LORD MINTO AND ROME. (From the John Bull.) It is now announced that "the Earl of Minto, who is on his road to Turin, will extend his tour to Rome, and, though not accredited by any official introduction, or invested with any formal representative character, will be enabled by his presence at the Pontifical Court to facilitate the circuitous intercourse between the two States, which have so sensibly persisted in blocking up the ordinary channels of a necessary communication." This manœuvre the Times considers a rather happy contrivance, on the part of Ministers," to escape the dilemma in which the imperative demands of policy and the inevitable penalties of a pramunire had conspired to place them." We are not quite so sure as our contemporary seems to be, that this happy contrivance will enable Ministers to escape the dilemma. If Lord Minto exercises any of the functions of an accredited agent at the Court of Rome-if, uninvested with a formal representative character, he contracts political obligations on the part of this country towards the Roman Pontiff, we very much doubt whether the clumsy trick will be permitted to escape. That it ought not is most certain; for we cannot conceive a more degrading spectacle than that of a Government holding out to its subjects the example of a successful evasion of the laws. be "In this way (says the Times) it is expected that Ministers may be enabled to communicate with a friendly state at a very critical period of its fortunes, without rendering themselves liable to the accumulated penalties which our ingenious ancestors devised for treason. As soon as Parliament meets the letter of the law may be brought into accordance with the nised the political existence of a power which at prespirit of the age, and, after we have graciously recogsent commands the earnest and practical sympathies of half the population of the island, Lord Minto may be boldly invested with a title befitting the functions he must necessarily discharge. * * his Holiness's feet the repeal of whatever laws may SCRIPTURE READERS. The following declaration was agreed to at a Meeting of the bishops, held on the 1st of July, 1847: "We, the undersigned, are of opinion, that whenever the bishop of any diocese shall sanction the employment of Scripture readers by his clergy, the following rules are proper to be observed. "C. T. RIPON. "E. SARUM. "E. NORWICH. "T. HEREFORD. "G. PETERBorough. "H. WORCESTER. "C. St. DAVID'S. We tell our Protestant fellow-countrymen that they must watch every turn and movement of this pseudo-"W. CANTUAR. political sympathy for Pius IX. If they do not, when "E EBOR. the mask is thrown off, they will find it difficult, per- "C. J. LONDON. haps impossible, to arrest its consequences. Look at "E. DUNELM. the language which was used last Monday in Concilia- "C. R. WINTON. tion Hall, and the hint about raising an Irish Legion to "J. LINCOLN.. fight the battle of his Holiness, if the Government will "permit Irishmen" thus to evince their zeal. Why not permit them to fight for their spiritual head, when we contemplate, as one of our diplomatic relations with the Papal Court, the benefit of a "controlling power" which would be "respectfully listened to by some mil-"J. H. GLO'STER AND BRIST. "S. Oxon. lions of British subjects?" 'Proposed Regulations for the Employment of Scripture Readers. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT AND THE At a recent election dinner, Mr. Gratorex distinctly "TO T. GRATOREX, ESQ. C. BANGOR. "T. ST. ASAPH. "A..T. CHICHESTER. "J. LICHFIELD. "T. ELY. "1. The object of appointing Scripture readers being to give to the clergy increased means of parochial efficiency, it will be the duty of the Scripture reader, acting under the direction of the clergyman, to search out the most destitute and ignorant of the parishioners-to read the holy Scriptures from house to house-and to urge upon the people the duty of availing themselves of all the privileges afforded them by the Church. "2. The Scripture reader shall in every case be nominated by the minister of the parish to the bishop, to be examined, as to his fitness for the office, either by the bishop himself or by persons appointed by him for that purpose. "3. On approval, he shall be permitted by the bishop, in writing under his hand, to enter upon his duties as Scripture reader. Scripture reader, who has not been a communicant "4. No person shall be appointed to the office of in the Church of England for at least two years past. 5. The Scripture reader shall be under the control and direction of the clergyman by whom he is nominated; who may suspend him from the exercise of his functions, giving one month's notice thereof to the bishop; and also, except in case of parish or district against the will of the officiating misconduct, to the reader himself. "6. No Scripture reader shall be continued in any minister. bited from carrying about with him, for the purpose 7. The Scripture reader shall be strictly prohi of reading to the people, or of distributing among them, any book or publication but the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and the Book of Comtified in writing by the incumbent, taking care to mon Prayer, and such other books as shall be sancavoid, as much as possible, all controversy. If a good case can be made out for our interference in this Italian quarrel,-if it can be shown that we ought to place ourselves in intimate relations with the revolutionary schemes of "Young Italy,"-if Lord Palmerston or Lord John Russell think it may demonstrated