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" ENORMOUS LYING" OF A JESUIT.

(From the Times.)
What ! is Romanism so rampant that it throwi off
the mask in theology, as it has long done in politics !
They of this following are charged by their opponents
with disregard to truth, where it stands in the way of
their end, (in the way of honest ends it never really
does,) and they seem eager to give proof of the justice
of the imputation. That Mr. O'Connell unblushingly
disdains the trammels: of veracity is an old story. But
we own we still expected something more of maiden
modesty in the mendaciousness of the theological
school of this world-wise church.
Dr. Wiseman is the apostle, in these parts, of the
Papistical heresy. He is the doctrinal champion, as
O'Connell is the political, and verily they are a worthy
pair : Arcades ambo ! But this is a grave charge
against the Rev. Doctor. We may not, in common
fairnes, put him in such company without justifying
the insult. To the proof, then.
Dr. Wiseman is the selected missionary of the Ro-
mish creed in this country. He has been sent forth
for some years to labour in disseminating here the poi-
son of its doctrines, first from his pulpit, then through
the press. Our divines have been awake. Soon as he
ventured forth in the latter tangible shape a host of ad-
versaries buckled on their armour. He was assailed
by learning and argument on every side. Of all the
impugners of his tricky positions, the most trouble-
some, the most difficult to grapple with, and yet the
most dangerous to leave unnoticed, the most.hazard-
ous and yet the most necessary to answer, was Dr.
Turton, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University
of Cambridge. For two long years did Dr. Wiseman
hesitate about a reply. The contest would be full of
risk ; the Doctor was prudent. At length, perhaps,
his friends here gave him a hint that something must
be done. The Doctor then did something. We shall
see what.
Professor Turton was not to be confuted; he was
therefore to he abused, and he was abused accordingly.
Truth would not serve; we shall see what was substi-
tuted. Dr. Wiseman, in an evil hour, did write, and
Professcr Turton has again replied.
We cannot go through the whole subject matter.
We must content ourselves with respect to the greater
portion of Professor 'furton's book to say, that such
an exhibition as he makes of gross and palpable dis-
honesty in his adversary—dishonesty in argument, in
accusation, in references—it never fell to our lot to

meet with in the very worst school of controversy.
And the exposure is made by the Professor in a spirit
and language worthy of a man of learning and a di-
vine. We would recommend our educated readers to

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peruse the volume, for it is not of an alarming size.
But we must not rest on generalities ; we must give
a particular or two in our justification. We select
those most intelligible to the general reader. They are
both selected from the sixth section of Dr. Tdrton's

reply.
There is a work of a learned German divine, named
"Tittman," of which the title is " Meletrmata Sacra,
sive Commentarius, 4-c., in Evangelicum Joaitnis." Such
is the reading of the title-page. Every page of this
book is headed by the number of- the chapter and
verse, or verses of St. John, of which the text below
treats. Thus it is absolutely impossible for any one
who ever opened the book (even without reading it)
not to see at once that the work is a " Commentary on
St. John, and nothing else."

Now in the book of Dr. Wiseman, to which Profes-
sor Turton in his former work replied, the Doctor re-
fers to this work of Tittman in support of his views,
by the title of Meletamata Sacra. But, as is usual
with him, he quotes dishonestly, thrusting into his re-
ference without notice, qualifying words of his own.
The Professor, of course, exposes this fraud. But,
with a scholar-like taste, " having an unconquerable
dislike" (as lie expresses himself) "to hard words,"
he refers to the work by its simple -and well-known
atias, " the Commentary on St. John." Now, will it
he believed, the learned Roman takes hence occasion to
insult over the Professor, as ignorant of the work which
he (Dr. Wiseman) had quoted, the "Meletemata Sa-
cra ?" He holds him up to scorn on this ground as a
poor unlettered sciolist. " I quoted (says he) the Me-
letemata Sacra. I suppose the learned Professor was
unacquainted with the work. So, like a good contro-
versialist—certainly not like a good scholar—he goes
to another work of Tittman, and from that attempts to
confute me. This is, the Commentary on St. John ! !
&c.

Now, either way, here is shameless fraud.
Either the learned Roman never opened Tittman's
book in his life, in which case he itnpudently professes
a familiarity with a work he never saw; or he knew
that the book referred to by the Professor against him
was the very book which he himself had falsified ; and
he pretended that the works were different, in order to
deceive his unlearned readers into the belief that the
proof against him rested on no sufficient ground.
The Professor somewhere censures the Doctor's har-
dihood of assertion, by the gentle name of " intrepi-
dity." We should use a shorter term.
But this, after all, is not the worst case. See again—
The Professor, in confuting the false assumptions of
his adversary, very properly has recourse to the greater.
luminaries of the Roman chiirch itself. For this Dr.
Wiseman is in some sense a "neologist" in his way :
he would improve upon the systems of his more ho-
nest or more wary predecessors. The Professor, we
say, then, instead of objecting to him mere Protestant
authorities, shows that many esteemed Roman Catholic
writers, and among them Estius, the "Annotator of
the Rernish Testament," are opposed to the ground
assumed by him, Dr. Wiseman. This was a hard blow,
and to parry it difficult. The Remish Testament is
the text-hook of the English Catholics, and to speak
disparagingly of it were impolitic. So the Doctor is
obliged to let it pass. Even Estius was difficult to get
over; but by one gifted with "intrepidity" as the
Doctor, something was to be made of him. See only
.how.

