THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES _ 1 t* . Twentieth Thousand. GLADSTONE IRELAND ROME A WORD OF WARNING TO ELECTORS. Reprinted, with considerable Addition, from 'The Enylisli Churchman.' Price 6d. LO.N 1)0 N: miOTHKRS, SIDNKV lluAK !"( i K !;.>! ' THE PRO-RO OF MR GLADSTONE. THE INDICTMENT. WHEN, in 1870, Mr Gladstone was asked if he was I a Roman Catholic, he appealed to " his acts as con- futing such imputation, alike foolish and insulting." The appeal was both reasonable and fair, for by a man's continuous course of action the bent of his 9 5 mind may be infallibly deduced. " By their fruits ye shall know them." To enable, therefore, the people of this country to try Mr Gladstone by the test he has himself selected, many of " his acts," * and of those of the Government which he has so closely directed, have been collected, and recorded seriatim in the * We wish to express our indebtedness for the record of several of these "acts" to Lord R. Montagu's valuable work entitled Recent Events, also to the English Churchman, a weekly Protestant journal, which we cannot too strongly recom- mend to our readers, and to the publications of the Protestant Alliance. We also are indebted to Mr Mark Knowles of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, for kind assistance in the re- vision of the work. H The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. pages which follow. They cover a period of more than fifty years, from 1838 to 1891, and we unhesitatingly affirm that a careful perusal of these " acts " will lead the reader to a conclusion adverse to Mr Gladstone's Protestantism. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone holds pro-Romish views on various points of doctrine and of ritual ; that he has spoken of the Romish System in eulogistic terms, and has asserted that " its ministry and worship " at the Reformation were replaced by " novel substitutes " ; that he has described the Protestant Church of Ireland as "a tall tree of noxious growth, which poisoned the land," and the Protestant Presbyterian Church of Scotland as "a narrow system of human and secondary origin." It will be seen that Mr Gladstone's connection with the Pope, the foe to civil and religious liberty, has been for very many years intimate and confidential, the two appearing to perfectly understand one another, and to be playing into each other's hands. And further, that Mr Gladstone has been on intimate terms with the Pope's emissary, Cardinal Manning, appointing him on one occasion a member of a Royal Commission, placing his name next to the Prince of Wales', and giving this Roman priest rank of precedency over the peers of the realm. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone has sympathised with those clergy (unfaithful to their vows) who are The Indictment. Ill Romanizing the Church of England ; * has advised at least two of them, when prosecuted for heresy ; has promoted some to high offices, and others to valuable preferments ; has included amongst such promotions members of the society that put forth that indecent book, condemned by Convocation, the " Priest in Absolu- tion " ; has assisted them in their pro-Romish efforts, not only out of his private but also out of the public purse ; has striven to the utmost to defeat measures introduced into Parliament for the purpose of checking the Romish doctrine they teach and the illegal ritual they practise, and has warmly approved of one of their Romanizing societies. It will be seen that as Prime Minister he appointed Roman Catholics to the highest and most confidential, as well as to other offices in the State, although he had admitted that in case of any conflict between the Queen and the Pope, his nominees would follow the Pope, and * To what is recorded on page 49 we would here add that the Church Times of April 27, 1876, admits Mr Bennett escaped conviction on the question of the " Real Presence " through Mr Gladstone's action. Here are the words : "... the decision in Shepherd v. Bennett was due rather to Mr Gladstone's precautions, against packing the Privy Council, than to its own merits, or to Mr Bennett's innocence of heresy. As it was, it got through only by the skin of its teeth, against the fierce struggles of the heterodox Episcopal Assessors." In Bishop Wilberforce's Life (Vol. II., pp. 323-4) there arc interesting details of the Gladstonian wire-pulling connected with the parallel case of Archdeacon Denison. IV The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. let the Queen shift for herself. By these appointments the impetus given to Popery cannot be over-estimated or exaggerated. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone disendowed the loyal Protestant Church of Ireland, and out of her spoils augmented the endowments of that seminary of sedition, the Jesuit College of Maynooth ; and also, when in power, permitted the disendowment of Protestant and the endowment of Koman Catholic Churches in certain of our colonies. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone has repealed almost all the Statutes passed by our Protestant fore- fathers as safeguards against the encroachments of Rome, and passed, or attempted to pass, Act after Act in favour of Papal aggression ; and further, that whilst, on the one hand, he has uniformly opposed all Protestant measures introduced into Parliament such, for example, as the inspection of those ecclesiastical Bastiles, R. C. Convents r he has, on the other hand, supported Roman Catholic Members when bringing in Bills tend- ing to undermine our Protestant Constitution even to the extent of giving the Pope co-ordinate power in England with the Sovereign of the realm. It will be seen that at the instigation of Rome, which loves darkness rather than light, Mr Gladstone prohibited, under severe penalties, in his proposed Irish University Bill, the teaching of modern history and The Indictment. V " moral and mental philosophy, and handed the proposed University over to the supreme guidance and control of the Romish Bishops. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone's Government forced the Papal nominee on an unwilling Roman Catholic congregation at Gibraltar ; and also so inter- fered with the Italian Government on behalf of the Papacy, as regards the Pope's residence, monasteries, Jesuits, etc., that strong remonstrances were made in Italy. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone's Government brought, or permitted to be brought into Parliament, Bills in the interest of Rome, very late in the Session, when the House was empty, in order to ensure their being passed, and to "prevent the Protestant public having time to send up petitions " against them. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone's Government shielded Roman Catholic lawbreakers, and opposed inquiry into their conduct, and saved them from the penalties they had incurred. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone's Government, by force, or by threatening heavy fines, prevented Protestant lectures being delivered, yet at the very same period allowed lectures to be given by Romish Monks. Also that his Government released, after a few weeks' imprisonment, the Popish murderers of a Pro- testant lecturer, but enforced the full term of a very "VI The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. questionable sentence of imprisonment passed on another Protestant lecturer for exposing the iniquity of the Romish confessional. It will be seen that Mr Gladstone's Government relaxed the usual rules of gaols in favour of Popish Fenians, "steeped in crime," turned their prison into a social club, supplied them with every comfort, released them before their sentences had expired, and, as if this was not enough, actually permitted some of these ruffians, on their release, to select their own travelling and winter outfit, gave them each 5 as pocket money, selected for them saloon berths on board the Cunard steamer Russia, and paid their travelling expenses to America all at the public cost! (Rock, Jan. 20, 1871, quoting from Pall Mall Gazette.) Yet, the same year, refused assist- ance to Protestant labourers, discharged from Woolwich, who desired to emigrate. It will be seen how Mr Gladstone made secret pro- Romish bargains with Irish Members of Parliament, gave them pledges, and counselled them in their efforts to resist H. M. Government. Also, how he has linked him- self with Irish Papists whom he once admitted were steeped in treason, has "worked shoulder to shoulder with the (R. C.) paid agents of a foreign conspiracy" directed against our Queen and Country, has literally, at the head of Irish Members, marched out of the House of Commons amid cries of "Down with the The Indictment. Speaker ! " and " We will fight to the death 1 " has called one Irish M.P. " distinguished " who took the lead in the executive committee of the Land League, and expressed " respect " for another who advised a country- man to mutilate his landlord's cattle. Also, how hi& public utterances have tended to give encouragement to the dynamiters in their nefarious trade. It will be seen how Mr Gladstone's pro-Eomish tendencies have been more or less strongly commented upon by Liberal and Radical papers, such as the Daily News, the Morning Advertiser, the Northern Whig, the Pall Mall Gazette, the Presbyterian, the Scotsman; also by such eminent Liberals as Aytoun, Auberon Herbert, Chichester Fortescue, Fawcett, Froude, Goldwin Smith, Lord Grey, Horsman, Kinnaird, Tyndall, W. Vernon Harcourt, and by the Reverends C. H. Spurgeon, Donald Fraser, and Dr Parker of the City Temple. Mr Gladstone appealed to "his acts" as refuting the imputation of his being a Roman Catholic ; but these acts, when investigated, instead of refuting the charge, prove to demonstration that he is either a Romanist or in league with Romanists. Indeed, we may well inquire what more could any one man in Mr Gladstone's position have pos- sibly