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      e President ' s government is dabbling in the job , id the Assembly sanctions it . Meanwhile , the > vernment is attempting to raise a loan , but is iwarted by the amount of discount asked in the nders . Never mind , cry the ministerial journals ; . e can put off the loan , for government has plensty : money in its treasury—the government , that is , hich dabbles in lotteries and vainly fries to dabble l loans . Assuredly , France is not the Power to mntOTva . il ( rerman reaction or Russian intrigue . '

      England , then ? where is she ?—in Lord Pacifico almerston ' s pocket . THE HAYNAU AFFAIR . The Austrian Government , with the view , _ no > ubt , of exciting the hatred of its subjects against ngland , has published the whole of the corretondence between Baron Koller , the Austrian

      IXa * - SCO Vl « £ A . 11 C * &X \ i& C * J ^ JV ** Vx ^»» 9 . . «* «• . w v 7 specting the attack on Marshal Haynau by the ankaide draymen . The first note from the Baron as written on September 5 , the day on which the ¦ st account of the mobbing of the Marshal appeared the newspapers . He states that General Haynau id left London , after stating that he should not ing a complaint before the judicial court , Baron oiler trusts , however , that " as the insult was fered to an Austrian general , " Lord Palmerston ill order an investigation to be made in Messrs . eurclay , Perkins , and Company ' s establishment , eing that , as he alleges , their clerks appear to have > nn + 1-. / 3 inofinatnra nf aota f \ f onVJUrp Tirilt&litV .

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      e . Foreign Secretary , m reply , regrets outrage , td promises to bring Baron Roller ' s note under the ome Secretary's notice . Prince Schwarzenberg , in a note to Baron Koller , ited September 12 , speaks of the scandalous and volting nature of the snare laid for the celebrated neral , expresses a wish " that the unrelenting m of justice may reach the chief instigators the crime , who , in all probability , keep themselves the back-ground , and from a distance only moved e wires that set the puppets in motion . " ThiF > te Baron Koller was authorized to read to Lord

      almerston , who , having communicated with Sir eorge Grey , receives an answer from that funconary expressing much regret and sympathy , but titnates that , as General Haynau had refused to > int out to the police the men who attacked him , to give any information that might lead to their rest ; " this consideration , however honourable to the jneral , has thrown insurmountable difficulties in the

      ay of a summary judicial proceeding . " Nothing , terefore , can be done . Baron Koller , in reply to this note , complains that exhibits ** an endeavour to attach a secondary im-) rtan « e to the occurrence , " and a " deficiency of ady and earnest zeal . " He fairly pooh-poohs the gument that the Government cannot interfere beuse General Haynau is unwilling to prosecute . When anaccusation he acted

      i declined bringing " upontne esumption that the British Government would tow how tomakeitselfre 8 pected . " He complains that oper willingness has not been manifested , to detect e guilty , and winds up by reiterating his demand r a complete enquiry . Lord Palmerston cannot iderstand what Baron Koller would have , but he closed a copy of a note from the Home-office aching Prince Schwarzenberg ' s remarks , in which r George Grey again ?* regrets that it is not possible institute a criminal prosecution with the least prosct of success . " As for the notion that the draymen sre mere puppets , as the Prince affirmed , Sir George n see no grounds for it .

      x ney waa * ™ nu « c « u » n » rentile that they had been told that the Church of God as ever to be in . conflict . They had been warned that lere was another visible and enduring power , which aged against it a perpetual warfare , and this was what ihrist , throogb Himself and His apostles , had denounced * the world . Now the world ami the Church were like te two sides of an equation—they could not be together j at when yoti have discovered on which side the one is , a . the other side rottst its opposite be . It was important bsen- to enquire on which side was the Church and on rhich side the woild within the last few eventful weeks , ihrist had told us that His true disciples would be hated , rxd calumniated , and execrated by the world . Now , in tnat

      ever in their memory , or or many preceding geerations , had such intense hatred , such scurrilous misjpresentations , or such bitter execrations been again ad again publicly expressed in regard to their religion , s rulers , its clergy , its ministers , and its members , he walls of that city and its very pavement had been Lotted with curses invoked upon the heads of fellowlbjects and fellow-men redeemed by the blood of the ime Saviour—curses which had they been uttered , the iw would have punished ; which , had they been printed ,

      rery modest tongue would have lalterea to repeat mem ; id they would be told , perhaps , that this was only the ide way in which untutored minds expressed their relious zeal . How strange , indeed , must their religion be i take the name of God in vain , and thus violate one of e commandments . And who was it that urged on iese minds to this unholy zeal , this un-Christian Chrisanity ? Or who were they among those that were in ity bound who had ever thought of checking the evil ? e had not heard of a bishop or a clergyman who had ¦ otested against it , and it bore all the character of a

      lblic and national violation of one of the clearest prepts of the decalogue . " He then proceeded to draw a parallel in more inute detail between the insults and opprobrium ied during the recent excitement towards Roman atholics and the Roman Catholic religion , contendg that all the coincidences to which he referred ere only additional proofs that the work which , they » d in hand bore the seal and impress of heaven , mong his other remarks , he said ;—" When they heard it pronounced from the judgmentatof that city , ' that a little imprisonment would do the urist aeciarea mat

