The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

PRESTON GUILD

Throtigh some error which we are are even now at a losA tc

e nici not receive our special report of the pro-
eedings on Wednesday and Thursday at this memorable
carnival until Saturday morning. We now however. subjoin
an abbreviated report of each day's occurrences since Tuesday.

account for

WEDNESDAY

Shortly after eight o'clock—itl4;e morning every avenue
into the town was crowded. The proprietors of all the mills
and manufactories in the town and its vicinity having also
agreed to give their hands a holiday, and pay them their
wages for the day, added greatly to the holiday people of the
town.
i Ou the lowest estimate 80,000 persons were congre-
gated n the town, enjoying festivities which, on account of
ancient local recollections of religious and commercial rites,
have attracted so much attention for many centuries in this
and the surrounding counties.
The grand ceremony of the day was the procession of ladies
from the Guildhall, in Church-street, preceded by the
mayoress, to the parish church. A mat was laid along the
street for a distance of upwards of 300 yards, each side being
lined by members of the Odd Fellows' Societies, who ex-
ceeded 3,000 in number. There were no devotional services,
but the sublime oratorio of the Messiah was given with very
excellent effect by a most efficient orchestra and chorus. The
chief performers were Miss Birch, Miss Scott, Miss Maria
B. Hayes, Mr. Hobbs, and Mr. Phillips. Miss Scott, a
young debutante, sang with great effect, and promising ex-
cellence for the future, whilst the performance of Miss Birch
was very much approved of. The church was crowded to
excess, and upwards of 3,000 persons were present.
The processions of the day were never excelled on any
previous occasion. Supplying as they did such interesting
reminiscences of former clays, accompanied by historical
recollections of a very ancient date, the living scenery was
highly gratifying. At the head of the procession which
accompanied the ladies to the parish church was the ancient
order of Foresters, who were preceded by a cart, in which
was a fine buck, presented by the Earl of Derby for the
occasion. Robin Hood, Little John, and their " merrie
Nen," were seen in fancied reality. After these succeeded
the ancient order of Druids, with all the accompaniments of
the early religious and educational rites of the country. The
order of gardeners, mustering upwards of 500, next followed,
being preceded by a model of a flower-garden, ornamented
with every description of flower at present in bloom, and
with the appropriate emblems of their profession. The vari-
ous other orders of the town followed in similar procession,
who altogether included upwards of 10,000 persons, all of
whom, engaged in loyal and peaceable pursuits, afforded a
most interesting contrast to the condition of the town within
the short space of three or four weeks.

The ladies' procession to and from the church was pre-
ceded by the excellent band of the 60th rifles. Front an
early hour in the morning the town was the scene of melody
from the bands connected with the different societies. In
the evening a full-dress ball was held at the Guild ball-room,
in the Corn Exchange, at which upwards of 800 persons
attended.

THURSDAY

This morninga graild performance of sacred music took place
in the chapel of St. Wilfred, the principal singers at which
were Rubini, Negri, Puzzi, Mademoiselle Pacini, Made-
moiselle Ostergeard, Mr. Phillips, and Miss. Birch. At the
conclusion of the performances in the chapel, the Lady
Mayoress gave a public breakfast in the Exchange-rooms,
which was also numerously and fashionably attended. No
less than 800 ladies and gentlemen sat down, and a most
splendid dejeuner was provided by Mr. Lynn, of Liverpool.
The races wound up the enjoyments of the day. They con-
sisted of the contests for the Stewards' Purse of £5O, which
was won by Mr. King's (of Manchester) Atalanta; the Guild
Handicap of £l5O with £25 added, which was won by Mr.
Owen's Collina ; and the Holme Plate for £5O, added to a
sweepstakes of 5 sovereigns, which was won by Mr. King's
Atalanta.

The races drew together a vast assemblage, amongst which
were a great number of the swell mob and gamblers of every
grade, and several pockets were lightened of their contents.
Nothing has been heard of the £1,990, nor the parties who
eased the country gentleman of it on Monday last. It appears
that he had gone with it to Messrs. Pedder's bank, and, being
dissatisfied with the 21 per cent. offered on the deposit, he
was reserving it for a more liberal establishment, when he
was met in the crowd by a " gentleman of fashion," who with
a lady kindly offered to show him the best way of getting
through a mob, and whilst attending to the winning conversa-
tion of the frail fair one, her companion drew the book con-
taining the treasure from his breast pocket. On their leaving
him he immediately missed it ; but for his consequent excite-
ment the parties might have been secured.
After the races, in the evening, a grand concert, principally
of vocal music, was held in the theatre, at which the singers
before-named highly gratified the auditory by a display of
their vocal powers.

