The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-17 00:00:00

ROMAN CATTIOLIC.PROCESSIO.NB.
(repro the Morning Herald.)
~ We are hire". (en the 111misterial benchea),
Mr. Disraeli a .short time Eill"4, to carry ou'., in Fee-
tica Ile? principles we formerly professed when we kat on
the °ere:sit:ton' benches." Eveey one pan' .t' dirt this
is the enly, hotteureble course of rtati. The greet
object with the Whige and their eeveip • pees ly
is, to t;bov; that the. ere,ent ministry net viit. out
tflE it `f4reers_:ar,oej,et, wo
'are heepy 'to eay;' they s, v.:, hi!eevrto
,/aTay,,thef do 'Mere 'then fail. Every a4i9 friar
-thin fief nape,
e that while (MY' assume
• streighttortrd- and'h:,noarahle con-loci to be the duty
of the Government, their real jeeliny is c7r):-,c,ilY the re-.
veiee; aed!that the main grititid'ortheir aditiration for
S 4. Robert Peel is, that be did not, when in'office, carry
out the principles he professed whenia 0
ppesttion. T
,how that we do not misrepresent thee], let u 3 quota a
whole paragraph fromthe only.: rethaining daily
.
jedinal, ae we lied it in ye.eariree,s-aojumea, It runs
u:}=•'u:}=•' 1-f; 'lB4l' Va ev: fl G'CVCrhrr,cnt'Veq,pie;:ct pr, n-fr,
e4ll3ill'avOtAttY n'4 the hope rid i+3tnit'd'of tire
Church as of
Weeper:chase att cribpliev by CO!
,eeatdek etre the dereer, re7egioes
xhe,ntp-oLeed harecliffe, •en Pre",id4nt ct
C°4l'4ll-t°o' • 2 the VvPrk idre':dy Sh.etched in one -
1-}rotenZion:- 11-tit Sir Robert Peel iefueed
ly Lcitl le;nadowee, ostoaisbcti fit
he ea iteeitiou- - rt. of: o`cul'"
r, • • .41.1 cliktSt
oder:;11i011 s.s COUICIkavo telkn fronthe lies (I .f.',r'ilel'jhn
Ruasell hiinsdf N . 'ot one of tee werkiee hot the
ciiducetfon COrnriiitteo e,e're (iieri.reed. We believe wr)
cart: borne one, in ertyine thet Str .bert Govern.'
,!mitit did not make a•Piegle ir,:l in the .1.)11.11 csi`•
introduetti hy 'Lewd i'ere
ought to. be er,.,rt pee
eves hi:idicg for cfilet. from 1835 to e.- Ilia a true TiTrr,r,t,tioti.
1841, 'he' was. ernie
nentlY Protestant, Proteetionis. and devoted th 6
enure)). It was Sir Robert Peel who, when receiving a
deputation from the Church of Scotland, in &larch, 1838,
Said :—‘• It is impossible to look at t to progress I'oprry
ie now making, and the efforts it is putting forth, with°Eit
' But ft imperfee`.
te.ged.when
e
anxiety and alarm, 'rho re• establiahment of the order
of the Jesuits, and the ieereese of popish
Chapels,
and. seminaries in our 'own
ceuntry, shOw too
clearly what we have to dread. And I aril • per-
suaded that we shall, era long, gee a struotearise,in Which'
we, shall again have to determine the, question whothl
Popery or Protestantism is
to here too ascendancy. '
Who that listened to these word; could have imagined
that this same statesman, when raised to
power, would
first, by the Charitable- Trusts bill,give to Romieh. pre.
lutes a legal rank 'tied stanoing iu ',eland, and, then, by
the Maynooth Endowment Act, would enlarge and extend
those " Popish seminaries," which
ho liadpretaided to
dread ? In like meener it was Sir R.ebert Peel who, in
;:virtuous indignation, at the Whigs, when, in MBA, IF4I,
.they proposed to repeal the corn-laws and to impose in
lieu thereof
.a fixed* thity, broughtforth 'his vote of
want of confidenee," and hurled'them frie'power.
eAnd it was the same-Sir Robert'Peel•who;iii four years
titter, ::proposed a total' repeal of • the core .jams without
•the eqeivalent of any ditty whateVer„ And lv-stbro
ethe Globe says truly, that he served the Church
lake ho served all otherii. In 1840 he proposed
to vote an address to.-the
pledging
meat to provide, out 'of th
public re "venues,
.means for Church extension. In 1842, bin ...then in
power, he substituted•for'ihie proposal one te.elaablo the
Ctrurch to borrow some of her own moneyl :Anti, as the
.Globe says, after having, in 1839;
,fought desPoutelY
against' the 'Lansdowne and Shuttlevvorth scheme's,
. education, he took office in 1841, 'ilea.
