The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-12 00:00:00

IMPROMPTU,

Founded on the fact of two Royal•lnstitution youths being
caught with an " English translation, by Walton," of
Ovid's Metamorphoses, such translations being " upper.
form"-erly designated " cabs."

Two Royal youths, intently bent on finding
A royal road to learning, and not minding
The style of their conveyance ;
Whilst snugly seated in the Athenieum,
Chuckling that there no eyes could see 'em,
Secur'd from magister's surveillance ;
When lo! behold, before them stood,
" The Doctor," who, in punning mood,
Thus the youths address'd :
" Ah ! I see," (a smile his face adorning)—
" Enjoying, eh! a cab' this morning ?"
By his presence not oppress'd,
And for a❑ answer not distress'd,
The youths replied,
(And you'll decide
Whether or not the pun's a lame and halt one,)
" We did not like to go by "bus,'
But took a ' cab,' when you caught us,
Wishing to have a peep, this morn, at ' Walton.' "
S. K.

Per Printer's Deril.—For the benefit of the Maids of Honour,
who always read the Standard, and who may not be acquainted
with the fact we have to inform them, that " Walton is a Village
near Liverpool, and that" Omnibi (as the Classical J. Hume
designated such conveyances) do run actually hourly, to this
village from Liverpool.

EPIGRAM

TEIERMOPATHY AND HYDROPATIIY

Between hot bathing and cold water cure,
Of holy life at least the patient's sure,—
For, like a parson, in two cures he dwells
Or, like a Bishop, in a Bath and Wells !

PUBLIC MEETING OF ROMAN CATHOLICS-
INTRODUCTION OF THE JESUITS INTO LI-
VERPOOL.

The Roman Catholics held a public meeting in the Amphi-
theatre, on Tuesday evening, for " the purpose of considering
and determining upon the best means for raising the neces-
sary funds for building a new church, to be dedicated to the
honour of God, under the name of St. Francis Xavier,
the great apostle of the Indies"—in other words, the
founder of the Jesuits. The intended new church is pro-
posed to be built on some land belonging to Mr. Ewart, in
Salisbury-street, Islington, at no very great distance from
the Collegiate Institution. The meeting was attended by a
tolerable number of people—the gallery, to which admission
was given gratis, being crowded, whilst the boxes, pit, and
stage, the tickets for which were charged for, were but
scantily filled. This circumstance will he considered as
somewhat surprising when it is stated, that for a week pre-
vious to the meeting placards were profusely distributed in
different parts of the town announcing that " the Right
Honourable Daniel O'Connell, M.P., Lord Mayor of Dub-
lin," would attend to advocate the cause in hand.
The Rev. Mr. LYTIIGOE occupied the chair, and Mr.
SIIEIL moved the first resolution, which was to the effect
that additional church accommodation was necessary. Mr.
MORGAN O'CoNNELL seconded the resolution, and it was
carried.
Mr. O'CoNNELL moved the second resolution, which de-
clared that in opinion of the meeting it would be highly con-
ducive to the good of religion, that the fathers of the society
of Jesus be enabled to resume their labours in the sacred
ministry, in the town of Liverpool. lam delighted he said,
to have such a resolution to propose: and I am not a little
pleased to have to propose it in this place. Ido not know
any place I should like, or do like , more to address a few
words of sarcasm and scorn to the bigots, of charity to
the
well-thinking, of exultation at the progress of truth to the
christian—there is no spot in which I should more delight to
do all this than in your town of Liverool. Will you be so
good as to tell me whether there be a more higottcdi o andwtmvn n i
the British dominions, because, if there be one, I !I
look for it. lam convinced there is more. Great Btitain I
practical bigotry
in Liverpool than in any ten other towns n
Why, they encourage it in every w
politics ; they. are bad politicans because they It is in their
they axe bigots.
It is in their corporation : they are unchristian, because they
are narrow bigots.
It is in their return of members to podia-
ineut—Oh, to be cure they look a little to their Own individual

Interest there, but beyond that bigotry is the polar kifictalsehtt—:` v
guides them on the voyage of voting. It is to be found in th
Joint Stock Churches, and when they have not practical
Mr. bigots* of their own, they import them red hot from Ireland.
* •

