The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-08 00:00:00

RUMOURED PERVERSIONS.

We give the following from the Morning Herald of
Saturday. If it should prove to be true, it is a lamentable
fact, and shows the stern necessity of using more vigorous
measures for resisting the encroachments of Rome :
" Rumour has given, for some days past, Lady Peel and
her daughter to the Church of Rome. it is said that a
union with a Romanist, the son of Lord Camoys, is con-
templated, and that this conversion is a preliminary step.
One of the most observable features of modern Popery is
the crafty and unceasing efforts it makes to entrap the
wealthy and high-born. A weekly journal gives in its last
number the following statement We are informed
that the lion. Mr. West, son of the Earl of Delawarr, has
been passing the winter at Rome, and has been marked
out as an object of the efforts of the Vatican. The Rev.
Mr. Pollen, (late proctor of Oxford, and now a Roman
Catholic,) and Monsignor Talbot, the Pope's chamber-
lain, used the utmost efforts for the purpose, but he
always declined controversy. On the 31st January they
asked him if he would like to be introduced to the Pope,
to which he consented. During the audience, to his great
surprise, the Pope laid his hand on his shoulder, and said
he was very glad to hear of his good disposition to the
church, and he had better make up his mind to profess the
true faith publicly on the 2d of February, when he (the
Pope) would be at St. Peter's to bless the candles. Mr.
West, who had not the remotest intention of the sort,
was, however, so taken by surprise, that he made no
reply. He did not go to St. Peter's on the 2d ; but on the
following day Mr. Talbot requested him to call upon him
at his rooms in the Vatican, when he and Mr. Pollen sub-
mitted to him a parchment which he called 'a faculty,' in
which Mr. West's name was written in full, and Mr. Tal-
bot said that his holiness had given him a dispensation to
receive him at once, in his room, into the bosom of the
church. Mr. West protested against their conduct, and
said he had not the slightest intention of becoming a
Roman Catholic ; and ultimately, with difficulty, he left
the Vatican.' We have heard of many similar instances,
in most of which the manoeuvre has proved successful. It
is, however, one comfort to feel assured that such tricks
can only succeeed with vaccillating and weak-minded
persons. From among such, Rome has, of late years,
largely replenished her ranks."

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY, MARCH 1.

In answer to the Bishop of Manchester, the Duke of
NBWCASTLE said that the convicts at Bermuda would ra-
pidly be placed on the same footing as those who were
now imprisoned on the more improved system carried on
at Portland.

The Law of Evidence (Scotland) Bill was read a third
time and passed.

The Bail in Error Bill went through committee.
RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
The Earl of MALNIESBURY moved for certain returns
relating to railway accidents during the past year, the
number of which had been so great as to create a general
opinion that the lines of railway were in a dangerous
state.—Lord STANLEY, of Alderley, had no objection to
the production of the returns, which were accordingly
ordered. THURSDAY, MARCH 3.
The Registration of Assurances Bill was read a second
time, after a long speech from Lord ST. LEONARD'S, in
which he asserted that the plan now proposed would
add materially to the expense of transferring land, expose
deeds of great value to imminent risk of being lost, and
prove in practice a complete failure.
FRIDAY, MARCH 4.
A number of petitions were presented against Maynooth,
and against the admission of Jews to Parliament.

FOREIGN REFUGEES

Lord LYNDRURSIcaiiea attention to the irritation ex-
cited in the minds of the Austrian Government and
people in consequence of the abuse of the right of asylum
allowed to foreign refugees in this country, and expressed
a strong opinion that the common law would prove
adequate to punish such offenders against international
law.—The Earl of ABERDEEN said that communications
had passed, though no demands had been made by
Austria respecting the refugees. It was, no doubt, the
duty of the Government, if in possession of proper proofs
that refugees were abusing the hospitality afforded them,
to take the initiative in prosecuting them, and it had
already been determined, in case any just cause for com-
plaint should arise, to institute a prosecution on the part
of the Crown against the offenders.

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition from the natives
in the Bombay Presidency, complaining of grievances in
the existing Government of India.—After some observa-
tions from the Earl of ABERDEEN and the Duke of
ARGYLL, it was ordered to be referred to the Select Com-
mittee on Indian Affairs.