The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-07-22 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL S'T.4ND.IRD,

Sir,—There is an extreme charity abroad at present with re-
gard to the doctrines and principles of the church
.of Rome.
The self-named liberals of the'day strenuously insist, in 4-
spite of her own oft asserted claim to infallibility, that she is a
changed—an improved church, and that leis unjust to charge
her with the persecuting spirit of days gone by. Whatever ig-
norant protestants may say for her, we know that no member
of the church of Rome will or dare say that she is changed or
improved; for, by such a concession, he strikes a deadly blow
at her infallibility, without which she could not exist. It is by
her assumed infallibility that she is enabled to enslave the
minds and the consciences of her ignorant and wretched de-
votees, and in their estimatitm, what she has been, she still is,
and ever must be. By her infallibility she is pledged to be a
persecuting church, and it is not to her altered decrees on prin-
ciples that the faggot, the gibbet, or the dungeons and the In-
quisition are less in request now than formerly for the punish-
'trent of protestants, but solely to her want of power. The li-
beralism of the day stupidly offers in reply, that all churches
have persecuted when they had the power. This is not true,
but were it so, I know of no church who ever put forth a perse-
cuting hand, but what had long deplored and denounced all
such acts, with the exception of the church of Rome, and she
never has, nor can she without proclaiming herself. fallible.
To whatever extent protestants may have persecuted, it can
never be attributed to the principles of their religion, btit evi-
dently ought to be ascribed to their imperfect reformation from
popery, and to the nearness of the time when it reigned ram-
pant, and gave so many flaming and exalted examples. •
T. shall feel obliged if you or any of your readers can furnish
me with or direct me where, I shall find a list of the English
authors that have a place in the Index Expurgatorius, my ob-
ject, more particularly, is to ascertain what, if any, of our his-
torical writers have been so anathematised.

Yours respectfully,
J. M. IC

July 20, 1836.

THEATRICALS.—Mr, Flynn, the manager of the New York
National Theatre, has' been in England some time forming en-
gagements with most of the principal corps dramatique of the
English stage, and is about returning to America by the Co-
lumbus, now lying in the Prince's Dock, having engaged the
following stars, several of whom accompany him : —The
navel family, (consisting . of twelve perrons,) Miss Shir-
reff. Mr. Wilson, Mrs. Honey, Mr. Macready, Mr. Forrest
(the celebrated American actor.) Miss Clifton, Mademoiselle
Celeste, Mr. Booth, Mr. James Wallack, Mrs. Watson, (late
Miss Wells,) Miss Watson, Mr. Charles Howard, (from Madame
Vestris's Theatre,) Mr. Mitchell, (from the Strand Thentre,)
Mr. Plumer, (from Braham's Theatre,) Mr. James Wallack,
jun., with a numerous and highly-efficient company. We un-
derstand thet Mr. Flynn has made an offer to Mr. Stuart, of
the Liverpool Theatre, of a permanent engagement, for twelve
months, at a salary of £25 a week, and a clear half benefit, but
which that gentleman has declined accepting. . .