The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

PAPAL AGGRESSION.

The Nuke of AIt(iYLL, on prmeuting a petition from
the corporation of filasgow against tatted aggression, said
that th. enittion in Stotlnnil on the subject was
stroog. oleo p, add pervading. 'l•he Roman catholic bishops
its Stottind in re vicar apostolic, hut he supposed if the
a•t of the Cape were to have passed unnoticed the reverend
ipontleman who would have been the cathodic bishop of
Edinburgh w ,ul,l have rejoiced in the title of Bishop of
Lymea. 'Then• had toot been many meeting, in Scotland
a. in England on this subject, but the great cities of
that lingdom had spoken out, and one of the
largo-1 nos tongs ever held in the gnat roamer-
tint tit). of Glasgow was a meeting on this subject
N •of the petition. from Scotts:oat had contained a syl-
lable against the synatlical milieu(' of the Roman catholic.,
because the synch people generally belonged to a church,
a. did hinuell, which admitted the right of persons of aU
religious persiceione. too regulate their oav affairs. The
atatumption of the Roman catholic-, however, that those
persons who aoltocatall religious treed.,,,, wets. bound to
tolerate tam) thing which their church might ay was al.-
Ce.ary far their government, was neither good in logic or
trier in fart. It had been hound neressary on the part of
every visit woo-ram nt in all tim, to curl, and retrain the
free mints of the Roman Catholic church -(1Icar)-and
11w petitioners pro, c•Ilell on the• principle that whetter, r re-
striction might hare limn thought nee, .wry on the catholic
hierarchy tin... past was nae•sar) now, fur that church
bad 10101111041-.1 • of h,, pretensions. (Hear, hear.)
A Homan catli old peer, on the hint night of the session,
had ...a me • tlin,e.ion the full extent of which he hail not
po rims•. call•lilatt.ol upon, but whit-A WA, most true, namely,
that the• Roman catholic religion was all onehangrahle reli-
gion Elle., hear.) The noble tart (of Alo-rdia.n) had
md, it,.' other night. that he treated this act of 'Nod ag-
gr•won with contempt, but he must remind the noble earl
that the Roman cathodic power was 004 a contemptible
power. (hear, hear.) It was still capable of exercising
great influence for evil, and required to, be guarded against
with all powilde CAR. Ifeeply as he should have lain
in, had to, deplore the events 01 the last ten days-albeit
they had shown, in the face of Europe, the high
pi Melt& tool incorruptible faith of the protestant
poloople of this country -(h..ar, Mitr)--yet, under
the circumstances which hall actually occurred, and

alley the opinions whir* had been expresaed by his
noble friend (the Karl of Aberdeen) near him, and which
• Ire lielitvol was *hoed by nearly sill his former cob
lisignis. he (the Duke of Argyll) did lint hesitAte to &else.,
that he rejoiced in the failure of his noble friend to form •
government 11. rejoiced that no government had 1,41.15
lurmd in tisin the bads of ~.sing over in total
silent. Ail set which Ind I. en proved to he an aggression
against the public law of Europe;—(hear, hear) —and
against the spirit, if riot the letter, of the municipal law of
(Ileir. hear.) Above all. an aggression on
whirl., if so passed over, otln-r aggroesions would infallibly
lollica.—(hear. hear) ••anil this country, in the end, be
plump .1 in the -Mlle retest, with this grievous ilis.ulvan-
tage. that she had been impaired by fatal m11%11.44°1/I and
fame-hearted iirquiesriasee. (Cheers.)
lor.l ISM it'lrllAM present., • jut tition from ('..rk
against the tr:erli-siasticel Titles Bill, which denounced it
a, a tsranional violation ..f the principh, of I ivil and reli-
gious !liberty, awl as opening a door for the plunder of
charitable trusts bothof which statements he denied, as
well a, iffiser all...cations in the petition of • similar cha-
racter. Hut he would take that opportunity of imploring
the ;roe mewed to 1T411.0. 1.11.. n. 'hay Ts-plied the advice
which bad larva given to them not to legislate at present
am this .sheet, hut to br satisfied with resolutions passed
by both hourses. This would allay the worst agitation,
sloth was tearing to pieces society on both sides of the
ebrignel. 'I he effect of such a course souk! be to postpone
tlw agitation and opposition whirl: would be prssicntssl at
every stage of the measure in the rithr r howbeit( parliament.
Ile thought, moreover, that an inquiry should Ise insti-
tuted to obtain more accurate information on the subject.
Ile had felt it to lie hit duty. agreeing al. hi did with the
prinetpls. enanciAtill the other evening by his noble friend
its,. Earl of Aberdeen, not to lose this opportunity of stating
it.. opinion he bad arrived at after must painful and anzisius

