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DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING.
THE POPE'S TEMPORAL POWER;_: ,

The French pamphlet continues to be the all-ab-
sorbing topic of the day. Even the pro- Papol mon-
ster meetings in preparation for the Christmas
holidays seem to have had a secondary interest in
the eyes of the Ultramontane press. The Freeman's
Journal reverts to the subject this morning at
length, and concludes au elaborate review of the
new difficulties of the situation, created by the
publication of the pamphlet, in these terms :
" We do not know the issue of these complica-
tions, but whatever may be the fate of the Guerro-
nierre plan, it cannot be doubted that if it were not
intended to support the proposition in Congress it
was most unwise to publish it with or without Im-
perial authority. We regard this manifesto as of
the last importance. Whatever may be the ulti-
mate issue, the enemies of the Popedom will natur-
ally conclude that, emanating from such
a quarter,
the pamphlet, if it does not bear the Imperial signet,
is stamped with Imperial approbation ; and should
some of the Powers urge a settlement, founded on
the proposal, the French Government would not be
reluctant to solve the difficulty by adopting it. Of
all the exultants the nines is the most moderate in
its transports—not that it does not comprehend the
full import of the revolution contemplated by the
pamphlet, but because it is more politic just now,
when Irish excitement, already so great, is likely
to swell still higher on learning this last invasion
of Papal rights—to restrain its delight at the
triumph of British policy and the extinction of the
temporal authority of the Popedom. We confess
we regard this last phase of the question as the most
dangerous of all through which it has yet passed,
and the most alarming to all who desire the inte-
grity of the Papal dominions."
One or two of the Pope's journals affect to make
light of matters, and cannot for the life of them
bring themsolves to believe that the pamphlet is or
has been issued with the impress of Imperial sanc-
tion. The Dublin Morning News (Dr. Callen's
daily organ) and the Cork .Examiner are of this
mind. The Nation is apparently dumbfounded;
but promises next week to say its say ; while the
Catholic Telegraph (Dr. Cullen's weekly mouth-
piece), acting upon the principle that least said is
soonest mended, preserves a Burleigh-like silence,
and does not even condescend to nod its head as a
sign of its disapprobation.
A writer in the Cork Reporter supplies some infor-
mation not without significance respecting the pre-
parations for the Dublin demonstration " in favour
of the Government—which cannot govern" of his
Holiness the Pope :-
0 With all the noise made about them and all the
parade, it is felt that the county and parochial meet-
ings hitherto have been, as regards the educated
and respectable laity, little better than failures.
Everyone knows that a dozen presentable names of
Roman Catholic gentlemen, sprinkled sparsely
among twice or thrice that number of priests, and
a sort of substratum of names of God knows whom,
will count for nothing, and that much more signifi-
cance attaches to the number of Roman Catholics of
position and intelligence ' conspicuous by their ab-
sence.' But it is thought by a good whip something
like an imposing public meeting may be managed
here, where the clergy do not hesitate to say there
is less of sturdy independence, or, as they call it,
insubordination to the spiritual authorities,' than
in any part of the provinces. The greatest exertions
are consequently being made; the Roman Catholic
priests are supplied with copies of a draught requi-
sition, which they are taking round from house to
house for signatures, and, of course, every form of
persuasion is resorted to. It is expected that some
of the leading judicial, professional, and mercantile
men amongithe Catholics will give it their adhesion,
but where they refuse the policy will be to say no-
thing about it, but make the best of the business. I

