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denied that the Pope wanted to interfere in the temporal affairs of this country . He declared his allegiance to the Queen of this country , and that if the Pope himself were to bring an army against this country , he should think it his duty to become a bellige rent priest , and to shed his own blood in driving him back . Mr . Shiel , a member of the corporation and a Roman Catholic , next spoke amidst great confusion in defence of the Pope , and was followed by
the Reverend Mr . Wardell , a Catholic priest . The resolution in favour of an address to her Majesty against the Papal aggression was then put to the meeting , and an amendment , condemning the address as unnecessary and calculated to promote ill feeling . The motion was carried amidst tumultuous cheering . The meeting was afterwards addressed by the Reverend Hugh M'Neile after a disturbance which lasted ten minutes .
A special grand lodge meeting of the Grand Protestant Association of Loyal Orangemen of Great Britain was held at Newton , Lancashire , on " Wednesday , by virtue of a warrant from the Right Honourable the Earl of Enniskillen , the grand master , to determine upon measures of resistance to the Romish aggression . The meeting was announced to be held at the Legh Arms , but it was soon ascertained that no room in that hotel was near large enough to accommodate the " brethren , " who came pouring in with' every train , decorated with their gaudy scarfs , and exhibiting from the windows of
the carriages large placards , with the inscription , in mammoth characters , " No Puseyism ; no Popery ; Orangeism , and no surrender . " The lodge , therefore , having been opened pro formd , was adjourned to a large hall in the centre of the town , where the elections for South Lancashire take place . The chair was taken by W . Brookes Gates , Esq ., of Northampton , M . W . D . G ., and addresses to her Majesty and to the Protestants of the kingdom , expressive of indignation at the Pope ' s proceedings in portioning out the country among his bishops , were proposed and unanimously adopted .
In addition to the above , enthusiastic demonstrations have been made at Bath , Uolton , Carnarvon , Hertford , Hore Leigh , Lyme Regis , Macclesfield , Prescot , Whalley . The meeting of the Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese of Dublin , convened by Archbishop Murray , took place on Monday in the presbytery attached to the Metropolitan Church in Marlborough-street , Dublin . There was a very numerous attendance , upwards of two hundred clergymen having been present from all parts of the diocese . Dr . Murray , having taken the chair , proceeded to explain the reasons that induced him to call his clergy together ,
to present , through Cardinal Wiseman , an address to his Holiness the Pope , expressing their delight and gratitude at the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Great Britain . Such a change they could not contemplate without admiration at the wisdom which had dictated it , and the happy prospect which it indicated ; but at the same time they looked upon that event as not in the least degree interfering with their Protestant brethren . ( Hear , hear . ) The restoration of the hierarchy was a measure affecting the Catholics of England in their spiritual capacity alone . It
meddled not with temporal affairs or powers ; and the recent bull of his Holiness was manifestly confined to the Catholics of England as his spiritual subjects . After some further remarks to the same tendency , Archbishop Murray proceeded to read an address which he had prepared , expressing the gratitude of the Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese of Dublin to his Holiness for the recent bull , reestablishing bishops in England . A resolution was proposed and unanimously adopted , that the address read by Dr . Murray should be forwarded to Cardinal Wiseman for presentation to the Pope .
" Without entering upon questions of religious tenet , I can no longer defer the expression of my conviction , that the phrase ' mummeries of superstition ' can only be looked upon as a deliberate insult to the faith and religious practice of at least one-third of the loyal subjects of the British realm . " The letter of Lord John Russell forms a leading topic in the Irish newspapers . The Nation of Saturday says : —
" Let us see this mannikin Minister who last year asked the Legislature for diplomatic relations with Rome , and last month endeavoured to force the appointments of visitors to the Government colleges on Catholic archbishops and bishops in virtue of their office , coming down to St . Stephen ' s with a bill to interdict or limit the ecclesiastical liberty of Catholics by a hair ' s breadth . Maugre the threats , we fear no revival of penal laws in these days . Surely there is a deeper meaning , and a more cunning policy under this sudden change of temper , than stares us on its surface . It is the first sign of a contest between the Catholic Church and the English State , of which none among us shall live to see the Jinale . And we need not hesitate to say , we rejoice it is . Since Irish bishops learned to figure in Castle levees , and some Irish priests have taught loyalty to England , the hopes of the people in the cause of Ireland were beginning to lose their unity and strength : and , God knows , there is no Catholic who should not rejoice , on religious grounds , that his Church once more stands at arm ' s length with its oldest and most insidious enemy . Let it have and hold its independence . But , as we live , this step of Russell ' s has a deeper meaning and a more insidious purpose still . Clearly it was intended as a replication 1 o the Synodical Address , rather than as a reprimand to the English Catholics , whom the Ministers have no object in outraging . But we are sure it was also levelled at the League of the Irish people . We feel that it was aimed to disturb the Union of the North and South , that Union which England has always regarded as the most formidable phenomenon in Irish politics , and which has as vital a meaning to-day as it had at Dungannon . Any means to turn the Irish movement into an internecine war of sects would be worth a ten years' lease of ofiice to the Whigs . "
