Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-03

\ # ssreverend,'' under which rightly or he shelters himself. And all this for what? Because the monarch of Eng land did not surrender her womanhood, royal though it be, to the suggestions of bigoted state craft and the insolent intol- erance of unchristian Christian ministers because she dared to assert her regality, | and make one with the other great Powers of Europe in congratulating the Pontiff, possessed of higher power than any, on the completion of his fifty years of priesthood, beginning as the humble cure about the time that Her Majesty acceded, to the Crown, and closing as the most elevated eccleslastic on earth soon after Her Majesty herself had reached her Year of Jubilee. The Queen hardly deserves praise for the performance of so obvious a duty; and we should not have thought of bestowing any had it not been for the malevolent menaces of the Rev Jacob aforesaid.
 We are proud to say-and say advisedly that pronounced bitterness and bigotry and brutality like that of the Reverend Trimmer has but few followers, and less approval, among the Protestants of Great Britain. The extremist views against Pope and Popery entertained by the ad- herents of the Doctrine of Election and the Westminster Confession of Faith, find no sympathy or support in the Episcopal ranks in England, any more than the Orange toast of "The Pope in the pillory, the pillory in Hell and the devils pelting priests at him." finds acceptance in the hearts of Irish Protestants. Oh no, P1im- mers in Scotland and the Johnsons and Hannas of Ulster have but small school of followers, but still enough to give in suit and do injury They are chartered
 ibertines in this regard; and therefore it is that their treason is too insignificant for legal notice, as their irreligion is only effective ill exciting contempt.
 But this attack on the Queen-whom l they still address as Defender of the Faith and so forth" is no new exhibition of an- l tagonism to Her Majesty in person and power; and it is an open secret that the
 sufficient supposed causes for such exhibi- tions are found in the current belief in
 some quarters, that the royal lady has
 still a lingering love and leaning to "the
 abominations of the Scarlet Woman"-It
 is not new story by any means. Fifty years ago the Orangemen of Ireland and
 their evangelical sympathizers in England
 and Scotland, made effort to upset the suc- cession to the throne, and substitute theil
 Grand Master, the Duke of Cumberland
 for the heiress presumptive-they youthful
 Princess Alexandria Victoria. For the lady
 who holds the sceptre of England now
 with the superadded distinction of Elm
 press of India, the Orangemen then, and
 their colleagues of the Trimmer School
 usurping Jezabel;' ;'-and all because tht Queen-mother, the Duchess of Kent, wal
 supposed, as we believe with reason, to have had 8 tendency to the tenets of thu Catholic Church.
 But on higher grounds than the mer,
 Interchange of courtesies, was the Queer
 called upon to compliment the Pope. I
 is calculated that Her Majesty's subject
 in Great Britain and Ireland alone, includ
 seven millions of Catholics; and that in
 cluding India and the Colonies there ar ten millions who acknowledge the spiritua jurisdiction of His Holiness. Woult not these figures in any eyes but the blind
 ly prejudiced ones of the puritanical Prim
 mers, be sufficient justification for tn Queens attitude on the Pope's jubilee.
 But, take a wider glance. Amongs : the Statesmen who mold the policy o her empire-the soldiers who sustain it . greatness-the men who in Art and Scienc and Literature give it dignity-there ar : numerous Catholics, and Irish Catholics a
 that, and we have summarized state ment in the ''N Y Herald" that within tn territorial limits of the British Empir there are 35 Catholic archiepiscopal and 9 episcopal sees, 19 vicariates apostolic an 10 prefectures apostolic. The Catholi ] population is represented in Parliament b
 32 peers and 80 commoners. A Roma Catholic is member of the Cabinet, co religionists are in the Privy Council; peers, 20 holders of titles and 54 baronet acknowledge the Pope as their spiritus pastor and master.