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I -r •/-ii i--' i Cry./ SPEECHES op JUDGE WILMOT, ^IilYEJlEO AT THE ,f ,.Kx,. M^HANICS' '^INSTITUTE, ST. JOHN, On Thursilay eveQing, the 13th, and Saturday ovcning, the 22nd January, 1859* . . AND THp REPLIES ■ * OF TJIE RIGHT RETEBEMJ) , THOMAS L. CONNOLLY, ]). D., y_ , BISHOP Op ST. „ JOHN, N. B., ALSO, THE I.ETTER OF - ■ . ■ ' u Ilf BEFtT TO 4 JjtT^ZTt, OP 'i Z*^ . ■ ■ • ' ■ ' A MEMBER OF TME CttURCtt OF ENGLAND. ■^^»^*V»^^WMW^.<». H # ST. JOHN, N. B., i?UBLISHED BY T. ^V. ANGLIN,. rUBMAN PKINTINO O^riCE. X.8..6 9.. ,, j# '^: •■-^sr -^ 3fL iffei INTIlojurCTlON. ':^ ^ At the Aniiivcrsarv Meftiii.' ..r tu \- wl.0 ,,a„ Wen «„„,..„ t, a (1 H- 'i: "m"::!;'' " ,' '??' read nir the Rihlo ti • . ' ^«>rainichi, for Priest at lenKth ti„,l i,:,. ,„ ; . ,• '" '■""«' and Ifi him. occtsional Iv "' ""'' "'" '""»' «»K- •. occasionally stopping to ask Inm .«• i . . g>ve „p reading the Hihle th. ) """ '' J'« ^^""W the Priest as ho flo JJ v ' m°^ '""*'"'»''' «'•'». =^»d ^ beat the' Protestant out of him ' ^HoJl^l^ " testant Divil howls in him ' Tho P "' '"^'°" exhausted, and tho bo>. st re, 1 ! ' '"'' "' '*»» he prayed for strenrrth !n T ""'' "" ^'^^' "•='>• ««'« ailo^plhin^Frelrt;: vh "r^^^ '^^ '^'"^ ->'• -- Judge, and some ho ^I r """ "n/^'^" "" "' ^^ *»»« -ubstaneowaathostorv T„J r" ''"'^ ^"'''^ '^ • -t given, and it wouUl p Srha" T""' ^''^ ^^"^^ *- but that some months aLrfstorv r" "''" '*'^^'^"''°' in a paper in one of the W s ern S^atr^t """" ""^ ^'^^ listed in all the St.John panel but as n ''"' "''' '"^P"'*- tradictlon quickly followed Th ? '""" ^'^^'^ ^'^'^ ''°'»- to the story took no n . u P'^""' ''^''^' S"''' circulation . -A^ . iv. . ■■ ^ ■ ■ had flogged a Iwy for reading a Rihlc. The Rev. Mr. r',o/.> , Hhulj*l been for 25 years stationed iii Miranuchi, and who was at one time the only Priest in that district, as soon as lie saw this, wrote at once to the Frrcman to know what the story Mraa, and who the Judge; and on being, told, publicly, and in his own name, called on the Judge to give .the name of the boy arid of the Priest, and all the circumstances. of the ease. llo named all the Priests who had ofliciatcdin Miramicfi for • the last twenty-five years, and asked which of them had flog- ged the boy. The Judge did not answer this letter. Aftef waiting some weeks, the Rev. Mr. Eoax pubUshctl another let- ter, branding the Judge a liar and calumniator. Many of tUo' public journals took the matter up and mucli was said on the subject; but the advocates of the Judge dealt chiefly in abuse of the Rev. Mr. Eg.vx, and Catholic Priests generally, and of the Frecnuin. Several months elapsed, and Uicn the Coloniai Preshyterian insinuated that the buy's name was Fjikdeuicb. Po.WKUs. The subject was frequently revived, and onjhe ap- proach of the next anniversary meeting the rura<^ur went abroad that the Judge ^vas to speak at the n»eeting, and there explain what, according tdfhis eulogists and aiKjlogists it would have been inconeisteat with his position to have explained in the pub- lie papers when called on by the Priest he had calumniated. In- stead of au explanation, however, the Judge treated the audi- ence to a vehement attack on. Catholicity, and challenged tU Catholic Bishop to meet him in controversy, sneering at hinj as - Your Eminence, or whatever tliey call him." This attaciv drew a letter from thq Right Rev. Dr. Connolly. The Judge a few evenings after delivered a-Lecturc on the " Catacombs," a'- hiding repeatedly to the Bishop's letter. The Bishop wrote a second letter, dealing ably with this subject also, and showing how completely the Judge had failed to do what he had under- taken to do. To n^cet the wishes. of several persons, both speeches of the Judge and the letters of the Bishop arc now published in pamphlet form, add the reply of a "Cleric of the Catholic Church," to a letter from " A Member of the Church of ^"l^*^^*" «l50 published in the Fnman^ is subjoinet^. /" luije iSililttiofs %Mt!! at' %'giW( Pffinj. ■/" • {From the Frfcvitrn of January 15, 18.50.) As every bo/ly in St. Johp must' be, aware the Anniversary Sil : . TH "?" '"''^'^ '''' '^^''1 "* the MecSi:? nor r .• ^^""^y *^^'"'»S- l'''>r some a«ys previous a nortmnol (1,0 ht John I'rcss was in a flustef ab!,ut Judged lie nv.« ;o"? ""f J'^y announcing as «omcthinjr wonderful that c uJlltK^ft,'^"'^"i'"^,' «" "nothc^r. informing their lit- daV I« • ^ i^'^'"^" ""^Z""" niid unable to leave bSmoon the day appointrd.; and on^^another, that he would be at the ThSV^7 "^^^^ '^'' Fr«i*«„ worild be unablb to cxuh ^aToi M^' "'^"^"*««1 ^J ?««««««« or the Judge. He w7o 1? t! *°.*^^''^'n away some error as to the t)lace.&c. to nrnvo T',^' ^$,7" jubstadtially eoftcct. He was in short to prove to the salisfactlonofthe publfc that ii^ telling that or S th^ t '^°°/"°5'^^"^ ""^^'^'^y °f »»" Vo^o^ asu Judge or of the charaeter of a sUicere Christian. ^ Haying been alwayirivilliteg, as we professed to be, to pub- S ouS fj'rth? ^f ^^'^tioh^udge t^iFmot had. to bffTwc «X. T 78l»*/»f,Foperijow. when every oW expected IrhalrthSr."]^ ^''^''^^ sayl hiiown Jj^hich he waa first camFon to prove or retract thcarrand ti dlLn V ^'^/ ^'"l' *° ^ "^"Jtit^de. couia not condescend hL f ♦^"f'^ "* *^^ i'^P^" ^'""^ t^e charge made against him by^the clergyman, who, fcefing that hi! character wis Srnd'eh'"^''? be had a right tf demand pSSars Tnd . .t hL l?r™fl"'''-"^'"** ^^'"^ «^"Q"« accusation levelled at him and Ins Order may te fully proved or fully refuted Ihc Judge was deaf to demands obviously so just and it wl, U^^'^'^'''^'''.^^ ^*^^^« beneJhirdignl?; odo whorf tl A?'"!'^ fr"^^^'''^*'' his conduct on the platform he 1„M ^^ ^"* ^^'^^^^'^ ^^'''•y' «"d Ws friends promised th^ nc «<,uld thfere prove that lie had spoken the truth. «aS IVTta r o^ri'v "'''1'^'°"Sht and, under the circum- fiances, obtained froiii his ecclesiastical superior permisBion to ■i-' f i T t ■ir^- r^ / to her if p.,..i,,^ „.hat .h« "it- Zi to '^^ ,;"'.n:r'"'?;'^ ■ cation .t th(Mlo,,r. an.r uft(.r s,,mo s^^^^^^^ lo ft..nul the hall of th. In.iiUi^lr^^Zl 7^ .;;""'?' *'• '"• '•""''« "'"''i" «-,,s a H|„u near the H , ?; , "'•' ';'"'" ;;;;;. hear a. h., h. .Ja t.^.«hVc;:a S 'lit^j: the Doctor conclm 01 , and a dch.rm;..,.,! ^^ *» "'' "''X "^'"'O p«. hj,„ ,,o,v,. ,,.. ,;,«i„„:„vt,re „?ir:rL"»; u.;r he had road all ho intended to rca'd - ■ ' r,tyle. He too laboured toTirri is heurers that Protestan^arc the realdatholics • Zt th Hiil„ - the only standard rule of fiuth • that it i'bteSbr^ and can alone boast of universal adaptability ; th U the ™t Ta^ 1 'strl t f'.r^'''';? ''"P' '"'' ^^'"g-^ •» ^^«'^"'^''«» over and vn^ H . "thomJlio .mmen.sity of the truths it reveals its p rus r "rt. T'^'ir^ ""T' P'^"«"'^ »"'l I-ofit from -lis perusal, fhc Romish Church, he said, will not allow it, members to read this book, and ^e nations ilvkrch its crcu ^sir'':if'^''''v^"^^:^«- nations; biutho:^:^^ 8ai'd to fL ' ' °^ Christian. Tliis and much more he nnf". •?•'"""' P»»Pose,and.al! the glory, and Weatness K^vi^/f^rBiflo "" r""r "*■ ^-«^-^J. ho';ttribu?eTto Us laws ^ the Bubstratum of all its government and fronStl!"TV''' "'^' '"""^ «"' "'"^ ^^''^" 1^« <^-^^ to the front of the platform was greeted with a' round of annliuso -hichheacknpwledged by bowing and smiling to thSS: ^ J <^ - v^ •V. i drug tlioy linod pf.li. Mod. |)laco 1 SCO I'foro the rson was ' foro e to ted, tho-- it is ms he sles tho ■ oso out blc :o{ yet ise. Us ble 'II. it- ir- 'er Is, >in , its U-j- 3h lie . ' IS, ts id kO r- ./• J ;■^l that lu; th:u.ko.i fchn.Lfo,^th:a rm-ntion. aud an.^.tc,! it in to V ^pu'.t n, whuh .t l,a,l I.COU .WR.a. I.ast'yc.ar he hifd no jtato„H.„ts on tha. ..latfWnv which had sl,J l^^J]!!^^^;;^ of much annn:uhcr.>on. He camc.thcrc a l>a-ote.staftt-a M iblo •r.,U.sta„, and the God of ,h^ IJiWe who sawhis^hcart kno'; . tha he hud. never made a .Ht.rcment .m thUt j.Kttfl.rm which ho d d not .„ h.s heart kdicvc to ho true. (Aij,kul.cO Bu Jhere were amongst them adxocates'of that K,. liiastic;,! sys- tieMn i .\ tlH'ir nurtyred forefather.^ had never heeft were all so proud t^it thcj: kaJ erne, had never' heen cnsau- Kunu.l wuh the bloo.l of tluir .aiute.i ancest^.s. Thay wo d ask them to believe th«t ail this was an iIU.sion, a ,Zt ke 1 ^:^'::T. \}1}'^± T'^ th.c^. contradil^'^ •; t ' o?i! l/'l' '■"'' ^''V t'^'*^'''---"IH.nhimthofr.-nv.ns of tW Kcdesiastics ? ^^,Jt was that thefr «ystem was assailed; the.r system wl.i^h they would maintain by 'every Ehf ;^^^''-'M-rr p-mle mean? Did tticy h.^^^ nt n, ,Kue h,v r ).d they thilk to detej him from attending ' that ...cet.nf; ? Thcylfarf mistaken th. idacl. an.l the if Jhc %« as there, a«d he thanked the Cu.mni.t.e J^Ir nihg hv>x to be there ^Bd altjtTju^ii he was sufferinK from illness , finnd.r»asK*^d to bless the Hriti5lr ami Forci.n, IJiWo cZJ) ■ V r^"""^' ''" ^'''^ '^''^'"-"- l^'^^t.'riecte.ir I S thil^ . ^ '' ^"^ "°* «* ''^'^'-^'^ «<■ *'«« C«nfe,ssional, wh ch goes down-^nto a cesspool and remains there; Last iear lecture'"-/"/''^' ^'"'1 ";• ^^'•"^^''^' ""^l •" the cou of Ms h2 RilT ''^ 'r S'^"\"^'''* "'^^ ""^y l''^ F^«^'»t to study thoir Bibles and offered, if they could' no get fiible. or ^ rpptto'l2''T i'^^f'^^'r^l^ ^^^"^ ^«^ -y-ho wouW '^ cented h ; l' "o ulea that this offer Would be ac- a m,in in tip morning, and a woman in tlie cvcning-aiul ihcv o ' he." "Sn "^r!"!^'' T^ »>'^ bought,.uul h?. got iibieJ . carof-mT ..1 ''";l.«'^^"*l''^«l and.cxamined and explored it all wis ho;o t ,"'r ''T' '""^ ^'' ^'"^ discovered that nowhere -was there to he.found any one of their doctrinos, or any part sent r" "fr- "' ";""':^ ask anf Catholics who «*ro n". an?l f ^' V'-i^'- "^7 «il>l^ «nd «earch it careful^.ro, X ■ ft thXr '•'?•''"•' '')7 '^*'''''"" ^^'^ ""t to'l!^ found in It „ thai It was not m it. Those Ecclesiastics did well then- fA'i * /f J ^a-sSj^^Yg^^ f /- i. ■ i >iw ' , t. '■-. , « • - ' . ■ '. _ _ _ ,-8 ■ ■... .„. ,- Z^- he begged pardon— well from their point of view ahd attr,? ' reyr'fTf^ " "ftf^ ^«™»" Catholi^T'tre^f fof K- u r J ^°\}\ "^"^ '''^**"y **PP°««d to their system, a system . which had well been called the « mystery of iniquity ;'' a sy tern ght of God s truth and crushing all his faculties. He had no U^-feelmg towards Catholics. He had been on friendly tenSs with very many of them, soci^illy, profcssionalljf, lind politi- caly and had many frrends amongst them still whim he would be sorry to offend. It was their religious system which • he abhorred, ani which he would never, cease to denounce S- "'f 5"' ri ^* °*'*'""*°'^ *° "P'««« l»i« opinion of it. ^ His brother Judge Parker, had stated that Pius VI. once wsued a proclamation in favour of the reading of the Bible ^v l»?T'"/'*'V'"? ^ ""' nowl^llowed to read ; Zl S.Tf I' ?T '. J* ^' *** «'«™' if possible, the tide of infidelity ^hifch had then begun to rise. Voltaire and his associates were publishing books for the dissemination of infi- ff S'nS ^°^ % P^'^'^^".*' ? ^igh price, to medt the expense • °^P"'^t>°g' and then circulating the others free of charge : SS-irJn/^''^\f " ''*™^ *^** "^'°S tide of fire which >fras the offspnng and the consequence of Popery, and >which swept the FrafclTl 1^°"?' '^1 ^?'* ^~™ *^« *^*«'' «^d devastated France so eruelly In all this the retributive justice of God was most manifest. Two hundred years before, the Two S. kT a Jf ° assas^nated by Clement and Ravafllac, both W ! i I* ^TlV ^".^ ''''''° °" S*- Bartholemew's Dav thcv had slaughtered fifty thousand true-hearted Protestants, then there were rejoicings at Rome, and a medal was struck on the occasion and. under the pictures of Clement and Ravaillac was placed the inscription, " Happy is the man who kills a Kin- ' ^ And when, 200 years after, tliose men assembled in thai dark tw™ fi,""/""'' *° P^f *^« revolution, was it not strange ?,lm Tl™^"* 'V"^^ ^' *^« P'^^t^'es of dement and Ravaillac, with that inscription. If it were good to kill Henrv why not good to kill Louis ? And Louis was killed He ?Jen ' STn P P''*"* the ton-ors of that period, all which he attri- , touted to Popery, and after having described Popery as a sys- tem mos hideous and abominable, and applied to it all the epithets Ins imaginaltion could suggest, he went on to say that lie intended to deliver a lecture in a few days. Ho invited Roman Catholics to attend, and if they would allow him he won d prove to them on the testimony of most respectable and Jrust- worthy witnesses that thete was a Christianity existing " S^«l,!7''"^;'r the ages of persecution and suff-cring an.l llTJ^AU n.^ J'!-'''""^ P'"^^^' ^y *^« t°'"bs and monuments elected by Christians before Purgatory was ever thought of. -4LQudapplau60.) Ho ttmtedCatholics to attend that lecture :l •>^m^-;' i"*,5»»»^'^,j»;K»f=?!«"^'^^p \\ J.,, nc would be glad to see them on the platform^ and to discus* the subject with them, if any of thpm chose. If his Emi- nence, or whatever they calle'd him, came, he would be most happy to ncot him. He would show them that Christianity never employed the rack or thb gibbet; never forged one chain or rivetted one fetter : llnit it was a religion of love ; that the ••word- was only once uf c4 when 'the impetuous Peter smote the servant, and this but g^ive (.ccusion for a miracle of love. This idea the speaktur elaborated considerably. He had a long way to travel, and must hasten. He was bound to India but would leave his catd at Rome. Tho Pope was 80 gQpd a shepherd thatJjLinvited in the wolves to take care of the shc^p, and the A wolves not being sutticicnf, he mvited the French wolves, who as- they had so much monev spare were sentf. Put that down, he said, for the " Free- man. (Loud, long continued a}^ repeated applause followed this.) But unless they took care a most extraordinary thini? would happen, for the sheep' would devour the wolve« (laughter and applause). .He then Went to India, as he said" 'described the 8tate"of; affairs when Wilberforce sought to have Uinstianity tolerated by the Company in India. He described the Company's Govemmeht on the one side and their bristlintr hosts of Sepoys on t}% other as barriers in the way of Chris- tianity, and the great mutiny as the Providential means of getting rid of both at once, and of ©pening the country to Christianity. He said the sufferings endured^y the English m India were inflitted as a punishment for the national crime of the opium trade, and the . sufferings of the women and children were meant as. a means of arousing that national spirit that filled the army with volunteers. When Ensland was at length brought to her knees and her cry went up to Heaven, then the Indian Empire was preserved. France and Russia looked on With secret pleasure, and awaited, thinkini: the ruin of England was inevitable, but tKey were disappointed. It was the will of Providence that the Indian Empire be con- gohdated and strengthened. Then came the massacre of Jecldah, intended to show France and Russia that Mahonr- mcdamsm was an enemy to them all afike. France could not forget Waterloo ; but if it desired another they had another ^N cllington now m India, and men were ready who wotil.I maintain the honour of their country, &c. He described some scenes in the war, the relief of Lucknow, the entry of the Highlanders, their kissing the children, the joy, the gratitude, the tears, and then Havelock giving all the glory to God, &c. and he described how comparatively free is Christianity now' how accessible the natives arc, whal a spirit of enquirv has Jie e n x rcat o d, and liow th e UMa ig sought after. Mr. Mcnman ^^^■ ...ti a missionary, had been present at a gathering of 500,000 pii- % t.r^. . * !a,4 it vl ^t- • 10 h.«\ no ,lo„l,t ,h,t the Priest i:j,Mii ln„„elf, if Ci.v.'ti.d o iiKc to ha\c him in his c as^, Thcv did nM «'.,w »w hoir rdi,io„ on the Indian^tho ' dlnlotl ^Xm S 8 ords in their hands hut with love- in thdr iLrN id tTcv the f^ratitudc and generosity of the audienco, and part eulirlv Af the women, to aid in giving the Hihle to k llv fll -i i «|one ho wonld crush tho^syst!:n, and tl!: r s of' h Ko. 1" ar^^ vl o^ "" ^""f '"■''' ^"'" "•"^'"^'^ '""1 ^^'^iJ '"', retract the story and apologise for having, been betrayed into sufch an error. He preferred to rant and rave, out-IIeroding Herod, amr surpassing ail the other speakers in the virulence and absolute ferocity of his dcnuncilttions of I'opery. Yet if all he said of Popery were true: if Smithfield'^fires ha3 i^ver burned any but Protestants : if the «t. Baxtholemew masTcre were just what he described, and the Bible did not contain Z'sillew' "'.