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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

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" If the Pope could with impunity parcel out spiritually
Great Britain, be would find himself having more power
over a Protestant country than he has over Catholic
France, which is, in fact, protected by the concords
against the encroachments of Rome, while, on the con-
trary, England would be delivered up to her bound hand
and foot ? Can this be ? Long before the seam of the
16th century, thc statute* of Prcemunire formed en

obstacle, absolute and solemn, to the encroachments of
Papal power. Severe penalties were imposed on all those
who would attempt to introduce foreign power into the
country, or try to create an imperium in imperio, in.
vowing to the Pope the obedience which belongs only to
the King. Yes, in the happy times of Catholicism in
England, no one could he bishop against the will of the
sovereign, and now should Protestant England be obliged
to crouch under the will of Rome ?" •
But if the Pope himself has been precipitate and
suicidal, the minions to whom he has delegated his
authority in this country have acted with an inso-
lence calculated to add tenfold fire to the indigna-
tion, which his own audacious step had already
excited. Scarcely was the ink dry with which the
Bull was written when theseinfatuated men intruded
themselves and their pastoral charges amongst us,
the latter breathing the insolence and intolerance
of the papacy in its most powerful days. "WE
GOVERN," exclaimed the Cardinal Archbishop
Wiseman; and the same pretension—the same
setting aside of all spiritual authority possessed by
the hierarchy and clergy of our own national
church—followed from his coadjutors, and the
priesthood throughout the country. What was
the language of one of these—Ambrose Lisle
Philips—to the Earl of Shrewsbury ?

" The decree of our holy father the Pope bath gone
forth, and it will be upheld, by every faithful Catholic,
from the greatest to the least, though Protestant violence
should convulse England to its very centre. The holy
father may count upon us, we are the children of the
children of the Crusaders. We will not faller before the
sons of Cranmer and John Knox."
We append another equally insulting declaration
well calculated to fan the flame which his Holiness
has lighted up. Thus spoke Dr. Doyle, on Sun-
day week, at the Mass House, in London, illegally
dubbed " St. George's Cathedral :"

" What has been done no power on earth can undo.
The time may come when the Archbishop of Canterbury
may die. But the time will never come when there will
not be an Archbishop of IT estminster."
The latest effusion of the Pope's nominees is the
pastoral letter of the Roman Catholic Bishop of
Shrewsbury, which is even more insolent and defy-
ing than any which have preceded it. The excite-

:nongst Protestants he terms a " po-
through the length and breadth of

the land".

a wide-spread hallucination"—which
" civilized Europe gazes on with astonishment and
disgust," and to put an end to which the meek
prelate has urged on the publication of the pastoral.
The present step of the Papacy, and the increase of
bishoprics, he justly reminds us "any reflecting
mind might have foreseen" as the result of the
Emancipation Bill ; and he proceeds to contend
that the cry had been raised among their flocks and
others.—" Give us foryour bishops Englishmen hay-
in.g freedom of action, ( ) such as in other countries
bishops possess, and these will affordusgreater secu-
rity against Papal aggression." The demand for such
security fvom such a quarter we should certainly not
have anticipated. He reminds us that the Apostles
themselves appointed bishops in Antioch and Rome,
in Ephesus, Tyre, and Jerusalem, without consult-
ing a Caligula, a Claudius, or a Cxsar ; and claims
for the successor of St. Peter, "the sole remaining
representative by unbroken descent of any apos-
tolic see," a similar unchallenged power in modern
and Christian kingdoms. The whole tenor of the
pastoral is in the same half apologetic and half in-
sulting style, is full of historical inaccuracies, and
treats the title of her Majesty the Queen of these
realms to supremacy in any spiritual matter, in or out
of her own empire, as a usurpation, and of no
avail.

. And now, it will be asked, what is to be the atti-
tude of Protestant Churchmen, and what the issue
of the present excited state of the public mind ?
We answer, emphatically and briefly, that this in-
solent power must be curbed. The prerogative of
the Crown must be preserved : the rights of her
Majesty as the acknowledged head of the National
Church must be maintained : and if the arm of the
law has unfortunately been weakened of late years
by unwise concessions made to the clamours of
Rome, a united people must demand, and firmly
and decidedly insist, that it be rendered once more
strong enough to put down every assailant from
without, and to discourage the treason and back-
sliding within the pale of the Church itself, which
have so powerfully conduced to bring about the
present perilous crisis.

Our contemporary, the Manchester Guardian,
would have saved the feelings of his fellow towns-
men had he corrected, in more courteous terms, an
error in our last. By our printer, or possibly by an
error of our own, we were made to say that Man-
chester ha

d only applied for a space of 3,500 feet,
at the great exhibition. The Guardian kindly ad-
mits, whilst by the context he suggests the con-
trary, that the error was not intentional; and, from
our not having given any comparison of the space
required by Manchester with that required by other
large towns, any impartial reader would at once
infer that the dropping of a cypher vas a mere
mistake. We now furnish our contemporary with
the authority for our remarks, and the verbatim
passage of a report to the City of London C-mmit-
tee, from which they were taken :

" Under the first section of Raw Materials and Pro-
duce' spaces of 1,518 feet on the floor, 3,277 feet on the
counters, and 759 feet on the wall had been demanded.
Under the second section, ' Machinery,' 37.779 feet on
the floor, 3,634 i on the counters, and 1,779 feet on the
wall. Under the third section, Manufactures,' a de-
mand had been made for 9,236 feet on the floor, 11,952

feet at the counters, and 32,951 feet
the fourth section ' The Fine Arts,

' the space required

41 to contrast this with th

returns from ;Winches-

for about 35,000 feet hao