The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-01 00:00:00

THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC TRACT
SOCIETY.

The Reverend Doctor Thompson, Perth, has received
a communication from a presbyterian in Ireland, with a
request that its receipt may be acknowledged through
The medium of the "Edinburgh Evening Post." It is
accompanied with a small treatise, entitled "A sure way
to find out the true religion, by the late Rev. I'. Badde-
ley ;" as a specimen of -the cheap publications which the
Roman Catholic priests are actively circulating in that
unhappy country. The treatise is a tissue of the most
artful jesuitry and atrocious falsehood, calculated to gain
Upon an ignorant and superstitious populaee. It is taken
under the protection of, and circulated by the Catholic
Tract Society, at the head of which society is Dr. Mur-
ray, catholic archbishop of Dublin, and patron of Dens'
Theology. It has gone through six editions, and to en-
sure its circulation among the poor, it is sold for six-

pence.
- There are some things in it too disgusting and btas-
phenious to be quoted in a respectable newspaper; but to
crown the despicable
.artificers resurted to 'malign tIV
Cause of protestantism, it may not be improper to ad-
vert to what is there called. "A succession of wonderful
things that have happened since the reformation, which
clearly spew how much Alnzighty God was offended and
displeased with the protestant religion." Among the
" wonderful things" shewing the Almighty's displeasure
with the protestant religion, it is stated with all serious.
ness that "the river •Trent running between the two
towns, the water with the mud at the bottom of the river
was carried a quarter of a mile, and dashed against the
trees with such great violence, that they were torn u_p by
the roots and cast two hundred and forty feet." That
"in 1571 a dreadful earthquake happened at the east
part of Herefordshire, near a little town called Kinnes-
town. On the 17th of February, at six o'clock in the,
evening, the earth began to open, and a hill with a 'reek
under it, making at first a most hideous bellowing noise,
which was heard a long way off, raised itself a great
height into the air, like a balloon, and then began to
move forward. It took along with it, the trees which
greW on the top, the sheep folds and flocks of sheep feed-
ing there at the same time : the whole field was about
twenty acres. Passing along, it overthrew a church
standing in the way, removed a yew tree that was plant-
ed in the church-yard, from the west to the east; it like
wise drove before it, highways, hedges, and trees, made
tillage ground pasture, and turned, pasture into tillage.
Having moved in this way from Sunday to the evening
Monday at noon, it then stood still." Such absurd trash
does Jr.o Murray's Catholic Tract SOciety circulate
among the poor Irish, to demonstrate hoW much Almigh-
ty God was displeased with the protestant religion. How
unprincipled the mind that can patronise the circulation
of such things, under the pretence of a religious end—
and how deplorably debased must the people be who can
be induced to give credit to theth.----Edinburgh Evening
Po€.• •