The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1851.

FATHER GAVAZZTB FOURTH ORATION,
YESTEEDLY, IN THE PRINCESS'S CONCERT-

the household—a prosperous and happy community and-
dealt' swamped Ina deluge of blood, and visited with the
sword of Attila and the torah of the Huns. Let the tiger
look for et !apathy to the Spanith Cardinal Wiseman, but
the heart of manhood still beats In England, and ex+cration
tracks the footsteps of a scoundrel. (Cheers.) The first act
of the Gaeta gang of felons, when the burglary of Rome had
been accomplished, was to gag the inhabitants, and restore in
all its abhorred machinery that instrument or tyranny the
Holy Office. Can Wiseman deny this? Can he bresen out
the fact of ove► airy clergymen being at this hour in its
dungeons, from which hloneignor Osssola Ind Dr. Aehilli
have been miraculously rescued ? Is not their crime that of
which I am guilty, and glory in, having been chaplain to a
regiment of freemen bent on the deliverance of their
country? (Cheers.) Let this cardinal connive ao longer
at bis mas:er's handiwork in Rome—let him come into court
here with clean bands—let him bring for our inspection a
bull suppressing the holy office end its ignoble aCCCSIOTiI“
there, and then make his" appeal to the feelings of English-
men." Until then how can he expect to be locked on in
any other light than es a sneaking interloper, only w tieing
the fuiness of time to cast off appearances and stand revealed
in his true char imer—an ►gent of the Roman inquisition ?
It matters not whether the instrument mt at work be a besotted
mob of truculent and degraded beings from another island, as
at Birkenhead, or the circulation of calumny in sermons or
conversatienes or in print, the animus is the same—the
spirit of Torquernada only transmigrates into whatever foul
receptmle cast be made 'Tellable for its temporary accommo-
dation, till it can attain toll-blown dimensions sal sin
hounded sway. Men of Ragland, keep your eyes filed on
Rome. See the political and soeis: arcitquencet of what is
sought to be palmed off on you as a mere spiritual system.
M that prostrate and terror-stricken city, where a new
Disuenick his celled to the aid of his tiara another Simon de
Montfort; where the Betlouias and Algericesof France &mist
at the brutalising spectacle of a nation dragged Lickwarls
to the dismal phantasmagoria of the dark ages, blinded,
:fagged, manacled, and maimed; look readily at Rome!
We look, too, at oar beloved, bleeding Italy ! We have
learnt to measure the mercies as reaction, and we treasure
kp the hoarded memory of our WlOOO ; the day will yet
dkwn for retribution. (Cheers.) The wretched mitred
kids, the miserable eunuch of Florence, and the brutal
B.mbe, whom ten thousand lemilies is their daily an•l
sightly orisons to heaven curse with a wail of unutterable
woe, shall know the full extant of our remembrance.
(Thunders of applause.)

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Crowds of stern energetic-looking foreigners,
among whom it was not difficult to discriminate the
clarsic Italian restores of the majority, thronged the
varied assembly which the extraordinary eloquence of
this gifted clergyman has suddenly gathered round
him in the heart of London. The eager end breath-
less attention with which they hang on his every
word and the contagious bursts of enthusiasm which
ever and anon salute his outbreaks of true-hearted
sacerdotal chivalry form a spectacle of a most tate-
resting character. The fearless spirit of the Father
seems to revel and triumph in the sympathy of his
coaotrymen. The congealed and frozen feelings which
cad exile seemed to have pent up in the breast. of these
doomed and devoted men from every province of that
fair peninsula thaw and resolve under the warmth of
his pa+sionate and soothing oratory : or, in the words
of their own Filicaia—
.' Oade io begn►i per tenures' it ciglio
E del t o esiglio
Temprairamaro con quel aao doles donor
The speaker began by refereoce to his last address
on inquisitorial horrors, which he reminded his audi-
tors that he denounced al a Christiau, and not in the
epirit of Voltaire, though he fully felt what amount of
justification the scoffers at all Christianity found in
the abundant übuses of the papacy.

