The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

‘l3- We shall be happy, at all times, to receive communica-
tions on subjects of local or general interest.
THE MAYOR AND MAD DOGS.—We have received a letter
from Mr. Horsburgh, veterinary surgeon, of Dalkeith, near
Edinburgh, complaining of the order of our Mayor to con.
fine all dogs, and stigmatising the practice of muzzling as
one of great cruelty. He may be right in the latter parti-
cular, but the Mayor has very judiciously taken steps to pre-
vent, as far as possible, that frightful disorder hydrophobia,
and also to check the keeping of these animals by persons
receiving parochial relief.

THE POET ON MOUNT PLEASANT, who sends us " The Early
Closer's Confession," would hardly thank us for publish-

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TUESDAY

MORNING, SEPT. 6, 1853

IF the arduous exertions for the extension of the
Romish faith in this country affected solely the
simple question of a difference in creeds, they might
be safely left to their own merits, in common with
every other form of dissent from the doctrines of
the Established Church. If even it was merely
the antagonism between Christianity and its direct
opposite, no fears for the result of the contest need
be entertained, but the case might confidently be
left in the hands of those whose duty it is to oppose
error with truth. The question, however, is fraught
with mighty consequences, involving not only the
reality of religious liberty, but the very essence of
our Constitutional privileges, social, moral, and
political. The danger would be less if there were
a readiness in the English people to discover the
evils to which they are exposed, and manfully to
resist them ; but, unfortunately, they have a con-
stitutional apathy, which, while it spares them from
the miseries of revolution to which more excitable
people are exposed, places them more at the mercy
of designing demagogues and cunning charlatans.
It is not very long since the Isle was frighted
from its propriety by the insolent Bull of the im-
becile Pope Pius IX., appointing a Romish hier-
archy, dividing England anew into dioceses, and
fulminating his decrees with a tone of such absurd
arrogance as though he had forgotten his craven
flight from his own city in the disguise of a liveried
flunkey. Every parish had its public meeting, and
petitions to the Throne and to the Parliament were
poured in by thousands, praying for resistance to
this insolent aggression. How were they responded
to P Did the Minister of the day refuse admission
to the Romish Legate, who, as a British subject,
was plain Mr. WISEMAN, and yet returned to Eng-
land with the prestige attaching tohis spurious titles
of CARDINAL OF ROME, and LORD ARCHBISHOP OF
WESTMINSTER P It would seem that the Minister
had vented all his Protestantism in his celebrated
Letter to the Bishop of DURHAM, for he did lite-
rally nothing; and, when the question was forced on
him by the pressure from without acting on the House
of Commons, he met it by the contemptible evasion
of an Ecclesiastical Titles Prevention Bill,which has