Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-11-19 00:00:00

NOVEMBER, 19, ISSI.

whatever to do with the temp Oral position &the
POPE, that is not even connected with him by the
• ties of diplomatic representation. The spiritual
character of the Roman Ruler, and the religious
,Prekidices of her own subjects, have with-
held her from- interference in a province
Which she has looked upon as not her
o
But all this matters little. The Irish
11.1811'°Ps Want an object for their vitupera-
-4°ll, and none 'can be so suitable a one as Eng-
-1444 .
• Suitable that is, because her power, gives
dl
—sty to that which ventures to choose her as
,44 object of detraction ; while her own careless
liberality secures for that detraCtion impunity
Yet, after all, this Irish bravado and bluster are
verY small minded. The most that can be said of it
18, something like what the giant said of his vigor-
48ly intentioned wife ; it pleases certain foolish
1118-hroen and it does us no harm.
°f course it is useless to ply Archbishop
etiLLE-x with reasons or with facts. What he
ilaYs is irreversible ; because he said it for a
134rPose, and to retract would spoil it. It is true;
titll is, for the occasion; because he wishes it to
t): true. England is in some way responsible for
e Present unhappy • position of Pius THE
b She must be responsible ; she shall
e responsible. It is in vain to hint mildly,
tit it was partly by the advice of English
~,,
41juisters,—certainly with their express concur-
-Ir'ee—that the 'Papacy was saved in 1848 by the
French occupation ; that as regards the present
a'r, England refused to assist its objects either
b 3. active alliance, or moral sympathy ; that she
4°Wed her advocacy on the side of the principle
f Order, and was, unwilling 'to disturb previous
flew,
-cinents ; and that when the worst came
; the worst, all she presumed to press
117 ,*as that which France was before
el' in •deinanding, reforms in the temporal
tLernment. But all will not do.
.England,
Olt a powerful non-Roman Catholic nation,
not objecting forcibly to anything that may
e said of her—and as ecclesiastico-political
'1.41 can be made out of well-directed slander
a iniputation—she must be abused, she must
ae made a stalking-horse for religious rancour atia
isdisappointed arrogance: We say this is very
childish ;and would be nothing more; except that
i
etnbitters religious feelings, and tends to bring
back into a new vigour old animosities and
e
sttangements.

IVX
01 nee the announcement to-day, in our news
co
4144, that the Bishop of Columbia has sailed
0131 Southampton for his distant diocese. And
tins reminds us of the importance which cannot
Lit be attached to the enterprise upon which he
L gone out, an ecclesiastical one though it more
'kelediately be, yet one, in a more comprehensive
Doitit of view, undoubtedly involving great
4ational interests in that distant colony,,--not
N y the interests of England as a nation plant-
lilt there a settlement of her people under pro-
tZ*to % Which promise much future 'greatness ; but
aticisl °I her commerce, and her manufactures,
aion her shipping, and indirectly also the exten-
la; °I her religion, and the establishment of her
8 and institutions, in so ,far as all these may
oh adapted to colonial purposes. Well 'is it
served in a printed appeal which has been issued
with reference to this new settlement, that-- ,
:, t Ireumstances of a commercial and political na- 1
ii lite give British Columbia a special importance,
*hile the gold discovery, judging from other
, PsilteeS, promises it a rapid and populous growth..
c, 'tooted between the 49th and 55th parallels
, of
north latitude, with Russia
on the one side,
c tt
cctibi the United States on the other, the only
t, ittitish territory on all the western' coast of
4, -attil and South America, with a climate like
~ agiand, soil fruitful, timber and coal abun-
gallt, fish plentiful, and good harbours, there
gee
.flie scarcely a doubt of its future prosperity.
, ~ aa
r d importance.; Already, in the providence
I''
~ God, multitudes' have been attracted to its
~14113 res. Not less than 25,000 during a few
ale .
4 oths passed into it from California, Oregon,
' k and other neighbouring states. Ere another
4 3'
tar; these and more distant countries will con-
,, tiered
their.' stream of emigrants, to be num-
,, :red in a short period by hundreds of thou-
t< Ms. For these there is but one church
I, tently opened in the whole of Columbia,
t, *llieh is the size of France ; while on Vancon-
,,: there is but one. ' Considering the varied
14:Ple who are congregating, the character of
i, tt 113" of these thirsting only after gold, -the,
' lible temptations to vice which are sure
`‘ Nabnund, loud is the call upon Christian
4ti Ne for instant attention and prompt exer-
ti:4 inproviding the means of true religion.;
ta.ste' tben,.we have in a few words, the whOle,.
tht
rnktated. The Bishop has gone forth to organise
‘n ".411rch, and to do so as one primary means
04,t ardmg civilisation on right, because on
Itli. lan principles. He has gone to do that
1%,
~
Ate if England had done with our North
trio
ta Ail Colonies from the first, she would never,
all ..
itro Probability-, have lost one of them. We
5e0.,,, ,
141,„,, "lag out the Church of England, not in
~ ea,_
ktl "ess not in its imperfectness, not under
• Yor '
Lllt gitoisation in which we have it not at home ;
alit '4
48 completeness and fulness as a divine in-
n
atio
Nil n,.. ' Our not having done this aforetime
4148 -"It Colonies, was one of the greatest mis-
klt2lat could have been committed, not only
tilt:eel ta the success of Church efforts among
ttetillt4lBte themselves, but as regards the per-
Nit•
iat' and strengthening of those ties which
tty• e'el' to bind a colony to the mother coun-
t p
he „,, - !" blight the Bishop of Oxford rejoice,
tia thit7 heartily did, at a great public meeting,
Icskion'very subject a few days since in the city of
1,1 ; that „
this was the way in which the work
4111:4 beillg do .
0014., gone here ; and not the less so because
'ilot but contrast it with the way in which