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LONDON, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5, 1850.

At length the POPE has found a suitable defender
—a champion has entered the lists, armed cap-a-pied
and ready to combat a l'outrance all who take excep-
tion to the latest and most daring act of aggression by
a foreign potentate on the independence of the Pro-
testant people of-England. We had-hoped that a ge-
neral feeling of ind!gnation would have thrilled
like an electric shock throughout the length
and breadth of the land, at an act of
usurpation which would not have been at-
tempted or for a moment tolerated in any
Roman Catholic country. We had hoped that this
laudable feeling would not have been limited to the
members of any creed or sect, to Episcopalians ;
Presbyterians, or Dissenters, but that every English
man, Roman Catholic us well as Protestant, would
have cordially co-operated together in repel-
ling the insult to their common country ;
that the spirit of nationality as well as
of allegiance to their beloved SOVEREIGN,
whose authority and prerogative has been slighted
and Eet aside, would on this occasion, at least, have
insured unanimity ; and we had strong grounds for
this opinion. Perhaps never was there so singular
an instance of concurrence among the fourth estate.
The public journals did not on this occasion lead or
direct public opinion. They merely gave voice and
expression to the general sentiment. It is true that a

feeble attempt was made to sustain the PONTIFF
But whence did it proceed ? From one of the newly
appointed dignitariesevene who was himself elevated
to episcopal lank and station by the objet ionable
rescript. Dr. ULLATHORNE Was too palpably an
interested party—one too closely concerned in the
issue to permit much weight to be attached to his
opinions or arguments. The nature of the almost
solitary exception proved the strength and the all but
universality of the rule.
But matters have at length assumed a different
aspect, the gage of battle has been flung down by a
person serving, or at least professing to serve, under a
very different standard. The Rev. GEORGE AN-
THONY DENISON, a beneficed clergyman of the Church
of England, has attempted to sow divisions in the camp,
to raise the banner of revolt among the previously united
cohorts. The Rev. Gentleman exhibits considerable
skill in the tactics he has adopted. He does not at-
tempt directly to stem the torrent, although the
animus in which he enters on the contest is sufficiently
plain to require no explanation as to his real motives.
But he endeavours to create a diversion, to turn the
attention of the people to another and a very different
matter. He declares that " the warfare which the
Church of England has to wage in these
days is only secondarily against Rome ;" that
‘‘ her first and greatest enemy is the latitudinarianism
of the State." " The first and greatest evil against
which she has to contend (says the Rev. Gentleman)
is the endeavour of the State to denude her step by
step of her Catholic character." He also emphati-
cally warns the " members of the Catholic Church
of England" to beware how they combine with every-
thing that is "anti-Catholic," in one " Protestant" out-
cry against something which is Catholic. It is impos-
sib!e to peruse the epistle of the Rev. Gentleman without
agreeing with him in one particular. We admit that
" the warfare which the Church of England has to
'wage is only secondarily against Rome." There are
greater dangers to be dreaded from the stabs of pre-
tended friends than from the hostility of fair and
manly opponents, who openly and honourably avow
their real characters. Deeper injury has been
inflicted of late years by " Tractarianism " and
Puseyism, by the decking out of altars, and the re-
establishment of obsolete forms and ceremonies, re-
pugnant to the feelings of true Protestants, than by
all that could be accomplished by the acknowledged
emissaries and ministers of the Papal Court. Had it
not been for this movement, and for the mischievous
divisions created thereby in the Church of England, it
is more than probable that we should not have seen
the recent aggressions by the head of the Roman
Catholic Church. Had it not been for "the
fantastic tricks played before high Heaven"
by ministers and, we regret to say, by pre-
lates of the Established Church, the heart-burn-
ings and dissensions that have been so painfully con-
spicuous of late years would not have taken place.
We should not have had in the " Gorham Contro-
versy," pursued usque ad nauseam, the persevering at-
tempt to drive a pious, an amiable, a learned,
and, in every respect, an exemplary clergyman,
from the Church of which he is an ornament. Nor
should we have seen a misguided individual reading
public protest against the royal supremacy in
masters ecclesiastical, and desecrating the Church of
which he was the minister, by introducing political
matters instead of the pure doctrines of Christianity,
which it was his duty to have taught. We can-
not conclude without telling Mr. DENISON that
if there he anything against which the
feelings of Englishmen revolt, against which they
entertain the deepest and most profound horror, it is
the fighting under false colours, and deliberately re-
teining a lucrative preferment, when the incumbent
has ceased to entertain the opinions by which alone
he could be qualified to receive it. Mr. DENISON'S
views may be fitting in a private individual who bad
!eft the Church of England, but they are singularly
unbecoming in the Vicar of East Brent.

