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Capital .£500,000.
Bmpowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.

the steady success and Increasing presperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last anaual investigation to declare a
second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. oa the amounts invested on each
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power which the British Government most anxiously
desires to obtain, and is now known to be engaged in a
dark plot to achieve.
" Eleventhly. I object to the Act, because it purports
to give jurisdiction by Act of Parliament to Commis-
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.
" Tvvelfthly. 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 It gacy 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 any canonical
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

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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. Crolly,
addressed to Mr. O'Connell, appears in the Dublin
Evening Pout of this afternoon.
Archbishop Crolly has published this letter, in
consequence of certain statements in the letter of Mr.
O'Connell, which we 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 cf a similar description,
in which I was directed to admonish some political
ecclesiastics, who had made at public meetings such
vi.,lent 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 lam 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
ILLME. AC RME. DOMINE—
" • Memmisso profecto debet Amp. Tua datas ad Te
die 12 Martii, Anni 1839, ab Sac line Congre. fuisse
litteras, quibus illud Tifsi. SSmi etiam Dni Nri Gregorii
P.P. XVL nomine, vehementer commendabatur, ut Uni
vel Alteri Antistiti nonnullisque Ecelesiasticis istius
Regni viris, qui tamquam politicisi nogetiis nimium ad-
dicti, et de Republica minus prudenter coram Populo
disserentes traducebantur, saniora, si relata subsisterent,
suggereres consilia, ratioaemque sacro ministerio magis
consentaniam diligentissime suaderes. Equidem non
dubitat Sac Congregatio quin Tu omni studio in id adla-
boraveris, eamque operam adhibueris, quam rei gravitas
postulabat, et I tuo in Apostolicana Sedem oiasequio ex.
pectat licebat. Atqui tamen impensis per Te curie opta-
turn exitum non appimi respondisse, ox publicis priesertitn
istarum Regionum Ephemeridis apparet, übi sermones
referuntur ab aliquibus, ed clero, et non ne
mine etiarn Episcoporum turn in conventibus et
conviviis, turn in Templis ad populum recens habiti,
qui certe. si ita esset, illos annirnarum saluti, Reli-
gionis bono, Dieque lionori unit* ut par esset,
intentos, atque adeo a politicarum partium studiis, et
smeuli negotiis prorsus alienos minima demonstrarent.
Dissimulandum sane non est id Sac. hum Cogi i, ipsique
SSmo Domino molestius accidisse, quod in Ecclesiastici
Cactus dotrimentum, ac dedecus vergat ; immo vero
Apostolicie Sedi injuriarn creet, quasi nimirum ea de
sslutaribus ad istum Clerum monitis, opportune dirigen-
dis partma sollicita, memoratis nonnullorum ex illo
consiliis faveat, nut saltum connivers videatur. Et
reupse his querimoniis seu potius criminationibus locum
jam non semel extitisse Ampm. Tuana fortas:a latet,
sed Apostolica Sedes tristi experientia summopero dolet.
lime porro caves est cur Sacra Congreatio. rursus ad
'l'e de gravissimo hoc argument° scribere, ipso SSmo
Dno. Nostro auctore festinet. Nosti optima, Prmsul
amplissime, qum sit Eccletiastici muneris ratio, atque
indoles ; quantumque decent,
et religionis incolumi-
tati intersit, ut qui sacris aunt mancipati, Regis
pacifici ministri, et mysteriorum Dei dispensatores ;
maxillae vero spirituali fidelium et regimini prrepo-
siti, nullimode se negotiis stecularibus implicent ;
quietem, tranquillitatem, ac
pacem, qure Christianitatis
vinculum est, sedulo in popuio foveant ; subjectionem
temporali potestati,in lies qum ad res civiles pertinent de-
bitten jugiter exemple,ao verbis insinuent, et singularom
prudentiam animiquo moderationern prmseferentes, Chris-
turn et hune Crucifixum solummodo, prmdicantes, quid-
quid commissum sibi gregem vel leviter concitare, corn-
movere, et ab Evangelica3 Lagis lenitato abducere possit
cautissitna devitent. Ejuemodi est semperque fuit Ca-
tholicm Ecclesite doctrina, quam Apostolica Sedes ex sui
°flied sanctitate tradere, et data occasion° incularo nun-
quam intermisit. Tuam itaque erit, Amplissime Domine,
his vestigiis studiose insistere et prmnuncitos de tanta re
sac. Congis., ac Sanctitatis Sum census pro opportunitate
aperiendo, quotqut ex Ecclesiasticis viris priesertim in
upiscapali gradu constitutes rode ulla ratione devios ag-
noscas in omni charitate ac patentia efficacissime adino-
uere. Quod quidern dual saris perspectre prudentim, et
sollicitudini turn committo, observantiam moire Tibi ex
animo profiteor, et fainta omnia precor a Deo.
." Amplitudinis Tune.
Ronne ex Adibus Sac. Congris. de Prop. Fide. die
15 Octobris, 1844.
" Ad officia paratissimus,
" J. PH. CARD. FRANSONIUS,
" JOANNES BRUNELLI, secretaries.
" H. P. D. Guillelmo Crolly, Archiepo Armachano
robes Hibernire Primati. prfefectus.
" Concordat cum originali,
"` r Gulielmus Crolly.'
"` 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.
" 'el W. CROLLY, Chairman,
" ' LAWRENCE O'DONNELL, Secretary."
" With regard to the Concordat between the Pope
and the British Government, which has so justly excited
directly
shallt join the l
alarming apprehensions in the minds of all the clergy
and laity of Ireland, I can only state, in the most solemn
manner,
Y or indirectly,
except
fthitndt
pre-
lacy of Ireland by using every influence in
by that
public knowru m
o u r nothing ;
amoi
my power to
prevent any such insidious scheme,
which would be de-
structive of the independence and purity of our holy re-
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, 1815."
MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER ON THE CHA-
RITABLE BEQUESTS ACT.
DUBLIN, JAN. 11.—The following is the concluding
portion of Mr. O'Connell's letter, addressed to the Right
11ev. 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. la hat 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 antiilrish 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.

ILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
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it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
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C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this usend Book, which may be had
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every Chemist and Druggist in the United Kingdom. Price One
Shilling pe Box, or in Family Poxes, Nalf-a-Crown.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—Spectator, Robinson, from Maurit us, off
Falmouth, sailed Oct. 23 ; Gazelle, Ramsay, from Van
Diemen's Land, off Falmouth, sailed from Hobart Town,
Sept. 10.
Arrivals at Mauritius—Ariel, Parsons, Oct. 17, from
Bourbon ; Pacquebot des Mers du Suacotineau, from
Bordeaux ; Bellone, Fitau, from Nantes ; Ann, Caith-
ness, 18th, from Algoa Bay ; Venus, White, from St.
Augustin's Bay ; Amphitrite, Davidson, from Ichaboe ;
Henry Curwen, Vickers, from Bordeaux ; Sucrier, Vin-
cent, from Havre, passed to Bourbon ; Guiana, Duff;
from Adelaide and Swan River ; Black Joke, Desenne,
19th, from Tamatave ; Perseverant, Durant, from Ciota.
Arrivals at Hobart Town.—Angelina, Grey, Aug. 24,
from Woolwich ; Cadet, Hillman, from Dublin and Rio ;
America, Berry, from Boston ; John Tomkinson, Aug.
30, from London ; Water Lilly, Sept. 2, from Sydney ;
Abeona, 4th, Lillias, sth, from Port Philip ; lanthe, from
Boston ; Sylvanus, from Port Albert ; Barossa, from
London.
Arrival at Launceston.—Robert Matthews, Aug. 29,
from London and Hobart Town, and would load for
London.
Departure from Hobart Town.—lsabella Anna, for
London, and got aground, was afterwards hove down
and surveyed, and found to be much damaged.
Departure from Manilla—Carshalton Park, Aug. 23,
to London.
Arrival at Melbourne, Port Phillip—Lord William
Bentinck, Sainthill, from London.
Arrivals—Hannah Kerr, from Bombay, off Liverpool,
sailed Sept. 25, St. Helena Nov. 25 ; Flora Kerr, from
Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Sept. 21 ; Isis, Fisher, from
Bengal, off Liverpool, sailed Ang.27, St. Helena Nov. 18.
DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS.

