New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-16
IRELAND.
The Bill. The Bill: The Bill!


To ne Editor Of The TribaHE'
Two months Of the Session gone,-Easter re-
cess at hand-the Worlds Fair close oehiad
it,-ard stl It's the Bill,-And that, even, barely
through its preliminary stage-the second reading
Such is Legislation in the hands Of long tried,
Wing Legisators,-in the middle OF the nine
teenth century-alter the chaos produced by years
offRmine, follow by disease, with lands chang
:pg hands BY sales in the Encountered Estates
Court-leaying whole districts desert from the
emigration Of those who can get away and the
pcorhouse crammed with the rest-ezcept such
as death had mercy on, and consigned to the
grave For nobody will nor farm them, till the
terms are settled by legislation on Tenant right
Mrs. Gore in her spicy Novel Self introduces
an Irish Absentee Lord Lynchmore, whose uni
form question was" AL very well bat / want
TO know what they mean to do for Ireland -
when the talk was about Government, or Par.
lament and all the while he wat doing nothing
for Ireland himself for the estate whose reye-
nue. he was souandering in London in Winter,
and in Italy, Paris, or Baden in Sumner; rack
renting the poor, and letting all else riot in rain.
And there Wns & time when His Lordship was
! the type Of a large class; who, Themselves the
grestest curse of Ireland,-ss well as the great
obstruction to lsgislation,-were pretending to
look for everyt thing from legislation, and were
conttanty ascribng all the lawless wretchedness
of Ireland 20 the want Of 1t. The Grguneatum
0d hOmintm-Or, If you like it better-the fable
Of Hercules and the Wagner, was then fairly
applicable Help yourself first, and then call for
legislation bat nobody now denies-the ministry
are loudest in asserting-that there is mUcn which
legislation must 90, in order TO enable Ireland 70
help herself and srill it is the Bill, and nothing
but the Bill
WHAT THE ELL HAS DONE.
In the form in which the Bill for "rapressiDg
Papal aggression has now struggled through a
second reading it prohibits Roman Catholic Bish-
ops from taking territorial titles that is, titles
rom any city or place in Great Britain-snd the
effect, according TO the English crown lawyers
gill be to prevent the holding of 5ynods, AID the
introduction O. the. Canon Law. TIE Premier
adds that IL lfis s not enough 70 make the Blsh.
OBS cease from usisg their eccie5sstica' poTers
for thwarting or nullfy ing the measures OF GOV
eminent or Parliament for the social aud eddca
tionai interests OF the people,-as IN the case oil
the Synod Of Thurles and the Queens Colleges,
then, further and Interior parliamentary pro-
ceedilgs shall be adopted
Now, ! do NOT pronounce upon the night Of the
Roman Catholic Church N EDgiend so nave her
Bishops and Syn0Gs, -lihe any other Churod tnst
delights ia Bishogs and Synods,-seeing that tdis
is the matter sa5 ju3tce nor the right of her
Synods-lke any other Church that delights IN
S,uods,-to Sit la Judgment upon any plan OF
education which Government OF Parliament may
decree, and pronounce upon its merfs, ana recon-
mend or denOvnco though 1 have a strong
conviction that, not only is this the righs-and
duty as well-ot every man, and OF every body
Of Christians in the community by ts accredited
organs and moreover, that there IS quite as
much danger in the uncontrolled Legislation OF
Government and Paraments on social and edu
Il, ,erfaoI Ffarf@ ~araN
with their enactmerts but | shall tell through
YOUR columns, the people Of America, what this
Bll-thst is to prohibit the Roman Catholic
Church from having and doing, what al other
Churches claim, and are allowed 20 have ana 20
do-so far as it has gone, has effected Tor "a to
the Interior and final results |, at least do not
conjecture them.
EFFECTS on THE PEOPLE AT LARGE
It has made them e nation OF religions dspu
tarts. Go who're You will. talk with whom you
please, Introduce any topic you fency,-Financial
Reform in Englsnd, Tenan.rght in Ireland -
diminished taxation, freeing paper Of duty, and
newspapers Of stamps-a very we'll but after
word or two, YOU are sure to be accosted wi,h,
Well, now, but what's 70 be the end OF tnls
AegressiOn Bill Like the pEralytlc who HVed
mon news and, when he could come az the
tdiucs of W hat WAS going on 90 other way De-
came oil IT once anxious Tor yielt from the cier
eNmAn, ana who, having with great dHhcu' ~
listened 20 the prayer, before he was OIL his knees
shouted A beautiful prayer upon my word ;
PRAY. Sir have sou seen the King speech -
BEGIN where you like, you discover that the
AGGRESSION Bill and what are to be its issues fill
every crevice OF every b0dys mind. WIN 1t pass
the Lords VIII Stanley fling it out, that ne
may get a Dissolution in the Autumn, and como
/ in with a stronger and more stringent one Or
/ Sir James Graham and Tractarlsn Ministry
/ And then,--as the discussions in Parliament
following up those at preceded in the Press, aud
from the pulpit snd platform, introduce the whole
aubiect of KOmsnsm,-clams Of the Pope and
clergy, converts and nunneres, exclusive saliva
ton, treatment OF heretcs, &c, DC -sermons,
conversations, reading ell bear upon controversial
topics and John Foxes martyrOlogy, and all
abridgements limitations, extracts, aud epitomes
Of that much famed work and kindred ones are
in high reQusitOn. Even Puseyism and Tracta-
risnism are at a discount; and the controversy
with Rome has taken the place Of Faith, Hope,
and Charity in happier times.
EFFECTS ON THE IRISH HIERARCHY AND PRIEST
HOOD.
/ 1t has completely discovered all from the Gov.
eminent and thrown immense difficulties in the
wsy Of the more liberal section Of them in their
efforts to promote united education in school aud
college, as well as to promote cooperation with
Protestants ia 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 to the Colleges, assured the
Pope, through him, that the Archbshops of the
Provinces and the Bishops of the dioceses in
which the Colleges are situated, would be ap.
pointed Visitors. And now to enact, by act Of
Parliament that the Irish Bishops shall not take
the titles by which they have ever been desis.
w.kl 49,. -a-mna saNH -.
Government since ls29,-is considered by all the
Bishops and clergy and all the people whom they
influence as an insult, as grstuitous as it is de-
grading.