^ '''''"' '"' '"^^""^ "f Roman CaZucs! that surely would not prove his sto^y of the flogging true o^ render h.s telling a ^ie so infamous less crin^inal or ?han efuF He preten.led to think that th^re w.s a design to intimldato in^h. „ ;?^'*'','p'\''^'!'.° ""^ intimidation was that manifested n the articles published m the Freeman some months ago, and they could only tend to intimidate him from coining or retail- * ing any more les of a |ocal character. In "this thfy have so far been partially successful.. ^ >^^^ w Here we will drop the .subject we h<»pe for ever. It is at best most unpleasant to all concerned. The story it is now admitted is fol.,e and indefensible, and for this lie the Judge has been sufficiently humbled. We hardly kuow what to sly of the language by the use of which he sought to hide his own degradation. S^uch language would disgrace the ha^f crazy ranter known as the "Angel Gabriel," and coming from a Judge of the land" was really horrifying, and we were ^djojcaru that it disgusted very many who h.ard it ; --^. jf^' fr \y . !■ ':',l .mi . 1; J- If --i-- J i tETTER I. Innii % |ij|t gekmiA godor (Cormollk To the Editor of the Freeman. .L^'" V"v^^***« * resWenGe of nearly seven years in the ^ro- ^nce of i\cw Mrunswitk, a sense of imperative duty constrains W;tl? Jf P^"/*": " «"' «™« i'^ the columns of a newspaper. V ith the CQtotfciousness of the grave responsibilities of mf position as a Gritholic Bishop and Pastor of eighty thousand y(oplein a country where Protestant, are in a majority, and V lere the demon of religious hate has done, and is still doinif, hn worst t6 proveke «igry recrimination, I merged my own letlmgs as an individual, and remained silent amid every sort of, provocation, in order to preserve the peace. This haN ir „n ™ ! ' ""^"^ ^''r^ religiously Abided by to the ond, but ;? extraordinary circumstaftce which has occurred within the past week, and which leaves me nd alternative but to speak ?n„f^u-o"f^^^?'/"^*'^^'"™°*'*t a recent Bible Meet^ ing in this City which in tone and character is like the Judge rr^'n •Sr^y''*J'Tfc* *'*» ^'^^ "^«°*=« o*^ the subject, and that oi the Chureh Wilfies, and the other religious journals. l^^'^ *° ^' «»b«tahtially correct. In that speech he is repri scnted as having said thtlt ^ Pnl "/,/^*™! there a Protestant,* Bible ^'rotestarit, and the Ood of the Bible who saw his heart, knpw that he never made a statement on that blatform, wUbh i^his heart he did not _ believe to be true. Vhat was the gravamen against him » was It any regard for Frederick Pow^ that drew upon him .he frowns of those Ecclesiastics? No, it was their system r^Sd' th^ Ju! -''"i .^""'l^ '^ible-martyr If not wish to d.m.L^ ^a . ""' '" '"■" "■"''"■«^''l charity did hurt ti.e Ai;i;l^"fii:'sj;^rt^(?:u'^ " i^n.^E^.i- or licity. The story wen abr i id ''^ 'r*^''''"« ^* P"^ the Catholic cler/ynTen U„ Kto'l vr""' • J-^''"'' "»''"'!'• «f a lie, and wUhl^ n?pi 'Si "'"^" ."'''' '^'"'"« ^"^' press in their eharitv^camrf . J. '^''''^'''''' ,^''« '--iends of the but in vain t., dru, » ™ '^''■''■"''' ""'^ ^''-^ '^J' ^^cy eould "cessp^o ^%i''5^" ^^^^^^ -!' ^ii-^«raccd from his «oIf until the tSL 1 e^'Plauut.on is uttered by him- cye.and^,roS' frJt tt.fb ^ ^^'"*^^^ V:'^"^ ''"' ^^ h'« «wn he mther proineed W L tbo'^'l -r' I*,' ""• ^'^^"'•'^ ^^e world, ' and desolation am u^^^ on U " "' '",' ^'^T'' "P^""^^*^' ^^"« Papists. '"'" ''" ""™« -'uJ "11 the benighted with the charaXr ofl L1 '"'^'^' ^'^t'""'^"" '^" discordant •pcated plaudfts '• alni the' Zlm" " '5™" '''"^ ""^ '- stitute; but out¥!b ?h^ i '"^e"'^?"^ audience at the In- neither comeciar^.? if'^ J^'^ve deceived no man ; they can theyrcstor Xcfa^un-ir tf""^*^ '^ slanderer, nor can perhaps once hcld'^'n H *'T''^''* T'' ^" *'>^^'Sh estate he. J«ay seem lard I 2uld sVt''" "V' '^'^^'^rning public. It niuch more ujud^e of tt fand ? ^^^ ;«™^«'• -ny man, and own defense It ^v^« 1 , ' ''"* l^'-' '^ recollected it ig in our. ever turned'ou drthosrwho",?"??"^ V^^'-^^^on what- Bow holds so unworU. Iv on^ • ^n'f ^""^ '" ^^'^ P^^'^ion he ficd ourselves anTr n?;i .? '?.«"lt«d,our religion, and villi- <=ated himt flilat Sfwhl^ ^^ ^^"?? ^^^^^ 1- f'^bri- the character of one of fW . "''''' '" b^ falsehood, against .Province. Ifter tweKe L™?;' T^?f>J' ^^'^'•S>''»«» >" the if true, or to anolori '"""^hs for deliberation, to prove it • ' *° ''P"^"^"^ "^ ^ gentleman and a Christian ought \ », in which hcf'oro \\a« iind simply ant JJibly. loviifg and t'uJnstance nd strange martyr of larity did %an," or iig it pub- >r four of » tlie hist that the hought it 1^, whc- d him as •d away, king tohl Is of the L*y could Irom his by him- e hiblc his own ! world, icd. woe . to .lo if ho wore erroneously informed, imi-inc the only justi- ficat-m ho Kives to meet a ^hur^e of so grave a nature ; he stands publicly accused of havnif; told an injurious lie about the Jlcv Air. hg.1^1, and all the i)ul>lic ever heard from him in reply are these h;j|( dozen words in his speech, " Was it any regard for l-rcdenck I'owcrs that drew upon him the froiwns of these Kc- clcsiastics. -Did they hop,- to intimidate |him," &c. Not another syllable upon the only subject that compromrsed him before the public on a matter in which his chalacter as a ■ n- tle.naf, w,s at the stake, and which wo all know galled "liud horr.he( hnn far more tharr all the spcctrous abominations of l'oj)ery together. p" The .|uestion is still unanswered as it stood tweltc months 8inc.>. \\ ho IS the miscreivnt I'ricst of Mirimuchi that flc.-.rcd J lu "7', "?'••. J'^"'"!'! bciit\in, n., more, and^ll lor reading- the Mible.- Imtil this question is satisfactorily an>,weiOd, His Lnn,n,rr, the Catholic 'J Jishop of this l)iocess,%vho/ neither in- tnmdates nor is to be intimidated, plainly tefk' tlur Judge Wilmotthat he ought to be ashamed to enter anv/ assemblage oJ gentlemen. In his own -inoud" England 1/e must well know that-tn unanswered charge of that descripti^i Would eom- . promise even the mightiness of a Judge himself, and would puH clown socially the proudest aristocrat in t\i6 land. Nor IS this his only misrepresentation regiirding Catholi-cs. in the 8aim..spccch and almost in the; sumerbreatli, he asserts that rathohcs are not allowed to read their own JHblcs, jlmL that he bought several CatlmliiJiiHjUsb^Wbterlir^^ _JhiA-City,4wtrT,fTVhicr he charitably presented tj Catholics" and one ol which he lately read from end to end,— as thorou-'hlv I Buppose as he read his law books, but without knowing,''as I will presently show, even the contents of the first pwrc. 'if he ookfid i>ito that attentively he would certainly have "perceived ' that h was translated by Catholics; that it was authorised by a Pope and under the seal of a Catholic-Bishop : and for whose use ma|v- I ask ? Not. certainly, for twenty or thirty Priests in this Diocese, who have their ^wn vulgatc edition in Latin, and ^ho recite a considerable portion of it, in that Language, every day in the sacred offices of the Church. If it be transktqd 'and printed by ourselves, and to be had in every book fctore, surely the Judge did not bcirevo himself when ho said that Catholics were prohibited to read the Bible. He well knows that these Jlibles are to be found in most of the Catholic homesteads of this country. T } '? n"''^ t'^'''' * '^"''y ''^ *"«'"''« "« tl»c Judge himself, were 1 to lollow-him up m his distortion of facts and his historical >agane8 regarding the Catholic religion. If his testimony on What tails under our own observation bo of such immense "ino- TiiPn^ ae ih naw-provodrtHhtgifle-i^that-iinportancB should' b6 " r- i. 4 V- :*■/ ^A ff Hi 1 ! t , 1 '. 1 ; ■• J*;'-'**, f\ fp^ <> I >i y 16 .ittnched to hi8 critical acumen and high 80uIed'imi,artiaUty''a.v. ,V historian. In him whose lip.lovc for Catholickis pretty much akm to his regard for truth, we must belie>% that thelnowledga »f history, hke thatof religion and of law, is not only thorough and profound, but from the saintly breathings of his Gosncr oratory wo must admit him' te be a man, scrupulously, nay rnelhoUtsttcaUy mco- and accurate, and guarded in not laying to the charge of Catholics more than they deserve. No, this cooing dove of the conventicle breathes nought but honeyed tenth and amiability and love. ""»-/«;« It is absolutely ludicrous to mark with what solemn pause he sets the seal of his learned approbation upon the recondite piece of intelligence communictited by a brother Judge in the chair, to the effect that "Pope l>iu» the Sixth once issued a ?von TJr^A'l ^''''°"' f '^''^»"K *^^ If he looked !«?• 'il^'L'*^ ^f"" °^ °"'' ^»^^« («« I remarked) without fn! ;"f K- ^^''"u''"'^ *° *'"^''^^« "^^'l »«>* be under! compli- Th^Jn^ 'f^'^*^''" ^**' *¥" i-^Port^nt piece of information, i he wonderful document of Pope.Pius is on the very first page of all our modern English Bible?. » P^K*- _May 1 herd remind the learnetPiludge, for the enlightenment of many of his misinformed friends^ that but for Popes and Bishops and Catholic laymen the world wouhl have no authen- wM?h il ^^ •"* *M^?1«* day.' From the remote period in w^hich the originals oKthfe autdgraphs of the inspixed writers hemsclves were no longer tobb found, it is to the fidelity and " erudition and indefatigable zeal of Catholip copyists in iverv country, to wiich Protestants themselves ar« indebted for all they have o( the New Testament, and for all that is critically correct in the old. It was Priests ,and Monks and Catholic scho ars in every walk of life, who before the invention of printing, wrote tens of thousands of copies with their own liands, and carefully collated them with the more ancient manu- scripts after, restoring the text to its original purity, and trans- lating the whole Bible into every living tongue. Long before the days, of St. Jerome, who about the end of the fourth century translated the whole Scriptures, and left -fuofr^^u r ^'"^"^ commentary as an imperishable record of what Catholicity had done for the Bible at. that early period, we-know that the sacrpd writings in the first age of the Church were translated by a number of learned men into Latin, th« provailiBg language of nearly all ciirilized countries in these times. Ihey (said St. Austin in his Book on Christian Doc- teine) who translated the Scriptures into Greek can be counted, Jl; f ♦l^ ° mterpreters are without number. In the first part of the eighth century the venerable Bede translated the ?on!?«'^V°^ ,^*r**''>°8»*8®' '^"^ f°' ^^^ "«e «f tl^e Saxon, people of England. In the year 1284 Guiard de Moulins, a artiaU^jr as. irettymucli knowledge y thorough his Gospel' ously, nay t laying to No, this t honeyed smn pause recondite Ige in the ; issued a he looked i) without a compli- formation. 'first page [htenment 'opes and 10 authen-. period in )d writers . lelity and in every ed for all critically I Catholic cntion of heir own nt manu- nd trans- le end of and left record of y period, Church atin, th« in these lan Doc* counted, the first ated the le Saxon, )uUns, a "-..■• ■■;■ n Valholic Priest, translated the whole Jliblc inte French, which «... afterwards published in two folio volumns, A. D 1488 nil thirty years bcfbre the birth of the so-called Itefurmation: Gemuny at the age of the dawn of printfng several cditio„« of tiu Kible were translated into German without date, but which v^rrc. c.rtamly printed before the year 1477 ; at that period and iM.U' 1). ore tuc mockchscovcry of the Bible by Luther, three- , .. .,„t editions of a German version were published, one at . .\.::r..uh.r,^ and two- at Augsburg., A Polish version of the ti > i:- I iiblc was mack) by order of the Catholic duecn Hedwiec >o X aly as t le year 1 390 ; at a later pcflod there was unJtZ ' .'""°" '"/'»« !*?'•«'' l«ng"ase translated by order of Pone . ';''Pf>' ,^"^' ^'"» published under Clement VIII, A. D 1599 A Cathohc version of the Bible was written in fcdand'and L thclcelundic language so far buck as the year 1279. Not o" «].cak of the world-known Polyglot Bibl^of Ximenes. we have* :i printed edition, of great celebrity inSpaaishin the year 1478 .^ and several ojhcr editions immediately before or at the epoch ' of the llcfoniution. 'io shew the Catholic spirit of these e^ry on of the .Vw lestamcnt translated into the rude diaTccts of the abonguiies of Central America, by*the first 8pan^th Mis «u.m.rH.s who landed on those shores. The version in most SbS T Tr^'T ^y^'-^'^^' Fernandez, a DominicTn ia her, who died in the year 157.9. And what' shall we sav ". Italy, the centre of CaUioliiy itself; where the whole Bible rtho'tn '^ "'IV^'' Vernacular as soon as latin ceased to u. ilie la guagp of the country, and as the modern Italian was ^ttlc by little taking its place. A translation, two volume 7n K; ho was made by Nicholas Malermi, a Camaldolese Monl^ ^^ Inch soon louud its way among the educated classes of Italians -luany years before the celebrated Council of Trent \fter a ZllJrTr^'"'^ y«ars, during which there were 'severa? o.her Italian cdi ions, came the celebrated version. of Anthony UrTAut VT^"'"^' of riorenee, 1769-1779, t6 whom the let^ cr 01 1 lus M, was addressed, to which so learned an allusion has been made by the Judge. And now regarding oTown au y ranslations into English, surely hh Eminence ovuZ^- 'jcr they can /*,n. «« skilled in Catholic aftairs, must have jicard at some time or another that there was such a thing as a < aOiohc translation of the wlu^le Bible published at Ilhdms i'&SA'T'''' T '''''h'Y '' ''^ y^'^" - thereabout; ) imr i^',n ''^l'- ''.""'• ^^ •^ ''*'■*' ^'^ "'mother in Douay A. . . I w cndd have IkkI as many more but for the mild and benign:J .nd Iro? n ynperseeuting Protestant Rulers both in Kngland " and Ireland for the space of .-{Qil^ears. Within the last half — "-T-rlrTinii-fliiir,il,ii ii i | || ; in, .J^dmij^t'i \ •% -J .11 >, r i »■ ( Hi i-a - :;! ■■■• ■ ■ ,_ 4g .-, Jith every fanciful variety or Engluli <\,tlu.lic Kihio, ,nl Testaments, ftnd that they can be had and read and frcv Z used by all who can procure them and can read. ' ' t6 rLnt Sl,f "TT"***'°" ^°- 2' "bout the prohibition P«»!f » 1? »• "^"^^ " '•* *'»'' ^^'^^^ of the boy-beatin.' or woman in this country wto was ever forbidden by Priest or Bishop to read the Bible. /*in..-iior rn??^*J'*'Tr '^'^i' "^ *" ^"S-^'^" of the erudite and hor- ^r^K T ^'^ u\""? ""'*^'"» ^^"'' f^^»J»io«- It were well or the Judge he had some of the heart, and even one half ol the brains of many a one of these intellectual helots. Perhaps t'.LT/'^"''.*'*''* *hP"'^'' "°^ glory of the Irish Bar attL CathoHc ^^' '°" l^^lf of the Irish Bench, are pre-eminently nhltn 11^ S'' "T^l Catholic ^Judges of .distinction in Canada If V* Newfoundland there is another Catholic the highest le- eal functionary m the neighboring republic. Chief Justice jAif^'," 7^°"^ ''^'''^ educated American and every member of the legal profcssioA is justly proud memotr lies ; to defanie his neighbor's character, and under the pano- Sfl'^K^r" Pv'*'''' ''' """'"**' '»»^^"«* riV)tcstantism, as a system that was odious, abominable, and soul destroying : ii - .^'.l ^ ?..*°'^f?J^ *^i"8 ^'^"y '^'^'^ ^oar were flung into a cess pool, and themselves decried as little better than dc graded slave, and savages, would not the blood of every hones. 1 rotestant m the land curdle at the thought of having such a man upon the Bench as the arbiter of their lives and property and every thing they hold most dear. I for one, as Cathplic' U^''^ Tt^^ ^ ^''^ ^''' *^ "^^^own th^ feUow, and to say ol htm what I now say of the JKr/.-f wilmot--" Sir. you ha v. soiled your character { you have lr,uled the fountains of pubi:* justice ; you have disgraced your ermine ; jcomd' do^wn !" What happens at the hands of a Methodist Judse in Xow ' Brunswick to-day, with this sad precedent before us, may hap- pen again and again» here or elsewhere ; the partisan JudgV ' may be.a member of the Church of England this year, and a Catholic the year after; We may one^day have a CatholiJ (governor here and wit^ eighty thousand of the population « e are bound ^0 have a Catholic Judge at no distant day. 