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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
TIIIES.—There appears too much reason to fear that
the same spirit of intolerant and narrow-minded bigotry
which has induced the Pope to sacrifice the substantial
interests of the Roman Catholics of England is about
to achieve a second triumph, not so much over the Pro-
testant Government as over the moral and material ad-
vancement of the Irish people. Under the evil guidance
of those whom Lord Shrewsbury appropriately calls, in
his letter to Lord John Russell, the anti-English party,
Pius the Ninth is reported, and we fear with truth, to
bare resolved on proscribing the Queen's Colleges in
Ireland, forbidding positively the priests from having
any connexion with them, and threatening the disobe-
diout laity with all the vengeance of ecclesiastical cen-
sure. The boon which Parliament, in its wisdom and
liberality, bestowed on the Irish people is snatched away
from them by their spiritual head, and the doctrine is
broadly avowed that the free and impartial instruction
of the laity in secular knowledge is found in this nine-
teenth century to be utterly inconsistent with the ad-
vancement or even the existence of the Catholic faith.
The same power whose adherents so earnestly insist
upon the compatibility of allegiance to her com-
mands with loyalty to the Sovereign and obedience
to the law, now puts aside these flimsy professions,
and tells us, through the voices of her best accredited
organs, that she wiil endure no rival in the miad or in
the kingdom in which she has once obtained a footing.
In her view, no department of secular knowledge is in-
nocent or admissible which is not taught under the im-
mediate superintendence of ecclesiastics, whose ignorance
and shallow presumption may represent the truth of
science as a profane fiction, and the magnificent march
of nature es a splendid phantasmagoria. To give just
enough knowledge of these things to counteract the in-
fluence and dispel the charm of their novelty and their
grandeur—to inspire just so much taste for the arts as
may train the senses to take delight in pompous proces-
sions and empty decorations, without permitting the
mind to go deep enough into their study to feel the
worthlessness of tawdry and flaunting ceremonies—to
mutilate and interpolate the page of history till its
darker or more startling warnings lose their significance
—to emasculate philosophy and poetry,—these are
duties which the Church wisely trusts to no profane
hand, but reserves to herself as most able to fulfil them.
No wonder that the spectacle of a Pontiff—who but
a few years ago astonished Europe by the proofs
which he gave of the sincerity of his belief that the
cause of the Church of Rome was not inconsistent
with intellectual progress—now formally recanting his
error, and striviug to obtain the most despicable of ends
by the most odious means, by employing ecclesiastical
tyranny as the means of intellectual degradation—should
fill with transport the Popish press, tne only portion of
our periodical literature for which an Englishman is ever
called on to blush. It is not alone the triumph of igno-
rance, nor the palmy prospect which intellectual impo-
tence opens to bigotry, nor yet the arbitrary and un-
aErnegtlieshhe
en mannerjoiaed
uponinwhichththeeeselermgaynadnadtesfeorte'edinetopleenranthcee
`Th
eesel
etriegtyn things
of
Ireland;und o ub t e dbleyt
taree
sweet laity, that
to
the charmsi i
Roman
a huse the words of their own national poet, there is in the
conduct of the Propaganda something more exquisite
them.
Catholic
th
still. It is the gross and studied insult to the Queen of
these realms, who has condescended to accept the pa-
tronage of the institutions at which the meddling and
miscnievous priesthood of Italy are hurling their anathe-
mas; it is the insult to our national honour and indepen-
dence, the injury done to those patriotic feelings which
Englishmen of every creed and shade of opinion once com-
bined to cherish and encourage, which is to the organs of
the Roman Catholic priesthood the daintiest dish in the
banquet of intolerance over which they riot and revel.
