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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18.

Wit differ from the Bishop of Noawtcn, and
whilst admiring the liberal and conciliatory spirit
which dictated hie reply to his clergy, we think that
he makes too great concessions, and shows himself in
much too complete an agreement with Dr. WISEMAN.
We deem it quite fair that protestantism and cathc-
Beim should be put on a tooting of equality, and
endowed with similar or equivalent advantages in
addressing the English people, in seeking to make
proselytes and retain converts. But in the
rules and privileges for either side that
Dr. WISEM tv would establish, and the Bishop
of Noftwicii allow, we perceive that the catholic pre-
lates and propagandists have iefinitely greater ad-
vantages than protestant preachers, and, for our part,
we think that the state is called on not to sanction
this superiority of our religions antagonists, but, on
the contrary, to counteract and regulate it.
Tie Bishop of Noewien, in this quite in accord-
ance with Dr. Wetness, declares that no episcopal
religion an be considered to be tolerated " if we in-
terfere with its liberty to appoint bishops, to deter-
mine the it number and rank, and to bestow on them
any titles, provided those titles infringe on no exist-
ing rights."
This opens out a very large question, which in-
volves the right of private association. We can
imagine such associations for political as well as reli-
gious purposes. We can conceive the society of the
Jesuits established, endowed, and numbering large
bodies of the effi,iated throughout the country. The
rule of this society is implicit obedience to the order
of a superior, who takes the name of general, though
he wears an ecclesiastical habit. The general, in
issuing his orders, is known not to be bound by the
laws of common morality, or by respect for
common allegiance. Regicide was ksown to
be amongst the permissible and everyday acts
of this association. Now, with every desire to tolerate
the religions liberty of the Jesuits, are we bound to
recognise their general in his rank and title, thereby
implying a certain recognition of his authority acd
sanction of his influence, because the members of the
religious society of the Jesuits consider a dictatorial
superior, under the title of general, necessary to their
views, their aims, and their religion?
We have another example on the opposite side, of
the institution of Orangemen and of their grand
masters, which government and parliament have seen
reason to put down. But objertors will say that
these are political more than religious as-ociations.
Where, however, is the line to be drawn, and who is
to draw it ? For our part we e intuit see in • hier-
archy, and in the members of • hierarchy appointed by a
foreign potentate, claiming and exercising jurisdic-
tion, administering property, assuming and wear-
ing titles of authority, which the state allows
and the sovereign recognises—we csnnot see in
this a purely religious institution. Oo the con-
trary, we perceive, nay, we feel it to be,
in England, as in Ireland, • political one. Could
we consider Popery a purely religions institution,
we would not make it the subject of comment
er disquisition. As journalists it would tot concern
mi. But it is for its political and metal tendencies,
never more clearly, especially and universally shown
and exercised than at the present moment, tint we
diem it necessary to insist that rank, and privilege
and authority shall not be mum ded to different creeds:
in proportion to their assumptions and pretensions, in-
stead of being distributed with the even hand of jus-
tice, and with the disceri.ment that distinguishes
between tolerance of creed and worship, and patron-
age of intolerant establishments set op under these
pretences.
The strength of the Roman Catholic Church lies
precisely in its assumptions—its assumption of un-
interrupted and indefeasible title—its sssumption
of superior dignity, of greater powers of comminu-
tion, of greater powers of indulgence, of authority
over men's consciences in other acd in all matters, as
well as in theology. It constitutes, amidst an irno-
rant population, a complete theocracy, and by main-
taining the right to keep that population uneducated,
it mak, s that theocracy not only complete, but per-
petual. All that • pablio religious institution, so
powerfully armed as this, require', is a fall recognition
of its dignity and authority. For in fact dignity and
authority are the weapons with which it works, the
splendour sad the thraldom with which it surrounds
its throne are precisely the elements of its power.
For • state or the politicians of a state to have acknow-
ledged all this, and made royalty bow down to it, with
the childish hope of conciliating a corporation which
can never be satisfied except by the establishment of
each a dominion over all lay power as that which we
have read of in Paraguay, or was contemplated in the
Austrian or Roman states:—this we cannot but look
upon an the most exemplary instance, that oar time
affords, of the imbecility of statesmanship.
We can perfectly conceive the federal government
of the United Sates irnoriog religion altogether
in the domain of polities, and not only ignoring
religious establishments, hierarchies, and rank., but
at the same time all lay dignities and titles,
however derived : we can well conceive the govern-
ment of such a country as that retaining full power
and determination to educate, and to maintain all
=boot', from the primary to the professional, active,
and free; we can conceive each a government
to be indifferent as to the titles and rank of this
clergy or that. Bat in England, where rack is so
much; where title is so respected; where education
is non-existent ; where there are millions of the
destitute, the ignorant, the benighted, ready to give
ap that small fraction of reams, of conscience, or of
soul, that circumstances allow to be developed, to the