The next Mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian
Islands, via Southampton, will be dispatched from hence
on the morning of Thursday next, the 16th inst.
The next Mail for Egypt and India will be dispatched
on Feb. 3.

The next Mail for India, via Marseilles, will he dis-
patched on the evening of Feb. 7.
Mails will be forwarded to Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres,
and Monte Video, by H.M. steamer Firebrand, which, it
is expected, will leave Devonport the middle of this
month. All letters posted before the departure of this
steamer will be sent by her, unless otherwise directed.
'1 he next mails for the West Indies, &c., will be dis-
patched hence on the morning of Friday next, the 17th,
by the steamer Avon.

The next Mails for America will be made up on the
evening of February 3, and dispatched for Liverpool on
the 4th, by the steamer iiibernia.

The Mails for Hamburgh are still sent via Holland,
in consequence of the approach to Cuxhaven being im
practicable on account of the ice.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—The Queen will hold a Privy
Council to-morrow (Monday) afternoon at the Castle,
at half- past two o'clock.
Yesterday the unfavourable state of the weather
prevented her Majesty and the Royal Family from
taking their accustomed walking and equestrian ex-
ercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, from the same cause,
was prevented from enjoying the sport of shooting in
the royal preserves.
The Duke of Sotomayor, the Spanish Minister, had
an audience of the Queen on Friday evening, to
deliver his credentials. His Excellency was intro-
duced to her Majesty by the Earl of Aberdeen, prin-
cipal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and was
most graciously received.

Thy Queen and Prince Albert took equestrian ex-
ercise for an hour on Friday evening in the riding
school, attended by the Equerries in Waiting.
His Excellency the Duke and the Duchess of Soto-
mayor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord and Lady Cottenham, and
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, took their departure
from the Castle yesterday.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle-
mentina Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie,
and Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, arrived
yesterday at the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty.
Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and
the Rev. Frederic Anson, had the honour of joining
the royal circle at dinner yesterday.
The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in at-
tendance during dinner. Her Majesty's private
band afterwards attended in the Castle, and per-
formed the remainder of the evening.
This morning the Queen and Prince Albert walked
for some time on the Terrace and in the Home Park.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were
taken walking exercise in the forenoon.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the whole of the
Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine
service this morning in the private chapel of the
Castle. The Hen. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay
officiated.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and
Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelits, attended by Baron
Knesebeck and Mr. Mildmay, honoured Count Kiel-
mansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, with their com-
pany at dinner on Saturday evening, at his Excel-
lency's residence in Grosvenor-place.
The Duke of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz attended Divine
service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel.
A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. The
Ministers present were Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of
Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Aberdeen,
Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Lord Wharncliffe,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington,
Earl of Ripon, the Right Honourable W. E. Glad-
stone, and Lord Granville Somerset.
The Earl of Aberdeen and Mr. Gladstone arrived
in town in the forenoon from Windsor Castle.
The Council sat three hours.

The Duke of Wellington attended the early service
in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The
Rev. Dr. Wesley read the prayers ; the Rev. Mr.
Perkins preached the sermon. The Marquis of Down-
shire, Lords Hawarden, Wharnclifle, and C. Fitzroy,
attended the evening service in the Chapel Royal
yesterday.
The Earl and Countess of Dalhousie left town on
Saturday for Windsor Castle.
The Austrian Ambassador, Count Dietrichstein,
paid visits to the Royal Family in town on Saturday.
Dispatches from the Governor of South Australia
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

It is believed that Mr. Frederick Goulhurn, son of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is to be the new Com-
missioner of Customs in the place of the lion. lieneage
Legge, lately deceased.

