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London, England, 1850-11-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1850.

In another portion of our journal will be found a
document than which one of more vital importance
has not, perhaps, issued from the press since
the memorable protest of the Bishops in
1688. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Prime Minis-
ter of the Queen of ENGLAND, the des-
cendant of an illustrious house, the members of
which at all times and under all circumstances
have upheld the principles of civil and re-
ligious liberty against despotism of every descrip-
tion, whether sacerdotal or temporal, has
comer forward and protested against the
recent Papal aggressions on the rights and pre-
, rogatives of his SOVEREIGN, in language worthy
of that Rosszrx who perished on the scaffold,
a martyr to the sacred cause which has ever
been upheld so well and so worthily by his
descendant. In his letter to the Bishop of DURHAM
Lord Joint RUSSELL at once disposes of the flimsy
and fraudulent arguments of those who pretend that
the recent proceedings of the POPE are precisely analo-
gous to the division of Scotland into dioceses by the
Episcopal Church, or the arrangement of districts in
England by the Wesleyan Conference.
"It is impossible," says my Lord John Russell," to con-
found the recent measures of the Pope with the division
of Scotland into dioceses by the Episcopal Church, or
the arrangement of districts in England by the Wesleyan
Conference.
" There is an assumption of power in all the docu-
ments which have come from Rome— a pretension to
supremacy over the rntlm of England, and a claim
to sole and undivided sway, which is inconsistent with
the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops
and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the
nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic times."

That such is the view taken of the question
by the Romanists themselves, that the
recent Bull was meant not only as an insult but as
an absolute claim to supremacy and undivided sway
in this realm of England, a claim which will involve
all those who admit it in the guilt of some-
thing very like high treason, is abundantly
evident from the statements put forward by the Court
of Rome in its organs of the continental press.
The Paris journal, the Univers, is the acknowledged
organ of the Uitramontane party and the
Jesuits, and its leading articles on matters
relating to the Church of !Rome, are
in general arranged in the secret Jesuit conclave at
Rome and sent to Paris for publication. It is there-
fore to be considered as the official organ of the
Papacy, and in the Univers of the 3d November, we
End an article on the subject of this said bull which
commences in these words :

" Clamours still resound on the banks of the Thames.
The ardour of the controversy redoubles. Endless
commentaries are made on the terms of the oath ad-

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ministered to the Cardinals. The London clergy held a
first meeting yesterday morning to protest against the
egressions of Rome, and to appeal to resistance. One
might suppose, by these groans of Anglicanise, some
wild beast wounded to death making the fureits resound
to its bellowings.
" We should not dare to show ourselves too severe in
appreciating the complaints of the members of the offi-
cial Church of England, for it must be allowed that the
Holy See has aimed a sturdy blow at their religious esta-
blishments."
This, one would imagine, was sufficiently explicit,
but in order that there may be no doubt on the subject,
the Jesuit organ gives the following explanation of
the meaning and effect of this act of Papal usur-

pation :
" In the same way as St. Gregory transferred the pri-
macy of London to Canterbury; in like manner as Popes
Bonitace and Ilonorious confirmed that change; so does
Pope Pius IX. now transfer the primacy of Canterbury
to the Archiepiscopal See of Westminster. It is in virtue
of authority inherited from his predecessors that the
Pope substitutes the see of Southwark for that of Lon-
don, and that he abolishes all former episcopal sees esta-
blished in England by the Popes who preceded him in
the chair of St. Peter. Pius IX. distinctly declares it in
the brief which creates the new hierarchy.
" Consequently, since the promulgatio❑ of the Papal
brief, the sees of Canterbury, of York, of London, and
any other sees established before this reform, have ceased
to exist. The persons who in future may assume the
titles of Archbi‘hop of Canterbury or Bishop of Lon-
don, will ba nothing less than intruders, schismatic
priests, without any spiritual authority."
Not only is the blow aimed at the Church of Eng-
lar.d—it is avowedly, openly, ostentatiously, made
at all our liberties, civil and religious, and the
ultramontane Univers boldly repudiates the excuse
set up by the defenders of the Papal usurpation in
England, and thus confirms the statement of Lord
JOHN RUSSELL : - -

