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venient anger of our contemporary knows
no bounds, and his well-feigned horror and
disgust no limit of vehement expression, when
he further leers that twelve Romish bishops
are designated for twelve new sees that his Holiness
deigns to erect for the edification of our most igno-
rant, most heathen, and most un-Popish people.
Alas ! poor Times! Our contemporary must have
indeed been sorely pressed, not merely from without,
but from within also, ere he consented to pen the
lines contalead in his Saturday's article. For it is a
well-understcod rule of law, " that he who wills the
means wills the end," and for now nearly two years—in-
' deed from that memorable night when protected un-
der the robe of Countess Spaur (formerly Mrs. Dod-
well) Pius IX. fled from the Vatican—the object of
the Times, at which our contemporary has striven •
with might and with main, has been to get the well-
fed Pontiff back again, with all his ecclesiastical,
clerical, and pontifical bag and baggage, with his
keys, with his crozier, and with his ring, with his
mummeries, with his monkeries and Agnus
Deis, with his scapularies, rosaries, and wonder-
ful moving- eyed virgins of Rimini —with every-
thing, in a word, but the Book of God and of life—
with everything but improved secular govern-
ment and constitutional institutions. And now,
having got the dear, fat, well-fel Pope hack again
in his Palace of the Quirinal, backed up and sur-
rounded by his conclave of Italian-bred cardinals and
camerlingoa, our contemporary is wonderfully sur-
prised that his Holiness plays the real Pope—that he
really pontificates—and seems in earnest, and desires
to pull down every other church than his own, and on
the ruins of each and all other churches to erect
the spiritual despotism and darkness of Rome,
proudly predominant, persecutingly intolerant) and
arrogantly triumphant. This surprise on the part of
our contemporary indicates either the most ingenuous
simplicity or the most marvellous and utter unac-
quaintance with the history of the Papacy. As the
Papacy was, so it is, and ever must continue so long
es the religion of Rome endures. In all that Pius IX.
has done since he has been restored by French Re-
publican bayonets he has been perfectly consistent
—perfectly true to the instincts of priest and of,Pope
—perfectly true to the traditions of Popery and of
the Papacy from the earliest time. The inconsistency
is not on the part of the Pope of Rome, but one the
part of those French and English politicians
who were purblind enough to believe that
in writing, in speaking, and in voting in
favour of an armed interference for the Pope,
they were writing, speaking, or voting in favour of
a Government of order, of liberty, or of rational pro-
gress—in favour of a Government that would not in-
terineddle with the domestic concerns of free and in-
dependent states. The Times, now that we are
assailed in our hearths and homes, in the city of
Westminster, by the meddling Papacy, by the silly
fool of the Quirinal, and his crapulous conclave of
priests, has discovered that the Pope of Rome " has
maintained a dark superstition, and bred a constant
disaffection among a large portion of the Irish people."
It is a pity that the Times did not discover this in
Ncvember and December. 1848, and during every
month from January, 1849, down to the 19,h Octo-
ber, 1850. When its priest and police-inspired cor-
respondent at Rome, at Milan, at Turin, at Genoa, at
Naples, and at Gaeta—for one individual, after all,
played a " monopologue," with as many changes
of dress and character as poor Charles Mathews—
when its priest and police-inspired correspondent
at Paris—were writing up the Pope and the cardi-
nals, and vituperating Gioberti, Mamiani, Arrnellini,
Safli, Galetti, Marian', Montecchi, Mazzini,
Cernuschi, D'Azegiio, Leopardi, and others, and
charging on them fabulous and unheard-or crimes—
when its Puseyite correspondent, Mr. Baillie Coch-
rane, with the five Christian names, commonly called,
for shortness, " Cochrane le Cinq," was inditing to the
Ttmes, so late • as last April, pompous, empty, and
meaningless eulogiums on the Pope for blessing the
French army, and announcing the nonsensical rig-
marole that " each soldier thought the blessing was
intended for himself"—it is a pity, we say, that the
Times did not then, or earlier, discover that the Pope-
dom " was a foreign usurpation, ludicrous and intoler-
able"—that " the Papacy was an edifice rotten to its
foundation"—" that it was a vitality declining at the
centre," as it fully admits on Saturday, Oct. 19, of the
present year. Such was the language held by us
from November, 1848, at a time when " our own
correspondent"—aye, and our own Times' leading
article writers too—vilipended every Italian looking
for constitutional reform, rejoiced at the French
expedition against the Roman Republic, and at the
restoration, by French Republican bayonets, of a
Pope, whose business the Times now—too late—dis-
covers to be " to sow division in our political society."
