The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, rtIIDA. I' EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1860.

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The Temporal Power of the Pope.

A public meeting for the promotion of the Con-
fraternity of St. Peter was held in St. James's-hall
last night. The hall, and galleries were crowded.
Archbishop Manning took the chair, and was re-
ceived with enthusiastic cheering. Amongst those
present were Earl Denbigh, Sir G. Bowyer, M.P.,
Marchioness of Lothian, Marchioness of London-
derry, Lady Fitzgerald, Lady Chichester, Countess
Buchan, Countess Torre Diaz, Lady Herbert of Lea,
Lord Arundel, Mr. Pope Hennessy, and large num-
bers of the Catholic clergy. Letters of sympathy
were read from Lord Petre, Mr. Langdale, Lord E.
Howard, and Sir R. Gerrard.

Archbishop MANNING in opening the proceedings
explained that this was the second meeting of the
confraternity, and that it was purely a diocesan
meeting. He then said that as on previous occasions
he had had the happiness of expressing his opinions
of the great conflict in which the Sovereign Pontiff
was engaged, he should now confine himself to
another point. He did so only. for the purpose
of caution, and for the purpose of putting on
record before public opinion the real issue at
stake. They had not met to make demonstrations
about temporal possessions es matters of intrinsic
worth, as things to be contended for, as acres, pro-
vinces, or land, cities or towns, revenues or treasu-
ries. These earthly things were of thelearth earthy,
and had their importance only by their relations to
higher and greater things. There was nothing that
had been more assiduously laboured for by those
who were adversaries to the temporal power of the
sovereign Pontiff than to represent that Catholics
made the spiritual office of the church dependent
upon the temporal or secular, and that they were
engaged in a worldly contest about worldly ambition
and avarice. He hoped to put on record a protest
against both of those errors, and that not so much in
his own words as in the words of the sovereign Pon-
tiff himself, in his late allocution. His Holiness
there said that when the Roman empire was over-
thrown and divided into many kingdoms, it was de-
creed the Roman Pontiff should possess a civil
princedom, whereby he, being subject to no other
civil power, should exercise in all freedom his su-
preme authority and jurisdiction over the universal
Church, iu order that the faithful, in all tranquillity
of conscience, might obey the decrees of the Pontiff,
without fear of the will or influence of any civil
power : that in the present state of the world this
civil power was necessary for the full protection and
vindication of the liberty of . the Roman Pontiff in
feeding the universal flock, which liberty was abso-
lutely bound up with the liberty of the whole Church
(loud cheering)—and that though they might be
deprived of almost all human hope, yet fully aware
of their duty, and altogether confiding in the help of
God Almighty, they were ready to contend without
fear for the cause of the Church divinely committed
to them by Chridt, even to the risk of life itself,
and, if needfUl, to go forth to any part of the world
where they might better exercise the apostolic office.
(Loud cheers.) He (Archbishop Manning) learnt
from that allocution that in the judgment of the
sovereign Pontiff, the temporal power, as it
was called, was of great price as a protection to
the liberty of the Church ; that the liberty
of the Church was a condition of its purity ;
and that Divine Providence had secured the purity
of the church in doctrine, in discipline, and in juris-
diction, by liberating its head from subjection to all
civil powers. (Loud cheers.) There never was a
time when the sovereign Pontiffs were subject to
any civil superior. The sovereign Pontiff was
clothed with his prerogatives when the pagan world
ceased and the Christian world cathelnto existence,
and there never hair been 6liristian prince who had
ventured to call the Vicar of Jesus Christ his sub-
ject. (Enthusiastic cheering.) There had been
pagan emperors, and heretical emperors, and schis-
matical emperors, and infidel princes, who had ven-
tured to claim the superiority of a sovereign over
the Vicar of Jesus Christ; but a Christian prince
(meaning a Catholiaprince) never in the history of
the Christian world. The Pontiffs protected this
liberty in the early
ages by martyrdom, and Divine
Providence had protected it in later ages by a dis-
position of Divine wisdom which no legislator or
statesman could improve. He begged once again
to repeat that the temporal power consisted in the
liberation of the person of the sovereign Pontiff
from all civil subjection; in the absolute freedom
with which he exercised his supreme control over all
powers that were subject to the Christian law; and
that the purity of the church depended upon that
liberty. For proof of this let any one contrast the
purity and perpetuity of the Roman Church, in its
doctrine and discipline,
with the Church in Con-
stantinople that became schismatical and heretical,
and was in the end given over to the bondage of the
Mahommedan antichrist. He might come nearer
home, and say that 300 years ago the experiment of
exchanging the sovereign Pontiff for a royal head
was made, with a result we knew well. (Cheers.)
The real question of the temporal power was—
should the head over the universal Church on earth
be a temporal prince,
or should he be the Vicar of
Jesus Christ ? (Loud cheers.) Cast out the Sove-
reign Pontiff and they had a universal royal supre-
macy. He, therefore, appealed to every man in
Scotland, and to every man whose ancestors threw
off the royal supremacy three hundred years ago,
that they might establish a headship of Christ
—he appealed doubly to the Free Kirk, that threw
over the Erastianism of the Establishment that had
no royal supremacy—be appleaded to the Dissenters
of England, who were one-half of the population of
this country—he appealed to the Church Establish-
ment itself, penetrated as it was with the sense that
its bondage was the royal supremacy—(cheers)—
he appealed to the hundreds and thousands of edu-
cated clergymen and laymen of the Established
Church, who, jealous of its purity, rejected the su-
premacy of a civil power in matters of religion—he
said to all these, " You are bound to sympathise
with us when we say we shall never become the
subject of a civil power." (Loud cheers.) He mar-
velled day by day when he read, in the newspapers
of a country more jealous in its boast of the liberty
of conscience and the liberty of religion than any
other, the scorn, contempt, and preternatural ani-
mosity that poured out upon the head of the
sovereign r.iff. was
After all these years of conflict,
there was now on the one side the power of the
ont.
world, armed men, armed legions, the sympathy of
nations, and all that the world could collect either
of might or menace, and on the other side an old
man with a silvery head, unarmed, isolated, and
defenceless. Daring all these years there had not
been one who had ever called down a benediction
on him, or spoken one word of sympathy at his ma-
jestic attitude of inflexible courage. (Loud and
long cheering.) Pius IX. recalled to him words an
Englishman should never forget
No man cried God bless him,
No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home ;
But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ;
Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off,
His face still combating with tears and smiles,
The badges of his grief and patience,
That had not God for some strong purpose steel'd
The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted,
And barbarism itself have pitied him.
(Loud cheers.) But let them remember the next
words : _ _

