priests and Jesuits should acquire the dominion they would arrogate to themselves, they have made a stand, a bold stand, and a stand which, through the Divine blessing, will prove successful if persevered in.

This book, to which we shall again and again refer, has made great noise on the Continent, and acquired much reputation, and deservedly so. Jt probes to the core, some of the worst evils which have afflicted France, and still afflict her, and every country in proportion as Popery prevails in it.

It attacks one of the strong-holds of Popery. We should like to see a copy of it in the hands of every father of a family, whatever may be his rank in life, and whether Protestant

or Roman Catholic.

Especially do we recommend it for the libraries of Mechanics' Institutes, Parochial libraries, and the libraries of Protestant, and Protestant Operative Associations.

To know what positive and practical evils follow in the train of imaginary good, may lead some to think less of the "IDEAL," and more of the real object and ends for which a revealed religion has been vouchsafed to mankind.

The Reformation, and Anti-Reformation in Bohemia. From the German. Two Vols. London: Houlston and Stoneman. 1845. BOHEMIA was a long time the battlefield on which the powers of Popery and Protestantism contended. Scenes of the most fearful atrocity were frequently enacted there, by those who would have suppressed the first uprisings of liberty-the first aspirations of the soul towards the God who made it, and the Saviour who died for its redemption.

In an age, when, yielding to the declamation of a spurious Liberality, many would caress and patronize Popery the deadliest foe of liberty and pure religion we rejoice to see publications issuing from the press which shed the light of the past, upon present transactions, and thereby serve as a guide to future movements.

The work of an "Anti-Reformation" is now going on amongst us.

A more fearful step could scarcely be taken, and well does it become us to look around and exert ourselves, that the efforts of our opponents be not successful.

The above work is calculated to do much good.

Popery Unmasked; A Narrative of Twenty Years' Popish Persecution. By JOHN RYAN, Esq., M.R.S.L., Author of "The History and Antiquities of the County of Carlow," &c., &c. London: Edwards and Hughes, 12, Ave Maria-lane; and Olivier, 59, Pall-mall.

THIS work abounds with startling facts, and throws much light upon the nature and intensity of the under current at work in Ireland.*

INTELLIGENCE.

ENGLAND.

Nottingham. On Monday, Dec. 22, the Protestant Operative Association of this town gave the annual "tea party and soiree," in the Exchange-rooms. About 1,000 persons were present. At the public Meeting afterwards, the chair was taken by the Rev. George Browne, who professed his strong attachment to the principles of the Reformation, and also to those of "the revolution of 1688, of glorious and blessed memory.' On the platform were the Rev. Messrs. Bolton, Calder, Gregg, Cartledge, Blakeney, Clemenger, Clementson, Langley, Milton, Ovens, and Parnell. The speakers were the Revds. T. D. Gregg, W. Clementson, and R. P. Blakeney, and Messrs. A. King, W. B. Carter, and Rukeley, the latter a converted Roman Catholic.- -Popery in the University of Oxford.- The " 'Times," of Friday, January 16, last says:appeared a few days since in these columns, an extraordinary statement from a Correspondent, who signed himself 'M. A.,' and upon whose veracity we have every reason to place implicit reliance. The communication referred to affirmed, that in the rooms of more than one student

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of the University of Oxford might be seen at the present moment 'a small wainscoat book closet, externally as plain and unpretending as possible, exciting no suspicion, and affording no clue whatever to the mysteries within.' This seeming book-closet, however, being opened, is found to be a portable altar, in the language of 'M. A.,'' as rich and gorgeous as gold and emblazonry can render it.' 'In its form,' continued the writer, 'it copies the triptic of the Roman Catholic altar. The inner side of either door presents richly emblazoned scrolls, upon which are pourtrayed with suitable inscriptions, the passion of our Saviour, and such like scenes. At the back of this cupboard altar, and in the vesica, is fixed the cross, now bare, and now, where the proprietor is rich enough to command the treasure, adorned with the figure of the Saviour, and other accompaniments of a similar nature. The ground is painted a deep blue, and is studded with stars. At this altar, the fac simile of many used in Romish families, the early matins of the students are devoutly offered up.' The " "Times states, that although the authorities of the University have had the opportunity of contradicting this statement, no such contradiction has yet been offered. We are, consequently, left to the natural conclusion. Popish Mass-houses in London. The mass-house, known as the Spanish Ambassador's Chapel, in Spanish - place, Manchester - square, which is attended by the principal members of the aristocracy and gentry professing the Popish faith, is about to be very considerably enlarged, in consequence of its limited dimensions, compared with the very large congregation who attend there, and which has latterly much increased. It is rumoured that the mass-house in Virginia-street, Ratcliffe-highway, to which there is a congregation of about 22,000 attached, is about to be taken down, to make way for an enlargement of the London-docks.

