The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

PROTEST

We, the undersigned, by nation, Jews, and having lived
to the years of maturity in the faith and practice of modern
Judaism, but now, by the grace of God, members of the
Church of Christ, do solemnly protest, that we have never,
directly or indirectly, heard of, much less known, of a prac-
tice existing amongst the Jews of killing Christians, or using
Christian blood; and that we believe this charge, so often
brought against them formerly, and now lately revived, to
be a foul and Satanic falsehood.
Signed, H. S. JOSEPH,
Formerly Rabbi and Reader in the Jewish
Synagogue at Bedford.
George Lazarus, Simeon Franklin,
Hannah Lazarus, Julius Lazarus,
Adolphus 011endorff, Hannah Lazarus,
Cath. Amelia 011endorff, Abraham Nathan,
J. Burnsteine, Jos. Saml. Friedlander,
Hannah Herbert, Henry Myers,
Frances Marcus, Henry Levi,
Jane Marcus, Simon Wilson,
Moses Littaur, Philip Hyharns,
Samuel Herbert, Julia Joel,
Levi Gouldstone, John Joel.

BRANDY AND SALT

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In your edition of the 26th inst., I saw a letter from
Mr. Lee of Leeds, in which are preferred against me the
charges of misrepresentation, and of making profit " by pub-
lishing what of right belonged to another." They are of so
grave a nature as imperatively to call for notice and refuta-
tion ; but ere I attempt this, allow me to remark, that in my
opinion, Mr. Lee would have acted more courteously had he
addressed through you a private communication to the au-
thor of the preface to his letter on brandy and salt, request.
ing my authority for the statement I made relative to the
inventor of the above medicine, and seeking information as
to other circumstances connected with the publication of the
pamphlet in question. Had he adopted this course, and I
had sent him no reply, or if my reply had failed to satisfy
him, he might then, with some degree of propriety, have pro-
ceeded publicly to assail and arraign me.
I said in my preface that I was " informed" that the com-
bination of brandy and salt as a medicine was the invention
of a French physician. If this statement was incorrect, why
did not Mr. Lee tell us in plain language that he was the in-
ventor of this medicine in such and such a year, and detail
the circumstances which led him to think of such a composi-
tion as a remedy ; instead of which, he says "it is not an
invention but a discovery ;" while in another part of his let-
ter he asserts that no one but himself had anything to do
" with its invention," &c. Here are conflicting statements.
He seems desirous of persuading the world that he is the first
person who ever thought of combining brandy and salt as a
medicine, but the fact is that he is no more the inventor or
originator of this remedy than I am. If he be the inventor,
let him prove it; for, until he does this, I shall leave the
statement in my preface remain as it is, excepting that part
of it respecting his being deputed to inspect the physician's
papers, because he positively says he never was'commissioned
to do so. The foregoing I consider quite sufficient to dispose
of the charge of my having been guilty of " misrepresenta-
tion."
With regard to the next accusation of my having made
profit by what of right belonged to another, Mr. Lee's rea-
soning is not at all conclusive. It is true that the pamphlets
were not given away by me, but were sold. Whether any
profit was made by the sale 1 cannot tell, for I have neither
heard nor enquired ; but this I know, that I had neither di-
rectly nor indirectly any concern in the profit or loss of the
publication under notice. My motive for writing the preface
was simply this : I had heard that it was intended to throw
into the form of a pamphlet Mr. Lee's letter, which ap-
peared in the Leeds Intelligences, and was expressly made a
present to the public ; and as I had found so much benefit in
my own case from the use of brandy and salt, and had wit-
nessed its efficacy in several other persons to whom I had
the pleasure of recommending it, and felt most anxious that
still more might be induced to give it a trial, I volunteered
to write a preface, conceiving that the assertions of Mr.
Lee's letter would be more readily credited if preceded by a
few prefatory remarks by a clergyman who could give per-
sonal as well as other evidence, as to the medicine so highly
recommended. In executing this undertaking I most gladly
availed myself of the information received only a few days
previously, relative to the medicine being the invention of a
professional man ; because I was convinced that such a state-
ment would have considerable weight with the public. I re-
ceived and I asked no remuneration whatever for my
trouble ; and I have taken vast pains in recommending the
adoption of this remedy without any reward or hope of it.
But though it be supposed that I had written the preface and
tacked it on to Mr. Lee's letter from interested motives, I
should not have been making profit by that which of right
belonged to another ; for I maintain that Mr. Lee has no
right nor title to that letter in the way of property. He
made it the property of the public, and as I am one of the
public, I should have been justified in seeking to make profit
by it. Now that he has given me the hint, I will not pro-
mise to be in future so disinterested as I have been hitherto.
The secret of Mr. Lee's present uneasiness appears to me
to arise from this circumstance—he now finds that something

