The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE.

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Tr, wish it to be distinctly understood that hit internsg
letters in this (vbs.'', I,e do not thereby identify tirthci
with the opinions of our Correspondents.
THE IRISH CHURCH QUESTION.
To the Elitor qt• the ” Obsereer."

Sin.—On the English side of the Irish Channel •
wilful breach of faith by either party in • contract so-
lemnly entered into is regarded both by sommon con-
sent as well as by our courts of law and equity as •
violation of the contract. Whether such a clew is nisi.-
tained on the Irish side of the Channel is a point desk-
able to be known.
the year, lis'26, when the people on this side of the
,iesirons that the Roman Catholics should
to ent, and be allowed the privilege
bCeha andleiltt:der
a pastoral address was issued by ;no Roman Catholic
of holding ream nsible and offices in the State,
Archbishops and Bishops of !relax. to the clergy and
laity of their communion throughout Treas. 1. declaring-,
that " The Catholics of Ireland disclaim, disarms., and
solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the preens
Church establishment for the purpose of snbstituting a
Catholic establishment in its stead. And further, they
aware that they will not exercise any privileges to which
they are or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken
the Protestant Religion and Protestant trovernment ta
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Ireland. "
Also. in the same year, 1826, the same Roman
Catholic Bishops issued an address to the Protestants of
England. from which document the following is an ex.
tract:—" Bearing equally with you the burdens of the
country and upliobling equally its institutions and its
glory. we claim a full participation in all the rights of
British subjects. Every principle and practice in the
remotest degree hostile to those Institutions we moat
explicitly disclaim."
The Roman Catholic Relief Bill of 149 was passed in
the good faith of these declarations made by the spokes-
men of the Roman Catholic people of Ireland. These
spokesmen recognise the constitution of " this Proles-
taut Kingdom" in Church and State, and in the most
solemn manner disclaim the intention of doing anything,
when admitted to political power and privileges, detii-
mental to that Constitution. Now as the privileges
granted by the Act os 1829 have been and still ere en-
joyed by the Roman Catholics, do the Roman Catholie
laity of In, laud consider themselves bound by the de-
claration of their Archbishops and Bishops made in 102 G,
or by the resolutions passed by their Archbishops and
Bishops in 10117, and which were printed in the nowt, of
Itith Oct , 100.
At the present juncture, when the question for costs-
eating the Revenues of the Irish Church is before the
House of Commons. osten,ibly to content, forsooth, tho
Roman Catholics of Ireland, it is desirable to known
whether these constitute the Boman Catholic Clergy, of
laity, or both together.
The issues of the question, if carried, involving no leas
than a revolution and a disruption of the State, cannot be
settled by a vote of the House of Commons, hot will lie
determined be the Protestant people of this Protestant
Kingdom, even if her Majesty's tiovernment allow reso-
lutions to be recorded which respect not the Coronation
Oath of her Majesty, nor the terms of the Union ci tireat
Britian and Ireland.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
(AVIS BRITANNICUS.
Cambridge, 28t1. Mardi, 1068.

IMPORTANT TO MOTIIKRA.—IIre. Winslow's Soothiag
Syrup, for children teething, is perfectly harmless. It
produces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child frets
pain, and the little cherub awakes as " bright as a but-
ton." It cures wind, colic, and regulates the bowels,
gives rest to the mother, and health to the child. It has
been thirty years in use in America, and is DOM sold in
this country by all the principal medicine dealers at he
1 id per Bottle.—&eaderartisoneat in another culumn.
Hottowty's Pate.—Diarrh,aa and Dysentery.—The
medicines commonly used for the subjugation ef these
diseases so frequently fail of effecting that object that is
should be known to all sufferers from those maladies that
Holloway's Ointment, well rubbed upon the abdomen two
or three times a day, with the application of warm bran
roultices in the intervals, gives immediate relief, gradaally
soothes the irritable bowels, and assuages their most die-
forming pains. This treatment is applicable to all forms
of diarrlnea, dysentery, and cholera, and, with attention,
will always be successful. Farinaceous diet, milk, and
barley water should give subsistence during the continu-
ance of the disease, to the utter exclusion of all solid
food, which the deranged bowels are incompetent to Mai.
milate.

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