The Protectionists are, it appears, about to revive
the struggle for a tax on food in a new and more spe.
cious form. The agriculturists of all classes, land-
lords as well as tenants, the leaders of the party as
well as "the many" who follow submissively in the
course indicated, clearly perceive the folly of attempt-
ing again to persuade the people to consent to the re-
suscitation of a monopoly happily extinguished by the
zealous and indefatigable exertions of the great body
of the people who suffered so deeply under the nefa-
rious system. But they think "the rose by any other
name will smell as sweet." They are willing not to of.
fend what they are pleased to consider the " prejudices"
of the Free-traders by going in open defiance of their
doctrines and principles, provided they can induce
them to yield the great point at issue under a different
guise. Tney do not now, " sweet innocents," de-
mand the re-imposition of " protective duties.'
Oh, no, far from it ! The late lamented
Lord GEORGE BENTINCK, a single year after
the abolition cf the corn-laws, admitted " the
hopelessness of looking forward to a return of these
imposts." But they merely ask " for an import duty
on agricultural produce," for the sake of revenue (! !),
"to assist them in paying the interest on some ,part
of that debt under which they at present groaned."
They must, indeed, entertain rather an humble
opinion of the national intelligence, if they for a
moment suppose that the community is now to be de-
ceived by such specious pretence; such gross and
palpable humbug. The recollections of the corn-
laws, of the small and dear loaf, are " too green" in
the public memory to allow of that public tieing
quite so green as to be caught by such chaff. It is
well, however, to be prepared for the convuhive
effort—to be aware of the direction in which the
attack will be made. And that hap, happily, been
exposed by the speech of Mr. MILES, the Protectionist
Member for West Somersetshire, at the meet-
ing of the Protectionist and Conservative
Association of that county, held last week at Bridge-
water. Fas est ab hoste doceri. There are
certain matters alluded to by the Honourable Gen-
tleman well worthy the attention of all classes of
Reformers, more especially of those who feel the
vital importance, nay more, the absolute and impera-
tive necessity of great fiscal changes, of a thorough
and searching investigation into the national re-
sources and the national expenditure.
And first, Mr. MILES has clearly and distinctly
pointed out the great and almost insuperable difficulty,
the formidable impediment, that obstructs the very
threshold of the undertaking. No new tex can be
proposed in the House of Commons without the con-
sent of the Crown being first duty had and obtained,
and that consent will not be granted unless the proposi •
tion meets the approbation of the Ministry, or, perhaps
we might more correctly say, of Sir CHARLES WOOD,
who presides over the financial department. Any
suggestian for fiscal changes is at once met with the
preliminary objection—The revenue of the country
is only sufficient to provide for its expenditure.
If you would keep faith with the public creditor, ycu
cannot abolish any productive tax without providing
a fitting substitute, and the assent of the Crown has
not been obtained with respect to that substitute,
which cannot therefore even be taken into consider-
ation. Thus an inconvenient discussion is stopped
in limine, and the atrocious system of indirect taxation
is still maintained through a blind and slavish ad-
herence to this stringent regulation, which was
established when the regal power was not so clearly
defined and limited as at present. It was to remove
this difficulty for future generations that we recently
directed the public attention to the necessity of
limiting the duration of any new tax that may be
imposed in place of the rapidly ceasing income-tax to
a single year, by which the popular strength would
be consolidated and planted upon a sound and firm
foundation.
The golden opportunity afforded by the expiry of
I that impost is clearly discerned by enemies as well as
friends—by Protectionists as well as Free. traders.
' Mr. MILES declared at Bridgewater that "it appeared
i to him that certainly the whole question of their taxa
tion would be raised next year, because next year, as
a matter of course, the question cf the income-tax

