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"1 latterly made i ne Anglican Church. We do not
I deny that thi- ircumstance contributed to the publi-
I cation of the Roman Pontiff's bull us September last ;
I but we do maintain that that was not the sole cause of
I the Papal aggression in this country. The fact that
in Ireland Popish archbishops and bishops, called
after the names of places in the island, were not only
I tolerated, but treated by her Majesty's representative
' with the same respect as the Protestant prelates of
the country, had much to do in inducing Pins the
Ninth to pursue the course which we have lately
witnessed. When the abettors of Popery in England
saw the Romish Archbishop of Dublin receiving
precedence at the Castle over Protestant bishops,
and when they remembered that Ireland is an inte-
gral part of the country, it was no more than might
be expected that they should be unable to see any
1 reason why they should not have Popish prelates, with
1 English titles, in this country. If Dr. Murray thus
received precedence of Protestant bishops,they
I could perceive no admissible reason why Dr. Wise-
Man, as Archbishcp of Westminster, should not re-
ceive precedence of the Bishop of -London at the
Queen's levees, and on all other great State °Ceti*
irons. The great error both of Sir Robert Peel's
Government, and of that of Lord John Russell, has
been that they have been too forward to pamper Po-
pery in Ireland. Both Governments have truckled to
the Romish priesthood to an extent at once discredit-
able and disastrous to tho couritry. The Popish
priesthood in the sister island have been raised by the
previous and present Government to so much import-
ance, that, whenever circumstances of an exciting
hind occur in that country, they mey be almost said
to constitute a fourth estate of the realm. The des-
tinies of Ireland were for many years in their hands.
It was theirs to produce or allay agitation—to excite
to, or restrain from, acts of virtual rebellion. And
yet, as if there had not been sufficient favour shown
by the past and the present Government to the Popish
prelacy and the Popish priesthood-in the sister coun-
try, it was gravely proposed that the latter should be
endowed by the State. So resolutely bent, indeed, were
the Whig Ministry on endowing the Popish priests in
Ireland, that, but for the course which the Roman Pon-
tiff has lately adopted, that measure would have been
made—probably not in the coming session, but in a
year or two—a Ministerial question. If the Popish
aggression should be productive of no other good, it
will at least be productive of this one benefit—that no . •
Cabinet, no matter whether it be Whig, Tory, or
I Radical, will berneftef -ever entertain, even for ono;-:-.1-,----
brief moment, the idea of endowing the Roinish priest-
I hood in Ireland. But we have somewhat deviated
from our subject. Now that it is no longer a secret,
that Ministers mean to leave the Popish prelates, in
the sister island, in undisturbed possession of their
ecclesiastical honours, the question comes to be—ls
the country prepared to submit to this ? Are we
tamely to look on, while we see Popish bishops retain-
ing all their distinctions, and all their importance,
while the assumption of similar titles in England is to
be treated as an offence to be visited with penal con-
sequences? If the Protestantism of England and of
Ireland be what we hope and trust it is, this is an
outrage on justice and consistency in which it will
• not acquiesce. If it he right to have Popish prelates
in Ireland, with titles taken from towns in that
country, then it must be equally right to have Popish
bishops, with EngliFsh titles, in this country. It the
thing is to be prevented in England, it must be put
down in Iceland. We must have no such anomaly as
that which Ministers contemplate. Let us, at all
events, have uniformity in the two countries. Either
put down Popish prelacy. with Irish titles in Ireland,
or let the bull of Pius IX. take effect in England,
and a batch of Popish prelates, with English titles,
be created, by the Roman Pontiff, in this country,
" to match" Popish ecclesiastics in Ireland. It needs no
large endowment of the prophetic gift to be able to pre-
dict which alternative it is to be. Ministers may propose
to pursue what course of policy they please ; but there
is another and higher power in this country. There is
the power of public opinion. The Protestant people
of England and Ireland will insist, and insist with
effect, that Popish prelates in the sister island be
stripped of their Irish ecclesiastical titles.