The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-13 00:00:00

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...ed the noble lord to postpone that motion till
.t lay, in order that he might ascertain in the mean
me ,ne Duke of Wellington's feelings on the subject ;
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whatever is attributable to Captain Gowan, who was on
deck at the time. The lead was kept going constantly,
and the vessel at slow speed; but the fog was so intense
that no precaution was of avail—as a proof of which, we
may state that,--even after the ship struck, the land was
invisible, though but fifteen or twenty yards distant.
The passengers were all safely disembarked in the course
of the morning, and came up to town by various convey-
ances. A number of steamers and lighters were yesterday
forenoon despatched to the spot to secure her cargo, and
assist in getting her off the rocks ; but as yet she remains
hard and fast.—About the same time as the Sea King,
and not far from the same place, the Athlone steamer,
on her voyage from Dublin to this port, went ashore on
the Copeland Island. Everything that care and foresight
could do to prevent the accident was done by Captain
Williams ; but, as we said before, the fog was so intense
that no skill or seamanship was of any avail. The Ath-

lone, however, was more fortunate than the Sea King, in
that she got off at high tide, and arrived at the quay on
Sunday night at six o'clock, not having sustained the
slightest damage.—Belfast Chronicle.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE DUTY OF ELECTORS AT THE PRESENT

IMPORTANT CRISIS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD
DEAR SlR,—There was, perhaps. never a period in the his

immortal Nelson,

"England expects every man will do his duty" was more ap-
plicable than at the present important crisis : seeing we shall
shortly be called upon to exercise the political power with
which we are intrusted by the constitution of this free coun-
try—the Elective Franchise.

In this land of freedom, the feelings and. prevailing senti-
ments of the people, duly expressed by their representatives
in Parliament, will never fail for any long period, to ;act with
a degree of power quite irresistable upon those in whose hands
out beloved Sovereign may place the reins of Executive Go.
vernment. Hence the importance of the Electors forming a
correct judgement upon those momentous subjects which are
likely to occupy the future attention of the Legislature, and

upori which the prosperity of the nation may gre'atly deiend.
It becomes then a sacred duty in the present crisis of our
National condition, that we should seriously consider the rapid
increase and threatening aspect of the Roman Catholic
Church, both at home and in our colonial possessions. The
growth of any system of religious opinions, however erroneous,
or the zeal of those who may advocate them, are not in them-

selves matters to create political alarm ; they should rather
stimulate the friends of truth to greater exertions, and call
forth larger efforts of a counteractive character, but the growth
of Popery, being in reality the advance or a great political
corporation, (the Romish Hierarchy) into power and influence,
cannot be thus revived. The Church of Rome essentially in-
tolerant, she has ever warred against the liberties of the world,
and her triumphs can only be secured by enslaving the consci-

), the constitution of this country
e Revolution of 1-

was, to us

the words of an eminent, but by no meansconsikent; stat

man of our day, "broken in upon ;" and by that act person
bearing spiritual if not temporal allgiance to a foreign,pripc,

and prelate, are admitted to the unrestrained exercise of pol

upon which this admission was fou7nded,`Was scarcely vindi-
cated even by the authors and supporters of that measure;
they deemed it to have become expedient, and with their expe-
diency justified its enactment without even an appeal to the
constituency of the country. Under this so far altered consti-

tution, our legislature no longer takes cognizance of truth or
Tror in matters of religion—all are equal in the eyes of the
Q. But, as regards the aspiring Church of Rome, the evil
not stop here. Popery first tolerated, then enfranchised,
,w become Popery favoured ; endowments have been
granted from the national funds for its support; more exten-
sive concessions and measures of an alarming character are in
contemplation, and that church will soon become a dominant
establishment.; unless God, in his mercy, awaken the people of
these realms to a sense of their danger and their duty.
As then we value the great principle of civil and religious
liberty, the only real safeguard of our freedom ; as we value
the free circulation of the Word of God, we are called upon to
take an immediate and determined stand of resistance against
the further progress of these evils, and to refuse to vote for any

merit or encouragement to the Ch-urch of Rome.*
I trust then, sir, that the sound-hearted Protestant electors
their duty at this important crisis; that
byterian and Baptist, Inde-
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