The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

The Bristol addresses to the Queen and Archbishop
against Tractarianism and Popery, received above-10,000
signatures. 45 Clergymen, out of the sixty officiating in
the neighbourhood, signed them.

The County of Hertford is at last going to hold a meet-
ing ,to. protest against the Papal aggression. 'We may
well say ",at last," as it is actually to be after the meet-
ing of Parliament : the day fixed is the"6th of-February.
South Lancashire has not moved yet.

'ITALIAN ANTI-PAPAL MEETING.—A meeting of Ita-
lians was held yesterday, in the Music-hall, Store-street,
London, for the purpose of cordially uniting with the
English people in their noble resistance to the designs of
the Papacy. The chair was taken by Signor G. Rossetti.
Several distinguished Italians addressed the meeting in
Italian,*French, and English ; the foreign addresses were
interpreted. Two Italian hymns were sung during the
evening, for the preservation of England, and the deli-
verance of Italy from the Papal yoke.
MANCHESTER PROTESTANT DEFENCE COMMITTEE.—
Elsewhere will be found an advertisement displaying an
array‘of names of gentlemen, above three hundred in
number, who have associated themselves for the noble
purpose of providing in this town a permanent phalanx
of resistance to the encroachments of Rome, and of
support and succour to the Protestant cause. Singularly
enough, we hardly rise from a painful perusal of the
speeches of Messrs. Cobden and Bright, both of whom
endeavoured to cover with contempt the tremendous
movement which has been provoked by the Papal aggres-
sion—both of whom boldly declared that the Protestant
agitation was an anti-free-trade agitation—than out
comes this list, containing indifferently the names of
conspicuous free traders, and men of almost every poli-
tical and religious party.- A more flat and decisive con-
tradiction to the wild assertions of the veracious members
for Manchester and the West Riding is .quite incon-
ceivable.—Manehester Courier.

DUMAN' PROTESTANT MEETING.—A general meeting
of the Protestants opposed to Papal usurpation was held
in Dublin en Tuesday, for the purpose of addressing her
Majesty and petitioning parliament upon the subject of
the recent Popish aggression. The meeting took place in
the large round room of the Rotunda, which was crowded
in every part by one of the"most numerous and respecta-
ble audiences we ever remember to have seen within the
building—amongst whom the most perfect unanimity
prevailed with respect to the objects for which the meet-
ing had been convened, as well as the sentiments they
had called forth by the severarspeakers by whom it was
addressed. 4The following'peers were present :—Earl
Roden Earl of Bandon, Earl of Mayo, Bart Clancarty,

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