The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-31 00:00:00

3-LIEUTENANT AND TIMPOPE.—Lord Roden

ce in recalling public attention to a
)ut twelve months ago to an Irish Roman
ate by Lord Clarendon, in which his lordship
I entertain a profound veneration for the cha-
le Pope, and implicitly rely upon his upright

ich has awal

s Excellency also—the rer

, has begged of Dr. A
of the Queen's Colleges
In fact this

a Protestant twee.

mit the statutes

in a posit

reverse of what is either dig
or constitutional, and we have no doubt his lord
flirtations with the Pope will form the subject c

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par
^iamentary inquiry

on. Saturday week, about twenty English Roman Oa-
tholics, including Lords Petre and Dormer, Hon. C.
Langdale, Sir R. Throckmorton, &c., waited on Dr. Wise-
man, to present him with an address expressive of their
' ardent wish that our TI-' Math F ^

Holy rope rius 9th, should
Ared of the heartfelt gratitude which we feel towards
for the blessing bestowed on us in establishing the
.derarchy in our beloved country." In the course of his
reply, Dr. Wiseman said—" I have great
•

pleasur

, . Your lordship passes over without notice m
..,,eraity 1 receiver .rom the Earl • •-- . • quotation front the Theologian and Ecclesiestle,' although,
sbury, at Palermo, which proves how readily and unless the clergyman to whom it is attributed by more than
/he would have joined his name to yours, had he public rumour can disclaim it, it is evidence at least in j usti-
been amongst us. His lordship is enthusiastic in his ex- fication of the language employed by me in, the council. If it
pressions of satisfaction at what the Sovereign Pontiff has is really the case that Mr. Marriott may not preach the doc-
done. It will be to me a gratifying duty to lay at the feet t•oinnetwhich e iitilltiaese,w
joorikunt hiave quotedo7
b t he
a expressesem in aanciinerten:
of our holy father the expression of our filial attachment, man under thejurisdictionsotPthe Crown to lo It ;Pif Polled
and of your gratitude for the restoration of our hierarchy, may not be licensed by your lordship, but may unlicensed
and to join to it my testimony that the Catholic laity of preach and teach in your diocese throughout the year just
England have been found equal to the crisis created through what be likes; if stone altars are to be introduced by unsound
tlenitria
holdsfoth purpose of corrupting the Church, and your
that event, by their zeal, devotedness.and noble bearing."
ledge if a reason why theyel:tfe
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY.—Lord Camoys, a re-
,introduced without
intererriuirygn
spected Roman Catholic peer, has addressed the following - shall appeal to a Protestant public to decide whether some
letter to the editor of the Times :—." Your columns have • stronger steps are not necessary to compel the extinction of
remedy.
this week contained an address of congratulation and evils which your lordship is either unwilling or unable to
gratitude to his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman, purporting *
to come from the Roman Catholic laity; lam anxious to PROCEEDINGS AGAINST A TRACTARIAN.---A public
state why I, though one of that laity, refused to sign the meeting of the inhabitants of Wallsend, Northumberland,
address. Seeing how the Roman Catholic Church in was held on Thursday to consider the conduct of the Rev.
Great Britain was prospering, I may well doubt the wilt- Mr. Armstrong, the vicar, with reference to his mode of
dom of petitioning for, as I may also question the policy conducting divine service. The meeting was convened
of establishing, the hierarchy. But be that as it may, by the churchwardens. Mr. Bainbridge, one of the
when I contrast the quiescent state of the country as it speakors, said that the incumbent had derided the very
was last September with the criminations and recrimina- name of Protestant, and the burden of his sermons had
lions, not unaccompanied with danger to the public been, that the revolution of 1688 had been a great mis-
peace, wbich have since prevailed, and still prevail—a take—a fault. and an irretrievable error. Some of his
state of irritation unfortunately aggravated by other parishioners had been obliged to leave the church he-
influences, yet all the direct consequences of the publics- cause he preached absolution, and seemed favourable to
tion of the Papal document, and certain pastorals amnia- auricular confession ; the vicar wished all his parishioners
ponying it—l cannot join in an expression of thanks to to come to him and to confess, and he would then absolve
the chief, though, lam sure, unintentional, promoter of them from their sins. The vicar's own daughter had em-
this wide-spread and, to the Roman Catholic body, I braced the Romish faith, and be had neglected to visit
fear, lasting mischief," several parishioners who were dissenters, He tht.n moved

ar clergy

of Shreve
cordially