The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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M.P., Hon. F. Scott, M.P. Lord Colville of Kilross, Sir
W. Dick Cunningham, Mr. Campbell Renton,
'Jr. Hope Vero of Craigie Hall, Sir J. G. Baird of
Saughton, Mr. Bagge, M.P , Mt. Forbes Mackenzie. 11 T 1 n

heriff Alison, the Earl of Lauderdale, Professor Ar-
un, Mr. Christopher. M.P., Lord John Scott, the Hon.
Scott, Sir F. T. Forbes, Sir J. W. Drummond, and

gate. M.P.—The meeting broke up about
elve o'clock.—The Edinburgh Pose, which devotes no
:s than nine folio columns to a report of the speeches
delivered, states that the entire company, guests and
----5, amounted to 1,400, and that not one-third of
's for tickets of admission could be supplied
incapacity of the Music-hall, in which the
ration took place, to hold more than the number

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THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION BILL.—The following figures,
tracted from the twenty-seventh report of the House of
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commons on public petitions, throws some light upon the
way in which the country views the Government Ecclesias-
tical Titles Assumption Bill :—Against the bill-petitions,
1,040: signatures, 513,937. For more stringent measures
—petitions 1,939; signatures, 327,582. In favour of the
bill, 1; signatures. 8.
THE UOMISH PRIESTS.-It is not merely at the bed-
side of the dying that the clerical meddlers come to curse
or " convey." It is not merely in public politics they
presume : but they intrude in household business of every-
day life, and invade the privacy of every man's home with
loathsome and pestilent pertinacity. They will dictate f
a father of a family what ^h,--1 he i- `-- '

schoo. co select for his sons,
.nd quote canon law for the infraction of the simplest laws
of human society and of God, the common Father of all and
Founder of the sacred rights of paternity. What else is
this canon law bat an attempt to invalidate all human
legislation, and to confound Christianity, in its relation to
secular communities, with the exploded and superseded
theocracy of the Jews ? Are not the doctrines of Christ
compatible, in the views of the Divine Redeemer, with
every form of gcvernment ? Is not that the essence anti
boast of Catholicity ? Whence, then, is the Vatican at war
with every country—with Belgium, and Sardinia, and with
England ? At peace with the despotisms of. the Kaiser
- is manacled by the encyclics

of Old Gregory, and ruthlessly delivered up to his brother
Pope of Petersburg, while to the Kaiser of our own hea-
venly land is offered an holocaust of treacherous homage
by Papal felony (felonesco Maslen:). Truly, canon law
reigns at Rome,—a model land for prize legislation ;
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ereourse is a snare, and the do-
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out-oosomings of the family circle so much grist I
for the mill of the confessional; where the greetings in
the market-place are noted down by the noonday devils of
the police, and the shafts of venomed denunciation am

uc.st.ZUIOLIVII are
shot. at random in every man's pathway ; the luxury of
hidden woe an indulgence of deepest dier and a clandes-
tine press the only outlet of the national' despair. One
channel alone was open for the energies of the country to
find issue : the public robber was abroad ; and the bri-
gand; like the owl of Sultan Mabmoud, blessed the cleri-
cal government for unprotected villages and the utter dis-
solution of society. The banded plunderers of Passatore
have established a formidable competition with the sacer-
dotal peculators of the capital, and set up a rival canon

Jaw cqually uisasu 011 S, out not more at variance with the
rights and immunities of the public. For, after all, what
consolation is it to the dispossessed and defrauded citi-
zens, that the brigand who makes free with the chattels
and personal liberty wears a head-gear of conicarsliap.e,
with a jaunty feather and'