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a superbly bound Roman missal in his hand_
Cardinal Wiseman on Wednesday commenced his du-
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&Inuit, CU IN ere uoialY assumca by Homan Catholics: and I ties in London, by per orining the eight-o'clock mass at
this, taken in connection with the apostacy in the bosom the Roman Catholic Cathedral, St. George's-in-the-
of our own church, had doubtless encouraged the Pope Fields, which it is said he will continue to do throughout
in his recent measures of aggression. (Hear. hear.) the week.
The rev. gentleman then alluded, at considerable length, Cardinal 'Wiseman is at present busily engaged in pen-
to the establishment of the Board of Education in Ire- ning a pamphlet, by which he confidently expects to
land, and the exclusion from the national schools there of justify the course which he and his brother bishops have
the Bible, in deference to the wishes and representations adopted ; and to show that the new titles were not as-
nith. Pnr,;.t.

Erie new endowment of mimed without - ..,..w.tedge of the Premier.
Maynooth, for which no application had been addressed A few days previous to the departure of the Cardinal for
to the government, nor one voice of gratitude raised. the Eternal City, the following announcement appeared
But whilst thus endowing and exaggerating the power of in the Court Circular:—" Bishop Wiseman bad an inter-
the Romhb Church on the one hand, the measures view with Lord John Russell yesterday." The Cardi-
adopted with reference to the Irish Church had been di- nal's friends aver that the pamphlet will place the Premier
rected to curtail and impair her influence on the other, in a very awkward position ; but by others it is very
He thanked God, hottever, he believed, that that Church much doubted that the noble lord has committed him-
was never in so healthy a condition as at the present self rashly, at least on paper.
moment. (Cheers.) The Bible having been excluded Dr. Murray, who calls himself an archbishop, has sum-
from the national schools of Ireland, that concession was moned the Romish clergy of Dublin to meet him "for the
next made the ground of a further exorbitant and urgent purpose of presenting an address of congratulation, through
demand. The Queen's Colleges, which had been founded his eminence Cardinal Wiseman, to the Catholic clergy of
upon the principle before approved min the schools, were England, and of expressing their gratitude to our most
now dennlin,aa ..

NOUlebb, occause a shred of Pro- holy father the Pope, for the timely restoration of the
testantiseo was allowed in them; because, for example, a ancient hierarchy of the English Catholic Church." Such
Protestant surgeon might deliver lectures to the students is the arrogant and insulting language which these usurpers
Protestant lawyer deliver a lecture upon use towards the real Catholics of this country.
the whole institution was not Lord Shrewsbury is now on his way to Rome, not, as
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deliberately, and intelligently. It
_ the ebullition of a moment. There
must be no evaporation of honest English Protestant
feeling.--(Loud cheers.) More than this was required.
The calculations of our opponents were, that the present
was too great to last. And if they were right,
id allow the tide to flow over, then we should have
not only the muniments of our religion, but
of our strength. Of all the enemies by
-dom and happiness of

ratner ior oaring set us an at loggerheads to an extent
of mutual animosity only equalled when Pius the Fifth
issued his bull of excommunication against Queen Eliza-
beth.

In the Romish " Bishop of Northampton's" Pastoral
Letter, just published, occurs the following passage :
" The Holy See, so far from wishing to outrage the feel-
ings of the country, has studiously avoided any infraction
of the laws, has merged a portion of its own direct power,
by our new appointments, and has taken pains to ascer-
tain that those appointments would give no umbrage to
the British Government," In corroboration of this state-
ment, we (Guardian) have it on good authority that, pre-
vious to leaving England for Rome, Dr. Wiseman called
his clergy together, and informed them that the whole
plan of the new hierarchy had been laid before Lord John
Russell, who distinctly stated that there would be no ob-
jection to its being carried out.

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side, and to throw her weight into such scale as
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power and the influence of E
I could look on and say—

We copy the following extract from a report of a
dinner given to the Popish Bishop of Clogher and his
clergy at Fermanagh, on Wednesday week, after the
consecration of the Catholic cemetery, from the Ferma-
nagh Mail. The audacious conduct in putting the Pope
before the Queer► needs no comment :

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Creden. mer-
Most Rev. Dr.
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bating been said by the Rev. Dr. Boylan, and

