The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-01-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FIENDISH ACT.—Late on Tuesday night some wretch placed a number of large stones on the Great Western rails, between Box and Bath, just before the approach of the mail train. Fortunately the guard iron of the train (which was bent completely double) in some measure cleared the large stones, and the wheels crushing others, no injury was sustained.  The prospects for our West India colonies, as we are informed upon very good authority, are at present rather satisfactory, the crops being likely to yield more than for some years past. If such be the fact, and our information is derived from a party who has been many years in the trade, we may anticipate better tithes for our West India possessions.—Courier.  SIR, CORRESPONDENC  POPISH SCHOOLS AT PRESCOT  TOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARL  The wily artifices of the Church  motion at this time in our neighbourhood, in an appeal by circular to Protestants for assistance to build schools. The Circular" is from the Rev. John llolden, Roman Cathonf. " Portico," a Popish chapel in the immediate The following is an extract from it :-y hundreds of poor chil vicinity of this town " In the town of Prescot are rr  dren, chiely of Irish parents mentable ignorance and depra, _ the blessing of education. To en schools, and apply a remedy to this evil  up in the must I  manners, for want of e the paEtor to build  tion is humbly solicited from his friends and the public generally. Not only Catholics, but Protestants of every denomination, are confidently appealed to ; for in these esta. and design shall be, to teach the rising )od Christians and good subjects ; and no  blishmel  ;eneration to be  compulsion shall be offered in matters of religion  And why  should not the bond of charity, one of the unequivocal uurks of the true disciples of Christ, unite us all in that grand work of breaking the spiritual bread to little ones, who have asked for bread, and there has been no one to break it to them? Will a Christian, whether Protestant or Catholic, who, having the substance of this world. and seeing his brother in need,' refuse his contribution, and shut up his bowels against him,' on the score of a difference in his religious creed ? God forbid." Can anything, Mr. Editor, be more jesuitical than the  appeal from a in  ber of that church, which obl  functionaries to profess and teach, amongst : the creed of the Council of Trent is the  Catholicam fidem extra quarn. nemo salvt  a church which has deluied the Continent Witt  [iich church the emphatic language of  ritten t  .rful accusation of hav ing in her " the blood of the prophets and saints, and of all that were slain on the earth, '—a church which urged her blind devotees, on the Feast of St. Bartho to murder in cold blood forty thousand unoffending Protestants, and afterwards rejoiced over their destruction by a solemn procession to St. Peter's at Rome, chaunting " Te Deem laudamus,"—a church that further commemorated that sad event, by striking medals representing the slaughter, and that now, after the lapse of twn centuries_ (tn thew that the line inct not n of  her " charity" towards Protestants,) rakes up the memory of the fearful massacre., by recently striking fresh ones,—a church that holds it lawful to break faith with Protestants. and to put them to death,—a church whose " charity " caused the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, where  those falsely called heretics were consigned to the tender mercies of the civil power, alias the executioner,—a church which arrogantly tramples on the laws of the Most High, in " bowing down to graven images, and " beguiling men of their ►eward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of —a church that most uncharitably denies life eterinding the declaration of  ,00li of life  'ere found hi her; which c  sys she is t  Christ, and yet i  I,—a churh which  most abject thraldo►n its mistaken followers ; and, under the pretence of assisting its priesthood in the confessional, pours into the ears of its fair penitents the " leprous distilment " of Dens's Theolog3 Oh, yes! " The Circular  says that " not only  confidently appealed to  and no doubt  but Protestant the appeal is made with no less confidence, from similar appeals having been' too frequently responded to by unwary Protestants elsewhere ; for it is a fact, no less authentic than