The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-23 00:00:00

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITABLE TRUSTS.

TO TED EDITOR OP TN■ DAILY NEWS.
BM—Taking a great interest in the subject of
your recent remarks on oar charities, and feeling that
every underhand practice is now going on to enslave
us, I lose no time in exposicg some facts which do
not appear to have come to your knowledge. A new
document is just announced from Propaganda, by
which Cardinal Wiseman is made protector of the
flourishing and hitherto independent College of
Ushaw, near Durham, in the nee diocese of He sham.
He is named protector not only in spirituals—a hum-
bug long practised with regard to such institutions—
but specifically in temporal,; and this by a foreign
power, for such is the Roman court. Ile intends to act
under the powers so conferred, and to adjudicate as such
in a dispute now pending between the college and Dr.
George Brown, the Bishop of Liverpool, who claims a
right to divert a part of the feuds of the college, and,
apply it to the purposes of a new college of his own
in Lancashire. The cardinal has ale:, we bear, ob-
tained from the same Propaganda a confirmation of
his lamas " statute" (lately published for the first
time in your valuable paper), by which he sub-
stituted his own authority fir the legal and
canonical powers and rights of patrons, incumbents,
and congregations. This is the avowed principle
of the Cardinslites—"We have the eFeritual power,
but we will rule by holding the temporal control
also." They care • great deal more about this than
about titles. It would be a great kindness to us if
parliament were, first, to secure to the courts of jus-
tice all matters concerning our temporalities—the
court ejecting priests, &c., when, and only when,
found, by canonical procese, to be canonically unfit;
and, second, to stop all intercourse with Propaganda
—a secret, exceptional, and aggressive tribu, al, not
tolerated in any real hierarchy, and only loved by
ours because guided by no law but what suits the
temporary purpose. No catholic state allows it.
Even the priests of Malta refused to accept its juris-
diction. S e long as we are under the intriguing Pro-
paganda peace between protestant, and cit holies will
never exist. Thirdly, all our bishops should be required
by law to be natural born subjects and elected by priests,
also natural born subjec's of this c;own. Fourthly,
the oath at ordination should bo forbidden. It is un-
canonical and against English law, and it leads to
great injustice. As for the oath of testimony in
spiritual courts, a solemn affirmation ought to suffice.
If government require information on these points,
let them ask such priests as Tnomas Macdonnell, of
Clifton ; Michael Trappes, of Hull ; Francis 'frappes,
of Hedon ; Tierney, of Arundel ; Mau Hogarth, of
Selby ; Lithgoe, of Tunbridge Wells ; and a score of
such I could mention; and they will see how easy it is
to satisfy reasonable catholics, and yet give full and
real security to protestants; fur I think that protet-
tants have a right to every security consistent with
the free exercise of our religion and the legal protco-
don of our religious, educational, and charitable esta-
blishments.

Propaganda, air, has given mitre after mitre to its
creatures, and now there is in England a party of
u tras, with Cardinal Wieeman at their head, pre-
pared to break through every obstacle in their way
to more than mediaeval domination. They have got
poor Mr. Langdale and his set into their snares. They
are now making a fess about, their titles. It seems to
me most natural to call the bishops what they are—
e. " Bishop of the Roman calli,3lies of Clifton, Bir-
mingham, &c.;" and I suppose nobody will object to
that.

Before these men interfered, the views of Rome
were moderate. But now she is acting under the
advice of her own ez officio prince and counsellor in
temporal., Cardinal Wiseman—himself a member
of Propaganda—alien by birth and educition—and
assuming more than a nuncio's power in a kingdom to
which the Pope is forbidden by act of parliament to
send any nuncio bat a layman.
The address to him, at, ntioncd in the Daily News
of last week, begins to circulate far and wide. The
clergy who signed it scorn the hole-and-eerner wotk
of the Cardicalites. Whether it will be backed by
many priests out of Yorkshire it is d:fficult to guess,
although many make no hesitation privrtely to give
the strongest assurances of their adhesion. Many'
however, plead—and many more feel—the danger to
themselves of signing, for they hold their livings at
the mere will of their bishops, who will probably
suspend them if they and them out. This foot is im-
portant, and should be made known in all quarters.
Jan. 20, 1861. A CATHOLIC PRIEST.

ROMAN CATHOLIC OPPONENTS OF
WISEMAN.

