The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

It was carried towards Essex, and at seven

o'clock descended in a field at Leytonstone

The large

machine, by permission of Mr. Perkins, the proprietor,

was lashed by Mr. Green to a tree with its b(idy of gas,

the aeronaut having resolved to make a continental voy-
age with his friends, if the weather proved favourable.
On Tuesday evening a collision took place in Kingroad,
between the Herald and Phoenix steamers, and Sir Wm.
Symonds was knocked overboard, and given up as lost by

every one on board ; but during the night an express ar-
rived from Clevedon, that he was safe. The tide had car-
ried him down as far as Clevedon, when he came in con-
tact with a boat, which had been at Weston-super-Mare
Regatta, and was making into Clevedon. Sir Wil-
liam caught bold of the bowsprit, and was provi-
dentially saved. The distance which he floated was

about nine miles !
The morning papers of Saturday week describe a bril-
liant meteor which lighted up the atmosphere of London
with an intense glare the preceding night. It passed from
north to south, and was like a globe of fire. It left behind
a bright luminous train, which divided into two parts, and
gradually passed from a bright phosphoric white to a dull

red. Tilelarger portion assumed a serpentine appearance,
which soDo changed into a semi-circular one, and perfectly
resembled a cluster of minute stars, gradually becoming
fainter and fainter, until, after a lapse of nearly five mi-
nutes, it quite vanished.
ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—Tuesday being Mi- gunge :
chaelmas Day, agreeable to ancient custom a Common King: But what is the calamity that nor'
Hall was held, for the election of Chief Magistrate for Christendom?
the City of London during the ensuing year. Alderma❑ Luther : Apathy and indifference are the parents of
Wood and Sir G. Carroll were declared nominated by the infidelity. A church may re,ist the violence of its ene-
majority of those present for the selection of the Court mies, but it always sinks before the vices of its friends.
of Aldermen ; a poll was then demanded in favor of Germany, at this hour, exhibits the same aspect which it
Alderman Hooper,_for the purpose of testing the feelings exhibited in the year when I began the Reformation.

