The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-03 00:00:00

ROMANISM,

IMPORTANT MEETING AT HEREFORD.
(Front the Hereford County Press)
The undersigned have the honour to present the following
statement of all the circumstances Tinder which a meeting
took place yesterday morning, December 27, in the Counsels
Room, at the Shire Hall, in this city :
The Committee of the Hereford Protestant Association
having become acquainted with the contents of the Maynooth
class books, by actual inspection, deemed it their duty to
communicate them as widely as possible in their own neigh-
baurhood. The following circular was, therefore, issued to
100 resident gentlemen of the city and county :
"We are desired by the committee of, the Hereford Pro-,
testant Association to entreat, in the most urgent manner,
the favour of your attendance at a meeting to be held on
Friday, the 27th instant, at twelve o'clock, at the Counsels'
Room,. Shire Hall. The committee are in possession of im-
portant documents containing the most painful information
on certain subjects, which they were anxious to lay before
the respectable and intelligent members of the community of
this county.

"The committee pledge themselves as to the great im-
portance and authenticity of the intelligence they desire to
communicate. The meeting will be strictly confined to gen-
tlemen who are thus individually invited 3y the committee,
and they earnestly entreat your dispassionate an unbiassed
attention.

" Yen. Archd. Wetherell, Rev. J. Venn, -
Rev. Thomas Allen, W. H,. Bellamy, Esq.
Chandos Hoskyns, Esq. Rev. W. Hassall,
J. G. Barker, Esq. Major Coyle,
Rev. H. Symonds, Rev. J. H. Barker,
Rev. D. J. L. \Varner, Rev. Thomas Powell,
Sir H. Hoskyns, Bart. H. J. Lee Warner, Esq."
" Hereford, Dec. 18, 1839."
In compliance with the requisition, forty gentlemen at-
tended the meoting at the hour and place specified. Sic H.
Hoskyns, Bart., was called to the chair, on the propoSition
of H. Lc Warner, Esq., which was responded to by the una-
nimous voice of the meeting.
The Chairman then called upon Mr. E. F. O'Beirne to
introduce the subject immediately connected with the meet-
ing. This gentleman laid upon the table the following works :
" The Treatises of Bailey and De La Hogue," and the " Di-
gest of Evidence before the Lords and Commons; taken in
18'11-5." The first containing the doctrines of the Church
of Rome, as taught at Maynooth ; the latter containing the
evidence of the Romish bishops as to the genuineness.
The business of the meeting was strictly confined to an in-
vestigation of these works, in order to attain undeniable evi-
dence of two facts—one, the doctrines of the Church of Rome;
the other, that these doctrines are the actual scholastic system
of Maynooth.
The impression made upon the meeting is to be found in the
following petitions to both Houses of Parliament, which were
signed immediately the investigation terminated
TO THE HONOURABLE THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEM-
PORAL OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN
AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED,
" The humble Petition of the undersigned resident Gentry
of the County and City of Hereford,
Showeth,—That your petitioners are convinced, by an.
actual inspection of the class books of the Roman Catholic
College of Maynooth, that the principles therein taught are
immoral in the extreme, subversive of the best interests of
society, and incompatible with the stability of the most sacred
civil and religious institutions of the state.
" Your 'petitioners, therefore, humbly entreat your Ho-
nourable House to aoint a commission of inquiry into the
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system of education and discipline adopted at that college."
These petitions bear the signatures of 34 individuals, -of.
whom three are baronets, 15 county magistrates, and all gen-
tlemen of station and character in the county, though Oa-
sessing direct political opinions.
THOMAS POWELL, Tarnaston, Secretaries.
HENRY COYLE, Major, Hereford,