The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

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it exists, or, at all events, the chief reason, is to be
found in the fact that our rufiedial efforts have
hitherto begun at the wrong end. 'We have had,
again and again, fresh reformatory systems broached,
and tried only to prove failures. In many of these
philanthropy has rather operated as holding out a
premium to crime than as deterring offenders.
Most costly, too, have been all these systems. We
have expen;:ed in attempting to bend the stubborn
will and to eradicate the seeds of evil, double the
amount which would have sufficed to train the
youthful mind to good, and to produce, instead of
a scourge, a useful member of the human family.
Step into our Police-court, or any of our Courts of
Law, and note the countenance and appearance of
the bulk of the juvenile offenders who are there
present. One half of them display the exterior
developements of the mere animal. The intellectual
portion of their being is an utter waste. They
have wants and passions, and physical ability to
snatch the means of gratifying them. They have
the instit..ct also possessed by the brute, but their
hearts and minds are alike callous and barren.
The remaining half disclose a more advanced state
of intellectual developement. There is a deep
cunning in the eye, quickness of perception, oc-
casionally amounting to great talent, but all per-
verted. The original soil might have been made
capable of growing fruits and flowers, but
been planted with poisonous weeds.

Follow this class of children to their houses—
their homes ! Alas, how few of them know a
house worthy of the name! There are vice and
want, or vice and its occasional reward—the means
of debauchery—before their eyes from the hour of
their birth. And where such is not the case, idle-
ness and the want of an honest calling do the rest.
Hundreds of this latter class of children, willing to
work, anxious to work, fall daily sacrifices to the
difficulty of earning a livelihood, entailed upon
them by their social position; and hundreds more
fall from the want of that impress of right prin-
ciples which is required to incite them to struggle

on to the end

Amongst such a class, we might

" reform," even after they have so fallen, but the
more hardened and desperately wicked rarely turn
back into right courses.

Societ

y, however, we are glad to observe, is
making an effort in the right direction to ameliorate
the condition of our juvenile vagrant population.
As such an effort we regard. the establishment of
industrial ragged schools, which, in the absence of
such a comprehensive educational measure as a

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wise govern men

the Birken-

ought to originate, are effecting
a large amount of good wherever they have been
tried under judicious management. We had the
pleasure, a few days ago, through the kindness of
Mr. and Mrs. Orriss, of inspecting the schools for
boys and girls, now in full operation in Soho-
street, and of which they are the respective con.
ductors ; and we feel bound to acknowledge that
the arrangements throughout are very excellent,
and that the results promise to satisfy the highest
anticipations formed of them. In the boys' school
we found an average attendance of 80, and in the
girls of 30, the bulk of whom had been beggars,
thieves, grit and chip venders, or neglected and
homeless, but who are now receiving the rudiments
one of a useful education, and at the same time being
them with trained up in habits of industry and self-depend

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By the Rev. John R. Dowse,

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too often only the better indoctrinated into the find him striving to untwist the unrelaxing fingers of the
mysteries required for the successful prosecution of dying miser from his money-bag—the sole result of his
pis calling-. sojourn upon earth. In the exercise of his zeal the priest
does not disdain to visit the cells and garrets of the poor,
to it is a libel upon our human nature, bad as nor will he take denial at the doors of the wealthy and th,;
to say that there is not a remedy to he found great. Armed with the terrors of his office in the o'le
Thp only reason why case—bland, supple, and insinuating in the other, he will
make his way. Pass from the garret at Somers'-town to
the princely halls of Alton Towers—there he will be found
again carrying out the commands of his patron and fur-
ti:ering the interests of his church."
We have given the passage verbatim, and as ita-
licised by the Times, who treats us further to an
admirable description of the mode in which such a
priesthood hunts its prey, and of the lamentable
fatuity with which even educated Romanists tole-
rate and even encourage their dark doings. Having
worked himself to a rather unusual pitch of enthu-
siasm, the Times concludes
Shall it be tolerated in England, in the middle of the
nineteenth century, that Roman Catholic priests should
slink about the country, insinuating themselves into a
dying room here, and taking advantage of the simplicity
of a credulous girl there, with the single and palpable ob-
ject of securing large sums of money for the aggrandize-
ment of their church ? And are we, forsooth, to keep
silence because they invoke the holiest names and motives
as a sanction for their proceedings ? Evil is as unchange-
able in its nature as good. A lie will remain a lie to the
end of the chapter; and crime is all, the more criminal
when its perpetrators call religion to their aid, to blind
the eyes of their victim, and to stop their accuser's lips."
Most earnestly we direct the attention of our Pro-
testant readers to this passage, so important as
coming from such an authority. It is not a por-
tion of a platform speech, delivered by an enthu-
siastic orator to an enthusiastic audience, but the
deliberate language of a grave writer, a leader of
public opinion, put forth from the repose of his own
closet. " Shall it be tolerated" that Romish priests
shall "slink about the country"—expressrve phrase!
—perpetrating these enormities ? " Evil is as un-
changeable in its nature as good. A lie will remain
a lie to the end of the chapter; and crime is all the
more criminal when its perpetrators call religion to
their aid, to blind the eyes of their victim, and to
stop their accusers' lips." What then shall we say
of a nation which not only " tolerates" but endows
a priesthood whose "duty" it is to commit these
crimes. What shall we say of a nation which
trains them- up to commit such crimes—which indoc-
trinates them in the belief that a lie is not a lie,.
that a crime is not a crime, when the object of that
lie and crime is "to aggrandise and extend the in-
terests of their Church ?" What but that such a
nation is deeply crim;nal in the eyes of God, and
desperately mad in the eyes of man ?
Yet this crime and this madness attach to the
British nation. The people of Great Britain have,
through their representatives, voted an annual grant,
of thirty-five thousand pounds to the College of
Maynooth, which breeds the plague against which
the Times is so indignant; which trains up these
men to " slink about the country," to creep to
dying beds to untwist the fingers of dying men
from their money bags, and to entrap well-portioned
girls into nunneries ! Surely, surely the hardly-
earned money of industrious, enterprising, yet still
suffering England, will not much longer be devoted