done than he has done, for the last fifty years, to advance, in every conceivable way continuously, VIII The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. systematically, secretly, openly the interests of the Papacy in the British Empire, from India in the East to Trinidad in the West. As to Ireland, for twelve years, whilst Prime Minister, Mr Gladstone has legislated for that island, 41 cutting down the deadly Upas tree of Protestant ascendancy." Having effected his purpose, and left Ire- land more rebellious and exacting than ever, he further proposes to COERCE and hand over the Protestant minority reduced, weakened, harassed, but still loyal to the tender mercies of disloyal priests, of dynamiters, of assassins, and also of men who, as Mr Gladstone once admitted, were "steeped to their lips in treason," but who are now his confidants, friends, and allies. At the time of the disestablishment of the Pro- testant Church of Ireland, one of England's truest patriots, the late Mr Roebuck, Liberal M.P. for Sheffield, prophetically said : "There is no hiding the fact that the priesthood of Ireland are the favourers of the of Fenians Ireland ; and I would say to Englishmen, and those who support the English Government, ' BE FIRM AGAINST IRISHMEN,' give them justice ; do them no wrong, but do not do as is now too much done, DO NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM." " It may be that Mr Gladstone, the Prime Minister of this country, may not be inclined to (R) Catholicism. I do not say nay or yea as to that, but / do say this, that if he were inclined to Catholicism, he would do exactly the thing he is now doing." " I would say to the people of England, ' Stand you steadfast The Indictment. IX in your forefathers' steps. Keep firm as Englishmen. Do justice to Irishmen, but do them no more.' Do them no wrong, but do not do as is now too much done, DO NOT BOW DOWN TO THEM." " Do not let the Catholic power in Ireland be supreme over the Protestant power of this country. Recollect this, the Roman Catholic Priest is never satisfied unless he is dominant. . . . Never was there a time when that ought to be more strongly- urged than now. FOR WE HAVE A PRIME MINISTER [Mr Gladstone] WHO is CARRIED AWAY BY HIS PASSION AND HIS FEELINGS." " Mark you, the time may come when his feelings may be entirely on the side, of the Catholic. You have the poiver in your ou-n hand. You are the Electors. THE TIME MAY COME WHEN YOU MAY TURN AGAINST MR GLADSTONE AND SAY, 'WE INTEND STILL TO BE PROTESTANT.' " (Speech at Sheffield, March 1869.) Twenty years later on, another equally gifted English Liberal, the late Right Hon. John Bright, Member for Birmingham, thus closed a long letter to Mr T. G. Graham of Hands worth, on January 9th, 1888 : " THE UNIONIST SECTION of the once honoured and power- ful Liberal Party HAS SAVED THE NATION from a great peril, and it has saved the Sovereign of Three Kingdoms and of a wide Empire FROM THE TERRIBLE INDIGNITY TO WHICH THE PASSION OF A STATESMAN (MR GLADSTONE), aged and most eminent, and the credulity of a rash and unthinking Party, WOULD HAVE SUBJECTED HER. " Let us, then, be content with what we have done. THE FUTURE WILL NOT FAIL US IF WE REMAIN FIRM AND TRUE TO OUR PRINCIPLES AND TO OUR FAITH." SYNOPSIS OF 1R GLADSTONE'S PRO-ROMISH ACTS. Mr Gladstone asked by the Birmingham Protestant Association whether he was, or was not, a Koman Catholic, 1. Mr Gladstone replies to this question by referring to his Acts, 1. Mr Gladstone's Pro-Romish Acts, since 1838, put in review, 1-149. 1838. Mr Gladstone affirms that the Reformation did not re- form but replaced by novel substitutes pre-Reformation Worship, 1. Mr Gladstone denies that the Puritans took Scriptural ground, 1, 2. Even Bishop Wordsworth held that the principles of Mr Gladstone's " Church and State " are identical with Romanism, 2. 1844. Mr Ward in his book " The Ideal of a Christian Church Synopsis. 1845 48. Considered," speaks of the " Sinfulness of the Reformation," and denounces it as a "miserable event," declaring that he did not renounce any Romish doc- trine in subscribing to the Thirty-nine Articles, 2. < ... Mr Gladstone votes against the condemnation of Mr Ward's Book, in the Oxford Convoca- tion, 2. Mr Gladstone further votes against Mr Ward being de- graded, 2. 1845. Mr Gladstone supports the grant to Maynooth, 3. Mr Gladstone . contemplates the endowment of the: Romish Clergy, 3. Mr Gladstone approves of diplomatic relations with. Rome, 3 Mr Gladstone writes ambiguously on the Succession from St Patrick claimed by the Roman Bishops, 3. 1847. Mr Gladstone threatens to resign office if Dr Wynter, who condemned Pusey's Sermon in favour of the Mass, be made Bishop, 3. 1848. Mr Gladstone again favours diplomatic relations with. Rome, 4 185154.] Synopsis. XTH Mr Gladstone approves of the help of the Pope in the interests of peace in Ireland, 4. 1851. Mr Gladstone approves of the Resolutions by the Pro- testers in the " Gorham Case," 4. Mr Gladstone holds the dogma of Baptismal Regener- ation, 4. Mr Gladstone supports the re-erection of the Papal Hier- archy, 4, 5. Mr Gladstone resists the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 6. 1852. Mr Gladstone thanked by Mr Sadleir, Roman Catholic, for his counsel in resisting the Govern- ment, 5, 6. 1854. Mr Gladstone gives advice to Archdeacon Denison upon the defence of his views, about the " Real Presence," 6. Mr Gladstone resists inquiry into Romish Convents and Monasteries, 6. Mr Drummond asserts and proves that nunneries are either prisons or immoral institutions, 6, 7. Mr Gladstone declares that certain oaths for protecting the country against Romish conspiracies are " worthless," 7. XTV Synopsis. [185865. 1858. Mr Gladstone, when High Commissioner to the Ionian Islands, assists at Mass, 7. Mr Gladstone kisses the crosses, 7. IKIr Gladstone adores the image of the Redeemer, 8. Mr Gladstone denies his Komish doings, 8. Mr Gladstone charged in consequence by Count Dus- moni with " audacious mendacity," 8. Mr Gladstone takes no notice of Count Dusmoni's charges, 8. 1861. Mr Gladstone votes against a Motion for the considera- tion of the Acts endowing Maynooth, 9. 1863. Mr Gladstone votes for the appointment of Romish Chap- lains in Prisons, 9. Mr Gladstone again votes against the consideration of Acts endowing Maynooth, 9. Mr Gladstone resolves upon the Disestablishment of the Irish Protestant Church, 9. 1864. Mr Gladstone for the third time votes for Romish Chap- lains in Prisons, 10. 1865. Mr Gladstone votes against inquiry into the serious irre- gularities at English Convents, including 1866.] Synopsis. XV amongst other things, secret burial grounds, and falsified names on tombstones, 10. Mr Gladstone votes for the Koman Catholic Oaths Bill, 10. Mr Gladstone supports the establishment of a Roman Catholic University in Ireland, 10. Mr Gladstone attempts to make large concessions to the Papal party on Education, but is frus- trated by the House of Commons, 11. 1866. Mr Gladstone proposes to remove from the Parliamen- tary Oath several of the most important provisions in favour of Protestantism, 11. Mr Gladstone introduces these proposals after a secret understanding with the Romish party, the nature of which Mr Dillon had just pre- viously announced, 12. Mr Gladstone is defeated in his attempt to sweep away the Protestant Succession, 12. Mr Gladstone's secret arrangements with the Romish party are announced by Mr Dillon, 12. Mr Gladstone's Government concedes certain claims of the Irish Nationalists, 12. Mr Gladstone has a private audience with the Pope, 12, 13. Mr Gladstone endeavours to obtain from Her Majesty a Charter of Incorporation for a Papal XVI Synopsis. [1867. College in Dublin, and to secure for it a Parliamentary grant, 13. Mr Gladstone is evasive in his efforts to secure the Charter, 13. IVIr Gladstone's Charter is pronounced illegal by the Law Courts, 13. 1867. Mr Gladstone supports a Romish Bill giving the Pope co-ordinate power in England with the Sovereign, 14. Mr Colquhoun's estimate and exposure of Mr Gladstone's conduct at this time, 14. Mr Gladstone is ready to surrender to Cardinal Manning the highest prerogatives of the British Sovereign, 14 (note). Mr Gladstone supports Mr Gray's Motion against the Irish Protestant Church, 14. Mr Gladstone holds private interviews on the Irish Ques- tion with Sir James Gray, who had been imprisoned for treason, and who was the representative of the Irish party, 15. Mr Gladstone complains that the endowments of the Irish Protestant Church belong to the Church of a minority, 15. Mr Gladstone pleads that "principles of religion must be established in Ireland," and that the " modes of giving effect to this should be 1868.] Synopsis. XVTZ dictated by the general sense of the Irish people," 16. Mr Gladstone predicts the success of this policy as the " great consummation," 16. 