New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-17
IRELAND.
The Bill. The Bill The Bit
DUBLIN, Friday, March

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tbrougbits preliminary stsge-the second reading
Such is Legislation in the hands oil l'og ''eu'
Wing Legisators,-in the middle OF the nlne'
teenth century-atter tie chaos produced oy years
offamine, followed by disease, with lands chang
;ue hands BY sales in the Encountered Estates
Court-leavipg whole districts desert from the
euieration of those who get away, and the
poorhouse cramned with the reSt-except such
as death had mercy on, and consigned TO the
crave. For nobody will nor farm them, TIL the
terms are settled by legislation on Tenant right
Mrs. Gore in her spicy Novel Self introduces
en- Irish Absentee, Lord Lynchmore, whose uni
form ouestion was" All very well bat / want
70 know what they mean to do for Ireland -
when the talk was about Government or Far'
/ lament; and all the while be was dong nothing
for Ireland himself or for the estate whose reye-
| nue. he was souandenng IN Lendon IN WINTER
and 10 Italy, Paris or Baden 10 summer rack
renting the poor, aud letting al else rlot 10 ruiz
| And there was time when His LordEhlp was
! the type OF large class; who, themselves the
| greatest curse of Ireland-ss well az the great
| obstructioD TO leeislstiOn-were pretending 20
| look for everything from legislation, and were
copStantly ascribDg all the lawless ~retchedness
of Ireland to the want of It. The DSu1ie mum
0d HO7iHfm-or, if you like it better,-the fable
of Hercules and the Wagner, Yves then fairly
Applicable Help Yourself fret and then call for
legislation bat nobody now denies-the ministry
are loudest in asserting-tbat there ls much which
legislation must DO, in order 20 enable Ireland to
help herself ana still, II IS the bll and nothing
but the Bill.
WHAT THE ELL HAS DONE.
In the form in which the b i'll for depressing
Papal aggression" has now struggled through a
second reading, it prohibits Roman Catholic Bish'
ops from taking territorial titles that u.s. titles
from any city or place in Great Brtain-and the
effect according to the Enesh crown lawyers
will be TO prevent the holding OF Synodf, and the
introduction Of the Canon Law. The Premier
edde, that II this is not enough 90 make the blsn'
ops cease from using their ecclesiastical poEers,
for thWarting or nullly ing the measures Of GOV
erpment or Parliament for the social and ed1ca.
tonal interests OF the people,-as in the case OF
the Synod of Thures and the Queens Colleges
then, further and Interior parliamentary pro-
ceediues shall be adopted. -
Now DO not pronounce upon the night OF the
Roman stbolic Church in England 10 have her
Bishops and SynOds,-iike any other Church that
delights in Bishops and Syuods,-seeing that this
ia the mstter sub judlce nor the right OF her
Synods,-hke sny other Church that delights 10
Synods,-tO sit in judgment upon any plan OF
education which Government or Parliament may
decree, and pronounce upon Us merits, and recon-
mend or denounce it though l have q strong
duty &c well-of every man, and OF every body
Of Christians in the community by IT'S accredited
organs end, moreover, that there Ia quite as
much danger in the uncontrolled legislation OF
Government and ParlismeDts on social aud edu-
catiOnel eubiects as in ecclesiastical interference
with their enRctments.; but | shall tell through
your columns, the people Of America, what this
Bill-thst lie TO prohibit the Roman Catholic
Church from having and doing, what all other
Churches claim, and are allowed 10 have and to
dO-so far as it has gone, has effected Tor, as to
the ulreror and final results, /, Of least, 90 not
conjecture them.
EFFECTs on TIE PEOPLE AT LARGE.
1t has made them a nation Of religions dis2u
tants. 90 where you will, talk with whom you
please introduce any topic you fancy,-Financa.
reform in England. Tenant right ia ireland -
diminished taxation, freeing paper OF duty, and
newspapers Of stamps-sI very we'll but eiter
word or two, YOU are sure - he accosted Wltn
w ell now bat what's to be the end OF thls
Aeeret,ion Bill r. Like the para ytic VINO lived
upon news mud, when be could come az tne
t;dircs of whet was going on no other way, be-
came all st once anxious for a visit from the cer-
px-rsu and who having with great ditncu!Iy
Gtteued 70 the prayer, before ne was oil his koees
shouted A beautiful prayer. upon my word
Pray. Sir, lave you seen the Mug epeech -
BEGIN where YOU like, you discover thar the
Aggression Bill and what to be its issues FIJI
every crevice Of every body 8 mind VIII 1t pass
the Lords Will Stanley Hing 1t out, that ne
may Get q Dissolution Ia the Autumn, and come
/ in with q stronger aud more stringent one Or
/ Sir James Graham and Tractarlan Ministry
And then,-as the discussl)ns II Parhamen',
following u those II at preceded in the Press aud
from the pulpit and platform, introduce the whole
/ ,uhect Of RomAusm -clsims OF the Pope aud
/ Clergy converts aud uunneries, exclusive saliva
ton, treatment OF heretcs &c, &c-sermons,
conversations, reading all bear upon controversial
topics and John Foxes mart9roogy, and Gil
abndgements, limitations, extracts, aud epltomes
+ Of that much famed work and kndfed onss are
. in bieb reauistion. Even Puseyism and Fracta
riansm are at discount; and the controversy
with Rome has taken the place OF Faith, Hope,
and Charity in happier times.
/ FFFECTs ON THE IRISH HIERARCHY AND PRIEST
HOOD.
It has completely discovered oil from tue Gov
ernmcut and thrown immense difficulties in the
way Of the more liberal section of them in their
efforts to promote united educstionin school and
college, as well as to promote cooperation with
Professionals in charitable institutions and social
and economical reforms For, mind you, the
Government has recognized the territorial ii.
ties in Ireland. Lord Clarendon, in his letter
TO Bishop Nicholson ,of Corfu on the subject OF
the Popes sanction 10 the Colleges, assured tue
Pope through him, that the ArchblshoPs OF " the
Provinces and the Bishops of the dlOceses In
which the Colleges are situated, would be ap.
pointed Visitors. And 10 enact by act OF
Parliament, that the Irish Bishops shall not take
the titles by which they have ever been desis'
nsted,-with more than the c0nnivance Of the
Government since ls29,-is considered by ali the
Bishops and clergy, and all the people whom they
influence az en- insult ss gratuitous as it is de-
grading.
Now the Ultrsmontane portion of the car.
/ gy-besded by Primate Cullen and Archbishop
MacHale-msde no secret, all along, of their de-
sign in establishing, uBder the sanction OF the
Pope Catholic UDiversity,-which the Pope
sanctioned because it was suggested by them
frst,-tbst it was to prevent the Queens Col