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If two concurrent reports may be trusted, the highest personage in the realm has " pronounced,' with personal indignation, against the Romish inroad. The two stories bear so close a family likeness, that, while differ- ing materially in detailed features, they suggest a common inventive parentage. Dr. Jell, Principal of 1fsing's College, vouched one version, at a public meeting in his parish, St. Mary-le-Strand, on Monday last-

" The Queen herself had been the first to resent the recent audacious usurpation of the Pope. She sent speedily for the Home Secretary, who found her in her drawmgroora in a state of great excitement, and her Ma- jesty exclaimed, Sir George, I am Queen of England, and I shall not bear

The other version was given by Mr. Daniels, a barrister, as Westmin- ster Hall gossip, at a meeting in the parish of St. Andrew Holborn-

" It was reported in the courts, that her Majesty had read the Pope's bull, and was fully alive to her own position. Indeed, it was stated that on the day the bull was received her Majesty sent for Lord John Russell, and, with the document in her hand, said Am I the Queen of England, my Lord ? ' To which Lord John replied, Who dare doubt it, your -Majesty ?' Upon that her Majesty said, Leek at this, (showing him the Pope's W11,) and act upon it.' "

The week has produced another batch of episcopal declarations on the subject of the day,—r...plies to deputations, or addresses, by the Bishops of Exeter, Manchester, Chichester, and Winchester.

The Exeter manifesto is of the usual sharp controversial tone, varied towards the end by shadows of religious humility. The A rehdeaconry had specified three particulars in which the British Government has given encouragement to the Pope : of these, the one which Dr. Philpotts most especially adopts, is that which charges them with the official order by which Pupal Bishops have been honoured with precedence in our Queen's dominions. He backs this charge ; and reviewing his proofs, he denoun- ces the Premier's recent manifestation- " When we consider all these things, and then look at this letter, which throws the whole blame of encouraging the Pope on a few silly or unfaithful ministers of our own Church, censured by their Bishops and repudiated by the great body of their fellow-ministers, I stand aghast, at, I will not say the uafairnm I will not say the unmanliness, but I will say the prodigious hardihood of the noble Lord's reliance on such entire forgetfulness of recent facts, or such utter disregard of truth and justice, as he is thus pleased to attribute to the people of England." With reference to "the Roman Catholic schism in this country," he counsels his clergy- " One plain dictate of common prudence is, that you be all anxious to avoid giving any reasonable ground of offence to the feelings or even the prejudices of your people. As far as outward observances are concerned, I repeat what I said to you five or six years ago—' The peculiar dangers of the times, as well as the prevailing tone of public opinion, call upon you most powerfully, as you would avoid being in the number of those by whom of- fences come, to forbear all unnecessary innovation, especially, that worst kind of innovation the revival of obsolete usages not required by law, which axe associated in the minds of the people with the superstitions and corrup- tions of Rome.' " He meekly thanks them for their affectionate attachment to their Bishop, through twenty years of more than ordinary difficulties and perplexities—" I have always found you, my reverend friends, tolerant of any indiscretions which I may have committed in my government, and willing always to judge favourably of what you have believed to be well in- tended."

The Bishop of Manchester has embodied the case in favour of restrain- ing legislation, with more original force than any person who has yet made an official declaration. Replying to an address from a meeting of his clergy, he says— "I would secure to the Roman Catholic, as far as possible, every civil pri- vilege and every opportunity of exercising the ministrations of his religion which can be granted him without endangering the undoubted rights of others. But, qua Roman Catholic, he is not a citizen of this kingdom, he is not a subject of Queen Victoria ; and to allow him to introduce a foreign 'spiritual superior, who shall exercise an avowed jurisdiction, irrespective of and independent of that of our own Sovereign, is, in his case, to give footing to a power which has too often and too fatally displayed how closely it ever seeks to unite things spiritual and things temporal to the advancement of its own intercets and the subjugation of those to whom it has gained admit- tance. I do not appeal to its enemies—I appeal to the restrictions which oven Roman Catholic states have been compelled to impose on the introduc- tioa and publication of decrees from Rome. If it be said, Rome has changed, IAA, where is the proof? I do believe there are enlightened Roman Catho- lies who will view this measure with due disapprobation. But has Rome, as such, receded one single step, recalled one single fatal error ? She has retracted none of the denunciations hurled so often in ages past against this kingdom and people. She is refusing the education of her people in Ireland. She would parcel out England as her future possession. But the step neces- sary to carry this out is already by statute illegal, and will, I trust, be re- peiseed by idle onaotakent, next session, of adequate though not extravagant penalties',

The documents signed by the Bishops of Winchester and Chichester are characterized by mild, tolerant, but firmly Protestant feeling.

