manner towards me." The Pope extended his hand to him, and Brother Ignatius "bowed down and kissed the cross on his slippers." "He seemed astonished and pleased as I knelt before him. He begged me to pray that I might know God's will and do it, and have also the spirit of a true monk. He laid his hands upon my bare and tonsured head, and kept them there while he gave me his blessing, and then gave me his hand to kiss. I had brought with me a heap of crosses, medals, and rosaries, which I held up for him to bless. He blessed them for me, and then, with a few more kind words, the interview ended." All this is perfectly intelligible. LIBRARY OF THE PROTESTANT INSTITUTE. THE following donation of books to this very important and now valuable library have been received during the month :-From a Lady-"The History of the Jesuits," by Count de Saint-Brest, Peer of France. London: John Murray, 1861;-" The Poor Gentlemen of Liege," being the history of the Jesuits in England and Ireland for the last sixty years. London: Shaw & Co., 1863; Two valuable volumes of Tracts, containing important documents. From the Rev. Mr Agnew, Free Church, Wigton -"A fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church." By the late Rev. Sydney Smith. London: Longman, 1845; Sherlock's "Protestant Resolution of Faith." London, 1683; Sherlock's "Discourse concerning Judge of Controversies," 1686; Stillingfleet's "Answer to some Papers (two of which are said to have been written by Charles II.) on the Authority of the Roman Catholic Church." London, 1866; Stillingfleet's "On the Doctrine of the Trinity and Transubstantiation." London, 1686; a treatise by the author of the "Communion of the Church of Rome, on Transubstantiation." London, 1687. THE POPE AND THE JAMAICA BUSINESS. WE read in Le Nord:-"If, as a recent incident tended to prove, the Pope is almost nervously susceptible in his conversations with diplomatic foreigners, it appears that in revenge his Holiness exacts from these very diplomatists an entire insensibility to the more or less violent outbreaks, to which it pleases him from time to time to give way, against the governments which his interlocutors represent. Thus the Monde relates that the Pope, speaking one day to M. Odo Russell, for whom he has some good feeling, made use of very nearly the following language: When to my great regret and profound grief, I am forced to permit in my State the death of a criminal, on all sides arise frightful outcries. But when your Government causes the summary destruction of some thousands of negroes, as has just happened in Jamaica, if the telegraph may be trusted, no one finds anything to object, and all is for the best.' It is an act of simple justice. The Monde adds, that Mr Odo Russell, who is un homme d'esprit, was of opinion that his Holiness was right. It remains to be seen, supposing the correctness of the Monde's narrative, how far the English Government has felt flattered by the esprit which their representative has shown in this matter." We take the liberty to suspend our opinion as to the accuracy of the Monde's version of any occurrence of the kind. And the Pope with the slaughter of innocent men at Rome and Perugia fresh in his memory is about the last who should speak. POPERY EVER THE SAME. CUDDALORE, Dec. 11. A PAINFUL instance of bigotry was exhibited here last week by the Roman Catholic clergyman of the station. A pensioner named Garrety having died, the priest refused to grant him Christian burial, although he had previously administered to him the holy sacrament and the last rites of the Church. The reason alleged for this strange refusal was the fact of Garetty's children having regularly attended the Protestant school, against which, it seems, the priest had previously warned the members of his flock on pain of excommunication. Application was then made by the friends of the deceased to the Rev. Mr Griffiths, chaplain of the station, who, after some slight demur, and not hearing from the bishop, who had been telegraphed to on the subject, complied with the request; and thus the poor man's remains were with due decency and decorum consigned to their last resting-place.