The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-05-01

| far more cautiously and modestly than suits
Schwsrtzenberg in his evident impetuosity Mat
ters (relative to final decisions at the Dresden
Conference) cannot long remain in their present
| unsettled and uncertain condition; and when II
shall be known TO the peoples what the Govern
ments have finally determined on, your readers
may rely on it, the former will make their moves
| on the political chessbosrd, to check them. Inc
| PRONUNCIATION Of the expected Dresden decision
cannot fail 10 be the signal for the commence
| ment OF q new series Of popular movements OF
great or little importance, as the Governments
may be prepared for their repression by the set
Element Of their own disputes on terms generally
acceptable, or otherwise
In England, the Anti-Papal excitement has
broken out sfresh and RACES with greater violence
than ever, owing to the agitation Of the subject
in Parliament. The Tories (of that body have
recently held a meeting at Merchant Tailors
Hall, in London their Tammsny Hall j 100 peers
and 200 members of the Lower House attended
They voted with great unanimty to force on
general election within the next two months, in
the vain hope Of obtaining a majority. They
calculate that the Radical constituencies of the
Kingdom, in their hatred of the superstitions
and abuses of the Church of Rome, will return
Protectionists, because they are ready 10 20 far
Their than any others in the adoption Of measures
10 check the spread of Roman Cathocity in the
United Kingdom. They also calculate that as
heretofore, the Roman Catholic constituencies
will send up members ready 10 stand by Protec-
ton, though the Protectionists place all their
hopes of success on the violence Of their efforts
to injure the interests Of their church. they
the Protectionists must be disappointed, unless
both Free Traders and Catholics were TO stultify
themselves. Ii is much more probable that the
expected new Parliament, on opening will exhibit
q strong combination between the l03 Catholic
members who will be returned, and the Radicals
and Peel Qibera1 Tories who will be elected In
double their present numbers and that they
will pass an act greatly extending the right OF
suffrage, TO which the leaders OF the schooi OF
| Golden and Bright look, in its ultimate opera
ton, for laying the foundation of the series OF
measures TO end finally in the adjustment of the
union between Church and State, which is as
| much the interest of the Catholic Church of the
| Kingdom as of the dissenters and the great No
Church party, which comprises perhaps three
fourths Of the population.
The case of Miss Talbot still continues to be
the prominent subject Of newspaper discussion.
Law proceedings have been had in it, in which il
has been proved that this young lady was i'm
INJURED 10 the convent, not only without the know
ledge Of the Lord Chancellor whereas Bishop
Hernden declared that she was placed there with
his express consent) but further, that, instead Of
being anxious of becoming postulant, she has |
never entertained the idea Of becoming a num- |
This she has written to the Court over her own |
hand, in the face of the Bishops proteststions |
that ne only consented to her becoming postu- |
liant after earnest solicitations on her part Ii
seems that, not liking a match which her uncle,
Lord Shrewsbury, had chosen for her, that noble
man and his wife virtually forced her into the
convent, by way Of furnishing her anti-matrimo-
NAL contumacy Once there, nuns and priests
entered into conspiracy to get possession Of her
ESQ, 900, for the benefit of the Church. Their
scheme was well laid, and would have succeeded,
beyond doubt, but for the exposure Of the whole
affiir made so recently by the Protestant STEP
father of the young girl. The Lord Chancellor
has ordered her liberation from convent impris-
onment, but consents that she shall reside with
Roman Catholic peeress, who is said to be big
oted as any of her creed in the Kingdom. The
only remaining fear Is, that under the direction
Of her Chu CHI, that lady may strive to disgust
the young lady with the world, as at the end of
her minority to induce her again to make suffice
of herself, giving her property the direction
which the Bishop desires il shall take.
On the whole, this poor young girl has been
conspired against on all hands. Her fortune APP
pears 10 have been the stake for which church
men and laity, priests and fortune hunters have
been playing so desperately In promoting the
wealth Of their church by acting on the weakness
of devOut creduous men and women, the Roman
pIicobuuOu dIo Uub uuluR tuS WUrh III WuICu Ill
others seem prone to engage. How common is it
for scoundrel lawyers to make themselves the
heirs of their clients Do we not hear of smooth
tongued physicians stepping into the fortunes of
patients their skill has killed almost as often as
of fortune-hunters trapping heiresses2 Designing
knaves, managing women, and plotting house.
keepers, will contrive to surround the weak, the
simple, and the eccentric, with their creatures,
| keeping their own relatives from them, that the
| ha ma ~, ~
themselves get all But, | blush to have to write
it, The Protestants - churchmen, dissenters, and
all Il are as great profcents as the Catholics in
getting the devout to remember the grotto,o e.,
| the church The Pspist priesthood however, by
their vows Of celbacy, are cut off from the world
| They are without sons to be provided for or
daughters to be portoned. In extenuation Of this
offence against society on the part of the Catholic
it must be admitted that he gets his dying victim
to give his church, schools, converts, and monas-
teries, while the Protestant parson not unfre-
quently contrives to have the fleece left to himself
Two-thirds Of the hubbabo which the advocates
of the Establishment" are kicking up over this
case arises from the danger that the poor girls
money may not fall into the clutches of some for
| tuue-hunting Anglican rector, sleek ourate, or
bishops son "A class who too often manage to
carry their sacerdotal wares to rich matrimonial
markets The Catholic Church is by no means
personal In It's avarce. Its ShspherdS do not them
selves get the left to the fold, but it is ex
pended in building churches founding schools,
endowing hospitals and colleges, 60. In this mat
ter the English church appears to be less really
Christian than the Roman. The former is the
only hierarchy in Europe on which mankind
have been weak enough to confer legislative
powers The result Of that is, that the Archbish-
op Of London potes himself fl7OOO annually,
while the Roman Archbishop of Paris has voted
to him only $500 per annum. These types, if
they indicate anything, point with unerring GER
tanty to the fact that the Catholic is chargeabe
as little with over-grasping personal spirit, as
the Established Churchman with selfdenying
tendency.
must once more request your readers not to
misinterpret my meaning. war on abuses wher-
ever | find them, in or out of each and every
church. assail not Christianity itself, but its
peryersions, designed, under its cloak, to prey
on society at large. 1t is n burning shame that
in this age of progress, Gods best gift to man
should be longer used for mans injury.
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