LORD CAMPBELL AND THE POPE.

As matters advance the offensive assumptions of the Papists are becoming more palpable. The public prints have recorded and largely commented upon the following scene:

"The Norfolk Assizes were opened at Aylesbury on Monday, by Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Crompton. The High Sheriff was Mr. Scott Scott Murray of Danesfield, who some years ago was Member for the County. This gentleman joined the Church of Rome, and in consequence retired from Parliament. In this capacity as High Sheriff he has to appoint a chaplain, whose duty is to accompany the Sheriff and Judge of Assizes, and to preach the Assize sermons. Mr. Murray appointed a Roman Catholic chaplain, selecting Mr. Morris, who, like himself, had seceded from the Church of England, and this reverend gentleman accompanied the Sheriff and Mr. Justice Crompton to the door of the church of the hamlet of Walton, whence, having there deposited the learned Judge, the High Sheriff and his chaplain proceeded to the Roman Catholic chapel, and afterwards took up his Lordship. When both the Courts were opened on Tuesday, for the despatch of business, the High Sheriff was again attended by Mr. Morris as his chaplain. The Grand Jury having been duly sworn, Lord Campbell proceeded to deliver his charge to them."

After expressing his disapprobation of what had taken place and his "hope that such an occurrence would not be repeated," his Lordship is said to have spoken as follows:

"I hope that no one will suppose I am actuated by any illiberal motive. I have always most strenuously supported the Roman Catholics in their claims for freedom of opinion, in order that they should be admitted to all the privileges of all others of her Majesty's subjects; and I may say that, having lately been sojourning in Italy, I had the honour of an audience with the head of that religion, and from that interview I had every reason to believe he is a most excellent and most praiseworthy person; and no one must suppose, from the course I take, I am actuated by any improper motive. But, gentlemen, the Sheriff appoints a chaplain who is to appear as the chaplain of the Judges, and who is expected to take his seat in the same carriage as the Judges, and to sit beside the Judges in the Court. That chaplain, therefore, becomes the chaplain of the Judges, and the Protestant religion is the religion of the Judges of this country."

The Grand Jury, at the close of the day, made the following presentment on the subject:—

"In making our presentment, the Grand Jury desire to express their respectful thanks to your Lordship for your observations on the subject of the attendance of a chaplain of the Roman Catholic persuasion, and to assure your Lordship of their unanimous and entire concurrence in the sentiments addressed to them by your Lordship."

Lord Campbell has received just commendation for exposing this eminently modest plan for foisting a Popish priest into such indecent prominence. The High Sheriff has attempted a defence of his conduct, and talks stoutly as usual about "religious liberty," as if the meaning of that phrase were simply that Papists, who refuse all liberty to Protestants abroad, are just to do what they please in this country, and as if, on any ground of religion or common sense, they ought to be entitled to parade a Popish priest publicly through Buckinghamshire in the same carriage with the Protestant Judges of England without asking their consent. The Times has admirably disposed of Mr. Scott Murray's letter. The following sentences hit the nail on the head :—

"Lord Campbell considers that when a Judge of assize rides through a town on his circuit in company with a notorious ecclesiastic-when he sits by the side of such an individual on the judicial bench; in a word, when the judge and the chaplain are before the public as inseparable companions from the beginning until the end of the circuit business, the judge and the chaplain will be presumed to be co-religionists Unless some desire of paltry parade, or some wish to elevate the repute of his own faith by lessening the dignity of the Chief Justice, was at the bottom of Mr. Scott Murray's proceeding, why could he not leave his chaplain at his beads at home? Let that reverend person say mass for the High Sheriff, say grace for the High Sheriff, listen to the High Sheriff's recital of his little peccadillos, and impose upon him such easy absolution as high sheriff's are sure to obtain; but why pin his vestments to the ermine of a Protestant judge?

"The simple truth is, that this silly and preposterous act of Mr. Scott Murray's is but a specimen of the habitual policy pursued within the last few years by the Roman Church

within these realms. If our country is parcelled out into dioceses-if the authority of our Queen and Parliament is set at defiance-if one division of the empire is kept in a constant ferment by the fiery zealots of that encroaching Church, that is nothing. But if we protest, complain, resist, that is persecution. Does a week ever pass over our heads in which we have not to record some broil in which, when the whole story is fairly tested, some Roman Catholic zealot is found to be the aggressor? Let them be content with equal political rights. We give to others the same freedom as we claim for ourselves, but we will not suffer ourselves to be priest-ridden by the ecclesiastics of a Church which is understood and rejected by the common sense of the vast majority of the community."

