The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1838-08-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TESTANTS AND ROMAN CATHOLICS.—The following incident, for the truth of which we pledge ourselves, will serve to show the animus of Popery. The names of the parties alluded to in it, though in our possession, we do not, for several reasons, choose to disclose, but we may mention that they move in the middle rank of life, and are what may be called respectable :—Within the last iew days, a young man, a Protestant, was married by a Protestant clergyman of this city, to a young woman, a Roman Catholic. The father of the young woman is a Protestant, but, her mother being a Roman Catholic, he permitted the girl to be brought up in the faith of the Romish Church, in accordance with the mother's desires. At the wedding, in the evening, a numerous party of both persuasions were present, and everything went on agreeably for a few hours. At length, however, a Roman Catholic female present threw out an insinuation to the effect, that "no marriage had taken inasmuch as they were not joined together by the nest." The bride's father very properly suggested, that the present was not a fitting place for the introduction of any subject bordering upon religion, and that a personal favour would be conferred upon him, if it were not brought forward a second time. Upon this, all the Roman Catholics in the room, females as well as males, broadly reiterated what had been said before, and, as with one voice, exclaimed, that the ceremony, which had been gone through in the morning, was a perfect nullity. The Protestants here interfered—they endeavoured in the first place to prove that the marriage was perfectly valid, and, in the next, to remonstrate with their opponents upon the impropriety of their conduct in broaching such a topic at such a time. Both argument and remonstrance were in vain—the Roman Catholic party became furious, and, from words, they proceeded to blows. Their protestant antagonists endeavoured, of course, to defend themselves as well as they were able from the unexpected assault made upon them—a scene of indescribable confusion followed which lasted a considerable time, and which at length ended in the bride's father and the bridegroom himself being severely beaten, and in several others of the party on both sides receiving black eyes and bloody noses.—Limerick Standard.  (From the Dublin Evening Muir.") We have frequently, when writing upon the foregoing topics, assumed a tone of sarcastic levity very foreign indeed from the feelings of our hearts, and, under other circumstances, quite unsuitable. But it was almost impossible to contrast the "tranquility" which the government asserted to prevail, with the facts which bespoke the real state of the country, without smiling at the cool impudence which could plume itself upon such a state of things, and laughing openly at the Marquizzical charlizianerie which could extract a report of peace out of the outcries of murder, and draw titles of commendation from that fearful state of society- which, as Doctor M`Hale truly says, made "the country echo with the artificial chorus of praise on a paternal government." We can, however, smile no longer. The airs of the coxcomb cease to be ridiculous when they involve the community in danger. We might laugh at the idiot flaunting in the feathers of state, but when he begins to toss firebrands, we call to:en/Az/wad bind him. day is of the most Serious description t 2:)'''gL .. • ~,,,! ~ ::.„ ......,-, ,‘",, ..,,,, .„, ....,.....:.•:..,,,,: _....... • ~. ........,..„.. ....,,, vr ".,....-4 144 '/:i '4::_eis,-3-‘-4\ *4