It is much to have stricken down knowledge, to have
blighted that humanising and conciliating influence
which the early association of men of the most different
creeds and opinions never fails to produce; but it is the
shock given to our characteristic and almost supersti-
tious veneration for our ancient laws and institutions,
to all which makes us what priest-ridden countries are
not and never can be. which fills the Popish press with
jubilant exultation. Yet even in these triumphant effu-
sions there is a contrast as strange as the presence of
the mummy in the Egyptian banquet. The tong of
groundless triumph is hardly commenced when it is ex-
changed for whining complaint or futile menace. The
very persons who announce themselves at one moment
as by the mere sovereign will and pleasure of the Roman
Pontiff triumphant over our Crown and Parliament, our
laws and institutions, complain in the same breath
that they are the objects of bitter and relentless per-
secution, and threaten us with twenty years' agitation
to redress their cruel and unprovoked wrongs. Then
the omnipotence of the Pope deserted them! Can he who,
according to them, found it so easy to scatter to the winds
the must solemn and authentic creations of the national
will, do nothing to protect them from the same will
when employed for the repression of their insolence? Is
it only when enlisted against knowledge that the Pope
is strung and is the giant of Rome—au Antssus who only
derives bil strength from contact with that ignorance
which may be truly considered his mother? 'lave the
Roman Catholic priesthood such unlimited power to put
down by a word the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, and are
yet utterly impotent to es,,ert their territorial dominion
in England? It Parliament is really unable to do any-
thing against the jurisdiction of the Pope, why threaten
us with an agitation of twenty years to put down that
which a few words from Rome can extinguish? Why
hist
theu a
Popp,
temporal
atlas;o,rx?ael
invoke tho whirlwind to scatter those combatants whose
if, on
f
by
yhee
kingdoms,
feeorgrdbhoeaman
rdst
et:her, s
wtspowerhjaeta
t as
much ardour a little dust thrown up in the air will so effec-
thin
se
ually
by virtue of the sufferance of our Government as
r sue
dominiondt t
be-
comes
of these extravagant boastings and taunting chal-
lenges? We shall not follow the bad example set us
of effecting to despise and undervalue the mischief
which, in this their hour, it is granted to these men '
to do. They cannot, as they pretend, control our Par-
liament or make void our legislation; but they can un-
doubtedly, by the systematic abuse of their spiritual
influences and the prostitution of the ordinances of the
Church for the purposes of a base conspiracy against
the progress and happiness of their flocks, effect much
toil. Still we question whether, misled by previous
successes of the same kind, the Church of Rome has
not fallen into the error of overrating her powers of mis-
chief, and mistaken the intenseness of her evil will for
the extent of her power. No doubt the leaders of the
counter-revolutionary party throughout Europe, in their ,
abject dread cf another political crisis, and their
di sire to chug to and to employ in their defence every
reactionary tendency which society contains, have
'lung themselves into the arms of the Pope, and have
bartered their future destiny and their progress for
the support of the spiritual power. Spain has sub-
witted, and Austria tamely bowed her head to the
yoke. No doubt, else, in the extreme ultramontane
party in Ireland It ime has instruments as ardent and
unecrupulous as ever employed the resources of civilisa-
tion to reproduce barbarism, and the cultivation of the
intellect to insure its degradation. Still we are much
mistaken if the Roman Catholic laity of Ireland will
tamely abandon the right of regulating the education of
their own children and choosing the place and system
where and under which that education shall be con-
ducted, to any pontiff, priest, or bishop. There are
rights so sacred and so inalienable that even the blindest
superstition recoils when the priestly director to whom
it has abandoned the government of its conscience ven-
tures to invade them. Among these rights none are more
sacred and inviolable than those which link the parent
to the child, and invest him with the power over his
actions prior and paramount to the decrees of Councils
and rescripts of Popes. It is easy—it always has been
easy for the ,
priesthood of Ireland to wring from the
d hands of a starving peasantry the last halfpenny ,
bard
hmisery has left, and, whether the excuse be re-
peal Catholic instruction, rapacity has only to
rent or
ask, and to give. But it b
superstition will be sure .
by no
means fo
llows that the comparatively intelligent and
independent middle classes of Ireland, for whose benefit
the Queen's and
Colleges were created endowed, will
abandon the solid advantages which they promise, for
the sake of the caprice, the spleen, or the ambition of
any foreign Prince, although that Prince be their spi-
ritual head. When the excitement of the present mo-
ment shall have died away, and the Irish nation shall
wake to the conviction how cruelly its interests have
been tampered with and sacrificed by those who prefer
resources fo
taxing her extenuated r r the purpose :of
founding a Catholic University, instead of availing them-
selves of the excellent system of instruction which Go-
vernment has provided, we shall expect to witness a sa-
lutary reaction which may probably bear more substan-
tial traits than a mere change in the seat of education.
