The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-25 00:00:00

THE IRISH REPEALERS OF LIVERPOOL,

When we read week after week the amount of contributions
which, under the title of " The Repeal Rent," the mendi-
cant impostor—his lordship of Dublin and Derrynane—
scrapes into his capacious maw, we are sometimes inclined to
enquire whether the scoundrelism of the receiver or the
gullibility of the contributors is the most prominent. There
must be, we have always imagined, a vast number of very
uncomprehending animals in " unhappy Ireland," or the
rapacity of this " incomprehensible vagabond" could never
be permitted to absorb the immense sum to which this weekly
rent must amount. We were, therefore, scarcely prepared
for the information conveyed in the following paragraph,
which we extract from the Dublin correspondence of the
Liverpool Journal of Saturday last :
" The Repeal Association met on Monday, when further
remittances from Liverpool, towards the repeal rent, amount-
ing to £145, were acknowledged. The truth is, that were it
not for the subscriptions received from England and America,
the doors "of the Repeal Association could hardly be kept
open. The amount of rent for the week was £260.
Really this is very complimentary to the good sense of the
Irish inhabitants of Liverpool ! The gulls of the great im-
poster are not, after all, the poor benighted bogtrotters of
his own country. They, stupid and ignorant as they are,
have bun to see through the manifold frauds and the giant
avarice which attend every movement of the great 0. But
America has fortunately her " sympathizers " and abettors
of rebellion, and England, and Liverpool at its head, has its
besotted idiots in abundance, to supply the vacuum caused
by the secession of Ireland herself from the number of his
dupes. Yes, even now, in our own town, whilst the band of
benevolence is being stretched forth to save thousands of the
suffering poor of Ireland from perishing in our streets—when
the cry of sympathy is being raised in behalf of the education,
of the children of those poor—the Irish inhabitants can raise
to swell the hoards of a burly imposter no less a sum
such
ri
£145 in one week ; and we are gravely told thatthe braggart
the bu
contributions from amongst us, and from
" symphathizers "of the United States, arrant humbug
repeal must die of inanition. Tirething is monstrous and
disgustfng ; and the scoundrels who aid in. this system of
extortion in Liverpool, by which their ignorant fellow.
countrymen are thus robbed and duped, are worthy, if they
could be made known, of the indignant reprobation of the
public.

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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE

SATURDAY EVENING.—With the exception of a few in-
considerable purchases by the Chancery broker, to the amount
altogether of about £38,000 for Friday next, and sales by the
same party to the amount of about £B,OOO, this has been al-
together a quiet day in the funds. Consols in consequence
of these purchases were a shade better for money, the closing
prices for present transfer being 89k to and for account
891 to 1. Exchequer Bills were 16s to 18s premium. Bard
Stock 167 to a. lndi
In Foreign Seen
and-a-Halt
to k. Bt

24f to 5,

Cents 20 to

lombian 22 to

s there v

217 to i

rtugaese Five per Cc

lirazilizn G:,. to

London and Binning
Great Western 211 to 2

alteration. Dutch Two-
, the Five per Cents 100
Active with the Coupons

the Three per
291 to 30. CO-

port of to hit premium. Birmingham and Gloucester
5, North Midland 71 to 3, the New Sha
36/ to 78, Blackwall 11 to
share. Eastern Counties 1
Dover 214- to 20-1 discount

to 6, I

South Western 57

to 14, South Eastern

PROFESSOR OF POETRY.
RETIREMENT OF MR. WILLIAMS

(From Secon Edition of Frida
wi y.)
We have t: isour
moment d
been favoured th the fol-
lowing gratifying letter from the Principal of Brase-
nose College, Oxford
TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL ._
" Brase-nose Colleye, January
" SIR,—A comparison has this morning been made o.
number of promises given in behalf of each candidate fcr the
Professorship of Poetry, when they were found to be—
" For Mr. Garbett 921
Mr. Williams ti23
" Mr. Williams has in consequence withdrawn.
" We beg you to accept our thanks for the intention ex
pressed by you of supporting Mr. Garbett, and to congratu
late you on this termination of the contest.
" I am, Sir,
" For the Fellows of this College and myself,
" Your obedient faithful Servant,
" A. T. G ILBE la, Principal.'

STAND

By the Cambridge AMERICA.
packet-ship, which arrived at this port
on Friday, we are in receipt of New York papers to the
3d instant, inclusive ; being four days later than those re-
ceived by the last Boston steamer. The intelligence possesses
no great interest.

The Albany and Boston Railroad was opened on the 28th
ult.' and a grand dinner was given on the occasion by the
authorities of the city of Albany. Governor Seward's mes-
sage was expected to arrive from Albany on the evening of
the 4th instant, and will be brought by the Roscoe packet-
ship of the 7th.

