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sion , " and to make inquiry into the conduct of all Romish ecclesiastics , subjects of the Queen , who have openly aided in . the execution of the Papal bull" And , if the conduct of any of them shall be proved upon such inquiry to be against the said laws and statutes ( as your humble petitioners believe it will be found ) , that your honourable House will consider the propriety of proceeding against any such offaiiders in the way of impeachment before the high court of Parliament . "
A very large meeting of the inhabitants of the united parishes of St . Andrews , Holborn , and St . George the Martyr , was held in the board-room of the workhouse , Gray ' s-inn-lane , on Monday evening , for the purpose of considering the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . Mr . Talbot presided . Resolutions were passed , after very decided opposition , asserting the danger which menaces civil and political as -well as religious rights in the proceedings of the Pope , and demanding a strong legislative enactment limiting the Catholics to that just equality -which was established by the act of 1829 .
A correspondence has taken place between Sir Benjamin Hall , M . P . for Marylebone , and the Bishop of London , on the subject of the Puseyite practices in the Church of St . Andrew , Wells-street . Sir Benjamin , calls upon the bishop to put an end to those practices , or to resign his charge over the diocese that it may be given to one who shall act moTe energetically in the matter . The Bishop of London declines to reply to the complaints made by Sir Benjamin Hall ; because , as he says , he has publicly called in question his veracity , which Sir Benjamin denies , and , apparently , on good grounds .
There has just been printed a Parliamentary document containing the copy of a letter from the Lord Bishop of Sydney to Sir C . Fitzroy , the Governor , in relation to the rank or precedence of bishops appointed by the Pope within her Majesty ' s Australian dominions . Sir Robert Inglis obtained the document . On the 22 nd of May last , the Bishop of Sydney addressed the Governor , and concluded as follows : — "The right and full power of her Majesty to bestow
rank and precedence upon any of her subjects , and therefore upon Romish ecclesiastics , regarded as individuals , and not as a class or order of men , cannot be doubted or questioned , if this prerogative be exercised by the customary forms of grants for such purposes ; but the question 1 am compelled to raise is , whether directions issued not expressly in the name of her Majesty are in force to invest the Pope with the sovereign prerogative of conferring , even virtually , rank and precedence at his own will upon his nominees , and in virtue only of his nomination , within this realm . "
At the end of July , the Governor enclosed the letter to Earl Grey , which was received on the 4 th of January . No answer had been returned to the letter or despatch , and both arrived in this country when the agitation against Papal aggression was rife . Intimations have reached us from several quarters that a vigorous effort will be made at the next general meeting of the National Society to weed the committee of all names associated with High Church principles . —Guardian .
The Christian Times has published a goodly and instrustive list of the fruits of Oxford teaching for the last years . These fruits being a string of about one hundred fellows , professors , and teachers Avho have jVmrneyed from Oxford to Rome . To each college is assigned its peculiar merits , and traced its especial converts to the Pope . At the tail of these one hundred ecclesiactical leaders follow seventeen hundred clergy , holding emoluments and functions in the Church of England , who have disowned the
royal supremacy , and , in fact , the only basis upon which the Protestant Church reHts . Such heing the fruit , it was time for the crown to examine into the Htate of the tree . But , lo ! it is paled round and parked off . The universities are an hnpnium in imperio , lords of the national creed , guides of national tendencies , education , ritual , and logic . Four eminent lawyers have declared that the commission of inquiry isnued by the crown "is not constitutional or legal , or such as the university or its members are bound to obey . "— Daily News .
A correspondent of the Church and Htate , Gazette says that the Reverend A . Chirol ( curato to Mr . Bennett ) witli his wife and family ; also liin mother , and Hcvcrnl other persons ; and W . Finlunon , Hsq . ( author of the pamphlet on the legality of the Papal hierarch y ) , with bin wife ; and al . so several relations of tho latter , have joined the Church of ltorne . A correspondent of the Alornint / Herald nay « , " During the pant week Dr . Pusey , one of tho patrons of St . Knviour ' tt « . hurch , Leeds , has been on a vimt to that town , with the object of preventing the HcecHHion of the clergy of kSt . Saviour ' s to Rome . In this , however , ho hnn 1 k oii unsuccessful , and Home of the clergy , and at leant twenty of the laymen of the church arc about inunodlately to go over to tin ; Popish Ohureh . "
A crowded vestry-mooting was held at the parish church of JLeighton liuzv . anl , Beds , on Thumluy , for the puriioHC of levying a church rate to defray the oxpenacH of prosecuting the chapelwardciiH of the humlcts for not collecting tho rates required for tho
repairs of the mother chuTch . After a spirited distJttssion and exposure of the injustice of the proposed rate , it was rejected by an overwhelming majority . The churchwardens demanded a poll , which lasted two days , and terminated in a majority of 245 against the rate .
