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THE ANTI-POPERY MOVEMENT . A deputation from the merchants , bankers , and traders of the City of London , waited upon the Lord Mayor , at the Mansion-house , on Saturday , to request him to call a public meeting " f « c the purpose of taking into consideration the late most unjustifiable attempt of the Bishop of Rome to exercise an unauthorized and unprecedented interference in the affairs of this kingdom , by the pretended creation of
new espiscopal sees , and the appointment of bishops to preside over the same , thereby invading the independence of the State , and seeking the restoration of a spiritual domination from which this country has long since delivered itself . " The requisition was signed by the principal merchants and bankers of the City . The Lord Mayor has appointed the meeting to take place on Monday , the 25 th instant ; and stated that he will take the chair at two o ' clock precisely .
It was ridiculous to be alaimed at the position held by Dr . Wiseman , as if he had been invested with wonderful authority : — " "With regard to the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster , and his arrogant assumption of power over the temporalities of this country , let me tell you that his Eminence , so far from assuming power and grandeur , is a poor and bumble man , whose income is scarcely sufficient to maintain his position as a Bishop of a Church whose self-denial in worldly matters is undeniable . " Atawardmote of the inhabitants of Cripplegate Without , on Wednesday , Mr . Alderman Challis , in the chair , said , " the danger they had to apprehend was not from the Pope but the Propaganda of Rome , abounding in talent , d angerons in designs , and gradually attempting to absorb all the property of Christendom . " The Reverend Archdeacon Hale , in moving an address to the Crown , embodying the feelings of the wardmote" "Warned his hearers from becoming too familiar with Roman Catholic books or Romish practices , lest they might in a weak moment become tainted with Romish principles . The danger existed in the fact of there being a society of men called Jesuits , who had the control of the college , de propaganda jfide , at Rome , and that society was composed of the most able and learned and best informed men in all the world . They were men trained up in enthusiasm and in obedience to the ^ Pope , by ^ a system of training which was most efficacious for its purposes , and let him add that any man who submitted to such training must inevitably become a Jesuit himself . ( Hear , hear . ) Now what he feared was this , and he knew that he spoke in the presence of several of his dissenting brethren . Let none of them be too confident in their possession of the doctrines of truth . How knew they that Jesuits had not entered into their councils ? He doubted whether the differences now existing in the dissenting connection was not the result of Jesuit influence . ( Oh , oh . ) Yes , had not history shown that the Jesuit of the time of Charles I . could at one time be a puritan , at another an independent ? { Interruption . ) He said what was true , and he said further that the Romanism that prevailed amongst some members of the Church of England had arisen from Jesuit influence , Jesuit instructions , and from following what was most enticing to human nature—such a system of constant devotional meditation as unsettled the reason , and transgressed the limits which human reason should observe in its communion with the Deity . ( Hear . ) Let them , then , not be too confident ; let them not pore too much over Romish books . They could hardly touch birdlime without having some of it stick to their fingers . ( Hear , hear . ) They wanted protection in the education of the people , in the encrease of churches to go to , and of ministers to teach the truth . Above all , they wanted to be protected from monks and friars , and not to have the superstitious feelings of our nature appealed to by men with ropes round their middles , and faces withered from fasting and discipline . Let them keep such teachers from the people . Remember that they were false prophets , who came in sheep ' s clothing , but were inwardly ravening wolves . ( Cheers )" A special meeting of the representative vestry of the extensive parish of St . Pancras ( with its population of 160 , 000 , and 20 , 000 ratepayers ) took place , pursuant to requisition , at the new vestry-rooms , King ' s-road , Camden-town , on Saturday , for the purpose of considering the recent Papal aggression on the Queen ' s supremacy , and the propriety of presenting an address to her Majesty on the subject . Mr . D . Fraser , the senior churchwarden , took the chair , and there was an unusually large attendance of members . A resolution was moved by Mr . Halton , a Dissenter , condemnatory of the recent conduct of the Pope , and thanking Lord John Russell for " his manly declaration of hostility to the insidious progress of Popery within the Established Church . " After some discussion , the resolution was carried with but few dissentients . Meetings of the Court of Aldermen and of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , to address the Queen , were held on Tuesday . At both there was much hard speaking against the Bishops of London and Exeter , and Puseyistn in general . At the parish meeting , Mr . Purday , a Dissenter , seconded a resolution ; and Mr . Daniell , barrister-at-law , claimed to make a few observations : —
