The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

" Off Sandy Hook, Sept. 17,1850.

the recent aggression. We all of us ( and I can .speak,
for those of my brother magistrates now absent)—we all
of as cordially concur with you—we feel as dee:lly" as any.
one could desire we shonlil feel that we are placed in a
position which demands 11'01T1 us a determination to assert
our unquestioned right to hold the meeting, ansi Lassure
yotr there exists no deficiency on the part of the bench to
carry oat your wishes to the fullest extent. (hpplabse.)
You must all be aware that grave responsibility rests up-
on the shoulders of the magistrates to adopt all measures
necessary to secure the public peace, and to prevent mis-
chief or injury being done to property. ( Hear, bear.) 3lt

was certainly communicated to us that the feeling of the
town respecting the late outrage was very stroll, and
that we were likely to receive such a requisition as-this,
and therefore the magistrates had talked over the matter
amongst themselves. One-filing necessary to be provkled
against is' that measures mould be taken to prevent_the
meeting being exposed to any further adjournment, and
in consequence a communication has been made, though
not yet to the highest quarter, with regard to the assist-
ely to be obtained from Liverpool. We have also

our lo

ET ROBBERY

named RlC!lard Foley

A SPECIMEN OF POPISTVIICIPUDENCE: AND

JESUITRYJ

A more striking specimen of the •way in which Popery
has, in, every age, glossed over its own offences, has rarely
bee found than is contained in a'letter, addressed'by the
leaders-of the party in Birkenhead-to" their feilowr-towns-
men, immediately subsequent to the brutal proceedings
of Wednesday last. Every paragraph of the document int
questieneontains a misrepresentation; and its whole tone,

ering the excited state of public feeling at the time
graceful. We shall take

when !Visa&

fined, is

most d

the liberty of dissecting it, and directing-attention to a

few of its most salient passages

The otter commences by infoming the " respectable"
bludgeonmen, to whom it was chiefif.addressed, that the

eetingi s

ked in breaking_ p, mat

one calred Tiy " a small section of virulent and b

personsl.to insult the C

gottect

an." - If to assert the

prerogative of the Crown, and to• tender to her Maj

r person, be to the Catholic reli-
gion, we thank the very select personages, who seem to
he the only defenders of the merages,.for the admission.
The next paragraph proceeds to ask--" What'would have
been your feelings if our pastors had called a public meet-
ing ta.insnit the Archbishop of e'antlerbury.andThe other
Breglishr bishops 7" It was to protest against- such art
insult, already offered

, not only to the English hierarchy,
but to,the Sovereign of the realin, ,that the meeting had.

. _
been convened by the constituted authorities,. We have
next an assertion that " this feeling of indignation very
naturally"—very !—" led to the attendance es-the place
of meeting of large masses of the, Catholic population."
The leaders of these misguided'men must knew what it
was that led to such attendance; And perhaps the world
at large will know bye and bye, Again,. " they"—the
large-masses in question—" were not able to conceive that
thepublic authorities would call a.meeting to which rate-
payers only would be admitted ;"=.4nothing is more com-
mon;.)—" and this attempt to-exclude the humbler
classes" did something or other of which the-clever con-
cocters of the document do not inform us. There was,
however, no attempt made to exclude the humbler classes..
There are very humble classes who are ratepayers of Bir-
kenhead, and every individual amongst these would have
been admitted, so far as the capaeity.of the building would
permit. But the Papist navvies, employed at Flaybrick
MI gnarly and at the dock wcrka,. are neiOher ratepayers,
nor even, in the strict sense cf-the word,. inhabitants of
Birkenhead.

"At about half-past eleven. o'Hock," the letter pro-
ceeds, " whilst the people worer quietly awaiting admis-
sion to the room"—such quietude of 4isnosition being
shown by their having the handles of their pickaxes,
pokers, bludgeons, and other‘weapons of offence in their
hands, and an ample supply a stones and brickbats within.
a convenient distance—" a most unprorioked and wanton.
attack was made upon them,by the Liverpool police," the
zeal truth of the matter being, that the police were
assailed at the instant of their arrital by howling.s anti
imprecations which we shalt not deface our pages with,.
and were only driven to uae their staves in self-defense
when violently obstructed when endeavouring to procure
ingress to the room assigned for them inside the Town-.
hall. So little was physical force thought of by the police,
that the superintendent a the Birkenhead force, Inspector
Birnie, attended the place of meeting without a weapon.of
any sort.

We are sick of the task of exposing this precious. piece.
of popish impudence and mendacity. The public, we
feel convinced, thoroughly understand it and its authors-
Of course we shall he told that the public are " bigots,"
that they believe in such historic truths as the Massacre
of St. Bartholomew., the fires of Smithfield, the racks
and tortures of the Holy Inquisition ; and are not belie-
vers in the saving efficacy of saints' toe nails, shin bones,
holy coats, and other figments of popery. The public.
however, are generally right in the main in their verdict
upon what they see with their own eyes ; usd when they
observe a howling mob of demi-savages coming to a pub-
lic meeting with arms in their hands, they pre tolerably
well justified in, concluding that they did not so come for-
peaceable purposes, or without a little hint or so that " a
triumph," as.this disgraceful affair has been called, would.
be acceptable in influential quarters. So ashamed are all
respectable peeks of this document that three persons
e I whose names are similar to those attached to it have pub-

WEST DERBY UNION

TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
el obliged if you will in your
.eju-
Pro-

GENTLEMEN.'- I shall

dicial statement, which appears in the report of the

ceedines of the Gu,

the Liverpool Mercury of

e, was requ