The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

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POPERY

IN EUROPE

(From the Times.)

If the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierar-
chy in England, and the appointment of two such
emissaries as Cardinal Wiseman and Archbishop
Cullen to conduct the Papal policy in this country,
had been isolated facts, intended only, as was said,
for the better spiritual government and the greater
convenience of persons professing the Roman Ca-
tholic faith, it might be contended that the resent-
ment roused among the people of England by that
Popish aggression had exceeded the real necessity

TUESDAY HORNING,

4UGUST 10, 1552

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been making of themselves " loon tor laughter;"
and during the past wEek they have succeeded in

to a clitnax their previous proceedings in
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of the case. But, with instinctive consciousness
and certainty, the English nation felt that this was
the touch of the old enemy of their liberties and
their independence, and, on looking round them,
they perceived that the Romish aggression in this
country was but a part of a vast attempt to extend
and renew the pretensions and powers of the Papacy
throughout the world. We see, and for many rea-
sons we deplore, the renewal of that fierce contro-
-e between Catholic and Protestant of which the
.nfatuation and ambition of the court of Rome have
once more given the signal. But even this contro-
versy is but a portion of, or an offset from, the
eternal contest between the power of the law and
the power of the Church,—between civil right and
clerical authority,—which rages, without distinction
of creed, in all the States of Christendom. Pius IX.
has sought to restore to the Papacy its character of
universal dominion. In the churches, in the educa-
tion of youth, in political debate, in popular elec-
tions, in the choice of statesmen and rulers far and
near, the united and disciplined forces of the Ro-
mish clergy never were more vigorously applied to
promote the grand object of Papal supremacy ; and
we question if in any former age the influence of
the Romish see on the affairs of foreign nations was
so rapid, direct, and insatiable. It may be worth
i while to take a rapid survey of this extraordinary
1 state of things.
1 The Pope's authority is supported in one-half of
j his temporal dominions by an Austrian detach-
ment, and in his capital by a French army; yet, so
skilfully has the Court of Rome played off one of
its allies against the other, that it has not only re•
tained its whole spiritual independence, but has
literally extracted from both the leading Catholic
Powers enormous concessions. In Austria the
Government has surrendered the rights obtained by
the Emperor Joseph, which placed the Roman
Catholic Church in the Empire under the controul
of the State, and the Jesuits are restored. In 1
rating, France, where the order of the Jesuits is not tole-
- rated by law, and their expulsion was formerly
_..,, .. ein tie seen, bas again been required and obtained by M. Guizot and M. Rossi
g, in the Dock Committee, his peculiar fit- in 1545, everything tends to an unbounded exten-
*less to sit in a deliberative body, consisting of gen- sion of their power. They have recently purchased
On his last appearance in the character of one or more of the largest religious houses in Paris,
t body, it will be remembered and they are in treaty for an estate in the neigh-
,er to insult a gentleman— bourhood of Bourges. The recent changes effected
--tions of Mr. EVANS' by Louis Napoleon in the University of France
acrid temper could be considered an insult,— have placed its secular chiefs at the mercy of the
by an insinuation of some former want of priests, and will throw the whole education of the
that Hibernian sort of chivalry which, it is rising generation into the hands of the clergy, and
said, used to be the usual result of an extra in- of a clergy imbued with the strongest ultramontane
dulgence in claret or whiskey, at every symposium doctrines, and repudiating as heretical and anti-
in that country, "in the good old clays when GEORGE Christian those liberties of the Gallican Church
the THIRD was King." Mr. BOLD, it seems, which Bosseut defended. At home the subser-
supposing that Mr. EVANS referred to a viency of the French Government to the clergy is
dispute which occurred, when he was a vsry more absolute than it was under Charles X., and
young man, some twenty years ago—which, by every demand of the Church upon the State is
the bye, it is well known, was promptly decided obeyed with incredible alacrity. Abroad, this same
in Mr. BOLD'S favour, by an apology from the influence of the clergy is used for objects to which
aggressor, accompanied by declarations of the the policy of the French Cabinet is no stranger.
friends of both,—conceived it his duty to retire Thus, in the late elections in Belgium, the power of
from his position as a member of a body the priests was exerted with the utmost audacity
which included a gentleman disposed to rake up and intolerance to overthrow the Ministry which
transactions of such long date, for the purpose of which had carried on the King's Government with
irritating those opposed to him in political opinion•_ honour and independence during the last five years,
Mr. EVANS, however, it appears, thoeight fit to and even in some instances openly to preach the
change the time and venue of his mysterious charge necessity of placing the faith in Belgium under the
to that of a transaction which occurred only mighty protection of France. They succeeded but
