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IRELAND.

ARCHBISHOP CROLLY AND MR. O'CON-
NELL. LETTER FROM THE PROPA-
GANDA.
DUBLIN, JAN. 11.—The following most important
letter from the Roman Catholic Primate, Dr. Crony,
addressed to Mr. O'Connell, appears in the Dublin
Evening Post of this afternoon.
Archbishop Crolly has published this letter, in
consequence of certain statements in the letter of Mr.
O'Connell, which vee have already published :
" TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, ESQ., M.P.
Dear Sir,—On reading in the Pilot, of the 10th
instant, your interesting letter, addressed to the
Right Rev: Dr. Cantwell, Roman Catholic Bishop of
Meath, I was surprised and sorry to find that you
had ventured to assert that a letter sent to me some
time past from the Propaganda was not a canonical
document Allow me to assure you that, in the year
1839, I received from; the Cardinal Prefect of the
Propaganda a communication of a similar description,
in which I was directed to admonish some political
ecclesiastics, who had made at public meetings such
violent speeches as were not congenial to the mild
spirit of their sacred ministry. In obedience to the
injunction of the Holy See, I endeavoured to reclaim
those misguided clergymen, but, as my fraternal
admonitions did not produce the desired effect, his
Holiness directed the Sacred Congregation to send
me another letter on the:same subject, in order that
I should more efficaciously admonish such priests or
prelates as I might find taking a prominent and im-
prudent part in political proceedings.
" I considered it my duty to lay this document
before the assembled prelates at our last general
meeting in Dublin, who not only acknowledged it to
be authentic and canonical, but to be a document of
such importance that they entered it on their minutes,
and unanimously resolved that they would regulate
their conduct according to its injunctions, and use
their influence with their clergy, in their respective
dioceses, to prevail on them to follow its salutary in-
structions. You have repeatedly declared that you
would be guided by the decision of the assembled
prelates, and I am sure that you will not wonder at
my astonishment, when I found that you had publicly
denounced a document which met with their unquali-
fied and unanimous approbation. Knowing the
honesty of your heart, and the fidelity with which
you adhere to the authority of the holy Catholic
Church, I deem it my duty to subjoin the entire
letter which I received from the Propaganda, together
with the resolution of the prelates at their late meet-
ing, in order that you may not be misled by unsatis-
factory information, but may have these genuine
documents fairly placed before your own impartial
and powerful understanding :
" ILL3IE. AC lIME. DOMINE—
" MenunisBe• protect& debut Amp. Tua dates ad Te
die 12 Martii, Anni 1839, ab Sac line Congre. fuisse
litteras, quibus illud Tibi. SSmi etiam Dni Nri Gregorfi
P.P. XVL nomine, vehementer commendabatur, ut Uni
vel Alteri Antistiti nonnullisque Ecclesiasticis istius
Regni viris, 'qui tamquam politicise nogetiis nimium ad.
died, et de Republica minus prudenter coram Populo
disseredtes traducebantur, saniora, si relate aubsisterent,
suggereres consilia, ratioaemque sacro ministerio magis
consentaniam diligentissirue suaderes. Equidem non
dubitat Sac Congregatio quin Tu omni studio in id adla-
boraveris, eamque operam adhibueris, quam rei gravitas
postulabat, et tuo in Apostolicara edem obsequio ex-
pectat licebat. Atqui tamen impensis per Ts curia opta-
tum exit= non appiml respondisse, ex publicis prnserthn
istarum Regionum Ephemeridis apparet, übi sermones
referuntur ab aliquibus, ed clero, et non ne
mine etiam Episcoporum tum in conventibus et
eonviviis, turn in Tenaplis ad populum recess habiti,
qui certe, si ita esset, illos annimarum saluti, Reli-
giunis bono, Dieque honori unicte, ut par esset,
intentus, atque adeo i politicarum partium studiis, et
sa3culi negotiis prorsus elienos minims; demonstrarent.
