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SPAIN AND ENGLAND AT THE CENTRAL pRIMlNA...
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The Catholic Eclipse. The Roman Crusader...
gibte aS they ; s . re su btle and -pen etrafctng . Th « aadpf ^^ jig ChV * ehjsvas . necessary . ^ irpifBT SfeiiTH : speaks of three se 3 fes--r-m . eii , Fomen , and clergymen ¦ : the Jesuit clergy are a monstrous race , detached froin ; human sympathy . ; J * ut the Church , does not depend for lfcs positipn on its military resources ^ It is not the less a Power because it cannot defend its temporal authority . The Pope in exile , or iti captivity , is stiUPope ; supreme over millions of hearts , and while " protected , "
preserves , in all its perfection , the sway of his spiritual sceptre . Therefore , he and his Cardinals made good terms at "Vienna . For value received the Emperor Fbancis Joseph conceded to them the domination of the public mind in the Catholic provinces of Austria . The Imperial veto is abolished . The bishops are plaeed in direct relation to the Papal Chair , and invested with it monopoly , almost absolute , of ecclesiastical
patronage . . T he power of the Church extends further . By ^ significant generalisation it is commissioned "to prohibit dangerous books , " which at once places the literature of the enapii * e under its . censorship . It is the supreme superintendent of education . It is the sole dispenser of licenses to teach or preach . It may punish its clergy for canonical offences , without appeal from its decision to that of any civil court . Xoung Luthers will be
consigned to the holy oubliette . On the other hand , it requires the civil courts to give formal notice of there intention to prosecute a priest , and , the priest , if condemned , must be untainteci by- , '¦ " lay' * society in prison . Moreover , the ; press is brought within range of this Catholic Terror by a clause in the Con-: ciordat , . enacting that written defamation of
$ 13 . Church shall be permitted in no form whatever . This , considering that the . Papal system esteems all philosophy as defamation j is one more blow at the rising miads of ( je ^^ any .. Thevslight ; remains of free speech in the empire are abolished in the same , clause hy : ifa , ipfroY-isibn that " oral" criticisms of a " defamatory" character are equally within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction .
The Church cannot establish new bishoprics ,, or redistribute the . existing sees , without the formal consent of the Emperors This apparent limitation of its privileges is atoned for by fiill liberty tip manage its property , to keep that property inviolable ( inviolability meaning exemption ) , to augment it , to levy tithes in perpetuity , and in every other respect , to regulate ecclesiastical matters by the law , and will of tlie Colleges at Rome . centuries is this
The work of abrogated by Concordat . There was never much liberty in the . Austrian Empire ; but the Empire iteejf was , independent until the nation was thus subordinated to t \\ e Church , and the Church to the Papal Chair . The lower clergy are placed absolutely at the mercy of the higher , and these in their turn are yjirtuallyv to , be selected , by the Pope , who may suspend ^ or replace them at will . Russia has never claimed in Turkey the authority which . Rome has asserted in Austria .
Religipus houses , monasteries , cloisters , are to reappear ; the right of sanctuary , probably , will we restored ; and ; above all , the dmpire giveaway at last to the GPuncil of Trent on $ !§& subject ofmarriage . , , , , Jn this question are . involved , j bo a greater degree than may at first be apparent , the religious liberties of Germany . Marriages tef jbp . Catholics and Protestani ^ though Ba ^ qt ipned by t * he practice of t 1 iQ , $ pman olio , hierarchy , were . never approved : at Rome ,.. The Austrian emperors , while maintaining the principle , long forbbro to j > ro-* Mlm > : * hWKW * ' , by > nqpui-nging ,, ,. e ^ U contracts . 1 jfocenth--,, however , \ n order
to consolidate and blend the various populations of the empire , it had been resolved . to abolish the prohibition . Here the Church intervened ; the Concordat was proposed ; and one condition to which the Papal Government , most tenaciously adhered was , that it should be licensed to increase the amount of human misery by embittering religious feuds , tyrannising over the natural
affections , keeping alive the animosities of races , aud persecuting offenders by breaking up * , their families and denying the legitimacy of their children . This point , one of the most important for which the Church contended , it has gained . The policy of Austria is reversed . The Pope has declared a war of opinion throughout the empire . Happily , the German nation is not now what the
Spanish nation was when suspected heretics , in flame-coloured buckram , died by fire . Protestantism in England is either insincere or exhausted . Otherwise it would be more attentive to the movements proceeding in Germany and France—to the miniature inquisition of Biickeberg , in the atomic principality of Schaumberg-Lippe—to the religious persecutions in Paris- —to the overwhelming influence of the Roman crusaders in Austria . By Protestantism we do not mean unctuous bigotry at Exeter Hall—or the purulent flow of sermons against the Scarlet Woman , or prophecies against Anti-Christ . That is the frivolous and theatrical side of
