The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-05 00:00:00

LO.YDON, THURSDAY, JAN. 6.

Tan Papal champions in this metropolis have had
their throw off at the Hanover-square Rooms, and
we must do them the justice to say, that when they
were in fall cry you might have covered them with a
sheet, so wonderful was their unanimity, when, by
the aid of vigorous whipping, they fairly got their
now to the grand, and ran their French fox to
earth. No Protestaat peek could have taken up the
scent with the mans high some or have ram so
straight ander the sear &advantages; for than
were at least half a doses fano put up—the Rm.
pone of as Yuma, M. Di LA GCLIONNIEII2,
Lard Pxuraanox, Lord Joax Rrsora.L. the English
press, Count CAuonamad yet there was no stEer
'hag or skulking. No, there are no each whips in say
Protestant hunt.

A faithful report of this meeting, and of the reso-
lutions unanimously agreed to, is to be transmitted
to his Eminence Cardinal Wiszmas, at Rome, who,
is his turn, is to report progress to the HOLY
FATHER himself. We hope it will be recorded to
our " intention," that we gars as fall publicity to the
proceedings as we could give to a Parliameetary
Refute% demonstrutim, or to the Volunteer Rifle
movement. What can any heretical journal do mote?
It can compress and analyse the pith of the speeches,
as we are doing eow,and diffuse the odour of sanctity
which they breathe into the vulgar air of English
opinion. What then does Mr. J titre BERKE, " who
"acted ea Secretary," contribute to the elucidation of
the Roman question ? He contributes two brief
benedictory epistles from two Catholic Bishops,
and a longer letter from an eminent
" convert," who leaped away because he was
in no sense an inhabitant of London." Lord
FRILDINO contributes a brace of collards from the
Vat.can, about "secret service money," and the
isolated position of Lord PALMERSTON and Lord
Joust RUSSELL on the Papal question ; but be-
yond the.. dainties be sends nothing but his
conviction that "the spiritual welfare of the
" entire Christian world depends on the liberty
" and entire freedom of its supreme spiritual Head
in other words, on the restoration of the Romagna.
to the government of Cardinal ANTONILLI by
the bayonets of France or Austria. The
immense interests of the entire Christian world
must be preserved at the expense of the Catholic
population of the Roman State*, and " liberty
" and entire freedom," being interpreted, mean
abject dependence upon foreign bayonets. Bet Mr,
H. J. PRIJIDERGASE WAS the great gun in Hanover.
square. He " began his political life forty years
" ago with DANIEL O'CONNELL," a distinction whisk
obtained this eminent " contemporary" of forty
yam' standing a round of cheers. And Mr. PEEN'
ITAGANT'S oratory is worthy of his early associa-
tiom. He piles up the agony like an adopted
child of Connemara. " lie had himself no fear for
Oh! Intrelltsny of the PorE, What Citholio
" could ;ear on that temp: 7 Lie irtX.
" Catholicity and the Weed of GOD itself if be were
" to doubt the permanency of the Pontificate and its
" power to resist al. the efforts to overthrow it.
" (Cheers.) No, there could be but one end of the
" Papacy, aid that would be when the last Patti!
" should restore to the hands of his Dirisie Master
the commission which He yore to the first. (Loud
" cheer..) The storm might huwl and the billows
" might rage, but the supremacy of the Pore was
" boned on the Word of Goo itself, mid if that fey
" there was an end of Christianity."
After this magnificent bunt we are prepared to
understand how it is that Mr. J. A. Paznnnoarr is
scaornisd far the safety of Christianity itself. And

yet it was reserved to Dr. litz.Ls to elevate the
diapason of the meeting a tone higher, and to
&elan that they were not merely oome to express
sympathy, but to declare that they would
the Head of the Church. The Pore was Zit:
et sovereigns, and his subjects the happiest of
=metals; and them were six or seven millions of
Catholics in Ireland, and about one-tenth of the
population of Great Britain, prepared to prove it
on any eameginey." All that is said or written
to the scenery (by Italians on the spot) is a
mere " cuckoo cry." Mr. Burr repels the charge
et disloyalty and divided allegiance as a
=limey, and by way of illustration he indulges in
a fine Papal sneer at one of the greatest of English
sovereigns, " the gentle ELlZABETH—(intata)
" the Virgin Queen." Papal loyalty, we observe,
is not like Papal tyranny, " retroactive." Nee is
Papal adulation quite disinterested.

Mr. Yotm defended the Irish priesthood against
the charge of having wantonly attacked the Em-
peror of the FRENCH "they had said nothing
I. against him td/ he had manifestly set himself
"against the Pore." Of history, as it is taught by
these Papal sympathisers, let as take a sample or
two. "Ah !" exclaimed Mr. Bann, of North
Aodley-street, "shame upon Christendom in the
" nineteenth century if the Christian Princes of
" Ramps, confirmed on !Asir thrones by means of
" the Popedons, should consent, in the principal city
" of the eldest daughter of the Church" (is he alluding
darkly to the Congress ?)" to hand over to the King
.0 SARDINIA the possessions which CONSTANTINE
"mad other Emperors gave to the Popes of preceding
• ars." Mr. BLEST'S history is only surpassed by
his urbanity. Speaking of the Congress, he adds,
" Who are the persons who are going to dispossess
• the POPE of his dominions? Why those are the
" assassins of Europe." (Much cheering.)
We are far from assuming that this language is
not becoming in the mouths of such prolamines of
history, such statisticians, such loyal Britons.. these
orators in the Hanover-equare Rooms. Is it
worth oar while to remind theme foaming gentlemen
that we are not living in the reign of HENRY IL, or
under the Popedom of an AD/lAN, who was so well
persuaded that every Christian kingdom belonged
to the patrimony of the Holy See, and so happy
to hear that the King of ENGLAND was about to
conquer Ireland, and, by means of a house-to-hones
visitation, to make it pay its pence to the sums-
sore of ST. PETER P Nor has France fallen back
to the days of a ROBERT, of a PHILIP 1., of a
PHILIP AUGUSTUS, ea LOUIS VIII. ; to days when
a French monarch was ordered to do penance at
Notre Dame, or to pay a tithe of two years' revenue
to the Holy See ; or even to days when exoommunica.

