The Shropshire Examiner and all round the Wrekin advertiser. — 1875-04-30 (Wenlock, Shropshire, England)

PRESENTATION OF AN ADBRESS TO CARDINAL MANNING.  M Sunday afternoon Cardinal Manning re7eiN ed an address. signed by forty-eight Catholic members of the House of Commons. The address spoke ef the elevation of the Cardieel to the Sacred College, as a recognition of his learning and virtue, at a time when violent persecutioa was assailing religion over a wide area in Europe, and congratulated his Eininence and themselves that no such conflict. disturbed moiety in this country, where a more enlighle ened publie opinion proved strong enough to restrain evils so deplorable. The CA itl/IN I„ in replying, thanked them heertay, not only for the addrees, bat for entertaking the idea prosentim; it, because itemise to him from a large 1,04 of the Legislature, from which be thought he c. eld telte the assuranoe that they believed that whatever he could do for the good et the commonwealth, in ',loiterer part of the country, he always: hod hitherto reje:eed to attempt sad that whatever he could I, for the welfare of Ireland he -had always desired. Thm was me new desire on his port. From his youth, (Mgr sines he understood the history of Ireland, ho had had the strongest sympathy with that country, which had greatly increased lime he had had a fleek of Irish Mood and Irish faith. They would, be hoped, not eteppom that he was inseneible of the greet duties wketh England still owed to Ireland, nor of the maay ties of lesser order whioh stilt remained to be redressed. He believed he might say with troth that the material prosperity of Ireland was never greater than now. There was never, he 'believed, a time when Irishmen, as • people, were so united as now. The people of Ireland never possessed so wide an extent of its soil since the day in mhich they poo.esped it all. They never yet possessed oeeh abundant oommercial wealth. Tke towns of Ireland were never more numerous sinit flourishing, its villages never so thriving, ite agricul. Inc. and its pasturage never more fertile. its public int.llieeree never so much developed, its puleke, opinion never on artn•ularly expressed by its ',ladle ,journals, its literature and the public opizior •never so powerful upon the mind of England, being eeprodueed it islLall the large oeutree of English political life. Vinslly, lie night say that the influence of neland in tee legislature was never so weighty, weer ea highly intelligent, and so thoroughly appreciated, sse at this ,noeient. Such wee his firm convietion, end it seemed to him that the future of Ireland might 4, incalculably great—the Church of reland +.4 ever been independent of the world, its ssiritual jurisdiction, its irganisatios„ and libe-ty -.replete and undefiled, its faith inunaealate, its fillelity to the Holy See proved by generation. of martyrdom. It had lived in absolute poeerty, yet out of its poverty it had endowed itself. Twentyeive years ago in England they had no vie ere, apostles, a scattered clergy, no organisation, $l.; no parishes. They had, by the mercy of te.e, at this time all these things. They were re-nrgeneeed by the authority of the Holy See, and placed ~:de by side with the Irish Church—reeovered and re. etorei; to life by the side of the great chnrek in Ireland, which had never failed. He thought they pyinpathieed at this moment with the Church Eland. seeing it elevated, and thus engrafted with the Sacred College. They else iaingratilated him that no such c-efliete disturled society in this country, where a more generous and enlightened public opinion proved strong enough to restrein eeeila Po deplorable. He did net believe that the elisdaer was likely to g 0 back upon the dial. He hid not, think it was in the power of any men to turn back the title of lerrislaticn which now for half a century Lad eteaddy advanced. He was confident teat the ewe who attempted to introduce any !imitation !item tO, faith of any man in England woell begin t.ike disintegration of the British empire. is W tiast if the German empire did not re!reef, its levisl,tilin agts'nst the freedom of vonfieipt,cp, it eeidd diointegrate itself'. The Cardinal concluded I,y thaLki,g the members again 'for their address,  TAO week, in Glasgow, a collier, named William Kihietriak, white very drunk. murdered tie wife. This waft the memoir( murder in Glasgow that week, during whi,h period tour murder trials he takeu view) in the Cir..uit Court. v1.14:511.'1E1, Mr mut BY •