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

THURSDAY.

This morninga grand performance of sacred music took place
in the chapel of St. Wilfred, the principal singers at which
were Rubini, Negri, Puzzi, Mademoiselle l'aciui, 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 building 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 inputting 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
I 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 this 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
oT 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 Shell, 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 Strickland's " 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
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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
as soon as possible thoroughly wash and cleanse the bitten
part; not suck the poison from the wound, as is too com-
monly clone, for inoculation 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
freely to every part the nitrate of silver, commonly called
lunar caustic, and which may be had in any druggist's shop.
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 safe. Ido
not recommend the application of a poultice after the opera-
tion, but let the wound be exposed to the atmosphere ; and
itst of should aonliyve ilinoffaylmation ensue, it may be relieved by dress-