To all except the most infatuated adherents of Ministers ; it
must have been long evident, that the true aim and intent of the Irish Church Bill was the overthrow of the Protestant and the reestablishment of the Catholic religion. But the " motives of certain late attentions bestowed by Lord ALTHORP upon the Pro- testant Church of Ireland" are now made as clear as daylight to all who have had the advantage of reading the Standard of yester- day. • The following passage from that journal deserves attention from all good Protestants.
" His Lordship (Lord Althorp) has just succeeded in extinguishing ten Pro- testant bishoprics in the sister kingdom ; and at this moment we find his Lord- ship's brother the first named in the list of candidates for one of those Popish bishoprics to make room for which the Protestant bishoprics have really been suppressed. The noble Chancellor of the Exchequer may have the ambition to confer a mitre upon his brother, in 'imitation of Lord Grey. That brother's in- convenient attachment to the Church of Rome, however, renders him ineligible for a bishopric in what was the Established Church ; and it is not impossible that the prophetic eye of fraternal affection has forecast to Lord Althorp, that the church to be hereafter established in Ireland affords as comfortable and a more secure provision." Then follows an extract from the Dublin Morning Register, containing the names of several gentlemen who are mentioned as likely to succeed to the see lately held by the most Reverend Dr. LA.PPA.N. At the head of the list is the name of the Honourable and Reverend Mr. SPENCER, brother to Lord ALTHORP. The thing is too palpable; Lord ALTHORP'S treason to the Established Church can no longer be deubted. Parliament will surely never separate without impeaching this Judas.
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