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less than an ingenious, device for the pur-
pose of putting 1‘ on the shelf " the ques-
tion respecting which the public mind was
for the moment greatly excited until it should relapse
into apathy, it was boldly defended by the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, who declared to the
effect that a Minister would be mad who would con-
sent to the appointment of a Committee on any
matter unless well aware of what would be the na-
ture of their report. The Right Honourable Baronet,
therefore, looks on this matter in a very different.light
from his leader, and if he is to have anything to do
with the nomination of the Committee we
confess that we shall await the appointment
of the Committee with considerable anxiety, al-
though we feel that even a hostile report,
unless supported by satisfactory reasons, could not
prevent the voice of public opinion from being heard,
or satisfy the country of the propriety of the present
system.

We must also express a hope that the labours of
the Committee may be productive of some useful re-
sults; we have, unfortunately, seen so many
valuable reports cast aside after publication without
any further notice. What steps have been taken to
extend our commercial relations with China, or
to reduce the duty on tea, in con-
sequence of the exceedingly able and
convincing report of the Committee on
that subject ? What has followed the report of the
Devon Commission on the law of landlord and tenant
in Ireland ? Both of these reports have been suffi-
ciently long before the country to have led to some
legislation, but they have been altogether disre-
garded, and are now apparently forgotten. Even the
report of the Committee on Official Salaries, although
three years before the country, has as yet produced
no reductions. We are certainly promised that
something will be done, but by no means to
the extent of the recommendations. We
will, however, trust to the national enthusiasm
not to permit the present topic to be shelved, and as
its expiring within a single year will ensure that the
report of the Committee must be brought under the
consideration of the House and country early in the
ensuing session, we will patiently await the result,
prepared to act as the occasion may require, should it
be different from our just expectations, or from what
the exigencies of the case may demand.

We have given in extenso in another column a
etter which was originally published in the Ultra-
montane organ, the Tablet, and which purports to be
addressed by the Earl of CLARENDON to the Earl of
SHREWSBURY. We were at first inclined to doubt
the authenticity of this document, and to consider it as
one of those pious forgeries in which the vindicators
of the massacre of :St. Bartholomew and the apolo-
gists of the Holy Inquisition, do not scruple to in-
dulge whenever the cause of sacerdotal despotism is
to be forwarded, or Protestant " vermin" (as that
pattern prelate, Dr. WHALE, is in the habit of desig_
nating all who differ from him), are to be crushed; but
as no denial of its authenticity has yet been made, al-
though ample time has elapsed for the publication
of such denial, we are compelled to treat the document
as genuine. In perusing this letter our first feeling
is one of surprise at what we cannot but consider as
the excessive " greenness " of the Earl of CLA-
RENDON with regard to the feelings and
objects of the Jesuit party at present in the
ascendant at the Court of Rome. " All good men
in Ireland," says the Earl of CLARENDON, " of what-
ever creed or politics, are agreed in reverencing Dr.
MURRAY as the beau ideal of a Christian pastor, and
yet your Lordship found his HOLINESS, irritated
against him alone. All agree in considering Dr.
'WHALE as an ill-disposed demagogue, who does
nothing but afford an example of all that a bishop
ought not to do, and yet when your Lordship blamed
him, you were told that you had a strange animosity
against the Irish." Is the Earl of CLARENDON
so little aware of the designs and objects
of the Jesuit party at present in the
ascendant at Rome as to be ignorant that they are
irritated against all men who, like Dr. MURRAY, the
Archbishop of PARIS, and other models of Christian
pastors, act up to the text, " My kingdom is not
of this world," and that the " ill-disposed dema-
gogue," whether he be a cleric, like M'HALB, or a
laic, like MONTALEMBERT, is always certain to be
favoured and supported by them, because by bis very
unscrupulousness and violence, he is best fitted
to do their work ? For the same reason
I they are opposed to the institution of all
colleges and schools; and the Earl of CLARENDON may
rely on it that no syllable of proof will ever be ad-
duced by the Ultramontane opponents of either of
the Irish Queen's Colleges in support of the accusa-
tion of infidelity which they bring forward against
them, in'common with every other institution for the
diffusion of sound education. They have no proof to
bring forward, but they can anathmetise, and as it is
easier to curse than to argue, and as, moreover, cursing
is more congenial to the feelings of an Ultra-
montanist than argument, the Earl of CLARENDON
may rest assured_ that his Ultramontanist opponents
will continue the course on which they have entered,
Like the Lying Valet in the farce, they feel that they
"can do nothing but curse and call names." It
strikes us, also, as somewhat extraordinary that the
Earl of CLARENDON should express surprise at the
conduct of Dr. CULLEN in endeavouring to set class
against class. Why, it was for that very pur-
pose that he was sent to Ireland ; it is for
that very purpose that the Propaganda send out their
Jesuit agents to all parts of the world—in Ireland to
stir up the poor against the rich, in Austria to incite
the rich to trample on and oppress the poor. Divide
et impera is their motto, and to secure the ascen-
dancy of Ultrasnontanism, all means, from murder to
petty larceny, are not only allowable but praise-
worthy according to the principles laid down by
ESCOBAR and the other Jesuit authorities, whose
works are the text-books of the colleges of Rome.
Indeed the Earl of CLARENDON himself seems to have
been forced to arrive most unwillingly at the same
conclusion with ourselves, for be says—

" And now let me silk of 'you, my dear Lord, what
could I, or rather what could any unprejudiced specta-
tor of passing events think, or what could one infer as
to the consequences of all the things which I have men-
tioned, and others which I need not add? What could
ono think, except that spiritual jurisdiction was not the
object they had in view, but rather political hostility—
that between Catholics and Protestants goodwill should
not exist."

That such is the object of those who at present
govern the See of Rome there cannot be a doubt;
their aim is to establish in every country in Europe
a sacerdotal despotism on the ruins of every other
authority. So long as an educated and enlightened
and Protestant nation shall remain, so long will the
execution of their designs continue unaccom-

plished ; and, therefore, it is that this fierce
war is declared against Protestantism ; therefore it
is that it is sought to cajole weak-minded Protestants
by false professions of liberality, while the stanch
and uncompromising stickler for the right of private
judgment is told " that the time has come when Pro-
testantism must be extirpated by the edge of the sword ;"
and therefore it is that the well-educated and sensible
Roman Catholic laity [are denounced to the fierce
vengeance of the ignorant and superstitious as "luke-
warm religionists." How is such a state of things to
be met ? How is our Protestant liberty
to be defended against the inroads of