that British interests are deeply concerned in pursuing such a course, and if those interests "Langatock Park, Aug. 29. would suffer irreparable damage from waiting till Par- "My dear Sir, I cannot refrain from thanking liament meets at the usual period, why not summon it you for a speech which I see reported in the Monimmediately for the express object of enabling Minis-mouthshire Beacon, as having been delivered by you ters to carry out their policy legally and openly, at Mr. Octavius Morgan's dinner, after the recent instead of furtively, evasively, and by fraud? We election for that county. There are two points to say, unhesitatingly, that the course we are about to which you refer in that speech which I am especially pursue is mean and contemptible. grateful to you for having cleared up. The first is, your having contradicted the report that in the line of conduct which I deemed it my duty to pursue in the late contest, I was actuated by a personal and not a political feeling; the second, that I have dictated to the county of Monmouth the person whom I wished them to choose as their representative in the room of Lord Granville Somerset. Nothing can be reports. I never had the slighest personal disagreemore directly atvariance with the truth than both those ment with Lord Granville in my whole life; but my refusal to support him, and my determination to support another, were solely and entirely from a feeling of stedfastly adhering to those principles to which I, and all those of my family who have preceded me, have ever been firmly attached. Mutare vel timere sperno' is the motto of my house. By that motto I will stand or fall. I cannot change my principles at the nod or beck of Sir Robert Peel, or any other man. I repeat, therefore, that on public grounds alone did I determine to oppose the re-election of Lord Granville Semerset. With regard to the second point, that of dictating to the county, I can only say, that when I found that Lord Granville was determined to support Sir Robert Peel in his measure of repealing the Corn Laws, and that the county of Monmouth, generally, disapproved of that course, I offered to a gentleman of large property in the county of Monmouth all the support in my power in This, then, is the best face which a friendly pen can the event of his coming forward, and I had not at put upon the business-a sort of political smuggling that time any idea that any Member of my own a contraband and discreditable traffic." The de-family would be brought forward; and it was not till scription is just and accurate. "It would have been a I had received a strong solicita ion to propose one of curious incident if we had despatched a fleet to the the family for the consideration of the electors, and succour of a monarch to whom we dared not send an that I heard a requisition was in course of signature, Ambassador." Not a whit more curious than the that I proposed to Captain Somerset to come forward. incident which has occurred. We have smuggled into So much for the justice of the charge of dictation, Rome one who is to play the dignified part of carrying and of reducing the county of Monmouth to the "11. The names of all Scripture readers, thus peron a "circuitous intercourse there-not daring to level of a close borough;' but had I presumed to dic-mitted by the bishop in any diocese, shall be entered act openly—and why not smuggle a fleet to give cir- tate, I have the vanity to suppose that the county of in a register, to be kept in such manner as the cuitous assistance? Monmouth would have been as well pleased with a bishop shall direct. Member pointed out to them by me as with the nominee of any other gentleman. I am aware that some gentlemen have talked of my arrogance in dictating to the county,' &e. I only lately found that the same tone had been taken up, and the same rumours propagated, by some of the London and provincial journals, and I therefore feel very much obliged to you for the contradiction which you gave to them at Mr. Morgan's dinner. The extremities to which two Governments of Europe have been reduced in their attempts to establish some communication with each other, are highly instructive, and will not be lost sight of, we hope, by those who occasionally advocate the retention of obsolete and impracticable statutes, as the safest course for a Legislature to pursue. The diplomatic intercourse between England and Rome is managed after a fashion very much resembling the commercial intercourse between Holland and Japan. The real character of an honest and necessary transaction is cloaked by some barbarous and clumsy fiction, and the negotiations of two independent Powers are conducted with the clandestine tricks of a contraband and discreditable character." But the time is come, it seems, when we are to look to Rome for spiritual aid. "As the spiritual head of a vast number of British subjects," the Pope might exercise much more beneficially "a controlling power within these realms" if amicable relations were established "with a Sovereign whose voice on certain points would be respectfully listened to by some millions of British subjects." And in order to secure the benefit of this controlling power, on the part of his Holiness, we are to take the initiative in the business, go to Rome, cap in hand, respectfully to lay at "Believe me, &c., "BEAUFORT." "8. The Scripture reader shall be strictly forbidden to preach either in houses or elsewhere. tending the public worship of God in the Church; "9. He is to urge upon all persons the duty of atto inculcate upon parents the duty of bringing their children to baptism, of training them up in the way in which they should go, and of procuring for them. instruction in the parochial week-day and Sunday Schools: and he is to direct them to seek for further edification and comfort in the ministrations of their appointed pastors. 