The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-07 00:00:00

A ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP ON THE PENIAJ

MOVEMENT.

Bishop Turner (Roman catholic) of Salford, has
issued a pastoral, in which he thus refers to the Nan.
cheater outrage:—" The sufferings and wrongs of Ireland
are indeed many and great. The church and religion d
her people, so dear to them, long proscribed ; anodic
church and religion attempted to be forced upon them;
the majority, who are poor, left to support their owe TO-
ligion and compelled to pay alio for the new religion of
the wealthy few, receiving in return only mockery and
hostility to their own. A necessary consequence of this
is a fear lest the paying Catholic tenant should pin a
power in the counolozhich would enable him to mid
legitimately the rel. impost laid upon him for the
benefit of his landl Hence, again, that want of tiny
of tenure and protection of interest in his holding if
which the tenant complains, and that absence of syn.
path for him which is called public opinion,' and which
in England cons itutes so great a check on private
oppression and legitimatised severity. Education forms
the subject of another wrong. It was long forbidden to
the nation ; and even now its advantages of rank, is
honours and emoluments, are denied to the middle
and upper classes of the catholic., unless they
be accompanied by a wound to conscience and
disrespect to their own religion. Add to thew tie
popular grievance arising from the causes which owed
such an unprecedented abandonment of home ; a deems
in their populations of two millions of inhabitants in I
years, and then no ooe can be mu:primed that such a as•
dition of affairs should produce wide dimatisfaction is
Ireland. Still It can never justify such deeds or cam
as those which we deplore. Widespread as that dim
tisfaction is in Ireland, yet so upright are her people
their native land, that in no part of her Majesty's de
minions do we read of assizes without a single cue d
crime for trial. It is to he lamented that the adoption, by
some, of these new and irrelious theories, so main
here and their application to this case should Lave led is
so Peat crime. For your part, our beloved derv, yea
have only one duty in this matter, namely, to continue to
teach your Sock obedience to the law of God, as laid dais
by the Apostle St. Paul in days of persecution and
tan. ' Let every soul be subject to higher powers; for
there is no power but from God ; and those that an am
ordained of God.'—Bons.xiiL L This doctrine of obedience,
however unpopular it may be in these days, is that et the
religion of Jesus Christ, who became obedient for es.
Continue to teach your flock their duties in society sad
to society. Impress upon them the sinfulness of belongiag
to any of those secret and illegal associations which am
bound by oaths. They are condemned by the catholic
church. They have been especially condemned by hi
Present Holiness, and, as you and your flock know, the
faculties" by which you receive your juriediotios do
not allow you to administer the sacraments to those
who obstinately adhere to them. Whenever it may
happen that your exhortation or advice so fail that
you are obliged to refuse the sacramental, have reams,
to Almighty God in prayer for those misled men, that He
may arouse them to a sense of the sin in which they are
e=ed. Teach them to pursue a legitimate object, the
of wrongs, the attainment of political rights, or
the increase of political privileges, by legitimate means,
and, even when hopes long deferred sicken and weary the
heart, still—to commit their course to the care of Heaves,
and to remember that here is the patience of the saints
who keep the commandments of God and the faith of
Jecins.'—Apoc. xiv. 12."