The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-29 00:00:00

DECLARATION OF THE CATHOLICS OF

GREAT BRITAIN.

The following declaration has been published :
TO OUR PROTESTANT FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN.
The undersigned desire it to be known that they regard
the success of the motion of Mr. Chambers in the House
of Commons as a direct attack upon the Catholic religion,
and as an insult to those who profess it, no less than as an
infraction of the religious toleration of which they are
said to be assured by the constitution.
They do not propose to argue a point which they believe
to be clear to all intelligent and fair minds, and therefore
content themselves with the declaration that they view the
proposal of Mr. Chambers, however he may himself repre-
sent it, simply as a proof of hatred and fear of the Catholic
religion, and of an ardent desire to impede its legitimate
influence by persecution.
The charges against the convents of women have long since
been satisfactorily refuted ; and if they were true, the un-
dersigned would be of all persons those most interested in
Procuring redress. To suppose them indifferent on such a
subject would in itself be a grave imputation.
The proposal to examine by a Parliamentary committee into the condition of monasteries, amounting, as it does,
to the institution of a tribunal of inquiry-, with a view to
the criminal prosecution of individual Englishmen, ,
they
can hardly believe to be serious. In any case there are suffi-
cient constitutional and legal reasons for the rejection of
this Pr°l3o,.aal, without calling upon Catholics to deal with
it as a religions question.
This statement is made in order that no misconception
should exist respecting the sentiments of the. Catholic body
on ninvol matter in which their rights of common citizenship
re ved.
Arundel and Surrey. John F. Arundel.
Shrewsbtuy.
Charles H. Clifford.
Edward Fitzalan Howard. :Francis Stoner.
Southwell. Charles Langdale.
Campden. Philip Stourton.
Charles Thynne. Robert Gerard, Bart.
Camoys. Jas. Francis Doughty Tich-
Stourton. borne,
Bart.
'Pam( of Harrowden. Edward Blount Bart.
pew,Edward Smythe, Bart.
Arundell of Wardour.
lilonasßokewode,Gage,Bt.
Dormer. W l- Cedrington Bart.
Vjoehnre ESi.ulPftn. de' Bt.
Bart.
Thos. Edward Stoner. Stafford.
Lovat.
Clifford Constable, Bart.
Alfred Stourton.
Humping de Trafford, Bart.
George Mostyn. William Lawson, Bart.
And upwards of three hundred of the Catholic gentry.

GOLD ROBBERY.—The Sydney (s.s.), while on her
homeward passa'ge from Melbourne, lost a box contain.
lag 1,000 ounces. It is supposed to have been abstracted
from the hold at the Cape, where some boxes of gold had
to be landed. The missing box was consigned to tLe
London and Westminster Bank, and was valued at
nearly 5,000/.—Shipping Gazette.
THE SEIZURE IN THE RrvEE.—The Board of Customs
have released the Spanish cutter Ingram, which was
seized in the river off Hanover Hole, Rotherhithe, on
Saturday, by the Thames police, with some anchors and
chains in her cargo of guano, on the payment of a small
nu e, and expenses for an infringement of the Clearance
Act.

LONG DISCOURSE.—The New York papers state
that 3,000 clergymen have despatched to Congress a
protest, above 200 feet long, against the Nebraska Bill,
which involves the question of the prohibition of slavery
in that territory.