The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

aties as IT
pn. Vipt

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIIn

TilE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

A large meeting, convmed by the High Sheriff for the
county of Surrey, took place on Tuesday at Epsom, Mr.
Henry Drummond sent his excuses for not being Present-, Ott
the ground of his inability to attend a meeting in the open
air at this time of the year; he contributed, however, his
strong protest against Popery, and against the doings of
Romish priests. Sir Edward Sugden, late Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland, in temperate but earnest language, pro-
posed the first resolution. He wished for no persecution ;
he had voted for Roman Catholic Relief in 1829, and
would repeat his vote to-morrow if called upon to do so.
Cardinal Wiseman said they had done nothing contrary to
law. The law was certainly in an anomalous state, but
he believed it bad been infringed both by the Pope and
Cardinal Wiseman. The first Parliament of Elizabeth
passed a law to declare that no foreign prince, person,
prelate, state, or potentate, hath, or ought to have, any
jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or autho-
rity, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm. That
was the law then, and that is the law now. Its severe
penalties only, such as punishment by death, had been an-

"Then, I assert here, and I am prepared to do so everywhere,
hat by the law as it now stands, the Bishop of Borne and his
Archbishops and CArdinals have no right to assert or maintain.
that they have any spiritual or ecclesiastical jurisdiction in this
realm. There was another act passed in the lath year of
Elizabeth to prevent hulls, letters or instruments to be received
from Rome for any cause whatever; no man was to put in use
any bull, letters, or instrument from the Bishop of Rome in
any case whatever, and if he did, not only he, but those who
abetted him, were to be held guilty of high treason, and suffer
death. Now, everybody knows that such a punishment could
not be inflicted in these days, and therefore the penalty was
vay, but the act that swept away the penalty declared
peat should not go beyond the penalties and punish-
ments, and that it was still unlawful for any man in this land
to put in use any bull, writing or instrument of the Bishop of
Rome. I am aware a quibble might be raised on the con-
struction of these acts, as to whether such persons could be
punished or not; but Ido not care much about that. The law
is clear that no one is permitted to do such things. It is equally
clear that, by the repeal of the act so far, it was intended to
enable the Roman Catholic to put himself in communication,
as he was already in communion, with the see of Rome, for it
was said there was no use in granting to the Roman Catholics
the free exercise of their religion if they could not communi-
cate with the head. of the Church. Nothing could be more
reasonable, and, therefore, nothing that was necessary to enable
them to communicate with the head of their religion could be
objected to ; that being the object of the repeal. But that
repeal does at the same time enact that nothing in the act shall
authorise any one to introzluce or publish any instrument from
the Bishop of Rome. That, therefore, is the law now. Now
I say that the law has been infringed; and though those pains
and those punishments are no longer operative that were in-
flicted by the statutes of Elizabeth, yet there are punishments
that the law will inflict on those who disregard the injunctions

swept av
that the I

of the Legislature."

Sir Edward contended that the spirit of the oath taken by
the Roman Catholics, under the Relief Bill of 1829, has
been grossly violated, for therein the Roman Catholic
members promised to do no act to subvert the Church of
England :—•

" He swears not to subvert the present Church Establishment
in this country ; and, lastly, be swears that be will not exercise
any .rights he has, or may obtain, towards weakening or en-
dangering the Protestant religion or government in this coun-
try. Then, I ask you, whether the Bishop of Rome, or, rather,
those who abet him in this country—for the Bishop of Rome
himself is, of course, not bound by such an oath-1 ask whe-
ther they have acted up merely to the oath they have taken ?
is the recent act of the Bishop of Rome no attempt to subvert
the Church of this country, and to weaken and undermine the
Protestant Government? The Bishop of,Rome te!ls us plainly
that his object is to establish a Roman Catholic hierarchy, and
that hierarchy, as Dr. Doyle says, is to flourish for ever. The
Archbishop of Westminster, he says, will cease never, that of
Canterbury may cease in P. day. If that is not endeavouring
to subvert a Church Establishment, I should like to know what

Sir Edward Sugden had no intention in what he had said,
to attack his fellow-subjects the Roman Catholics. In
this respect, his acts had always kept pace with his words :
" I have held an office in which I was surrounded by Roman
Catholics, 'and I was put to the test on this point. I can
say, confidently, however, I never neglected the interests of a
single Roman Catholic whom I found entitled to consideration
because be was such. I considered only talent, character, and
good conduct, and his religion never entered into my mind, or
influenced me in any way whatever. I therefore repel with
scorn the argument of Cardinal Wiseman, that those who have
got up these meetings have time it to gull the people with
fanaticism. I say it is untrue. The people :lave not been
gulled at all, nor driven into fanaticism. I disown every ap-
proach to fanaticism ; but 1 feel deeply the indignation that
every English Protestant ought to feel, and that every English
Roman Catholic, too, ought to feel, for he has a common in-
terest with us all in enjoying the blessings of the Constitution,
Ind therefore it is his interest to oppose the aggressions of the