A richer comedy, in fact, than what had been put in print
about this tragic subject cord scarcely be found ern in the
celebrated " Alooran of the Franciecsus." There was a
certain friar Maud°, the poet laureate or official buffoon of
the holy office, who had loft us a work towards its justifica-
tion, in which the Deity was brought forward as the prota-
gonist& of this revolting farce, and the trial of Cain before
the antediluvian court of this (the blasphemy is not mine)
almighty inquisitor, is minutely describes!. The next cause
on his list is the process of the holy office against the
builders of the Tower of Babel ! Yet, brutal and disgusting
as this cespeoccinade seems to you, it is printed " by
authority," like the kgista .bsgkse, Mr. Bowyer's
" Raman documente," and intended for eirculs;ion
among readers of equal obtuseness and kindred opacity.
Yee, the yells of torture and the dismal groans of despair
were fitly mingled in the conception of this hell- born con-
nivance with the maniac shriek of delirious laugliter and
.be cold malignity of derision. The impious dreams of a
drunken shaveling are the fie apologies for the bloody satur-
nalia of grim Graleri (Pius V.), who k•:ew how our priest.
ridden mob is tickled by the combination of hangman and
Pulcinello. What priest of Jesus could stoop to extreme such
atrocious functions? Must not the meek charities of the
Nottleemer have been previously merged in the minister of
Moloch ; must not even manhood, the common attribute of
us all, been extinct in the miserable wretch who sinks into
the infamy of inquisitor, as the business of his lite ? A
kindred lustiest nu taught the Vatican what was well
known to the eeraglio, that eunuchs were the pet per bearers
of the bowstring, and alone could strangle their victim
without remorse or qualm, being de void of toe
petrel impulses of our common humanity : here
a degraded and emasculated class of priesthood was
alone found fittest, not merely to charm the effeminate
devotions of the papacy with strains of unnatural music,
but to gratify its thirst for blood as agents of this ignoble
and cruel institution. Laymen have the hnm•nisirg tits of
kindred, of paternity, Cl social life, of family affection. To
renounce the., holy endearments fur the sake of bettet serv-
ing the cause of Christ and mankind, is a plausible though
still questionable pretension: but to divest oneself of tne
domestic affinities only to become a m-TO ruthless and int:-
stable butcher of the Pope, is ao execrable outrage on nature
'as on the gape 1. Depth of degradation, foal feculence of
function, be which God's inneritanoe." the consecrated
pritsthoed is brought on a level with the Freddie and Nu.
donis of Rome, the Torresanis and the Bolus of Milan, the
Pernades and the Neuritis of Naples! Who ham not heard
the boat of Aarrro, sacerdotal executioner at Cordova, who,
in derision of alchemy and its scientific pursuits, broke forth
into the brutal and burlelque proposition, " Give me a J. w,
and row you in my crucible a residuum of sakes!"
To whom is the name of Cardinal Torquemada unknown ?
A church functionary, who went about, net like his master,
"doing good," bur, like the beast of Scripture, "seeking whom
to devour." Know we not well his path of peer:Hoz, his
bloody footmarks through our own peninsula, the South of
France and the Spanish provioces, leaving in each kinadom
such hecatombs of victims that the exploits of Den Juan in
a different though equally dignified and Christian lino of per-
formacce, seem numerically absurd.

CARDINAL WISEMAN AND THE ROMAN

CATHOLICS.

(From the Oteerrar.)

The statement that certain queries had been ad-
drtised to Cardinal Wiseman by • legal gentleman is, we
and nd, substantially correct. The letter in question
was written by Mr. Charles Pearson, late M.P. for Lambeth,
at the suggestion of certain members of the bar, wiles' ob-
ject was to found • prosecution ftr • misdemeanour upon the
admissions which it was expected the cardinal would maks.
It is unnecessary to say, that to this formal demand to
!tarnish evidence that would criminate kum,slf, no answer
was returned.