But where was the necessity for Lord Campbell going out of his way to pronounce an unfounded eulogium upon the Pope? If we are to believe the Lord Chief Justice of England, who at the very time is standing forth as the champion of Protestantism, the Pope-called in Scripture the “ man of sin," and "son of perdition," is "a most excellent and most praiseworthy person!" How did his Lordship make this wonderful discovery? Why, he had "the honour of an audience" with the said "man of sin;" and inasmuch as the cloven foot was of course wrapped up in a velvet slipper, the Chief Justice of England was entirely pleased and delighted! All that the world has ever heard of Pius IX. is strangely untrue. It is not true that he violated his engagements to his own subjects as a prince, and that his pretences are eminently blasphemous as a minister of Christ. It is not true that the blood of the Roman people was shed like water by infidel France, to restore this Pope to his palace, and that he blessed weapons dripping with their blood! It is not true that all liberty, civil and sacred, is trampled under foot in his dominions, and that whilst his own dungeons are crammed to suffocation with the best men in Italy, he is the great pillar and centre of European despotism. All these things are untrue, as the eminently liberal, enlightened, and Protestant Lord Campbell can certify, after seeing him last summer for ten minutes! He is a most excellent and most praiseworthy person!" When are we to be done with this outrageous folly?

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The object of Lord Campbell was, no doubt, to please the Papists. But he will soon discover that this old policy of "conciliation" is of no value at all, except we are prepared to go down and be trampled under their feet. We are almost ashamed to transfer to our pages the offensive remarks of the Catholic Standard in regard to this very matter. But they afford a conclusive evidence that Lord Campbell's soft speaking has not in the least abated the fury of his antagonists, if it has not added contempt to their rage, and a good warning to all men, that in speaking of or to Romanists the most politic thing, as well as the obvious duty, is to speak the simple truth. We quote from the Catholic Standard of March 6, under the head of

"JUDICIAL IMPERTINENCE."

"We perceive by the Circuit reports in the morning papers, that Lord Campbell has been importing his Guildhall insolence into Buckinghamshire. The Whig Chief-Justice seems determined to exhibit upon the Bench the same perverse politics which, when his patron turned Presbyterian and persecutor, the learned Lord did not think it unbecoming to display at the festive board. Why, let us ask, should Lord Campbell do and say those insolent, offensive and presumptuous things at Aylesbury which Sir Frederick Pollock would not think of saying or doing either in London, or, we are convinced, on Circuit? Is the son of the old Presbyterian minister a more orthodox Anglican than the Chief Baron who was born and baptized in the established Church of this country! Or is it that Plain Jock,' who however stooped from his democratic elevation to pick up two peerages, felt his dignity hurt by the contact of a Popish priest? Considering his parentage and his early career in this city after the young Caledonian adventurer crossed the Border and bied South in search of fame and fortune, which he has found-the fair reward we frankly admit of his talents and unflagging industry-we must be permitted to suggest that a more modest demeanour would have been more becoming; and that having, as he tells the Bucks squirearchy, during his Italian séjour, had an audience of the head of the Catholic religion, whom we are happy to find he conceives to be a most excellent and most praiseworthy person'—it would have been as well if he did not travel out of the

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record, to borrow an illustration from his own craft, and indulge in offensive, uncalled for and audacious remarks. His offensive brusquerie went down at Aylesbury as a mere matter of course. It is not in that county that one could expect to find the education that detects a scandalous judicial blunder, or the liberality that rebukes blatant bigotry. Even the High Sheriff manifested, we must say, a lamentable timidity. We could name a county where a Catholic High Sheriff would, under such gross provocation as Mr. Scott Murray received from Lord Campbell, have administered to the peccant Judge such a rebuke as would crimson the aggressor's cheeks were they ten times more cadaverous, without insulting the ermine, or descending from the sphere of a gentleman."

SACRIFICE OF THE MASS.

A PLAIN REASON WHY THE CHURCH OF ROME WITHHOLDS THE SCRIPTURES FROM THE PEOPLE.