According to the Herald, the probability that the currency
project of the President would pass into a law, declined every
day. The moderate whigs opposed the exchange feature of
the plan, and the ultra whigs were against the whole. Not-
withstanding there was a general want of confidence in State
and Bank Stocks, the stocks of flour, wool, cotton, and corn
commanded cash at moderate prices.
The first of January was a holyday, and little or no busi-
ness was therefore transacted in the money market. The
second of January was Sunday, and no alteration has there-
fore taken place since the Columbia left. The transactions
at the stock board on the 31st ultimo were large, and prices
were generally up. A fair business was done in bills.

TEXAS.
According to our last advices the Texan Santa Fe expedi-
tion had fallen into the hands of the Mexicans, and were in
prison. This intelligence, however, is doubted by many.
We have accounts from Santa Martha to the 27th Nov.,
and from Carthagena to the 30th. The New British Consul
General, Mr. Stewart, had arrived at Santa Martha, with
powers from his government to effect a reconciliation between
the Federalists and Constitutionalists. On the 11th he had
an interview with General Cormona, and imrnechrtely left
for the head quarters of President Goran, at Chivinana.
On the 30th ult. Carthagena was invested with a force of
1000 to 1500 men. Great sickness prevailed among them.
The town was well supplied with provisions, enough for the
next six months.

FROM MEXICO. We have late intelligence from the city of Mexico. Af-
fairs had settled down quietly, and Santo Anna was supreme
in all things. We have nothing particularly new to commu-
nicate, and all that we can give of any interest is the fol-
lowing :

DACREE

Art. 1. The law of Nov. 26th, 1839, increasing to fifteen
per cent the duty on consumption of foreign goods, shall re-
main without effect from and after the day which may be
designated by the Governors of the Departments, with the
assent of the Juntas. In the Department of Mexico, and in
every other in which the order of the Government, dated the
4th of September last, has been put into execution, the
designation of the day will not take place.

Alt. 2. Consequently, the duties established by the laws
which were in force prior to the said 26th day of November,
1839, shall alone be collected hereafter.

Art. 3. The laws of December 2i, and of April 23,
and June 9, 1840, relative to the same duties of consumtion.
shall also be without effect.

Given at Tacubarga, Oct. 16, 1841.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA
•

ARE ROMANISTS CATHOLICS

(From Dr. Kennedy's Letter.)
It was, is, and ever will be. my principle in controversy,
to use those terms which, while they do not compromise my
own opinions, are least offensive to those of 'the other side.
Catholic, you know I cannot call you, without virtually de-
nying my own Catholicity. Boman Catholic I should call
you, if you were a subject of a country in communion with
Rome. But, as long as you, being a British subject, remain
excommunicated from the one Catholic Church of England,
I cannot regard you as a Catholic at all. I have, therefore,
upon principle,:and without the slightest wish to insult you,
but rather with a strong desire to be as courteous as possible,
spoken of your place of worship as Romish—of yourselves as
Romanists—and of your faith hs Romanism. In so doing, I
have followed the example of an eminent prelate, towards
whom you probably feel as much gratitude as you have
shewn to other persons, who have done their best to place
you on a civil equality with your countrymen. Archbishop
Whateley, in his excellent work, entitled " The Errors of
Romanism traced to their origin in human nature," uses,
throughout, the terms I have used ; and I recommend the
note on the subject, in his appendix, to the serious consider-
ation of all Churchmen• who follow the loose and foolish
habit of calling those of your faith Catholics. Now, sir, do
you accuse Archbishop Whateley of contemptuous and in-
sulting language towards you ? And is your accusation sup-
ported by your Titular Archbishop, Dr. Murray, who sits at
the same Board of Education with the Lord Primate? Surely,
sir, it is no more contemptuous and insulting in me to refuse
you the title of " Catholic," and to deny the canonical vali-
dity of your mission, than it is in you to refuse me the same
title, and to deny the validity of my ordination. You very
well know the only question at issue between us is,----which
of us is a true Catholic? Which is the true member of that
one, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, in which we
declare our belief in the apostles and Nicene Creed, and for
which we of the Church of England pray continually, in the
collect, " for all conditions of men"? It is therefore either
puerile or evasive in either of us, to charge the other with
insult and contempt in using terms which are absolutely ne-
cessary for the expression of our respective opinions.

