The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-09 00:00:00

• Iv kny Wars sir* Otto 1e your seder, r How
,aiwkoss. or of sr instructors, whit ere not
stor ithr!etd ul your society term say dirt et pest
11°'T.•. is I
034.

,er say tat.,ris in your society who ore e•I Or
die WWI .11l1011? Do thty all reside •iikia

de '`l; ~,k .utor everted to lettuce on all subjects; or is
, floret.?
110."'" sow newsy weeks is tbe yeoman leeturis piers
pow!
? wilt you state the average cumber rs
kly, end the subjects? How mac, ander-
isfni .3,01 mathematical lectures beyond arithmetic
to rte ovnt* tl Euclid and sl.zetnit ?
Kl,ty members of the college required to attend
rood** lecture* and are aey mesas adopted by the
:,,kge to ware p Stable attendance, by onaminatioa or
We"'
e.s .ou state bow malty lIIIIIMbetI of year foandatioe
Bi tow ratty ioaPpeodeat members of tine moiety are en-
- • los prteste tutees ?
0.:J.. cot $1 u state bow massy awlergeeduate member* of
..."„meie are now readies with pirate tutees?
sttan,tsuce at chapel is respired by your ma-
w,. Whit attendance is actually enforced ? and by whet
1. stteodance at abort ever 'slotted ass punish.
• _ . _

no •
Wns, r the nature and ntent of religions instruc.ion ,
‘,O is your .oenty, liistinguuning lecterns and sermons
411“ red is Otani, and gurniction given in other ways ?
Vwk.& is tho average amount of the bangle" of each
▪ ;YLdeat member of your society 1 What well lb.
pfbOt and what was the lowest amount in the year 1849?
row have the goodsees to supply the swamis-
owl irkh a wikklybattel bid of the , and
eth a quarterly Mittel bill for each of the four guarten of
sho of the average amount ?
4 What is the lowest yearly sem fur which you have
sc .o an andergradvat• to lin in your society ? What is
• 'west amount which you han known so uadergraduate
is taped from kis matricalation to hie graduation ?
D 3 you esnevive that Me soilage expenses could be
trivrially diminished ? If eo, will you Mate in what re.
trete ?
46. Is the college librery open to all members of the col-
Yr, sad what fees are paid to the library by each member ?
47. What Rumba of undergraduates is your college ca.
Fable of accommodatio g ?

kHDINAL WISEMAN ONIERAEcLiT. THE CATHOLIC
E

The following is the substance of Dr. Wiseman',
tro Mature, detivered pretudeg at St. George's, South-
wark. as the subject of the Catholic hierarchy :
Tim question of the Catholis bierarshy, oe Tether its
wary, may be summed cep Is a very few word". Its sob
wow is as follows : Cathode being, is roger to re ear
cic of their religion, al • booties of perfect *quality with
their fellow!sabjers (so at lest It was thought till a few
weeks ago) and being menials armor necessarily oasti
eltl, having been governed till now, under a temporary
im, by viers apostolic, lure weaved, her the whiter
lei:e.d and lordly recognised heed of their churls, a bier- I
inlay-that le, a toady of bishops having their ewe sad this
to thesis laglasd. Now, let it be orator, Mir the
ce use does not somata In this, that up till lately ealthaliell
eel so bishops, and now have Men; disk
I:ffff spoitolis were blibops with foreign titles. led
the Wm the Map we might easily have imegisse lbell
the church of Ilaglied,U till this the only episcopal Man
this alma, might have raised as outcry, at the man
sp. ttt4l,ol of imam body of bishops, whose Mammon so
ru. it, it dew see sow arms. tthis woo not the emer
it he her merely a "hangs of Mr, Bishops who harp
bre foreign titles, Mader Ski h itsally to gee
?with catholics, have sow waived 500444 tithe, Ma
ire vim of their *iodation is sallsd a dimes' imelesilds
Let ae as faro la detail what the smut of Mame*
a Mimosa Me prams WI Meer position a thes•
ie. Wile;
" I. Not one of &MI We resolved er will twelve say Biqa
trtmaatioa. Not est, la Maw ...wide, will be coo atom
a ri• a bishop than he was before. • 1
2 Not one enlarges or altars materially the limits end"
ittiesiestical jurisdiction. Soso few rosatleo are trellahriell
tram the limits of one firmer district to soother lent
se uely slight &raring Iron the prisciplo of sotiedgelihre
as 'Worts sate diereses
a. Not one obtaise any intreser power Or larbdiellim
i..r ..;erey, isr lett], or property, or WWI. CT my perm her
tt rig Ii scything, powers before held ire towelled is
Lamed.