It is well, however, to welcome a repentant sinner,
even at the twelfth hour, and when the Times, in a
truly virtuous and a truly Protestant fit of pious in-
dignation, exclaims against the impudence and ini-
quity of " parcelling out the spiritual dominion of'
this country," and of " employing the renegades of
our National Church" in such a work, we shall not be
guilty of the cruelty of reminding our contemporary
of how he encouraged these renegades, when within
th© Establishment, in their fantastic tricks, from 1841
to 1847, and thus prepared the way for these mons-
strous aberrations and backsliding's which have had
the effect of giving even courage to the silly fool of
Rome, and which have induced him and his advisers to
think that England is prepared to receive Papal legates
and cardinals, as in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. Now that the Times has at length dis-
covered the evil it loses no time in suggesting a
remedy. But a remedy more monstrous, more silly,
and more wicked, never proceeded even from the
Vatican itself in its worst days. The remedy is, that
the spiritual aggression of this silly and besotted Pope
"should be met by the British Government wan due
vigour, not in England, but in Italy." A more naked,
abominable, and unwise incitement to interfere in the
domestic concerns .of a foreign state, because a foreign
state has interfered in ours, never appeared even in
the Times. The Noble Lord at the head of the
Foreign Office, with all his faults of interference and
intermeddling, is not so silly or so intane as to follow
such evil and truly inimical counsel as this. We have
nothing to do with Rome, and we want to have
nothing to do with Rome. But if Rome meddles with
the prerogative of our Queen, or the rights or liber-
ties of the Protestants--eye, or of the Roman
Catholics of Great Britain and Ireland—the people
of these realms will know how to resist the impudent,
offensive, and intermeddling intrusion, without going
to the Vatican or to the Quirinal, as suggested by the
Times: There are other aspects of this subject which
we must regard more narrowly in a day or two.
DAILY NEWS.—We published on Friday a
letter, and a very important one, calling in question
the right of Cardinal Wiseman, now a prince of. a
foreign temporal state, to exercise authority in this
country over the will, and over the property and con-
duct of a large number of her Majesty's subjects.
This day we publish another letter, called forth by
the first one, and augmenting its importance—dis-
playing but too fully the spirit in which Cardinal
Wiseman is likely to exercise his new authority, and
the ends to which he is capable of turning and em-
ploying it. If we regret, and are disgusted by, the
aggressive attitude lately taken in Ireland, and now
in England, by the ultra-zealot party in the Catholic
Church, it is really for the sake of our Catholic fel-
low-brethren, more than for ourselves. We should
have liked to see the great measure of Catholic
Emancipation completed by some fair mode of dealing
with the Irish Church, and by placing the Anglican
and the Roman, at least in that country, in such
Juxtaposition as would take from both the character
of belligerent churches. But any such intolerance
or disaffection as that revealed in the letter ad-
dressed to us, and published to-day, will alarm
not merely the Protestants, but the friends of
the monarchy, and the assertors of .constitu-
tional rights. We must say, however, in Justice to
the Court of Rome, that, guided by the least sense,
common or uncommon, in its foreign relations, that
many things and symptoms have lately happened and
been manifested in England calculated to deceive it.
First of all, a certain portion of our own clergy, being
at the very centre of theological learning, have avowed
that the regeneration of the Church must be sought
in the revival of the authority, not merely of the
scriptures, but of tradition and of clergy. That such
a theory leads straight to Rome, has become as evi-
dent from its effects as from its principles. But this prin-
ciple of authority, after beingresuscitated of itselfin an
English cloister, has lately been caught at by the de-
spairing statesmen of all the
countries of Europe,
threatened by democratic ideas. These, even
Catholic countries,
having long repudiated the 'au-
thority of the priest, whilst they respect that of reli-
gion, have fallen into anarchy and decay, from causes
no more connected with religion than with mathe-
matics. But statesmen have looked upon it as a kind
of divine infliction, to be propitiated, as barbarians
used to seek to avert the danger of an eclipse, by
sacerdotal pornps and 'human sacrifices. In France
and Austria, where the State, however despotic, had
repudiated the Church, this same Church has been re-
stored to its supremacy. No wonder that the Pope
should consider as one the different kinds of reaction
in his favour. No wonder that he should buckle on
• the armour of Julius the Second, and send forth his
fighting Prelates in new red hats, to drill and arm his
old clergy in foreign parts, and had them to the as-

sault of crumbling citadels. But whatever be the
purpose, the excuse, or the calculation of this new
crusade, the grand consideration for Protestants, and
for liberal Catholics also, is how is it to
he met ? The writer of the letter we have re-
ferred to, and who signs himself " A Catholic,"
would question the right of the cardinal prince to
exercise authority in things temporal within this
realm, and he points out how much of his necessary
jurisdiction will be temporal. Our high Tory organs
seem less offended by any real power that a papal
legate may wield than by the overweening dignity
of his title. The claims of the Roman Catholic pre-
lates in Ireland to be allowed their titles, with the
rank and precedence attached, are assumed to be
equally valid in this country ; and Sir R. Inglis is
called upon to nip the budding honour of the new
hierarchy, by a motion in Parliament prohibiting all
honours and titles in this country which have not
emanated from the Crown. This, however, is but
fighting a shadow. The essence of rank lies in the
deference paid to it, and if you prohibit by statute
that deference which men are willing to pay, the
dignity of peraecution is added to that of right.