ADVERTISER.—There seems no longer any reason
to doubt, that the condemnation of the Queen's Colleges
by the notable Synod of Thurles, has been confirmed by
the Popo, or rather by that knot of ecclesiastics at Rome
in whose hands the poor imbecile Pius the Ninth is a
mere tool—a machine for i
giv_ng effect
to their rampant
bigotry, their ultra-aversion to religious freedom, and
their cherished hostility to political liberty. All ac-
counts from Ireland concur in affirming, that though the
indorsement by the Pope of the decision of the Thule'
despots, has not yet been formally promulgated, it
has been received, and will be proclaimed in due time.
Were the fact not as we have stated, we do not well see
how it should be affirmed in so many quarters, each
party having evidently derived his information from
some peculiar sources of his own. The Dublin Evening
Mail assures us, that the condemnation of the Colleges,
in duo form, by the Roman Pontiff, reached Ireland ten
or twelve days ago. Our Dublin correspondent—a gen,
tleman having access to the best sources of information
—has virtually put his seal to the soundness of the pre-
vailing belief. Thu CoiA Reporter, a Popish journal,
but so far asserting its independence of priestly influ-
ence of the more bigoted kind, as to be a supporter of the
Colleges, has no doubt whatever that the final ratification
of the Thurles decrees is in the hands of the heads of the
Popish Church in Ireland. The Galway Vindicator, one
of the most ultra in its bigctry and intolerance of the
Popish newspaper progeny in the sister island, not
only vouches fur the fact, that the Roman Pontiff has
ratified the conclusions of the Thurles conclave of
Bishops, but even goes so far as to name the very day on
which the automaton, dignified with the name of Pope,
put his signature to the deeJ. That day, according to
our contemporary ef Galway, was the sth of the present
month. But, pethaps, the best authority of all, in a
1,~}53 this :.ague, is az obvtize tha rtivt

wed.
bTehl
jeeylatter journala ism otnhae at cheer eidni
teida
toe rd, g a
tnh
aotf
no less a personage than the well-known Dr. M'Hale.
John of Tuain, not only furnishes the paper in question
with ecclesiastical information, inaccessible to other
parties, but that his "fine Roman hand" is often to be
traced in its columns. He inspires its pages. He infuses
no small measure of his own meek and mild spirit into
its articles and paragraphs. This model of all that is
moderate and unassuming in the Christian character,—
except on those occasions when, in his capacity of the
" Lion of the Fold of Judah," he is obliged to let his
roar be hoard,—this pattern of Popish prelates is, very
probably, the parent of the amiable effusion on the sub-
ject which appears in the last number of that journal,
and in which it is distinctly announced, that not only
will no Roman Catholic clergyman be permitted to have
any connexion with the Colleges, but that any lay family
sending their children to these institutions, will
subject themselves to " ecclesiastical penalties. "
Next to the Tuanz Herald, as a provincial Popish
authority in Ireland, is the Galway Vindicator.