At a meeting of Roman Catholics in Manchester , on Tuesday , one Mr . Henry Turley moved the following resolution , and prevailed on the meeting to adopt it : —" That the Protestant heresy of this country , as a religion , is most dangerous to the peace and morals of society , and one so imbecile in its nature as necessarily to stand in need of the ungodly and unholy means , calumny and vile slander , for its propagation . "—Scottish Guardian . The Reverend T . A . Bolton , of New Basford ,
having written to the Bishop of London to enquire whether he intended in his late charge to discountenance the use of confession and absolution altogether , has received the following reply :- — " Fulham , Nov . 11 , 1850 . Reverend Sir , —When I spoke of auricular confession being used as a means of grace , I supposed that every one would understand me to mean the Roman practice , and not that which is recognized as useful and salutary by our own Church . —I am , reverend sir , your faithful servant , C , J , London , "
Mr . Philip Howard , in a letter dated Corby Castle , Carlisle , November IS , after having waited till now in the expectation that , on reflection , the Prime Minister of England would retract the terms of contempt used in his recent letter to the Bishop of Durham , Bays : —
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The St . James s Chronicle states that a lengthened correspondence has taken place , on different occasions , between the Bishop of London and the Tractarian disturbers , and that the right reverend prelate , in consequence of the censure which has been recently cast upon him , has resolved , in order to justify himself , to lay the whole before the public . Captain Patterson , brother of the clerical pervert of that name , and George Bowyer , Esq ., D . C . L ., of the Temple , editor of a Tractarian newspaper , and ( it is believed ) one of the contributors to the British Critic , have been received into the Romish Church . T . A .
years ago an English lady in Rome became a Romanist , and was afterwards taunted by her friends with having become an idolator , in praying to the Virgin ; she declared she did not and would not pray to the Virgin ; on which they retorted that , in that case , she was no real Romanist . Being one of those to whom the Pope kindly permitted to meet him in his garden , she told the case to his Holiness , and asked whether or not she was obliged to pray to the Virgin ; he being a sensible man , and . not willing to lose a disciple for such nonsense , replied that he regretted that his daughter was still deprived of the pTayers of the mother of G-od , but he hoped that she would soon become more enlightened . " — Bristol Journal .
Drinkwater , Esq . ( of Mr . Anderdon ' s " religious community" at Leicester ) , who was on the point of being ordained , but will now become a Romish priest , was received by Father Oakeley . Archdeacon Manning is going abroad immediately ; he will be accompanied by other celebrated Tractarians . — Church and State Gazette . A memorial was presented to the Bishop of London on Friday week by Mr . Taylor , one of the churchwardens of St . Peter ' s district , Pimlico , in reference to the frequent rincine of the bells of St . Barnabas' Church . The
memorial was laid ne vestry » c . ueorge s , Hanover-square , on the previous day , but the vestry could not legally entertain it . The conduct of Mr . Bennett is causing great excitement in the neighbourhood , and many persons are leaving it in consequence of the constant ringing of the bells . The reverend gentleman lias been more than once entreated by the friends of dying persons to desist , but nothing has hitherto moved him to abate the nuisance . The Bishop did not give any immediate reply to the churchwarden , but said that he would consider the matter .
The rumours circulated last week , to the effect that the Lord Bishop of this diocese had forbidden Dr . Pusey to preach at St . James ' s , Bristol , was , it appears , incorrect . The doctor did preach , but made not the most distant allusion to the passing events of the day . After the service the ringers , by permission , rang a peal in honour of the preacher . — Gloucestershire Chronicle . It is rumoured that a congregation , meeting not a hundred miles from Cheltenham , have intimated to their pastor that the time has now arrived when observances of a somewhat Popish tendency can no longer be tolerated . The intimation is also to the effect that , if this gentle hint is not attended to , but the objectionable practices complained of are still persisted in , it is contemplated by the congregation to sign a round « robin , dedaring their determination to withdraw from the church altogether . —Cheltenham Paper .
