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“Some difficulties arose about a prac- jicsy recognise in the bishops appointed | « Pirst, That Catholics, by law, had ajof to-day’s paper to the same subject, Jz fical point, and pablication was delayed. by our gracious Queen, in virtue of her right to be governed by bishops. See | wij} be admitted that in this we deal more in 1848, another bishop, Dr. Ullathorne, supremacy, any authority to teach them ondly. ‘That no law or anthority bound impartially then our Island contemporas was deputed to Rome. to remove them, or rule them The real SWay therefore, them to be for ever governed by vicars- if a osh «: npore and the measure was. again prepared, of her spiritaal prerogative is confined to | apostolic, and that they were at liberty to) T's a give Doth sides of the que» when the Romen revolution suspended that body of Christians, who voluntarily | bave a hierarchy, that is, an archbishop|non. First, we re-publish Lord Joha ite final conclusion till now. remain subject to the ecclesiastical esta- and bishops with local titles from places} Russell’s letter to the Bishop of Durham -

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* All this time there was no conceal-

blishment called the Church of England.

in the country. Thirdly. That accord-

though rather stale, yet it is the 9

' ment, no attenpt to take people by sur-| Any one can, when he pleases, separate!ingly such titles are not against any Jaw.

prise. All Catholics knew of the intended| himself from this body, and from that/so long as they are not the actual titles} great gun that has been fired by the antj- measure ; the papers announced it. So}moment he ceases to consider the bishop! held by the Anglican hierarchy, Fourth-|Popery beltigerents, and is supposed ty . Hotorious was it, that the Deanand Chap-jappointed by the Crown ag his pastor,|!y. That all these conditions having! pave done the most fearful execution - ter of Westminster petitioned Parliament|superior in spirituals, or mosier in faith.; been exactly complied with, the present si { against it, and a friend of the writer’s}| “When a Dissenter deniv< the Royal) fpiscopacy is perfectly legal.” a pent _— ee Some passages from J heard the Dean of Westminster say rost}Supremacy, he institutes, perhaps, for it} This section concludes with a refer- Cardinal Wiseman’s “ Appeal to the peo-

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openly, ‘Well he may call himself what he pleases, but at Jeast he can never be Dean of Westmninster.’”

Finally his Eminence concludes the introduction by stating that for all these measures, he, and English Bishops alone, are accountable, the Bull having been granted by his foliness, in simple com- pliance with their petition.

THE APPEAL,

The Appeal commences with a rapid and graphic sketch of the agitation in England :—

‘In the press,” says his Eminence, * sarcasm, ridicule, satire of the broadest character, theological and Jegal reason- ings of the most refined nature, bold and reckless declamation, earnest and artful arguinent—nothing seemed to come amiss; and every invocable agency, from the Attorney General to Guy Fawkes, from premunire to a hustling, was sum- moned forth to aid the cry, and adminis- ter to the vengeance of those who raised it.”

fiis Eminence next notices the conduct of the Bstablished Church, of the Premier

some other authority, in some synod, or conference; or he admits of none other to take its place. But when the Catholic denies it, it is because he believes another and-a true ecclesiastical and spt- ritual supremacy to reside in the Pope, or Bishop of Rome, over the entire Catholic Church. And as it is perfeetly lawful for him to deny the one, and so it is equally lawful for him to assert the other. Hence Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, im the Honse of Lords, May 11, 1846, spoke to the following effect :—

“+ Fle said that it was no crime in the Roman Catholic to maintain and defend the supremacy of the Pope; but that if he did it for mischievous purposes, and circulating immoral doctrines and opi- nions, he was lable to punishment by the common law: but if he merely main- tained and defended, as he was bound to do, the spiritual authoriiy of his superior, then he said that he was guilty of no of- fence against the laws of the country.’ ”

Next follows :— Sec. 1L.— What was the extent of Relr-

against the measure. ‘“ This 1s not,” says his Eminence with subtle irony, “an attempt to diminish any ofthe moral and religious safeguards of that Establish- ment, which views our new measvre with such watchful jealousy. Whatever that institution has possessed or done, to influence the people or attach its affec- tions, it will still possess, and may con- tinue to do. That clear, definite, and accordant teaching of the doctrines of their church, that familiarity of inter- course and fueility of access, that close and personal mutual acquaintance, that face to face knowledge of each other, that affectionate confidence and warm sympathy, which form the truest, and strongest, and most natural bonds be- tween a pastor and his flock, a bishop) and his people, you will enjoy, to the full, as much as you have done nll now. The new bishops will not have occasion to cross the path of the prelates of the Anglican Establishment in their sphere of duty; they will find plenty to do, besides their official duties, in attending

gious Toleration gron’ed lo Catholics ?

