The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-08-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE ULTRAMONTANISTS AND LORD SURREY.  WE candidly declare that we are glad of the full and unmistakeable exposure that is being made of themselves, by the persons whom Mr. Anstey well described as ".Catholics of the Court of Rome, as contradistinguished from Catholics of the Church of Rome." In Limerick the "captivity of the souls of men" has received another excellent illustration. That city, which, if placed in England, would take a high rank among the municipalities of the land, has- been for centuries a focus of slavery and unmanly grovelling to the Church of Rome. When Smith O'Brien (silly person as he was) endeavoured to reduce to practice the boastings of the Irish, a Limerick mob assaulted and attempted to murder him, and the fearless enthusist Mitchel, at the order of the priests, who could not tolerate even two Protestant rebels. If Mitchel and O'Brien had been blind Papists, like Lord Arundel and Surrey, who knelt, a few days ago,. in the mud, to the Celt who calls himself " Bishop of Limerick," there would have been no attempt to murder either one or other, for the priests would have had no doubt that the intended rebellion would be for the benefit of the Church. How far they will go for this purpose, the Limerick election fully shows. A merchant of the city, who employs hundreds or hands and feeds hundreds of mouths, professing the views of the priests as to the Anti-Popish Bill, addressed the electors, and he is opposed by a stranger, a dupe of the Ultramontanists, and a bond-slave of Wiseman. A few independentminded men are found, who, although Romanists, are not prepared to yield up their whole soul to the dominion of the priests, and they are hunted by the mob like wild beasts, until one of them is forced to cry to his fellow-religionists, (Romanist as he was.) "You are not Irishmen, but priestridden ruffians !"—a statement fully making up in truth whatever it may have wanted in eloquence. On all sides there are marks that an unusual and deadly effort is being made by the Church of Rome to show the power of Ultramontanism in these Kingdoms. The home education of the Romish priesthood is one principal cause' of this. The establishment of Maynooth was not only a crime, but a mistake in policy. It would have been much better to let the children of the half-savage Irish peasantry, from whom the Romish priests are generally drawn, go abroad for their education, and see what was the real meaning and working of Popery. There are certain things, as Pope has it,— " Of such hideous mien, That to be hated need but to be seen."  But instead of keeping this in view, we have provided an education for those persons based on the utmost narrowness of principle. They are taught to look to the Romish Church as the chief depository of ecclesiastical and worldly promotion, and without witnessing its manners they worship its magnificence. It is for this reason that Ireland is sunk in the slough of Ultramontanism ; and the Popish priests of that country nothing more than so many hired employe's of the Roman Court, ready to do its bidding, in the hope of its rewards. Hence the disgraceful exhibition of the Limerick election, where a countryman and a townsman is thrown out to make why for a slave of the priests.