The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

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LETTER. FROM THE BISHOPS.—Some years ago, when
the Tractarian agitation war most fiery and injurious,
especially in the diocese of Exeter, the late Archbishop
of Canterbury issued a letter of fatherly

ins and ex-

the Church

and dangers connected
with the prolonged operations in the Church of those
same parties have led the vast majority of our bishops to

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the late Archbishop
POPISH LOYALTY.—What this really is may now be
seen from the following, which we extract from the Ta-
blet :—" The Times, in common with almost all the Pro-
testant organs, is disgusted at the ' profligacy' of the Irish
members, who prefer religious to political questions, and
sport with the interests of a great nation to gratify sec-
tarian pique or suicidal revenge.' The question is very
simple. Let the great nation' give over insulting our
religion, and no longer seek to fetter us with penal laws,
and we will no longer put difficulties in the way of its
government. But let Englishmen know that, if theirs is
a great empire, the Catholic Church is

ame character and objects as ti

ancient, more noble, more widely spread, more necessary
to the interests of humanity—and that the children of
this great empire love it better than country or national
honour ; and are determined, if they can, to render any

government impossible which lends itself to the sectarian
bigotry which attempts to cripple the action of the Catho
lic church."

AN HONEST LEGISLATOR.—In the House of Lords,
on Friday, Earl Fitzwilliam, a Liberal and Free Trader,
presented a petition in favour of the Ecclesiastical Titles
Bill, which he considered necessary to vindicate the
authority of the Crown. Ile said "he had used the ex-
pression ' vindicate the authority and prerogative of the
Crown,' but he could not say that that was part of the
question upon which lie felt very strongly ; for he did not
very much care about an attempt at infringement upon
the authority and prerogative of the Crow❑ by a power
which could not practically infringe them, and he knew
that the Roman See could not practically infringe them.
(Hear, hear.) In the same light he was disposed to re-
gard the proceedings of the Court of Rome, so far as the
independence of this nation was concerned. But there
was one point of view in which he contemplated these
proceedings with much uneasiness and alarm. He was
satisfied that the establishment of Papal sees with terri-
torial titles, which would assuredly he followed by what
he might call territorial residences, would have a great
effect in spreading the Roman Catholic religion. It was
against that he desired to guard. It was against that he
desired their Lordships to legislate, and it was with that
view he thought the measure prohibiting the use of these
territorial titles, in its original shape, was a wise measure.
If he understood the effect of the changes which were
about to be made in that bill, however, he very much
doubted whether, when those changes should have been
made, the bill would be effective for the purpose for
which it was designed." _