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      THE ANTI-POPERY MOVEMENT . The following address to her Majesty is in course of signature by members of the English bar . The names of nearly 500 barristers , including those of the Attorney-General , and about fifty Queen's Counsel , have been already appended , and copies remain at the different Inns of Court to receive additional signatures : — «* TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY . " The humble address of the undersigned members of the English bar . " We , your Majesty ' s most devoted subjects , beg leave humbly to approach your Majesty with the strongest assurances of underiating loyalty to your Crown , and of sincere and fervent attachment to your person .

      " We consider it our duty to declare to your Majesty tbat we regard with feelings of surprise and indignation the attempt made by a foreign potentate to interfere with your Majesty ' s undoubted prerogative , and to assume the right of nominating archbishops and bishops within these realms , and of conferring upon them territorial rank and jurisdiction . " We therefore humbly venture to express our earnest trust that your Majesty will maintain and preserve inviolate your Majesty ' s supreme authority , as by law established within these realms , and our confident reliance on your Majesty ' s wisdom for the immediate adoption of such measures as shall be most effectual for that purpose . "

      A general wardmote of the inhabitants of Billingsgate ward was held at Fellowship-hall , St . Mary-at-hill , on Tuesday evening , Mr . Alderman Sydney , M . P ., in the chair , when an address to the Queen was adopted , praying her to adopt such measures as may be deemed most expedient at the present crisis . The most remarkable speech at this meeting ¦ was that of Mr . Costello , who said : — " He was a Roman Catholic , and he would take upon himself to say that , whatever aggressions the Pope might make , English Catholics were not responsible , nor in any way blameable for them . He knew that the present Government had taken steps for establishing diplomatic relations with the Court of Home ; they had been in

      negotiation with the United Society of St . Thomas on the ttbjeot ; but this the Catholics generally had opposed , because the Government would thereby have obtained a veto on the appointment of Irish Bishops . The recent creation of Dr . Wiseman as Cardinal and Archbishop had arisen out of the negotiations of LordMinto in Italy ; he had urged the Pope to send a plenipotentiary to this country , and the reply of his Holiness was , that he would send no plenipotentiary to England except in a Cardinal's hat . Hence the bestowal of the dignity on Cardinal Wiseman , who was naturally supposed to be not inimical to this country . ( Oh , oh . ) The meeting had no right to blame the English Catholics for what had taken place , for it had been entirely brought about by the English Government . " ( Oh , oh . )

      A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle asks if Lord John Russell can be sincere in his new-born zeal against " the mummeries of superstition" when he allows Mr . Benjamin ITawes , one of his subordinates , to attend a " superstitious" meeting of " Catholics of the London District" at the Thatchedhouse , for the purpose of raising a subscription " to meet the expenditure attendant ou the promotion of the Right Reverend Dr . Wiseman to tho rank of a Prince of the Church . " Mr . B . Ilawes replies , in next day's Chronicle , that his attendance at the Catholic meeting was simply out of respect to Cardinnl Wiseman , whose friendship he has long enjoyed , and that as soon as he discovered that the resolutions were such as none but Roman Catholics

      could support , " he explained to the meeting that he was unabie to concur in either the address or the resolutions . Unfortunately for the Colonial Undersecretary , whose memory is often at fault , it turns out , m the Chronicle has ascertained by consulting its advertising columns , that one of the resolutions wiis supported by Mr . B . Hawes , although he expressly denies to have either seconded or supported a resolution on that occasion . Ho admits , however , that he gave his mite to tho subscription for buying Cardinal Wiseman ' s red hat . Was Lord John Russell aware of this when he denounced the mummery" of the Church of Rome ? Or , does he heLl the more reasonable view that there is often quite as much mummery in a Puseyite shovel hat as in a cardinal ' s evimHon castor ?

      A meeting of the Cordwainers' ward was held in the vestry-room , Bow Church , on Monday evening , M consider the propriety of presenting an address to her Majesty on the recent attempted assumption of temporal and spiritual authority in thin country by the Pope , to protest against such unwarrantable interference , and to assure her Majesty of their unshaken uttarhnunt to her person and Government , and of their hearty cooperation with their

      fellowcitizeuu and fellow-subjects for the maintenance of nil the constitutional rights of the Crown of these realms both in cnurch and statp . " Mr . Alderman Salomons , who wns called to the chair , expressed a hope that the agitation of the present period would be di » tinguinht' ( l from ull pn vious agitations , by its rwpput lor tho right of private judgment in those mho held opposite opinions . Mr . Deputy Lott , who moved the address to the Queen , quoted tho following passage from the La / up a Catholic periodical , to

      show the feelings by "which Cardinal Wiseman ' s friends are animated : —> " Poor Anglicanism ! What she suffers may be gathered from the insolent ravings of the blatant bullies whose fierce denunciations of Romanism disgrace the leading journals of London and all others accustomed to eaten their tone . Are not our children becoming as numerous as the stars of heaven ? and out of our abject poverty , has she not ntudded all the land with beautiful and costly , yea , magnificent temples , dedicated to the honour of religion , and the worship and glory of the living God ? What blindness , what rashness , what madness , then , for the heterogeneous mass of conflicting atoms to dream of resisting the progress of a compact , solid globe , rolling forward in happy and ruled order !"

