New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-02
Dienitaries OF the Church. AMI Aristoeratie
Titles.

TO tht Ed'fc- o. TIE T--s.s>
For some time past ARCHBISHOP HuGHEs's
| name has been presented IN public by certain
parties with the very obviously decorative pre-
| hx or title of HIS GRACE" the same parties
used. previous to HI. elevation TO the Archlspls-
cOpa dignity, 70 introduce HIM IN their discussions
s. HIS LORD,HIP." All this must have been
ANNOYING 70 the preate, who was Is passive OBJ
lect, and who As keeny any man must have
appreciated is broad a0suriity Those phrases
Of HIS Graz" ard HI L9-ishp." which be-
long only TO an arlstoCra'Ic system Of society.
are a. foreign TO our modes o. speech IN this
country. whether IN Or out 81 the church. as IA
titles which they indicate are - our Republican
political constitutions They 90 nOi belong, IN
the remOtest degree TO the etiquette % ecc.eSl
astical office. They are nothing more or less
than the forms OF adSress prescribed by British
law Tor certain orders of the British NOBILITY IN
Eng and Duke IS STYLED Ills (ITIce. Is being
MS style by law, while 4 Marquis or Eirl-a no
bic OF lesser ranh-enJoys by the law OF the land
the title OF " HIS L9rdsbiD anu Is IN Grel,
Britain, there Is union OF Church AMI State,
ana ArchOlShOps and Bishops possess IN that
country political power, ana hold seats and legs
late IN the House Of Lords the political titles
referred 10 are conferred upon them. ArchhlshOpS
are by law IN England ranked " tin Dukes, and are
OF " HIS Grace while Bishops take their rank
with the Earls and other lesser mobiles and are
addressed respectively with the barOnlal eplthei
Of " His LordShip The Catholics of those
countries with what | must call lack o. tlg-
nlty, strive to get up IN their church sort o.
mock imitation OF this aristOcratlc style, and call
their ArchblshopS and Bishops. what the law and
their rel gion do not call them. " HIS Grace and
" His LordShip" 7h,y have. however. the eX-
cuse that they live IN the atmosphere Of royalty
butn this country TO approach an American Arch
bishop or Bishop with such an exotic appellatlve
Is more than ridiculous. II has accordingly been
done heretofore by only two descriptions Of per
sons one being weak or SycOphantIc friends.
ignorant as to suppose that they mlnlSiered 20
the taste OF the persons addressed by such an oft
landish adulatOry style. and the other being bitter
enemies. like the Herqld OF this city. who having
caught up the phrase rom the former class. pro-
duced and reproduced ~ An obvious dersloa, with
the hope OF rendering the person 20 whom II MS
aDpled odlOus and ridiculous before a republican
community 80 long As this hallnage Was con
fined 10 the classes OF persons referred 10 n was
hardly worth a remark. Bnt 1t has lately ap-
pcared u what might seem - ordinary
observes q Sem-olicial form. ana hence tins no
tee Of Il pom the occasion OF the recent pub
lie dinner IN this City 10 Archbishop Hughes.
the letter of invitation 10 nm from Nj Charles
OConor and the gentlemen OF the Committee.
Wa, dls.igurcd With this style Of address and 4,
the dinner the worthy Chairman m the Arch
bishops presence. while announcing the toast %
the evening. dubbed him anew As " HIS trace.
The official account also of the dinner published
IN the Ftccnans .journai," sets It forth IN en-
phatic capitals As the banquet to HIS GRACE.
The letter OF invitation from the Committee can
be fairly accounted for by supposng that i was
written by some not very bright Secretary, aud
signed by the gentlemen OF the Committee With
out taking any special note Gifts peculiar address
and for the Chairman. who Is a Spanish gentle
man. II may perhaps o. sand that he naturally
enough supposed he was only following the judi
cIous lead If the Committee Bat II was Il silly
mistake the whole OF IT. We have here neither
Dukes nor Earls. and whatever may be thought
of such indications as have commented upon,
and some others perhaps more reprehcn>lble
still. there Is certainly, neither among the great
body of the Catholic lalty, or the Catholic herar-
civ OF America, any disposition TO ally Itself with
the political order or forms. or the VAIN prde
and arrogance of European MonarchleS
CATHOLIC.