The Marquis of lIREADALBANK presented seseral
WM.'. whir'? the Pagel aggressism, and could assure
their lonlships that the people of SooLind would have
tolerated no such aggression. The noble lord did nut know
the feeling of the people of Scotland. if he believed that
dew wen- not opposed to the papal swgreseion; on the
..weary. he (I.ril Breadalbane) ...old elate that,
although there had been few public meetings in, and
few public petitions from, that country. the teeling was
renearkahly strong all over the kiiig.lont. Consider-
ing. however, the state of our informetion, he thought
they conl.l hardly come to a Cur and sound decision without
lurther enquiry. They did not know. for instance, what
were exactly the powers claimed by this t arilinal, who was a
fonsign temporal prints.. (Hear. hear) Altogether the
..beet was .10 complieuted, as, in his ..pinion, to ougge4 the
propriety of este-n.1.4 enquiry Allyre they preceded any
hardier in le,jislation. Meer, hear 1 There wen• institu
toms in this country connected with the Roman catholic
slum+ which hr thought were totally inconsistent with our
free institutions. Ile alluded to the nunneries—their,
hoer' • where they heard of young persons immure.'
la dungeons, and of some of them ottempting to
agape. (Hear, hear.) On this and other subjects,
be thought that the law of this ionntry should he
raide paramount to the canon or any other law, and that
every earl' should be taken to preserve the protestant inst,-
lotions of this country.
lewd IlltOrCill AM &nits' having represented the
people of Swollen.' as apathetic on the subject of the lope'
aggression. On the contrary. he hail instaneed the excite-
mem prevailing in that country as a ground for proceeding
by re...lotion instead of legislation.
The Karl of who was heard somewhat
indistinctly. rose to say a few worsts in consequence of the
misapprehension, and consequent suisstutemsnt of a noble
friend whom he did not then see in his place. Ills noble
friend had given their lordships to understand that he
(lard Aberdeen) had recommended that thie papal aggres-
ses. should be allowed to pans off without notice. aud in
sikmee. Now that was not the ease, for he had
meat especially mentioned, in the few words he
had addressed to tie• hoot: on a former evening,
that he thought the subject a very proper one to engage
the attention of governini nt. and even of parliament.
(Hear. hear.) And, in saying en. he alludel to an opinion
be had expressed hellos. thy meeting of parliament, to the
effeet that the proper moil• of dealing with the subject
amid. be precisely similar to that ressionmended by his
amble and learned Cristo' who had just spoken - namely. by
rigatutbm of both houses carried to the foot of the throw...
Ha did not think the %object a tit one for legislation, and
be was much mistaken if experbucs in that and the other
boomed' parliament did not very linen ionvinee their lord-
ships of the soundness of his opinion. They had seen that
the noble lord, who Win again at the bead of the „men_
sent, had already proposed to alter the bill very
maegially, and no doubt it would be found that
the futther be advanced the greater the difficult,. and delay
that would arise on the subject. The noble earl below him
had called him to account for styling the government mea-
sure • penal and persecuting measgre. Now, penal it cer-
tainly was, whither the penalty were a tine of hall. no a
ponied of imprisonment. The severity of the persecution
was another TICAtiO7I, bat he must remind noble lords that
persecution wia a very different thing at different periods
of history. People entertained different opinions on the
.ul4eet of perseeutim. Recording to tb • period in which it
was etereised. No doubt. Craton, r. wit• nha burned poor
w, •te`t fur denying Vie King's etre :navy deemed bintself
anything but • pent tutor, and Calvix, when he eintleme.s4
Sorvetus to the stake, had similar faith in his own mode-
ration. Indeed, he (Lora Aberdeen' very much doubted
whether Philip li. and the Duke of &ea did not look open