would again come before Parliament, and that would
open the whole question cf the particular burdens of
the whole nation, or of the productive
ask for anyvepartofit.
When that was discussed they might
relief from taxation, or move an amendment on the
present system of taxation—they could choose their
coarse." This is, indeed, the truth. Mr. MILES was
fully warranted in his assertion that it will open the
whole questiOn, and enable the chosen representatives
of the people " to ask for any relief fromtaxation,or

move an amendment on the present system of taxation"
Let the fiscal and financial ReCortimrs b fully alive
to the importance of tidi gr at, tld3 uncps-

tionable fact. Let them shake off ti.t.
slumbers in which they have so long in-
dulged and arouse themselves from their apathy.
Two years since a spirit of thrift appeared to have
taken possession of the nation. A loud and enerptio
demand for economy and retrenchment was heard
throughout the length and breadth of the land ; the
injustice and impolicy of " indirect taxation" was
exposed in every district. Free-traders, or those who
professed to be so, declared that every restriction on
British commerce should be abolished, that there
should be no Excise or Customs duties to clog the
national industry. Various suggestions were offered
well worthy of consideration, and among others the
admirable letter of the Hon. Member for Glasgow to
his constituents, which, although it did not go guite
so fur in the way of direct taxation as we ourselves
would desire, would be a vast improvement on the
present system, and which we feel justified in declar-
ing to be the ablest, as well as the most equitable
budget brought forward by any Chancellor of the
Exchequer for many successive ages, since the " lend-
ocracy" succeeded in shaking the burdens from their
shoulders and transferring them to the backs of the
industrious classes, who are sinking under the enor-
mous and ill-arranged weight. Where is now the
activity that was then so strikingly exhibited ? With
returning prosperity they relapsed into their former
quiescence. They appear to have forgotten that so
long as the existing fiscal and monetary codes are
retained, so long as the working classes are ground
down by heavy taxes on what may be almost termed
the necessaries of life, so long as the very life-blood
of industry, a circulating medium adequate to the
wants and exigencies of the country is wanting, the
prosperity, of which they have enjoyed some
fitful and passing gleams, can only be transient.
We are passing through the regular grada-
tions of the cycle indicated by Mr. JONES
LOYD, now Lord OVERSTONE. We have happily es-

caped from the " convulsive panic " and " distress " of
1847, the stagnation of 1848, the "quiescence" of
1849, and the "improvement" of 1850 ; we are at
present at that part of the cycle marked "growing
confidence," and we may, perhaps, speedily look for the
" prosperity" that will pass into "excitement,"
until the turning point is attained, and we enter upon
a descent through " convulsive panic" and distress
similar to what occurred during the commercial
crisis, of which the country possesses so ninny bitter

reminiscences. The trade barometer is now rising,
but how soon may we anticipate a fall more disastrous
than any yet experienced if we do not take due
advantage of the golden opportunity now afforded ?
It is only when the country is in the enjoyment of
comparative prosperity that any great experi-
ment can be made, that important fiscal
changes can be attempted. In a season of
excitement, panic, or distress, when credit is
shaken to its foundation, and a general want
of confidence is perceptible, it is impossible to abolish
even admitted evils—to pass from a bad to a wise and
judicious system. The time is now favourable in

every respect, and w•e now estreestly and empliAtically

call upon the fiscal, financial, and monetary Reformers
to " awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." If they let
the golden opportunity slip, their enemies IN ill not be

guilty of such culplble remissness. 'We have ht ard.
from one of their leaden that they intend to seek
" fur import duties on agricultural produce," not for
the sake of protection (! ! !), oh, no, nothing of the
sort, but fur the sake of revenue ! ".Gon save the
mark." And we tell the people who now smile at so
ridiculous a project, that unless they themselves take
measures to defeat the effort it may be more success-
ful than they now believe to be possible. We cannot