THE JESUITS

(From the Protestant Magazine.)

A great meeting recently took place at Liverpool, having
for its object the buildinc, of a large church in that town
expressly for the Jesuits to exercise their vocation in. Now
we put it to the members of the Protestant Associations, to
Englishmen in general, (not being papists) and to the clergy
in particular,—we put it, not in the way of declamation, of
complaint, or remonstrance, but as a demand—Why do you
suffer the laws of your country to be trampled on, and the
whole population exposed to the workings of this leaven of
malice and wickedness? It would be incredible if we did not
witness it with our own eyes, and it is altogether inexplicable,
that men who rallied round our Protestant constitution in
1829, and who, seeing they could not avert the mischief de-
signed against it, laboured sedulously to strengthen what
remained, and to surround the fragment with every attain-
able safeguard, should now tamely, silently, and altogether
passively, if not complacently, look on, while those safeguards
are coolly, and at their leisure, taken down by the men
against whom they were erected. Whence this pusillanimity,
this treachery, on the part of English Protestants ? The
statutes enacted in our country against the order of Jesuits are
not only unrepealed, but were re-enacted, guarded by addi-
tional sanctions, in 1829 ; and the mercy of God in putting it
into the hearts of our legislators so to guard the country
from the climax of the curse, that mercy of God we now fling
back in His face, by refusing even to avail ourselves of it !
There is not a man in England who cannot lay an informa-
tion against any Jesuit who has set foot on England since
the month of April, 1829, or who has not registered his abode
in it between that month and the November following. For
the information of such as may not be aware of this fact, we
transcribe two sections of that disastrous bill :

" Sec. 28.—And whereas JESUITS, and members of other
religious orders, communities, or societies of the church of
Rome, bound by monastic or religious vows, are resident
within the United Kingdom, and it is expedient to make
provision for the suppression and final prohibition of the
same therein, Be it therefore enacted, that every JESUIT
and every member of any other religious order, community,
or society of the church of Rome, bound by monastic or re-
ligious vows, who at the time of the commencement of this
act shall be within the United Kingdom, shall, within six
calendar months after the commencement of this act, deliver
to the clerk of the peace of the county or place where such
persons shall reside, or to his his deputy, a notice or state-
ment in the form, and containing the particulars required to
be set forth in the schedule to this act annexed."
Any person failing to do this, the act proceeds, is to be
liable to a fine of fifty pounds a month for his neglect, and
the return so made is commanded to be enrolled in the records
of the county, a copy being sent to the secretary of the lord-
lieutenant.

" Sec. 29.—And be it further enacted, that if any JESUIT
or member of any such religious order, community, or so-
ciety, as aforesaid, shall, after the commencement of this
act, come into Ellis realm, he shall be deemed and taken to
be guilty of a misdemeanor ; and being thereof lawfully con-
victed, shall be sentenced and ordered to be banished from
the United Kingdom for the term of his natural life."
The next section provides that Jesuits being natives of this
kingdom may return to it, on registering themselves as afore-
said ; and that a foreigner of the order may come into the
kingdom under a licence from one of the principal secretaries
of state to remain not longer than six months. Yet the
chairman of a meeting at Liverpool, at which 5000 persons
are said to have been present, rejoiced that the order of
Jesuits was about to be revived. Richard Sheil, Esq., ex-
ults in the RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOCIETY OF
JESUITS. Next came O'Connell, and spoke as follows :

" The greatest blow ever yet inflicted upon religion was
the suppression of the order of the Jesuits, and accordingly
a bitter punishment has followed upon the nations that com-
mitted that crime. They have been punished with the
severity of a scourge of iron, and tears of blood would hardly
atone for the crime which they thus committed against them-
selves ; they were abandoned to themselves, I think I may
without profaneness say it, by the just anger of the Deity !
But here they are again ! The Jesuits again ! I remember
the time when a man would have been knocked down who
ventured to call out Hurrah for the Jesuits !' " (The
meeting here gave three cheers for the Jesuits.)

