principle and in action; not men of expediency, ever ready to sacrifice the dearest interests of religion to the necessities of state-policy, but men who would not compromise one iota of religion or its interests to gain the whole world,-men, in a word, formed on the model of that distinguished nobleman in a neighbouring country, whose strong attachment to his faith makes him the glory of the Catholic world, inspires him with the loftiest sentiments, and imparts its greatest brilliancy to his truly splendid eloquence. Give us a generation of such men, and the face of things will be renewed in Ireland. Give us a Catholic University, and you will have such men. “The project of a Catholic University is met with objections from two classes of persons-one mostly Protestant, the other Catholic. Our Protestant brethren ought not, surely, to take it ill that we desire to establish a Catholic University. Whilst they may be said to have Trinity College for themselves, and have also a gorgeous Churchestablishment, supported by the Catholics of Ireland, they cannot complain if, having done so much to maintain the temporal state of Protestantism, the Catholics of Ireland out of their limited resources make the attempt to erect a great literary institution which shall be all out Catholic, at the same time that it meets the intellectual demands of the country. Ought not such an effort to elicit the applause, if it did not command the support, of every liberal Protestant, were it only that, for the honour of the British empire, we should no longer be the only Catholic people in Europe without a Catholic University? "The project of a Catholic University, it may be said, is conceived in a spirit of narrow-minded bigotry, and opposed to the cultivation of that good feeling between the members of different religious creeds so desirable in a country long divided by contending religious parties. Professing ourselves second to none in our desire to cultivate peace and amity with all men, we assert, nor can it offend any one to assert, that the Catholics of Ireland, throughout their religious struggle, have been acting on the defensive, striving to regain the just rights of which they had been deprived, or resisting new aggressions upon the remnant still left them. We maintain that the Catholics, who are emphatically the people of Ireland, are as clearly entitled, without incurring the charge of bigoted exclusiveness, to have an exclusively Catholic University as to profess the Catholic faith, and it alone, and without any admixture, or to adore God in churches exclusively devoted to Catholic worship We fear that any attempt to fuse down all religions into one mass would result in an indifferentism more fatal to the interests of true religion, and more dangerous to society, than the most violent religious contentions. And then, as to the cultivation of kindly feeling between man and man, we believe that the Catholic who is brought up strictly according to the tenets of his own Church will in all the relations of life be incomparably a better man than one who is not so brought up,-more obedient as a subject, more useful as a citizen, more exact in observing all the charities of life towards those who profess a different religion. "Some few Catholics object against the project of a Catholic University, because in the present circumstances of the country they fear it is an impossibility. No doubt the difficulties are great, but the project is by no means an impossibility. No great work was ever undertaken that was not attended with difficulties, which the timid and weak-hearted are every ready to magnify into impossibilities. However, while they are speculating, and doubting, and holding back, all difficulties disappear before energy and perseverance, and the work is done. What the isolated efforts of individuals cannot accomplish, becomes easy by union; and the most astonishing results, as we see every day, are accomplished by Catholic faith combining together all hearts and sentiments and views, and directing them to the attainment of one common object. We trust in the faith of Ireland. With the blessing of Divine Providence, it is able to surmount the difficulties, whatever they may be, that stand in the way of a Catholic University. "Relying on so many grave considerations, we, in the name of the Bishops assembled in the great National Synod, call upon you, the Catholic clergy and people of Ireland, to throw yourselves heart and soul into this great work, and to assist, according to your means, in carrying it into immediate execution. And if you will exhibit the respect of dutiful children to the expressed wishes of the common Father of the Faithful,-if you will hearken with docility to the united voices of your chief pastors, issuing from a Council as august as any that was ever held in our national Church,-if, for the first time in the annals of our history, you, the people of Ireland, will not sever yourselves from a clergy that in every vicissitude of fortune remained faithful to you,—if you wish that the youth of Ireland shall not be led astray by the