remain stationary ; we must conquer, or consent
to have our chains doubly rivetted. We must
reform the taxation of the country, and see
it placed upon a just and equitable foundation, or see
a retrograde movement, and the re-imposition of im-
port duties on articles of food, which will not be in
any degree more satisfactory because they may be
established for the sake of revenue, and not of pro-
tection. It is for the people to select which branch
of the alternative they please, and we tell them that
the result will depend on their own conduct, and on
the manifestations of their desires, which may be
exhibited during the ensuing three months. If the
pressure from without is wanting—if the various
constituencies do not give full and unmistakable in-
structions to their respective representatives, the "in-.
come-tax" will be renewed in its present oppressive and
inequitable shape, without change or modification ;
and if that untoward event should happen we shall
be but little surprised if import duties on agricultural
produce should follow. If we deliberately surrender
our vantage ground we cannot be astonished if iit
should be forthwith occupied by our opponents. We
at least will perform our duty, and uplift our warning
voice to summon the Reformers to the banner unciar
which the contest must be decided.

Tin POPE'S " BULL."—In Leeds a strong feelic g
is getting up amongst the clergy against the establishment
of the Romish hierarchy in England; and yesterday (Mon—
day) a meeting, convened by the Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar of
the parish, was held in the vestry of the parish church, to
memorialise the Bishop of Ripon on the subject. The
meeting was strictly a private one, but it is understok:
out of doors that a memorial was agreed upon.

We are enabled to state, that though on the firet
blush of the matter it was not the intention of Lord John
Russell to propose the enactment of any statute relative to
the partitioning of England, by the Pope, into Roman Ca-
tholic bishoprics,—yet that, so great and manifold have been
the applications made to him from all classes of her Majesty's;
subjects, to adopt some decisive course to put down these
Poi.ish pretensions, he has now resolved on introducing
Bill, with that view, immediately cn the re-essemblintr, of
Parliament. The measure, it is said, will completely defeat;
the designs of the Roman Pontiff. We can also state, that'.
the audacity of the Pope, in this matter, has occasioned other
feelings than those of surprise in a high quarter, and that the,
way in which it is there regarded has not been without its
influence in inducing the Premier Om promptly to make up
his mind to deal, with the energy which the case demands,
with the Pope's astounding assumption of authority in Eng-
land. The precise nature of the intended measure is not yet:
known ; but we have been informed, from what we regard as
good authority, that one of its provisions will subject any
party to pains and penalties who, either verbally or by
writing, addresses by the titles of archbishop or bishop any
of the newly-created Romish hierarchy. Advertiser.
MOVEMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH:
IY LivEstroole—Yesterday a Te lieum was sung at all the
Catholic churches and chapels in Liverpool in thanksgiving-
'
for the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England.
Dr. Brown was not present at any of the services, owing to
indisposition. We understand ti-at no steps will be taken.
towards the enthronement of Dr. Brown as bishop of Liver-.
pool for some time at least, but the ceremony is not indis-
pensable, and the Doctor now acts as bishop of the see. Dr..
Brown, bishop of Shropshire, Las already taken possession oe'
Cheshire, formerly under the jurisdiction of his namesake of
Liverpool. We are informed, also, that the clergy c f SA-
N icoles have opened a mission in Spitelfields, where the
Rosary is recited, and a discourse deliverd, every Wednes-
day evening, in the school-room fitted up sonic time since'
by the Rev. Jamed Nugent. The object of these services
is to give religious instruction to such people as absent;
themselves from the services of the church.- Liverpool

THE DIOCESE OF CANTF.EBURY.—We are in
formed that the Archdeacons of Canterbury and Maidstone,
are taking steps for a united movement of the clergy of the
metropolitan diocese in addresses to the Queen and the
Archbishop, in reference to the recent appointment by the
Pope of a Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster. me clergy
of the city and liberties of Westminster have already ad-
dressed their diocesan, as have also the clergy of the Arch-
deaconry of London ; and in the Archdeaconry of Middlesex
there is a declaration in course of signature. There is a
strong feeling rising everywhere on the subject.
THE LATE LORD RANCLIFFE.—Wo are informed
that there is an inaccuracy in the account of the disposition
of his property by the late Lord. He has left the whole of
his property for ever (which was not strictly entailed) to
Mrs. Burt.

