The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

SOUTH TOXTETH WARD.

Air. William Watson (it)
Mr. Thomas T. Glazebrook (c)

Majority for Mr. Watson 9

public BATHS, CASES-STREET AND GREAT GEORGE-PLACE.
These establishments, under the able control of Mr. Bird,
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RECENT CASE OF PROSELYTISM AND JE-
SUITISM AT CAMBRIDGE.

We gave last week the particulars, so far as they had
then transpired, of this scandalous case. As we have
something to add, however, we give briefly an outline of
the main facts, in order to make those which have since
transpired more intelligible. A youth, at the usual age,
came to Cambridge, and was placed under the
tutorship of the Rev. F. Paley, a resident M.A. ; and
after a short time, during which he had been reading with
that gentleman, and it is admitted that the controversy at
present going on amongst churchmen, as to their position
with respect to the Church of Rome, had been frequently
discussed between them,—and when moreover the youth's
mind was known by him to be strongly inclined to Roman-
ism, he was introduced by Mr. Paley to the society of a
Romish Bishop and several priests, by whom he was ulti-
mately perverted, and embraced the Romish tenets, without
pausing to consult any member of his family. These facts
were stated as a charge against, the tutor by a relative of
the young man, in the absence of his father, then on his
return from India; and the defence set up by Mr. Paley
is, that the mind of his charge was fully indoctrinated in
Romanism when he came to him ; and that, although
he admits that his introduction in such a state to the
Romish Bishop, Dr. Wareing, was " extremely wrong
and grossly indiscreet," he endeavoured, when his re-
solve to join the Romish Church was fully determined
upon, to prevent his taking such a step at that
time, as being " precipitate, unfortunate and inju-
dicious ; " thus clearly admitting that there was more
honesty in the young man, though less of discretion, than
in the elder tutor. It is added, in explanation of the un-
fortunate precipitation above referred to, that the convert
was offered by the bishop a dispensation to appear as a
protestant, in order to deceive his mother until his
father's arrival in England.
Mr Paley, and some of his friends of similar character
and holding, no doubt, the same disguised views as to
Romanism, although clinging to the pay of the Church of
England, and to the opportunity of perversion which their
position in the University affords them, have attempted to
ward from themselves the odium and exposure brought
upon them by the hasty rashness of their young Neophite.
In doing so, happily, they have only further revealed, in
darker and stranger colours, their own iniquitous Prac-
tices. As a corroboration of the assertion of Mr. Paley,
that his pupil was already a Romanist in all but the name,
when first placed under his charge, a gentleman, who
signs himself Scott Nasmythe Jones, and dates from Bir-
mingham, writes :

"My dear Paley.—The unfair use made of spur letter to * •
Induces me to trouble you with a line on the subject of Morris's
conversion.

Mr. John Morris, your pupil. a few days before he left Eng-
land, assured me in the presence of Mrs. Stokes. her sister, and
my brother James, that you had no hand in his conversion ; but
that he had been made a Catholic by the teaching of * * * * *
with whom he had lived for three years before coming to Tri-
nity."

The attempt here made is to throw the onus of Mr.
Morris's perversion upon the teaching of the Rev. Mr.
Alford, the gentleman with whom he had been a pupil
before going to Trinity; and the letter, said to be an
" unsolicited " one, is produced by Paley, as sufficient to
satisfy any reasonable person that he was not its the least
degree connected with Mr. John Morris's secesssion to
the Church of Rome. This is what Mr. Paley says to the
public, in a letter to the Cambridge Chronicle, dated no
later than the 29th ult. To an honest mind there can
only be one interpretation put upon it, viz., that he had
had no part bringing about not only the mere act of se-
cession, but the perversion of opinion which led to such
act. A Jesuit, however. may shuffle out of the assertion.
But, mark how the statement of his friend Stokes, so con-
fidently put forward, and his comment upon it for the
public, are contradicted by his own private statement to
Mr. Alford, by whose teaching Morris was said to have
been ready perverted to.his hands! 'Writing to this gen-
tleman, he says

"This is the whole and the exact state of the case. Ido not

think you will acquit me of my share in the business, and that
is exactly why I write, that I may acquit you, and you may be
enabled to represent the matter rightly, either publicly or pri-
vately, as you may think fit.

Clearly, then, the pupil did not come to Trinity enter-
taining Romish views, as represented by Mr. Paley ; and,
as clearly, he was led to those views by the Romish teach-
ing of a resident tutor of a protestant college !
The charge against the Romigh Bishop, Wareing, with
respect to the dispensation, is thus dealt with by that per-
sonage in a letter to the London Times :
"Sir,—For the satisfaction of your correspondent " Catholic,"
whose letter appeared in The Times of Wednesday last, I hereby
contradict the " malicious report" to which he refers.—that I
countenanced an individual professing one religion, and being at
the same time of another, for the sake (tf deception.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.
W. WAREING."
Northampton, Oct. 31.

A very raw student of Jesuit logic could readily explain
away this denial of the charge brought against the episco-
pal doctor. Mr. Paley himself shall show us how it can
be done, and how little value is to be attached to the
bishop's denial. In a postscript to his letter of the 29th
ultimo, he says :

"It is utterly untrue that Dr. Wareing proffered the dispensa-
tion alluded to in The Times in the sense there specified. The
Bishop acted solely with a view to save, as far as possible, the
feelings of a mother, by avoiding a sudden shock."

The original statement was that the dispensation " was
proffered," to enable the youth to continue a professing
protestant—to reside in a protestant college, attend
lectures, &c., although in heart and fact a papist, for the
purpose of keeping his mother in the dark as to his real
state. The bishop says he did not countenance such con-
cealment " for the sake of deception." Paley says it is
" utterly false" that the dispensation " was proffered in
the sense specified" in the Times, viz., to deceive his
mother. "The bishop acted"—he says—".solely with a
view to save, asfar a: possible, the feeling: of a mother
by a sudden shock."