The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-08 00:00:00

O THE EDITOR OP THE LIVERPOOL ST.IXD✓IRD.

SlR,—The Catholic church does not sanction the profanation
of the Sabbath. No such thing. Therefore it was uncharitable
in a correspondent of your last paper to say so. I-le.may easily
convince himself of this by looking at the Catholic Catechism.
I have bought your paper ever since it started ; therefoie, I hope
you will publish this, my illiterate reply.—l am yours, respect-

fully, AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC.
2d March, 1833.
*** The letter above alluded to was from an unknown corres-
pondent, andwe readily insert the above communication in reply.

LIVERPOOL DISFRANCHISEMENT PETITION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STAND4RD.

Ne sutor ultra crepidam," is an old adage that
might be very well applied to certain gentlemen who are now
making themselves very busy, and very COnspicuous, iikwhat I
trust will turn out a `complete failure. If Mr. Rathbone would
stick to his cotton bales, pot, and karl ashes; Mr. Harvey to
his grain tubs, or his hats,• (for I do not exactly know to which
of the illustrious houses of Harvey thiS gentleman is a worthy
scion) and Mr. W}-berg to his kelp and his wool, it would, I
think, be better for them, and render them less obnOxious in
the eyes of the valuable part of their fello,w-townsmen. Are not
these men, who are using all their endeavours to bring the free-
men:of Liverpool to punishment, among the number of those
very men, who endeavoured to seduce them into crime?
Though no great admirer of the Unitarian parson, yet, how
much more respectable it was in the sturdy old radical to de-
clare that he would never be the means of bringing down
punishment on men for a crime to which he had, in some mea_
sure, been the means of seducing them; for though he had
never himself bribed a voter, yet he had subscribed money
which he certainly knew was for that purpose: I should wish
to ask Mr. Rathbone to state upon his affirmation how many
men he had himself paid money to for votes:
Should there be another election for the good old town of
Liverpool, (and I trust there will he many,) before these
Itorthies have obtained the dearest wish of their hearts, I hope
the old freemen will show them that they are able to judge who
have been iheir, friends, and who are their enemies.

Is the Mr. Rathbone mentioned here the same Mr. R. who
cut so conspicuous, and so honourable a figure in the corre-
spondence on the Portarlington election? if he is, I should
have thought that he had got a lesson that would have taught
him the truth of my Latin quotation—.

NE STJTOR ULTRA CREPIDAM.

STATE OF IRELAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIT'ERPOOL STAND.IRD.

SIR,—I send you sonic extracts from a letter which I received
this morning from a respectable clergyman in the south of Ire.:
land, and leave you to make what use of it you may see fit.
Yours, &c.
March 2, 1833. N. S. E.

" Lord Grey has given a faithful account of our condition : if
we mix not with the people at all, and ask for no money, and give
them no opposition whatever; assent to everything they say or
do; and, above all, dare not to open our lips against Weir idol,
O'Connell, I believe our lives may be spared. I seldom leave
home, except for professional duties, ask for no tithes, and em-
ploy no Collector ; and for this reason, I suppose, have met with
no personal molestation. lam owed upwards of £lOOO, and
have not the slightest chance of getting a penny of it, unless
government should undertake to gather for me. Knowing, for
years, that all property,was insecure in Ireland, I never lived
up to my income; and having some trifle independent of the
church,l cannot say that I have been embarrassed, though not
able to save. Such is not the case, lam sorry to say, with
very many clergymen; those with large families, having bene-
fices valued at £2OO and £3OO a year, none of which has been
paid for two years, are reduced to the extremest distress, unable
scarcely to supply their children with potatoes, much less clothe
them decently, or send them to school; their houses, also, are
falling into ruin through want of repair. Such men, at the best
of times, could put nothing by, and are now literally pennyless.
"My mother, and sister, and all friends are well. They are
so accustomed to hear of murders, and outrages of every descrip-
tion, that they are become inured to them; and I fear all of us
are less affected than we ought to be,—the frequency in some
degree diminishes the horror."