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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

each of the other distinguishing doctrines of that church are in
like manner condemned. And there can be no question, that
a legislature which deliberately adopts and adheres to these
declarations, does thereby most plainly avow its policy to be
essentially and fundamentally protestant.
" In like manner, in the confession of faith of the Church of
Scotland,' which authoritative standard is equally established
by the Act of Union, it is emphatically declared " that the
Pope of Home is that anti-Christ—that man of sin, and son
of perdition,' that exalteth himself in the Church of CLIRIST j"
and it is adjudged that the popish sacrifice of the mass, as they
call it, is most abominably injurious to Christ's one only sa-
crifice;' to which are added many other deeded testimonies
against the corruptions of Itomanisin. In both countries, there-
fore, it is sufficiently clear that it is by no vain or idle pretence
that the name of Protestant is given to that religion which is
established by law; and to which your honourable house, as
well as the other branches of the legislature, has so repeatedly
and so recently declared its firm and continued adherence.
Yet while, in this distinct and emphatic manner, and in a
succession of instances reaching even to the present moment,
your Right Honourable House has adopted and reitarated a so-
lemn Protest against the corruptions of the Roinish Church, it
has at the same time happened—your petitioners would fain
hope inadvertantly—that of late years, on divers occasions,
your Honourable House has been induced to lend the aid of
pecuniary grants, from the national revenues, to the propaga-
tion of those very errors and corruptions against which that
Protest is levelled. In the College of Maynooth the Romish
Priests are instructed in and qualified to teach the ignorant
peasantry of Ireland those same " blasphemous fables and dan-
gerous deceits" against which every minister, of either of the
Established Churches is enjoined by his ordination vows to
wage a perpetual warfare. Yet to this seminary of error and
false religion has your honourable house, for some years past,
awarded an annual grant of pecuniary aid; while similar assist-
ance has been given, or is now contemplated, to certain mis-
sions of the Romish Church directed to some of the British co-
lonies. And above all, your petitioners would advert to the
system of education lately established by the government in
Ireland—a systelin which, however honestly it might have been
in the first instance projected, with the design of favouring no
religious creed or opinions whatsoever, is now clearly seen to
be most extensively favourable to the objects of the Romish
priesthood.
" In thus directing the attention of your hon. house to your
repeated expressions of anxiety for the maintenance of prO-
testantism, on the one haud, and to those various overt acts in
favour of Romanism, on the other, which have now for some
years proceeded side by side, in most strange and unnatural
conjunction, your petitioners would• wish to solicit the attention
of your hon. house to the question—since a course so contra-
dictory cannot much longer be persisted in—whether protestant-
ism shall or shall not continue to be the established religion of
the nation. The course latterly pursued is chiefly dangerous,
because it is neither intelligible, nor consistent, nor sincere.
To profess an abhorrence of the doctrines of the church of
Rome, and yet to contribute to their propagation, is a coarse
of conduct which is as much at variance with the simplicity of
truth.as it is irreconcileable with the obligations of a protestant
legislature. Your petitioners would therefore earnestly plead
for a serious and deliberate consideration of the whole ques-
tion, before the national faith shall have been silently but ir-
revocably conceded, amidst vain professions of friendship and
unmeaning declarations of unchangeable attachment.
" Yet your petitioners cannot thus bring before your right
hon. house the propriety and expediency of a speedy and deli-
berate decision of this great question, without adding the ex-
pression of their fervent hope that under the guidance of
Divine Providerice, that decision may be in accordance with re-
vealed and immutable truth, in submission to which the most
vital interest's both of the state at large and every individual in
it are alike concerned. Not to dwell upon that part of the
question which is of individual application, your petitioners
cannot supose that your hon. house, acting as legislators, can
be either ignorant or unmindful of the intimate connexion
which must ever subsist between a scriptural faith and a just
standard of morals, and between correct morals generally
difrused,,and the true and permanent prosperity of a nation.
Your lordships can scarcely overlook the fact that since the
protestant religion was secured and established in this country
the rise of England in wealth and power, and still more in
morals, public liberty, general prosperity, and individual hap-
piness, has been continued and unexampled. While, on the
other hand, looking to those nations of Europe which suppressed
the spirit of the reformation within their territories at the same
period in which it was cherished in England, nothing can be more
total or inure deplutable than the contrast which they at this
moment present. Thus, on taking a review of the existing
state of Europe, it is remarkably and strikingly apparent that
wherever the protestant faith prevails, peace and tranquility,
liberty and public order, are permanently established ; while
in those nations which have clung to the corruptions of popery,
infidelity, and superstition, immorality and insubordination
have corroded the very bonds and cement of society, and have
deprived, alike, the people of happiness and the governments of
security.
Your petitioners might still more urgently enforce this
view of the subject by a reference to the case of our own beloved
country, in which it is too obvious to escape remark, that the
only portions of his Majesty- s dominions which present scenes
of discord and disorganization are precisely those districts in
which the unsocial and corroding principles of Romanism have
obtained an undesirable degree of influence. But your peti-
tioners will not now trouble your hon. house with details which
must be sufficiently well known. They will conclude by again
pressing upon the attention of your hon. house the urgent ne-
cessity of speedily taking into your most serious consideration
the most important of all national questions—that of whether
the state will remain protestant or shall withdraw it; protest?
—and by expressing their earnest hope and trust that, under
the divine blessing, you may be led to renew and confirm your
adherence to that reformed and scriptural faith to which the na-
tion is already pledged; and which, as it is founded on immu-
table and etererl truth, must ever remain the only sure basis of
national pros:. . ,Ly.
" Meanwhile, until such inquiry and deliberation shall have
been fully gone into, your petitioners would humbly submit
that no farther grants be made in furtherance of the propaga-
tion of that Romish religion, against which it is the main and
characteristic feature of the British constitution, and of the
established churches of this land, to maintain a perpetual and
unvarying protest. And your petitioners will ever pray."
Lord STOURTON protested against the imputation cast upon
Romish priesthood, that they instructed the people in "blas-
phemous fables and dangerous deceits." He denied that the
catholics were united with the dissenters to pull down the esta-
blished church of the country; he denied it on his own part, for
he had in some degree sworn to protect it. Such an accusation
against the Roman Catholics who had seats in either house of
parliament of having a design to destroy the established church,
was pronouncing them as guilty of perjury—an offence which
every honourable mind shrunk from.
The Earl of SHREWSBURY also protested with equal warmth
against the aspersions upon the catholics contained in the peti-
tion.