As no

doubt a liberal sum will be given by the Dock Company, the Papists will be enabled to erect the long-talked of splendid church in the Commercialroad, where they have for some time

had an extensive cemetery, with a large piece of ground adjoining it, and fronting the best part of the Commercial-road. Long funeral processions to the cemetry may be seen frequently on a Sunday proceeding along the Commercial-road, attending the corpse of a member of the "Catholic Temperance Guild," the male members wearing particular dresses, giving them the appearance of a set of monks, and the female members looking like nuns, all walking two and two, with several tall crosses carried in different parts of the line. The Late Seceders.-Mr. Newman and his friends will remove from Littlemore to a College near Birmingham, where they will pursue their ecclesiastical studies under the superintendence of Drs. Walsh and Wiseman, Bishops of the midland districts. Messrs. Capes, Collyns, Neave, and Estcourt remain at Prior Park, near Bath; Mr. Oakeley enters at St. Edmund's College, in the diocese of London.-Morning Post.

-The "Tablet," of Saturday, Jan. 3, states, "The clerical and learned personages who lately became converted to the Church, are to be congregated in semi-retreat, for the purpose of being thoroughly proved and instructed according to the ancient discipline of the true Church, on the Neophyte system, under the conduct of a zealous and enlightened ecclesiastic."- Ramsgate.-Mr. Jauch, the priest of the German Popish chapel in the city, in a letter to the Editor of the "Tablet," dated December 24, states, that in the previous week, he visited at Ramsgate, Mr. Pugin, whom he styles the "Prince of Christian architects," and that Mr. P., in the early part of the present year, will lay the foundation of a church, school, presbytery, and cloister, on the West Cliff, at Ramsgate, which he says, will cost at least 10,000l. at the sole expense of Mr. Pugin. It is stated, that the buildings will be close to the spot where the monk, Austin, first landed in England.

-Birmingham.--The Popish priests have during the last fifteen months been trying to obtain admission to the workhouse in this town, first under one pretext, then another. Priest Ivers has at length obtained permission

under some restriction, which he will, no doubt, soon succeed in removing entirely. Dominican Monks in England. A correspondent of the "Tablet," January 3, says, "There exists at Hinckley, in Leicestershire, what I would fain hope we may regard as the nucleus of a great corps of Dominican monks (or Friar preachers), and at Atherstone, eight miles distant, a small convent of nuns." He suggests that some of them, “the divinely appointed, the ascetic Friar preacher, with the Image of our Redemption," should go amongst the crowds assembled on Sundays in the London parks, and elsewhere, and preach to them.

IRELAND.-Popish Propaganda. By the reports published in the Popish prints here, we find that the monthly contribution from Ireland to the Propaganda for December (1845), amounts to 810l. 13s. 6d., which is somewhat beyond the usual average, whether owing to the Christmas season, or to the late Government contributions to Maynooth. This monthly rate would amount to nearly 10,000l. per annum; and considering the potato panic, and outcry of famine, it is a tolerable sum wrung at this severe season from the wretched population of Ireland, for the purpose of promoting Popery in England.Dublin -Dublin Warder.- The Godless Colleges.The Lord Chancellor refuses to sanction the appointment of two Roman Catholic Presidents to the Provincial Colleges.-Limerick Chronicle.Londonderry.Thursday, Dec. 18, being the anniversary of shutting the gates of Derry, in the year 1688, against the Popish army of James I., by the apprentice boys of that period, was celebrated in a manner justified by the historic importance of the event itself. In the morning there were discharges of cannon, ringing of bells, &c. At eleven o'clock, a religious service suitable to the occasion, was celebrated in the cathedral, which was densely crowded by an attentive and highly respectable congregation, consisting of Protestants of all denominations. The Rev. Charles Seymour preached from Esther ix. 2628. The Molly Maguires. On Sunday night, Dec. 28, a party of