is likely to be made by the belief that he is the inventor, and
the only one who can give proper directions for the applica-
tion of this medicine, and, therefore, he is anxious that no
one besides himself should write on the subject; but let him
not be sanguine ; for he must bring forward more convincing
proofs than he has hitherto adduced, of his being the author
of this remedy and, the only one who knows how to use it,
before he will succeed in persuading the public to believe ac
cording to his wishes.
1 remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
THE AUTHOR OF THE PREFACE.
Liverpool, June 301 h, 1840.

BOTANIC GARDENS.-DESECRATION OF THE

SABBATH

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
" Answer a fool according to his folly."

Sir,—ln the Mercury's supplement of Friday last, there
was a precious production under the above title, by a " work-
ing man," which is one of the silliest affairs ever admitted
amongst the correspondence of that silly paper.
As the editor of the Mercury, in notices to correspondents
of a previous paper, gave the right hand of fellowship to this
" working man," and avowed his high gratification at the
manner in which he had treated his subject, we are to look
upon this bombastic, this magniloquent effusion, as contain-
ing the joint sentiments of these two worthies. If so, the
motto at the top must be put in the plural form—" Answer
fools according to their folly."
This " working man" is either unacquainted with the real
question on which he has had the audacity to write, or, he
stands chargeable with a wilful perversion of the truth, and
an attempt to mystify...his reulers by collecting a multiplicity
of words, without meaning, and an arrangement of sentences
without sense.
Thus he asks—" If by the observance of the Sabbath is
meant a suspension of those powers by which we contem-
plate all that is beautiful in creation ?" Beautiful ! Sublime!
Does this " working man" know the difference between a
suspension of " powers," and the right use of them.
One of the " powers" by which we " contemplate all
that is beautiful in creation," he informs us " is sight," but
would not other " powers" have first to be used before
these ? Unless a " beautiful landscape lay before our door,"
or, " a garden of flowers" were attached to our dwellings,
legs and feet, those walking " powers" would have to be
used, ere we could " feast" ourselves with " all that is beau-
tiful in creation."
The other remarks which his letter contains, and which are
merely supplementary and explanatory, and which speak of
" nature being affected by paralysis," and " God withdraw-
ing his pervading energy," are alike destitute of meaning
with the former.
When a " working man " has learned to write sense, and
become somewhat acquainted with his theme, then, but not
till then, let him send a letter to occupy more than a column,
lest he again tire the patience and excite the contemptuous
indignation of those who deign to read his most miserable
effusions. F.

THE EISTEDDFOD

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-lt must be highly gratifying to every patriotic Welsh-
man to observe the progressive improvement which marks
our eisteddfodau in point of management and general ar-
rangements. These congresses begin now to be more gene-
rally known and appreciated, not only amongst the natives
of the principality, but also amongst their English neigh-
bours ; yea, their influence is fast spreading over all Europe.
It becomes us, therefore, to use.every possible diligence and
care, that they be hereafter conducted in a manner worthy of
such a general attention, by introducing and adopting such
reforms as may conduce to their popularity and respectabi-
lity. I venture to suggest, as one of those improvements,
that the different orders of druids, bards, and ovates, should
appear in their respective costumes at every future eisteddfod.
It is a well known fact, that appearances have a mighty influ-
ence on the human passions. The same was amply exempli-
fied by the grand procession of the late eisteddfod in Liver-
pool, where the picturesque habits of the Society of Ancient
Druids elicited the undivided admiration of the dense multi-
tudes of spectators that lined the streets. The adoption of
the bardie costume at the eisteddfod would be attended with
delightful consequences. Instead of the repugnant sight of
badly clad labourers and mechanics, who rank as bards and
minstrels, an antique group, dressed in long and loose robes
of white, blue, and green, would afford a most pleasing relief
to the eye, and would materially increase the respectability