" An attempt may be made in England to appease
the alarm of the Anglicans by comparing the new dio-
cesan divisions to, the arrangements of the Episcopal
Church of Scotland, or of the Methodists; but such a
comparison would be completely false. The Me-
thodists follow their propagandism. Z hey never pre-
tended to call in question the spiritual authority of
the Anglican Bishops, They may divide and subdivide
as much as they like the diocese of London or of
Oxford, without ever annulling the authority of those
sees, and I%,uclering null and of no avail the acts
emanating from the Anglican prelates that oc-
cupy them. To establish an analogy between these
two orders of facts would be to reduce the
Catholic Church to the proportions of one of the
sects that divide England between them. We prefer,
as the Holy S:^.e has thought fit in its wisdom to teke
this grave measure, to avow openly and frankly its bear-
ing, to give it its full importance, rather than endeavour
to diminish it to calm the irritation of the enemies of
the Church who take offence at it. Yea, the act of
supremacy just issued by the Pope denies the existence
in England of any ether spiritual authority than his
own. Let upright-minded Anglicans reflect upon this.,
and examine their consciences, for it comes to nothing
lees I Or have the Anglicans perchance imagined that
the Pope recognised the authority of a Protestant
Church ?"
We trust that all Protestants of every denomination
will reflect on this last passage which we
have extraeted from the Univers, and con-
sider well what measures should be adopted to
defend religious liberty and religious equality against
the threatened usurpations of a Church which
denies the existence of any other spiritual au-
thority than its own. To defend ourselves
against the old aggressions it may be necessary to
have recourse to the old defences, indeed, Lord JOHN
RUSSELL intimates as much in his admirable letter.
In whatever measures he may adopt to repel and punish
these aggressions and usurpations on the part of the
Bishop of ROME, the Prime Minister may safely count
upon the unanimous support of the whole of the Pro-
testant people of Great Britain. The manner in
which the sth of November was observed in every

part of the kingdom, is a proof that the old
Protestant spirit Las been thoroughly roused ;
everywhere meetings are held to address
the QUEEN, the Supreme Head of the

Church, on this arrogant attempt at an usurpa-
tion of her spiritual authority. Yesterday
there were meetings for this purpose held
at St. Olave, Jewry, and St. Martin Pomeroy,
at St. Dunstan-in-the-West, and at Stepney ; and
to- day the Common Council of the City of London
met and agreed to present an address to her MAJESTY,
which was almost an echo of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S
letter. At Coventry a meeting of the Archdeaconry
was held yesterday, and an address to the QUEEN
agreed to. At the close of the proceedings a question
was asked as to what course should be pursued to
obtain petitions from the laity, when it was sug-
gested by the Hon. and Rev. G. M. YoRKE, that it
would be far better, and from all he knew the laity
were quite alive .to the subject, to leave it in their
hands, to act freely, and not under the dictation of
the clergy.
The advice of Mr. Yolts.2 is sensible advice, and will,

we hope, be acted on. The question more concerns
the laity than it does even the clergy, and the laity
will be "up and doing" everywhere in defence of
their liberties against sacerdotal usurpation. We
must defer to another occasion our observations on
that portion of Lerd JonN's letter which relates to
the traitors in our own camp, the Romanising clergy
of the Church of England.

Public attention has repeatedly been directed to
the treatment experienced by the cruelly-persecuted
and deeply-injured PERTAUB SINGH, the deceased
Raja of Sattara, and by his lawful heir and succes-
sor, the still more unfortunate Trimbukjee Raja, at
the hands of the _Honourable East India Company and
the Anglo-Indian Government. The subject has
been brought before Parliament, before the Court of
Directors, and before the proprietors of India stock;
but we regret to say it never received the considera-
tion it so eminently deserved. Means were adopted
on every occasion to stifle discussion and to get rid of
the unwelcome subject. The undisguised anxiety
exhibited by the interested parties to avoid the strin-
gent and searching inquiries by which the
actual facts of the case might have been
elicited, sufficiently proved the weakness of
their cause. Those who have nothing to dread
from the truth are ever willing to undergo any
ordeal ; in place of shrinking from, they court in-
vestigation, and are desirous that every circumstance
should be brought into the open light of day, so that
even the possibility of doubt or misconception may
be removed, and an accurate judgment formed on
indisputable premises.

