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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21.

IT has now bosoms incumbent upon every pro-
testant of tbis empire. to consider well, and by his
opinion aid in determining, upon what terms we are
to live politically with our Roman catholic fellow-
countrymen. For the last half century and more,
liberal men amongst us have entertained but the one
idea upon the subject, and directed their efforts to the
one aim, that of removing from the Roman catholic'
all those marks of inequality or subjugation which
were unfortunately, but inevitably, imposed upon
them, as the consequence of that great struggle, in
which protestant, made the principles of constitutional
lied religious free-dem triumphant over absolutism of
government and of creed.
During the half century's effort of the liberals
of this errantry completely to emancipate the catho-
lic., their prelates and leaders, both here and at
Rome, preserved, with some Irish exceptions, a policy
and a demeanour calculated to aid and strengthen
that effort. Had that policy and that demeanour
been continued, English and Irish liberals would
have advanced to the completion of the great work
by some equitable settlement of the church question
in Ireland. Cardinal WISEMAN, however, and the
present advisors of the POPE, came to the opi-
nion that the long, and brotherly, and fruit-
ful alliance, so long subsisting between ca-
tholic, and liberal protestant., had endured long
enough. Tney do not want protestant aid.
They mock at fraternity ; they fling alliance or con-
ciliation to the winds. A Popal bull, insulting to the
nation, to its history, its noble struggles, and its IN
noble tolerance, is flung in the country's face. The
most lofty of dignities is created, and titles assemed.
in the rudest possible defiance and discourtesy of a
Queen whose every act has been marked by liberality,
kindness, and conciliation towards the Roman catho-
lies, their prelates, and their claims. And when this
produces a national natural outburst, and a degree of
intemperate indignatioo, unavoidable under such a
provocation, Cardinal WISEMAN, who cams in
his own wolfs clothing to provoke, puts on
the lamb's for a momeut to expostulate, and inquire
what is the matter ? In truth, we almost prefer
the open insolecco of the Ball to the plausible and
feline humility of certain portions of the Appeal.
The gustiest, unfortunately, that protestants are
now obliged to put to catholic, is, it we straggle and
succeed in placing you on an equality with um, will
you, in turn, consider us on an equality with you P
We believe that there is a large body of Roman catho-
lic'. who would say, yes : and, as protestants,we would
desire but that one small and simple afermatices. We
would sink every grudge, and smooth sway every dif-
brine,. But the ultra-montane catholic., the Cr:i-
tem and the WISIMANS, do not want any such fra-
ternity, and s ill not tolerate any such equality. In
their eyes we are rebels, heretics: the great and
noble protest of the Reformation against errors, which
Roman catholic. themselves no longer hold, is looked
upon by them as a crime; and the great struggle
for civil liberty bound up with that religious
protest, which has made this nation great and
free as it is, that is another heinous sin. The
object therefore of these political Romanist. is
to ands all that we have been doing for
the last two centuries; and ea long as we aid them to
equality, they accept that aid, but merely sea step to-
wards re-establishing their old superiority and ascen-
dancy. With English cathnlics we might have equa-
lity and peace. Bat Dr. WISEMAN tells us that, in
air Catholicism there crabs no "Italicize' church." The
Oallican church of Louts XIV. and XV. in France ;
the Prussian catholic church, where education is secu-
lar and tree, atd where no prelate can be chosen by
the chapter unless he be agreeable to the King—Car-
dinal WISEMAN will have none of this. The
new rule of the Court of Reins is to grasp
all it an, immunity even from criminal and politi-
cal jurisdiction in Piedmont, and the same, no doubt,
here, as soon as there is power to demand it. Against
such a political sect as this—for ultra-Montane catho-
licism is more a political than a religious sect—it is
the duty of the state of England, even more than of
it. church, to make a stand.
It is ordained by statute, and supported by the law
of nations, of common sense, of national interest and
pride, superior and anterior to any statute, that no
foreign potentate shall have dominion in this country,
either to confer rank and dignity, or authority and
power. If the mortmain law can be evaded, the
weaklier. of the death-bed taken advantage of to
transfer the property of landed gentry to an agent of
the Pope of Roast in this country—ea we have
shown to be the case—it is for parliament to look to
it. If all education is to be rendered null, and if col-
lars voted by parliament for the instruction of those
who voluntarily repair to them, are to be denounced
by authorities appointed in this country by a foreign
wart, the same authorities can, in case of war,
take part with a foreign enemy against us, and
dissolve the people from their allegiance. All
these are the attribute. and characteristics
of a political religion, and though the state may have
nothing to command or prohibit in the way of dogma,
it cannot suffer a political imperium in irnperio.
According to some, all these diffictilties and dangers
may be met by separating church from state, and by
rendering the government above and indifferent to
the disputes and authorities of churches. That may
be so, if the state retain the power of edscation, of
regulating the laws of marriage and bequests, of
monastic establishments, and of the temporal authority
of vicars apostolic. But in this case the state, however
aspirated from the church, would have to exercise a
stern resistance to the pretension. eta political church,
such as Dr. WISEMAN, with one foot on the Vatican,
with French and Austrian influence dominating
there, and with another foot in Westminster, would
exercise. Voluntaryism itself would not tree the stabs
from the duty of that kind of resistance which we
think imperative.
We shall not follow Cardinal Wlasleau into his
disavowal of the QUEEN'S supremacy, or into his
pleading that by the establishment of a hierarchy,
with; himself at its head by virtue of the Popi's 801 l
only, he has not broken say statute. This
will be for the law authorities to amide. He muerte
that all this was done by the desire sad petition of
the Roman catholic prelates and clergy. We believe
this to be the very reverse of the testi. The Bosun
catholic prelates and clergy in Beers' climbed no
such thing. They desired local Beim sal a na-
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