Mobile register and journal., 1845-03-04
LIVERPOOL, FEB, 1.

LIVERPOOL, FEB.4.
 The Repeal question in Ireland has been thrown into the shade by aa agitation of very different and unexpected character. The Requests Act has crea- ted difference of opinion not only among the Cath oc laty but among the higher orders of the clergy. The excitement occasoned by this measure had in no degree subsidized, when il was rumored that the Government had opened negotiation with the Pope for the purpose of connecting the Irish Catholic Church with the StaIe, either by making provis ion for the clergy. or by obtaining oonoordat giving the Crown the nomination of the prcates. This rll- mor apparently took all parties by surprise; but be- fore there had been much time for the expression of public opinlon on the subject, Archbishop Crolly. the Catholic Primate of Ireland, published letter addressed to him by the Propaganda, at the com mand of the Pope, charging him 10 admonish all ec- clesastics, and especially those of episcopal rank, to abstain from taking any part in political meetings dinners, and "studiously to avoid what may even lightly excite itate the flock committed them. Mir. O'Connell at once pronounced this letter to be not a "canonica documenl," and the Primate con- sequently thought it necessary 10 publish letter MT. OConnell, expressing his "surprise and sorrow that he should have ventured" to make such an as- serton, and stating that the document had been sub mitted to all the preIates of his Church, who had agreed 10 abide by its inunctions. The Archbishop in postscript referred the concordat as an s'ins
 dIous scheme" which he will ion the prelacy of Ire- land in opposing, dest uctive of the independence and purity of their religion. The facts will suffice to show that the rumored negotia iations with the Pope had obtained very general credit. The letter of Archbishop Crolv however, has had the effect ofpro ducing official communication from the Lord Lieu tenant, which sets the whole question at rest. Lord Heysbury addressed Il letter to Archbishop Murray. informing him 'that he has been instructed to gis to him and to Arshblshop Croly the strongeslas onn the part of the Governments that there has existed the slightest intention of entering into anylnegotaton with the Pspal See upon the subject of concordat." In the meantime the letter receiv- cd by the Primate from the Propaganda is so obvi- ousy directed against the Repeal Agitation, that has reused general spirit of hostility to the Pope amoug all classes of Repeaers. Mir. O'Connell has apologssd to Archbishop Crolly for stating that the receipt of the Propaganda was not canoncal docu- ment. In letter which he has addressed to that Prelate he retracts " at once and unequivocally." any assertion of his that may apply to the document as being uncanonica, and adds, that if his private opinion otherwise, he woald st once bow to the authority with which the document is now clothed. At the Repeal Association, Mir. O'Connell denied that ihs rescript had anything to do with the Repeal agitation. He declared that it's object was not 10 interfere with lhe aily or wiih Repeal, but was simply intended to keep up and promote the spirit of benevoence and charity. He admitted, howev- er with expressions of regret, that there some truth in tfs statement that the discussion produced by the Requests Act had tended to damp the agta. lion for Repeal. He said that though he concordat was denied, something more injurious was mediia- ted, and he proposed that Lord French and his son Mr. John O'CpnDell, should be sent 10 Rome del. egates from the Association, n order to lay their case before the Pope, and mplors his Holiness not to thwart them in their exertioRs to obtain restp ratisu of lhsir domestic legislature. No protestant speakers in the days of nNo Popery agitation could have surpassed tho leading Cabollc members of the Association in the vehemence of their Proteststons against the Popes right to interfere in the temporal affairs of the people of Ireland.