A special Court of Common Council was held on Thursday at the Guildhall , pursuant to a requisition , for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of presenting an address to her Majesty on the recent proceeding of the Pope of Rome in reference to this country , % nd expressive of the unshaken loyalty of the Corporation of the city of London to her Majesty , her Crown , and dignity . The Lord
Mayor , sheriffs , and other civic functionaries were present in their state robes , and the court was densely crowded during the proceedings . After a good deal of discussion as to whether Puseyism ought not to he denounced along with Popery , the motion for an address to Her Majesty was carried unanimously , ¦ with the exception of one hand ( that of Mr . Carr , a Roman Catholic ) being held up against it , amidst Loud chetzs *
Rumours haying gone abroad that Cardinal Wisenute would preach at St . George ' s Catholic Cathedral , Southwark , on Sunday morning , a large congregation attended , a great proportion of whom were strangers , attracted by curiosity to hear his Eminenee ' s nrat sermon since his elevation . Great disappointment was felt when ; the Reverend Doctor Doyle ascended the pulpit , and explained that his Imminence , not yet having had time to comply with the necessary formalities preliminary to his induction , could not officiate on that occasion . The Cardinal , however ( the Reverend Doctor stated ) , was not at hide and seek , " but when the requisite preparations
for his induction had been completed , which would perhaps be the case in the course of a week , he would resume his ministrations the same as before his visit to "Rome . He complained of the way in which the Roman Catholics have been maligned by their Protest ant opponents . The acts of Queen Mary had been referred as a proof that the Roman Catholic Church was a persecuting church . lie denied that those persecutions were sanctioned by the Church . They were only the acts of men and of parties , and were protested against as opposed to the principles of the holy Catholic religion . He threw back the charge to the men who uttered it : —
royal dancing-master was a Scotchman and a Protestant . ( JLmcgJiter . ) A meeting of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Worcester was held in the chapter-house of the cathedral on Friday , for the purpose of taking measures against the Papal aggression . Archdeacon Hone was in the chair , and there were about 200 elergvmen present , including the Reverend Canon Wood , late chaplain to the Queen-Dowager ; Reverend Canon Ingram , Honourable and Reverend H . Coventry , Lord Paulet , Honourable Mr . Rice , &c . The meeting was addressed in some spirit - stirring speeches , and memorials to her Majesty and the Bishop of the diocese , against the assumption of ecclesiastical authority in this kingdom , by the Poj > e , were adopted .
A great Protestant demonstration took place in the Free Trade-hall on Thursday evening . The vast edifice , with , its galleries , was crowded to overflowing , and two or three thousand persons were unable to gain an entrance . The admission was by ticket , and the meeting was restricted to the friends of Protestantism . Addresses to her Majesty and Lord John Russell were unanimously agreed to , and the meeting quietly dispersed at eleven o ' clock .
One of the largest and most influential public meetings ever held in Bristol took place in that city , at the Victoria Rooms , on Wednesday , for the purpose of adopting an address to her Majesty the Queen , expressive of indignation at the recent bull of the Bishop of Rome , and of devoted attachment to the great principles of the Reformation . Upwards of 3500 persons were present . The Liverpool meeting was held in the Hoyal Amphitheatre , on Wednesday . The proposed demonstration had excited the greatest public interest . An exhortation to the Catholics of the town was
issued in the morning , calling on them to go early and pack the building , • if they did riot wish their rights to be trampled upon , and their religion to be insulted . " The Sessions-house was crowded , and the adjournment having been carried , there was ji rush to the Amphitheatre , which had for some time before been pretty well filled . The Reverend Dr . M'Neile entered the theatre at twelve o ' clock , mid was instantly recognized and loudly cheered . Five Catholic priests entered some time after , and were received by some parties in the meeting with loud cheering . This was answered by louder cheers for "No Popery . " The crowd gave out a variety of sentiments , and the response was alternately cheers ,
hisses , or groans . About twenty minutes past twelve John Bent , Esq ., the Mayor , with a large and influential body of the requisitionists , came upon the stage , and the cheering was renewed . The Town Clerk opened by reading the requisition , which was received with terrific cheering , waving of hats , Sea ., mingled with counter-hissing and a variety of cries . The first speaker was Mr . T . B . Horsfall , who , amidst conflicting cheers and hisses , condemned the Papal aggression in strong terms , and gave a rapid glance at the evils which would follow our succumbing to Romish usurpation . It was impossible to deny that , for the last three hundred years , Rome had done everything in her power to stunt the growth of the human mind : —
" They who say so are themselves our persecutors , for ¦ what is the Protestant church doing this very morning but denouncing us to their congregations as isolators to be shunned , despised , and detested ? I should not have been led to advert to these denouncings , but from the fact of those clergymen of the Protestant church combating us not by argument but by detraction , and in such a spirit of intolerance as to point us out for persecution and to excite the people to acts of violence . Unable to recur to the laws of olden times to crush and keep us in painful bondage , they have recourse to indirect means , knowing that the enlightened tolerance of England could
