The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-04-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND HIS ANCESTOR.  (Extract from the Record of April 6.)  -Let us look at Lord John Russell standing up in the House of Commons as the champion of the popish party in Ireland; see him. along with Lord alorpetle doing honour to O'Connell at the dinner on Saturday week; and then let us turn to the dying declaration of that great man whose name he bears, and in the inheritance of whose honours he shares. 'When Lord Russell stood upon the scaffold, ready to lay his head upon the block, be delivered a paper, " the substance of which," says Bishop Burnett, who attended his lordship on the occasion, " was first a profession of his religion and of his sincerity in it; teat he was of the church of England, but wished all (meaning both protestant dissenters and churchmen) would unite together against the common enemy; that churchmen would be less severe, and dissenters less scrupuleus. He owned he had a great zeal against popery, which he looked on as an idolatrous and bloody religion, &c.' He owned he had been earnest in the matter of the exclusion (i.e. of the popish Duke of York, titterwards James II.) aa the best way, in his opinion, to secure both the king's life and the protestant religion, &e." "After he had delivered this paper," says Burnett, " he prayed by .himself; then Tillotson prayed with him. After that he prayed again by himself, and then undressed himself, and laid his h.cal on the block without the least change of ceuntenatice." Such were the sentiments of a true whig of the old school, and it would be an insult to the undertatelhig of the feeblest capacity, even to inquire whether there is •auv' similarity between the sentiments of Lord Russell and those of his degenerate descendant. In Lord Russell we find the welfare :of the protestant religion occupying his last dying thoughts, because in that was comprised the glory of God and the best interests of his country. We now see Lord John Russell headMg an attempt to strip the protestant church of i:s property, and not only to rob it of its external support, but to apply the booty in aid of that "common enemy" against which his ancestor declared with his dying breath that be had "a great zeal," because " he looked on it as an idolatrous and bloody religion." - That popery continues to this hour to be an idolatrous and bloody religion may be proved by the superstition and the atrocities which are now practised in Spain, under the eyes of the priests, who are themselves leaders in the civil war, as well as by the assassinations and murders which are perpetrated in Ireland, and the denunciations of the agitators. It was by the sound of the chapel bells that the murderers of the police at Carrickshaugh were assembled together and with almost every titne affray it has been proved that priests have been directly or indirectly connecte I. These are considerations which are worthy of the attention of all who have not forsworn the name of protestant—mho have not renounced all regard for the religion of their ancestors—who have not sold themselves to a party—and who are not prepned to provoke the righteous judgment of Heaven by making common, cause with that Babylon. from which we are commanded to come out, lest we be " partakers of her sins," and receivers " of het plagues."  ETON, Monday, April 6 —On Saturday last the examination for the Newcastle Scho'kuship terminated, when Mr. C. J. Havley was declared the Scholar and Mr. 11. Williams, King's Scholar, the Medallist.. The following gentlemen also passed a very good examination :—Messrs. Simo.omis, Thring, and Mills. The examiners were the Hey. J. Lonsdale, Prebendary of St. Paui's, and Lewis, Esq., from Oxford.  CttowN PitoeEttry N