these men entered the residence of Mr. Nulty, of Aughanmore, and ordered him to discharge a Protestant servant maid. He refused to comply with their orders, upon which they beat him with a sword. They also beat the servant girl with the same weapon, and wounded her slightly in the neck, after which they ordered her to quit Mr. Nulty's employment. Longford Journal. Potato Rot and Priestcraft. In a letter from Anemoe, in the county of Wicklow, we have a further account of the use to which priestcraft has turned the potato disease in that quarter, and which lamentably elucidates the intellectual state of our poor Popish peasantry in these enlightened days. We learn that from the neighbouring county of Wexford, holy water is brought a distance of ten or twenty miles, and that the priest of Wicklow, not willing to leave all the profit to the Wexford worthies, who have the holy water, take care to sell, at a very high price, some blessed salt, which being mixed with the water, the charm is complete; and to this cause the cessation of the disease is attributed by the deluded Romish peasantry. It seems, moreover, that they are persuaded the benefit in this case of the charm cannot be extended to the potatoes of heretics, but that it would lose its purifying virtue if sold to, or touched by Protestants. What a hopeful task it is to ameliorate the condition of a country, by multiplying at the public expense, priests of fraud and superstition, who trade in practices like these.-Dublin Warder.

COLONIAL.- Harbour Island, Bahamas.-A clergyman of Harbour Island writes to the Protestant Association;-"In our little colony, antiChristian error has just opened a new channel for its bitter waters. A Popish priest has lately arrived from Jamaica; and having located himself in the town of Nassau, has met with great encouragement. He has not been there a month, and yet already eighty or 100 persons have professed themselves Romanists, while about 2007. have been raised to build a chapel, in which subscription numbers nominally Protestant have joined, including even the Governor." At the

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request of this clergyman, a grant of books and tracts has been sent him from the Association. wick.- St. Dunstan's Popish Cathedral, Fredericton, New Brunswick, was opened on November 16, 1845. FOREIGN.-The Apostolical Catholics.-Berlin, Dec. 26. The Rationalist movement, headed by M. Ronge, which has excited so much attention, is, we hope; about to assume a Scriptural direction. A body of the German Catholics of Berlin, who cleave to "the faith once delivered to the saints," has lately renounced their connexion with M. Ronge's party, and laid the foundation, by a confession of faith, based on the truths of the Gospel, for the establishment of a new Church among the seceding Romanists of Germany. The Rev. Dr. Tettmar, Professor of the Mathematics in the Gymnasium at Pottsdam, who renounced the errors of Rome about six years ago, and is a clergyman ́ of piety and very considerable attainments, has placed himself at the head of this new movement, and on Christmas-day celebrated public worship before the Apostolical Catholic flock in Berlin. There can be no doubt that the lamentable direction which the movement under M. Ronge assumed after the general Meeting at Leipsic, at the end of March last, has done much to avert the secession from Rome in Germany. We hope that by means of this new movement in their own bosom, the German Catholics, who are fighting so good a fight, with regard to external corruptions, may be called to a sense of their doctrinal aberration, abandon the connexion with the Rationalists and Radicals by whom they have been so liberally and actively supported, and be led into the way of saving truth.

-Berlin.-The Berlin Church journal, in December last, states the following interesting facts:-"Among the most remarkable secessions from Popery, which have lately occurred

in the Pesth district, are the Baroness Derceengi, Count Waldeck, a Franciscan monk, a nun lately escaped from a nunnery, and a monk who was professor in the order of the pious schools, with his wife the proprietress of an estate. Formerly in this place the annual number of those who, per fas et nefas, went over to Popery, averaged from 800 to 1,000; the last year witnessed the conversion of thirty-five Protestants in return for 900 Roman Catholics who have professed Protestantism : no pleasing subject of contemplation to the Archbishop of Vienna." -Brussels.—On the 16th of December a Te Deum was sung, and a grand procession took place in the Popish cathedral at Brussels, in honour of the birth-day of King Leopold. Nearly all the ambassadors were present, and among others, the English Minister, Sir George Seymour, and his Secretary, Mr. Walker.- Bavaria.-The King of Bavaria has just issued a decree, abolishing the custom of compelling his Protestant soldiers to kneel on the passing of the host, and orders that on the occasion of the procession outside the church, on the day of the fête Dieu, none but Roman Catholic soldiers shall attend. This relief to the Protestant soldiers has been granted in consequence of numerous petitions to the King from a large number of Protestant pastors and laymen. Thus the soldiers of a Popish sovereign enjoy greater liberty, than those of our own Protestant country do in similar matters. Two English officers were cashiered a few years since, at Malta, because they refused to order a salute to be fired, on the passing of a Popish procession.

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