'Ae ovil, therefore, should be noy cut at the root. Judges mav b y' t i ■ 1^ y' t 1 H-'' ■,y oiirt HouEC. If I mistake not the tcifier of the times, the 'lay IS faat opproaching and must sooA come, even in New IJrunswick, when Judges, like Governors. and Bishops them- selves, must keep thfeir own place, and behave themselves an.' play no more " fantastic tricks before High Heaven " The Judge Wilmot may call our system odious and soul- destroying, but I say to him, that tljc system which woald thurst upon the people of this country aft unprincipled, ignorant and fanatical Methodist I'ar.son, as Judte^of the laid! is ! , more odious.and man-degrading. If thV. Catholic Bishop ot this 1 rovincc were to come out of his own Church, and ru^li madly into the arena of religious .controversy, and bandy nick • names and disgraceful epithets at the Protestant people of this country, as may be so easily done, and withterrible retribution what a war-whoop would there not be raised from one end ,,i It to the other._ Still worse would it be, if I were openly to enter into politics and harangue eighty thousand of my peopifc .nto political fienzy against those for whom 1 have perhaps a, Uttle respect aS the Judge has for ^'hi^ frieflds the Catholics " 1 would have the power, and with good andsuffipient reasons" I would have the riglit too ; for, ifnlike the Judge, I depend not .for my. appointment upon any man in this Country, npr do i c raw, as he docs, six hundred pounds a year, from th.- pockers of men of all religious creeds without distinction. Ym 1 Icel I would be amenable to a higher tribunal than theJud-o practically ^acknowledges. -I tould have to fear God for tho consequences : I would have a conscience td dread ; and thr hideous spectre of a divided people and embittered feuds and animosities, and perhaps bloodshed to haunt mc as the res.ih of my own rashness; I would have the decencies of civil i/.ff society and of public life to stare me in the face, and the stro'...-^^ voice of public opinion to cry shame upon me, and consign m^, ■ initre and al , to that cess pod: where the character of the Jud-f IS now hopelessly buried in dishonor. "' * 1 ^'J; i'^^^T^ ^^'''' ''^'■*'^*^y '^'^'^^n this letter to a greater ; length than I at first intended. However opposed I am to newspaper ccrtroversy, yet I ^yill be happy to follow up this amphibious and erratic Judge as circumstances may seem to dictate, One thing I will say to him before I conclude. It ^he opmion of many of the best men of the New Brunswi, k Barbcof any weight, it woulfl be far more honest and riiorc con- scientious in^ a religious man like. him, to devote any spar. time he has to acquire a knowledge of the profession for which n^ f^\ ^} ^^'^' *^"," ^° ^^' ^""^^y Pleaching of religion of .xhich he knows so little, and Avhich would be far better in S o wJt'i'' ? . u^T^^' ¥ '«""«'« than Pope, I believe amon, >Ind *^ aS ^° k^' ^''* *^ ^'' ^^**S"^^*'« t^^'^hing be as hollo: -ttPd aa fallible to his se n sele s s habhU nga On all oth e r aubjc; t ^ b2 M If n 'W 1 : S; ; I -.it. # !/- '• y 20 1*'^ i .not on y an Lyun^.hst. but ho ^isHcs to become alrophe^ too and IS equally iuhte in both ehuractcrs. ''1»f0P«»'^' He never wa« so mistaken as when ho prophesied" that th(- l'r^est Egan would make an excellent Methodist No -no •' ':y''Tht^^iw'V"i^^ he-did not know ;;, i^T\: ♦ u V ^** ^^'"' ^"""^^ *°o "tf-'Kht into one's focc he is too honest ; too outspoken, and he hits too haid to L' per a good Methodist of the Wilmot tvpe. With the Judu- I never had a M'ord of difference : I mu«t^ thank hhn thcxS.' lor h,s sneer at " his Eminence." I would not be sirS^if he were ignorant enough not to know that a Catholic fiTshoTh 5' ,. posjtjon and a tu le long before a heraldic name w^ Sn ^ ilrit^iin and more than a thousaivl years before a puisne Col . nialJudgo had a quesrtonaWe eutjee at GovernS?Hou e ^J^H^ui^anF^ay ev^ning^ ani^ bng^reti ^f^«?»««rDrthcX!atacom^, which I irtysclf visited some months Stic" Thon\^'- f -"".K^^t '""^t be "pre-eminentl. »^ Jiptic. I hope his antiquarian lore is not Ike the metV- bt-'whl? "'' ^"'•^ Philomath, nho defmedtheni to be rs^en^ in which a man wboJUjows nothing at all uppn a »3 i-udoavours to cxplaij^o others who know lesT ^ Your obedient Servant, drc, * ' SiS" 1 THOMAS Jt. CONNOLLY, ^shop of St. John. V_ fo! no!! know hi* lie's fare , wd to be the Judjjfff thcxefwrcr iriirisccrif islio^h.-KV known ia sne Colo- it House, jg b urict! 2 months i phrase - mincntlj he mota- a seienc^ Johi ^ /^ *•' ^ ^} ^ - ■ '%[ ■ ' Cljt (£^urc^ ill Ibt .Catacamli ^ JUDGE ^^LMOT'S LECfURE. v*^ On Saturday cvenniR, Juds^e Wilmot delivered his iiromiscd i.cc^nrc on the Church in tlic Catacombs.. The Judife luuj ^ivcn warning that ho mean*, tu^provc thJt Chiristianity existed before 1 opery, and tha-t the MjtummeHts of the Catacombs wcrf erected belore Purgatory hmi been hpard of, and this attracted many, while others went under the impression that on Hiis > vunma he was certainly tOTKakoXtiilTexpIaiaagen ItbcTui the )oy flogging story. As our '• Keportof," who was unavoida lltv jsom^vvhat late, approached the Institute, a loud clapniui^ »f unnds &c., announced that the lecture had commchccd. If*- SKuIc all possible hasip, and found the ho^e so crowded thiit MM ^*f 'li'^cult to get oven a standing, place near the door- I he Judge was on *he platform conctudin,^ the opening pass.igts 01 his lecture, and behind were ranged about 50 diagrams. At such a distance, only the outline!^ of some ef them could be dis- tiiiguishod, and it ^ya8 impossible to make out what theins. rip- t.ous were. For all this, "our Reporter" had to depend en- tirely on what the Judge read or stated, arid— whatever tho .-ause— he often failed to distinguish clearly the namesas fcad by the learned Jndgc. In order to make up for these draw- ta(;ks,^we with miich difficulty obtained the loan of a copy of l)r. Maitlands book on Monday about noon, and sought ii< this such of the inscriptions, &c., as we could remember tli.- 'udge to haye referred to on Saturday evening. As well as we could learn, the Judge bega'n by saying h#> was not down yet, and could not easily bo put down ; but tbut. M no alternative were loft, he was prepared to leave the Bcn.;h and to take the platform. He thought he would prefer tf>, phitfQrm. Put that down ! He assured his audience that tli.- pepresentations, mscriptfons, A:c., wore all correct, and that b- wmild be able to tell thorn correctly what they meant. • But to the subject; he said': Augustus boasted that he bar? found Rome a city of brick, »nd leftit a city of marble. In or- - dor to procure materials for the buildings in the city and par. ticularly the Isand employpd in Roman cemeht. vast exeatv;.- t^ons were from time to time made under the city and in tt.f: immediate neighborhood. It was ahout the year 75 of th..' ^Christian Era that these sand pits first began to be used by tho (.Anstians as a place of refuge from t)ic cruel pcrsecutiopsf ^ ' \-. >■ ■ii' I ':i >„■ -,■ . ft ' . # .'. •■« ?■-. ■•" ^ !..,•'■,": A :>^ .- 22 1, *■ I;. 1 • 1 f H 1 • ■<>• \ winch from time io time raged against them, and they continued to be used until the end of the fourth century as places of refuge and^abod^. Probably the Arenarii, or Vnd diners hrst showed th. Christians the entrance in o these sublerra: . ncan cities and ^conducted them through their dark and intrt ihp'J'T,^' ^"^^J^^^y '^' ^»»"«*»*'^^ improvedand oSended ^em until they^attained their vast dimenlion?, of which ^r- of B«l. i. v^ ^^ "''^*/ ^' ^^'^^^ *^™<'» 'be Christians of ^e took refuge m these, and, secure there, heard the rumblings 6f the persecution which raged in the city over tlSr heads, and it was computed that the number of those burTea there amounted to seven miUions. They extended to a^reat distance along several of the great roads leading fronnhedty f(M- instance, ten miles along the Appian way, andThey were not merely one range «f passages ai chambers, but i? ^me cases there were two stories, one under the othe;, and insZo cases three stones. The diagrams would give hem a good,' of'the oSf. -"'"'"^ *°r*i^° ^"*^^°"^^^' '^"^ ^ ^^ appearfn°e ot l-he galleries. He did sometimes turn away fromhis law brTrv' Za '^?^^^'j^ J^«^g-g up these dia^Irin his l" MnZin? «; !?*°' '*"''"'!° permission from lis ecclesiastical S . i' f ^'"^ ^'^'T* y **^^'" wonderful evidences curved. ^ffor^^Jv ''■°" ''" *?^ ^'""^ '^°''^- An hour of such study' afforded him more real happiness than could be derived from all the works of fiction that had ever been published. He w»^ ^^h^F^^^'^V T7 ^''"""^ "'^"^ H° ^^^8 never in the Cata- " over trtft 'V'^" ^""'r^ •^"'^S^ "* *'"« "^^'^^ ^ Srirr^o,' ihJZrr h^ """'^ ?"'■'' * '^>"'-' «"^ "^^ * t««e that set al - hf,^?nrrVr^*^ ''"''""'" so i>eculiarly intelligent us to relish Innwl 1 of d'splay.in roars of laughter.) He received no ' tnd S V ^ 'y 'r V ^' ^''"^ *" '"'^ '^' ''^'^' «f others ^™lfll ^?™ *^':"' "" the infonnatiou he could, and store it away there, (pointing to his head,) and then draw it, out and use It as he may require it. Rut he would now show from the o ^tnrvTn T'n? °" ?'" '°''' *''"* ""*^^"S ''''' known of Pur- Katory m the Catacombs ; a.ul that the doctrine of Justification 01 '']) P ''V^f ^ ^y ^^"^ ""^>' Christians preeiselv as it is now old by Protestants. Virgil spoke of Purgatory, where mis- • able souls are bleached in the winds-he could npt remem- Kr the exact passage now-but the eariy christians knew lothmgof Purgatory, and the Cntaoombs said nothing of it' ioVnTr. JP P^fticular, and give them all the informatiois letter '^'''^' as perhaps they were to have another , .^ ^"^ ■f'''' '?'°j"?.^^'«eovcry of the_Catarom])s w ^ «^« i,.A.u^^A ■ lo llusiu, Arriftgh.,, Mnrai4hoai;naoul iSettc a^^^^ 23 (f continued. J places of id diggers, i subterra- and intri- i extended vhich per- e supposed Christians. heard the. over their . DS& buried to' a great rfthe city, they were. it in, some td iD3oniD. n(i,a goodj ppearanse fT> his law I in his li- Icsiastical es carved; ich study ived from, He was the Cata-> amongst grimace, lat set all. i to relish eived no * of others I store it out and. from the 1 of Pur- tiiication it Is now ere mis- remem- 13 knew. ig of it. . >rmatioi5 another ndcbtflfl ' — (you see said the Judge, in his most ludicrous tone of voice, we know the names though we were never a,t Rome) who devoted many years to the work of exploration and investigation. Ho- sio, after spending over thirty years in this work, died before the work he had, prepared was published, and it wiis afterwards etKted by another. So with Boldetti ; and another who spent 00 years at this work, also died before his book was published. Several collections, of inscriptions, monagrams, basso relievos,. &c,, were made in Rome in the Lapidarian Gallery of the Vati- can in th^hristian Museum and other places, and it was there that Dr. Maitland, from whose work these diagrams were taken, and who was his authority, took drawings. He had obtained permission to copy in the Lapidarian Gallery, and Tiad applied himself closely to the work for about a month, when a dispute of some kind arose between the Jesuits and those yiho. had charge of the Gallery, and one day the Dr. wai£ told that he must not copy any more. He said very well. Next he was told he _rnust give up the copies ho had taken^ Then the . l)roud spirit of thafe Englishman rose, and he answered " Never t What I have copied was done by permission ; the copies are aow my property and I Vill never surrender them,'' and the matter was compromised by allowing him to retain them on (jonditton that thej&were not to be published in Rome. He Had obtained enoUghi-ho\#ever, as they would shortly perceive. The Judge then proceeded to explain the various monagtams,. ^•niblemB, basso relievos^ &c., and whenever he thought* he awide a good hit, he would point his long bony ftYiger in the- direction where our Reporter stood, and shaking it '^t him vio- tently would shout in thunder tones, " Put that down," " I want that down," " Ma^k that— put that down," &c.>^c, One of the diagrams, he said, showed the entrance to ohc of tl»e Catacombs ; another would, give a good idea of the gal- leries. They would observe the rows of graves in whichi the bodies were dci)osited. The Cliristjans did not use the word buried ; but " deposited," or " laid to rest," thus expres- sing their belief in a resurrection, and that the bodies were but laid there for a time to repose, .^nd they balled the places where they were deposited not burial places as the Pa- gans did, but '• cemeteries" or sleeping places. In some of the galleries were two rows of graves, in some three or more. Some of these, are now partially open, and some entirely open, ;is that in whicK a skeleton may still be seen. To the right was a representation of Diogenes, the " Fossor," or grave dig- ger. These fossors then an inferior order of clergy were em- ployed in preparing thp graves and burying the dead, and these were the implements used in their business. Another diagram tepresentcd a grave digger, with a grave open before him, hii— .,'1 ~t'*''-iaxe"oirhjsshoulder, &;c. In some of the graves two bodies others,, .4^, i ll '1l ! 1 iji were^deposited, and such *a grave was called a Bisomum and Bomctimes persons made their own graves— of course whi),- they were ahve— as was shown by the inscription— "Sabini JJisomum; se vivo fecit sibi in cemeterio Balbinaj in crypu EZllfT'- '*!"',' .^'^^ "•^°"»"™ of Sabinus. He made i! for himself, dunng|b8 lifetime, in the cemetery of Balttna in tl.e new crypt, an^ another was the inscription explaining thiii thJFpnce paid to the fosser Hillatus was 1,400 folles (about £1 -«. 7d.) m the presence of the fossors Severus (the learned . udge made flie e of the second syllabic short) and Lawrenci-. r^." °'f Krams furflier to the right represented two slabs, abo„t which there was for a long time a great dispute among tht- 4earncd doctors of t^ie church. These doctors do differ sonu- times rhey would observe on these figures of an adze, a saw a mallet, a pincers. &c., and it was asserted that the graves, onclosed by these were graves of martyrs, and that these wercr. the instruments with which they had been cut and pinched^' and pounded and sawed. He would explain bye atid bye wht^ there was so much anxiety to malie out that they were tho graves of martyrs The relics of martj-rs brought a high pric.-. Now there ,8 no difference at all about these slabs. It is agreed on j^ll hands that tuese figures were meant merely to show the trade or calling of those buried there. Put that down » • The monograms represented on the diagrams to the left h.^ had found very interesting objects of study. In one they sav. a cross something like |he st. Andrews cross, mth the Greek K(P) rising out of :t. The cross stood for the Greek Chi, and this therefore, meant Christos, and t*ien on one side they l-.ad A^ha, and on the other Omega-Christ, the Alpha, anre representations of the fifven branched candlestick of the temple, with the flask for . oil, ttc, and on these, too, wene the words •• In Peace." One beautiful, monument he was particularly fond of seeing. '^'^.'^lyjt bwc tcgtmiony tji a most impgtrtimt fant. If wa s to i-lavia Jovma, who lived 3 years and 30 days, and baj>tiscd. »' ;-(ii V- J- f •'r I 26 he onKinal ftai5 it, Ncofita—a Neophyte) died in peace on Ihr .'lovcnth Kalends." He would make no further observftti..r. «n this, but there it was : 3 years ami; 30 days, and bjnUiscd Uied in peace. yj* - - * — ^<— It was asked how so many persons living in the Catacombs, could support themselves ; but it was known that two charita- ble ladies m Rome (and no doubt nwnv others) devoted allj tlieir property to the support of the Christians in the Cata- combs sendin}? kliem down food and. clothes. And sometimes fihcse dared to venture into light in search of food, or more often to get possession of and bear to the Catacombs tho bodies of those who had perished for the'/aith. While below they <|1 cour.se had much time to spare, and, it was hot to bp Won- herd; in-anoUier as bl^ang-. ing water into wine ; in another raMltiplving.thc, loaves and tishcs, uid^'ith nvicW noise and mpre than, one "put that down to the fact tlmt there was. in, all tlione instances no. 