-Madras Times, Dec. 16. MARRIAGE OF A NUN IN ITALY. THE Italian papers mention that a marriage, in accordance with the new civil law, and without the intervention of the Church, has just been celebrated at Secli, in Sicily, between a barrister, Guglielmo Caruso, and a nun of the order of St Theresa, named Maria Pisani, known as Sister Maria Annunziata. The parents of the bride not only gave her their consent but a dowry also. All the principal families of the neighbourhood, together with the local authorities, were present at the ceremony. This is as it should be, and proves that nuns would sometimes marry, we believe would marry often, if they were allowed. The priests know this quite well, and hence their dreadful jealousy of convent inspection. But if all the monks and priests would marry all the nuns, an absurd and unscriptural state of things would be brought to an end, much good would be done, and much evil prevented. This would really be a jubilee. CATECHISM FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Q. WHAT are England's last gifts to Ireland? A. Insurrection Acts, Extraordinary Commissions, Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. Q. Are these good? A. No. Q. Why does she give them? A. She fears a rebellion. Q. Has she good reason? A. Excellent. Q. Who rebel? A. Only Papists, whom the priests call their subjects, -not one Protestant, not one convert from Romanism, not one independent Romanist. Q Why do they rebel? A. They hate England, and would break her yoke. Q. Why do they hate England? A. They are taught. Q. By whom? A. By their teachers, the priests. Q. When and where ? A. Everywhere, and at all times, in school and out of school. Q. What does England do? A. She helps the teachers. She pays the priests in their colleges. She pays the priests in their schools. She pays the priests in their Pauper Unions. She pays the priests in the prisons. She pays the priests in her army. Q. What does England get? A. The fruits, the last ripe fruit, FENIANISM. Q. What is Fenianism? A. Hatred of England boiling over to a rising. Q. Why do the priests dislike the Fenians? A. Why does a cook dislike the pot, when it boils over and scalds her? Yet it is the cook that makes and feeds the fire! ELECTORAL COMMITTEE, 1 WHITEHALL GARDENS, PROGRESS OF POPERY IN ENGLAND! Reprinted by request from the " Marlborough Times," February 10. SIR, Will you allow me to make one more effort to arouse your readers to a sense of the awful dangers which surround us on every side. Only about sixteen years have elapsed since the Pope of Rome, in what was supposed to be the climax of his imbecility, parcelled out the Islands of Britain into Bishoprics and Archbishoprics for the Romish hierarchy, and that act raised throughout the empire such a storm of indignation as has scarcely been witnessed since the expulsion of King James, of Popish memory; but that ebullition of Protestant feeling quickly passed away, and we have been going on from bad to worse, till, as it now appears, we are to be delivered, body and soul, into the hands of that foul conspiracy against the rights and liberties of mankind-the Popedom of Rome. Yes, sir, deny it who will, there is TREASON against the CROWN and the CONSTITUTION and the CHURCH of England, and the CHURCH OF CHRIST IN ENGLAND! And who cares? True, there are A FEW who are raising their voices against this treachery, and who are getting up petitions to the Throne and to the Parliament; but how few are they, and how meagre is the number of their supporters! Dr Pusey says publicly that he "has long been convinced that there is nothing in the Council of Trent which could not be explained satisfactorily to us if it were explained authoritatively," and that there is "nothing in our articles which cannot be explained rightly, as not contradicting anything held to be de fide in the Roman Church." And therefore he is willing to surrender himself and his country, and his Church, into the hands of the great apostacy! I see by the papers that there is a great meeting of English Bishops to be held this day, (the 5th,) and that the Bishop of Oxford will introduce a motion to offer to Rome conditions of compromise, by which the way may be smoothed for a re-union of the English and Romanist Churches; and this, too, in face of the Pope's outrageous encyclical letter of 1864. Mr Waylen very coolly informs us of the name of the Protestant (?) clergyman who acts as a secretary for the association to unite the two churches, and we are as coolly told in your paper that our own Bishop of Salisbury, and a few other Bishops, are approvers and supporters of this unholy alliance; and is it indeed come to this, that the people of England can know these things, and sit still and care nothing about them? A plague has fallen upon our cattle, and there is a panic from one end of the country to the other. Let the plague attack our flocks, and the panic will be increased tenfold; let there be a deficiency of three or four millions in the year's revenue, and there would be serious apprehensions