The Earl of WINCHILSEA said he was one of the last men in
the world who wished to inflict pain upon any one. He was
quite sure that the two noble loras who had last addressed their
lordships were incapable of any sinister designs against the pro-
testant church. During the period of the discussions on the
Roman Catholic relief bill he had expressly stated that he never
for e. moment believed that the Roman Catholics of England
would ever make an attempt to destroy the protestant church;
but he had expressly stated that he did entertain apprehensions
such would not be the conduct of the Roman Catholics of Ire-
land. In such a view he was unfortunately borne out by the
circumstances and facts which had taken place, for it would be
folly or madness to deny that the political power thus obtained
had in Ireland been made use of by ambitious agitators. (Hear,
hear.) Many topics were introduced into that petition, upon
which it was not his intention to enter at the present moment,
as he should have future opportunities of addressing himself
more fully upon them, embracing, as they did, most important
topics for consideration.
Lord STOUR TON, in explanation, stated he was well aware
that the noble earl bad disclaimed. on behalf of the catholics of
England, when the measure to which he had alluded was before
their lordships for deliberation, any design on their part against
the established church of this country.

BISHOPRICK OF DURHAM BILL.

The house went into committee on this bill. The report was
reconsidered and ordered to be received.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY.
Mr. PALMER took his seat for the south division of Essex.
PRIVATE COMMITTEE FRACAS.

