The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-12 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

SlR,—Observing in your paper of the sth instant a
paragraph entitled " Salvage," I. beg leave to correct it
in some particulars. The Nimrod, instead of falling in
with the Elizabeth in lat. 47, long. 9, fell in with her in
hit. 52.55, long. 5.10. So far from the vessel being un-
manageaLle, I was dismasted in the Bay of Biscay, lat.
46.40, long. 9.20, on the 29th of October, and in twelve
days was off Holyhead, a distance of about 520 miles ; so
that I would ask the simple question, Was that vessel
unmanageable? Then you say the first cry of her crew
was for food, which I am ready to prove, if required, is
incorrect. I received nothing from the Nimrod until I
took a pilot off Point Lynas, being then six hours in tow ;
and if what I then got on board from the Nimrod was
quickly demolished by the crew, it was owing to the pro-
visions being fresh. The only provisions on board that
were entirely done were perk and rice. The crew had as
much bread, flour, coffee, sugar, water, &c., as they
could consume. You then say, that had it not been for
Capt. Pile's timely assistance, the Elizabeth would have
had every chance of being lost. There certainly was little
appearance of that, when on the one hand I could have
made Scilly or Milford, and on the other Cork. But
when Capt. Pile offered assistance, I instantly decided
that it would be better for all parties concerned that the
Elizabeth should go to her destined port, and immediately
ordered a rope to be given the Nimrod, and they gave me
one of theirs. However, I sincerely and gratefully thank
Capt. Pile for bearing down upon me upon my hoisting
colours. I may add, that from the 29th October to the
13th November I spoke several vessels, but refused any
assistance, although they all very kindly offered.
I will be obliged by your inserting the above in your
next, and remain, your obedient servant,
JAMES SCOTT, Master.
Liverpool, 9th December, 1848.

We copied the paragraph from the Cork Constitution.]

ADDRESS TO THE PROTESTANTS OF THE
EMPIRE, BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE
NATIONAL CLUB.

SECOND SERIES, No. XI

Every member of the Roman Catholic Church believes
that he owes to the Pope a perfect spiritual allegiance.
The most loyal members, nevertheless, affirm that this
does not interfere with allegiance to a temporal Sovereign.
Still no one can maintain that such allegiance is as perfect
as that of Protestants ; for history records innumerable
instances where this spiritual authority has been success-
fully wielded against the state.
Nothing, however, that we can do can alter the fact,
that all Romanists are in spiritual obedience to the Pope.
Whether we like it or not, until they shall cease to be
Romanists, so it is, and the only question is, how can the
state best deal with the fact ? _

It is only within these very few years that this question
has been again raised. During the reigns of all our Pro-
testant Sovereigns, one and the same answer has been
returned to it—viz., that the state has a paramount right
to the entire allegiance of all its subjects—that Papal su-
premacy is a usurpation—and that British monarchs are
over all persons, and in all causes within these their
dominions supreme."
For a long period of our history, to maintain the doc-
trine of the Pope's supremacy has been a penal offence ;
and although modern legislation has removed all such pe-
nalties, and has moreover given political power to the Ro-
manists ; still the claim for co-ordinate authority within
this realm by the Bishop of Rome has as yet been reso-
lutely repudiated by the law.
Attempts, however, are being made to obtain its recog-
nition. The ministers are preparing the way by acting as
if it were already done.
To the Irish Romanist archbishops and bishops has
been, on ministerial responsibility, assigned the same rank
as that of the Established Church. The ministers of the
Crown, without the intervention of any legal grant of the
Sovereign,have conferred on those archbishops and bishops
of the Pope's creation equal rank with the prelates of the
Church of England. If this be right it is clear that the
Queen is no longer the sole fountain of honour within our
English realm. Further, the noble President of her Ma-
jesty's Privy Council has openly proclaimed his wish to be
able " to lay open to the Pope, with the peculiar influence
he possesses, the condition of every part of her Majesty's
dominions ;" and the Queen's representative in Ireland
has humbly solicited not only the Pope's advice but his
sanction on a question of internal policy.
These facts afford sufficient evidence that it is the design
of the present ministers to obtain the recognition and
establishment of the authority of the Pope, as one to be
co-ordinate with their Queen a.

Is this, then (putting aside the religious part of the
question), a fitting course for the advisers of a Protestant
Sovereign ? Is it safe ? Is it wise ?
The Sovereign now, as heretofore, by the law, says to
her Roman Catholic subjects, " So long as you are loyal
in act, we will not interfere with any abstract disloyal
dogmas in your creed : nevertheless to your entire loyalty
we have a right. We will not consent avowedly to share
that right with others, still less with one who disputes our
own."