'nimbus or "aureole" about the Saviours licail, though he did not afterwards say what he thought tlii.. would ],rove. He pointed out the rci>rcfientation of Danjol in tin- I.ious Den. a aulyect that would naturally be a favouri^'- witli th« ( Jiristiau'. circumstanced as they were ; and of Jona. tlnouu ashore bv file VMiale and sleeping under the tree, tv;ni:,il of the resur- ccction, and of Elias going up in the chariot and dropping his v:Joak on Ehseus,— all showing how intimate a knowledge of the Scriptures these Christians irosscsscd : and of a triumphal procession in which the Jloman soldiers bore on their shoul- •lers the seven branched candlestick, the trumpets, and tho -icred vessels of thd Jewish temple. He directed attention piirticularly to a representation of the Sacrifice of Abraham, and N) another of Moaes receiving the Law, to prove that in those- 'lays no one dared attempt to give .shape or form to the Al- riiiglity, wliom it was given to no man tp sec. Here the Al- mighty presence was indicated only by a hand emerging from tlie clouds. He wanted that put down. Ou tho hiit was a representation of a young woman in prayer, and from this Uie ladies could learn how the young women of that period dresse(fc ^ext this was a figure of " Paulus Pastor Rt Apos- tolus ^o Samt there. He ^vanted that put down. Noth- ing but plain Unul, Pastor and Apostle. He was evidently in the attitude of prayer with uplifted hands, the attitude de- .sciibed by lertullian, of the nobld passage in whose apology rlus always reminded him, (we may as well say that the passage. -%'ferrcd to, and which the Judge repeated, is given at lengtL '.n Dr. Maitlaiid 3 work.) t\ e *^ ^r r\ 27 The representafcion of the Love. Feast of ition >vhich drew down the applause of that >^plaIl$pjrtiony robbers in lAc&t of booty. In the sixteenth century "the entrance to some of them was again discovered, excavations were made, and then trodps of Monk* and Friars may be seen rushing down fhrough those galleries, tearing open a grave here, plundering the bones of;,the 4ea(i there, and carrying them off to make Of them merchandise, and this continued until seventy thousand ■ were opened, and the inscription^being copied, the fllabs| &:c., were removed or destroyed. Then the trade in relics began, and when thcv found any grave bearing marks or symbAls that would warnint thcnv in declaring it to be tomb of a gifeat Saint, the contents were divided, and a bone was sent lio one and a tooth tc- another, until, in a little time, som#-of these Saints had as many as five heads, and arms and legs without number. For- getting' that there is but one Mediator, they became so anxious to find imaginary mediators that they fell into numberless absurd errors. In "Spain some persons had^met with a portion of an ancient stone inscribed with the Jette'rs " S. Viar," and concluded that it was the epitaph of St. Viar, and it was so considered for some time, untU at length application was made to have indulgences grante#^in hi« name, and then the Roman Anti- quaries had to examine the stonc#and they discovered that it was a fragment of a stone erected to a " PrWfectus A'^iaruni." or prefect of the roads, and so this Saint, so] long honoured, was dethroned. In another case the bones found in a, ton'ib directed by Julia Enodia to her mother, were byja mistake of the dative for the nominative case, thought to be] the bones of the daughter, and reverenced for some time until the mistake waa discovered. If you go to the Cathedral of Cologne, the sex- ton will for a small price show you the r4ics of the olcvcn thousand virgin martyrs.. Yet it it now adinitted that there wcrt) but eleven. The mistake was owing Itp the inscription, ■*bioh stood, thus : — i X \ '^^\ VRSVLA ET XI. MM. ^' 30 / I V(i& n-as read, " Ursula and eleven thousand virgins," instcaa ol ' eleven virgin riiartyrs." " Put that down." When Mr. Ncymour the Rev. Mr. Seymour, visited the Catacombs; his guide told him the story of these virgins, who were martyred »ic said because they refused to marry the legionaries. But how, asked Mr. Seymour, were they all brought from Britain. 1 ''"'.P'*^^ ^'^'^ l»c did not know. The guide also, in *-cply to his questions, said the grave of a Saint was easily known, as when opened it emitted a most delicious odour (luiighter) and once they fouttd onlv a head, Which spoke and to a them his name and how he died. In the Salisbury Mis- sal of 1655 (r) (" Put that down,") was a prayer asking the intercession of these 11,000 virgins. This the learned Judge rcjid,^^but he carefiilly omitted the wor^s, "through Jesus Christ, our Lord," &c., with which such prayers almost inva- riably conclude) and then he gave vent to his amazement at such an iiUnngement on the mediatorahip of the Saviour. He proceeded : a cloth >Vith a face said to be the ftn^rintof the Saviours, was called the handkerchief of St. Veronica, and the tv-orship of this handkerchief was the most gorgeous ot the Koman ceremonials ; yet there was no such person as ' \ eronica, and the name oV.-ed its origin ♦o a misreading of th»- 'thciace'' *''"°'" " ^'"^ likeness which wus painted undtr He aftk6d them if they had ever seen a relic. He had i:i the Bisho]^ 8 Church in Montreal, wheVe he was shown what was called a back bone, t&c., and in front he himself saw on the railings a short prayer asking the iHterceSjsion- of the patron haint, and a promise pf 60 days indulgehce to allwhoirepeatcd the prayer - with devotion." After sayihg that the subject wa>. a solemn ajtd awful one, he then described a ^lainting he s.-iw on the ceding representing in an alcove, Surrounded by rows Jl^Sels, the Hoi/ Trinity : the Father as a venerable patri- arch; the Son as a young man, and the Holy Ghost as a dove and theft, Within the alcCve (k her knees, as if privileged above thenlSves *''^ ^'^""''^ ^'^'"" '^'^'' ^^''^ "'''^ '*'''' *""' -A.n Indulgence he said is a remission of a portion of Pur- gatorial punishment. For the power of granting Indulgences claimed by the Church, there is not a shadow of authoritv Jrom Genesis to Revelations. He then j^rbceeded to read from Burnett's History of the Reformation, vol. 2, page 38, an account of .Indulgences granted by varMus Popes, beginninr at 300 days and swelling step by step, with many ejaculations ot horror and amazement, and many a cry of put that down, until he got to one who granted an Indulgence of 62.510 years ^or the repetition of certain prayers in honour of the Vii'gin. Nothing he said could be found in the CatarnmbH t0 3howth.-»f _ -hoy knew any thing of indulgences thcrc^ 1 (I 31 Its ra goiic ■■'A i 1 "the Crucifix, he said, was not known xh 'th«» early h^fr?. ^T wo cross sticks answered at first. In the year 406 a laml. Aias'introduced at the foot of the cross, and tliis continued s<» ulntil 706, when a man was introduced standing at the foot of the cross ; then the man was phiced on the cross tree, and it wiis not until the foifrteenth century the portable crucifix w:i<« injtroduccd. I Perhaps the Church would claim that it had prcserveil thd Catacombs; but they did rtot know what use would b'-v made of those testiiAonitUs, and for a 1,000 years they wore rovbred uf) and concealed by the providence of God until the agelof light had dawned, and the thick darkness which, a« historians relate, had settled down, growing darker and more densic, as the light of the gospel gradually faded away, und whicp had brooded over the world so long was penetrated by y. Had the fliscovery been made sooner they might have in and altered, defaced or rdnoved all that bore testimony against therti. In A letter lately, they had been told that Iheyowed th« preservation of the Bible to a certain Church. (The learned .fudge at this shrugged and grinned, as before.) Well perhapn they did. He did liot want to d«^y thein any of their merits and wasi willing to admit that thel'e had been Ihany great and good mc^ and glorious spirits in that Church — the VerierabU- , licde, whp had translated the Bible irtto Sa*oii\ and when dying embraced the last page of his work, and De Sassey (r who made the translation now circulated in ftaiice by thf Bible Society, and the Nuns who kept up constant prayer while he was engaged in that work. He niade various allu- sions to " the letter," saying amongst other thiligs that when the Comnlander-in-Chief comes to the froAt you may depend tm it the shell has fallen near the citadel. . He had looked at the first page of the Dduay BlWe t\^vhich he was referred in " the letter," and had found there mor^ than the letter of Pope Pius the VI., viz., an admonition that tht; Scriptures in the vulgar languages should not be read without the advice and permission of their Pastors or Spiritual guides, cither by the illitcBhte or learned. He read this at length, and argued from it that the reading of the Scriptures is forbidden. He thanked God that Protestants need ilot ask permission from Anyone to i-ead thcTAVord of God ; that Protestantism mad*- men free, and ^Vhen 1,500 good nien and women met there tt> hear what was to be said about the Bible, no Protestant need ask his ecclesiastical superior, " Sii", may I go," as one amongst them called a "freeman" had to do. Oh, ignorance itself Was not as blighting as when the iron enters the soul and makes man so regardless of the glorious liberty tho Gospel ■t^uf g r s t -yhfjraiy^ ffe c whon rt ho trut h mafccs tlr i ^B ; ""^"^^ v- 3i 1 i 1 *, r .! 1 i J '!| c '1 \ ' - M h ' Wickliffc too belonged to the C'hurcli. /Jk told how Wick- Hjic waa accused, tried, and condcmnetr at the Mon.istciy o? the Blackfriurs, and showed a picture ieprpscnting him before tiic Council there declaring that truth would prevail. He told how Tyndal had to fly across the channel for making a trans- 'iition of the Bible ; wh»t crforts/were madcj t& smuggle hin translation into Kngland; how /Cardinal Wolscy fought up- tiuim, and caused search to be niadc for others, aiid ho showed a jiictujifir representing the discovery of some coi)ie^ in the rooms of studcntsat OxfordylS of whom were cast intd prison for tlic offence, and four perfehed there from miasixia. Ifehcld up another picture which/ showed, he said, WoHejiwlt St. .Vauls cros.s when Fishfcr, Bishop, of Roche.stof, jg^ached atjainst Luther, and afteu the sernion Protestants \|5tJir|^c.onj- I>ellcd to take up. baskfcts with copies of Tyndal's Bj^We, and I'.lter walking aroundyto cast them into the fire. (i;hest!»pic- tures did not cause Itiuch sensation.) All this he related tov •sIjow how steadily ttie reading of the Bible was prohibited, and what those' whii would read the Bible in those days had tod for that eonfidence !.! no doubts here ; no spcpulatious ^.ere ; no yaiu" imaginings of men, or, uncertainty as to the future; but confidence. Tha»k God for that glorious Chris- tian' confideilce', (and. drawing himself up, he threw back his Jicad, fixed his eyes on the ceiling, inserted his thumb between his waistcoat buttons, and using this as a pivot pounded his breast with his hand for some seconds, to the edification of some, and tha amusement of others of the audience. After an earnest exhortation to Catholics to take their own Bible — the text w ithout the notes, as their rule of faith, he agaiu tjpoke of himself, declaring that he was,i^t to be put down. His constant prayer was- that he might^ be permitted to be useful. He was here through circumstances he could not oontroul. He had no animosity or ill will towards any one. He never l ay down a t ni ght w i th such feclinr r a. Hp lova . l a l l, w ■ 33 low Wick- sniistciy oS him before . He told v^ a trans- )uggle hiri l)ought tip- hc showpj ic^ in the rttd prison „lte held te^Ut St. flfHBT^gi/JC.Onj- Bi]iie, an'l I^hesf»|)ig- relatcd tov (rohibited, ays had to lages from- &c., and ve neither iar to our ere cstab- of j^usti ti- er nal *,lifc 9 — gratis, lac9d o^er approach - nd spread leading a id. Thank cpulatious as to tho )us Chris- ' back hi.-i i between mded his fication of :e. After n Bible— he aguiu )Ut down, ted to be :ould not I any one. loYfldail,. — and he was dctermlnad to labour for the gpod of ail ; hut he \va» not to be put down until his tongue was Nfilled in deatlr: He' was not to be intimidated by letters and denunciations. Put that down again (and he struck his fist on his open i>aim and his heel on the platform with such force that the noise startled the ladies). ^ Once when in Bo.ston he hud traced his lineage back to the Mayflower ; that \yould toll ihom what sort of man he was. But to go back from the man to tho Catacombs. In the Catacombs, as he had showed, them, there was nothing ol Purgatory, nothing of intcrcessiou of the Saints, nothin" of tlic forced celibacy of the Clergy, nothing of the Mass, which was not introduced ^intil the Gth century ; not a jncturc or image of the Virgin Mary, nor even her name, to be found any where. In all ihe collection at the Vatican there was but one »tono on which were to be found the words, Ora Pro Nobis ; there was not a trace of any thing that could be adduced a» proof, in the remotest degree, of tho existence of a belief in Purgatory. He held the dqctrines pf tho Christians of the Cata- combs, and so did every Protestant before him, who, although the j'' may differ in what he would always regard as non-essen- tiaie, such as Baptism, all agreed in the doctrines of Justifica- tion by Faith and a scrfe mediiitorship, as expressed in tWse aieinorials of the primitive Christians. He thanked the audience for their liberality 'to the Orphans, and he thanked many of them for the sympa'thy expressed for hiflii in the storm now blowing. He was accustomed to storms all his life, but they did him no injury, and he was there still, and would be amongst them again as often as dutyVallcd, The a8.semblage then quietly dispersed— those who went to hear all about the boy, feeKng grievously disappointed. We are sorry that «^e have been obliged to condfcrl^c tho k-ctui^.'-and particularly that we had not ^ace to deacrib*^ inorc minutely the extravagant gestures, kickings, thuin»iftg5''' ;uid holy pirouettes of thQ lesrnod lecttucr. \- ' . I If >-■ MTTER II. ■ ^ TSB CHURCH IN THE CATACOMBS. To the Ediior of the Freeman, ' ' "^ " He came there a Protestant* a Bible Protestant, and the God of the BiM" Haw that he never made a statement on that jjatform which m his hcsrt Ue d-d iwt Wievc to be true « ♦ • AVhat was the Rravamen of the chnrpa airaiDst Wm i Was it My reRard frtr Frederick Powers that brouf?ht upon ffin the frowns of these Ecclesiastics ? These Kcclcsiastics did -well from their point of view in forbidding lloman Catholics to rcid the Uible, for it w«s totally opposed to their system, Which had been well called « thi- m) stcnr of iniquity,' a system tho most odious and detestable, excludmg from man • Houl the the liKlit of (iou, and cnishinj? all his faculties. He had no ill-feilmu towards Catholics. It w .s only their rcliftious system which he abhorred.