The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1851.

The great meeting of the Roman Catholics has
taken place in Dublin, and it was left to Mr. Joan
REYNOLDS, Mr. KEOGH, Mr. MOORE, and the gentle-
man who calls himself Roman Catholic Bishop of
Edinburgh, to do the violent, and to ostentatiously
violate the law, the Irish Prelates cautiously abstain-
ing from so doing, none of them, with the single ex-
ception of the " sweet Dove of Elphin," even ventur-
ing to recommend others to de it ; and the dove itself
was content with cooing out a vague generality, that
" any law which was contrary to morality and in-
fringed on the rights of conscience no Christian was
bound to obey," a generality, however, which we
would cautiously advise the dove from attempting to
ventilate in the atmosphere of Rome, should he again

visit the banks of the Tiber, seeing that any such
allusion on his part to the rights of conscience in that
city, where no religion is tolerated save the Roman
Catholic, would as'ur dly lead to the caging of the said
dove by that Holy the establishment of
which m every colliery of Europe is the avowed
object of the efforts of Dr. PAUL CULLEN'S model
legislator, the Count DE MuNTALEMBERT. The.
great star of the party, although offered an engage-
ment, prudently declined to accept it. Cardinal
WISEMAN was not at the meeting, but sent a
letter of excuse, in which he did not desig-
nate himself Archbish, p of WESTMINSTER
The Curdinal prudently abstained from being
present himself, and as prudently he no doubt re-
strained that enfant terrible, HENDREN, the man of
damaging admissions, from attending ; at all events,
the writer of the Talbot letters was not present, and
the sham English hierarchy was represented by Dr.
ULLATHORNE, who declared his intention of avoiding
collision with the law if possible. He could not,
however, he added, " possibly withhold the signature
of his office—which was inseparable from his person,
and was indicative of his title, though not in the
legal sense of the word—from certain documents,
without himself becoming a recreant to the Church
of GOD, and an apostate to his high office. Therefore,
where he could not otherwise fulfil his duty, he
would append the whole designation of his office—
where it was needful it should be dpne. Then
as to the consequences of so acting, he had come to
the conclusion, after mature deliberation, that he
could not have recourse to the purse which was con-
fided to him for the support of the clergy and the
promotion of religion, for the payment of fines in-
flicted by this penal enactment. He was prepared at
once to go to gaol.—(Tremendous cheering and
waving of hats, handkerchiefs, &c.) But should his
spiritual ,children feel the want of their pastor, it
would be no acquiescence in the penal Act, but a
strong protest against it for them to raise a fund—by
a penny subscription, suppose—for the purpose of
delivering him out of gaol. He thought the inhabi-
tants of Birmingham would be ready to enter into
such a protest if needful, and that the Government
would tire of prosecuting before they tired of deliver-
ing him out of gaol." We think we may gua-
rantee to the people of Birmingham that they
will never be called upon for the penny
subscription, if Dr. ULLATHORNE adopts the
prudent course which he has here laid down for him-
self. The speech of the Chairman, Dr. PAUL CULLEN,
was a cautiously-worded document; but, cautiously
prepared as it was, Dr. CULLEN, in one passage of it,
points to the true authors, and, through them, to the
true object of the foreign aggression ; for when Dr.
CULLEN says " the Catholics of this empire have
done nothing to bring about the present state of
things," he simply states the thing which
is not. In describing the duties which will
devolve on the new Defence Association,
Dr. CULLEN sass—" It must in a special manner
make every effort to have the rights and interests of
our religion properly represented in Parliament
(Hear.) I say of our religion, because if this were
effected, our temporal concerns would be better pre
vided RA- at the same time.—(Hear and cheers.) For
men guided by Catholic truth and charity would un-
derstand their duties to the poor and every wiser class
of people, and would act accordingly. Were it
necessary to seek it abroad, France at the
present moment would supply us with the model
of what zealous and religious representatives of
the people can effect in the persons of those
noble champions of true liberty and religion
—Count MONTALEMBERT and DE FALLOUX—
whose services to their country and their creed have
merited for them the applause of the whole world,
who are as profoundly versed in the history of the
Church and the bearing of its laws and doctrines, as
they are piously attached to its practices and observ-
ances." Now, seeing.that the Count DE MONTALEM•
BERT has denounced from the tribune of the French
Assembly the toleration of any other religion save Po-
pery as rebellion against the truth, seeing he has
declared from the same tribune that the re-establish-
ment of the Inquisition, or of some tribunal analogous
to it, is necessary in France and in every country
in Europe, seeing that his journal, the Univers, has
over and over again declared that the time had arrived
when Protestantism must be extirpated at the point of
the sword, and seeing that M. DE FALLoUX has
publicly come forward not only as the apologist, but
the eulogist of the St. Bartholomew massacre
and the assassination of Comeau, we may
form some idea of what is in store for us,
should the nominees of Dr. PAUL CULLEN ever
obtain power. When we remember that during the
last summer MM. DE MONTALEMBERT and DE FAL-
L°Ult were both at Rome, and that frequent commu-
nications passed between them and Cardinal Wise-
man immediately before the issuing of the famous
pastoral, we cannot but consider that it is somewhat
strange that Dr. CULLEN should have thus promi-
nently alluded to them, if they were entirely uncon-
nected with the recent aggression. The " Lion of
the Fold of Judah" was very tame and prosy. It was
evident that he had had the curb put on by his supe-
rior. The speech, however, which he evi-
dently bad intended to deliver was deli-
vered by his nominee, Mr. Mooxte, who, much
to his own satisfaction, was permitted to masquerade
for that occasion in the lion's hide. Of the degree
of credit to be attached to the statements of Dr.
Rowan Catholic Bishop of Edinburgh, our
readers may judge froffi the fact of his designating
the unfortunate and weak-minded Pio Moro, who
is only kept in his chair by foreign bayonets, as
" the beloved and high-souled PONTIFF." The fact
that a portion of the funds are be devoted to elec-
t,'"eeTing purposes secured long speeches from Mr.
tiOIIN REYNOLDS, Mr. W. KEOQH, and Mr. Sergeant
s RICE; and the two former had again a partial
spouting bout of their own after the meeting had
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