. .
of the orders. I hesitate not to maintain, that such an ar-
rangement would double or treble .the number of persons that
'usually attend our congresses. I know not whether the
druidical order is still in existence or not. If it be the case
that it has been superseded by the Christian priesthood, then
let the clergy appear in full canonicals. But if it still con-
tinues as an independent order, subservient of course to the
Christian ministry, then, by all means, let the druids appear
in their pr'oper hdbiliments. From the account I read of the
Liverpool " Gorsedd," I infer that the order is not extinct, for
I there find that the Rev. D. James, of Kirkdale, was or-
dained bard. and druid. By -the-bye, the same rev. gentle-
man has written a most excellent manual of druidism, wherein
the costume of the bardo-druidic orders is particularly de-
scribed, which will consequently be of great help in the pro-
posed reform. But here comes the question, how are these
dresses to be furnished ? If not by subscription, or from the
fund of the eisteddfod, let it only be published that each druid,
bard, and ovate, must provide himself with his own dress,
and I will answer for the success of the experiment. Before
I conclude, I wish to ask a question of the Rev. E. Evans, Rev.
J. Jones, (Tegid) and John Richards, Esq., bardic druids who
officiated at the late gorsedd, if there was no irregularity in
the ceremony of ordination ? for whilst I read of the candi-
dates uncovering their heads, nothing whatever is said of
their appearing within the circle barefooted according to
ancient custom.—Yours truly,
A WELSH CLERGYMAN.

AGRICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF

IRELAND

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—The directors who retained office against the wish of
the majority of the shareholders, having again " declined the
exchange of the notes in Dublin," it is incumbent on the
shareholders now to insist on the dismissal of the directors ;
and I suggest that our interests be placed in the hands of Mr.
Gresham and others (many of them in Belfast), who exposed
and protested against the conduct of their co-directors when
they first " declined the exchange of notes in Dublin."
With business-like men as directors, the Bank may yet go
on and do well.

A SHAREHOLDER

PEDESTRIANISM

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Allow me to correct an inaccuracy in a paragraph
of your paper of yesterday, headed " Pedestrianism." The
distance to Rugby, as walked, was only 126 miles, and this
was done in the same time by two parties, Alr. Bucknell be-
ing the one whose name you have omitted.—l am, Sir, &c.
P.
Liverpool, 27th June, 1840.

FREEMEN AROUSE !

TO THE FREEMEN OF LIVERPOOL

BROTHER FREEMEN Seeing from the London papers
that there is a committee of the House of Commons now
sitting for the purpose of considering how far it is practicable
to restore to the freemen their ancient privileges, and
amongst others, that we used formerly to enjoy, the right of
voting in the election of town councillors, I think we ought
to get up a petition from our town, praying that this right
may be restored to us.

I hope that this may meet the eye of some of my more
wealthy brethren, and that they will call a public meeting as
early as possible to further this object.
I, for one, think it wrong that we should still have a claim
on the corporate property, and, at the same time, not be
allowed a voice in the election of the town councillors, who
are nominally the trustees to manage for our interests.—l
am, brother freemen, A FREEMAN.
Liverpool, 26th June, 1840.

