The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-01 00:00:00

ANOTHER NEW SCHEME.

Mr. Feargus O'Connor has found out another new scheme
for gulling the people. In last week's paper he calls on
them to " perform an easy and pleasant service for three
short months, in order to ensure an eternity of bliss !"
Alas: poor Feargus! who ever knew of any true scheme by
which an eternity of bliss could be had as a reward for three
months easy and pleasant service ?. As to whether any of
his readers will believe'him, that is another question. He
has already more than once promised that the people will
have their liberty in three months, but his promises have all
failed. " Will you hear what T prescribe to you—what I
advise to you—and what, if necessary, I will command you
to perform? Will you perform an easy and a pleasing ser-
vice for three short months, in order to ensure an eternity of
bliss ? Yes ; let your enemies revile yon=let your oppressors
condemn you—let your foes despise you as they may, still I
do love you in my heart, because, in the bottom of that
heart, I believe in your virtue, your worth, and your pa-
triotism. I now speak to you only with the blistered
hands, the fustian jackets, and the unshorn chins ; I seek
not to associate you with any other party in the state.
I tell you that their warfare is that of the rich oppressor
against the poor oppressed ; that you must stand alone or fall
together. My editor—as good, as honourable, as conscien-
tious and virtuous agentlernan and patriot as lives—together
with many other good friends, has endeavoured to induce the
middle classes to join you. I tell you. and I tell you truly,
that they never will join you. Your weakness is their strength,
and from your poverty springs their aggrandisement.
" As well may the lamb with the term-unite, •
The mouse with the cat, or the lark with the kite!"
Take this, without further explanation, as a truism. The
law has been turned against you—the institutions of the
country have been perverted for your ruin; how then,
independently of the law and the institutions, can you
right yourselves ? I will tell you. For three months
show your real sympathy for your incarcerated leaders
by subjecting yourselves to the regimen imposed by law
upon them. Abandon all orders but your own—desert the
house of profligacy and dissipation—mark with your strongest
indignation the man who violates the sacred pledge of absti-
nence—and let that pledge be, the sacred oath to abstain
from every thing profitable to your taskmasters. Thus you
cut off the very sinews of war, and carry desolation into the
ranks of your oppressors. This is but one step—for I do
not wish you to give up your constitutional agitation, and
your persevering demand for the establishment of the char-
ter of your rights."

Lady Skelmersdale is gradually approaching convalescence.

DATES OF POPISH ERRORS.—The Church of Rome often
boasts of her antiquity, and her members taunt Protestants
with the falSehood, " Your church came into the world 1500
years after ours." Now, if antiquity. is to decide theniatter,
we do not know whether the Jew might not say to the Ro-
manist, " Our faith must be right, because it is the most an-
cient of all." But we have no fear for Protestantism on the
score of antiquity. It is not one day younger than Christ and
His Apostles. Let the Papist, if he can, point to a single ar-
ticle of the Protestant faith which was not held by our bles-
sed Saviour and the Apostles. We appeal to the Bible, and
we defy Popery to find one doctrine in our creed which we
cannot abundantly prove from Scripture. But the case is far
different with Popery. We challenge Romanists to prove
their doctrines from Scriptures. We ask them to show us.
where in Scripture is the doctrine of Image worship—of seven
sacraments—of purgatory-7-d indulgences—of forbidding to
marry,—and so on. And not only so, we can fix the date of
many of their abominable doctrines. So far from their being
old, they are modern inventions. Protestantistn.is, in fact,.
the old religion—the religion of the Bible—the religion of
Christ—the religion of the first Christian ages. But Popery
is the new religion. We ask Romanists,. " Where was your.
doctrine of Purgatory before the year 14321" We defy,them
to prove
.it .a day older. We ..ask them, " Where was. the
doctrine of Transubstantiation before 1215 Venial Sins,
and the Sacrifice of the Mass, before 1563?",—We defy them
to prove them a day older. We might go through the list of
their. errors, and prove them to have .been brought in by
wicked Popes and corrupt Councils. But we will content
ourselves by furnishing our readers with a table of the dates
Of the.prineipal Popish errors, so that they may say to their,
adversaries, when accused of holding new doctrines, " l'our's
are the new doctrines, our' s are the old."

A.D.
Invocation of. Saints..
.
Image Worship 787
. Infallibility .„.1076
• . •-
Transubstantiation 1215
12
Supremacy
115
Half Communion• . 415
Purgatory - • • 1438
._ •
Seven Sacraments 1547
Apocryphal 800k5....
Priestly Intention 1547
Venial sins ....
Sacrifice of the Mass - , 1655633
Indulgences introduced in-the ,fifteenth century, but
not sane:ioned by a Council till A.D. -1563--Penny Protes-
tant Opeo'afire•
I'l/EWE-A THElt:—We continue to enjoysingularlydelight
ful weirther in" this quarter—the weather of July rather than
of April ; and ti'ke face of nature already presents niuch'of the
bloom- and beauty of refulgent summer. No rain has yet fal-
len—it is still dry, -t‘erene, and sunny, with the atmosphere
sometimes even sultry—and 'still does' vegetation in all its
formS, appear to be nrNking rapid progress. We find that
similar weather prevailA tin over England and Scotland ; and
it is justly regarded as the pxotnise of a most auspicious season
for yielding; in great abundakve and perfection, --Ovf. kindly
fruits of the .earth.—Scottish standard...- --
A FRIEND IriAr physician at 'Naples, iii
writing to a friend in Cork,says
:--" 1 know you are fond of
a laugh,—what do you think of ET following.? ' A priesthere, had-lOng been dunned by his camile-maker, with whom
he had run up a long bill. One day lat,dY the candle-dealer
was called on by a stranger, Who dernandul the Padre's bill,
paid it, and took away a receipt. The .foilowing day conic
the priest hitnielf, who, upon hearing the cirrunistance, and
receiving stdeScription of his friend in need, declared that it
must have been St. James or St. Anthony. ' Come with
me,' he says; to the church.' Upon arriving thgre what
was the astonishment of the man of tallow and the spectators,
to see the statue of St. Anthony holding in his hand the
receipt for the muttons. The dunning Chandler was horci-
-lied at having taken money froM.a holy saint. He inStanfix
'refunded it through the priest, and the latter has received the'
personal congratulation of the king upon his interest in
heaven."