The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-16 00:00:00

The next stage in Dr. Wiseman's life is that
which, as it has been more controverted than any
other, so also is that by which his name will be
longest remembered. In August, 1850, Bishop
Wiseman was summoned to Rome, to the "thres-
hold of the Apostles," by his Holiness Pope Pius
IX., who on the 29th of the following September
issued his celebrated "Apostolical Letter," re-estab-
lishing the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
and Wales, at the same time issuing a " Brief"
elevating Dr. Wiseman to the " Archbishopric of
Westminster." In a private consistory, held the
following day, the new 4.Archbishop" was raised by
the Sovereign Pontiff to the dignity of a Cardinal
Priest, the ancient church of St. Pudentiana, at
Rome, in conformity with the ecclesiastical custom,
being selected by him as his title. His. Eminence
was the seventh Englishman who has been elevated
to the hat of a Cardinal since the Reformation, his
predecessors in this respect having been Cardinal
Pole, Cardinal Allen, Cardinal Howard, Cardinal
York, Cardinal Weld, and Cardinal Acton. The
name of Cardinal Wiseman was well known in that
portion of the literary world which interests itself in
controversy, as one of the most frequent and able
contributors to the " Dublin Review," of which he
was for some years the joint editor. Among other
productions of his pen which appeared in that perio-
dical we may name his " Strictures on the High
Church Movement in Oxford," which were reprinted
by the Catholic Institute about 20 years ago for cir-
culation in a cheap form, under the attractive title
of " High Church Claims." His Eminence's "Essays
and Contributions to the Dublin Review" were col- ,

lected and published, with a preface by the author,
in 3 vols. Bvo., in 1853. It is also understood that he
contributed to the " Penny Cyclopmdia" the article
which treats on the " Catholic Church." Among the
best known of his Eminence's other controversial
and miscellaneous publications are his " Fabiola," a
tale of the Early Christians ; his " Reminiscences of
the Four last Popes ; A Letter on Catholic Unity,"
addressed to the late Earl of Shrewsbury ; " A Let-
ter to the Rev. J. H. Newman, on the Controversy
relating to the Oxford Tracts for the Times ; " and
" A Letter addressed to John Poynder, Esq., upon
his work entitled ' Popery in Alliance with Heathen-
ism." To these must be added his " Appeal to the
Reason and Good Feeling of the People of England,"
respecting the Papal aggression, in which he endea-

vonred to prove that the matter at issue was merely
a question relating to the internal and spiritual or-
ganisation of the English Roman Catholics, and in
no sense a temporal measure, or one which involved
any practical assault on the freedom of Protestants.

To the London world and to the public at large Car-
dinal Wiseman's name was rendered most familiar
by his frequent appearance upon the platform as a
public lecturer upon a wide range of subjects con-
nected with Education, History, Art, and Science !
And in this capacity his Eminence always found an
attentive and eager audience, even among those who
were most conscientiously opposed to his spiritual
claims and pretensions, and who most thoroughly
ignored him as " Archbishop of Westminster.',

The illness of which his Eminence has died has been

of long standing, and when he left England for

Rome in the Spring of 1860, there were many of his
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friends who feared that they would see his face no
more. But he lived to return to England, and to

recover some portion of his former health. It is
almost superfluous to add that his Eminence's loss

will be severely felt among the English Roman
Catholics, both lay and clerical, as he was nearly the

only member of their body who had earned for him-
self a wide and lasting reputation for ability and

learning.

(From the Morning Post.)