Have they a right to possess Bishops or

a Hierarchy ?

The argument in this section runs as follows :—

“The Act of Catholic Emancipation

‘to the wants of their poor spiritaal chil ‘dren, especially the multitudes of poor,

‘trish, whose peaceful and truly Catholic! ‘conduct, ander the whirlwind of contume- |

ily which has just assailed them, proves!

ence to the purely ecclesiastical agitation! ple of England,” which hes lately come:

with a thundering boom, in answer to the Premier, and all who have chorussed hig hacknied cry of “ No Popery ”

We are very far from desiring todie

turb, by these or similar republicationa,

which we may, from time to time be.

induced to give, the harmony that now happily prevails in this Island betweep the different classes of rel gionisis. We have, Heaven knows, quite enough of

contentions and disputes on questions #

a purely temporal character, withowd

seeking to quarre}] with our fellow sub. jects on spiritual topics. But since the other papers of the Island have givep proofs of their sympathy in the outery which has beensenselessly raised against the Catholic Chrrch, and have shows no disposition to accord the smallest measure of justice to the elaims of the Catholics, we think that, in fairness, we ought not to be censured for presenting

our readers with both sides of the quem —

tion; and we must, moreover, declare it

; hey have not forgotton the teach- and of the Law Authorities, Of thelwas considered, not only by those whom {at they fave not forgotton the teach; ye ; Premier he says: it benefiied " tat Soe +, ig oftheir church—not to revile when to be our firm and conscientious belief, si-— c i thy all Who couse > ‘ , ‘2 ’ "Syprakg yng ita of justice rather sian or fo revilec, and when they suffer, not to that in the present instance the Catholie

* At the recent crisis, the Catholics of England had no right to expect anv co- operation from the Government of the country—they asked for pone; but they had the right of every cilizen to impartia-

It was deemed unjus! to excud fair participation Im constiinbonal rights "49

anv Englishman. on account of Catnolie Emancipation, By th sact. preceeded and

Vexuling rep es cf bsheps, that this, , movement intie Cathohe Church, instesd)

thr ates. Put, in truth, wnen T read the! ‘ . ’ { fequent boastior of the papers, and the)

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of wenkening, has sirengthened the Ka- |

Church is nof the aggressor. We had hoped that since the passage of the Catholic Relief Bill, all appeals to the bigotry ofthe Nation had become welt

© followed by many others of iesser ayigni-

ity. ‘Thev naturally nuehe ee ete ; a ee ee * me ablishede Chure s ; : : ; ;

lity. They y might have expect-lige the Catholics of the Brith empire! ttblished Church, by rousing the national yigh extinct. By that Bill the oath ed that he to whotwn was entrusted the nei ciieiliih dil teeeehcte bation tied Protestuntism, and awakening dermant ma oe

. stay ; 24 ‘ OMe Le a>! iv . . . ‘on » helm of State would keep itmserf above The ais mode a few ex ‘ thre spinpathies for its eeclesiastical organi- | Tequtring Catholics to declare the Throne , 4 » |}: t} a fe xXveeptions: but the ‘ . . - os

those influences of party feeling which enumeration of thease on aaa ve, zation, | cannot but wonder at the alarm supreme in religions matters was repealed, disqualify the mind for grave and ge- that, in every other respect, the law re-! which it expressed. The last measure 'S thus recognising the legality of Romar

nerous counsels; wonld preserve himself, uncommitted by any hasty or unofficial!

expression of opinion; wou!d remap on the neutral ground of his public respon- sibility, to check excess on every side, and moderate dangerous tendencies in! any party. Instead of this, the head of; her Majesty's Government has astonished, | not this country alone, but all Hurepe, by aljetter which leaves us but little hope that any eppeal to the high authority which rules over the empire would be re- ceived, to say the ieast, with favour.”

And he ends this part of the pamphlet by appealing earnestly to the people of England against the bigotry of their cler- | gy and statesmen.

The following section examines the Questions of

The Royal Supremacy, and Bishops named: by the Crown.

The argument of this section is sur- mised in the following sentences:

* A Catholic, before 1829, in the eye of the law, was a person who did not ad- mit the royal supremacy, and, therefore, was excluded from full enjoyment of civil privileges, A Catholic, after 1229, and, therefore, in 1830, is a person who still continues notto admit the roval supre-. macy, and, nevertheless, is admitied to full enjoyment. of these privileges.