1868. Mr Gladstone submits to the House of Commons several Resolutions against the Irish Church, but omits all reference to Maynooth, 16. Mr Gladstone votes against the Motion of Mr Aytoun, a Scottish Liberal, that, with the Disestab- lishment of the Irish Church, the Maynooth grant be discontinued, and no public funds be used in furtherance of the Papal religion in Ireland, 17. Mr Gladstone and his supporters throw out Mr Aytoun's Motion, 17. Mr Gladstone's policy opposed by Mr Spurgeon and English Dissenters, 17. Mr Gladstone votes against Mr Aytoun's Motion that Maynooth be dealt with in the same manner as the Irish Church, 17. Mr Gladstone negotiates with Dr Cullen, 18. Mr Gladstone compares Romish demands in Ireland to wolves' thirst for blood, 18. Mr Gladstone refuses to attempt the reform of the Irish Church, 18. Mr Gladstone contradicts himself by saying that the Synopsis. [1868. "same rule of equity" must be applied alike to the Irish Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches, 18. Mr Gladstone refuses to pledge himself regarding the exercise of the " law of equity," then pledges himself verbally at Liverpool, and then breaks his pledge, 18, 19. Mr Gladstone asserts that Protestantism is decaying in Ireland, 19. Mr Gladstone's assertion disproved by Mr Fair in his census returns, and Romanism shown to be decreasing, 19. Mr Gladstone on intimate terms with Cardinal Manning for thirty-eight years, 19, 20. Cardinal Manning testifies to Mr Gladstone's integ- rity, 20. Mr Gladstone declares that he and his supporters are banded against " Protestant Ascendancy " in Ireland, and hurls against it a flaming indictment, 20. Mr Gladstone's statements and policy opposed by Mr J. A. Froude, 21. Mr Gladstone declares his abandonment of the defence of the Irish Church, and his recognition of the validity of the claim of the Romish Church to grants for the education of priests, 21. Mr Gladstone's policy in Ireland regarded by Cardinal 1869.] Synopsis. XIX Manning as offering fitting occasion for the " resuscitation of Catholicism," 21. Mr Gladstone states, in reply to Kev. W. Jubb, that he is bound to wind up the MaynoOth grant and Regium Donum with the Disestablish- ment of the Irish Church, 22. Mr Gladstone's statement deceptive, 22. Mr Gladstone ridicules the idea that Eoman Catholics seek ascendancy, 22. Mr Gladstone announces his determination to efface Pro- testant ascendancy, 22. Mr Gladstone's notion about Papal ascendancy not sus- tained by the Pope's declaration, 22. Mr Gladstone's policy excites and foments discord in Ireland, 22, 23. 1869. Mr Gladstone opposes the appointment of a Select Com- mittee for an Inquiry into Roman Catholic Registration of Burials in Convents, 23. Mr Gladstone introduces his Bill for the Disestablishment of the Irish Protestant Church, 23. Mr Gladstone acknowledges that there is not a loud de- mand in Ireland for his measure, 23. Mr Gladstone votes for the discharge of an order in Par- . liament for letters regarding the attempt of a Romish Fenian to assassinate the Duke of Edinburgh, 24. Synopsis. [1869. Mr Gladstone's Government suppresses the efforts of Mr Murphy at Tynemouth as a Protestant lecturer, 24, 25. Mr Gladstone's Government, for the above purpose, re- vives an obsolete law passed against re- volutionaries, 24, 25. Mr Gladstone's Government proclaims fines of 20 against all who attend Mr Murphy's Lect- ures, and of 100 against the Lecturer, 25. Mr Gladstone and Cardinal Manning are charged as parties in this oppression, 25. Mr Gladstone's Government allows two monks to lect- ure in Tynemouth on same day on which the proclamation is posted against Mr Murphy, 25. Mr Gladstone's Government grants protection to a priest while refusing it to Mr Murphy, 25. Mr Gladstone disestablishes Irish Protestant Church, 25. Mr Gladstone grants special endowment, land, and other privileges to Maynooth, 26. Mr Gladstone, in granting above, violates his own dis- tinct pledges, frequently given, 26. Mr Gladstone's policy regarding Maynooth, resisted by Mr Disraeli and his party, 26, 27. Mr Gladstone's grants are not compensation but endow- ment, 27. Mr Gladstone's Bill violated since by grants for Romish 187O.J Synopsis. purposes, out of funds from the Disestab- lished Protestant Church, 27. Mr Gladstone's Government prohibits Protestant Lect- ures at Portsea, 27. Mr Gladstone's Government's action denounced by Kev. G. Reynolds, a Baptist Minister, 27. Mr Gladstone's Government supports the Mayor of Bir- mingham in illegally arresting Mr Murphy when entering a Hall in Birmingham to speak against the .Disestablishment of the Irish Protestant Church, 27, 28. The Mayor of Birmingham subsequently fined 50 for his illegal conduct, 28. Mr Gladstone votes for certain powers for the Poor Law Board favourable to Romish Schools, 28. Mr Gladstone's Government successfully opposes a Motion by Mr Newdegate against interference with the rights of free speech, 28, 29. Mr Gladstone's Government, while admitting a doubt about the legality of some endowments by Romanists, resists a Motion for a return of deeds enrolled in connection with Papal Charities, 29. 1870. Mr Gladstone again votes against a Motion for Inquiry into Convents and Monasteries, 29. Cloistered Convents living tombs, 30. Synopsis. [187O. Mr Murphy prevented lecturing at Greenwich by police from Scotland Yard, 30. IVIr Gladstone's Government charged by the Kev. Mr Davis, Baptist Minister of Greenwich, with stifling free discussion on Protest- ant questions, 30, 31. Mr Gladstone's Pro-Romish conduct exposed by the Mem- ber of Parliament for the Kirkcaldy Burghs, 31, 32. Mr Gladstone induces the Commons to recall the Motion for Inquiry into Convents and Monas- teries, 32. Mr Gladstone in sympathy with those who doubt the propriety of the prohibition on Convents in the Emancipation Act, 32, 33. Mr Gladstone's Government refuses to interfere with Romish Lotteries, 33. Mr Gladstone's Government revokes the exclusion of Romish priests and Jesuits from the Government Council of Malta, 33. Mr Gladstone introduces the Irish Glebe Loan Bill favourable to Papal Church in Ire- land, 34. Mr Gladstone's Government despatches H. M.S. Defence, a man-of-war, to Civita Vecchia to await the Pope's wishes, 34. Mr Gladstone's Government liberates several noted 1871.] Synopsis. Fenians who had been condemned to long terms of imprisonment, 34, 35. The Fenian Oath, an extract read in the Commons, 35 (note). Mr Gladstone's Government gives money to the re- leased Fenians, and pays their fares to America, 36. Mr Gladstone writes Mr Dease, M.P., that his Govern- ment has taken all necessary steps to provide for the protection of the Pope, 36. Mr Gladstone's procedure severely censured by Mr Kin- naird and the Daily News, 36, 37. Mr Gladstone receives a letter from the Pope thank- ing him for his " eminent services " to the " holy religion," 37. Strange references to a Papal Brief of 1870, 38. Mr Gladstone appoints Mr Monsell, a Roman Catholic pervert, as Postmaster-General, 38. Mr Gladstone passes Acts favourable to the Papacy in the Colonies, 38, 39. 1871. Mr Mackay imprisoned for selling the " Confessional Unmasked," and Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment declines to order inquiry into the case, 39. Mr Gladstone's Government favours Fenians, but ignores the case of Mackay, 39, 40. Synopsis. 1871. Mr Gladstone's policy approved at a Roman Catholic Re- union meeting in Birmingham, 40. Mr Gladstone 'votes against a Motion that his letter on his Government's offers to the Pope be laid before the House, 41. Mr Gladstone again votes against a Motion for Inquiry into Convents and Monasteries, 41. Mr Gladstone charged with accepting a co-trusteeship with a Cardinal for the application of vast funds for the spread of Popery in England, 41. Mr Gladstone's attempt to neutralise the effect of this position, 41, 42. Mr Gladstone's " shuffling " and dangerous influence alluded to by Mr Charley, M.P., 42. Mr Gladstone's Government shortens the sentence of imprisonment on the Popish mur- derers of Mr Murphy a murder of a deliberate and most brutal descrip- tion, 43. Mr Gladstone's Government denounced by the London Press, 43, 44. Mr Gladstone describes the Church of Rome as the " wise Communion of the Latin Church," and expresses an inclination to Ritual- ism, 44. Mr Gladstone votes against the application universally 1871.] Synopsis. XXV of the Lottery Acts, his object being to shield Roman Catholic Lotteries, 44. Mr Gladstone's Government violates, in favour of Popery, "religious equality " in Trinidad, 44, 45. Mr Gladstone repeals the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, there- by conferring special advantages upon the Romish Church, 45. Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary advocates the Religious Disabilities Abolition Bill, brought in by Romish Members, by which various high offices of State would be opened to Roman Catholics, and the presence of the Jesuits, and other Romish religious orders, legal- ised, 45, 46. Mr Gladstone's Government introduces the Prison Minis- ters' Bill, enforcing the appointment of Popish priests as chaplains, and which would have entailed an annual expenditure in favour of Romanism of 40,000, 46. Mr Gladstone opposes Mr Fawcett's Irish Bill in favour of religious equality in education, 46. Mr Gladstone's Ultramontane policy ridiculed by Sir William Vernon Harcourt, 46. Mr Gladstone's self-contradictory policy exposed by the Free Church organ, 46, 47. Mr Gladstone's Government passes adroitly a Bill re- moving safeguards against the accumula- Synopsis. [1872. tion of property in Scotland for super- stitious purposes, 47, 48. Mr Gladstone's Government interferes with the Italian Government on behalf of Papal property, etc., 48. 1872. Mr Murphy's funeral broken up and the widow and the mourners insulted by Koman Catholics, 48,49. Mr Gladstone appoints a High Churchman, Mr Bernard, a Member of the Privy Council, 49. Mr Gladstone makes this appointment on the eve of the judgment in the High Church Bennett Case, 49, 50. Mr Gladstone pleads for the continuance of the non- enforcement of legal provisions against the Jesuits, 50. Mr Gladstone acts illegally and deceptively in the ap- pointment of Mr Jervoise as Agent to the Pope, 50. Mr Gladstone enforces a Papal Rescript against Priest O'Keefe, condemned by Cardinal Cullen without trial, 50, 51. The Romish Lord Chancellor of Ireland pleads that the Papal Rescript has validity within Britain, 51. Mr Gladstone's Government interferes with the course of 1873.] Synopsis. XXVH the law against a Romish priest accused of smuggling, 51, 52. 