Alter some coarse abuse of Mr. M'Neile,
whom he called " the deuce's own lump of a liar," the
the speaker reviewed the state of popery in North America,
Prussia, France, Sweden and Norway, Spain, Portugal, and
lastly in England, and said it was expanding in every direc-
tion, whilst Protestantism was contracting. He defied
M`Neile to show him one country upon the face of the earth
where Protestantism was increasing, What was the state of
England in this respect at the present movement? I sup-
pose, he continued, there is not one among you who has not
of the Oxford `Tracts; there is not one of you who has not
heard of Pusey, and the Puseyites. " What are they but
Catholics with Protestant names," says somebody to me.
No, said I, " Protestants they are, but it is upon Catholic
tenets, and if you take the pounds, shillings, and pence from
them, the entire balance remaining would be written off at
once, and they would become Catholics at once." I have
here a book published at Oxford, called the British Critic and
Quarterly Theological Review (for July ;) it is published
every quarter of a year, to maintain the opinions of the class
of divines at Oxford. Having set forth the opinions and ar-
guments against them, they go on to say this—" the other
argument against us is the supposed identity of our doctrine
with the received Roman Theology." That is the argument
against them—that they meet us who are Catholics. What
answer do they give? Why that what what makes the truth
of them more probable is the great amount of consent in so
many churches. There's Protestantism for you! They say
their doctrine is the same with Catholicism : indeed they do
not call themselves Protestants, but Anglicans, and they say
that their doctrine is the more probable by its being the doc-
trine of the Catholic church ! I wish M'Neile would
read that ! Remember that these men whom you call Protest-
ants are the men that have now the large livings, the men
who are reading the services of the church in their parishes
every Sunday ;—remember that these are the men who wrote
what I have read, and am going to read. (Mr. O'Connell
here read a note from the same number of the British Critic,
which characterised as tyrannies all systems which differed
from " the centre of unity.") If Dr. Wiseman had b _en
called upon to write this, he would not have done it differ-
ently. He would not change one word of it. It is Catholic
doctrine ! Oh ! let it be understood through the empire—
through the world, that there is a great section of the Prc..
testant clergy, as they are called, of those who are in the pos-
session of the livings, praying and preaching, as they call it,
for Protestants, who are publishing every three months a book
containing Catholic doctrines, thus offering immediate and
emphatic testimony to the truth of Catholicity. Does it not
encourage you to have another Catholic church in Li-
verpool? Why I declare you will want a dozen of them
before half a•dozen years are over! They are coming, and
they must come, to us ! It is, therefore, very pleasant to
me, at such a period as this, to move this resolution. * * *
I have shown you the symptoms of the times, which make
it imperatively necessary that every exertion should be made
to extend the number of your churches. I rejoice emphati-
cally in this, that in the erection of this church the ecclesias-
tical authorities of every class all concur. The bishop gives it
his sanction and his blessing, the clergy of the secular orders
crowd around to wish it every success, and the regular
clergy promote the restoration to works of usefulness, in
the practice of which they were interrupted by that calamity
to the church, the suppression of the order. The greatest
blow ever yet inflicted upon religion was the suppression of
the order of the Jesuits, and accordingly a bitter punishment
has followed upon the nations that committed that crime.
They have been punished with the severity of a scourge of
iron, and tears of blood would hardly atone for the crime
which they thus committed against themselves ; they were
abandoned to themselves, I think I may without profaneness
say it, by the just anger of the Deity ! But here they are
again ! The Jesuits again ! I remember the time when a
man would have been knocked down who ventured to call
out " Hurrah for the Jesuits !" (The meeting here gave
three cheers for the Jesuits.) ** * * * I may be
told I am dreaming when I reckon among the members of
the Catholic church the Puseyites and the Tractarians. It
may be so. All I know is this, that God has given them to
see the promised land, to behold the truth, to publish the
truth, and to proclaim Catholic doctrine. I know not
whether they will have grace to attain the land of promise,
and to separate themselves from every connection necessary
in order to be united with the centre, the centre of unity,
without an attachment to which Catholicity cannot subsist.
I am not to prophecy—that is, in the hands of God, but I
see this with my profane eyes, that there is every prospect even
of the ministers themselves coming over. There is a certainty
that the rising generation will not be embued with the pre-
judices of their fathers against the truths of Catholicity.
The speech of the Lord Mayor of Dublin concluded by a
loud profession of attachment to civil and religious liberty.
The Very Rev. Was. BREWER, Provincial of the Bene-
dictines, Mr. JOHN ROSSON, Mr. LEONARD, the Rev. Mr.
BARROW, President of Stonyhurst, the Rev. PETER WILCOX,
and several others afterwards addressed the meeting, and the
proceedings concluded at ten o'clock.