The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

CARDINAL WISEMAN'S VINDICATION.

Dr. Wiseman has just published a pamthlet in reference
to the late papal aggression. We subjoin the most mate-
rial parts, our limits not permitting us to give it at length.
in the introduction to the pamphlet Dr. Wiseman en-
deavours to estabish the following points :
First,--That this is no wanton, sudden act; that it is
not a measure of grasping, aggressive character, but one
a .

gradually and undisguisedly matured--one based upon the
necessities of the Catholic body, its internal regimen, and
its healthy organisation. The necessity for having a
code produced the necessity for the only government
which could adminbter. it.

Secondly,—That the blame (if any) and the responsi-
bility of the measures rest with the writer and his col-
leagues, and not with his Holiness—the best, and here
the most calumniated of men * * *

TIME WILL DISPERSE THE MIST‘i AND SHOW THE TRANS-
And yet, for Englishmen,

ACTION IN ITS TC.IIC LIGHT
it ought to have been Buhl

within the law."

AN APPEAL, &c.
:rhaps unparalleled in our times, has

An agitation, p

this island. Its violence has bee-a that of a whirlwind,
during which it would have been almost folly to claim a

hearing.
A few years ago an excitement somewhat similar was
caused by the proposed augmentation of the grant to May-

nnoth College

SECTION I.—The Royal Supremacy and Bishops
named by the Crown.—Down to the year 1829, Catholics
were excluded from both Houses of Parliament, and from
many other offices and dignities. Or it may be more
correct to say they were only enabled to attain these dis-
tinctions by taking an oath, entitled the Oath of Supre.
There was also a declaration required against seve-

, , ..... .......... .....,
acknowledged the Sovereign's supremacy, would easily
have denied these doctrines, and so have taken the entire
oath.
What was meant by the King's so
in him was vested the headship of t

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British _Empire; so that he had supreme power in "eccle-
siastical and spiritual matters," as well as in " civil and
temporal ;" and every one was held to be as subject to
the one as to the other. The acknowledgment of, and
subjection to, this spiritual supremacy was incompatible
with the doctrine and belief of Catholics all over the
world.

The Royal supremacy is no more admitted by the
Scotch Kirk, by Baptists, Methodists, Quakers, Inde-
pendents. Presbyterians, Unitarians, and other dissen-
ters, than by the Catholics.

When, theretore, the sovereign appoints a new bishop
to a see, the Catholic, and I suppose the Dissenter, di-
vides the act between two 0:- As t4n-

stinct powers

,
and as dispenser of dignities, the King or Qneen bestow s
on the person elected dignity, rank, and wealth he is
made a Lord of Parliament, receives a designation
and title, becomes seized of certain properties which en-
title him to fines, rents, and fees.

But further, in virtue of the spiritual supremacy, the
same Sovereign confers on that person spiritual and eccle-
siastical jurisdiction ; and this, in fact, is acknowledged
only by those who are members of the Church of Eng-
land. Thus, if, in virtue of this commission, the bishop
publicly teaches or denies, as the case
trine of baptismal regeneration, a (

no more

his teaching than he does that of a dissenting minister.
When the Catho!ic denies
he believes another and a

Royal supremacy, it is be
true ecclesiastical and spir

Pope, or Bishop of Rome, over the entire Catholic
Church. With him, the two acts resolve themselves into