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boldest charlatan, the most bedizened dignituy, the
most fanatic tool,—to leave these multitudes of waifs
to the church best fitted to gull their ignorance and to
absorb it, and that under the plea of either tolerance
or political necessity, is treason against the great cause
of religious liberty and human progression, as well
as a confession of powerlessness and inespacrty
SD the part of rola.s which only proves them unequal
to the crisis.
There is no state or statesmen in Europe, save ours,
that did not feel that in recognising the dignities of
the Roman Ca•holic hierarchy they were conferring
a boon and sanctioning a power, for which they had
a right to demand a return and require a guarantee.
The ease of Prussia is continually cites, with
the dignities and emoluments which the state
there has secured to the prelates in the great
Roman Catholic districts. Nothing more true. Prussia
has instituted Archbishops of Cologne and of Mons-
ter ; but, at the esme time, it strictly prohibited the
Romish See from appointing Bishops of Magdeburg
and Berlin. This the Pore proposed and desired ;
bat the cabinet of Prussia answered, " No. You have
bishops at Cologne and Munster for use. You want
to establish them at 13-rlin and at Magdeburg, to
dazzle the poor and ignorant, fascinate the weak
and further the work of propagandism. Tame
bishoprics ye shall not have. And even the bishop.
rico we admit, they shall be national; they shall be
elected by their chapters, not by the POPE; and none
shall be elected or installed directly displeasing to the
government, and known to be hostile to the institu-
tions and peace of the conatry.o
Give these protestant realms similar guarantees,
and we have no objection to atar a Irish Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin as much honoured as the
Archbishop of COLOGNE. But the system of give all
and nothing have, invented by Irish Lord Lieute-
nants, in order merely that they might get

over their term of Viceroyalty with quiet end.
with &tut, not caring one lig or providing one jot
for the difficulties that are certain to ems* atter them
that is neither fairness, nor justice, nor statesman-
ship. And to pretend to pus it under the guise and
colour of tolerance or even liberalism, is the most
barefaced of absurdities. •

