The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

THI ILIVESIPIII STANDARD.

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

Meetings against the Papal aggression have been held
at Kennington and Hastings.
On Friday night a public meeting of the Protestant
inhabitants of Lambeth and its vicinity, for the purpose
of petitioning parliament for an effectual bill of protec-
tion against the designs of Popery, took place. Previ-
ously-to the doors opening, a large crowd were gathered
rOtind. the doors, and before seven o'clock, the hour
needed .for,the chair being taken, the great room was
41:ended to'excess with a most respectable auditory. The
Parr of Winchilsea took the chair, and was rapturously
*Wafted. On the platform were Sir W. Verner, the
Rev. Mr. Curling, rector of St. Saviour's, the Rev. Mr.
Irons, and other clergymen, Paul Foskett, Esq., &c. As
some of the speakers fought their way to the platform,
they were loudly cheered.
Another case of " cooking wills," in the most accepta-
ble form for Roman Catholic purposes, will shortly be
brought before the public, in which the property of a
Mrs. Tucker, valued at about £lO,OOO, will go chiefly to
dignitaries and clergymen of the Roman Catholic Church.
POPISH LIBERTY !—Accounts from Rome bring us the
comical notification of an honour conferred on the regson-
ing powers of Dr. Whately, Lord Primate of Dublin, in
the form of a decree issued on the 13th of March by the
gentlemen compilers of the Index Expurgatorius, and
placarded throughout the town placing under ban and
anathema the worthy Archbishop's treatise on logic.
" LOGICES ELEMENTA Domini RICARDI WHATE.
LY, n.n." Studiously ignoring his archiepiscopal dignity,
though it is duly set forth in t.,e title-page, and by strictly
logical deduction, giving to the legislature of this country
to understand that an interchange of non-recognition is
the order of the day.
A PROTESTANT MISSION TO ROME.—It has this
week been reported, and we have been assured that it is
on good foundation, that steps have been taken to carry
into operation the suggestion thrown out by the Rev. R.
P. Blakeney; incumbent of St. Paul's, Icon-green, in his
lecture on Popery, delivered some months since in the
Assembly Rooms, in reference to the appointment of
Protestant missionaries to labour among the inhabitants
of Rome 'and Italy. The important preliminary, the
raising sufficient funds, has already been done, and the ,
first missionary is to be sent out immediately. Mr.
Blakeney himself, as the proposer of the plan, is, it is
said, to have the honour of being the person first selected
for the onerous office.—Nottingham Mercury.
THE MEN FOR GALWAY.—At a public dinner at Gal-
way, last week, the chairman, the Rev. Peter Daly, said
the Queen of England had no power to make a bishop,
and there were no Christian bishops in England but those
which the Pope had created. If lie were Pope for one
twenty-four hours, he would show Lord John Russell
what a Pope could do. . (Great cheering.) Let Lord John I
Russell prosecute him for these expressions, if lie could ;
but he dared not do it. (Mr. Keogh, M.P. :. "If he do,
I'll defend you !")—Mr. J. F. Blake, editor of a Galway
paper, said he had taken an active part in the business of
'4B. If- the "martyrs" had taken his advice, the English
Government would have another story to tell ! He had
prepared and submitted a plan,' in '4B, which, if it had
been adopted by Smith O'Brien and the others, would,
have completely overturned the power of England !!' He
had proposed that there should be taken a hundred,picked
men—each man like himself ! ! !—and that forty of these
should be sent to Liverpool, thirty to Portsmouth, and
on a certain day and hour to set fire to and burn down
the English fleet ! and at one blow destroy the, Govern-
ment ! . •
CONVENTUAL LIFE.—The Hereford-Journal, writing
on Miss Talbot's case, gives the following specimen of
conventual morality know a Case where a young
'lady of wealth became an inmate of one of, these. !',Reli-•
pious Houses,"---it,was here -in England. She had not
been So lon& pre she began to,. write .home.. for money
for purposes of -charity. Her requests were complied with
at first, not unwillingly—subsequently; as requests became
more frequent and in larger surowi with reluctan4* ; at
length the amount became so.considerablethather friends
became uneasy, and felt it ;right that her guardian and-
trustee should have- ow-interview, with heri and Amon.'
strate on the extent to which she was 'impoverishing her-
self.•- He did-soi and discovered that not one' shilling' of
the money had reached her. The applications were all
forgeries
; apparently. they werein hand-writing-,-ehe,
knew nothing whatever of them! This,- of: course,. led.
to, a searching inquirpr-whieb everrendeavour wasimade
to ballie--•but,theztrustee waeresolgte turned out that
one ,of the sisters-in-the nunnery was an adept at:lining,
ing hand-writing,.as was another of them in "worming out.
'of- all new corners -the -amount and "particulars of their;
property.
..--etrreenthem—it-is not difficult to understand'
ho,w- the pillage was .effected,; what became of, the money
so!obtained.we know.not.' But the ,worst remaine ,to -be
told ! Inurder to save the character i!) of the Superior;
and of the establishment, the poor girl was prevailed upon
—how and .by whom may be' imagined—to adopt the
whole. ' There was, of course, an erd of the investigation
and to the affair ; the young lady became a nun herself,
and is so, we believe, at this moment. Her guardian and
trustee is a merchant of eminence in the city of London.