The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDHNTS

We devoted as much space as possible to the mass of
communications which we hourly receive on the subject of
the r,ent aggretAons, hut it is quite vain for us to
attempt io find room for a tithe of these valued papers.
We cannot understand "An Elector."
One of the strongest arguments used 'oy the opponents of Dock
rating is, that they are not liable to such an impost in con-
sequence of there being no beneficial interest attached to the
property. We are reminded, however, that the West De. by
Guardians pay the local rates for the Workhouse to the town-
ship of Everton, from which, if there is any force in the argu-
ment to which we have alluded, they ought clearly to be
exempt. The more the question is agitated, the stronger are
the claims of the dock-raters made.

Ein 71.tberpool tailbatti.

TUESDAY

MORNING, NOV,

5, 1850.

IT is hut yesterday, as it were, since Liberalism
and high Churchism combined in their reprobation
of what they termed "Protestant agitation," " Am-
phitheatre gatherings," and "Exeter-hall displays."
Our M'Neiles and Stowells were sought to he put
under a sort of ban, because ever and anon they
gave faithful warning of the insidious designs and
unchanged policy of Rome. The papacy was treated
as an effete bugbear; the Propaganda as a collec-
tion of withered anatomies, grown grey and stupid
over the perusal of musty polemics and lying
legends ; and the Pope himself as a harmless old
man, who might be left alone to wield his asserted
apostolical authority, without danger to the liberties
of the Christian world. To entertain any fear of

encroachments to be made in our own country by
this apostate power was set down as an indication
at'once of mental weakness and credulity; and to
proclaim such fear—to paint Romanism as it is and
as it has been from the beginning of its heretical
career—was regarded as intolerance and want of
charity to be severely deprecated.

Well, the issue has come, of which our Protestant
champions forewarned us. The blow has been
struck, too, with a sod 'enness and vigour, of which
even they could scarcely have dreamt. The weak
old man, but
,yesterday a fugitive from his own
kingdom, and even now, owing his temporal
sovereignty to the p• , has

sence of a foreign arms
had slum}

advanced the cla
turies, to exert
power will

WI
both temporal and spiritual
His fiat, we are told,

'iered for cen-

has restored Protestant and heretic England " to
its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which
its light had long vanished;" and a minion of
Rome—an Englishman, Dr. Newman, reared in
the bosom of the English church—has been found
to rejoice that

" The mystery of God's providence is now fulfilled ;
and though he did not recollect any people on earth but
those of Great Britain who, having once rejected the
religion of God, were again restored to the bosom of the
Church, God had done it for them. It was wonderful in
their eyes. The holy hierarchy had been restored. The

grave icas opened, and Christ was coming out

This disgusting blasphemy is perpetrated in the
nineteenth century!

It cannot be denied—nay it is openly admitted
—that the step adopted by the Pope is an invasion
Of the legitimate authority of the British Sovereign
and of the Episcopate Bench. In the teeth of
that authority, acknowledged by every British sub.
ject who is allowed to hold office under the Crown,
the Cardinal Wiseman, calling himself Archbishop
of Westminster, proclaims that " until such time
as the holy see shall think fit otherwise to provide,
WE GOVERN, and shall continue to govern, the
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counties of Middlesex, Hertford, and Essex as or-
dinary thereof." How the permission to the Pope
to confer upon any person such an authority is
consistent with the faithful observance of the oaths
taken by her Majesty's ministers we leave to the
world to determine. The Bishop of London at his
Visitation held on Saturday last, expressed himself
in very decisive terms upon the subject. He re-
marked :

" The assertion now made of the Pope's right to erect
Episcopal Sees in this country appears to me to be not
only an intentional insult to the Episcopate and clergy of
England, but a daring, though powerless, invasion of the
supremacy of the Crown. The act of parliament which
restored that supremacy provides that No foreign
prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate, spiritual or
temporal, shall use, enjoy. or exercise
power. jurisdiction, superiority, authority, pre-eminence,
or privilege, spiritual or ecclesiastical, within this realm ;'
and, although while the law in this respect remains
unchanged, the pretended erection of a Bishop's See in
England, by the Pope's authority, can have no legal
effect, it is manifestly the assertion, on his part, of a
right to do that which the laws of England have for-
bidden. I cannot, therefore, but regard it as a measure
against which not only the Church, hut the Government,
of this county; is bound emphatically to protest."
His lordship proce: ds to argue that "the very
boldness of his pretensions now put forth by the
Bishop of Rome will prevent their success." This,
however, we contend, is not the question which "

e, any manner of

trary it has rr

churchmen tc

sleep, or to a disposition to treat with contempt, as
in past years we have done, a power so arrogant
and encroaching. It is nothing to us now whether
Rome has put forth her pretensions too soon, or at
the proper time; nothing to us whether she has
been misled, by the secessions which have been
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made of late, into an erroneous opinion as to the
disposition amongst us to submit our necks and

our minds and conscience to her yoke.
question, now that the blow has been str