Dissiamlandum sane non est id Sac. huts Cogi.i. ipsique
SSmo Domino molestius accidisse, quod in Ecclesiastici
Castus detrimentum, ac dedecus vergat ; inim6 yen')
Apostoliem Sedi injuriam creet, quasi ninairum ea de
salutaribus ad isturn Clerum monitis, opportune dirigen-
dis parum sollicita, memoratis nonnullorum ex illo
conailiis faveat, nut saltum coanivere videatur. Et
reapse his queriroonlis seu potius criminationibus locum
jam non aemel extitisse Ampm. Tuana fortas:l latet,
sed Apostolica Sedes tristi experientia summopere dolet.
fine porro caves est cur Sacra Congreatio. rursus ad
Te de gravissiwo hoc argument° scribers, ipso SSmo
Dno. Nostro auctore festinet. Nosti optime, Prresul
amplissime, yet sit Eccletiastici muneris ratio, atque
indoles ; quantuinque deceat, et religionis
incolumi-
tati intersit, ut qui sacris cunt mancipati, Regis
pacifici miniatri, et mysteriorum Dei dispeusatores ;
maxims vero spirituali fidelium et regimini prwpo-
siti, nullimode se negotiis smcularibus implicent ;
quieten, tranquillitatem, ac pacem, gun Christianitatis
vinculum est, sedulo in populo foveant ; subjectionem
temporali potestati:in Liss
qune ad res eiviles pertinent de-
bitam jugiter exempla, ac verbis insinuent, et aingularom
prudentiain animique moderationem prneseferentes, Chris-
t= et hunc Crucifiximi solummodo, prnedicantes, quid-
quid commissum sibi gregem vet leviter concitare, com-
movere, et ab Evangelists Lagis lenitate abducere possit
cautissitni devitent. Ejusmodi est semperque- Mit Ca-
tholicm Eeclesim doctrina, qualm Apostohca Sedes ex sui
officii sanctitate tradere, et data occasions, inculare nun-
loam intermisit. Tuam itaque erit, Amplissime Domine,
his vestigiis studiose inaistere et prmnuncitos de tanta re
Sac. Congia., ac Sanctitatis Sum sensus pro opportunitate
aperiendo, quotqut ex Ecclesiasticis viris priesertim in
episcepali gradu constitutes rode ulla rations devios ag-
noscas in omni charitate ac patentia efficaciasime edam-
nere. Quod quidem dun satin perspectm prudentine, et
sollicitudini tum committo, observantiam mean Tibi ex
animo proliteor, et fausta mania precor a Dee.
" Amplitudinis Tune.
" Roasts ex lEdibus Sac. Congris. de Prop. Fido. die
15 Octobris, 1844.
" ' Ad officia paratissimus,
" J. PH. CARD. FRANSONIUS, Priefectus•
" JOANNES BRUNELLI, secretarius.
"`R. P. D. Guillelmo Crolly, Archiepo Arnaachano
totius Hibernire Primati.
" Concordat cum originali,
" Gulielmus
"' At a general meeting of the archbishops and
bishops of Ireland, held in the Presbytery-
house, Marl-
borough-street, Dublin, on the 13th day of November,
1844, the following resolution was adopted, the Most
Rev. Dr. Crolly in the chair:—
" Moved by the Right Rev. Dr. Browne, of Elphin ;
and seconded by the Right Rev. Dr. M'Nally, of
Clogher
" That the Most Rev. Dr. Crolly be requested to
reply to the letter received from the holy father, stating
that the instructions therein contained have been re-
ceived by the assembled prelates of Ireland, with that
degree of profound respect, obedience, and veneration,
that should ever be paid to any document emanating
from the Apostolic See ; and that they all pledge them-
selves to carry the spirit thereof into effect. Also, that
the original be entered on our minutes,
" W. CROLLY, Chairman
"h‘ regard LANV , Secretary."
With
and the British Government, which has so justly excited
every
influence in my power to
that
R toNtChEe E
Concordat between
the
Pope
alarming appreheusions in the minds
of all the clergy
and laity of Ireland, I can only state, in the most solemn
shall join the pre-
lacy e o ence
manner, that I know nothing of it directly or indirectly,
x
prevent any such insidious scheme, Which would be de-
structive of the independence and purity of our holy re-
e e P tf
bl3t: e publicl
an d by r u usingou m r
; and
ligion.
