The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

LORD GEORGE BENTINCi—In a letter dated the 6th
instant, this nobleman states that the report respecting
his alleged intention to visit Ireland is purely imaginary.
In it he says, " I am not a Repealer, though I probably
may entertain a very different opinion from you which
country would be the gainer, and which the loser by a
repeal of the union. It was not so much through the hos-
tility of the English members, as through the desertion
and hostility of the Irish members (many of them Re-
pealers), that in February, 1847, Ireland lost the oppor-
tunity of obtaining a loan of sixteen millions of English
gold, at £3 7s. 6d. per cent., to stimulate the construction
of private enterprise, of railways in your country. Una-
nimous in Palace-yard, on one Tuesday, in favour of the
proposition I then brought forward, on the Thursday se'n-
night the same sixty gentlemen, having seen the Prime
Minister at the Foreign-office in the interval, voted two
to one against giving railways to Ireland. Out of 105 re-
presentatives which Ireland possesses, 28 only, if my me-
mory serves me correctly, would vote for that loan to Ire-
land. Two-thirds of the Irish representatives present
declined this measure—the rest took care to be non est in
ventus at the division, which was the hour of Ireland's
need. Read the division list, and you will find there many
more true friends of Ireland on that occasion among the
sup_p_orters of the Union than among the Repealers."
WANT OF A PROTESTANT PARTY.—There never was a
moment more favourable than the present for the forma-
tion of an efficient Protestant party. But the men are
wanting. By some singular delusion, many men who
ought to have been foremost in such a work, did not see
it to be their duty, in July, 1847, to enter Parliament.
Sir Culling Eardley preferred to devote himself to the
Evangelical Alliance, and now he will have to oppose the
endowment of Popery as a petitioner, when he might have
opposed it with greater power as a legislator. Mr. Butt.
the friend of M'Ghee and M'Neile, thought it his duty to
follow his profession, and declined a seat. Mr. Finch, tired
of the disheartening work of Parliament, quietly withdrew.
Sir Digby Mackworth was started for the only place
where his success was likely to be doubtful. The presence
of these four men, with the addition of two or three more
that might be named, would wonderfully change the
complexion of the House of Commons. It is not many
days since a very distinguished member of that House
(not Lord Geo. Bentinckl was discussing with a friend the
state of parties, and used the following language :—" You
talk of the Protestant feeling of the country, but I want
to knotv where lam to find it ,? The Protestant gentry
of England, where are they ? If you would. only give
me two men, resolved and able to fight that battle, to
stand by my side, something might be done. But for
these two men I look in vain." Such is the fact. And
the consequence naturally follows. Sir Robert Peel de-
serts, Lord Stanley hesitates, because the people do not
themselves make a stand for Protestantism. And that
the people are backward, is too often to be attributed to
the backwardness of those who ought to take the lead. It
is time for this Protestant nation to awake ; for further
and enlarged mischief to the Protestant cause is deter-
mined on.—Record.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

_4_ '
DONCASTER RACES.

Sept. 19, 1545.

POPERY THE " MYSTERY OF INIQUITY:I

FEARFUL DISCLOSURES.

(From the Morning Herald.)
It will be remembered that about a yetif and half attg:
considerable alarm and indignation were excited
discovery that a young Cambridge student, named 0",:_l 31
had been offered a dispensation by the Romish
permitting him to remain in Cambridge, to contioaL7l,
studies, to feign himself still a Protestant, deceiving la,
his parent and his tutors,—he having been, in fact'
mitted into the Romish church.
Dr. Wareing, the Romish Bishop of Northaninton,
dignantly denied the charge; but it was clearly Prro
that the young man himself had, in the simplicity nij
heart, ,A
spoken of the offer ; and no reasonable doubt 00‘
remain that such a proposition, immoral as it Wes'
actually been made to him. anti
On that occasion, however, the wickedness was
contemplated. We had a glimpse, it was true, 0f
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morality -4 *. 1 the Romish Chu, but it was °11"
other

