The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-29 00:00:00

SPREAD OF POPERY

The subjoined paper haq been prepared by the Re-:. J.
R. Clifford, of Bristol. We are glad to infer from its be-
being marked No. I , that it is the first of a so-ries.

Fifty years since there were only thirty Popish cha-
pels in Great Britain. There are now 602 public dispels,
ten colleges, thirty-four convents, six monasteries, 776
missionary priests, besides many private chapels.—Calho-
lia Directory for 1846.
"The Catholic Institute was established A.D. 1833;
its avowed object is the conversion of Great Britain to
Popery ; in order to render it more eff. erns', it was re-
coanizeiin April, 1845.—Catholic Directory for 1816:

"While the Catholic states of Europe have 'wen corn-
pelted in self-defence to enforce the laws against the Je-
suits, the statutes hitherto in force against them in En-
gland are to be repealed. We may therefore expect that
their increase will be tenfold.

" It has been deliberately announced, that the Romish
priests are to be endowed by the Stare, so soon as the
public mind has been prepared for such an even•.
•• Within the last few years, the Tractarian heresy, has
drawn into the Church of Rome upwards of 100 members
of the Church of England, many bf whom are cleigs men,
and nearly all persons of considerable worldly intelligence.
This tact disproves the assertion that in this enlightened
day we have nothing to fear from Popery.
When, several years ago, the voice of warning was
raised against the tendency of Tractarianism, it was de-
cried as a needless alarm, and the parties who gave the
warning were denounced as mountebanks. Lamentable
facts have since proved who were right and who were
wrung. -

Many of the clergymen of the Church of England
speak of the Romish Church and her priests in terms of
strong commendation. The result is the deadenine of all
perception as to the essential difference between Protes-
tant truth and Romish error.

"Notwithstanding the above facts. the most perfect
apathy prevails on the subject amongst Protestants."

STATE OF TRADE

MANCFIRSTER.—The arrivals from the United States. which
reached us cluri K the past week, are still occupied with notices
of the state of the cotton crops, and the usual int( Itigence about
" the insec •" and `• the rains." This has had some iorbleoce at
Liverpool. many of the spinners taking (right, and purchasing
Ilreely. whereby the market has been driven up some id per
lb. since our last. We did not think, after the bitter experience
the last tell years have read to our manufacturers, that the bait
would have taken so readily. Certain we are. that the state of
the mai ket, and of demand, will not hear such an advance in
the price of the raw material. There has been great activity in
Liverpool, but there has not been the same degree of animation

week. For the same reason that we then mentioned, we abstain
from preten ins; to quote the closing prices of out market.
ROCHDALE.—The demand for Flannels has not been so good
as it was on Ihe previous Monday whil•t prices have been much
the same. The Wool market has been rather still, and the busi-

ncss ,ransacted limited.
HUDDERSFIELDO-1 be demand for goods in the home
has been rpther active to day, and appears liktiy to I
than in other years;. fancy ve.:til
is I required than the supply

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