"I have the honour to remain, With the highest re-
spect and esteem, dear Mr. O'Connell, your faithful and
obedient servant, " k W. CROLLY.
"Dublin, Walsh's Hotel, Jan. 11, 1845."
MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER ON THE CHA-
RITABLE BEQUESTS ACT.
DUBLIN, JAN. 11.—The tollowing is the concluding
portion of Mr. O'Connell's letter, addressed to the Right
Rev. 1)r. Cantwell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath,
which appears in the Pilot of this evening :--
" Ninthly. I object to the connexion between our pre-
lates and the Government, English or Irish, upon the
principle avowed, and published, and proclaimed by those
prelates themselves when they unanimously declared
they would never, never accept a State provision for
themselves or their clergy. 14
W at is the objection to a
State provision ? What, but that it would place them
under the imputation of being instruments in the hands
of an anti-Catholic, an antijrish Government ? The
State provision would have the good effect of relieving
the poor Catholics from the support of their Church ;
but our prelates rightly deemed that it would be in its
nature contaminating, and therefore they rejected all
such connection,
"Tenthly. I object to this statute, because I see
plainly, and recent events demonstrate that however
well-intentioned and pure our prelatic commissioners
are, this is one great step-... 1 had a Imost said another
great step—towards facilitating the introduction of
power and control in the British Government over the
appoint-m-It ou r bishops--a Pmet. and control which
d gently, end aity have in-
diiyuttt,yliil price of civil liberty—but a

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" Sixteentlily,object to this Bequests Act because
it most unjustly takes away from Catholics altogether
the power of demising or charging for the necessary
purposes of the charity any lands which may be de
vised under its provisions. The power of letting Ca-
tholic charity lands is given altogether to the Protes-
tant majority of the Commissioners—that being the ne-
cessary result of the majority. It is true the Act re-
quires the assent to every such lease of the Catholic in-
cumbent; but if he shall not assent lands may lie waste,
and the Board of Commissioners have thus a power of
coercing him into signifying his assent. This is a most
vexatious portion of the Act, and would be found most
mischievous in practice; but I still entertain the strongest
hopes that all Catholics will desert the Act, and let it
perish by inanition, unless, indeed, it be sooner repealed.
" Seventeenthly. I object to this Act of Parliament
from the absolute, uncontrollable, and irresponsible
power it gives the Secretary at the Castle, or whoever
else represents the Government in Ireland, over the Ca-
tholic Commissioners. The three reverend prelates that
are now in the Commission may be turned out (if I were
not:speaking of such reverend personages, I would say
might be kicked out) at at any moment, without any
fault assigned, or assignable, and without the form of
even one hour's previous notice. The Lord Bishop of
Down and Connor may come up from Belfast to attend
his duty as a commissioner, and may find on his arrival
that he was superseded, without any other ceremony
than such an uncivil letter as that written by Mr. Henry
Sugden to the repeal magistrates. In fact, there never
was such unqualified despotic authority as that granted
by the Bequests Act to the Government over those Ca-
tholics who have accepted, or shall hereafter accept, the
office of commissioner.
I. " Eighteenthly. I object to this Act because it gives
so insulting a prepOnderance to the Protestant Commis-
sioners. It is really monstrous. The Catholics of Ire-
land are the overwhelming majority of the Irish people ;
and are therefore entitled, upon principle, to a majority
in the Commission. They would ask nothing more than
an equality; yet they are entitled for another reason to
the majority—that is, because the Parliamentary returns
show, that in the last year 22,0001. was vested in Catho-
lic charities, and only 8,000/. in Protestant charities.