Cardinal Wiseman has composed "An Appeal to the Reason and Good Feeling of the English People on the subject of the Catholic Hierarchy " ; and copies of the document, seemingly forwarded from its author, 'appeared in. three of the morningjournals on Wednesday. It has sines

be published as a pamphlet, filling 32 large pages of the octavo size : we compress into our columns an analysis of the general argument, and some of tho more prominent controversial passages. The introduction states in wore detail the historical explanations already given by Bishop Ullathorne in the letter which we published on the 26th of last mouth. With the growth of the Catholic Church in F.n&and there had begun to prevail a strong wish on the part of the English Catholics to change the temporary form of government by Vicars of the Pope chosen from Bishops of ancient sees in countries now become infidel, as Turkey or Barbary, to a regular, ordinary, proper, and perfect government by a local hierarchy. In 1841, the 'Vicars Apostolic assembled in London deputed two of their members (of whom Dr. Wiseman was one) to Rome, to petition ear- nestly for the desired boon. It was represented &at the existing ecclesiastical constitution was a hundred years old; it had been framed when Catholics were still under the pressure of heavy penal laws, and had no liberty of conscience—when all their colleges were abroad, anethere were no religious orders or houses in England—when there was nothing ap- proaching parochial division in the country, but the places of worship were generally the private chapels and their incumbents the chaplains of noblemen and gentlemen. A constitution so framed was now based on anachronisms, and from being a euide had become a clog. and embarrassment. The Holy See might give a fa-esh constitution, voluminous and complicated, while still only temporary ; or the real and complete code of the Church might be at once extended to the. Catholic Church in En . land, so far as was compatible with its social position,—a plan having the advantage of being at once simple and finaL Ultimately, the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda sanc- tioned the boon, and it was granted by the Holy See. The \ mars Apostolic were desired to suggest the best divisions for the dioceses and the best places for the titles. "These were adjusted ; the brief was drawn up, and even printed." Some difficulties on details which arose were subsequently, is 1848, removed by Dr. Ullathorne ; "the measure was again prepared ; when the Roman revolution suspended its final conelusion till now.' "All this time there was no concealment, no attempt to take people by surprise. All Catholics knew of the intended measure ; the papers announced it ; so noto- rious was it, that the Dean and Chapter of Westminster petitioned Parlia- ment against it ; and a friend of the writer's heard the Dean of Westminster say, most openly, Well, he may call himself what he pleases, but at least he can never be Dean of Westminster.' In Battersby's Irish Directory for 1848, the writer was named Most Rev. N. Wiseman, Archbishop of West- minster.' He can add, that many letters came to him so addressed ."

These explanations introduce the dialectically arranged heads under

which Cardinal Wiseman treats the general question. They are- 1. The Royal supremacy, and Bishops named by the Crown. 2. What was the extent of religious toleration granted to Catholics ? Have they a right to possess Bishops or a Hierarchy ? 3.. How could CatholiOs ob- tain their Hierarchy ? 4. Does the appointment of a Catholic Hierarchy trench on the prerogative of the Crown ? 5. Has the mode of establish- ing the Hierarchy been insolent and insidious? 6. The title of West- minster.

I. Down to 1829, the Catholics were shut out from Parliament and civil

office, by the Oath of Supremacy. What was meant by the King's supremacy was, that in him was vested the headship. of the Church in all the British empire; "so that be had supreme power in ecclesiastical and spiritual" as well as " civil and temporal " matters. "But the acknowledgment of and sub- jection to this spiritual supremacy was incompatible with the doctrine and belief of Catholics all over the world,—namely, that there were no such things as national or separate churches, but only one true Catholic Church under one head, the Bishop of Rome, otherwise called the Pope." The Emancipation Act freed Catholics from the obligation of swearing to the Royal supremacy in spiritual matters. Before that, the Catholic was a person who denied the Royal supremacy in spiritual matters, and suffered the civil deprivations of his denial : since 1829 he is a person who denies that supremacy, and is nevertheless admitted to full enjoyment of civil privileges. The Royal supremacy in spiritual matters is no more admitted by the Scotch- Kirk, by Baptists, Methodists, Quakers, Independents, Presbyterians, Unitarians, and other Dissenters, than by the Catholics. The real sway of the Queen's spiritual prerogative is therefore confined to that body of Christians who voluntarily remain subject to the ecelesiaatioal establishment called the Church of England. Any one can withdraw himself, and cease to consider the Bishop appointed by the Crown as his pastor—his superior in spirituals, or his master in faith. If her Ma- histy appoint an admiral, or a general, or governor, or judge, all must obey m in all things belonging to his office, because all are temporal subjects; but if she appoint a bishop, it is exactly the contrary—it is in the things to his office that 'his authority is circumscribed ; no one beyond

