The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

An address' signed by 2,746 respectable laymen of Bath,
was presented to the Archbishop of Canter ury, depre-
cating the recent assumotion of power by Rome.
On Tuesday an address against the Papal aggression
was presented to her Majesty from the three denomina-
tions of dissenters.
Dr. Briggs the Romish Bishop of Beverley was " en-
throned" at " St. George's Cathedral," York, on Thurs-
day with the usual display.
It appears from the Tablet that it is proposed to hold a
Popish Synod for England at Shrewsbury, which is to
issue " a uniform discipline for the whole province."
On Tuesday an address, signed by 400,000 English
Roman Catholics, was presented to her Majesty by the
Lords Vaux, Dormer, and Lovat.
Cardinal Wiseman's secretary has, in a letter to the
Times, contradicted the statement that the cardinal was
present in the House of Commons during the delivery of
Lord John Russell's speech.
Lord Winchelsea calls upon the Protestants of England
to repudiate the " milk and water" proposition of Lord
John Russell, as utterly inapplicable to the grievance suf-
fered by the Papal aggression ; and send addresses to her
Majesty to dissolve Parliament, and take the sense of the
country upon the subject.
The Secretaries of the Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge have addressed a letter to the editor of the
Times in reply to the assertion of Mr. Keogh, on Wed-
nesday, that an address from that society, which had
been presented by Sir George Grey to the Queen, had
spoken of the Roman Catholic religion as " a tissue of
blasphemous fables." They enclose a copy of the address,
showing there is not a shadow of foundation in the charge.
FURTHER " PAPAL AGGRESSION.—The Limerick Re-
porter, a high authority on Romish ecclesiastical affairs,
announces that his Holiness the Pope has thought proper
to confer the dignity of Cardinal on the Mast Rev. Dr.
Cullen, " Lord Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of all
Ireland, and Apostolic Delegate." It is also announced
that the Very Rev. Tobias Kirby, President of the Irish
College at Rome, has been appointed coadjutor of Dro-
more to the Right Rev. Dr. Blake.
TI-CE CARDINAL'S TEMPORAL JURISDICTION.—The
Newcastle Journal states, that by a new document, just
announced from Rome, Cardinal Wiseman is made pro-
tector of the hitherto independent College of Ushaw, near
Durham, in the new diocese of Hexham. Under the
powers so conferred, he will adjudicate in a dispute now
pending between the College and the so-called Bishop of
Liverpool, who claims a right to divert a part of the funds
of the College, and apply it to the purposes of a new Col-
lege in Ltmcashire.

'LORD MINTO AND THE POPE.—It appears that when
Lord Minto had his interview with the Pope, a paper
lying on a table was pointed to as " referring to Eng-
land," but in so careless a manner as not to excite his
curiosity, in order that there might be a colour of truth
for the averment that the Bull was shams to him, and
that his Eminence might be able to hold up his hands in
aflected astonishment at the reception given to a docu-
ment which had been ingenuously exhibited to the British
diplomatist, by whom no objection or observation had
been made !

Sir J. Stapleton, brother of Lord Beaumont, and a
recent seceder from the Church of Rome, writes to the
Globe reminding Protestants that the temporalities of
every sect are a proper subject for legislation, and that
through these "we may strike a blow at the Pope with-
out endangering religious liberty." He recommends that
the administration of charities be left to a central board,
and local boards formed of Roman Catholic laymen. At
present, the properties are administered by the clergy
who depend on the bishops, who, in their turn, are ap•
pointed at Rome. " Such a measure," says Sir J. Sta-
pleton, " would give a death-blow to the ultra-montane
party."

