The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

persecutor!ons With just as much reason might he
apply the same epithets to the impugner of the most
cruel superstitions in the world.
We have elsewhere giv..sn insertion to rt very long
and pOwerful article illustrative of the character of Po-
pery, which we beg to recommend to'the serious notice
of the Editor of the Mercury and of all others who
emulate his.eiainple in offering apologies for Popery.
We also submit the following additional proofs of the
intolerance of the Romish priests :=
PAPAL USURPATIONS.

(From the Dublin Eveniny.ltictil.)
We discussed in a previous number, the insolent assumption
of the Papacy (urged through the pen of the Rev. John Mac-
Hale, a titular Irish Archbishop,) of a right to interfere with
and control the enactments of the British Legislature, in the
matter of national education. This is a subject so entirely po-
litical in its bearing, that we wished to'keep it clear and sepa-
rate from that, which having for its object the natural, domes-
tic, and civil rights of the Rorrfan Catholic laity, we now wish
to bring before their eyes especially, in as distinct and tangible
a form as possible.
"It is but right," says the Rev. John Mac Hale, in his first
letter to Lord John Russell, "It is but right to acquaint your
lordship that the Catholic Bishops, and the Catholic Bishops
alone, have a right to regulate the choice of the books out of
which the faithful are now to draw the nutriment of piety and
sound doctrine."
It is clear from this passage, that not only are the parish
priests excluded from any right over the hooks to read by the
faithful (except as " subjects," or servants to the bishops), but
that pdrents and guardians are absolutely deprived of the natu-
ral right which God and the British Constitution has given
them, over the education and instruction of their own children
or wards! "To the Catholic Bishops—and to the Catholic
13is1s.ops alone," belongs this domestic, this natural, this sacred
right! Roman Catholic Laymen of Ireland, do you permit
this usurpation of your bishops ? Will you permit it? Shall
it be said of you that you have not the right—that you cannot
exercise the power of educating your children as you please?
A-e ye such spiritual, such temporal, such domestic slaves, that
ye dare not read a book yourselves, nor allow your children to
read a book, without the leave and imprimatur offite limman
Catholic Bishops ? Some of you are married to Protestants—
dare you permit none of your children—dare yOu not, if you
chose, permit all of your children—to read hooks unlicensed by
a Roman prelate? Have you no power or right to rear your
children (as long as they are under your tutelage) in what faith,
and after what method you think in your conscience to be fit ?
If you submit to the assumption now put forward by Dr. Mac-
Hale, you have no more power over the education of your chil-
dren than a beagle has over the lives of her "blind puppies
fifteen to a litter," which the huntsman has ordered to he
drowned. And yet ye are freemen! in temporals ! though sub-
jects in spirituals!!—such is your boast. Is this boast true ?
Are ye free in the most temporal, natural, and domestic of all
relations—the education of your children? Are ye free to edu-
cate your children as ye choose, and if ye choose it, in the
Roman Catholic faith—in the Episcopal Protestant faith—in
the Presbyterian faith? Not you, indeed, if the assertion of
Dr. Mac Hale be true. In the Roman Catholic faith you may,
nay, you must—you have no choice—ye are the bondsmen of
Rome—you must, we say, 'educate your children. In the Pro-
testant faith of any denomination, you must not, you dare not;
you cannot ; for to "the Roman Catholic Bishops, and to the
Roman Catholic Bishops alone," belongs the right of educating
your children!
We urge this point upon the enlightened and educated Ro-
man Catholics, because we know, that a hether from curiosity
or good taste, many of them are "constant readers" of this
journal. We ask them, is it practically the fact, that the Ro-
man Catholic Bishops are allowed the tight and the power here
assumed; and we bid them beware, if the case be otherwise,
of the invasion and encroachment on their parental rights thus
so arrogantly usurped by men who have no children of their
own, and are, therefore, unconsci,us of the ties and obligations
of paternity, and the reciprocal duties and affections of filial
love. We entreat them, as they desire to be—and to be con-
sidered—free, to resist this unhallowed attempt to wrest their
children from their bosoms, and to consign their youthful
minds to the guardianship of a childless priesthood. It behoves
them openly to protest against this dogma, and it. requires but
one man of courage and character to begin the work and set the
example, to obtain, in less than a week, five thousand signa-
trires to such a remonstrance.
(From a Correspondent ,f the London Stiindard.)
Sir,—Asa further illustration of the tender mercies experi-
enced by the 'Protestants in Sardinia, and as affording a com-
ment upon the advice given by the conductors of- the Dublin
Review (noticed some time since in the Standard) to crush
them;" I have transcribed the following statement from the
,Irchires du Christianisme
:
"At Nice those of the inhabitants are punished who are
found guilty of the enormous crime of possessing the Word of
God. A young protestant minister, Mr. Buscarlet, had distri-
buted a number of Bibles and New Testaments. and this distri-
bution has given rise to the minutest investigations. Mr. Bui,
carlet has been interrogated by the police on his conduct, a re-
port has been sent to Turin, and in obedience to orders sent
front the capital, he has been informed that he must quit the
kingdom in 48 hours. Abdut 25 persons have been arrested
and imprisoned because copiss of the holy writings and other
religious books were found in their houses. One man, in parti-
cular, they tore from his bed very early in the morning, and
threw him into a deep dungeon, without even allowing hint time
to dress. His wile was so overcome by this cruel treatment
that she has fallen into a case of delirium. The police are espe-
cially severe towards this man because he declared with great
boldness his new faith."
"Yes, Rome is still the same; but her doom is fixed, and I
trust is fast hastening. Once inure the spirit of protestantism
is reviving on the Continent, and although the powers of dark-
ness are putting themselves in hostile array, and threaten to