" Throughout Christendom , whatever advance has been made in knowledge , in freedom , in wealth , and in the arts of life , has been made in spite of her , and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power . The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have , under her rule , been sunk in poverty , in political servitude , and in intellectual torpor , while Protestant countries , ence proverbial for sterility and barbarism , have been turned by skill and industry into gardens , and can boast of a ' long list of heroes and statesmen , philosophers and poets . Whoever , knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally are , and what , four hundred
never sanction the revival of those laws . Such a revival they know would be opposed to the very nature of a generous people . This is not the age for persecution . Thank God , England , above all other countries , enjoys freedom of conscience ; and whilst the Catholics offend not against the laws of the land , and do nothing worse than preach charity and goodwill among men , I have no fear whatever . If we oflend against the laws , seize us ; but if we obey the laws , persecute us not , for you have no right to interfere with our conscience . If our opinions are opposed to the laws of England , punish us ; but if otherwise , why are we to be marked out for destruction ? " He then referred to the use which had been made
years ago , they actually were , shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh , will be able to form some judgment as to the tendency of papal domination . The descent of Spain , once the first among monarchies , to the lowest depths of degradation ; the elevation of Holland , in spite of many natural disadvantages , to a position such as no common wealth so made has ever reached , teach the same lesson . Whoever passes in Germany from a Roman Catholic to u Protestant principality , in Switzerland , from a Roman
of his statement , that the Archbishop of Canterbury might cease to be a prelate , whereas there would always be an Archbishop of Westminster : — " I rr peat every word of that . I say that the day may come when there will be no Archbishop of Canterbury , but I do not oay that he will cease to be in consequence of any measures of our Church , ^ yh y , in England distent from the Established Church is encreasing rapidly every day . Members of the Protestant Church are in doubt as to the construction to be put upon the Sacred Volume , and they leave the Church because they know not where t& > have those doubts cleared up . They cannot look to the AichbUhop of Canterbury to satisfy them , and they , consequently , leave the Establishment and take their own views of the question . This , if anything with that title ; and when the time be no State Church—and come it are aR many socts in this country and hamlets—then must the Arohcease to be , for the Protestant by the state , will no longer exist , Archbishon of Canterbury will be
re-14 Barristers were , he observed , apt to gossip in courts of law , and to fancy that they often heard rumours on authority which might be depended upon . A very few days after the Pope's bull was published , there was a report current amongst them , that her Majesty , the first time she read it , sent instantly for Lord John Russell , commanding his immediate attendance . On arriving , his lordship found her Majesty reading the bull , and the first thing which she said to lum was this : 'My lord , am I Queen of England ? ' Lord John Russell replied , Who dares doubt it , madam ? * and her Majesty ' s rejoinder was , ? Look to it , my lord . ' Hence , they might depend upon it , had ariflen Lord John Russell ' s movements , and the invitation which had been given to her Majesty's subjects to do what those assembled were doing that night . Her Majesty was as sound as the British oak . ( Tremendous and long-continued cheers . )
Catholic to a Protestant canton , m Ireland from a Ho . man Catholic to a Protestant county , finds that he ha . s passed from a lower to a higher grade of civilization , England is a Protestant and monarchical country . On the other side of the Atlantic the same law prevails The Protestants of the United States have left far bohind them the Roman Catholics of Mexico , Ptru , niul Brazil . The Human Catholics of Lower Canada remain inert , while the whole continent around them is in a ferment with Protestant activity and enterprise . "
The resolution having been seconded by Mr . George Grant , the mooting was next addressed by tho Reverend Mr . Walmsley , Roman Catholic priest , who was received with mingled hisses and cheers . His speech was a good-humoured but vain attempt to persuade the people of Liverpool that the recent meastwe was a mere ecclesiastical arrangement with which the Protestant public had nothing to do . lie
The gentleman who had risen before renewed the subject , and observed , that the dancing-master to tho Queen ' s children was , ho believed , a Roman Catholic . Mr . M'Christie begged to assure tho gentleman and tho meeting , for their satisfaction , that tho
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 23, 1850, page 818, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1860/page/2/
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