Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-08-16 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

XIII. The secession of Dr. Newman has been the greatest loss sustained by the English Church—at any rate, since the defection of John Wesley—and probably it has been the greatest moral triumph achieved in this country by the Roman Catholic Church since the Reformation. It has occasionally been suggested that if the aim and scope of the Tractarian movement had been as clearly defined and understood 45 years ago as now, and the single-mindedness and devotoin of its leaders as universally recognised, Dr. Newman would in all probability, like Pusey and Kell°, never have forsaken the Church of his baptism. Such speculation is idle and useless. The implicit loyalty with which Dr. Newmar accepted the teaching of the Church of his adoption was made apparent in his own reply to a charge of mental reservation in respect of the doctrine of the Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff when speaking ex eathedrd to the Universal Church on questions of faith and morals. "He assumes," wrote Dr. Newman, in 1872, " that I did not bold or profess the doctrine of the Pope's Infallibility till the time of the Vatican Council. whereas I have committed myself to it in print again and again from 1845 to 1867. And on the other hand, as it so happens—though I held it, as I ever have done—l have bad no occasion to profess it, whether in print or otherwise, since that date. Anyone who knows my writings will recollect that in BO saying I state a sinip'e fact." Criticism of the kind that called forth this declaration, however, was seldom visited on Dr. Newman, for the nobility and saintliness of his character have found recognition among his countrymen not less general and cordial than their admiration for his rare intellectual endowments. As Peel said of Pelmerston, " We are all proud of him," and, although the Cardinal's life has far exceeded the allotted span, the intelligence of his des' t will everywhere cause a sense of personal loss.  The funeral of the deceased Cardinal has beer fixed for Tuesday, when the remains will be interred M the small burial ground connected with the Oratory at Rednall Dill. The obsequies will he carried out in a manner befitting the rank of a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and will be attended by many of the bishops and other high dignitaries of the Church in England. Several noblemen, including the Duko of Norfolk, one of the most intimate lay friends of the late Cardinal, will be present, anc there will be a large gathering of the clergy and laity. The Bishop of Birmingham visited the Oratory on Tuesday morning and viewed the re mains, which laid in state till Wednesday afternoon Numberless telegrams of sympathy from all parts ill the United Kingdom were received onTuesday at th, Oratory.  In the ancient church of Heligoland we have lost an art treasure. There are certain paintings b 3 Amelcich executed on the panels of the pulpit. which are unique in their way, for the devil is de picted with a wooden leg. John Macdonald, Fcavenger, ot Mnirktrk, aged 7, was ttit d Ayr on M( nday for the murder of his 4e, aged 70, and Alexander Waugh, a lodger, aged 63. Macdonald pleaded that he was insane at the time. After a trial lasting seven hours the jury found the accused guilty, but strongly recommended line to mercy, on the gn,tiliti that there was DO premeditated malice. He was sentenced to death.  Three men, all of whom were intoxicated, went to PI eq.) en Monday night in the engine-house of a slag erunhing mill at Southbank, near Middlesbrough. Atter they had locked the door one of them upset ail oil lamp, and before they could pick it op the room took fire, and in a short time the whole place wao burned. Two of the men mere rescued from a window, lea the other wns burned to death in OW i,/ N loch the fire calk:flitted.