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unnoticed by the great and the powerful ( so soon as the present commotion shall have subsided ) , without social rank or preeminence . If there be no security for the English Church in this overwhelming balance in its favour of worldly advantages , surely the exclusion of Catholics from the possession of local sees will not save it . It really appears to be a wish on the part of the clerical agitators to make people believe that some tangible possession of something solid in their respective sees has been bestowed upon the new bishops j * something territorial , ' as it has been called . Time will unmask the deceit , and show that not an inch of land or a shilling of money has been taken from Protestants and given to Catholics . "
Having proved that there was nothing in . the statutebook to prevent the Catholics from having a hierarchy , the next question is as to the means by -which , to obtain it . There was only one way—through the Pope . Nor was this a new or alarming doctrine . No further back than August , 1846 , Lord John Russell , in the House of Commons , made the following remark : — " ' There is another offence of introducing a bull of
the Pope into the country . The question is , whether it is desirable to keep up that , or any other penalty for such an offence . It does not appear to me that we can possibly attempt to prevent the introduction of the Pope ' s bulls into tliis country . There are certain bulls of the Pope which are absolutely necessary for the appointment of bishops and pastors belonging to the Roman Catholic Church . It would be quite impossible to prevent the introduction of such bulls . ' "
On the same occasion , ! Lord Lyndhurst in the House of Lords , said : — " * They tolerated the Catholic prelates , and they knew that these prelates could not carry on their church establishments , or conduct its discipline , without holding communication with the Pope of Rome . No Roman Catholic bishop could be created without the authority of a bull from the Pope of Rome ; and many of the observances of their church required the same sanction . The
moment , therefore , that they sanctioned the observance of the Roman Catholic religion in this country , they by implication allowed the communication ( with the Pope ) prohibited by this statute , and for which it imposed the penalties of high treason . If the law allowed the doctrines and discipline of the Roman Catholic church , it should be permitted to be carried on perfectly and properly ; and that could not be without such communication . On these grounds he proposed to repeal the act . ' " ( 13 th ElizJ
He denied that the appointment of a Catholic hierarchy trenched on the royal prerogative , as had been alleged in the address to her Majesty by two members of the bar , and left to the lawyers the task of proving how it did so . As for the charge made by Lord John Russell , that the mode of setting up a Catholic hierarchy was " insolent and insidious , " Cardinal Wiseman disposes of it by referring to the simple fact that , " the measure now promulgated was not only prepared but actually printed three years ago , and a copy of it shown to Lord Minto by the Pope , on occasion of an audience given to his lordship by his holiness . "
But the greatest offence of all had been the selection of Westminster as the metropolitan see of the new hierarchy . He was sorry that it had been so , but certainly no offence had been intended . Westminster had naturally suggested itself as a city unoccupied by any Anglican see , and as giving the honourable and well-known metropolitan title . He was glad , however , that it had been chosen on various accounts . Not because it was the seat of the courts of law or of Parliament , but because it brought the real point of difference more clearly and forcibly before their opponents : —
( The chapter of Westminster has been the first to protest against the new archiepiscopal title , as though some practical attempt at jurisdiction within the abbey was intended . Then let me give them assurance on that point , and let us come to a fair division and a good understanding . " The diocese , indeed , of Westminster embraces a large district , but Westminster proper consists of two very different parts . One comprises the stately abbey , with its adjacent palaces and its royal parks . To this portion the duties and occupation of the dean and chapter are mainly confined ; and they shall range there undisturbed . To the venerable old church I may repair , as I have been wont to do . But , perhaps , the dean and chapter are not aware that , were I disposed to claim
more thnu the right to tread the Catholic pavement of that noble building , and breathe its air of ancient consecration , another might step in with a prior claim . For successive generations there has existed ever , in the Benedictine order , an abbot of Westminster , the representative , in religious dignity , of those who erected and beau tilled and governed that church and cloister . Have they ever boon disturbed by this ' titular ' ? Have they heard of any claim or protest on his part touching their temporalities ? Then let them fear no greater agmression now . Like him , I may visit , as I have said , the old abbey , and say my prayer by the shrine of good St . Ijdward , and meditate on the olden times , when the church filled without a coronation , and multitudes hourly worshipped without a service .
