The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

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July 11, 18-IS,

CORRESPONDENCE.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAIT f
SlR,—Unwilling to trespass on the " et.
editors of the Mercury, I ask the favour of beingi3,o
mitted, through the medium of your widelY;cille
paper, to rectify some of their misconceptions in I°4o
marks they made on my letter of the 15th ult.,
appeared in the Mercury of the 4th inst. • dig
They assert that my reasoning, that no e • envl
better than secular education not based on ChriOrefe,
struction, is equivalent to saying that no bread is fore
rable to half a loaf ; but this illustration is. not vi
priate. The, comparison should have been be, r. 00,
stone and bread, not between no loaf and illat.,ol
Mere secular education is the stone, which the edill
the Mercury prefer giving their fellow-men to ne
tion at all ; whereas Christian instruction is theeto
that came down from heaven and nourishes untcl.tbeql
life. If Ido not give a starving• man bread, is liv
to give him a stone ?—or rather, if I do not still'
with food, is it better to administer to him poison. oil
These gentlemen suppose that the inhabitialtsso
island instructed by philosophers, mathematicians, $
nomers, anatomists, and botanists, and havincti
press, &c., would more readily receive Christialats;di
the men of another island, who were totallY aced
who cracked children across their knees, suel"-.14
blood to slake their thirst, and then devoured they,
to satisfy their hunger ; but this supposition
great ignorance of human nature, and an overslq
facts. Had not the Greeks and 'Romans aOlOOO,
:)hilosepliers, mathematicians, astronomers, tur,.,tioo:
and botanists ? and had not the Chinese, in au,";
these, a free press-? But did these nations reee'c';filf
tianity more readily than the untaught and tato,"
heathen ? Certainly not. The Gospel was tat'',
learned, civilized, and polite Greeks, foolishnesllso,
Rome Pagan, as well as Rome- Papal, was an",i;?
greatest opponent and enemy Christianity ever l'ai`in!!
as it was formerly, so it is now. For one 13rahumi,
for one Chinese converted to Christianity, tea
and ten New Zealand savages have been made
a censured
vfeorrt
assertingto Christ.
salvation. Just in proportion as you spoil a ham- P
hum e
rutty
mo f
severelym akih g him
through philosophy and vain deceit, so increases
idolators, and they are defended from the chargeb,V,
said no more to worship images than Protestants tlfoo.',
the Tractarians) do the pictures in church-wia'"dck
than I do the Royal arms of England set up inch ,soo''
This is a very poor apology. Neither 'do I P90"alle;
that PaPileiti
Protestants ever make use of the Royal arms of
or the pictures in church-windows, as coadjuvaetsti,
devotions ; but Papists do avowedly, and VI cif
silently, make use of pictures, and especiallyjbeyl
fixes, as helps in their devotions to God. 1,0,,
therefore, an image, graven by art and man's wcitrst;;
the exercise of their religious worship; and so tbelge,,,el
greys the second commandment, and cannot ese-birj
charge of idolatry. Besides, they actually veertlionvo
host, which constitutes a grosser act of idolatry oadeit,
ever practised by the heathen. An attempt i
upold
relieve transubstantiation from the pressure I lailistch
by an insinuation that the catechism of the ,
England asserts the same thing as the Church
ash
on this subject ; and the question is tritunphaate,esfoi
" Have words meanings ? ' I reply that they isosocil.
cially those composing the constitutions of the C butt;
Trent, and pretty heterodox meanings they Weo'ithe•d,
words of our catechism have meaning- perfeetldiesi
and plain. It asserts that the inward part orA' bloo'kes
nified by the bread and wine is the body and te'hst
Christ; and these certainly are verily and
et, st'
and received by the faithful in the Lord's SaPP„„al 01,61
how are they received ? Doubtlessafter glir"" (15"
a A ri
ner ; that is, apprehended by faith as bruise" sf;e4-he
for the remission of sins. They cannot be take n.
carnal manner, for they are not here kut in heaLiChr'ejl
Church of England says that the body and 1,100"- COris
are verily and indeed taken and received, but tb.ei,•6l, 0,
of Rome maintains that what is taken and rec`losted
the Lord's Supper, is the bread and wine tratfoll jot
tiated or changed into the substance of Christs eby th i 5
blood—yea, more, his soul and divinity! I,lerstbictiie
corrupt church destroys the property of a b0a,',.00 of
to be only in one place at one time, and overt-0.40;00
nature of a sacrament, which is a sign of °nil, vrithr,,e.
invisible reality, and makes the infidel eel the
the
believer a partaker of the body and blood esr
hive
I !
I do not call Papists idolaters out of any ill to 03° I°
them, but from a desire 'of provoking. them f God' the
their principles and test them by the Word 'I, 410,4,
using crucifixes in their devotions, in Nvers'the s'tsof
host, in invoking the aid of the Virgin Mary,. bat 'hole
and
.angels, they do not intend any idolatry' the °",e.4
that though they do not intend idolatry bike
acts, they are nevertheless guilty of it by afloPoo
declaration of the Scriptures, which, if they wered
to search without a license from the church a!_, vireir
Douay notes,—to search, I say, as God gave te_ to f!jA.
out note or comment, they would not wrest t
destruction, but read them unto edification et,7"
al
I remain, sir, your faithful servan_t_,,,,,(o.
SAMUEL FEIN
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Wavertree, sth July, 1848.
INSTANCES OF THE ORIGIN OF TYK,}l,,i-JP,rO
FROM DEFECTIVE SANITARY COINI"
BY GEORGE C. WAESON, m.o.7trvEliretre
Persons who have not had their attention peen'‘,"4
rected to sanitary investigation are led to call in :40 I p
the possibility of typhus originating from FPeci" bet.
causes, and well marked cases in which there can
reasonable doubt on the subject, are therefore "coffj
The causes to which typhus is usually ascribed sre., of,
cell or
gion, cold, defective food, bad clothing, depres- or 13'
condition, and other similar circustances. 09e fee!:
andos
uf
such
mecsaeeud
iseasactingmareteno :pew:
ti eoors
oewviealrtl
ltoe
onkt unquestionablyiooitlhers
ocipur?Pflyi, direi ,not
superior, importance. The instancesis ef"
to call attention occurred in a family where ther.,`sS
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contagion, and where the physical and moral conneirecti
the inmates was as good as need be, except in °
cular, and we shall see the result.
In one of the airy, open thoroughfares, leadll4,, cle4
Liverpool, and at the corner of a street, stanasf;ba!eft
well-ordered house and shop, in the occupation Clbey
Bad
The family were temperate and industrious, fed de`.
wtheeliir houseothedi,natnhde
bbeelsotn condition,get they
up eri were.giyo
noef trorotileo
people. The house, in short, was apparentlY fe-
last which typhus would have chosen to visit. 'of ipso°
assert confidently, having had ample'experiene,s,that
ver localities of the town ; and I may also Ow It
baking of bread was not done on the premisc,s'boasetlious
Let us next examine the topography of this" pop
ooh
stands on the slope of a hill, and there i9u9ti e be
f"
neighbourhood higher up, part of which, wit'thel s`)ticti
itself, as I have been informed, is built over loefroo
' an old stone quarry, such as still exist in souls droeskod
These quarries are usually filled up with irsna,ot'f,
stone and other matters when as much has beeiol °:e°l
them as will pay the cost of quarrying. Therdriiilgrios4
quently form receptacles for the accumulate' ocl
lnt Ins
the cesspools of houses built upon their sites, and
sites,
no doubt such would be found the case in tr titale
stance, for there was no other drainage att.t:tielice"tie°4'
fever broke out. The streets in the Zeigh"""fir•on',:fs'
no drain of any kind ; and all the fluil refussAitl"; 051;
and also from a shippon, where cattle are heP"The Poll
the house in finding a lower level for itself. latetl'oot't
quence was that a great deal of refuse acetiulu tbetie':
gutters and holes in the paving, and at &lid litboo,'
was horrible beyond conception. Scavenging, neiefin tP;
it, because of the want of sewerage • and We
were constantly complaining of the nuisarlb-sc9( to
house in question the evil reached its climax, °•otr
ing a corner house, it received the contriberoll
whole neighbourhood as they passed it. The„9,lol4.at 34'
house compelled the inmates to have the „
day and night, and to burn gas, in the vain td k
stroying the odour.
June
Such was the state of matters when, in J.° tilej 000
brother of the occupant was seized with sPl3,t%afe 4
Everything was done that could be done $
0.
who
but in three weeks he died. here
In the following September, the other brot,wijorly;
married, and who occupied the house, V,39
fected. He was a man in the prime of life tion,fv,e
and was exposed to no other cause of feast °
mentioned. He was watched with the nl°,ictioli 43e‘1,1)
care ; but in fourteen days he, too, died a
infringed majesty of one of the organic laws ec-e, ft,o
the Creator for the regulation of His uniser-
of
cer4
widow and one little child as living witnesslse 0°,14
Now it appears to me, that in this case, Pilad wilj
between cause and effect was just as welk_illever,ll,oo
is or can be in any vital phenomenon wietbese t°,4 t'l4
to deny or doubt the conclusion, that hot" jos
cut off in their prime by the violation of the is t
Of
existence, (not by themselves, but by otherfs',/oedicr
the whole evidence on which the fabric ti
ence rests.