MANSLAUGHTER IN LIVERPOOL.—An act of gross
violence resulting in death occurred on Saturday in Liver-
pool. It appears that a poor woman, named Mack, residing
in St. Martin's. street, at the head of Limekiln-lane, raffled a
silk handkerchief to enable her to pay the expenses of a
journey to Manchester. About forty of the neighbours were
in the raffle, the subscription being a penny each.. A man
netted Callaghan was stakeholder. The handkerchief being
raffled was won by Patrick Caffrey, a labourer, residing in
No. 14 court, in that street. On Monday evening Callaghan,
accompanied by Michael Callaghan, went to Caffray's house,
contending angrily that the prize had not been fairly won.
Caffrey shoved them out. On this Michael Callaghan raised
a brickbat and threw it at Caffrey. The missile struck him
behind the ear. A further attempt was made to stab Caffrey
with a pitchfork, but the neighbours interfered, and Michael
Callaghan escaped over an adjoining wall. Caffray wai
conveyed to the Northern Hospital. He was found to be
suffering from a compound fracture of the skull, and con-
tinued in a delirious state till death relieved him from his
sufferings on Friday night. The man Patrick Callaghan
was brought up at the coroner's court yesterday The
result was a verdict of manslaughter in the first degree
against Michael Callaghan (who is still at large), and in the
second degree against Cole (at large), and the prisoner,
Patrick Callaghan.

EXPLOSION OF GAS AT DAT AND MARTIN'S.-
Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a destructive explo-
sion of gas occurred on the premises known as Day and
Martin's Blacking Manufactory, in Holborn. The explosion
was occasioned by the gasman removing the metre, mid the
gas exploded on the workmen going into the place with
lights. Con'siderable damage was done; and 11, young man
was thrown out of his bed, and the watchman was thrown
down by the violence of the concussion.,

ME FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Pa, is journals of erd y.
Gmer4l CIIANGARNIER h 33 011)113114 the kilo ing
Jrder of the day :
" Acording to the terms c f tbe law, the'srmy does
not d,liheret,; in virtue or the regu`ationi of he a-try,
it is bound to abstain from every dem mstrt.tion, Lnd
atter no cries when under arms. The Geaen,l-in-Ch•ef
cc nli(ids the troops placed under his comaaacd of these
orders. " CHANCIARICIER.

Pari,, Nov. 2.

Gener ,F.'

In acting thus (3-neral CHANGARNIER has thrown
lowa the gauntlet to the PRESIDENT. It was for
ordering the division under his command to abstain
rrorn uttering cries that General NEUMATER was re-
moved, and now General CHANGARNIER, in an order
of the day, repoats the order of NEUMAYER. It is
evidently a challenge to the PuEsIDE3T to dismiss
CIIANGARNIER himself.

The Evenement states that the PRESIDENT has re-
fused to receive both M. MOLE and M. Tut Ens. The
same journal states that General CHANGARNIER sur-
rounds himself in the Tuileries with a faithful body-
guard, as he is apprehensive of a coup de main.
The Committee of Permanence sat again on
Sunday.
A letter from Melun (Seine et Marne) announces
the death of M. DROUYN DE LIIUYS, father of the
French Ambassador at London. He has left a large
fortune.

Marshal JEROME BONAPARTE has returned to Paris
rom Havre.

PARIS BOURSE, Nov. 4. Latest Prices.—Five
Bank of France, 2,295 f. Three per Cents., 57f. 40c. ;
per Cents., 92f. 37e. ;

!BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TIIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Nov. 4.
Boulogne and Amiens, 8 East Indian, 9A—Orlears
and Bordeaux, 2A.