of financial embarrassment, but a danger a thousand times greater than all these together is looming over our nation, and we will not see it! Does history tell us nothing of the degradation of England under the Papal rule in ages long gone by? Can we look at any nation under heaven in which Popery has ever been the dominant religion--which has not sunk into serfdom under the frown of the Most High? And ook at ITALY, casting off the loathsome yoke, and ENGLAND, after three hundred years of religious liberty, seeking a return to the affections and the filthy embraces of the "mother of harlots!" Dr Pusey and the Bishops of Oxford and Salisbury will that it shall be so. Again, I would ask, is it come to this, my fellow-countrymen, that you have forgotten the holocausts which once blazed throughout England -at Smithfield, Gloucester, and Oxford? Has commercial prosperity so dulled our senses that we have forgotten the blood and ashes which mingled together, and with the remains of the murdered new born babe-presented a horrid and sickening mass before the eyes and hearts of our helpless forefathers? Brother Farmers,-Amidst the cares of our fields and our flocks shall we forget the hallowed names of Cranmer, and Ridley, and Latimer, and Hooper, those names dear to God and justly dear to us; of which we are reminded, Sabbath after Sabbath, as we exclaim, "The noble army of martyrs praise Thee!" Yes, they were martyrs! They knew what Rome was, and they were willing to sacrifice their all, and they did sacrifice their all, "counting not their lives dear," that they might save their country from the domination of Rome. And shall it be said that the sons and daughters of England's martyrs; that their Bishops, and Priests, and University Professors, leagued together to destroy their blood-purchased rights and liberties, and that they effected their object without a struggle? Oh, let it never be said of England's sons, in this year of grace, 1866,-let it never be said of God's Holy Church in this land, and in this day;-let it never be said that the sons and daughters of England's martyrs knew of these things, and yet satisfied themselves with folding their arms, and grieving over the impending ruin, and praying God to avert the mischief! No, no, rather let it be said, through all remaining time, that such attempts WERE made, that such and such Bishops WERE traitors, that such and such Priests and professors WERE determined to hand us over to the arch-enemy of mankind; but that there WERE a few good and true men remaining in the Church, that the laity, Dissenters, and Churchmen rallied around them; that indignation meetings were held in all parts of the kingdom; that petitions from every city, town, and village were presented to the Queen; that the tables of the Houses of Parliament groaned under the weight of the petitions; that a new feeling came over our rulers; that the traitors were ignominiously expelled and handed over to "the vatican;" that a second reformation was gloriously inaugurated, and the Crown and the Constitution again saved!! But withal, let it be remembered that, come what will, "THE CHURCH OF CHRIST" cannot be harmed! The Church of the First-born is secure in the hands of Him who hath redeemed her, and every member of that Church is safe, though he may be bound to the stake and the flames be wreathing around him; but, as Popery is NOT A RELIGION, but a POLITICAL CONSPIRACY against the rights and liberties of all mankind, it behoves Churchmen and Dissenters, and those who have no care whatever for religion,-it behoves every man, woman, and child to raise the hand and the voice against that return into the bosom of Rome, which has been too surely determined upon.-I am, Sir, yours obediently, J. F. PINNIGER. KENNET, MARLBOROUGH, POPISH GUILE RESISTED. (To the Editor of the Bulwark.) WOLVERHAMPTON. DEAR SIR,-Knowing that you are always ready to expose the schemes which Popery employs to extend her system, I have taken the liberty of sending the enclosed ticket, which is one of a packet that was sent to a neighbour of mine a few days since. They were accompanied by a letter, in which it was said, “that having heard of your benevolence and charity towards the poor and afflicted, we have sent you this packet of tickets, trusting that you will aid us by selling them, and forwarding the money to the address given." A friend of mine, knowing that I took an interest in the controversy, told me of this the next day, and I immediately warned the person addressed against selling the tickets, telling him that was a device of Popery to enable her to carry