The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

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desirable tc

the system pr€

his strictest

little expense in the establishment. Some earthen or
wooden huts, of the smallest size, would suffice for the
dwellings and offices of the monks, their fare and clothing
-'4erably inferior to that of any labourer in the
than provided for by their
do , enable them to
,n that labour was to be
thirty monks should, ac-

being cons
present dal

;could be min
manual labour, which woul
pay the rent of the land on wl
exerted. A. body of twenty of

cording to the e gen

ciples of monasticism, support

itself, and distrlbu

There seems to be no

need of repealing the mart

fnr this purpose

If there he a real wish tr)

m. there is ab-

solutely nothing whateve in the way. Let individuals
sell their goods and give diem to the poor, and let them
retire to uncultivated mountains, where proprietors would
gladly permit them to settle ; and let them there depend
on their daily labour for their daily bread. and erect for
themselves dwellings of clay or of wood. The more bum-
ble and poverty-stricken their raiment, or their food, or
their dwellings may be, the nearer will they approach to
the examples and the principles or the great founders and
reformers of monasticism. Houses and lands, splendid
churches and stately abbeys, the lofty carved roof, and
the gorgeous window, ritual pomp and grandeur, all are
alien from the spirit of poverty, and humility, and un-
worldliness, which distinguishes the genuine system of
conventual monasticism. Their introduction proved its
ruin; they were the emblems of a relaxed asceticism—of
a disposition to find renewed gratification for the senses.
—English Review.

MEDICINE FOR THE MILLION.—Sir James Graham
being one of those who refuse us cheap food, has never-
theless, consented to give us cheap physic. His new me-
dical bill is calculated to put a pill into every man's mouth,
and bring the black dose home to the humblest hearth in
England. Sir James has, no doubt, heard much about
the physical necessities of the people, and having some no-
tion of some poet having said something about " medicine
for thy grief,' the Home Secretary has been seized with
the /leureuse ide'e that the poor may be dosed in a better
condition, and that the tone of society will, of course,
become healthier by the process. Perhaps Sir James
Graham ine

at as the poor have

been in the habit of rushing for comfort to the bottle, they
will continue to do so when the druttgist, instead of the
distiller, has been engaged in filling it. The Home Se-.
that the gin-palaces will be con-

retary hor

erteci into medicine marts, and that where we now sea
brass plates, inscribed " bottle entrance," we shall find
notices indicating the " bolus department :" instead of
placards announcing " a fresh cask always on tap," does
Sir James believe that he will see bills indicating " Best
XX black dose always on draught ;" or " the only house
in London for the celebrated fever mixture, at twopence
a quartern." Over the doors of some it might perhaps
be written, " Established to supply the public with the ce-

rated castor oil, kept in ic,
Id drawn ;' " a

3 insure it being

constant

and " a sand.sich and a glass

the public appetite in all
ime may probably come
to ardent spirits, may

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