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      Protestantism And Popery. The Bishopof G...

      S ^^^^^^^ ESs ^^^^^^ ^ iroce ^ ding ^ d not meet with his approbation . One of the reverend incumbent ' s curates preceded him m the " ^ he Gu ^ Zn states that Mr . Bennett is engaged in

      winding up the accounts in connection with his charitable instituUon ? , and may be expected to complete his resignation before the end of this week . He has taken no !» ijnanv of the services since the publication of his JorresponSence with the Bishop of London . The altarcloth ! and other decorations of the chancels of the churches of St . Paul ' s and St . Barnabas , which were re-™ have been restored . The choral services have , ™ r fee present , " says the Guardian , been done away

      The Leeds Mercury states that the two curates of St . Saviours , Leeds , Mr * Rooke and Mr . Beckett , complain of havhig been unjustly treated by the Bishop of Ripon ? n the proceedings taken against them They deny that the charges on which they are removed from office have been proved ; they avow they preach the doctrines alleged against them , but contend they are the doctrines of the Church of Eng land , and desire to have the question settled bv an appeal to the Ecclesiastical Courts . The initiatory steps for having this test applied must be taken by the Bishop , as the curates have no ^ right to appeal against his decision . , The Ami de la Religion announces that " the Holy Father has just given another proof of the independence of the spiritual power , by establishing an . Episcopal See in Ireland . The diocese of Cloyne and Ross has been divided in two , and Pius IX . has named a Bishop to the

      new diocese . . It is reported that the Bishop of Oxford has issued an inhibition against Dr . Pusey ' preaching in his diocese . —Church and State Gazette .

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      The English At Rome. According To All Ac...

      THE ENGLISH AT ROME . According to all accounts the English nobility and gentry are making some sensation at Rome by the readiness with which they renounce the errors of the Church of England and embrace those of the Church of Rome . On New Year's-day Lord Campden , son of the Earl of Gainsborough , and Lady Campden made a public recantation of Protestantism , and were received into the Roman Catholic Church . Lord and Lady Feilding were present , as well as several other persons who have preceded or followed their example . Rome is said to be crowded with English converts from every rank in society , and the Roman nobility vie with each other in paying them the most marked attention . In all public ceremonies they obtain the best places , and the Pope and the Cardinals never fail to notice them in public .

      New Year ' s evening was distinguished by one of the most splendid fetes ever given at Rome . The Prince Cardinal Altieri , President of Rome , and Comarca , openedhis magnificent palace in the Piazza del Jesu . Every person of consideration , foreign and native , was invited , and the numerous salons were resplendent with beauty and diamonds . Among the ladies most distinguished for personal appearance and brilliant costumes was the Princess Torlonia , who was literally one blaze of jewels , many of which were said to have once belonged to the shrine of our Lady of Loretto . A diadem composed of brilliants and pearls eclipsed everything in the way of ornament present , and it is said to be not only one of the most gorgeous , but the most costly parure belonging to any private person in Europe . The

      next personage , who divided general attention with Madame Torlonia , was the Princess Doria , daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury . On this occasion she produced , from caskets where they had long been hidden , the costly heirlooms of the Pumiili fumily . The value of these jewels is almost inestimable , not only on account of their intrinsic worth , but their historical association , as many of them are known to have belonged to the celebrated Donna Olimpia ( said to be daughter of Popo Innocent

      XL ) , and are recognized in Velasquez ' s portrait of that lad y . The PrinceBS Borghese ( a Rochefoucuuld ) Was likewise splendidly attired . The Princess Altieri , who did the honours for her relative the Cardinal , was also a star of the first magnitude . Her diamonds , in number and value , were scarcely surpassed b y those abovenumed . The foreign circle wns completed by all the diplomatic corps and their ladies , and b y the French General Commander-in-Chief and his staff . The fete is described an one of the mo st remarkable ever given at Rome .

      The President And The Assembly. The Disn...

