The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR.,-1 have had my attention directed to a strange pro-
duction which appeared in the Courier of Wednesday last,
addressed to the Rev. Jas. Hassan, and signed by one who
styles himself an " Old Dispensary Surgeon," and who
states that he is now resident in the Park. Now, as I have
every reason to believe that I am the only " Old (?) Dispen-
sary Surgeon" resident in Toxteth-park, and consequently
may be suspected of being the author of the silly twaddle
alluded to, I beg to state that I know nothing whatever of
the production previously to its appearance in the Courier;
and I should feel obliged if the individual who perpetrated

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.he epistle would in future (if not ashamed) sign his own
lame when he is seized with the cacoethes scribendi, rather
;han, from the omission, cause his silly inaccuracies to be at-

tributed to others.
I also beg to inform the perpetrator, that Prince William-
street and adjoining streets have not had a District Provident
visitor for six months, that the last visitor was a matron and
a clergyman's wife, and lastly, though not least, that the
Reverend James Hassall, as a minister, has nothing at
all to do with the district to which he alludes. Hoping
that you will be kind enough to insert this in your next
Fublication, I remain, your most obedient servant,
H. G. HARBORD.
122, Mill-street. Toxleth-park.

PATRICK'S DAY AND POPISH PROCESSIONS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—The display of Popish strength in Liverpool, for
which many weeks' active preparation has been made, has
this day come off with all the Mat which bands, badges, and
banners, organization and order, and the sanction and sup-
port of civic authority, could give to it. From the elabo-
rated muster of 5,000 men and boys, which formed the full
aggregate of the " repealers" paraded through our streets
this day, the friends of constitutional union have had evi-
dence that they have nothing immediately to fear from the
vapouring of the monarch of miscreants and his sacerdotal
confederates. Contempt of an adversary, however, is not
the dictate of wisdom ; and the boldness of this day's move-
ment, with some significant circumstances that accompanied
it, ought not to pass away without a practical improvement
by the right-minded portion of society.
Among the numerous banners and sashes carried by the
" Sons of Irish Freedom," the " United Catholic Brethren,"
&c., &c., invested, as these were to a man, with the well-
known rebels' livery of green and white, the cap of liberty,
the loosed hind, the harp uncrowned, the woltdog rampant
and the lion passant, &c., with the temperance adjunct of
" REPEAL," it can require no wizard's sight to penetrate,
as denoting the real aim of that combination of Papists so
ostentatiously proclaimed to-day. That the entire police
force of the borough should have been ordered to give effect
to the array, is a question for the inquiry of parliament,
which, it may be hoped, will not be allowed by the faithful
members of the House of Commons to he overlooked.
The object of this letter is to fasten the whole affair upon
the Protestant mind of Liverpool, and to induce, if possible,
a prompt and vigorous preparation of all to whom the inte-
grity of the legislative union between England and Ireland,
and the maintenance of a Protestant d 1 nasty, are dear, for
celebrating, on the 12th of July next, that contest in the
sister island which issued in the overthrow of a base, bloody,
and brutal despotism, and the establishment of a free and
happy constitution for these realms.
There can now be no rational objection to the legality of
an orange and blue array by the lovers of imperial union,
and no good ground for deprecating the occasional exhila-
rant to a loyal and peace-loving community by a display of
their numbers and organization. As the times, moreover,
are acknowledgedly out of joint, through the collisions of
chartism, socialism, radicalism, and repealism, it will serve
to animate the honest and well-disposed, and to abate the

it ranting exultation of the disaffected, to have an occasional
turn-out of such as, not opposed to improvement, are indis-
posed to change.
Let the various committees of our Protestant and Conser-
vative Associations, and the numerous lodges of Orangemen
that have recently been instituted and are rapidly increasing
in Liverpool, seriously think upon this subject. Let them
ponder the importance of such occasional displays of strength
as may render the application of strength less early needful,
and when necessary, probably more successful.
Should this subject be responded to as is wished, I may
correspond again. :Meantime I am, Mr. Editor,
17t/ March, 1841. A. ERCAM, G.C.0.1.

EATON HALL.—Near Chester is 'the magnificent seat of
the Marquis of Westminster—Eaton ; erected from the
designs of Porden, on the site ot the old brick mansion, built
by the celebrated Vanburgh. The architectural elevation
and the internal arrangements and decorations of this noble
mansion are in excellent keeping, and present a tout ensemble
of exquisite grandeur and beauty. The traveller may spend
a day of surpassing interest in its inspection, and amongst
the rare pictures, cabinets, and other works of art which it
contains. The entrance to the park, which is of great extent,
is through a superb Gothic building, not far from the new
bridge. This gateway has recently been erected from designs
by .111 r. Jones, arch tect, of Chester, and is executed in Bath
stone, after the model of St. Augustine's Gate, at Canter-
bury.—Frorn Ease e'p Wales, Raw [retitle*, sete publiskil7
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