The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

the capitalists of the nation, there is scarcely a doubt
of its perfect and triumphant success.

We have given elsewhere full details of the plan,
and the opinions with respect to it 'of several of our
con temporaries, of all shades of politics. To these
we refer our readers, in the confidence that nothing
from us in corroboration of the views which they
express is necessary to prove, that in the step taken
the government has earned and-will deserve the gra-
titude of the country.

We had purposed entering to-day, fully, into the
circumstances of the recent charges, brought by the
medical board and the Governor of the Workhouse,
against the house surgeon of that establishment,
Mr. Nightingall. We thought it our duty to do ro,
and shall still do so, inasmuch as we cannot but see,
in the course pursued, evidence of something, if not
approaching to a conspiracy, at least tinctured with
great unkindness towards a gentleman, whose long
services to the parish, and whose character as a ta-
lented medical man, entitle him to a little more con-
sideration than that with which he has in this in-
stance been treated. Our space this day, however,
will not permit of our doing either the subject of
the inquiry, or ourselves justice ; and, we shall,
therefore, reserve further comment until our next
publication.

One circumstance, however, we may announce
to our readers. A reference to the report of the
proceedings given in our columns, will show that a
portion of the charge by the Governor was, that
three children in the Low-hill Workhouse, whom
he had taken upon himself, without consulting
Mr. Nightingall, or any other medical authority, to
pronounce afflicted with the itch, and to send down
to the itch-ward at Brownlow-hill, were sent back
by Mr. Nightingall, who conceived that they had
not such complaint. The opinions of Dr. Macrorie
and Mr. Ratcliffe were to the contrary, both of them
pronouncing the whole three to be bad cases. The
result, however, proves Mr. Nightingall's opinion
more to be relied upon than either those of the
Governor or the two medical men consulted by him.
The children in question were discharged from the
itch-ward yesterday, never having been afflicted with
the itch !

With reference to the case of the boy Freeman,
we subjoin a certificate from Mr. Gill, the surgeon,
which has already been published

A boy was shown to me in the sick ward with two or

three aphthous sores on the inside of the lower lip. The
"tongue at the back part showed also' some enlarged' folli-
cules. He is of strumous habit.

In private practice were such a case brought to me I
should advise his being sent into the• country; that Ms
diet should be plain and nutritious—that he should be
well clothed—that the strictest personal cleanliness should
be observed, and that he should be allowed to play in the
open air from morn to night (weather permitting).
In sending him out from the tainted air of a sick ward,
I apprehend Mr. Nightingall acted judiciously—adopted
the means (under the existing circumstances) best calcu-
lated for his-recovery.

WILLIAM GILL.

PROTESTANT DERELICTION.

The following article, from the Dublin Nation of Satur-
day, contains some stinging satire, which, we are sorry to
say, has been but too well deserved :
One topic more, and we are done with the debate. Pro-
testants of Ireland, will you listen to us? That topic has
reference to you. We often entreated you, and you
spurned our entreaty.
Hare you read these debates? You refused to raise
your country to happiness and yourselves to fame, for the
sake of an ascendancy in religion that dishonors God, and
brings shame, and rags, and ruin, to millions. Did you
admit religion to your thoughts,- or God to your hearts,
you would trust to the truth of one and the guidance of
the other among a free, educated, and happy people.
But listen to us now, if not for the sake of religion, for
the sake of the lucre it stimulates, and the wealth and
power it commands. Have you not beard from all classes
of reformers that your establishment is doomed ? The
church must go. It has scarcely a defender. It assuredly
has not an advocate. It is only in Ireland the cry for its
destruction is not warmly taken up. _ _

Hearken, then, once more to our counsel. There is
yet welcome, and a hope, and glory for you in the bosom
of your country. Will you throw them away for what has
not an hour of sure existence, for, mind the establishment
is Irish? Those who speak for it, whcr champion for it,
who boast of it while it is a support, will betray when it
becomes an incumbrance. You remember the Penal
Laws-they lauded them and sold them for power; you
remember the Corporation—they defied them, and yet
they trafficked in them for the same power. Did you not
say these were your religion ?—and did they not repeat
your folly, and gull you to your fancied doom ?—yet how
far did they respect them when in the way of a sordid con-
venience?