Translation of "An address and memorial to his
Eminence Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop
of Westminster, &c., &c., &e., agreed to by the
Itomin catholic clergy of the diocese of Beverley
in meeting Resembled at Selby, in Yorkshire, on
Tuesday, the 14th January, 1831. Tho Very
Reverend the Dean of the District being in the
chair."
"May it please your Eminence graciously to re-
ceive this dutiful, as well as respectful, address and
memorial. It is the address and memorial of catholic
priests, who take an interest in the re-establishment
of the hierarchy, and are, at the same time, strongly
attached to the free institutions of England.
" They implore your Eminence to use whatever
influence your Eminence may possess to establish such
laws and such institutions for their ecclesiastical go-
vernment as may be in accordance with the free con-
stitution and equitable laws of their country.
" They are of opinion that the ecclesiastical law of
every nation origin ally was, or at all events was
intended by the church to be, of this description.
" Oce of the noblest features of their religion
that its canonical institutions can and do accord with
the equitable institutions of the most despotic, as well
as of the freest nations of the earth.
"They therefore ask, and they ask with con-
fidence: 1. That their ecclesiastical constitution be
compounded of these four ingredients—the civil law°
of Engiand, the canon law (in spirituals) of the catholic
church, the common law, and the just and equitable
statute laws of their beloved country; for they are
convinced that these would constitute, if properly
compounded, a safe, salutary, and uniform system of
ecclesiastical legislation for the esthetics of England.
2. They deprecate all spiritual interference with the
civil rights of individuals, in reference to property,
knowing, as they do, the fatal consequences arising
from such interference, is a country where catholic
bishops cannot exercise any civil authority whatso-
ever, in order to carry out the sentences of spirituel
tribunate. 3. They deprecate the introduction of any
mere foreign system of ecclesiastical legislation, es
obnoxious to their own feelings, and as hateful to the
millions by whom they are surrounded and with
whom they are iu constant intercourse. 4. They
implore your Eminence to oppose the establish-
ment of any spiritual courts which may, in the
mode of their construction, be liable to the imputation
of undue influence ; such courts being in England
held in utter abhorrence, and in all countries con-
demned by men who have been nurtured in the prin-
ciples of rational freedom. 5. The memorialists
have long borne, bat they have borne with an impa-
tience subdued only by a sense of religion, the system
which has prevailed in the nomination of bishops.
On this point they now look forward to a complete
change—a change which may give to the governed
an effective affirmative in the nomination of those
who are to be their governors.
" Finally, the memorialists beg permission to
assure your Eminence that they anticipate a fa-
vourable reply to this their dutiful address and me-
morial ; for they are convinced that the contemplated
restoration of the hierarchy without these measures,
instead of conducing to the advancement, will be the
cause of the deterioration, of religion in England.
"And the memorialists will ever pray that the
contemplated government, so constituted, may be
long aid proep rotas in reference to your Eminence,
and in reference to the church, so long es the church
itself shall exist."

THE IRISH CHURCH AND PAPAL

AGOREMION.

The following is a copy of the address preesn'ed to
the Queen by the whole of else Irish prelatis :

TO Tit Qtrail.ll MOOT 1110111. LENT
flle booklets eldreas of ins onderolgoed ascheishope mad
b of the Uaited Covet of Ragtag d and Ireland.
We, the archbishop! and hiehope et the Irish rosiness
oil bishoprics of the Unitso Otani of Haplead and hefted,
wroa..h your HA.* y at this tree wit► the humble trader
et our duty, and the ezpr. area of air heartfelt parusipatkos
In those sentiments or devoted loyalty to the mown, and of
oast:skis attachment to the principles of the Reformation.
which the recent urcie.seing. of elks Bishop of Bone have
draon forth so ',wally frost your hi...jell y's orhjects to

Breland.
Tie sane laws el the eta:m wh oh hare Bade nue salted
kingdom of Groat Bmtair and Ir.laud nave no lest 'stabil bed
one u..ited enurch ut Zareal end Ireland ; sit the Ideal
branch of that united 'numb, as it has alwe)s Mao fai hfal
la the mAnteaeoo tif toe wane tf the kingdom, so Las it
ever been, sue now is, no kiss waist than the linen&
broach in deny it. lb, prettuausa of any " foreign prism,
penes, pr tete, state, or po:entate, to any rightful j.ziidie
boa, p4wer, superiority, prmeminenee, or authority, tie*
1141StiCat or spintuat, WlL'.3ll:_has