Just only let our readers study the passage which
we are about to quote from this journal, and then say
what spirit Popery is of. "We believe," says Galway's'
Vindicator," that there is not in Ireland a single Roman
Catholic, honestly attached to the principles of his ancient
creed, who will not rejoice to see the Queen's Colleges—
those favourite establishments of the persecuting Russell,
of the Lacys, the Walpoles, and the infidel calumnia-
tors of our Church and creed throughout England—re-
ceive the fatal stroke beneath the guillotine of the Pro-
paganda. The usurper of Woburn Abbey has branded
the Roman Catholic religion as a tissue of mummeries;
and as such he must, surely, to be consistent, wish to
eradicate it out of the land. Now, to attain this con-
summation so devoutly to be wished,' he will stick at no
means, however infamous; and this being the case, we
ask what security can there be in these colleges for
Catholic faith and morals? We have learnt that there
are some individuals yet hoping against hope' that the
inevitable hour has not yet come—the hour which will
consign, as far, at least, as bona fate Catholics are con-
cerned, those Queen's Colleges to the grave of oblivion
—to the cold and silent tomb of the Capulets. Ire-
land sees now the animus of the Saxon towards her
Church and her creed; and, seeing this animus, she
will spurn the donors, she will repudiate
their gifts." Here we not only discover
the cloven foot of the priestly spirit, but a
priestly, most probably, a prelatic pen. But let that
pass. There are, doubtless, cogent reasons for delaying
the promulgation of the Pontifical ratification of the
rank bigotry which ~impregnated the decision of the
Thurles prelates. Nor can there be a doubt that these
reasons bear, more or less directly. on the Ecclesiastical
Titles Assumption Bill. The publication of this latest
emanation from the Vatican, it may be supposed by
John of Tuam and his co-prelates, would have the effect
of facilitating the progress of the measure in question
through Parliament, by showing more clearly than ibe-
fore, that Popery is still the same bigoted and persecu-
ting system it ever was. An assuredly it ought to satisfy
the Protestants of this country, that the Church of Rome
is not in the slightest measure modified by circumstances
or the liberal tendencies of the age, but that she is the
aame:uncompromising enemy to the exercise of the judg-
ment, or to independent action, which she ever was.
But the cunning of Popery will in this instance be of no
avail. The mask has been pretty well torn from her
visage by recent occurrences, and she appears before us
in all her inherent hideousness. We own that we our-
selves have lately experienced a great change of mind on
this subject. We were inclined to take the most cha-
ritable view of the character of the Romish Church.
We did think that Popery had teen modified by
circumstances. We cherished the conviction, that the
lapse of time, and the influence of those liberal institu-
tions by which the Church of Rome is surrounded in this
country, had in a great measure moderated the bigotry,
and diminished, if it had not extinguished, the persecut-
ing spirit of Popery. Events—and let us add experi-
ence too—have compelled us to change our opinion. We
have been driven to the conclusion by evidence which
it is impossible to resist, that the Church of Rome is
the same now as she ever was, and that the disposition
to rekindle the flames of Smithfield exists just as power-
fully as it did in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
It is to th© absence of the power to put Protestants to
death that we are to ascribe the fact that the fires of
Smithfield do not blase as fiercely now as they did two
or three hundred years ago. We speak, be it remarked,
of Popery as a system. Our observations apply only to
the majority of those who profess that creed. There are
exceptions. It is our lot to mix largely with Roman
Catholics, and we speak from personal knowledge, when
we say, that there are many among them whose
generous natures enable them to triumph over the
worst features in their system of religious faith. But
they are exceptions—rare exceptions—just as the spirit
and preaching of such men as Fenelon, Massillon
Boussett, and Pascal, constituted exceptions in
their day, to the spirit and teaching of their contem-
porary ecclesiastics. But our main object at present is
to appeal to the ratification by the Pope, of the condem-
nation of the Irish Colleges by the Sy nod of Thurles, in
proof of what we have so long efiirmed—that Popery is
not a purely ecclesiastical system, but one which arro-
gates to itself the right to fetter the judgment, and con-
trol the action of its votaries, in secular matters. Not
only are the Popish priests to be prohibited from having
any connexion with the Irish Colleges, but no father or
mother i 3 to send their children to them, on pain of
subjecting themselves to ecclesiastical penalties. What
ecclesiastical penalties are, in the view of a Roman Ca-
tholic, it is not necessary far us to say. Death itself
could scarcely bo more dreadful. To many it would not
be so dreadful as to incur priestly displeasure, and be
made the object of priestly denunciations from the altar.
Rather than run that terrible risk, they will surrender
their consciences, even in secular matters, to the keeping
of their priests, submit to the worst tyranny, acquiesce
in the atter enthralment of their minds, and sa

crifice, to any extent, their worldly interests.