his own flock is obliged to seek doctrine from his teaching, sanctification from his ministration, or grace from his blessing. Lord Lyndhurst, in the House of Lords, on the 11th May 1846, stated that " it is no crime for a Roman Catholic to maintain and defend the supremacy of the Pope in spiritual mat- ters."

II. The Emancipation Act was a measure of justice, not of favour. To

have said to Catholics, " You are perfectly free to practise your religion, and to have your own church government, but you shall not be free to have it in its proper and perfect' form, but only in the imperfect form in which it has been tolerated whileyou had not liberty of conscience," would have been a tyranny, and in fact a denial of that very liberty of conscience which the act was intended to give. Holy orders require Bishops to ad- minister them, and a succession of bishops to keep up a succession of persons in orders. "If the law," observed Lord Lyndhurst, "allows the doctrines of the Roman Catholic durch, it should be allowed to be carried out perfectly and properly." Apply. the maxim of law, founded on natural logic, " Ex- elusio unnis eat adman° alterius," to that clause of the Act of Emancipation which forbids any one from assuming or using the title of any bishopric or archbishopric in England or Ireland, and you must conclude that Catholics are allowed to assume any other titles. Concluding, therefore, that the re- cent measure is strictly legal, Cardinal Wiseman goes further, and answers the clamour raised by those who fear that the " securities " of the Church of England are threatened. The Duke of Wellington expressly stated in the debate on the Emancipation Act, that this clause restraining from the use of titles was "no security.' "He was aware that this clause gave no security to the Established Church, nor strengthened it in any way ; but it was in- serted to give satisfaction to those who were disturbed by this assumption of title by the Catholic clergy." The appointment of the Catholics hie- rarchy takes away no single advantage from the English Establishment. " Whatever satisfaction it has been to you till now to see them so elevated above their Catholic rivals, and to have their wants so amply provided for, you will still enjoy as much as hitherto. The Catholic- episcopacy and the Catholic priesthood will remain. no doubt poor, unnoticed by the great and by the powerful, (so soon as the present commotion shall have subsided,) with- out social rank or preeminence. If there be no security for the English Church in this overwhelming balance in its favour of worldly advantages, surely the exclusion of Catholics from the possession of local sees will not save it. The new Bishops will not have occasion to cross the path of the Prelates of the Anglican Establishment in their sphere of duty. They will find plenty to do, besides their official duties, in attending to the wants of their poor spiritual children, especially the multitudes of poor Irish, whose peaceful and truly. Catholic conduct under the whirlwind of contumely which has just assailed them proves that they have not forgotten the teaching a their church—not to revile when reviled, and when they suffer not to threaten."

HI. Catholics are allowed by law to maintain the Pope's supremacy in ecclesiastical and religious matters ; and one point of that supremacy is that he alone can constitute a hierarchy or appoint bishops. Throughout the Ca-

tholic world this is the same. "Even where the civic power, by an arrange- ment with the Pope, names, that is proposes, a person to be a bishop, he cannot be consecrated without the Pope's confirmation or acceptance ; and if consecrated already, he can have no power to perform any functions of his office without the same sanction. If, therefore, the Catholics of this country were ever to have a hierarchy at all, it could only be through the Pope ; he alone could, grant it. This >& no new or unknown doctrine ; it has long been familiar to our statesmen, as well as to every one who has studied Catholic principles." IV. The question "Does the appointment trench on the prerogative? " la delicate, but it must be met. Lord John Russell has stated in Parliament, that the Pope is understood. by Protestants to execuise a-spiritual jurisdiction in this island. He said of the Protestant oaths- " The oaths now taken are not-altered. We shall continue to take the oath, that the Pope has not,' &c. ; though at the same time there is no doubt, in point of fact, that he exercises a spiritual authority in these realms. I have always interpreted the oath to be, that in the opinion of the person taking it the Pope has not any jurisdic- tion which can be enforced bylaw; or ought not to have."

