The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-11 00:00:00

THE POPE AND THE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.

In a private audience with which I was honoured
by the Pope, not very long since, his Holiness expressed
himself on the subject of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in
the following terms:
" It was wrong to suppose that I had intended to insult
her Majesty the Queen of England, or the British nation.
by establishing a catholic hierarchy in that country. I
look upon England as one of the greatest nations in the
world; and therefore I wished that in her relations with the
Holy See, England should be on the same footing as the
other great powers. Until lately there were no catholic
bishops in England, and the bead of the metallic church in
that country was simply a vicar apostolic. Thus, England
was in the same position in her relations with the Vatican
as the coast of Guinea, or any barbarous or infidel e tuntry.
A vicar apoitolic is an racer entirely dependent on my
will; and when Dr. Wiseman filled that post in London, I
might, without any previous notice, have ordered him away
to Japan, or to the interior of South America. The catholic
church in England was, therefore, at that time completely
under my e. nivel. At present the matter is quite other-
wise. In establishing a hierarchy in England, I wished to
pay a compliment to that great country. I wished that the
catholic* of England should have their own church,
punted and directed by their own countrymen ; and that
at should be no longer a simple mission dependent on the
Holy See. In establishing a hierarchy in England, the
power which I formerly held over the catholic clergy in
that country I then resigned. The catholic bishops of Eng-
land are no longer entirely dependent en my will ; I can
neither dismiss them from their present poets, nor mad
them upon missions to other countries. Thus, the catholic
church in England now belongs to England, and is no
longr in its former dependent position upon the Holy
eeg."—True French and English in Rosse, by P. O'Brien.

BUS-DIVISION OF Sr. PANCRAS PARISIL—It et,
incidentally mentioned dories the visitation at St. Paul's
yesterday that a bill would be introduced into parliament
in the approaching session for the sub-division of the parish
of St. Pancras, one of the best livings the dean and chapter
have is their gift, and at present held by one of the canons
residentiary. The plat embodied in the bill will carry out
• pledge liven by the vicar that be would be a party
to the re-imposition of church rates. The objects proposed
by the bill are int to reform the Board of Church Trustees,
making them a body elected by the pew renters of the
various churches instead of a self-elected body as at present ;
secondly, to secure pastoral efileiency in each of the dis-
tricts ; lastly, to enable the revenue derivable from the
church lands in the parish to be appropriated to the
repairs and other requirimidts of the church in
the perish. In MOO of the existing church
sib alliatiai : at the district churches
ettey all to he ' at the mother church
le Se great deerlammt staving service, there being some-
times es many es ad hems published on • Sunday, and as
army se 110 swerimps seismabed at • time. No fewer than
rebeemegssegse had Mien lime between Kidsummer and
lark. Wei se the rate of mere than 1,600 per
annum. The bill will set interfere with the municipal
rights of the vestry am permit the clew to take their
seats as me officio members. The bill has been referred to
• committee, with the following imperative instructions:
That provision be made that so compulsory church rate
should be made for any district or other church, unless the
same be signed by the two churchwardens elected by the
vestry, and that the vicar and said churchwardens shall
alone be ex officio members of the vestry.
MOVEMENTS OF THE DERBTITES.—The Liverpool
Albion says :-.... We understand, from the best authority,
that the Derbyites have made a move within the last few
days with a view to rammer the session in a
becoming an opposition prepared to do something more than
merely obstructive. To this end, as we gather from a very
competent informant, letters have been sent, some to Lord
Derby, some to Mr. Disraeli, but in the aggregate number-
ing not less than 260, from members of the lower house,
proffering aa unreserved support to those leaders on poli-
tical grounds generally, but more especially in a policy the
reverse of that which is supposed to have hitherto actuated,
and to be likely to continue to actuate, the present advisers
of the mown, responsible and irresponsible, ostensible and
actual, in respect to Russia sad the East. Besides these
260 avowed adherents there are also, we understand, some
20 others solo, for lack of a more distinctive designation,
we may call contingent auxiliaries, whose support on cer-
tain points is not to be held as binding them to any other
than a defensive alliance.
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