The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

REPLY OF HIS EMINENCE.

" London. Feb. 4.
" My dear Lord Archbishop and Brother in Christ,—lf
I have somewhat delayed replying to the address from
the clergy of the Archdiocese of Armagh, headed by
your Grace, I have thereby gained the advantage of
speaking with more certainty on what, in that most
kind and flattering document, could only be touched
through conjectures. This day has revealed the fact
that the Catholic episcopates in both our islands are to
be subjected to the same enactments. What. the severity
of these may be a few days more are!, Tined to mani-
fest; but the principle is the same; disguised by what-
ever name, sweetened by whatever palliative, the con-
templated measure will, and must be, thefirst backward
step towards persecution. Restriction is alive> s that
first step.
" I am sure that I express a feeling that sillpervade
the entire Catholic body in England when I say, that
whatever may have b, en the unrestrained viol. nce ex-
cited against us fur the last three months, and the pair,
it may have cost us; whatever may be yet in store
for us that will harass or ell er. us, a Li. greater grief,
end a real one it will he t.. us, is that any benefif
bestowed upon us sheuld add tine more stroke to the in•
fictions on Ireland. Jr further legislation wets needed
iu regard to the relative position of the Catholic Church
and the system of religion eeraiblished by law in Shut
part of the empire. would not any impartial mina
have supposed that its direction would have been to
give greater lustre if possible), or at least clearer re-
cognition, to that, clergy which the mass of the popu
lethal acknowledge for their spiritual shepherds, and
on whom devolves the burden of ministering to them,
through good and evil r• pute, in season and out of sea
son, in famine, and pestle( ace, and woe? If anything
can cast a cloud upon the bright day which I believe
.has dakened upon our ecclesiastical condition in England,
it will be any new molestation, or even slight grievance,
which may glance off from us upon you.
" At the same time it will be no small encouragement
to us to have the example before us, and the prayer be-
side us, of our elder and more strenuous brethren; we
shall feel that our sufferings, whatever they may be, will
be ennehled by thus felling, not upon Catholics, but
upon Catholietty, in this empire; and possess
smote,
strongly the consciousness that it is a principle, and not
an offence, that is pursued with enmity.
"These se fictions are suggested to me by the gene-
rous and most kind address before me; every line of
which conviuces me, that while we tray regret the suf-
fering we may, unintentionally. have brought upon your
Grace and. your clergy, you will feel proud to bear it.
"Then while, with all my heart sincere, devoted, and
full, I thank your Grace and your zealous priesthood,
for so unmerited, but welcome, a mark of true Catholic
sympathy and charity, let me entreat, from both you and
from , our flocks, thatu
tsweetual remembrance
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us more closely in bonds of love,
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and procure for us strength under every possible trial.
"I am over, my
.dear Lord Archbishop, your Grace's
affectionate brother in Christ,
" f N. Cardinal WISEMAN."
"His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh."

' LODGINGS FOR THE GREAT EYHIBITION.—The
' "Mechanics'-house," near Thames-bank, now being fitted
up,
is a large warehouse of most lugubrious aspect, for-
merly called the " Thames-hank Depository," in Ranelagh •
present a very unapproachable district. There
o floors in the main building 250 feet long and about
besides other buildings; the whole calculated to pro-
' sarooreawdtiw;de, at
vide nightly accommodation for 1,000 persons. The separate
rooms (one for each lodger) are to be formed by partitions
seven feet high. There is to be a general dining-room
and reading-room, and many excellent arrangements are
talked of. We should be sorry, therefore, to discourage a
speculation which is being made at great cost to supply
what will be much needed, but we must, nevertheless, wish
that a brighter spot had been selected. The men from the
coal districts will not discover that they have left them ; and
to find their way home alone after dark will be quite out of
the question.—The Builder.
PRIZE FIGHTING.— At the 1114idenhead
Police-
court on Friday, nine men, named William Mitchell, Joseph
Wynee, Thomas Lloyd, and Thomas Wilkins, principals, and
Frederick Hand. Thomas Goodchild, Ldwaid Scutt, John
Bradshaw, and John Smith, were brought up before the sit-
ting magistrates, .11r. C. Sa.,,yia, Mr. J. G. Coney, Colonel
Vansittart, and Mr. J. Hercey, charged with having, on the
4th of February last, at the parish of White Waltham, " un..
lawfully assembled them-elves together with an intent mu-
tually to assist one anot her against any use who should op-
pose them in a prize fight." It appeared that Mr. Bury
Doyle, a magistrate of the county, on the day above-named
went to the spot where the fight was to take place, and, ac-
companied by two constables, entered the ring and forbade
the fight, telling the parties that he was a magistrate. He
was immediately pushed out of the ring with sticks, his hat
was knocked over his eyes, he was knocked under the copes,
and othe-'wise ill-treated. He remonstrated, but ill
and the fight continued whil, he was held back by the mob.
Several wi messes were examined hi sq.p,a-t of the charge,
and the whole of the parties, with the exception of Hands,
who was discharged, and Smith, a soldier, who was liberated
on his ()facer becoming answerable for his appearance, were
held to bail to meet the charge at the next mizes.