" Tenthly. I object to this statute, because I see
plainly, and recent events demonstrate thaf, however
well-intentioned and pure our prelatic commissioners
are, this is one great step—l had a lmost said another
great step—towards facilitating the introduction of
power and control in the British Government over the
appointment of our bishops—m power and control which
our hierarchy, and clergy, and gentry, and laity have in-
dignantly rejected as the price of civil liberty—but a

" Sixteenthly, I 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
Ake of commissioner.
" 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 fur another reason to
the majority—that is, because the Parliamentary returns
show, that in the last year 22,000/. was vested in Catho-
lic charities, and only 8,0001. 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 I
" 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 Is 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 my 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 Messrs. 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,
above all, the religious independence of the Catholic
Church in Ireland.
" 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. 1 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 seerecy 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-
lates 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 uncommunicated 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
Remo 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.

" In cases of doubt, as to who is the authorised priest,
Or 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.'
" 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 discussion.
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 uncanonical 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 stitch rule. No authority is given to
anybody to make such a rule.
" Secondly. There is nothing in the statute to au-
thorise the snaking 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 Cathol 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—
wnat 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 deny any Act of Parliament
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 ware reduced to utter destitution. We do rot
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 the
church or charities. We laymen have challenged inves-
tigation upon this point, and defied the ingenious and
active malignity of our enemies to show any one case
where such undue influence was exercised. 'They have
been unable to show any such case; yet 9e 'mischievous
clause' in the Act continues to proclaim the calumny.
And though the mischief is admitted and the calumny
proclaimed, yet those who adwit the one and proclaim
the other may be found supporting and carrying out this
i; Were otherwise.
fatal statute. Would to sod

" 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
to afford any facilities to the British Government for
I further ensnaring or deluding any of our prelates.
God,Vo
have flung off before, and we fling off again, please
all vetoistical arrangements.
"In my second letter to your Lordship
discuss the state of our regular clergy,
I butsubmit not
someonl only
will
suggestions as to the propriety
Rome on these most interesting subjects. There is no
law to prevent or interfere with
of a lay deputation to
such a delegation. In
fact, the law respecting communication
with Rome is
tion which I shall most respectfully
"The proposition very imperfectly known to our public writers.
submit, as a rule in future, would be the establishment,
by a synod of the Catholic Church in Ireland, in the
most canonical manner, of some law or regulation which
would effectually prevent any minority of the Irish
prelacy 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 01 such prelates ought not to be superseded by
the minority.
" I hare the honour to be, my loved and revered Lord,
most respectfully, and with deep veneration, your most
faithful and devoted humble servant,
" The Right Rev. Dr. C "
anDANIEL
Bishop of Meath."