The most singular of all the modes proposed of
combating the power and encroachment of the new
legate is, however, that of the Tim's. It threatens ,
and recommends no less than for the English Govern-
ment to get up an insurrection in Italy against the
Pope, by way of retaliation for the ecclesiastical
emeute which has Holiness is getting up under
Cardinal Wiseman here. If our readers are
incredulous we must refer them to the first
leading article in Saturday's Times. "The spiritual
aggression," saith that journal, "is to be met with
due vigour by the British Government, not in
England, but in Italy." The Pope is represented as
too weak to defend himself against a mob, and there-
fore presuming on his weakness as the screen of his
ambition. The Times concludes by declaring that
whatever " its reluctance to add fresh elements of
discord to the present agitated condition of Europe,"
it still is prepared to let loose Mezzini and Garibaldi on
the Pope, unless the Pope recall Condottiere Wiseman.
What a s:riking speciinen of political morality in a
Government organ ! Here have the Times and its poli-
tical party been sacrificing with cannibal ferocity and
Flea all that was liberal, and constitutional, and hope-
ful in Italy to the interest of Papal, of Neapolitan,
of Austrian despotism. Throughout two years not
one care or thought of Italian rights, freedom, or in-
terests crossed its mind or inspired its pen. The
commercial classes of the Romagna, the feudal nobility
of Sicily, the constitutional rights of Naples, never
found mercy or consideration with the Times, who
applauded Austrian, Neapolitan, and French soldiers,
in crushing exiles and executing them. Not one
little finger would it allow to be raised on behalf of
Italy. How fiercely did it abuse Admiral Parker
and Lord Napier for their humanity. How was
Lord Minto's character lacerated for his having en-
tertained a hope of the constitutional freedom of the
Peninsula. Nay, Consul Freeborn hhisself was de-
nounced for having saved the lives.of some of the gal-
-1 hat defenders of Rome, by giving them passports to
escape. And yet this very party amongst us, and,their
organ,which exulted in the crushing ofthe last spark of
even constitutionalism, now gravely proposes that Eng-
land should stir up again the embers of these quenched
revolutions, and fan them into flames, not for the sake
of Italy, of freedom, of any generous or humane prin-
ciple—no—but merely to be avenged for the nomina-
tion of Cardinal Wiseman ! Can the annals of the
press and of party, through all the years of their
combined existence, display a more heinous specimen
of political scoundrelism ? No, please. God, if English
love of peace and dislike of interference made the
Parliament and public feeling prevent Lord Palmer-
ston from indulging in any generous intervention for
Sicilians or for, Romans, English honour would not
brook the idea of doing for selfish spite that which we
refused to do in the cause cf freedom and humanity.
If we cannot aid in the emancipation of Italy for
Italy's own sake, we shall certainly not sanction the
employment of either intrigue or secret service
money to foment insurrection for the selfish pur-
poses or gratification of political or religious spleen.
The policy of the last two years, the policy forced
upon the Foreign-office in the latter period of
these years, by the Tory and AbsolutiSt league, of
which the Times was the organ; this policy has flung
away Italy, and handed it over politically, commer-
cially, and religiously to its enemies. The day to
have combated them in Italy has gone by, and all that
remains now for us is to resist them at home. We
are to do this, we feel convinced, not by persecution
,or proscription, but by uniting the efforts of liberal
Protestants and liberal Catholics for maintaining the
local rights and independence of both Churches, and
for establishing and extending education and educa-
tional institutions, for the purpose not of inculcating
mere dogmas, but cf strengtheninti and enlightening
man's reasoning faculties and solid infornaatien. Me-
diaeval Cattnaticity can only be revived amongst a ge-
neration soeially divided and religiously instructed, as
were the people of the mediaeval age, that is amongst
an ignorant lower class, a barbarous and feudal
noblesse, and a middle class ignorant and dependent.