its fitting endowments , form not the part of Westminster which will concern me . For there is another part which stands in frightful contrast , though in immediate contact , with this magnificence . In ancient times , the existence of an abbey on any spot , with a large staff of clergy and ample revenues , would have sufficed to create around it a little paradise of comfort , cheerfulness , and ease . This , however , is not now the case . Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed labyrinths of lanes and courts , and alleys and slums , nests of ignorance , vice , depravity , and crime , as well as of squalor , wretchedness , and disease ; whose atmosphere is typhus , whose ventilation is cholera : in which swarms
a huge and almost countless population , in great measure nominally at least catholic ; haunts of filth , which no sewage committee can reach—dark corners which no lighting board can brighten . This is the part of Westminster which alone I covet , and which I shall be glad to claim and to visit as a blessed pasture in which sheep of holy church are to be tended—in which a bishop ' s godly work has to be done of consoling , converting , and preserving . And if , as I humbly trust in God , it shall be seen that this special culture , arising from the establishment of our hierarchy , bears fruits of order ,
peacefulness , decency , religion , and virtue , it may be that the Holy See shall not be thought to have acted unwisely when it bound up the very soul and salvation of a chief pastor with those of a city , where the name indeed is glorious , but the purlieus infamous—in which the very grandeur of its public edifices is as a shadow to screen from the public eye sin and misery the most appalling . If the wealth of the abbey be stagnant and not diffusive , if it in no way rescue the neighbouring population from the depths in which it is sunk , let there be no jealousy of any one who , by whatever name , is ready to make the latter his care , without interfering with the former . "
He concludes with a very sly hint to the clergy of the Established Church on the unwise course which they have pursued in the present agitation . He contrasts the difference between the mode which the Roman Catholics have pursued in their controversies with the Anglican Church , and that which the Dissenters have taken : — " We have had no recourse to popular arts to debase them ; we have never attempted , even when the current of public feeling has set against them , to turn it to advantage by joining in any outcry . They aie not our members who yearly call for returns of sinecures or episcopal incomes ; they are not our people who form antiwhich
church and stale associations ; it is not our press sends forth caricatures of ecclesiastical dignitaries , or throws ridicule on clerical avocations . With us the cause of truth and of faith has been held top sacred to be advocated in any but honourable and religious modes . We have avoided the tumult of public assemblies and farthing appeals to the ignorance of the multitude . But no sooner has an opportunity been given for awakening every lurking passion against us , than it has been eagerly seized by the ministers of that Establishment . The pulpit and the platform , the church and the townhall , have been equally their field of labour ; and speeches have been made and untruths uttered , and calumnies repeated , and flashing words of disdain , and anger , and hate , and contempt , and of every unpriestly , and unchristian , and unholy sentiment have been spoken , that treated
could be said against those who almost alone have them with respect ; and little care was taken at what time , or in what circumstances , these things were done . If the spark had fallen upon the inflammable materials of a gunpowder-treason mob , and made it explode , or what was worse , had ignited it , what cared they ? If blood had been inflamed , and arms uplifted , and the torch in their grasp , and flames had been enkindled , what heeded they ? If the persons of those whom consecration makes holy , even according to their own belief , had been seized , like the Austrian general , and illtreated , and perhaps maimed or worse , what recked they ? These very things were , one and all , pointed at as glorious signs , should they take place , of high and noble Protestant feeling in the land , as proofs of the prevalence of an tinpersecuting , a free inquirirg , a tolerant gospel creed !"