10. The Scripture reader shall keep a regular journal of each day's proceedings, noting carefully the parties visited, and the portions of Scripture read to them on each occasion; such journal to be submitted to the clergyman at such times as he shall direct, and to be deposited with him at the end of every three months. 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Peel-Religiousness of Man's Nature will not Save-Bordeaux ancient Romish Version of the New Testament quotedObjection answered, that the Roman Catholic Mistranslation, and Interpolations-Pilgrimages Printed by ALEXANDER MACINTOSH, Printer, of No. 20, Great New-street, London, at his Printing-office at the same place, and published by WILLIAM ADOLPHUS MACKNIGHT, of No. 6, Doris street East, Lambeth, Surrey, at THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR Office, No. 3, Shoe-lane, London, where all communications (pre-paid) and advertisements are received.-London, September 24, 1847. No. XL.] "THE CHURCH OF ROME MAY FLOURISH IN THE COUNTRY WHICH IT RUINS." Published on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. THE TWO SWORDS. Rome has furnished herself with two swords, the one temporal, the other spiritual, both of which she wields with energy and without mercy, whenever she can do so with safety. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1847. nobilitate terrenam quamlibet pracellem potestatem oportet-fateri-si deviat terrena potestas judicabitur potestate spirituali; sed si deviat spiritalis minor, a suo superiori. Si vero suprema, a solo Deo non ab hominibus poterit judicari. Porro subesse The time has nearly arrived when her ambition Romano Pontifici omnem humanam creaturam declaramus, dicimus, definimus, et pronunciamus will know no bounds, encouraged as she is by persons in "high places" to "lengthen her cords and omnino esse de necessitate salutis. Datum Laterani, strengthen her stakes," and to aspire to an emi-anno 1302." Extrao. Commun. lib. 1 lit 8 de major et nence in the British empire hostile to the free exercise of civil and religious liberty. What has been may be again; and if the temporal sword was wielded in former times by the "Vicar of Christ" for the extirpation of heretics and heresy, it is not unreasonable to suppose that this assumed power will not lie dormant whenever a favourable opportunity offers. We will take a leaf out of the page of history, and examine what is written thereon about this self-same claim of the Pope to temporal power. It has been observed by an intelligent writer, that "the Bishops of Rome began to emulate the ambition of the Heathen emperors by uniting the two powers in one." Hitherto they wore the mitre in imitation of the heathen Pontiffs, but now they put on the imperial crown, glittering with gold and precious stones. Accordingly we find Innocent III. boasting of his twofold authority in the following words: "The Church, the spouse, has not been married to me without bringing me a fortune. She brought me an invaluable treasure, viz., a plenitude of power in spirituals and temporals. In token of the spiritual power, she gave me a mitre; and in token of the temporal, she gave me a diadem. The mitre for the priesthood, and the diadem for a kingdom, establishing me his Vicar, who has the following words written in his flesh and on his garments:'King of kings, and Lord of lords." (Serm. 3, de Coron. Pontif.) Boniface VIII. asserts this double power in the following pompous declaration : obed. [PRICE, WITH SUPPLEMENT, 3d. of the Church and the Bulls of the Roman Pontiff." Why issue such a document, if Rome did not still claim the privilege of meddling with the temporal affairs of foreign states, and of exercising a deposing power? We shall probably resume the subject in our next. EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE. Accordingly, when he instituted his grand Jubilee, THE MURDEROUS SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH he appeared the first day in Pontificalibus, but in his imperial robes on the second day, while the people cried along the streets before him, Here are two swords,-to denote his double power. The same Boniface had a contest with Philip the Fair concerning the nomination to certain bishoprics, &c., to which the King asserted his right, and which he actually presented to as vacancies occurred. The Pope denied the King's authority, and sent him the following missive : "BONIFACE, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, to PHILIP, King of France. Fear God and keep his commandments. We will have thee to know that in things spiritual and temporal thou art subject to us. Thou hast nothing to do with the collation to benefices; and if thou hast presented to any, we revoke the donation and declare it void; and to conclude, declare that all who think otherwise are fools and madmen.