We warn you in time, they will sell your establishment
also. You will find it gone when you have eaten away in
hate and madness your footing on your native land. Be
wise—nay, be selfish—be taught by events, trust to your
country, advance its interests, struggle for its glory, and
share it. In its gratitude, and liberty, and common hap-
piness, your religion will find security and abiding respect.

On Friday, Sir Howard Douglas presented a petition
to the House of Commons from the Mayor and Town
Council of this town against the Birkenhead Improvement
Bill.

THE Cou-sciL.—There was not any business transact.
ed at the special meeting of the Council summoned for
yesterday, in consequence of the prints of the Dock Bill,
now before Parliament, not having aarived in sufficient
time to enable the members to pursue the several clauses
and to make themselves acquainted with the probable
operation of the measure. Another special meeting will,
however, be held to-day, for the purpose of considering
the bill, and determining on the reports and proceedings
of the Finance Committee with reference to offers for
leases, for seventy-five years, of land at or near Wallasey
Pool.

- -
Sr. MICHAEL'S CHURCH SCHOOL.—Two lectures on
astronomy were delivered in the above school room, on
the evenings of Thursday and Friday last, by Mr. William
Fisher, Great George-street. These lectures were kindly
undertaken by Mr. Fisher at the request of the minister
and some members of St. Michael's congregation. Much
was anticipated, both from Mr. Fisher's character and
attainments, and also by the beautiful astronomical dia-
grams which he possesses. But though much was expected,
the execution surpassed the expectations of all present.
The solar system was fully and clearly described on the
first evening. The magnitudes, distances, and motions of
the planets, the moon and her phases, the annual and
diurnal revolutions of the earth, with other phenomena,
and the laws by which our system is regulated, these in-
teresting subjects were unfolded in a very attractive and
popular manner. The second evening was set apart for
considering the causes, of the ebbing and flowing of the
tides, refraction and its effects, comets and their revolu-
tions, H alley's comet and its predicted return, and some
of the principal constellations. In explaining these various
phenomena of the heavenly bodies, Mr. Fisher directed
the minds of his auditors to the power and wisdom and
goodness of the Great Architect, whose is " this univer-
sal frame," reminding them of Addison's beautiful lines,
" The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue etherial sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great original proclaim."
The room was quite full on both occasions. A charge was
made for admission, and the profits, which are nearly all
the receipts, as Mr. Fisher kindly gave his services gra-
tuitously, are to be applied to the purchase of a magic
lantern with slides, on which missionary subjects will be
painted, with a view to interest young persons in the mis-

sionary cause.
ASTRONOMICAL LECTURES AT THE LIVER THEATRE
-We have great pleasure in announcing that our old and
talented friend Mr. M. Holden, practical astronomer,
purposes in a short time to deliver, at the Theatre in
Church-street, a course of astronomical lectures, to be
illustrated by a grand transparent orrery, (24 feet in dia-
meter,) with superb scenery,—the sun, moon, planets, and
stars illumined and shining as they do in nature. To
those who have before heard Mr. H. and witnessed the
beauty of his practical illustrations and the accurate work-
ing of his ingenious machinery we need not address one
word of commendation : for they must have appreciated
his merits, and will doubtless revive their pleasing recol-
lections by a visit on this occasion. To these we need but
say, that he describes in a clear, familiar, and agreeable
manner, and then exhibits by a splendid piece of mechan-
ism, the grand movements of the heavenly bodies, with all
the phenomena attending them, the study of which, of all
others, may be pronounced to be sublime, and than which
none is more calculated to expand and elevate the mind,
and to arouse high and ennobling aspirations. In this age
of science it is almost a reproach for adults not to be some-
what conversant with the great causes. which regulate our
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