18 months ago. We are informed, that even too well. The Belgian Ministry, which presumed 1
that vicious insinuation falls to the ground, temperately to resist Louis Napoleon's dictation and
Mr. BOLD being in a position to produce, if the threats of the priests, has resigned; and, if the
he thought it worth while, evidence sufficient clerical party force its way to power, the best secu-
to prove that Mr. EVANS'S second effort to da- rity to the independence of Belgium is shaken. In
wage him is as innocuous as the first. The Tuscany the priests have attained the same result,
public, meanwhile, have formed not only from not by influencing popular elections or excommuni-
Mr. EVANS' remarks at the close of the "scene" eating independent electors from the altar, but by
in the Committee, but also from his published letter, their authority over the mind of a feeble Prince.
a pretty correct impression as to the motives of that The Grand Duke has already been persuaded by
gentleman. They conceive that those parties are these sinister counsellors to sacrifice the Leopoldine
to be avoided who persist in carrying about with laws, which were the palladium of the nationality
them, both into the sphere of their public duties and religious freedom of his subjects, to proscribe
and into private life, the rancorous feelings engen- Jews, to persecute and imprison Protestants with
dered by political defeat. When will Mr. EVANS brutal rigour, and at length to dissolve his Cabinet,
have arrived at an age mature enough to teach him because Count Baldasseroni is, it seems, too liberal
the childishness of his waspish propensities ? and independent a statesman, and the clerical party
in England, we regret to find, exclnsive dealing, insist on securing their own domination in the per-
as in Ireland ruffianism, is being extensively prac- son of M. Bocella. Such is the condition of the
tised since the recent elections. The latter species, Catholic States. In Protestant countries the con-
of enormity will certainly not lie followed in this 1 flict is carried on with still greater intensity. In
„ but the former we hear is, day by day, the Catholic parts of Prussia, the Rhenish provin-
becoming more prevalent. A paragraph appeared ces, and Silesia, nothing can exceed the zeal with
in a local paper of Saturday week, describing an I which the work of proselytism is directed against
instance which had occurred in this town, the per- ' the other parts of the kingdom, and the warfare of
petrator being a Conservative employer; and, as religious intolerance carried on against the Govern-
such, it has been eagerly seized hold of for quota- ment. In Ireland, it is unnecessary for us to re-
tion be the Radical press. The Radical party mind our readers of the outrageous conduct of the
themselves, however, assume to be pure in this priests during the late elections, and that within
respect, although we could produce cases within twenty-five years of the Catholic Emancipation a
our own knowledge to convict them of the very sin whole bench of members are openly returned to the
they affect to abhor. The time will come, never- i British House of Commons by Papal authority.
theless, when the duty of men of all parties to Everywhere the same hostile and aggressive spirit
support those by whom themselves are supported, is manifested—everywhere the battle is fought
instead of introducing into their places of business, under the standard of clerical authority against
and into their household, their bitterest political civil independence. The question lies, not between
opponents, will be recognised; and if that duty is this and that creed, but between national sove-
ever put in practice in Liverpool, we know well reignty and Romish subjection, between the power
what particular party will have most to deplore the of every state and people to govern and to legislate
result. There are, at this moment, hundreds of as it thinks fit, and the surrender of that power to
good Protestants and loyal men,—industrious, an occult but universal ascendancy which aspires
civil, and well-behaved in every respect,—who are to convert all lands and nations into the provinces
walking the streets, or loitering in idleness in the and the slaves of its spiritual dominion.
area of our Exchange, whilst the warehouses and Nowhere have these intolerable assumptions of
dock quays of our town employ almost exclusively authority been more signally displayed than in the 1
a set of men who, at the bidding of their priesthood, Sardinian States. In that country there is no
would be found with bludgeons in their hands question of faith, for Piedmont is essentially a Ro-
ready to use them against their own employers, if man Catholic country, and that religion is recog-
necessary in carrying out the seditious and violent nized by the charter as the Church of the realm.
designs of their spiritual dictators. It will not It is altogether a question of legislative power. The
require much more than what is at present going first signal of this quarrel was given by the Siccardi
on to convince the Conservative merchants and laws, passed by the Chambers, which incensed the
others of Liverpool of the advantage and safety of clergy because this reform rendered them amen-
treating with gratitude and justice those who have able to the ordinary civil jurisdictions of the country,
at all times shown towards themselves, and the as they now are everywhere else in Europe. This
cause which they advocate, affection and trust- session another step has been made in the same di-
worthiness. rection by a Marriage Act, which introduces civil
The Times Correspondent in Ireland gratified his formalities for the legal celebration of marriage,