never made the
slightest change in the plans which he had previously
condenined &soh wassSir Robert Peel. It did not
ap-
pear. to him to be at all-neceisaiy " to carry out, when
in 'power 'the principles he had professed in Opp"--
lion." - And' for not doing so, the Whig journalist
lauds him! The present' Government will not imitate
Sir Robert Peel.' This -theGlol..e.tiplf admits, though
in the most spitefurphreses. It says, after dese*:ibing Sir
R, Peel'i desertion of his own,professions:'.r-..
"Lord Derby takes Office in 185?, acid his first step is
to angle: for clerical votes. by ttip Most unwise concession
(that elbuld at the present moment- be demanded by 'the
most, turbidebt and mischievous section of the Church of
England."' e •
In other words, Lord Derby. professed, when in oppo-
sition, to be .4'. friend of the Church; and how,-when in power;' will endeavour' to act as her
friend.' ,:4And, while 'wo are *riling, a fresh
.proof of the Sincerity of' the present Government
comes • before us. The London Gazette,:of last even-
ing, contains the following proclamation
VICTORIA *R.—Whereas by the Act of Parliatent, pissed
in the-tenth year of the of his late Blajesty King
George the Fourth, for the relief of his Majesty's Roman
Catholie„subjects, it is: 'enacted that no Roman Catholic
ecclesiastic, nor any member of any -of the religious
Orders, ,communitiese or.. societies of. the Church of
'Rome, bound by monastic or :religious vows, should
exercise any of the rites .or ceremonies of the Roman
Catholic Religion, or wear the habits of his order, save
within the usual places of Worship of the, Roman Catholic
Religion, or in private houses: And whereas. it has been
represented to US, that &Mien Catholic ecclesiastics, wear-
ing the habit's' of their orders, have exercised the
rites and ceremonies of the 'Roman Catholic Religion
in. highways -and :places- of public resort, with many
persons in • ceremonial' dresses, bearing banners and
glejeCts,. or symbols, of their Worship, in procession, to the
great scandal and annoyance of large numbers of Our people,
and to the manifest danger of the public peace; And
whereas it has beets represented to Us that such vioalation of
the law has been committed near placeiof public Worship' er-
ing the time of Divine Service, and insuch a manner
as to disturb the congregations assembled therein ;
We have, therefore, thought it Our bounden
duty, by and with the advice. of Our Privy
Council, to issue this Our Royal Proclamation, solemnly
warning all those whom it may concerti, that, whilst We
ere resolved. to.: protect Our • Roman ..Catholic subjects in
the undisturbed et-tine-meat of their, legal rights ,and
i"aligiaak 'treedani's o Wit carp determined • to ..Pr!ellt
and repress the C44enission of all such °fleeces as
..aforesaid, Wherehythe'leendeis ma 'raw ripen theirielves
AIM punishments'. attending the vitiation of the laws, and
7the'peace Sicuiltrbt v)or dominions may be endangered.
Giveu at Our Court, at liticki
-itgliant Palace, this fifteenth
day of June,••in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
and fiftyer-t
and in • tie fifteenth year of Our
Xetga.
Goo save the QUERN.
••
~..11'1,ileeean net by
which the Government, in the
fate prospect ou;in felection, dares, to offend large class of religionists. need not sa'e that Sir Robert
Peel, in his wieole life, n( 're/. cue° tilts'
guilty of such a
piece of manhood. And vvhat
, earnest Protestants ought
to do, is, to. take can:. that tnose who mean honestly to
carry out. the laws, do not ewer for their manliness and
sincerity is Bo doing.

: t •t:eYmesotrenrdinttgy,Hine'rtahide,Fiense a r.'
bar for Athlone thengiht proper to
thea lion. Mem-
attack upon her Maj
ing was one in which *0
iinstpastt- paragraph in
Attlt least, the grown' of an
which Mr. Keogh Silected a"-Itinisters. The paragraph
issu-
ing the recent prociaination 47-
Ministers credit for
the act a large. class Of religionists." and
I.
daring to offend by
inake the 'Most of the
upon the expression " offetao3tB.” Mr. Keogh seised
upon
wo admitted that the , arid argued that, there-
offend. We do not coin tact was ono that ought to
a hthe object of this proceed-
eiP 'tic that Air. Keogh S
not really misunderstand ziresgion.