We have few of these elements. But there remain
some scattered soils, where ignorance and pride lie
deep, and where the mediaeval seed may still produce
crops. Let us hasten to plough and to enrich them.
With cart ful cultivation we need not fear the nature
of the crop.
CHRONICLE.—It is difficult to understand what
advantage the Pope can propose to himself from that
scheme of a diocesan partition of England which has
.been already inagurated by the establishment of an
intrusive Archbishopric at Westminster. If the
proceeding is not resented by the English nation, it
can only be on the ground of utter indifference to a
verbal and imaginary encroachment. The progress
of proselytism is not likely to be facilitated by in-
dignation, nor can it derive favourable auguries from
contempt. The fragmentary and individual suc-
cesses of Romanist propagandism are toe notorious,
from the exaggerated boasting of one party and the
byste*ical lamentations of the other, to stand in need
of further advertising; and yet we suspect that the
instinct of puffing has contributed its share to the an-
nouncement of the new titular Primacy. There
are, we presume, persons to be found who believe in
the pretensions of placarding coffee-dealers, and of
slop-shops which proclaim themselves to be the won-
ders of the world ; and the Court of Rome may have

TIMES.—We were: not misinformed with refer-
ence to the proposed restoration of the Roman Catho-
lic hierarchy in England, for the organs of that
Church on the continent now actually contain the
Pope's bull for the creation of a dozen bishoprics and
the systematic division of this island into new dioceses
by the will and pleasure of Pius IX. Until we saw
the whole scheme in black and white before us, we
confess that we were still incredulous of the extent of
its impudence and absurdity; and we believe that it
may be some time before the people of England
realise to their own minds the fall purport of these
suprising pretensions. An Archbishop of Westmine
ster, a Bishop of Southwark for the two divisions of
the metropolis and the adjacent counties, a Bishop of
Beverley to hold spiritual sway in Yorkshire ' • Lan-
cashire to be shared between the sees of Liver-
pool and Salford; Wales,' between Salop and Mer-
thyr-Tydvil cum Newport; the bishoprics of Clifton
and Plymouth in the west of England, each corn•
prising three counties ; in . the midland district
the two episcopal sees of Nottingham and Birming-
ham, flanked by that of Northampton in the
east—and all this laid down with the autho-
rity and minuteness of an Act pf Parliament by a
Papal bull—certainly constitutes one of the strangest
pieces of mummery we ever remember to have wit-
nessed ; and if it were not accompanied with an evi-
dent determination to convert these pompous names
and titles into facts, we should regard such a docu-
ment emanating from a foreign Government as posi-
tively unworthy of credit. As it is, we can only re-
ceive it as an audacious and conspicuous display of
pretensions to assume the absolute spiritual dominion
of this island which Rome ,has never abandoned, but
which, by the blessing of. Providence and the will of the
English people, siTe shall never accomplish. Oa no
occasion since the Reformation has the Court of Rome
so peremtorily denied the validity of Anglican orders,
by partitioning the whole island into new sees, as if the
old Episcopal dioceses of England, many of which are
comval with the introduction of Christianity itself, were
absolutely vacant or extinct; at the same time the letter
of the law which prohibits Roman Catholic prelates
from assuming the titles of Anglican bishops has
been obeyed whilst its spirit is set at defiance. To
the existence of the dignitaries of th'e Romish
Church' having a certain authority over their own
flocks in this country no objection was or could be
raised ; but the creation of a hierarchy, assuming the
names of cities and provinces, and distributing coun-
ties amongst their sees, is a step which the Pope could
not have taken in any other civilized country in Eu-
rope, end it is hardly less preposterous than the bull
of one of "his predeeessors in the fifteenth century,
which assigned to the, Crown of Portugal the undis-
covered limits of the new world. We have seen it
contended that this stretch of Papal authotity is not
more startling than the creation of a Protestantbishop
at Jerusalem, and the creation of the Anglican sees of
Malta and Gibraltar by the authority of this country.