But it nory appears that the magnates of Leaden-
hall-street are not content with adopting this discre-
ditable course. It is not sufficient merely to smother
discussion ; they have resorted, and are still re-
sorting, to more active measures of oppression for
the purpose of crushing the feeble efforts of
a helpless woman and an innocent child—of
preventing the touching remonstrances that may
ultimately induce the British Parliament and
the British nation to render ample justice to the
aggrieved parties. They are endeavouring to starve
the RANEE and the de jure Raja into submission, in
order that they may tamely relinquish their unques-
tionable rights, and acknowledge the propriety of the
gross usurpation of which the Company has been
guilty in occupying the territories and confiscating
the revenues of the infant Raja.
As Englishmen we blush at the facts plainly and
simply stated in the letter to the Chairman and Court
of Directors of the East India Company, which
will be found in another part of this day's
impression, and which we earnestly commend
to the calm and mature consideration of every un-
prejudiced person, of every lover of truthandjustice
in this favoured land. If there is any exaggeration
or misstatement, it may be readily contradicted by, or
on behalf of, the Directors ; but, unfortunately, it
rests on too broad a basis to be denied. The evi-
dence by which it is sustained are the dispatches and
letters from the Governor-General and Council of
India, published under the sanction and authority of
the Directors, in pursuance of an order of the House
of Commons.
In that extraordinary document, after stating, with
what foundation the public will judge for itself,
after perusing the clear and straightforward let-
ter of " A NATIVE OF INDIA," that " the Go-
vernment of India bus always advocated the
grant of an ample stipend to the adopted son of
the ex-Raja, and is still of opinion that he should
be liberally treated, as well as the RANEE," the
Marquis of DALHOUSIE, and his advisers Messrs.
LITTLER, CURRIE, and Lowis say—" w
But
• e appre
hend you (as the Court of Directors) cannot wish
this Government to confer a pension on the adopted
boy at Benares, at the time that by designating him-
sea' RJj a of SATTARA he is virtually disputing the
right of the East India Company to territory of which
it has assumed (q1267C usurped ?) possession. Nor do
we suppose it can be your wish that we should in-
while she is recap
crease the pension of the Raw,

rising and maintaining these sovereign rights in the
adopted eon." The conclusion from this singular
reasoning follows naturally enough :—" We do
not feel ourselves justified in making these
grants unless both the Ranee and the boy
at Benares, renounce all right to the Raj of Sattara,
or, at all events, unless the use of the designation and all
marks of sovereignty are abandoned by both of them."
From the passages above extracted it appears but
too clearly that the Governor-General and Council
put their liberal intentions under constraint, and that,
notwithstanding the express directions of the Court
" to make payments to which (crede DALUoUSIE) these
persons (the RArrEE and Raja) had forfeited all just
claim," they had absolutely refused to make these
payments, and had suffered the victims of persecu-
tion to pine for three years in captivity, where they
were unable to obtain their own livelihood, without
supplying the actual means of subsistence.
Is this conduct worthy of men ? 13 it calculated
to exalt the character of the Anglo-Indian Govern-
ment in the eyes of the native princes ? Or is it
becoming the representatives of the British nation,
which has ever claimed a reputation for honour, in-
tegrity, and moderation iu all its dealings, more
especially with the weak and feeble, who were unable
to defend themselves, and who could only depend on
the justice and equity of their judges.
We pause for a reply ! We trust that the organs
of Leadenhall-street may not continue silent, blit that
they will offer some justification for what we cannot
help designating as this monstrous outrage on pro-
priety, this fearful corroboration of the statements
we have heard of their injustice in other respects.
But if, after three years' resistance, they have suc-
ceeded in extorting from a feeble woman a formal
renunciation of the " rights" (that is the term used
by Lord 1/famous's] in his dispatch) of the adopted
son of her deceased husband, we again ask what
value can be attached to such a document, obtained
by such disgraceful means and so totally devoid of
consideration ? We venture to tell the Honourable
.Company that it would not weigh a feather in the
scale before any tribunal. Trimbukjee Reja is
an infant of tender years ; even if willing and
anxious to do so, he could not barter his in-

heritance or relinquish his inalienable rights.
Again, a deed obtained by coercion, and while
the party is under duress, is absolutely null and void.
As well might a Norman baron of the olden time set
up a claim to the domains of a neighbour founded on
a deed executed while the grantor was incarcerated
in the dungeon of the castle, and kept without food
or nourishment until he affixed his name and seal to
the conveyance, as the East India Company assert a
valid title to the Raj of Sattara on such a docu-
ment. It is, besides, to all intents and purposes, a
nuduln pactum. It is, therefore, perfectly valueless
on three distinct and separate grounds. We can,
however, judge of the opinion which the parties them-
selves entertain of the justice of their cause when they
descend to such vile and debasing expedients to sustain
and support it.

The spirit cf opposition is congenial to the English
character, it is fostered by our institutions. Nothing
great or good has ever been done without it, whether
in Parliament or vestry. We do not wonder, there-
fore, when we hear of opposition to anything; but we
must confess that where we least expect it is on the
occasion of a ball, and that too a ball connected with
a charity. If it be safe for Englishmen to lay aside
their politics anywhere, surely it should be in a work
of this kind. For our part we need not lay aside our
politics, as we do not find that they in the least in-
terfere with our sympathy for the Poles. We have
ever looked upon the downfal of their country as an
European calamity, and the original source
of all those evils which, at one time
the ambition of Kings, at another the
anarchy of nations, have, for this half a century past,
inflicted upon the world. But some of our contem-
poraries might be of a different opinion. They might
not, as we do, extend their approbation to the cause
of Poland ; we cau scarcely believe them capable of
carrying their dissent to the ungracious extremity of
persecuting its victims. The rights of hospitality are
too sacred to be interfered with by political prejudices.
These should find their vent in something else, and
on some othe'r occasion. It is our boast that we are
not inferior to the ancients in anything
and that our superiority in some things is unquestion-
able. What says HomEu upon this very question of
hospitality ? One would think that his prophetic
genius refers to the exiles of Poland :