-Given under our hands, &c. "BONIFACE VIII." To this Philip returned the following answer :"PHILIP, by the grace of God, King of France, to Boniface, who assumes the name of Sovereign Pontiff, wisheth no health. Know, most supreme simpleton, that we acknowledge no person with regard to temporalities. We collate to such prebends and benefices as we have a right to do; and will take care that those whoun we present to them shall receive their due stipends, firmly persuaded that none but fools or madmen can dispute this power with them," &c. "Unam sanctam Ecclesiam Catholicam et ipsam Apostolicam urgente fide credere cogimur-extra quam nec salus est, nec remissio Peccatorum- When Buonaparte was circumscribing the power inhâc ejusque potestate duos esse gladios, spiritualem of the Pope, certain Resolutions received the imvidelicit et temporalem, Evangelicis dictis instrui- press of his fiat, one of which is as follows:mur. Certè qui in potestate Petri temporalem "That neither St. Peter nor his successors have gladium esse negat, male verbum attendit domini received from God any power to interfere, directly proferentis, converte gladium tuum in vaginam. or indirectly, in what concerns the temporal inteUterque ergo est in potestate Ecclesiæ spiritalis, rests of Princes and sovereign states; that Kings scilicet gladius et materialis-sportet autem gladium and Princes cannot be depcsed by ecclesiastical esse sub gladio et temporalem auctoritatem spirit ili authority, nor their subjects freed from the sacred subjici potestati-spiritalem autem et dignitate et obligation of fidelity and allegiance, by the power OF ROME. THE THIRD CANON OF THE FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL. "Such a law (Third Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council) in the present age (for we will not judge others, lest we ourselves might be judged), would be immoral, unjust, impossible; it would be opposed to the natural dispositions of the people of this empire-it would be contrary to all the laws, usages, and customs of our country-it would not be suited to the time and circumstances in which we live. In place of being necessary or useful, it would upturn the very foundations of society, and, instead of benefiting the entire community, it would drench our streets and our fields in blood."-From the Essay on the Catholic Claims, addressed to Lord Liverpool, 1826, by Dr. Doyle. Laws of the Papacy, Second Edition, page 111. TO THE EDITOR OF THE PROTESTANT ELECTOR. Sir,-My last letter, which appeared in the Protestant Elector of the 22d inst., referred to the terrible Bulla Cana Domini." That Bull and the third Canon of the Fourth Lateran Council, which I have now to lay before you, are evidently fit associates and worthy of the cruelty of Rome, to scourge and enslave mankind, and even as the Romish Bishop Dr. Doyle admitted, in reference to the latter, to "drench our streets and our fields in blood." Yet this same individual, Dr. Doyle, soon after the passing of the Emancipation Act, namely in 1832, united with his brethren, the Romish Bishops in Ireland, in setting up this "canon of blood," as a law of the Pope of Rome in her Majesty's do minions. Every effort has been made for years past to induce these prelates to meet the awful charges preferred against them, but in vain. They have invariably, when appealed to, shrunk from the accusations, and been as silent as the grave. I therefore cannot but think it is, especially at this momentous period, of the deepest importance to the Protestants of the empire that the entire of this canon, apparently but little known, should at once be laid before taem, in the earnest hope that God may awaken them from their deplorable apathy to a just sense of their danger and their duty. "We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy which exalteth itself against the holy orthodox, and Catholic faith, which we have set forth PROTEST above; condemning all heretics, by whatsoever name they may be reckoned: who have indeed divers faces, but their tails are bound together, for they make agreement in the same folly." "Let such persons, when condemned, be left to the secular powers who may be present, or to their officers, to be punished in a fitting manner, those who are of the clergy being first degraded fror their orders: so that the goods of such condemned persons, being laymen, shall be confiscated; but in the case of clerks, be applied to the churches from which they received their stipends." "But let those who are only marked with suspicion, be smitten with the sword of anathema, and shunned by all men until they make proper satisfaction, unless, according to the grounds of suspicion and the quality of the person, they shall have demonstrated their innocence by a proportionate purgation. So that if any shall persevere in excommunication for a twelvemonth, thenceforth they shall be condemned as heretics. And let the secular powers, whatever offices they may hold. be induced and admonished, and, if need be, compelled by ecclesiastical censure, that as they desire to be accounted faithful, they should, for the defence of the faith, publicly set forth an oath, that to the utmost of their power they will strive to exterminate from the lands under their jurisdiction all heretics who shall be denounced by the Church; so that whensoever any person is advanced, either to spiritual or temporal power, he be bound to confirm this decree with an oath." "But if any temporal lord, being required and admonished by the Church, shall neglect to cleanse his country of this heretical filth, let him be bound with the chain of excommunication, by the Metropolitan, and the other co-provincial bishops. And if he shall scorn to make satisfaction within a year, let this be signified to the Supreme Pontiff: that, thenceforth, he may declare his vassals to be absolved from their fidelity to him, and may expose his land to be occupied by the Catholics, who, having exterminated the heretics, may, without contradiction, possess it, and preserve it in purity of faith saving the right of the chief lord, so long as he himself presents no difficulty and offers no hindrance in this matter: the same law, nevertheless, being observed concerning those who have not lords in chief." Comment, Sir, on these facts, I consider quite unnecessary. "I have only to request that the editors of all papers, who maintain the Protestant cause, will insert this in their journals. 