The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

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WITS' BRITISH MERCHANTS OPPOSE THE PAP,A6P Ai;
GRESSION.—The Univers, the organ of the fren,actl,
Jesuits, in an article on " The London Merchants 9...
the Papal Aggression," states that if there is oppositioP
to the Papal system, it is only because these
.merchatOS
derive much of their gain by the adulteration of the
articles they sell, and that they th.hoenteisfttt they became
as th.e
they
Papists they could no longer continue. their habitual(lts-
honesty, on account of the Confessional. They know
111,e LlTieahtfilnrst. stone of this church of Poplar,
MODESTY OF DR. WIE
Wiseman laid the foundation-stone of a new mast-house
becomehonest,Psf.aloonpistil:slypitnthcigaoe,niyitm'tAbNe._Paopinsts.
wtiphanlotaainttontt:
Poplar.fe
dedi
cated to,
the Almighty God, in honour of the blesse.(l
Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, was laid by the Most Em'"
Tuesday, Doctor
neat and Most Reverend Lord Nicholas Wiseman;
Prince of the Holy Roman Catholic Church ; Cardinal;
Priest, Archbishop of Westminster, on the 27th day 01
May, 1851, being the fifth year of the pontificate of Or
holy father the Pope Pius the IXth.'''
THE GREAT ANTI-PAPAL LEAGUE.—The Morel
Advertiser states that this league, consisting of member(
of parliament, distinguished laymen, and clergymen %
all evangelical Protestant denominations, to which /!
have, on several former occasions, referred, as being 1111
the course of formation, is now virtually organised, let
will speedily commence vigorous operations. The obi
of this powerful confederation will be to carry the ''''ts.
into the popish camp, instead of acting as Protestao
hitherto have done, purely on the defensive. At
.tue,
meeting of the committee on Wednesday, it was 1:;11.
flounced that twenty-five members of parliament, seas ts
of them noble lords, about 300 clergymen and minas
of the various evangelical denominations, and about TI,
laymen occupying a high social position, have alret,
given in their adhesion. This new Protestant organ! '-e,
tion, formed for the purpose of acting on the aggresalci,
will be publicly inaugurated in a very brief period. Pea
against a system which seeks to enthral the
high time that bold and determined steps were talc 4
whole v
Christendom.
MO
Romisn LIRERTY.—Mr. Chisholm Matey, a 11,,..°AeS
Catholic, stated in the debate on the Ecclesiastical 1',."‘,0,
Bill, that he paid little attention to declarations lie
Romish ecclesiastics. He said that the Roman Cath°lo
in reference to property, knowing
clergy of Beverley memorialised Cardinal Wisen3.ll
against the recent papal rescript, and deprecated, ;16
spiritual interference with the civil rights of indivicitt
arising. from such interference: they deprecated any plous
foreign system of ecclesiastical legislation as obnoSe,
to their feelings, and hateful to the millions around th. 9,:
and they implored the cardinal to oppose the establi,;:e
went of any spiritual court which might be liable t 0 lin
imputation of such undue influence, such courts being as
England held in utter abhorrence. That memorial riia
agreed to at a district meeting, the Dean presiding, and
the fatal consequenele
was presented to Cardinal Wiseman. What follovf;er„
Every one of the subscribers, two or three clays 91 at
wards, received a circular from the Vicar-GePerairou
York, in the following words :—" Reverend Si! ding
will peruse the enclosed draft it you will return 100 adressed to uar 4to
Wiseman, and if you approve of ,s
me signed by return of post." Only two of the Pr° this
memorialists had the hardihood to refuse to sign_yery
address. And what was it ? A direct retractation of.:p of
sentiment contained in the memorial—an exerissif their
thanks for the services of Cardinal Wiseman, and °f the,'
appreciation of the great value of a hierarchy w"''
had so strongly denounced. One of the two ele'' vines
,rg;hse
who refused to stultify himself by signing this adurvbencY•
been not suspended, but removed from his Won t4s nt.
P
These simple facts were announced, not by a • rcle9
otiout
be it remembered, but by a staunch and Cowie
Romanist, and no denial was attempted.