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DECEMBER.

‘W mere late the wild flower bloomed, the brown leaf lies;

Not even the suow-drop cheers the drea- ry plain:

The fainished birds forsake each leafless spray,

And flock around the barn-yard’s win- nhowiug store.

Season of social mirth! of fireside joys! I love thy shortened day, when, at its close, The blazing tapers, on the jovial board, Dispense o’er every care-forgetting face Their cheering light, and round the bottle glides ; Now far be banished, from our social ring, The party wrangle fierce, the argument Deep, learned, metaphysical, and dull, Oft dropt, as oft again rerewed, endless; Rather I’d hear stories twice ten times

told,

Or vapid joke, filebed from Joe Miller's page,

Or tale of ghost, hobgoblin dire, or witch :

Nor would 1, with a proud fastidious frown,

Proscr'be the laugh-provoking pun: absurd

Though’: be, far-fetched, and hard to be discerned,

It serves its purpose, if it shake our

sides.

Now let the circling wine inspire the s0nf,

The caich, the glee; or list the melting lays

Of Scotia’s pastoral vales,—they ever please.

Loud blows the blast: while, sheltered

from us rage,

The social circie feel their joys enhanced.

Ah, — think they of the storm-tossed

Oip,

actin he uproar of the winds and waves,

“the waves unseen, save by the hight- ping’s etare,

Or caonon’s flash, sad signal of distress,

fhe trerabline crew each moment think they feel

The shock uf sunken rock ;—at last they strike:

Borne on the blast their dying voices reach,

Faintly, the sea-girt hamlet; help is vain:

The morning light discloses to the view

The mast alternate seen and hid, as sinks

Or heaves the surge. The early village maid

‘Tarns prin like clouds when o’er the toon they glide ; ;

She thinks of her true love, far, far at Bea ;

Mournful, the live long day she turns her wheel,

And ever and anon her head she bends,

While with the flax she dries the trick- ling tear.

James GRAHAME.

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“The Papal Aggression.”

THE ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMIN.- STER’S APPEAL CONCLUDED,

[lis Fiainence thea urges—

“1. That in [reland, Australia, Cana- da, the West Indies, and India, Bishop rica constituted by the Pope were recoy- nized by tle Jaw, either in statues or officially ; and that in 1831, the warden- ship of Galway was changed into a bishopric, by a Papal Ball, without hindrance frow the Government.”

“2. But further, considering the

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_ CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 28, 1850.

manner in which acts of the royal supre- macy had been exercised abroad, and taking it for granted that i could uot be greater when exercised in foreign Catholic countries than the Pope’s, in our regard, we could not suppose that his appoint- ment of Catholic bishops in ordinary in England would have been considered as

‘more ‘inconsistent with the Queen’s

supremacy,’ than that exercise was con- sidered * inconsistent with the Pope’s supremacy’ acknowledged in those coun- tries,’

For instance, her Majesty appointed a Bishop of Jerusalem, having specia) juris- diction over Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia. Now, did her Majesty ask leave to do this, from the Emir Beshir, or the King of Abyssinia? Again—she appointed a Bishop of Gibralter, havin g jurisdiction in Malta, where the Roman Catholic Arehdishop had been always and is recognised by law. And over Italy. Even in Rome! Was the Pope’s leave asked for this ?

“TY, therefore, the roval buprenisicy of iF e English crown could thus lawfully exercise itself, where it never has before exercived authority, and where it is not recocnised, as in a Catholic country -if the Queen, as the head of the Enylish Chureii, can send bishops inte Abyssinia and Jralv, surely Catholies bad good right te suppose that, with the full tolera- tion granted them, and the permitied eX- ercise of Papal supremacy in their behalf, no jess would be permitted to them with- out censure or rebuke.”

«3. Bur not only had Catholics every ground to fee! justified hy what had been elsewhere done before, doing the same when to themselves seemed expedient, without (heir act, any more than preced- ing ones, being characterized as we have seen, but positive declarations and public assurance led thei to the same con- clusion.

“In 1841, or 1842, when, for the first lime, the Lioly See thought of erecting a hierarchy in North America, | was com- missioned to sound the feelings of Go- vernmen! omthe subject. | came up to London for the purpose, and saw the Under-Secretary for the colonies of which Lord Stentey was the secretary. J shall not eas ily forget the urbanity of my re-

+ ception, or the interesting conversation

that took place in whieh much was spoken to me which has since come fiterally true, But ov the subject of my mission, the answer given was something to this effect :—‘* What does it matter to us what you cell vourselves, whether Vicars- Apostolic or Bishops, or Muftis, or Tma- ums, so that vou do not ask us to do anything fur you? We have no right to prevent you taking any titles among yourselves,’ This. however, the distin- euished gentleman alluded to observed was his private opinion, and he desired me tocall ina few days after. I did so, and he assured me that, baving aid the raatier before the head of the department, the answer was the same as he had before given me. I wrote it to Rome, and it served, no doubt, as the basis pt the nomination of bishops in ordinary in North America. [I have no doubt tne documents referring to this transaction will be found ir the Colonial office. In the debate on the Catholic Relief Bul, July 9, 1845, Lord John Rassel, then in opposition, spoke to the following effect : — He, for one, was prepared to go into cominittee on those clauses of the Act of 1829. He did not say that he was will: ing to go into-committee to deliberate on the subject. Ile belicved tat ths

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might repeal those disallowing clauses which prevented a Roman Catholic bishop assuming a title held by a bishop of the Established Church. He could not conceive any good ground for the continuance of this restriction.” It must be ovserved that there is nothing in the context which limits these sensible aud liberal. werds to Ireland. They apply to the repeal of the whole clause, which, as we have seen, extends equally to both countries.

