The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

June 2, rf4f6.

of the present day was religious activity; every form of
religion, true and false, had seemed to have acquired afresh
impulse ; and it was astonishing the amount of money and
zeal now employed in the cause of religion beyond what
was employed 50 years ago. For his own part, he did
not fear the activity of false religionists, if the Protestants
would be true to themselves and to their religion ; for he
did not like cold, inert, good-for-nothing Protestants.
(Loud applause.) It was necessary they should bestir
themselves, for their enemies were many and active. The.
chairman had told them that the period of argument was•
come, and he (Mr. Carpenter) had been lately in Ireland,
and he had been struck with astonishment at Vie number
of argumentative books published by the Itomanists.—
Mr. Carpenter then proceeded to read extracts from a
twopenny weekly issue, called " Cheap Volumes of Ca-
tholic Divinity," under the sanction of the present Pope
of Rome. The number he quoted related to the rosary,
and he exhibited one which had been blessed by the Pope,
and had belonged to a converted Papist ; and explained
its decades, hail Marys, &c., to the audience, and nar-
rated many extraordinary fables propagated among the
Romanists as true stories, respecting various miracles
performed by the Virgin Mary by those who had shown
great zeal In honouring her by the use of the rosary.
Atter an allusion to St. Dominick, the founder of the
order of preachers, an order which he in his ignorance
had imagined was founded by our blessed Lord himself, he
remarked, amid loud applause, that be would confidently
show their chairma❑ against the best of the sons of St.
Dominick ; he concluded by a long statement of recent
persecutions in the Dingle, and in other portions of the
sister kingdom.

The Riv. T. NOLAN, in an admirable speech, which we
regret we are obliged to omit, in consequence of the late
hour at which it was delivered, impressed upon the au-
dience the necessity of their being well versed in the prin-
ciples of their own true faith, in order that they might the
more effectually be enabled to unmask and defeat the in-
sidious attempts made by.the Rornish hierarchy to seize on
the bright gospel diadem of England. The rev. gentle-
man's excellent address was received with loud cheers
throughout.
The Rev. Mr. CUTHBERT, who was received with load
cheers, next addressed the meeting. He powerfully urged
upon the assemblage to follow up the glorious principles
of Protestantism, for to be a Protestant was synonymous
with being a good Christian. Let them not be dismayed
at the dangers that surrounded them ; for notwithstand-
ing the wiles of Rome, if they but knew their Bibles well,
not all her subtle contrivances could beat them from,the.
rock of their salvation.

The CHAIRMAN, in an emphatic concluding address,
said their duties as Protestants had that night been see
before then-i ; and they ought to endeavour to hand down
the spiritual blessings they enjoyed to their children. He
combated the idea entertained by many even educated
Protestants, who thought there was nothing in concessions
made to Popery, and that nothing was now to be feared
from it. Romanism was unchanged and unchaogable.
Many of the Dissenters said that if the union of the
church and state were abrogated, true religion would-
flourish ; but if the Dissenters (as he showed by a variety
of excellent arguments) had the power, they would,.
if the monarch was favorable to them, also seek to be
supported by the state. This, he illustrated by the fact,
that, when the Queen of Taheite became, through the
Dissenting missionaries that visited her kingdom, of their
religion, and asked one of them what she should do, the
reply immediately was, oh ! establish the church by all
means. After a fervent exhortation to those before him
to discharge their duties as Christians and as men ; to be
thankful that they were in work ; to keep their tempers
under contradiction, to do their duty, and daily to pray to
God. he concluded by pronouncing a blessing, and the
meeting broke up.

On Saturday the London and York scripholders agreed
to proceed with the bill.
Earl Fitzwilliam, through his agent, has caused £lOOO
worth of potatoe-seed to be distributed amongst his te-
nantry in Wicklow.

J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., M.P., has announced, in an
address to the electors, that he does not intend to offer
himself again for Newcastle-under-Lyme.

The Cour, of Exchequer was occupied on Saturday
with the arguments on the rule for a nonsuit in the cele-
brated railway case of Walstab V. Spottiswood. The
court took time to consider.

Ibrahim Pacha will leave Paris on Wednesday, (to-
morrow,) for the Chateau d'Eu, from whence, it is said,
he will cross to Portsmouth on the following day, en
route to London.

