The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-02 00:00:00

A SPECIMEN OF CAIIILL

THAT most meek and forbearing Christian, the
Reverend Doctor CAHILL, has just put forth the
first of a series of twelve letters, addressed to the
First Minister of the Crown, and designed for his
instruction and guidance. Lest any of our readers,
to whom their time is valuable, should be tempted
to waste any portion of it on the future debla-
therations of the Hiberno-Roman Doctor, we deem
it advisable to give a specimen of the first of these
productions, by way of warning, against those
which are to follow. Adverting to the expressions
in the last QUEEN'S Speech respecting the danger
to which the Protestant Church is exposed, CAHILL
confesses, that for once he agrees with the sen-
timents expressed in an Address from the Throne,
and declares his belief in its imminent peril. " I
believe, moreover," says his Reverence to Lord
DERBY," that neither Her Most Gracious MAJESTY,
with all her Royal power, nor Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL, with the base Whigs, nor your Lordship,
with the most judicious combination of Whig and
Tory, which your skill in Parliamentary chymistry
can produce, will be able to stay much longer the
downfall of an institution which is a libel on God's
Gospel; a fortress of public injustice; and the
scandalous disturber of our national peace."
Those who, with Dr. JOHNSON, entertain a
liking for a "good hater," may feel some sort of
admiration for this Roman Priest ; for his hatred of
the Protestant Church is as strong as it is undis-
semblcd. He seems to consider his language mild
when he speaks of our Church as an " anti-
Chris Can monster, which has been reared on the
plundered food of the widow and the orphan, and
which now makes its enormous daily meals and
annual feasts on the life-blood of the entire nation."

How this dreadful Ogre has oppressed and
sacrificed the unoffending, long-suffering, and
uncomplaining Roman Catholic Church, the
world may not be aware ; but the Reverend CAHILL
informs Lord DERBY that their "superhuman en-
durance under savage parliamentary insults and lies
have had the effect of encouraging their insatiable
enemies, in place of mitigating their fanatical fero-
city." But the poor Roman Catholics need no
longer be under serious apprehension. Has not
CAHILL thrown down the gauntlet for them ? Is
he not their ever ready and puissant champion ?
Why, he has deliberately told Lord DERBY that,
if his lordship will give him fair play,—by which
he says he means if his lordship will muzzle the
Times, and the Globe, and the Standard, and Punch,
—whom he strings together indiscriminately as Lord
DERBY'S dogs of war,—he is quite prepared to rid
the nation of its Church Establishment, and thus
secure to himself beatification, and national grati-
tude equal to that awarded to the dragon-slaying
GEORGE, or the vermin-exterminating PATRICK.
The Reverend Doctor concludes his letter with

a complimentary allusion to the " illustrious
NA POLEON 111. ;" and there is little difficulty in
discovering the cause for his admiration of that
distinguished monarch. He feels that he wants a
censorship of the Press, before he and his proteges
can get what they want, and he sees but little
chance of LORD DERBY'S accepting his offer and
granting the condition precedent to his great feat
of Church destruction.
To be serious, the Protestant religion no less
than the British Constitution owes much to the

Press, and must ever find in it its mcsi powerful
and efficient supporter and defender; and"these are
times when the duties of the Press in respect both
of Church and State are specially onerous. If it is
by means of the Press that the rabid nonsense and
reckless audacity of the CAHILLS find a vent, it
is for the Press also to prevent their performances
from having any evil effect upon the community ;
and while the Protestant Press of England is true
to its own cause, there need be little fear of what a
thousand CAHILLS can do to subvert or injure
our Protestant Church,—the source, under God,
of so many blessings to the country.