Tee meet 'Mn". of mesh a prevended tight by the Bishop
of IL., in conetiostiag a tenuous' hie revel in England
suti;ect to his eopreme yeti. is happily in that torn
as yet a novelty is that per.lon the ittegCse; but. ea-
kappa,, it to not the beet exercise of pteunmeas withia
the Wends of tee. kingdom.
fate Irelend, when the pert 'Wire of the mows is by
law one and the use so in Neglit..d, the Msbeps e 4 Blue
lave in.ale ago paned a estars• sot dissimilar to that now
sttentred la k. gland.
At th, period of the Meti.usation nearly all the Irish
Bishops etnosateed the papal authority; and at these the
pretest.' of the established chorea are iadrepwably the u-
glier succeesore. It wee cot until after the ispee of severed
dews that a new and mei epuerepate wan gradually intro-
ead by the pdpr.. 1,1111C.113169 oeudas to:laudable
th the stabile • ‘.l the united veurch in tnis country, besides
Obstructing of =eke known tee word of God,
Mid promote peace, in.ity, and coe.eorti among your Majesty'.
sahrets.
We have thought it 'honesty to advert to these well
karma ,ants relating to ireiaad, beeawe they seem to have
bees almost, it not altogether, lost sight of in the fad gun
yes which lies b,se seated by .be recent ectuapt of the
Per to taut tee like power is Eoplaati tlaeeeey appre-
hended"' have been awalteaed within os try obeerviog that in
the Wrest', rsoolailteso sad speeches which that told
reerdere has called teeth in It gland, oil th:t cowers
omit, oted bre beta tor the dos i,e and apical del. nee of
what Les been tailed, by a tit.* solutewo to the leo, " the
Church at E ,easd "
We an e, retuned, indeed, that the Misses which has
bees asetutai.e. ase re f. SAO 4, the ewe et the Irish branch
• the ...web u in 'moot isomers to he r. girded as
wooly Ike melt el the seemlier solicitude whisk men nate.
sally for U. part immediate!, assailed. and which, fur the
time, bealkes from noise iniads el; inter, et an, et imealection
of, every ether pert; and we sr* persuaded that it w
be strong to nitderet end it es conveying ant 'kb to divide
the muted theme, to any opinion ust, belts muted as it ill,
the interests of its tempureent pets may be no di severed
that sluts both are lop seed to the ease hostile power each
say be rudest to deiced itself, and, It es, that the
Omega may provide tor its own misty by metetking its
weaker sestetate. - _

We trust that • ire it maimity of those who have
•Ibwtd them. Ives fur a time to forget our pee in their
=sae', ob., at their own, must he aware team any i,e romaneht
donnard of it would be a gristv4ll, error to point of pruJonet
r well smut pristiple. But, know/Mid that ditleieot views,
with relerenc- to the sectesiutmal establiahnemit in the
IMO COW, are entertained by not • few in E.igl and, and
that some sem ill•coosi.iered compromise as we have Ramon, d
at a. actually contemplated hy them, we cahoot but feel
Marro at whatever may tend to give effect to su short sighted
sad rt.' a 'theme.

We are deeply imp:eased with the eonviction that if
bbs *so.. moue now existing in Ragland ware to lead to the
!adoption ut any Wafer' calculated to impair the integrity
al the 11, ited search, or the Otellipletenets of the union
the two patios. of it, such a peso*. (ling would in-
volve more feel it.rcry to the whole church sad to t►e
mitatry than soy acts of the Bishop of Room so any en.
croachuteats trom without could possibly effect. The Irish
breach mmtst, and pwb•bly would, be toe first to tuff ,r truss
sorb Wee pol cy, but the English branch would ultimately
be au less sun ly its vicuna And, how den fly a wound its
101 l w.uid i. g of upon all that constitutes the happiness and
!stratums of that favoured country, we trust it may Oct be
doomed to know by ual?pty
. .

e•.nhde, an-der 0;1'; guist proviLl2nc.., in y Ms
*W. •wins, guided sad supported by butte houses or
part, Iment, to sett' an such evils, by main•Lintoi int union
which happily eta between the two count/its, and between
the branches of Ilse church in born.

li..w the apricots* prue.rdings of the Ll:shop of Rome
Ought to I,• oiard.d agstnat and motto t r.crd, we do nut
presume to *l.. .t. Bat we are inn utts dge•ii.Ctly to Erste
that we huc. no desire that they should he nut by any
restral,ts sitecing the jut lights of COCKitIICS of any of
your filsitst)'s subjects.
It btattittO prger that, whatever may be the eofin-
lOvo measure dtterstintd on fur securing the national church
against injury, the two portion,. of it may not be regarded
Or treer rd as berth, se p date interests, but that one and the
same le.udivier prdttotion may be eatecded CO both br.nches
of the chinch in common

.19tlX O. AkMAGIC
RIcHAkD
THOMAS 8. )1111ATIL.

J. YILXOII.I, sl.rslw• and ARDAOU.
R Dmaar and Empums.
LOLoM ILU.LALuE asd CLoNIEST.
Tauxes ruin, am.
J. T. 0444M1T mad Yaass.
IiorISMT Cavan, to
JAMES COWIE Mad CLOTIEL
1101tERT DuMM sad COSMOS.
WILLIAM thasalca, AIIDISWE,aag
AOHLDOE.

