The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-01-17 00:00:00

THE ORATORIANS.

To the Editor.

SIR, —The time has now arrived when the men of :
England must decide whether they will be husbands
of their own wives, and fathers of their own daughters,
or whether the Oratorian priests shall take their place.
We all must be horrified at the existence of Oratorian
hiding-places, as no love-sick maid nor brain-disordered
man Is safe from the cumulative importunities of
many monks.
The Oratorians are Jesuits to the Jesuits. Where
Jesuit cunning fails, Oratorian stratagem begins.
To make a succesful Oratory, a nobleman is required
to give them position, a member of Parliament to be a
defender, a barrister to tell them how to be outside the
law, a doctor to prove the mad members sane, young,
rich heirs to give them wealth, and a lawyer to make
the wills of those whom they entrap. These, with a
due amount of saiful priests, make up the host ready
for action amongst' worn-out, dissipated dowagers, feeble
men, and confiding girls.
Versed in the science of words, and in all the slits of
logical fallacies, the Oratoriana belong to an order or
not to an order, they are bound or unbound, they are
monks Os' not monks, as beat may suit their immediate
end.
When last year I petitioned Parliament against the
Oratosien places of concealment there was a scene in
the liols Commons.
Lord rd Howard wept when s reflection was
made a ,the holy monks who had persuaded his
fatherless Wee to go to the convent in the Rue D'Enfer,
Paris ; but hid I stood on the floor of that House, I
shonld have ivied 'fen her and not for the monks, and I
should have Skylight myself unmarked if I had not
defended hoe &plan such an outrage to humanity.
The Oratoriana claim to rule the °country and govern
the electors, and Lord Edward Howard on that occasion
so far forgot to keep the secret as to tell lir. liewdegate
in the House of Commons that his seat for North
Warwickshire was imperilled because he dare inquire
into the Oratory.
The Mac Dermott affair is an ordinary example of
Oratorian misrule. A love sick girl, insanity in the
family, a plaoe of concealment, and a damning uotusation,
are the lending features of the case, as of all other
monastic dramas.
At foyers young lady nun was lately forcibly carried
out of the country screaming to be saved ; but there was
no one to rescue her, though doubtless this scandalous
wrong will be avenged when Parliament meets.
The Oratorian system is really a secret police of the
most terrible character, by which the innermost secrets
of families are obtained. People tremble under the
fear of charges true or false, for no one can question
the actions of a monk without being accused of some
mime, aloe, OT infidelity.
The Oratorian auras has fallen upon this country
because the Dissenter, have been induced to vote with
the monastic party upon the plea of liberalism. The
Dissenters, however, have but to support Protestant
tolerant freedom sonnet Papal intolerant persecuting
tyranny, when a strong government will arise not under
the power of the Oratorian clique and nunneries and
monasteries will vanish like chaff clique,
the wind.—l
have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
ALFRED Shin.
7, Pillsbury Circus, Lando., January 11, 1866.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.
On Friday morning Parliament was further prorogued
by Royal COMMiStiOn until Tuesday, the 7th February
next, when it ig to meet for the derpatch of business.
The Lord Chancellor and the ether Lord Commis-
sioners having taken their seats at the foot of the
Throne, Colonel Clifford, the Yeoman Daher of the
Black Rod, was directed to summon the Commons to
hear the commission read. Shortly afterwards one of
the clerks, attended by the door-keeper and some of the
other ofScials of the Lower iiOJUSS, appeared at the bar,
when the commission was read at the table by Sir J.
Shaw Lefevre, the Clerk of the Parliaments.
The Lord Chancellor then, by virtue of the 001311116.
thin so read, declared it to be Bet Majesty's Royal will
mid pleasure that the Parliament should be again pro-
rogued until the day therein named, and it stood ad-
journed accordingly until Totality, the 7th of February
leaL His lordship further deviated it to be Her
a Royal will amid please,* that the mid Pattie-
• sio=itlmaid, on the aaid Tuesday, the 7th of February,
iseemble and be holden for the despatch of divers urgent
staid important affairs ; and the lords spiritual and
temporal, and the knights, eitisene, and burgeons, and
the commissioners for shires and boroughs in the Rouse
of Commons, were required and commanded to give
their attendance accordingly at Westminster on the said
Tuesday, the 7thof February next.
Their lordships then retired.
The ceremony, which was simply one of form, did net
wow many minntes, and beyond those who ware
, immediately engaged in it there were few persons
present.

ADDRESS ro ma Psorta.—Nesers. Cassell, Patter,
and Gilpin, have netted a e.'at address announcing a
sew and enlarged eerie. of Oiessll.• illustrated Family
Paper, the first numbers' which will appear on the ISth
January, prim one pee. Y. The character and =nin-
ny, mope of the pobViebon' plea; are fully indicated in
the address. "The Weed of fielf-eulture," "Th.
Play-bone" "The low( Iroike Gl*" "Domestic
Feetteley,h "The rletlonse ",Nehild in the Letter-
new,
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