The Pope is here acknowledged to be exercising a jurisdiction which can- not be enforced by-law : nor one imagines that the new hierarchy can be en- forced by law; it binding: only on the conscience and on the faith_ "A certain Dr. Dillon aseumee the title of-bithop, and ordained what he called presbyters ;.but no one thought of prosecuting him. The Moravians have bishops all over England ; and so have-the IrvinOtesi or Apostelieals ; yet no onetime, them with invading the Royal prerogative: "No-one doubts that the bishops appointed are Roman Catholic bishops to rale over Roman Catholic flocks. Does the Crown-claim the right,under its prerogative, of naming such bishops'? It will be' said that no limitation of jurisdiction is made in the Papal document, no restriction of its exercise to Catholics; and hence Lord Tohn Russell and ethers conclude that there is in-this-brief a pretension to supremacy over the'realin of Eugland; and aelliim to sole and undivided sway.' Eery official document has its proper forms; and had those who blame the tenour of' this- taken any pains to examine those of Papal documents, they .would have found nothing new or unusual in this. Whether the Pope appoints a person vicar apostolic or bishop in ordinary., in either case he-assigns him a territo- rial ecclesiastical jurisdiction, and- gives.him no personal limitations. This is the practice of every church which. believes in its own truth and in its duty of conversion. What has been done in this brief has been done in every one- ever issued; whether to create a hierarchy or to appoint a bishop." V. The chapter on the "insolent and'insidious" mode of establishing-the hierarchy he introduced by- these reflections—" The words in this title are estme.ted from the too memorable letter' of the First Lord of the Treasury. I am willing to consider that production as a private act, and not as any manifesto of the intentions of her Majesty's Government.. Unfortunately, it is difficult to abstract one's mind, from the high and responsible situation of the writer, or consider him as unpledged by anything that he puts forth. There are parts of the letter-on which I would 'here refrain from comment- ing, because they might lead: me aside, in. sorrow if not in anger, from the drier path of my present duty. I will leave it to others, therethre, to dwell upon many portions of that letter—uponthe closing paragraph in particu- lar, which pronounces a sentence as awfully unjust as it was uncalled for on the religion of many millions of her Majesty's subjects, nearly all Ireland, and: some of our most flourishing colonies. The charge,, uttered in the ear of that' island, in which all guarantees for. genuine and pure'Catholie educa- tion will of necessity be considered,. in fidurer. as guarantees for confining the intellect and enslaving the soul '; all securities for the Catholic religion as security for the mummeries of superstition,' in the mind. of their giver-- guarantees and securities-which canhardly be believed to be heartily offered.;, the charge thus made, in a.voice that has been applauded by the Protestant- ism of England, eroduces in the Catholia. heart. a feeling too sickly and too deadening for_ indignations--a_diiimal despair at finding that,. where we have honoured and supported. and' follOwe&for years, we may be spurned aad cast off the lira moment that popularity demacuis us as its price. or. bigotry as its, victim."

To make more fmeibly plain how little Cardinal Wiseman could have been prepared- for Lord oho. Russell's. wane expression of feeling the Cardi- nal gives the conclusion of a letter written by him to the Premier from Vienna on the 3d instant.

• •- " I cannot but most deeply regret the-erroneous, and even distorted view which' the English papers have presented of what the-Holy See has done in regard to the spiritual government of the Catholics oil England ;: but take the liberty of stating, that the measure now promulgated. was. not only- pneparedhut printed three years ago, and a copy of it was shown to Lord'Minto by the Pope on occasion of an audi-. mice given to- his Lordship by his Hbliness. T have no right to intrude upon your Lordship-further in this matter beyond offering to any explanations that your Lordship may desire, id full confidence that it will be in my power to remove par- ticularly the oirensive interpretatiomputupon the late actof the. Holy See, thatit was suggested by political views or by any hostile feelings. Axel with regard' tomyself, r beg to add; that Tam invested with a purely reek.. aiastical dignity ; that I have no secular or temporal delegation whatever; that my: duties will be, what they have ever been, to-promote the morality of those committed teeny charge, especially thenrrasses-of our poor; and-keep up those feelings of good- :will and friendly intereommunion between Catholics and their fellow-countrymen whicleI flatter myself I have been the-means of somewhat improving. I am eon-. fident that time will soon show, what a temporary excitement may conceal, that social' and public advantages must result from taking the Catholics of England out of that irregular and necessarily temporary state of government in which they have beemplaced, and extending to them that ordinary and more definite fornewhich is normal to their chunch,.and which has. already been so beneficially bestowed upon almost every colony of the British empire.. " r beg to apologize for intruding at such length upon your Lordship's attention but k have been encouraged to-do so by the uniform kindness and courtesy which I Muse_ always met with from every member of her Majesty's Government with.whom I have had occasion to treat, and from your Lordship in particular, and by a-sincere desire that such friendly communication should'not be interrupted.