66 apostle says, assume to themselves the authority of dark in the complexion of your guilt; but that you preaching; when the same Apostle says. "How and Doctor Doyle-the very men who had abjured shall they preach except they be sent." All who, these laws-evading, renouncing, denying even their being prohibited, or not sent, shall dare publicly or existence on your oaths that you should be the very privately to usurp the office of preaching, shall be men to set them up in your dioceses as the autho bound with the chain of excommunication, and un-rity on which you are to exterminate the Protestless they immediately repent, shall be smitten with ants of Ireland, leaves nothing for buman imagina other suitable punishment." tion to deepen the colour of such deliberate, black, "We add, moreover, that every Archbishop or ingrained, infernal perfidy. Bishop shall either by himself or his Archdeacon, or other honest and suitable persons, twice, or at least once every year, go round his own parish (diocese) in which there shall be a report that heretics inhabit-and there shall compel three or more men of credible testimony, or if it shall seem expedient, the whole neighbourhood to swear, that if they shall know any heretics there, or any holding secret conventicles, or differing from the ordinary conversation, life, and morals of the faithful, they shall endeavour to give information of it to the bishop; but the bishop himself shall cite the persons accused into his presence, who, unless they shall have cleared themselves from the crime alleged against them, or, if after having cleared themselves they shall relapse into their former perfidy, shall be punished according to the canons. But, if any of them, with damnable obstinacy, rejecting the religion of an oath, shall, perhaps, be unwilling to swear, let them on that very ground be considered as heretics." "We will, therefore, and command, and in virtue of obedience strictly enjoin, that for the diligent performance of these things, the bishops shall diligently watch throughout their dioceses, if they wish to escape canonical vengeance; for, if any bishop shall have been negligent, or remiss in purifying his diocese from the leaven of heretical pravity, when this shall be made to appear, by certain proofs, he shall both be deposed from his Episcopal office, and another shall be substituted in his place, who shall be both willing and able to confound heretical depravity." Thus concludes this justly celebrated canon-a monument of the genuine and unchangeable character of that persecuting, idolatrous, and blasphemous apostacy.-Laws of the Papacy, p. 139-142. I feel that this letter should not be closed without inserting an extract from one addressed to Dr. I request that all Protestants who can retain this letter will keep it, and lay it up as a subject of deep future interest to themselves and their country. "I intreat my Roman Catholic countrymen to take and read these facts, and to ask their own consciences, is this the religion of Christ, or can it stand before his judgment-seat, and be recognised as that of his Church? "To you I have nothing to say, except to warn you to flee from the wrath to come. "If this statement is false, disprove it-if true, confess it by your silence."-Laws of the Papacy, pp. 245-6. I scarce need add, Sir, that no answer was given by Dr. Murray. Sept. 25, 1847. A PROTESTANT SENTINEL. * See the Laws of the Papacy, Seeley's. "But let the Catholics, who, having taken the Murray, Romish Archbishop of Dublin, who is poor people were not in a fit state for a long sea sign of the cross, have girded themselves for the extermination of the heretics, enjoy the same indulgence, and be armed with the same privilege as is cenceded to those who go to the assistance of the Holy Land." "But we decree also, to subject to excommunication, the believers, the receivers, the defenders, the abettors of heretics; firmly determining that if any one, after he has been marked with excommunication, shall refuse to make satisfaction within a itwelvemonth, he be thenceforth, of right in very deed infamous, and be not admitted to public offices or councils, nor to elect for any thing of the sort, nor to give evidence. Let him also be intestable, so as neither to have power to bequeath, nor to succeed to any inheritance." "Moreover, let no man be obliged to answer him in any matter, but let him be compelled to answer others. If, haply, he be a judge, let his sentence have no force, nor let any causes be brought for his hearing. If he be an advocate, let not his pleading be admitted. If a notary, let the instruments drawn up by him be invalid, and be condemned with their damned author. And we charge that the same may be observed in similar cases. But if he be a clerk, let him be deposed from every office and bencfice, that where there is the greatest fault, the 'greatest vengeance may be exercised." "But if any shali fail to shun such persons, after they have been pointed out by the Church, let them be compelled, by