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A)?CIMISHOP MANNING AND ST. THOMAS

A BEC'KET.

A very crowded and enthusiastic meeting was
held at the Beaumont Institute, Beaumont-square,
Mile End, last night, to promote the object which
Mgr. Talbot, the Pope's Chamberlain, had in view
in
.coming to England—viz., the rebuilding of the
Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, in Rome.
Archbishop Manning occupied the chair, and was
supported on either side by Mgr. Talbot and Mgr.
Stonor. There were present also on the platform,
Mgr. Patterson, the Revs. Dr. Gilbert, W. Kelly,
B. Pyche, and Dr. Fox, and Scannell, Esq.
Dr. MANNING, whose appearance on the platform
was greeted by the audience with hearty applause,
commenced the proceedings by noticing the interest
which was taken in this matter relating to an Eng-
lish saint and martyr by the Holy Father, two of
whose personal officers, in Monsignor Talbot and
another rev. father, were present. He then pro-
ceeded to remind his audience, as most of them
were, doubtless, awlre, that the present appeal was
being made to rebuild the Church of St. Thomas of
Canterbury at Rome—to rebuild an old church, not
to found and erect a new one. lie made this re-
minder in order to turn an objection which had
been made by some who did not understand the
nature of the appeal. The church which was
founded in Rome to the memory of St. Thomas of
Canterbury dated back for more than a thousand
years, and was an historical monument which the
Saxon and the English race in real piety, out of love
for their past history,
and for principles which they
loved, should restore. (Cheers.) Other nations had
their churches in Rome, and the rebuilding of this
church of the English College would appeal to the
heart and sympathy with strong and persuasive power
of every Catholic, when it was known that the Holy
Father had been moved to inaugurate the work by
vouchsafing to lay the first stone. (Cheers.) And
the memory of St. Thomas of Canterbury had
claims upon the veneration and the gratitude and
the devotion of every Catholic throughout the
world, not that he wa3 a Saxon saint and English
martyr, but because he was a saint of the Catholic
Church and martyr for the Church universal.
(Cheers.) An ancient chronicler who lived near to
the time of St. Thomas's martyrdom had left on re-
cord his sense of the martyr's acts, for he had said
that there never lived a martyr whose martyrdom
might so strictly be said to be on behalf of the
whole Church on earth, and whose veneration was
so justly diffused through the Catholic community.
(Hear.) He (Dr. Manning) had alluded to it else-
where, and he would again say that if our country-
men would only carefully study the history of St.
Thomas of Canterbury, read it, not in those in-
verted pages of history which give history wrongly,
but read it rightly, he was confident that in addi-
tion to having on his side every Catholic of Ireland,
he would bring every candid man in England and
Scotland to see that the principles for which 4
Becket died were virtually the principles for which
they believed themselves to contend. (Cheers.)
Having said this before, he had been, he would not
say uncourteously, but he would say somewhat
tartly, criticized upon what he did say and upon
what he did not say ; and therefore he owed it to
the truth, to the memory of St. ThomAs, and to the
cause for which the martyr died, to state truly what
was said, and what he held. It seemed to him (Dr.
Manning) that St. Thomas, as a martyr and as a
man, was one who ought to command the respect
and sympathy of all sincere Christians. lie had
said that he believed that the whole of Catholic
Ireland venerated and sympathized with St.
Thomas's name. (Cheers.) Every Catholic in
Ireland when the Feast of St. Thomas came
knew that the martyr laid down his life for
those wry same principles of spiritual liberty for
which their forefathers laid down theirs, and if
an) thing were wanting to commend to the Irish
people the name of St. Thomas he felt confident
one fact would be amply sufficient, and that one
fact he would give. There was a man whom they
honoured and loved—a man to wham, if to any one
man more than another, they owed their civil and
religious liberty, and this man had a profound,
heartfelt, and sustained veneration for the name of

St. Thomas of Canterbury—that was Daniel O'Cou-
❑ell. (Loud cheers.) The fact of O'Connell's vene-
ration for St. Thomas was seen in the pilgrimage
he made to the place of his martyrdom, and in the
devotion of his life to the principles which St.
