The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-09-02 00:00:00

SIR JAMES GRAHAM ON THE MARCH OF POPERY IN
1837.—" He would conclude with the few simple pathetic
words of Lord Russel, the ancestor of the noble lord
opposite, in whose heart, even on the scaffold, if an ad-
ditional pang could have been inflicted, be was satisfied it
would have been from this--if he had been told, and
could hare believed that in these latter days, a descend-
ant of his own, inheriting his courage, inheriting many of
his private virtues, blessed by Providence with superior
talents, holding a place of high trust and confidence
under the crown, in the last extremity of the Irish
church could have an opportunity of rescuing it from
ruin, and deliberately preferred its destruction—(loud and
vehement cheering.) Referring to Ireland, in the words
of Lord Russell, he did believe, and lie still believed,
that ' Popery is breaking in on that land ; those who
seek to advance it will not stop at their means of carrying
their purpose into effect, and deeply sorry I am that so
many Protestants give them a helping hand to it.' "
(loud cheering, which continued for some time after the
right hon. baronet had resumed his seat.) Sir James
Graham is the man who thus nobly spoke on the 7th of
February, 1837, and is assisting Popery to " break in
upon our land in 1815 !"

UNION AMONGST PROTESTANTS.—Nothing is want-
ing to make their cause und.rstood in its justice and
strength, which union among themselves will not supply.
It is not numbers which have made their rivals strong ;
it is steadfastness of purpose, organization, perseverance,
boldness. The minister yields to the clamour of a
Roman Catholic party, because it insists that he must
yield. The miniver increases the power cf that party,
because it persists in making inordinate demands, and he
hopes to purchase snatches of repose by each unjust con-
cession. The minister neglects the rights of the Pro-
testant party, and perseveres in a policy before which
their power is rapidly dwindling into decay, because Pro-
testants do not embarrass or impede his course of legis-
lation—because they consent, apparently, to measures by
which their adversaries are rendered powerful, and they
are unjustly depressed. The wrong that is endured in
silence will, in the present constitution of human society,
soon come to be thought justice, and the British minis-
ter who is placed between two rival parties, of which one
clamorously insists upon concession, and the other gives
itself up to be sacrificed without a struggle or complaint,
—unless he be of a very different character from men of
ordinary mould, will feel too strongly tempted to buy off
the clamourers or win some remission of strife from
them, at the cost of the tranquil party which resigns
itself to immolation.—Dublin University.

THE LATE LORD WYNFORD.—The following extract
from a memoir of Lord Wynford, written evidently by a
lawyer, manifests, in rather an amusing manner, the es-
prit du corps of the profession, and shows how the excite-
ment of the contest between the advocates effaces the dull
interest of what are called the merits of the case. Note
how combative, how military, is the style:—" He (Lord.
Wynford) was a da -gerous, because he was a most watch-
ful and enterprising a iversary. You could not any more
sleep in his neighbourhood than could the Duke while
Massena was near, though he might, in the neighbour-
hood of others, enjoy some repose. But if you never
could be sure of his not making some venturous move
himself, and were thus kept on the watch, so also you
could not venture upon moves in the hope of his eyes be-
ing closed. It may also safely be pronounced that he ne-
ver failed to see or profit by the slip of his adversary ; to
say that he never, seldom, made slips himself, would be
very wide of the truth. In fact, he was not always a safe
leader. Circumspect enough to see where his antagonist
failed, he took a very narrow, or very one-sided, view of
his own risks. Bold to rashness, hasty in his resolutions,
quick in all his thoughts and all his movements, he was
often in dangers wholly needless to be encountered ; and
though he would occasionally, by desperate courses, es-
cape beyond all calculation from risks, both inevitable and
of his own seeking, he could not be called a successful ad-
vocate.—Law Review.

THE GREEN FROGS OF AUSTRALIA.—In the Mac-
quarie, near Bathust, I first saw the superb green frogs of
Australia. The river, at the period of our visit, was for
the most part a dry bed, with small pools in the deeper
holes ; and in these, among the few shining water plants
and confervre, dwelt these gorgeous reptiles. In form and
size they resemble a very large English frog, but their co-
lour is more beautiful than words can describe. I never
saw plant or gem of such bright tints. A vivid yellow-
L'reen seems the groundwork of the creature's array, and
this is daintily pencilled over with other shades—emerald,
olive, and blue greens, with a few delicate markings of
yellow, like an embroidery of gold thread upon shaded
velvet. And the creatures sit looking at you from their
moist floating bowers, with their large eyes expressive of
the most perfect enjoyment, which, if you doubt while
they remain still, you can't refuse to believe in when you
see them flop into the delicious cool water, and go slowly
stretching their long green legs as they pass through the
wavy grove of sedgy feathery plants in the river's bed ;
till you lose them under a dense mass of gently waving
leaves. And to see this while a burning, broiling sun is
scorching up your very life, and not a breeze is stirring,

and the glare of the herbless earth dazzles your agonised
eyes into blindness, is enough to make one willing to fore-
go all the glories of humanity, and be changed into a frog!
—Mrs. llferedith's Australia.

