The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

Dee. 5, 1848.

strongest assurances of support. As an instance of the
division in the Whig-Radical ranks, we may observe that
the Manchester Guardian (
radical
paper), supports Mr.
Denison, the Yorkshirernan (radical paper), supports Mr.
Roebuck, the Leeds Mercury (another radical paper),
supports Sir Culling Eardley, and the Liverpool Mercury
recommends " the liberal party to stand aloof and take
no part in the struggle." This is evidence of a worse
split than that which has taken place among the Conser-
vatives.

POPERY AND MORALITY.—The Pope is practically de-
throned. His Prime Minister having fallen under the
poignard of the assassin, and his Secretary by a ball of
the rebels, he, by the last accounts, was a prison, r in his
palace ' • anxious to escape, but watched by his dutiful
subjects. An expedition has sailed from France for Civita
Vecchia, composed of six war-steamers and a division of
3,500 men, with a view of affording security to the Pope.
It is surmised that our noble fleet in the Bay of Naples,
which, we believe, has on board an unusually large com-
plement of marines, will probably move in the same di-
rection. We only hope they will not bring the Pope here.
What. arc. ..: • • . . . .

Je virtues o

_ .de
le immediate eye, and enjoying the fulness of the reli-
r
gious influence, of the assumed spiritual father of the
faithful ? Virtues ! religious and spiritual virtues ! Let
the Times journal of last Monday reply. It says, in one
of its able leading articles :—" It is a mockery to talk of
national

ana constitutional government in
a country where the ordinary duties of police are not per-
formed, where law has no authority, and religion nu power
but to absolvefrom crime." Well may a correspondent
say, referring to this •judgment of the religion of Rome,
by a journal which, under evil influences, is doing much
to strengthen it,—" Surely the most ultra Protestant
never expressed a severer opinion of Popery, and surely
if this witness of the Times be true, as I assuredly believe
it to be, what greater sin and folly can this Protestant
nation commit, than to foster in her bosom a system
which tarn.

gradation,

man's greatest blessing, into a means of his d
misery, and increased depravity ?"
ROMISH ENDOWMENT.—There is, after all, no way of
dealing honestly with the question of Romish endowment,
save that adopted by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile in his address,
a few evenings since, to the three thousand listeners in
Exeter Hall, to hear portrayed by the eloquent speaker
" the distinctive features of Protestantism and Popery."
If there be truth at all in revelation ; if that which we call
scenes
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contemptible buffoons that ever lent themselves to the

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may be to assume a badie. indifferent
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