The Catholics being thus in the majority of 9- 10ths of
the population, and paying 3-4ths of the quantity of
money devoted to charity, yet this Act of Parliament
gives them but five, commissioners to eight. How
bitterly do I regret that such an Act of Parliament has
received any countenance from any of our reverend
prelates
" Nineteenthly. I object to this statute by reason of
the insulting manner in which it was carried. It was
passed through both Houses of Parliament without any
previous consultation with the Catholic clergy or laity ;
or, if any of the laity were consulted, it was in such
privacy as not to have been as yet discovered, and must
have been with some one of that class who are never
consulted except when mischief is intended. It was
carried, I need not say, when my son and I were unjustly
imprisoned. If I had been in the House I think I would
rather have perished on the floor than have allowed such
an Act to pass at the period it did—the close of the
session.
" Twentiethly. I object to this statute because in its
nature it must have tended to create a schism or division
among the Catholic prelacy and clergy of Ireland— to
raise doubts, dissensions, and distrusts in the Catholic
body, clergy and laity ; and above all, to create suspi-
cions, however unfounded, and, a tendency to irreverence
towards such of the clergy as may connect themselves
with the present anti-Irish Administration.
" Twenty-firstly. I object to this statute because it is
a direct assertion on the part of the Legislature of a
right to give to commissioners of the appointment of the
Government authority over Catholic spiritual matters ;
such commissioners having no other spiritual qualifica-
tion than that they must profess to be Catholics.'
"Twenty-secondly. I object to this statute because it
imposes duties on Catholic Commissioners which, I
humbly conceive, they cannot in conscience perform.
In my humble judgment the administration of Catholic
charities should be left to Catholics exclusively—the ad-
ministration of Protestant charities to Protestants ex-
clusively—the administration of Presbyterian charities
to Presbyterians exclusively—and the administration of
Unitarian charities to Unitarians exclusively ; whereas
this statute confounds all in one mass, and renders it
incumbent on the Catholic as well as the other Commis-
sioners to adhere strictly to the education of Protestants
in Protestantism, of Presbyterians in Presbyterianism,
and of Unitarians in Unitarianism.
" There is another duty which this statute imposes on
the Catholic Commissioners—that is, to sue for and re-
cover property belonging to the regular clergy, and to
apply that property to other charitable purposes.
" Upon this subject m) opinion is firm and undoubted.
I mean my opinion that it will be the duty, under this
Act, of the Catholic Commissioners to spoliate the pro-
perty of the regular clergy, and to apply it to other cha-
ritable purposes.
" His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin has upon this
subject preferred the opinions of ➢fessrs. Smith and
Greene to mine. It will be my humble duty respect-
fully to show his Grace that the opinion of these gentle-
men is either inapplicable or equivocal, or, at all events,
that it is unfounded. But this letter has run to such
a great length that I must reserve this subject as the
exclusive topic for a second letter, to follow this without
any delay whatsoever. I trust by the next post after
this letter arrives in Dublin it will be followed by the
letter on the regular clergy.
" I cannot, however, conclude the present letter with-
out expressing, in sorrow and in anguish, the apprehen-
sions I deeply entertain from the facts I have avowed—
namely, the existence of a conspiracy betwen the English
Government and English Catholic agents at Rome to
delude the Ministers of his Holiness the Pope, and to
obtain measures calculated to affect the civil rights, but,
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dark plot to achieve.
" Eleventhly. I object to the Act, because it purports
to give jurisdiction by Art of Parliament to Comu'is-
sioners, eight of whom are Protestants, and two of whom
are Catholic laymen, over the usages and discipline of the
Church of Rome, and over the title of every bishop,
parish priest, or other ecclesiastical incumbent in Ireland.
I object to that jurisdiction as being Protestant in prin-
ciple—namely, emanating from an Act of Parliament, an
Act of the lay Legislature. It may be said that there
is an inherent jurisdiction in the Catholic priests, named
in the Commission, over these spiritual matters of usage
and discipline, and perhaps ever what the Act fantasti-
cally calls intendment of usage.' But my answer is,
that such spiritual jurisdiction can exist only within the
diocese of each bishop who is a Commissioner, and the
power under the Act to decide upon the usage and dis-
cipline of the Catholic Church is not confined to that dio-
cese. Another answer is, that no such inherent jurisdic-
tion can be said to exist in the two lay Commissioners.
