The southern press., 1851-03-29
Al.r,ninx State of ireland.


gal through life. we think he died poor, or at
al! events not rich.-New York Tribune
Alarming State OF ireland.
The present aspect and positive condition
of Ireland threaten the realization OF the worst
fears Of the friends Of peace, law, and order.
The people, the priests,and the prelates OF
the Roman Catholic religion, have united, and
are determined to resist as one man, and, II me-
cessary, to the very death, Lord John Russel's
antiPapL bill Formerly the Roman Catholic
priesthood and prelacy deemed it their duty to
calm public ferment, and to exhort their tiocks
to obey the law and its administrators Butnow
they advocate an opposite principle, preach an
opposite doctrine, and call upon their people to
ord their loins, buckle on their armor, aud pre-
pare for the battle field, there to fight for what
they term t" their God, their affairs, and their
homes Even Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic
Archbishop Of Dublin, whose hitherto peaceful,
retiring, biameless life rendered him an object
ofprofound respect amongst all parties and sects,
has Joined in this awful appeal to the passions
and prejudices of the Irish people, who are ever
Jealous of, and most sensitive to, the slightest
interference, be it imaginary or real, with their
religion, its ceremonies, or its ministers. In his
pastoral, DR.. Murry, speaking OF the anti-Papal
act says
.It is subyersve Of our religious discipline,
hostile to the forrls of our religious worship,
and fraught with mischief to the interests Of
the poor"
Dir. McHale improves upon the above, and
thus tauntingly addresses the premler:-
GAS for the Catholic hierarchy and the titles
Of its bishops, your lordship need not be soli-
ctous on that point, for wit lout any encroach-
ment on the royal prerogatlve, or want OF fealty
to the throne, the Catholic bishops enjoyed the
titles of their sees long before their Protestant
competitors or their titled patrons were heard Of
in history, and they will continue TO enjoy them
long after such competitors and their patrons
have passed away"
The Rev Dr.. Cooper, secretary of the Arch
bishop Murray, boastcd at public meeting
that 5000 priests and % bishops would lead the
opposition to the Premier's measures.
But the Rev. Dr. Cahl, one Of the most elo-
quent and popular preachers of the day, throws
all Others in the shade, and openly declares war;
calling upon the people t. die sooner than
allow their religion or their prelates to be inter-
fered with
Lord Prinate Cullen and the other bishops,
have issued equally infiammatory addresses. in
which they urge their appointments by divine
right, and from heaven, and the consequent duty
of the people to uphold them, their rank, their
titles, and their honor, uninjured, unimpared.
Such appeals, and such addresses, to people
naturally excitable and mercurial-who are so
attached to their religion, and who are so worked
upon by its imposing rites and ceremonies, have
an awful, and, it may be said, a tasmanic effect.
Hence the wild ebullitions of frantic JOY that
were displayed throughout the country upon the
announcement of the downfall of the Russelc cabi-
net, may be traced to those madly exciting pas
torals In I'ralec the news was received with
savage ecstasy. Pes We're rung, hpnfres light
ed, tar barrels set in blaze, and Lord John
Russell's efigy was burned amidst yells of exc
Grafton and gadness. La Kilkenny, Killarney,
Limerick, and other districts, similar scenes were
enacted, and the most disgracefu outrages were
perpetrated upon the persons and properties of
those suspected of being favorable to the pro-
posed enactment against papal aggression. In
some localities the priests and the people have
vowed not to take an exciseable article, If the
Premier's bill becomes the law of the land, until
it be repealed. Even the bar is inoculated with
this papal mania. Ninety of its members, in
cluding two sergeants and sewn Queens counsel,
have signed petition against it. In approval
of these proceedings, tiIowhoe body of bishops,
headed by Primate Cullen, assembled in st.
street, Dublin, and having drawn up very
strongly worded petition to the Queen renewed
their protesta.ions against any government in
reference with their titles or power, and adopt
ed most energetic and powerful addresses to the
clergy and the people, enjoining the former to
arouse their focks to resist such an interference,
and exhorting the latter not to allow law to
exist that would enslave their priesthood, de-
grade their preates, pollute their affairs, and up
set their religion. And such they declare would
be the effects of Lord Russells bill. Abiding
to the meeting of the bishops and their resolu-
tons, the Freeman says
"Arduous struggles and protrscted conflict
may still intervene, before we can repel the pre-
sent assaults and confirm the religious liberties
won in 30. But this we know, that with peo-
pie, priests, and prelates, united as they now
will be in one compact mass, and the great ma
jority of our Irish Protestant brethren approv-
ing, and, when needed, aiding in our struggle,
there can be but one resul.---a crownng victory.
The formidable array that is taking shape in
Ireland, already beginsto be understood in Lon
dom"
II is said, and said authoritatively, that the
have not only the countenance, bu.
are also strongly encouraged by the castle. The
grounds for this opinion are very strong, and are
further strengthened by the language of the
Ereaing Posi-, the organ of the castle, which thus
stimulates the papal resistance.
"They should (says the Post) not only meet.
but they should also assemble, so to speak en-
permanence In short, since the established
church has declared war against the church OF
the people, it was the duty of. the latter to an
nounce the commencement of a practical resist
ance against the common enemy"
The Eoening Maa a high tory organ, ex
presses itself upon the subject with consid-
Grafton and moderation little to be expected from
such quarter. After some general remarks
upon the papal aggression and its ministerial an
tidote, the Nal thus proceeds:
"The fact is, Ireland has been so long the
victim Of neglect and illtrestment in various
ways, and, among Others in the extent to which
the doings of the Pope and his minions have
been encouraged, that n more determined and
consistent government than that now in office,
is required to introduce change in this respect
The highest social position has been accorded to
the ponish nrelatcs in this country hy the nov