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MISS TALBOT—CONVENT DISCIPLINE . The case of Miss Augusta Talbot has almost diverted public attention from the Papal Aggression this week , The story of her wrongs , as narrated by the Times and other journals , is well calculated to revive the rather worn-out popular feeling against the abuses of the conventual system . Miss Talbot is the daughter of the late Honourable George Henry Talbot , half-brother of the Earl of Shrewsbury , who , as most of our readers are aware , is a Roman Catholic devotee , but , nevertheless , Premier Earl of England and Hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland , and patron of seven livings in the Church of England : —
" By the will of Charles , late Earl of Shrewsbury , two sums of £ 30 , 000 each were given to John Talbot and Augusta Talbot , the two children of the late Honourable George Henry Talbot , half-brother of the present Earl of Shrewsbury , on their attaining the age of twenty one , or in the case of Miss Talbot upon her marriage . John Talbot was born on the 18 th of February , 1830 , and died on the 23 rd of April , 1843 ; at which time , by a gift of survivorship in the will above-mentioned , Miss Talbot , who wa& ^ orn on the 6 th of Jur . e , 1831 , became presumptively ( $ | &tled to the whole £ 60 , 000 and accumulations . The & s&burable George Henry Talbot , the father , died on thl ^< . th of June , 1839 , and his widow remarried on the 9 th of September , 1839 , the Honourable Craven
Fitzhardinge Berkeley , and died on the 2 < 5 th of April , 1841 . In the year 1839 a suit was instituted for the purpose of carrying into effect the will of the testator , Charles , Earl of Shrewsbury , and Miss Talbot and her brother were made wards of court . In August , 1839 , two petitions were presented to Lord Chancellor Cottenham respecting the custody of the infants , when his lordship directed that they should continue to reside with her mother , Mrs . Berkeley . Upon the death of that lady in April , 1841 , Miss Talbot went to reside with the present Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury , and continued to do so up to the month of September last , with the exception of the period of her education at a convent called ' The Lodge , ' at Taunton . " ' y
Last summer Miss Talbot was introduced- to society , and is said to have produced a great sensation . The Times , in alluding to the twelve weeks she was taken out into the world , after spending ten years in a nunnery , says , " Upon the particulars of what happened during that period it does not become us to enter , although they are matter of public notoriety . We will simpl y fill up the gap in the story by repeating that the young lady most creditably refused to contract a marriage into which her relatives endeavoured to force her . This refusal on her part , and other considerations on which we cannot enter , as they have not been formally before
us , appear to have induced Lord and Lady Shrewsbury to leave the young lady to the care of the two priests—Doyle and Hendren . " In September , last year , Miss Talbot returned to the convent at Taunton , and the general understanding among her friends was , that she was there as a postulant , £ hat in September , 1851 , her year of probation would expire , when she was finally to take the vows of a nun , and that her large fortune would thenceforth cease to be hers , and become the property of the convent . Some of her relatives , alarmed at the prospect of her being thus sacrificed , began to bestir themselves with a view to see if she could not be induced to give up the notion of taking the veil . Her
step-father , Mr . C . r . Berkeley , al . so applied to the Lord Chancellor to exercise his authority , as Miss Talbot was a ward in Chancery . Mr . Berkeley urged that the case required immediate interference , and upon Lord Truro ' n refusal to hear the case , except in open court , the former presented a petition to the Court , complaining that tho friends of Miss Talbot were denied access to her , and that evil influences were at work to induce her to become a nun , in order that her fortune may become instrumental in the propagation of the Roman Catholic religion . This petition called foi'h a letter from Dr . Hendren , titular Jiishop of Clifton , in which he denied that Mihh Talbot wuh under any undue restraint , and
repudiated , on behalf of himself and bin fellow Catholics , the iiiftiniiutioii that they had any shunter design upon the young lady ' s £ 80 , 000 , although he admitted that a poi'ion of it would probably be devoted to pious uses . Previous to Mi . su Talbot ' n return to "the Lodge , " lust autumn , he had been applied to , an the ceelesiaHtical superior of the convent , and un she could not be received except uh a poHtulant—that in , as one intended to become a nun , in due time , if properly qualified—she herself wrote 41 a niowt etirneHtly-Hiippliciitingletter" to be admitted a . s hucIi , and , " accordingly , hIio wan admitted about the beginning of September . "
The petition of Mr . Craven Berkeley wuh presented on Saturday , and , at tin ; mime time , one from Mr . Doyle , a Roman Catholic priest , the tcHtamentary guardian of Mjhh Talbot , in which he prayed the court for a Hchcme of expenditure which may permit her introduction to London life during tho coming
fashionable season . Mr . Holt appeared for Mr . Doyle , and Mr . Page Wood for Mr . Berkeley . The following report of the proceedings tends to throw ome light upon the affair : — " The Lord Chancellor ( Truro ) said that in the autumn of last year , when on a visit to the Earl of Shrewsbury , he had a conversation with Miss Talbot , which proved her to-be a very intelligent person . Subsequently he received the information . from Mr , Grantley Berkley that she had gone to a convent . A statament had recently appeared that she had done so with his ( the Lord Chancellor's ) consent . Now , there was no foundation whatever for that assertion , for he was
