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of the Annie Jane, on her return to por

of her disasters, ever

reality investigated, and a report

referred to, signed by William Hendr

two of the passengers who left the ship. The Glasgow
Examiner, more virulent, or less cautious than the Herald,
gives also the petition presented to the Mayor of Liverpool;
it is signed by not less than eighty-one of the returned
passengers. Neither of those documents, in even the most
diAant hint, convey a suspicion that the vessel was unsea-
worthy; while both are pointed and loud in complaints as
to short supplies of the provisions served out to the passen-
gers, in breach, as they say, of a contract between them

and the own

Scant provender, if endured, is a form of suffering no
doubt exceedingly hard to bear, and one which, on a pro-
tracted voyage, would prove dangerous as well as disagree-
able; but it is one over which the municipal authorities of
Liverpool, like those of other ports, .have no controul.
The duty of ascertaining adequacy in such furnishings, as
well as otherwise securing the comfort and safety of emi-
grants, devolves upon an officer of Government, with
whose appointment or functions the authorities of neither
Liverpool nor Glasgow are entitled or permitted to inter-
fere. So far, then, as the lamentable event can be com-
prehended, under present circumstances, the catastrophe,
sorrowful and fatal though it was, cannot be charged
against the authorities or the community of Liverpool, but
was one of those inscrutable, though deplorable, dispensa-
Vons of Providence from which no seafaring population
can be held exempt, and any effort to fix extraneous cul-
pability in connexion with which is not more ungenerous
than it is flagitious.

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE,

PAPAL AGGRESSION.
TO TUE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

•
Srn,—The tenacity of purpose with which the priest-
hood of Rome, from the Pope downwards, has ever sought,
and continues now to seek, in a most marked manner, to
subject the population of every country in which they
can get a footing to mental thraldom to themselves, can
hardly fail to be noticed by every observant mind ; but au
unaccountable apathy to their doings seems to have seized
the bulk of Protestants in this Protestant country. Some
half century ago it was almost a rarity to meet a Catholic
priest ; but now they literally swarm in our streets, and
every effort seems to be made to familiarise the public
with them and their dogmas.
We all recollect the recent visit of Cardinal Wiseman
and his lectures. We have also had Dr. Newman lec-
turing about the Turks ; and we have now that firebrand,
Dr. Cahill, advertising to give lectures ; but the proceeds,
partly accruing from Protestants, are always exclusively
to aid Romish institutions : never, as far as I recollect, in
aid of such institutions as the Dispensaries, Infirmaries,
&c., &c. I would respectfully caution Protestants not to
be carried away by the mere novelty of hearing a Romish
priest lecture to aid them in their endeavours to become
dominant in this free country, and to give any sanction to
them, which an attendance of their lectures would fairly
imply • for their acting in this way, I make no doubt, is
only part of an organised system of ultimately establishing
an ascendancy in this country. I see the walls placarded
every now and then with announcements of the perform-
ance of High Mass and other superstitious and idolatrous
acts, which used not to be the case • surely they could
circulate the information of these performances in a more
private and less offensive manner among their own com-
munity.

Political parties are so evenly balanced in Parliament,
that a small knot of priest-made Irish members, acting
under orders from the priests, and firmly banded together,
have most likely inflicted a Puseyite Ministry on the
country; for we have one (as witness the abject and mean
truckling of the Premier to the two or three Romish
members of the Cabinet), and the almost open encourage-
ment of the priests to bluster and become rampant in the
land. The priests are endeavouring to get a footing in
our Town Council. The candidate for Vauxhall Ward (in
his private capacity a worthy man, I believe) is a nominee
ofthe priests. In his address he states that he admires the
present ministry, and is a firm friend of civil and religious
liberty. How can a Roman Catholic with truth say this ?
In countries where the Popish religion is dominant, do
they grant civil and religious liberty ? Is there religions
liberty in Rome, in Tuscany, in Spain, in Austria ? In this
Protestant country there is at present both civil and reli-
gious liberty, and long may these blessings be preserved to
us ; but, except Protestants become more watchful and
vigilant, I fear these blessings may be endangered.
In Protestant countries the priests cry out for civil
and religious liberty, and they get it ; but, in coun-
tries where they are dominant, they do not allow it.
Protestants of all denominations, think seriously of this
state of things. Open your eyes, and endeavour to with-
stand and counteract the secret but determined and ever
active efforts of the Romish priesthood to subject this free
country to subserviency to Rome and its institutions, such
as confession, the inquisition, tie abeyance of all religious
freedom of thought and action, and mental subjection to
the priests in things the most sacred and important.
A PROTESTANT DISSENTER.
Liverpool, Oct. 22, 1853. _

TORTETH WARDS,

TO THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SIR,—In your Friday contemporary, "A Liberal Elector"
is very indignant at there being no opposition to Messrs.
Gregson and Holme. Allow me to enlighten him on the
subject, by telling him that the " Liberals" "know the
reason why ;" and that if he looks backwards into the
annals of elections in Toxteth wards, he will see that in
North Toxteth last year, Mr. Hilton Halhead (Conserva-
tive) defeated Mr. Thomas Lloyd (Radical) ; and that
South Toxteth, though there was no contest last year,
there was the year before, when Mr. John Stewart
(Conservative) defeated Mr. E. C. Hindley (Radical) ; in
both cases by overwhelming majorities. The " Liberal
Elector" will thus see that experience of the past prevents
the " Liberals" from contesting these wards.—l am, Sir,
yours, truly,

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