The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-03-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

POPERY IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND  THE LIVERPOOL FREE-TRADERS. THE very fact of Lord DERBY being in office SrNcE our last publication, Mr. SCOTT MURRAY, has so fluttered the Volscians of the League, that the High Sheriff of Bucks, has written a long letter they are thrown into an unwonted state of exto the Times, respecting the manner in which Lord , citement, lest any alteration should take place in the present laws respecting Corn. If the attendCA:MTBELL snubbed him lately at the Assizes. I ance of the meeting in the Royal Hotel, on TuesHe complains that public notice should have been i day, in this town, be any test of local feeling on taken of the facts, after the private rebuke which he the subject, the public take the matter very coolly, received the evening before, at the Judges' lodgings, and are not without confidence in the QUEEN'S in the presence of the other Judge and the Mar- advisers. It is curious to see what one-sided steals of the Court. He would do well to reflect views men sometimes take of important subjects. that the offence was public, and some future Roman The imposition of duty on Corn, for example, is Catholic Sheriff might have followed Mr. SCOTT inseparably connected with duties on other articles MURRAY'S example, alleging that no objection of food; yet Mr. JAMES HARVEY, WhO has paid had ever been made to the course adopted. The great attention to financial matters, and Mr. BRODinstances which he quotes are three in number RIBS were not permitted to notice the fact. The for that of the Sheriffs of London is peculiar and latter took the most sensible view of the subject of exceptional. In 1837 there was a Roman Catholic any man in the room ; and though there were Sheriff in Berkshire, and another in Stafford; and those of the party who are more frequently before in 1-839 in Yorkshire. On these occasions, the the public, there is not one whose reasoning is remonstrances were not public. There is a capital more cogent. Mr. BLACKBURNE has made the article in the same number of the Times, replying remarkable discovery that the agriculturists are to the puerilities of Mr. SCOTT MURRAY'S letter, greatly benefited by the abolition of the Cornwhich it is highly probable was written for him, laws ! Had he said the public in general, we as it required a week or more for preparation. It should merely tell him that that is a disputed is not argued for a moment that there is any legal question; but he surely does not suppose that we right in the case, even on the part of Protestants; will admit his statement to be even within the limits of veracity. The names of farmers in the it is known that on other occasions, which the Sheriff considers much more important than the Gazette do not indicate that they have received escorting of the Judges, he does not seek to parade military appointments; the sales in the Encumhis religion before the people ; and in his case the tiered Estates' Court do not prove that there is a large sum of money to be invested in the funds; ceremony is a meaningless one. It is part and parcel, however, of the spirit of aggression that is the agrarian murders in the Sister Island do not systematically going forward wherever an opportu- show that comfort and satisfaction exist; the exonity is afforded. dus from our shores is not an argument that Some light has been thrown, lately, upon the people are more happy than formerly in the religious mysteries of Rugby. Our readers will United Kingdom. But, apart from principles recollect that a priest there informed the Rev. lir. real or supposed, let us look to practices. WILBERFORCE that a large number of converts At the great meeting in Manchester there was one had been made to Popery, and that hundreds of subscription from Liverpool : which surely does not others were ready to " come over," but that, being demonstrate that our Merchants are enthusiastic tradesmen, they were afraid of their business being