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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE n.

ALL things terrestrial come to an end ; whether
dinners, balls, plays, sermons, festivals, or funerals;
not excepting even the canonization of the blessed
martyrs of Japan., whose saintahip has shivered at
the gates of which the HOLY FATuzz is the
concierge some two centuries and a half. The
ceremony in St. Peter's was a magnificently
" mounted" scenic display, such as no other temple

of the lyric drama in Europe could equal in splen-
dour of effects and richness of details. If the Em-

peter JULIAN bad been more of a modern
philosopher than an antique bigh-churchman,
be would have prophetically acquiesced in the

transformation of his Pantheon into a new

functional hierarchy, through the process of

dogmatic development. Nothing has been lost of
the old religion of Rome but a few names; what

remains is the sediment of a sensual and senti-

mental polytheism, peopling the sties with the

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patrons, and partisans, and patronesses of human
interests and passions. The last Papal Allocution
is purely Pagan in conception and design, if to be
Pagan is to be as far removed as possible
from the religion of charity, patience, and humi-
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lity, and from the worship which is offered in
spirit and in truth. As to the decorations and ap-
pointments, the wax lights, the choral music, and
the processions of embroidered vestments, man
has been the dupe of these antics and artifices
. .

ever since his dramatic instinct was awakened ; ever
since the soul became the creature and accomplice
of the sense. The Church of Rome has been admirably

served by the fertility of genius and art which
Popes who were tasteful and sagacious heathens
had the wit to employ in the composition of the
legendary story of the Church ; and it is with an
ill grace that foreign partisans of the Temporal
Power pretend a common right to monuments built
by Italian genius out of the treasuries of Italian
States. Indulgences, it is true, and occasional
jubilees, have in all times drawn ready money
from the pockets of the faithful to the vaults
of the Vatican, but these were not the resources
that built the Basilicas. Out of th'e quarter of •
million sterling collected last year in the name
of Armee pence from the starving poor of the
cities•of Europe, something may be available for
the wax lights, but the Papal mercenaries and the
Boraßox bauditti carry off the cream of the con-
tributions of Lyons, Dublin, and Southwark. Still
the ceremonial at St. Peter's, which shook even
honest Protestants with emotion the other day,

represents a good round sum, and to the profane
it looks uncommonly like one of those gorgeous
revivals which are expected to renew the falling
fortunes of the theatre. _ _

Nos togimxie► diltpr. When the lights are out
and the echoes of the chants and hymns are
hushed, and the devout are gone home, there re-
mains the Roman Question as menacing and as
plain as before.
Neither the Papal Allocution--certainly not
inferior in vituperative energy to any speci-
mens of the liter►ture to which it belongs—
nor the Address of the Bishops, which is but
an amplified version of the Allocution, touches
the question. Both would fain escape it under a
cloud of angry verbiage. Much of this voci-
ferous wrath may be ascribed to the abundant
inspiration with which every Cardinal, Patriarch,
Bishop, or simple priest, came charged to the Con-
sistory ; much, perhaps, to that confusion between
the two perfectly distinct questions of tempo-
ralities and doctrines which is the dominant fallacy
of all Catholic declamation on the subject. His
HOLIITESB mixes up the last German heresy with
the last French brochure and the last English
essays, and anathematizes them all in the lump.
No Protestant will dispute the HOLY Fzniza'aright
to condemn any book which he has no power to
burn, ►nd we dare say the Positivist, the He-
gelian, and the candid sceptic will take his
sentence without shrinking. It is only when
the HOLY FATE= declares the temporal SOTO-

reignty of the Holy See to be of divine origin and
design, that we ask whether the foulest crimes
with which the history of the Papacy is stained in
every other page are of equally divineldescent.
One would suppose that the history of the
Temporal Power during the last eight centuries
was a sealed book when we hear the " divine origin
and sanction" of fraud and violence, of murder,
incest, and adultery, solemnly affirmed from the
Papal chair in behalf of the successors of ST. Pyrex.
But the reply of the Bishops caps the Allocution
in audacious contempt of facts. The Bishops
ask how they could have fulfilled their duties
towards the Church, if they had not found at
Rome a temporal power such as that of the
Popes, entirely independent of any foreign power,
and the centre, so to speak, of universal concord.
So that to exist solely and wholly by the grace
of a French garrison is, in an inspired Episcopal
sense, to be independent of any foreign power;
and to be the instigator 'and abettor of incessant
conspiracies against the peace of a neighbouring
State is, according to the same Pentecostal
inspiration, to be the centre of universal concord.
Pies IX. denounces the detestable hypocrisy of
men who talk of a free Church in a free State ;
for though the Papacy claims to be overate from
all States and to know no law but its own, the
only freedom of the State it will acknowledge is
subjection, and the only independence of the
Church it will accept is domination. Such
no doubt has been the clerical theory in
all times and places ; but when the theory
sits in the seat of government it ceases to be
harmless. HOLY FATHER and Bishops, however,
are careful to remind all Sovereigns that the cause