The Pontifical ratification of the decrees of the
Thurles Synod is to be regarded in another most im-
portant aspect. In that fact wo sec Popery defeating
the policy of the Government and of the British Legis-
lature. All that the latter have done for the diffusion
of the blessings of a secular education throughout Ire-
land, with the view of ameliorating the condition and
elevating the character of the peasantry, is utterly de-
feated by the prelates at Thurles and the Pope at Rome.
So far as the Roman Catholics of Ireland are concerned,
'the Collef,:es may be shut up forthwith. They aro ut-
terly useless institutions. It is a grave refintion, that
the reins of government in Ireland should thus be vir-
tually, in a matter of so much importance, wrested from
the hands of the Legislature and the Executive, and that
a foreign Prince should, to all intents and purposes, be
the ruling sovereign in the dominions of her Majesty.
Let us hope that out of an evil of such enormous mag-
nitude good will eventually come. Surely, if any one
hesitated before, ho can hesitate no longer, to admit the
absolute necessity. not to say policy, of passing such a
measure ai will effectually restrain the tyrannical pro-
pensities, and check the aggressive spirit, of the Romish
Church.

DAILY NEWS.—Thanks to the M'Hale squad, Go-
vernment is likely to get through the Ecclesiastical
Titles Bill with large majorities. Thanks to the mode
and tone of resistance of this same squad, the Bill itself,
against Ministerial hope, will be more stringent. There
is no one who has observed the progress of opinion upon
the question but must have seen how easy it would
have been at one time to have carried a clause or an
amendment, exempting Ireland from the Bill. But the
tact and eloquence of Messrs. Reynolds, Moore, and
Grattan have nailed the Roman Catholic Church in
Ireland to the same conditions as that in England. We
aro far from thinking those conditions definitive. Were
this to be the final and determinate settlement of the
relation between the State on one side, the Roman Ca-
tholic and Protestant Churches on the other, we should
be inclined to echo much of Mr. Milner Gibson's denun-
ciation of anomaly and injustice. But we look upon
the present as a state of war, of open belligerence be-
tween the successors of Leo and those of Luther, be-
tween foreign dictationiats and native supremacy.
Were peace, present and future, to be obtained by sub-
mission, we should probably counsel submission even to
Romish titles and Romish territorial divisions. But when
these are but the first mance:meg of war, the mere
trumpet sounds a proclamation investing the
sacerdotal generalissimos with authority, we are
certainly for taking the field forthwith against them,
denying their authority, denouncing their spirit, and
repudiating their laws. When the Romans amongst us
consent to be plain English subjects and fellow-citizens,
then we should be willing to treat them on a footing of
peace and equality. But so long as they come f mounted
the
on Papal chariots, claiming the jurisdiotion o
middle ages, we say, let us proscribe the pageant, and
desecrate the' idols. Mr. Walpole, however, makes the
mistake of regarding the present as definitive legislation,
and be would establish as a permanent rule that no
Roman Catholic bishop should put forth territorial au-
thority, or even territorial titles, in England. Whereas
veeoitrneniae Catholich Church,
in Ireland he would not only overlook their doing so,
but absolutely sanction it. This is certainly the e simplest
with regard to authority
could not oppose any legislation following up the same
thhaettwetehne
the
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0 of its disadvantages. We do not
can be anything else than a compromise. And no com-
oo ft.
history,the R o m
s%pavarllayolii3n:b°eiursatiellt)lihsi' atepstvomesr:i aygi possible,
6:
o f the disadvantages under which the
Roman Catholic Church labours in these realms are
either tolerable or just; but v.e do not arrange and
create all laws and relations at once by reason or by
of
fn Catholics is the
durable perhaps the more free the peoplpe,aratnydsttorubgeg tes,
constitutional campaigns, dynastic rivalries, hotly.con-
rgeesnuert°OiftYs'eveTrahlecpenostiutrioiens
' tested fields of battle. All these leave results the more
re-
moved and remedied as they can. The Protestants of
this empire came as early to a full sense of the iejustice,
of their escondancy as the Catholics theniselees. 13iit
they did not destroy it in u day. Nor did they put
tIIM2 lelt`3 Its) haads of tho Catholics, and isy, reo•ia