The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-08-14 00:00:00

France. Since the expulsion of the legitimate branch of
the BOURBONS, its bishops and priests have sternly stood
aloof frOm recoguis;ng the constitutional government of
Louts PHILIPPE. But within the last few. days, seeing
that he is resolved to'play the despot in earnest, the arch-
bishop and the clergy of Paris have made their peace
with the Citizen King, freely bestowing upon him as
many masses as would be sufficient to fire far more " in-
fernal machines" than any that have yet exploded. This
augurs no good to France ;.it will not, we suspect, serve
the purpose of LOUIS PHILIPPE; it cannot even prop the
falling fortunes of the Romish hierarchy. Popish arro-
gance and bigotry—popish fraud and imposition—are
now beginning to be understood in most parts of the
world. It is only in Ireland that its wretched schemes
are overlooked by its victims. It is only the ministers of
WILLIAM the FOURTH, a protestant sovereign, who fos-
ter its power and tolerate its excesses. As to the unprin-
cipled dissenters, and the starvling hypocrites in fastidi-
ous habiliments, who in our times are doing the work of
hodmen to the monks of Maynooth, and their monster
beggar O'CONNELL, we could not wish them a greater
evil than that they might be under the iron fangs of a
popish government for a single week. The Irishmonks,
we know, hate us of the Church of England with an en-
during hatred; but we are pure in their eyes compared
with most of the English and Scotch sectarians. Oh
what a night it would be if the baptists, the independ-
ents, the socinians, the quakers, and the Scotch rogues
who call themselves " voluntaries," were in the power
and at the mercy of the Irish priests I There would be
howling in the tabernacle, and wailing in the meeting-
house, if the MURPHYS and MAGUIRES; the Father
ABRAfIAMS of Waterford and the Father O'FLINNs of
Cork, had a night's power or license in England ! Per-
haps the day and night may come; if so, the sooneuthe
better.

, We eip4ct some of these days to bear of a-fearful mils-
' .sacre is Paris. • Now that the "Citizen King" has
placed himself in the power of the popish clergy, and has
• extinguiihed the only gleam of liberty in France, the fire
of the revolution will spread below, gathering strength
by compression, until it burst forth in a torrent of blood.
Talk of "infernal machines," indeed ! Here is one of
• terrible form fixed by LOUIS PHILIPPE himself. The
wretch FIESCHI was only, as it now appears, a despica-
ble spy in the employ of the police. His machine did
some damage ; but that invented by Louts PHILIPPE,
and consecrated by the restored priests, will cause an ex-
plosion which will make France shake to its very centre,
and send LOUIS PHILIPPE to the matter where!
But change we our position to another quarter of the
globe. We see what popery is suffering in Spain, and
what it is attempting in France. We see its power wi-
thering in one place, and its power desperate in another.
We see convents burning and monks perishing under the
liberal auspices of ISABELLA ; and we see convents ris-
ing in splendour, monks gathering in legions, and popery
flourishing in Ireland. All this speaks meteors and
thunderbolts—a shaking of the nations--a dreadful con-
vulsion—a wholesome reaction, and a more perfect purifi-
cation. Turn we then to the United States of America.
What do we observe there ?
We have before us a late number of one of the most
ably'conducted journals of New York—the Journal of
Commerce. An intelligent correspondent of that paper
has been allowed to address a series of letters to the
citizens of the United States on the spread, progress,
and designs of popery. It will be recollected that re-
cently serious riots have taken place in New York, Phi-
ladelphia, and Charleston. These were intimately con-
nected with, and in point of fact had their origin in po-
pish insolence and oppression. A poor girl, of good
family, had been immured in a convent at Charleston..
She grew tired of the unnatural life she had been con-
strained to lead. It is said that her eyes were opened to
the sinfulness of the institution by the licentious prac-
tices which came under her observation. In short, it is
said she had reason to think that all the nuns were not
rigidly virtuous, and that the father confessors were
more liberal than moral, and time insolent than meek.
Under these impressions she wished to be restored to her
family and friends. This, according to the rules of mo-S
intomsiblee--- The very -thought was
impious. Not purgatory itself, backed by a million
masses per day, could tolerate such an infraction of the
sacred regulations of monkery and nunnery, . The very
idea was enough to raise St. FR ANCISCUS from the dead.
The young lady (she must have been of English blood,
and a Yankee, to the backbone) thought differently. As
her wishes were overruled she took the advantage of a
moonlight night and eloped. She reached the home of
her relations in safety. She told her tale, was pitied,
and received- with open arms. The ferocious banditti of
the convent roll Owed herL:the'father confessors were in

