The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

Feb. 10, 184 G.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD'
SIR,—It is quite obvious that, in a variety of cases,
"coming events cast their shadows before them." wile"
ther as regards individuals or whole communities. The
tempest-tost mariner knows, by the movements of the
upper strata of clouds, in what direction he may expect
the breeze, gale, or storm. So also the morning twilight
is a harbinger of the full blaze of the midday sun ; and es
the darkness of night vanishes before the celestial orb
of day, so will mental error and unscriptural delusion
give place to and disappear before the light of truth, and
ignorance be superseded by that knowledge which is based
upon and agreeable to the word of inspiration. For these
and other weighty reasons connected with, and confirmed
by the signs of the times, may we not expect the speedy
downfall of the Papacy ?
It is very striking to notice the connexion there is be-
tween ignorance and imposition, for wherever and when-
ever we notice or read of persons beiug in a state of men-
tal darkness, it is almost, if not altogether, a necessary
consequence of such a state of mind, that they shouli be
the dupes of crafty and designing persons, or else the
dupes of their own blindness. And truly ignorance in a
community generates hypocrites and impostors, who are
ever ready to acquire and retain a grasp on the minds of
those who have not sufficient sense to reject mental bon-
dage. The political state of Ireland is a striking proof of

Ilb.
Perhaps the Popish usurpation of power over the minds
of men has been the most baneful of the many with
which this world has been afflicted ; for there is. no
possible delusion that could be devised, but has been im-
posed on ignorant persons by the Pope and his adher-
ents ; no cruelty that could be invented, but has been
practised by Papists. Surely no earthly genius can com-
pare with the Papacy in respect of making lies, and all,
forsooth, in the name of religion. If people in the pre-
sent age were aware of the extent to which the Popes
carried their villainy in former times, all who have access
to the Bible would shrink with horror from such a creed
as that of Rome. The Popes have usurped the place of
Deity—they have attempted to pluck eternal justice from
her awful throne; and, whilst shedding human blood and
cutting off thousands of the people, pretend, with infernal
impudence, that it was all done for the honour of God.
It appears, now-a-days, that the Pope has a great dislike
to railways, and objects to any being constructed i❑ his
patrimony. in truth, he may well be afraid, not merely
of railroads as such, but he may dread the advanced state
of society, with which the present age is blest, because it
is destruction to his sway. We need not fear, however,
that the steam-engine and its utility will long be retarded
in Italy, even though the Pope should exclaim against it.
To show that Popery is declining fast, we need only
compare some of the years that are gone by with the pre-
sent period, and perhaps it may be useful to do so :
r POPERY RAMPANT. POPERY FALLING.

In the year A.D. 1074,
Pope Gregory VII. obliged
the Emperor Henry IV. of
Germany to stand three days
at his gate, bare footed, and
in the depth of winter, and
to implore his pardon.
0 mores ! 0 tempore 1

At the present time, A.D.-
1846, the Pope could not
remain three days in Italy,
because he is so cruel to
the people there : he should
fly, were it not for the Em-
peror of Austria or Ger-
many, who sends a large
body of soldiers into Italy,
to keep the people in bon-
dage, and the Pope on his
chair.

About 800 years agb, the
Pope could, or did, absolve
subjects from their allegi-
ance to their lawful sove-

At the present time the
Pope has no more power
than a f.tw ecclesiastics can
award to a helpless old
man, and numbers of the
Irish are now crossing the
Atlantic. and farming
churches in which the Po-
pish power is renounced in
toto.

reign, as

is well known

the agents of the Pope fo-
mented rebellion in Irel Ind,

under such a pretence as
absolution from Rome.

In the year A.D. 1209, the
Pope, through French influ-
ence, caused 60.1100 of the
Protestants, called Albigen-
ses, to be put to death with-
out any fault of theirs, only
that they were what the Pope
called heretics.

In 1797, the Pope is ob—
liged to submit to the author

rity of the republican army
in France, and required to
give up to the conquerors

several pictures, statues,
and valuable manuscripts
from the Vatican library.

In 1530, Wm. Tindall, an
Englishman, having trans-
lated the New Testament
into the English language,
Tonstal, Popish Bkhop of
London, and Sir Thomas
store (of whom Lord Camp-
bell speaks so hi2hly). con-
spired against Tindall, and
in a few years after he was
strangled, and his body
burnt.

In the year 1533, the
papal power was declared to
null and void in England►
and in 1535, the Bible was
printed by authority, and
in in a few years after in all
the churches a Bible was
placed in a convenient situ-
ation for all who wished to
read.