But the analogy is altogether incorrect. The Pro-
testant Bishopric of Jerusalem was founded, if we
are not greatly mistiken, with the full knowledge
and assent of the Porte, the:Sovereign of that country;
and the object of that institution was simply to place
a prelate of our Church in v. place which has a charac-
ter of peculiar sanctity to the whole Christian world,
not certainly to exercise any kind of spiritual autho-
rity over the subjects of the Porte in Syria. So again
the bishoprics of Gibraltar and of Malta are lawfully
established by British 'authority in those British
dependencies ; and though the prelates who fill those
sees may occasionally exercise their functions else-
where, their residence is fixed on British territory,
and their duties are mainly if not exclusively directed
to the spiritual wants of British subjects. Widely
different from these appointments; made or accepted by
the sovereign authority of the countries in which they
are placed, is a direct usurpation of a supreme spiritual
power by a foreign priest over the length and breadth
of this' land, treaticg with equal arrogance the exis•
tence of our national!Church and the policy of. our
laws, and issuing such a mandate as no Government
on the continent of Europe, whether Catholic or
Protestant, would submit to. For if the Romish
Church herself had not sunk deeper than ever in
her subjection to the intrigues and ambition of
the Vatican, the Roman Catholics of England would
themselves spurn such an interference of foreign au-
thority, which men of the mind of Bessuet would
never have endured. It seems, however, that on the
publication of this bull the English Roman Catholics
now in Rome obtained an audience of the Pope, and
were presented by Cardinal Wiseman to thank his
Holiness for these measures. Pius IX. spoke on this
occasion, as we are informed by a French Catholic
priest, to the following effect :
"I bad not intend,d to send the new Cardinal (Wise-
man) back to England, but to keep him near the Papal
Court, and to employ his talents here. But I am per-
suaded," added the Pope, " that the time is come to set
about the great enterprise for which you have just
thanked me. I think he has nothing to fear in England.
I spoke of it some time ago to Lord Minto, and I under-
stood that the English Government would offer no op-
position to the execution of my plan. I therefore send
this most eminent Cardinal back to England, and I in-
treat you all to pray without ceasing that all difficulties
may be removed, and that a million—nay, three millions
—of your countrymen still separated from us, may enter
into this new church, even to the last of them."
We translate this extraordinary declaration literally
from the And ,de la Religion;
and it is certainly
calculated to complete the astonishment with which
this whole transaction fills us.
The plan, it seems,
was communicated by the Pope himself to Lord
Minto, on his mission, which took place three
years ago; yet the English Government has seen no
reason to offer any adverse expression of opinion to it;
so that while one of the effects of Lord Minto's un-
fortunate journey was to promote the revolution in
Italy, the other is to promote the re-establishment of
theis
tßomishhierarchy
neither
a Jacobini n England.
nor Foraa bigot Scotch
it
no e
bmust
be confessed that these results are strange instances
of diplomatic ability ; and Lord Minto will be con-
signed to the judgment of posterity between Cicero-
vacchio and the Archbishop of W •
estminster. We
venture to think that the case was one which would
have justified, and which probably did cause, strong
remonstrance on the part of the responsible servants
of the Crown against a measure which must at the
very least be regarded as offensive to the people of this
country and insulting to the institutions we most che-
rish; and if we are not mistaken this project had actually
been suspended until the Pope was worked upon by his
resentment against the proceedings of English agents
in Italy to give us this proof of his ill-will. lie has
now thought the time was come to launch the "great
enterprise," and he has taken care to accompany it
with the remarks which he thought most injurious
and unpleasant to the English Government. To this
sort of defiance, arising chiefly out of personal irrita-
tion and political causes, the Government will, we
hope, find means to make a suitable reply. As for the
measure itself, it has doubtless been framedin the
Councils of the Vatican with an astute consideration
of the existing laws of England, and it will probably
be found that enormous us this assumption of power n
by a foreign Government undoubtedly is, it is ot ex.
pressly at variance with any statute new in force,
though this may form the subject of further investi-
gation. But in these days the main importance of
such an act is in its effect on public opinion, which
may either reduce it to its proper proportions of ar-
rant absurdity or exalt it into more importance than
it deserves. We hope that its effect Will be
degrada-
tion bring
home more thoroughly to men'a minds the _d
tion of that allegiance to Rome which submits the
most sacred interests of life and
society to a Power
which we would not intrust in temporal.
