The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC DEMON-
STRATION IN NEWCASTLE.

On Monday night an immense meeting of the Roman
Catholics of this district was held in the new Townhall,
Newcastlemii-Tyne, to express sympathy with the
Pope. Between 5,000 and 6,000 persons erne present;
she greater bulk of the audience, however, being Irish
labourers. employed in the chemical factories, iron ship-
building-yards. and iron works, on the Tyne. The chair
was °cc:aided by Dr. Hogarth, [fishily of Heehaw ; and
the speaker% were the Rev. Father Suffield, Mr. William
Dunn, of Newcastle, Canon Eyre, Father Consitt, Mr.
Edward Leadbitter, Mr. Philip Howard, of Corby
Castle, Dr. Charlton. and Mr. Rhodes.
Father Suffield gave expression to the following senti-
ments in the course of a speedi, and they were echoed
by the other clerical orators :—This is not a meeting to
express disloyalty to the Sovereign under whom God's
providence has placed us. Till we receive those just and
equal rights to which we SA Catholics are entitled as the
representatives of our country and age, we make no
‘Jamorons professions of loyalty ; but we trust that
through :1110 year, of trial we have, according to the
teaching of our Church, done our duty to our country
and the t'rown. Through good report and evil report
we have obeyed as conscience told us, and therefore it
has not been in obedience merely when we were well
treated. We obeyed in all things temporal when we
were persecuted, disavowed, plundered—when we, the
representatives of the ancient religion and the ancient
glories of our country were treated as aliens in the very
land made beautiful by the works of our Catholic
fathers, we obeyed with a dignified and independent
submission. Such is the political position which Cathie
lics have learnt in the first age, and the tradir of 18
centuries will not be abstadoned by us now. This meet-
iug is not an expreacion of apprehension or fear; those
fear whose cause is injustice, and es haw dependence is
on men; those only are confident whose cause is just
and depends on God. Wit the Pope enters it.
Peter's lie sees inscribed around its stately dome these
words, "Ts es Pefras et sKper kluge Petram,"
"Thou art l'eter, and upon this rook I will build my
church. and the gates of Hell shall never prevail against
it." God has pledged His omnipotent word, and what-
ever may happen to the temporalities, however abuse or
ingratitude, or calumny, may abound, the spiritual
dynasty of the Pope shall never end. The Pope may he
iniprigeoned ; his dungeon will become • pilgrimage.
The Pope way lie exiled, but the whole world is his in-
heritsuce. The Pope may fir from place to place, but
all true hearts will follow I . The Pope may be
martyeed ; his blood will add lustre to the robes of his
successor. The elynaudy of the Popes can never end.
My friends, I tuistake—the dynssty of the Popes will
end. A day will collie when St. Peter's will be crumb-
hug into dust, over the ashes of Peter. the first Pope.
A day will come when the venerable hierarchy of the
Catholic Church will expire along with its august head,
the Pope. A day will come when the crosier will fall
from the hand of the mitred prelate, never to be re-
sumed. A day will come when there will he the last
Pope. But let nut the enemies uf the Church too
hastily exult ; the end of the Popes is the end of the
world. A I the crush of elemesita, amid the din of
the world's closing scene, a gentle voice will, as of yore.
go round the world. whispering hot e and endurance to
every heart. It will be the voice of the last Pope bles-
sing the world for the last time. The Pope stands to
bless, like the Prophet who stood beawizt the living and
the desd, and the plague was stayed. The Pope blesses
never again, the world lois perish. d ! The spiritual
sovereivity of the Pope can by man never be destroyed.
Nothing is so spiritually grand as an age of persecution
1411 i of martynlom ; yet we do not seek it. It is the
spirit of the Church always to pray fur peace iii our
times ; for his sake and ours, we wish to see our father
ruling the Church in peace ; we wish to have that free
communion with our father, which can only exist when
he rules in the midst of his 0 vii patrimony, and is sur-
rounded only by those he desires. We wish to see ex-
pelled from the Pope's dominions the insolent foreigners
who hold a Sardinian dagger in one hand and English
guild in the other. As we say, England for the English,
Ireland for the Irish, so we say Romagna for the
Itionagnese. Rome for the Romans, the Patrimony of
St. Peter for the Pope, hut not for the assassin, the
alien. the persecutor, the secret societies, the enemies of
Christianity.
The meeting concluded with the adoption of the fol.
lowing address to the Pope :

"TO OUR LOsT HOLY WHO POPE P 11•8 IX., HAPPILY