4 N
it one probably will Maur his place of residence.
.. Nt one will gain, lay the Maar, any increase of
eat :sweats or of Sweats'.
•• u. Nut use musing, w desesis of aware' the slightest
a mato of rola prase, st additiou of title or
Imam.
high one roar wine ha ISM and as he was, and
est be was, with the sole change, so far is outward Feta-
1-at so, of the title whisk he hears. Re, for instant., who
vas Bishop of Harare is Bishop al Hirai. glum, where
I. has slogs lived M homer; he who wee Bistrap of Sarno-
am is sew of Benham, said will no doubt continue to live
Datlngeno, whine he has lived respseted by all, till now.
" Lad sew, let the err queries be, to whom or to what
any Warr threatened ? Is at to the state, or to the mil-
tier el this country ?
"Is the (*afro,. of idea. which has prevailed dadsg
the neat period of extremist, there certainly seems to
bre tom so thought of 444444 Ilinft this question, and Or
crisp, which of the two was is Mame. The uraal results
followed; eli were meted sp. sir the CT, embraced every
p era* or imaginable roil. It was the Wale in every de-
vilment, which was invaded by the Pupe's grata' to
e ,the he bishop" mere tithe in Ragland. The mown we. I
• oohed, in its prerogative. its suptessoy, he right to air 1
ei co, its very sovementy the rierimitios was term.
et! ied in its primeiples of Mil sir religions liberty; the
nation &toasted in its spiritual independtnee; individual
fee. dna j-operdiead by the intended introduction of iaqui
ti !On, of the oonfratomal, sod some retained tortes ma
a." ,ten the mint.; the church was endassered, and sad•
d. i.ly, after years of anatomists*, not may in ""i 9.1
e ~eh tort, bet ia brands of pasture within Its own pale. 1•1
ti., a meet of a desert, it has boon opts stetted to be WI
eitoolinely part of the constitution, that to mail it is MI
sneak Rogitsh natioaality ; its episespela rights ace ems
tro..cheil on, de universality of yuriedistion is the ram
Is.retied on ; and the tel
anaimely mated by It M
miltolies &brad. And finally tbis Nor all. Pressioathr,
a• n general sod omprehensivo fans of religiow, eta
coy divitiobs, has Wen insulted, atlacktd, throats=
roust pot to peril.
New, my Wallin., this is all bet a smell part of whet
hem said of this embesiaatisal Mange is ear body. Lodi,
set se pet it to poet commas new, sail it sot be mom 1
thing of vast magsitsele, of hugs power that amid as mete'
in so. ormew, ordure all these complicated end WS. '
ndow /diets I Ought it wit tab* • polit.eal verthossaw.
d a ee lector butricsove renhised, that wild thus rake
me stability of a vest empire from throe t i hearth, from
cathedral to cottage? Would sews of a foreign interim by
a vast essikeirsted army, waited Ina a wide conspiracy de-
tected at home, have dome more, at threatened more, or
alarmed more t Could there have Was in the event of
rah a eastarresse of forolgs and domestic Minster*, more
warm eaprossioas of feeling, more enthusiastic mutations el
emistasiie, men mateetration of power ?