a state of indescribable trepidation and alarm—tl►e

curse, they saw, had come upon the--order; and by main
force, the young lady was dragged baCk to the abomina-
ble nunnery under the atrocious plea THAT SHE WAS
MAD !!'!

The story and the abduction soon got wind. A free
citizeness had been seized by a set cf filthy fellows, under

false pretences, and excluded from liberty and socia

ha,,piness for life. The people reflected upon the con-
sequences and the criminality of the act, as plain unso-
phisticated men generally do, over a glass of rum and
water; and having discussed it for some seventeen
nights, as they do in congress, they came to the conclu-
sion that such conduct on the part of Irish priests, and the
women they import as nuns, was equally infamous and
unconstitutional. They accordingly went to work as
-goad citizens ought always to do. They rose en =wee
and burnt the convent.. The pious women ran to the
-fields and the sheds of the negroes in rather an awkward
plight. The good lads did not even spare the chapel.
The red pine flung up in flames its Ave Marias to the
cold and careless moon. Not a stick, cross, or bead—
not a hair band or hair mattress was saved. There was
no holy water, or even profane water, sprinkled upon the
conflagration. The confessional chair and the incense
pots, the holy thumbs and the holy toe nails, the nose of
St. ANTHONY and the scalp of St. DOMINICK, the manger
of Bethlehem and the dexter spur of the cock which pro-
claimed the mendacity of St. PETER, all went up hissing
hot as a fire-offering to ZEDEKIAII B. DORKAS, the prin-
cipal director of the Charleston assurance company.
We have not heard whether the assurance company be-
came insolvent in consequence, but we are rather in-
clined to the opinion that they did. However, Miss:
LYDIA S.' BROWN, or whatever was her name, was again
restored to her friends in whose keeping we trust she is
at this moment.

Since this event the whole of the American Union has
been considerably agitated on the question of popery.
That it is on the increase, and that its missionaries have
become more audacious, in most of the states, is undeni-
able. The vast numbers of Irish who are annually
transported to New York must be continually swelling
the aggregate of the popish population. They constitute
the most demoralized class in the republic, and they are
the promoters of the many riots which disturb the peace
of the large towns. The jealousy of the natives, how-
ever, has been aroused, and hence the frequent broils
and outrages which we have recently seen rather reluc-
tantly noticed in the American journals. The papists
have actually formed an O'CONNELL corps under the pre-
text of defending themselves, hut the real object we un-
derstand is to forward the designs of the Irish priests.
The writer to whom we have alluded recapitulates cer-
tain facts which he asserts he has proved. The following
are among the leading ones:—
It is a fact, that Popery is opposed in its very nature to
Democratic Republicanism, and it is therefore as a political
system, as well as religious, opposed to civil and religious
liberty.
It is a fact that an unaccountable disposition to riotous con-
duct has manifested itself within a few years, when exciting
topics are publicly discussed, wholly at variation with the former
peaceful, deliberate character of our people.
It is a fact that a species of police, unknown to our laws, has
repeatedly been put in requisition to keep the peace among a
certain class of foreigners, who are Roman Catholics, viz.,
Priest-police.
It is a fact that Roman Catholic Priests have interfered to
influence our elections.

It is a fact that politicians on both sides have prapitiated
these priests to obtain the votes of their people;
It is a fact that numerous Societies of Roman Catholics,
particularly among the Irish foreigners, are organized in various
parts of the country under . various names and ostensibly for
certain benevolent objects; that these Societies are united to-