Sir Patrick Bellew and Mr. Blake are not spiritual per-
sons. At least, the only title they have to be so is de-
rived from the Act of Parliament—a derivation the vali-
dity of which I utterly deny.
" Twelfthly. I object to the statute, because the power
of the Commissioners extends to deciding who is the
lawful incumbent according to the discipline of the Ca-
tholic Church, as a bishop of any diocese, and as a parish
priest of any parish. For example, as to the bishop :
suppose a legacy bequeathed to the Bishop of Elphin, and
that any dispute arose as to who was, according
to the discipline of the Catholic Church, the bishop of
the diocese, that question would have to be decided in the
first instance by the three Catholic prelates and two
Catholic laymen—being Commissioners—it being, as I
presume, admittedly uncanouical for them to make any
such decision.
" Thirteenthly. I object to the statute, inasmuch as it
gives jurisdiction to the three Catholic prelates and two
Catholic laymen to decide, in the first instance, upon a
disputed title to the incumbency of a parish in the diocese
of another bishop—it being perfectly clear that those five
Commissioners, or:any of them, cannot have anycanonical
right to decide that question.
" Here I am bound, once more, to take up the pastoral
of the Most Reverend Doctor Murray, and accurately to
state how he seeks to solve this difficulty. His answer
to it will be found at page 22. These are his Lordship's
words:—
" In cases of doubt, as to who is the authorised priest,
for whom a donation or legacy may be intended, the
usages and discipline of our Church are for the present
placed under the guardianship of your own bishops, who
will be able, with the blessing of God, to have a rule
established, whereby, in all such cases, the certificate
of the diocesan bishop shall be taken as conclusive
evidence.'

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" Mark well that his Grace here distinctly admits the
existence of the difficulty. He admits that, according
to the statute, one Catholic ,bishop being on the Com-
mission, gets jurisdiction over the diocese of another
bishop. Nay, the Catholic laymen in the Commission
obtain from the statute similar jurisdiction. Mark, also,
that it will not be denied by anybody that the exercise
of such jurisdiction by a bishop or layman is uncanoni-
cal, and, I believe, therefore necessarily criminal. Mark,
also, that it is this statute that thus confessedly gives a
jurisdiction, the exercise of which would be essentially
criminal, which is the subject of the present diseussion.
Who can be surprised, then, that many Catholic prelates
have strong conscientious objections to co-operate in any
way in carrying out a statute that, beyond a doubt,
authorises the commission of a canonical crime ?
" The existence of an uncasonical authority in and by
the Act being avowed, his Grace suggests a remedy—
namely, the making a rule whereby the certificate of a
diocesan, in case of a controversy as to who is the autho-
rised priest, shall be taken as conclusive evidence.'
" Such is the remedy suggested by his Grace. As a
lawyer, I am bound to inform him that such remedy is
impossible,' for these reasons:—
" First. There is no such rule in the statute, nor any-
thing to authorise the making by the Board, or any
part of them, any such rule. No authority is given to
anybody to make such a rule.
" Secondly. There is nothing in the statute to au-
thorise the making of any rules or regulations whatso-
ever relative to the charities. It would require an ex-
press clause in the statute to that effect, and to give
the power of making rules of evidence, and there is cer-
tainly none such.
" Thirdly. The controversy as to who is the autho-
rised priest to receive a legacy, must necessarily include
at all events the fact of at least two persons, each claim-
ing to be the authorised priest ; and as only one of
them could be the person appointed ,by the bishop, so
the other must be driven to controvert the bishop's
right of such appointment. It would, therefore, be
against every rule of evidence to allow the bishop's cer-
tificate to be conclusive evidence of the validity of the
appointment made by that very bishop. It would be
considered in point of law monstrous to attempt to con-
clude the person who disputed the bishop's appoint-
ment, by the certificate of that very bishop. Such a
certificate could not be made evidence—still less con-
clusive evidence—without an Act of Parliament.