"'Tea sow let me sok you another quit/don. Supper
that wows had told yea six mouths ego that the Bishop Si
Bums had it in his poem to throw UM vast empire Moo
tomorrow, to upheave, by ' the breath of his somas' the
mamba lowidatinm of the noble British emmelheithaill
shake to its bosh the throne of oar realm Hems.
tests wear' upon the affections of every *abject (Si SW
roe than of catholica); to despoil of Ito tights and pousegm
tiers • church whits as a thouessd mew is the vevy tube
ranee of the nation ; to emperil the eeligiou of the Bible is
all tis wrier derniatious, and fleetly to Introduce ill that
has beta a poplar bugbear in Popery Into your very fair-
lit.. -bed Immo told you six months ago that the Bish!!p
tit It me bed power to do all this is Weald, you • °aid
hew Leashed, yes, you would have laughed to sours the
man, who should have presumed to tel you that he hand
nick trmendow power.
" Ad if, by way of jest, or through curiosity, you bad
&skid tug fanatic who told you so, by what woodscht
wry, by what magical agency be could do all this; and he
hot roweled you: ' By • *crop of paper, whereto he shard I
desire the catholio districts of England to be there( irth
eallvd diiietra, smiths Bishop of Triers to be galled Bishop
of Bewley. and the bishop of 'floe to be seed Bishop of
Liverysel ; you word, lam sure, have rosidered the man
little beret thou an idiot, who nested or behoved in such
effects trim sack a cause.
ss Lad sit, sow that this has hew dame, all those terrible
campus/es we seen to Nye towed hall It: the nation
i. made to brier' that the Pope be. poisoned, sad Ws
**ached this tremendous power. Bat go bask to your
former cooler judgments, and through Mem look at the
Matta' aow abated, as you word lire looked upon
*ben spoken of aI *taro, and Toe Will ate that it to rift-
came to a't,ibute saes nighty notate to so simple as act at
e 'intimating jurisililtion.
" Aad in troth, my brethren, if the holy as. der parses
the power 'tinkled to it, we may reseembly isle+ that hell
Orris word be in proportion to the srawagth sad tikolli
which it inita.o into is sole. Tie sesdisg of • bishop in'. a
county, must be • more direct and effector exercise of the
stveseith, thou the chasm of UM; bishop's dismiss
tics. The crinuiicatiis to him as immodists awd permed
de legati- et fmra tiewelf, air plasiag him Mrs SSW of his
aciietir seaprrt of M. own inclividoellty,
an " offer Ego" would aerially appear to wag se e
mere direct whisk), to bear of the papal jrrisMMlp sod
streactii spin a worry, thus the appointmemt M It it
bishops constituter ai they ate in catholio rosaries, with
ttdlo•ry, net eatramilissey, powers. Awl aria We SOM.
ramie of each agents, the doubting of those active retro of
the. own power, would cram fo be a much awe alannlog est
It, e toe of alarm there be) than the altering the style and
title of thins alweely holding Moos vicarial °flew.
" But se : •a the present state of feeling it is not so ; It
wasot be allowed to be so. The Pow has named
where there were non• before, whether in Inland or the
color's; but it nattered not. He has bad ho views is'
this read and its d.pendesoies bishops with gam than
calvary Ineetties; vet no one heeded: them. Within them
few yeas he lies trebled their number in Ragland, sad
nearly twin Scotland, and still nobody gave himself comm.
But sow he Omega theft Wks, lad all England Is on /re
a' the , ao at the *apposed Widnes; of the deed?
to iit7:11110T• to give, or note to fear, than arteries ?
le a name mon powerful than jariedlation ? Dues mere
suetutth lie in a sound the la astir ?