tesGopel, not unto death
But heaven bath a hand in these events ;
ande a
on flvisiblet
his conflict was like
but that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
thcicw
heand read tloifer ine wlai. l's
He would read a passage, which came before him
the other day, in the confidential correspondence
of the First Napoleon. It was a letter written from
Paris by the President of the Executive Directory.
It was datql, after the manner of that unpitying
barbarism, " 15 Pluviose, sth year," which to our
untutored Christian ears must be translated the 3d
of February, 1797. The letter was addressed to

the General-in-Chief Buonaparte, from Reuben,
President of the Directory, and it said :
ln directing its attention to the obstacles which oppose
the consolidation of the French Constitution, the Executive
Directory believes that the Roman religion (le cults Romaiiz)
is that of which the enemies of liberty may for a long time ,
Make the most dangerous use. You, Citizen-General, are
too much accustomed to reflection not to have perceived
as well as we that the Roman. religion will always be the
irreconcilable enemy of the Republic, in the first place by
its essence, and, in the second place, because its partizans
and its Ministers will never forgive the Republic the blows
it has struck at the fortune and the credit of the former
and the prejudices and habits of the others. There are,
doubtless, means which may be used within itself to destroy
insensibly its influence, whether by legislative Acts, or in-
stitutions which would efface the ancient impressions and
substitute new more in harmony with the actual order of
things, and more confornied to reason and to sound mo-
rality. It is for the Government to discover these means
but one point not less essential for arriving at the end de-
sired would be to destroy, if possible, the centre of Roman
unity; and it is foryou who hitherto have known how to unite
the most distinguished qualities of a general to those of an
enlightened politician, to realise this desire, if you judge it
to be practicable. The Executive Directory, therefore, in-
vites you to do all that shall seem to be possible (without
in any way compromising the safety of your army, or de-
priving yourself of the resources you may obtain for its
maintenance and for the service of the Republic, and with-
out rekindling, instead of extinguishing, in Italy the torch
of fanaticism) to destroy the • Government of the Pope
whether by placing Rome under another Power, or, which
would be still better, by establishing there a form-of internal.
Government which should render contemptible and odious
the government of priests, so that the Pope and the Sacred
College could not any longer cherish the hope of residing
in Rome, and should be obliged to go and seek asylum in
some place, be it where it may, where, at least, it would
no longer have any temporal power."
A fable it was then, and a fable it would be to
the end of the world. But the republic of
1848 made reparation for the republic of '97.
It was -republican France, in the fullest
liberty of its expression, that through one of
its most illustrious philosophic statesmen drew the
despatch by which she acted in her ancient mission
as protector of the Holy See. There was before them
the same conflict now ; the antagonists differed only
in name. One who was in close contact with those
who held high office in this country once told him
that a Prime Minister of England had said, " De-
stroy the temporal power, and the spiritual power
will soon go." (Laughter.) The gentleman an-
swered, "Not so fast; if there were left but three
Capuchin monks in the world, two of them would
elect the third for Pope." (Loud cheers.) He could
perfectly understand why the temporal power of the
Pope was assailed. It was for the same reason that
a skilful general attacked first the outworks of the
fortress. These assaults were made with the inten-
tion of reaching the centre of Roman unity. Not
48 hours had passed since the vault of the hall in
which they were assembled had echoed with sounds
of volcanoes, and lava, and sulphurous smoke, and
upheavings--(laughter).—and there was not a coun-
try in Europe which was not at this moment threat-
ened more or less by intestine movements that
might easily become revolutionary. (Cheers.) The
revolution on which men had so long complacently
and superciliously looked in Italy, which they had
fostered, and fanned, and encouraged, like thestorms
that wheeled upon a pivot, might in its circuit en-
close those who watched it, and react upon them-
selves. And what he wished to say was that this was
not the time for men to be cutting asunder the tie-
-liams of Christian civilisation, still less for them
to pull up the root-tree of Christendom. (Cheers.)
