The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-08 00:00:00

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"J. G." calls on the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals to take measures to stop the outrages committed on
the brute creation whilst returning from the approaching

Liverpool races,

Eig Riberpeol 4-,tanban.

TUESDAY

MORNING, JULY 8, 1851

THE Bill restraining the insolence of the Head of
the Italian Superstition has at length passed the
House of Commons. The " Irish Brigade," like
some other desperate characters, who, when they
feel they are beaten, hoist the black flag and blow
up the pirate vessel, retired in a body from the
House—a riddance that, if it were practised oftener,
would be of great advantage; and, as the Irish
historians quaintly called the Chieftain O'Neill's
imprisonment in the Tower "A visit to Queen
Elizabeth," we suppose we shall hear from the
Irish papers that their Representatives, in mercy to
the Government, permitted the bill to pass. It
has, however, passed the Lover House, and what do
our readers think is now the policy of the pro-
Popish party in this country professing to be what
is called " Liberal ?" They appeal to the House of
Lords ! Their organs actually pretend to hope
that that assembly will aid the alien priesthood in
keeping the titles they have chosen to adopt, and
exhibiting a caricature of the English hierarchy.
Surely our radical friends have lost their memory
in their distress. Do they not recollect that the
House of Peers is the " House of Incapables" and
the "House of Incurables ?" Are all their gentle
compliments since 1830 forgotten—their smart
assertions that " there were two parties in England,
the a-bility, and the no-bility ?" In fact, is their
noble democracy—that advised the stoning of Lord
Londonderry and broke the Duke of Wellington's
windows—as Ophelia says, " Quite, quite down ?"
So it seems ; for the Radical journals, which
throughout this matter have shown their attach-
ment to " civil and religious liberty," by advocating
Popery, the enemy of both, and have exhibited
their affection to free institutions by maintaining
Antonelli and the Jesuits, Wiseman and the Pro-
paganda, the prison of Da Halle and the Castle of
St. Angelo, now appeal, ad misericordiam, to the
House of Lords.

And what is the ground of their appeal ? Is the
House of Lords less interested in repelling the out-
rage because its order hatabeen particularly assailed,
or has Popery repented and given its valuable un-
dertaking to be of better behaviour? Nothing of
the kind. They have dressed up the May-day
masque they call Civil and Religious Liberty once
more, carefully concealing its scarlet paraphernalia,
and with that they propose to appeal to the Peers.
Now, civil and religious liberty, we think, is deeply
ed in the question, and not only civil and
religious liberty, but civilization i:self, and its chief
concern is to resist and extinguish Popery. Can
the blindest look at the efforts that this effete sys-
tem of Popery is making to maintain a universal
dominion over the human mind—that it is attempt-

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