Year: 1874

bishop Manning and Lord Acton No fresh Catholic
manitestoes appear this morning except one from
poor Sir George Bowyer, who, il it were not TOO
unknd, might almost be called the Whaley OF the
Roman Catholics.


AS for the London papers, their reception OF the
pamphlet is manifestly affected by political con-
siderations They see that its immediate tendency
Is to ALLEVIATE the Catholic wing of the Liberal party
The Daily NeIos which has good deal of the wisdom
OF this world and is not paper given TO enthusiasm
on any topic is more emphatic in expressing its
confidence in the loyalty of its Roman Catholic
feow-ctizens than in the necessity of this appeal
to them. The Telegraph thinks it power
ful and well-delvered blow in behalf
Of the most precious Of English possessions
which will be welcomed in every land
upon whose institutions the aggressive Roman party
makes its open and insidous assaults. The Standard
admits that it is n polemical triumph, but doubts
the practical wisdom of il The Pail Mall Gazette,
while regarding the dangers pointed out by Mr..
Gladstone real, is angry with him for not hay-
ing discovered them before that it cannot spare him
civil word for calling attention to them now. Its
animosity toward the Liberal leader was perhaps
never more openly disclosed than at the moment
when it describes him as anxious to remedy the mis-
chief he had done by previously encouraging the
most intolerable pretensions of the Romish
Church. The Times speaks of Mr.. Gladstone
as taking one more bound into space, and
complains that he is either very late in his dicov-
cries very slow to act his conviction and that
his survey partial and imperfect Upon the whole,


eve cannot satisfy ourselves that there is any sufl
cient cause for SO prodigious burst of expostula
tiOn." Its comments on the letters Of Archbishop
Manning and Lord Acton show clearly enough its
strong Protestant feeling but it devoted two other
leaders to something very like Vdicule Of Mr.. Glad
stone. 1t even goes far to class the late Prime
Minister with 3lr. Ncwdegate and Mr.. Whalley, who
may now boast a triumvirate of good Protestant
champions" The old dislike of the leading journal to
Mr.. Gladstone proves in this instance, more power
full than its dislike of Rome. 1t no immediate
danger from the latter and it fair opening for
representing Mr. Gladstone as inconsistent and as
reyiying an obsolete cry from want of q calm tenn
permanent. That way of judging statesman by the
exigences of to-day, and the resolute disbelief in
the day after tomorrow is very English. 1t is not,
l venture to say upon the considerations The Times
imputes to him that Mr. Gladstone made up his
mind to do so momentOus an act


In Mr. DsraelTs speech at the Lord Mayors dinner
last night can discover no allusion to Mr.. Glad
stones new stand except single sentence. lie
speaks of England as exhibiting to Europe the
example of State which has solved the great poti-
cal problem by combining order with liberty. and
which. if some of those troubles which are antici-
pated may occur, WILL while it still vindicates the
principle of religious liberty, not shrink from pro-
claiming the principle of religious truth" which
means, judge, that, for the present. Mr. Disraeli
thinks opposition to Disestablishment a better cry
than No POpery. g. W. S.