The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

to say, that the opinion of our cotemporary has been

echoed b
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liment

y many of our friends on this side the channel,

s will of course be continued, and we have no

doubt will increase in interest and importance. The
following is the paragraph from the Evening Mail:—
" Our able cotemporary, the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,
pis some admirable and graphic ohtlines of the

,arliamentary proceedings and parliamentary speak-

ber, descriptive of the deba

upon Lord Morpeth's

hibited by those Members who took a part in the dis-

cussion, we extract the following—those of Mr. Fre-

Daniel O'Connell,

The series

is extremely well written—written, too, on the spot,
and evidently the production of no ordinary pen."

TO CORRESPONDENTS

" A Constant Reader" may rest assured that we will not
lose sight of the subject to which he refers ; but we cannot
possibly find room for his letter.

of in-

sertirig his letter as an advertisement. -
We have very reluctantly deferred, until Tuesday. the

pearance of " Verses by a Non-resident Clergyman."
`• A Protestant" will see, from the state of our columns, that
we cannot find room for his highly important letter, but
we expect to do so on Tuesday.

Ebt Elbtrpoot .otanbarb.

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1841

'The annual grant to the popish college of Maynooth
is small in amount, but immensely large on the score
of principle; and we feel therefore deeply indebted to
Mr. Colquhoun for having prepared himself in the
manner he has done to bring the question before Par-
liament and the country. The London Morning Chro-
nicle, acting on the principle invariably pursued by the
factious journals and party in Ireland, to pervert every
measure designed to restrain the corrupting influence
of the popish priesthood into a supposed evidence of
hostility to the people, argues that the proposition to
abolish this grant is a clear proof of the " hatred" of
the English towards Ireland.

" In a nation like this," says that journal, " where

riches and splendour are almost worshipped, those that
grudge the Irish people the few thousand pounds that
it costs to buy a few books. and a few potatoes for the
youth intended for the national altar, are actuated by a
spirit of the last degree of contumely and outrage."
Now if the sum annually granted to Maynoc.th could
be entered in the national ledger simply thus—
" Item—To books and potatoes for sucking priests,
£8,000,"

and there were nothing unconscientious in the expendi-
ture, there are few that would think it worth while to
raise a controversy on the subject. But this is the
sort of sham-fighting by which everything vitally im-
portant in Irish questions is gotten rid of. " Don't
meddle with this, and don't meddle with that, lest you
provoke the papists—a most irritable race. Don't vex
them, or you can't imagine what will happen." But it
is time to get rid of tyranny of this sort. .
The more or less in the 3.daynooth grant is not at all
the question ;
.but whether, in point of principle, it
would not be just as culpable to grant Bd. as £B,OOO
in support of such an institution. The foundation of
it was one of the early fruits of expediency, and it is

time for the nation not only to repent of its folly, but
to undo the act—so far as it may now he possible.

Discontinuing the grant merely will indeed be but an
inadequate atonement for the wrong done to the Irish
people—not to speak of that which has been commit-
ted against the Most High—by the original device,
and the sustentation of it for so many years; but, as
an evidence of a right change of mind, it will be of
the utmost value and importance.

To grunt money for the support of a popish college
would be a consistent act in a popish legislature; but
for a Protestant parliament and Protestant nation to
grant it, is a gross and palpable dereliction of princi-
- How can we complain of the poor Irish papist

who forswears himself in courts of justice, shoots:Pro-

testant parsons or landlords, or takes up the arms of
;ainst his Sovereign, whilst lie believes thEtt
Protestants are heretics, in persecuting whom he does
God service, and is persuaded that in taking a false
oath, provided it be for the good of his church, he
commits no perjury whatever; how can we complain,
we say, of the poor and ignorant doing all this, when
the priests teach them so, and it is we who teach the
priests, or pay for their schooling at Maynooth Col-
lege, which is the same thing ? Nor do we this in ig-
norance; for we are, or ought , to be perfectly- aware,
that thus it is that the priests must instruct their fol-

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