The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-22 00:00:00

Tlf*.,,ltp)REBE), , NOVEMBER 22, 1850.

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CAtentsiWastietet fit-sepsel to the "Reason of
the English People" is obis:ions to the reproach
uttered by ore of oar old law reporters against a
predsesseer% ease "it is like unto • Banbury cheese,
she segerlaides of which being pared away, there
ranalweth sot sufficient to bait the mouse-trap of the
laws" for its superfluities being got rid of, what re-
mise will hardly bait the mouse-trap of the argu-
ment; it is an avoidance of the real question at issue;
not an explanation, still less an answer to the objec-
tions to the Papal Ball.
What the CARDINAL had to establish was, firstly, the
absolute and pressing and unavoidable necessity of
that particular measure to the proper religious or
ecclesiastical meditation of the Romish church in
England; and, secondly, that its adoption is In form
and in substance void of all offence to the laws and
constitution, to the Sovereign and peope, to the tra-
ditions and feelings of this country. Now the CAR-
DINAL has very ingeniously, occasionally eloquently
proved a great deal ; but these two pAnts, in which
the whole question lies, he has not mode out Oa
the oontrary, he has shown that Rome might have
done all that was necessary for the complain of its
episcopacy in England, in a way. that weal Dare
been deemed proper and inoffensive ; bat that the
PorE, rejecting that alternative, chose and reined
the aggressive course of conduct.
The Roman Catholics of Ragland being by law en-
titled to the enjoyment of religious liberty, have, of
course, a perfect nght to frame their church and is
conduct their worship as they please; and as their
church is an Episcopal Church, to deny them an opts.
eopate would be pro tante to deprive them of some of
the liberty they possess by law. But this granted to
the CARDINAL, his ores on the present comics is
not at all advanced. For the admission refers ally
to his church, as it exists in England, vie., in mien
chapels and places of worship scattered at long and
distant intervals over the face of England. Whereas,
what Pio Noso has, by his advice, done, is to provide
for the adaptation and subjection of the whole of Eng-
land to the church so here and there jotted on its
surface. Had he simply given to its existing congre-
gations bishops, and allowed his bishops to have
grouped those congregations under the superintend-
ence of particular episcopates, Cardinal WISEMAN'S
reasoning would be irrefragable. But this is the very
reverse of the POPE'S measure; the last thing Car-
dinal WISEMAN would condescend to recommend.
The complaint against the papal bull is not, then,
what Cardinal WISEMAN affects to suppose end very
easily refutes—viz., that it perfects the natural and
proper organisation of the Romish church in Eng-
land ; it is what he evades and never attempts to
answer—viz., that it manipulates and deals with
England as a country, as if it were already subjected,
spiritually and ecclesiastically, to the Henan Pontiff.
Two propositions, the CARDINAL says, were laid be-
fore the POPE—the one to extend the Romish system
existing in England, so as to mast the wants of its
own adherents; the other to substitute such a system
as should be applicable to the whole nation of Rag-
land, nine-tenths of when inhabitants are not its
ad-
hereats, bat its opponents. The PorE rejected the
former, which would have satisfied the English
Roman Catholics and have given no offence to their
protestant fellow-countrymen ; and he adopted the
latter, which has outraged the nationality of the pro-
testant' and placed the Roman Catholics in a position
utterly false and untenable. In other words, the
POPE and his advisers have in England abandoned a
policy which was inoffensively expansive, and have
taken up a policy which is manifestly aggressive ;
and this change, Cardinal Wlessaiw would have us
believe, is the legitimate consequence of our having, in
the Emancipation Act, done an act of justice to our
Roman Catholic brethren.
We, as protestants, have no right to interfere with
the form of the Romish church in England; let it be
episcopal, prelatical, synodical, popish to the heart's
core, all that is its affair, not ours. Our duty is aria-11
interference, and that for twenty years we haft
'strictly performed. But duties are reciprocal. The I
POPE has a right, it is his duty, to watch over, YO
smear, and to comfort those in England who meg-
she Ida spiritually ; but there his rights end, there
his duties terminate. There iv nothing in his posi-
tion as the chief of a Christian church which can