"I have the honour-tohe, my Lord; your Lordehip's obedient servant, "Mt Card. WIEIBMAN.

" The Right Honourable the Lord Johmlluseell, First Lord' of the Treasury, &c."

Eta proceeds to set forth the reasons which led him to believe that no good. objection could. exis. t-to the organization of the hierarchy in England. " 1. It was-notorious, not only that indieland. the Catholic hierarchy had been- recognized and even Royally honoured; but'that the same form of ec- clesiastical government had been gradually extended to the greater part of our Colonies. Australia was the frnat which, obtained this advantage,. by the erection- of the archiepiscopal see of Sydney, with suffragans at Maitland, Hobart Town, Adelaide; Perth,. Melbourn , zeal: Port Victoria.. This was dime openly and was known publicity; and neer monstrance was ever made. Those prelates in every document take their tits siac& they are aokuovsledged) and. salaried, as archbishop and bishops respectively, and this not by one but by' suecessive,Giivernments: our-Nordr Americansalons next received`th.e.

same boom Kingston Toronto,. Bytown, ,, have been erected into dioceses by the Holy See. Those titles are acknowledged by thelocal govern- mente" The West and Fast Indies supply illustcativeinstances. " But them has bees a more remarkable instance-of the exercise of the Papal supremacy in the erection of bishoprics nearer-home. Galway was notan episcopal see till a few years ago. It was governed' by te warden, elected periedicallyr by what are called' the Tribes of Galway, that*. by families, bearing certain names, every member; of whom had a, vote.. Serious- inconveniences resulted from'

this anomalous state of things ; and hence it was put an end to by the Holy See, which changed the wardenship into a bishopric, and appended the Right Reverend Dr. Brow; since translated to Elphin, first bishop of that diocese. Bishop Brown was consecrated October 23, 1831. No remonstrance was made, no outcry raised, at this exercise of Papal power."

"2. But, further, considering the manner in which acts of the Royal su- premacy had been exercised abroad, and taking it for granted that it could not be greater when exercised in foreign Catholic countries than the Pope's in our regard, we could not suppose that his appointment of Catholic bishops in ordinary in England would have been considered as more inconsistent with the Queen's-supremacy ' than that exercise was considered inconsistent with the Pope's supremacy acknowledged in those countries. I will refer my readers to Mr. gowyer's paniphlet, published by Ridgway, for details of what I will briefly state. "In 1842, her Majesty was advised to erect, and did erect., (5 Victoria, chap. 6,) a bishopric of Jerusalem, assigning to it a diocese, in which the three great patriarchates of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria were mashed into one see, having episcopal jurisdiction over Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia, subject to further limitations or alterations at the Royal will. No one supposes that, for instance, the consent of the Kiug of Abyssinia, in which. were is not a single Protestant congregation, was asked. Ile Bowyer- also shows that Bishop Alexander was not sent merely to British subjects,

but to others owing '

no allegiance to the Crown of England. Suppose his Majesty of Abyssinia or the Emir Beshir had pronounced this to be an intru- sion inconsistent with the rights of bishops and clergy, and with the spirit- ual independence of the nation ' how much would this country have cared ?' "Under the same statute a nishop of Gibraltar was named. His see was in a British territory,; but its jurisdiction extended over Malts—where there was a. Roman Catholic archbishop formally recognized by our Government as the Bishop of Malta—and over Italy.