      irdinal good , ' or wnen a greater j a ocess by which the new bishops would be placed in the Ions' dock , and disgraced by being committed a few ivs to the common gaol might be advisable , these lings called up to remembrance how a judge of old . id respecting one whose venerable and thrice-holy une must not be uttered in connection with such inmy , that a scourge would do Him good , and that He tould be chastised and then let go . And . when they sard that one belonging to that nation which in the iming year expects to gain its religious freedom in this untry , an elder of this city , spoke before his fellowuntrymen that he would willingly , with his own hand , rike the mitre off the heads of the new bishops , oh ! w one shuddered as he brought up the remembrance the men who , in the Hall of Caiaphas , were so ready to the first Christian it

      nite the head of bishop . JNor nas en for the want of right good will that they have not en brought before the civil tribunals , and visited with » al inflictions . For had there not been a sufficient cry at old and long-dormant statutes , if possible , should put in force against them ; that obsolete legislation ould be searched rn every nook and corner , to see if in me of its neglected folds there could not be found ' rking some unrepealed clause that could be turned ainst them ? Even those who called themselves Lirals had proposed to reenact the old Draconian code persecutions , and to restore the laws by which Caolics were sentenced to death as felons and convicts ; t the eyes of every one must at length be opened in nsequence of what had so lately happened from the niliarity of their opponents' minds with the idea of nishing with death the discharge of a religious duty .

      The various notes having been placed before Prince hwarzenberg , that nobleman sums up the whole rrespondence in a rather grumbling style . The itement that " a legal and judicial investigation on e part of the Government would be attended with lure / ' is evidently looked upon as evasion , and , nsoquently , he closes his concluding note with a If threat : — 14 However , as the British Government could not de-!« iirtnn nrinntino lnrlininl mpnanrpR nn sin nttnr > lt wYnfih

      placed the life of an Austrian subject in danger , we eannot do otherwise than reserve to ourselves the right to consider , in a Bimilar case , whether we should or should not act reciprocally towards British subjects in Austria . " And thus ends a transaction which threatened , as the Austrian Minister says , " to run into nn endless , fruitless polemic /' CARDINAL WISEMAN ON PERSECUTION . Cardinal Wiseman delivered his concluding lectu * e oa tihe Roman Catholic hierarchy at St . George ' s Cathedral congregation was unusually iflow of attendants uviii

      g uuvwiMmiHApbetv m pit * aiQips ana uiong me passages . / T&e . cMef ob * jeotf of&pdiiseourse was t 0 show that in A ^ p £ finti ^ tfl ., a ljierantfiylk England the Pope wos «* c | iumn # bui ! t&fc wmoFtb ^ lblessed Redeemer . " Thia hlWt ^ B ^ 'tSel ^ -thdt " the world " was > rnmo el ^ lt * rW . cMef otgeoti of ^ b ^ cMt TOpintififl . a lileraftiJi ^/ 1 * 3 faWS % -the 2 &-tLJ

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      ) d that the law-making is not left in the lianas ot tne ; rgy—of the avowed ministers of the Gospel of peace . : a time when it is difficult to find twelve men honestly bring in a verdict of guilty against the murderer of his low-man—when by a process of years we have been rging the Statute-book of its bloodstains until we have nh'ned the extent of its vengeance to the cry of ' Life life , ' it was melancholy to think that we should have ; n a minister of religion make known to us that reli-> us fanaticism can even yet gloat over the deathuggle of its victim , that there still live men who beve that it is doing God service to put Catholics to ath ! Talk of the inquisition and persecution in the tholic Church ! Oh ! there were plenty of Protestant ~ . m ~ A * m I ** Vn ml m ti rf-1 writ i /» n nr /\ ii 1 # 1 cfs \ s \*\ inofitii 4 * a t Vi a nno ¦ % ii 7 ## *

      H | H 9 1 H f ' * W * v *** v * v « * v »* »» ** v »*« ^ v * A « uvv » vuvv ••**• w >«|< d plenty of arms who would c « rry out the other , if the 9 would allow them . And how had this persecuting irit been manifested by those orgies of cruelty which d been repeated , and continue even until now , at lich the inhabitants of our villages and towns are ined to mock executions , and of which it might be said it it was indeed well for those who were their objects it it was their effigies only and not their persons that .. * 7 « * 1 « . m Vi ^ m / Ia s \ P ( na t % u # \ vv 1 a 3 f-T a # lwl v \ nfr miak + rv in ui jirupic jjc uiu iiuv wiou iu

      _ re me nunua ma r .. irae those who were always led away by any unwonted ectacle , whether it was a Lord Mayor ' s show or the ngiug of a criminal ; but what was to be said of those io were better educated , and who were , or who at least ght to be , of more refined feeling , and who had been inlying the idle and youthful part of the population th such degrnding pastimes ? "Was it wise or Christian en to occupy our people day after dny with these scenes , j which the appearance of brutal torture wns hailed with \ outs of applause , and the semblance of a cruel agony > fit ad onlv cries of derision ? But when thrv learnt I