) enjoyed. It was a principle of our'constitution that every
man in this realm is free to think what he pleases, and
not only that, but he was free, in a legitmate way, to
bring others over to the same opinion ; there was no let
or hindrance. But that was not the object now :it was
a claim put forward by the Pope, a false and blasphemous
assumption that he was the vice-regent of the Lord Jesus
Christ on earth, and that in virtue of that all the baptised
inhabitants of the world belong to his jurisdiction.—
(Hear' hear, hear, and applause.) It was not, then, re-
quired on behalf of the liberties of the Roman Catholics,
and it seriously menaces the liberties of the Protestant
inhabitants of the kingdom. (Loud applause.) He, for
his part, could not look upon that act of the Bishop of
Rome as an isolated action; he could not but couple it
with the great political events of the present time. It
was the opinion of many that the present political move-
ments in Europe were really urged by irreligious impulses
behind the scenes, and at this present time there exists a
conspiracy (at the foundation of which of course are the
Jesuits)—(hear)—to overthrow freedom in religion and in
politics—to put down Protestantism and civil and religious
liberty by force of arms. It was somewhat remarkable
that, at a crisis like this, the Bishop of Rome should ex-
ercise an authority and put forth assumptions such as
he had not done for centuries, in fact, that he should
make an aggression upon the soil of a Christian country
which lie would not have done antecedent to the Refor-
mation. What was the source of this sudden impulse?—
whence did he receive his courage ?—how was it that a
man, tottering upon his own throne, with no hold upon
the affections of his own subjects, who could not really
be called either Bishop or King of Rome itself ?—how
was it that he dares to make this intrusion upon British
soil ? (Loud and continued applause.) It was clear that
his dependence was upon the military power of Europe,
and it was clear that the absolutist rulers of Europe felt
that their interests were identified with superstition
throughout the world. (Applause.) It was clear that
liberty and Protestantism go hand and hand together. It
was equally clear that Popery and true liberty were in-
compatible. Show him the country where there existed
freedom of thought in political and religious matters—
where men may think what they please without let or
hindrance, or fear of persecution ; show him the country
where the true liberty of the subject was not inconsistent
with the true prerogative of the sovereign—where the
throne was set up in the affections of the people, and that
sovereign exercised legitimate sway without interfering
with the rights of the subject; show him such a land,
and he would show them a Protestant country. (Ap-
plause.) Show him, on the other hand, a land where the
subjects were the slaves of a despot ruler, or if they madly
grasp at liberty have not the power to make use of it, but
totter on from one revolution to another; show him a
country in which the frame of society was shaking to its
foundation, possessed of no stability, without the power
of enjoying rational and enlightened liberty—a country
where they must have either of two extremes; wild, un-
social, revolutionary principles, or base, vile, degrading
principles of despotism—show him such a land, and he
would show them a Popish country. (Vehement applause.)
THE POPE BUILYT IN EFFIGY.—The Pope was burnt
in effigy on Thursday, on Peckham-common. At six
o'clock a mock procession was formed. A van drawn by
four horses drew up fronting a house on the green, from
which emerged some dozen men, armed with various
weapons, each leading a man attired in the surplice of a
Romish clergyman, the latter being tumbled into the
vehicle amidst the shouts of several thousand persons
congregated. The next brought out were two athletic
fellows, one attired as a cardinal, and the other as his
chaplain. A few yards in advance of the van stood a her-
culean fellow, bearing a burlesque effigy of the Pope,
mounted on a long pole, and having in his hand what pun.
ported to be the late memorable bull. In advance again
were about fifty fellows bearing lighted torches, and on
each side of the cardinal's carriage was a van containing
fiend-like creatures, who kept up a continual display of
theatrical fire, blue predominating, and so contrived that
its flashes cast a sickly hue over the features of the un
happy prelate and his fellow prisoners. The card

_.nal's
equipage was flanked by some forty torch bearers, the
faces of the latter horribly begrimed with varied coloured
Paint. The'procession proceeded towards Camberwell, by
the Peckham-rye road, followed by thousands of persons.
It was hailed in its progress through the various streets
with the loudest acclamations, amidst cries of " No
Popery," " Hurrah for the Queen," " No Foreign Priest-
hood." After about two hours' perambulation, the pro-
cession returned to Peckham, and thence to Peckham-
common, where the waggons were dragged into the vicinity
of an immense pile of faggots, tar barrels, and other com-
bustibles. At this time there could not have been fewer
than between 10,000 and 12,400 persons, and the unani-
mous cry was " Down with the Pope." Fire was applied
to the pile, and in a few moments the whole mass was in

motley crew who, driven from all other parts of Europe,
seemed to have fixed themselves as a body of locusts upon
the principalities of Rome. He trusted that the Romans
would profit by the experience they had gone through,
at the hands of this band of assassins, and they would
feel such gratification as they ought at the return of the
Pope to those-dominions over which he had so long ruled
with paternal affect ion. (Applause.)
" The Chairman, in proposing thenext toast, said, having
given expression to their feeling of devotion to the
head of their religion as Catholics, they might now gratify
their feelings of loyalty by expressing their devotedness
to the Queen who ruled over them, and let no man sup-
pose that because they loved their God more they loved
their Queen less. (Applause.)
" The Chairman next proposed the health of his Royal
Highness Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal
Family, and afterwards, in complimentary terms, pro-
posed the health of Bishop Briggs, whom he congratu-
lated on the proceedings of the day.".

a blaze. A simultaneous cry having been raised for the
Pope and his bull, the representative of Rome was thrust
in amidst the shouts of the mob. It was not till after
some three hours that the proceedings terminated, and
the mob slowly dispersed.

ADDRESS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICT OF ENGLAND TO

Cardinal Wiseman's arrival on Tuesday was kept so pro-
found a secret and so little anticipated, that his house was
not in a fit state for his reception, the workmen being
still on the premises. He will reside for the present at St.
George's Cathedral. His return was hastened by pressing
letters from the leading Roman Catholics in England. It
is said he was extremely surprised at Lord John Russell's
letter, having a few days prior to its appearance addressed
a private letter from Vienna to Lord John, and having
received no intimation of his lordship's intended manifesto.
On Tuesday, at eleven o'clock, a priVate carriage drawn
by a pair of grays, was driven to the entrance of the cler-
gyman's residence attached to St. George's Chapel,from
which the Cardinal alighted, attended by his chaplain,
who carried a small leather portmanteau and a large
sachet of letters. His eminence, who appeared 41 excel-
,t health, was er- !oak, and had