The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-29 00:00:00

ith a pampere

pursuit of the

insurgen
and furt

.ved my poor people
y. May God protect
ctives with whom this locality

and thu.

Kilcornwc
Unfortu

people, taking refuge in
) evade the vengeance of the
where the crimes of rebels are
en of, and their punishment

manly and unobtrusive

the Mount

ns onty

!" In a 1

Sir, very fa
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ally yours,
Parish Priesi

ion!" mild, mos

gentle-

thus gin

regarded,as a thing, to evade whichit is amiable
and pious to assist the criminal, what prospect can
there be of truth in the decision of a jury ? To
expect it is to I

culous

SWITH

SID THE WATER COMMITTEE

We will not go the length of asserting that this worthy
Saint has been specially retained during the past two
months, for the purpose of assisting Mr. Hawkesley and
Captain Francis in showing the large capabilities of
Rivington as a water sly al ; but his efforts in favour of
the scheme have been °Mainly as well worthy of remu-
neration as those of any half dozen of the scientific per-
sonages whose evidence is before the public. Even
saints, however, are fallible beings; and, in his zeal,
Swithin has proved too much, by upsetting one of the pet
theories of his employers. We have been told by them,
over and over again, that the supply of water under Li-
verpool is obtained altogether from the rainfall in the im-
mediate district, percolating through the red sandstone
into the strata from whence it is pumped up for use; and
that, as the area of the district becomes built over, such
supply will be decreased in quantity. Admit this theory,
and the deduction is an obvious one,--that Use greater
the rainfall, the more abundant Mould be the yield of our
well*. • During all this period, then, that the saint has
been wringing his wet blanket over our heads, the Har-
ington and Bootle lodges should have been full enough

to give us a daily supply—as much, in fact, as their en'
Ones could pump ; and yet, from every part of the town,
we are overwhelmed with complaints of want of water.

Either, therefore, the idea of Liverpool being built upon
a kind of natural filter must be scouted as sheer humbug,
or there is water in our wells at this moment, and the
committee won't let us have it. One or other of the
alternatives is inevitable ; and as the saint's exertions are
of no good, but rather of much unpleasantness
hould be obliged to him to confine his further
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to con

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TER MAJESTY

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werntnent

IN IRELAND

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Teased

D LIEUTENANT

tality, by which the Whig
to govern Ireland, has at

Diplomatic ReLoa

with Rome Bill, on Thursday night.
, like all other portions of the policy of the
_
rading to the sovereign, and

party, it is co

Pope
1- . ..... ....•... a 1.....1.7141..J.J.
the Pope of Rome is to'
become a cat's paw of the British
ministry ; and his spiritual powers are to be wielded, at
the dictation of our envoy at his court, to repress ti
bulence of the M'H

s and other reverend Irish fire
by th

TO meet at once t

utional party in ti

iritual authority of the Pope, and the fears enter-
r the Roman Catholics of Ireland that the bill is
It the spiritual authority of the Irish bishops and
priesthood, it, was proposed by M. Chas. Pearson, that
the diplomatic intercourse proposed to be held with the
Court of Rome, should be " touching and concerning in
ternational, civil, commercial, and political relations.'
To this restriction, however, the Solicitor-General offerec
a decided objection
"Questions" h

levelled

said "of a mixed character might arise
n the result they were of a temporal nature, and it
Suppose the Pope intro.
n Catholics of Canada,
e. At present
•ica and arch-

duced
this qu:
the Pe,

erference could to
regulation es to the
would prevent any interferene
divide this country into bishop
t were agreed to he might do so

bishopiies. and if the amend;
still; but if we had free din

tish Government might int

rn-, the Bri-

nt suds a division."

ind Lord Pal

....erston directly advocates the propriety
_.. ',reefing with the Pope, for the regulating of the
internal affairs of this kingdom, so far as they are con-
nected with religious matters. The noble lord, in reply to
some remarks of Sir Robert Inglis,
of 11“-

ed to ask a questa, ...° non. friend, who had often
too him to make representations to the Government of
a in favour of the Protestants of the Vaudois, and who
urged him to nse his influence with the Government of
on the subject of certain relations which interfered
ligious persons in the cantons of Switzerland.
would his hon. friend call that an interference
,they in political, commercial, civil, or international' affairs?
,tich questions would give rise to very disagreeable refinements,
and it was not desirable to preclude the Government of this
!ountru from making similar representations, if it were thought
iesirable, to the Court of Rome."

re is no reservation here. The authority of the
within these realms is distinctly recognised, in direct
;rsion of the principles of the British constitution,
)f an express clause in her Majesty's coronation oath ;
ye are to stoop to negociate with him—" to urge him
re his influence (0" to protect the civil liberties of
h and Irish Protestants from being " interfered
the aggressions of Romanism within this realm.
-'rading and Whiggish spectacle it will be to see
-t government and people of this great empire
,e themselves at the footstool of the anti-
.”eris, for liberty to worship

g, in
,forma

God according to their own c'onsCier

AN INTI

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NQUIRY