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lace, a state ball, which was very • g Ir/
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cise since our last. th,okiug tt 04
The Queen gave, on Wednesday, st mThslY 11-e
the invitations exceeding eighteen bunclVdc'olirelkn,Yjiit
ing the members of the Royal FamilY, the {or t'Lid,o!
andforeigners of distinction in this c°ll.fausnl:"llii
matic_ corps, the Ladies of the Queen's of the 01 tri
°Seers of State, and the principal Offieersa oicso fill'lt
hold of her Majesty and Prince Alber, an ore _41)6,
nobility and gentry in town. The Queen ana g-, ci0,,,,
crape dress, trimmed with white bugles, 000 to."
crape and frosted leaves, the whole of Brills,' Viler P:,l
her Majesty's headdress to corresPninu'e - erslrte'r
highness the Duchess ofK wore a u'a-ki nd-'•
Kent The -ie fePt
over satin, trimmed with bugles. •••- whits
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black lace, ornamented with and
bugles• ar,l,',,
all the articles of British manufacture. „j 10 ,De i;,
Lady Charlotte Egerton is activelY.engl boll, lilts
ing a " Lace Quadrille" for her I\lajestY!
of tile
tinguished feature of which will dresses fore' i
taking part therein being attired in ,_. v 41/
elusively of lace of Nottingham manufactu.r.,,o
,ur.)s
Prince and Princess Metternich received ,f: J.,"
pour°, ;009'
Wellington, the Marchioness of
Countess of Wilton, and a select pall, nn. A
at their residence in Eaton-square. ef, 0)
Ane........1M1M1RS 7 de It! "el
A FRENCH MARC'S NEST.—The fottrili`e yasle, Pp)
states, as a fact which can be proved,bY, I_, (WIT
the inhabitants on the French coa that bev' if,
days preceding the recent insurrection rat plai,,•dii
and cutter, belonging to the British "°)Artrnenlsl
nuraero—na covotoe.
ceased to cruse along the coast of the deli fro
north, the Pas de Calais, and the SornMel
to Treport.

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