employers yesterday by enabling them to insert in similar to those existing in France and Belgium,
their columns the copy of a circular, alleged to have without, of course, interfering with the religious
been written by Lord PALNIERSTON'S agent to his rites afterwards to be performed by the Church.
tenants in the county of Sligo, intimating his lord- Against this Act the whole episcopate of Savcy and
ship's desire that they should " give their support at many of the Piedmontese clergy have protested.
the next election to Sir ROBERT GORE BOOTH and They denounce every form of civil marriage as con-
Captain GORE," the Derbyite candidates. Of cubinage, and they stigmatize its issue as bastards,
course the inference intended to be drawn from quite forgetting that the same forms are in full
this is, that improper interference has been prac- force in many Catholic countries, and that the ex-
tised. It is a pity that neither the Times, istence of a legal contract in one shape does not
nor any other organ of its class, has ever in- impair the sanctity of a religious sacrament (as they
formed us in what manner the interest of the consider it) in another. Piedmont is overrun with
Marquis of WESTMINSTER was used at the bishops. To a population of about four millions
late election, to promote the return, with Lord and a half there are no less than thirty-seven dio-
GROSVENOR, of that poor being, Mr. W. 0. STAN- ceses, besides 323 monasteries and convents, pin-
LEY. We feel grateful, however, to the Times, for sessing property to the amount of at least five
satisfying us that Lord PALMERSTON cannot be millions sterling. The Church is powerful, inde-
classed amongst the virulent opponents of the pre- pendent, and rich, but its spirit is anti-national,
sent government, for its allegiance is paid, not to the laws and Sov-
We are going rapidly ahead in our efforts to get erign of the country, but to the laws and Soverign
rid of the necessity of employing human beings in of Rome. Nothing can more thoroughly exemplify
the various industrial processes of life. At the the nature of the interference of Rome with the
Highland Society's meeting, held at Perth on Fri- political institutions and national independence of
day last, we observe that a trial took place between a constitutional Government and a free people than
two reaping machines—Mr. HussEy's, an Ameri- this case. It is no exaggeration to assert that the
can one, and another the invention of a certain existence of the Sardinian monarchy in its integrity
Rev. Mr. BELL. The particular characteristics of and independence is more threatened by the mal-
the two are thus described : ignant intrigues of a clergy which represents the
" When HUSSEY'S machine takes the field, one man at rival and jealous pretensions of foreign absolutism,
least is required to stand on it, and with a hand-rake than by the proximity of Austria and of France.
throw off the cut corn for the gatherers and binders. The authority of Rome is directly opposed to the
BELL'S machine is supplied with a canvas apron on rollers,
duties of legal obedience as defined bY the national
rising at an angle of 45 degrees from the cutters, and
worked by a concentric motion, so as to lay the cut coin Legislature, and to the fealty of the subject to the
in line to be gathered. HUSSEY'S machine cuts the crop State and to the Crown. That is the ground on
as it stands ; BELL'S has flying arms in front, which lay which we are bound by the love we bear to the
the corn to be cut exactly as a newspaper printinz machine rights of national independence to resist every form
lays hold of the sheet of paper to be printed. HUSSEY'S
of Popish interference ; and, although at this time
nachine goes to work with a rumbling noise ; BELL'S ill
'fence. " Europe lies prostrate beneath the combined forces
So far Mr. BELL'S machine will be preferable in of military. despotism and spiritual bondage, the
of those who wish to economise
eyes labour; riof R
insatiable demands Roche must one day be op-
,, silent working" is a valuable feature. No posed by every Government capable of exercising
authority
wonder that his reaping machine received the prize. independent power, unless that parasitic
But it is an important fact for our
progress of mankind. free-trade menu-
prate about is to acquire universal supremacy, and to stop the
facturers, and others, who occasionally
new processes in agriculture, to consider that,
though " waving its arms," and acting altogether A NEW CRYSTAL PALACE.—Mr. Thos. Woolcombe,
with such exemplary propriety, Mr. BELL'S. ma- the chairman of the South Devon Railway Company, has
chine neither wears a cotton gown, a Linsey wolsey brouehtt forward a grand scheme
iforvpublict,gaanrdelisonfoer
petticoat, or shoes, and consumes no imported hhoeusceomwbiitned towns of Polymoutib3,o
obit,loo°-npr ted M
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THE AFRICAN MAIL STEAMERS.—In order to afford a coveringuste of the manor, free of cost, with a view to the an acre of ground ; the land to be leased by the
es
costaltr communication every fourteen days to Madeira and
Teneriffe, the .
mprovement of the surrounding property. The cost of
Lords of the Admiralty have fixed the de-
!layingl ()cut and the Crystal Palace is estimated at £25,000,
parture of the African mail steamers for the 24th instead
of which Si Joseph Paxton is of opinion the Crystal
of the Ist of each month. The new regulation will come
Palace would cost £12,000. The present notion is to
into force on the 24th of September next, when the first
raise the money by debentures.—Exeter Flying Post.
. vessel of this line will take her departure.

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