Estius is the author of sundry learned theological
works of great repute and weight in the Romish church.
He alSo wrote one work, not published till after his
death, with somewhat less care. Dupin, in his Eccle-
siastical Htstory, bears the highest testimony to the
accuracy and merit of his other works, especially of
that "on the Sentences ;" and speaks with less appro-
bation of this posthumous work. Both theSe testimo-
nials‘ithin a few
which .
lines ofa ereateonther.
in one
Now,short
the
eticwk on N
le,orand.
Pro-
fessor Turton relies in the question in dispute with Dr.
Wiseman is the lauded work "on the Sentences."
What does Dr. Wiseman ? To discredit Estius he
quotes the words of Dupin in allusion to the inferior
work, which Dr. Turton does not here refer to, and
suppresses the complimentary testimony to the work
which Dr. `Futon does quote against him. He could
not here be ignorant of what he was doing. What,
then, was he ? •
They who are not by this time satisfied with respect
to the honesty of this learned Theban had better read
the whole of Professor 'l'urton's book. It is not long ;
and if they are curious in these matters, we promise
them there is wherewithal to pay them for their trouble.
For our part, we agree with the Professor in the con-
clusion he has come to touching his adversary. We
have done with him.

We know a little of Professor Turton and of his
many valuable works. He is eminently acute, learned,
accurate, honest, and above all mild; if ever moved to
indignation, it is by some want of integrity in his oppo-
nent; his upright nature is shocked by the baseness
of a lie. The feeling with which he seems to have
come out of this controversy may, by a little wresting
of the fense, be expressed in the words of the Satirist,
" Quid Roma. faciunz, mentiri nescio." How shall I

cope with men of this school ? I deal with truth.
If these-be the arts on the success of which depends
the existence of the Romish. Church, it needs not a
spirit of prophecy to foretell that its days are numbered.
We recommend the candid disciples of this creed to
read Dr. Turton's work. We believe this recommen-
dation has been in some measure anticipated. We have
heard that there are among the honourable and educa-
ted of the laity of this communion not a few who have
examined into the matter, and are not well pleased
with the champion of their faith.

As a matter of matrimonial statistics, it may be mentioned
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last year.

LAND SLIP IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—In consequence of
he late incessant rains, the lovers of geology will have a rich
reat by the occurrence of a land slip of above eight acres, at
,he base of Headon Hill, parallel with Alum Bay, and in the
rnmediate vicinity of the Needles rocks.

THE KEIGHLEY MURDER.—III our last week's paper we
gave such particulars as had transpired relative to this horrid
occurrence. At the inquest, a verdict of Wilful Murder was
given, and the unhappy maniac, for such he must be consi-
dered, is now waiting the resul, of a solemn trial at the next
assizes. Confession :---He said it first came into his mind on
Sunday morning to kill his sister, and he then determined to
do it on the Saturday night following, when he would have
his razors out to shave with. His father was going out on
Wednesday evening, he thought he would never have a better
opportunity : he therefore called her up stairs, crying out,
" Betty, there are some bugs above't bed." Betty ran up
with a light, and pulling off her shoes, got on the bed and be-
gan to search. He then leaped on her with a knife, and
knocked the candlestick out of her hand, threw her on the
bed, and then tried to cut her throat. She struggled dread-
fully, and screamed, which frightened him so much that she
escaped from his grasp to the floor. In this struggle he had
lost his knife, but snatching another from his father's seat,
he, after a desperate resistance, accomplished his purpose.
He did not know what to do, but resolving to go out and
hanga himself, he went down stairs and opened the door ; there
w opposite, so he shut it again, but knowing that
it would om
not do to stop there, he rushed out of the house and
sawoman
leaped over the wall into a field. He went up the field to a
gate in the middle of the same side, and there attempted to
hang himself by the top rail with his handkerchief, but the
rail was too low. He then proceeded to a lonely ash tree, at
the top of the next field, and there tried again, when his
handkerchief broke, and he came to the ground.' He now
piled up some stones, knotted his handkerchief, and made
another attempt. The knot slipped and he fell into the next
field. He was stunned at first, but recollecting that he had
a penknife in his pocket, he opened it while on the ground.
He felt the edge and found that it was too blunt. He then
got up and returned to the middle of the Knowe (the name
of the field he had crossed in going to the ash tree) ; here he
lay down on his belly, but after laying some time, he thought
he would go back, and either cut his throat with the knife he
had killed his sister with, or give himself up. When he got
near the wall he was seized by Joseph Hird and Thomas
Greenwood. Being asked what could induce to murder a
sister who loved him so much, he said, " He did not know,
but she was ready for heaven, and he was fit for t'other place."
He said her last words were, " Lord, help me," and " Oh,
Charles, spare my life." After this he would answer no more
questions.—Preston Chronicle.

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