" crush" the rising hopes of Christendom, the everlasting pro-
mise stands recorded—" tie that sitteth in the heavens shall

laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. Yet have I set
my King upon my holy hill of Zion. Your constant reader,
J. L.
With these extracts we leave the subject for the pre-
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sent. The policy of excluding Roman Catholics from
civil power we conceive to be a very different thing to
their exclusion from civil rights. On this topic eve shall
probably offer a few observations op Friday.

DESECRATION' OF THE SABBATH.—It will' scarcely be
credited that in the nineteenth century, in an age pro-
fessedly religious, we should have to record the astound-
ing fact, that a legally constituted authority should decide
that the Sabbath Day should no longer be reverenced.
But the following extract will prove that the fears we
have entertained, and have frequently expressed, relative
to the moral effects likely to be produced by the spread of
liberal principles were by no means unfounded. This
paragraph we insert do the authority of the Newcastle
Journal, a paper not more distinguished for its ability
than for its uncompromising adherence to truth

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that the markets shall not only continue open until twelve
o'clock on the night of Saturday, but that they shall be re-
sumed on the morning of Sunday at six o'clock and continue
open until ten o'clock, when the closing shall be announced by
the ringing of a bell. An act of more audacious profligacy and
wickedness than this was never yet perpretrated in a Christian
country, and least of all is it to be tolerated iu those who arro-
gate to themselves exclusive regard for the welfare of the
pecple, and who are loud in their demands 6,r the reformation
of all abuses. We are much mistaken if the orderly, right-
thinking people of Newcastle do not promptly step forward in
a mass, and, by the expression of their loudest indignation,
put down the wholesale attempt to' outrage their moral and
religious feelings."
Now we have invariably maintained that liberalism
(falsely so called) is intimately connected with infidelity;
and who, that has paid any attention'to passing events
during the last few years, will not agree with us, that
impiety, infidelity, and an open disregard of the ordi-
nances of religion have been found closely associated
together ?

NEW STEAMER.—The Dublin, company's new vessel, the
Duchess of Kent, arrived yesterday at the quay, on her first
voyage. She is a beautiful vessel, of the same power and
mould as the Queen Victoria. The Duchess of Kent arrived
at Kingstown in ten hours and„ forty-two minutes from the
dOcks at Liverpool. This tine vessel will, on being registered,
continue to ply regularly between Dublin and Liverpool. The
Company's next new steamer, the Royal Adelaide, is expected
in Dublin during the ensuing week, when she will take up the
line between this port and London. The Royal Adelaide is
equal in every respect to the Royal William. Two new
steamers (already far advanced in building) will succeed, the
Adelaide, and are expected to he ready for sea in the ensuing
summer.-4aunders' News Letter.
STEAM N AVtGAzioN.--The most remarkable case of expe-
dition in Steam Navigation occurred this week in the transport-
ing, live, stock from this port. The Dublin company's steamer,
Queen Victoria, left the quay on Tusdav last at noon, with a
strong east wind blowing against her, and which had deterred
the steam vessels from other ports from putting to sea. The
Queen Victoria, notwithstanding the severity of the gale, saved
her tide into dock in Liverpool the same night, lauded her
cargo* of cattle. &c., in time for the first Liverpool train, and
on the following day ( Wednesday,) they were exhibited and
sold in Manchester market, no doubt, at a good price, from the
scarcity of cattle occasioned by the long protracted severe
weather:. The Queen Victoria having discharged her cargo.
again loaded and arrived in Dublin' heavily laden; the who !e
having occupied but 37 bouts from leaving the North Wall,
Dab 1 i until her eetirrn..SdifinArs' News Letter:.