" JJut in their temporal rights , or their quiet possession of any dignity and title , they will not sull ' er . Whenever 1 go in I will pay my entrance-fee like other liege subjects , and resign myself meekly to the guidance of the beadle , and listen , without rebuke , when he points out to my admiration detestable monuments , or shows me a hole in the wall for a confessional . Yet this splendid monument , its treasures of art , and
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THREATENED RIOT IN PIMLICO . A scene of the most extraordinary character , calculated to create considerable alarm and excitement , took place on Sunday , during morning service , at the reccntiy-crccted Protestant church of St . Barnabas , Pimlico , at which principles and practices of a decidedly Pusoyite character prevail . In consequence of some attempt to interrupt divine service on the previous Sunday , and there being some apprehension that the congregation might be disturbed , or a breach of the peace committed ,
Sergeant Loom , of the B division , and two or three constables under him , the whole being in plain clothes , were placed in the church previous to the commencement of morning service . The sittings being all filled , the church doors wore closed , and in a few minutes afterwards a well-dressed man was seen to leave by one of the side doors in Churchstreet , between which and the stieet there is a small court-yard or space opening into the thoroughfare by a door in a stone wall , the latter of which the person who quitted the odih'ce left open . There is cverv reason to believe that the scone that
alby the position of the entrance , succeeded in preventing an attack upon the church until the arrival of a large party of the police . Upon the sergeant first issuing from the church with his men , he found that some half-dozen of a mob of nearly 200 had entered the door before spoken of into the space between that and the church , when , by a most determined effort , they succeeded in closing the outer door , and thus separating those who had entered from the main body , amidst the cries of " We'll have no Popery ! Down with the church ! Break the door open ! " and such like exclamations . The few persons who had entered as described retreated over the stone wall , upon finding the rest of the party cut off , and the crowd encreased momentarily until the arrival of Inspector Cumming , of the B division , who was upon the ground within a few minutes with a
ponce pr a . rsy of persuasion and force the assemblage , which was such as temporarily to cause much anxiety for the safety of the congregation and the neighbourhood , was , with the exception of one person , who was captured , dispersed . The police brought up their prisoner on Monday morning before Mr . Broderip , at the Westminster Police Court . He turned out to be William Goss , butler in the establishment of Mr . A . R . Drummond , the eminent banker , of 2 , Bryanstone-square , and was charged with a breach of the peace , and endeavouring to force his way into St . Barnabas Church , Pimlico , on Sunday morning , during divine service . The court was crowded during the investigation ,
wnich . occupied , some , xne lonowing are most important depositions and the extraordinary magisterial decision . Inspector Cumming , who preferred the charge , said : — He proceeded to St . Barnabas Church on Sunday , in consequence of information which bad reached him that a very large mob had assembled round the chuich , threatening to break open the doors and commit other
acts of violence . On his arrival he saw a crowd of persons around the church , threatening to break open the doors and commit other acts of violence . He desired his men to disperse the crowd , and , whilst they were doing so , the defendant , who had made himself particularly active , endeavoured to force his way into the church . Upon this the crowd became more excited , and made use of the most violent and threatening language . The defendant was then taken into custody . "
The accused maintained that the police were mistaken , and called , among others , Mr . Z . D . Berry , ironmonger , of 3 , Victoria-road , one of the trustees of the district , who , after detailing the expressions of annoyance felt by a great number of gentlemen at being refused admittance at five minutes past eleven o ' clock , and the circumstance of the party , among whom was a nobleman living in Eaton-place , as before described , saying that a few minutes after that a gentleman who came out of the church over the wall , declared " he was disgusted ; the candles were lighted ; it was Popery in its most malignant form ;" and that led to the cry outside of "No Popery !"
Mr . Broderip said—I have now heard the whole of the case , and the evidence on both sides is now before me . It is quite clear that a very large mob of persons was present , a proportion of whom were highly respectable , and a portion thieves and low characters . The question is , whether the person before me was at all active in leading the mob or doing that onl y which he might have a right to do—attempting to gain admission into the church . Now it appears from the evidence that there was room inside the church when admittance was refused . I find that all he is charged with is putting his foot to the door to get in , but a great many of the witnesses swear
that he did not do so , and , therefore , I do not think it is a case for me to call on the defendant for sureties for his good behaviour , and therefore I must dismiss him . But the Queen ' s peace must be preserved , and I am determined to preserve it within this district ; but those persons have much to answer for and undertake a serious responsibility who provoke breaches of the peace by exciting the indignation of their fellow-subjects by the ceremonies of the Romish Church at such a time as the present , and excite the indignation of those who hold the religion of the country .
These expressions were followed by a general burst of enthusinsm , clapping of hands , &c , which was taken up by the persons assembled outside the court .
small party of men , immediately followed by Mr . Russell , the superintendent of the division , with a fresh body of constables . At this time the mob must have numbered very near a thousand , and consisted chiefly of gentlemen , and well-dressed persons . There was a very strong feeling manifested by many of the well-dressed persons present against the proceedings at St . Barnabas , and it required the exercise of very considerable firmness and moderation on the part of the
most immediately followed was premeditated . The stranger had scarcely left the building- five minutes when a loud shouting and yelling , with the clamour of many voices , was heard by those within the snored edifice , and Sergeant Loom and his men rushed out by the door the stranger had taken , and by dint of great personal activity , favoured
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CARDINAL WISEMAN IN DANGER . At the clmclusion of the ordinary business of the Guildhall Police Court on Saturday , a gentleman appeared before Alderman Challis to ask his advice relative to a point of general interest at the present time . He wished to know whether the late innovation by the Pope of Rome upon the rights of the Sovereign of this country rendered his emissaries , or those executing his commands , liable to any penalty .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 23, 1850, page 820, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1860/page/4/
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