With a view to the defence of any legal proceedings that may be adopted , Cardinal Wiseman has retained Mr . Peacock , the eminent Queen ' s counsel . There is said to be what is called a " hitch" in the caae of the Reverend Mr . Maskell . Though attending the Romish service , he refuses , we are told , to admit his entire adhesion to Rome , until he shall bo satisfied that "Mariolatry , " or the adoration of the Virgin , be not necessary ; as this is a portion of the Roman Catholic worship in which he cannot conscientiously join . The Pope has been applied to on the subject , and it is thought his Holiness will not allow this to bo an insuperable obstacle in his way ; as , in the case of some Indies who hesitated for the same reason , the worship of the Virgin was dispensed with . Indeed , Mr . Henry Drummond , in his letter to Dr . Wiseman , gives a third case in point . He says : — So the worship of the Virgin Mary is not a doctrine of the Church—it is only a pia opinio . A few
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CARDINAL WISEMAN'S MANIFESTO . The Cardinal Archbishop of AVestminster has not allowed much time to elapse before issuing a defence of the Papal Bull . The formidable document , which occupies above seven columns of the morning papers , is an able production , as- Lord John Russell and the Bishop of London must have found to their cost ; indeed we know not how either of those two gentlemen , will contrive to extricate themselves from the
awkward dilemma in which the Cardinal places them . The manifesto commences with a brief history of the establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England . Since 1628 English Catholics have been governed by Vicars-Apostolic ; that is , by Bishops with foreign titles , named by the Pope , and having jurisdiction as his vicars or delegates . In 1688 their number was encreased from one to four ; in 1840 from four to eight . For many years past , however , a strong desire had prevailed in favour of Bishops with local titles . From 1834 down to the present time various petitions to the Holy See had been presented
for that purpose . In 1847 the Vicars-Apostolic agreed to depute ^ two of their number to Rome to petition for the much-desired boon , on the ground that the Catholic Church in England was without a constitution , the one which they had having been issued in 1743 , and being , therefore , now obsolete and useless . " The Holy See kindly listened to the petition , and referred it to the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda , " and after much discussion the boon was granted . Some practical difficulties arose , which had to be adjusted , the measure was again pi e-
pared , when the Roman revolution broke out and suspended its final conclusion till now . The affair had , therefore , not been got up suddenly . All Catholics knew of it , as a proof of which it appears that in Battersby ' s Irish Directory for 1848 Dr . Wiseman was called Archbishop of Westminster , and he had frequently received letters addressed to him under that title . So far as the Pope was concerned he had taken no share in the transaction except that he , " a kind father , yielded to the earnest solicitations of his children . "
Cardinal Wiseman then proceeds to characterize the present agitation as , ** perhaps , unparalleled in our times . " The main , object of all jmrties , he alleges , has been to hold up to execration the new form of ecclesiastical government : — " For this purpose nothing was refused , however unfounded , however personal , even by papers whose ordinary tone is courteous , or at least well-bred . Anecdotes without a particle of truth , or , what is worse , with some particles of distorted truth in them , have been copied from one into another , and most widely circulated . Sarcasm , ridicule , satire of the broadest character , theological and legal reasonings of the most refined nature , bold and reckless declamation , earnest and artful
argument—nothing seemed to come amiss ; and every mvokable agency , from the Attorney-General to Guy Fawkes , from presmunire to a hustling , was summoned forth to aid the cry , and administer to the vengeance of those who raised it . " And , in fact , there soon sprung up from amidst the first confusion a clearer and more natural agent , interested in promoting it . The Established Church of England looks upon the new constitution accorded by the Holy See to Catholics as a rival existence ; and it is but natural that its clergy should exert themselves to the utmost to keep up an excitement which bears an appearance of attachment to themselves . And hence , by degrees , the agitation has been lately subsiding into a mere clerical and parochial movement . "
Having contrasted the bold and straightforward course pursued by Sir Robert Peel during the agitation against the Maynooth Grant , with the conduct of Lord John Russell on tho present occasion , he proceeds to show that the Catholics of England have a right to be governed by bishops , and that their having a hierarch y is not against luw , and does not in any way deprive the English establishment of a single advantage which it now possesses : —
" Its bishops retain , and , for anything that the new bishops will do , may retain for ever , their titles , their rank , their social position , their preeminence , their domestic comforts , their palaces , their lands , their incomes , without diminution or alteration . Whatever satisfaction it has been to you till now to see them so elevated above their Catholic rivals , and to have their wants so ^ amply provided for , you will still enjoy as much as hitherto . And tho samn is to be said of tho second order of clergy . Not an archdeaconry , or deanery , or canonry , or benefice , or living , will be taken from them , or claimed by the Catholic priesthood . The outward aspects of the two churches will be the same . Tho Catholic episcopacy and the Catholic priesthood will remain no doubt poor ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 23, 1850, page 819, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1860/page/3/
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