The reply is es follows:
Whitehall, Jim 17,1151.
Yy L hare had Vie honour to lay before the Qeeen
the adores (trsi.smittid 1.. your grace's Wier of the 4:11
at the asibbistoos std bi.ho,rof the Irish ;wormers
sad bi.hopric. act the of Eiel..nd and Ireland
ea the subject of the messurce Liten t.y the Pepe to
establish a It man estholie hierarchy io this ; and
Ise to inform your arse. that this address was graciously
mend by ler klej.ny.
I hare the honour to be, ay lord, your trace's most
Obedient smut, G. GRKY.
Hie Grew the Lord Archbishop of Armegb.

ELECTION FOR FALKIRK BORGUIL—Wa under-
stand that Mr. George Loch ispeoenstini energy, and
with the brightest prospects of success, ha cane as of the
conttitut acy of the Falkirk burghs. There is no disguise
about him. His principles, feelings, and profeesions an all
decidedly and earnestly liberal; and, so a free-treder, a liberal
pvlitician, and a practical man of busioe.s, he solicits nip.
port. Mr. limed thinks it at present desirable and expedient
to effect a certain liberality of profession. Bat he is well
knows to be a keen and uncompromising tory, and, asi such,
be will be supported by all the tortes in the burghs; except
these wise, now that protection is extinguished, are willing
to sin their sot, to the superior intelligence, !rankling,
and courtesy of Mr. L ch, independent of party considere-
d ma.—Okomaams.
BOROVOII ter me Timm' HAMLITS.—A general
meeting ant delegates fr im the Kneel breath Reform .1110-
eisti.ms in the borough of the Tower Hamlet., took plate on
Turstl.iy et, sing, at the Temperance Hall, :tille•Hod-road,
for the purr.. of &blunting on the steps to be taken to
secure an efficient repro.. Indicts of the boron.th in the next
parliament, by members pledged to carry out the principles
of the National Return Amociation. Mr. Matson, a
member of the council of the National Reform Assoelatims,
presided, and the mantles was very tally attended. Mr.
Freese, Capt'ta Rose, Mr. J. )[stray Mr Wright, end
ether gentlemen, took port in tie discretion. The ant moo-
lades tome to arm to the ffect that the same of the present
repress etedien of the Tofu Hamlets should be slowly
masked in the ensuing minion, on all qurtions oonaected
with the reform of the repreverestion ; and the delegates
formed themselves into a permanent committee for this par-
pen. S•atements were laid before the meeting, showing
that the Tower Hamlets, on account of the great number of
est-lir,rparii residing in that borongh, as well sa of persons
?aviator a vote fur the county of Middlesex, had a direst
interest, not only in its own revel medal, bet also in that
of the city sot the county ; sod a resolution wae
mnaoi-
moeely adopted, rscogneing the importance of efforts tending
toucan the election of littoral members for London and
lisddh•sca, and calliag on the liberal voters resident in the
Tower hamlets not to support say candidate for thee, plass
• 'he drl not come forward on the principles of the National
Reform Association.
Rtrusuvrariou OF WEST KENT.—A correspow
dent says "An sunsets meeting of the liberal electors of
the we, ern division of this erninty is shortly to be held at
8:. Cray, at whisk it is ezpacted most of the leading
Teenier, of the district will be peewit. Mr. Hume, 11.1'.,
who r,:tird tor many pan at that plan, is exported se give
6.1 at:. n ',anal, and take part in the deliberations of the
meetin.i. the bjeet of whisk if to determine on the canal-
dates to I. brought forward on the reform interest, for the
western diTtiOCI of Kent, at the next general election. MY.
Jepson, of it. Ilisry's Cray, one of the most active sup-
porters of the Nations: Reform Association in that plea.,
bee taken meek pains in promotion the object of this mid-
tag, whisk is likely to be sin very inieential cliareeter."
BaDroaD Cotrsrr ELICTION.—CoIoneI Gilpin,
el ankh& Orange, his issued an address to the electon, in
wi bib he declares hinist!f " an uncumpronsiiing defender
Of des and just protection to native industry ia all it
kessekse."
ACCIDENT TO Loan SIIENDORNT..—A serious nod.
dent to Lewd Bherberne occurred on Tuesday, which, it la
said, will have Use effect of calming his lordship to hie bad
for many weeks. Hi.lordeMp, it !appears, wee oat riding
ore his writes with a pearly of ladies sod gee
Mareben of his family, when; eosins up to a get=
with thorns, being at the time in advents of his party, be
attempted to upen It. The bore's nose being by this effort
brought into contact with the thorns, he sprang soddenly
backwards and threw his rider over his had, the fall 00111-
liallinet a (radars and dislocation of the hip. Sergiol ski
was procured as speedily as possible, and, on examination,
the injury sustained was found to be of a very varier
alaracter.—CAellenhom Looks. •on.