It has been said that the Popes did not hold
Rome by any claim of sovereignty accepte I by the
Rolnan people, and not by any custom. How then
had they held it? For 300 years they held it by
martyrdom, for 600 years by conflict and confessor-
ship, and for the last 900 years they had held it as
sovereigns. Almighty God, by a singular act of his
own Providence, had so disposed it that, unariiied
as the Pontiffs had been, with no power whatsoever
to cope with the dynasties around, utterly and en-
tirely unable to resist armed invasion, they hal con-
tinued their career independent of all and vassal to
none ; but, respected by the sense of justice of the
Christian church, protected by the public law of
Christendom and by the veneration in which Chris-
tian men held the vicar of our Divine Redeemer—
this
had been their title to the see, and no man could
take it from them without violating the Providence
of God. (Loud cheers.) The members of the Ca-
tholic Church were engaged in a great conflict, and
might for a time be at a disadvantage, but the issue
was sure, come what might. If the Sovereign Pon-
tiff left the city of Rome, he did not make a leap in
the dark in the wide world ; 45 Pontiffs had been
driven out of Rome, or had never set their foot in
it, and if it happened to the 46th they would neither
be amazed nor afraid. To shift the -centre of Chris-
tendom from the centre of Roman unity would carry
disorder into every Christian land. If there were
Christian statesmen in Europe, or if without being
Christian there were enlightened statesmen, they
would never suffer that calamity to reach their own
homes. The cause in which they were engaged then
was one the justice of which was a luminous cer-
tainty excluding all doubt, and the Divine promises
of success were such that when the empires and
kingdoms now in conflict with the Vicar of Christ
were swept away, there was no room for fear that,
in whatever state he might be of poverty or perse-
cution, peace and veneration would still reign calm
and supreme, and he would triumph over the ene-
mies of Him against whom the gates of hell could
not prevail. (Loud cheers.)
Lord DENBIGH moved the first resolution, which,
he said, embodied the best instincts of his heart :
" That filial attachment and fidelity to the person
and office of the . Sovereign Pontiff Pius IX. is a
duty of every member of the Catholic Church, and
an obligation arising from the first principles of the
faith." How, his lordship asked, could it be other-
wise when every dutiful son felt the desire to draw
near to his father in the hour of bis adversity ?
However serious the position of the Pope might be,
there was no need for fear ; the Holy Pontiff knew
who was his Master, and he would be ready like his
prototype to face every difficulty, and, if required,
to walk upon the waters of the troubled sea. He
urged those Catholics to beware who, like birds
fouling their own nest, for the sake of fleeting
popularity, and a temporary name for Liberalism,
joined in, or heard unopposed, the cuckoo cry,
" Down with the temporal power of the Pope."
Every true Catholic should determine to cleave to
the Holy Father through evil and good report, and
not to be afraid of what the world would say, for
the Holy Father was the servant of One who said,
" I have overcome the world." Let it not be said
this was a time of humiliation for the Holy Pontiff.
Never had holy Pontiff been in a grander position.
Though surrounded by friends, and amidst dangers
of every kind, he stood like a beacon, pointing out
to others the danger in which they stood. The
Pope never stood in a prouder position than when
last year in the face of all his troubles and obstacles
he issued that grand encyclical condemning his
enemies. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. 11. MATTUEWS seconded the motion, and, in
the course of a lengthy speech, spoke of Garibaldi
as " an adventurer in a red shirt, who was treated
as a hero, instead of a high misdemeanant," and re-
ferred to the Emperor of the French as a modern
Tiberius, a wearer of a crown, who did 11.0 t hesi-
tate to write anonymous pamphlets, a man of dark
designs, the most skilful conspirator in the world,
and a man who was likely to go down to posterity
as the Pontius Pilate of the Papacy.
Lord. ARUNDEL of WARDOUR spoke in supportof
the motion, and said he was quite sure of the barque
of St. Peter, but he was not so ceTtain of the crew.
In dwelling upon the many predictions of the fall
of the Pope coming true, he said the present aspect
of affairs might end in what would be like another
fall of Babylon, in which case " we shall look back
from the dead level of democracy -and misery upon
the glories of the past."
_ The resolution was carried with acclamation, the

