The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-04-27 00:00:00

ROMANIST MODERATION.

TN these days of professed moderation and forbearance,
one is sometimes startled by a sudden contrast. It is
persecution to repeal a useless or an injurious statute;
we must not adjust the balance of free trade (so called)
to the shoulders of the various classes of the community;
and if Louis Napoleon, Emperor of France " that is to
be," should invade our shores, it would be very unchris-
tian and ungentlemanly, not to say undignified, to defend
ourselves. The persons who prate so from day to day,

are consistent in at least one thing—the horse-leech
principle of " Give, give." The urgency of their plead-
ing is only equalled by the fierceness of their threatening.
We have been roused by the waving of the olive branch
by some gentlemen across the channel. The first is the
meek and humane Dr. Cahill, who, in avoiding the spirit
of a heretical translation, is harmless as a serpent, and
wise as a dove. His cooings, however, have sometimes been
said to resemble the roaring of the lion. He exults at the
idea of French corsairs and cut-throats burying their steel
in the bosoms of English matrons and infants ; and, there-
fore, we do:not despair of finding him appointed, in due
time, lecturer to the Anti-Militia Society. He supports the
theories of his friend Dr. Cullen, who believes that the sun
is a two-feet globe, and we presume it was for that reason
he was solicited to lecture on astronomy in Liverpool.
He is fond of writing litters to great men, Lord John
Russell for example, and now the Earl of Derby. We
wonder how the Ministry can possibly stand, after the
powerful exposure of its inconsistency in paying only
£30,000 a-year to the college of those who honour the
Pope and Our Lady. The following is an extract from
Dr. Cahill's epistle to Lord Derby :
" Wc (the Catholics) had nearly forgotten this robbery
of our church, and of the patrimony of the poor, and we
were beginning to entertain feelings of charitable inter-
course with the descendants of the greatest villains and
assassins and murderers that ever the world saw in any
age or country, till Lord John Russell raised the
the empire against us, by an insult and a slander w

a parallel in modern history. And as iCit is intended to
tread out every feeling that could bind us to the Throne,
your colleague (which means your Lordship) has com-
menced the session of '52 by a gratuitous insult on our
creed, and has threatened, in a rare combination of slan-
der and bigotry, to support Mr. Spooner 's motion for the
entire repeal of the grant to Maynoot
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