"Under this commission Dr. Tomlinson officiated in Rome, and, I under- stand; had borne before him a cross, the emblem of archiepiscopal' jurisdic- tion, as if to ignore in his very diocese the acknowledged Bishop of Rome.' He confirmed and preached there without leave of the lawful bishop ; and

pet newspapers took no notice of it, and the pulpits did not denounce But, in fact, the statute under which these things were done is so comprehensive that it empowers the Archbishops of Canterbury or York to , consecrate not only Mash subjects, but subjects and citizens of any foreign state, to be bishops in any foreign country. No consent of the respective Governments is required ; and they are sent not only to British subjects, but to 'such other Protestant congregations as may be desirous of placing themselves under his or their authority.' "If therefore, the Royal supremacy of the English boron could' thus lawfully exercise itself where it never has before exercised authonty, and where it is not recognized, as in a Catholic country,—if the Queen, as head of the English Church, can send bishops into Abyssinia and Itaiy,—surely Catholics had good right to suppose that, with the full toleration granted them, and the permitted exercise of Papal supremacy in their behalf, no less would be permitted to them without ()ensure or rebuke.

" 3. But not only had Catholics every ground to feel justified by what had been elsewhere done before, doing the same when to themselves seemed ex- pedient, without their act, any more than preceding ones, being characterize& as we have seen, but positive declarations andpublic assuraocin led them to the same conclusion. In 1841, or 1842, when for the first time the Holy See thought of erecting a hierarchy in North America, I.was commissioned to sound the feelings' of Government on the subject. I came up to London for the purpose, and saw the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, of which Lord Stanley was the Secretary. I shalli not easily forget the urbanity of my re-' ception, or the interesting conversation that took place, in which much was spoken to me which has since come literally true. But on the subject of my mission the answer given was somewhat to this effect. 'What does it matter to us what you call' yourselves, whether Vicars-Apostolic, or Bishops, or Muftis,. or Imaums„ so that you do not ask us to do anything for you ? We have no right to prevent your taking any title among yourselves.' This, however, the distinguished gentleman alluded to observed was his private opinion, and he desired. me to call in e few days after. L did. so ; and he as- sured me,. that, having laid the matter before the head of the department,. the answer was the same as he had before given me. I wrote it to Rome, and it served, no doubt, as the basis of the nomination of bishops in ordinary in North America. I have no doubt the documents referring to this transac- tion' will be found- in the Colonial Office. In the debate on the Catholic Re- lief Bill, July 9; 1245, Lord. John Russell, then in opposition, spoke to the following effect- "' He; for one, was prepared to go into Committee on those clauses of the Act of 1829. Ile did not say. that he was at once prepared to repeal all those clauses, but he was willing to.go into Committee to deliberate on the subject.. He believed that they might repeal those disallowing clauses which prevented a Rumen Catholic bish- op assuming a title held.by a bishop of the Established Church. Be could not con- ceive any good ground for the continuance of this restriction.' "It must be observed that there is nothing in the context which limits these sensible and liberal words to Ireland. They apply to the repeal of the whole clause ; which, as we have seen, extends equally to both countries. What his Lordship had said in 1845 he deliberately, and even more strongly, confirmed the following year. In the debate on the first reading of the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, February 5,.1846, he referred to his speech, just quoted, of the preceding session, in the fbllowing terms- " Allusion having been made to him, (by Sir R. Inglis,) he wished to say a foie words as to his former declaration, ' that he was not ready at once to repeal these laws without consideration.' Last session he had voted for theCommittee, but had reserved to himself the right of weighing the details. It appeared to him that there was one part of the question that had not been sufficiently attended to' the measure of Government, as far as it was stated last year; did-not effect that relief to the Roman Catholics from a law by which they were punished both for assuming episcopal titles in Ireland and for belonging to certain religious orders. That part of the subject re- quired interf, renee by-the Legislature. As to preventing persons. assuming parti- cular titles, nothing, could be more absurd and puerile than to keep up such a dis- tinction. He had also the strongest objection to the law which made Jesuits in cer- tain cases subject to transportation : the enactment was as intolerant as it was ineffi- cacious, and it was necessary that the law should be put on an intelligible and ra- tional footing.'