the sentence of excommunication, to make fitting satisfaction. Let the clergy by no means administer the sacraments of the Church to such pestilent persons, nor presume to commit them to Christian burial, nor receive their arms nor oblations; otherwise let them be deprived of their office, to which they must not be restored without the special indulgence of the Apostolic See. In like manner any regulars on whom also this may be inflicted, that they shall not retain their privileges in that diocese in which they shall have dared to perpetrate said excesses.' "But because some, under the semblance of godliness, but denying the power thereof, as the deeply implicated in the publication of this Canon. It is as follows: "The third canon of the Fourth Lateran Council, which you say was enacted against those who threatened the existence of society,' you have set into force against the unoffending Protestants of Ireland. "This law, which you swore society was justified in enacting against monsters, who aimed at the extirpation of the human race,' you have dared to set up as the law by which you and your brethren, on the Papal bench, are bound to purge your dioceses of heretics. Your pretence of the enormity of the guilt of the Albigenses enhances, in proportion, the dark atrocity of your own-for, when, to palliate the bitter cruelty of the law, you attempt to blacken the character of the men against whom you say it was necessary to enact such a statute-you acknowledge the full ferocity of that law. Doctor Doyle confesses and dilates on it-he tells us it is a law to drench our streets and our fields in blood-and you do this to lull the nation into full security, that it was impossible you could hold principles, which you confessed to be of such deep and unrelenting persecution. But the moment you attain the end of your impostures and your oaths, you put the identical law of persecution into operation, and set it up as a standard of episcopal duty, for yourself and your brethren, to exterminate out of your dioceses your Protestant fellow-subjects. "What had the Protestants committed against you? They had received your evidence-they had believed your oaths-they had granted you power on the faith of your veracity in abjuring the laws of your intolerant and persecuting superstition; but the first use you make of their confidence and their concession, is to put in force for their extermination the very laws you had forsworn. If other Papal bishops had done it-if you had been merely like the bishops of the other provinces, a passive partner in the deed-there had been a shade less CANADA. EMIGRATION.-The following is an extract from a letter from an intelligent Scotch farmer, settled in Canada West :-" London, C. W., August 12, 1847. The tide of immigration has not reached this place to any extent. An hospital and sheds, &c., have been erected near the town, and every preparation made to meet the wave of disease and destitution in case it should reach our town. This has been a most disastrous year for the many thousands of emigrants who have sought the shores of Canada. The people at home are to blame for all the misery, disease, and deaths that have overwhelmed thousands from Britain this summer. The voyage-crowded to suffocation in ships of the most filthy state, without an adequate supply of whole some food for the voyage. I observe, from an account in one of the Montreal papers, that the Duke of Sutherland had chartered the Panama, of Liverpool, and given a free passage to 287 persons,tenants, and their wives and children, residing on his estates in Sutherlandshire,-to Quebec, besides furnishing the whole with ten weeks' wholesome provisions for the voyage. The consequence was, they have all reached Canada in health without a case of death or sickness occurring on board; and last week the whole party, I am informed, have safely reached the township of Zorra in good health. Zorra is about thirty miles to the east of this. They will make capital settlers, and I only wish they had settled nearer London. It seems that part of the immigration from Sutherlandshire, a few years ago, located itself in the township of Zorra. The above case shows that if landlords would put themselves to some trouble and expense, the poor and needy on their estates can be sent to Canada with all safety. The hospitals in Hamilton and Toronto are full of the sick and the dying. The inhabitants seem to escape the fever well, few having fallen victims to the fatal typhus that has made such havoc amongst the poor emigrants."Scotsman. "It is stated," says the Courrier Français, "that a division of three Austrian men-of-war has quitted Trieste to cruise in the Adriatic. On the 7th these vessels were in sight of Ancona. They recontinued their course towards the Gulf of Tarento." mained there several hours in observation, and then Cardinal Wolsey, in a speech to the clergy, forwarned them, that "if they did not destroy the press, the press would destroy them." The first time Thomas Aquinas visited Rome, Innocent IV., who was the Pope, said to him, "You see, we cannot say with St. Peter, silver and gold have I none." "No," said Aquinas, "neither can you command, as he did, the lame man to arise and walk." IRELAND. LIMERICK. OPPOSITION TO THE PAYMENT OF RATES-SERIOUS CONFLICTS. The Nenagh Guardian of last week contains the following reports of seizures for rent, with the ordinary accompaniments of musketry and bloodshed. The stateinent of facts in reference to Mr. Scully, is considerably impaired by the allusion to his liberal