^and which he would never cease to denounce whenever tlicrc was a ftttinn occawon to express his opinion of it. ,,. , ^ ^t r. . i,_ t„ *' He iiivitod Roman Citholies tt attend his Lecture on the Catacombs. In that he would prove to them from tho moHt respectable and trustworthy Ant- "nessos that there Wds a Christianity existing before Popery, and he would prove it by the tombs and monuments erected by Chnstiaiia before 1 urRator) ifas ever thoujzht of/*— KIcr >nt extracts from the Speech of u man who is a Judge of the Supreme Court in the Province of New Brunswick. SiK : If )thc person Who uttered these sentiments 'came down from the jJcnch and took to the Religious platform, as he threatened to our dismay last Saturday evening, I would ho spared the Very irksome task* of again obtruding on tl»e pqitienee of the public. His unprovoked attacks, and proven slanders, againk Catholics, the prostitution of his high office, and his unblushing disregard for the decencies of life would be our triumphant vindication without one word more. But as he is still on the Bench ; as his magnanimous avowals of holy disintciestedncss regarding the loaves and the fi.shes— t the idols of his whole life, arc even more tmreliablc than hi4 assertions 6n all other subjects, I must follow him up as long as he has the weight of judicial character, and the weapon of public justice to do us harm, where his sectarian gull and personal malignity woxdd be of no moment whatever. My displeasure and that of 83,000 insulted people, and shall I say it, of the whole Province, is not^towards L. AT Wilmot, or the Rev. Mr. or Brother Wilmot, but a self-dogradcil Judge of that name, yho is now a public eyesore and n sitting dis- l^ace on the ' Judicial Bench. Lef him come down from that Bench, and then, though we are not Christians, (as he assert.s) y,»r wi^doyan Motho d ists , ^th a nk (fod . ^ ,vet we will stretch out ■» /-.- g^ ,^. otmolln. )S. I of the niM" hii) heart lie of the chnrpo )rought upon id -wcU from Bible, for it ' thi- mystcrr 5 from man's no ill-feilinu sbhorri'd.^and :tinK occafion jtacnnibs. In stworthy wt- ,nd he would )rc Purgatory man vrho is a icnts 'came ilatform, as ig, I would ing on tl»e ind proven high office, life woulrl aorc. But avowals o^ lie fishes — [ )le than hii' up as long the weapon in gull and tjcvcr. My and bhall i: Wilmot, adcd Judge sitting di^- 11 from that he asserts) stretch out »j him a hand t)f forgiveness and of manly forbearance. I>i»i »iot a hand that was Over lifted up to Heaven in attestation r( what we did not believe to be true. He lyay rant and' rav«., ■nnd pour out all the vials of his puritanic wrath, and strut •'he platform at the Institute witli all t%^ grimaces of the \ia^ leciuin, and the uncouth gestures and i,Tthe corner stone of true hberty, but it lies at the basis of social order and civilized life, and hence it i^ that under despotic for»ns of government M well as under constitutions and in republics all courts of law are looked after with a jealous and watchful eye, and guarded and fenced around with all the securities that law can devise in order to preserva and place them beyond the ran^^e ol the remotest suspicion. For the honour of the Bench ol' ".New Brunswick bo it said that, with the solitary exception of •• our friend," we have a judicial corps of which any countrv may feel proud. As a Catholid Bishop I may be Ifctter plea.scd to sec all our Judges away from every agitation that would yive umbrage to p^iy portion of tlic p e ople ; but^-^bOTv tu ih i^^ ^v 1 ' ''I 1^ 1' |»fr' - ;; 36 ■ . prestige of acknowledged worth, of honesty of purpose and >iMi unblemished life. While impeaching the public conduct of the Judge Wilmot, I deem it a duty to express my whole con- fidence iu the unbending rectitude and high honour of the Venerable Nestor of the Judicial Bench in St. John, and still more, if possible, for their Honours the Chief Justice and Mr. •f ustice Ritchie, for whose exalted position and personal merit* of the highest order' I entertain the most profound respect, With^iny of these gentlemen on the Bench, and an exclusively l*Totcstant Jury, I live in the conviction that a Catholic Bishop would be sure of impartial justice whenever the occasion may be presented. Not »&■ mh' pose and onduct of hole con- ur of tljc and still I and Mr- tal merits I respect , tclusivcly ic Bishop Lsion may and thi» A few others in r a whole y the Ga-> ok for no r what ij» what the bably at r of our mpromis- vcrythinp 3 Judicial e and for e granted Bvance on ur taxes ; I ;:we are y. Amid I our best r 60 many tl nuns in ad in th« 1 her fiai; jsperatioD; liberties;' Is and m Catholic* I meed 6f ame of a Lcir co-re- erc living f freemen cr MajcB- ith not a V you IS, senses, t with the «ame weapons. If you prick us do wc not bleed ? poison us,- do we not die ? i* If wp are," as we ought |o be, on a level with all other classes in the country, wo put the common sense issue to every dispassionate Protestant in this Province—" if the Hon. Mr- XVatters or any other Catholic were a Judge, would you allow him to do with impunity what Judge Wilmot has been doini; more or less since his elevation to the Bench, and more parti- cularly within the past year ? Would jrou allow him to play • the part of a fanatical Priest, to malign your Ministers, to 'airn yourselves into ridicule and contempt, or call your faitL odious and unchristian, and soul-degrading, and then promi-ii* ihat he would devote the remainder of his life to denoimcin^.- and decrying it, while he pretended to dispense justice to you^ and was paid for it out of your own ^pockets at the rate ot' about eight hundred pounds a year ? " Would you aUjpw hiiu to tell a palpable falsehood, seriously affecting the character ot' one of your most respectable clergymen, and then, instead of retracting or apologising when convicted, rather make it worse by calling God in attestation beforc'an audience of a thousand people ? If you would, I mistake you much.^nd would deeply' deplore the low tone of public feeling in any country where «mch a nuisance n^ould be tolerated a single day, and wem l to stand alone among thousands, I would still be of the same conviction. The course of action you would adopt with refer- ence to a Catholic Judge, should bo equally extended to ;- raving fanatic of any other denomination ; for your honour ^s Well as your interests are at stake, ^.'he day must soon come when this stab at our dearest rights will be quoted as a prect- deht in justification for the fomiticism and oifensive interraed- dlings of other Judges, and when, with this example before us, •all redress will be unjust, as it will be hopeless. Our friend, thfe Judge, is now convicted of having uttered a deliberate falsehood against the character of a Clergyman ; h« has sworn it in the name of God, (which by legal fiction is n<» oath,) and neither he nor all his friends together have om. word to say in explanation. His sin has been brought home ; it is a hideous spectre which he would lain tear from his '\ isioa. But no ! Our harpoon is in the writhing leviathan !)! tnd we shall hold him fast until his g;ill shtiU have passctJ avfay ; until his teeth shall have bocn extracted ; until tht terror of his jaw and the docp roar jijf his mouthings Avill b. comparatively iimocuous. Ii> the Djike of Cambridge at th«: head of the British Army were in tlib humiliating position the ' Judge liow occupies, his commission would not be worth ;i day's purchase Even amid the humble and unpretending; ■l^iltJioUe „coii{ . jrt>gii,tion of St. John, if thu BiBhup-<# ^==tfa^ Diocese or the Pope of Home uttered a calumny from a plat- « ' t' I iftrm, ■wliicli he could neither cxplpi'n nor decently apologi.so ;ir, there would be an end to his position in their esteem. SticIi a man may live, biit iiis life, like that of the Judge v.ould be a burden and a degradation- to himself, as it would *he a curse for those v.-ho spumed him. So far with L. A. Wihitot, Esq., Judge. I shall now come tw Parson Wilmot as the great Corypheus and mouth-piece of Methodism in this country, the man deeply skilled^ in all the mazes of controversial dialectics, and devoted, as he promises, ^ • during the remainder of Iris life to the Godlike mission- of de- ' nouncing "the mystery of iniquity," in true Gavazzi style, . n order that he may win our sympathies and convert us, (the- • -ogue ! !) He did not and he does not believe a word of it, unless indeed he be a hopeless lunatic, as many thought who- Avitnessed his last exhibitior*- at the Institute: If he be reaUy , ;i madman qf the Angel GahTiel- type, (which I douhtj) God for- f)id that I should pursue 1>h» another inch beyond what ■ is l)arely unavoidable for our own protection. If the suspicion i)e well founded, this is only another and a stronger reason why he should be taken at ence from the fearfully responsible ]iosition he now holds. Bub- my impression is that he has .-luother and, as he imagineai, a higher and more congenial j,'ame to play,* and the sooner he comes down and commences the better. ■ It was not fair play the other evening to pre- -^ iace his great lecture by proclaiming that he was not yet down, before he uttered one single word in defenee. It must have ticen to the Judicial Bench he referred; not certainly to his woefully altered position in public esteem-. It is no wonder tie should not think himself down, while 'by a fiction of Taw he is yet in his high place at a salary of £800 a year, cxtract- <'d Trom the pockets of a people that despise him. As may '».• expected, his opening remarks are a most iMippy and appro- iniate introduction to the remainder of his discourse. Sir, I read over your lengthy report this nwrning, and at the ilrst view I am firce to confess that I felt a{»hasb air its jvastness and hovmdless variety. Were I even coiapetent and willing lo give in fifty newspaper letters the Catholic views on all the topics referred to, and to analyze the whole lecture frag- :ni nt bj' fragment, a mountain difficulty meets me at the outset .IS to where and how I should commence. The lecture, a.«v r -ported in the Freeman, is a *' rudis indigestaquo Moles," a »ast heap without order, a hu^e fabric without a suitable / inundation, without gateway or i)orti(^ to mark where yoMw to write *. or was he a man who, like Mr. Aminiidah Sl^e k. the Metl>odist l'r .« tnr nf t\,n Son -vt ^- lamily, did all his praying outside, and everything else behind 40 tbc scctres, where there was no danger of detection or expo- sure ? Did he take a bird flight to Rome, like Oickenn and •qther literati, look in at St, Peter's, step down to the Cata- 'coxobe, see the Tiber, and come back declaring he understood (rrerything and' approved of. nothing. at all? I have seen legions of "these fastidious and fault-seeking ^gentlemen in Home, who lefWit it as they came, stolidly ignorant, and whose authority on anything connected with the Catholic religion is of aft.Iittle weight as thevaporings of the Judge himself. To r«tam to the lecture, therefore, Jthere is notone word in proof of Dr. Maitland's being any authorky on the subject of thi^ Catacopibs ; consequently there can be no attempt at argu- ment, and therefore the whole superslructtrre falls to the. ground. It is significant that the learned Judge, instead of lecturing on something practical and nearer home, and withiu the reach of "ordinary people, ^ould always select some bij:; and high sounding theme, and 'invariably in the distance. — ' Witness his fhr-secing and able dissertation on Russia, hi$ lucubrations on Ninevah, and now his deep researches into these caverns which arc "so euphoniously named "the great Cataoombs of Rome." To him, Layard and Maitland were ,what some Puritanical Tracts Were called in Cromwellian times, to wit, "spectacles for the blind," and a "^pair of crutches for a 'limping sinner." Knowing nothing himself asascholitr, ho Tcaid one solitary book on each of these subjects,, and then, as I said in my last letter, explained it in metaphysical fashion to those who underst(wd less. About Dr. Maitlanas authority as an antiquarian, I will tell what^e Judge neither knew' nor had any oppottimity of Icnowing, «Ktf. that the said Dr. Maitland was afraid to enter tho Catacornbs at all on account of the •danger and difficulty attending it. The Rev. Spencer Northcotc, M. A., Scholar o4 Corpus Christi, Oxford, by far a better and more general scho- lar, and a sounder authority (chap. 4, ^age 50) ^ the Cata- • combs, taunls him with, his cowardice m tHs respect. Dr. ' Maitland (Said he) talks of the danger of penetrating intfv them (the Catacombs) beyond the mere efatrances left 6pcn to general inspection, and it is sufficiently manifest from hi*i work that this, or some other cause, had deterred him ^rom makinp; any satisfactory examination of them himself; and yet this in ' the much vaunted Maitland, the only crutch on which thr- limping Judge.dcpcndcd for getting through the darksome and mazy labyrinths of the Catacombs. It is not a Frenchman, nor an Italian! nor, still worse," an Irishman : it is an English- man who spent years in Rome, who holds a vtry high position as a gentleman and a scholtar, who tells that Dr. Maitknd -aever s aw^^bo intorioF of tlut .Catacomba.At^ j no examination for himself. (Mark that down .) TakcMait- " • * • * '-. •■ . ! ■ •'■ . ' » ■ ' -,■ '.' ,. •■., i • '■^■": .* ■ './;■ |-4- . ■< Is ■i \ I - 'i X 41 '», ■ . 1 3 - ^ 'i ilHnd avay then and what 'becomes of the " basclcaa fahnV' . • (rt the Jud^'e's vision and cf his whole lecture on Saturduj uight. What importance must be attached to the story of the Jesuits, who' I wofl know liayc no more to do «uth the Cata- •mmbs or the Lapidarian Gallery than the Judge himself.' What a laughing-stock he wonld have made of himself befctP an enlightened audience in Europe while descanting on Mait- • ii*pd'8 brttish pluck in not givjng lip any nofes or sketches h( • '"'ght have made on Eubjects which during my time in Kon>i» Y^ s w't-ro sketched and copied by artists and writers and virtuo-jos ■ ^ and \asitors from every country in Europe, especially "iVom - (Germany and France. Sir, I tell iho Judge quite plainlv thnr there are two Clergymen' now in tlie Province who, wkh'in tlm last twdve months, have seen ten times more of the CataccmbH tlian Dr. Maitland, and whoso authority is quite "as' ro.s])iT:- Jible as his, and that is saying very little. If the Doctor told the whole truth and did not write for pelf and to pander to KngHsh iPfotestfint prejudice, it is mostcertahi that his i>ook would nevpr have'beeapopular in England, and never have found its way into the hands of the impartial Judge. But granting, for argument's sake, that Maitland's authority was unexcep- tionable, what is attempted to be proved ? Mark the lofriciil force of the argument — Dr. Maitland went to Komc, vi.>itod the mere «ntrance3 of the Catacombs left open to the gcnenU public, Catacombs which, according to the best authority, haw nOO miles in length of suBterranean streets, and contain ».< i-i, believed not less than seven miHio'ns of graves. The Doctor Ktopped at the entrance, jumped from that to the Lapidarian Gallery and the Christian Museum in the Vsftican, copied, like hundreds of other strangers. Inscriptions, Slonagrams, l*a?M> itelievos. Diagrams, &c., &c. The Judge doe:^ not tel! w whether he copied all that were to be had in Rome, or only a portion of them. They could not have been even one-mil- lion.eth part of them. And pray, good friend Judge, did h exist beforj the 1th century. Ho\^ convincipg and how;pro- found ? It w-as believed in St. John that after the lecture I'lir- gatory would be eliminated for ever. In looking over the lec- ture, however, I was pleased to fii^'d it still remained unoxtin- ffuished a« on Satiyday morning. It was gravely stated t!iar modern Methodism, all bauhful and unpretending as it is, got up by John Wesley during the last century, was the primitiv» ' ytetc of ChriBtianitv tipt'f>r i >,CathoUcit3>-«^nmeao«d^- If Johft — Wesley -himself camo back to the" world how he would bow iu .:/ I H f"' . -i!:„__x_*_ *■ i /1v ■ r ■Vi .' ik II t '■ f r, fulmi ration to tlic Judge fos this exquisite and more than" New* toniiin discovery. . ^ 'V . " Sir, on the historical portion of the lecture on the" Catii- iombs^ I have nothiuj; more to nay than* that it is simply what i.-* found in csory hand-book on the subject, with a few inaccu- racicH of no uiomcnt in reference to the qucsf ions, at issue. I , have been myself in the Catacombs of St.'" Agnes and St. (.ali.xtus. I «iid not stop at the doos.