DUTY OF BARRISTERS.—If a conveyancer is instructed
to draw a will which appears to him unjust-, he must feel
some pain in so doing; but it is not a pain of conscience,
for it is not his office to compel people to make equitable
wills. It is an office which, at the distance he stands from
the parties, and with his limited knowledge of their cha-
racter and mutual relationships, he could not possibly un-
dertake • he would be a mere disturber of the peace of
society if he attempted to regulate the morality of all the
conveyances and testaments that he drew. It would 'n-
deed be a doctrine destructive of all order, and of the very
machinery of society, that would, as a general rule, impose
upon men of profession, or of trade, the responsibilities
which lie, in the first instance, upon the consciences of
their clients. A man could not sell a piece of whipcord
from his shop without having an assurance from the cus-
tomer that he was not buying it to strangle his wife with-
al. The conveyancer, therefore, quietly pursues his in-
structions, and draws the will. In the like manner, if a
barrister is instructed to plead the statute of limitations
to a debt, it is no concern of his if the client is not acting
in a conscientious manner in taking advantage of the sta-
tute. The law gives him this plea, and it is not for the
jurist to debar him the use of it. He presents it, there-
fore, to the court. But if, not content with pleading the
statute of li a itations for a client who employs the law to
escape from a moral obligation, he labours to convince the
jury that, in availing himself of this plea, his client is act-
ing in a very honorable, or at least in no blamable man-
ner ; if, by an artful colouring of the facts, or by insinua-
tions against other parties, he contrives to lead the culprit
in triumph through the court, then we say that a baseness
is committed by the advocate, for which there is no ex-
cuse, in the constitution of courts of justice, nor in the
subtleties of casuistry.—Blackwood's Magazine.

THE FRANCISCANS IN JERUSALEM.-It was about
three months after the time of my leaving Jerusalem that
the plague set his spotted foot on the Holy City. The
monks felt great alarm ; they did not shrink from their
duty, but for its performance they chose a plan most
sadly well fitted for bringing down upon them the very
death which they were striving to ward off. They ima-
gined themselves almost safe so long as they remained
within their walls ; but then it was quite needful that the
Catholic Christians of the place, who had always looked
to the convent for the supply of their spiritual wants,
should receive the aids of religion in the hour of death.
A single monk, therefore, was chosen, either by lot, or
by some other fair appeal to destiny ; being thus singled
out, be was to go forth into the plague-stricken city, and
to perform with exactness his priestly duties ; then he was
to return, not to the interior of the convent, for fear of
infecting his brethren, but to a detached building (which
I remember), belonging to the establishment, but at some
little distance from the inhabited rooms: he was provided
with a bell, and at a certain hour in the morning he was
ordered to ring it, if he could ; but if no sound was heard
at the appointed time, then knew his brethren that he was
either delirious or dead, and another martyr was sent
forth to take his place. In this way twenty-one of the
monks were carried off. One cannot well fail to admire
the steadiness with which the dismal scene was carried
through ; but if there be any truth in the notion, that
disease may be invited by a frightened imagination, it is
difficult to conceive a more dangerous plan than that
which was chosen by these poor fellows. The anxiety
with which they must have expected each day the sound
of the bell—the silence that reigned instead of it, and
then the drawing of the lots (the odds against death being
one point lower than yesterday), and the going forth of
the newly-doomed man—all this must have widened the
gulf that opens to the shades below : when his victim had
already suffered so much of mental torture, it was but
easy work for big bullying Pestilence to follow a forlorn
monk from the beds of the dying, and wreoch away his
life from him, as belay all alone in an outhouse.—Eothen.

ST. PATRICK AND THE POPE'S SUPREMACY.--Tilelllis.
sion of Patrick was more successful. He may be saidto have
given the first great impulse to the spread of Christianity
in Ireland. But there are no historical grounds whatever
for asserting that he derived his commission from the
Pope ; on the contrary, as far as negative proof may be
relied on, we have every reason to believe that he never
visited Rome, and neither sought for nor obtained any
authority from the Roman pontiff, when abcut to enter
upon his missionary labours. This should be decisive
against the supremacy claimed by the Church of Rome;
while it is to be observed that the contrary would not be
decisive in its favour, as usurpation, though successful,
can never be alleged as satisfactory evidence of a rightful
claim. Of the legends of later ages, the compilations of
fancy and of fraud, Roman Catholic writers are glad to
avail themselves, when any shadow of support can be de-
rived from them in favour of their church ; but such
driveling puerilities can impose on none who possess any
clearness of judgment, or even soundness of understand-
ing. The true merits of the question can only be known
or conjectured from consulting contemporary authorities,
and seeing how far they justify the notion, that the Irish
apostle was commissioned by the Pope, and that his mis-
sion was intended to establish a church in subordination
to the Roman Pontiff. How, then, stands the case?
Patrick is not once mentioned in the Chronicle of Pros-
per. That writer was a violent partizan of the papacy,
and takes care to emblazon in his annals the mission of
Palladius, which was a decided failure. Why, then, omit
all mention of the mission of Patrick, the success of
which was just as remarkable, if of that missionary it
could be asserted that he derived his authority from the
court of Rome ? Such an omission is inconceivable
upon any other supposition than that no such assertion
could be hazarded. Indeed, so suspicious did this omis-
sion appear in all the properly Roman documents in which
a mention of our saint and of his labours might be ex-
pected, that Dr. Ledwich was led to doubt his existence.
Such silence, however, proves nothing more than his in-
dependence of the Church of Rome ; while the Irish do-
cuments, which abundantly testify to the existenc of the
saint, furnish no grounds whatever for supposing that he
came to establish the Pope's supremacy.—Dublin