The death of Cardinal Wiseman, which occurred
at his residence in York-place, Portman-square,
at eight o'clock yesterday morning, is an event
which, for many reasons, is likely to exercise a con-
siderable influence on the fortunes of the Roman
Catholic body in this country. Personally the
Cardinal will be missed in general society quite as
much as among his co-religionists, for he was a
man who of late years had made himself respected
by many intellectual opponents of his religion.
Indeed, in his last illness inquiries respecting his
condition were made by Protestants as well as by
Roman Catholics. His malady was truly a serious
one—indeed, he suffered from a complication of ill-
nesses ; but it is said that, in spite of his bodily in-
firmities, his mind was, up to two or three days ago,
as vigorous, his conversation as brilliant, as ever.
Even after he had received extreme unction from
the hands of his faithful vicar-general, Dr. Hearn,
he was able to discuss and appreciate the merits of
the Pope's Encyclical. The cardinal, in articulo
mortis professed his faith before several reverend
gentlemen who are styled the
" Chapter of West-
minster." "He had never wavered for a moment
in his faith," said the dying
dignitary. He was
latterly very popular in artistic and scientific
circles. Cardinal Wiseman was a fine scholar, a
most accomplished man, and an excellent
preacher. Abroad the Cardinal was con-
sidered a great man. At the Congress of
Malines, in 1863, strangers always desired to
know which of the distinguished prelates was Car-
dinal Wiseman ; but at home he was of compara-
tively little account, owing to the bumbled position
hocelcdu though he was deservedly
piniedesbjellism caosmaniscuhntnr, an art critic, a linguist,
and a man of letters.

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(From the .Daily News.)
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a fatal termination, and that his Eminence is no
more. The sad event happened at his residence in
York-place, Baker-street, at eight o'clock yester-
day morning, after he had received all the last rites
of his Church. In him the Romish Church
in England has lost its foremost champion.
His Eminence Nicholas Wiseman, Cardinal of
the Holy Roman Church under the title of St.
Pudentiana, and Titular Archbishop of Westmin-
ster, was born in the month of August, 1802, at Se-
ville, in Spain, where his father, a gentleman of
English extraction and of gentle descent, had settled
as a merchant, owing probably to the operation of
the penal laws. His mother, whose maiden name was
Strange, and who lived to see her son advanced to
the highest dignities of the Church, was a lady of a
good old Irish family, one of the Stranges, we be-
lieve, of the county of Kilkenny, and nearly related
to the noble house of Lord Bellew. We should
scarcely have cared to go into these minute details
were it not for the fact that, when popular feeling
ran highest at the time of the Papal aggression, a
cruel attempt was made to influence the of
the masses against him on the ground of his being
an alien.

(From the Morning Herald.)

We have to record the death of Cardinal Wise-
man, the titular Archbishop of Westminster, who
died yesterday at his residence, in the 63d year of
his age. His death was not unexpected. For some

time before his death he was disabled for active
duties by a lingering and painful disease, and some
time since the last rites of his Church were ad-
ministered to him in anticipation of his immediate
decease. Nature rallied a little, however, but it was
seen to be only-a, temporary restoration; the disease

Ely, and by another work, in two volumes, entitled
" Lectures on the Connection between Science and
Revealed Religion." In the Lent of the year 1837,
when he happened to be in Rome, he delivered four
lectures on the " Offices and Ceremonies of Holy
Week," which were afterwards given to the world
as a separate publication.
In 1840 the late Pope Gregory XVI. increased
the number of his Vicars Apostolic in England from
four to eight, and Dr. Wiseman was appointed coad-
jutor to the late Bishop Walsh, then Vicar Apostolic
of the Midland District, being at the same time ela-
vated to the Presidency of St. Mary's College, Oscott,
near Birmingham. While there he took the deepest
interest in the theological movement at Oxford,
which is associated with the names of Dr. Newman
and Dr. Pusey, and which has furnished Rome with
such an abundant score of recruits. In 1848, on
the death of Bishop Griffiths, Dr. Wiseman became
Pro-Vicar-Apostolic of the London district, and
subsequently was nominated coadjutor to Dr.
Walsh, tuna jure successionis, on the translation of
that prelate to London. Bishop Walsh survived
his translation but a short time, and on his death,
in 1849, Bishop Wiseman succeeded him as Vicar
Apostolic.