POPERY and the Divine word are directly antagonist to each other. For example, an absolute denial of the Christian faith is made every time (what they call) the "Sacrifice of the Mass" is performed. Popery teaches that it is 66 an unbloody sacrifice," yet "equal in efficacy to the death of Christ on the Cross," and this dogma must be received under pain of anathema. But St. Paul declares, (Hebrews ix. 22,) that "without shedding of blood is no remission," and (x. 18) that "now where remission of these (sins) is, there is no more offering for sin." Again: The Romish Church says, that each and every time the mass is offered, there is the real presence of the body, blood, and divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is there offered as a sacrifice for the quick and the dead. This must be believed, or the curse is pronounced. The testimony of the Apostle Paul is directly contrary to the Romish doctrine of transubstantiation. See Epistle to the Romans, vi. 9, “Knowing that Christ, being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him." Also, Hebrews ix. 24, " For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world; but now once, in the end of the world, hath he appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself" "Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many." Further, that there might be no mistake, Heb. x. 10, " By the which will we are sanctified, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.—(12.) But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins, for ever sat down at the right hand of God.-(14.) For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified."

As the Bible is in direct opposition to the doctrines of the Church of Rome, her safety lies in forbidding its perusal.

EXPULSION OF PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES FROM HUNGARY.

MANY of our readers must have observed that very large and influential meetings were lately held in Edinburgh and Glasgow in regard to the recent expulsion of Protestant Missionaries from unhappy Hungary. This is the true spirit of Popery in power. It is most important to keep this matter before the public, and by all Christian means to seek redress. We understand that a meeting will soon be held in Exeter Hall on the subject.

POPISH SAINTS.

"Your saints, O Rome, are sinners canonized! And oft the greatest sinner is the Pope;

He who with cursing councils has devised

To wrest from man God's book of heavenly hope.

Inmates degraded of the cloister'd walls,
Or weak romantic sentimental minds,
Who shun the sacred force of truth, that calls
To face the world, and spurn what it enj ins.

How can ye, Papists, hug your servile chains,
Appease your consciences by counting beads?
God's word demands not formal prayers and pains,
It spurns all claim to meritorious deeds."

It would require a whole treatise to expose the impositions that have been practised upon the world under the name of Popish saintship. Their calendar is made up of a variety of elements. There are some true saints in it, as the Apostles, but it contains also a number of names of the greatest sinners, and some names of men who never had an existence. Modern Rome has no idea of the Scripture doctrine of sanctification as the work of the Spirit of God, and inseparably connected with justification through the blood of Christ, and imagines holiness to consist in a cowardly fleeing from duty, and in such revolting austerities and penances as heathenism has always enjoined. An account is given in a recent Popish book* of a so-called saint named "St. Peter of Alcantara," of whom it is said,

"It was usual for him not to eut till the third day! He asked me why I was astonished at this; for he said it was very possible for one who had accustomed himself to it. A companion of his told me, that sometimes it happened he ate nothing for eight days. This, perhaps, might have been when he was in prayer; for then he used to have great raptures and impulses of the love of God, of which I myself was an eye-witness."

Gibbon gives an account of a Popish saint called Simeon Stylites, a Syrian anchorite, who, on the giddy top of a pillar sixty feet high, lived and died: In connexion with this, he remarks that

"A cruel and unfeeling temper has distinguished the monks of every age and country." And, in regard to the special monk referred to, he says:

"Successive crowds of pilgrims from Gaul and India saluted the divine pillar of Simeon; the tribes of Saracens disputed in arms the honour of his benediction; the Queens of Arabia and Persia gratefully confessed his supernatural virtue; and the angelic hermit was consulted by the younger Theodosius on the most important concerns of Church and Antioch revered his bones as her glorious ornament and impregnable

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defence."

This is a pretty fair sample of the most eminent Popish saints. God is supposed to be like the idol of Juggernaut, pleased with the mere senseless tortures of His saints, whereas we are told that “as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him," and that "He will withhold no good thing from them that walk uprightly." It is supposed to be a man's duty to do violence to himself, even to the risk of his life; whereas it is the duty of men to use all "lawful endeavours to preserve their own lives as well as those of others," Paul said to the jailor of Philippi, "Do thyself no harm." It is supposed that a man is most free from temptation in a solitary place; whereas it was just such a place that the Devil chose as the scene of our Lord's temptation. It is supposed that if the body is scourged, the soul must necessarily be improved; whereas abundant experience proves that such a bodily process is quite compatible with innumerable spiritual evils, as pride, hatred of God, discontent, and every species of vile affection. Above all, this whole procedure is supposed to be meritorious, and the way to purchase heaven, and a high place in heaven; whereas the Scriptures tell us that "by deeds of the

The Life of St. Teresa, written by herself, and translated from the Spanish by the Rev. John Dalten. London, Dolman.