don was something more than stage thunder. Vicroa
Eitawroaa, too, has had exoommunication in the
fondly, and he is not much the worse for it. Was it
not an ancestor of his that told an envoy of the
Pore, who ordered all the churches in Sicily to be
ektwdt " Weep when they are shut, not when they
" are open" ? For the Pore of that day, like the
Pore of our own, faithful to the tradition of Perm,
" wept and denied ;" and our Papal sympathisers like-
wise weep and deny—history, Scripture, nay, the
very facts that are before their eyes. Otherwise we
might tall them. as they have been told before, that
the old denunciation of those who " feloniously and
" maliciously attempt to lessen or impair PETER'S
" patrimony " is worn oat ; we don't go to Rome to
pay for leave and license to commit mortal sin, or
even for leave to marry within the tables of consan-
guinity. We are not dumbfoundered by the name
of CRARLINAONE, or by his transactions with Lao;
still less by the transaction of CLEMENT VIII. with
the house of ESTE at Ferrara, or the transactions of
Jimtus 11. at Perugia and Bologna. We are
not desirous of citing chapter and verse of the
atrocious record of the " temporal power." Enough
to know that there is not a rood of ground in the
dominions of the POPE that is not stained with
fraud, violence, or forgery, and other crimes un-
natural and unspeakable. We would rather not be
swivelled to talk of " balls, and faggots, and tato
" keys," and all the horrid old rusty machinery of
that enormous imposture which has been tersely
dowelbsd as "an inverted apotheosis." We would I
rather not infuse a drop of • famous Pope's
confarella into the discussion of the Papal question.
Let those who will believe with Bs* LARMINE that
the authority of the POPE is supra jus, contra jus,
et extra jam Having swallowed that comprehen-
sive formula, what oan a public meeting in favour of
lie HOLINESS do more? When one of ALEXANDER
the Savetan's Corsican guards shot • servant of
the French Ambassador, the Xing of PRANCE
arrested the Nuncio and seised Avignon. NAPOLEON
TER THIRD ie not a Louis 1113 FOURTEENTH, nor
is Pio NoNo a Gazooat rite Silvana. Atares
Gimps sutra incurs. The Gospel, it is true,
'Revives, and so does the Vulgate I and if
the Catholic EILAUftle once warned the Church
that the Judge of the world would demand
an account of that legacy which was a pre-
' opt of love and charity, it will always be in the
power of an ANTONELLI to interpret the text,
" We have left all and followed Thee," as " we have
" left Soenwo, and administered the Lottery and
" the Mont de Piete." The " temporal power," we
are assured, is to last as long as sin and death. Were
we to demand an inquiry into its origin, we should
probably be received as Candid* was received by the
Dervish whom he consulted on the origin of evil,
and as Mr. MALONE was received by his fellow-
Catholics the other evening when he ventured to hint
that the HOLT FAIRER would be more comfortable
is Ireland than at Rome—on lui forma la ports
dill reef.

Till Trtiii GOVZINNINT AND THE SULZ CA NA L.
—lt is reparted in wan-learmed melee that N. de Leemps
hen seeded, Itsr the preset at all events, a definitive =ewer
Is his mimed appeals, or rather demands, to the Porte.
The imperial goverment, it is said, has intimated Its anal •
Mettile delnemintien to entertain no hurter applicationm in
th• metier di essilkting foreign interests and views on
the subject have bees In some way harmonised; sad
OM then, it gives no pledge whatever that its
even action will be intinacced by aaythieg but a
des sad proper roped to imperial Interesta--be the sword
that smay be 000811 to on the eubject by other powers what It
tatty. finch is evidently the true, as it is unquestionably the
most dignified, policy for the Porto to follow • end if its
peasant effect be to " satingai.h " de Lesset, that gen-
tlemen will probably hams very moth to thank himself for
the resell—oompulMve sad histories am has been his tone,

whiabas in bM <madam publiamTd " ballinias" on tie
saltioca, of In lila diva* paroonal conduct la tits proton.
tics of hio ocimaia—Loonos Bereid, Don 2s.

M.P., AND ?BE Alcanticos.—
Mr. P. Wilaboo, M.P. it Wezilird, who hoe witortlines
been ranked with what ie raid the Independent Opoost-
km was lately amused haring given up his lode-
Estimate by baying eeminid the poet of mussel to the
Moods wed Forests. Re mime to explain sway the
matter to McAdams Pltagereid. the With priest. HO sore
that • Mood of hls salad the appointment of (it Richard
Bothell, and got it by marmot past—" supremely and entirely
ia eamplimeat to airmail, and wigwag the allightem FIEF
rime to my political positive. I got It—teet leamee I wee
leammeeted with Wt.:lord—bat became I woe ommeeted with
Wdmahmeness ; and there is am • abeam of • ground for
glipatai Nat It in mi way oimpramdees political
positkin Ind ledejondereeth or that the solidtor tot ie Week
sad pinieme maid Inno way mcto claim to direct my mem
thine cov sem salkima who sham to gin me • kid." The
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