the matter . Protestantism , when it is a virtue , and not a passion , when it is intelligent , and not narrow and vulgar , means a repudiation of ecclesiastical tyranny over body and soul—an engine strictly political . No man is a candid Protestant who does not sympathise with the efforts of oppressed nations to obtain for themselves those free institutions which are the only securities of a free church . Further , the Protestantism of no man is worth saving unless it compels him to Ippk , with aversion and disgust tipon the existing Government of France . The coup d ' etat of December gave the French nation into the hands of the priest and the soldier . The massacre on the Boulevards
established the same principle that was es-, tablished by the slaughteis of St . Bartholomew . Within the last fortnight a man of unsoiled character and of high education has been condemned in Paris for writing against the doctrines of the Catholic Church . The Church promoted the prosecution . Instigated by dynastic venality , the Empeiiou approved the sentence . The unfortunate controversialist is sentenced , iii addition , to a fine which he is unable to pay . What is this but Inquisitorial ferocity , and what
worse cau a Tuscan suffer ? What are our ladies about ? Why are our doctors dumb ? Our doctors are complimenting the imperial ally of Great Britain ; our ladies , who smothered the Madiai with their sympathy , would pant in . a mob for hours to catch a beam of the eye of Imperial France . Despotism ia mad in Naples , and cunning in Paris . It does not flog ; it immures . Englishmen , certainly , eviuce a cordial respect for the French character when they say , in the slang of the hour , that at length France has found a government fit for her . ¦ '• ¦ ¦
$ t ia an illusion . Intelligence aud morality are under the same cloua . Wo are not so venal as we seem . Perhop . 8 even the civic rotundities of London -will one day be aaliti ^ no 4 . pf t heir speeches and their medals . Greatei * revolutions have happened . CawaoaxiiA . would , in our time , be Caracai / la the G-BBA . T j Ohableb I . would be ; the champion of order Wiip ^ i a . V' Tell wpuld bo an assassin .
In Austria the new position of the Church is somewhat analogous to its position in . France early in the eighteenth century . If events have a meaning , the results will not be dissimilar . Everywhere the omena of revolution are visible .
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Spain And England At The Central Primlna...
SPAIN AND ENGLAND AT THE CENTRAL pRIMlNAL COURT . It is not easy to draw the line between banking licences ., as they have recently been interpreted in practice , and the newest devices of sharpers in the land of Quevebo , author of JPaul , the Spanish Sharper . Only in the modem instances , Pattii is not " the Spanish Sharper , " and the "Spanish Sharper " is not Pattl . Stbahan , Patti ,, and Batis did not resort to forgery ; they only appropriated to their own uses property left in their keej ) ing . The forger does not always break faith with those who trust him ; his machinations may abstract only from , t ~ he stores of the wealthy ; and if we test- the comparative offence , therefore , by its violation of faith or its deplorable consequences , we must confess that the line of distinction drawn between the banker and the forger would not be favourable to the banker . Between the two , society is mulcted more than regular folks could suppose possible . What house so quiet as the bank of Stbahan , Paul , and Bates , " near Temple Bar , " where it had been since the days when its founder , Snow , still bore the ancient title of " goldsmith ? " The Pauls had married into the Snow family and into the bank ; the moat conspicuous member of the firm , as it lately existed , was by inheritance , therefore , a good apprentice , an ancient banker ^ and a pietist . Who could have mistrusted all those material and moral guarantees ? Yet to trust was to be betrayed ; and the old bank " near Temple Bar" exists no more . The other tale is more picturesque , but not so sombre . It carries us back to ' the ancient city of the Moors in Spain , Valencia—still beautiful in its decayed architecture , still basking tinder -that Mediterranean sun on that 6 th day of . August , when the very clerks in the house of Calhina Brothers suspended their labours , lounging in all the permitted languor of a torrid day . But on that same day , and in the same place , two men did not
suspend their labours . They were a strangely assorted couple . One was a person who seemed to be rather under than over the prime of life : a gracefully-made man , carrying himself gracefully and displaying the gentleman in everything . The other was a stouter , rougher man , who might be several years older , notwithstanding the blackness of his thick beard . He looked a man one would be more likely to meet in a mountain pasa than in a saloon ; and , indeed , there are those who think that he has been seen in a mountain pass , with some few men behind him rougher than
himself , but scarcely so audacious . Those men are together in Valencia ; they approach the post-office , and letters are dropped in . Exactly one week afterwards , two loiters are received in London—one by Mtsars . Mukbieta and Co ., the merchants of Gresham House , Old Broad-street , the other by Sexior Jose YaxicaiAS , the Spanish merchant of Walbroolt . In the firat letter Suitor Fwanoisco DJ 5 MiminiiTA recognises the well-known hand of his correspondent a in Valencia , Cawjiiwa Brothers , informing him that their friend ., Don Manuel be ( Jajmi ' O
will arrive , in London , to . which place ho is a stranger ; . asking tho London firm to aid him in any way that , he may desire ,. ¦ and to supply him ; $ ith money to the extent of 3100 Z . sterling . ; Evidently ; Don Manuel i > e Campo ia a person pf consideration ; and the way for
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101855/page/12/
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