Ireland. They might take his word for it, it would be found as impossible to oppress them now. The Act of George III. took away the penalties which attached to the fact of being a Popish archbishop or bishop on condition that they should not call themselves so, provided they took an oath by which they abjured the temporal supremacy of the Pope; "provided also (sec. 8) that no benefits in that act contained should extend, or be "construed to extend, to any Popish ecclesiastics who should officiate in any church or chapel with a steeple or "bells, or at any funeral in any churchyard, or who should exercise the rites and ceremonies of the Popish "religion, or should wear the habits of their order, save within their usual places of worship, or in a private "place; or who should use any symbol or mark of ecclesiastical diguity or authority, or take any ecclesiastical "rank or title whatsoever." This remained the law of Ireland until the passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act, and in humble thankfulness for their lives the prelates of the Church of Ireland availed themselves of its indulgence. They then commenced the practice which they had since invariably followed, for they were faithful observers of the conditions of the compacts into which they entered, signing their Christian and surnames, with no addition but the cross, and relying upon their flocks for the recognition of the spiritual jurisdiction which the Pope's bull had conferred upon them. But though this was their status in the eye of the law, the position accorded to them by their fellow-countrymen, Protestant and Catholic, and by the Government in its intercourse with them, was far different. To deal with men of eminent piety and learning, Doctors of Divinity, and Visitors of Royal Colleges by Act of Parliament, whose rank and order as archbishops and bishops was recognised throughout the Christian world, who, during their frequent flight and exile from their own country, had been received with honour within the sanctuaries of half the cathedral churches of Europe, as if they were respited convicts or traitors on tickets of leave, was found impossible by the Fanes, the Temples, and the Fitzwilliams. In Ireland, "the body of the country," in England, the known purpose of the Minister to put an end to religious dissensions; everywhere else the blush of Christendom-was against it. It is a mistake to suppose that Lords Grey and Clarendon were the first English gentlemen in high office who recognised the ecclesiastical rank of the Roman Catholic Prelates. The address to King George III., presented on the 2nd of January, 1792, by delegates from every county in Ireland, was signed by "John Thomas Troy, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin; H. Moylan. Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork; for ourselves and the other Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland." Mr. Pitt, Mr. Dundas, Lord Thurlow, and Sir John Scott, who were then Ministers, were men who knew well what they were about; yet the petition, thus signed, was received. In England, the penalties passed against Catholic bishops soon after the revolution were less severe than in Ireland, and probably for this reason, that the Acts of Elizabeth were deemed summary enough. They made it high treason for any Roman Catholic priest to remain in England, and of course they were aware that numbers suffered under that law. The milder act, 11 and 12 William III. made Popish archbishops and bishops liable to perpetual imprisonment, and that law continued until the 18th George III., c. 60, and 31st George III., c. 32. which permitted English Catholic bishops to exercise their episcopal functions "upon conditions ;" the conditions being copied word for word from the Irish Act, except the one prohibiting the assumption of ecclesiastical rank or titles, which was struck out. And so the law remained until the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, which prohibited no titles but those secured by law to the prelates of the Established Church. The enacting part of the mutilated bill was a mere fraud upon the credulity of the public. It could not be carried into effect consistently with the provisions of another statute which the Government had no intention to repeal, and which a Board of Commissioners appointed by the Crown were bound to execute. Sir George Grey informed the House of Commons that he had ascertained that the bill as it originally stood would interfere with the administration of charitable bequests to Catholic priests, as it was impossible to ascertain who was the priest for whose benefits the bequest was intended, without looking at the certificate of his ordination or collation. He said he had seen one of these instruments, and that it was in Latin, and signed by Dr. Murray as Archbishop of Dublin, and he believed would not be valid without that signature. The difficulty of ascertaining who are the successors of deceased Archbishops and Bishops without looking at the Papal Bulls and noticing the titles therein set forth seemed not to have occurred to him. But it was much the more serious of the two. A few years ago an Act called the Charitable Bequests Act (7 and 8 Victoria c. 97) was introduced by the Government and passed the Legislature. It appointed a Board of Commissioners, 10 of whom were nominated by the Crown, 5 Protestants and 5 Catholics, who with three judges of the Irish Courts of Equity were to be trustees of any property which might be bequeathed or conveyed to them in trust for any Catholic archbishop or bishop exercising pastoral superintendence in any district and his successors. It would be found impossible to carry that act into operation consistently with the enacting clause of this bill. The Commissioners can't know who the successor of a Catholic bishop is without looking at the Papal Bull by which he is appointed, and in which he is described as bishop of his province or To save the consciences of the Protestant Commissioners who have taken the oath of supremacy, it is, indeed, provided that the duty of actually looking on and fingering the Papal Bull shall be performed by the Catholic Commissioners, but the Protestant Commissioners are on their report bound to put it in ure." Dr. Paul Cullen, who was consecrated by Cardinal Fransoni in the Pope's chapel, had no possible mode of proving that he is entitled to the benefit of the trust property vested in the Commissioners in trust for the late Archbishop Crolly and his successors-but by submitting the bull in which he is called Archbishop of Armagh to be thus examined, reported on, and "put in ure." Strange and irreconcileable with the statutes of Richard the 2nd and of Elizabeth as it may appear to the students of that ancient learning, the Protestant Primate of Ireland, and the Protestant Primate of all Ireland, must, as Commissioners, should any property be bequeathed to them in trust for the new Bishop of Ross, put in ure" the bull conferring upon him that title. Complaints had been made of Dr. M'Hale for assuming the title of Archbishop of Tuam. But the Protestant province of Tuam was abolished by the 3 and 4 William IV, c. 37; and it was no more illegal for him to call himself Archbishop of Tuam than for the Archbishop of Canterbury to call himself Archbishop of Canterbury. This right was not acknowledged by law, but he was not the less the metropolitan of two millions of British subjects; and as all the other Roman Catholic Prelates had invariably signed their christian and surnames with a cross after them, there could be no object in extending this abortion of a bill to Ireland but his mortification. They should resist any such measure. He believed Englishmen liked men to stand up manfully to assert their righ's, and that they did not detest an open enemy so much as the sneaking creature who stole from the opposite camp to assist them in injustice. Let every one of the men who must ere long meet the people on the hustings understand that he would not get one Catholic vote if he supported that penal bill. He would not advise them to offer a fretful and ill-natured opposition to measures for the general benefit of the country; but when they found an unjust Government reeling on its seat, and tottering to its fall, unable to last for a day without Catholic support, let the Catholics of the empire force their representatives to seize the opportunity and compel the abandonment of any measure hostile to the principles of civil and religious liberty.

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In Committee on Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, Sir George Grey moves the insertion in the Preamble, after the word "whereas," in the first line, of the following words :

"Divers of her Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects have assumed to themselves the titles of Archbishop and Bishops of a pretended province, and of pretended sees or dioceses within the United Kingdom, under colour of an alleged authority given to them for that purpose by a rescript or letter from the See of Rome, and whereas."

Also to move the following Clause:

"This Act shall not extend or apply to the assumption or use by any Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Scotland exercising episcopal functions within some district or place in Scotland of any name, style, or title in respect of such district or place, but nothing herein contained shall be taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or use any name, style, or title which he is not now by law entitled to assume

or use."

The second and third clauses of the Bill, as printed in Series XXIII., pp. 15, 16, are withdrawn by the Government.

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