that this concerns
with the authority of a parish vestry; an
step of the inveterate assailant of the
Church of Eng-
land may remind the whole Protestant body
in this
nation that our own divisions have given the_ Rome. chief
signal of encouragement to the aggressions of
HERALD.—Now that the people of England be-
gin to be aroused at the monstrous and unjustifiable
pretensions of the Church of Rowe to the
.exercise of
tetnporal power in these realms, and to entice a den
termination to resist the insolent assumption to the
death, that consistent journal the Times,_
etted which, for
the last two-and thirty months, has abetted
sacer-
dotal despotism in every corner of Europe—that con-
sistent Times, which sent " our own" priest and police-
inspired correspondent to Rome to malign the Pro-
visional Government, and to aid and
_abet a go-
vernment of cardinals, of monks, and
o priests. .
that consistent Times, which received
thel
Puseyite
and puling correspondence of r. B a illie Cochrane
on the subject of Papal mummeries, so lately as April
and May of the present year--
that consistent Times,
which even more recently, indeed _ within the last
fortnight, dedicated a column of
of
double-leaded
matter to the history of the creation of 14 new car-
dinals, with all the nauseous unmanly mummeries and
disgusting details—that very same Times, so Pusey• t
e,
for year these sine
and therefore Popish at heart, any
years past, seeing now how the wind
lies in this our
thegood
city of London—and seeing that honest
people of England will stand no Popish
tricks and no
exploded doctrines of the middle ages—that respect-
able mercantile Times, whicb suits itself to the market
of opinion, and adjusts its articles accordingly—i,
now, we perceive, very ssr th and indignant with Pie
Nono for promoting Cardinal Wiseman to the see of
Westminster, and for i thus exhibiting a desire
to revive the Romish hierarchy. But the con-

_ .
hoped that similar credulity would lead to the recogni-
tion of an authority which assumed to be already re-
cognized. It may be true that the cheap tailor is
not really the arbiter of fashion, and it is certain
that'the Cardinal Archbishop can only influence a few
scattered congregations ; but in each case the person
principally concerned deems it expedient to announce
himself as being already in possession of the prosperity
which he hopes to attain hereafter. Even if new cus-
tomers are not attracted by the self-complacent
advertiser, his old adherents are nevertheless comforted
and encouraged by assurances that their judgment is
confirmed by the suffrage of the community at large.
If this is not the object of the now appointment, we
are at a loss to reconcile it with the reputed sagacity
of the Roman Court. .That such a measure should be
in the
held out as a diplomatic threat, is perfectly natural
isforandintelligible.oncebe
exertedW e m
on the side
may hope that
efEnglishjustice,
contest between Rome and Sardinia; and it is not
unlikely that the Synod of Thurles may have been
originated, and that the proposal of establishing a ter-
ritorial episcopate in England may have been adopted,
as menaces to an unwelcome mediator. But even if
Lord Palmerston could be supposed to be jealous of
the hierarchical pretensions of Rome, the threat be-
comes useless from the moment that it is accom-
plished, and we have now nothing more to fear.
When Mr. Pitt was negotiating with the French
o m
Directory, be offered, as a part of the convention, to
small
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thedecline
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of make
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any
msurrendermight
h t
be, ofa
t
resign the claims of George 111. to the kingdom of
France. The Government of the Republic were so
unpatrit
territory in return for the royal concession ; but,
however
least the English Minister had it to play. Pius IX.,
in a similar game, has played his card, and Dr.
Wiseman is now Archbishop of Westminster exactly
in the same sense in which George lIL and his
predecessors had long been Kings of France. The
insult which is thus offered to the English nation
is aimeil against both the Church and the State.
The immediate purport of the new appointment is,
of course, to denounce the Bishop of London
and the Primate as schismatic intruders. Two
bishops " keep not their motion in one course,"
and a legitimate territorial title excludes all
local co-ordinate authority. It is true that the
Protestant Establishment was always schismatical
and heretical in the eyes of Rome ; but there are
. many unpleasant relations in society which it is not
necessary publicly to express. It were more polite,
as well as more consonant with the actual state of
things, to manage the ecclesiastical affairs of the
English Roman Catholics without an ostentatious col-
lision with the Church which is actually in possession.