A St. Petersburgh letter, in the German Journal of
Frankfort, mentions a report that Prince Albert will, on
the occasion of the marriage of the Grand Duchess Olga,
return the visit which the Emperor of Russia paid to
Queen Victoria, her Majesty being unable to do so in,
person.

Prince Napoleon Louis Bonaparte arrived in England
on the 26th ult., the day after his escape from Ham. We
learn that the Prince has written a letter to Sir H. Peel,
and one to Count St. Aulaire, the French Ambassador.
In the latterhe states that " in quitting his prison he was
not actuated by any idea of renewing against the French
Government a war which has been most disastrous to
him, but only to be enabled to go to his aged father."

In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Saturday, a motion..
was heard to dissolve an injunction granted in May. last,
restraining the Birkenhead Dock Company from throwing
a pile bridge across Wallasey Pool, whereby the property
of the plaintiff (Mr. Bibby, of the Seacombe Copper Roll-
ing Mills) was injured through his vessels not having
sufficient room to navigate the stream, in consequence of
its being narrowed by the erection of the bridge. The
arguments were not concluded.

SWINDLING —A genteel person, calling himself "Mr..
Wyndham," contrived last week to defraud several per-
sons at Slough, Windsor, and Eton, by false cheques. His
plans were well laid, but he does not appear to ha% e leaped
a larger harvest than about £3O. He began by paying into
a Windsor bank a cheque on a London house, to a consi-
derable amount, and thus obtained a cheque book front
the local bankers, and was thus enabled to effect his pur-
pose before the news of the dishonoured draft reached)
Windsor.
CONVERTS TO PROTESTANTISM.—On Sunday last,
(Whitsunday,) a most interesting scene took place in the
French Protestant church in St Martin's-le.grand, Lon-
don, where two (formerly) Roman Catholic ladies, firmly
convinced of the truth of the Protestant faith, and con-
verted under the instruction of the ministers of the church,
presented themselves for the purpose of publicly renounc-
ing the errors and superstitions of the Church of Rome,
and rejecting the delusions of Popery, to embrace the re-
ligion of Christ. On the conclusion of the sermon the
now Protestant believers partook with the rest of the con-
gregation, of the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
thus solemnly and eternally abjuring the unscriptural and
heretical creed which they had formerly professed. Sine()
the opening of the new church in St. Martin's-le-grand,
three years ago, no less than six persons have been thus
converted from Popery to Protestantism.
THE CORN BILL IN COMMITTEE.—The on dit in Lon-
don, with respect to the probable fate of the ministerial
measure in the Lords' Committee, is, that an amendmenv
will be moved, substituting for the decreasing slide
scale a permanent duty of 4s. per quarter,. to come It
operation immediately. It will be remembered thar4,
second reading was carried by a majority of 47, ob.
proxies, the majority of peers present being only 14.
This majority, it is thought, will be diminished in case 0'
such a compromise being proposed in committee. VB
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have, however, little faith in the rumour, although its
comes to us from good authority. the peers
would of
would be inclined to rush to a dissolution of parliament
and its consequent turbulent excitement for so paltry an
object as a four shilling duty; and Lord Stanley would
assuredly not be the statesman to head such a movement.
The proper and constitutional course, of referring the
whole question to the people, having been omitted by the
peers, they will scarcely right themselves in public opinion
by the adoption of the poor substitute proposed.
OUR FREE TRADE POLICY EXAMINED, By A LI-
VERPOOL MERCHANT.—We noticed recently with ap-
probation, in two successive publications of the Standard*
a pamphlet under this title, in which the effect of the
ministerial policy upon the national industry, and espe-
cially upon Colonial industry, was ably canvassed and
the views of the writer supported by an overwhelml9,
mass of statistical facts and calculations, the correctnet
of which we have never seen impugned. We have siec'
observed the pamphlet in question noticed most flatter:
ingly by several of our contemporaries ; and, after ell
through the debates upon this measure in both hoof:s
as we do in the performance of our ordinary duties, nad
impossible to avoid noticing the weight which it has P 74
with a considerable number of the speakers. L0;t1;
George Bentinek on three toccasions has quoted frote;,
pages and its figures, complimenting its author ; and,. of
though not decidedly referring to it, the able speeol4,
Lord Stanley was upon all fours with the views of r 4
tional policy which it contains, and many of his statistr-o,
facts appeared to be derived from the same authoriti`o:
and to have impressed his lordship's mind with the 9
thor's conclusions.
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On Friday the African Roscius takes his benefit at
Theatre Royal.'