The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

THE PROCLAMATION AOAINsT PRO-
CENNIO NS.

The following correspondence has been published:
Fa4lmaton, Birmingham, June 18, 18.52.
Sir,—Aa a royal proclamation has appeared in the Lon-
don Go elle. in which all whom it may concern are solemnly
warned against a violation of the act of 10 George IV., by
which Roman catholic ecch elastics and members of any of
the religious orders, communities, or societies of the church
of Koine, bound by monastioor religious vows, are forbidden
to exercise any of the rites or ceremonies of the
Roman catholic religion, or wear the habits of
their order, save within the usual places of Hof-
ship of the Woman catholic religion, or in private
houses, I take the liberty of requesting information on
&question arising out of it, in w I ich I ani much interested.
It is now four years since, under legal advice that they
were not breaking any law, and without any apparent
scandal and annoyance to the population, certain Roman
catholic., ecclesiastical and lay, have ordinarily appeared in
the street/ of Birmingham, and in the neighbourhood, in
cassocks and cloaks. I beg to be allowed to inquire whether
the recent proclamation is directed against tins prectice as
well as against the processions of which it distinctly makes
mention ; so that, it they continue it, they ore in danger of
I being proceeded against as disturbers ot the public pow .
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) JOHN 11. 1,111W11.18.
To the Right Hon. S. Walpole, one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State.
Whit, hall, June 24, Ibl2.
Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Walpole to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 18th instant, re-
I (erring to her Majesty's recent proclamation, and inquiring
whether it was directed against a particular practises which
has lately been adopted by certain Roman catholic*,
ecclesiastical and lay, "as well as against the processions of
which it distinctly makes mention." In answer thereto I
am to inform you that her Majesty's proclamation is
I directed ag dint all violations of the 26th section of the
sta-
tute 10th Ueo. IV., c. 7, and that if you &el any difficulty
I in the construction of that enaement, your proper course
i will be to ronsolt your legal adviser. The S.eretury of
ti,ate would nut be Justified in proonowing an opinion on
the question submitted to him; for if any doubt exists on
i the point, the decision of it must rest with the courts of
law, and not with the goo foment.
I am, air, your o'e client reread,
(Signed) W N. J. 11. Jowl Sc.
Rev. John H. Newman, EdgbaHtlll, Birmingham.

THE NIATIII:It Al EMIL—The Igbats thus relicts
to the settlement announced in ytaterday'a paper:—
" 'tilers from London state that the English govern-
merit lots recurred the news of the arrangement of the
111..ther affair, en the conditions last laid down by 1,,n1
Malan sbury. The Tuscan government, which in principle had
iltehned the ri vensibility or sets (outwitted on it. territory
by the officers of the Austrian army of uccupraion, now
lii!ly accepto that prpouribility ; art a luile espr,ring its
revel.. at what has passed, it mora; In pay the indemnity
claimed—in a woad, it itiv, a foil -ati=farteat to the E.'. P... 1
env r.ancot, furl r mi,cluently 1!u tlip:.• tall I,l“ti m, m:tii
In.cany, whit it Engl ind nitrates, it to interrupt, are
m.ititained, and the &Wish legation will remain at Flo-
niece. These !sluts an. istt&raltl to tlio effort of Sir 11.
IStalstr."