The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-05 00:00:00

THE NO POPERY CRY.

(From the Dublin Record.)
By holding in view that we are contending, in the pending
struggle, for our church and true religion, against popery and
infidelity, men may be brought more closely to inquire what
true religion is, and what those systems which they are called
upon tooppose. The directing of their minds into such au
inquiry will be in itself a gain. We desire it—we should en-
deavour to promote it. Let the christian, then, buckle on his
armour, as well as the politician, and be assured that the pre-
sent is a time when souls may be won to his Master's cause, as
well as warriors enlisted iu a worldly interest.
It is said, forsooth, oh, you are raising the cry of "No
popery!"
F 0 be sure we are; and may we ask, why not? What
im-
putation does that charge cast upon us? On those who have
abjured that system, and deeply considered what it really is,
it can throw none, unless they raise the cry for some unvrol thy
purpose. No doubt, if it were used as a pretence for doing an
Injury to our neighbour; if it were set up to do the Roman
catholic some wrong, either in person or property, it would be
a breach of the divine as well as human laws, and, as such,
would merit condemnation. But if, on the other hand, it be
really promoted, in order to resist the inroads of that great
apostacy, both in its moral and temporal aggressions, to pro-
tect men from its defilements, truth from its corruptions, and
the state from its tyrannous usurpation, who can justly blame
us for raising, and acting with zeal and vigour upon, the stirring
my of "No popery?" The reform bill is not the law of the
land; and it is the counsel of a statesman whom we admire and
respect that we should act in the spirit of it. Be it so—and
"No popery" shall be our watchword; for popery is, at this
moment, the greatest boroughmonger that ever existed in the
state. It gives O'Connell his tail of forty—it enables him to
put into parliament his sons, sons-in law, and cousins without
end, and has, in fine, made him and his destructive associates
paramount in the realm. Shall we not act, then, in the spirit
of the reform bill, by waging war with this b,roughinongering,
corrupt, and abominable s•stem ? Truly, we shall; and, not
forgetting the members for Tiverton and Stroud, slit h borough-
mongers shall be our foes. Let us look to our own ways,
and extend at every side the- influence of purity and truth:—,-
Every convert thus gained will be our companion at the hus-
tings; and conservative and reformer will, in the truest sense,
be terms of like import, whatever name our adversaries may
assume, or by whatever pretext they may attempt to disguise
their objects.

LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY.—Mr. Walker's lectures have
been very well attended since their commencement on Monday
night. the first of a duy course of lectures was given yesterday,
and the boxes of the Liver Theatre were filled with family par-
ties from the town and its vicinity. The great ineiit of Mr.
Walker's descriptions of the motions of the heavenly bodies con-
sists chiefly in the simplicity of his explanations, which on that
account carry conviction more easily to the mind of his auditors.
On this account we hope he will repeat them for another %%eel:.

Ha WOULD BE A SoLotait.— On Monday, as a cal ridge with
ladies in it was passing down Bedford-street, in Plymouth, at
the same time as a recruiting set jeant with `• colours flying,"
was "beating up," the footman instantly dismounted from be-
hind and accosted the serjeaut; received his Majesty's bounty,
and joined. the party. The coachman, who witnessed the tran-
saction, appeared to enjoy it, for he, smiling, drove on.
EnrrottrAL DUEL.—BA YONNE, MAY 26.—A hostile meeting
took place yesterday in the environs of Bayonne, between the
editor of the reputed government journal, Le I'harede Bayonne,
and M • Morel, the editor of the liberal journal, La Sentinells.
des Pyrenees, in consequence of an explanation demanded by
M. Morel, in a letter which he addressed to the Mare, published
in the Sentinelle of yesterday, relative to cetta'n expressions
which had appeared in the flare, and which 'night be construed
either as personal, or as merely referring to political opinions,
and which led to the meeting -in question. Being placed at
twenty-five paces they advanced on each other, the editor of the.
Phare discharging his pistol at the second pace, wounding his
adversary in the right,arii,i who instantly tired with his left
hand, but without effect; the parties then quitted the ground.
M. Morel, whose wound was nut dangerous, was singularly
enough conveyed to the country-house of one of the gentlemen
connected with the Phare newspaper, (Major Mezard,) near
which the duel took place.