Thomas had maintained. (Cheers.) Without
entering into the legal details and historical ques-
tions involved in the points of difference between
henry and St. Thomas, he would pass on to
mention that one maintained by h Becket was
the exclusion of any royal or civil authority in
the election of the Bishops of the Church, and
there were some present who were old enough to re-
member that one of the points to which Daniel
O'Connell stood firm was the refusal of any civil
advantage which could be obtained at the cost of
what was called the " veto." (Cheers.) It was
easily recognized that the cause of that most un-
happy time in which O'Connell contended was the
cause of St. Thomas of Canterbury, and men saw
that they owed reparation to St. Thomas for the
sacrilegious indignity which had been done to his
glorious memory. Other indignities had been
done to him, as the tearing down of his shrine
and the scattering of his dust. The cist which con-
tained his remains would be empty to all time,
but the only shrine which recorded his name and
his martyrdom in the centre of the Catholic
community, where it had been early honoured
by the highest in the Church, could be restored.
The highest honours which the Church could be-
stow upon the shrine in Rome had been bestowed
upon it. The Cardinals held their solemn
Feast of St. Thomas in the old church, but since its
destruction the solemn festival had been held
in the small church of the English College, so that
it was still held in connection with the memory of
this country, and this country owed it to the me-
mory of St. Thomas to restore the church at Rome
to the condition it was in before it was destroyed
through the violence which spread by the French
Revolution. And in doing this great benefit would
be done to those who carried it out, and to their
countrymen, for he was bold enough and " auda-
cious enough" to think that the day was coming
when English history would be purified of its
perversions. A great writer had truly said
that history had bee❑ in conspiracy against
the Catholic Church, an I it had. (Hear, hear.) It
had been his lot and his misfortune to wade through
those perverted histories, and the perversions they
contained bad been filtered even through our law
and civil records. Ile had searched many, and he
hardly every found the name of St. Thomas men-
tioned without epithets, without a perversion of
the facts of the case. And he would ask all
candid countrymen cf his to study this case,
because the questi9n between Henry and a Becket
involved all the questions of civil and religious
liberty for which they contended. In speaking, as
he did before he thought he was only giving au im-
pulse to a work which he had much at heart, and
he never looked for so much attention being given
to the subject as had been given to it from his re-
marks, for no less than 15 leading articles had ap-
peared criticising what he had said. (A laugh.)
He had all at once found himself the object on
which many rays of light were directed, and many
of the observations were, as he had said, directed to
what lie had not said. In the first place, be would
beg to acknowledge the generally kindly; courteous,
manly manner in which his critics had met what he
had said. The Times' critic, for instance, in a very
kindly and courteous manner, had spoken as to the
statement that Thomas died for the law of Eng-
land. In justification of that statement it must be
said that the law of England then was that the Church
should possess its liberty—that the Church should
possess its endowments free from all interference of
the Royal or civil authority. Such was the unde-
niable law of England at the time of a Becket.