The Sovereign of the Ecclesiastical States has often
been beholden to the friendly interference of England ;
and it might have been well to avoid insulting the
most conservative party in the State, at least till
could be effectually injured. It is an innovatoa in
they
the practice, if not in the pretensions of Rome, to di-
vide a territory into provinces and dioceses without
the 'COI/Mt of
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wide difference between a titular pretender who has • i
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lost his dominions, and a new potentate appointed by
a foreign Power, without the consent of the so-called
subjects. Perhaps this insolent and foolish encroach-
ment may satisfy Lord Grey that he was in error
in assigning a secular rank to the Roman Catholic
Bishops in the colonies. When prelates preside over
real congregations, and are themselves personally
esteemed, there is no danger that their rank in society.
will be lower than that to which they are fairly en-
titled ; but the principle of attributing official prece-
dence to the nominees of a foreign authority h in
no way countenanced by any rank conferred, whether
wisely or unwisely, by the State. Even those who
are most prejudiced against the secular pre-eminence
accorded to the dignitaries of the Establishment
cannot deny that, however objectionable they may
deem it, it is founded on actual law. Foreign rank
and titles have a claim to courteous recognition so long
as they are professedly foreign , but it would be im-
prudent to acknowledge the pretensions of a Russian
Prince of London, or of a Turkish Pasha of Ireland.
Dr. Wiseman is, we believe, a respectable gentleman,
but we know of no Archbishop of Westminster.
The whole question is, perhaps, insignificant. In
protesting summarily against an impertinent pre-
tension of a not very formidable Potentate, we can-
not persuade ourselves to be seriously irritated by an
encroachment that is confined to words. It is the
tendency of this proceeding to revive sectarian Dill-
mosity which alone materially concerns us. We have
already appealed to the moderate and prudent mem-
bers of the Roman Catholic body, to use their in-
fluence to check the political priesthood in the
teasing activity of their movements. Let them preach,
and argue, and convert at their pleasure—we shall
neither interfere with them nor blame them ; but it
can never serve the interests of their cause to insult
the vast majority whom they cannot influence. Their
wisest leaders know how thorougly England is op-
posed to the spirit of their Church. They cannot
hope to turn the current of popular feeling; but they
may, we fear, easily revive the jealous antipathy from
which they have in. former times suff-red so much in-
justice. At present they are alienating
,and alarming
all the friends of piece and toleration, who could look
with complacency on the uneasy exertions of a sect
but for the reasonable fear that these may soon arouse
the dormant passions or a more powerful enemy. If
the Pope selected his counsellore from Exeter-hall .he
would certainly have
.been advised by a sagacious
enemy to consecrate an Archbishop of Westminster.

THE NEW ENGLISH CARDINAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—l an confident that I shall not in vain ap-
peal to your sense of justice and fairness for permis-
sion to say a few words, as a friend of Cardinal Wise-
man, respectim your observations on his elevation to
the spiritual office and rank of Archbishop of West-
minster.
.• .
I submit that the act in question does not, if im-
partially considered, imply, as I am certian it was not
intended to convey, any slight or disrespect to the
Crown or the :British nation, nor infringe the royal
prerogative. The case stands simply thus:--The
Roman. Catholics in England have for some time felt
that their Church ought to be put on a regular and
perfeet foundation, instead of being, as heretofore, in
a mere missionary form, under the government of
vicar's apostolic. The desired change could only be
mule in accordance with the discipline of the Church
f.
in one way, i.e., by the appointment of diocesan
bishops.
The statute 10 George IV., c. 7, s. 24, forbids the
Catbclic clergy from assuming the style of any
bishopric or archbishopric of the Established Church.
It is necessary, therefore, that the proposed diocesans
should be created under new titles. Hence the erec-
tion of the archbishopric of Westminster, which is a
purely spiritual office, and no more illegal than that of
the vicars' apostolic ; it neither affects, ror professes to
affect, Any temporal legal rights, but merely regards
the spiritual cJncerns of th)se of her illejesty's sub-
jects who are, or hereafter may be, in communion
with the Church of Reale.
The erection of that office does not, moreover, in-
volve any exercise of temporal jurisdiction :within
this realm by the Pope, for the erection of a bishopric
is not in so an act of sovereignty or temporal juris-
dieti off.

In eupport of this position I need only refer to the
fact that the Crown of England at few years ago
erected a bishopric in parts beyond the sex where her
Majesty's writ runneth not—to wit, at Jerusalem.
The warrant under the Royal sign manual and signet
for the consecration of Dr. Alexander, the first bishop
of the newly created see of Jerusalem, recites (among
other things) that, by stat. 5 Victoria, c. 6, it is en-
acted that the bishop or bishops to be consecrated
under its provisions, "may exercise within such limits
as may be from time to time assigned in any foreign
country by the Queen spiritual jurisdiction over the
ministers of British cong,regatious of the United
Church of England and Ireland, and over such
other Protestant congregations as may ke desirous
of placing themselves under his or their authority."