NATIONAL EDUCATION.—PROTESI' Tlit
BISHOPS.
The following protest has been issued by the Primate.
Lord John Beresford, and eight other prelates of the
Established Church in Ireland. It is really a protest
against the course adopted by Sir R. Peel and his Go-
vernment on the question of National Education.
" We, the undersigned prelates of the United Church
of England and Ireland, have judged it to be our duty.
upon some former occasions, to address those members
of the Church who are directly committed to our care
and government, and all others who are disposed to look
to us for counsel and support concerning the question of
the education of the poor in Ireland. And as there are
various particulars in the actual state of that question,
which appear to make a similar address from us pecu-
liarly needful at the present time, we proceed once more
to the discharge of this anxious, and in some respects
painful, though, as we cannot but feel, clear and most
important duty, in humble reliance upon the guidance
and blessing of Almighty God.
" Upon the former occasions to which we have referred,
we felt constrained to make known the very unfavourable
judgment which we had formed of the national system c):
education for this country—distinctly declaring that we
could not approve of it, or assist in the management of it,
or recommend to the patrons or superintendents of schools
that they should place them in connexion with it.
"It was with much reluctance and regret that we felt
ourselves obliged to declare so decidedly and publicly
against a plan of education established and maintained
by the State, to which we owe, and are ready to render,
all duty not interfering with that which we owe to God.
But this higher duty compelled us to express thus plainly
and strongly our disapprobation and distrust of this sys-
tem ; and we lament that it does not now permit us to
retract, or to soften, those declarations of our opinion.
We consider it to be the more necessary to state this ex-
plicitly, because it is conceived by some persons that
certain modifications of its rules, from time to time intro-
duced by the Commissioners of National Education, have
done much to remove the objections on which it has
been from the beginning opposed and rejected by the
greater portion of the members of the Established
Church ; and as we are unable to form the same opinion
of these changes, we deem it our duty to obviate the mis-
apprehension to which our silence might give rise, by
stating distinctly that we cannot discern in them any
sufficient reasons for withdrawing or qualifying the con-
demnation which we have deliberately and repeatedly pro-
nounced.
"When the Government first announced its determi-
nation that this system should supersede those to which
the State had before given support, it was very generlly
opposed by the clergy and the laity of our Church. The
grounds on which this opposition were made to rest were
various. The undue prominence given to secular to the
depreciation of religious instruction; the disregard shown
to the position and claims of the clergy of the Estab-
lished Church, tending to throw the direction of national
education into the hands of the priesthood of the Church
of Rome; and other defects and evils, both of the system
itself in the machinery by which it was to be worked,
were urged as grave objections against the proposed plan
of education. While its opponents differed as to the im-
portance which was to be assigned to some of those ob-
jections, there was one, upon the paramount importance
of which all were agreed. The rule by which the Holy
Scriptures were to be excluded from the schools during
the hours of general instruction was treated by all as so
fundamentally objectionable, that while this should con-
tinue to bo the principle of the system, they could not
conscientiously connect their schools with it, even though
all the other grounds of opposition were taken away.
" In the former societies for the education of the poor,
with which the clergy were connected, they had, in ac-
commodation to the unhappy divisions of this country,
consented to forbear from any attempt to teach the for-
mularies of our Church to the children of Dissenters,
Protestant or Roman Catholic, who attended the schools
of which they had the superintendence. But they did
not judge themselves at liberty so to deal with the Word
of God. There was in every school a Bible class, and in
every school to read the Bible was a part of the daily
business ; and all the children in attendance, of whatever
religious communion, took their places in this class, as
soon as their proficiency enabled them to profit by the
reading of the Holy Scriptures. But the distinction of
the new system was that it placed the Bible under the
same rule with books of peculiar instruction in religion,
and excluded it, with them, from the hours of general
education. And, moreover, this great change was
avowedly made as a concession to the unlawful authority
by which the Church of Rome withholds the Holy Scrip-
tures from its members.
" It could not have been expected that the clergy of
our Church, who are bound by obligations so sacred to
resist spiritual tyranny 'and to oppose the errors of
the Church of Rome, would join in a system of educa-
tion, of which the distinctive claim to acceptance and
support was the aid which it gave to one of the most
violent exercises of this tyranny—that which is, in fact,
the strength and protection of its worst errors. It was
not merely a question of the amount of good which was
to be done by retaining the Bible in its proper place in
the education of the poor—though it would have been
painful to give up this means of doing so much good to
the Roman Catholic children, to whom (commended as
they are in so many ways to their sympathies) the
clergy, in general, have the power of doing so little;
but there was still a graver question of the amount of evil
which would result from the change, and the part which
the clergy were to take in effecting it. The principle of
the sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures,' as it is main-
tained by our Church, is a fundamental principle of the
most momentous importance. It is by means of it that
truth has been guarded and handed down to us by those
