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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

THE PAPAL AGGRESSION.

A Romish priest in Irelai,d has declared that the Pftet
of Wvllin,Aoti has prowiseti to pres,ot a petition riga'''.
Lord John's papal till, tit:d to support its
The Scottish episcopal bishops have petitioned tn.
House of Commons against the Papal Aggression fill'
which would include them in the penalties for assumia
territorial titles.
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Dr. ,iillis, the -,atholic Bishop of Edinburgh'
has addressed a letter to the Earl of Arundel and Sarre!'
on the peculiar position of the Papists in Scotland, c°-.."
tending that there are no justifiable grounds for incluallt
them within the provisions of Lord John Russell's.t"
His point is, Rat there is no royal supremacy to be 11°14.
ted in Scotland.
Mr. Hippesley, chairman of the Old Down (Bristol)
Protestant Defence Committee, has written a rejoinder rci
tte Bishop of Bath and Wells, in which ho complaios4
the bishop publishing his correspondence before ',l
(Mr. H.) had actually received his lordship's reply, 9,130
especially of his having placed the correspondence Un..h
the head of " Lay Aggression," implying a charge vihw"
he repudiates on behalf of the society.
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THE POPE AND THE GOVERNMENT.—The correspoui,
ent of the Times, writing from Rome, says that Lord 0
Russell's bill tolls far short of what the Vatican bad e?
petted from the severity of his lordship's previous deeri
rations. The Pope thinks little of the prohibition .',_
titles, because means can readily be adopted to evade lt:
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but the clause in the bill affecting trust money and dons,
tions is looked upon more seriously, and " the Church
indignant becau.e it is compelled to keep its hands out
dead men's pockets."
The Times correspondent is further told that the Yolir°.
complains of having been deceived by his English advise,,
who urged the late ecclesiastical measures in Englauri_r
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June.lereed the Pope's prospect of Ladies'
was re-forming, the Tablet was announcing to its reit7i,.
that it had been dissolved by the hand of God ! ' -I;
Whig ministry (it says) simply dissolves—it is not o,°:
stroyed by a hostile opposition. It perishes without/
blow, save that inflicted on itself by the criminal follY
its head. Lord John Russell undertook to punish flee
Pope, and the weapon which he hurled in his moll"
against the holy father recoils on his own head, so that fo
is politically felo de se. Such is the fate of those rrti
fight against God. The armies of the Assyrian beleagur7s
{he city of Jerusalem, and in a night they perished, IP'
not by the hands of man."
THE POPE'S TEMPORAL WEAKNESS A SOURCOe
THE DANGER OF ISIS POWER.—It is urged by the aeon"'
gists of papal aggression that•the Pope is a weak soVei
reign, and therefore England needs not to guard age 05
his attacks. It is not the Pope, as a petty Italian poteO;
tate, that we have to deal with. "He is the sovereig,
of a great confederacy of bishops and priests, spread oret's
the whole Christian world, and whose aim is to subjued
that world to his domination." That mighty confederep,
is officered and organised in every Christian country. 114
first object of its hostility is necessarily the opinions ht,
by nations who reject its authority ; the first object of 71
care, the welfare of those who sustain it. Its course lug I
be to exalt the latter, and to depress the former. /34,
this is not effected by the means adopted by great teal/d
rut powers. It is not by the strength of its armies, t .
magnitude of its wealth, or the extent of its territori;
that its power is to be judged. It depends on widely, di,
ferent resources--on the subtle influenceof the devotiou;
feelings. To mould them to her purposes is the chureh„
generalship, to intensify them her economy, and to efro
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trigues and political difficulties. It was not through 're
Roman state that the great things of the Popedom /11l
ever achieved. It was by arming the subject against ~,i,
prince, the people against their governors, and each Poi
tion against its neighbour. The potency of these 001.41
is to be judged by their effects. No nation in Earl;
was more enthusiastically patriotic than the Germs 4d.
no monarch more beloved than Frederick Barbaros.+
But patriotism quailed before the phantom of super;
tion; loyalty waxed faint in the presence of priestcrsa,
and imperial Germany saw the greatest of her monarefif
the adored of her people, a suppliant before the haul$1;110.
Alexander, kneeling with the Pope's foot upon his ne,
if we believe the Guelphic historians. Not only the Pof
tory of the house of Swabia, but the whole historiA,
mediteval and modern Europe is full of parallel instanv✓
evidencing the same policy. Are there no traces of 11 or
the present dispute ? What, then, mean the threat
often repeated, that no law against the papal encre*rba
ment can be enforced in Ireland, and the hints that 10'10,
great Catholic powers of Europe will be induced t()..oif
their influence with Great Britain ? Da these not iron 0
that the Church of Rome, on an opportune occasion' or
still ready, for its own purposes, to embroil natiou'.eff
rouse a people against their government? The ~ 0
weakness of the temporal power of the Pope sugee';oo
, reason for greater caution. He is the nominee of Ili 14.
Priests, and upheld by Austrian or French influelill
England, from her religion, has no voice in aprointos
him; from her policy, no part in controlling hiro•., jo
fair as his power is not used for his own interast,!.lo
necessarily liable to be the tool of those states, whiel:l4;
rivals and may he hostile to Great Britain.—E4l4/178
cenity Magazine.