"It would appear, therefore, that whatever hesitation Lord John Russell had about repealing other clauses in the Emancipation Act, hie mind was made no about the restriction of Catholics from assuming the very titles of sees held by Anglican bishops. Had' he obtained his wishes in 1848, the law would now have permitted' us to call ourselves Bishops of London or Chester

and Archbishop. of Canterbury: I quote these passagesi not for the purpose of charging Lord John Russell' with moonsistency, but merely to justify our- selves, and show how little reason we could have had for believing that our acting strictly within the law respecting. episcopal titles would have beeis

described as it has ; for if it was puerile in 1846 to continue to prevent Ca- tholics even taking the prohibited titles, and no good reason existed for the

continuance of even that restriction, is it manly in 11360-to denounce tie in- aolent and insidious' the assumption of titles not different from those ac- corded to us by the authority which Load John. aelcucwsledges• can alone be- stow episcopacy upon WI ? VII. Itheseleotion of the-titleof " Westminster " has„CardinalWiseman un- derstands, given great offence, he is sorry for it, as it. was "little less than. necessity which led to its adoptions!' In-reestablishing a Catholic hierarchy in England, it was-natural and deeorous-thatits-metropolitan should-have his- WilltitherSilPital: . This; NI ,been . the, rule-Ate ell- - tenure ;, 41444 at: eitutnef those capitals nifty decayinto:prvineisl:te.wissyithenAt Wing their, leggy enpEd Thp., itekin, metropolitan aigulfwa the *)*,"Of ,-the--metrepolias I i lids bei4it is 1144144Pk or l*fil"112'Vv0/+hi.6PAVAYi .110V Welk itte.beiaatati e hem .- oa N-Ati p-tsitlelinhikiteils ,ey slaw4,i rWitheeirk 71040:- feteli-Wee'e liantettle% -Wo.hoYe trilielesthe title aft alieuberdinet4 peetionlef. wh4fortner thpigreat, conglomerate ofi ibentiotii: as.i. Einektry,.or ylelingtouomnslfl have been to east ridicules aid, OPenitlie 4leeir losojeatS upon the nene episeopetse. B4,4001,_ Ilona of Anse arre town*. or mities., West minster. , naturally suggested itself, as a pity uneeeepied by-any Auglicanl se0,:saneV giehigranholiougable. and .welli.:1;newn, Xsettropolitens title i=. - Xliongh, iemorpefficete else Cardival Wiseman puts himself forward its tbe alileld. of:ithe Holy See 'against allsthe obloquy due to-measures--which he powerfully contributed to secure, he na- turally. Shrinks from the i charge of having'sdvised a titlatalLoh•hy histotibal and eonstitutional associations mould culuenie his own-p' ergola:11 dignity... He coneludes--" I can sincerely add, that I had no part whatever' in- the selec- tion". of the titles Plentifully Battered through the argumentative texture of the Appeal, are Covert Sarcasms at persons, and bodies of men. Among the most sa- lient of these is a portraiture of the Chapter of Westminster as seen by rival Roman Catholic eyes.

The Chapter of Westminster he observes, had been the first to protest against the new archiepiscopal

title, as though some attempt at jurisdiction within the Abbey were intended. He gives assurance on this point, and proposes "a fair division" of the two very different parts embraced in "Westminster proper." "One comprises the stately Abbey, with its ad- jacent Palaces and its Royal Parks. To this portion the duties and occupa- tion of the Dean and Chapter are mainly confined ; and they shall range there undisturbed." Indeed, were he disposed to claim more than a right to tread the Catholic pavement of that noble building, another might step in with a prior claim. "For successive generations there has existed ever, in the Benedictine order, an Abbot of 'Westminster, the representative, in religious dignity, of those who erected, and beautified, and governed that church and cloister. Have they ever been disturbed by this ' titular' ? Then let them fear no greater aggression now." . This splendid monument, its treasures of art and fitting endowments, form not the part of Westminster which will concern him ; but another part, in frightful contrast, though immediate contact, with its magnificence. "In ancient times, the existence of an abbey on any spot, with a large staff of clergy, and ample revenues, would have sufficed to create around it a little paradise of comfort, cheerfulness, and ease. This, however, is not now the case. Close uneer the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed laby- rinths of lanes and courts, and alleys and slums, nests of ignorance, vice, de- pravity, and crime, as well as of squalor, wretchedness, and disease; whose atmosphere is typhus, whose ventilation is cholera ; in which swarms a huge and almost countless population, in great measure, nominally at least, Ca- tholic; haunts of filth, which no sewage committee can reach—dark corners, which no lighting board can brighten. This is the part of Westminster which alone I covet, and which I shall be glad to claim and to visit, as a blessed pasture in which sheep of holy Church are to be tended, in which a bishop's godly work has to be done, of consoling, converting, and preserving. And if (as I humbly trust in God) it shall be seen that this special culture, arising from the establishment of our hierarchy, bears fruits of order, peacefulness, decency, religion, and virtue, it may 130 that the Holy Sees hall not be thought to 'have acted unwisely, when it bound up the very soul and salvation of a chief pastor with those of a city where the name indeed is glorious but the purlieus infamous—in which the very grandeur of its public edifices is as a shadow to screen from the public eye sin and misery the most appalling. If the wealth of the Abbey be stagnant and not diffusive—if it m no way rescue the neighbouring population from the depths in which it is sunk—let there be no jealousy of any one who by whatever name, is ready to make the latter his care, without interfering with the former."