y of _ ~nurch, ,ut
glimpse. The last few days has brought to light ao°l'er,
case, in which this same atrocity has been absolutely
peThtee Rev.
and that for a series of months ! üb.
Dr. Hook, the Vicar of Leeds, has MI Poo
lished a sermon, preached and published " with refer
to a late act of apostacy." Of that act of apostat9
thus speaks, in a preliminary address :
O&
"I preached this sermon on love to the Church of ED •
and, at your request, I publish it, because, as you are 1171
clergyman has apostatised to the Church of Rome, we, 00
months ago, was officiating as a curate in this parionli
desirous of laying before my congregation, in one 51i0„,„4
course, the important subjects upon which I am accust".
to enlarge. $
" Mr. Jephson was recommended to me as a curate, ,bo
clergyman holding a high position in the Irish Church;_to
informed me that Mr. Jephson had at one time been nolo to
in his principles, but assured me that he was now def° letter
the interests of the Church of England. He showed inea one
from Mr. Jephson, in which he expressed himself to the rof'
effect. Mr. Jephson, who had been curate of Wilby,
folk, produced the necessary testimonials, signed ~opoi
beneficed clergymen, and countersigned bylheLord
Norwich. To me he was a perfect stranger, but he dec.'etto
himself to be a decided Anglican.' His license bears era`
Bth of January, 1847."
The date is important. In January, 1847, we o 1
our readers to observe, Mr. Jephson became cura,lia,
Leeds, and he continued to hold that curacy until Tifeelf
summer of the present year 1848. He remained_ir
until August, the month which has just passe,' af-tbe
mingling with the clergy and laity, as a clergyman „f°' of
Church of England, and never uttering a word v:„fes,
preference for Popery. In August he left Leeds, 111:eclIf
sedly to seek the restoration of his health, and av3",(10
purposing then to take another curacy. But theft -
Dr. Hook : ' after
A few days after they had left Leeds, and two months boo
he had resigned the curacy on account of ill health, Mr• Jefeuer,
sent to the senior curate of the parish church an insulting wife,
in which he announced the fact that he, together with Ins„,e,''
had been received at Birmingham into the Church of 114"-
This might be considered somewhat strange, but Iv'
will our readers say to the following ?
"Judge, gentlemen, of the surprise which, under these Est
cumstances, I experienced when I received information' the
week, that Mr. and Mrs. Jephson had been received In, ,rigth
Church of Rome. not on their quitting Leeds in Akin/50010f
but in the year 1846, before his coining to Leeds ; tnat, ,
be
then, while professing himself to be a decided Angliclo
was actually a member of the apostate Church of R0,0254,$
this fact you may receive the proof by referring wife
(Roman) Catholic Directory Almanac and Ecclesiastical: her's,
ter,' for 1847, of which a copy will be left at the publ,ssin,
This work, which was published in January, 1847, Is °' oists'
putable authority, being the annual register of the Roma no.
which is issued permissu Superiorum. At page 186 Y°
find the following passage : .
icle„
"Co NVERSION s.—ln the directory of last year we cbre,eoci,
a few of the leading conversions to our holy faith, most°, `errs'
were then recent. We now give the names of other coLf tbs
who made profession of the (Roman) Catholic faith 0-I`,„"baf.e
director) went to press, and also the names of others nlweieci,
since been admitted -into the church. The list, though sodier
is by no means complete, for we have reason to know thatrone!
distinguished names could be given. Were an enurnegnes'
made of all the converts since our last publication its V 8„ 000
would excite surprise. The names of the new converts o`„,os.
give as follows.'—Then follow the names of 14 clerical
tates, the fifth name in the list being that of 'the Rev ;:'otter
Jephson, curate of Wilby.' At page 187 a list is given „.4,50,
converts,' and in that list occurs the name of Mrs. Jell
who is described as Mrs. Jephson, wife of the Anglican
ter, who also became a (Roman) Catholic.' "
Thus it appears quite clear, and beyond the P°sl.
of doubt, that Mr. Jephson was received into the ,tlP•veh
of Rome in the autumn of 1846, and being so re* ot
his next step, taken, doubtless, with the approba,_
his new spiritual guides, was to offer himself, most
Hook, as curate of the parish church of Leeds • of 01
this implied no sudden revulsion,—that he did 4. pro'
from Protestantism to Popery, and then back
testantism again, is clear from this circumstanee;ere fin'"
there were several Romish priests at Leeds, vviq his CO!:
ly apprised by this same Catholic Direclorl °„,eantir°
version. And had.they believed him to be a re'''
deletion
their body, resentment would have led them to ginte.
him. But be ond uestion they were made aeq11;11 the
with the part hewas acting, and quietly follow
instructions they. received. deaf
Here, then, Is the appalling FACT; long, srtioserae,ahle
but now established in the most positive and itrerintrg,E, as at
manner,—that a man has been publicly
clergyman of the Church of England' 11 the while,
being, a ces'
important churches in all England, he
d therefore, of ne
_r
a publicly-professed Romanist, an
t Church e
say, a hater and detester of the Protestant
England, and a contemner of her rites and her our
th. ortr arnrinj w here
feet. It is sufficientry obvious thatvnot only
ii.roinnelsof the MO
an apostate clergyman, willing to deceive—to act a P—roish
to assume a false character ; but we have also the Ro
authorities in this country, ready to give, in ll'is
-oor
doubtless in other cases, what they offered to Food
MORRIS, DISPENSATION to converts, to apPear,,the
profess themselves whatever may tend to advance eces,
interests of the Church." And this readiness lit,oo
sarily spreads a wide distrust. How many men go,
we in the Church of England, who have lag
been
fessed Romish doctrines, and whose apostacy has
expected for years past, as a natural and prePftben
on their part ? But they do not apostatize, or f:recg
they do not openly apostatize. What is the in,' isper
which must be silently drawn by many minds ? -1/.0,4011
sations are ready—are promptly offered, by the
authorities, to persons in these circumstances;, oett`'
then, can tell, whether the Puseys. Dodsworths, -ne"oleot'
are, or are not, actually Romish Priests at this ni °tlg 115'
They may be such, and yet be still ministering anl°.et
that fact Dr. Hook has now established. they, :fi0;;
such persons would act, that is open to all nie.°;',„iitf,,
Who can help wishing that such a " mystery Of ln'tigh"
as this miscalled " Church of Rome" were therb°,
understood and appreciated among us, alike AlOl
bishops, our legislators, and our rulers both in chin"
state a for
. oe
This poor man must, we apprehend, when lice, crib,
the first time in the diocese of Ripon, have anew saykticir
the Articles of the Church of England,—those tbeso;
syjiich, in the plainest terms, and under a variety nl-0 b
Obndemn the doctrines of the Church of Rome ! sfste b+
had just before submitted himself to that Romish
and had avouched his belief in those very doctrinesthat,c
°
at Leeds, he disclaimed ! What a religion is -tP
Rome; or rather, how truly does Scripture term 1
mystery of iniquity !