chiefs, and cheeArillngELovblolleigoif,Eletyrio:u.n as vociferously.
whole audience rising, waving hats and handker
anow
powerful
us hl Catholic;and
bad great pleasure in moving the following resolu-
tion j"°lll'Nhaet this s
con-
straining upon the hearts of Catholics throughout
the world at all times, when our Holy Father, after
a pontificate of 20 years, in perpetual and inflexible
conflict with anti-social and anti-Christian revolu-
tion, stands alone without human aid in the midst
of those who, by violence and intrigue, are labour..
ing to destroy the temporal sovereignty, by which
the liberty and the safety of his person and of his
office have been, by the evident providence of God,
secured for the welfare of the Universal Church."
He believed that at the moment when all help
seemed to fail the Pope he would be protected by
Him whose arm never failed. In Italy we bad a
State which had recently contributed to history the
defeats of Custozza and Lissa, which could not ne-
gotiate a loan, and which had its prisons full of
political prisoners—conditions on which men of
the world did not build their notions of the stability
of States. It was an ordinary incident in the
history, of the Church to find a Pope gone into
exile, and-no Catholic could be thereby discomfited
in the sense the word supposed. It was said that
in the vicinity of this city an aged man lay sick unto
death. Tie could only hope that Joseph Mazzini
might live to repent of his ways. Ilis writings
showed that the great object of the revolution in
desiring Rome - was to establish a new religion,
which showed that it was the spiritual power of the
Pope which was aimed at. The temporal power had
been a mere pretext through which to strike at the
religious union of Christendom. (Applause.)
The Rev. Father GALWAY, in seconding the re-
solution, said that they firmly believed that the
Pope would come triumphant out of the storm—
(loud cheers)—and this confidence was a source of
danger. He stated that strained efforts were being
made to make the Catholics of Italy immoral be-
cause it was necessary to make a Catholic a bad
man before you could detach him from the Holy
Father. The Pope was suffering for each indivi-
dual Catholic. He was the leader of the sacred
band of Christian paupers, reduced to his present
position for the edification of the Church. He was
suffering for the unity and the entirety of their
faith. The present division of Protestants in Eng-
land showed what were the consequences of separa-
tion from unity. Recently at the door of a High
Church a gentleman asked the sexton how things
were going on. The reply was, "We are in the
midst of a great struggle ; we have got white vest-
ments and red, and we hope soon to have green
ones." (Laughter.) None felt more than the
Anglicans the value of the Papacy. They were in
the position of the man who had a present of a
pound of tea, with direcions for its preparation,
and who poured the boiling water upon it, and then
ate the leaves. He had only the written text ; he
had no living voice. (Loudclieers and laughter.)
Imagine a Puseyite clergyman having a present of
vestments, he would not know what to do with them
but for the Papacy. Accordingly those clergymen
went into the nearest Catholic chapel, studied the
matter, and then copied what they saw as far as
they dare in their own churches. Catholics must
make haste, or they woul.l be outrun in the race by
the Anglicans. They had churches, vestments, and
devotions like those of the Catholics—almost every-
thing but the confraternity of St. Peter, which alone
did and must distinguish the Catholics. (Cheers.)

The resolution was carried with the most enthu-
siastic demonstrations.