Since the Royal Commissions had absorbed all the
property of the Church, it was hard for Englishmen
to suppose that the Church did have its own pro-
perty ; but in that day it was a corporation which
did possess its lands, its churches, and everything
which could be called its property, down to the
latchet of a shoe, and this property was held by a
right which was recognised as divine. Such was
the law of the land. Again, it was the law of the
land that the election to all bishoprics should be by
the perfect free choice of those in the Church who
had the right-, irrrespeciive of the Royal or civil
authority. It was also the law of the land that any
one might appeal in ecclesiastical causes to the
head of the Church. It was also the law of the
land that the Church might excommunicate all
whom she thought might be unworthy of her com-
munion. It was also part of the law of the land
—and this spread throughout all Europe, and was
part of the law of the land to this day as far as
some of the community were concerned—that the
clergy should be judged by their superiors and by
their peers. These were the five liberties of the
Church, and they were all violated by Henry, and
they were all defended by St. Thomas. The critic
of the Times denied that these were the laws of the
land ; but he maintained they were, and be re-
ferred to the various writers on ecclesiastical law
in support of his statement. The Councils of th
Church, which, from the seventh century down-
wards, were of a Parliamentary character, recog-
nised the laws of the universal Church, did incor-
porate them in the laws of England, and among
them were the five laws he had mentioned. Then
there was another critic who had spoken slightingly
of the courteous article in the Tinzes and of him-
self, and this keen critic, in speaking of the remark
that the liberty of the Church was given in Magna
Charta, had reminded the world that Magna
Charta was given a long time after St. Thomas
h'Becket's martyrdom. But what he (Dr. Man-
ning) had said was that the ease of St. Thomas
had been incorporated in the Magna Charta,
and it was in the words, " The Church shall en-
joy her liberty and her judgments." But, be-
sides, Henry never attempted to deny that the laws
to which St. Thomas held were the laws of England,
and the claim made was as to the " custom of the
Crown"—customs in violation of the law, customs
superseding law, and customs rendering law of no
avail. There were the abuses of Kingly power, the
tyrannous abuses introduced by the Norman Kings,
personal abuses against which the people could not
stand. The speaker then proceeded to touch upon
the objections of another critic, who held that the
right rev. prelate had contended that St. Thomas
died for the principles of the English Dissenters.
On this point he said St. Thomas and the English
Dissenters were agreed that they would resist the
introduction of the civil power and control in re-
ligious matters ; but he never held that St. Thomas
died for the right of private judgment. (A laugh.)
Both the Dissenters and Catholics were agreed
upon the point that the Church would be free
from State control, and if that room were filled
with English Dissenters instead of, as it was, with
stanch Catholics, they would to a man hold up
their hands for the principle that Christ's Church
was a Divine power on which no Prince, no
Parliament could lay a hand. (Hear.) lle then pro-
ceeded to speak of what he called the " running
sore" seen in the Church in England at the present
day, and which, he said, was turning the people of
England sick. lie asked how it was that a people
who were once Catholic, an I who were so attached
to religion that they took up arms to defend it,
should fall into such confusion as to be divided and
subdivided as at the present day, and he answered
by saying that this was the inheritance brought
about by the violation of the laws of the Church,
and the usurpation in matters of religion by the
civil power. He did not believe the England of
this day would be torn asunder as she was if the
civil power of the Tudors' time had not been em-
ployed in forcing religion upon the consciences of
the people. He looked upon English nonconformity
as the recoil of a maddened and stung people against
the Church, thrust upon their consciences by the

civil authority, and the present condition of the
English religious world he pointed to as the
miserable inheritance of the interference of the
State, giving the people an Established Church
which divided m Ail from man and brother
from brother. What, he asked, hal the cause
which was opposed to S. Thomas done? About one.
half the English people, after the three centuries
since Henry VIII., were in the English Church ; a
part of the Scottish, too, sided with the came of St.
Thomas, and all the Irish did. The cause of Henry
11.,,he went on, triurnphe I in the time of Henry
VIII.; since then that cause had had all the fair play
and clear field ; place, power, Royal and civil favour
for three centuries had been heaped on the Church,
and with what result? Let the Nonconformists
answer as to how they had not brought about any
unity of worship or faith. Even in the Established
Church her ministers were divided in matters of
faith and ritual. Look across the Channel to Ire-
land, and it would be seen from the statements which
had appeared in the Times that the handful of dis-
senters from the Catholic faith were broken up into
about a hundred sects, showing an instance of the
infinitesimal division of matter—(laughter)—while
the cause of St. Thomas stood in its oneness, with-
, out a single schism or single separation—u_ited in
name, and having one heart, one faith, and one will.
' (Loud cheers.)
Mgr. TALBOT, who was received with the greatest
demonstration of respect, said that the advocacy
of the cause of St. Thomas of Canterbury, by his
Grace the Archbishop, had left him little to say.
He would only remark that it was a Catholic feel-
ing to venerate holy places. In ancient times this
was carried out to a greateriextent than at present.
