The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

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spirit, as it the world and all its concerns, parties, politics,
an principles, Were matters of the supremest indifference
to him. Thus, for instance, when he was but a young
man, and when it was important that he should appear
with his best airs and behaviour, he was at a dinner party

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strongest assurances of support. As an instance of the
division in the Whig-Radical ranks, we may observe that
the Manchester Guardian (whig paper), supports Mr.
Denison, the Yorkshireman (radical paper), supports Mr.
Roebuck, the Leeds Mercury (another radical paper),
supports Sir Culling Eardley, and the Liverpool Mercury
recommends " the liberal party to stand aloof and take
no part in the struggle." This is evidence of a worse
split than that which has taken place among the Conser-
vatives.

POPERY AND MORALITY.—The Pope is practically de-
throned. His Prime Minister having fallen under the
poignard of the assassin, and his Secretary by a ball of
the rebels, he, by the last accounts, was a prisoner in his
palace ' • anxious to escape, but watched by his dutiful
subjects. An expedition has sailed from France for Civita
Vecchia, composed of six war-steamers and a division of
3,500 men, with a view of affording security to the Pope.
It is surmised that our noble fleet in the Bay of Naples,
which, we believe, has on board an unusually large com-
plement of marines, will probably move in the same di-
rection. We only hope they will not bring the Pope here.
What are the ripe virtues of this spiritual mother, under
the immediate eye, and enjoying the fulness of the reli-
gious influence, of the assumed spiritual father of the
faithful ? Virtues ! religious and spiritual virtues ! Let
the Times journal of last Monday reply. It says, in one
of its able leading articles :—" It is a mockery to talk of
national independence and constitutional government in
a country where the ordinary duties of police are not per-
formed, where law has no authority, and religion no power
but to absolve from crime." Well may a correspondent
say, referring to this judgment of the religion of Rome,
by a journal which, under evil influences, is doing much
to strengthen it,—" Surely the most ultra Protestant
never expressed a severer opinion of Popery, and surely
if this witness of the Times be true, as I assuredly believe
it to be, what greater sin and folly can this Protestant
nation commit, than to foster in her bosom a system
which turns the religion of the Redeemer, designed to be
man's greatest blessing, into a means of his degradation,
misery, and increased depravity ?"
Romtsu ENDOWMENT.—There is, after all, no way of
dealing honestly with the question of Romish endowment,
save that adopted by the Rev. Dr. M'Neile in his address,
a few evenines since, to the three thousand listeners in
Exeter Hall, to hear portrayed by the eloquent speaker
" the distinctive features of Protestantism and Popery."
If there be truth at all in revelation ; if that which we call
Holy Writ be not a fable ; if our churches are not the
scenes of abject mummeries, and our preachers the most
the
ject

perpetuation of

huge hypocrisy, there can be no sub.

rto the people of England, and to the people of
every country on the globe, as that which involves the
consideration ofina mortality, and the hopes and prospects
of a future state. Party questions sink into insignificance
at the side of this. To be a Whig or Tory, Conserva-
tive or Radical, may be to assume a badge indifferent
to one whose political views are subservient to the
duties claimed by the IfiGuEsT. It can never be a
matter of indifference to the conscientious, let him
belong to what party he may, whether he holds the truth
or not with reference to the faith upon which results the
most tremendous hang. Commence the work of retro-
gression, and where shall you stop in the backward move-
ment ? Confound the minds of the unreflecting with the
public declaration that the state is bound deliberately to
propagate that which the state acknowledges to be false-
hood, degrading to man, and blasphemy to God,'and upon
what other points will you have courage to enlighten them ?
Can it be an act of intelligence or liberality to foster
and encourage openly and unreservedly the errors for en-
tertaining which the recognized teachers of our church
declare eternal punishment awaits us ? Is it left for the
most advanced age of the world to make known aloud
and unblushingly, that it matters little what you do, pro-
vided only that you preach ? Is it, to be t

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work of our " expedient" legislation to lift a veil from the
rising generation, and to make them mock the creed their
fathers worshipped ? We cannot drag ourselves away
from an open confession of our faith. We make it in the
church ; if it is worth a straw we carry it with us into our
daily occupations ; if it influences our private prayers, it
follows us into our public acts. Truth may be disliked,
d. We may plant error by its
as a thing that takes no root.
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worship.—

WARDS OF INDUSTRY.—At a meeting last week, in
s, Mr. Beckett Denison, in a speech to the electors,
said, " there is haray a man in the possession of a large
landed property in the West Riding of Yorkshire, or even
in the whole county of York, whose father or grandfather
was not connected with trade, and whose descendants
now possess £6OOO, or £BOOO, or £lO,OOO, or even more
a year. (A. voice—" No : Earl Fitzwilliam did not.")
And that is the reason, T suppose, why you did not like
his son. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) My own grand-
father was as humble a man as any one I see before me
this day. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) His son obtained a
good education, and worked his way up to a somewhat

distinguished position ; and I hope I do not occupy a
despicable position. (Hear, hear, and applause.) I say,
then, it is your own faults if you do not get yourselves and
your children well educated ' • and, when they are well
educated, it is in their power to rise to the most educated
and prominent situations that there are in the State.
And it occurs only at this moment to my mind that the
grandfather I have mentioned was not the only humble
ancestor I had. I had another, and whose name I now
bear, who was a charity boy in a bluecoat school in this

with that now.'') Judge Denison was a working man
from Leeds. He walked to London because he had not
money to carry him, and he became there one of the
judges of the land. (Hear, hear, and applause.) "Go
thou and do likewise."

The Court still remains in the Isle of Wight.
- Louis Philippe and suite were not last week on a visit to
Sir Robert Peel at Drayton Manor, as stated.
The Duke of Wellington and Lord Palmerston visited
the Prince of Parma on Thursday, at Mivart's Hotel.
M. Gnizot arrived in town on Monday from visiting Sir
Robert and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor, and has since
gone to visit Prince Lieven, at Brighton
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