The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-18 00:00:00

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LONDON. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 18.

A Few days age the pablio wen Informed by
adeertimmeat that the Cardinal of England was
about to appeal to its Tod IMOD and liberality see
behalf of his sew biersrc y, throolvtitizedium of
a pamphlet the* " in the prem.' hie Bali-
asses has altered hie mind, we cannot say, bet oea
bin it is that, instead of the Cardinal in pence, •
lawyer has appeared in the lista, claiming to be heard
an behalf of "the Cardinal Archbishop. of Win-
n:Diem and the new hierarchy," and giving all the
world to know,' epee his title-pegs, that it is " by
authority" of those distinguished perweages them-
selvee that he oomes forward as their advocate.
If the more important pamphlet, that of the
Cardinal. is only postponed for the present, not
relinquished altogether, we can understand the wily
policy of putting Mr. Bowers forward to give, and
mauve, the first blow polemic. The layman navy
one as • sort of guide-post to the prelate. If his
Eminence finds that the impression produced by his
legal adviser is unsatisfactory, he can abandon his
lies of argument, and try a better. If, on the con-
trary, Mr. BOWYER has made a bit, he becomes at
wee a great law authority br the Cardinal to cite.
In the mean time, thole vague words, " By autho-
rity," on Mr. BOWTIR'S title page, whilst they bind
his clients to nothing, yet give their friends the right
to contend that the Cardinal has already fulfilled his
pledge, and vindicated the policy and prudence of the
late measure of the POPS.
That our readers may estimate the worth of that
?inanition, we will furnish them with an outline of
its shier arguments. Mr. Bowing assumes the
ground of complaint to be the usurpation by the
Pore of a spiritual authority over Roman catholic:a.
To meet din 'Repined complaint he goes into a good
deal of laboured and unnecessary logic, and shows
that the Roman catholic religion is emancipated by
act of parliament from its old parliamentary oppres-
sion, and that the Roman catholics of this country
may therefore worship 001)in their own way, and
obey is spiritual things the balls sod reecripts of
their spiritual head, the Pore. Having thus ester
bliebed his main position, which nobody, so far as we
know, has ever dreamed of questioning, he shows that
the Pore in 1888 be edict divided the Roman catholic
chapels of Englanil into new ecclesiastical districts,'
but without territorial titles, and called and est
bishops over them, vicars apostolic ; and that the ell
sequence was tbat for upwards of a century afterwerie
the awakened jealousy of the protestant" enbjented
the Roman catholic, here to • severer persecution
than ever, and that when that persecution ceased ORS-
001T XVI. quietly and without ostentation added to the
somber of these vicars apostolic. Moreover, it apposes
that in certain British colonies, where the QUEEN'S
ecclesiastical law is not in force, and also in the United
States of America, which know no ecclesiastical law,
whether of Porn or QUEEN or of commonwealth, the
POPE has created archbishops and 'Wehrle, and given
them territorial titles, and that for so doing slither he
nor they have been molested by the civil power, al-
though it recognises them not. And lastly, be mays
the SULTAN has expressly allowed the Queen of ENU-
LANU and King .f Plit'SSIA to send a protest-
ant bishop to Jerusalem without territorial title, and
there are protestant bishops whom the 8 ulttish epieco-
palian clergy periodically elect to the titular ems of
their church. And from all theme fasts—ems of
them immaterial—all of them highly irrelevant—
we are asked to conclude that the prevailing excite-
ment, on the &object or the late reeeript and pastorals,
is altogether unjustifiable—that it is the merest " ebul-
lition of a mistaken zeal"—aad that it will not
"continue nor produce any serious results." If any
man can do so, be must be very sanguine, and also
very blind.
Let as, for the satisfaction of Cardinal Wiseman's
puly, re-etate what we conceive to be the grievance
isf these late measures, but which their organ and
abampiers appears to have entirely overlooked.
The Porn, having at his command more than
ciao unobnoxions and inoffensive method of making
what changes he plated in the merely spirituel go-
vernment of that branch of his church which exists
in England, has paned them all by, and chosen pa-
slimly that method of expressing his will which -his-
tory must have told him would be most exasperating
to the protestant' of England, and moat insulting to
their QUEEN. There was coo attempt to con.lal, there
wee no disposition to mitigates The measure was
sot explained to be intended only for the Roman
catholic.. On the contrary, the terms were as broad
as language could make them. The protestant church
of England was swept away, to make room for the
hierarchy of lees than • million of Roman catholics.
Not the good of the present Roman catholic*,
but the anticipated destruction of proteetantism.
was most imprudently, yct most expressly de-
clued to be the chief motive of the authors of
this ill-advised measure. Eoclesiastioal titles were to
give pleas to territorial ones, and these were taken
horn the chief seats of English government and great-
ness. No provision was made for the rights of the
Remus catholic laity and priesthood. On the con-
trary, in violation of these rights, and in defiance of
the law of prieinunir• itself, the new archbishop and
his suffragans received full power to place and dis-
place their clergy, to make laws for their government
and for the regulation of the endowments and tempo-
ralities of their church as to themselves should seem
meet; and these powers they have exercised irres-
ponsible to their clergy, who tremble for their own
precarious tenure of office—irresponsible to the laity,
whose intervention they disclaim—irresponsible to the
Pore himself, who, having appointed them to their
place of power, has, according to Mr. Bowles's own
admission, denuded himself of the faculty to control
them or to punish.
It wee, therefore, in the interest of catholic" as well
ea
of protestant' that we raised our voice against
this insult done to popular opinion, this defiance cast
to the laws and Chum, of these realms. We be-
lieved that all the 'abject* of her MUISIT, whatever
their reoperate' creeds, have, indeed, a common in-
terest in this matter. Such is still our conviction,
and neither the bigotry of the =dot nor the subtlety
of the casuist can disturb it.

Witmer waiting for Cardinal appeal
to the remote of the Regliat paple to be issued. it
le ennoesced, from the press on Wednesday, it would
be *Oaks to refrain from noticing the calm, to:s-
prats, and unostentatious reply made by the Ara-
bi*" of CANTIMUILY to the address of the portal
11 Bt. Andrew's, Holbert:, and the judicious, firm, yet
moderate 'sewer Wen by the Avehhishop at You
to the clergy of Kingston-npm-Hull. Documents
like these go far to redeem the Church of England
from the scandal of Pusryient and the imputation of
In them there are no exaggerated fears, no
uniptiiral panacea, no fictitious seal, no affected
alums, such as high church prelates now emit to cover
end to esseeel their peat treachery sad their bygone
Sillies. la, in their stead, a conscientious and cha-
ritable Malinke of those errors by which an nnfaith-
=hare betrayed the shun* they were
to serve, and bevel drifted se a church they
moue breed to oppose—a einem and earnest
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ment—ea abed/mete eel *Waal nolgaition of the
leappeelable statism to this eseetty 1 that reformer
tin ebb\ the Tenger clergy have less reared in
sena et- sedi a teetpseate 'Aherne, to that spirit of
empettlesien old& menects the &arch of England
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