The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-29 00:00:00

SUPERSTITIONS OF POPERY

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sin,—Subjoined is a literal translation of a paragraph
which appears in the Jornal do Cotnmercio, published in Rio
de Janeiro, on the 26th November, 1840, which you may
perhaps think worthy of insertion in your valuable paper,
as throwing some additional light on the superstitions of
popery.-1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
A MEMBER OF ST. JUDE'S
CONGREGATION.

Liverpool, 25th Jan. 1841

" The undersigned treasurer of the brotherhood of Sta.
Luzia da Praia hereby declares to have received an alms of
10th (equal to £l3 sterling), which was delivered to him by
Mr. Joaquim Joze de Brito, being product of a subscription
among the passengers on board the steam-packet Paracense,
for the purpose of having made a crown of silver for the
miraculous image of Our Lady of the Navigators, in fulfil-
ment of a promise made to the same most Holy Virgin, on
the occasion of a great tempest which they encountered, and
which obliged their, to put back to this port."—Jornal do
Cowherd°, 26th Nov. 1840.

THE LIVERPOOL DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Sia,—l had the privilege last night of hearing a most
powerful and touching appeal to Christian sympathy, made by
the Rev. Hugh Stowell, in a sermon preached in St. James'
Church, in the behalf of the Liverpool Deaf and Dumb
School; and as the parent of a large family, all of whom ate
blessed with the right exercise of their faculties, my con-
science upbraided me for my want of gratitude and thank-
fulness to divine goodness for having spared me the terrible
affliction of having around me a blind or deaf and mute off-
spring. I regretted exceedingly that the boisterous state of
the weather had deterred numbers from attending, as I feel
confident all parents must have had their feelings awakened
in a way similar to what I experienced; and 1 am certain it
is only from the subject not being brought sufficiently before
the eyes of the public, that this excellent charity in this rich
and prosperous town should be under the necessity of having
its energies cramped, its usefulness circumscribed for the
want of funds. To mothers open always to sympathy—
always tenderly alive to anything and everything appertaining
to the comfort and welfare of their infant offspring, the ob-
jects of this charity cannot tail to find in them powerful ad-
vocates, or to plead i❑ vain. The wear and tear of active
commercial life, has a tendency to distract the attention, to
blunt the sympathies and feelings of fathers ; but the cries
of her infant, its helplessness and total dependence for its
very existence, in the earlier stages of life, find a ready help
and succour, a never-failing comfort in the sympathy of ma-
ternal aliaction ; they, it would be expected, would be among
the first to support an institution for the amelioration of
one of the most dreadful afflictions that could possib:y befal
an infant, and I feel confident that it is only from a want of
consideration, that they are not so. I would therefore,
through you, suggest to every parent, that a " thank offer-
ing" should be presented to this institution, in proportion
to the number of children in each family, and according to
each parent's pecuniary means. The smallness of the
amount will not in any way invalidate the gratitude of the
donee• ; and further, I would suggest in the case of this
charity, and also of the Blind School, the Infirmary, and
Dispensaries, sermons should be preached for one of these
charities—on the Fame day—in every church of the town;
by this plan the particular charity advocated would become
a topic of conversation, a subject of interest throughout the
whole town, and a much larger sum would be added to its
funds.

I throw out this hint for the consideration of the different
advocates of these most excellent institutions, and shall feel
much gratified if you and they should deem it worthy of
attention ; and in the mean time again appeal to christian
parents to think on the condition, temporal and spiritual, of
the poor deaf and dumb children, and to bear in mind that
the " redemption of their soul is indeed precious." .

Liverpool, Jan. 23, 1811

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—I observe, in my letter which I addressed to the
patrons of the Deaf and Dumb Institutions, published by
you, an omission of the word board, which perhaps may
have been a mistake in the copy I sent you, and which
omission conveys a wrong statement. _

The part of the letter- I allude to is, " A large sum has
been expended lately in building the New Deaf and Dumb
Institution here, yet no mutes can enter it unless a sum is
paid for their education." It ought to have been, "No
mutes can enter unless a sum is paid for their BOARD and
education."

It is well known that the Liverpool Institution has set a
noble example in giving instruction to poor mute day scho-
lars gratuitously. It is astonishing that those intelligent
mercantile gentlemen who take such a warm interest in the
institution, subscribing so largely to it, and giving their time
also to promote its best interests as a school, have never
thought of making it an asylum, by which its funds would
be greatly increased, and the mutes so truly benetitted.
Your kindly publishing this letter will correct the mistake
in the former.—l am, sir, very faithfully yours,
January 22, 1841

.-.-__..4,34,-

TO ALEXANDER SMITH, JUN., ESQ.

SIR,—My attention having been called to a portion of a
speech lately delivered by you, wherein you state you had
been informed that 1 had promised Mr. Mason " to use all
my influence to secure his license" if he would vote for Mr.
Rathbone, I deem it my duty to assure you that the charge
is not only untrue but altogether unfounded. I not only
never made such a promise to Mr. Mason, nor spoke to Mr.
Mason about a license, but for some years I have not spoken
to Mr. Mason on any subject whatsoever; and I never in
the course of my life made any such promise to any person
whatever for any such purpose. I therefore entreat you to
retract your accusation.-1 am, sir, yours very obediently,
Liverpool, 28th Jan. 1841. RICH. V. YATES.