A Mr. Brewer, who announced himself a Benedictine,
(one of the illegal orders,) rejoiced in the cordial concurrence
of the vicar apostolic and romish priesthood of Liverpool in
the project for re-establishing the order of Jesuits in Liver-
pool. _

[On this subject " The Protestant Witness of the 3rd
instant, a periodical published in Manchester, has the fol-
lowing remarks :—" Grievously shall we be disappointed in
our Liverpool brethren, if they do not try whether the laws
of England are but spiders' webs before the arrogant ad-
vances of Popery. We have long made up our minds that
the first distinct opportunity which may be furnished to us in
Manchester, we will try the question in a court of justice."]

RECEIPT FOR ICE CREAM.—Take a full cream-ewer, and
place it carefully in a bachelor's bosom. The cream will
freeze in seventeen seconds and a quarter.

QUEEN MARY'S OMNIBUS.—The carriage which conveyed
the Queen's ladies on this bridal expedition was a very droll,
vehicle, and, redolent as it was with red paint, must have
surpassed the splendour of a modern wild beast show. It
is graphically described in one of Mary's own orders, as
follows :—" We command you on the sight hereof, to deliver
to our well beloved Edmund Standon, clerk of our stable,
one waggon of timber work, with wheels, axletrees, and
benches ; and fine red cloth to cover the said waggon, fringed
with red silk, and lined with red buckram ; the waggon to
be painted outside with red ; also collar, draughts, and
harness of red leather. A hammercloth with our arms and
badges of our colours ; and all things pertaining to •the said
waggon, whfch is for the ladies and gentlewomen of our
privy chamber."—Miss Slriekland'a " Lives of the Queen's
of England."

HYDROPHOBIA.-Mr. Ainslie, veterinary surgeon, of
Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital, has addressed to the
editor of the Standard the following observations on this
disease :—" In the human being it is called hydrophobia ; in
the dog and other animals rabies. We are unacquainted with
the nature of the poison, but it differs from all other poisons
by remaining apparently in a dormant state for weeks, or even
for months, and is not absorbed into the system for some
time after the bite. No remedy is known for the disease,
when once it is developed. None of the nostrums which are
said to be cures can be relied upon. The cause of the disease
is equally unknown. Some have attributed it to the heat of
the weather—the " dog-days ;" others to want of water, or
ill-usage; but we have no proof of it. The present summer
is the hottest we have known for many years, and I have
only heard of one case in the metropolis. In many hot
climates the disease is unknown, and it has raged among us in
the coldest weather. In 1838 I had no less than 48 cases under
treatment ; this year I have not had one, My predecessors,
Messrs. Blaine and Youatt, as well as myself, have been
bitten by rabid dogs, and we are all still alive; and we have
operated on some hundreds of human beings who have been
bitten by rabid animals, and in no case has there been loss of
life. The preventive is as follows :—The person bitten should '
pasarsto;onnoatssupcoi the poison from the wound, as is too corn.
manly sc sible thoroughly wash and cleanse the bitten
done, forinoculation may take place by an abrasion
on the lip. If the wound be superficial and ragged, let the
edges be removed with a pair of scissors, and then apply
ypdart the nitrate of silver, commonly called
which may be had any druggist's shop.
lunarfreel y t o
caustic, e ver
an
If the wound be a punctured one, as in some cases it is from
the tusk of the animal going. deep into the flesh, the stick of
caustic must be carefully pointed that it may reach the bot-
tom ; if necessary, the wound should be enlarged, care being
taken in the use of the knife, or the poison may be carried by
it over the fresh surface. The nitrate of silver completely
destroys the surface of the wound, and neutralises the poison,
which comes away with the destroyed surface without the
absorbents acting upon it; and if freely applied to the part
affected, the patient may feel
himself perfectly. t
safe.i do
not recommend the application of a poultice after opera-
tion, but let the wound be exposed to the atmosphere , and
should any inflammation ensue, it may ix relieved by dress-
ings of olive oil."

TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P., &c

" A worthy author to ground a report of antiquity upon, who, 46'
relating the matters that fell out in his own time, descovereth
self to be as egregious a liar as any that this day breatheth in Chris-
tendom ! ! I"—Primate Usher's character of Captain Philip O'Sulli-
van. Religion of the Ancient Britons, page 92. London, 1631

SlR—The strain of exaggeration and falsehood which runs
through the pages of all the Romish writers, political or his-
torical, from the Reformation to the present day, has unfor-
tunately exposed them to the scorn or contempt of the reli-
gious and literary world, and rendered the revivalofliterature
and invention of printing the slow but certain instrument of
annihilating the delusions of Popery.

Under this impression, I cannot but think that your recent
speech at the Jesuits' meeting in Liverpool manifests the
same spirit of falsehood and exaggeration which has been
justly charged upon the controversialists and political writers
of your communion ; and that while your abuse of Liver-
pool, and one of the brightest ornaments of the religion of
the realm, is highly honourable to both, the publication of
your rhapsody and the replies it will inevitably elicit will tend
in no small degree not only to cool the zeal of the Protestant
conciliators, but open the eyes of multitudes of the dupes of
the Popish clergy to see and abhor the delusions attempted
to be thrown over them and their posterity by agents such as
Captain Philip O'Sullivan was in the reign of Queen Eliza-
beth, and the Lord Mayor exhibits himself under the milder
sway of Queen Victoria, whose religion you speak of in such
atrocious terms as should exclude you for ever from her Ma-
jesty's presence, and occasion your expulsion from the House
of Commons, which you once termed, from the knowledge,
you had of one of its members, an assemblage of 600 scound-
rels. Language like this sounds harshly in modern ears; the
repetition of it, even in its condemnation, cannot but be pain-
ful, and the necessary reply to it sounds somewhat like the
unchristian rendering of railing for railing.

After reading your resolution for founding a place of
worship for the members of a society prohibited by law from
remaining in the kingdom, much less openly holding their
ministrations in one of the most Christian communities in it,
you indulge yourself so wantonly in the use of scurrilous
language as proves that such a man as you show yourself to
be cannot be a competent judge on any case connected with
the maintenance of Christianity. Your " words of sarcasm
and scorn," whose virulence excited the laughter of your
auditors, fell powerless from your lips, as far as respects the
fair fame of Liverpool, and could be agreeable only to the
lowest of the low, who owe the food they eat and the clothes
they wear to those whom you denounce as merciless bigots—
the opulent Protestants of that town—whom you hold up to
their execration for building churches, and encouraging able
and exemplary ministers' from Ireland to officiate in them.
The language which you used respecting Mr. M‘Neile,
was such as could dishonour none but a man capable of using
it ; but it proves more than you intended—it demonstrates,
to his honour, that the success of this gentleman's ministry
there has given a mortal blow to the hopes of the Jesuits at
that time surrounding you—men invited there, no doubt, by
the parochial clergy of the Romish church, and sent to them
by the college de propaganda fide, to maintain the cause of
Antichrist; when they themselves were no longer able to do
so.. No gentleman, no Christian, could disgrace himself so
far as to call such a clergyman " a fellow who had an excel-
lent trade in lying—one whose charitableness was paid
for by the yard—whose falsehoods and calumnies were re-
munerated by the pound ! " The use of these false and
disgusting metaphors, marks the society in which your
early years were spent, and when you call that splendid
orator " a lump of a liar," you must have taken it for
granted that you were addressing an assemblage of ruffians,
and their loud laughter proved how " like loves like," and
how congenial such language was with that which marks the
conversation of the lowest dregi of society.

As to Mr. M`Neile's being calumniator general of the
ancient faith of the land, this is an allegation quite in the
style of Captain Philip O'Sullivan. The object of your in-
sane and malicious vituperation is a maintainer, and an un-
answerable one, of the faith of the ancient Britons and the
ancient Irish, when, in the sixth century, they rejected the
dominion of Rome, and the missionaries from Derry and
lona were introducing Christianity in the north of England,
such as they had been taught by the Greek in opposition to
the Latin church.