Mr. Bowes said, that as chairman of the committee on the
South Durham railway bill, he had to present a special report.
In the course of the proceedings that day, a personal altercation
had arisen between the hon. members for Ipswich and Scarbo-
rough, (Mr. Wason and Sir F. Trench,) and it had so pro-
ceeded, that the committee thought it right to report the fact to
the house.

Report ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. BOWES observed that in what he had done, he had acted
only in accordance with the instructions of the committee; and
also, in consequence of such instructions, he now moved that
Mr. Wason and Sir F. Trench do attend in their places forth-
with.—Agreed to.

IRISH CORPORATIONS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD opened the debate, which occupied the re-
mainder of the night. The speakers were Mr. Serjeant Lefroy,
Mr. Grote, Mr. Richards. M. Wyse, Mr. Praed, Lord Ebring-
tnn, Mr. H. Twiss, Mr. H. Grattan, Lord Sandon, Mr. Shiel,
Sir Robert Peel, Lord Howick, Mr. O'Connell, and Lord
Stanley. The house divided, and the numbers were—
For the amendments • •
Against them

Majority for ministers B6 .
SIR F. TRENCH AND MR. WASON.
The-speakerrafter tie. diviSion hac been announpedi ealled,l
upon Sir Frederick Trench to give an assurance that Would ,
not take any steps to commit a breach of the peace. Sir Fred:,
replied that he.had attended in his place in obedience 'to the
orders of the speaker, and had no objection to give the required
assurance, provided the member for Ipswich would do the same,
but declining to do so on any other terms; and Mr. Wason hav-
ing left the house in the early part of the evening, Sir F. Trench
was taken into the custody of the sedeant-at.arms, who was
ordered to take Mr. Wason also into custody.—Adjourned.

THE MASS CELEBRATED IN ENGLISH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DUBLIN EVENING PACKET.
MY DEAR Sia,—We have glorious news to communicate to
the friends of pure religion, which, we trust, will be hailed as the
dawn of brighter and happier days for Ireland. On this day we
have celebrated the ceremony of the Mass in the vernacular
tongue. The people were highly edified and delighted; and, as
they left the thapel, were heard to exclaim, " May God forgive
the priests for having so long kept us in the dark ! We never
heard a mass until to-day!" It may be right to mention that
we have reformed the Roman Missal, and expunged exception-
able passages, such as prayers to saints and for the dead, with
many other parts of the canon. We have also changed the sub-
stance of the Mass. In the church of Rome it is offered as a
sacrifice propitiatory for sin; but we offer it as it was offered by
all the early fathers of the church, "in commemoration of the
death and passion of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and in
thanksgiving for all the favours and blessings we have obtained
through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord." It may
be right also to mention that we have expunged the ceremony
of the Elevation, together with all the other nonsensical mum-
mery and criss-crosses of the Rotnish Mass. Our intention is,
not to form a new religion, but: to retrench the novelties and
superadditions of men, and revive the old
to religion of Jesus
Christ. We then merely want to go back first principles, to
lop cif the excrescences of superstition, and restore christianity
.to its primitive purity.. May our gracious God grant us the aid
and guidance of his Holy Spirit, wtthout which -7e. can do no-
thing., and so enable us to preach up pure religion, reckless of
all human tear, and in despite of all human opposition; aad
may he never suffer us to he sacrificed to the insatiable fury of
thai -..,carlet Lady of Babylon, whose only argument is, fire and
faggot, and who is described in the Book of God as "
with the blood of the saints, and with the to-;,1 of the martyrs of
Jesus !—I ~.-!main, dear sir, your most obedient, bumble servant,
Birr, June 5, 1836. Was. CROTTY, Catholic Priest.

The Attorney-General has obtained a rule against the Satz-
rist neNispapet, on behflf of George Moore, Esq., if Leicester-
shire, for the publication of a libel. imputing to Mr. Moore that
he was the murderer of his late wife.

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