The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-16 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16.

Oita such pastoral letter as the Caarawsi.
ARC'HBISHOP'S recent effusion is doubtless an
ample guarantee for the peace and quiet of Hyde-
park. It is at least as much as we have a right to
look for from the spiritual master of legions of
Shillelaghs. A Cardinal cannot without a certain
sacrifice of dignity play second fiddle to Sir
RICHARD MAYNE, and lower the prestige of his
rank and order by preaching charity. As an eminent
literary performer in the domestic pathos line,
our CARDINAL may be congratulated upon having
drawn tears to the eyes of many simple Protestant
women by that moving apostrophe to the wives
and daughters of the children of Sr. PATRICK, in
which ho implores them to "cling to the arms of
" their dear ones if they attempt to rush from
" home to join in further disturbances, hang on
" their necks, weep, and entreat, and caress them
" into Catholic sentiments of meekness and gentle-
" nesa." This sort of thing is what actors call a
" bit of fat." It never fails to bring the house
down. With the British matron and damsel it
has, we hear, achieved a positive succes de lannes.
Cannot our Cisonial be tempted to repeat the
effort ?

We assume that the CJaDINAI.'s authority is in
all ecclesiastical affairs acknowledged throughout
these islands. We beg to call his attention,
not only in the interests of public order and
of social peace, but of that great cause of
toleration and respect for the civil rights of
religious minorities which our liberal forefathers
upheld and won, to the conduct of his "dear chil-
dren" at Birkenhead. This is not a question of
men condemned to nine years of penal servitude
for reading the Bible. In countries where
poor Protestants are in the power of Catholics,
they do but stay at home and read their Bibles,
and for this they suffer the punishment of felons.
In countries where poor Catholics are in the
minority, they sally out with bludgeons to smash
Protestant skulls, and for this they are punished
almost as severely as a hungry wretch who has
broken a pane of glass to get a night's shelter and
a crust. The contrast is instructive.

At Birkenhead, for instance, where Cardinal
WISEMAN'S dear children are found in large num-
bers, Catholic emancipation appears to mean the
right of a Papist mob to put down Protestant
meetings, to break the windows of Protestant
churches, and to prevent by violence the
utterance of any opinions but their own.
A meeting is held at Birkenhead to express
sympathy with GARIBALDI. That name is Ana-
thema Maranatha to Irish priests, because Gast-
BALDI would fain bestow upon the Catholics at
Rome the emancipation which a Protestant parlia-
ment bestowed upon the Catholics of Ireland.
Therefore, this mob of Irish roughs, carefully in-
spired by their spiritual directors, proceeded to
attack the meeting, and to break it up in
darkness and disorder. This abominable
outrage on the common right of Protestants and
Catholics in • free country was, it appears, in-
stigated, advised, directed, and applauded by the
local clergy, over whom, we presume, Cardinal
WISEYAN exercises some sort of hierarchical
authority. We make no random imputation
or hasty conjecture. Father BRUNDRIT writes
to the Liverpool Mercury to declare that a
certain letter which Dr. BAYLES had read
at an indignation meeting, professing to report
a speech made by Father BRUNDRIT, was a
calumny. The calumny consisted in affirming
that Father BRUNDRIT had called GARIBALDI •
viper, and congratulated the mob on their
glorious victory. Father BR CRDHIT repudiates
the calumnious report of his speech ; yet in his
letter he avows that he "did call GARIBALDI &
" blackguard. I may have called him a viper." He
suggests that "viper" would be more applicable to
" that ungrateful man," to wit, the Rev. Dr. BA YLZE.
The Father takes credit for having " used his ut-
" most endeavours to quieten (sic) the justly excited
" Catholics, and succeeded with Father GoLuis
"in dispersing them." He wishes it to be per-
fectly understood that he does not by any means
" lay the blame of this row upon the Catholics ;
" that if misguided fanatics choose to hold a meet-
" ing they must take the consequences," and that
if another such meeting is held, he and his col-
leagues will " not again act as policemen ;" in
other words, that they will do nothing to prevent
or to quell • riot. We thank Father BRUNDRIT
for supplying the key to the CARDINAL'S enigma.
Quoe ego, said the Cardinal, meaning the Garibal-
diens ; ud melius, he adds, meaning that he
must beseech his dear children to be quiet.
Father BRUNDRIT is a little " more Irish
" and less nice." That is all the difference be-
tween them. So that Englishmen, whether Catholic
or Protestant, are duly warned of the consequences
of holding a public meeting in any town where
a priest-driven mob of Sr. Pinnies bullies can be
got together. It would be • disgrace to the cen-
tury, and au equal humiliation to those who
granted and to those who obtained Catholic Eman-
cipation, if the cry of " No Popery" should be
once more raised—not as a cry of proscription,
but of self-defence—in • land where Catholics ass
freer than at Rome.

The first snow for the season has just fallen on
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