POVERTY OF ROME.—In the course of his speech, on
Tuesday evening, Lord Abinger said, in the House of
Lords,—lt was sometimes said, " What is there to fear
from the Roman Catholics ? They are poor." That
defect was ,vanishing hourly. Almost every peer present
must know, in his private experience, of instances,
among the body referred to, of that appetite for acquisi-
tion which, if not checked, would in the course of years,
absorb nearly all the property of the State—a tendency
which had even been objected to that apparently innocent
institution, Queen Ann's Bounty. A case was argued in
that house, in which a young lady in Ireland entered a
convent, rectived her share of her father's property in, his
lifetime, ar.d made it over to the convent; but the father
dying intestate, the superior required her to claim a share
of his estate again. Some Roman Catholic priests got
hold of the son of a deceased wealthy. solicitor in this
country, who was possessed of £200,000; they set the
family at variance, and got them out of the son's house,
and acquired complete control over him.. He tried to
run away, but was brought back, and never went out of
the house again; he shortly afterwards died, nobody
knew how. The priests produced a will in their favour,
and, by Sir. W. Follett's advice, the family were obliged
to accept £lO,OOO as a compromise. It was not only the
deathbed that was invaded ; young women of property
were inveigled into nunneries. The noble lord men-
tioned a case where a young lady entitled to £B,OOO
entered an asylum, and £4,000 of the property was
parted with by her at once, but the family were refused
account or explanation.

THE POPE IN PERIL.—Wo have been put in possession
of a report to the effect that Pio Nono will probably owe
the forfeiture of his throne in the Roman city to his re-
cent aggression on the spiritual and temporal liberties of
England. Our informant is a gentleman of high distinc-
tion. He assures us that there is at this time organised
in Rome a very formidable conspiracy (infinitely more
formidable than that which drove Pio Nono to Civita
Vecchia,") originated and inflamed, no doubt,. by the
Papal aggression upon England. It is inferred from Lord
John Russell's letter to the Bishop of Durham (which
has been translated into all the Continental languages,
and very freely circulated,) that the English Govern-
ment will no longer support the temporal pretensions of
the Pope, and that, quoting as their reason, the recent
audacious " aggression" of his Holiness upon the spiritual
and temporal pretensions of the British Sovereign, they
are prepared to advise the Republic of France to interfere
no more between the Pope and his Italian subjects, but
to allow the Italians to establish in Rome a republican
Government on the model of the French Republic. It
is understood that the interference of the Papal See in
the affairs of Belgium, and the gross tyranny of the
Romish hierarchy, in the recent instance furnished by the
death-bed of a Sardinian Minister, have had the effect of
combining, in the Roman conspiracy, many eminent and
noble families of both Belgium and Sardinia. It is said,
moreover, that certain distinguished persons connected
with the Austrian " Houses of Peers and Commons" are
mixed up in the plot, and that on this occasion the Pope
is sure to be ousted most effectually and permanently.—
Manchester Courier.

DR. PUSEY.—The Tablet thus comments upon a letter
of Dr. Pusey, in answer to the charge of Mr. Dods-
worth that the doctor had recommended the use of "the
rosary :"—" What slippery, incompatible, swimming sort
of reasoning is this ? Dr. Dodsworth stated that Dr.
Pusey had encouraged the use of the rosary.' Dr.'Pusey
replies at first that he only meant by the rosary,' a par-
ticular form of devotion,' and not ' a string of heads.'
Some friend has now reminded him, as we ourselves did
last weck,that in his translation of the 'Paradises Animce,'
there is mention of 'the actual rosary,' as he calls it.'
We say there was mention of the larger and smaller
beads, and directions given as to what prayers had to be
said at each. Dr. Pusey now says he had forgotten this,'
and proceeds to supply a fresh explanation, which is given
above. But it will be observed that he again tries, in the
oddest possible manner, to blindfold the reader as to what
the actual rosary,' as he calls it, means. He avoids all
mention of the string of heads, or of ' the larger and
smaller beads,' and defends the actual rosary' as a
mode of using scriptural devotions,' and ' a help to the
memory.' He appeals, in conclusion, to the compassion
of his opponents, not to multiply differences.' Really,
this is a more pitiable subterfuge than that about the
crucifix, which he prefers to calla representation of Christ
'crucified. How is it this good and excellent man can thus
deceive himself? Why does he not come where he can
maintain all those holy Catholic practices without dis-
honesty and without sophistry ?" We may notice here,
by the way, that the Tablet falls foul of poor Lord Shrews.
bury for betraying the fact tha the Pope is trying to
" govern" this: kingdom over the Sovereign at the insti-
ion of an Irish clique assembled at Rome for the ex-
-Church and 'State Gazette,

press purpose.-
To

TEARS OF PROTESTANT FAMILIES.—We earnestly
commend the following statement, made a few days since

