The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-04 00:00:00

THE MINISTERIAL ANTI-PAPAL MEASURE

The Spectator of yesterday announces that,ministers
have at last come to a decision on the mode of dealing
with the Papal aggression ; and observes that 4' we are
betraying no confidence if we anticipate, by a few hours,
the formal declaration of the results at which the cabinet
has arrived." The writer, after pointing out the various
difficulties with which the question is beset, concludes
with the following observations The subjoined docu-
ment will not differ very materially from the resolutions
to be moved in the House of Commons by Lord John
Russell, and in the House of Peers by Lord Overstone.
The subject will have been alluded to in the Queen's
speech, in terms, however, very brief and general, for the
sake of unanimity on the address."
RESOLUTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE RECENT ROMAN
CATHOLIC PROCEEDINGS,
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" To be moved by Lord John Russell in the House of Commons,
and Lord Overstone in the House of Peers, on Monday,
February 10.

" Whereas an instrument executed by the Bishop of Rome,
pretending to constitute her Majesty's realm of England a pro-
vince of the Roman Church, and to divide the same into Sees,
and to appoint Bishops thereof, has been published extensively

And whereas this country is by its constitution subject
to no authority except that residing in and emanating from
the lawful sovereign and the united parliament of Great
Britain and Ireland, and will ever maintain its independence
against all foreign intervention whatsoever.

And where-as the Bishop of Rome has no lawful authority
or power in this country, and no person can lawfully exercise
power, authority, or jurisdiction in England on his behalf, or
in his name, or under his control:

" ' And whereas great disquiet has been occasioned to her
Majesty's loyal subjects and made known by petitions to this
house, because of the invasion of her Majesty's royal preroga-
tive and supreme authority, and great ind ignation because of
the outrage on the constitutional rights ane presCriptive usages
of England and the Protestant feeling of the people of this
country, and of the public insult to her Majesty's crown and
dignity :

" Resolved—That such pretended Bishops of English Sees
have no lawful authority over sees in this country, and that
persons acting under such instrument possess no power or au-
thority whatsoever, and that no obedience is due from any of
her Majesty's subjects to any such pretended Bishops or per.
suns so acting; but that if any such pretended Bishops or per-
sons acting under such instrument proceed to exercise antho-
rity by force or compulsion, such proceeding will be illegal,and
will be punished on due prosecution of the offenders in the
courts of law.

" That an humble address be presented to her Majesty,
'embodying the foregoing resolution, and requesting that her
Majesty will graciously make known the same by her Royal
Proclamation to the people of this realm
:
•" Also stating, that this House ever holds itself bound to
co-operate with her Majesty's government in the framing and
enacting* of measures that may be from time to time most
suitable to secure full liberty of conscience and free exercise

this country'as by law established me

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lent, so that they

.m, under Divine Providence, in the

" By this course Ministers not only avoid the objections
to which a measure of a more active kind would be exposed
but they attain a means of publicly discountenancing the
proceedings of the Romanist functionaries, calculated to be
equally distinct and strong in moral influence. There is a
further convenience : by thus early disposing of the subject,
Ministers will be able to supersede the protrHcted debates
which were anticipated, and to proceed at once with the
multifarious business of the session."

Poor Lord John is getting terribly abused in Ireland
or his famous letter to the Bishop of Durham. At the
last meeting of the " Catholic Repeal Association." the
orators were exceedingly wroth with him. One Father
good as to inform his hearers that " -

7 was so

; an&

ne was a harlequin in reng,_
Flanagan) believed that he would become a penitent at
t.Barnabas's to-morrow, if it would only keep the
,'' in which belief of the worthy father's
we dare say a good many persons will join. Mr. John
O'Connell, the ghost of departed greatness, praised Father
Flanagan to the skies, and said " he wished be could steal
the excellent speech which had just been made by the rev.
gentleman,—(cheers)—or that he had been in the House
of Commons, face to face with Lord John ' Mummery.'
(Cheers.) If there was any blood in the body of that
wretched political renegade—for such he was—it would be
called into his cheeks by so eloquent a denunciation of
his apostacy by an honest man."

Whigs in power

MR. BENNETT'S FAREWELL LETTER. - Mr,

address,

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irecvell letter to his late parishioners.

tit the Church of England he says :—" Men cannot abide
in a house where there is no fo d supplied but what is
scanty and scarce; and, indeed, what little there may be,
tasteless and innutritious. Man cannot abide long where
all is doled out grudgingly and sparingly, and they withal
hungering and thirsting after the heavenly manna and the
well of :life. They cannot. You must not expect that
human nature, with its many infirmities and constant
needs, will long bear up against the ever-recurring wants
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Feb. 4, 1851.

RAILWAY PROSPECTS FOR 1851

(From a Pamphlet in private circulation, by a gentleman whose
former predictions have, as may be seen, been signally
verified.)

In the month of September in last year, the writer
published a small ramphlet upon the condition of Rail-
way Property, and adduced some general reasons for
believing that a considerable increase in its value was.
approaching. Subsequent events have confirmed the
accuracy of the views then expressed, and they may
shortly be summed up as follows:-
1. The accounts of Railway Companies have been so
carefully sifted, and the mode of conducting them is so
much improved, that they now present more satisfactory
guarantees for financial accuracy than any other form of
joint stock property.
2. The business of Railways is conducted with very
little risk of loss. Scarcely any credit is given. Ready
money is always flawing bto the coffers of the company.
3. Railway Companies are learning to carry on their
business at reduced cost. Numerous contrivances are
gradually applied for this purpose, and men of great
talent are bending all their energies to the accomplish-
ment of this result.
4. Railway traffic must continue to increase. It is
becoming a settled habit, even among those who first
kept aloof, and the rising generation find it a necessity of
their existence. All new buildings are now located with
reference to the convenience afforded by railway stations;
and the commercial business of the country is arranging
itself around these great arteries of communication.
During the past year, the Railway Companies have found
out, for the first time, what a wide field lies open to theta
in the shape of excursion trains; and although they re-
ceived a large sum during last summer from this source,,
their arrangements were then incomplete, and a much
further developement of pleasure traffic may be looked
for in future.
These considerations afford solid grounds for expecting
a large and steady improvement in the value of railway
property, even without the aid of any adventitious cir-
cumstances.

But the year 1851 is destined to witness an event of
astounding magnitude as affects the internal transactions
of this country, but more especially as contributing to
swell the receipts of railway companies. The Great
Exhibition of All Nations, which in September last ap-
peared a great probability, has now made such progress
as to become a yreat fact close at hand. The clouds
which hung over the continent of Europe during the last
three months of 1850, have been dispersed. Armies
whica threatened a general war are rapidly disbanding., Ana nranarati"...,. 4.1 r. • . . - _

_ Lee festival in May are making in all
directions. It is impossible to calculate the number of
foreigners who will flock to England, but a general move
ment, occasioned by their arrival and departure, will take
dace, which has no precedent.
Our own countrymen, thanks to the perfect net-work of
-'ays now established, will come up to London as fast
-;corn m °dation, and considerable difficulty
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although locomotiveindividuals power s
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suffer inconvenience from the excessive movement, the
rest* to the Railway Companies must be most beneficial ;
and it may safely be set down as a general guide, that
where & company is in a condition at present to pay any
dividend, a large additional bonus may be reckoned on
from this source.
Passing from these general considerations, let us see
how far the predictions uttered in September 1850 have
been fulfilled, arid then proceed to a re-valuation under
altered circumstances.
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