The doctrine now preached in the Protestant churches of
Liverpool is, for sum and substance, identical with that pro-
pounded by St. Columbkill, St. Aidan, and many other pro-
pagators of Christianity, long before the novelties of Popery
had been introduced into Ireland or England. But it was
easier for you, both from education and habit, to call a suc-
cessful preacher of the gospel a liar, than to reply to his ar-
guments, as some one of the Jesuits near you ought rather to
have attempted to do.
As to your expecting to hear Mass in Westminster Abbey,
it reminds me of the message sent to the neighbourhood of
Londonderry, by one of your predecessors in agitation, in
the month of October, 1641, when he said that he expected
mass would be celelebrated in every parish church in Ire-
land before the ensuing Christmas-day. His expectation,
however, was not gratified. The rebellion he had excited by
language like yours was put down ; and while the same re-
ward for the head of a Popish priest and that of a wolf was
offered by Oliver Cromwell's Irish government, Sir Phelim
O'Neill was hanged, quartered, and beheaded in England..
" Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cantum."

Mass is not likely to be celebrated during your lifetime in
Westminster Abbey, although you may hear it, as Phelimy
Roe did at Tyburn, with a halter around your neck, confess-
yourself to be an unworthy member of the Church of
Rome.

As to your seeing what you call " the waves of catholicity
extending day after day—bearing on one after another," and
its rapid extension over the whole globe, this also, in O'Sul-
livan's style, is a vision existing in your own imagination
alone. From the encouragement given to Popery in Eng-
land and Ireland, .by a succession of timid and vaccillating
governments in both countries, for the last half century, an
imperittm in imperio has arisen in our empire, and Popery
undoubtedly has had an increase in both countries, which
exhibitions like yours are calculated to expose in an alarming
manner : but the growth of evangelical religion, particularly
in Ireland, from the blessing of the Most High God upon
such men as the object of your slander, has raised a fresh
and firm banner against the further growth of a caricature of
religion such as your Catholicity may be called, a system of
superstition calculated to dishonour God, and render his
people ignorant of his word here, and consequently blind as
to their welfare in the countless ages of eternity.
In your enumeration of the triumphs of modern Popery,
you begin with North America; but the one archbishop and
27 beggarly 'bishops there have been but the recruiting offi-
cers for the Unitarians and other infidels in it, one of whose
disciples, Miss Martineau, favourable, of course, to their
most useful instruments, you naturally quote, as saying
" that all America would soon be Popish ;" and you quote a
novel writer, a dealer in fiction like O'Sullivan and yourself,
in proof of the " purity" of the lives of the transatlantic
Romish priests, without remembering that in Italy, in France,
in Spain, in Portugal, in the Low Countries, and in Ireland,
similar proofs, from writers unused to mingle falsehood with
truth, have been long requisite, but never yet adduced, in
vindication of the sullied ctharacter of the "corporation of
bachelors," who, in disregard of the example of St. Peter,
profess celibacy. As to your quoting the King of Prussia as
an enemy to the reformed religion, because that monarch, if
you speak truth, prefers for the Christians of his realm the
name of Evangelicals to that of Protestants, you make a dis-
play of ignorance and feebleness in argument quite charac-
teristic of a man struggling in vain to maintain a bad cause.
The time will come, in God's name, when the word Pro-
testant will become obsolete, when no error has been left to
protest against, when all the ends of the earth will be turned
from darkness to light, and the surface of the globe shall be
full of the knowledge of divine truth as the occean is of water ;
and in the meantime, the words Protestant and Evangelical,
when compared to Popery and her twin sister, Unitarianism,
who is likely to outgrow, if not survive her, may be deemed
synonymous. In the meantime, the progress of Protestantism
is steady and increasing in NortleAmerica, and the vallies of
Ohio, which you ignorantly mention as strong holds of Popery,
have had the benefit of the Christian labours of Bishop Chase,
and the Clergy of this extensive diocese. Upper Canada is
rapidly becoming a Protestant, and, consequently, a peace-
able and loyal dependency of the Imperial Crown of Great
Britain and Ireland. And if Lower Canada has been of late
years the reverse, and produced such Demagogues as the
Lord Mayor of Dublin, to the disturbance of its peace, and
and covering its plains with blood—this may be attributed to
the ill-fated establishment of Popery in it, and such machina-
tion as your speech has proved to be now in operation at
Liverpool.
As to France, we know what Popery has achieved there :
how it favoured the designs of Voltaire, Rousseau, and the
philosophical infidels of that country. How it dishonoured
human nature by the massacre of the Huguenots in 1569, and
and the revocation of the edict of Nantz, 1686. And it is to
be noted, in contradiction to the alleged decline of Pro-
testantism on the Continent of Europe, that the Reformed
religion is flourishing in France, where it was so long and so
cruelly persecuted—that the power of the Pope has been set
at nought in Spain—and that a Protestant Church is tolerated
even in Rome.