EYES RIGHT.—The following anecdote is related of a regi-
ment as distinguished for its gallantry in the " battle-field" as
for the excellence and precision of its system in the field- of
manoeuvre. On the return of the 52d regiment sonic time ago
from foreign service, the ophthalmia prevailed to such an extent
in the corps that, in order to insure the instructions of the sur-
geon relative to the application of a particular lotion being ear-
ned into effect, it became necssary to parade the men for that
purpose several times during the day. On these occasions the
men turned out, each with his tin can containing the lotion and
a piece of rag, and, after tieing wheeled into line, received front
the serjeant-major, who was an expert drill, the words "By
fugel! wash your—remember, men, wash is only a caution—
wash your eyes!" on which every man, at one and the same in-
stant, applied (with his right hand, the left holding the tin) the
rag dipped in the cull} rium to the eyes.

- NEW You; LA DIRS.—The females at New York do not look
up to a man for his respect. They claim it as an homage due
to them. They look like beings accustomed to command ; and
let you be as kind as ever you will to a female, she thinks it no
more than her due. If you are riding in a coach, and afe male
of the lowest class enter it, you must resign your seat to her. it
is demanded as her right. The Yankees laugh at the English
for allowing a Queen to reign over them, but they (poor hen-
pecked creatures) are subject, every one of them, to the despot-
ism of a petticoat government.— Prom a Journal of a Citizen of
Edinburgh.

THE FAMILY OF SIR R. PEEL—The inhabitants of Eccle-
fechan (Dumfrieshire) assert that the ancestors of Sir Robett .
Peel originally belonged to that village; and, in support of
their opinion, they point out a gravestone in the old church-
yard, inscribed to the memory of " Robert Peet," end refer to
the testimony of an old wonran,.now dead; who used to say that
some ofhcr relations went southward about ninety years ako and.
established themselves as manufacturers in the neighbtiorlfood
of Manchester, and who always claimed to he a relation' of the
late Sir Robert Peel.—Rambles in. Northumberland, by Stephen. -
Oliter, the Younger.
CAT-SKINNING.—A fellow named Peart, living in the heart
of St Giles's, was taken to Union-hall, on Monday, by Cattle,
a policeman, who found the skins of twenty-nine eats m his
possession. The fellow is a regular cat-skinner, and at his filthy
abode were discovered the implements with which he followed .
his disgusting traffic. It appeared that he was in the habit of
turning the bodies of his poor victitns to account as well as their •
skins, for be roasted them over the fire to obtain their fat, and
also sold their bones. Some of the cat-skins, which were of a -
superior kind, were worth ss. or fis. a piece to him. He was
remanded.

WILSON, THE PAINTER, AND HIS WAISTCOAT.—The emi-
nent landscape painter, Wilson,-was sadly uoprovided with the
precious metals while a student at Rowe. There is an odd
s-ory told of his doffing his coat ore flue day for a game of
tennis in the baths of earacalla, (where the English had got up
a sort of ball-alley,) when lc)! ou his back, by v‘ay of lining to
his waistcoat, a splendid waterfall suth grotto, &c. became
visible; a contrivance, no doubt, of his laundress, to turn his
productions to some profitable purpose.—From Fraser's Maya-.
line fur April.

COntous REGISTERS.—In the register of Nunney Somer-
set:--- Roger Starr, baptized December 17, 1601. lie climbed
• up a ladder to the top of the house, Lid of October, 1606, being
seven weeks and odd days less than two years old." At Beck-
enham, Kent :—" Anne Isted, a child, killed by the careless
disebrge of a pistol, at the distance of 337 yards." From:
sundry registers of burials 1562. There was buried,
Starly, a symple wenche." " 1568. There was buryed Alyce,
the wife of (a naughtic fellow, whose name is) Matthew
Manne." "1586. Mande the childe of a roagne." "1635. A
stranger, choaked while he wished the same " 17C9 Ann,
daughter ofJames Coning, who was 18 Tears of age, and never
chewed bread ; of stature not above a three veers' old child ;
the thickest part of her arms and legs not exceeding • the thick-
ness of a man's thumb."—Miner.

POPPING THE ALTEIINATI‘E.—If we but knew who the
author of the follow:lig stanza is or ever was, we would canonize
bim. It was addressed to a young lady (whu by the way was.a
coquette,)- by one of her weary admirers. He was a gallant
fellow—one in a thousand : and the old bachelors should love
him for his independence, though it was quite probable the lady
in question would not
You will and you won't, half No and half YES,
I'm quite at a loss for your meaning, dear miss;
And enough, in all conscience, you've baffled and shanim'd,
Say as and be Liss'd„ or saY NO and be
—American paper.

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