In connexion with this subject we may state, that on the;
publication of Lord John Russell's manifesto, in which he
announced that the law officers of the crown would look
into the law of the question, to ascertain whether there was
any ground for • prosecution, the cardinal at once gave
les:ructions to a legal gentleman of eminence to take the
necessary measures for tie d. fence. Some time having
Lapsed without any movement on the part of the law
officers of the crown, the cardinal's legal • viaer addressed a
letter to them, inquiring whether any legal proceedings I
were contemplated, and, if so, what form tile proeecuuon
would assume. Alter same delay, a reply was received from
the uoveroment, stating that it was not their intention to
institute env legal proceedings, the law Ia its present state
not being applicable to the act of the cardinal, and that the
question would be reserved for legislative consiueration.
We undenteni that a large piece of ground hes been
obtained by the It man catholic body in the line of the new
Erect now in canna of formation between the Houses of
Parliament and Pimlioo, fur the purpose of erecting a nifg.
Mficent cathedral, to called th. Patrick's. Victorinstreet,
as the new street has been anent it, will run through the
lowest and most debacle populated parts of Westminster;
the bows are to be palatial in character, and the new open-
ing, wade supplying residences fit bur members of either
branch of the legial , will be the mean. of affording a
more direct and commodious means of mesa between Buck-
ingham Palace, the aria tocratic district of Belgravia, mad
the Hoboes of Parliament, and will tend very far
terially to improve the ventilation and drainage
of that quarter of the town. The Cathedral er'
8:. Petrick will be the metropolitan church of the cardinal,
and will, when complutet, it a said, surpass soy bubding of
the kind yet uralettaken in this country. The purchase of
the ground has not yet been concluded, but all the nectemry
engagements are almost completed, end • very large sum
his been already obtained in suiveriations and cionatione.
The rumour that the Very Rev. Doctor Cox, president of
Old Hall College, is to bs, the new Roman Catholic lints?
of Southwark, is premature. It is not intended at pre-ant
to appoint sae bishop of Southwark, as there is a large debt,
exceeding 3,0001., still due upon S. On rge's Church, which
in consequence remains yet unconsecrated aid unfinished,
and until this debt is Iquidated the ecclesiastical 'Alain of
the district will be managed by Cardinal Wiseman, assisted
by the it.,. DJetor Doyle, the maior clergyman of St
Worsts.

In France, ye perceive, that there are plenty,
In Italy some hundred and tweuty,
but in Opus one thuueand and three"?
(Great laughter.) For the lust of blood is fully as becoming
in a priest es the trophies of profl•gacy. No septum sate
:roue these bell hounds; no shelter twin the Sonia Herman-
dad but en the grave ; and even thither the ghouls of the
holy office followed up their carrion•hunt ; dis,oterred the
deed, gibetted the reeking carcase, and rioted in cadaverous
prophanations. Had not the widow of John de Bravais tt •
pay enormous wealth to rescue him frcm posthumous curses
and residuary anathema, ? Were not the Jews at Anc )na
some few years ago mulced in MIMS of magnitude be Ore.
`fury's inquisitorial satraps ? And is not the same reign of
terror restored in every remote corner, as well IS in the
n.etropoli of central Italy, doomed again to be the prey of
peculation, the patrimony of Peter and persecution