“ What his lordship had said in 1845, he deliberately, and even more strongly, confirmed the following year.

“ He said, that ‘as to preventing per- sons assuraing particular titles, nothing could be more absurd and puerile than to keep up such a distinction.’

“Tt would appear, therefore, that whatever hesitation Lord John Russell had about repealing other clauses in the Emancipation Act, his mind was made up about the restriction from Catholics assuming the very titles of sees held by Anglican bishops. Had he obtained his wishes in 1846, the law would now have permitted us to call ourselves Bishops of London or Chester, and Archbishop of Canterbury. I quote these passages, not for the purpose‘ of charging Lord Join Russell with inconsistency, but merely to justify ourselvea, and to show how little reason we could have for believing that our acting strictly within the law respect- ing episcopal titles would have been described as ithas. For if it was puerile in 1846, to continue to prevent Catholics even taking the prohibited titles, and no good reason existed for the continuance of even that. restriction, is it manly in 1850 to denounce as “insolent and isi dious” the assumption of titles different from those accorded to us by the autho- rity which Lord Join acknowledges can alone bestow episcopacy upon us,

“T have already x!Juded to Lord Min- to’s being shown the brief for the hier- archy, printed about two years ago. The circumstance may have escaped his memory; or he may not at the time have attended to it, having more important matters in his mind. But as to the fact that his attention was called to it, and he made no reply, | can have no doubt.”

Sec. 6.— The Title of Westminster.

A Catholic Bishopric is always named fron a town. ‘The Archbishopric, or Metropolitan, as the name imports, from a Capital town :—

“This being the principal’ or basis of every hierarchy, how was it to be acted on here ? London was a title inbibited by law: Southwark was to forma sepe- rate See. To have taken the title of a subordinate portion of what forms the great conglomerate of London, as Fins- bury or Islington, would have been to cast ridicule, and open the door for jeers unon the new Episcopate. Besides none of these are towns or cities. Westmin ster naturally suggested itself, as a city unoccupied by any Anglican See, and giving an honorable and ‘well known me- tropolitan title. It was consequently

selected, and I can sicerely say, that | had no part whatever in the selection.”

Bet the Chapter of Westminster have protesied, as though practical jurisdiction within the Abbey were intended; but in the Abbey and the Palace, and the parks, they shall range undisturbed. © To the venerable old church 1 may repair, as | have been wont to do. But, perhaps, the Dean and Chapter are not aware that. were | disposed to claim more than the right to tread the Catholic pavement of that noble building, and to breathe its alr of ancient consecration, another migiit sep ia witha prior claim. For sucees-

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sive generations, there has existed ever, in the Benedictine ordér, an Abbot of Westminster, the representative, in reli- gious dignity, of those who erected, and beautified, and governed that chureh and cloister. Have theyever been disturbed

by this ‘titular?? Have they heard ef.

any claim or protest on his part, touching their temtporalities ? Then, let them fear no greater aggression now. Like him, | may visit, as [ have said, the old Abbey, and say my prayer by the shrine of good St. Edward; and meditate on the olden times, when the Church was filled without a coronation, and multitudes hourly worshipped without a service.

“ But in their temporal rights, or their quiet possession of any dignity and title, they will not suffer. Whenever ! go in, [ will pay my entrance fee, hke other liege subjects, and resign mvself meekly to the guidance of the beadle, and listea, without rebuke, when he points out to my admiration detestable monuments, oF shows me a whole in the wall for a con- fessiona!.”

Where the Archbishopric of Westminster does lie.

“ Yet this splendid monument, its trea- sures of art, and its fitting endowments, form not the part of Westminster which will concern me. For there is another part which stands in frighifal contrast, though in immediate coniact, with this magnificence. In ancient times, the ex- istence of an abbey on any spot, with @ large staff of clergy, and dmple revenues, would have sufficed to create around ita little Paradise of comfort,cheerfulnessjand ease. This, however, is not now the case. Close under the Abbey of Westminster there lie concealed la»yrinths of Janes, and courts, and alleys, and slums, nesis of ignorance, vice, depravity, and crime, as well as of squalor wretchedness, and disease; whose atmosphere is typus, whose ventilation is cholera; in which swarms a huge and alinost countless po- pulation, ina great measure, nominally at least, Catholic; haunts of filth which no sewerage committee can reach—dark corners, which no lighting board can brighten. This is the part of Westmin- ster 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 goodly work las 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 heirarch, bears fruits of order, peacefullness, de- cency, 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 ofa chief pss- ior with those of a city where the name indeed is glorious, but the purlievs infa- mous—in which the very grandeur of its public edifices is as a shadow !0 screen from the public eye sin and misery the inost appaljiug. Ifthe wealth of the ab- bey be stagnant and not diffusive, if it ia no way rescue the neighbouring popule- tion from the depths in which it is sunk, let there be no jeatousy for apy one who, by whatever name, js ready fo make the latter bis care, without interfering with the former.

“ [T cannot conelude without ene word, on the part which the clergy of the An glican Church have acted in the Jate ex- citement. Catholics have been their principal theologica) opponents, and we have carried on our controversies with them temperately, and with every person- al consideration, We have had no re- Course to popular arts to debase them ; we have never attempted, even when the current of public feeling has set agains.

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