The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

THE POPE WILL HAVE HIS WAY.

(From the Dublin Mail.)
The Earl of Arundel and Surrey has explained to the
readers of the Times, in clear and concise language, the
whole course of the proceeding, by which the Pope has
been induced to interdict the Provincial Colleges in Ire-
land, " His Holiness "—says the noble Lord—" receives
from the Catholic bishops of Ireland an intimation that
certain colleges are about to be erected in Ireland by the
British government. He is further informed of the sys,
tem to be followed in those colleges, and he is asked by
the Catholic bishops, whether, in his opinion, such col-
leges, so conducted, are likely to form institutions in
which the Catholic youth of Ireland can be educated,
without danger to that faith, the corruption or loss of
which is fatal to their salvation ?"

This is precisely the way of it. ." My Lords" denounce
to the Court of Rome, which made them, a measure un-
dertaken by the British government; and the Prince who
rules that court concurs in "their Lordships' " reproba-
tion of it, strictly forbidding it to be countenanced by
them, or adopted by his lieges, the people of Ireland.
Disguise thyself as thou wilt, Popery—call thyself a
"chimaera," or delude great statesmen and orators so to
esteem thee, these are the naked, the admitted facts of
the case ; and the result of thy fantastical interference will
be, that a measure of the British government, which no
remonstrance or expostulation of the recognized spiritual
authorities of the United Kingdom could prevail upon it
to suspend or alter, must come to the ground. The Ro-
man potentate, instigated by his commissioned and digni-
fied officers, who serve him here in Ireland, controls, by a
simple edict, the executive government and the proud
parliament of Great Britain. Aye, and both must suc-
cumb to him. The colleges (if ever they are finished) will
be places for owls and bats ; or else such modifications
must be admitted into their constitution, at the dictation
of the Vatican, as shall make them haunts meet for con-
genial monks and Jesuits. Such is the dilemma to which,
`• my Lords," the bishops, acting under their liege lord,
the sovereign of the Roman states, have reduced the con-
querors of the conqueror of the world !
A bill must, incontinently, be brought in to "amend "
the Irish Colleges Act; and a large majority of both
houses will pass it, almost as a matter of course, after
swearing, as nine out of ten of them will swear in the
course of this very blessed week which now is, that " No
foreign prince, prelate, or potentate, hath or ought to have
jurisdiction in this realm." That oath will be a nice com-
mencement of the senatorial life, presenting itself at the
threshold as an occasion to break in young legislators to
the service of the state, and make "very pretty rascals "
of them for its subsequent exigencies.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The Judges, on Thursday, decided, in re Duncombe,
that Members of Pailiament were exempt from arrest for
debt.

The criminal proceedings for libel, adopted by Mr. G.
C. Lewis, late poor-law commissioner, against Mr. Fer-
rand, have been abandoned,—Mr. Ferrand having re-
tracted and apologized.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday, Lord
Denman gave the judgment of the Court in the writ of er-
ror in a case tried at the last Liverpool assizes, of a mar-
riage with a deceased wife's sister. The Court decided
that such marriage was void. It is said that the case will
be taken to the House of Lords, but it is not likely that
the decision will be reversed.
IMPORTANT TO ATTORNEYS.—At the first sitting of the
Insolvent Debtors Court, at Lancaster, before John Addi-
son, Esq., the county judge, during the last week, Mr.
Ashcroft, solicitor, of Preston, chimed to appear for :a
client, in opposition to an insolvent, without employing a,
barrister. This was resisted. by the whole bar. The
matter was argued at considerable length by Mr. Ashcroft,
in support of his claim ; and Mr. Cobbett, the senior
barrister present, in opposition thereto. The Judge ruled
that Mr. Ashcroft had a right to appear, and censequently
he conducted his client's case without a barrister.

On the application of the Attorney-General, a rule
nisi was granted in the Court of Queen's Bench on Tues-
day, for a criminal information against Mr. Gutteridge,
for his libellous attacks on the character of the Rev. Jas.
Prince Lee. We understand that the rule will be argued
to-morrow (Wednesday). We may mention, also, that
the course which Mr. Lee has pursued, in compliance
with the advice of the law-officers of the crown, is the
one best calculated to secure a full and fair inquiry, as,
by a recent? act, the defendant in proceedings by criminal
information has the opportunity, if he can do so, of pro-
ving the truth of his charges, and of establishing the fact
that the publication of such charges was conducive to the
public good.
On Monday, in the Common Pleas, the Chief Justice
gave an important decision on an appeal, from Mr. H. B.
Downing, against a decision of the Revising Barrister for
the city of London. The plaintiff held a counting-house
at the yearly rent of £2O, in a house at No. 11, Mark-
lane, in which six others held similar counting-houses, but
to which there was but one common entrance, which was
kept open during the day-time, but was locked every
night by a clerk who was in the employment of the land-
lord, and who resided up stairs and kept the keys. He
did so for the protection and accommodation of all parties.
It was objected that as the only outer entrance was under
the immediate control of the landlord, whose servant kept
the key of it, the appellant, who had no key of his own,
had no right to be on the register. The barrister admitted
the objection, and ordered the appellant's name to be ex-
punged. Chief Justice Wilde, in concurrence with the
other judges, now revised the judgment, stating that, al-
though the party had not control of the outer door to the
exclusion of the landlord, yet in his opinion he had a suf-
ficient control to prevent the landlord's key from vitiating
his interest. The Revising Barrister having found his
qualification good in all other respects, he thought it was
perfectly good in this, and therefore that his name should
be restored to the list.