The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-11-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dr. Bowring is to leave Paris on Wednesday next on a com-
mercial visit to Switzerland. lie proceeds there by order of
the British government. and it is thought that the object of his
journey there, at this season of the year, is to extend the com-
mercial relation's existing between the states of the confedera-

tion and Great Britain.
There are some political men whose every step is watched
with the most scrutinising eye in this country. The Prince de
Talleyrand is one of their number. Since his arrival at Paris
he cannot move an inch without being watched, and every syl-
lable is recorded as those of an oracle. It has, then, been ob-
served, that since his arrival at Paris, the prince has made
many visits to the new Russian ambassador, and, in his turn,
he has been several times to the Prince de Talleyrand's. It is,
of course, said that Prince Talleyrand's affection for England
is diminished—that with Lord Palmerston he has quarrelled—
and last year the prince re-appeared at the hotel of Count Pozzo
di Borgos, though from 1815 downwards, he had been quite at
a distance from him. The Constitutionnel says that it cannot
believe that the prince has abandoned all his ideas of the last

twenty years in favour of England; and that his "magnificent
conception of the alliance of the south against the north of
Europe, cannot have been destroyed by petty jealousies, and
foolish personal piques. If then M. de Talleyrand visits the
Count de Pahlen a great deal, it is no doubt with the view of
studying all that is passing. The friends of the prince are in
England, Madrid, and Lisbon; and, though orders may have
arrived from St. Petersburgh to caress the prince, yet he must
be aware that in Russia he is not loved."

The Count d'Espagne was on the 28th inst. at Lyons, accom•
panied by two gendarmes.
The court of peers is convoked for the 16th November, to
hear the report of the commission appointed to examine the
"nttenat of Fieschi," and after that report shall have been made
to proceed to try the republicans of St. Etiesue, Grenoble, &c.
who aided in ►naking the insurrections of April, 1831.

The storms on the French Coast have ben horrific. Leiters
from Brest, Etaples, and other ports, speak of many shipwrecks
and of terrific storms.

THE POPISH PRIESTS AND THEIR ATTRI

BUTES !

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
Amongst the superstitions of the church of Rome,
which serve to give her priests such a dominion over
the minds particularly of uneducated members of their
flocks—for example, over the poor Irish Roman Catho-
lic peasantry—may ,be reckoned the extraordinary attri-
butes which those priestly gentlemen are represented as
possessing. A distinguished individual of them, not
very long since highly promoted by the pope (made a bi-
shop, we believe, at least placed in a high and confiden-
tial situation, and this chiefly on account of his contro-
versial sermons pram:lied and published in England), has
given in those sermons the following description of the
attributes of Romish priests :
"The angels are holy by their endowments of grace, as well
as by the high rank they hold among the creatures of God.
But what angel is privileged with more exalted functions than
the priests of the eternal Lamb? Like the virgins mentioned
in the Apocalypse, they attend Him wherever He goes. They
form His regal court upon earth, and the ministry of His throne.
They are the chosen guardians of His person, possess the de-
posit of his blood, and bold the mystic keys of His everlasting
kingdom. Let the world give honour to her profane heroes ;
let monarchs claim the adulation of their subjects; in the eye ,1
of faith, and in the sight of the christian, the priest of Jesus
Christ is a more exalted character, and inure entitled to vene-
ration. Ile 'walks among men a miracle of grace, is the rock
that pours forth water to the fainting, the manna that yields
bread to the hungry, the bush that burns without being con-
sumed. He is, moreover, by chastity an angel; and his vir-
ginity is the image of the unchangeable unity of Gull. The
ministry (of the Romish priesthood) exalts .the individuals
aboveall fur which human life had designed them; makes them
the agents of God, the vicegerents of Jesus Christ, and the
saviours .of men. In this point of view it ranks theta even
above the angelic spirits, and clothes them with the divine cha-
racter of the Messiah himself. Let a prince only descend from
the throne nu which birth or fortune may have placed him, and
he will return to the common undistinguished mass of his fel-
low-creatures: whereas the sacred character of a catholic priest
is indelible in person. These distinctions, however, arising
_from the' sacerdotal ministry, exclusively belong to the priest-
huud of the catholic church."