" Low at thy knee thy succour we implore,
Respect us human, and relieve us poor.
At least some hospitable gift bestow,
'fis what the happy to the unhappy owe:
'Tis what the gods require, those gods evere;
The poor and stranger nre their comity,* care;
To Jove their cause, and their revenge belongs,
He wanders with them and ho feels their wrongs."
We recommend the above lines to the correspon-
dent of the Times. They were addressed originally
to POLYPHEMUS, to whom the worthy Alderman bears
little resemblance, as he is no manner of giant,'• and
has not only one eye ; but though he may have two
eyes far all his mercantile speculations, he is too apt
to make use only of one of them when he is looking
into public matters, especially where his own interest
is not at stake. We would persuade prudent men on
all occasions to look at things with both eyes, and we
believe that aldermen are generally in the habit of
doing so except when they happen to correspond with
the Times.

But it is not with poetry alone that we mean to
answer either the Times itself or its correspondents,
or any of the other grumblers against the Polish ball.
Tnat ball can well bear the test of argument, and
needs no sentimentalism in its support. It is a fact
that we have about five hundred Polish refugees in
England, that they are proscribed, that their property
has been confiscated, and that their friends and rela-
tives at home are forbidden under severe penalties to
send them any pecuniary assistance. Is it then a
wonder that they are in distress ? The wonder is that
their distress is not more general. If it were, the
money raised by the ball would not go far. The
Times' estimate of the net proceeds of the file is be-
tween one and two thousand pounds ; the last pro-
duced about four hundred. To hear the grumblers
one would think this sum is sufficient to keep five
hundred men in idleness, and-supply them daily with
a cigar each for a whole year. It is barely adequate
to the relief of the blind, the halt, and the maimed
among them. It is upon such men that certain par-
ties delight to make a display of their wit, or to pour
the thunder of their eloquence. All their support is
exclusively reserved for the authors of the partition
of Poland ; they have no sympathy for the victims
of a noble cause. FALsrarr took good care to be out of
HOTSPUR'S way in the field, but no sooner had he heard
of his death than he hastened to run the corpse through
the body. We have no wish to imitate the part of
FALSTAFF, and leave it for those who either from
temper or policy are more fit to undertake the vindi-
cation of triumphant despotism.

Cardinal Wiseman has arrived at Boulogne, from
whence he will proceed to St. Leonard's, and may be ex-
pected to arrive in London about the end of next week.
OXFORD, Nov. s.—The sermon preached before
the University to-day by the Rev. Baden Powell, M.A.,
Savilian Professor of Geometry, had very little direct refer-
ence to Popery, but it was, nevertheless, throughout an
uncompromising assertion and defence of all the most che-
rished principles of the Reformation and of Protestantism, as
might be expected from the well-known character of the
preacher, who was appointed to the office by the Vice-Chan-
cellor. In the Bidding Prayer the preacher pointedly inter-
ceded for the Protestant Church of England. The text was
from Ist Corinthians, chap. 3, verses 11-15—" For other
foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus
Christ," kc.
CONTINENTAL TRAFFIC --r' Nov. 6.
The South-Eastern and Continental Steam-packet Com-
pany's ship the Prince Ernest arrived here yesterday morning
with 63 passengers from Boulogne, and the Princess Helena
sailed from that port with 22 passengers. At midnight the
Princess Clementine brought over 14 passengers. This morn-
ing the Prince Ernest sailed for Boulogne with 70 passengers
and 6 horses, and the Princess Helena returned with 79 pas-
sengers.

itEFRESENTATION OF MAIDSTONE.—The statement
that Mr. Hope Was about to resign the representation of
Maidstone has been confirmed by an address issued by that
gentleman.
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LEGAL PnomonoN.—Mr. Sergeant Wilkins is
forthwith to receive a patent of precedence.
SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES OF LONDON.—In the
exarninaticn for prizes given by the Society of Apothecaries
of London for the greatest proficiency in Materia Medica
and Therapeutics, October, 1850, the first prize, gold medal,
was awarded to Mr. F. W. Headland, King's College ; second
prize, silver medal, to Mr. D. T. Morris, Charing cross Hos-
pital. There are three prizes given by the society. The
first, a gold medal ; second, a silver medal and books on ,bo-
tanical science ; and the third, books only. The first prize
has been awardd to Mr. F. W. Headland, King's colleet ;
the second, to Mr. G. D. Brown, St. Thomas's Hospit4;
and the third, to Mr. J. Z. Lawrence, of UniYersitk.
College.