who have gone before us. And it is by means of it we
are to preserve this deposit of truth, and to defend and
transmit it, pure and unmutilated, to those who are to
come after us. While, on the other hand, it is by re-
jecting this principle that the Church of Rome is able
to retain and to defend its errors, its superstitions, and
its usurpations. It is well known that our Church exacts
from all its ministers an express declaration of their
belief of this great doctrine, and a solemn promise that
they will regulate their ministrations in conformity with
it. And the steady maintenance of it is still further
bound upon our clergy, when they are, by God's Pro-
vidence, placed in circumstances in which they have to
carry on a continual contest for the truth—not merely
fur the deliverance of those who are in error, but for the
preservation of those who are more immediately com-
mitted to their care—and in which it is plain that their
prospect of success in either object depends altogether
upon their adherence to this principle, and that when it
is in any degree allowed to become obscure or doubtful,
in the same degree the cause of truth is weakened, and
that of error strengthened in the land. And they could
not doubt that if they connected their schools with the
national system, and thereby entered into a compact to
dispossess the Bible of the place which it had hitherto
occupied in them, they would be, in the eyes of the
young and the old of both communions, practically ad-
mitting the false principles of the Church of Rome, and
submitting to its tyranny, and abandoning the great prin-
ciple of their own Church, concerning the sufficiency and
supremacy of God's Holy Word.
" It would seem that the board,:to which the manage-
ment of national education is committed, has not been
insensible to the force of this grand and primary objec-
tion. It changed the offensive, but true ground, on
which the exclusion of the Scriptures from its schools
was originally placed, for another which was more spe-
cious and popular ; and parental authority was brought
in to occupy the post at first assigned to the authority of
the Church of Rome. Those who were acquainted with
the state of the country knew that there was no real
objection on the part of Roman Catholic parents, speak-
ing generally, to read the Bible themselves, or have it
read to their children, but the contrary. And, in fact,,
when ecclesiastical authority was first exerted to put
down scriptural education in the country, it had to en •
counter very stubborn resistance from parental autho-
rity—a resistance whieh undoubtedly would have been
successful, if it had been aided, as it ought to have been,
by the State. But a renewal of thislstruggle was not to
be looked for. However true it be that Roman Ca-.
tholics in general would prefer that their children were
taught the Bible, this desire is seldom so enlightenbd or
so strong as of itself to arouse them to a contest with
the authorities of their Church. Under former
systems they resisted the despotic power which
forbad their children to read the Bible, chiefly
because their submission to it would have involved
the loss of an improved method of secular educa-
tion. But when, in consequence of the establishment
of the National System no such loss could ensue, it was
not to be expected that any considerable number would
persist in opposing the mandates of the clergy, or that
the latter would find any difficulty in constraining the
parents, from whom they were able to withhold the
Bible, to forbid the use of it to their children. This
being the case, it must be felt that, under all the modi,
fications which have taken place in the rule, the mattes-
remaiLed in substance and fact unaltered ; and that thr,
parental authority which is put forth so prominently, is
really the authority of the Church of Rome, fats-mixed
on and through the parents of their children.
" It is still further to be considered, that parental
authority, like civil and ecclesiastical and all other
lawful authority, derives all its force from the authority
of God ; and therefore can possess none, when it is
exerted in opposition to the Divine authority on which
it rests. And although a child, who, from tender years
or false training, is unable to see clearly the opposition
which may exist between his parent's will the will
of God, or to apprehend its effect in releasing him
from the duty of submission, is not t
ore encouraged to resist the anthorityoof ehiinssptruarcetne‘a
en when it is unlawfully exerted ; yet that
parent has no right to r_eq r others, who clearly
perceive this opposition, and understand its effects, to be
his instruments in enforcing an unlawful exercise of his
authorily over his child ; and others have no warrant to
become kis instruments in such a case. The distinction is
obvious. Our clergy would, and ought to abstain from.
any,,direct efforts Ito excite resistance,:or even to en-
courage it on the part of a child, until they had good
grounds for regarding that resistance as intelligent and
conscientious. But they could not recognise such an
exertion of parental authority, as if it were lawful, and
lend their assistance in enforcing it. So that, even if it
were voluntarily exerted in forbidding the Bible to be
read, our clergy could not consent to bind themselves to
aid in giving effect to such an unlawful command.
But when they regard the parent as himself in bondage
to the usurped authority of the Church of Rome, and as
not exercising his own free will, but oboying as a pas-
sive agent, in binding the same yoke upon his children,
the duty of refusing to co-operate with him is
clearer. The clergy may be able to do but little
towards delivering their Roman Catholic country-
men from such bondage, but they can at least keep
themselves free from the guilt of becoming instruments ire
rivetting tits chains upon- them ; and this, accordinglys,
they resolved to do ;in which resolution—as in all ths.t
they have done in this matter—they had the full o'Jn-
currence and support of the lay members of the Chv.reh.
" The exclusive appropriation of the Pashatirentary
grants for education having left the Church destatite of
to seepteved aids for the instruction of the children of