The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-07 00:00:00

No intercourse is to take place between the clew in
Austria and the Pope without the knowledge and sanc-
tion of the civil power, and that the very document which
proposed to inflict spiritual censure or excommunication
should be subjected to a mixed body of the clergy and
laity, and should not be carried without their concur-
rence. This shows, then, with regard to another
great Roman Catholic power, the encroach-
ments of the Church of Rome on the temporal power
of Austria. Sir, having stated the practice of these
two principal provinces of Enrope, I will not
go far into any of the others, but I will state generally,
that no Roman Catholic power, which as far as we be-
lieve—but be fore I complete the sentence—what the
Emperor of Austria last year (1850) has made a
new constitution with respect to the clergy,
and has permitted intercourse, by bulls, between his
ecclesiastical subjects and Rome without the knowledge
and sanction of the temporal power, and therefore with-
out his sanction—(Hear, hear)—but I was going to say
that with regard to the Roman Catholic powers of
Europe there is no one, so far as I am aware, that
would permit any bull to be brought into the
country without the previous sanction of some civil au-
thorities of the country. Such is the case with regard
to Portugal. Her Majesty's Minister at Lisbon has in-
formed us that no bull is permitted to be published and
inculcated in Portugal of
_which notice had- not
been previously given or which had not re-
ceived the concurrence of the reigning powers.
We have been told that in Prussia, one of the greatest
Protestant powers, that though the King, out of regard
to his Roman Catholic subjects, has given a power by
which the appointment of bishops is regulated by the
Pope, yet that when it was proposed to create a
Bishop of Magdeburg and some others in the
Protestant territories of Prussia, the Government imme-
diately reversed the articles of the treaty of Westphalia
and refused totally and entirely to givr their consent to
the introduction of these bishops.—( dear, hear.) Well,
Sir, at least one inference is to be drawn
from this narrative—that no country in Europe
in which the Pope would have endeavoured to pass this
insult which is offered to the Queen of England.—(Loud
cheers.) He now came to the character of the Bull
which has been introduced into this country.—(Hear.)
This document purported to be issued without
the smallest reference to the United Kingdom
being an independent state. There was not a
used in it from beginning to end, acknowledging that
any authority existed whose consent ought to have been
asked. The archbishopi
who is mentionedn it is spoken
of as the archbishop of this great city, where the Queen
holds her court, and where she meets her Parlia-
ment. Other bishoprics and other sees are pretended
to be created in various parts of the country which are
now under the bishops of the Established Church. In
the document issued by Cardinal Wiseman, in pursuance
of the letter of the Pope, he declares he will, and
that continue to govern the countiss of Middlesex, Hart-
fold, and Essex.—(Cheers.) Now, he could not
see anything in these words but an assumption of terri-
torial authority. Some may say this was all a matter of
form in the custom of the Roman Catholic Church. I
do not deny the authority of those forms, but there is
another form which has not been mentioned, which
began, " Victoria, by the grace of God."—(Loud
cheering.) I am ready to admit that this was only an
assumed authority; but I owe no gratitude, and thanks
to tiesse who do not attempt to enforce it, because I
know it is utterly impossible for them to
do so. But it is quite enough for tne to
know that it is an assumption—(Cheers)—and if any
person bad come during the time that the Pretender
was residing at Rome, and said he had been appointed
by him Lord-Lieutenant of kMiddlesex, the real Lord-
Lieutenant would still exercise authority, but the person
who improperly assumed it would be subject to is penalty.
Now, Sir, I must refer for a few minutes to that which
has been done in former times in this country in Roman
Catholic times with regard to the power of the
pope. I find our Catholic ancestors were as
jealous as we could be of the encroachments of the
Pope. I find 112 the time of William the Conqueror