1873. The Pall Mall Gazette explains the dislike of Mr Glad- stone, 52. Mr Gladstone introduces the Irish University Education Bill, making grave concessions to the Eomish party, 52, 53. Mr Gladstone's Bill condemned by the Daily News, Mr Fortescue, Mr Fawcett, Mr Horsmau, and The Times, 53, 54, 55. Mr Gladstone's Bill declared despotic, cruel, gagging, and a complete surrender to those whose principles are opposed to constitutional freedom, 53, 54, 55. Mr Gladstone in constant communication with Cardinal Manning during Debate on the Second Reading, 55. Cardinal Manning advises Mr Gladstone how to remove suspicion of his Romish tendencies, 55. The Rev. S. Baring-Gould receives a grant from Mr Gladstone for literary work which der nounces the Reformation and enforces Papal dogmas, 55, 56. Mr Gladstone's Government blamed by the Italian press because its representatives in Italy favour the Pa,pal Court, 56. XXVIII Synopsis. [1874. Mr Gladstone believed by the Father Provincial of the Jesuits in England to be in favour of Home Rule, 56. Mr Gladstone opposes a Bill for Inspection of Convents and Monasteries, 56, 57. In the years 1869 till 1873, Mr Gladstone reduces grants to Protestant Denominations, but increases grants to the Romish Church, and originates new Romish Endow- ments, 57. 1874. Mr Gladstone, in conversation with Cardinal Manning, maintains Denominationalism in the Pub- lic Schools, 57. Mr Gladstone opposes Mr D'Israeli's Public Worship Regulation Act against Romish practices in the Church of England, 57, 58. Sir W. V. Harcourt characterises Mr Gladstone's Re- solutions against the Bill as giving free licence to Romish innovations, 58. Sir W. V. Harcourt severely rebukes Mr Gladstone for quoting from a Roman Canonist against British Legislation, 58. Sir W. V. Harcourt's inconsistency, 58 (note). Mr Gladstone's attitude condemned by The Times and Pall Hall Gazette, 59. Mr Gladstone's opposition secures the insertion of the 187579.] Synopsis. provision of the Episcopal Veto, which protects the Ritualistic law-breakers, 59. Mr Gladstone writes the " Vatican Decrees," 59. Mr Gladstone appears as a Protestant for the purpose, according to Cardinal Manning, of avert- ing the charges against him of Romish tendencies, 59. Mr Gladstone describes the Jesuits as foes of liberty, while he has been removing Roman Catholic disabilities, 59, 60. Mr Gladstone's duplicity rebuked by Sir G. Bowyer, a Romish Member of Parliament, 60. Mr Gladstone worships at the Ritualistic Church of All Saints, Margaret Street, 60. 1875. Mr Gladstone writes ambiguously on the Real Presence, the Mass, Vestments, and Altars, 61. 1876. Mr Gladstone writes in highly eulogistic terms of the Ultramontane System, 61, 62. 1877. Mr Gladstone writes in support of a " Sacramental " Christianity, and as well pleased that so many adopt the Romish Faith, 62. 1879. Mr Gladstone's Pro-Popish Schemes hastened by Fenian outrages, 62, 63. XXX Synopsis. [1874 8O. Mr Gladstone's policy encourages Mr Biggar, M.P., to incite to crime, 63. Mr Gladstone admitsthat the Fenian organisation brought about Disestablishment in Ireland, 63. Mr Gladstone's proposed candidature for Midlothian re- sisted by Sir John Don Wauchope, Bart.* on Protestant grounds, 63, 64. Mr Gladstone assigns the agitation for Irish Church Dis- establishment to the Clerkenwell Explo- sion, 64, 65- Mr Gladstone's policy of Disestablishment described by Bishop Wilberforce as a premium on assas- sination, and by Mr Froude as " capitulat- ing before rebellion and murder," 65. 1874-188O. Mr Gladstone and his party in the opposition, 65. Mr Gladstone's absence from power deplored by a Papal paper, which states that Lord Beaconsfield, had not appointed one Roman Catholic to any of the higher offices under the Crown, 66. 1880. On Mr Bradlaugh claiming admission to the House, Mr Gladstone prides himself that the Theistic ground will go with the Protestant, 66. Mr Gladstone speaks casuistically regarding the conceal- ment of one's acts, 66, 67. 188O.] Synopsis. Mr Gladstone appoints Lord Ripon, a Romish pervert, to the Viceroyalty of India, 68. Mr Gladstone appoints a Papist as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 68. Mr Gladstone appoints a Papist as Lord Chamberlain, 68. Mr Gladstone appoints a Papist first President of the Land Court, 68. Mr Gladstone's Papal Appointments opposed to his own published opinions, 68. Mr Gladstone's appointment of Lord Bipon as Viceroy condemned by Mr Spurgeon, 68, 69. Mr Gladstone's appointment of Lord Kipon as Viceroy condemned by Dr Parker, 69. Mr Gladstone's Papal Lord Chancellor passes an Act to favour the Romish classes, 69. Mr Gladstone makes a Grant for ecclesiastical pur- poses to Dr Mossman, an Ultra-Ritualist, member of Romanising Societies, be- liever in the Immaculate Conception, and received into the Church of Rome, 69, 70. Mr Gladstone's speech in Scotland incites to dynamite, 70. Mr Gladstone denounces Bulgarian atrocities, but not Irish, 70. The Standard and Tlie Morni'ng Advertiser on Mr Gladstone's conduct in procuring a pen- sion for a Roman Catholic lady, widow of XXXII Synopsis. [1881. a Romanising Church of England clergy- man, 71. 1881. Mr Gladstone's Government alters the Criminal Code by granting exceptional privileges to Popish law-breakers, 71. Mr Gladstone's Indian Viceroy declares himself a member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, 72. Lord Ripon's influence in India helpful to Popery, 73. Lord Ripon's appointment and influence dangerous to the Throne, 73. Mr Gladstone asserted to be ready publicly to join the Church of Rome, 73, 74. Mr Gladstone disappoints Cardinal Wiseman, who is waiting to receive him, 74. Mr Gladstone denounced by Mr Kenny, a priest, as a hypocrite for this conduct, 74. Mr Gladstone's conduct made public in Express and Times, 74. Mr Gladstone denies the alleged facts four years after- wards, 74. Mr Gladstone's action certified by Priest Kenny and Bishop Coffin, 74. Mr Gladstone's appointment of Lord Ripon a proof of Papal progress in England, 74. Mr Gladstone's Ministry the hope of the Papal party, 74,75. 1882.] Synopsis. XXXIH Mr Gladstone's Government compels the teaching of the Romish religion in Malta, 75. This Governmental action warmly commended by Papal organs, 75. Mr Gladstone's Romish Viceroy prevents Protestant open- air preaching at Calcutta, 75. Mr Gladstone's Romish Viceroy appoints Mr Harrison, a Romanist, to double office at Calcutta, 75. Mr Gladstone eulogises Mr Dillon, an Irish Papist, who had been advising mutilation of cattle, 76. Mr Gladstone's Government implicated in permitting Davitt, while a convict in Portland, to sign the Kilmainham manifesto, 76. Mr Gladstone declares that Mr Parnell was prominent in the attempt to destroy the authority of the law, 76. Mr Gladstone condemned by Mr Parnell, 77. Mr Gladstone now supports the Parnell movement, 77. Mr Gladstone sends Mr Errington to Rome, 77. Mr Gladstone asserts that the Government had not sent a Mission to Rome, 77. Mr Gladstone's Government declared by Dr Vaughan, the Romish Bishop of Salford, to have sent Mr Errington for purpose of com- munication with the Vatican, 77. 1882. Mr Gladstone's Government hands over Church and XXXI V Synopsis. [1882. temporalities at Gibraltar to a Romish body, in the interests of the Roman Catholic Church, 78. Mr Gladstone's Government sustains by force the Papal appointment of Dr Canilla, a Romish Bishop, to the Cathedral at Gibraltar, 78. Mr Gladstone admits that Mr Errington is a Govern- mental agent at the Vatican, 79. Mr Gladstone's equivocal explanations ridiculed by the Saturday Review, 79. Mr Gladstone's appointment of Mr Errington condemned by the Wesleyan Conference, 80. Mr Gladstone releases Mr Parnell and other prisoners, 80. Mr Gladstone releases these prisoners when outrages are on the increase, 81. Mr Gladstone releases these prisoners against the opin- ions of the highest officers of the Crown in Ireland, 81. Mr Gladstone releases these prisoners on "mysterious information " which is repudiated by the Irish Members of Parliament, 81. Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke assassinated, 81. Mr Gladstone releases Michael Davitt, the Fenian, from Portland Prison, 82. Mr Gladstone asserted to have had a private interview with Davitt, 82. 1883.] Synopsis. Mr Gladstone held guilty, by Mr Burke, of Irish dis- content and troubles, 83. Mr Gladstone forces, through the Commons, the Arrears Bill, which mulcts Protestants, to aid Eomish agitators, 83. Mr Gladstone's surrender to Irish demands deplored by an extreme Radical, 83. Mr Gladstone the tool of the Jesuits, 83. Mr Gladstone's Romish Viceroy gives four appointments in India to Romanists, 83. Mr Gladstone has new measures in view fatal to the Protestant Constitution, 84. Mr Gladstone gives three of the highest judicial offices to Papists, 84. Mr Gladstone makes one of these a Law Lord in the House of Lords, 84. Mr Gladstone's Government in constant consultation with the Pope on vital questions of British policy, 85. 1883. Mr Gladstone's Romish Viceroy's interference with re- ligious liberty in India condemned by Kessub Chunder Sen and an Assembly of four thousand Hindoos, 85. Mr Gladstone, according to the Dublin Daily Express, responsible for additional outrages, 85. Mr Gladstone, according to the Dublin Daily Express, XXXVI Synopsis. [1883. the prime fosterer of Irish revolution and Nihilism, 86. Mr Gladstone's Government applauded by the Tablet for its Romish appointments, and its disre- gard of "Protestant prejudice," 86. Mr Gladstone's Pro-Papal policy lauded by the Tablet as superior to that of Roman Catholic Continental Countries, 86. Mr Gladstone's Government makes serious concessions to the Romish Hierarchy on the question of Irish Education, 87. Mr Gladstone's concessions resisted by Irish Presby- terians, 87. Mr Gladstone continues freedom to the Land League by dropping the Irish Constabulary Bill, 87. Mr Gladstone passes the Registration of Voters' Bill, strengthening the Irish Nationalists, 87. Mr Gladstone's Romish Viceroy pronounced by Tlie Times incompetent for office, 87, 88. Mr Gladstone refuses to condemn the use of altar lights in the daytime, 88. Mr Gladstone helps his son at Hawarden at Services which violate the law, 88. Mr Gladstone's son a member of Romanising Societies in the Church of England, 88. Mr Gladstone's son trained by the Romaniser Canon King, 88. 