It was a pious practice to have pilgrimages to
Jerusalem and Rome, but Rome was always an
object of especial devotion, and in consequence
everybody desired to have a hospital in Rome, and
a church there, where they might find a place of
rest when they arrived there. England was one
of the first—if not the first—that manifested this
veneration to Rome. England had been converted
by Rome, and it was but natural that she should
look to Rome with especial love and veneration.
St. Gregory I. had sent twelve apostles to convert
England, and in ancient times the Kings and
Princes of this country journeyed to Rome in order
to die under the shadow of St. Peter's. English
pilgrims founded a colony in Rome in the Leonine
city, which surrounds the ashes of St. Peter, and
that part was call :d Saxony—because th.re
the Saxons elm?, to die, there they erected
a hospital, there they founded a churet.
When, however, the Normans cime to England,
they manifested a different spirit—they persecuted
the Church of God, and St. Thomas of Canterbury
was an instance of a holy prelate who was mur-
dered by an ignorant, haughty, tyrannous king.
The church of Saxony in Rome fell to runs, and
another was built where the English church now
stands. The reigning pontiff of the time, Eugenius
IV., desired that it should be dedicated to the
English martyr, the Church in England at that
time being suffering from the acts of the civil
power. Sometime afterwards Cardinal Howard, a
name of which England had to be proud (cheers),
rebuilt the college on the same site, and also re-
built the church. That church remained standing
for 200 years. When, however, the first French
revolution broke the English college was con-
verted into a barrack, and the roof was taken off
the church. The church had since remained in
decay, and the Holy Father, desirous of seeing it
restore 1, had himself taken the deepest interest in
it, :aid had laid the first stone. He (Mgr. Talbot)
had come among them to ask their assistance, and
he felt that in appealing to the Irish people —the
great body of his hearers—he would have their
' sympathy. They were obliged to sympathise with
the caase of St. Thomas it Becket. For 300 years
they had been fighting for the very object for
which he had laid down his life. They had been
fighting for the lib rty of their Church. (Loud
cheers.) Almost every nationality was repre-
sented in Rome. France had seven churches,
Germany one, Spain one, Portugal one, but Ireland
had four. (Loud cheers.) He believed the Irish
people would not grudge the English one church
(laughter), and that they would assist them in
obtaining it. The Irish people had an interest in
furthering their desires. The students who studied
at the college, and who required this church, came
back as pastors and bishops among them. A sense
of gratitude, therefore, would impel them to help
them. In conclusion, he asked the hearty co-
operation and sympathy of all present in carrying
out this undertaking. (Cheers.) Mgr. Talbot
concluded by moving a resolution to the effect
that this meeting pledges itself to co-operate in
the work of rebuilding the Church of St. Thomas
of Canterbury, in Rome.
Dr. Fox seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.

Mgr. Sroxon, the chaplain of tli,ll Papal Zouaves,
said there was one view in connection with the
rebuilding of the church of St. Thomas of Canter-
bury, which had not been touched upon, and that
was the necessity for a church for the English
residents and visitors, and for the English portion
of the Papal army. There had been great diffi-
culty experienced in getting a church for the pur-
pose of giving a course of sermons in English at
certain periods of the year, and he as the chaplain
of the English portion of the army, had found
great inconvenience in not having a church where-
in the religious exercises for the English Zouaves
could be conducted. Ile paid an eloquent tribute
to the bravery and steadfastness of the soldiers in
the Papal army, and concluded by urging the
audience to assist in carrying out the wishes of the
Archbishop and Mgr. Talbot.
Archbishop MANNING would say of Mgr. Stonor
what he had been too modest to say of himself. He
was under fire, assisting the woun led at the battle
of Monte Libretti, and at Mentana he was on the
spot to assist the dying. His ministrations had
been conducted with true Christian charity, for he
not only tended the men who were fighting the
cause of the Pope, but also those unhappy men who
had lifted their arms against the Vicar of Jesus
Christ. Most of the latter gladly accepted his
ministrations. When he returned to Rome he
assisted in the hospitals, and only the other day,
being in Florence for the benefit of his health, many
of those Garibaldians whom he had tended, hearing
of his presence in the city, waited upon him and
heartily thanked him for what ho had done for
them.