The royal supremacy is no more ad- mitted by the Sevtch Kirk, by Baprists, Methodists. Quakers, Independents, Pres- hyterians, Unitarians, and other dissen- ters, than by the Catholics. None of these recognise in the Queen any autho- rity to interfere in their religious con-

coguised no restrictions. *!'* the jaw, observed Lord Lyndhursi, ‘allowed the doctrines and diseipline of th: Catholic Church, it should be a be carried on perfectly sod Hence, to have told Catholics,

‘law oad to nape rly.’

‘Vou have

rifienied as powerless, as effete, as tend-| ng only to the overthrow of Popery in|

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R,, a Eneland. Then. act on this eonvicticon:) 4 i

‘chow that you believe init; give us the, lie odds of a title which bestows no )ower, rns wealth or influence, on him, that bears it, and keep undisturbed those}

Catholics denying its supremacy. The recent act of the Pope is nothing more than such a denial—a ceria} only suchas Methodists, Baptists, Independents, and other Dissenters make. There is no it

erfect religious jiberty, but you shall fe : : , le P : . gi ‘other realities, and Jet the issue be tried | Vasion of the Queen’s prerogative in tem

not teach that the Uhureh esnnot err, or, ‘you have complete toleration, bot you’ must not presuine to beleve holy orders) to be a sacrament,’ won'ld have been nn-

require bishops to administer them; con-| sequently, a succession of bishops to keep, up a succession of persons in orders. Hence, the Catholic Church is essentially

episcopal; and to say—‘ You Catholics!

shall have complete religious tojeraiion, | ;

bat you shall not have bishops among, you to govern you,’ would have been a) complete contradiction in terms: Et would, have amounted to a total denial of religi-| ens toleration. When, therefore, eman-. eipation was granted to Catholics, full power was given them to have an epis- copate, that 1s, a body of bishops to rule thei, in communion with the Pope, the avowed head of their Church,

“To have then said to Catholics— ‘You are perfectly free to practise your religion, and to have your own church government, but you shall not be tree to have it in its proper and perfect fori, but only in the imperfect form in which it has been tolerated, while yon had not liberty of conscience, would have been a ty- ranny, and, in fact, a denial of that very iberty of conseience, But the fact is simple and plain one, that the law did not say so, and did not put on any such re- striction,” B

His Eminence then givesan analysis of

cerns, to appoint their ministers for them, orto mark the limits of their separate: #istricts in which authority has to be ex- ercived.

“ Note of these, any more than Catho-

jthe law, and especially of the sections

que dignities of Protestant Sees; and

forbidding Catholic Bishops to assume

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gatory and ‘yrannica', Now, holy orders !

on these terms. so mach in your fayonr.| Let it be a fair contention, with theelogi-| ca] weapons snd fair arguments. If you! preveil. and Catholicity is extinguished. in the Island, it will be a victory Without | remorse. Jt will have been achieved by’ the pawer ofthe Spint, and not by the) arms of flesh; it will prove your canse to: he divine. But if, im spite of all your!

vance, does win over to it the learned.) the devout, and the charitable—does spread itself widely among the poor and, simple—then vou will not check its progress by forbidding a Catholic bishop to take the title of Hexham or of Clifton.”

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poral matters, fer Majesty wil) sité® securely on her throne as ever; and the Catholics of the United Kingdom, who have ever (often under the most trying circumstances), willingly borne allege ance to the Crown—a_ fuet attested db the blood of many a “ Papist’”? soldiene

‘present advantage, our religion docs ad |wi!l remain unshaken in their attachment, |

no matter what Bulls may emanate from the Vatican. There is no se¢gression Bp»

on the privileges—no assumption of the»

emoluments, enjoyed by the Protestant Bishops of Ragland, contemplated by the establishment of a Catholic Hierarchy Sneha Hierarchy has Jong existed if Ireland, without aggression upon, or oF sumption of, Pretestant rights. What in-

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“ PAPAL AGGRESSION.”

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Tue local press having lately occupied much of its space with long extracts from the English joarnals, under the ominons heading of “ Papal aggression,” all cha- racterised by the most rampant hostility ‘othe Pope and the newly appointed English Bishops, without giving a Jine in justification of the couse pursued by his ({oliness—we hope the saints. will no take alarm at our devoting several co!umnyy

blishnent of a similar Hierarchy in Eng” land ?

It is now an acknowledged maxim: im the British Constitution, thet all sect have a right to the enjoyment of full 1 ‘igious liberty. This was long the stere

typed sentiment of the Whigs. Isitm# thea flagrantly inconsistent for the lesd- er of that party, practically to deny the right, by objecting to Catholics managiBg their own affairs as they think best, and dividing their people into what classes doicesses they think best? But it is B%.

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