of the Temporal Power is the reuse di the sonar'
child principle in Europe, and that the eoresretone
being loosened the whole edifice be shaken.
In other words, arbitrary and lawless governmest
at Rome wu a guarantee for arbitessy go-

vernment at Naples, Paris, or Vienna. To
give the Romans a Government of their
choice is to deal a deadly blow to the
Divine right of all hereditary thrones.
It may be doubted whether this consideration is
not a little out of date. But we gratefully accept
it as an admission that the temporal power of the
Papacy is, like any other human power, subject to
time and fate. The Bishops actually believe that
the Court of Rome is combating for " the right& of
nations," when it depends for its own existence
upon foreign aid. Apparently the rights of the
Roman people, or even of the Italian nation, do
not enter into the episcopal account. But why
presume to take inspired Bishops to teak? True
to the character of the Government they serve, they
are equally unamenable to law and to common
sense. Rising at last to an exalted strain, they
swear to follow the HOLY FATHER " to prison and
to death." This is cheap martyrdom—cheaper
than the canonization of missionaries ; and we

apprehend these rhetorical confessors will have
almost as long to wait for martyrdom in our day
as the Japanese martyrs have waited for their
promotion.

" ESSAYS AND REVIEWS."

THE BISHOP OP SALISBURY B. DIL HOWLS= WILLIAM--

FENDALL O. WILSON.
Judgment will be given in these cases by the
Dean of the Arches at half-past 10 am. on Wed-
nesday, the 25th inst., at the Rolls Court,
Westminster.

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY E

Vbt Court.
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Her iLisoifiaid the PAnosss ittended
tiot-lody 1140isk Brass, talked ras this
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Primo of Wake and Princess Alien, uded by
Lay Chwwhill. Lieuh-Coloonl the Hon. D. de Roe, and
i Captain Crey, went to London.

The Viceroy of Egypt, atteoded by the Hon. Charles A.
Murray, went at 10 o'clock yesterday morning to Wool-
wieheommon, and witnessed the ranncenvres of the Royal
Artillery. In the afternoon his Highness, after partaking
of refreshment, visited the Royal Arsenal, and inspected
the Armstrong gun factory and other objects of interest in
the establishment. The Doke of Cambridge, Commanding
in-Chief, paid the Viceroy the compliment of doing the
honours of Woolwich to him in person.

The Duke of Cambridge hid large dinner parties on Friday
and Saturday at his residence, Gloucester-house, Park•lane.
A deputation, appointed by the Municipal Corporation of
the City of Dublin to wait upon Earl Granville, in relation
to the Dublin Cattle Market Bill, had an interview with
the Lord President yesterday et the Privy Council-office.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town yesterday from
Brocket-ball, Herta.
A meeting of Her Majesty's Commissioners ice the Ex-
hibition of 1851 was held yesterday at the Palate of West-
minster. There were present Earl Granville, the Duke of
Thicoleugh, the Earl of Derby, Lord Portman, the Right
Eon. E. Lowe, MP, Si. Alex. Spearman, Bart., Sir C. L
Eastlake, Sir R. Murchison, Mr. Thomas Baring, ALP., Mr.
T. F. Gibson, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Edgar Bowling, C.B.
may)

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A deptitatiou of the Corporation of Dublin transacted
busing= yesterday at the Home-ottice.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-dice
from the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, and the Austra-
lian Colonies. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the
West India Islands, British Columbia, Berne*, and to the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wan&

DEATH OF THE EARL CANNING,
G.C.8.-{THIS DAY.)