The father proceeded to describe as an eye-witness
the aspect of matters in the head-quarters, or
"horse guards," of this sanguinary militia when the
Romans broke into its long impenetrable enclosure,
and removed the superincumbent tons of rubbish
which even the French in 1708 had not disturbed.
lie detailed the evidences which the demolition of
thick walls brought to light, the murderous traps fur
privre executions, the immured skeletons, the demo
wells where quicklime bad not entirely caleina'ed
the ossuary remains, the mural inscriptions still dimly
legible in the dungeon cells, and all the sad sugges-
tive appearances which in presence of a body of
citizens arid a notary public (Caggioti, who hoe been
since rotting in gaol for the performance of a simple
ministerial office), have been given to the public, and
bane all attempts at explanation on the part of the
hirelings who have lied through thick and thin to
peiliate these atrocities. The recent hook of Achiili,
" Dealings with the Inquisition," is equally circum-
stantial on these points : in Home to controvert them
would be simply ridiculous. Kindling with the
subject: the orators brought before his auditory
vivid and striking delineations of the fourteen
methods of torture in practical use, and forming the
orthodox machinery for extorting avowals. The
vigour and fervour of his sketches were powerfully
impressive, especially when he conjured up the image
of the crucified Saviour presiding over these Satanic
scenes—the lighted candles, the chalice of redemption,
the emblems of God's ineffable love for fallen man,
dragged down as monstrous accomplices of there
blasphemous doings. He thence launched into adescrip-
tion of the marriage festival of Charles of Spain and
Louise of Orleans, when torches lit up the nuptial
feetivity with • heretic holocaust at Madrid, and
painted devils on San Benito cape, fire and faggot,
friars and flunkeys, the shouts of a maddened mob
and the roar of artillery, announced that the church
had blessed the bed by which a race of sanguinary
idiots was to be perpetuated. And these wretches
went to Mexico to put down the human immolations
offered up to the idols of Montezuma! and this
" catholic majesty felt commissioned to communicate
such Christianity to South America! Well might the
untutored aborigines hesitate to exchange their
national system of slaughter in honour of their own
grim deities for such a preposterous propitiation to
the " Lamb of God" slain once and for ever to redeem
acd regenerate mankind.
Why do I dwell on this hackneyed and exbaus•ed topic ?
What practical bearing has the record of these bygone enor-
mities on your position and mine? Why do I enlist your
wilting attention to what would else seem a thrice-told tali ?
Oh, you understand me well! 'twee preposterous for Spain
to introduce the creed of Jesus into South America in such a
fashion, bat is it the less so to thrust the Popedom apes
Italy, which has spewed it out of her mouth ?—to intrude
with forcible and felon pertinacity oa the domestic hearth of
an independent coun,ry, and invest a clerical bailiff with
the masterdom of our household: to associate religion with
such offensive and degrading usurpation, and involve the
one in the unutterable loathing telt for the other. Have
you not hopes in your bosoms incempatibie in their
realisation wi:h the presence of a mitred king is
the heart of our once glorious peninsula? Have not
I an apostleship in the vista of futurity? Shall not oar
satiatel trieolour unfurl again its el•eristied tints under our
native sky, and scare once again and for ever the monstrous
emblem of twe-necked tyranny? (Cheers.) Yes, Spain
might as well hope to enthral once more the free republics
of South America as any European despot to keep quiet
possession of a laud that long trodden down has risen with
a sudden emindelee effort, and grasped for an hoar of
eatery the fruition of freedom. (Cheers.) The principle
of the inquisition is exploded and abhorred, true; but the
present combination of what are celled powers in southern
Europe is but a vile inquisitorial confederacy to force and
fetter the frielinp of men who will not be dragooned or
tenured into acquiescence of slavery. (Cheers.) Visons
and the Vatican may interchange civilities; Pilate and
Herod, hitherto at variance, may shake hands over the
immolation of Italy, but the hour of her resurrection has
yet to come, and the foreign soldiers who now guard her
sepulchre, bleated by the effulgence of her recuperated glory
will be scs,tered at the uprising of her independence—
(chern)—tbis is an eventuality which no Austrian inquisition
can eoarrol, no ;unsure of rack or thumscrew can retard,
though the hoary-headed Radetski preside at the clerical
council of torture, and Torquemada revisit us in the hideous
form of Haynie. (Thunden of applause.) Let others talk
of Hungary, and honors enacted on the Danube ; we know
what that miameaat's achievements were among aureole's.
The butcheries of Brewia cry to God for rummest—Babes
writhing on the bayonet's poiat--eur mildew brutally
violated—oar old men cloven doves within the sanctuary of

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following gentlemen
passed their rismination in the science and prune,- of medi-
cine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday:—
Edwin Henry Bolton, London; George Elie; Wuhan:,
Chapman, Sedberah.

MILITARY SCHOOLMASTERS FOR DEPOTS.—The
following circular, dated Hutu Guards, of January,
has lately Nun issued ►y the Adjutant General to command-
ing officers 1t hen a regiment to which a trained school.
muter has been appointed, is ordered to embark for foreign
service, care mug, be taken to select the hist qualified pupil
who has been att.-noir g the regimental school for the pur-
pose of acting as schoolmate, to the regimental depot, to
which it is understood the usual grant will be made on
applieatioa to the Secretary at War for the provision of the
prescribed books and materials required fir the use of the
school."

TUB VACANT COLONELCIEff.—Nothing bee yet been
dee.ded with telitranoa to the vacant coloneleies of the 23rd
sad 65th Regiments, although the form.r has now been
recant sines the 4th inatant. Amongst the names mentioned
last wet k that of Lieut. General Sir John Banbury, K C.ll ,
has bean named for one attic vacancies.