° . I walked for.hour:* within their- sacred labyrinths, and, instead of being afraid, 1 felt my heart within me bound with joy ^al seeing tli« thousands of time-honoured monuments on every side, proof* uf the antiquity arid the ui^changed and unchangeable cVrac- tcr of , old Catholicity. . At. every twenty paces, or at the !.ength.of every ten tiers of graves, on each side of the narrow passages, r ente-ed, into a capella or chapel or chamber, of' which there seem. to be hundreds iaeach oS tho Catacombs. , in different stages of preservation! and in several of these' 1 have seen as many as two altars, with the sarcophagi or tha graves of martyrs under them, and there they have stood foe •sixteen or seventeen hundred years, as a proof adrpitted by all antiquarians that the Christians of the olden times,,had incon- testa bly their sacrifices and oblatiotts too, without tvhich thasa aftars would have been^ without object, as they would be without meaning. On the ceilings awl on the walls at every side wherever they were n«t defaced, I saw frescoes represent- ing the sevepl Ustorical personages and, scenes, of the Bible : the arkrof/Noah,^vith the dove ha-ving a branch, of blive in its. I>eak, M|t\;irvod ceiliAg are seen her portrait, life sized, in gooil prcscr- >i(itlon, and two other figures of Saints, whose namet; are now l>evond mv rpcoUoction. ' • To cnulnc) ate all the other paintings and altars, and typical inscriptinnn Lil uVoiunucnts.of Christian art of e-rCry^dcscrip- .V than I would dare attempt from memory. For I- %'*■■ fpn IS more v tho satisfaction of the Judge, and the public, I ,wifl set down.' therefore my own testimony and that 5f anothet Clergyman now in this Province as an etjuivalent, at least, for the autho^ ,rity of Dr. Maitlaigid, whose fame as a linguist and antiquarian , :» by no means unquestioned, and whose knowledge of Home, nirtl of . every thing about it, is not to be compared with the longer and more intimate experience of persons who went Uiere hr the ex presB-, purpose of study, who lived there for jeurs, and whose only Recreation it was to visit from, week to week some old momtmont of the Eternal City, Iri justice to the Judge, however, and to the public, we will waive our own authority for the while, and fall back on tht- .- testimony of men whose fame as Writers and antiquarians is. Iwyond all question, Arringhi in -the whole of his Third , Book, artd Philip Buonajotti in his work"^ c« tlie Antique Vases oi Glass, ^Florence 1716,) after quoting numerous writers of ' antiquity to explain the meaning of the symbols discovered by Hosio, and others, in the Cutacombs, go 'on to say that they t^oasisted of marble slabs, and lamps, arid precious stones, anil pictures of the various scenfcs taken ihm. both the Old and New Testament. There was' the irndge of Christ on the mountain, from whiph flowed four rJvers in four different Uirections, as the symbol of the unix'cilsality or -catholicity ol the Christian religion. There w a8,}v besides, the image' ot Christ, the Shepherd, bearing a shdep on his shoulders, either painted ot sculptured, on glasi, on lamps of different forms, on toml>-stone8 and sarcophagi, on the walls all round, on stones, and on the chalices in Mihich the blessed blood of aur Lord was Consecrated. Oiv t^ese chfilioea Tertullian, writ- ^ ing in the«third century, says (Lib. de Pudicitia vii., c. x.' — '•Let the pictures on your chaliccg be presented, jind the weaning of that sheep will appear". Ytiu paint the Shepherd *.'ji the chalices^ in order that he isuiy protect you." Besides the figurcs'of Ghrist in the Catacombs, there are ^ also to be fouiul innumerable symbols and monuments on v^iich are painted of engraved the figures and names of the . J}lesled Virgin and of the Angels and Saints, of wliich; be- sides our own testimony, wc have Blanchinius tome ii." cap 1 ; . I'abrettus cap viii. page 8 ; Fogginiu^ on the Apostolate oi P^tcr, page ioo ; Marangonus Dellc cose gentilcsche cap 72. P'Agiucourt S tone dell arte, vol. iv. page (>l), relates that several of these images made during the time of the first |;firsccution mides, Xero,' were found in the Koinan Cata- combs by himself. The style and form, of these images he rompared with those found in the family sepulchre of the • .^iascni, tp wii of Ovid, immediately oijtsi((c the Pincian gate ,->-'' AVhenci^ hn savs'l we infer two' thinps— «ir«t, thnt Mm » « .. o, imagci was universal ill thu Church from, the first and thu- J ■'XI- Cx- second century : and secondly, that the veneration for imagP!« prevalont in these early times preserved . Irom destruction th« . I- inc Arts, both painting and sculpture, of which Protestantu tlicmselvcs arc most studious at the present day." Wittckcl- mann, the celebrated German writer, in his History of Ancient Art, Prato 1832, tom. iii., cap 2, praises highly ^s a work of nit the statue of St, *ttypolitu8, martyr, in a sitting posture, which was made ftboUw the time of Alexander Severus, Em-' l>cror, A. 1). 205. Crosses of all fornts are also to be found there : ,of all, ar- ^(.•riptions, without nuftiber. That they were used by ChriB- tiaus in the earliest ages, not only in theChtacombs but every where else, is evident from the accusation tnadc against Chris- tians by Cecilius, a Pagan, in the work of Minjitius Felix IJib- i)ioth Patrum, edit Venet torn, ii., page 3S6. " To the man who suffered justly for his crime they erect altars, that they may worship that which they deserve." Julian, the apostatf, ^«l8o reproached them because they adored the cross and mad« the sign of it on their foreheads, and engraved it on the door- ]K)st8 of their houses, so trtiiversal was their reverencfc for the VT08S in those days. Many Pagan writers in the first ages thought that all peo- ple crucified were adored by Christians, as can be seeh, apud Otigcnem, lib- ii., 47. So much, upon crossed. Boldetti, lib. j, cap 4, say*, that so early as the third century the imagt-s of the Virgin, with Jesus in her atms, and the heads of both liguies surroui^ed with jin aureola, or crown, all on ahcient •;lass, were to be found in the several Catacombs of St, ^alix- tus, St, A^es, St. Priscilla, &c. Slariani Lupi, another most • ilistinguished ^antiquarian, tom. i. dissert, viii., page 243, do- i^cribcs a Vitrum found in the cemetery of St. Ca^lixtus, all atained with blood spots, in which the Blessed Virgin is repre- sented sitting upon a throne holding her bajie Jesus on h*r knee. . In order that wc shoitld leave nothing undone to plctfse th^ Judge, us far as the limits of a newspaper letter will permit, I will now pass from the testimony of all theso learned foreign- ers, with whose works he is so conversant, and come back to t!jQ Enf;lishman already- quoted, the Rev. Mr. Spencer North- cotc. Scholar of Oxford, formerly a Church of England Minis- ter, and now (don't faint) a Roman Catholic Priest, stationed in some:|)art of llnj^land. He, too, went to Rome to examine for himself, but he had a very Hifterent pair of spectacles from those ol iDr. Maitland. Page 50, he tells us tha£t in these (iatacombs he found small lamps of terra cotta, (which the Judge 80 well understands,) and which are now in all the P^oman Museums ; also Bpccimeps of the anipulla, or glass ,.„,.., , vrEich it lor **nerly contained. Where the martyr was put to death, witlirnit tfte; shedding of blood, a palm branch served the same i>urpo3t-. ■^ Jj^iides the subterraneous chambers', he says (page 54) used -' ' ^ for; burial places, there are others in great numbers where the 1^ Vly mysteries of the Mass were ofTcred up : there were two ' , - -galleries, vis a rw, one for men apd the otlier for the women ./ ^ of the congregation. Prudontiiifi. he says,' describes the tonib 1 *"^ ^^' Hypolitus, above referred to as an altar, whence " tho bread of life was distributed to the faithful who dwelt on thV» banks of the Tiber." 8t. Maximus^ St. Amlwosc, St. Austin. and many others use th« same langu^gje, and it 'is certain that the practice of offering' the Holy Sacrifice at the consecrated . graves of Martyrs was almost universal , ia^ the Church' from the time when the beloved Apostle, from , his exile in Patmos. *' Saw under the altar thft souls of those>i|tat were slain for the word of God," and for the testimony which they lield." ^ There can be nothing clearer. v Beside these altars were, what in all Catholic Churches are railed credence lables, of cut stone, or projecting rock, where the elements of bread and wine were placed \mtil given to the Priest for consecration. So far on the multitudinous and varied evidences aljout the antiquity of Catholic worship, m found everywhere in the Cittacomlis. ! Northcote tells us a lew more particulars of, great interest, to which we must briefly allude. Pope Alexander the First, he says, took refuge in these Catacombs from the persecution under Adrian, A. D. 110. A hundred years after several Popes in succession used them as a hiding place. Hero remained for a. while the" Pope St. Caiixtus, from whom that (/atacomb derived its name ; here^St. Urban, another Pope, baptised the husband and brothor-in-law of St. Cecelia ; here also took refuge Popes Si. Pontian^ St. Antherus, St. Fabian. St. Cornelius, all of wjiom succeeded one another without interruption in the Sec ol Peter, from the year 198 to 25'i. About the year 252 the Emperor Valerian expressly forbade the Christians " to hold assemblies in, or even to enter thosp places called cemeteries, i. r. the Catacombs. After thia another Pope, Stephen, lived in the Catacombs, and adminis- tered the Sacraments there and held Councils of the Clergy, and was at length discovered in the act of saying Mass there, and was martyred on the spot. Sixtus, who succeeded him, was in the Catacombs, and thirty years later Pope Cajus, who lay concealed there for eight years and ^vas brought out at last to share thp fate of those who went before him. Now, a hurried word on the inscriptions about Purgatory, and I have concluded. I never saw Dr. Maitland*s work, and in this I feci I havftbut little to reg r et' ; but if he unde r took- t- of the Lateran Miisucm there is another inscription from the Catacombs : — Dominc no quandt* adumbretur spiritus Veneris de filiis ipseius qui superstitis^ •mnt Benerosus Projettus. " Lord let not the spirit of (our mother) Venus be at any time in darkness." In the Catacombs of St. Nereus and Achilleus is the last line of an Epitaph — Vibas in pace et pete pro nobis. "Mayst thou live in peace and pray for us." .. Passing from the C^acombs to Holy Fathers in true Judge \Vilmot fashion, I will now quote a text flrom two of the most di a ting i iiHbcd CbristJML writer s of IhR t h ird o onttuy, on th'> sub- 4«ct of Purgatory and praying for the dead, which 1 think ought -^^' '. ■", 47 ■ i: f^ :>*• »') «cttle all reasonable jjoiibt on that subject. I will conV Ti^cncc witb the'^JTRlgc'B friend Tertulliun.' with whonf th« •Tiidgo seems so familiar and one qf whose volumes I bcliivp He never opcn|d in his life. Lib. de Corona Mil. ciii. '• Wr make oblations for the dead on thn anniversary day of their birth ;" And Lib. de Mottagamia ciii., he writing about th# duty of a faithfu! wido^v towards her deceased husband' naj-s :— " She prays for his soul, she begs Refreshment for him ftnd a happjr union (with Christ;) a Jiappy companionship for hmi m the first resurrection." St. Cyprian, Bishop of Car- tilage, about whose picture in the Catacomb-s we hn,vc already spoken, speaking of the merit of Martyrdom says— Ep. :yi, fed Anton. " One thing i.s to be obliged to wait for par-' don, end another to' come immediately to glory. One thing to be kept in prison until you pay the last 'farthing;, ftnd another to is to incontinently receive the reward of virtue «nd of faith. One thing to be cleansed and purified a long time by. fire, and another to have expurgated, atoned for all youi?|plns by martyrdom." But why multiply quotation.^ any more and needlessly trespass o» the patience of the publ%. iet the 'Judge send any of bis friends to my residence, and I will shew them in print \all the inscriptions and texts above quoted, and if ncM be, five times as many more. It is now for the reading and dispassionate publia to decide bctw6en the Judge and myself, whetheii the Catacombs of Home clearly prove, as he pretfends, that khere Were no Popes, no poperr, no pictures, aw statues, no crosses, no altars, no mass, lio church ornaments, ne^episcojial or priestly vestments, no pray- ers for the dead, no middle slate, no purgatory, no veneration for Jesus and Mary pictiured together or for the apostles and martyrs and saints of God, no Irospcct for their relics, no sym- bols, no doctriiiB of the cathqlicity of .the present day before that brilliant^period when Constantino the first Christian Empe- ror entered the' city of tjic Caesars under the Laliiuum of the Cross^and when primeval Christianity sprafig up as if from the tomb to assume a Visible and more glorious form throughout every Province of the Empire. Is there anything on/thr other hand to shew that the cold and }vhitewashed walls of the Methodist Meeting House without inscription, or paiiting, or statue, or ornament, or baptistery, or an altar, or a^sacrifiei-, or an ordained Priest, or the cross of Jesus, the emblem of eiilvation and the christian's glory in every land ; and then with, a snug paisonag^long side and well furnished apart- ments* and a sweet little cozy family— ah ! ah.' ah! is there the smallest imaginable evidence I ask to proVe that this was the Church of the Catacothbs ; the Church of the early Christians, th e yhurch of thej'opes^ofjtjnmuj^ ^ martyrs j thelJEurcliofholTconfe^ .^: I -.'m-: ■,'*%?i^i 1^' 48 < horito*; the known Christian Church of the Roman Empifc, md thcrrcfurc the only Church. of Jesus on the earth for three hundred years ? Could that be the Church, which, as if by Tiiagie, built up in bo short a tinic these magnificent piles of Chribtiau architecture, with their painted walls and decoratcTT r 'ilin^s, with their reliquaries of the sainted dead, and their biiptifhiial fonts, and sarcophagi, and glorious altars, of which wc have so many still extant, as imperishable and undoubted me- morials of the Oneness and the perpetuity of the lleligion of the (Jatacombs now and to all time ? Is this — | will appeal cvciii to jthc seared conscience of fhe Judge, who' is no scholar — is tills the Church that within a year after its dcUveralice from flic Ciitacombs sent its three hundred Bishops from .every part of the Globe to meet in general council in Nice in the far Kas», under the presidency of the Legates of the I'ope Sylves- ter, where Caiistantirte himself attended, and where tha primacy of the See of Peter in Home was declared by the unanimous consent of all the Eastern Bl^uips to ba a portion of the universal faith of the Christians -'Jf erory country at that early period ? I pause, and I fear I will have to pause a long timt, for a reply from this new . born Apostle of meek Methodism, who thought he domolishedi Topery altogether in his last unfortunate lecture. Not Metbedism, therefore, or any other Ism, but " tho I'onian Ciilholic religion alone" which, in the words of Macaulay, a Protestant, and onp of the first literary men in IJritain, whose authority even the Judge himself can scarcely gainsay : — " The lloman Catholic Church alone joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institu- tibn is loft standing which carries the mind back to the times when tlie snioke of sacrifice rose fromithe Pantheon^ and when camelcopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian Amphitheatre,- The proudcot royal houses are but of yesterday when compared with the Jiflc of Supreme Pontiffs. The Republic of Venico oame next in antiquity ; but the Republic of Venice is gone . ;ii;d the I'lpacy remains, not an antique, not in decay, but full of youth and vigour. The number of her children is greater to-day than at any farmerage. Her acquisitions in the New World are greater than what she lost in the Old. The mcra- bers of her community are certainly noi less than 160 millions (I say 200 millions), and it will "be difficult to shew that a!J other Christian sect's united amount to 120 millions. Nor do V : now sec any si^ns that the term of her long dominion is Hjiproachiiig. She saw the commencement of all the Govcrn- r:.LT.t3 and of all the Ecclesiastical establishments tjjiat now exist in the world (Judge, mark that down), and we feel no jsiurancethat she is not destined to sec the end of them all.'' iJ->'-> is, tjicrcfore, the contrast between CathoUcity aajl 'W w Methodism ; between the Bishop in his own place and the Judge whore he ought not to be. At an unguarded moment for himself and his friends, and cspeciallyMie MethodisTbody whonv he represents, ho threw down the gauntlet, and I took It up, not for display, as the world knows, but in vindication of an outraged people, and then in defence of the glorious Church of the 6atacombs ; the Church of tho Popes; Z C hurch of Constantino and Theodosius and Pepin and Charle- magne ; the Church of the Lombards and the Francs and the baxons. and of the middle ages; the Chwch of Englishmen ami of^al}Britain,foreleven,hundred years; the first. the last, the only Church, established by Jesus, a»id which al his own tTalHiUS'^^"'" '"'^ ^""^ therefore immutable, and endurin- Your obedient Servant, &Ci, t THOMAS L. CONNOLLY. . Buhop of St. JohTi. , P. S— Mr. Maturin's reasons for abandoning Protestant- ism and becoming a soul crushed CathoUc, at the sacrifice of social position, and independence, will be published in a few days I recoittmend it to the perusal of all impartial men ^.