science of this world, which puffeth up' with pride, corrupts the heart, unsettles the faith, disturbs society, and overturns the throne and the altar, but that they shall be imbued with science, 'the beginning' of which is the fear of the Lord,' and its end peace, order, obedience, happiness, both spiritual and temporal,-if you wish to hand down to future generations that Catholic faith for which we have suffered so much, and which is the first principle of civilisation,—then will this appeal not have been made in vain-then we shall have the happiness to see you, the Catholic clergy and people of Ireland, united as one man in carrying out a work that will do honour to your enlightened and patriotic zeal, and prove to the world the enduring strength of Ireland's faith. And this, we anticipate, will, with God's blessing, be the result of our appeal." NEW CATHOLIC CHURCHES.-New churches, all structures worthy of their sacred purpose, have been opened during the last month at Yarmouth, in the county of Norfolk; at Thorneley, in the county of Durham; and at Cork. THE CONGREGATION OF THE PASSIONISTS.-The Rev. Father Ignatius, Vice-Provincial of the English Passionists, is preaching with wonderful success on the conversion of England in many parts of Ireland, where he receives the warmest welcome. He is also collecting offerings for a church and monastery at the Hyde, Edgeware Road, London, where land has recently been purchased. The Passionist Fathers have just been removed from the mission, a most prosperous one, which they have for some years served at Woodchester, Gloucestershire, their departures being equally regretted by themselves and by the Catholics of the neighbourhood. Some of the Fathers have gone to Broadway, Worcestershire, where a monastery, with land adjoining, has been placed in their hands by the Benedictines on the most liberal terms, and where they will continue the same missionary labours which have been blessed with such striking results at Woodchester. The house being convenient, and the situation healthy, the Passionist Noviciate will be removed to Broadway, from Aston, after Christmas next. The late Superior of Woodchester, the Rev. Father Vincent, is to be settled at Broadway; and the Vice-Superior, the Rev. Father Honorias, at the Passionist Monastery at the Hyde, Edgeware Road. REVIEW:-RISE, PROGRESS, AND RESULTS OF PUSEYISM.- Lectures on certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in sub- mitting to the Catholic Church; by John Henry Newman, Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri. ECCLESIASTICAL REGISTER.-Apostolical Letter of our Most Holy Father Pope Pius the Ninth, re-establishing the Ca- tholic Hierarchy in England, with a translation-Pastoral Letter of Cardinal Wiseman to the Clergy and Faithful of the Archdiocese of London and Diocese of Southwark- To Correspondents. Correspondents who require answers in private are requested to send their complete address, a precaution not always observed. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. All communications must be postpaid. Communications respecting Advertisements must be addressed to the publishers, Messrs. BURNS and LAMBERT. "J. M. C." declined, with thanks. The Rambler, A CATHOLIC JOURNAL AND REVIEW. VOL. VI. DECEMBER 1850. PART XXXVI. THE HIERARCHY. IF we may judge by its periodical organs, the Protestant world has received the tidings that England has been divided by the Pope into Catholic dioceses with the same ignorant terror with which it ordinarily views every act of the Catholic Church. Ignorance and terror are, in fact, the heralds which announce the onward march of the army of Almighty God. Ere we lift up our voice, or move a solitary step, the mysterious agency is at its work, and in accents of mingled rage and fear the spirit of the world confesses the advent of One whom it dare not deny to be its invincible Master. With the rarest exceptions—and perhaps with no real exceptions at all the same phenomenon is every where witnessed. Men dread us, and hate us, and know nothing of us. While the language of contempt still bursts from their lips, their hearts palpitate with alarm. They scorn to study us with patience, yet tremble before us as something more than human. At once childish and consummately prudent, at once powerless and terrible, at once derided by modern intelligence and denounced as its most dreaded enemy,-we present the same marvellous aspect that our fathers presented, and which they received as a legacy from Him whom the world mocked at as a fool, and persecuted as an irresistible foe. A more striking example of the workings of the genuine Protestant spirit has rarely been called out than that which has resulted from the nomination of an English Catholic hierarchy. Of the real character of the new regulations, Englishmen in general are profoundly ignorant. What the Pope means by it;-whether it is a claim to all the stolen Churchproperty in the hands of Anglican prelates and nobles; whether it implies that Queen Victoria is not lawful sovereign of this realm; whether Protestants are in any way |