New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-17
IRELAND.
orgnpizatIon-De-orgnnIzRtiOn-DlsOrsan-
izafion.

the English ministry insisted upon de-organizins
the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Ireland, at the
peril Of dis organising society there; and To- they
are themselves disorganized. / do not say the
PapAl aggression Bill has dissolved them ior'
after what Queen, country, and Parliament "S'7
said, suppose any administration nluSs nN'0
=" sonae such Bill bat they might nave let "''1Hu
alone. Now that they are out-ho N"s'9' ""O
come in, Unbelievable mischief Is "Iousu
while not alone TO Ireland, to Ireland enemy ana
TINS il is When the Premier announced tne
poDo,s roes.ure as an insulting aggression upon
hao-een,s supremacy and the peoples lioer-
,;es al England set 70 agitating and while the
officers Of the crown were looking up the old
nepal laws and framing new one, the English
peope kept il up from Press, Pulpit add platform,
for four mortal months, at high pressure, without
Interruption. Then all was quiet in Ireland; the
rumor was that as the aggressive, Hierarchical
ORGANIZATION regarded England alone, TO England
alone the repressiye penal statute should be e1'
tended.
Rpt in an evil hour it was resolved TO apply its
rrovisiops 10 Irelend-to effect the subyersion
there of an already existing Hiersrcny-recog-
nized BY stetutes and successive Governments
and this is not unnaturaiy designated the Wing
aggression on the Roman Catholic Church Of Ire
land And there is an agitation going on quite
as varied. and vigorous and universal ia Ireland
against the English aggression upon " Catholic
Ireland 60 there was in England against the
Italian aggression on Protestant England.
Tine will tell whether in this conflict be-
tween the people Of Ireland and the Govern
ment Of England, the victory shall Tor once, be
On the side Of the latter whether, as IN the case
of Emancipation, even without the aid Of
O'CoDneD, the Irish people shall convince the
English Government that "the better part OF
vaour is discretion" Bat, however the matter
may end, incalcuable mischief will be done "a
sad check given to incipient harmony, and mourn
full obstruction thrown In the way OF commencing
improvement. Instead of combined efforts for
national advancement, the Governm entare calling
forth discussions on religious diyersites and
when it should be the long and short horns, aud
routine crops, and flax culture and manufactures
for the million and peat charcoal to turn the boys
to account we are IN danger OF being drilled into
canon law, and decretals, the right and the wrong
ofGuelphic and Ghibene quarrels how Gallican
liberties may be substituted for late ultramontane
doings in Ireland and the best method of laying
tariff on Bulls from Rome.
THE FORM THE AGITATION IS ASSUMING.
do not say there would have been no agita-
ton in Ireland had the bill prohibiting, under
penalty the taking Of any ecclesiastical title from
any place in Engand-making all acts done I'M
der such title, null and Woodland all charitable
requests left to persons under such titles, or in
trust for ecclesiastical purposes, forfeited to the
Crown, been confined to England. For Arch
bishop Muuay-no ultra montanist but one of
those caieq oy -. marty Government Bish.
ops'-at the very first, with his Clergy congrat.
ulated Cardinal Wiseman and the English HER
nTChy, and protested against any interference on
the part of Government with an arrangement
purely ecclesiastical. But the agitation would
have been mild compared with that which has
been evoked by what is regarded as an uncalled
for onslaught upon the liberties and privileges of
the Roman Catholics of Ireland.
Archbishop Murray has issued a Pastoral in
which he designates the contemplated Bill per
seCuli0n other Bishops IN their dioeeses, are
cOnvenng meetings of their clergy to take mea
sures for preventing the Bin from becoming law
all the Bishops have taken counsel ON the subject
to their proceedings | shall revert by and by
but moreover every city aud town, every dis
trict and parish have met, or will meet; and while
the history of the past will be given, the results
of the present Bill will be pointed out ia such
way as 10 create one widespread feeling OF burn
ing indign6tion. Heretofore, churches reared by
ancestors have been taken from them, lands be
Que athed by pous forefathers torn from their de.
scendants, converts aud mOnasteries endowedby
the devoted torn from their righttul possessors,-
every indignity and degradation heaped on them,
CLERGY and lsity. And now, when better spirit
had prevailed ia legislatures aud governments,-
ifthey had not their own restored, they were at
least free but loi it is to be enacted that fine
and imprisonment are to be the consequence OF
continuing to give 10 their prelates the titles they
had always given them,--nnd which, as DR.. Muir
raw saws, "are registered in Heaven" they are
not 10 be allowed 10 consgn their property 70 the
guardianship of their Bishops, by the titles they
had always given them, under pain OF forfeiture
the SAID guardianship being one of the especial
and gacted episcopal functions,-and, moreover
unless they consent thus to stgmatlZe and de-
grade their pastors, they are threatened win de-
privation Of intercourse with their Head at tome
which would be virtual prescription OF the
Episcopate altogether.
Ii is hardly necessary to point out the effect
which addresses on such topics, delivered as Irish
priests can and will deliver them, to some ten
thousand meetings on the same day. after mass,
when the mind is peculiarly susceptible to med
itated insult and wrong on religion or the clergy
who administer its rites, must have upon the no
man Catholic people ofthis country.
THE TENANT LEAGUE.
You are net to suppose that, though the Gov
eminent and Parliament have postponed all egis-
isation for the material interests Of the country
to this ecclesiastical legislation, this relic OF Me-
dieval parliamentary procedure, that others have
become equally etherialized The Tenant move
ment sleeps not. The Council of the League or
ganises meetings are held, and speeches deliver
ed in one locality and read every where; and so
the spirit lives Nor has discord entered to wea'
ken their energies The Rev. julius McCullOch
OF Newtonaros. Presbyterian minister attended
the other day the meeting of the county and city
OF Limerick and Dr. Coulter another Presbyter.
ian, wrote in the following strain, unable person.
ally to attend:
.The North owes the South debt Of gratitude
for the abolition or rather mitigation Of the afro
cious. bloody, old 1.-THE system; for you have
only scotched the snake not killed it. We cannot
repay you 30 well as by uniting with you, on
common ground, in order 20 carry Tenant right
and Tenant justice COR all ireland. At the siSbs
of this portentous league desPotism trembies
through all her thousand departments Of corrup-
tion and oppression. If the Irish-North and