      The address having been carried unanimous ^ , Mr . Lake moved a resolution expressive of satisfaction with Lord John Russell , for his letter to the Bishop of Durham . In doing so , he said " he trusted that everv Jesuit would be chased out of this land , and not permitted to usurp a religious power over the people . " A crowded and influential meeting of the inhabitants of Paddington was held at the Infant Schoolroom , on Monday afternoon , to address the Queen .

      The chair was occupied by the Reverend A . M . Campbell , "Vicar of Paddington , who denounced the audacious aggression of the Pope as a direct insult to the Queen , and an outrage upon the Protestant feeling of the country . A resolution condemning the arrogant assumption of jurisdiction within these realms by a foreigner , was carried unanimously , but not without a vehement protest against Puseyism as the main cause of Popish aggression , by a Mr . Cox . He told the meeting

      that" They must look at home , and not to the Church of Rome only for Popery , and he asked whether the members of the Church of England had not departed from the simplicity of the gospel in the grossest and most barefaced manner . ( Cheers , and a voice— The white surplice . ' ) He contended that the dignitaries of the English Church , Henry of Exeter and the Bishop of London himself—( cheers and hisses )—yes , he contended that those men had been one moans of encouraging this aggression . ( Cheers and 'No , no . ' ) Yes , yes . Had not the Bishop of London encouraged Tractarianism , and assisted at the opening of St . Barnabas , which was replete with the mummeries and tomfooleries of Popery ?"

      A county meeting to protest against the meddling of the Bishop of Rome in the ecclesiastical and temporal affairs of this country was held on Wednesday , in the county of Bedford . It was convened by Colonel Gilpin , the ' high sheriff . The Townhall of Bedford , in which the gathering took place was so crowded , that further ingress was impossible . The high sheriff presided in person , and amongst the gentlemen who addressed the meeting , were Lord Charles Russell ( brother of the Prime Minister ) , Sir Harry " Verney , M . P ., Mr . Hastings Russell , M . P ., Colonel Trevor , M . P ., and Sir C . G . Payne . An address to the Queen was carried , expressing a hope that she will command a public ; denunciation of the Pope ' s Bull .

      Meetings of a similar kind have been held at Norwich , Liverpool , Maidstone , Rochester , Taunton , Bury , Walthamstow , Brentwood , Chester , Exeter , Edinburgh , Shrewsbury , Bridgnorth , and Lichfield . Cardinal Wiseman is at present busily engaged , says the Standard , in penning a pamphlet , by which he confidently expects to justify the course which he and his brother bishops have adopted ; and to show that the new titles were not assumed without at least the knowledge of the Premier . The cardinal may be , therefore , understood to consider that silence gives assent . A few days previous to the departure of the cardinal for the Eternal City , the following announcement appeared in the Court Circular : —

      •* Bishop Wiseman ' had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday . " The cardinal ' s friends aver that the pamphlet will place the Premier in a very awkward position ; but by others it is very much doubted that the noble lord has committed himself rashly , at least on paper . The cardinal is expected to address the congregation at St . George ' s new Roman Catholic Church on Sundav

      next . A singular ebullition of feeling 1 manifested itself at the Royal Polytechnic Institution , on Wednesday evening . Just at the conclusion of Mr Barker ' s lecture on the Ballad Music of England , the audience , consisting of some hundred visitors , rose en masse , and shouted for ' God save the Queen , " which was given by the whole of the voices with most astonishing effect .

      We are able- to apprise the public that the Papal brief for the erection of a territorial hierarchy in the south is about to bu followed by a similar deed for the erection of a territorial hierarchy in the north . As England was divided into twelve dioceses , Scotland is to be partitioned into seven . Hitherto the Roman Catholic mission in . Scotland has been arranged in three " districts . " The eastern and western districts are each presided over by two vicars apostolic ; the northern district has but one . So rapid has been the increase of Roman Catholics in Scotland , that the number of their clergy has doubled' iu twenty years . In 1830 they had 00 priests ; iu I 860 they have 120 , —Edinburgh Cuurant .