"Moo I tell you, am yes have been mai. sad spats told,
that the heehaw as sow meetitsted, hare stratkre4
and on't attla;444l powers, rem pired with what t
bstoa i tad es to the Lopertases of the step takes log

ran ego of doubling the number of vicars apostolic. no one
who has obeerved its results will heeitate to el ow that to it
may be traced se it creased vigour of eaten in the catholic
body, sad a diffusion of catholic doctrine without it. But
even taking the question of semis, I have Namely any
cube that • very lee years, or perhaps aro n months as ,
bed the quee.ion been pot to the gr. at mass of the English
. people, • Wit's would you rather have to govern the
cetholic clutch in this ieland, the Pope's own arm, or
bishops belonging to the onentry ?" the latter would have
been preferred and shows, as being mere thoroughly native,
English, and domestic, and as implying in again at least a
km immediate connecion with that rest object of protestant
prejudice, the Pops of P. itne. Ind.' I, I have been usorrif,
siva what I cocuider excellent anhority, that even is 1799
Pitt suggested to Cardinal Erskine, as one good mode of
diminishing English prejudices in regard to catholic". that
the bishop, should owe to be vicars apostate, and become
Feted titulars.*
"Toroughout all this ez.iternent, one important element
aoilcialation, ono obvious goatee of deductioas seems to hovel
lass overlooked. Pisani epakere and writers treat the
mailer as if England were the only country in the world to
whisk tortoni sets, end atilt more certain pasibilities could
apply. TOiev overlook the esperience and tests of other vast
swaniden. They fart that there, are catholic aosutries
lelffliteasalie great vigilance over %hie-40re* aid arc as,
trso Ea glaad of either foroign or ecaimilatioal atatlonty•
ill= not to know that there we ease powerful
Winatries which have • gained populate's*, coatalaing cabals
Wawa and their flocks.
"Cam and reasonable sande would look at Oa weratift
Oahe catholic ',stun in both these, and thanes judge a
the reality of dangers asurunced to England by prophet,
of ital. Have not the people born threatened with 1b
bar a the inquisition. or other terrible institutions as hang
nuessary eoneeTiencis of the prevalonee of catholicity?
And yet Is there any inguiiition in Breit., in Portugal, in
*sal, in Melia, in any :f the South American republics—
mrsoiries szologively catholic? Certainly not. Is *NIP say
in Austria, in Baratta, in Beldam, countries with • sited
populainn, but with court, government, and majority mai. I
neatly catholic? Certainly not. Ton M it not men ism.
=ire to tell the people thst there is even the remotion
danger of the introduc.ion of ra so h • tribal into Hoglund,
if al planes in the woad. should it goon all :brooms wadi, ?1
Could not the people resist whet Is calla papal ts fanny, or
letaistia•ce in temporal concerns, as well as the natives of
Span er Portugal ?
9 plc all this as a suppiaiiirm as as imaginary ease ; for it
lenge ridlealigur to put it seriously to thinking MM. And it
is eel, to set up a cry, and to !ell people (I age a homely
but ezoremive word) into fanaticism, that interested proms
prettied to fear what they know to be. not ?smolt', but (to
age now • sees scientific palest) too distant to have •

prates.
' Apia, the tenon law is quoted es containing assertions
oppsssd tre the nests of the crow. or the prim iplea of Tied
law • and those, of nuns, are dangerous to Inglaad nose.
Wo;ld not fairness sad onamou seine dente, that, ea tide 1
law cannot by either possibility or fatality, he mere toned
on Finked this oa other coactuiss, so no more and be
feared *here sapposisk Wooshen, to mum to what (in the
tilled@ in piletioa) would be toe erase, than is experiential
is se easy other teastrin ? Let say op %Misfire p aid
ask is Belgium ot even in Spain, d
whether the Mobile Of
m
eine, rte up the people seas their mini sakes. es el
ground of a teat la the " Decrena," or the "Banns.
pates," or whether tba people or. edited by aseispaper, or
pamphlet extracts Iron the " Corpse 4aria, '. se it is called,
to prove to them that they matt withhold their spiriting
allegiance from the Pope.? What some are so key id
doom now, in this line, as n_ wise sad as pesatien, so it
would be is no win ILSOOS bil of aw, to take up the
Statatebook, sad pretend to typo oast the present pre&
tint state of the kw, from the esastmeat of King Stephen
and Richard I without any Menace to modern sawn.
meats, &dandies exploitation, Judgments, tacit rapids
by desuetude, or octets' WWI sad proscriptions.
