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London, England, 1867-08-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, TH RSDAY, .4 P: ST 1.

Mn. WHALLEY, M.P., appear.o yesterday in a
new place and in a new character. The place
was the Mariborough-street l'elite Court ; and the
character was that of a duly instructed counsel
discharging ordinary professional duties. But
though the Beene and the costume were different,
the spirit of the performance was the same as that
with which the frequenters of the House of Com-
mons arc familiar. It was a new phase of Mr.
WHALLEY'S great suit against the Pore, a fresh
form of his indictment against the Roman Ca-
tholic religion. A few days ego, as our
readers may remember, a mall named REM%
was brought before itir. TYEWHIIT on the charge
of selling an indecent book, and of causing
obstruction in the etreets. On examining the
work, the evidence of its indecency was clear to
the magistrate ; but believing, as he yesterday
explained, that the man was simply a tool in the
hands of others, he thought that the ends of
justice would be answered by a conviction for the
minor offence, and the infliction of little more
than a nominal penalty. The man was therefore
fined Is, for obstruction, was cautioned, and sent
about his business—a more reputable one, it is to
be hoped, than that which had brought him into
trouble. The Inspector who was on duty at
the station to which Rear e had been taken,
and where his books were detained, warned
bias that, if he persisted in selling them,
be would probably find himself in custody
again, and might be sentenced to three months'
imprisonment. Mr. WHALLEY, with an apparent
simplicity, but with a real subtlety which goes far
to confirm Mr. NEWDEOATE'S suspicion that the
letters " S. J." might be as truthfully affixed to
his name as the letters " M.P.," affects to believe
that the Inspector was authorised by the Magis-
trate to issue this warning. Whether Mr. New-De-
ll/ire be right or wrong, in one thing Mr. WHALLEY
is indisputably a Protestant. lie protests against
everything that Mr. Trawritrr has said or done,
or is going to say or do, in the matter of Ritacit.
There was no obstruction ; the man was impro-
perly fined ; he was improperly warned ; the book,
which is called " Thu Confessional Unmasked,"
and which the Protestant Electoral Union are
hawking about, is not an indecent one ; the law
is not what Mr. WHALLEY has made up his mind
that Mr. Tv ew litre is going to say it is. The infe-
rence from the whole affair is obvious ; and Mr.
WHALLEY, we are sure, has already drawn it.
Jesuitism has spread far more widely than even the
Marquis of WEST MEATH imagines. It not only fills
the reporters' gallery in the House of Lords ; it has
amended to the magisterial bench, and penetrated
into the police force. Mr. Teawnirr and the
Inspector at St. Giles's are evidently Jesuits in
disguise, and the Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian
Rifles, at whose complaint the proceedings ori-
ginated—to say nothing of Mr. WHALLEY himself,
who is giving them additional notoriety—is in col-
lusion with them.
As to the real character of the work which
Mr. Teavviurr, from what he saw of
it, holds to be " very indecent," and
which Mr. WualLer vindicates, we will only
ask why is it circulated 1 What are the features
of the Confessional which the Protestant Union is
unmasking I Are the contents of the book such
as by their purity in thought and word are likely
to advance the interests of the Church of Rome in
England'; On Mr. NERDZOATE'S theory of Mr.
We et EY'B character, motives, and tac-
tics this may be the case. On the
other hypothesis, it is just possible that
the Protestant Electoral Union may be making
that indecent which is not in itself so. We do
not affirm the fact ; and should be sorry to possess
the knowledge which would enable us to do so.
The " Confessional Unmasked," says Mr. TYR-
tinirr, contains "dirty " and " filthy " passages.
But, as Lord PALMERSTON once said, " dirt is
" nothing but matter in the wrong place." This
is sometimes as true in morals as it is in physics.
Works of natural science, of medicine, and of
law, as a contemporary has remarked, treat
of topics which are necessary and inno-
cent in their own place, and for the readers
for whom they are designed, but which would lose
that character if they were strung together, not
for the purpose of philosophical discussion, or of
professional instruction, but to create a popular
sensation. It may be so with the "Confessional
" Unmasked." Whether it be so or not, one
thing is certain, that the worse and more corrupt-
ing the book, the more reprehensible is the con-
duct of the Protestant Union. They snake them-
selves the partners of all its faults, and the instru-
ments of diffusing any pollution which it may con-
tain. Its depravity measures their offence.

THE NEW DEAN or CHIXTEIL—The Rev. Dr.
HOWIOII. fOrMellY bead master of the Liverpool College.
was yesterday formally installed into the deanery of
Chester.

The Archbishop of York delivered the opening
address M the meeting of the Arcbasologicnl Institute nn
Tuesday at Hull. In the SWUM of some remarks on tte
tltsgeortiou of the Holy Land, the archbishop related a
u remarkable statement which he said had been made
to him by Fowl Pacha, as to Atahometan belief. He said :
" A society has been formed for the exploration of Pales-
tine, and a fortnight moue I pleaded the cause of this
society in a loot interview with Fried Puha, the powerful
minister of the Sultan. who promised that every aid should
be given 1.. our explorers that WAS consistent with public
order. 'The Turkivh government; be said, 'is tolerant to
all; hnt the danger lies la the fanaticism of Christians
against ea -It other. We, too,' he added, ' believe in Christ,
the Son of God, the Word of God, born of the virgin,
*wended into &riven ; only the eruciaxion we do not be-
lieve.' That is still 'to Jews a. stuk.Lling.block, to Gen-
tiles foolishness.'"