A TRUE PICTURE OF POPERY, DRAWN BY AN

IMPARTIAL HAND

TO I'HE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-It is recorded of the celebrated Hogarth, that being
once employed by a certain nobleman, not remarkable for
either the beauty of his physiognomy or the symmetry of his
person, to paint his portrait, the painter, instead of flattering
his lordship, as he probably expected, executed his task with
so much fidelity, that the picture was suffered to remain,
unpaid for, in the artist's hands. Vexed at this piece of
negligence, Hogarth at length sent a message to his lordship,
informing him that, if the portrait was not forthwith re-
deemed, a tail and a pair of antlers should be appended to it,
and, with these appropriate ornaments, it should be disposed
of to a showman, as a faithful representation of a newly-
imported wild beast, to attract the gaze of the clodpates at
a country fair ! This threat had the desired effect ; the
likeness was paid for, taken home, and committed to the
flames
What may be the fate of the following picture, I cannot
exactly predict ; but the portrait is so faithful a resemblance
of the original, that it does not require the addition of either
tail or horns to identify it with the Apocalyptical beast,
which St. John saw " rise up out of the sea, having seven
heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and
upon his heads the name of blasphemy" ! (Rev. xiii. I.)
It is, in fact, sir, a most faithful portrait of the " religion"
of Popery, as it is exhibited in a country where it prevails
as the predominant and uncontrolled guide of the devotions
of its besotted dupes, uncontaminated by that " heresy"
denominated " PROTESTANTISM," and by its heretical le-
gends collected in that anti-papistical volume called " THE
BIBLE"!
This portrait made its deb/it in Liverpool in a supplement
to the Albion newspaper of that town, on the 22nd of June
instant; the editor of which paper has not only had the te-
merity to give it publicity in his journal, but has also ven-
tured, in the same number of it, to hazard a hint that even
the existence of so mortal an enemy to Popery, and so zeal-
ous an advocate of Christianity, as the Rev. Hugh M`Neile,
may be tolerated in Liverpool, provided he can acquit him-
self of Jezebelisiny " our most gracious Queen," instead of
" the MOTHER OF HARLOTS !" How the editor of the Al-
bion will escape the lashes of his brother editor not quite a
hundred miles from Lord-street, for these unpardonable
crimes, remains to be seen. Eternally implacable and ma-
lignant hostility against so decided an enemy to the horrors
of Popery as Mr. M`Neile is, can hardly keep its malevolent
fangs out of the eyes of any editor who dares to say a word
by way of softening the asperity of the incessant persecution
which his fearless integrity has brought upon him. Leaving,
however, both those gentlemen to fight their own battles, I
proceed to observe, that, suffering the blinded or bribed ad-
vocates of Popery to reap the fruits of their degrading ser-
vility, if there exists in the bosom of any British Protestant
one spark of Christian philanthropy, issuing in the sympa-
thetic deprecation of such an infernal system of awful delu-
sion as, under the desecrated name of Christianity," can
plunge a whole nation into such universal and horrible idola-
try as the following picture developes, as the natural fruit of
Popery in Spain,—let that spark be kindled into a flame of
holy zeal and Christian compassion, that shall never be ex-
tinguished until it has consumed the last vestige of that ac-
cursed system, and banished for ever both its name and its
nature from the polluted shores of our insulted country !
As it is impossible to separate the displeasure of heaven,
and the judgments of heaven's offended KING, from the in-
roads of such a system of delusion and impiety, which, under

the disgraced name of " religion," inflicts such a reproach
and injury upon the character of Christianity ; so it is also
impossible for a patriot and philanthropist, who feels the
power of Bible Christianity, and who glories in its prosperity
and success, to view without a mixture of horror and dismay
the alarming progress which Popery is making in our beloved
yet distracted country, and without the most fearful appre-
hensions that ere long its Protestant bosom may once more
become the polluted seat of what we are now called to con-
template as—
" RELIGION IN SPAIN.—In Spain the Christian [Popish !]

religion has sunk to that point at which PaganisM 11(1
rived among the Romans. With the major part of the Spa-
nish people, a saint, a Virgin of gold and silver, is the object
of adoration. The devotee kneels before the image, sees but