at a mee

ting in Edinburgh by Dr. Cumming, to the at-
tention of our readers :—" There is no system possessed
of such versatilility, and at the same time such power, as
Popery. The one day it will emulate the despot on his
throne, the next it will become the trumpet of the mob
in the market-place—the one day it will be a governess
in a family,, the next the tutor in a school, and then it
will get into a church to promote dissension among Pro-
testants. You have to deal with a most subtle, most des-
perate agent ; and when I tell you that by the recent con-
vulsions on the Continent, the Jesuits have been driven
out of every country in Europe. and that they are here in
Isiwesaritiios,wlatthcik
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the
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By all means get a well-educated governess, but better
have a lady whose heart is right in the sight of God than
one whose fair hand can touch the ivory keys with the
most consummate skill. By all means improve the man-
ners of your children, but above all take care of their mo-
rals and their hearts. The virtues of a great nation are
the sunken piers below the tide-mark, invisible to us, but
on which is based the superstructure in its grandeur and
stability. Mothers have waited upon me in London—not
one, not two, not three, but twice three—asking me what
they were to do with daughters going over to the Church
of Rome. One lady came to me and told me that a most
cultivated gentleman had applied to be admitted into her
family as a master of music. He was a Jesuit, most ac-
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attention—shewed thi,:m everything about the Cathedral
everything. every
delightful to the ear. By and by the young lady's heart
changed—the rector, she said, never came to visit her at
all, but this priest was so very courteous, so polite, so af-
fectionate; and she at last knelt the knee to him to con-
fess everything that was in her heart. The victim was
sealed—she is Atm a confirmed and devoted Roman
Catholic,"

Feb.llB, 1851.

INNOVATIONS IN THE CHURCH.

A deputation, headed by Rear-Admiral Vernon Har-
court, from the parish of St. Luke's, Chelsea,, had an
interview on Tuesday with the Archbishop of Canterburyr
to present an address, signed by 1,000 of the Protestant
laity of that parish. respectfully laying before his Grace :

"Our deep sense of the injury that has been done; and it
doing, to the pure principles of our faith and or our Protestant
Church,, by the preaching of corrupt Romish doctrines, and by
the introduction of superstitious Romish practices into our
services; and we would also respectfully express our heartfelt
regret that such corruptions have been Dermitted• to .go on Kr
long unchecked, and have appeared occasionally even to re-
ceive encouragement from some of your Grace's suffragans, to
the deep concern of all faithful and attached members of our
Protestant Church, and to the scandal of her pure character
and principles. At the same time we would express our great
gratification and encouragement that our Diocesan has com-
menced to exert the powers with which he is invested to put a
stop to these abuses. Under the most presssing conviction of
the imminent danger to which our Church is exposed through
these fearful evils, we respectfully but earnestly urge upon
your Grace to exert all the influence and power of your high
office to repress and put them down."

His Grace is reported to have replied, in a kind and
affable manner that—

" Probably the deputation wds not aware of the great diffi-
culty there was for those in power to settle the matters not
agitating the Church, owing to the present uncertain state of
the ecclesiastical law. He agreed ith the address, that Popish
practices therein complained of did exist. in the Church,.
and deeply regretted that any encouragement thereto should
have proceeded from any of the Bishops. He would" use all
his influence to regress these innovations, and believed his
brethren would do the same. It was gratifying to find that
the heart of the public was with them, which would very much
encourage and assist them in their efforts to check these ob-
jectionable practices. In consequence, however, of the state
of the law, great difficulty was experienced in bringing the
business before the Courts, lest they (the heads of the Church)
should be foiled in their attempts to remedy the evils com-
plained of."
In reference to an observation made by Rear-Admiral V.
Harcourt, that the subscribers to the address particularly
feared the evil of the dissemination of false doctrine, the
Archbishop admitted that it was the great evil, but that the
doctrine and practice were intimately connected. With
respect to erroneous doctrines, so great was the difficulty in
suppressing them, that, though they had always existed in the
Church, only one case had occurred within the last fifty- years,
where a person had been condemned on account of erroneous
teaching, and he was a Socinian.
To a further observation by Rear. Admiral Harcourt, that
the bishops had power to repress the evil by not adthitting
into the Church curates known to hold views contrary to its
articles and discipline, his Grace said that in this respect the
Bishops had power, and might, in the exercise of proper dis-
cretion, use it.