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      ^* . *^ V »* » » . ^ VOUliUu ias induced the Earl of St . Germans to eorne before ; he public and explain his reasons for having taken io part in the county or other meetings that have seen held to address her Majesty on the subject , fhese reasons are stated by his lordship in a short ; ract , from which we extract the material passages , ^ . fter premising that the mere substitution of terri-; orial bishops for vicars apostolic is not in itself an nfringement upon the constitution , though he adnifs that the manner in which it has been done is ) ffensive , he proceeds to argue that the titles of the fviaU " T ? AtVt Q-rt f ^ af-Vn-vl \ r * V \ lC ; Vl rv-l ^ d V \ OXra T ^ O ^ i T ^ Von /\ rmi r * r \ A

      n Parliament ; and adds the following reasons to ihow that no sound distinction can be drawn between ; he two countries : — " The Protestant Episcopal Church was , by the Act of Jnion , established for ever as the United Church of England and Ireland . " The supremacy of the Queen , that is , her authority is head of the United Church , is as much part and parcel > f the constitution of the Church in Ireland as it is in England . Anything which if done in England would ionstitute an aggression on the supremacy of the Queen , nust equally constitute an aggression on it if done in rolsinrl

      " The bishopric of Galway , created not long ago by he Pope , was to all intents and purposes as much within he diocese of a bishop of the Established Church as the rchbishopric of Westminster . " No complaint of its creation was , however , made , as eing an aggression on the supremacy of the Queen or n the rights of the Church . " The law does not acknowledge the right of the Pope o create bishoprics , or to appoint bishops with territorial Ltles , in Ireland any more than it does in England . " Parliament in proceeding to legislate on the subject rill , therefore , find itself in this dilemma : either it Mist prohibit in England that which it permits in Ireind , or it must prohibit in Ireland that which has been nmemoriallv done in that country without let or

      hinrance . " By taking the former course Parliament will destroy ie unity of the Church , and thereby weaken its position i Ireland : by taking the latter , it will cause great and en « ral discontent among the Roman Catholics in Ireind , will en crease the difficulty of governing that coun-¦ y , and will encumber the statute-book with a law estined , like so many others , to become a dead letter . " POPERY AND PUSEYISM .

      Cardinal Wiseman , assisted by the President of St . idmund ' s College and several of the priests of the Lonon district , held a general ordination in the Spanish . mbas&ador ' s Chapel , Spanish place , Manchester-square , n Saturday morning . There were eisrht candidates for arious degrees—one priest from St . Edmund ' s College , iree deacons from the Oratory , two deacons and one lb-deacon from the Redemptionists at Clapham , and iree received mmoT orders . There was rather a large tendance of spectators , as this was the first general rdination that has been held since the Reformation , the rdination of deacons having always hitherto taken place

      i their respective colleges . A number of English Roman Catholic noblemen and entlemen assembled at the episcopal residence in olden-square , on Saturday morning , for the purpose of resenting to his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman an address hich , during the last fortnight , has been in circulation , id has obtained the signature of the principal families , mongst those present were Lord Petre and Lord Dormer , ie Honourable T . E . Stonor , the Honourable Charles angdale , Sir Robert Throekmorton , Bart ., Mr . Robert erard , Mr . Edmund Jerningham , Mr . C . De la Barre od

      lordtip was emnusiasuc ai wnox me oovereiga x u" »« " «*«* me . Much to the surprise of even the Roman Catholic conegation present , who had no previous notice of it , the ! W Bishop of Clifton , Dr . Hendren , was enthroned at e Church of the Holy Apostles , Meridian ^ place , on mday week , with no pomp whatever beyond the ordiiry routine of investiture , &c . So secret was the event spt , that even the organist knew nothing of the innded ceremony until he entered the chapel . ouuimm *

      ine jjimertCK unronteie says : — jjusc > v « n . »« . th occasion of the officer in the command of the Roman Uholic soldiers of the 1 st Royals at lluthkrale having en obliged to withdraw the military from the chapel , consequence of the political nature of the observations ado by the officiating priest . # The Newcastle Journal states that the authorities ol shaw Roman Catholic Establishment have withdrawn cir custom from one of the most respectable tradesmen the city of Durham , on the ground that they will not "I _ 1 „ * 4-l _ _ _ _~ . __* - » Mala . * m ¦* .- « 4 « Um « »•« # «* % + \\\ 1 * nQtflf «

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      Postscript. Saturday, Dec. 28.

      SARL ST . GERMANS' REASONS FOR NOT SIGNING AN ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN .

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      ministers of one religion against the dignitaries of another church ., whose ecclesiastical rank they were themselves obliged to acknowledge , their astonishment ' znew io bounds . Did they not see that these tastes , once diff used , and encouraged amongst the people , are not so ? asily repressed , and they could have their objects with-) ut much difficulty changed , and that if a bishop was to > e burned in efRgy it was not much trouble to change he colmir of his habits . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 28, 1850, page 938, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1863/page/9/