188485.] Synopsis. XXXVII Mr Gladstone promotes Canon King to a Bishopric, 89. 1884. Mr Gladstone's Government disendows a French Pro- testant Church in London, 89. Mr Gladstone appoints Cardinal Manning on a Royal Commission, 89. Mr Gladstone places the name of the Cardinal next to the Prince of Wales, and above the Peers of the Realm, 89. Mr Gladstone violates the law by this procedure, 89. Mr Gladstone regarded by Pope Leo XIII. as anxious to redress all the grievances of Ireland, 90. Mr Gladstone appoints the Land League Solicitor, Mr G. Fottrel, junior, to be Clerk to the. Crown, 90. Mr Gladstone commends warmly the notorious Ritualist the Rev. J. L. Lyne, 90. 1885. Under Mr Gladstone's premiership, the Irish Educa- tion Commissioners offer large grants for Romish Schools, 90. Mr Gladstone offers 150 to a Romish priest, for ser- vices as an Irish Historian, 91. Mr Gladstone's Disestablishment policy encourages Fen- ianism, 91. Mr Gladstone commends a Romanizing Society which, defended the publication of the "Priest XXXVIII Synopsis. [1885. in the Confessional," supported Ritualists in their illegal practices, and maintains and propagates dogmas distinctly Papal and anti-Reformation, 91, 92. Mr Gladstone placed by Mr W. O'Brien, M.P., at the top of the list of those highly esteemed by the Irish party, 92. Mr Gladstone's flatterer's editorial character, 93. Mr Gladstone's misrepresentations about the Errington Mission shown by a letter from Mr Errington, 93. Mr Gladstone accused by Mr O'Brien of dishonourable concealment of the nature of Mr Erring- ton's Mission, 94. Mr Gladstone accused of making a deceptive bargain with Rome regarding the appointment of an Archbishop at Dublin, 94, Mr Gladstone, on the day he leaves Office, offers the living of Stroud Green to an extreme Ritualist, 95. Mr Gladstone informs Mr Balfour of coming Popish outrages, and presses immediate conces- sion, 95. Mr Gladstone's counsel repudiated by Mr Balfour, 95. Mr Gladstone's mysterious information corroborated by Archbishop Walsh's references to assassins and daggers, 95, 96. 188O 86.] Synopsis. XXXIX Mr Gladstone's ally, Mr Parnell, and the American dynamitards, 96. Mr Gladstone's ally, Mr Parnell, impelled to Parlia- mentary action with threats by the Clan-na-Gael, 96. Mr Gladstone and the Roman Archbishop in the secret of the information about threatened out- rages, 96. Mr Gladstone disloyal in not giving full information to the existing Government, 96. Mr Gladstone, according to The Globe, makes use of the information about coming disasters, for party and Romish advantages, 97. Mr Gladstone's conduct condemned by The Globe as unscrupulous, 97. 188O-1885. Mr Gladstone's Government promoted twenty - two Papists to various important offices, 97. 1886. Mr Gladstone's Administration threatened by the Dublin Archbishop, 97. Mr Gladstone gives Lord Ripon a Cabinet seat, and makes him first Lord of the Admiralty and Member of the Privy Council on Education, 98. Mr Gladstone promotes a Papist to be the Attorney- General for England, 98. XL Synopsis. [1886. Mr Gladstone makes a Papist Lord Chancellor of Ire- land, 98. Mr Gladstone makes a Papist Solicitor - General for Ireland, 98. Mr Gladstone makes a Papist Chief-Inspector of Schools in N. W. Division of England, 98. Mr Gladstone introduces his Home Rule Bill, or " Bill for the Better Government of Ireland," 99. Mr Gladstone's Bill proposes to throw open the Lord- Lieutenancy of Ireland to Papists, 99. Mr Gladstone's Bill would have handed over the Govern- ment of Ireland to those he had once denounced in the strongest terms, 99. Mr Gladstone's Bill would have given annually 20,000 of the funds of the Disestablished Pro- testant Church to the Papal Parlia- ment, 99. Mr Gladstone's Bill contained no safeguards for the Pro- testants and other Loyalists of Ireland, 99. Mr Gladstone's Bill provides opportunity for the ex- pulsion of Protestants and extirpation of Protestantism, 100. Mr Gladstone's designs known to the priests, 100. Mr Gladstone is arraigned as a traitor by The Times and Professor Tyndal, 100. Mr Gladstone is declared by Mr Spurgeon, Mr Auberon 1887.] Synopsis. XLI Herbert, and Professor Goldwin Smith to be insane and an enemy of England, 101. Mr Gladstone appoints as an Ecclesiastical Commissioner Lord Halifax, a prominent Romaniser and advocate of Union between the Churches of England and Rome, 101. Mr Gladstone's Secretary for War admits, that the Government had communications with American-Irishmen in order to organize an Irish policy, 102. Mr Gladstone denies any such communications, 103. Mr Gladstone's Government's conduct deplored by Sir Henry James, 103. Mr Gladstone's interview with Mr Parnell, 104. Mr Gladstone's Home Rule Bill rejected, 104. 1887. Mr Gladstone congratulates a Belfast Parnellite Meeting on the presence of their "distinguished Member," Mr Sexton a prime agent of the Land League, and an associate of men who have fled from the country, 104, 105. Mr Gladstone asserts that Ireland is less criminal than England or Scotland, 105. Mr Gladstone's statement refuted by Judicial Statistics, 105. XLII Synopsis. [1888. Mr Gladstone's statements in Welsh Speeches exposed by Mr Bright, 105. Mr Gladstone's ignoring of the Irish Protestants specially exposed by Mr Bright, 105, 106. Mr Gladstone leads the Parnellites out of the Commons amid revolutionary cries, 106. Mr Gladstone defends the National League against its proclamation by the Government, 106. Mr Gladstone alleges the sacredness of the Parnellite movement, 107. Mr Gladstone's attempt to subject Irish Protestants to Romish rule denounced by Professor Tyndal, 107. Mr Gladstone's policy repudiated by Dr Donald Fraser, 107, 108. Mr Gladstone greets the disloyal Lord Mayor of Dublin, 108. Mr Gladstone's nominees to high offices are trustees for the extremely Ritualistic Church of St Cuthbert's, 108, 109. Mr Gladstone's relation to St Cuthbert's severely criti- cised by the Liverpool Courier, 109. 1888. Mr Gladstone going to the Vatican regarding Home Rule, 109. Mr Gladstone reviles the Free Church, and calumniates Scottish Presbyterianism, 109. 1889.] Synopsis. XLIII Mr Gladstone presents an oil painting of himself, and other articles, to a Popish Lottery in Dublin, 110. Mr Gladstone's gifts offered as the second prize, the first being gifts from the Pope, 110. Mr Gladstone subscribes to the effigy of O'Connell, 111. 1889. :Mr Gladstone attends Mass in the Popish Chapel at Amalfi, and subsequently takes part in English Church Service, 111. Mr Gladstone, the Sheffield Telegraph's review of, based upon Vatican Decrees and the Cornish Speech, 112. Mr Gladstone describes Mr Parnell in 1881 as a de- moraliser of Ireland, but as restorative force in 1889, 113,114. Mr Gladstone calls Professor Tyndal to account, 115. Mr Gladstone answered by Professor Tyndal, 115, 116. Mr Gladstone gives in 1856 an opinion of Mr Pitt, and quite another in 1886, 115. Mr Gladstone gives an opinion of the Act of Union with Ireland in 1856, and quite another in 1886, 116. Mr Gladstone charged with scandalous and incredible conduct by Professsor Tyndal, 117. Mr Gladstone charged with the intention of making the Roman Catholic Church dominant in Ireland by the Rev. W. Arthur, 118. XLIV Synopsis. [1889. Mr Gladstone challenged to a public debate in Belfast by Professor Tyndal, 119. IKIr Gladstone, Dr Parker's opinion of his so-called Religious Disabilities Removal Bill, 120. Mr Gladstone, Dr Parker turns the tables upon him, in a contrast between "Vatican Decrees" and the Bill, 121. Mr Gladstone told by Dr Parker the true meaning of the Bill, viz., the destruction of Protest- antism and liberty, 122. Mr Gladstone, Dr Parker thinks his conduct incredible, 123. Mr Gladstone promises through Mr Morley that Roman Catholic and Jews shall manage their own schools, though they receive public support, 123. Mr Gladstone deserted by Mr Bevan because of his con- duct in reference to Free Education, 124, Mr Gladstone criticised by Mr Chamberlain on his extraordinary conduct in reference to- the Sects and Free Education, 124. Mr Gladstone, The Globe smartly contrasts him with Mr Davitt and Mr O'Brien, 124. Mr Gladstone criticised by Rev. Donald Fraser in refer- ence to Mr Parnell's morality, 125, 126. Mr Gladstone criticised by The Christian as to the so- called Religious Disabilities Removal Bill, 126, 127. 1889.] Synopsis. XLV Mr Gladstone moves the second reading of the Religious Disabilities Removal Bill, 128. Mr Gladstone meets with defeat thereon, 128. Mr Gladstone in 1874 stated the Infallibility decree meant absolute and entire obedience to the Pope at peril of salvation, 129. Mr Gladstone in 1891, a contrast, with reminders of omissions, and an appeal, 130, 131, 132. Mr Gladstone, The Times on his policy under the two P.'s, 132, 133. Mr Gladstone and Sir Henry James, a pertinent question Private judgment or the priests' dictum, 135. Mr Gladstone interviewed as to his future policy by Mr J. W. Martin, 135, 136. Mr Gladstone replies most evasively to Mr J. W. Martin, 136. Mr Gladstone purchases the right of next presentation to the Rectory of Liverpool, 137. Mr Gladstone and Ritualistic equivocation, 137. Mr Gladstone writes to Mr H. G. Shee, Home Rule Candidate for Whitehaven, 138, 139. Mr Gladstone wrote in vain to Whitehaven, 139. Mr Gladstone and political memory, 140. Mr Gladstone and forgotten facts, 140. Mr Gladstone and the opinion of the civilized world, 141. Mr Gladstone again utters the cry of " Justice for Ire- land," 142. XLVI Synopsis. [1889. Mr Gladstone continues leader to prosecute this object, 142. Mr Gladstone versus Mr Gladstone, a few contrasts, 143, 144. Mr Gladstone, the Hawarden axe and the Upas tree, 144. The Priesthood I with some contrasts by Lord Salisbury, v. Farnell, ) 145. Mr Gladstone and the real issue before the nation, with an appeal, 147, 148, 149. Mr Gladstone's Ecclesiastical Appoint- ments, 150170. Mr Gladstone's nominees belong to Romanising Societies in the Church of England, 150. Mr Gladstone's nominees have signed Petitions in favour of Komish practices and teaching in the Church of England, 150. Romanising Societies, 151155. INITIALS OF ROMANISING SOCIETIES. X.C.U. The English Church Union. G.B.8. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. 8.8.C. The Society of the Holy Cross (Societas Sanctaa Crucis). The English Church Union pledged to maintain Vest- ments, Lights, Incense, etc., 151. 1889.] Synopsis. XL VII The English Church Union advocates resistance to the judgment declaring these illegal, 151. The English Church Union advocates visible Communion between the Churches of England and Rome, 151. The English Church Union always introducing new prac- tices, 151, 152. The English Church Union identified with the " Priest in Absolution," 152. The English Church Union's Papal tendencies, 152. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament propa- gates belief in the Mass, Real Presence, Prayers for the Dead, and Perpetual Ador- ation of the Sacramental Presence, 153. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament condemned by Bishop Wilberforce, 153. The Society for the Maintenance of the Faith placed under " Our Lady and St Augustine," and its members required to say Mass, 153. The Society of the Holy Cross the oldest of the Roman- ising Societies, and a central authority. 153. The Society of the Holy Cross binds all its members to Secrecy, and they are all "Confessors," 154. The Society of the Holy Cross celebrates Mass with the use of the Roman Ritual, 154. The Society of the Holy Cross prepared the " Priest in XL VIII Synopsis. [1889. Absolution," condemned for its filthi- ness by the Canterbury Convocation and others 154. The Society of the Holy Cross petitioned for the appoint- ment of Confessors and the recognition of Romish Doctrine and Ritual, 154, 155. The Society of the Holy Cross organized retreats for the Clergy, 155. The Society of the Holy Cross condemned by Archbishop Tait as a Conspiracy against the Reforma- tion, 154. Romanizing Petitions, 155157. The Remonstrance against the Furchas Judgment protests against the condemnation of Ritualistic practices, 155. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament Declara- tion in favour of Non-Communicant at- tendance at Lord's Supper, 155. Petition to Convocation by the Society of the Holy Cross in favour of the Real Presence, Ad- oration of Christ in Sacrament, Sacrifice by the Priest, the licensing of Confessors according to Canon Law, Consecration of Oils, and other Popish Rites, 155, 156. The Three Deans 9 Petition in favour of a distinctive Eucharistic Dress, 156. 186869.] Synopsis. XLIX The English Church Union Petition in favour of Romish Vestments, 157. The Toleration Petition in favour of allowing diversities in Ceremonial, 157. The Appointments of Ritualists, 157. 1868. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. W. C. Lake, the signer of two Petitions, and who holds that the Incarnation repealed the Moral Law, to a Deanery in Durham, 157. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. R Gregory, the signer of three Petitions, to a Canonry in St Paul's, 157. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. W. Bright, the signer of three Petitions, to an Ecclesiastical Professorship in Oxford, 158. i 1869. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. J. M. Fawcett, the signer of a Petition, and member of two Societies, to St Philip's, Leeds, 158. Mr Gladstone appoints Dr Moberly to the Bishopric of Salisbury, 158. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev H. G. Henderson, member of two Societies, and signer of four Petitions, to living of Holy Trinity, Shoreditch, 158. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. W. H. Heygate, signer Zi Synopsis. [187O 71. of three Petitions, to incumbency of Brighstone, 158. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. M. Ashley, a member of the English Church Union, to the Chapelry, Oxford Street, St Maryle- bone, 158. 187O. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. H. F. Sadler, signer of two Petitions, to living of Honiton, 158. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. T. Mackarness, the de- fender of Mr Carter in his wilful breaches of the law, to the Bishopric of Oxford, 158, 159. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. H. P. Liddon, signer of four Petitions, and writer in favour of Roman Catholic doctrines, to a Canonry in St Paul's, 159. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. N. Woodard, signer of three Petitions, and defender of the Mass, to a Canonry in Manchester, 159. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. "VValdegrave Brewster, signer of three Petitions, to Rectory of Middleton, 159. 1871. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. Malcolm M'Coll, signer of four Petitions, to Rectory of St George's, Botolph Lane, London, 159. 1872.] Synopsis. LI Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. C. F. Hayter, member of two Societies, to living of Claybrooke, 160. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. W. W. Harvey, signer of two Petitions, to Rectory of Ewelme, 160. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. R. W. Church, signer of three Petitions, and introducer of several Mariolatrous images and practices, to the Deanery of St Paul's, 160. Mr Gladstone's nominees at St Paul's congratulated for their services by the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, 160. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, signer of four Petitions, and member of three Societies, to Rectory of East Mersea, 160, 161. Mr Gladstone gives the Rev. S. Baring-Gould a grant toward Romanising work, 161. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. E. W. Isaac, signer of three Petitions, to Vicarage of Dews- bury, 161. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. M. W. Mayow, signer of two Petitions, to Rectory of Southam, 161. 1872. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. John M. Freshfield, signer of two Petitions, to Rectory of All Souls, St Marylebone, 161. LH Synopsis. [1873 8O. Mr Gladstone appoints the Kev. George Rawlinson, signer of Three Petitions, to a Canonry in Canterbury, 161. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. B. M. Cowie, signer of three Petitions, to the Deanery of Man- chester, 161. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. W. T. Irons, extreme Rit- ualist, to St Mary.Woolnoth, London, 161. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. F. C. Wills, signer of Petition, to St Agatha, Finsbury, 161. 1873. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. J. H. Blunt, an extreme Ritualist, to Rectory of Beverston, 162. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. Dr King, signer of two Petitions, and advocate of Transubstantia- tion, Prayers for the Dead, Absolution, and other Popish superstitions, to be Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford, 162. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. T. R. Woodford, an extreme Ritualist, to the Bishopric of Ely, 162. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. E. C. Lowe, signer of four Petitions, and advocate of Confes- sional for Boys, to Canonry of Ely, 162. 1874 188O. Lord Beaconsfield in power, 162. 188O 82.] Synopsis. LUX 188O. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. W. John Butler, signer of two Petitions, to a Canonry in Wor- cester, 163. IVIr Gladstone promotes the Rev. J. A. Rawlins, signer of three Petitions, as Vicar of St Andrew's, Willesden, 163. 3Ir Gladstone promotes the Rev. P. R. Braithwaite, signer of three Petitions, to St Luke's, Helier, 163. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. H. M. Trywhitt, mem- ber of two Societies, and signer of two Petitions, as Vicar of St Michael's, Brom- ley, 163. 1881. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. W. J. Knox Little, member of two Societies, and observer of Romish devotion, to a Canonry in Worcester, 163. 1882. Mr Gladstone appoints the Bishop of Truro, Dr Ben- son, favourably noticed by a Papal journal for his Ritualistic practices, to the Archbishopric of Canterbury, 163, 164. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. G. C. Ommanney, LIV Synopsis. [1883. member of two Societies, and resisted by his parishioners for his Romish practices, to St Matthew's, Sheffield, 164. 1883. Mr Gladstone appoints Dean Cowie, after rousing oppo- sition in Manchester through his Ritual- istic ceremonies, to the more valuable Deanery of Exeter, 164. IKIr Gladstone appoints the Rev. J. 0. Oakley, signer of two Petitions, and an intending oppressor of the Evangelicals, to the Deanery of Manchester, 164, 165. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. R. Eyton, member of three Societies, and signer of three Petitions, as Subalmoner to the Queen, . 165. Hdr Gladstone appoints the Rev. G. H. Wilkinson, de- fender of Auricular Confession and of the use of Popish images, to the Bishopric of Truro, 165. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. Richard Lewis, an ex- treme Ritualist, to the Bishopric of Llandaff 165. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. C. W. Furse, Principal of a Ritualistic College, and signer of three Petitions, to a Canonry at West- minster, 165. 18845.] Synopsis. LV 1884. Mr Gladstone promotes the Rev. H. Walford, signer of two Petitions, to the Rectory of Ewelme, 165. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. W. G. Henderson, signer of three Petitions, to the Deanery of Car- lisle, 165, 166. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. H. S. Holland, an ex- treme Ritualist, to a Canonry in St Paul's, 166. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. Malcolm M'Coll, signer of four Petitions, to a Canonry in Ripon, 166. