The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-14

GLADSTONE OPINION OF UR. NEWMAN.
The following letter appears in the Month tLon
DOM for January
HAwARDxN CASTLE, CHESTER Now %, 1873.
SIR have not failed to read this morning the
article entitled ''Mr. Gladstone's Expostulation,"
which owe TO your great courtesy, and do not
lose moment In noticing passage where the
ture V Touching honor and feeling. which hope he
VIII be inclined to withdraw. He states:-l That
have ..stigmatized" q certain body OF persons as
converts" 2. That have sneered at them as
'womsnish." B. That have forgotten that the
list OF these persons includes DR.. Newman, Arch.
bishop Manning and other very distinguished
AS to the nrst have treated the name con-
praise; and much SO that am not able con-
ststently TO use 1t without qualification AS to the
no such epithet. AS to the third the reviewer has
failed to observe both the language use In the
portou Of te spssn Of the "hsne s
classes OF this country, and my argument mas ev.
dent reference to the translerenGe OF territorial
influence and legislative power To none OF the
names you quote does the passage or the reason
ing apply. AS respects those named, and others
whom the reviewer might have added, VIII only
say that. strange as appears to me their aberra-
ton and depiOrable on all sides its results, 1t
would be- IN my opinion, alike irrational to deny
their intellectual emInence and scandalous to call
IN question their motives or to underyalpe the
great SACRIFICES they have made. have the honor
w. L. GLADSTONE.
The EDITOR OF THE Month";
COUNClL DEBATE ON CIVIL ALLb0lANCk
Archbishop Manning, in letter to Adcnnizan's
Magazine, for January, 1875, answers a postscript
20 an article on ~Prussia and the Vatican" which
vas published In the December number OF that
periodical In reply 70 series Of questions THE
Archbishop says:-
- = g. els DR.. Manning perfectly certain that
cases have not already arisen within his own juris
dtctiOn in which clerical persons have been brought
into conflict OF jurisdiction" or nave decided
(StC) since 1870 IN favor OF the Cural jurisdiction Y'
Answer-I have no knowledge whatever OF any
such cases. II any such have arisen they who
0eat with them before 1870 have gone astray The
Vatican Council has not so much as touched any
such possible question OF civil Jurisdiction.
Here we return 10 the sole point In contest. Be-
fore the Council met party at Munich prophesied
civil alegiances. During the council they strove
In every way to bring down the pressure OF the
civil governments Of Europe to hinder the free
dom OF the Council. The Council steadfastly did
OF the authority and the inialIibiity OF the head
Of the Church. II was this they really feared. 1t
Is doctrine they had denied, and It's definition
was fatal to their literary authority and
to their personal Importance. From that
hour their efforts have been redoubled to bring
down tue civil powers upon the Catholic
Church. They have succeeded in setting the GER
man Empire on fire. They are now endeav0rtng
to set FIRE to the civil and religious peace OF our
three Kingdoms. The whole network OF this mis-
But 1t VIII not succeed. The momentary stir and
suspicion, unhapplly raised by great name, will
IN q little while pass away, and the English peo-
pie Will not only know that the Vatican DEGREES
have not changed SO mucn as lot or little OF our
civil allegiance but that Catholics are better EVIL
dence as TO their own religion than those VINO are
now teaching US the meaning OF our councils and
catechlslng US about our loyalty.