The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

" Now, you will nilow me

I fear that we, membe

Rome, and have trusted too much to certain rain genea
without proving which it has be 'n too generally held tl

o spiritual efficacy, nor the Sacra-
.
ments be duly administered. But still this formal error (if
error it may be) has not I..een without its advantages, and there
cannot be a doubt that under great and pressing difficulties in

Christian. Alitiiity can hat•

less enlightened times, it has been urged with great success as
an artzumentum ad homines' against the advocates of the
Romanist Apostolical succession. lam aware of the ex-
traordinary value nt which they estimate this their peculiar
claim to be the representatives of the Apostles, and many
firmly believe that were this point conceded to
(mild be no further obstacle to their complete and
ediate triumph. I remember that soon after the
and when the popular cry against the

amoug them
them, there we
almost imm-
Reform BM was

. ._
Church of England was loudest, I travelled in the steam-boat
from Dundee to Edinburgh in company with Mr. Macpherson,
a Romanist Priest, a very well-bred, and a very well-conducted
man. He introduced himself to me as the Romish Priest, then

the sole priest at Dundee. We elitered into a long conversation
respecting the state of religion, and the futurity of our re•
spective Churches. I assure you, from my own knowledge,
that during that s,•eson of difficulty no portion of our enemies

were more busy and bitter against the Church of England than
our Romanist fellow-subjects •, nor (lid Mr. Macpherson him-
self. though personally civil and polite, and professing that the
Church of England was the only child of the Reformation en-
titled to his respect, conceal his sentiments on the subject,
while at the same time he expressed his profound contempt for
all the other Protestant communities in the kingdom. When a
favourable opportunity occurred, I put the following question
to my fellow-traveller,—" Now,how can you, Mr. Macpherson,
with the feelings you have this day expressed respecting the
Church of England, and your utter contempt of its Protestant

assailants, joiii in the sat,ar.,e howl of Dorn with her, down
with her to the foundation.' " His answer was, " Because I
know that if the Church of England were pulled down, and

and was a `Tabula rasa

'(his very word

would be no hindrance to the 4llsestablishment of any Church."
THE PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION OF LOYAL ORANGE-
MEN.—This Association has issued an address to the Pro-
testants of England, calling upon them to be up and stir...

ring at the present eventful crisis. The address is signed
by tl,e Grand Master, the Earl of Enniskillen. We have
only room for the last paragraph, which is as follows :
" We present to you, who are not as yet in our brotherhood,
the Grange AssoCiation. as the only existing organization,
based on principles worthy of your coadence • and possessed
of energy to counteract and defeat this Popish plot—and we
call on you by all you hold dear and sacred, to enroll yourselves
in our order. The present effort of Popery may be checked by
a simultaneous burst of national indignation; but like the
fabled giant of old, Popery will only gain fresh strength by
being prostrated on the earth from which she sprung;—we

to perpetuate }-our effort

nd State, by becoming members of the Loyal. body
er ce,,sed to proclaim—No PEACE WITH ROME-
watchword ever has, and ever will be—No SUR

A county meeting will be held at Knutsford on Friday,
to address the Queen
An i

nse Protestant meeting, at which the mayor

held at Laficast

,y week,

men received about '
The

lce hundred signature

chester address to the 'Queen on the Papal

10,000:persons,

le address from the citizens of

, on the recent inv

sion of her prerogative

ned by about 1,309 persons

The city of Worces
egression h

by the

to the Queen on Papal

received about 3200 signatures. The
rtquisition to the High Sheriff, J, G. Watkins, Esq., for
county Protestant meeting, it is expected, will exhibit
-is of .2000 signatures. The first signature is that
-•ttleton, Lord Lieutenant of the county.
to the Queen, and also an address to the
have been numerously signed by
TI:-1- • '-ot the

Lord L

An addre:

Upton, near Birkenhead, against
encroachments of Rome, expressive of their loyalty to the
r;rown, and unwavering attachment to the principles of
rle Church of England.
The I

the inhabit

don papers teem with repOr
in the great tnetror

s of meetings in

the att,

pied usu

t which one spirit

England to the oth

The Free C

.tion of the Pope in this country

:h of Scotland has spoken on t

is great

question of the clay, and lifted up a testimony worthy of
the Church founded by John Knox. At the meeting of
the Commission of Assembly, on• Wednesday week, Dr.
Candlish moved a series of very strong resolutions on the
Papal aggression, which was unanimously adopted,

, .
The meeting of the Protestant people of Dunfriesshire,
lied by Viscount Drumlanrir.r. lord-lieutenant of the

Papal A

.ession, was held on Wedn-

completely crammed. It was the largest and
most enthusiastic meeting we ever saw in Dumfries.
mday, of the Protestant Associa-

house w

At a meetin

xeter Hall,
he Bishop c

Mr. J. D. Paul, the chairman, de-
f London as •he fictive promoter of

the late movement, in having provoked the surplice,agi-

tation, and having countenanced by his presence, and ac-
tually taken part in the mummeries of the consecration of
St. Barrabas, he _begged pardon, he meant St. Barnabas.
•

Tractarienis.m, and attack tlie lion, Popery; the former
they could tread under heel at any moment. The Rev.T.
Nolan, and other Protestant leaders, addressed the meet-

s has heen issued by a number of the Society
of Friends, in Bristol, in which they say that as Protes-
in the broadest sense of the term, they " yield to
of this act of spiritual domination, as

•eprobat

gain to forge and more firml

C) the spirit of

kaough not whc

ivet those

forbid t

m to acknowlt

nticbrist, which were

to be the sup

fr. at t

le period of the
+rs thnea Totkinh

the claim of the Bishop of
1 of the Church, they can-

not, directly or indirectly, attribute spiritual supremacy
to the temporal sovereign, believing that it cannot be

HE ORANGI

ny human power

STIT LITTON

-There is an extreme

full attendance at the usual half-yearly meeting of the
" Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland," now holding its sit-
tings in Dublin. A long address is in process of
preparation, and may probably be made public in the
course of a day or two. This "manifesto," it is said,
will enter at great length upon the question of Papal art-
_

gression, and while e

ng its most cor

- -
he stand taken by the people of England against the
is of the Roman Pontiff, hut little credit for sin-
will be accorded to the Prime Minister in the part

rds repelling the attack on the Queen's
supremacy, and resisting the encroachments of Popery.
Lord Clarendon, it is reported, will not be forgotten in
the document, which will, as usual, toufh upon many
other topics of a political nature.

s taken t

One of the 1

proceedi

st, most influential, and most enthusi-
gs ever held in Glasgow, took place on
iz, in the City Hall. for the purpose of

n protest against the recent ag

s of the POpeintruding a Cardinal Archbishop,

g twelve territorial dioceses, in England. The
,s convened by the Lord Provost, in compliance
isition signed by a large number of the weal-