We observe with pleasure the address of support to Dr.
New- man, which has been signed by so many distinguished English Catholics. The occasion for it was furnished by the violent attack made upon him in the Weekly Register, which charged him with having lost his influence in the Catholic Church, in conse- quence of his recent very moderate sermon on the Temporal Power of the Pope, and certain passages, supposed to be heterodox, in his Apologia. The address, which was signed by a host of English peers and members and ex-members of Parliament, artists, bar- risters, &c., and included men as far from each other in the Roman Catholic world as Lord Edward Howard and Mx. J. Pope Hen- nessy, simply expressed the memorialists' conviction that "any blow that touches you inflicts a wound on the Catholic Church in this -country." Dr. Newman's reply is, like all his writings, exquisitely simple, and yet has a character of its own. After thanking Mr. Monsell, M.P., by whom the address was conveyed to him, and his friends, he adds, "Of such men, whether friends or strangers to me, I would a hundred times rather receive the generous sym- pathy, than have escaped the misrepresentations which are the -occasion of their showing it." Nor does the letter read as if these misrepresentations had really annoyed him. Certainly nothing could have elicited better that his influence among the best class of Catholics is unimpaired.
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