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Wt have alreadyezpreascdour opinion of that pro-
viso in the amended Ecclesiastical Titles Bill which
appears to authorise prosecutions for the penalties it
imposes at the instance of private individuals. On
that head we have nothing to unsay ; it appears to us
alike dangerous and indecorous to allow private
parties, who may be animated by spleen, or worse
feelings, to give vent to them under pretence of vin-
dicating the public interests and dignity.
In other respects we are as well pleased that the
measure has assumed the form it has. That the bill
has been affirmed in the Commons by so large a ma-
jority gives emphasis to the national protest against
papal encroachments. The seceding members, even
though they had swelled the ministerial mino-1
rity, were not enough to have rejected
any of the Truest e, amendments, except that
to which we object. They were sufficiently numerous
to have negatived the provisoin the third clause which
may enable any person to pursue for the penalties
by action for debt with consent of the law officers of
the crown: but they did not choose to do so. Per-
haps they flatter themselves that a pettifogging war,
to make the bill odious, or annoy any government
that may lie friendly to it, may be kept up under
the shadow of this proviso. If, by this means, they
imagine they can abate the hostility of Great Bri-
tain to the arrogance of a foreign hierarchy, they
will find thontwfres mistaken. In the main, the bill
only gives voice to the national sentiment, a senti-
ment which has survived both the storms and calms
of centinies, and is indelible.
It was natural on the part of ministers to make an
effiat to bring back the hill to its original form. No
men like to have their own peculiar views over-
ridden without resistanee. And yet, seeing that
Lord low. Itesstat ended by declaring that the
altemt• were not °lsiah am essential nature as to
induce 1 • to drop the bill, it could have been wished
that the SIMICITIM.GENEItII. had not indulged in
Ruch an exaggerated tone in his opposition to them.
Such siss,i d pleading may be tolerated in an advo-
cate, but not in a legislator.
The alterations, among other effects, will have a
tendency to accelerate the passage of the hill through
the Lords. The main obstacle apprehended to its
rogress there was an intention intimated by Lord
tiTANI.V.T to endeavour to render it more stringent.
That has already been done in the Commons by
amendments proceeding from his own party, in which
the Pas though reluctantly, acquieseed.'the
Mauls yites in the Lords have no pretext left them
for farther tinkering on the measure, and ministers
are not likely to renew the struggle in which their
chief has been defeated in his own house.
't he attempt of a part of the opposition to raise a
personal squabble when defeated on the 'merits may
be breach over in silence. tessera are proverbially
entitled to rail. The ultmmonfame section have no,
support Milling the Willy out of doors that renders
them dangenius; and the manner in which Owe have
managed, or mismanaged their case has lowered them
them in the opinion even of those whose prejudices
they representid or app algid to. As fur the few
lids sal fne front Itomanissing tentkawies, who have,
on some crotchet or another, seen fit to abet them, if
they have thereby injured themselves for a time in
public • stimation, we c mnot help it; but fur our own
part, the worst word we have to say to them is—
gar dahle .' oUINrNi its fisirr doss re gat r.
So far good. The law has been a.m.& clear and
incontrovertible in its condemnation of the assump-
tions or it foreign priesthood. And that the law will,
if nee' vestry, be caroms!, there tom be no doubt.
The Millie public feeling that demanded the enact-
Assent Or the law will insist upon its being carried
into (leis t. that this is only part of the struggle in
which the arrogance of the Itomish hierarchy, and
its ineurolty to understand the feelings of those
who base emancipated themselves; from priestly
domination, has involved us. The insidious and
open aggressions of blouse must alike be met at all
points.
We have noticed, on a former occasion, the attempt
of Cardinal Wisessast to evade the inesinvenient in-
guinea of the committee of the Commons on the law
of mortmain. Of course we are bound in charity to
believe it is not an accidental coincidence that hue
led to the CtltlMMer4 temporary abriellee from the
ersuntry at the very moment that the summons for
his uttentlanee us a witness was issued. it is, how-
ever, one of flame coincidences which people are apt
to regard as suspicisvas. At all events, it is neces-
sary that no pretext be afforded to his eminence for
throning dust in the eyes of foreigners, and persuad-
ing
them that he has in anything or in any way
been able to set at defiance: the secular authorities of
the realm. If he is to be allowed to remain in this
country. he 11111,1 lie compelled to appear before the
committee and answer explicitly all qaestions that
concern the public weal.
As for the projected Italian Church in London,
which the Poet is trying to stir up the Italians to
oubscrils: for the erection and maintenance of, that is
a time difficult and delicate question. Religions
liberty require-4 that all bees shall be allowed to
erect pions of worship and have public worship per-
formed in them. The Poet and his Italian
friends have as good a right to contribute to the
erection of a church for the use of such of their
number as may be resident in this country as any
other rect. Still there can be no harm in watching
closely the proceedings of a church which is avowedly
to be " governed by a congregation of Italian secular
priests founded at (tome, that the Roman spirit may
always influence the same." The time at which the
prospectus of this undertakiug is issued, and the
terms in which the prospeetus is couched, show that
it is part and parcel of the same hierarchical move-
ment, against which the legislature has been called
to do battle in passing the Eeclesiastical Titles Bill.
Experience has taught as that the Roman court al-
ways has a mutise even in its seemingly most pur-
poseleas arts. The Poets may have his Church built
—in Smithfield, if he pleases, as a weekly contem-
porary sarcastically suggests, on account of "its his-
torical aasociutions; and his priests will be allowed
to discharge their functions there so long as they
respect and obey the law of the land. But that law
they must obey.

THE returns of trade, revenue, and population
succeed one another so rapidly, that we hardly find
space to dwell upon each st•parately, and are eon-
minims' to look at their results in combination rather
than in detail. The decennial census for the three
kingdoms was before us on Friday. The report of
trade and navigation, up to the end of the first five
months of the present year, was issued on Saturday;
and, to-day. we present our readers with the tabular
statement of the quarter's revenue.
'lu, result of the enumeration of the inhabitants
of the United Kingdom is that, setting olf the dimi-
nution on the other side of the Channel against the
augmentation which has taken place ou this, the
entire community of the British isles is more nu-
merous by 600,000 than it was ten years ago. The
natural increase, it need hardly be observed, would,
if unchecked. have given us a population of between
twenty-nine and thirty millions. As it is we cannot
boast of numbering much above twenty-seven. For
while the rate of ptugre in Great Britain has failed
to equal during, the decade of lti4l-18.11 that which
characterised the three preceding peri4xls of equal
duration. the fearful drain from Ireland. more than
counterbalances two-thirds of the positive increase in
Scotland. England, and Wales. The slackening of our
speed in this respect in the more fortunate portions
of the empire: is chiefly, no doubt, to be ascribed to
voluntary emigration. Multiplied facilities of every
kind. and exhaustless varieties attractive for the en-
terprising. the impatient. and the venturous. have
contributed very obviously to this result. The alter-
native that twenty years ago sounded like romance,
and that ten years ago was still a matter of dubious
and difficult resolve, has come at last to be re,„mrded
without fear or misgiving, and almost nithout emo-
tion. Quickened postal communication, as well as