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

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

The Pope is going to set up a new church of St. Peter,
in London, with a mission for converting England.
MORE liomrsn BISHOPS.—On Sunday week, the Pope
filled up several bishoprics in England, in accordance
with his decree of the 29th of September last, establishing
the Roman hierarchy in Great Britain. The fortunate
holders of the great prizes in the Papal lottery are-
1. Dr. Grant, of the English College, Rome—a worthy
and most learned priest, and " own correspondent" to
Dr. Wiseman—who is now Bishop of Southwark; 2. Dr.
Errington, who is advanced to the see of Plymouth ;
3. Mr. Turner, promoted to that of Salford ; 4. Mr. J.
Browne, of Sedgewith-park, who goes to Shrewsbury ;
and 5. Mr. Burgess, named to Clifton, vice Dr. Hendrick,
promoted to Nottingham. All these reverend gentlemen
enjoy the first fruits of the " Papal aggression," and what
the saintly Archbishop of Westminster terms " working
out the will of heaven." You can now see that the Pope
is not frightened at Lord John Russell's bill, or the per-
sons named alarmed at all the pains and penalties of the
law.

DOMINUS CARDINALIS NON EST INVENTUS.—Rumour
is busy with the name of an " Eminent" individual, who,
after making himself more than ordinarily prominent for
the last eight months, has, it is said, been suddenly seized
with a violent desire for retirement. This change is sup-
posed to have been produced by the inquisitiveness of the
Committee of the House of Commons appointed to in-
quire into the law of Iviortmain ; the answers of the
solicitor of the great man not having been deemed suffi-
ciently explicit, and the principal having been summoned
to appear. 'Whether moved by the indignity of a Prince
of the Holy Roman Church being summoned by a Chair-
man of the British House of Commons, or from whatever
other cause, the illustrious witness was, it is stated, not
forthcoming, and the wags will have it that he has, a al
Wagget, taken, not Roman, but French leave. To say
nothing of the curious question which would arise if a
British subject, being also a foreign prince, and, more-
over, by the law of the land, disqualified from residence
in the kingdom, should be reported to the House of Com-
mons guilty of a breach of privilege for not appearing
where he has no right to be, the disappearance of the
" head and front" of the Papal aggression would be a
truly farcical conclußion to the sessional debates of the
year of the" Great Exhibition."—John Bull.

A GOOD HINT.—The Rev. Dr. Cumming, noticing the
documents from Rome inserted in another column—
documents which so incontrovertibly prove the deliberate
mendacity of Dr. Wiseman in his letter' to the English
people—writes as follows :—" Let us start the project of
building a spacious church in the centre of Rome, in a
fine position, in one of the most majestic streets in the
city, principally for the use of the English, and thence of
other foreigners, as well as of the natives.' lam not a
member of the Church of England 3 • but I propose that
it be a cathedral church, with a thoroughly Protestant
-Bishop and Presbyters. and I engage to raise £lOO to
wards this noble project if undertaken by Christmas, 1851,
and I doubt not thousands of similar offers will be made
if the thing be set agoing. We have gained nothing by
an over-fastidious forbearance. We can lose nothing
by so strongly provoked but so just and reasonable'
a reply to these growing pretensions. Whether
the Roman authorities refuse or permit, the result will be
equally instructive. We shall thus have an opportunity
of proving to the Pope and his followers that we can give
money for so good an object without the stimulus of drafts
on purgatory and bills payable in that region at a hundred
days. We shall in this way, to use the words of Luther,
make a hole in the drum of ' the Most Eminent and
Rev. Archbishop of Westminster and Ordinary of
London,' who is appointed the petrel of this crusade." It
is hardly necessary to add that the Pope, who, through
Dr. Wiseman, talks about the privileges of religious liber-
ties here in England, will tolerate no such thing in Italy.
Liar here, and tyrant everywhere, Rome looks to but one
end—its own aggrandisement and the overthrow of
Protestant freedom. Look to it, Englishmen, in time !