And the warrant concludes as follows :—" And we are
graciously pleased to assign Syria, Chaldes, Egypt,
and Abyssinia as the limit within which the said
Michael Solomon Alexander may exercise spiritual
jurisdiction pursuant to the sail Act, subject never-
theless to such alterations in their limits as we fcom
time to time may assign."
Here we fled the British Crown creating a Pro-
testant I rishopric of Jerusalein,and assigning to it a dio-
cese including Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, anal Abyssinia!
And I need scarcely remind you that Italy, including
Rome itself, is within the diocese of the Protestant
bishopric of Gibraltar, and that the Right Rev. Dr.
Tonilioson, Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar, has actu-
ally performed episcopal functions in Rome. Yet the
Roman Church and Government made no complaint.
I trust that these observations will be received as
they are meant, and that after this explanation her
Msjesty's Catholic subjects may welcome their illus-
trious prelate on his return home next month without
incurring any imputation or suspicion of disloyalty to
their 'beloved Sovereign, or of any breach of that
proper respect which they owe to the opinions and
feelings of the majority of their fellow-countrymen.
I remain, Sir, your obedient eervant,
The Temple, Oct. 16. G. B.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.

Sir,—At the present moment, when the return of
Dr. -Wiseman to England as " Cardinal Archbishop
of "Westminster," is almost hourly expected, the fol-
lowing anecdote, which has only been partially cir-
culated among the Roman Catholics, may not, per-
haps, be uninteresting to the general body of your
readers.

Among the Catholics; it •is universally known that,
for a period of years which extends far beyond the
recollection of the present generation, it has been the
custom, especially in the southern district of England,
to recite in the mass a collect or prayer for the safety
and prosperity of the Sovereign and Royal Family of
this kingdom. This prayer was, I believe, originally
introduced by Dr. Richard Challoner, Vicar Apostolic
in London, and was approved and adopted by all and
each of his successors in the London vicariate until
the unhappy accession of Dr. Wiseman to the govern-
ment of that district. This personage had long since
exerted himself to get it suppressed. During the life-
time of his predecessor, and whilst yet he had no
connexion with London, he artfully represented his
wishes to the Pope, or to the Propaganda, and ob-
tained an injunction ordering Dr. Griffiths to remove
it from the missal. Dr. Griffiths, however, was better
affected towards his Sovereign, and accordingly so
represented the real case in an energetic appeal to
Rome, that the injunction was recalled, and the prayer
was allowed to retain its accustomed place in the ma's.
So matters remained until death unfortunately re-
moved Dr. Griffiths from the scene of his zealous but
unostentatious labours, and a series of intrigues at
length inflicted his present successor on the London
district, in the ostensible character of coadjutor to Dr. •
Walsh. Now, however, was the time for the long-
desired abolition of the obnoxious prayer for his Sove-
reign's safety. Assembling the clergy in the Chapel
of St. Patrick, near Suho-square, he descanted on the
impropriety of allowing the name of an heretical
Prince to appear in the mass; assured his auditors
that the Holy Father had expressed his strong dislike
of the custom which had hitherto prevailed; and then,
omitting of course all allusion to the fact that he had
himself suggested whatever notions the Pope enter-
tained on the subject, and that the Pope, on being
better informed, had actually cancelled the order for-
merly sent to Dr. Griffiths, went on to signify to them
his desire that henceforth the prayer in question should
be entirely omitted. This desire, he added, be had not
declared in any public form ; the matter was not
adapted for the public eye. He had, therefore, men-
tioned it to them in this private manner, and he ex-
pected that they would attend to it. It has been at-
tended to, though with painful unwillingness; and
your readers may ascertain the fact for themselves
at any mass in any chapel in London.
I am, Sir, &c.,
London, October 14.

CI vis.

THE NEW POLICE UNIVERSITY.
(From the Cork Southern Reporter.)
Mr. Editor,—Allow me to ask whether it is in-
tended to make the proposed Catholic university a
police institution ? I put the question, because of the
following passage, which appears in the address of its
upagainst the
sponsors recently issued :
Should the Sovereign of the.ie realms ever have to
loyalty
ofm men, the youth
Hell-disposedbrought
in a
invoke,s
designs
ot the e loy
turbulenta
Catholic university would be found in the first rank of
the defenders of order ; and, hence, the British two.