The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1864.

keeping the Bible out of laymen's hands, and it
even bishops and clergy wentleihrogy, their armee
would have been purged in a "110 of priesta,#instesof
of by " the tribunalof Cimaz,....dily the sword of
the spirit, drawn, "if not to smite theblasphemers,
"to cut out the infecting sore." Alm ! in our
poor blundering Anglican way, " answers, totally
" inadequate," have indeed appeared from other
contending scholars, to these learned men of
high dignity, who have " lifted up, if they have
" not thrown off, the dock which wrapped up in
" decent conoealment the hideous sore." So, if
answers not totally inadequate are wanted, we know
where to go to. The Church that does not lift up
the cloak which wraps brigandage, the Church
which feeds failing faith with winking pictures, and
makes science its accomplice in miraculous lique-
factions ; that is the sanctuary and asylum for
onr Anglican in:elides.

Cardinal WIIIIKAN touches and adorns such
a vast variety of topics in his Pastoral, that
it is to be regretted he did not, for the
edification of the Protestant managers of
theatrical entertainments, point the moral of the

Santiago catastrophe. The LORD CHAMBERLAIN
would have been grateful for any suggestion from
so high a quarter. The memorable conflagra-
tion of two thousand women in a church
through the careless arrangement of the lights and
the excessive display of muslin, might have been
treated by the Cardinal at once from the dog-
matic, the mystical, and the common sense point
of view, and have been " improved" for all classes
of readers. Instead of this his Eminence has di-
gressed into an intemperate libel on the great
majority of his countrymen and their late illustrious
guest, General GARIBALDI, and he has f ur•
nished bigoted Protestants with another striking
instance of th►t dogmatic weakness of garbling testa
and falsifying evidence, and dressing up odious in-
ventions. Cardinal Wisineks is so rash as to quote
what he describes as a passage from an address by
General Gaittisaxin to the English nation, dated
September 28, 1862. " The initiative that to-
" day belongs to you might not be yours to-mor-
" row. May God avert this ! Who more bravely
" took the initiative than France in 'B9 t Sbe,
" who in that solemn moment gays to the world
" the Goddess Beason, levelled tyranny to the dust,
" and consecrated free brotherhood between
" nations. After almost a century, she is re-
" duced to combat the liberty of nations, to pro-
" tact tyranny, and to direct her only efforts to
" steady on the Ruins of the Temple of Reason,
" that hideous immoral monstrosity, the Papacy."
Now, we have referred to the translation of the
General's Address as it appeared in the English
newspapers, and we cannot find the words " the
" Goddess Ramon " or " the ruins of the Temple
"of Reason," in any part of the Address. In-
deed, it is obvious that GARIBALDI (even were he
not, as he is, one of the most religious of men, and
a Christian, not only in life, bat in faith) could not
have spoken of France giving to the world
the Goddess of Reason in 1789. We fear the
Cardinal has been betrayed into the sin of adding
to what was written, and to the imprudence of
adding somewhat clumsily. We respectfully re-
commend to his attention Dr. Nrwiwe's words,
which are as true now as in 1840 :—" We
" Englishmen like manliness, openness, con-
'• aiatency, truth. Rome will never gain on us
" till she learns these virtues, and uses them."