think more recusants of this class will be found
than the movers in the business reckon on."
Nevertheless, the part taken by the educated and
respectable laity has somewhat disappointed the ex-
pectations of those who had formed a more favour
able opinion of the growing intelligence of the great
bulk of the Roman Catholic body; and who hesi-
tated to believe that in the present age of the world
noblemen and gentlemen would yield willing obe-
dience to the commands of their Bishops, and join
in the crusade against the liberties of their co-re-
ligionists in Italy. The declaration of the English
Roman Catholics has, however, put all these antici-
pations to flight, and no one will now wonder that
in addition to Kilkenny, Meath, and Galway, the
laity of Tipperary, at the bidding of Archbishop
Leahy, have declared for the Holy Father. The
Vindicator of yesterday exultingly says :---
"Our columns this evening are occupied by a re-
quisition as significant and important as any we
have ever published ; it is the requisition of the
Catholic magistracy, clergy, gentry, and people of
Tipperary to the illustrious Archbishop of Cashel
to convene a meeting to offer the united sympathies
of the requisitionists to the Sovereign Pontiff at
the present eventful period. The requisition bears
the signatures of the county members, of the mem-
ber for Cashel, of the clergy of every parish in the
county, of the high sheriff elect, of the deputy-
lieutenants, who are Catholics, of the Catholics in
the commission of the peace, of the Catholic gentry,
of the professional classes, of the substantial mer-
cantile and trading classes, of the farmers—of all
who feel the imperative necessity that exists of an
unquestionable manifestation of opinion and of
sentiment against the foul and flagrant
attempts • that are being made, by Whig and
Tory, to destroy the influence of the head of
240,000,000 of Catholics throughout the world, who
look up to him with eyes of tender affection, regard,
and veneration, and who feel a deep interest in the in-
tegrity of the tsmporal power wb ich he ex€ pcises, and
which he has enjoyed since the days of Clovis,
Pepin, and Charlemagne. The Archbishop has
complied with the requisition ; and the meeting is
fixed to take place on Wednesday next, the 28th
inst., in Thurles Cathedral."

Another red hot Ultramontane paper, the ill-
kenny Journal, indulges in the following piece of
bombast :

" Let not the Protestant Government of England
hope to strike down the Papacy, let them not hope
by their evil intrigues to inflict the slightest wound
upon the one true Church of God ; for, whether in
the Vatican or the Catacombs, whether in the
palace of the Cesars or the cells of the Martyrs,
the power of the Pope is still the same—still com-
manding the sympathies of the faithful, still issuing
its edicts to loyal and loving subjects, still ruling
the world from the humble chair. of St. Peter or the
throne of the Sovereign Pontiff. On next Monday,
with God's help, Kilkenny—ever Catholic Kil-
kenny—will speak its feelings on this subject, and
perhaps we cannot do better at present than to pub-
lish the following letter from the princely proprie-
tor of Jenkinstown, expressing his happiness at
being named as one of the speakers on this occa-
sion. As a specimen of true Catholic feeling,
worthy of the Bryans of old, it will be read with
interest, not only at present, but in the future his-
tory of Catholic Kilkenny. It is addressed to his
worship the Mayor : _ _ _

" Jenkinstown, Monday.
" Dear Sir,—l am in receipt of your esteemed
favour. Many thanks for it, and many pardons for
the trouble I have given you on this occasion. If
you will kindly intimate to the hon. secretaries
that I accept with thanks the honour of proposing
the first resolution at the meeting, you will confer
a great favour on your already obliged,
" GEORGE BRYAN.
_ _ _

" To the Mayor of Kilkenny."
Up to the breaking out of the prevailing pro-Papal
fever Mr. Bryan was supposed, like his father, the
late Major Bryan, to belong to the class so hateful
to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, kown as Conservative
Roman Cathelics.

DUBLIN, DEC. 25.
THE GOVERNMENT AND THE IRISH MAGISTRACY.