THE doctrine of protection has still a three-fold
manifestation, withered and shrivelled though it is.
It may be seen in the pecuniary selfishness, or in the
political craft, or in the silly vanity of its exponents.
Of the first, the Duke of RICHMOND is, perhaps, the
most flagrant example; for what he wants from pro-
tection is money in his purse. Of the second, Lord
STANLEY is the choicest illustration ; for what he
seeks by protection is merely to ride on it into office,
and then leave it to Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG,
who has, probably, • monopoly of the vain side of the
goestioa.
Selfishness and craft are wary, cautious, and politic
in their exhibitions; they mine and countermine ;
creep and crawl and burrow, but rarely make a noise;
never when they can help it. But vanity is perpe-
tually getting up a rarer show. In the morning it
may be seen fussing in ihe newspaper room of the
City club disturbing, and annoying, and worrying the
wealth, the intelligence, and the activity of London
commerce ; at noon it will be found sailing along
Cornhill, as if it owned all the shipping of the
Thames, instead of only occasionally repairing a few
old tubs; and in the evening it condescends to let
loose its msguilcquence at parish meetings in Lime-
house, or mechanics' institutions at Wapping. It
loves a lord, and worships a duke ; but it cannot resist
a snob.
Selfishness and craft know to a scruple the worth
of vanity ; so they leave it to itself. Desperate,
however, are the efforts, and ridiculous the tricks of
vanity to persuade the world that it is hand in glove
with selfishness and deep in the c3nfidenx of craft.
It wheedles and it bullies ; it roars and it sings small;
it is oe the point of letting out all the nonsensical
schemes of selfishness, and all the supersubtle
plots of craft ; but, just as the bucolic months
gape widest to catch the secret, vanity becomes
suddenly discreet ; and, potting its finger to its lips,
says, " it could if it would ;" the simple truth being,
that story has no more to tell than " the needy knife-
grinder, or the donkey on Clapham-common. It
knows as much as the one, and is trusted about as
much as the other. Selfishness may occasionally use
it, but craft won't condescend even to do that. Small,
therefore, are vanity's chances of getting into parlia-
ment ; and that is what it chiefly wants, and will do

anything to attain.
Mr. GEORGE FREDERICK Yovno's silliness has
brought him into a pitiable pass—one that really
ought to induce his family to look after him, for the
poor man is clearly not in a sane state. No doubt he
is harmless, but he may become troublesome as well as
ridiculous. We can smile at him in the South Sea Hones,
and be amused when he tucks old Lord STANHOPE
ander his arm to hely him up the tedious stairs of the
London Tavern. But what if he some day attempt
to close the Bank of Eigland, and issue a fiat of bank-
ruptcy against all Lombard-street—just as he has filed
a declaration of insolvency on behalf of all the
farmers in England, and threatens Queen VICTORIA
with a rebellion it some of his verbosity be not spur
into acts of parliament? No one wants Dim placed
is close confinement; let him freely travel between
Limehouse and the West-end, but by the New-road ;
if it be noractiesble, keep him out of the City : for it
will suffer in reputation by his egregious toadyism of
"persons of quality." The man degrades his class.
Nothing will Whey Mr. YOUNG bat grand people,
grand names, and grand places. He speaks for
eukes; he presides over " national" uscciations; he
writes his letters from the South Sea House; he
assembles his friends in a back parlour of no lees a
place than the London Tavern, and though he holds
it quite private, strictly a coi.fidential meet irg, he has
reporters from all the paper* in London to record and
publish their interchange ot nonsense.
And what nonsense it is! Helpless, hopeless,
heavy, dreary nonsense! Dull as ditch water—ob-
scure as a November fog. They have not made up
their minds what it is they want ; no wonder, then,
they don't know how to get it. Mr.Yottio desires re-
numerative, but not high prices. Whereupon Mr.
EAGLE a-ks " when prices ever bad been too high ?"
a question Mr. YOUNG leaves unanswered, though
when interrogated as to Lord STANLEY'S present
frame of mind he springs to his feet and responds
with eagerness and complacency, confessing,
neverthe less, that he has no means of making a cor-
rect reply. Mr. Twee, again, wants the poor
rates equalised, the malt tax abolished, the
tithe commutation revised, the county rates reduced,
the income tax got rid ot, and tenant farmers freed
front their leases; all of which somewhat wholesale
eusopreheniive remedies Lord STANLEY undertakes to
show " are wholly inadequate to the exigencies of
the present crisis." Such is the lunacy Mr. Youteu
presides over, and that Lord STANLEY 'nubs.
Mr. Yousu sprees, howsver, to have some hopes
that either Sir It. Petis death or the POPE'S folly
will assist and promote his nonsense. At the very
commencement ot the session, he announced that some
specific proposition would be brought forward in the
Ifouse of Commons, to test decisively whether in the
present altered state of ilia a sembly —" altered
in consequence of political and other changes to which
it was not necessary to advert specifically," there
was now a disposition to redress wrongs, &c., &c.
Whether this alteration springs from the loss of Sir
it. Pen, or the audacity of the Pont, it would be
presumptuous in us to say. But there are men left in
that house who will, we imagine, defend to the last
ditch, the legacy that great statesman left his country,
and who do not suppose that the protestant faith is
in any way connected with dear bread and empty
bellies. Delighted then, at the very notion that next
session the question will be put to the test, we very
much doubt Mr. Yousult authority for the statement;
and so do his own friends. For though Mr. Tooke
desired to know when this "specific" proposition
would be made—whether in the second week of the
session, before Easter, or after Easter—Mr. YOUNG,
food of answering, could make no "specific" reply
to so plain a question. And why ? Because he knows
nothing about the tactics of the parliamentary party
he affects an intimacy with. They are to him what
Mrs. Harris was to Mrs. (lamp : ‘. syringes to catch
woodcocks;" nothing more. There is not a Proteo.
tionist in Parliament who would not "cut" Mr.
Yount) dead, if he could do so decently.
"Vaulty of vanities; all is vanity "—that we see
already—" and vexation of spirit"—that Mr. YOUNG
has yet to learn; but it will not be long before he is
move to feel the full truth of the inspired sentence.
Every dog has his day; and Mr. YOUNG'S day must
be nearly over when he is compelled to spout in a
back parlour in the London Tavern.

