The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-19 00:00:00

STATE OF THE CHURCH IN SPAIN

The " brief" lately issued from the Vatican, enjoining a
plenary indulgence in the form of a jubilee to all the faithful,
that their prayers may be offered up for the maintenance of
the Papal supremacy in Spain, has thrown the Irish Roman
Catholic hierarchy into a perfect ferment. " Pastorals" are
flying in all directions descriptive of the schism and its con-
comitant evils which threaten to supersede the authority of
Pope Gregory XVI in the government of the Spanish Church.
"John Tnam" was the first to respond to the warning voice
from Rome ; and the echo has been caught up by Drs. Blake
and Keatinge, titulars of Dromore and Ferns. The former,
in the course of his " Pastoral," quotes the following pas-
sages from the "lamentations of the common father," to use
the words of Dr. Blake himself ; and to say the truth, ac-
cording to this statement, matters appear to fully justify
Pope Gregory's wont apprehensions :
" In the supreme councils of that kingdom," says his holi-
ness, " an execrable law has been proposed, tending princi-
pally to destroy altogether legitimate ecclesiastical authority,
and to establish the impious doctrine, that lay power, by its
own supreme right, should rule over the Church and all its
affairs. . .

" This law declares that the Spanish nation shall entertain
no respect for the Apostolic See; that all communications
with it, for whatsoever ecclesiastical favours, indulgences,
and concessions, shall be intercepted; and that all those who
shall resist this order shall be severely punished. It is fur-
ther decreed that all apostolic letters, and other rescripts
emanating from the Holy See, unless they be sought of Spain,
not only shall not be observed and be without any effect, hut
must be denounced by those to whom they shall come, within
a brief space of time, to the civil authority, that they may
be handed over by it to the government; and a punishment
is also appointed for those who shall violate this prescription,
that no cause shall be referred from Rome to Spain on the
subject of religious concerns. In fine, the sacred right which
belongs to the Boman Pontiff of confirming or rejecting
bishops in Spain is entirely abolished ; and both the priests
who, being designated for any episcopal church, shall seek
either conrmation or apostolic letters from the Holy See,
and metropolitans who shall solicit the pallium, are punished
with exile."

SIR IL PEEL'S FINANCIAL MEASURES

The following resolutions have been agreed to by the Glas-
gow Chamber of Commerde:-
I.—That the chamber having at its last general meeting
declined to pronounce an opinion concerning the corn laws,
until the intentions of government on this and kindred sub-
jects were known, and, as these intentions are now before the
public, it•becomes the duty of the directors to revert to so
important a matter. . _ _ .

2.—That objections to particular parts of the entire finan-
cial scheme proposed by Sir Robert Peel should not be al-
lowed to militate against it as a whole, because, though there
are few branches of trade or manufacture which do not con-
,sider themselves to be more or less injuriously affected
thereby, yet the fact that so many/demands for modification
are made, not in regard to the whole, but by each man for his
special department, proves that the public will be gainers,
and thus these same persons who remonstrate will themselves
be benefitted in every branch, except, perhaps, their own,
while the fairness and impartiality of the measure are further
evidenced by the great number and variety of the articles
subjected to alteration.
3.—ln the opinion of the chamber the scheme submitted to
parliament by the first minister of the crown is an impartial
compromise between the conflicting interests he had to re-
concile. And, considering its vast and comprehensive cha-
racter, the necessity of equalising the revenue and expendi-
ture of the country, the complicated interests involved, and
the many and great difficulties arrayed against it, the direc-
tors believe that it will confer as much real benefit on trade
and manufactures; and on the public, as it was possible, in
the present state of the country, to expect.
4.—The directors further believe that many of the parties
who at present expect to be hurt thereby, will ultimately find
the injury so inflicted to be very little, and that little proba-
bly more than compensated for by countervailing advantages ;
while they have perfect confidence in the wisdom and fairness
of the government to grant such modification in special cases
as the speciality may require and the general weal admit;
and the chamber does not by these resolutions, intend to
fetter itself from presenting to government any such special
cases as may seem to require its interference.
s.—While thus accepting the government scheme as a
comprehensive and wise measure, the Chamber is nevertheless
convinced that, if sudden effect be given to the alteration of
duties on some of the greater articles (such as timber and
India coffee, not of British plantations), much individual loss
and suffering will be occasioned, for which it can discern no
adequate advantage to the public service, and, therefore,
earnestly desires that a reasonable period be allowed to run
off existing stocks and to make new arrangements.

&bipping

FRIDAY, Arch. 15

—Wind East, moderate

ARRIVED.—GoIden Fleece, Ilubbock, from Pernambuco ; sailed
rd March.

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