not even aware of such a step having been taken until informed of the fact . As the matter had now been brought before him , and the parties were in court , the only object that anyone had in view ought to be the interest and cemfort of the young lady . He did not think it right to allow the young lady to remain in the convent , and he should therefore order that such an arrangement should be made as would provide for her future safe residence and comfort during the remainder of her minority , for which purpose he should direct a reference to the master to inquire and report what would be requisite for that purpose , and draw out a scheme in accordance . That order might be made at
once . "Mr . P . Wood was dissatisfied with this course . He wanted the statement in some affidavits which had been prepared to be brought out , and an order for Mr . Berkeley to have private access to Miss Talbot . Mr . Holt hoped the young lady would be first consulted ; she should be in attendance upon his 1 irdship whenever he pleased . Mr . Wood raised the inquiry whether she was really a postulant . The Lord Chancellor replied that her petition distinctly denied that she was a postulant ; from her letter to him , she appeared desirous to come out into society , but she showed a great aversion to private interviews with her step-father . The order of the court had not been fulfilled by the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury in placing their niece in a convent—that was never intended . He ( the Lord Chancellor ) had also had some conversation with her as to a marriage , which seemed an
undesirable one , and was broken off . She should not be removed from the convent without knowing where she was going , nor should she be involved in a public contest for the gratification of other parties . Mr . Page Wood said , that if the gentleman who styled himself the Bishop of Clifton had abstained from publishing letters in the Times , asserting , amongst other things , that Miss Talbot liad been admitted as a postulant , he would have adopted a better and a wiser course than that which he had taken . He could scarcely believe that he was a Christian bishop of any denomination . The Lord Chancellor said that there certainly was a great discrepancy between the statements in the petition and that letter . Mr . Page Wood was glad to find , from his lordship ' s observations , that Mr . Berkeley ' s had been a beneficial interference , his only object having been to prevent the young lady from being sent to a convent ignorant of all its consequences . " After some discussion between the counsel , it was arranged that the second petition should stand over until Thursday . In consequence of what transpired in the Court of Chaneeiy , on Saturday , a short discussion took place in the House of Commons , on Monday evening , regarding Mi . ss Talbot . The subject was introduced by Mr . Reynolds , who appealed to the report of the proceedings in the Court of Chancery to prove that lie had been correct in stating that she wan not a postulant . That statement had been contradicted , not in very courteous terms , by Sir Robert Inglis and Sir Uenjamin Hall , they would now see that he had been correct , lie was bound to say , however , that Mr . Craven Berkeley was warranted in what he stated , becau . se lie had been assured by the superior of the convent that Miss Talbot wan a postulant , and , therefore , he only stated what he believed to be true . Sir Benjamin I lull waa glad to find that the affair had been ho amicably deponed of " . It was perfectly evident that although one party said one thing and the oilier quite the rever . se , they wore both cquully in the right . For his own part he had given credit to the bishop , who Raid Mihh Talbot was a postulant , and lie was now worry at having done so . Mr . Fagan naid the truth was that , Minn Talbot , though not an inmate of the lodge , as a potitulant strictly speaking , was m > in one bcdhc : — 44 There were but . two modes in which a lad y could l > e received into a convent . One of these modes was to become a boarder or school girl , and the other wan to become a poHtulnnt . Mihh Tnlbot , having been previously educated .-itthe Lodge , could not bo received ua a boarder . Stic could only therefore , enter uh a postulant ; and un her uncle wuh about to leave the country , and hIic hud no other relative ( for a utepfather wuh no relation ) Hhrriid uHk to be received in the onl y way nhe could be received , uh a postulant . Seeing tin ; position which Mi . su Tulbot held in Hocictj ' , and the enormous fortune nbe pos . schHed , although the uuthoritien were uTixioiiH to receive her , they hesitated to do ho . Mihh Talbot wuh ut length admitted without going through all the iimml forms required of a poHtulani . ; » nd the bitthop , to whom aJliiHioii wuh mudi ! b y the honourable baronet the member for MuryU'boii * :, with the information that wuh laid before him , wuh perfectly justified in staling that hIic wuh received uh u |> ohMi 1 uiiI . ; un < l Mins Tulbot wuh equall y justified , Hceing thut the principal ceremony wuh jm . sHcd over , in writing to the Lord Chancellor , and Haying thai . hIic wuh not u postulant . In point of fact , nlic went to the convent for tho purpose of making it u temporary reuidence ; and the fuct , ub it now stood , wuh , thut J ) r .
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March 29 , 1851 . ] ® f ) e TLtVi ^ tX . 289
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 289, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1876/page/5/
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