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. H. A. Sheringham, ex- treme Ritualist, to be Priest in Ordinary to the Queen, 166. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. George Ridding, an accomplice in breaches of the law, to the Bishopric of Southwell, 166. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. W. Stubbs, signer of two Petitions, and observer of the East- ward Position, to the Bishopric of Ches- ter, 166. 1885. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. F. Paget, an extreme Ritualist, as Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford, 166. Synopsis. [1885. Mr Gladstone appoints Canon Butler, signer of seven Petitions, and admirer of the Continental Mass Service, to be Dean of Lincoln, 166, 167. Mr Gladstone promotes the Eev. Eobert Linklater, member of three Societies, and ardent Romaniser, to the living of Stroud Green, 167. Mr Gladstone appoints the Rev. Canon King, wearer of Romish vestments, and open violator of the laws of his own Communion, to the Bishopric of Lincoln, 167, 168. Mr Gladstone's nominee to the Bishopric of Lincoln condemned by TJie Echo as a law- breaker, 168. Mr Gladstone's Pro - Romish appointments dangerous to Protestantism and helpful to the Papacy, 168. Mr Gladstone's appointments encouraging to those clergymen of the English Church who are Papists in disguise, 168, 169. Mr Gladstone's Pro-Romish policy must be met by Statesmen and Ministers who shall fear- lessly defend the Protestantism and liber- ties of the Empire, 170. THE PRO-ROMISH ACTS OP MR GLADSTONE. To the oft-repeated enquiry "Are you, or are you not, a member of the Church of Rome ? " Mr Gladstone, through his secretary, once made the following reply : " Mr Gladstone cannot undertake to contradict this or any other imputation which is alike foolish and insulting ... if his acts do not confute such imputations, he is convinced that his 'words will not do so." (Letter to Birmingham Protestant Association, Dec. 24, 1870.) Mr Gladstone appeals to " his acts." To " his acts * then we go. They speak for themselves. 1838. In, or about, the year 1838, Mr Gladstone wrote thus of the Reformation : " The ancient ministry and worship were not reformed, but abolished and replaced by novel substitutes." And of the Puritans he wrote : "They did not stand upon any ground of Catholic con- sent ; they did not, and could not, urge they were the persons whom Christ had appointed by their offices in the Church, to A 2 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. take order in such matters, but they pleaded the command of Scripture, in an interpretation of their own, against legitimately constituted power." (Church and State, pp. 95, 132, Vol. II., 4th Edition. Quoted in p. 6 Badenoch's Coming Struggle.) Wordsworth said he could not distinguish the principles of this book of Gladstone's from Romanism. (" Letters to my son Herbert," p. 53.) Let Scottish Puritans weigh well the above words. 1844. In 1844, Mr W. C. Ward, of Balliol College, pub- lished " The Ideal of a Christian Church Considered," in which he wrote as follows about the Reformation : Some members of the English Church regard with deep and bui^ning hatred that miserable event" "When I feel called upon to use strong language about the corruption of our own Church, the sinfulness of the Reformation, or similar matters, I really am not at all conscious of being influenced either by desire of eccentricity, or by a spirit of undutiful- ness [!]. The words I use do not even fully express the con- victions that are among the very deepest I feel." (pp. 44, 293.) He further said : " Three years have passed since I said plainly that in sub- scribing the Articles / renounced no one Roman doctrine" In Feb. 1845, the above work was condemned in the Oxford Convocation by 776 votes to 386. Mr Gladstone voted against the condemnation of this pro-Popery book. Mr Ward was then degraded by 569 votes to 511. Mr Gladstone voted in favour of Mr Ward not being degraded. The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 3 1845. "In 1845," so wrote Earl Russell : "Gladstone supported with great ability the grant to the [Romish College of] Maynooth. He cleverly contemplated, as I had done, a measure for the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy." (Lord Russell's second letter to Mr Fortescue, pp. 21-22.) In June 1845, Mr Gladstone said : "It was desirable that diplomatic relations between this country and Rome should be established, and if communications were made with the heads of the Romish Church in Ireland as to education, it was desirable that there should be the means of attesting those communications by reference to the See of Rome." (Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, June 2, 1845.) In August, 1845, Mr Gladstone thus wrote about the Irish Protestant Church : " The working results of the last ten years have disappointed me / must see the seal and signature, and these, how can I separate from ecclesiastical descent? The title, in short, is questioned, and vehemently, not only by the Radicalism of the day, but by the Roman Bishops, ^vho claim to hold the succession of St Patrick, and this claim has been alive all along from the Reformation, so that the lapse of years does nothing against it." (Bishop Wilberforce's Life, p. 271.) 1847. In 1847, when Mr Gladstone was the right hand man of Sir R. Peel, he told his chief that he would resign if Dr Wynter, of St John's College, was made a Bishop : the Doctor having, as Vice- Chancellor, constituted a tribunal which tried and condemned Dr Pusey's sermon in favour of the Mass. (" Oxford Magazine," April 1847, p. 57.) 4 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 1848. In 1848, when the Diplomatic Relations Bill was pass- ing through the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone said : O O ' " They might as well treat with sergeants and corporals in- stead of a general of an army, as with persons of secondary rank in the Church of Rome ; and, therefore as a matter of business and common sense, it had become an inevitable necessity that on those particular and limited occasions when the House thought it necessary to legislate on Roman Catholic affairs, there should be communication ^vith the Roman Catholic authorities; that involved communication with the Pope." (Hansard, vol. 101, col. 233.) He also stated that he regarded favourably tlie use of the Popes influence for maintaining peace and order in Ireland, and " that nothing would be done on his part to prevent that influence being openly and directly ac- cepted when necessity demanded it." 1851. "In 1851," so wrote Archdeacon Denison : " I was principally concerned in bringing the men together who issued a Protest in the 'Gorham Case.' They assembled many days in the vestry of St Paul's, Knightsbridge, by permis- sion of Mr Bennett, one of our number. Our meetings were after- wards transferred to Mr Gladstone's house in Carlton Gardens. Mr Gladstone was often present, and concurred in the Resolutions passed." (P. 42, Denison's " Gladstone.") Mr Gladstone's views, therefore, were one with the Sacerdotalists, on the Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration. In 1851, when the Pope parcelled out England into The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 5 dioceses for the purpose of introducing the Roman Canon Law,* and when he usurped our Sovereign's right to con- fer titles in connection with those dioceses, Mr Gladstone stood forth in Parliament as the Champion of England's direst enemy, and as the supporter of Popish audacity and aggression, and gave worrying opposition to the passing of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, introduced in the interests of Protestantism. (Hansard's Debates for 1851.) Twenty years afterwards, when in power as Prime Minister, Mr Gladstone repealed this Protestant Aci;. 1852. In August, 1852, Mr Sadleir, one of the " Pope's Brass Band," at a political dinner at Carlow, made the fol- lowing revelation in regard to Mr Gladstone and others : " This would not he the moment to allude to the claims of . . . Mr Gladstone, or any of those distinguished Parliamentary statesmen whose counsel I and my friends, Mr Reynolds and * " If anyone asks what is the Canon Law, the answer is clear. It is the voice of God to the Papist. It is not a dead letter ; but to the priest who administers it, it appertains to say to every Romanist : ' to what school a man is to send his child ; with whom his son or daughter is to contract marriage ; with whom he is to buy and sell ; what opinions he is to hold on all political and social questions ; what party he is to support by his vote; when he may obey the law peaceably, and ivhen he must meet it with riot and insurrection ; when he may account the Sovereign of the country in which he resides legitimate, and when he must hold his title invalid.' " (Wylie on Rome and Civil Liberty, pp. 70, 72.) 6 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Mr Keogh, continually had during those efforts which we made, night and day, in resisting a tyrannical Government. You will forgive me if I take this public occasion of expressing our conjoint gratitude to those statesmen for the services they have rendered to us" (Tablet, August 28, 1852. Quoted in ENGLISH CHURCHMAN, May 27, 1886.) 