ADMITTING CRIMINALS TO HAIL BEFORE TRIAL BY
THI JUDOES.—It is stated that the judges have at length
come to the important determination, in all casaa wherein

applications are' made to them to adMit to bail persons com-
mitted for trial on criminal charges, to order the depositions
taken by the romantic" magistrate to be produced before',
them by the magistrate', clerk, so that they may be read as
part of the proceedings. This will, it is said, be the means
of preventing some of the most desperate thieves escaping
from justice with the impunity the former practices
encouraged.
THE TRIAL OF THE SLoANts.—lt his been stated
in several papers that the prosecution against Mr. and Mrs.
Sloane was about to be removed by certiorari into the
Queen's Bench for trial. We believe that this statement is
quite erroneous. There would seem to be no valid reason
for such a proceeding on the part of the amused. There is
no doubt that persons accused in this sort may apply to the
Court of Queen's Bench for a writ of certiorari to remove
the proceedings into that court for trial—a motion which
naturally is seld..m refused, and denied when sufficient
grounds are produced foe grunting it. The prosecutor has
the same right of applying to the Superior Court of Criminal
Judicature, but must, like the prisoner, show some just
and reasonable ground for removing the case from the ordi-
nary tribunals. The crown, of course, can always choose
its own tribunal, and can try any case which the law officers
originate, in any court within the jurisdiction of the sore.
' reign. But in this case the prosecution is not at all at the
instance of the mown, and, therefore, the parties are left to
the ordinary tribunals, unless one or other of them chooses to
apply to the court above to have the case removed. The
trial will, therefore, come on at the ordinary sittings of the
' Central Criminal Court, which commences Its next session
on Monday week (the 3rd of February), at the Old Bailey.
—Odom vet%

SUICIDE OP A FEMALL—On Saturday Mr. H.
Wakley, the deputy coroner, hell an inquest at the Bull
Inn, Whetstone, on view of the body of Mary Hoes, aged 34,
a married daughter of Mr. M3ulton, the landlord of that
house. The jury proceeded to view the body of the deceased,
which presented a sickening spectacle, the head being nearly
severed from the shoulders; and afterwards the evidence was
proceeded with. It appeared that in consequence of some
misunderstanding with her husband, the deceased had left
him, and taken up her residence with her father at the 'hue
tavern. She had been very low spirited end desponding of
late, but made no complaint. On Tuesday lut, while sitting
at dinner, she suddenly roes from the table and left the
room. Some time having elapsed, and the doomed not
returning, search was made for her in her bedroom, bat she
was net there; and was subsequently found on the floor of
her father's room, lying in a pool of blood, which had Bowed
from a wound in her throat, of such magoltade as only to
leave her head hansinc at the back of the seek, and an open
rust, taken from her father's case, was lying by her side
clitted with blood. A surgeon was immediately called in,
who pronounced life to be quite extinct, and expressed en
opinion that death mast have been almoet instantaneous.
Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE CHINESE EXHIBITION.
On Saturday ea inquiry was taken before Mr. Leathern,
the deputy coroner, at St. George's Hospital, on the body of
Thomas Tack, aged 23, who was killed under the following
circumstances :—The deceased, with other men, were engaged
at the works of the New Chinese Exhibition, at Kolghts-
bridge, and on Saturday afternoon commenced taking down
the scaffolding, when, as is supposed, one of the putlogs not
!stint properly released from the wall, and the scaffolding
resting upon it, it acted as a lever on the brickwork, and
tore down a mw of the wall, some 18 feet is length, by 2
feet high, which, falling upon the scaffolding, a weight of
three or four toss, the whole was bleed down, with the
men on it, from a height of 35 feet. Four of them were
taken to the hospital, but Took died on Thursday from the
injuries, and it was fouled, on a portmorrees examination,
that his right ma was broken, eight ribs fractured, one of
which penetrated into the lungs, and other internal injuries
sustained. The immediate cause of death was raffocatlon,
caused by the escape of air from the lunp. It did not
seem that any one was to blame. and the jury retained •
verdict of " Accidental dostb." The ethos sou ea out of