A blustering speech made by a priest, the Rev.
Mr. Fielding, at a Papal meeting held in Queens-
town, and at which a magistrate of the county of
Cork presided, has attracted the notices of the Lord.
Chancellor, and his lordship's secretary, Mr. Mark
Pearin, has been directed to write to Mr. James
Gallagher", the magistrate in question, calling his
notice to a passage in Fielding's address, as reported
in the ork. aminer, the organ of the Ultra-
montane party. Mr. Pearin writes :
" His lordship does not observe that you in any
way interposed when such opinions were expressed
by Mr. Fielding, and apparently responded to with
approval by the meeting ; I must therefore conclude
from your position as chairman that you gave your
sanction to them. Such conduct on the part of a
gentleman holding her Majesty's commission of the
peace appeart to his lordship so entireiy inconsis-
tent with that position that he has directed this
communication to be made, in order that you may
make such observations in reference to the pro-
ceedings as you may think proper."
Mr. Gallagher's apology is as full and satisfac-
tory as the most fastidious loyalist could wish. He
thus explains :
" I attended the meeting at Queenstown solely
for the purpose of expressing sympathy with the
Pope, and when I was most unexpectedly called
upon to preside I had no knowledge that any
other subject save the ostensible one for which I
thought the meeting was convened would have
been brought forward. The subsequent resolutions
were, however, spoken to by the clergyman of the
parish in a manner calling for no interference of
mine, until the Rev. Mr. Felding, whom I had not
known before, addressed the meeting. His lordship
will perceive that I am made to anticipate person-
alities in the speech attributed to me, whereas it
was at the part of Mr. Fielding's addres where I
considered Lord Fermoy's name was very unneces-
sarily introduced that I deprecated the use ofsuch ;
and when, as Mr. Fielding proceeded, I found him
commencing to use language which I should not
hear I rose to leave the chair, and it was during the
excitement consequent upon this movement, and
which did not occupy more than a minute or two,
that the language reported must have been spoken
as Mr. Fieldingimmediately ceased speaking when
I consented to resume the chair. The report I con-
sider an unfaithful one of what occurred, and I be.
lieve I owe some of the incoherent and absurd
speech attributed to me to my interruption of the
speech. The Lord Chancellor will, perhaps consider
that I should have retired at this period of the pro-
ceedings, and I now feel that would have been the
most fitting course ; but I wish to assure his lord-
ship that it was an error of judgment, and that I
thought at the moment I was exercising a wise dis-
cretion in not giving the matter a factitious import-
ance by withdrawing altogether from the meeting.
I beg to state to the Lord Chancellor that my loy-
alty is undoubted, that the oath of allegiance I have
taken as a magistrate is not the first I lave pledged
to her Majesty, and that my moderate views in other
respects are, I believe, known to her Majesty's So-
licitor-General. I must most heartily declare that
I have no sympathy with the sentiments con-
tained in the language referred to ; that I regret
having been unwillingly called upon to preside at
that meeting ; and I wish to assure his lord-
ship that the deprivation of the commission
of the peace would be of little consequence to me in
comparison with the stain of disloyalty it would
convey."_

In ieply the Lord Chancellor observes—
" His Lordship is satisfied from:your explanation
that the sentiments and opinions conveyed in those
portions of the speech of the Rev. Mr. Fielding, as
reported in the Cork Examiner of the ith of De-
cember, to which your attention was directed, did
not meet with your concurrence or approval, and it
is gratifying to his lordship to find, that by bring-
ing the matter under your notice, he has afforded
you an opportunity of showing that you ought not
to be held responsible for that degree of participa-
tion in such opinions which, if unexplained, the re-
port in question would have attached to you. His
lordship can make full allowance for the difficulties
of the position in which you appear to have found
yourself unexpectedly placed by the occasion in
question: The recollection of them will, he has no
doubt, make you more cautious for the future ; his
lordship places implicit reliance on the assurances
of your loyalty to her Majesty, which are embodied
in the letter ; and, looking at all the circumstances,
he does not feel called upon to interfere further
in relation to these proceedings."
The following are the passages in Mr. Fielding's
speech alluded to by the Lord Chancellor :
" The Govesnment knew very well that the peo-
ple of this country hesitated very little, or would
not care much if Napoleon 111. should step into this
country any moment ; the government knew very
well that the government of France would be as ac-
ceptable to the Irish people as the present govern-
ment. (A Voice—That's a fact.) We are loyal, and
only too loyal, but we could be more loyal if protected.
As to the peace of the country, how can the people be
expected to protect it when the poor man is turned
out of his house and holding, and sees his wife and
children wretched ? What can you expect from