out her nefarious schemes; and that Popish hospitals "for all denominations," are nothing but Popish traps to catch Protestants, that they may allure them into the deadly errors of Romanism. I succeeded in getting all the packet of tickets handed over to me, so that none have been sold. Now, sir, this only strengthens my conviction of the necessity for having men on the alert to watch the aggressions of Rome, and meet and frustrate them. It is evident to me, that the priests here must be in communication with those of Ireland, they thus ascertain the names of those little shopkeepers that are receiving these tickets which are sent over from Ireland. The person from whom I got these tickets has no friend, nor in fact any one they know in Ireland; yet these tickets were sent from thence, and they received them without having had any notice of their coming. Thus we see the audacity of the Pope's emissaries, who are willing to make money any how, so that they get it, and they are making Protestants their tools to attain their ends. Now, sir, I think you will agree with me that these tricks cannot be too widely exposedtricks by which Rome is making thousands of pounds to enable her to unprotestantise our land, and rob us of all those blessings and privileges which have been handed down to us from the Reformation, and for which our forefathers shed their blood. This is a sad state of things, that Protestants should allow themselves to become mere tools for the advancement of their greatest enemy, Popery. It often causes me grief, and especially when I think how little there is being done to arouse Protestants to a sense of their danger and duty; but it stimulates me when I read of some here and there that are fighting for the good old cause, to which England owes all her greatness and her glory, such as the Scottish Reformation Society, whose periodical I read with delight, as I see the strenuous and successful efforts that are making to awaken the nation from the deadly apathy that now pervades both clergy and laity on this momentous question. That the Lord may continue to bless and prosper your noble Society, is the prayer of,—yours affectionately, &c. TOTTENHAM TRACTS.* In the appendix to No. 4 of these excellent tracts we have the following statement : It is commonly supposed that the principles of the Roman Church are making great progress in this country, and alarming statistics, taken chiefly on Cardinal Wiseman's authority, are adduced in proof. Among the reasons assigned for this increase may be noticed-1st, Tractarian principles; 2d, Sentimentality of weakminded ladies; 3d, Vituperation. Another reason, and a better one by far than any or all of the foregoing, has been quite overlooked, namely, "Immigration." While Cardinal Wiseman has been very careful to give statistics of the progress in the number of priests, chapels, nunneries, &c., he altogether omitted to inform the public of the vast number of "immigrants" into this country; and persons who were led astray by the wily Cardinal never thought of consulting the Census tables. Now this is an omission which I intend here to supply. In the Census report for 1861, vol. 3, General Report, table 9, p. 40, we have the birthplaces of the inhabitants of England and Wales, and at p. 87, the total inhabitants :—Total inhabitants, 1851, 17,927,609; 1861, 20,066,224. Number of persons born out of, but resident in, England and Wales, 1851, 761,953; 1861, 946,172. We thus learn that nearly a million foreigners are living in this country; and if we assume that seven-eighths of them are Roman Catholics, and if we assume again that the whole Roman Catholic population is only a million and a quarter, then it follows that only half a million are native-born Romanists, and that, too, in a population which has increased 11 millions from 1801 to 1861. The truth is, the "immigrants" chiefly swell the ranks of the Romanists; and if there be an increase of priests and chapels, it is only because there is an increase in those who come into this country from Roman Catholic countries. The foregoing statistics enable us to see that the Roman Catholic population, native and immigrant, is about one-sixteenth of the whole population; and the marriage statistics would lead to a conclusion nearly the same. Is it not manifest, therefore, that if Romanism prevail, it is not owing to Cardinal Wiseman's reason, but to a totally different reason, namely, " Immigration.” We confess we are unable to see the force or cogency of this reasoning. Suppose the question were one of physical warfare, a proposal of the London: John F.Shaw. |