opinions and relationship to the new Roman Catholic representative for Tipperary. Why should not a Catholic landlord seek for the payment of his just demand? and at a time, too, that he is called upon by the Poor-law Guardians and the Government for a most oppressive amount of rates. The scene of this conflict is convenient to Holy Cross, where a great Meeting is to be held to-morrow for the purpose of forming a tenant league in that part of the county of Tipperary. The Government may take the following as samples of the reports which every day's arrivals will supply, after the establishment of that confederacy in Tipperary: THE ORIGIN OF THE MASS. In as they best could to bide the pelting of the pitiless in the sacred symbol of the mundane circle of the storm." The wretched family crawled from the road ancient magicians, he will at once detect Satan's side to the shelter of the rere wall of the asylum; cypher, even in the shape of the wafer, or, as "LIMERICK, FRIDAY.-The middle classes of this there was no house near them; no good Samaritan at it is called when worshipped as a present deity city are to be pitied. Trade is completely paralysed, hand to give them a cup of cold water to slake their the Host. Moreover, we find among the owing to the failures of the large firms. Money is burning thirst. The gloomy night gathered fast, and ancient Pagan priesthood, that they had two not to be had, and yet at such a time the Poor-law the unhappy family cowered together-without food, kinds of sacrifices; a bloody one, and one without Guardians have struck a rate of 6s. in the pound on drink, or shelter. About the middle of the night, a blood. The latter consisted of a little round wafer,, the Poor-law valuation. I conscientiously do believe man named Hanlon, who kept watch in an adjoining which they offered at the altar; and declared that it that the mere announcement of such a rate will be field for Mr. M'Evoy, of the Maryborough Hotel, removed or expiated the sins of the people. the cause of wide-spread insolvency. Every one heard moans, and it was some time before he could Cicero's days they were accused of worshipping this who has the means in his hands is talking of emi-gather courage to go to the spot whence they pro- wafer, which he indignantly denied. It was called gration." ceeded. When he did so he was horrified to behold Mola. and being understood as of equal efficacy with nine human beings in such a melancholy condition. the Hostia, or the dying animal in the bloody Obeying the generous promptings of humanity, he, as sacrifice, to immolate, therefore, was to offer sacrifice. soon as he could, procured them food and drink. He When this piece of idolatry was introduced into the watched over them until morning, and then informed Church of Rome at the institution of the mass, as we his master and the authorities of his melancholy dis- shall show, they gave it the name of the Host; covery. Mr. Cannon, the resident magistrate, Head- meaning thereby, in the first place, or during the Constable Moore, Mr. M'Evoy, and Mr. John Dela- space of time when Anti-Christ was in what we have ney, immediately visited the family, bringing additional denominated his foetal state, A.D. 378 to 606, that nourishment. The man, whose name is Kay, said he which represented the bread, or symbol of Christ's; was originally from Mountrath; the woman was his body in the Eucharist. So correct is Satan in his wife, and the seven children were his. He had been at counterfeit of the scheme of redemption, that no one Athy, working, when five of his children were stricken part of Popish idolatry is without its corresponding with fever. A shopkeeper, from Athy, had sent them part in the Pagan system; for as all the rites and out of town in a cart, and the carter emptied them in usages in the Christian Church were typified in the the ditch. After some deliberation it was agreed to preceding dispensations, so also in the Popish countersend Kay and family to his own district (Mountrath), part, type answers type, and archetype to archetype.. there being no relieving officer approved as yet for But here we come at a difficulty. The almost chief Maryborough. At the time three donkey cars were parade of the heathen system, as also of the Jewish procured the rain was coming down in torrents, and dispensation, was at the splendid display and the wretched man refused to remove his family until it ostentation of the animal sacrifices. How is would cease; but the rain did not cease, it continued to Satan's gaudy counterfeit to be brought into the pour incessantly. Mr. Cannon, on learning this cir- shell of the Christian Church? Simple and unoscumstance, very humanely had a shed erected over tentatious in all its forms, what is to supply the them, and at once sent them the dinner which had place of all the priestly pageantry of the stately ox, been prepared for himself and family; also nourish- the ram, majestic with his arching horns, the bleating ment suitable for the five fever patients. On Thurs- of the innocent lamb, and the proudly-strutting goat, day morning, the nine persons were removed to with all their garlands, pomp, and splendour ? A Mountrath; and on yesterday (Friday), they were substitute for the favourite goddess, protectress of admitted personally to the union workhouse, Mount- every passion, soft or stern, which can assail the heart, melick, Dr. Croly having pronounced eight of them was soon found in the Virgin Mother; but what can labouring under fever." supply the place of the pomp and excitement