SESENIOS TO Roms.—Mr. Bastard, of Kitley,
Devon, who bas just gone over to Rome, is the son of the
late B 'mind Pone:lea Bastard, E q., who about 30 years
since repeatedly contested, in conjunction with Sir Thomas
Dyke Attend, B.rt., the representation of Devons►ire with
the present Earl Fortescue, then Lord Bbrington, and spent
a large intone in so doing—one contest alone cost Mr. Bas-
tard 30,0001. During the long minority of the pretest
pervert, the vast property which he inherited was, by the
careful management of his guardians, relieved of its inns-
brawn. This gentlemen was early inoculated at Oxford
University with trutarias views, and was at one time in
infatuated, that he actually contemplated devoting a *on-
aidersble portion of his property to ecelniastical purpone,
under the belief that he was bound to restore to the church
of Ragland, any portion of his property that li‘d once
belonged to it. It was only by the urgent and repeated
remonstration of his friends that he abstained from doing so.

SUICIDE IN A CHURCH VAULT.—About noon on
Saturday the inhabitants of • court, at the bank of Aldgets
Chun*, were alarmed by a report of fire arms, and the
apprentice of Mr. Jackson, a hairdreemr, whom hence abuts
directly upon tbe church ard, observing smoke issuing from
the grating of the wevern vaults, crossed the yard te look
through, and then saw the lifeless body of the sexton, John
Smith, a man 60 yean of age, lying in the vault, with the
bad apparently. shattered to pieces. He landlady gave
nodes to the rime, and a most appalling spectacle presented
itself on the vault being entered. The unhappy dammed
had discharged through his mouth a pistol that was found
Isis/ by him, blowiest of the upper part of the head, and
mattering around the blood and brains. Upon the iequeet
held on Saturday night it was stated, that be bad for •
cossiderable time been in • dejected state of mind, in
moseqmace of the loss of his mite, who died about a year
since, i.*WIWI him wi b five children. and:within the last day
or two his mind had been mill funkier acted upon by the
fear of losing his situation, in consequence of his beide',
through forgmfalasse, left the church puss open at night.
Another reason for' the desperate eat was said to be the
calling off in boast fees eines the closing of the churchyard
by the Board of Health. Tha jury returned • verdict of
Wagerer, Insanity.