(From Archbishop TVhateley.)
The title of Catholics, the Romanists claim, and apply to
themselves, not merely as belonging to them (and it is not
denied that they are a branch, though a corrupt one, of the
Universal or Catholic Church), but as distinctive, and pecu-
liar to the members of the Church of Rome ; and Protestants
have usually, in language, conceded this claim. But I think
that, in so doing, they manifest too exclusively the harmless-
ness of the dove, and leave the wisdom of the serpent entirely
with their opponents. It is urged that these are offended at
being called Papists, considering that as a term of reproach,
from its being used only by their adversaries. That I may
not seem to seek a quarrel, I have generally avoided that
name; but let us not be so weak as to imagine that " Roma-
nist," or any other title by which they can be properly de-
signated will ever fail, when it shall have become common, to
be complained of as reproachful, or that they will ever acqui-
esce in any appellation which does not imply a reproach to
ourselves. Even the apparently neutral designation of
" Members of the Church of Rome," is one which we must
not too confidently expect them to adopt or acquiesce in ;
nor is it unlikely that they may complain of it as reproachful,
should it ever become their customary appellation among
Protestants ; for it implies that there are other Churches,
properly called Churches, besides the Church of Rome. We,
indeed, are content to be designated as Members of the
Church of England, and we regard them as belonging to a
distinct Church, over which, though we censure it as corrupt,
we claim no supremacy ; but they do not take a correspond-
ing view of us ; they do not regard us as constituting any
distinct Church, but as actually members, though schisma-
tical and revolted members—subjects de jure, though rebel-
lious subjects—of their Church, A name, therefore, which
implies that there are other Churches distinct from theirs,
contradicts one of their fundamental tenets, viz., that they,
and they only, are faithful members of the one true church ;
and this tenet they have embodied in the appellation they
have chosen for themselves, which consequently implies, as
I have said, a reproach to all other Christians. The title of
Catholic, when used as distinctive, implies the exclusion of
all others from the character of loyal members of the Society
which. Christ founded—of " the holy Catholic Church, the
Communion of Saints," as it is expressed and explained in
the Apostles Creed; it implies, in short, that all others are
heretics or schismatics.
That the term Papist is a term of reproach, (though I do
not insist on its being employed,) I can never admit. A
" term of reproach" is one which implies something disgrace-
ful in the opinion of the party to whom it is applied. Thus,
Heretic (in its ordinary, not, perhaps, in its etymological
sense) implies the holding of some erroneous tenet; it is,
consequently, a reproachful term. But Papist implies sim;
ply one who acknowledges the authority of the Pope: and
those to whom it is applied, do, openly, acknowledge bl 5 ati.
thority.

of the Ramanists, and, therefore,
But we are told that the term is used by none but ad-
versariesthe .to complain of it. At this rate they may make any title they
will a term of reproach, by simply refusing to apply it to
themselves. And we may be assured they will do so with
every title which does not imply a reproach to us. I
least"li
themselves, distinctively Catholics, is (85 they at Fire
they have a right
well aware, whatever we may be) to call us heretics. Let
question
them be admonished, that when they except against the name
of Papists, and assume that of Catholics, declaiming at the
same time against the cruelty of using
e French reproachful language—
let them be admonished, that the censure applies, not to us,
but to themselves.
Great
a wise maxor
t,h aid down and
of Awioirddlsetanitdnooatobiees t;h,piutgwli,ats that this is triflling "
skilfully acted on by some of the leaders
Revo-
lution, that " names are things •
must
of is the practical
withm whom.
(bY no means bigoted) effect in all debate and controversy,suffering to pass
un-
noticed and to become established, such terms as beg the
question, and virtually
.imply a decision on on
,Ro e side. I
o remember
tiem i
middle
dt
loe haveela
choen si stenc y
Catholic,
he said is not the deal
. wherein we differed. What
seemed to dwell most on his mind was, the • • •
ssn'ofetswocitiehtay
as he deemed it, of our professing belief in " the
of discussion of the points.
" yours, " eHoly Catho-
Church.
lie Church ; when

THE SOUTH WRAXHALL BURGLARY.—John Gough,
who was taken at Southampton on Friday last, is believed to
be the man who pointed the pistol at Miss Awdry's head,
and makes the ninth of the party who has been apprehended.
The police, whose exertions on this occasion deserve the
pected parties.
highest praise, are in close pursuit of one or two other sus-

Nine prisoners escaped from Tiverton Gaol on Friday
morning last. It is supposed that two men who were libe-
rated on Thursday had thrown something from the outside
over the wall, by which the others were enabled to make their
escape. They broke open five doors and dug through two
walls, and their measures were concerted with such secrecy
and success, that but for an accidental circumstance, the
keeper could not have been made aware of their escape until
late in the morning, when all hopes of a successful pursuit
Must have been very doubtful. As it is, only five have been
retaken.—West of England Conservative.

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