Mr. H. T. Hope, Sir John Easthope, Mr. Mangles. 3T.P.,
Lord Abinger, Mr. Locke King, M.P., and the Hon. F
Scott, M.P., moved the resolutions, which p
mously. Several of the speakers were warm in condom.
nation of the Tractarian innovations.

;ed unani-

The prelates in Ireland have resolved to be silent at the
present ct isis. The Bishop of Cashel is the only member
who_advocates spea;:ing out boldly.

The clergy of the diocese of Dublin have, after all,
nobly spoken out. They have entrusted their address to
the Queen to the Archbishop of Dublin.

The Blackburn Standard of Thursday contains a report
occupying nearly eight folio columns, of a great anti-Papal
meeting held at Blackburn on Saturday last. Meetings
have also been held at Cambridge, Nottingham, and other

An immense county meeting took place at Carlisle on
Wednesday, at which the High Sheriff presided. Nearly
7,000 nersons were present. Mr. Howard, M,P., a zea-
lous Roman Catholic, moved an amendment, but it was
negatived by an overwhelming majority.
An immense county meeting was held at Devon on
Friday, at which Earl Fortescue, the lord-lieutenant, pre-
Lord Courtenay, Sir J. Y. Buller. Sir T. D. Ac
_au, and thousands of leading Protestants were pr
The proceedings were very enthusiastic.
On Thursday the Marquis of Exeter was honoured
with an audience by the Queen, to present a loyal address
sty from the county of Northampton, against
aggression, signed by 21,266 individuals, which
address her Majesty was pleased to receive very gra-
ciously.

to her Maje
Panal

DEFENCE OF THE PROTEgTANT FAITH.—The commit-
tee for carrying out the resolutions passed at the London
meeting., at which Lord Ashley presided, numbers above
a hundred of our leading lav and clerical Protestants.
A—

Among the number are- the Marquis of Northampton,
the Earls of Cavan, Chichester, Effingham, and Walde-
grave, Lords Hill, H. Cholrnondeley, and C. Russell,
Sir E. N. Buxton, Sir E. Parry, J. Tollemache, Esq.,
M.P., Rev. Chancellor Rallies, Revs. Dr. M'Neile, H.
jwell. J. H.
_Stewart, T. Nolan, and J. B. Marsden,
_
)bert Glad-

!, Esq., I

much vigilance as against external Popery. The curse of
Popery is that it will separate us from God, and these
evils will do so no less. We must not, through any dread
of hard names or unjust imputations, shrink in this day
of reproach from maintaining firmly our own church prin-
ciples. To hold all that our church teaches—to believe in
their natural sense, without reserve or equivocation, either
on this side or on that, all the doctrines of her articles,
catechism, and liturgical formularies—to love her and her
English Bible and her Book of Common Prayer, her daily
devotions, and her decent ceretnonies—to believe that her
mission is from God; her creeds, her sacraments, and her
orders from Christ ; that man did not give them and can-
not alter them ; to rejoice that she sets forth Christ and
Him crucified, and not others instead of Him, or forms
without Him, as the sinner's hope and the saint's joy, and
so to live and teach ourselves—this, my beloved brethren.
is at snch a time as the present our bounden and onr
especial duty."