      THE PRESIDENT AND THE ASSEMBLY . The disnuHBal of General Changarnier , and the breaking up of that union between the superior command of tho national guards of the Seine und of the army of tho first division , which made his power ho tomuduble , has not been followed by uny of those alun mng results which were threatened . The organs oi tho majority prophesied that such a measure would be tho aignal for civil war between tho President and the As » ombly , and hinted that the effect Would only bo to lodge tho present inmate of tho ¦ uivhoo at Vincennes . Instead of that , Paris has been

      ^ l more tranquil than usual , and nobody supposes that now there is the slightest ground for alarm . The formation of the new Ministry and the dismissai ^ f ~ Generalr € hiingarnier-caused-mueh-excitement in the Assembly . After much discussion , on Saturday , M . de Remusat proposed that the Assembly should retire to its bureaux in order to appoint a committee , specially charged to report and propose some measure or resolution adapted to the new state of affairs . The new Ministry ineffectually opposed this motion ; and , as every fraction of the Chamber not positively friendly to the President ' s

      Government concurred in the desire to form this committee , which , in fact , pledged themselves and the House to nothing at all , it was carried by a majority of 57 in a House of 603 members present . The composition of the committee , which chose the Due de Broglie for president , and M . Lanjuinais , a member of the tiers partie for secretary , showed that it was hostile to the Government ; but as , with the exception of MM . Baze and Nettement , who have always distinguished themselves by their vehement opposition to the Government of the President , the committee was in general composed of moderate men , it was felt that no extreme measures would be

      recommended . The first step of the committee was to demand the communication of the proces-verbaux of the committee of permanence . Not only did the Government call upon the house to comply- with this request , but M , Baroche challenged their publication . On Tuesday the important documents were published . The organs of the Government congratulated their party that they brought to light no new charge against the powers that be ; while the Opposition papers rejoiced to find that they fully confirmed all the charges made at the time , and contradicted by the Government papers , with respect to the champagne and sausages distributed at Satory , the Bonapartist proceedings of the Society of the Dix Decembre , and the dismissal of General Neumayer , because he discouraged the cries of " Vive l'Empereur !"

      The committee presented their report to the Assembly on Tuesday evening . They had maturely examined the proposition of M . Remusat , and the proces-verbaux of the Permanent Committee , and had not thought that the responsibility of the events which were recited in them should be visited on a higher authority than the Ministers . That opinion was confirmed by the perusal of the proces-verbaux and the explanations g iven to the C ommittee by the Ministers of the Interior and of War . It was evident to all that the Government had long endeavoured to excite doubts in the country as to the stability of the present state of things , in order to bring about the editious cries of

      restoration of an Imperial regime . S " Vive l'Empereur ! " had been uttered with impunity . The general who refuse d to sanction that cry was superseded in his command . The Ministerial press violently attacked the National Assembly , to destroy its moral authority . It was proved that those cries were e ncouraged and excited by agents of the Government . M . Baroche denied the charge , and opposed his own testimony to that of the Permanent Committee , although he only assisted at one of the four reviews which took place at Satory . Tho Minister , on being asked why he permitted the Government press to attack tho Assembly ,

      replied that he had no journals in his pay ; and to show his impartiality he told the committee that he had sent for the chief editors of those papers , and declared to them that , if they continued their attacks against the Legislative Assembly , he would deprive them of tho ri-ht of selling in the streets . The Minister added , that the dismissal of General Chungamier and the suppression of his double command had been long decided . Some differences arose in the Cabinet on that subject , and . several inumberH having tendered their resignation , they all resolved

      to resign . The committee had divided . Two members proposed tho simple order of the day , seeing nothing in the conduct of the Ministry to justify u blame ; three presented a resolution , of distrust , not however , on account of the dismissal of General Changarnier , whose position was irregular , and ugaiimt which they had always protested . Six others declared that they placed no confidence in the Ministry , and another also expressed his distrust , but in different terms . Finally , eight to seven agreed to submit to tho Assembly the following resolution : —

      " The National Assembly , acknowledging the right of the Executive Power to dispose of military commands , blames the use it made of that right , and declares that ¦ the General in Chief of the Army of P ^ riu preserves the title to the confidence which the National Assembly testified to him in the sitting of the 3 rd instant , and passes to the order of the day . " The discussion on the report commenced on Wednenday . The Assembly wan exceedingly crowded , and the galleries filled with strungem . Tho debate has not been very interesting hitherto . M . do Goulard thought the committee ; had gone too far in their resolution . He thought that all parties ought to accept the state of things created by the revolution . M . do Fresnuu , on tho contrary , took a very gloomy view of tho actual ntuto of things created by the

      constitution , which had lost its value , and ought to be revised . M . Monet argued in favour of the supremacy of the Assembly . If it was not satisfied with Ministers ^ -the-latter-aug ^ Lto J-eaign—M . JBarophe attacked the report for charging Ministers with a desire to evade responsibility . The Ministry was ready to avow its acceptation of the acts of the President . It was difficult to say how the division will be .