that, and conceives no higher thought. Remove the statue.
and all is gone : if you set up another, it will have no effi-
cacy. The old one wrought miracles ; and till its successor
has performed a dozen, it will be thought nothing of. The
Spaniards have confined [their edition of) Christianity to
ceremonies : they think they have done all that can be done
when they have fasted, worn the scapulary, and read mecha-
nically so many pages of a book. According to their notions
religion cannot exist without monks and processions : they
must have relics and miracles, and ecclesiastics in grotesque
dresses; and convents where every one may find prayers
and soup. They have a respect for God, but they show a
much greater for the saints : each village has its patron,
whom they invoke, and to whom alone they pray. The
Virgin, however, shares the honours paid to the saints of
each particular place or district. The Spaniards think no-
thing of God ; they very seldom mention his name. A pea-
sant one day said in my presence, ' At Matapasuelos there is
a saint who has as much power as God.' And a great deal
more,' added another. You cannot invent a story so absurd,
so silly, so stupid, as that a Spanish monk shall not be able
to make his countrymen believe it. Such a saint has shed
tears : such a Virgin has moved her arms, her foot, her head:
everybody believes it, because a man in black [query, had
he not a cloven foot I told them so. Presently every one
affirms that he has seen it : how is it possible afterwards to
doubt a thing which the whole town maintains to be true ?"
—Supplement to the Albion of Monday, June 22d, 1840.
Assuming this statement to be founded in fact, what an
awful scene of moral degradation, the result of ecclesiastical
knavery and corruption, does it present to our view ! And
what a character do these lamentable facts impart to the
direful system of delusion, which, assuming the dese6rated
' name of " RELIGION," (?) inflicts that degradation upon
that distracted country ! And it was in support of this dia-
bolical system of iniquity, hypocrisy, and fraud, that the
infernal tribunal of the " HOLY INQUISITION" (! ! !) was
erected in Spain, in the hell-born fires of which the first
glimmerings of Bible Christianity, at the period of the Re-
formation, were consumed with the martyred bodies of its
faithful witnesses ! It is no wonder, sir, that the judgments
of a just and holy God are poured out in streams of blood
upon a nation which has for so many ages extinguished his
truth, and cherished the lies of Popery in its stead. And,
sir; what blind and barbarous, infatuation must that be,
which, in our own enlightened country, dignifies with the
titles of " liberality" and " patriotism" the atrocious at-
tempts that are now making, by professed Protestants, once
more to subjugate us to the degrading dominion of that
Popery, 'which adds to its impious assumption of " infalli-
bility" the concomitant attribute of " immutability,"—a
quality which, while it avowedly perpetuates the villany of
the system, precludes the possibility of its reformation. De-
struction is the only cure for its most atrocious wickedness ;
and it only waits the opportunity of its actual recovery of
that ecclesiastical domination to which it is rapidly approxi-
mating in the British Islands, to pounce upon the political
supremacy also. Nor will its deceived or treacherous advo-
cates ever cease from their reckless exertions in its behalf,
until they have once more seated it upon the throne of these
realms, filled the cabinet and both houses of parliament with
its votaries, and placed them in every post of honour, wealth,
and power, in the civil, military, and naval departments of
the United Kingdom.
That this is the aim of its indefatigable exertions in quest
of power and influence, the insatiable ambition of its pro-
fessors loudly proclaims to a nation, deceived and stupihed
by its plausible tales of its own immaculate innocence and
salutary institutions. But, thanks be to God, sir, we. are
not all the subjects of that awful and dangerous delusion
and I would now conclude by saying,—Let every Bible
Christian, every genuine patriot, and every generous philan-
thropist, of every sect and party in the kingdom, despising
the senseless and rabid ribaldry with which they may be as-
sailed, through a venal and prostituted press, and laying aside
their trifling dissensions, rally round different altars, but
ONE BIBLE ; and, uniting heart and hand in the common
cause of Christianity, labour to crush the common enemy of
aII—THE DETESTABLE VIPER OF POPERY ! And, to cheer
them on in their glorious career, let them remember that the
promise of a " God who cannot lie" hath assured them that
" the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head" !
I remain, sir, your h um ble servantC,
A BIBLE HRISTIAN.
Sutton, near St. Helen's, 28th June, 1840.

A married man in Aberdeen, who was severely tried by a
Xantippe of a wife, had an application for charity from an
old " blue gown." " Can ye help a poor widow-man ?"
said the petitioner. " A widow-man, did ye say ? Gae wa
wi' ye to the neist door,' you're no to be pitied; I wish I
could say the same thing.'
Lord Charles Wellesley, son of the Duke of Wellington,
has arrived at Apsley House from Canada, where his lord-
ship has been doing duty with his regiment, the 15th. His
lordship landed, with a portion of his regiment, at Portsmouth,
on Saturday last.