The Rev. Dr. Biber has withdrawn from the National
Club in consequence of the recent circulars sent out.
The Publishers' Circular of the 16th instant, contains
the titles of one hundred and eighty publications on the
Papal question, issued from the press in one month !
It is stated that Cardinal Wiseman has received auto-
graph letters of congratulation from the Emperor of
Austria, the King of Bavaria, and the President of the
French Republic.
The Rev. W. Maskeil has had one of the cellars adjoin-
ing his residence in. Victoria-place, Clifton, fitted up as
an oratory, where lamps and candles are constantly kept
burning, and where he has the Romish prayers, weeded
of Mariology.—Bristol Gazette.
Lord St. Germans is about to enter the literary lists in
defence of Cardinal Wiseman. Mr. Pugin, the celebrated
architect, has published a letter denyinr, that Lord Shrews-
bury will imitate the " unworthy" conduct of Lord Beau-
mont and the Duke of Norfolk.
The ire of the Tablet is raised at the clearance which is
being made in Protestant families of Popish servants. It
is the necessary consequence of the plan put forth by Mr.
Spencer, the Papist, viz„ that Popish servants should do
what they could to make Papists of the children, and re-
port the general doings of the family to the priest.
It is stated that the authorities of Ushaw College, a
Roman Catholic establishment. have taken the very extra-
ordinary step of withdrawing their custom from one of the
most respectable tradesmen in the city of Durham on the
ground that they will not have dealings with any one who
may take a part in resisting the insolent pretensions of the
Pope to supremacy in this kingdom.
The letter of Lord John Russell to the Bishop of Dur-
ham has been published by the Messrs. Ackermann,
Strand, on a large single sheet of card paper, about a foot
and a•half long. It is printed in large type, within an
elegantly executed lithographed border, the vignettes on
which illustrates the working of the Popish system in
England.
A NEW TITLE FOR THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—A letter
passed through the Torquay post-office last week, ad-
dressed " The Archbishop of Westminster, Bishopstowe,
Torquay," which, being delivered at the place above
mentioned, was returned by the bishop, endorsed " Not
known in this house—H. Exeter," and sent back to the
dead-letter office.

ROMISH SUPERSTITION.—We have before us a card,
purporting to be a subscription list of a member of St.
Patrick's Infant Burial Society, which was founded in
1832, by Dr, Murphy, "Bishop of Adelaide," and of which
Dr. Brown, " Bishop of Liverpool," is patron.. Among
the benefits conferred is the following :—" Persons of any
age may become members, or enter their deceased friends,
and obtain the benefits of a mass each week for the living,
and one each month for the deceased, on payment of one
penny per week." Truly Popery is semper eadem.
ROME AND ENGLAND.-Otlr Church is composed of
laity—served by clergy—ruled by the Queen—and esta-
blished by the national will. This is Protestantism : we
have it voluntary and involuntary. The Church of Dr.
Wiseman is composed of priests—served by Jesuits—
ruled by the Pope—and is established in corruption, by
the father of lies, for the perversion of all human happi-
ness and divine glory. Are they alike ? Is there a single
feature of similitude between them ? Then let things be
called by their right names—Papist and Protestant.—
Church and State Gazette.

FATHER IGNATIUS•—The Londonderry Standard says
that the report given in that paper of how Father Ignatius
advised Romish servants in Protestant families to conduct
themselves, was not " disfigured or disguised in the slight-
est degree." The same sketch of his lecture was copied
in the Tablet and other Roman Catholic journals, without
any complaint of misrepresentation. Our contemporary
adds, "There are many persons in Derry who heard Mr.
Spencer, and can prove that the report was quite correct.
We certainly do not think that he shows much of the
spirit of an apostle in backing out of his crusade by deny-
ing his own words."

The Pope has peremptorily ordered the American
Protestant Episcopal Chapel in Rome to be closed.
This has been done at the desire of the Propaganda.
When the Republic was established in Rome, General
Cass, the American diplomatist, prevailed upon the
government to leave the society, their dwelling, and
wealth, in peace. The members were delighted, and
when the Pope returned to Rome he sanctioned the
opening ot the chapel. Now that all danger is past, the
Propaganda tell him that to tolerate heresy is a sin. He
has accordingly ordered the chapel to be closed. Such
are Popish truth, toleration, and gratitude !
TOLERATION OF POPERY.—The Liverpool Journal,
which has always been considered a Roman Catholic or-
gan, thus speaks of the conduct of the Pope of Rome :
"The Protestant visitors are denied the privilege of suit-
able worship ; the American church, recently promised to
the services rendered to Mr. Cass, the American minister,
is threatened to be withdrawn ; and the poor Jews soli-
cited, with limited success, exemption from the tyranny

to which they have been so long and so cruelly exposed.
No men condemn more earnestly this policy than the
English Catholics ; but they owe it to themselves and to
the spirit of the age to make his Holiness acquainted with
their opinions. The world is not in a condition to endure
any longer proceedings originating in the dark ages-of po-
litical and social ignorance. It is not now sufficient that
people do what they think right ; they must do what their
neighbours think right."

