The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-27 00:00:00

THE BISHOP OF SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH
WALES, ON THE PAPAL USURPATION.

The following letter from the Bishop of Sydney,
to the Archbishop of Canterbury, ;appears in the Sydney
Morning Herald, of the 12th of May.
March 17, 1851.
My Lord Archbishop,—ln core hence with the request of
a very numerous meeting of the disesssa=oCattos
of the Society for Preatedug Cheletka end for
the propagation of the goad in havtip PIMA by
special summons, and at which I presided, en Mednaday
last, I forward to your Grace a copy of the s
which were then proposed and unanimously te. The
purpose of the committee in desiring aminions
should be thus placed before your Grace was thereby to ex-
hibit to the church at large a solemn record of their ad-
herence to those principles, upon which, in 1843, I grounded
my public protest against the intrusive exercise by the see
of Rome of any ecclesiastical jurisdiction or authority within
her Majesty's realm. It will, I have no doubt, add much
to the weight of the sentiments expressed in these resolutions
when I inform your Grace that, so far as by observation
and inquiry I could ascertain, and as I fully believe, the
pinkie to them, (that is to say, all who attended the meet-
were regular communicants in the Church of England.
I have received no instructions from the standing com-
mittee to add any further communication to your Grace,
and therefore what I shall now proceed to say, is not to bo
understood as conveying any sentiments but my own. But
united with your Grace as I am by divine permission, in the
responsibility of watching for the security of one and the
same church, although in remote and in different provinces,
it would appear to me an omission of duty not to assume
occasion to express my anxious feeling as to the course of
policy which may be pursued in endeavouring to set
bounds to the spirit of afgression manifested on the
pert of the Roman Pontiff. It will not fail to
arrest TOW Grace's observation, as it has arrested
mine, that no sound of reproof, net even a
whisper, was beard in opposition to the pretension,
so long as he retire exercise was confined to the sharehes
within his sod pment diocese. It is only when it
towhee eel that the breath of remendianee is
raised sob* it. =which I dread is a
herewilh in the Mash et detente whit ceera=e
takes up—that is to as,, I ilinabi say
the adepts& by the state, Cr the assepameelnisblyled=s
of any ONUMMISII making to shay the Amiss& hems*,
to evade the MO by • =l/1•611/2
which salmi mim, might suggest mad
lar—sucka sasantre, I acs, as, wove it prehlthed blyC
an invasion et the soil of England itself, should pass Om
its murrains in all other portions of the empire, es 4:
leave them wittiest equalpeobsion from the
much submission, I wik• • :estrum 1871=1•16111
there would be no real sematy, and se piny,
according to the true owning ads* wad, In such a partial
application of the prinsiple, which, if mod for any, must
be good for all. An sitestive, and, I lWere, an accurate,
observation of events his led me to me eau dearly, and
to believe more firmly, the truth of an observation which I
made eight years age—that every enereadunsed OM the
spiritual rights end racter of the chunk of Embed
which dud have beemennived at, and so encouraged, if
not legalised, within the colonies, will sooner or later be
transplanted from them to Eagles& itself. Nor is there
much risk that injurious innovation upon the established
constitution el the Mara will be attempted there, except
wider the shelter seek coladel precedents. With the
of a Mika Is his superior, yet with the
beim whisk becomes the daft of a bishop, I Maw
them Newlin te the assideration of your OMs. I
ground the menestimi of them, not so mei has
anxiety hit ter the cisme of my own alai as
upon an enlarged censiderain of what is bee
for the holm wait, of eur entire commies,
as it eulogists in Beers& and In the eekies, and shield see
nothing but evil in a mesenre (amid say eachiar.llo
which would virtually separate the thank of hits
two sections. The me these, namely, the yd.
am within which the emiedestieel andeedV oldie BIZ
of Rem wank' be at least
as brew maim with a sib emselenes Is =sler the
sei of the Queen's soweiespihs ether seitrilk
brims h would eadinne fres kin Oh #4
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