Mr. SCANNELL said it had always been the for-
tune of the Irish people to assist in building
churches all over the world, and he was sure the
appeal which had been made to them that night
would not be without a hearty response, as the spot
where this church was to be built was most sacred
in the eyes of the Irish people all over the world.
A vote of thanks to the Archbishop for presid-
ing brought the meeting to a close.

A recent number of the Evenement speaks of a
project for the adoption of the eldest son of the
Comte de Paris by the Comte de Chambord. The
interests of the two branches of the house of
Bourbon will thus be re-united, and Ohl " fusion"
so often spoken of will become a reality.
All sorts of rumours are flying about in reference
to Dr. Gray and his new bishop for Natal. Some
of the Church papers state that all the difficulties
which have been thrown in the way come from
" the Erastian knight," by which phrase is meant
Sir Travers Twiss, the Archlishop of Canter-
bury's Vicar-General. The Church News, how-
ever, states that all the obstacles which are inter-
posed are those raised by the Duke of Buckingham.
It seems pretty certain that Bishop Gray and his
party will leave England early in October, whether
Mr. Macrorie is consecrated by that time or not.
Prior to his departure there will be a farewell
service at the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on
Wednesday, the 30th iust.

During the late session Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.P. for
Reading, brought in a bill to amend the law relating to
the property of married women. It was read a second
time and referred to a select committee of the House of
Commons, consisting of Mr. Lefevre (chairman), the (late)
Solicitor-General, Mr. Lowe, Wt.. R. Gurney, Mr.
Headlana, Mr. Baggallay, Sir John Simeon, Mr.
Beach, Sir C. O'Loghlen, Mr. Aytton,
Goldney, Mr. Baines, Mr. Bentinck, !\[r. Jacob
Bright, and Mr. Powell. The committee, v:hose
report and evidence is just published, met six times.
They examined Mr. Westlake, the well-known Chancery
barrister, and author of a work on " Private and Inter-
national Law ;" Mr. G. W. Hastings, secretary to the
Social Science Association ; Mr. Fisher, of the Vermont
bar, United States; the Hon. J. Rose, Finance
Minister of Canada ; Mr. A. Hohhouse, Q.C. ;
Mr. Cyrus Field ; Mr. Clement Hugh Hill, of
the Massachusetts bar, United States ; the Rev. Septi-
mug Hansard, rector of Bethnal-green ; Mr. Mans-
field, police magistrate of Marylebone ; Mr. Ormo.
rod, president of the Rochdale Pioneer Cooperative
Society ; the Rev. T. W. Fowle, rector of Hoxton ; Mr.
Wybergh, clerk to the Liverpool magistrates ; Miss Toil,
of Belfast ; and Mr. Mundella of Nottingham, one of
the candidates for Sheffield. The committee have made
a preliminary report, in which they say that they have
not had time to fully consider the subject assigned to
them, and they recommend the appointment of a new
committee in the next Parliament. So far as they
have investigated the matter, they think there
is good reason for changing the law. The law is indeed
contradictory. At common law a woman has no legal
existence apart from her husband, but equity has con-
stantly devised means for evading that theory. The power
to settle a married woman's property on trustees before
her marriage is such an evasion. But all such expedients,
are palliatory of the original mischief rather than a removal.
of it. They are also costly, so that the women of the
lower classes cannot avail themselves of them,
and are thus liable to have their earnings seized by
drunken and dissipated husbands. The existing common
law was formerly in force in the United States and in
Canada ; but it has been repealed in both countries, and
the evidence of Mr. Field, Mr. Rose, and other distin-
guished Americans, goes to shew that the alteration has
been made without producing any of the evils which have
been predicted as the result of like changes in England.
The evidence is of great interest, and occupies about ninety
pages.