threatens

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olthelivery towards Mr. Wood, which was appointed to King: Yet Germany now exhibits her most intelligent
take place during the next seven days. At the close of portion Protestant. She was then overwhelmed with
the poll, on Saturday, the numbers were, for Alderman Popery.
Wood, ]248; Alderman Carroll, 858; and Alderman Luther: When human opinions take the lead of divine;
Hooper, 260. The poll will finally close to-day at four when every candidate for celebrity begins his cause by
o'clock. • mystifying scripture; when professors claim a character
THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE PEG TANKARD.'—At the for learning by throwing off their reverence for inspiration ;
meeting of the British Archxological Association at Glou- when the life of the Redeemer is made the subject of libel,
cester, lately, a paper was read entitled, " The Gloucester- and the Bible is represented to the people as a collection
shire Peg Tankard." The carvings on this ancient drink- of legends ; then deep and dangerous hazards are at hand.
ing cup are exquisite, bearing three or four distinct alle- King : But persecution has passed away. No man
gories, representing the seasons, the seven deadly sins, tkc , now dreads the revival of the Inquisition. No man ever
elaborately carved on the outside. The particulars in expects to see a tribunal of priests commanding the rack,
connexion with this ancient cup are very curious. It ap- or the College of Cardinals standing round the stake
pears that an act was passed for the purpose of abating where either Jew or Christian was to perish for his creed.
drunkenness, and it was ordained that all drinking cups at L.: True; that form of evil has passed away. It be-
taverns shoud have pegs placed at certain distances, longed to another age. It could not exist in an age when
beyond which peg no man should drink at one draught, power was fled from hierarchies to fix itself among the
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under pain of severe punishment. It was suggested that populace. The hazards of our time will not arise from
the well-known sayings of "taken down a peg," "a peg superstition, but from unbelief. The Scriptures will not
too low," and "he is getting on peg by peg," originated be prohibited, but they will be equally cast out of the
from these cups. national hand, by the scoffer. Society will be no longer
TUE POTATO CROP.—Amidst the unfavourable symp- chained to the altar, and forced to put the foot of the
toms which present themselves in many quarters, in priest upon its neck, but it will be the victim of the
reference to the supply of food, it is satisfactory to receive infidel, the slave of public passion, the prey of public
additional evidence, thet, in this country at least, the de- violence. The Scriptures will be like their Lore, the
struction of the potato crop proves decidedly less serious objects of railing, insolence, and scorn ; until, like Him,
than it was supposed to be. We gave, in a recent publi- they perish, on the roar of the million, and then will come
cation, the statements of Dr. Lindley, to the effect that the earthquake.
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the destruction of the tubers was by no means commeu- King : Still, we have asserted the German liberty against
surate with the diseased appearance of the stalks and Rome. No legate can sweep away our revenues now. No
foliage. We now present to our readers the following rescript from the Vatican can control the will of the So-
statement from a gentleman who has taken great pains to vereign, or violate the rights of the people. We worship
make himself acquainted with the facts :—" Within the according to our own convictions, and acknowledge no
last month, I have been into thirty or forty potato fields superior to the conscience which dwells in the bosoms of
in Wiltshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Middle- all.
sex, &c., and have had the potatoes dug up and washed L.: The true evil of popery consisted in its wrapping
before my eyes. From those which appeared diseased, I the heart in indifference to religion. Its extravagant
cut away the diseased part, and the result of my investi- ceremonials, its peageantry of worship, its boast of in-
gation leaves a perfect conviction on my mind, that not fallibility, its busy priesthood, its confessional, imperious
one-fourth part of the potato crop is destroyed. In my and inquisitive, were hut instruments administering to
inquiries, until I went myself into the examination, I individual indifference. Where all was for the eye, there
met with nothing but the grossest exaggeration. In re- was no room for the heart. Where the glitter of a theatre
ference to cne field near the Swinton toll-bar, I had been was displayed- under the roof of a churcb..the mind could
informed that the whole of the potatoes were destroyed. think only of the theatre. Where pictures, and incense,
On examining into the matter myself, I found the very
and the sound of choral voices and the tlains of kneeling
reverse to be the fact. There were very few injured. The and bowing priests, with their studied gt stionlations and
man who was digging them up said, he did not think mystical solemnities, engrossed every sense, how could
there were any bad ones at all. They were only rather the spirit withdraw self from the things of the world ?
small.' " We have not as yet heard any similar state- With the pomp of thrones on every side, where was the
ments as to the condition of the potato crop in Ireland ; broken and contrite heart, with every temptation to human
but as the weather during the month of September was as haughtiness and the pride of passion, how could man re-
favourable in that country as in England, we trust that member that he is a fallen being ; with the priest ready
similar effects will have been produced by it, and that to relieve him from the responsibilities of human duty
something like a third, or possibly half, a crop may be will his natural indolence undergo the effect of human
n indulgence,
temptation,
o r
undergo should
the
saved, which will prove a great alleviation of the evils ex- morality,—with the Sovereign Pontiff opening Paradise
ontpassion,
apsrsiicoen of
resist a
perienced and anticipated in that country.—Manchester himfmoranc at r
ol the
Guardian.
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS..—BAD DIGES- toil of unprofitable virtue ?
TION.—WONDERFUL CURE.—T. Gardiner, Esq ,of 9, King : But that period is past. And what worse can
Brown-street, Grovenor-square, declares that be had follow ?
been under four of the most eminent physicians, (besides L. : Worse will follow, as He suffered differ infidelityis than ju-
worse
five of the greatest surgeons in London. difference, as furious hostility is worse than callous neg-
from a distended stomach, bad digestion, settled pains in lect. Religion has hitherto languished in the heart of
the chest, was very nervous, and greatly debilitated, and mankind. You will next see it wrenched out of the heart,
scarcely able to walk a hundred yards. Not deriving the for the deceiver you will next have the tyrant—for the
least relief from the faculty, he set about rubbing large sullen dexterity of the hierarch you will have the fierce
quantities of Holloway's Ointment into the chest, and assault of the populace—the period of hypocrisy will
took Holloway's Pills night after night and morning, which vanish—but you will see the period of rage and rapine, of
effectually restored him to perfect health and vigour in ferocious contumely and remorseless irreligion, in iti
the short space of three weeks. room.

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