The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS

wir;ghtoiis iiiingEng of the this of Ron.,
and of CA,..,AIt. A Roman Catboat' preaching
such dot•triutw as these may scorn to as an
i ticnial). But that is not our off tir. Sir Joust
At ion is so strong in his position thatthoroughly
fin his invin:ea m his own church hate him they
• .11not thin him out of it. Bet our concern it
hint only as a politician. It is evident, in-
dad that the weight of Liberal argument will
lin iuunt•nsoly whon it comes front the lips of
ttic horn whom true liberality is not necessarily
t,, be esrocted. And Mr. WIIALLNY
bo di-posed to lend a helping band to that
tin tither of the Roman Catholic faith who so
strongly illustrates that it is a house divided
ogainst itself. The electors of Bridgnortb will,
however, as we hope, elect Sir Joint Aorox from
higher motives. They will welcome him as one
who in politics is an Englishman like them-
selves—who keeps his faith in his own
conscience, but who in Parliament will judge all
questions that come for decision there on the
broad grounds of what is best for his fellow-
countrymen.
Sir Joint Snizox, the present member for the
Isle of Wight, is one who, if not so conspicuous in
the ranks of Liberal Catholicism as Sir JOHN
ACTON, has yet proved his title on the same
grounds to represent an English constituency.
The only passage in his address in which any
distinctive colour can be traced is in reference to
education.- lie does not desire to supersede deno-
minational teaching where it is already in force,
but he recognises the duty of the State to supple-
ment it with a national system. In this he is as
liberal as probably nine-tenths of the Church of
England candidates. _

Lord EDWARD HOWARD, who sat for the now
disfranchised borough of Arundel, transfers his
candidature to the borough of Preston. We
are bound to say that he is less liberal in church
matters than either of the catholic baroneta. He
is opposed to any education that is not denomina-
tional, and he defends the temporal power in
Rome, on the ground that the Romans like :t !
Mr. DISRAELI has not, we believe, made it a point
in favour of the Irish Establishment that the
Roman Catholics like it, but he will, perhaps, do
so before he is done. At least, however,
the plea implies a recognition of the only basis on
which any authority can be supported, and so far
we are bound to assume that, as Lord EDWARD
HOWARD appeals to the majority in Ireland as ad-
verse to the Establishment, he would be equally
ready to submit the Papacy to the poll in Rome.
But Lord E. HOWARD has been on general ques-
tions so sound a Liberal that we are not indisposed
to grudge his co-religionists such an honest expo-
nent of their peculiar views. If we must have Ca-
tholic interests or ideation regards church property,
church titles, or church institutions, such as con-
vents and confessionals, represented in the House
of Commons, it is better to have Lord E. HOWARD
to expound them than only Sir Gaoaoa Bowe= or
some other gentleman from Ireland or Rome. And
we are disposed to think that it is better for all parties
that such notions should have an expositor in the
House of Commons, so as to ensure their being
fairly examined and discussed, than that they
should be exposed to one-sided attack or subjected
to legislation without being fully understood.
But we may fairly expect that the consequence
of the act of justice we are resolved to deal to Ire-
land will be the heaviest blow to ultramontaniam
that it has ever yet experienced. It has grown up
and flourished on the semi-persecution to which
Catholicism has been subjected. When a stigma
was placed on the creed of nearly the whole nation
the inevitable consequence was to throw it for
support on some external power—and such a
power was found in Papal pretensions
to civil authority. It was a point of honour to
support the priests, when the prie..ts had to
contend at such disadvantage with their endowed
opponents. Supporting the priests meant sympa-
thising with the priests, and sympathy led to
guidance by them, and guidance by them resulted
in the setting up of Rome as the refuge, the ar-
biter, the ruler of those whom Britain oppresqisl.
Well then may the Roman organs deprecate that
act of justice which will most surely sap their
power. With the administration of equal justice
among the subjects of the Querns will revive
loyalty to the QUEEN. With removal of the
badges of supremacy in one party will abate the
cohesion of the other party. Where Roman Ca-
tholicism is dealt fairly with as a religion it is
not suffered by its adherents to influence their
conduct as members of the State. This is the re-
sult which we hope to see reached ere long among
the Roman Catholics of Ireland and their fellow
religionists of England. We sball welcome it when
it comes, but we must all the more welcome those
who have already had the strength of mind and
clearness of vision to distinguish the claims of
authority from those of reason, and in matters of
politics to be Englishmen before they are Roman
Catholics. This is the position, more or less pro-
nounced, of all the Catholics who are at present
appealing to English constituencies, and therefore
we wish thew success as heartily as we are very
sure the Court of Rome longs to Lear of their
defeat.

THURSDAY

cants Nonni the princirals, to that they might be appre-
.bersdoil and bound over." Inspectors Sigma: ndTAN-
Mit said the ',rood luntlisaus. kaolin; !lama
no object:on te being aalspted. 11 Hll4ll
aid "tli y must be bound o in 5001,01.440113 d Oom la
the tame amounts that be would keep, they's°, for 3
•miontha. if Goss. at the expiration of that lims% alitemptol
to inter into any engagement or uudeitaklitodight it
would no king( rbe a question of bail, bu would b 3
tonciiitted for b ial." Goss thanked the magistrate, and
dielaird that lie should never again engage la any prise
fight. At the same time be "hoped that if mains was to
be tui incised in this country, the practice of fighting
with the fists would not be supervened by some worm
merle of settling riots:wen." Sir TnomAs MINIIT refusal
to go into thst ciciation, and, the recognisance& having
botn rani letcd, Goa was eel at liberty.
Bo ends the Prize Ring of England. Our
contemporary, they Daily Telegraph, with $
chateeteristically shrewd eye to the rowdy
as well as the respectable interest, had, with its
usual ingenious felicity, anticipated Mr. Ooss's
parting protest. " The professional boxer," it
said yesterday morning, "need not be a
" ruffian ; but there has been a general irruption of
" blackguardian into the ring, and the scamps, to
" use an appropriate phrase, have ' out the
" rotes.' Boxing itself ought, in the opinion
" of many judicious people, to form a part of every
"man's physical education. Even in these en-
lightened days attempts at robbery with violence
" are not altogetherunknown, nor arebrutalsttacks
• "upon women to be considered entirely as things
"of the past. There niust,•therefore, be /sinks-
" sionsls to teach it, and it has often been argued,
" with afair show of reason, that these professionals
" must themselves establish their prowess by some-
" thing more serious than a glove fight." Our
oontemporary, it will be observed, abounds in the
sense of Mr. GOBS. who had probably read with
pleasure and profit its discriminating remarks before
he addressed Sir THOMAS HENRY in the Police-
court. We should be as sorry as Mr. Goss
and the Daily Telegraph can be to see the use of
the fists superseded by the knife ; but we have
never been able to understand why the noble art
of self-defence by the arms which nature has
provided should not be taught without those
periodical exhibitions of brutality and that
organisation of ruffianism which have no more to
do with the use of the fists than the betting ring,
with its parasitical excrescences of welchers
and touters, with the racing or breeding of
horses.