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      THE THREATENED WAR IN GERMANY . In consequence of the Frankfort Diet having summoned Prussia to withdraw her troops from Hesse , or at least to confine them strictly to the military roads , the Prussian Ministry met in council on the 6 th instant , when it was resolved the whole army should be immediately mobilized , as well as tho Landwehr . A telegraph order was immediately sent to Count Groeben , commander of the Prussian army in Hesse , ordering him to prevent by force all Bavarian

      further progress of the Austrian and troops . On the other hand , Prince Thurn and Taxis ordered the advance of the Bavarian troops towards Fulda on the Sth , and , as the easily-defended passage of the valley of the Fulda was found unoccupied , it was presumed that no resistance was intended . In this , however , they were mistaken , and the result was that a slight skirmish took place between the belligerent armies , in which several Bavarians were killed . The following version of the affair is from the Prussian papers : — " Casskl , Nov . 9 . —Letters have been received from Fulda , according to which , the first shots have been fired on two points . The Bavarian soldiers , cavalry , advanced with sheathed sabres . The officer commanding the Prussian outposts demanded the meaning of this proceeding , and requested the troops to halt . The Bavarians replied by laughter . Two warnings were then given on the Prussian side , and as , notwithstanding , the Bavarians still advanced and came within 300 paces of the opposite

      force , the Prussians fired . Several Bavarians fell , the remainder retired . These and other reports have been received with eager joy , since so deeply had the spirit of mistrust sunk into all minds , the people of Cassel believed that the Prussian cabinet had renounced all its former resolutions in favour of this state . A great muster of the Burgher Guard was held to-day for purposes of inspection . We are preparing for every eventuality . "

      The Ober-Post Ami Zeitung ( organ of the Frankfort Diet ) , of the 9 th , says : — ' The Prussian troops in Electoral Hesse have commenced hostilities against the troops of the federal executive corps . We give the following facts on official authority , in order to avoid all suspicion of error . On the 8 th instant Prince Thurn and Taxis , the Bavarian commander , advanced with the vanguard on the road to Fulda . His intention was merely to change his quarters and make a reconnaissance . The first was necessary , since the federal troops could no longer procure provisions in their former quarters . In order , however , to remove all pretext for hostilities from the Prussian troops , the cavalry of the vanguard had been ordered not to draw their sabres , and even the muskets of the infantry were not loaded . Before the village of Bronzcll the federal troops were suddenly assailed by a brisk fire of musketry . A division of the Austrian Fourteenth Light Infantry and the grenadiers of the Eleventh Infantry Regiment advanced to dislodge their assailants . Tne Prussians were driven beyond tho village , which whs then occupied by the federal troops . Five of the Imperialists were wounded , two severely . The Prussians were not content with this proceeding , directly at variance

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      THE OUTRAGE ON MR . MIALL ; We are glad to see that an address to the Dissenters of Islington has been issued , in the shape of a handbill , in -which they are warned against signing any address which acknowledges " the supremacy of the Crown" in matters of religion , and upholds " rights and privileges of the English Church . " As a proof that Churchmen hate free discussion as much as Romanists , it calls attention to the brutal and unprovoked attack on Mr . Miall at the meeting of the Protestant inhabitants of Islington last week . That gentleman gave notice to the Reverend Daniel Wilson , the chairman , that he wished to move the following amendment : —

      " That this meeting , having had under its consideration the apostolical letter of the Pope , claiming exclusive spiritual jurisdiction in this country , and dividing it into dioceses , expresses its surprise and indignation at the arrogant assumption involved in such a proceedure ; but it is also equally opposed to similar claims of authority asserted or exercised by any other hierarchy , from whatever source it may profess to have derived its authority . "

      This amendment , as the chairman knew perfectly well , was quite in order . He knew that Mr . MialL had quite as much right to express his opinions as the Reverend Mr . Weir or the Reverend Mr . Hollis , neither of whom belong to the Established Church , and yet , without ever having read the amendment to the meeting , he asked them if they wished to have an amendment attacking the Church of England . The affrighted Churchmen , taking their cue from the chairman , hissed and hooted without knowing what they were condemning . Emboldened by this two

      clergymen seized Mr . Miall—who was standing perfectly still , waiting for the clamour to subside—by the collar , and flung him headlong from the platform to the ground . We are sorry to add that neither chairman , clergyman , nor Dissenting minister came to his assistance or tried to gain him a hearing . Till some apology is made for this disgraceful outrage , the Churchmen of Islington ought not to say much against the persecuting spirit of Romanism . This is not the way to put down the rampant spirit of priestcraft .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 16, 1850, page 794, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1859/page/2/