The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-12-03 00:00:00

TO CORAES PON DENTS

We have received innumerable communications, both in prose
and 'verse, on the Protestant movement, and !lave made room
for as many as prase
At the last moment

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articles which we it

tended to pa
A Corre, pondent rlirectS Itrtentiun to the v-ant of church accon
modation in the vicinity of Low-hill, more especially towards
Hyzeia•street.
"A Sufferer," who notices that several violent assaults have
taken place lately, wi,hes the police t keen a shsrper look-
out, cr it will be dangerous to walk the streets of Liverpool

after dark.
'We have no doubt that the magistrates will call another meet-
ing at Birkenhead. " I Constant Reader" suggests that two
magistrates should attend at the Town-hall, two days before

the meeting, to swear in special constables.
We understand that an addrus,s to the Queen is now in prepa-
tion from Great Gt.orze IVard, and it i, considered by many
influential parties that a similar step might be very properly
taken in every ward in the town.

"A Protestant'' witslies to huow what the authwitics at Wal-
lasey and Egremont are about that no meeting has yet been
heb: to address the Queen. lie says that it is almost the
only township that has Lot " pronounced."
We have received a very long letter from "Ignatius of St.
Paul, Passionist, formerly Hon. and Rev. George Spencer,"
which pro essea to be a reply to souse remarks made by the
Rev. Dr. Al'Neile, at the meeting at the Collegiate Institu-
tion on Monday night. Had our eccentric correspondent
confined himself to the subject of his complaint, we would
have inserted the whole of his epistle; but vs be diverges to
what " he has been saying and doing since he became a
Catholic," we have only room for the following extract, and
our readers will see how far it denies or explains the imputa-
tion conveyed. After alluding to " a Said'? of Syria who sold
himself HE a slave to three families of Heathens, or Saracens,
in succession, out of a design to save their souls," " Father
Ignatius" says, "The Londonderry reporter heard me recom-
mend this example to the poor Irish. to show them how
they might render the servitude to which many of them
are driven by necessity in the houses of unfeeling persecu-
tors, not only secure from the danger to which both their
faith and their a irtue are now exposed in them, but a state
most holy, most happy, and most glorious to God and to
themselves."

elit Ltberpoot 'tanbarb,

TUESDAY MORNING, DEC. 3, ISSO

THE events which occurred at Birkenhead on
Wednesday last, and of which a report appears in
our columns this day, afford us a pretty fair speci-
men of the animus of that apostate church, to the
spread of whose dominion over the human mind
we have been for years pandering. A Protestant
public, under the sanction of their magistracy, pro.
posed to meet, in order to record their protest
against what they believed to be an encroachment
upon the prerogative of their Sovereign ; and they
were obstructed in so doing by the bludgeons of a
hireling mob of papist slaves of the lowest caste,
instigated by parties who ought to have been dif-
ferently occupied. _

The place of meeting was of small dimensions.
Birkenhead has unfortunately no larger public
place than the Sessions' house, at its Town-hall—
a place erected when it was a mere village. It was
the intention, however, of those who called the
meeting to adjourn it to some open space, or room
—the market was mentioned—in which there would
be area sufficient for free discussion. The Town-
ball, long before the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, was surrounded by a mob of Roman
Catholic " navvies," casually engaged upon the
dock works, and brought thither by means which
we shall shortly advert to ; and the result was one
of the most disgraceful riots ever witnessed in a
Christian country.

Was this premeditated ? Is the result—the
breaking up of the meeting—a feat which the emis-
saries of Rome intended to achieve ? In reply to
this question, we shall state a few facts. In the
first place, the locality in which the meeting was
held was in a perfected street; yet stones, half
bricks, and other missiles in abundance, were to be
found ready to the hands of the rioters. Again,
donkeys, with panniers, were in the locality, with
their panniers filled with stones. Donkeys, kept in
marine villages, don't usually travel with such en-
cumbrances. In the next place, we have to state a
fact, which is scarcely credible, as attributed to so
marvellously innocent a people as our Roman Ca-
tholic population are described to be in a recent
pastoral of Dr. Ullathorne. It is confidently
affirmed that a priest actually visited the quarry-
men engaged in the Birkenhead Dock Works, and
made arrangements for their attendance at the
meeting. A previous appeal in their chapels was
not thought sufficient. Such ruffians as are re-
quired by Popery in its moments of emergency, are
not frequent attenders upon Divine worship. We
shall give the description of the meeting itself, as
condensed in a leading ar.icle of the London Times
of Friday last:—

"An hour before the meeting was to take place an
h of Irish labourers, armed with bludgeons
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