The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1879-07-12 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

XXII. in 1318 to mediate with their oppressors, describing the calamities brought upon them by Hadrian IV., saying that if an Englishman kills an Irishman the murderer is treated with honour by the Roman bishops. Thierry shows that two of them by their extortion and oppression of the poor Irish, were called "Flagand " Scotch-villian " The statute of Kilkinny made it high treason for the English to intermarry with the Irish, to adopt the dress, manners, language, or even to wear their beards the same. No Irishman could be , presented to a benefice. Eight Anglo-Romish prelates were present at its enactment, and at their instigation ' that statute was confirmed at Trim, 1447. Ignorance in all its unscriptural deformity, supersition in all its unmitigated absurdity, tyranny in all its unblushing effrontery, took the place of former truth, piety, and liberty. For 300 years her history is one of blood-shed and contention, her clergy ignorant and infamous. Notwithstanding, there were Irishmen who protested against the alien and novel rites refusing to conform to the Romish ritual. At the Reformation the church nem emancipated herself, both clergy and laity seized the _precious opportunity, every bishop except Walsh of Meath, and Leverous of Kildare, renounced the authority of a foreign prelate and returned to the church of St. Patrick. The greatest mistake of these times was the enforcement of the pence laws against the Irish language. No one could be promoted to benefice but those who could speak the English language, unless after four proclamations in a market town such could not be had. The Act of Uniformity (9 Ella. ch. 15) provides that as the great mass of the clergy could not well use the English tongue, they should celebrate the Common Prayer in Latin. The Pope through the Jesuits, not slow to see this, swarmed the country with monks, inflaming the minds of the people against English misrule, and instituted into their minds afresh the pernicious errors of Rome. At the Reformation the Romish succession was completely broken off. In 1621 Philip O'Sullivan wrote acknowledging that there were but four Roman Catholic bishops for Ireland, two of these living in foreign lands. These were sent over from Spain by the Pope to disturb the kingdom and intrude into ita religious concerns. From these strangers the Romish bishops now in Ireland derive their orders—worthy sous of  worthy sires; Dissenters and Schismatics from the true and ancient Church of Ireland, opposed alike to the teaching of the Apostles and the Holy Scriptures. When Mary was proclaimed queen she cast the crown of Ireland at the Pope's feet. Dr. Cole was sent on a mission of mercy (?) to Dublin as Papal Inquisitor, but his commission being taken out at Chester and a pack of cards put in its place, he continued his journey to Dublin with these harmless missions against heretics, before he could renew the commission Queen Mary was dead. August 30th, 1559, the Liturgy was restored to Christ Church Cathedral by the Lord Deputy and Dublin Clergy. When the Te Deum was sung, suddenly down the face of a marble image of the Redeemer blood trickled, a shriek was raised that it was sweating blaod in agony at the heretical prayers. The Lord Mayor and others drew out their beads and prayed to the image ; but Archbishop Carwen examined the statue and discovered a sponge soaked in blood placed in the hollow of its head. A monk and his accomplices were deteted as the performers of this miracle. The Irish Church from the invasion of Henry 11. to the Reformation, rejected and withstood both the language and church of the invaders; and though persecuted both by England and Rome, retains its ancient faith to this day. I grant to the full that England has made many and gross mistakes in governing Ireland. This can, in some measure, be accounted for—in the first place England herself was either Romish or just emerging from Romanism, and saw through a glass darkly; on the other hand the three provinces of which "Antihumbug" makes honouable mention, had given up the God-bestowed gift of reason andobeyed only thebehest of the priests. How then shall they be satisfactorily legislated for, who have thrown heaven's highest gift to the winds? or how can they judge between right and wrong? Could any circumstances, the most aggravated, justify the lrish Bartholomew on the 23rd of October, 1641, when 80,000 Protestants lost their lives. The Roman Catholic Bishop Macmahon led thiserusade, and was rewarded by Pope Urban