bestow authority on him to interfere with the terri-
tory of England, to ignore its institutions, to legislate
ecclesiastically for his spiritual subjects as if they
made up its whole population, and to provide an axle.
audited organisation not for a few scattered chapels
bat for a whole nation, which already his an estab-
lished church. Assigning, then, to the necessities and
to the wants of the Romish church in England the
widest latitude—freely conceding to the Pone all
that authority which is needful to the proper organi-
sation of his church, as he sees that church, Cardinal
WISEMAN has utterly failed to show that the papal
bull is either limited to those wants, or restrained
within that authority.
True, Pio Nos') and Cardinal WISEMAN an sincere
Roman Catholice,believe that England will ultimately
mailers as a legion to their church. But that belief
dere sot entitle them to forget that at the present
thee England is a protestant country, inhabited by a
protestant people ; that their faith is alien to our soil
and our language. Let them pray for us, proselytise
us, as much as they choose; we will therein reesseins
lawful warfare against our protestantism. But Idea
they legislate for us they are assuming a victory they
have yet to achieve. And this is an assumption that
runs through this appeal to our reason. Now if nes,
be they princes or popes or cardinals, act under •
gross delusion, they have no claim to sympathy in
crying out "persecution, persecution," when they find
their delusion resent d by those it insults.
No one, that we know of, wishes to persecute the
Roman Catholics in England, or to deny them the
Meet religious liberty. We desire, on the contrary,
to live in harmony, in peace, and affection with them;
to know them only as fellow-countrymen, to be igno-
rest of their religious errors. And we know that as
a body they are annoyed by and deeply regret the
Wee of this bull. But our goodwill for them is not
Iniempatible with self-defence, when attacked, with
the repulse of aggression, and with, if necessary, the
punishment of presumption. Nine-tenths of the
Ipeople of England are not Roman Catholics; and
they will not submit to be treated as each ; they are,
under various denominations, • protestant people;
and they will not endure to have their faith treated
as heathenism by a foreign Sovereign ; they are
above all, an independent nation, and they deny thi
right of Cardinal Wlstuust to" govern," in any sense,
at the instants of any Prim, in any portion of the
Cluent's realm or the Quemes subjects.
The CARDINAL makes much of what Lord LYND-
HURST said, what Sir Roemer PEEL did, what Lord
Joint Renew. wished, and what Lord Miwro read.
let he Rime. the liberality and jostler of these
*die men when he advances them as renses far
papal neroachinent Nor is there, as he would ap-
peer to arra, any logical consistency between the
Ow=principles of religious freedom which they
when doing and perfecting an set of justice
%the Roman Catholics, and the aggression of the
POPS for the triumph of his chniah in England.
Freedom at home is one thing ; but an invasion of oar
neighbours' territory under the guise el freedom. Is
nether and quite • differeetthing. ILDE LAXARTINZ
rthfreedom to the world in February, 1848 ;
wea
when LEDRD ROLLIN connoted an inroad ia he
name into um, hi. DE LANAIerNe arrested the
set of brie .ge And so Lord LYNDHURST Rid
Lord Joan RUSSELL, without mole( on ward of
what they formerly uttered, osa kidielly resist the
outrage the Pore ham committed tender the deg of
religious liberty.
Nor will the CARDINAL'S clutch at faseating
thy be mare successful than his attempt* es Leedl
LYNDHURST'S consistency. Digesellom no re-
fuse to acknowledge the royal mummoy emirioi-
churches; so do the Romaabollt bid there the
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14ismerr 's &pond to the ramie of the
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people-will not alteralteror vary materially the
. that high tribunal had ghastly summed on
.Takl Ball ha has so incaidlously ativrlct and ss
addsaiously pfbeculgated. Nor, when 1 first to
last, it ignores the part Tractariinisin has yed in
this sad affair, will-it- awash- menses- his
for fair pleading before that people. Hp p.a firs
1 ha cannot quench.

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198 76; Paris and Roue, 607 60 ; Marseilles and Avignon.
191 25 ; Strasbourg sad Bale, 128 76; Bouleps sod
A 1161108200 ; Orleans sad Bordans, 387 60; North, 460;
Paris and Strasbourg, 941 25; Tears sod Nantes. 240;
blonUirssu and Troyes, 87 60 ; Dieppe snd ?temp, 157 60.

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