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EAR Etherpoot &tanDarD.

TUESDAY

MORNING, AUGUST

The ma vellous unanimity of the Romish priest-
hood in Ireland upon the subject of Repeal has at
length been explained; and that by no less trust-
worthy an authority than Dr. WHale, the titular
Bishop of Tuam. That a body of men, having
daily before them the hideous misery, and its atten-
dant crime, which fester throughout the mass of the
Irish people, should be readily stung to the necessity
of some prompt measure for their relief, is but rea-
sonable and likely; that such a body of men, of a
hostile faith, should direct their eyes, when investi-
gating the cause of Ireland's assumed grievances, to

the existence of an Established Protestant Church,
is to be expected; that the possessions of the Pro-
testant landowners should be regarded by them with
a glance of jealous cupidity, and the Protestant insti-
tutions of their country with dislike, is only natural.
But that the entire priesthood of Ireland should
concur in overstepping all these objects, and place
their sole dependence in a measure apparently so
hopeless of achievement as Repeal of the Union
between the two countries—a measure only to be
consummated by a successful rebellion--was not so
obvious and required such an elucidation as that
with which the worthy and right reverend father has
now furnished us.

It might be urged indeed, and has been urged,
that the priesthood of Ireland contemplate, as the
result of the establishment of a domestic legislature,
the erection of a Romish supremacy in Ireland. It
is quite probable that, as their ultimatum, some such
notion is swimming in their imaginations. But sen-
sible and clearheaded men, such as are to be found
amongst the Romish hierarchy, could not fail to be
impressed with the conviction that the time has not
arrived for such a consummation. Such men would
not, we feel assured, have hazarded a struggle for
such an object yet, had they not been impelled to it
by that pressure from without which is pointed to
by Dr. NPHale. Popery would have postponed for
awhile the gratification of her giant ambition, had
she not found that Protestantism was treading on
her heels and threatening her strongholds!
Here is the evidence, as given us by his Reverence
at the late Repeal demonstration in Mayo.

" As a proof of the necessity for repeal, the rev. gen-
tleman referred to a petition for an increase of the grant
to Maynooth College, which had for some time past been
labouring under great pecuniary embarrassment. TI at
petition was laid before the Irish government, and the
Secretary's answer was—" In case of an increased grant
what quid pro quo are the trustees of the college prepared
to give the government?" or, in plain English, what equi-
valent would they give the government for their money ?
The Secretary accordingly enlarged on the necessity of
giving in return a larger control than the government
'were hitherto invested with, and this accounted for the
feelers that had been sent out for some years back from
Parliament, as well as other quarters, about revising their
books of theology, and expunging some objectionable
passages, and infusing into them some little of the en-
lightened spirit and toleration of the age; and further,
those suggestions were seriously entertained by many
well-meaning Catholics. But he would venture to say
that the Catholics of Ireland were not yet prepared, and
never would be, to hand over, for an additional grant to
Maynooth, to the Secretary of the Castle, any further
control over the education of their priesthood. (Hear,
bear.) The quid pro quo was at the bottom of every-
thing. This it was which Whigs and Tories, for they
were all equally Saxons, aimed at in their grants for edu-
cation, and in all their insidious overtures for pensioning
the Catholic clergy (hear, hear); and he was convinced
that if the government did get the control demanded it
would soon happen that their books of instruction and

theology would be intrusted to some Saxon prelate whom
habitual revilings of the Irish people and their creed hap-
pened to place on one of the archiepiscopal thrones of
Ireland, recommended by the bigotry of his past life as
the fittest instrument silently to work their perversion.
(Loud cheers.) But he wruld not suffer one of those
literary Vandals so much as to touch a leaf in their theo-

logy, unfashionable as might_be the black letter in which

it was written since it stood as a record and memorial of
the venerable antiquity of the Catholic faith, and of the
claim of its adherents. (Cheers.) "
It is perfectly clear, then, that it is the growing
Protestant Spirit of England, and the Protestant
spirit, too, of England's Government, which is hur-
rying Popery in Ireland to a leap from a precipice.
Rome dreads that the foulnesses of Maynooth may
be dragged to the light of day. She fears that her
pestilential doctrines, which she has so seduously
striven to hide,—which she has quibbled and lied to
conceal from the searching eye of the devoted cham-
pions of Protestant truth,—should be revealed to the

gaze of an indignant Protestant people. She fears A reference to the file of the Liverpool Mercury for
that "objectionable passages "—how mild the term! the past month will leave no doubt with respect to the
—should be expunged from her Books of Theology; origin of the delusion in question; and especially with
that "some little of the enlightened spirit and tolera- respect to the origin of the venemous spirit manifested
tion of the age should be infused into them" : and upon the subject of the regulations affecting the
rather than have "a leaf in her Theology" disturbed, working classes towards their employers. Our con-
her priesthood are ready to give the signal for rebel- temporary entertains a bitter spite against his real
lion, and to make the effort to arrest the
spirit of or irfrgined opponents; and is not extremely par-
truthful enquiry, by the desolation of that unhappy ticular as to the mode which he takes of displaying
land amongst whose benighted people they have
it. Against TWO of the warehouse-keepers of Liver-
reared up their baleful superstition! pool, who happen to occupy seats in the council, the
But there is more even than this in the language Mercury has on many recent occasions (which will
of the designing priest. It is plain that a domestic
be remembered) manifested viciousness; and not
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harmless object sought for in the Repeal of the act
is now the distinctly enunciated object. Popery can -
legislature in Ireland is no longer the comparatively
imposed
of Union! SEPARATION from Protestant England
tlemen were distinctly pointed out as having
not any longer endure contact with the Protestant upon the council the obnoxious clauses in question f
Institutions of Great Britian. She can no longer
The slightest enquiry would have assured the Mer-
submit to toleration. She cannot stand, surrounded cury that such had not been the case. Messrs.
as she is, whilst a portion only of a United Empire, Burkett and Harbord had no hand in the suggestion
by that spirit of enquiry which must ever exist of these clauses, which, in fact, were imposed upon
amidst a Protestant people enjoying free Institutions. the merchants of the town by the insurance offices,
Popery, to be strong, must be isolated. Supersti-
and arose entirely out of the feeling of alarm created
tion, to be fast rooted in the hearts of a people,
by the recent fires in this locality. But a paltry, poli-
must dwell alone and in darkness. And such a tical, or personal spleen was to be gratified; and,
position it is to which the Church of Rome would
without hesitation as to the worthiness, or the dan-
gerous nature, of the mode of its gratification, the
now reduce unhappy Ireland. From her proud
position as an integral portion of the greatest empire assertion is at once hazarded which directs against
in the world—with civilization and wealth ready to those two gentlemen—the largest warehouse occu-
flow in upon her, and to lift up her oppressed peo-
piers and employers in Liverpool—the odium of
ple to the level of their British countrymen—a reek-
having deliberately endeavoured to insult and en-
slave the working classes employed by them !
less priesthood are preparing to plunge her hack
Upon the wickedness of such a suggestion we
into semi-barbarism and utter insignificance amongst
shall not remark. We shall not say to what disas-
the nations of the earth,—to render her a blot upon
trous results, in the present dangerously excited
the face of creation, a spectacle of wretchedness
state of a portion of our working population, it
and intellectual darkness for the world to gaze upon,
I might lead. But with a view of disabusing the
with amazement and with shuddering.
I minds of that population of the erroneous ideas

It is with pain, but scarcely with surprise, that

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and created an evidently large amount of ill feeling

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