The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1854-01-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EDMUND MO LI'NEUX.  At a PUBLIC MEETING, held in the Society's Room, Beau-street, on FRIDAY EVENING last, Lord Palmerston's avowed intention of endowing Roman Catholic Priests to perform the superstitious and idolatrous rites of the Apostate Church in our Prisons and Hulks was brought under consideration, and the following Petition to the Legislature submitted and unanimously adopted t  "To the Honourable the Commons of the United Ilingdor!t of  Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament anenaled. "The Petition of the undersigned Working Men, residing in the Borough of Liverpool, humbly Sheuieth, "That your Petitioners beg to approach your Honourable House with sentiments of loyalty to our most beloved Queen, and with feelings of deep veneration for the Protestant Institutions as by law established within these realms. "That your Petitioners, believing those Institutions to have been established on the sound basis of the Protestant Reformation, and that they have conferred blessings which the subjects of no other country enjoy, feel deeply solicitons that they remain unimpaired. 'That, while your Petitioners would perpetuate the religious toleration which is characteristic of the English nation, your Petitioners venture to submit to your Honourable House the danger likely to arise to those Institutions from the appointment of Roman Catholic Chaplains to our Gaols, or to the Navy or Army, inasmuch as your Petitioners believe that that religion only abows authorities by permission, the head of which is professedly above Kings and Princes ; and to .beg that your Honourable House will interpose the authority of the Legislature, in order that the Priests of the Romish Church should not be paid out of the funds of the State, nor permitted to interfere, in any way, with the religious worship carried on within any of the public buildings of the United Kingdom. "And your Petitioners will ever pray." In submitting the above petition to the working men of Liverpool, we feel that no explanation is necessary. All who assert and maintain the universal supremacy of the Queen of England within these realms, and renounce, abjure, and detest any allegiance whatever to any foreign power or potentate, ecclesiastical or civil, will protest against the introduction of Romish priests into prisons or elsewhere, by her Majesty's Government, to teach that religion which Her Majesty has sworn to be superstitious and idolatrous. All real loyalists must believe that the support given by Parliament to this idolatrous system is a dishonour to the British Senate, and a disgrace to this free and Protestant nation. All who love true religion and genuine liberty know that Popery is essentially opposed to the genius of both, being immoral in its principles, injurious to the well-being of society, and subversive of the Protestant institutions and the established religion of England. We therefore appeal to all real loyalists, and to every sincere Christian man in Liverpool, and earnestly icvite them to lose no time, but at once sign the petition to stop further trimming and compromise with Romish priests, who lack but the power to rekindle in England the fires of Smithfield, and to re-enact in Ireland the murderous and perfidious scenes of 1641 and 1798.  J. PARSONAGE, President.