strengthened by the immutable standard of revealed
truth—the Bible. That Liverpool appreciates such
characters, augurs well for her Christian proficiency;
and that such characters arouse the maddened invec-
tive and vituperative scorn of such pitiable creatures
as " A Lay Churchman," must be highly satisfactory
to them. But poor Mr. M'Neile! how is he ever to
get over the indelible disgrace of being a " novus
homo" ? After four or five years of unexampled use-
fulness in our town, to be still a "novus homo" in the
estimation of "A Lay Churchman," augurs himself
an " ignotus et ignobilis homo"—asinus, we should
have said.

One word with regard to the Tory "A Lay Church
man" represents as having used such indecorous ex-
pressions in allusion to the trusteeship of the new
churches, and we have done. The Tories who honor
the Standard-office—and they are not a few, nor
talentless—are not a little gratified when they find
such a gall as "A Lay Churchman," with whose cre-
dulity they can amuse themselves. In the present
instance such has been the case, we feel assured ; for
this "Lay Churchman" was observed, on the morning
when our original article appeared, with mouth open,
hurrying from place to place—" his thunder" the sole
subject of his conversation—and, of course, as it is a
propensity of our nature, all desirous of " sending the
fool further" administering some stimulus to excite
additional merriment. Lo! how well our Tory
friend's device has .succeeded l—for can you, gentle
reader, without the hearty exercise of your risibles,

peruse such a pitiable production as "A Lay Church-
man" has produced ? We respectfully take our leave
of him with this one remark, that, if he desire to be
respected, he must be honest, and wear his own skin,
ass's though it be.

TRUSTEESHIP OF THE NEW CHURCHES.—We feel
concerned to learn that we were in error, on Tuesday
last, in saying that the appointment of Trustees to the
new Churches, to be erected by the Liverpool
Church Building Society, might be considered as de-
finitively fixed upon, and that the future election
might be considered as merely formal. From the in-
formation which we received, and upon which our re-
marks were grounded, we conceived that there had
been some sort of general appeal made to the sub •
scribers on the subject, and that the announcement
which we made was the result of such appeal. We
are, however, informed, and we hasten to lay the in-
formation before our readers. in order to disabuse
them of any prejudice which they may have con-
tracted, that the appointment of Trustees will rest
entirely with the subscribers, as agreed upon at the
preliminary meeting. Of course the subscribers will
be at perfect liberty to determine the time and mode
of nomination and election.
We rejoice to find that the contributions already
amount to upwards of £14,000, and that the list of
annual subscribers has been considerably augmented.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT GLASGOW.—We refer our
readers, with feelings of peculiar gratification, to the
reports which we this day publish of the admirable
speeches delivered by Sir James Graham at Glasgow,
both on the occasion of his installation, and on the
presentation to him of the freedom of the city. His
allusion to the progress of Conservative and Protes
tant reaction in Glasgow, evidenced by the fact that
the freedom of the city was spontaneously bestowed
upon him by the Town Council, after that body had
refused a similar honour to Lord Stanley and Sir
Robert Peel, was as felicitous as it was encouraging
to the hopes of every true Conservative. His remarks
on the state of the navy, and the necessity for main-
taining that " right arm of Britain's strength" in full
efficiency for every emergency, were also most forcible
and appropriate. In vindicating himself from the
charge of inconsistency, and from the other calumnies
of his enemies, he was eminently successful: while
the bold and uncompromising manner in which he
avowed his devoted attachment to the sacred cause of
Protestant ascendancy does equal honour to his bead
and his heart.