• Apia oaths or declaration are beaten Sarnia is IP
consistent with the Sell dative in thou who take them.
It is not tar a mosseat Minted that the same oath lame
blest takes esetainly far at lead 700 pus, sad
math more, by envy bishop of all chrineadom, witrtssetrill!
ledge sad consent et their sovereigns and rulers, from the
Emperor of Annie ta the Pkeident of the French B.
puttee, without inlets, or Nitpicks; sad what is MN
with a senile lenses, on leaved of any recleraitie la
hietnry bevies inviolated bin allergies's, sad 'testified it by
that oath.
" Bat, my brethren, I will Pre yea two awn pulled
illuenstioas of Lek weal other sentries saa understand
the differemes botwesu ecclesisstien sad skit duties, sad
kaow bow to let each souse take of itself, without epees.
heading a million betweeetbem."
Mier Sties Ameries se as instant, the rev. rend/mil
Patinae':
" Bat es come to seethes' poseteseat Parer hems Is
Belgium there is an stare chunk The matvrlty of the
asses Is saheb ; the !tee la Lutheran. AU religiose me
equal ta the eye ef the law. Whim the essetry inserted its
isdepailleace it t_ was in the power of the satholits to kgis
late is they pleaed. But they asserted no preumineace for
their cheiree—thery Tethered freedoms to the poPen fetters
of the state. The Cardinal Archblehop of Malines sod the
bishops have no seat I. the chambers ; moss have they soy
tribusek el their ewe. The minisers of all religions are
paid by the , protestant' perhaps more than cetholice.
being a anted clergy. But the pvernment has nothing to
do with the emissive ot bishops et alergy, or other parely
eesieeketnal matters—it has ao entesdat with It ime. be
this respect the eleroy are la the same position as we ere.
Now let se no how closely the government can Mae-simians
the dudes, or, to gee • more homely word. ' the benison ' ef
wt, power, the civil soil the scolesisatiod.
" While Enelead was to the height ef its firmest. em
actemat of AS . papal eggrtesion. the Minister of Janke*
Belvism, who has chorus ot religious matters in the se.
Tenses, M. Teeth, thus spoke in the Choral,. r of
'rotative" OM 1100•41 Of CA.l3llO[lO of Belgium, Nov.
16th kat.
1 " ' Who', for example, to our patent position ? Oo the
ass head, the Pops hes the eight to peas, in Belgium, OA
many bishops as he thic In proper; toe:este u many detente 1
ime be pewee. What is the right of roversment P Tnat of
ast ping say men than it considers sufficient for the
waste ot ninnies. ..Aud so 'pia with regard to tawnier
eathedrals : the er;llenutical authority esa create tea, 111. 1
tees, tweak , la a dioct se. if it pleases; but on the other
Pk the government sew ens Its right of not pinkie 'slain
to meth thaa it weeders secessuy for the adtainsuation of
illemen.'
" Two months have now elapsed elan the papal letter 1
be belLthere haa beta Janet was issued; and the new
Ms mein oa their adniainnition for nearly 'hat
udder their sew titles. Ilse anything sinisur theses
arises ? Bees they ' tithed or tolled' In tt.e realm ef
Baikal t Hato they summeted protestants to their
efeedvmse P Have they tinned any portion of the revenues
II defah or state ? Are the dangers, or isysaioas, or es
polkas, so loudly deserafteed, SA yet in prospeetne ? They
were not *e
few the act iteell. If not, wait • few weeks
more, nay •• months, sad see If they paduelly unfold.
But il, after • further period, you shall Sod that all is as it
has beet, that the catholic church is this Wand keeps es
is its anal sad t yes coarse, and to kunst, liable, se pl.
vete, has segued, yes will perhaps come to the news.
able conclusion that religious question like them get
bet by
be lett to the wise skadard of jodgateat 'unreal el
uld by Gaaudiel Ts sees of Israel take birdie yeennees
what you intecd to ea, as touching these seek
_. . . .