THE INFALLIBLE CHURCH.—The following very cu-
rious chronological table will show the progress which
corruption and error have made in the "Infallible Church"
—that church which is the "rock," and is alike un-
changed and unchangeable :

.A•D. A . D .
Holy water introduced 120 Canonisation
Penance..
Monkery
Mass in Latin
Extreme Unction
Purgatory . .
Invocation of Virgin and (Dispensations l2OO
5,..,,:-,.. 593. Inquisition .......
606sAuricularConfession 1215
709 Elevation of the Host 1222
715!

onts .
Papal Usurpation....
Kissing the Pope's toe
Image worship

THE TRACTARIAN ERA.—The Rev. Dr. Morrison, of
Trevor Chapel, Brompton, has just published a very
useful sermon in reference to Paseyisrn and Romanism.
Dr. Morrison points out how Popery and Puseyism have
flourished hand in hand. " From 1830 to 1850 (the
Tractarian Era) Roman Catholics, in England alone,
built two hundred and thirty-four chapels or cathedrals—
a number exceeding by one hundred and seventy-five the
two best decades they experienced before from the period
of the Reformation. In fact, the Tractarian reign, from
1830 to 1850, has done more for Popery than the thirty
years before, of bard Popish labour, had been able to
effect. From 1800 to 1810 the Romish chapels built were
sixteen; from 1810 to 1820 there were twenty ; from 1820
to 1830 there were thirty-nine. During the thirty years,
then, which preceded 1830, there were onty seventy-five
Catholic places of worship erected ; while, in the Tract-
Arian period, from 1830 to 1850, two hundred and thirty-
four reared their heads in our cities, towns, and villages."

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY AND 'THE PAPAL
BRIEF.—The Daily News states that the Roman Catho-
lics of England are already beginning to display that deep
uneasiness and distrust with which the late proceedings
of the Vatican had from the first inspired them: that• Dr.
Ullathorne, the new Bishop of Birmingham, has inter-
dicted, under menace of his heavy displeasure, a clerical
meeting convened in his diocese for the purpose of taking
into consideration the defenceless state to which the
Pope's letters apostolic had reduced the clergy ; that
Northumberland and Lancashire are stirring painfully,
wirh morbid symptoms of unrest; that in Yorkshire the
priests are said to be unanimous in their disapprobation
of the late changes, and look with repining eyes from the
palmy condition of that free.and constitutional priesthood
which, unmolested by Pope or Cardinal, has existed for
ages, and will continue to exist on the neighbouring soil
of Ireland. According to a Rcman• Catholic correspond.
ent of the same journal, the indignation of his lay brethren
awaits only the first lull• of the Protestant hurricane to
find for itself a vent. It is added that Cardinal Wiseman
and his party have prepared for the consideration of the
bishops a plan which wilt virtually throw into the hands
of the prelates the administration of the whole of the
temporalities wherewith lay charity has endowed their
church.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND Ma. BENNETT.-00
the fourth of the present month, Mr. Bennett wrote to
the Bishop of London in the following terms :—" I
hereby send you my resignation of the perpetual curacy
of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge." And on the eighteenth
of the same month the Guardian newspaper states that
" the formal resignation of Mr. Bennett has not yet taken
place." We doubted from the first whether Mr. Bennett
was really in earnest, when be talked of " resignation."
If Mr. B. were acting a bona fide and straightforward
part, would he have left this act uncompleted foe a whole
Fortnight ? However, as we now see that there is trickery
and manoeuvring on Mr. Bennett's side, all eyes will be
directed towards the Bishop. His character, previously
lowered by a supposed want of firmness and decision,
was considerably raised in the public estimation by his
proceeding towards Mr. Bennett. But wofully will it be
damaged, if all that talk of " resignation" shall turn out
to be a solemn farce; and if the Bishop shall consent to
give back St. Paul and St. Barnabas into Mr. Bennett's
hands. Surely some real friends of the Bishop's will
apprize him, that any scheme for keeping Mr. Bennett
in that sphere of mischievous influence, will sink his
diocesan's character in the public estimation, in a manner
and to a degree quite fearful to contemplate. There is
only one path of I onour for his lordship in this matter,
and that is straight forward. If he desires to be regarded
as a sincere rebuker of the Romanising schismatics, he
must listen to no terms—to no propositions. No deal-
ing, no negoriation can be listened to by the Bishop
without a plain loss of dignity, and character. " Perform
your promise !"—this must be the first, last, and only
word. We say all this, not so much out of regard to his
lordship's character, as from a fear lest the Church, of
which he is so prominent a ruler, should be seriou'ly
injured in the public esteem by the weakness or insuffi-
Herald.
ciency of on of lioo data dianitums•—Mornm.9