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    There is nothing* so revolutionary, beca...

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    TRUTH OF THE ANTI-POPISH TURMOIL. Death ...

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    The Case Of Mr. George Sloane, Charged W...

    the unfortunate girl at present , on account of the weak state she was in . He would reserve what he had to say for a higher and more important tribunal . Mr . Alderman Humphery stated that as soon as all the necessary evidence had been adduced he would commit the defendants to the Old Bailey .

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    A Meeting To Protest Against The Papal A...

    A meeting to protest against the Papal aggression was held yesterday , at Birkenhead , in the market-square , adjoining the Town . hall . The magistrates had made suitable arrangements to repress any attempt at riot or disturbance . Special constables selected out of the ratepayers to the number of one thousand were sworn in for the occasion ; they were divided into eight sections , each section being under the command of a captain , and all under the superintendence of W . Pike , Esq ., barristerat-law . A spacious platform was erected in the rear of the Town-hall , in front of which the epecial constables who composed the majority of the ratepayers were stationed ; the Birkenhead police , onder the command of

    Mr . Superintendent Horg , and the constables of the Hundred of "Wurral , under Mr . Palmer , high constable . In addition to this force , about three hundred of the Liverpool police were also present . All passed off quietly ; indeed , the Roman Catholics had been cautioned by the priest not to attend the meeting , and placards to that effect were posted both in Liverpool and Birkenhead . When the meeting opened there were about three thousand persons present , but the number gradually encreased till the termination , when there were about seven thousand persons present . An address to the Queen was carried expressing the utmost indignation at the violent attempt of the Pops to invade the royal prerogative .

    Dr . Hugh M Neile , canon of Chester , and incumbent of St . Paul ' s , Liverpool , in a sermon last Sunday , referred to the confessional as an organ used for man ' s judgment for his fellow man . He described in glowing terms the evils of the confessional , and wound up by demanding , in the name of justice and religion , the punishment of all priests who wielded so powerful an oigan of spiritual tyranny . There might be many modes of punishment suggested , but the only one effectual for the purpose was death . In the evening , the reverend gentleman having been tasked for the utterance of such a sentiment , ascended the reading-desk and said : —

    " My Christian Friends , —I generally address you from another place , but must make an exception on this occasion . I desire to withdraw the atrocious sentiment which I uttered in the morning . I have withdrawn it before God , and now withdraw it bet ' oro man . ' 1 hose who heard me in the tno : niri < f will understand my meaning-: those who were not here will please not to trouble themselves about it . " A rumour has for some time past prevailed—which we have , liowi'ver refrained from noticing till now—that Edmond Rodney Pollexfen B istard , Esq ., of Kitley , h ; s gone over to Home . We believe now that the report is unquestionably true . This Is one of the most rrcent instances of the progress of develop . ucut which the Ptmyitcs can sln »\ v . Mr . Bastard has for some time past b tu

    devote . I to his religious duties . lie was at the he » d of our Church union , ami rumour assigned to him the chief proprietorship in a local newspaper , and which was understood to have l > e » .-n purchased to advance the cans ? of Tiiictaiianism . Mr . ] ia > t ; tnl lately broke up 1 » is establishment it Kitley , discharged nil his servants , and left his home for foreign parts . Since he left liis home , we heir from other authority , that he has written a letti r to tlic Reverend Prebendary Oxenham , announcing that he has joined the Church of JJ-oine—or as the Romanists say , " became reconciled to the Church . " Mr . Bastard intends , we hear , to winter in . Madeira—but his destination is to Rome , and it is said that he will be absent for three years . — Plymouth Journal .

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    The following is the text of the royal edict for the reduction of the Prussian army : — " Whereas , by conventions entered into with the imperial Austrian Government tlie reasons no longer exist which on the 6 th of November occasioned the oider for calling out my whole army , I authorize the state administration to discontinue the carrying out of the measures for a war establishment , and gradually to reduce the army to its former strength . " The Deutsche lleichs Zeitung makes the following important announcement : —

    " In to-day ' s Stnto Gazette an order has appeared for the gradual reduction of tac ? army . A similar order with reference to the reduction of the Austrian army will appear otficially in the Vicuna Zailunij of the sarn « date . The pviictical execution of this order with rt-spect to Prussia will be confined to the second conscription . " When the Pietlmontesc Government wished to have its treaty of peace with Austria sanctioned by the Chambers , one of the present Miristf rs declared than it contained no si cret clauses . From a letter in the Daily News , written by ftu eyewitness , it appears that this w .-iS a dv liberate lie . " There is a si . crct clause , by which the Pio hinmtcse authorities arebniiid to deliver up political delinquents , liung . irian refugees , & c , to Austria .