" Fourthly. The 6th section, that gives to the Com-
missioners the authority over the discipline of the Ca-
tholic Church, takes special care to prevent the doing
any act, and:of course the making any rule, inconsistent
with our law. Its provisions, in particular, render any
rule for the admission of illegal evidence impossible ;
because on the one hand it prevents the certificate even
of the entire five Catholic Commissioners from being
carried into effect, unless so far as it can be lawfully
executed according to the provisions of the Act. And
it contains this proviso :
" Provided always, that nothing herein contained
shall be construed to limit or affect the jurisdiction of
any court of law or equity.'
" The jurisdiction, therefore, of our courts as to
legal evidence cannot be limited by the Commissioners,
or by any rule they may make to substitute a convenient
certificate for strict and technical legal evidence.
" Fifthly. The certificate of the Catholic Commis-
sioners, though authorised by the statute, is not in itself
conclusive. They cannot themselves make a conclusive
certificate. It would, therefore, be quite absurd to sup-
pose that they could empower another person to make
a conclusive certificate.
" Sixthly. Itidoes not follow that if such a rule were
made, and were (what it cannot be) validly made in point
of law, that it would be acquiesced in, or adopted by,
the prelates who differ with his Grace Dr. Murray on
the subject of the Act. His Grace acts from strictly con-
scientious motives, and he has powerfully expressed the
obligation of that conscientious feeling. He thus
strongly expresses it, page 6: Conscience (he says) is a
stubborn monitor—it is unsafe to despise its admoni-
tions.' But there are many Cathdii bishops who think
they cannot, without crime, co-operate in carrying out
this Act. Conscience is to them an equally stubborn
monitor as to his Grace. It is equally unsafe for them
as for his Grace to• despise its admonitions. The pre-
lates I allude to would deem it criminal to co-operate in
carrying out the Act. There can, therefore, be no use
in a rule which these prelates cannot sanction without
committing what they deem a crime.
" There is another point of view in which the un-
canonical nature of this Act of Parliament jurisdiction
in the diocese of other prelates is beyond the power of
such a remedy as that suggested by his Grace, even if it
were valid. It stands thus :—Suppose the question of
the legacy to arise between two bishops—and it might
quite as well arise between two bishops as two priests—
what certificate can possibly meet the objection of
bishops, Commissioners, deciding between two of their
equals ? Who is to certify?
" In fine, layman though I be, nothing can, in my
humble judgment, be more manifest than the uncanoni-
cal nature of this Commission-jurisdiction. It originates
from an impure source, having nothing spiritual about it
but its usurpation of spirituality. It originates in and
by an Act of Parliament ; and it will require to work
itself out, that the Commission, prelates or laymen,
should exercise jurisdiction in localities where they can
have none, except by usurpation. Ido not dispute the
right of Protestants to have the jurisdiction of their pre-
lates conferred, if they think fit, by Act of Parliament.
At the same time, I utterly dent any Act of Parliamem
authority over the usages of discipline' of the Catholic
Church.
" I now return to my objections :
" Fourteenthly. I object to this Act of Parliament
Commission, because the Bequests Act contains what is
admitted by his Grace Dr. Murray to be a mischievous
clause. The Catholic Church of Ireland, in Catholic
times, was abundantly endowed. Its wealth and its
lands, its churches and its possessions, were all swept
away by iniquitous Acts of Parliament, and transferred
either to laymen, or for the sustentation of a mode of
worship utterly repugnant to the judgment and faith of
the original donors. The Catholic Church and Catholic
charities were reduced to utter destitution. We do not
seek to recover the lands or possessions, but is it not too,
bad that the heirs of the spoilers should dare to limit the
portion of the life of a Catholic in which he may restore
Catholic churches and charities to some degree of com-
petence, by granting his land for church or charitable
purposes ? Yet this Bequests Act actually limits the
period of the life of every Catholic, during which he is
permitted to dedicate lands to the service of religion, and
the sustentation of the sick and poor, or other charities.
