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

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elaborately carved on the outside. The particulars in, expects to see a tribunal of priest; 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
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 pee," "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
True 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,
7as supposed to be. We gave, in a recent pnbli- they perish. on the roar of the million, and then will come
he statements of Dr. Lindley, to the effect that the earthqual
rs was by no means commen- King : Stil
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we have asserted the German liberty

th the diseased appearance of the s
We now present to our readers the, foil
t from a gentleman who has taken great pains t
make himself acquainted with the facts :—" Within tl
last month, I have been into thirty or forty potato fields
in Wiltshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Middle-
sex, &c., and have had the potatoes dug up and washed
before my eyes. From those which appeared diseased, I tl

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: The true evil of popery consisted in its wraps
heart in indifference to religion. Its extravag

cut away the diseased part, and the result of my investi- ceremonials, its peageantry of worship, its boast- orin:
gation leaves a perfect conviction on my mind, that not fallibility, itB busy priesthood, its confessional, imperious
one-fourth part of the potato crop is destroyed. In my and inquisitive, were but instruments administering to
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met with nothing but the grossest exaggeration. In 're- :was no room for the heart. Where the glitter of a theatre
ference to cue field near the Swinton toll-bar, I had be s displayed tinder the roof of a church, the mind could
informed that the whole of the potatoes were destroyed. ink only of the theatre.. Where pictures. anA
On examining into the matter myself, I found the very and the sound of choral voices and the It,'
reverse to be the fact. There were very few injured. The and bowing priests,
with their studied is
man who was digging them up said, 'he did not think mystical solemnities, engrossed every sense,
there were any bad ones at all. They were only rather the spirit withdraw itself from the things of 9
li my fromansin n there 6
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temptation,
0 duty
the
small.' " We have not as yet beard any similar state- With the pomp of thrones on every 'side,
ments as to the condition of the potato crop in Ireland ; broken and contrite beart, with every temptation
but as the weather during the month of September was as haughtiness and the pride of passion, bow could man re-
favourable in that country as in England, we trust that member that he is a fallen being ; with the priest read
similar effects will have been produced by it, and that
man
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something like a third, or possibly half, a crop may be will his natural indolence undergo the effect of human
saved, which will prove a great alleviation of the evils ex- morality,—with the Sovereign Pontiff opening. Paradise
perienced and anticipated in that country.—lllanchester for him at the price of an indulgence, why should -any
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TION.—WoNDEnruL. CURB.--T. Gardiner, Esq ,of 9, 'Clip : But that period• is pa
Brown.street, Grovenor-square, declares that he had follow ?
been under four of the most eminent physicians, besides L.: Worse will follow, as infidelity is worse than' in-
five of the grkatest surgeons in London. He suffered 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 ypawill have the fierce
quantities of Holloway's Ointment into the chest, and assault of the popuace l the period of hypocrisy will
took HollowaY'afilla 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 ite
the short space of three weeks. room. - '

And what worse can