    The trial of the paries belonging to tin . ' sr cret Republican Society , culled the Netiv sis , with the view of connr / cling all France in societies for a Red Republican revolution \ vii-. brought to a close <» n Thursday . Twonamely , De Valory and Henney—are condemned to two years' iinprisosimvut , 300 f . fine , and interdiction of civil rights for five jes . rs ; Corbet tofli ' tet-n months' imprisonrncnt , 100 franes finf . ' , a . d five year . * . ' interdiction of civil rights ; ( ion He , lieretta , JJroquct , Bcraud , Sullennt , Jayct , and Vultirr to six months' imprisonment , lOOf . fine , and two years' interdiction ; Gossetand Chancel , on account of extenuating circumstances , to six months ' imprisonment . The prisoners left the court shouting " Vive la Rcpublique . *'

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    There is nothing * so revolutionary , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation , in eternal progress . —Dr . Arnold .

    Truth Of The Anti-Popish Turmoil. Death ...

    TRUTH OF THE ANTI-POPISH TURMOIL . Death to the Romish priest that uses the practices of his Church ! So cries the Protestant priest protesting against " religious tyranny" ! That the Reverend Hugh M'Neile afterwards withdrew the sanguinary sentiment in terms most emphatic is creditable to his heart and intellect , and his letter to the Times considerably modifies the

    effect of the first announcement , but that he uttered it at all shows the extremity to which the rampant bigotry of the day is driving men of good understanding and heart . It is but the naked expression of the bitter enmity everywhere heaving the surface . When a land is thus shaken , something must totter , something must be sacrificed ; but we do not think it is religion or freedom of opinion which is in danger .

    People dread the revival of Popish tyranny" bonfires in Smithfield "—if the " aggression " be not denounced ; others dread lest the sectarian spirit should once more issue forth from its temple of Exeter-hall , its hands no longer tied behind its back , its hunger sharpened with the spiritual taste of blood upon its lips , and stalk across the land . We fear neither tyranny nor bigotry . There are now too many witnesses against both . This

    contest between the two Apostolical Churches has not before been waged in sight of a public with its eyes so widely opened ; and when once the furor has abated , the public cannot fail to see the fact that the spirit of sanguinary persecution is found as much in the zealots of one Church as of the other . Nay , it * you talk of " dishonesty , " it is not a reproach for Protestantism to make against the Papacy .

    There never was a more dishonest agitation than this which our Prime Minister has stimulated , if not awakened . But the agitation cannot enter Parliament to demand its " measures" without calling forth witnesses to its bad faith . If none other speak , surely the brave-spirited Lymlhursst will make himself he led into the scene of his past achievements , and will testify to the fact in the name of all that survives amongst us of high and chivalrous ; the Bishop of Norwich will he there to testify to reason and justice ; the Bishop of St . David ' s will corroborate his brother prelate . In

    his most upright and wise reply to his clergy , Dr . Hinds has shown that , in conceding freedom of the Roman Catholic religion , the Legislature of the country conceded the organization essentially necessary to the Roman religion . But Lord Lyndhufst will remember that , in the debate on the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1847 , he proposed the repeal of a statute of Elizabeth ' s reign for the express purpose of facilitating the appointment of Bishops by the Pope . After explaining the effect of the new act in repealing a number of old penalties against the Roman Catholics which encumbered the statute-book , he went on thus : —

    " He should refer to another act , respecting the repeal of which but . little doubt could be Mitertained—he meant the 13 th of Elizabeth , respecting the importing of bulls and rescripts from the sec of Rome . If any person should import any bull , document , r » r writing , of any description , or for any purpose , from the Pope of Rome , he would be , by this act of Parliament , guilty of the offence of hi / h treason , and liable to be executed , with all tlia consequences thereupon msiiing . Every one knew the circums'ancca which caused the passing of this act . Pope Pius V . excommunicated Elizibeth , and released ht r subjects from their ullegiance . The bull was of London b

    fixed on the uutes of the palace of Bishop y a person named Felton , atid also po-ted in public place * in France ; a circumstance which exciU'd the indignaiion of the monarch of that country . No such pranks could possibly bo played in the present day . Ho ( the Lord Chiiucellor ) proposed the repeal of thia statute of Elizabeth , and for the reason he should state , which hetrusud was not an idlo one . At all events , it in one which operated powerfully in his mind . It . man Cutholifi bishops iind priests were allowed by the law of the land to piactiic all their observances ; but they could not carry on the duties of their office—they could not carry on their