™.T\i° r. *"**** i^' '^^ the question. Whata noblo theme for the Judge on the occasion of his nexfcvisit. He mav .11 T ^A' °K»"i;*"'^ty oraccDnntin& for the conversion of Lords Fielding, Dunraven^ and Camden, the Duchesses Argyle. Hamilton, and Bnc^engh, the Marchioness Lothian, he Ne>vmans. and \S^rforces. and; Fabers, and ManSng the Queen 8 own chaplain, who received about three hundred Protesunts last year into the Church, gf the Catacombs, and of the thousands of the greatand inteUectual of the land who became soul crushed Papists within the iast twelve years. "ji t T. L. C. it S p ^'•>. ■ ''^'. ■ ' ' " • ■ ■- . ■ 1- n.n -Lr.ruir " -^■^■^ — — ■-■^■-■— ■■— »^»* »^^^ '■•'.■ '"'4- , - " ■ TV) the Editor of the Freeman. Your blnoderer is sturdy as a rock. -^ — - ' The creature is so sure to kick and bite, ~ — - A muIctecYs's the man to set him right ; Firstappetite'enlistshim truth's sworn foe,' r Then ODStioate self-will confirms him BO. Sin : — From the number and length of all the newspaper leaders and anonymous communications that have appeared on the never lo be worn out subject of Dr. Connolly's letters Avithin the Isfst three weeks, I had vainly hoped that, the con- troversy was at an end, and public opinion already formed on the merits of the whole question. In the Freeman of Thurs- day, however, I find that aftfcr an intubation of three weeks, a member of the Church of England, true to nature, has suc- ceeded, with evident pains and labour, in bringing out two mortal columns in the Church Witness of the previous week. I have the honour of knowing Dr. Connolly intimately, and I venture to say, without fear of contradiction, that with all the. experience derived from his loi^ residence in America, he had no idea of the high-souled honour and fair play he was to meet from all quarters in New-Brunswick, when he accepted the pointed and insulting challenge of Judge Wilmot. The poor man in his good faith thought he had gentlemen to deal with ; he believed what nearly all the Protestants of the country thought, till th6 memorable lecture on the Catacombs, that Judge Wilmot was by far the ablest exponent of Protestantism in the Province. He saw clergymen of every denomination, including some of those of "the Church of England, bow to him as a dcmi-god, and acknowledge him practically as their best man, and the champion' of their creed, against a class of people who not only never assailed them, but who, up to that moment, never oj>ened their mouths in their own defence. Under these circumstances the Bishop became assured of fair play. He foolishly thought that the great Judge, a host ' in himself, who gave the challenge would be the only man to grapple with. But lo ! his disappointment ; this great " Will o' the Wisp" was found to bci nobody at all, " erupit I evasU!" Beyond the few clap-trap common-places of "Exeter Hall," and the "waving of the British Flag," and "we won't give up the-^ i b l e, " t o throwthtst in.th e eye a ofth el ^ndt a nd •- anonymous communication. The first fanlt I find with the writer m the Witness is, that his production, with all its iin- qucstiongd merits, JabQur s under the singular disadvumugu oi m rMi: d2 52 i bcliig uncalled for and out of season. Bishop Connolly, out- .sidu of his own Church, has always been the consistent and I vowed enemy of religious controversy. In all the relations •t business and social life I veidture t9 say that there is not mother man in the Province who has give^n so many telling 'U'oofs of ""his being above any narrow minded or sectarian prejudice in this respect. in the employment of mechanioSj in his dealings through Mu- city, in his care of the orphans during cholera timjes, in his contribuiions.for charitable purposes neither creed nor de- nomination was asked or cared for. Anud all 14s predilections I know for certain, that his sympathies with the members of 'lie Church of England especially, were always marked, and in public as in private, he did not fail to give expression to them. Notwithstanding the incessant tirade of abuse which has been [)oured out for many years on the Catholic Religion and often on himself in the Church Witness, the organ of the Church of I'iiigland in this country, yet until the Bazaar of last year, he never wrote or sud a wx>rd in retaliation, and simply for this reason, because he knew the stupid and wrathy evangelicalism of the Witness had notbing in common with the intelligence and the manly independent feelings . of those whom it pre- tended to represent. Neither would- ho have made allusion . io the Church o^JSngland upon a late occasion, but that it became unavoidable. The Judge spoke in the name of a common and united Protestantisn^. With a Ohurch of En^- l.iud man in the chair he was sustained and hounded on by ('hurch of England men on all sides. He had received a itimpliaienteiry address from sevferal of them but a few days before, fh^most unchristian speech pade in St. John for ^ c urs against Catholics was by a Chiirch, of Engjand minister; ^vllo, to the honour of that, Church be it said, is almost a soli- t;uy exception to the rule. Up to the moment of the contro- ^^^sy, Catholics >had been more unsparingly abused by the Witness than by all the otheri^ papers in the Province. There \vaR a provocation therefore, atid what is more' the provocation was great. Under &ese circumstances it is .not mvch to be wondered at that t^e Bishop should havomade some passing uui delicate allusion to people of the Church of England in eommon with other denominatioim. To prove that Catholicity was not the absurd and soul-debasing religion th^ Judge described,, there could: not h»ve been anything more to th» point than the Bishop's reference to Mr. Maturings case, which is so near home, as also, to the many and exalted personages iu England whp have embraced Catholicism within the last 12 years. Besides, the Witness had' already come out with; three ponderous editorials in reply to the Bishop on aU the passag es / V of his ^iter which couid in any way. i^cts tie interests of ' '' t, • .. ■ ■■ ' . ■■' '^: «3-*i i 53 the Ch^ of Englahd. the Bishop did not wish to hurt the teclmgs (as is evident) of a single member of that body except where their toause was inseperable from that of the 2*^®',, -^H l^^ co«imunication ila the Witness, therefl)r^, withallitsabihty, was uncalled for, and as the hundred and four^ «ionymous of a series on the same subject was at lc;;st one forthmght after date, and this is its first and, as I consi.I. i a mojt damaging fault. . --- Without presuming to follow the writer through each of hi^ learned qutotations on the many irrelerant topics to which ii. alludg? I will now deal with the few arguments of his Ictto. ' which I consider to have any bearing on the Wilmot contr. - versy. - The Bishop dbes not even insinuate in either of )ii. i7°i^**®2^" Church of England people ift-e not Christir.ns "°. J5£Z:W e soroe do»ibt, as I have myself, of the manner ii. wbjB^<«of the EvangeUcals in that Church administer th. ^j^^K o» Baptism, but if they be baptised as they nia\ ai^^^pt to be in the Church of England, the Bishop I in. ■"1^ oas,»«t tlie smallest doubt that they are Christians. »r. Maitland's name is totally Reside the question, lijs. Lordship silys himself he did not read Maitland's little liaiuU book, but ho laughs at the idea of a man being quoted as li, only authority on the Catacombs, which hte admits he nev. - entered. The Bishop was amused act the boasted pluck >,i . man who, m his insatiable thirst for "knowledge, was afraid f- so m where even ladies are not afraid to venture every div «y a quibble the merest sophist can attach any meanin- h. pleases to the most emphatic teachings of God's word, v.ml 'utside of the Catholic Church there is no logical nor possfhl- - remedy. The dissenter most consistently uses this arcun, ir against the Church of England herself— As long as words a different sense will boar, And each may be his own interpreter, 0«f ">«y faitn will no foundation ftpd— The word's a weathercock for every wind. .T?*^ ?"'^**y^" ®°^' *-^^ divinity of the Redeemer, the mnl of the Incarnation, the doctribe of original sin, and of man ~ redemption, the inspiration of the Scriptures, the prerogutiv,- ot Bishops to r\ile the Church, the faith of the four firstCn. als which the writer so iUogically distinguishes from all ti„ •.ther Councils of the Church, in a word, every truth rcvc al^.i fy Ood not only may be, but has been gainsayed a milli-.., Times oyer on the same principle. If a man of common s, i.s, cannot logically conclude the belief in a middle state, from tiu numerous inscriptions in the Catacombs, I wUl ask what otj,. i meaning can be reasonably deduced from them. " Kalemii a P i- ,!».-> f^ i •it "u*^^m'^ ^"'•^ ^''y spmt;" "Heificmbcr, O Lord Jesus, ...r hild ; " Eternal light be to thee, .Timothea, in Christ .Jfi:. 4 r ^ \:^ I • ■<•> iir- df n 54 ♦Mi9rd, fdf not the spirit of our mother (Venus) be any tiniQ. in darkness ;"' " Mayest thoii live in peace and pray for us." If, as the Bishop argued, .these eplfjiphs were wTritten after the " death of |he -parties referred to, it is proof,.pQsitiTe.that the faithful at this early epoch of the Church ttiust have been;^m; the habit. of' praying for. the dead; not certainly for those-, wliom they believed to.be already in heaven or hell, whiclr v;ould have, been i^surd ; therefore the conunon.sensc CiRnelU- sion iaJnevitable. All this tnay or may riot be a proof of the. tloctriiie of Purgatory, but it i« a mosi triumphant vindic&tion of the Bi^op's position against the Judge, whp, true to his. character, withheld; the few inscriptions iit Maitland which, if • road! out at the IccturCt would havc^dest^oyed; ithe very theory , ho so dishonestly laboured tp establish. It was the Judgq . wU? selected the Catacombs, pfnll other subjects, to pirove tha;^ there wa3 no 'belief in iNirgatory in those days. The, l^ishop met hin> on his owp ground, and the Member of the Church of .England has so far failed fn brii^ng fbrth one sin-- tjle argument^ to show that he has^not trlomp]^antly held hi» •position. ik • ' _ ' Our correspondent solves the enigma, and i^ an off hand, style cipfains aw£^ the meaning of all these inscriptions with an adroitness worthy of a batter ciiiisc. (i\\ said he, they moan nothing at all, they 't amount* to no njorje than a pious , wi;sh in some cases, a brief prajier in others, that the departed relative may ' sleep in peace,' ' *■ rest in Chri^* ' may not be ai> any time in darkness,* I have seldtom met with many Protest- ■ ;ints who would be offendedr, with a|)»8sing. tribute of this kind, ' Rcquicscat in pace' is common enough as an epitaph, rtut pray what connection has. this wjth Purgatory." "In alJ this we have a fair specimen, though prettily spoken, of the evasive arid ever ilhi^ory answjer'of the yrotes^tnis when they :u-o "brought to a fixed point. Having nc anchor of faith, no determined and everlasting principle 4i^e Catholics to hold fust by, they say and unsay, assert and deny, and. Proteus "ko wriggle into all shapes , and forms *id Wriggle out of them- "^aiifain, and appearand disappear almost in- the same breath. 'J'his lame:attempt at, a reply; though a whit more dignified4ft tone, is yet apiece witli the chimsier- efforts of the nameless .sffibes in all the other papers. " He was an honest poor feU • low," I hcJpe-he is all right ; '» g»od luck to him, poor fellow, wherever he ft gone." To return to the question, Ijiereforc, what have these inscriptions and this "Rcquicscat )n pace"- to do with Purg(itory ? If they mean not Purgatftry what do they mean at all I will ask ? What did they at all times, and what do they mean at the present day in all the Catholic gg'"P^^<-^ of thclvoriaT"Tr eVcry bffc goes iramediatoly-co-Hctmat^F ta Hcii the mo^nenfr he dies, your ^t Requiesoa^rin pace" is b»ii V, .*>' 'f ^ ' ^* ■f . \ '■mmesmmmmai^ '.v. 55 tf a hollow mockery, to be discountenanced by all means, aFthe aymbol of a grievous error in faith. The pra]?er* of Prdjectus and Btnerpsus tiiat the soul o^ their mother Venus, after she » died, may not be any time ta darkness, -would not only be inexplicable, but in the supposition would he diametrically (^posed to the prevailing bdief of aU Christiana in those eariy times. The writer asks -what hkve they to do with Purga- tory ? and I ask what have the office and the Mass for the dead in the Catholic Liturgy, and the epitaphs in »U Mie Catho- lic cemeteries pf the world at the present day to do witteJPuf^ 7 gatftry? I do not recollect a single instance in whictfthe word Purgatory is found ^n our missals or engraved on ouif tombstonesr. Is that a reason, - therefore, why our epitaphs • have no meaning, and why Purgatory, of which no mention is . made, is to be. discarded as an essential "part of the belief of all Catholics at .the present day. We still write the same epi^ • taphs over our dead, and use suJpBtantially thft same prayers, and, in many instances, the same expressions, thai vfetd haN , lowed in the Catacombs, and, what is, more, without If single • mention of the woi-d Purgatory ; wc offer up thd same sacrii. ' • ficeb for the faithful dbpartcd whifch were pffered ^p on tbo ^^ .altars of the numerous chapels of the Catacombs, whkh con- * tmued ever sinpo tho univeAal,^actice i|i God's Chirch, and '• to which St. Cyprian, in the san^ cpistl^ to^the* clergy and people of Fumi about the year 250, maizes se.emplwtic and , beautiful an' allusion ih the ^Wds quoted in tbe.JPrefemart^ .Thursday ;;.-",The Bishops, i)ur , lirfedecessors, *thirtking reli- giously and tnakirtg salutary proyision;'dctermined that no ono . when ^ing shoul4appoint a epric to the office of waMei> or administrator, and if any one did. this tUre should, be op offer' - mg made for himt^affr-w^mcri^cb'celebrated for his rtpdse^* Episcopi antcccssoiro^ nostri fbligiose qpnsidcrantes et salubri- 4' ter providentcs cciisufirunt, nc quia ifrater exccdenA'ad tutelani « vel curaiti clericum nominaret, ac ii quis hoc fecisset, non ' » offeretiir prp eo, ncc-sactificiunvpro dormitione-ejus celebra- • '^u"*'*! '**'' ^yP"*°"8' Ep. addn et plebem Fumi. ■ There is the qtWtatien, text,: translation and all, about which our cor- ' ■ respondent complains, and wjach, without saying it, he would ' fain make tho publitf believe was not to be found in the epistlo • referred to. But naw to return the complimcnS- what shall I gay tp my friend's own translation "and interprefatlgn of tbp othcn, text of Cyprian, ep,52 ad AntonjanuilirHcre is thfe Latin : . "Aliud est ad vqniam stare, aliud ad gfcriam pervenire ; aliuil ' misstim in carccrcm non exire indc donee sol vat novissimum , ({nadrantcm, aliud statim fidci et virtutis accipcre mercedcm. i. ' aliud pro peccatis longo dolore ci:uciatum emundari et nurtcani / Piy i gn e, et nliml ... i « * v4^ »'*X ]•.. . V ■ w ■ < ft r % .♦ i ' ^4 ."V ' ' .1, tS* J3.cc(;at i ]t jomnia pa s Biono purgasscf- alibd ■■ cmquc pcndcrc in diem judicii ad sgntcntiam Domini, aliud. ^«i ' 1 -v . Isft . • «.