The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

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The

iichbishop of Armagh, Primate of Treland, has
an address from the clergy of his dio-

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sions of

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are engaged at the present moment. He also
joins with them in their " claim that Ireland shall not be
excluded from participation in whatever defensive mea-
sures may be adopted for the purpose of protecting Great
Britain against the encroachments and usurpations of the
Bishop of Rome." After someliesitation, the Protestants
of Ireland are getting up a general petition to the Queen
on the subject of Papal aggression.
CONVOCATION.-At the public meeting of clergy and
laity on Tuesday next, to address the Queen and the
Episcopal bench, praying for the revival of convocation,
the following resolution will be proposed :—" That it is
the opinion of this meeting, that the recent daring ag-
gression of the Pope is to be attributed, in a great mea-
sure, to the crippled state of the Church of England, the
direct consequence of the long-continued suppression of
her synodal functions ; that the Church of England can
deal with this aggression only in her corporate capacity,
that is to say, in her National Synod, which the 139th
canon declares to be the true Church of England by re-
presentation ; and that, therefore, the present emer-
gency constitutes an additional plea for urging the revival
of her synodal functions, upon the basis of the existing
provincial Convocations of Canterbury and York."

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Two county meetings were held on Thursday to protest
Igainst the Papal aggression, namely, Oxfordshire and
-ighareshire. The Marquis of Blandford, Earl
Mr. Henley. M, P., and Lord A. Churchill,

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Abingdon,

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were present at the Oxfordshire meeting. _
solutions were passed, but an Oxford tradesman, named
said he wanted to see a resolution introduced

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into the proceedings for a separation of Church and State.
Mr. Langston, M.P., said the laity ought to have stirred
sooner. At to Dr. Pusey, he said he had been convicted
of nreaching Popish doctrines, which he had never re-
tracted ; and it was the duty of the Crown to take such
steps as would prevent him from instilling those dreadful
doctrines into the minds of the younger members of the
University. An amendment was carried for leaving out
the word ."
laity," they being charged with the clergy with
having introduced the " superstitious ceremonial and no-
velties ;" and Mr. Alderman Sadler announced that ninety
,ers of the Oxford University had gone over to Rome

—the exact number of the " Tracts."—At the Notting-
ham meeting Lord Newark and Mr. Barrow, the rival
candidates for the representation of the southern
appeared, and each spoke in terms of attachment to the
Protestant faith.

division,

Cardinal Wiseman is shortly expected to visit Dublin
and Armagh.
Messrs. Dodsworth and Bennett, it is said, were wor-
shippers in Roman Catholic chapels only two Sundays ago.
The paragraph about the attack on Father Ignatius is
erroneous in almost every particular. The rev, gentle-
man was only slightly tapped on the hat.
In a church in tha tract and of London act.° is lb choir

consisting of 13 boys, each of whom is confessed and ab-
solved every Saturday evening. The inspection of the
bishop's archdeacons is indeed wanted.
Zergeaut Itellasig has joined the Roman Catholic
Church. The Rev. Mr. Laprimaudaye, late curate of
Archdeacon Manning. has also made his profession at
Marseilles.

Romish confraternity men are assailing servant maids
in various streets of London with appeals in favour of
Popery. Several instances of priests, or Romauists in the
garb of priests, thus addressing maid servants have oc-
curred in Hanover-street and other streets in the west-
end.

MR. BENNETT'S RESIGNATION.—An erroneous im-
pression appears to have gone abroad that the Rev.
W. J. E. Bennett is inclined to retract his offer of resign.
ing his living. We have authority to state that this is not
the case; and as soon as the necessary arrangements are
made we are assured that the rev, gentleman will be ready
to complete his resignation.—Times.
ANOTHER CHANGE IN " THE TIMES."—The London
Times has now sadly modified the high Pretestant tone it
assumed a few weeks since. It ridicules, in the most of-
fensive terms, the idea of a United Church of England and
Ireland, instituting a contrast between the two establish-
ments, full of scorn towards the Irish one, and sneaking
most ominously of "the tottering position of the unpeo-
pled Establishment of the Protestant Church in Ire.

land."

CARDINAL WISEMAN'S ECCLESIASTICAL VESTMENTS.
—There was, last week, lying in the transit shed of the
Nelson Dock, a case containing a most remarkable de-
scription of import—no other than a complete outfit for a
Cardinal. The box contained a full complement of
sacerdotal robes, shipped at Genoa on board the Rattler,
for his eminence Cardinal Wiseman, including the hat of
more than Quaker dimensions in the brim, a mitre, the
much-talked-of pallium, and red stockings, besides nume-
rous habiliments whose purpose would be unknown to
any but a Roman Catholic ecclesiastic. The vestments
are of the most ec6tly and superb description conceivable.
The delay in their delivery is accounted for from the ne-
cessity of communicating with his eminence, who will be
required to certify that the vestments are intended for
ecclesiastical purposes solely, otherwise a duty would he
demanded on the materiel—foreign manufactured silk.
Besides the habiliments referred to, several suits of live-
ries, intended for the ofbchal attendants of hie eminence,
am Lao contained in the