Was the whole power of Popery in Europe able to revive the
Bishopric of Jerusalem, which has been so recently achieved
by the Protestant King of Prussia and our own truly Christian
Queen, whose religion you have so malignantly belied and
revived ? What do you think of the late consecration of the
five Protestant Bishops of foreign sees, by the Archbishop
of Canterbury ? is this a decline of the Reformed religion
on the earth? Have the whole of the titular Bishops in
North America as competent and permanent a maintenance
as the new Bishops of Gibraltar and Malta, two cities not
long since overshadowed by the darkness and delusions of
Popery.

But I cannot pass the boundaries assigned to such articles
as this in a newspaper. So, waiting for a reply to this letter,
if your multiplied avocations, or capability, will permit you
to maintain your late allegations among the Jesuits of Liver-
pool—l remain, Sir, a close observer of your movements, and
a faithful monitor of the unhappy results of them, whichlare
but too likely to result to yourself and your deluded ad-
mirers, JOHN GRAHAM.

Magilligan, near Londonderry, Aug.--2-ig4i

WASPS.--These tormenting insects are enormously plenti-
ful this year. Great care should be exercised in the eating
of newly gathered fruit. We have heard of two doses wasps
having been found busily at work in the interior of a plum.—
Bristol Mercury. At Worcester market last week these
insects were so numerous and troublesome, that the market
people were obliged to burn rags, in order to drive them
away by the smoke.

RITES OF THE WESTERN PAGANS IN OLD AMERICA.—
"The most important part remaining of these ruins," we
quote from Mr. Stephens, " is called El Sacrificatorion, or
the place of sacrifice. It is a quadrangular stone structure,
66 feet on each side at the base, and rising in a pyramidal
form to the height, in its present condition, of thirty-three
feet. On three sides there is a range of steps in the middle,
each step seventeen inches high, awl but eight inches on the
upper surface, which makes the range so steep that in the
ascending some caution is necessary. At the corners are
four buttresses of cut stone, dimishing in size from the line
of the square, and apparently intended to support the struc-
ture. On the side facing the west there are no steps, but
the surface is smooth and covered with stucco, grey with
long exposure. By breaking a little at the corners, he saw
that there were different layers of stucco, doubtless put on at
different times, and all had been ornamented with painted
figures. In one place we made out part of the body of a leopard,
well drawn and coloured. The top of the Sacrificatorio is
broken and ruined, but there is no doubt, that it once sup_
ported au altar for those sacrifices of human beings which
struck even the Spaniards with horror. It was barely large
enough for the altar and officiating priests, and the whole was
in view of the people at the foot. The barbarous ministers car-
ried up the victim entirely naked, and extended him upon
the altar, pointing out the idol to which the sacrifice was
made, that the people might pay their adorations. The altar
had a convex surface, and the body of the victim lay arched,
with the trunk elevated, and the head and feet depressed.
Four priests held the legs and arms, and another kept his
head firm with a wooden instrument, made in the form of a
coiled serpent, so that he was prevented from making the
least movement. The head priest then approached, and with
a knife made of flint, cut an aperture in the breast and tore
out the heart, which, yet palpitating, he offered to the sun,
and then threw it at the feet of the idol. If the idol, was
gigantic and hollow, it was usual to introduce the heart of
the victim into his mouth with a golden spoon. If the vic-
tim was a prisoner of war, as soon. as he was sacrificed they
cut off the head to preserve the skull, and threw the body
down the steps, when it was taken up by the officer or soldier
to whom the prisoner had belonged, and carried to his house
to be dressed and served up as an entertainment for his
friends. If he was not a prisoner of war, but a slave pur-
chased for the sacrifice, the proprietor carried off the body
for the save purpose."