It is with sincere regret we announce the death
of Lord Canning, late Viceroy and Governor-General of
India. The melancholy event happened this morning. His
lordship expired at • quarter past six a.m., at his residence
in Grosvenor-square.
Ever since his return from India, about two months ago,
Lord Canning suffered from the change of climate, but at the
early stage of his illness it was thought rest and care would
soon restore his impaired health. However, notwithstanding
the best medical skill and greatest care, his lordship gradu-
ally became worse day by day, and during the last
forty-eight hours not the remotest hopes were
held out by his medical advisers to his friends. His
lordship rallied wonderfully last evening, but only for •
few hours. The Marchioness of Clauricarde has been in
constant attendance on her brother throughout his fatal
illness, and, it is almost needless to remark, is deeply affected
by his death.
The lamented nobleman, Charles John Canning, Earl
and Viscount Canning, of Kilbraham, county of Kilkenny,
in the peerage of the United Kingdom, was the youngest of I
the four children, and only surviving son of the Right
Hoe. George Canning (the eminent statesman) and Joan,
third and youngest daughter of General John Scott,
of Balcoide, county Fife. He was born 12th Decem-
ber, 1812. In March, 1837, he succeeded to the viscountcy
on the demise of his mother, who, the year after her
husband died, was crated • visconntees, with re-
mainder to her only surviving son. The late peer married
sth September, 1835, the Hoe. Charlotte Stuart
eldest daughter of the late Lord Stuart de Rothe-
say, and sister of Louisa Marchioness of Waterford.
He had the misfortune to lose his amiable sad
beautiful wife, who died on the 18th of November
last, after • abort illness, at Calcutta, during the absence
of the earl, then on a farewell official tour in the distant
provinces of India. Not leaving any issue,the titular honours
of the family become extinct.
The late Earl Canning, after undergoing the early
course of a sound education, proceeded to Oxford Univer-
sity, and entered Christ Church, where he obtained, in
1833, the high honour of let class in clerics and god
class in mathematics. He for some months had a

seat in the House of Commons. hiving been elected member
for Warwick in August, 1836, in opposition to Mr. Hob.
hones, on conservative principles. In March the noosed.
ing year he removed to the upper house by the demise of
his mother. On the late Sir Robert Peel taking office in
1841, Lord Canning joined the government, and
filled the pest of Under Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, under the late Earl of
Aberdeen.up to January, when he was appointed Commmia-
&loner of Woods, &c. He retired at the break up of Sir
Robert Peel's administration in July, 1846. Like many of
his political friends, he continued out of office till the helm
of public affairs was taken by the Earl of Aberdeen, in
whose administration he accepted office as Postmaster
General, which position be held from January, 1853, to
July, 1855, when he was selected as successor to the late
Marquis Dalhousie in the important post of Governor-
General of India.
In this brief sketch of his public life, adequate justice
cannot be does to the transcendent abilities be dis-
played during one of the most Critical periods of
our rule in India. From the outbreak of the
mutiny at Meerut to the final euppression of the rebellion,
he evinced uncommon energy end discretion, tempered with
clemency. Indeed, his merciful decision in regard to several
of the native troops whoa sympathies were with their corn.
rides in arms against British domination, was severely com-
mented on by the press of India and in England et the time,
bat now it is generally conceded that by the punishment of
those alone proved guilty of deep crimee,h• acted judiciously.
On leaving Calcutta, after administering the affairs of India
as Governor-General and as Viceroy for six years, he was
loaded with proofs of devotion from all clause of the peo-
ple such as no previous Governor-General had experienced.
Lord Canning received the unanimous thanks of both
houses of parliament in April, 1859, for his eminent civil
services during the mutiny. He was also made an extra
civil Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, in recognition
of the approbation of his Sovereign, and in May, 1859, re.
oared a further mark of favodr from her Majesty—be was
by letters patent created an earl. His lordship would, bat
for his premature death, have received on. of the vacant
garters.
The calls of the nobility, including the Earl Atwell, Lord
Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and nearly
all the chief members of the government, to inquire after the
health of the earl, have been very numerous.

By the lamented death of his lordnip the families
of the Duke of Portland, the Marquis and Marchioness of
Cisnricards, the Right Hon. the Speaker sod Lady Char-
lotte Denisea, Lewd and Lady Howard de Weldon, the Coon-
tan Dowager of Woke, Lady Stuart de Bethany, liss
Marchiooess of Waterford, Lord Henry Beatinck, the
tees (Dowager) Sem" Lord Dunkellin, &a, are placed in
1 mourning.