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among the Romanist laity, and they had e(
to be under that mental thraldom to tl

and his satellites, the priests, whiel

ages, and that a more tolerant
country had taken place ; but. 1

spirit and attachment to
ooking at the general line

of the Romanist body,
priesthood, since the Emancipation A
I was wofully mistaken, for, instea

of cond.

passed, ffind
being satisfied

with being placed on
the Queen's subjects,

t footing of e
the

with the rest of

evidently using this con-

cession as a vantage ground on which to obtain ascen-
dancy, and if they once get this point, then farewell to
the freedom of Englishmen, both temporal and spiritual.
I boldly ask the question—are the bulk of the population
of Ireland in the enjoyment of either civil or religious
As regards the paternal and Protestant
government of the country, they are; but the priests of
the court of Rome step in and mar all, reducing the
people over whom they exercise sway to mere serfs, devoid
of both civil and religious freedom. They pretend to
acknowledge that in civil matters they are the Queen's
subjects, but they say that, in religious matters, they
are the subjects of the Pope of Rome, a foreign potentate.
Now, as religious obligations are more binding, and over-
ride all others, it is evident that they are more the subjects
of the Pope of Rome than of the Queen. Some years since,
when Pio Nono had the unparalleled impudence to in-
terfere in the internal affairs of this country, by issuing
his bull, and dividing the land as if it were his own,
claiming spiritual jurisdiction over the Queen's subjects,
and sending a cardinal to carry out his behests, without
as much as saying by your leave, did the Romanist body
shew any opposition ? Not the least, but they seemed
'rather gratified than otherwise, as being one step nearer
the subjection of this country to papal supremacy. If the
Foreign Secretary had refused permission for Mr. Wise-
man to land in the country as a cardinal, he would have
evinced the proper spirit of a Protestant, and of a minister
of a Protestant and rightful sole Queen of the country.
As things have been allowed to take place, there is now
something like a tacit acknowledgment of a claim by
a foreign power—the papal—to exercise jurisdiction in
this country, and claim a sort of divided allegiance over
the Queen's subjects.

freedom P

The Romish power is essentially an encroaching power,
and its priests are always silently at work to make that
power dominant over every other. I have no doubt but
the present visit to Liverpool of Mr. Wiseman as cardinal
is part of the policy of Rome, intended to familiarise the
British public with Romanist institutions. He comes, in
the first instance, to lecture on a scientific question. He
thus gains a footing among Protestants. His lecture may
be a clever one. He obtains notoriety. People begin to
think that a man who can deliver a scientific lecture may
be worth listening to on religious topics. They talk of him,
and his name and abilities appear in print and obtain
commendation, particularly from the Radical and Popish
section of the press. All this is very jesuitical and a
means to an end, that end being the subjection of the
human intellect to serfdom under the Pope of Rome and
his priesthood. The object of this letter is to raise a
g voice among my fellow-subjects and put them
against the insidious DOlky of Rome. In

this letter, I purposely avoid touching upon the religious

true Protestants
Christians.

td, -I
think, I may add, all real
A PROTESTANT DISSENTER.

THE TITHEBARN-STREET RAILWAY STATION.

THE EDITOR OF THE LIVER',

)L STANDARD,

SlR,—Having frequently seen in public journals, and
having not unfrequently heard in company verbal state-
ments of the inconvenience, not to call it by a harsher
name, to which travellers were subjected, in railway sta-
tions ; without having myself experienced any of the an-
noyances, although I have had a pretty extensive know-
ledge of the practical working of railways in many parts
of both England and Scotland, I was inclined to treat the
complaint as the exaggerated opinions, if not the inven-
tions of querulous individuals scarcely able to look after
themselves, and willing to charge their own inefficiencies
as grave crimes a

r,ainsf the directors and officials of rail-
way companies. My experience in the Tithebarn-street
station of the East Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, in
Liverpool, on the afternoon of Wednesday last, however,
was sufficient to remove any film from my eyes as to the
gross bad management to be seen qt important railway
stations.

On the afternoon in question, I had occasion to accom

Ms -luggage forwarded to the train while he was pro-
curing his ticket, the first difficulty encountered was

vetting his liggage dis

of over

founa
deal of altercation between him and the
pants of the carriage, and both with the porter
to have charge of that department, as to whether the car-
riage was full or not full. While this was going on, a
gentleman approached, and being probably in the same
unenviable position as to the chances of obtaining a seat
as my friend was, a warm discussion ensued between him
and the porter aforesaid, in which the term "impudent
. I scoundrel" was rather freely used. Ultimately an addi-
t tional carriage was put on, and all parties, as I suppose,

so near

as to can

or occu-
who seemed