of the sacrifices? Here we arrive at the institution of the Mass. The slaying of animals in sacrifice was the type of the dying Saviour; the bread in the Eucharist is the symbol of remembrance that his body was really broken in death, as the animal sacrifice foreshowed that he would die. The sacramental bread, therefore, is clearly in the place of the body of the Saviour, prefigured by the dying victim, and the wine in the cup is his blood, caught in a basin by the priesthood to be sprinkled upon his people. But how can the nominally Christian priesthood devise a corre sponding pomp from what Christ, evidently with an eye to the idolatry of the Romish apostasy, made the most simple and unostentatious of all ceremonies! During the footal state, then, of Antichrist, we find them straining every nerve at what is called the institution of the Canon of the Mass. Gre gory I., as we have already stated, tried his hand at it, and reduced it into somewhat of its present form. It is, from first to last, a pantomimic representation of all Christ's labours and sufferings from the commencement of the Last Supper to his death upon the cross, and his ascension into heaven. All this mummery is called High Mass. All this mummery, however, as may be supposed, was but a tame piece of business in comparison of the ancient Pagan excitement at the great yearly festivals and sacrifices, till the dogma of transubstantiation was invented. But, before we come to that device Satan's chief masterpiece, we must add a few words respecting the harlequin like dresses of the priests. The dress is, if possible, a rivalry of the Pagan priesthood. But instead of confessing that they receive all this trumpery from their Pagan predecessors, they tell you that every change is to represent the garments of the Saviour, especially those put upon him during his mockery before Herod and Pontius Pilate. His crown of thorns, the reed, his fetters, are all mimicked. The chalice, or cup, is the sepulchre; the paten, or plate for the bread, the stone upon its mouth; and the candles are his divinity. Having produced the water, soon to be a god, the priest mumbles away in Latin, till he is supposed to come to our Saviour's words while instituting the Eucharist, This is my body.' The Latin for the words is, Hoc est corpus meum. At the uttering of these words, the wafer, as they tell the poor deluded people, instantly becomes a God; and then all present throw themselves down and worship. the present visible Deity.” "FRIGHTFUL SCENE NEAR HOLY CROSS.-On Monday between the hours of five and six o'clock in the evening, the townland of Forgestown was a scene of awful commotion, in consequence of a large armed body of men and keepers attempting to seize, for arrears of rent, under a civil bill decree, horses, cows, sheep, hay, and large quantities of wheat, belonging to several tenants of William Scully, Esq., of Kilfeacle. Nothing could exceed the excitement created among the peasantry by the unexpected and determined seizure of the effects of nine or ten tenants of Mr. Scully. The friends of those tenants and the people in general congregated in large numbers at the intended scene of action, armed with guns, pistols, bludgeons, pitchforks, and presented a formidable front, and threatened to offer stern resistance. When Mr. Scully, accompanied by a strong body of armed men and keepers, arrived on the lands of Forgestown, they instantly seized the cattle of the tenantry, when a warm conflict took place between the keepers and the people, which terminated in the rescue of the cattle and the discomfiture of Mr. Scully and his party. Mr. Scully then commanded his men to seize on the corn, which they did, and which was in stacks; but when they were in the act of removing it to an adjoining farm, they were fiercely attacked with missiles, and several shots were fired at them. Mr. Scully's men returned the fire. The encounter at this moment presented a fearful aspect. Shouts and execrations from the peasantry rent the air,-shots were fired in all directions,-but fortunately on either side no lives were lost, or fatal wounds inflicted. Mr. Scully and his men had to make a quick retreat from the corn, being overpowered by the others in point of number, and being threatened with destruction. The resident magistrate of Thurles, John Gore Jones, Esq., on having received information of the occurrence, ordered out a strong party of police, which proceeded to the spot; fifteen men also, from Holy-cross station, arrived late in the evening at the theatre of outrage and disaffection. The presence of such a strong force vanquished the formidable resistance of the people to the carrying away of the corn and cattle. In the morning Mr. Scully safely conveyed to his home over two-thirds of the cattle, corn, and hay crops of the wretched tenants against whom he had taken out decrees for arrears of rent. The above scene, which had nigh been closed with a tragical occurrence, took place not many miles from Holy Cross, where the Monster Tenant League' Meeting is to be held on Sunday." The Leinster Express contains the following deplorable narrative: "On the afternoon of last Tuesday, a car-man, from Athy, emptied out of his cart, in a solitary spot at the rear of the Maryborough Asylum, a family of nine paupers, five of whom were suffering under the delirium of scorching and contagious fever. We understand they were spilled out on the road side, like so much filth, by the heartless carter, who left them In an excellent work recently published by the Rev. |