But surely he did
manly boldness' that' vindicatedWe Were, contrastine• the
cowardly)cOinproraffill'i that the law with the
uould
whenever it comes in contact shrinks from enforeing, it
jueliees:', - We never thought with any ineonvenient pre-
ono that, ought to: give ssiff,fle that
tho procliniation was
Roman Catholic. We ere eto
any rational er candid
given the slightest offence to 11);:tetlY certain it has not
as the Ministers knew,•Thur it ` Aeogh. But WO
knew,
easily be used to enlist' 'np,_,eiwtt3 an act which wight
prOildices of the igniii-Snr them the religipus
did .give,• and de ' 'still, 'l,f-ri" ass bigotted, and we
courage and 'determination 'Waters etedit• for the
turePto.disregard this. with which
~ they ven-
ue !by . reading t he. entire nf th. '-ur:Keogh honoured
text,; he, would hare seen. that e„ passego in its Con-
sion ,at which he cavils was, in re particular expres-
alaotation from- a journal to whi`nr,„(ll-hs in the nature of
Mr. 'Keogh, however, did good s;,'", we were replying.
Home: Secretary to give au. explanation in calling up the
• flatten 0 • • - 'ect of
the proclamation which, while it roust -elevate n,tl.e b, u
.bj
in the opinion of every Proteaterit, ust Ministers
time; every cruse of cene plaint fronerentoies, at the same
This proclamation was ' certeint the iiptuin the
abundant reason: It appears that i net issued without
eion went atoeg a public road with Englanda proces-,
fixes. It was'openly stated that it images and crud:-
rally throughout the country to re, Ir3s intended g,-312e-
The instance that has actually eectie,,vvi. these processienk '
persons—the banners and emblems c;;°d.wai.oneof-150
ship were paraded with ostentatious
the Romish' wor-
forms of the Saviour and,the Virgio POnap—ceeeifixes,
the', highWaya., We d0.,•n0
,wise, to were carried along
cannot help saying that these embie." ff oend," but we
calculated to excite the Strongsestala ef worship are
minds • of, Protestants. ' Were' the feeling in the
upon no higher' pat:facia than the nd)atter to rest
public peace, we hill's that this dan:nger to the
sufficient to justify the preiention „,rer is amply
dons.. There are multitudes •of Protest such exhibi-
ehstrict in England who, rightlyor wrotosiraat' in every
the worship of these images is not mere': ' believe that
of a religion differing from their own, but ceremonial
honouring to G.,)d. 'Could any Minister, is
with ace act dill"
gard to the public' peace, et- to the honour of due ye-
permit tbe*feelingS to he excited which thesooefreligian'
hibitions -were calculated' to provoke? mr----vrltle' ex-
however, did not, we are happy to say, re....-:, Walpole,
of the proclamation merely upon' the gronie defence
necessity of preserving tie pubic peace.
,fird of
higher grouu4'of saying that Ministers could took the
an, opi,a and fiigrant :violation ' of' the low. IciTt, Perna
of the. Sovereign of a freopeople is to enforce he duty
The duty of an honest Minister is to advise. his
ProtestantsSove-
object to these processions be ever so oe who
they have a right to the protection' •of the .arv:asonahle,
To permit such processioes would be, in
tleutl as it is.
tally to claim • foe tile Sovereign a 'dispQnsm'y ,Prseti-
, Mi. Keogh is utterly- reistiken in supp„.:sing thatg Power.
'hati been dormant. The truth is that the laii,/. th''
'-lsV
• has i‘e ,
rigidly obeyed. These preceastons aro both new in i',, ' u
land and Ireland. Tito attempt. • now to 1."-s- '1
Queen's highwey the scene of au ovation f•
or the iiirne
'lrish peclesiaaties.is, Welt° following el, of
the .11.,-,,,;i
bull. that declared England--a Roman Catholic c.' --r --
It is another„" aggreesion'" :upon the nat
ional
,silly- 2untry.
another insult to the national feeling, The eleva 4111
the Host in. the public thoroughfare is the ompent. of
as-
sertion that the Church of: Acta° is dt)rainatit iRI
th
country. Vie are not bblo to say whether this fn --
a part of the contemplated religious pageants, butormed,
we aro that if' the processions had been permitted
sure
this
w()°14:1 not have been ' lank wanting. Every
minded Romatt'Catholic-must feel indebted tolbrigulit.
sister.,, who has protected the mysteries et, ...A-
creed. from the . indignity of - the unseemly
his
Noel:Mee to . which their. public parade seemly
moes unqueStionabl have exPied them...wouldY
NQ.