" Fifteenthly. I object to the Bequests Act because,
the ' mischievous clause,' as his Grace so well calls it,
necessarily implies a foul and false calumny against the(
Catholic clergy of Ireland. It suggests that our beloved
clergy avail themselves of the weakness of dying per-
sons to extort bequests 'of land for the benefit of tee
church or charities. We laymen have challenged inves-
tigation upon this point, and defied the ingeniouse and
active malignity of our enemies to show
where such undue influence was exercisde. a
T 'mischiev one case
They have
oyus.
been unable to show any such case; yet th
clause' in the Act continues to proclaim the calumny.
And though the mischief is admitted and the calumny
proclaimed, yet. th os who admit the one and proclaim
the other may be foun&suppior.ting and carrying out this
fatal statute. Would to God it were otherwise.

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" Since I commenced this letter, I find it avowed by
the Whig press, that the Whigs whilst in office had an
English agent residing at Rome, in order, if possible, to
influence the political opinions of that Court unfavour-
ably to the liberties of the Irish nation. It is no longer
concealed that Mr. W. Petre is acting in that capacity
for the present !Administration. I have already as.
serted, and I assert again, from undoubted authority, that
his Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Crolly is in possession of a
letter from the Propaganda relating to the repeal agita-
tion in Ireland. It is an awful predicament to have the
Catholics of Ireland placed in. The secrecy that has
been hitherto observed makes the facts at present disco-
vered only the more formidable. How can we be secure
if, under such circumstances, any minority of our pre
bates should enter into any arrangements with the British
Government, or sanction any arrangements, uninfluenced
by the judgment of the majority of the Irish prelates,
and perhaps uucommunicated to the laity or to the re-
sidue of the prelacy ? I do not say or insinuate that any
such arrangement has taken place, or is at all likely to
take place ; but it is unfortunate, very unfortunate, that
at such a moment as this, with a full-blown conspiracy
against the independence of our Church just discovered,
this Act of Parliament Commission should be in exist-
ence, and should be accepted by any of our prelates,
however venerable or venerated. For one, I tremble at
the possible result.
" Something should be done to quiet the just fears
and necessary apprehensions of the ever faithful people
of Ireland. It will not do to attempt to muffle those fears
and apprehensions by alleging that more consolatory
intelligence has been received from Rome. Until now
we did not know of the conspiracy at all—the entire was
concealed. How know we what it may be the interest
of the English agent to conceal ? I believe there is no
doubt that the letter to his Grace the Archbishop of
Armagh was obtained and transmitted at a period when
the friends of the independence of the Irish Church at
Reme were absent, either in vacation or upon business.
There was a singular dexterity in obtaining and dis-
patching that letter.
" There is no part of the Catholic Church in the uni-
verse more faithfully submissive in spirituals to the
authority of his Holiness the Pope than the Catholic
Church in Ireland. Clergy and laymen both join in this
unqualified submission. As a layman I myself proclaim,
and I trust practise, the most dutiful submission in
spirituals, morals, discipline, and doctrine to the see of
Rome. Yet I have sworn—and so have all the Irish
Catholics—that the Pope has not any temporal or civil
jurisdiction within this land.

" But we must be vigilant. We are bound to preserve
the independence of our Church from all temporal power.
We are bound to protect our political liberties from
, every infringement. It is a miserably unhappy thing
that, at such a moment, the Bequests Act should appear
for
to afford any facilities to the British Government
We
further ensnaring or deluding any of our prelates
have flung off before, and we fling off again, please God,
all vetoistical arrangements.
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"°uid effectually prevent any minority of the Irish
pre lacy from involving themselves in any statutable
commission, or board, without the canonical assent of the
majority of the synod. Can and ought this to be done?
There remains, however, this most pleasing con-
solation:—There never was a period at which the
Catholic hierarchy of Ireland, without exception, was
composed of prelates of more learning, purity, piety,
and perfect devotion to all their spiritual duties. The
majority of such prelates ought not to be superseded by
the minority.
" I have the honour to be, my loved and revered Lord,
most respectfully, and with deep veneration, your most
faithful and devoted humble servant,
4.I)ANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P.
" The Right Rev. Dr, Cantwell, Bishop of Meath."

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