And sow therefore I sty to you Telesis hest themmfiS4
sad let them alone; for if this °ousel or this emit be
Me, It will come to sought. But if it be el God, yea
sassed overthrow it: lest pianists you be fooad ever le
Ight against God.' (Acts v. 33.39). New legislative and
meats may be passed, as it tote beet 'oersted, whereby the
obnosion mad of sew titles may be hushed, sad the is.
of the StKOK be so longer elfeatkil by their atterthos;
sad then the sossimioa will eases of thelf, that the same,
1 tad an the dike, mused all the fear and the diepleaeun.
For no mope of henna leeks:ion se touch the safe
man, sued the epieltual and organic structure, of the
catholic body, or prenatally &reap its vital (petioles
Toe will bare to probe APIs most waded, itherinted by
every okra, religious or 'Mal you will have to disturb the
powand peessesion by milliest's of dearly seined privileges,
you will have to recosnasses the destructive work of re-
redlines latqaalities, the matasat you attempt to deal
with reikkas principles mid oteiviolloas or lathe them k
jut to external eoutraL Now the obldiesce which =ma
Whelk will pay te Ps bishop, the haul of sties
beide tegetlitr panne and loth, cannot be affected by aes
law • sad so loop as every cathodic, who eta months sr
obs;ed • Thar Aponolia of &district in which he lived, allet
will obey the bishop of a ast placed la another sous%
because the Pope has sassed that bishop, awl las transfused
km to his obsolesce, K ling m this is MS ease, all the sale
stops sad messee, and reality of the hierarchy will rein,
although he may ho under panties. as his lathers were, le
be nature been his bishop by his Wk.
"To enoluds, my brethni, the catholic rhea all IN:
first approach 61 • sew bishop to Ws me, *Porta tbat the
streets Waugh which he that peas he festooned wi-It gas
leads, sad his path strews with Innis For us, no doubt,
It hat Irea honer that nu road should ban bees hedged
with *asp, ant our Pk mows with briars. The more
deeply sad beeadly any wort been the impressita of the
sessoolio Pure surely does It some to as sealed of Oen.
The spiemegel dignity is tea elevation of fearful dada' tad
mapasiblinks; and it can Peer feel so safe se when the
height chosen for it by Providence is ea Calvary, rather
Oka on Ttiatiar. Thee do you, my deer catholic children,
O 0
sp year heads. I. humble hope, Is proportion as gibe. 1
des wed tribulation theta yeii. leave to the powertel
of a gracious tad pestle ettersiga, who loves all
4itbfol sublens abbe, the eaudiesship of your nett and
fagioos freedom anoe grantee you ; trust to the good setae
t f poor countrymen for • better andeestandist of your prin-
ciple', your tallow, and your menus ; bat Lek up to God
alone for the only blenuti white can make the hierarchy of
your church en this country fruitful in heavenly gilts for
sue soul', sad an intneseat of eternal salusios."

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• TM Magma com• from WI Iste 4r 342 a On }Eppsley.

Tat Csuics jx .What--Some asap Casio.
swam, says the Garsonsis M.rold, bare teesatly bow made
lath regard to odowiesal • mid other •etieritabie had., as
wear as to the mode is which official clerked dad." had of
ate bees discharged in the pariah of Lisededso. The
ri salt ef them dioramas, bee bees the resigesills of the
this ofbeistiog eicrgyses. This parish ia jest midway
betimes the opmeepal phew of Basel sad 73t. Assph, sad
Ib. notarial tithes bailee( ib this Arehabssices et theioseth,
is able' the yetrimage of the Onsets is inetstel We ere
not inforawd whether say ofliaiatiag elergymen has bees
•Pinieted by either bialsop es palms, but we have it ayes
sqmotiemible anthstity, though it woo masment day,
that S. Basely amicelsg last are alarmism acceded to
porkies theism senior, to the great essadal of IL. dwelt,
sad to the great &got el tlia elstehilsiiii Portia f like
?Wakens.