The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-29 00:00:00

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..ome are worming themselves into
our families, and grasping political power. In the
second place, we regard the movement without re-
gret, as calculated to break up the unholy alliance
which Rome has formed with " Liberalism," and
at the same time to startle that weak-minded sec-
tion of Churchmen who have of late shown such a
disposition to toy with the Arch-Enemy of Truth,

and some of wnom are even now hovering upon

brink..of that gulf which separates the great

apostacy from the rest of the Christian world.
Even Whiggery, purblind as it is, and reckless as
to the instruments which it uses to advance its fac-
tious projects, must blush now to see its recent
firm ally—the "poor persecuted Church of Rome ?"
—throw aside the garb of humility with which it
has beguiled the world, and stand forth the same
intolerant, higotted, and ambitious power which it
has been in reality throughout every portion of its
career, wherever it durst exhibit its real nature.
men must surely see at last that Popery has
" whilst all along it despised them;
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But we regard the step taken by the Papacy
without regret, if not even with satisfaction, upon
another ground. It is a step made in desperation ;
and therefore premature, and certain to result in
discomfiture and shame. Tottering upon his own
shaken throne, and surrounded on every side by
the elements of confusion and danger,—misled, too,

as to the extent to which Puseyism has eaten into
the heart of the English Church,—the bewildered
Pontiff has been driven to stake his all upon this
last throw, and must stand or fall by the success or

failure of his attempt to grasp the spiritual do-
minion of Protestant England. As yet, doubtless,
he is utterly ignorant of the nature of the contest
which he has evoked. He knows not the depth
and intensity of the love with which Englishmen

regardtheirreformed and pure church,—

-a love

which is interwoven with our most cherished asso-
ciations and hallowed memories. He knows not
the stern hatred with which Englishmen regard
that grasping and ambitious power, of which he is
the recognised head, to defeat whose open encroach-
naents they have not hesitated to drive a dynasty
from the throne, and against which they have
hedged round their institutions with defences
which, though sapped at the base by the treachery
of Whig councils, are ready to be restored and
strengthened so soon as the danger with which
they are menaced, and the insolence which is
being practised upon them, are made known to a
sensitive and jealous people. Pio Nono knows no-
thing of all this. Absorbed in the monkish specu-
lations of his class, the history of the past three
hundred years seems to have been a sealed book to
.him; but, if we mistake not, before many weeks
elapse, the full truth will burst upon him, and the
voice of the indignant nation ring into his ears.tbe
lesson that England, as in the days of her Tudors,
and in the era of that glorious revolution which
seated the family of her gracious Majesty on the
throne of these realms, still holds firmly her attitude
of protest against the usurpation of Rome, and her
love for the pure revealed Word of God, undiluted
and unperverted by the fables and the falsehoods
of men.

The question naturally arises,—What will be the
course pursued by her Majesty's present Govern-
ment with 'respect to this audacious aggression of
Rome upon the rights of the Crown, and.the liber-
ties of the British people ?—Will they permit a
foreign potentate, without remonstrance, or the ex-
ercise, if necessary, of sterner measures, to assume
temporal as well as spiritual power within these
realms ?—Will they ratify the consent given by their
emissary, Lord Minto, and remain tacit under an
insult levelled against their sovereign, which, in the
better days of Great Britain, would have stirred up
its population, en masse, and made a soldier of
of every male throughout the length and breadth
of the land, capable of drawing a sword, or carry-
ing a musket ? Perhaps they may do this. Per-
haps they may adopt the Jesuitical interpretation
put upon the Pope's letter by Father Ullathorne, in
his letter to the London Times. Let them adopt
this course, and it will not be difficult to predict
their fate,—expulsion from the position which they
will have betrayed, and from the presence of a
sovereign, whose throne they will have undermined.
We distrust these men. The true and only safe-
guard of our liberties—the surest defence of the
sovereign against this insulting aggression of Rome
upon her prerogative—is to be found in the love
and faithful support of her Protestant people. Let
that people be at once appealed to ! From every
town and every village in the land let the expr

ession

of Protestant indignation go forth ! The protest is
no longer to he made against mere doctrinal points;
against Maynooth grants, or bit by bit encroach-
ments upon the institutions of the empire. The
issue to he tried now is the bread and distinct onr,
whether or not Great Britain is to hold her lofty,
position as the chief seat of the pure and unadul-
terated religion founded upon the Word of God,—
the cradle and source of spiritual as well as tempo-
ral liberty, and the defence of nations against the
insidious assaults of a blighting superstition, whose
hold upon the minds of mankind,
" if England to herself do prove but true,"
seems at length drawing to a close.

ST. PETER'S WARD.—A meeting was held last night,
at the Brunswick Hotel, to forward the return of Mr. W.
Henderson.
THE VELVET ROBBERIES.—Last week Walker Holden
was sentenced to seven years' transportation for stealing
700 yards of velvet, &c., from H. B. Lee. Three other
parties were sentenced to imprisonment for several
months for being concerned in the offence.
THE CORN ROBBERIES.—At the sessions, last week,
James Davies was sentenced to ten months' imprison-
ment, with hard labour, for stealing 24 bushels of wheat,
the property of S. G. Proi, and 16 bushels of barley, the
property of another party. George Blackburne was sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation for receiving the
same, and other large quantities of similar produce, well
knowing them to have been stolen.
THE BRUNSWICK CLUB.—The :object of the Bruns-
wick Club, as is pretty extensively known, is to afford to
young men and others engaged during the day in seden-
tary occupations the means of mental culture and
rational recreation. Numerous classes for the study of
literature and science are in existence, and the ap-
pliances for amusement are on a scale of liberality, and of
a character consistent with the reputation which has been
so long enjoyed by the proprietor of the undertaking.
By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that
the third meeting of the season of the " harmonious
meeting" will take place to-morrow evening in the
assembly-room attached to the club. Mr. Anderson will
contribute to the entertainments by readings from
Shakspeare. A general canversazione will also form part
of the programme. As the terms of admission are ex-
ceedingly moderate, there will, no doubt, be a numerous
attendance of non-memberr.