In the year A.D. 1568, the
King of Spain, to show him-
self a true son of the church,
sent a butcher, called Alva,
to be governor of the Neth-
erlands, And in a few months'
time this tyrant caused the
death of 18,000 of the Pro-
testants, not in war but in
cold blood ; and the Pope
presented him with a conse-
crated hat and sword, a dis-
tinction previously confered

In the year 1834, the
popish power received such
a shock in Spain. as it has
not yet recovered, some
hundreds of thousands of
nuns, monks, and friars
were dislodged by the go-
vernment, and the property
which the friars, &c., had
grasped in former times,
was devoted to state pur-
poses.

only on princes.
In 1572, the French Pro-
testants were barbarously
butchered, to the number of
30,000, in one night. This
was done to please the Pope,
who caused medals to be
struck to commemorate the
event.

In 1640,the French clergy
declare the Pope's preten-
sions to the temporalities to
be null and void ; and, on
the 7th November, 1793,
Gobet, the Popish Bishop
of Paris, with his grand
vicars, and others of his
clergy, entered the Hall of
the National Convention,
and solemnly resigned his
functions, abjuring Christi-
anity; and during the revo-
lution 24,000 priests were
cut off, and as a cog') de
main the French govern-
ment lately banished the
Jesuits.

In 1588, the King of
Spain, at the instigation of
the Pope, sent a fleet, called
" invincible, " to invade
England, and put on board
the said fleet 20,000 soldiers,
besides all kinds of instru-
ments of torture to make the
English turn papists ; but
the English fleet conquered
some of the Spanish, and
the winds of heaven scat-
tered nearly the whole of
what escaped, so that out of
150 ships, only 20 or 30
ever returned home.
I shall, on a future occasion, follow up this subject;
and am, sir, your obedient servant,

At the present period, the
Spaniard and the Pope to-
gether could not muster a
few war ships equal to one
of the three-deckers of the
British navy.

cEDIPUS.

SCULPTLRE.--We have recently visited the attelier of
Mr. C. B. Robinson, sculptor, in Myrtle-street, and
would say to the admirers of fine art " do the same," es
we have no doubt, should they accede to our request,
of their exceeding gratification. Mr. Robinson is the sou
of our once respected Mayor, Nicholas Robinson, Esq.,
of Aigburth. We do not mention this as an inducement
to the visit we have suggested, nor as proof of the young
artist's attainments in his severe profession, but that it
may induce the sons of others of our more wealthy fami:
lies to so dignified an example; and not as is now, and
has been the case, to be ashamed of any connexion with
that as a profession which, in the most classical countries
of the continent, the noblest and most wealthy select as
the passive to where Fame fits on her most luxuriant
laurels—Art. Everything in the way of study in this
great commercial circle has nothing for its object hut mere
gain, or worse, silly show. It is true the scions of the
higher families are sometimes permitted to dice .ge from
the counting-house duties ; that is, they may imbibe a
little literature or small doses of music, with an hour's
exercise per diem at the palette, but not professionally!
or they may commit the following extravagancies as pro..
fessinnally as they like, so that dry bring money,—that
is, wear a red coat, a black coat, or a wig, however good
their own hair, but they must observe, nevertheless. that
during these professional capers they keep good establish'
ments, and not disgrace in their own their paternal car:
riages. ' Well, these things are so, and we may be rich
but most men submit to that continental joking so oil
expressed by the familiar figure of Sir John, lady, se„
the somewhat obese Miss Bull's journeying thither to
buy some taste, and waste, besides their time, their
plus fat and cash. So much for what we conceive to be
the duties of those who, from position and wealth, can
afford to introduce and give a relish to taste. And new.
for the more immediate objects of our visit to Mr. Robini
son's studio. It is not to be expected, nor do we fee
capable if it were, that we should give anything like de;
tailed criticisms of the various statues, busts, &c. that ar
to be seen there ; but this we may adventure upon' seta
that, too, without the learning betrayed by one of 026
contemporaries through a similar inspection, that in 10
. first place Mr. Robinson not only appears to have.bee
highly successful with a number of busts—the portraits ,S
many gentlemen familiar to the Exchange, and probsw3,
other flags—but what demands far higher praise, a colossi!'
figure of Christ of William the Fourth in his state robes,
and also someexquisitely chaste examples of the feroSto
figure in various assumptions. Nor do Mr. RobinsoD,
modelling powers seem confined to the human figure ;,..5
we have a horse—not from the cropped and big-hes'Le
Parthenon creed—but one of the highest mettle of
eof
present day. In sbort, there appears to be every var,.116
of art, whether classic or Gothic, bust or statue, the whole
of which must form an interesting treat to those WhAe,
study and attentions have been drawn into a path so "
lightful and improving. di'
INSOLVENCY.—The attention of fair readers is of
rected to the startling failure of the eminent bousSoo,
Messrs. Robert and Benjamin Brown and Co., L 00"..
drapers, &c., as announced in of

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