NEW, QUICK, AND HUMANE METHOD OF

-SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS

I take this method of announcing to the public, that I have
discovered, and, after a long series of experiments, matured
a new, quick, and humane method of slaughtering animals
for human food, which promises to be of the greatest benefit
to mankind, and for which her majesty the queen has been
graciously pleased to grant me her royal letters patent.
The physiological principle upon which this discovery is
founded, and the existence of which was first ascertained by
myself', is, that a power, of great and extensive use to animal
life, is derived from the stretch in which the lungs are held
both in the living and recently dead animal, in opposition to
their elasticity. In consequence of this power existing after
death, while the antagonist and controlling power derived
from irritability was destroyed with life, the blood, lymphatic
and lacteal fluids, are all drained from the arteries and smaller
veins of the larger circulation, and from the lymphatics and
lacteals into the vicera and blood-vessels within the chest,
and into the roots of the larger veins approaching to it.
It is impossible, and would be unseasonable, to enter fully
into the physiological doctrine in an address of this kind.
Such as may wish to be better informed on the subject are
referred to a paper of mine, printed in the Philosophical Tran-
sactions for 1820, on the "Elasticity of the Lungs;" to ano-
ther paper of mine, printed in the Transactionsof the Medico-
Chiruryical Society of London for 1821, on the "'acuity of
the Arteries after lleath;" and to the articles, "Respiration,"
Motion of the blood," and "Absorption," contained in the
second edition of the Inguiry into the Causes of the Motion of
the Blood, published in the year 183.3.
The object of the mode of slaughtering recommended is, to
remove the impediments which nature has set up against the
elasticity of the lungs, on the existence of which impediments
life in a great measure depends, and, of course, to allow the
lungs to resiliate into their natural dimensions, or, in other
words, to collapse, while the animal is still alive.
The method of removing these impediments in the circum-
stances stated, to break fully and at once what may be consi-
dered the mainspring of life, in all animals with elastic lungs,
in the most humane manner, has been the object of long
and anxious consideration, and of much varied experiment.
The results have been effectual and conclusive.

The effect of this method of slaughtering is to retain the
lymphatic and laci.eal fluids, and, indeed, all the finer juices
of the body, at the same points and in the same proportion in
which they existed while the animal was stilt alive, instead
of being accumulated in the large vessels and discharged out
of the body in a mass, and becoming a nuisance.
The result is an increase of the edible part of a carcase, to
the amount of at least one-tenth beyond that which it would
supply by any mode of slaughtering hitherto in use. The
meat thus obtained is more juicy, tender, and far better fla-
voured. It sets sooner, and, of course, is earlier fit for use.
It keeps much longer sweet and untainted. This remarkable
and important property is evidently derived from none of the
vessels being empty so as to admit the external air, and from
an oozing of juice or lymph from the full vessels, when any
portion is cut, upon the raw surface of that portion, and, by
its tenacity, forming a sealed cement. This property is of
great importance to butchers. who lose a great deal of meat
in certain states of the weather; to the public in general,
but particularly to mariners and to the inhabitants of warm
climates.

The time to which this meat will keep in different states of
the weather has not been ascertained, for it has always been
used be fore any marks of approaching putrescency have been
discovered; but, in the course of last autumn, this meat con-
tinued sweet and untained for many days after other meat,
killed at the same time and placed in the same circumstances,
had given such proofs of spoiling as to render it necessary to
cook it.

The meat, the produce of slaughtering in this mode, is more
economical. In the first place it never shrinks, but, on the
contrary, enlarges in cooking; the fat, being supplied with
the juices which enrich the muscular or red portion, is much
more savoury, and is more acceptable to delicate palates, and
is, therefore, less wasted. It requires less time to cook. The
centre of a large joint is done neatly as soon as the surface.
These properties ace derived from the meat being less spongy,
and a better conductor of heat than meat obtained by any of
the modes of slaughtering at rirer•ent in use. It preserves
well, and requires a much less quantity of salt. Other valua-
ble properties will present themselves to those who use this
meat, and the method in question is also attended with ad-
vantageous results affecting hides, skins, &c. upon which it is
❑ot necessary now to dilate.

Such of the public as wish to make a trial of what may be
called the patent butcher's meat, upon a short notice being
given, may be supplied by any of the butchers whose names
will be given. Any butcher who wishes to be instructed in
the manner of slaughtering, may obtain that and any other
necessary information appertaining to the patent, by applying
to Messrs. Carson Brothers, the patentee's agents for Liver-
pool.
I may, I trust, he permitted to state, that the addition of
one-tenth, at least, to the edible portion of animals slaughtered

for human food, with a high degree of improvement-in the
quality of the whole, with the property of keeping much
longer, and with a diminution of the expence of cooking, as
well as less waste in the substance cooked, will not be deemed
one of the least important boons which science has, at any
period, been found to yield to the exigencies of human life.
The development of a plan by which a great addition of
animal food may be said to be, as it were, created, will be
considered peculiarly propitious at a time in which the vege-
table food of the country is apprehended to be deficient, and,
if timeously and extensively embraced, may be the means of
preventing, or greatly alleviating, that distress which is always
felt in seasons of scarcity
JAS. CARSON, M.D., F.R.S.
Liverpool, 24th Dec. 1838.