      The Dresden Conferences. Nothing Has Yet...

      THE DRESDEN CONFERENCES . Nothing has yet transpired which can justify any positive assertion to what will be the composition of the future Executive Power . It seems very plain , however , that all idea of a central legislature under a popular form has been abandoned , even by the most Democratic States . The utmost that is now expected of the Dresden Conferences is a new configuration and strengthening of the imperfect fede ral edifice constructed in 1815 , whereby an attempt w ill be made to give strength , vigour , and promptitude of action to the central organ , without in any way trenching upon the Constitutional rights or organisation nf individual states .

      The Committee appointed to deliberate on material interests has held two or three sittings , during which the outline of a system , of approachment between the South-andJSfoxth . liasJbieen broughtjor ward ; but this in no way indicates any nearer immediate connection than a removal of obstacles to more easy border traffic , and to general and reciprocal admission of certain articles of inland produce and general consumption . Great attention continues to be shown by the Gourt to the Plenipotentiaries who , whatever may be the issue of their deliberations , will have no cause to complain of want of amusement and good dinners . The ball at Court on the 8 th instant was described by those present as magnificent . Upwards of 600 persons were invited .

      Father Gavazzi In London. There Is Now I...

      FATHER GAVAZZI IN LONDON . There is now in the metropolis a very remarkable character—Father Gavazzi , the modern Savonarola ; the ecclesiastical Mazzini ; the relig ious leader of Young Italy . He has harangued crowded audiences of his countrymen and educ ated Englishmen at the Princess's Concert-room , in the afternoon of the two last Sundays . A translated abridgement of his orations is furnished by the Daily News , with admiring comments . " His varied and impassioned arguments , " says the reporter , " were conveyed with a fervour of declamation , and a grace of delivery quite unknown to our clerical speakers . We honestly

      confess that we have not seen or heard in London , any public orator at all to be compared with this finished and truly classic preacher . We can fully comprehend the effect of his eloquence on the thousands who filled the great square of St . Mark , and the various other public gatherings throughout Italy , when he swayed the fierce Democracy , and roused the energies of the Peninsula . His command of language is most copious , and the variety , as well as appropriate dignity , of his attitudes and intonation truly captivating . Ho is clad in the black serge habit of a Barnabite monk , and wears on his breast the rude wooden cross of his order .

      In his last Sunday ' s oration he spoke boldly out against the miserable Italian screw , of whom Lord John Russell pretended to be afraid . " The Popes have brought transalpine hordes down upon us from the outset , —Charles d'Anjou , Norman adventurers , German lansquenets , Spanish cut-throats , the outcasts and refuse of every race have been let loose , by papal intrigue or open invitation , to sack , 'slay , violate , and plunder among us in the name of Christ , from the days of Manfredi and the murdered Corradino down to those recent deplorable days when that apostate Italian , Mastai , blessed the butchers of Sicily and their king Boinba ; blessed Oudinot for strangling the Roman

      Commonwealth with a tricolour rope ; and would bless the Prince of Darkness himself for replacing on his head that tiara which I hold was originally planted on the brows of ' Christ ' s Vicar ' ( in the bitter derision of his doctrine ) by the common enemy of mankind . This monstrous intermarriage between the kingly function and the service of God ' s altar has more publicly offended the moral sense of the human race as society has progressed and the dark delusion * of past centuries been dissipated by the noon day of civilization . To be a . good priest in difficult enough to the infirmity of mortals ; to understand kingcraft in all its branches is a gift few enn boast ; to combine both Hacerdotu . 1 and regal excellence is a perfectly hopeless pretension . Hence , either the priest in merged altogether , and u Julius the Second levels bin

      artillery in propria pt ' . r & onmni my native Bologna , or the king disappears in the grovelling , idiotic , and timorous devotee , as in the person of Pio Nono . A court , forsooth , is requisite , to place the patriarch of Christendom on a level with princes ; was a court required to place them on a level with the emperors of Rome ? did they not . maintain Christianity against ' giants in those ; days , ' and could they not do ho now when paltry pigmies sit on European thrones ? 1 protest 1 have more respect for the grand Lhainii of Thibet as a moro excusable , object of blunt , ilowiui'h' homage , from congenial and kindred barbarians , than for such a grim jumble of carnifax and pontifex Imngnian and high priest as the present occupant of tho Vatican and tho Cuatle of fclt . Angclo ( the arched causeway connecting

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 18, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18011851/page/3/