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LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 24.

AMONG the probable successors to Pius the
N ism, whose lingering malady, like the temporal
power to which he clings, hovers between con-
valescence and relapse, the name of a famous
English Cardinal has sometimes been idly
rumoured as " the favourite." For ours
is an age of business rather than of
faith a dying Pope is discounted on every
Bourse ; and not in the Sacred College only, but
in the highest circles of the whole betting world,
ardent speculators make a book on " the double
" event," watching the performances of the poor
old man when he is led out for a walk or shown
at a window, as they might watch the morning
gallops of a winner of the Two Thousand or the
Chester Cup who, it is feared, is to be "got at."
All this is odious and sad enough ; but we must
take the age in which we live for what it is worth.
An English Pope would not be unprecedented ;
and he might be imagined, of all ecclesiastical states-
men, the fittest, or, more strictly speaking, the only
one capable of consenting to a settlement of the
Roman question on a liberal, a constitutional, and
a national basis ; unhampered by any continental
European policy, unfettered by liabilities and en-
gagements to any European Power, and free to
carry out the grand and sovereign idea of • free
church in a free state. There is something, no
doubt, singularly neat and comprehensive in such
an arrangement ; but no one who knows whet a
Conclave is, and how it is worked ; with what a
mixture of prodigious naivete, trivial and pro-
found conning, and far-reaching purpose, its in-
spired operations are transacted—will hesitate
for • moment to pronounce the idea of an English
Pope—at all events while the temporal power is
in its agony—an amusing fable. Onr English
Cardinal, however, to do him simple justice, ap-
pears to be perfectly content with the paramount
and even unique position he occupies in his Arch-
diocese of Westminster. In some sort he may be
a greater man at Rome than any Cardinal, or even
the MIK•DO or the GRAND LLLAILI himself, could
be in the midst of the immense indifference of
London ; on the other hand a Cardinal is a drug
in the Holy City, whilst in London he is quite a
Pope in partibus, and an heretical public
regards him in his tame state with a fond zoolo-
gical interest, when he lectures like a charming
man of the world at some popular institution on
street architecture, or the mutual relations of
science and art, or any other equally harmless sub-
ject, or when he lounges placidly through a
fashionable bazaar with a smile that is a benedic-
tion, or when they are enjoying in good Catholic
company his Eminence's unctuous fun, in a
farce actually written by the tremendous author
of the last Trinity Sunday Pastoral Nowhere in
the world can a real live English Cardinal play
so many parts, and play them to so critical yet
indulgent an audience, as in England.
Take the Pastoral, for example, which was read
in all the Roman Catholic churches and chapels
last Sunday, and published to the whole Protestant
world yesterday. It is impossible to read this
magnificent prose without understanding the ad-
mirable influence which long residence in • free
but heretical country exercises upon a Prince of
the Church, and bow well founded were the con-
gratulations which his Eminence exchanged with
the Catholic Congress at 3lalines on the advantages
enjoyed by Catholics in England. An Archdiocese
of Westminster is evidently something more
than a title. It implies the duty and
the prerogative of lecturing and condoling with
all the Anglican Episcopate, and rescuing them and
their brethren from the fangs of the Judicial Com-
mittee of the Privy Council. And the Cardinal
teaches our " learned men in high dignity " the
incredible resources of the vulgar tongue in defence
of the faith. Rabid dog-Latin done into
bloated Anglican—we dare not call it
English —is really • tremendous weapon
for disposing of a assiviN, • HCILILY, or a
Cor.esso. " The stump of a fossil tree, the bones
" of an extinct animal, a broken shell found in
" some inexplicable place, but requiring a solu-
" lion equally from our assailants "—what are
these' against his Eminence's sesquipedalian syn.
tax t Cardinal Wisemsoi attributes, of course, all
the horrible theories that have sprung from " •
" solitary cranium, an antiquated 6shbone, or a
" fragment of pottery," to our miserable Protestant
private judgment and liberty of thought ; he
anathematizes the science of to-day, as he would
have anathematized it three centuries ago ;
though the theories he attacks are simply
researches and observations by students and
inquirers, who use the gifts and faculties with
which they are endowed, to explore the wonders
of creation and the works of GOD with earnest
and reverent humility, and without a
thought of hostility to any theology or
church under the sun. The Cardinal
Archbishop has his infallible prescription for keep.
ing human reason in good health—the prescription
that silenced Galileo; but he does not explain
how it was in Jesuit colleges that the destructive
Encyclopedists of last century were trained ; while
it is in the schools of heretics that some of the
ablest controversialists of his own church were
nursed. The Cardinal deplores the abuse of
Biblical criticism among us ; he would have pre-
vented it, perhaps, as they do in Spain, by