to this Unholy purpose. Will the Times go with us
in resisting a claim so impudent? We fear not;
but in the meantime we trust that his admirable
description, both of the crime and the men, will
not be forgotten.

"ideD JOHN R**S**L TO L**D Sl'**L*Y.

PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL

be aisy; don't tease me no more
illy soul, you're a terrible nore;—

tiering more,

have yet got in store?
, Jemmy G**h*m and P**l,
-easury cheque you shall feel :
'our hard heart pray don't steel,
the powers, 1 must reel

You've nigh gained the Duke by your eloquent tongue,
And he oft has declare& that he thinks he is wrong
In joining in chorus with Grey's babbling song;

Sure, if you go on so, he'll cut me ere long !
Pope, Christian, and Turk—clerk, lawyer, and Jew—
Put me and my pals inr a terrible stew;

for aid up to you!

I'm poorly supported, you know, on each hand—
I've Lansdowne and Grey, and a sad Wooden be
But, with such a crew, I am sure I can't stand,
It the yeomen of Enghnd give you the command !
Old Brougham 's a teazer—Ugh D'lzzy 's a worse

ooden band

And were I not fond of my place and my put se,
Illy own flesh and blood I no longer would nurse!

give us a lift in your own " Derby dilly,"
Oft has said Pm weak, vain, and silly;
man• ge tha' desp'rate filly—
lear darlint, now will ye?

A FAIR CHALLENGE

PIICENIX

We copy the following advertisement from a Wexford
paper, and although the day fixed for the sermon has
passed, yet its publication in this town may gain the
attention of some priest in this neighbourhood, who ought
I I readily to secure the offered reward, seeing that his

church teaches its adherents to offer more fervent and
frequent prayers to the Virgin Mnry than to our blessed
Lord and Saviour. If there is a scriptural warrant for
ce let it be produced—if there is not then in the
t the idolatry be abandoned :
"..30 REWARD.
A SERMON
Will be preached (if the Lord will) on Sunday Evening,

FORD,
Incumbent of Shillelagh

Subject : Invocation of the Virgin Mary and the Saints,

ny person producing from the Bible a single precept
teaching persons on earth to invocate the Virgin Mary,-
or other Saints in Heaven, shall receive

We hold ourselves responsible tor the payment of the above
the Ist May next.

Shillelagh

Wm. C. Moore, Rector of Carney
J. R. Dowse, Incumbent of
W. W. Cornan, Curate of Carney

The annual meeting of the Live
11 be held this evening, in the Conc

100 l Towi
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a Mission

resting particulars of the society's opera-

-On Sunday morning early
belonging to Mr. Gard-
ve; e completelygutted,
We believe Mr. Gard.

n the Liverpool and London office

many persons
e the well-meant attempts of those

irsi time, whilst
they will materially assist in relieving theTresent wants of

—A lecture will be delivered upon

resources of a

nind, and we are confident that this renowned
lose none of its glories in the able treatment of

EXTENSIVE FIRE.—On Saturday morning, about three
)'clock, a fire broke out in a warehouse, part of the
8' Clarence warehouses, Great Howard-