The universally-respected Roman Catholic Member for Carlisle, Mr. Philip Howard, writes to the Morning Chronicle a brief rebuke of the contemptuous Protestantism in the Premier's letter to the Bishop of Durham- " Without entering upon questions of religious tenet, I can no longer de- fer the expression of my conviction, that the phrase mummeries of super- stition' can only be looked upon as a deliberate insult to the faith and reli- gious practice of at least one-third of the loyal subjects of the British realm."

We understand that the Oxford University Commission finished their spell of work on Wednesday ; and at an early hour in the afternoon of that day, handed over their room, at the Downing Street residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, to the gentlemen of the Cambridge Commis- sion, who have now commenced their inquiry.

It is said that, "with a view to the defence of any legal proceedings that may be adopted," Cardinal Wiseman has retained Mr. Peacock, the eminent Queen's counsel.

We understand that a lengthened correspondence has taken place on different occasions between the Bishop of London and the Tractarian dis- turbers; and that the Right Reverend Prelate, in consequence of the censure which has been recently cast upon him, has resolved, in order to justify himself, to lay the whole before the public.—&. James's Chronicle.

Mr. Raphael, the Roman Catholic Member of Parliament for St. Alban's, died on Saturday last, at his seat, Surbiton Place, Surrey. He is said to have given 100,0001. within the last few years for building Roman Catholic places of worship. He was of Armenian extraction.

The solicitors of the " Woods and Forests " have received instructions to give the necessary Parliamentary notices preparatory to the introduc- tion of a bill to extinguish the right of the Crown to stock the New Forest in Hampshire with deer and other wild beasts of the forest, and to em- power her Majesty to enclose the several portions of the said forest. It is also intended to put an end to the several encroachments on the Crown lands which have been so much complained of.—Globe.

Referring to the augmentation of the French army on the Rhine fron- tier, the Daily News adds the statement of its belief " that the intention of the English Government to reduce the army by 5000 men has been abandoned."

A war-steamer built by Mr. Mare, of Blackwell, for the Spanish Go- vernment, was launched on Tuesday. Seiior Isturitz, the Spanish Am- bassador, was present; and his daughter christened the vessel "Isabella Secunda." The steamer is 230 feet long, 38 broad, and 25 deep, and the to is 1565. It will carry sixteen guns. This is the ninth or tenth war-Oftmer built for Spain in this country,' and the fifth constructed by Mr. Mare ; all of wood. • ___Remito_euthe-Regietvas-Generalts-return of mortality in-the Metropefie forither weekosashnfemrsaturelsoplaWs4he first column 1,:tt ;figures gineeetehe aggregate klitinbilvdfatletthseirtetispeuttrponding weeks4tbtittrukainprIerioils. , *fiktkot. ,iser tenisc oar. PLO ; sloibor sic'.) or -eisimos aollasui boo Altai To elaioq incur VOlklattiaulft.sitrakhIlE nt byisbuli .0ciosess siom xis tfoidw : dolma° lesisvinii estridsomii,sstspailipe 2,.:lynietted011eiessdimslavhoh igeoso3taixsvhbeed, • Drover, fisarcersaisbotheedhissagssithaussttaimer:EarishIppeald.bilieb rargo.‘ii wilesidir•

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Till the Constableship of the Tower of London was conferred upon the Duke of Wellington, in 1820, it was the custom to sell the situations of Ward- ers, or what are commonly termed " Beefeaters," at the price of 300 guineas. The Duke abolished the system of purchase, and filled the vacancies with de- serving noncommissioned officers. - He has first to last appointed forty-five old soldiers, the value of whose situations would have been no less than 14,175/.

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