    Church Establishment , nor conduct its discipline Without having communication with the Pope of Rome . No bishop could be created except by a bull from the Pope of Home ; no pastor could be appointed except by the same authority . Many of the subordinate duties and services of the Church of Rome required his sanction . The moment , therefore , you allowed the practice of the Roman Catholic religion in this country , you impliedly allowed this communication with the Pope of Rome , while by allowing this act to remain on the Statutebook , you adopted the previous statement , that any person doing what the law permits—what the law , in factenjoins , was to be considered guilty of high treason .

    , He ( the Lord Chancellor ) said what the law enjoined , for if Roman Catholics were allowed to practise and maintain the duties and discipline of their Church , as the law properly allowed , them , still they could not do so without having communication with the Pope . These were the the grounds on which he ( the Lord Chancellor ) proposed a repeal of this statute . ' And he did so the more decidedly and distinctly for another reason — namely , that no such statute existed in Scotland , nor had any such law been passed by the Parliament of Ireland , although three-fourths of the population of that

    country consisted of Roman Catholics , while the Roman Catholic population of this country consisted only of some hundred thousand . On these grounds he proposed the repeal of those enactments . He was aware that several of his friends , on having their attention drawn to the subject , were at first somewhat staggered with the proposal ; but the more they considered and examined it , the more they were satisfied of its expediency and abso » lute necessity . If , however , it was considered that such limits as would allow Roman Catholics to do what the law permitted them to , the measure might be so modified in committee . "

    Nothing can be more explicit : the Lord Chancellor positively anticipates the transmission of a bull from the Pope to appoint Bishops in this country ; he calls for the repeal of the old statute , the 13 th of Elizabeth , which prohibited the admission of such a bull ; and he called for the repeal because that prohibition was inconsistent with the " injunction " of the Relief Act , and in order to bring about the very measure that has provoked this ferment . That is to say , Ministers , Peers , Members , and electors are wild with indignation because the Pope has done that which Parliament passed an act to enable him to do . In the eyes of other countries this conduct is not less than national dishonesty .

    Especially may it be asked whether Lord Juhn Russell opposed that part of the Relief Act which repealed the statute of Elizabeth ? A burst of reckless , dishonest bigotry has stained the land , and something , we say , it will shake . What ? It has widely and effectively unsettled opinionstirred up the Very depths of thought—made

    Dissenter consort with Churchman—displayed Protestantism hungering for the crime of persecution which is charged upon the Catholic—betrayed an Establishment divided against itself , and governed by one who cannot command . Sec the open differences of opinion among the very Bishops who did not withhold their signatures from the anti-Papal address to the Queen—Carlisle hinting a rebuke to the same national blunder which

    Norwich coolly exposes ; London trimming betwixt Tractarian and Iconoclast ; while St . David's testifies to the fact which Lyndhurst anticipated ; and Exeter keenly exposes the illogical wanderings of the episcopal address—vainly pruned and modified by its authors to entice the valued but unpurchaseable signatures of High Church Phil potts and accomplished Thirlwall . Is there unity in the Establish * merit ? Is the Rubric which shielded Bennett until he voluntarily resigned—is that to be revised ? The Primate declares it impossible , because of the excitement . Bennett has been driven

    forth—will others follow him , and how many ? Will Gorham and his supporters go out after Baptist Noel ? Will the orthodox tolerate the Platonizing clergy , who have all but established a sort of esoteric doctrine differing from the vulgar worship ? Or will the church strive to continue fop another term a mass of really heterogeneous sects , banded together by the reciprocal desire not to provoke disruption , because that would be dispossession—and the Established Church is rich . If

    either one of tho four sects which hide their faces under one hood bo right , all the other three must be wrong : spurious members of the Apostolical succession ; but each one of the four dreads to provoke the united forces of the three ; and all tacitly conspire to tolerate each other , that they may share the substance—sitting down in one fold that they may feed upon the fatness thereof . And this is the Establishment which , for once forgetting itself and its quietest policy , consents to take the lead in a great national ferment about an ecclesiastical delusion . When the hot dream is over , and men look at each other , what will be in their thoughts ? W . T

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 21, 1850, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21121850/page/11/