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London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

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!ANDO.. WEDNESDAY. DEC 21.

The lay gentlemen of the Pepsi permission who.
In the comfortable seclusion of 18, Clifford-street,
have drawn up the Declaration of the Catholic laity
et Great Britain against the rights and liberties of
the people of Central Italy, enjoy advantages which
the great bulk of their fellow-countrymen have long
reef wilfully lost. In the first place, they are able
to emu a divided allegiance—to their gracious
Boresgios and the British Constitution on
the we hand; to the Holy Father and the Apostolic
Bee en the other. Moreover, they have been taught
hoe their infancy the use of what without profane-
ness may be called spiritual blinkers, adapted to the
eyesight of the faithful in a free and heretical
country.

These ingenious appendsges are supposed to pre-
serve their wearers from shying and starting at un-
accustomed objects, and from looking to tae right or
left of the infanitle road that runs before their noses.
Hence the limited scope, and tte narrowness of

certain views upon the Roman question. Were
these devout laymen permitted to look around
them they would be in danger of starting at
the absurdity of men is the full possession of every
civil and religious liberty meeting to denounce the
sight of three millions of their fellow-creatures to
emancipate themselves from the cures of civil and
religious tyrannies, and eager to offer a vicarious
homage to oppression and misrule. These select
representatives of the Catholic laity of Great Britain,
who MOO Aimed heaven and earth to gain their own
emancipation, are now loyally and painfully anxious
to rivet the fetters on fellow-Catholics who have
presumed to follow the example.
In virtue of the freedom which they owe to a
Protestant legislature, they present to the heretical
world the instructive spectacle of a body of
Catholics condemning the sympathy of Protestants
with the people of the Roman States. The
Club in Clifford-stmt complains of the person, the
character, and the acts of the Holy Father
being " assailed and calumniated" by English-
men, who presume to consider the citizens of
Bologna and Ferrara tolerable judges of
their own interests and welfare. One would
suppose that the .. hostile manifestations which have
" been so general on the part of the Protestant
pm" were altogether without an echo among
the Pors's own subjects, whereas the simple fact is
that the Protestant press has only recorded the
words and acts of Catholics who have suffered on the
spot the abominable misgovernment which it is so
easy for amateurs in Clifford-street to champion v
ciferously, at a secure and comfortable distance. We
should be glad to see any signature to this Declaration
more worthy of credit and respect than that of
Massimo D'Azzctio, who, albeit reputed as good a
Catholic as any layman in the diocese of Westminster,
has lately protested that the nearest advisers and in-
struments of the Court at home are notoriously a set of
* knaves who for personal profit have set religion in
.` a posture of direct antagonism to the dearest feel-
.' loge and most cherished aspirations of a whole
"people, and would rather see CHRIST'S faith
" perish in the hearts of the Italians than give up
" one iota of their pelf sad plunder."

We are continually invited to respect the delicate
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position of "educated and liberal Catholics" in this
country, who halt between their love of liberty end
their loyalty to the Head of the Church. But we
want to know why the scruples of liberal and edu-
laged Catholics in Clifford-street assembled should
be preferred to the claims of liberal and
educated Catholics in Italy, to whom the
Curia Rosana is somethiog niece then an imaginary
grievance? Why are we to accept the subscribers to
this " Declaration " in the Tablet as representatives of
..liberal and educated "Catholicism. in preference to
Rtcseotr, F*aiu, PEPOLI, and D'Azecimo ? A
slob of emancipated Catholics in Clifford-street
pronounces the emancipation of the people
of the Legations "unjustifiable," end attributes
it to the " open encouragement and secret intrigue,"
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the " money and arms " of certain European Govern-