Sir. G. Bow LP. moved the third resolution as
follows :---" That the confraternity of St. Peter,
having for its object to diffuse sound principles in
respect to the rights and prerogatives of the Vicar
of our Lord, to promote prayers for his safety, and
finally to make offerings for the maintenance of his
person and dignity, has an hurerative claim on the
zealous and eflici,-,nt co-operation of all Catholics."
He denounced as worthless the book favourably
reviewed in the Times that morning, ridiculed the
pretensions that reforms were required in Rome,
and declared upon his own authority that Rome was
well governed. Justice was cheaply and well ad-
ministqed. Sir John Rolt had publicly testified to
the learning of the Roman lawyers. Some of Sir
Robert Peel's financial reforms were copied from
Rome. Its Government was cheap; its Prime
Dlinister had £5OO a year ; the whole court cost
£1,500 a year. The Roman Government would
stand a comparison with any other Government of
the World. If it had a fault it was that it was too
mild. The people were not interfered with. The
poor bad more individual liberty than they had in
London ; and the security was as great as that of
Loudon. Murders and serious crimes were rare.
Yet such stories as the correspondent of the Times
being robbed of his watch were told as evidence of
insecurity. Without the Pope Rome would be like
Windsor without the Castle. The Holy See was
under the protection of God ; it could not be over-
tehnreomwiens;
wtohueldPobpeedwefoeuatldedr;etbniattinhuatraßanommee,auasndmhuisst
not be neglected by anyone

The resolution was seconded by Father KERRY,
and also carried by acclamation.

A vote of thanks to the Archbishop terminated
the proceedings about 11 o'clock.

FLOGGING GAROTTERS.—In accordance with the
sentence passed upon them at the last sessions of the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, several members of the garotting fra-
ternity underwent the discipline of the cat-o'-nine-tails
yesterday at Newgate in the presence of the sheriffs, the
under-sheriffs, the governor, and other officials. Mr. Gib-
son, the surgeon, was also in attendance. The first who
were brought were Henry Wilson and Charles Everett,
who were convicted of a robbery, with other persfons,ray
ac-
companied by violence, in the neighbourhood oG
Inn-lane. These prisoners also conducted themselves.en with
great violence towards the police when they were into
7 years'
custody, and the sentence passed
penal servitude and to receive twenty lashes, l'ansflic.ted upon them.
elq and the latter
portion of the punishment w
The next prisoner was one llama
servitude and twenty lashes,
esdD3,°lictael Mack, who was
sentenced to seven years' the Gray's Inn-
for a like robbery in the npoeingahlb:o.etitid.rvhßocondi
aomf
i who was sen-
, read. The next prisonerw
alsferavitude and to receive
tented to to seven years' penabbery, with violence, in Cannon-
five lashes, for a brutal ro
street, City. George Main all? William White were the last
were convicted of robbing and
two who " suffered ;"
they
named Swallow, residing at
a gonti
brutally ill-using
hbourhood of the Great Northern
Peterborough, in the
"angd sentenced to receive twenty-five
punishment was inflicted by Calcraft
lashesßa ilwaelKh.i ngT'-h-ocr°psist.n'
and it is to be hoped that it will be at-
most effectuany,
results.
tended with salutary
DR. War.KF.E ON THE PETTICOAT QUESTION.--
" How
I did wish that I could wear a short dress !"
said Dr. Walker, in tho course of a retrospective view of
her medical career at the Lyceum where she took her de-
gree.
And this fervent aspiration was continually re-
peated as she advanced from stage to stage in her profes-
sional course. The long skirts were for over in her way.
how could she operate, how dissect, how wish in and out
of the inevitable brougham and rush round the corner to
a patient in a hurry, with a crinoline and train impeding
the freedom of her movements? When she was a little
girl, under 14 years of age, she wore short petticoats, awl
was happy. Men wore no petticoats at all, and were happy.
Dr.•Walkor was very strong indeed upon this petticoat
question. - She said in so many words : "Long dresses are
killing women :" she did not say how ; but she asserted
the fact, and a chilling silence followed the remark. Per-
haps the different members of the audience were speculat-
ing as to how the ;extra breadths did their full work, and
in what manner the coup de grace was finally inflicted.
Perhaps they were summing up in their minds the number
of octogenarian spinsters of their acquaintance, on whom
the noxious influences of voluminous drapery had failed
hitherto to take effect. Thare saemed to be a general feel-
ing that some explanation was desirable, but none was
forthcoming. The lecturer was busy with the practical
side of her subject. She discoursed on the various lengths,
or rather shortnessas,of skirt which were reconcilable with
the principles of physiology and hygiene, and went into
many abstruse speculations as to the fitness or unfitness of
white pantalettes for female medical wean—Die/anis "rill
the rear Round, ."