#^'* ' , yJ>C- 56 'i. «Btatim a Domino coronari.." " One thing is to stand (waiting) for pardon, another to a,i^e at glory ; one thing being sent ' into prison not to go out thence .till one pays the last farthing, ■' another to receive at opce the reward of faith and of vifiue : 'one thing being tortured by long anguish on account of sin to %e cleansed 4ftd purified {diu) a long time by fire." Where did my accurate friend leave diu, or did he forget it-. Hje may say the omission is a mattej of no consfequence, but !» my opi-* nion it very materially affects the strength and the meaning c^ the whole tcKt. It is «ne mode of expression to be purified ^ hy fire, and another to be purified /or a long time hy fire. And what fire m'ay.I ask ? Is it the fire «f Hell ? That will ^ be burning for a long 'time with a vengeance. If we are to bum not always, but oniy for a Jong time, it- cannot mean the fire of hell which we know neither cleanses nor purifies. Why therefore did not qur correspondent come out at once and say honestly what St. Cyprian meant by the fite ? He complains of the context and scope of St. Cyprian being ignored or not attended to by the Bishop. .Why then did' he not come out himself and explain it ? Without wishing to offend charity, I guess that, Jikc the Judge in Ms withholding the few inscriptions that told againfrt him, the writer in this instance found nothing in the contelt of the epistle that could serve his purpose. Butl„will tell the public what my friend well knows, that there is not a word in the context which does not go to prove that St. 'Cyprian in } this passage meant the fire of a purgatorial state after this life, and no other. In this whole letter he urges the necessity of relaxing the severe discipline of the early Church regard- ing those who fell away from the faith through fear of perse- cution. He insists on the Christian propriety of receiving them again to penance and to communion witl^hefaithful, as all other sinn(ir8 were received. "The Devil^ilB^ he, a few .ventonces befpre, " endeavours to kill those whom "he has wounded-; Cl|rj«t exhorts (on the other hand) that he whom He redeemed ^should not perish. -Which of these two do wi; assist ? Whether do we favour the Devil, that he may* perish, find, like the triest and the Levite in the Gospel, pass by our lirother lying down and half dead, or whether, as the Priests of God and Christ, ♦ » * do we snatch him wounded liom the jaws of his adversary, that ao cared fot we may rc- f^crve him for God, the Judge. Nor should you imagine the virtue of the brethren to be diminished, «r martyrdom to cease, because penance may be relaxed for those that have fallen. Truly the strength of the confident remains unshaken. # * * ■ Integrity endures strong and unmoved in those who fear and Inve God with th e ir whole heart. A. tinuft •foi.pen.ancc and X =H= peace is granted by us to the unchaste ; it docs not, therefore. TT^ A 4' x'l k m =H= _vfollow,that virgimty ceases in the Church, 6t that the glorious design of continence languishes through the sins of others. 1 he Church flourishes, crowned by so many virgins, and chas- tity and virginal modesty.pteserve the (even) tenor of their fjlory ; nor is the vigour of continency impaired because pe- nance and pardon are eSitended to the adulterey." And then he goes on, like any Catholic Theologian of the present day to show that though the/imj>ure man and the adulterer and ^ the apostate would be pardoned, thtough Gdd'a mercy and penance, as to the guilt of their crimes and the eternal punish- ment due to thim, yet their condition- at the moment of death would be vastly inferior to that of the many glorious vir-nhs and martyrs of God's Church, who suffered as much nay mor«- than smp^rs injkis life, but whp yet remained pure and holv nn{| Ibithful ler^he end. M to show the more etfectuallv t}ic .hspanty m' their conditibi^jot in this life, of which he'doe^: not speak at all, but in that life to come, he tells us that though both were in communipi^.with the Church, and as i* • onth* same level in this life, yet aftd» death, as the text it- sdf emphatically prof esj their condition would' b(?'«neou ;i1- J he adulterer and the upo^ate and the sinneV though reccn- v|^d M God, were ^et to wait for parddn, Vhile the virgin^ fflQ the martyrs and the holy ones of Jesus were immedintclv to;arrive at glory. The .sinners were to be cart into priso: / till they piid 'the last farthing; they were to be cleansed and ' purified a long time by fire till thfey fully satisfied the justice of tliat God, who rewards and punishes every one "aecordin'rr to his works," whb assures us tjiat tre shall have to account for every idle word, who will not receive us into his kingdom' until yvk become perfect as the father, while the Saints on thf other hand were at once to tepeive their reward. Such is the • text and the context, «uch the meaning of vStJCvprian, and I fearlessly say that in the mind of a^iy intelligent 'and unprcju-' uiccd^ man they can have no othey. . ' * ' •• ] t St. Cyprian therefore manifestly acknowledges and tc.iche^ the existence of a Purgatory, and that same Pur England . would be rights But on this all antiquity is silent-.. I challenge the writer to point out one author in thps'c- early times who among the many and. well known erxors of Tertuk Ifan made his expressed Jelief in Purjjatorya^auso of reproach ; as the Member ort the Church of/^England, there- fore, admits that Tertullian, who Wrote aboui the year 200 of the Christian .Era, believed' isf^nd taught the doctrines 'of a Purgatorial state in the next world, I claim him as a witnesc of the very highest order in favour of the doctrine of Putga- _ tory, and above all^ of its antiquity in the Church of God, ' which (as may be recollected) was the Ohly point intlisputi between the Bishop and the Judge. These are the words o! Tertullian and they should noit be forgotten^— Lib 4e corona, *♦ We make oblatioM for the dead («. e, offer up thc^holy sacrifice of the Mass) on the. anniversary day of their death." And again in speaking of the duties of a faithful widow- Lib dp Monogan^ cap. 10, "She piays for his soul, she begs ' vafresbnient for him and a happy unioa with Cbrist, and has ° offerings made for him on ihc omuwflMM^of his death." There can be nothing clearer. If the '• Men^r of theCturcb of England" will k>ok into the history of th^feiiarij^nrys, he will find a minute account of the^rimitivcr^|Eh Biugatory, he mil read of the ^e^itt sighs *q God(tMUears and the prayers of tho people,' aitd the aocrificft of tip Mass which were invariably offered up for the r*pose of the fbithful de- parted. ' Let Urn read the beautiful description of ^he funeral obsequie* of '(Gdnstantke the Great, A. D.»3^7 ; Euscbius Lit iv. cap. 71, when he was laid -out in statb in the public • Church witb a whole people around him iiJ tears offering up together with the Priests heartfelt p«aytirs for his soul. We read the, same of Arcadius and EudtDxio^ the parents of tho younger Theddosius, Apud Thodoret Lib* 4 hist. Ecclcs cap. ,36 ; also of the Emperors Valontinian and Tjheodosius, and Satyrus the brother of St. Ambr^e, aad the 9|l|pr of Fausti- nus and Paulina the wife of Pammaohius (St. Jerome), and ' Monica, the malher of St. Augustin, who, speaking of her ' funeral. Lib. 9 oon&ss., says-*?' Beholtl[ tbc body has been, carried forth (to ita resting place), we go and wo return with- out tears. Neitheo did I cry as ^ stood hyher dead body near the sepulchn: wlule the sacrifice of our ransom Vias being offcrect up for her according to custoau Inspire O Lord thy servants roy brcthrca who.ihall; read these my words, to remember thy handmaid Momca at thy altar." The definition of Purgatory, therefore, bJF the Council of Trent, as my friend must see, is not an invention "*" •—»♦"-'' — •♦ '■ — i— .v--*!,. _i:i and universal and unchangiu] invention of yesterday, it is mbnifcstly oM , mchanging as the Catholic Church of Gotu - The atlu aion to the Litu^es-of-Egypt;-ia~ttttftrly-Wtt •jjoint, lu the Diptlcks of the .early centauries there wcro^ '• ;"y '( r . V. ■• V 60 \ ,:, , V what Catholics 'Still retain in anitker forth, commemtftations for the living and the dead. For the living we still pray, both in public and private. Of the dead as of old we stil make commemoration, but, like the Churches of Egypt and of all antiquity, we make a vast difference between them. We make mention of the Blessed Virgin, and the Apoitles, and the Martyrs, and the Canonfecd and the Bftinted dead for a differ^ ont purpose fr6m those whose unquestioned sanctity is not- ruridically known nor publicly acknowledged. by the Church. St. Augustine gave a most satisfactory solution of this difli* oulty fourteen hundred" ^rears^nce. where, Euchiridion c. 110, he says that the itic^ifiees and prayers that are offered up for the faithful departed are' not a relief, but only " a giVing ot *hank8 for the very bood," pfb vdlde ftyt*. that is for those vv'ho are already in [Heaven ; 4nd agafti, Serm 17 de Verb Apost., he says ':that " when th& names of Martyrs are callett idoud at the altar, ^e do not pray for them, but only for the • lead who arc commemorated. " So much on the naming ot the Patriarchs and thle Prophets Mid the Apostles and the Vir- gin Mary, who are meWtioned afili prayed to by. us as Abraham and Isaac and Jacob ind Moses and Samuel and David and Jeremy were under thei Jewish di8p.ensation. Exodi 32, " Re- member, O Lord, Abraham and Isaac and Israel thy servants.^ ■r«m from thy fierce wrath and repent of this evil against thy peeple." Thedoretus, oikthis passage, Qutcstione fr?, sJiys that Moses fearing-and believing his own prayers to be msul- ■ ficicnt, had recourse to the better and more efficacious prayers of Abraham and^feaac, &c., who died several cettunes before. Memento Domirie, David, Psalm 132, King' James BiWefS O^ Ixtfd remember David and all his afflictions. Arise, Lord^ Mi thy rest. For thy servant David's sake turn not away the '.^ of thy annointed." These are the words cf Solomon praying through the merits of his father Davifl, 'Who was already dead as may be seen, Paralipomenon, Lib. u. cap. 6. Trom this, my friend in the Witness and the public at large Mn form an accurate idea of What was meant by the mention of -the names of the Patriarchs, and the Apostles, and the Vir- gin Mary, in the ancient Liturgies of Egypt, as well as in all < he other Liturgies of the Church, fa my friend satisfied? He may be convinced— yes !, and he \«>rites.very like<)ne who is convincca ; but to be satisfied, to carry those convicticms into action like Mr. Maturin, at the sacrifice of everything dear and pear to him, is for God alone to consummate. The misnomer of Sylverius for Sylvester is already explained. I heard the Bishop more than once allude to his interesting history, and 4escribe his Visit to Mount Soracte in the Roman campagna. t Soracte : 6>' where St. Sylvclter lay concealed for a cdneitjlrablc hiitv.- before Coifttantine entered th^ Imperial City. TP primacy uf the Pope of Rome, which was only incidentally alluded to in the Bishop's letter, properly speaking, formed no part of tlu contr6vcrsy-4vith Judge Wilmot. I know the Bishop well enough from what I havo heard him preach, to say that witli^ out looking ati-a. book he could write a volume on the subject, and notwithstanding hir Lordship's known aversion to contro- versy, Inhink, as I fondly hope, that the Occasion will soon present itself when he will be able to come out as he did liofore, in his 0W9 name, and meet the writer in the Witnrst,^ and all the other writers aiid speakers in the Province, on a subject fraught with so much interest to the intelligent and tj- thc well disposetl, and so hopeful for the Protestant as well as, the Catholic people of tliis country. * * I have thfe honour to be. Sir, " • :" ^■' One who ia not afraid to avow himself /I 1 1 A CLERIC OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. *. -'^c-^. -\- \ €. ^■tr ' ;«*■. •a •#■: ANOTHER LETTER. THE following letter, which also app^^rcd _in ^^ ^l^^'^l^ ' ™ay. perhaps, be considered not undeserving Of a flace m this collection :— ^ "' • ' r^-7 y^ ^J^g Editor of the Freentan. ._.^;" SSdcmSnctur. noTum. « forte neccsM 0,^^^ Sm -^Likc all the great men and the " Johns of all tradw ' Vifh whom this enlightened Province is how swatmmg, I too, ■ donned in Achillean armonr, and furthermore "fcured as to my Sniies in the manly busk^. f Jj« -tm:\t^'t^^^^^^ Angels fear to tread in ^ .^^^^ .^^^ ^,^^gi^t« X^ TctSi^y'Jr'o^^^^^ |j?-r-'T*Sr 4w^^^^^ " The''Sp »1*,^ «»r«eW Judge WUmot in Ac two-^ mendous effect. School-boys up riv«, ,^ y ^'t ^M /■ doctrines of the Bible. A.. y K ■§r- a»'- an iMoracc (Lib. iii. Oilo il) tall^as if he had bu£ one head-** V •• Cerberus quamviH futikh; Cratom^ . .; - Munia&t anguoa t'opUt rjua." Virgil (iRncid v1., 419) admits he had sovcrol ncck^, three tjiroats, and (Gcorgics, Lib. Iv., 483) throe mouths ; but per- haps Mr. Smith Reid will tell mo What every up river school^ hoy knows, where in Virgil or in Hdrr.ce, or in any of the ckssical authors, is it statod^iat the "real Cerberus" had ^v^, / not less. Hcsiod in hid heads, and Horace, who, at one head, must have ;he Qiflhop, for .in (Ode aving less than a hith- exjctly three .heads, and Theogony givoA him as mj m the lines above quotes been more at fault in xiii.. Lib, 2)< hp spoke of heads— r-,"- •> ' ■' : :^:^ . " DcSAiite^ atriw"bclltt» Ccpticcps." if Smith I^eid'or the boys up„ river be right, not only is Dr. -^ Connolly wrong, but Horace, himself must 'have bpcn an old fool. In my humble opinion both one aii^ the other used master. Cerbei;u8 pretty much as the ancicnts^id. their fabled Gods, *. c, made them suit their own purpose, by metamor- phising them into every fantastic and imaginable shape, as illustrations of whatever subject they intended to represent. Like a true painter, old Horace describes Cerberus not with one or two but with a hundred heads, encircled, with a8<-many hissing serpents, in order to pourtray to us more poetically tht; magic pffect of Sappho's lyre and the golden harj) of AlcoDu.s in having so mollified and snfxchied this hideous monster, in hell, amid all the tertora of his spcll-bouHd ferocity. He is again represented as havlAg three mottti|||yato express the Pagan idea of the differen^t modes of men1|^pfth, i. t., sickness, accident, and violencci He is moijeover described by nearly all ancient writers as a dog- stationed at the gates of Hell for the two-fold purpose of biting all those who" made the vaift essay to escape, and of barking at and scaring away Jill those who attempted to go in, " (Vide Ltempriere's Class. • Diet., Tooke's Pantheon passim.) In order to perform this double function, it must be |>atent to every one who knows any thing of Optics, that Master" Cerberus should have, if not two heads, at least two fades to Ipok in and to look ojdt, and two ^ mouths likewise for the respective operations (^barking and * biting. It must have been the remarkable sinularity between him and Judgfe Wilmot in this respect which i^ught the fancy of the Bishop I presume; and 'as the n^^ber t)f heads as of faces is arbitrary, and may be one, or fifty, or a huridred as assigned by various classical writers, so there could not have - been a awyc life-like Eortrait\urc of the Judgg in hi s two-fnIfV i^ ■- ... ^ti v/t 1 W^Wt!-^^,!^'*^--^'-'''' ''' u capacity, barking, as the Bishop describes, at Catholics outsi Jt 'it the Court Mouse, and biting them with Hyena tooth within. However anti-up river and shocking this may be to thc/f^efineiJ. taste, the love of fair play, and the uprejudiced mind of Mr. Smith lieed, until I hear from him again, I shall continue U: look on the Sishop's allusion to the '* two-faced Cerberus" a^ [)urcly classical and. philologically correct, and in my opinioii one of the 'happiest hits of the whole letter. With Horace I too believe that a man cannot express him- self mote beautifully than when by, " A dcstrou!! combinatioft, * , He gives the grace of norelty To a well known word." I have the honour to be, Sir, • ONE WHO IS NOTA'iiT Nii- / t ■ • 4 ■ ■ 1 ■i« .. -4 ' ' ^iip '% . ^m - ' ' ^4 * %A m •Ji**S mgiii s .Si msm H^R ^ ff -^ • » w |;;-^ P • »v , ',"■■•■ \ 1f%\ *%, \ m^ ♦ * M