1854. "From January, 1854, to February, 1858, writes Archdeacon Denison, " My time and energies were taken up by the prosecution against me touching the Real Presence. In 1856, after the Bath Judgment, Mr Gladstone most kindly and forgivingly asked me to come to Hawarden with my dear brother, Robert Phillimore, to consult about the best manner of defence. I was there some days, and at one time thought that I would adopt the plan of defence suggested to me." (Denison's " Gladstone," p. 36.) Mr Gladstone's views, therefore, on the sacerdotal doctrine of the Real Presence at the Lord's Supper, may be clearly inferred. They were afterwards distinctly ex- pressed in the Contemporary Review, as will be seen by referring to the date of July 1875 in this work. In March, 1854, Mr Gladstone opposed and voted against inquiry into Romish Conventual and Monastic Institutions. (Parliamentary Debates, March 28, 1854.) He did this although it was stated, and not contra- dicted, that the buildings, in which the inmates are con- fined, were " Uniformly bolted, barred, and grated like prisons, and all the architectural arrangements were made apparently for one The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 7 object, viz., that of safe custody. Internally there were not only cells, refectories, and chapels, but dungeons. Nothing would make the public believe, therefore, that these buildings were erected for contented and happy inmates, but rather for keeping them there when entrapped." On a previous occasion, in 1851, Mr Drummond asserted that nunneries were " either prisons or brothels." His speech was published, and by copious notes he proved the accuracy of his statement. (" Speech of H. Drummond, Esq., M.P., in House of Commons, March 20, 1851 ;" also "English Convents." Kensit, Paternoster Eow.) In May, 1854, Mr Gladstone said in Parliament : "No one can be surprised that I for one should think it desirable to get rid of words so vexatious and ambiguous in their character, and so useless and worthless in supporting the institutions of the country." (Hansard, May 25, 1854.) The "worthless words" were those of an oath drawn up for the purpose of protecting the country against Romish conspiracies. 1858. In November, 1858, Mr Gladstone was despatched as High Commissioner of Her Majesty to the Ionian Islands. During his stay he " showed unprecedented deference to the Greek ecclesiastics, so much so that the people were at a loss to construe some of his acts." He assisted at Mass. He drank of lustral water. He genuflected. He received the brush for sprinkling the body with holy water. He kissed the crosses and the hands of priests. " In a church 8 The Pro- Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. dedicated to the Virgin, Gladstone was seen one day remain- in or a full hour kneeling on the bare stone, and wrapped in profound meditation, adoring the image of the Redeemer which was painted on the door of the Sancta Sanctorum," etc., etc. These statements are made on the authority of Count Dusmoni in his " La Missione . . . . W. E. Glad- stone," and of Viscount Kirkwall, in the work he edited, " Four Years in the Ionian Islands," vol. i., 227, and of various credible eye-witnesses, and of " Galignani's Mes- senger," Feb. 1 and 2, 1859. Mr Gladstone, however, asserted that the above state- ments were false, in a letter addressed to the Vicar of St Luke's, Sheffield, and dated Dec. 3, 1872. Count Dusmoni, on being informed of the denial, wrote as follows : Corfu, Dec. 30, 1872. "Sir, . . . My narrative is historical in all its parts. I record in it facts, nothing but undeniable, notorious facts ..." And in a subsequent letter he said that "All Corfu was astonished at Mr Gladstone's audacious mendacity." His letter was forwarded to Mr Gladstone, who ac- knowledged the receipt of it, but no longer attempted to deny or explain away the transactions to which we have alluded. (" Startling Facts," by the Rev. Dr Potter, Poole, Paternoster Row.) It may be added that Count Dusmoni was in 1872 Secretary of the Ionian Senate, and The Pro-Eomfsh Acts of 'Mr Gladstone. 9 in 1849 was, by Her Majesty, appointed Knight Com- mander of the most distinguished Order of Saints Michael and George. 1861. In June, 1861, Mr Gladstone voted against the follow- ing motion : " To consider the Acts for the endowment of [the Romish College of] Maynooth, with a view to the withdrawal of endow- ment out of the Consolidated Fund ; due regard being had to vested rights and interests." (Parliamentary Debates of the above date.) 1863. In April, 1863, Mr Gladstone voted in favour of the Prison Ministers Bill for the Appointment of Romish Chaplains to Prisons. The Bill was practically an attempt to obtain the establishment and recognition by the State of the Romish religion. (Hansard, col. 447, April 20, 1863.) In June, 1863, Mr Gladstone the second time voted against the same motion that was made in the interests of o Protestantism in June, 1861, for the consideration of Acts endowing Maynooth. (Hansard, col. 260, June 2, 1863.) "In 1863," said Sir R. Palmer : " Mr Gladstone told me privately that he had made up his mind on the subject [of the Disestablishment of the Irish Protestant Church] ; and that he should not long be able to keep himself from giving public expression to his feelings This took me by surprise at the time." (Sir R. Palmer's speech at Richmond, Aug. 21, 1868.) 10 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 1864. In June, 1864, Mr Gladstone voted for the Gaols Bill, the object of which was to transfer appointments from the- Local Prison Authorities to the Home Secretary, with the view of appointing Romish Chaplains. (Hansard, June 20, 1864.) 1865. March, 1865. Connected with various English con- vents were private and secret burial grounds, without public access or boundary walls, and which had no public register of burials, and where the persons buried were described on their tombstones by falsified names. Indeed , the Home Secretary, in session 1875, admitted that "No specific report as to the deaths in monastic and con- ventual institutions was to be found in the Registrar-General's Office." (Times, August 3, 1875.) A Parliamentary inquiry into this serious infraction of the law was opposed by Mr Gladstone. (Mr Newde- gate's speech, House of Commons, March 3, 1865. Also- Smee's letter to Sir G. Grey, and Parliamentary Re turn ,. March 17, 1864.) On May 17, 1865, Mr Gladstone voted for the Roman Catholic Oaths Bill. (Hansard, vol. 179, col. 478.) In June, 1865, Mr Gladstone supported the movement to establish a Roman Catholic University in Ireland, in place of the Secular Colleges established by Sir R. Peel. Mr Gladstone argued that no one could imagine that The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 11 Peel intended to oppose the inculcation of religion [i.e. the Komish] in its most distinct and definite form. Towards the close of the Session of 1865 the Education question was before Parliament. In it the Government promised concessions to the Romish party. Gladstone was for some time inclined to carry matters with a high hand, and to tell the House that they would be allowed to endorse the step which the Government contemplated after it had been irrevocably taken ; but the temper of the House soon brought him to another frame of mind, and he gave a pledge that nothing should be done till the House had had an opportunity of ex- pressing its opinion. (Buhvark, p. 259, 1866.) 1866. In March, 1866, Mr Gladstone swept away from the original oath taken by Members of Parliament those very important provisions which guarded (l) the Protestant Constitution ; (2) the Established Protestant Churches ; (3) the settlement of property ; (4) the provision which required members " to renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope or any other authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects or by any person whatsoever ; " and (5) that which required them to make the declaration : " Without any evasion, equi- vocation, or mental reservation whatever." 12 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. This great change in the oath of 1829, was made in accordance with one of the conditions of a secret bargain between Mr Gladstone and the Romish party. In opposition to Mr Gladstone, Lord Beaconsfield car- ried an amendment which protected the Protestant succes- sion. (Hansard, col. 310, 15th March, 1866.) On 21st April, 1866, Mr Dillon (a leading spirit of the Romish National Association, a society which was under the superintendence of the R. C. Archbishop Cullen) publicly announced Mr Gladstone's secret bargain with the Roman Catholic party. His words were : "The course is to give an unconditional support to the Extension of the Franchise Bill. I say unconditional in this sense, that we have not gone to Mr Gladstone, and demanded formal pledges from him in (respect of) Irish measures as the price of our votes ; but NOT in the sense that ive are entirely in the dark as to ivhat the Government are likely to do." "The relations of the National Association towards the Government may be thus shortly stated : The Association has put forward four claims (1) the reform -of the Land Laws ; (2) the removal of obnoxious oaths; (3) freedom and equality in education; and (4) the disendowment of the Established [Irish] Church. The Government concede the first two in full at once, give an instalment of the third, and as to the fourth, ask us to wait a little, as its hands are full, bidding us in the mean- time 'God speed.'" (Tablet, April 21, 1866; and Colquhoun's Progress of Church of Rome, pp. 47, 50.) In November, 1866, " Mr Gladstone had a private audience with the Holy Father, after having had several interviews with Cardinal Antonelli." (See the Memorial The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 13 Diplomatique, November 11, 1866.) " Mr Gladstone found the Pope as calm as possible. . . . The conversation con- cerning Italy having ceased, they spoke of the Church in Ireland, and the Pope warmly recommended his well- beloved flock to Mr Gladstone ; then smiling, added, 'If I should one day or other quit Eome, although Ireland is far removed from the centre of Christianity, I should not disdain to select it as my domicile.' ' (Quoted from the Carriere Italiano in Times, November 10, 1866.) The Opinione remarked : " Mr Gladstone and Lord Clar- endon's visit to Eome is not a mere pleasure trip, they seek to penetrate the intentions of the Pontiff and to influence them." (The Times, November 20, 1866.) In 1866 the Whig Government "advised Her Majesty to grant a charter of incorporation to the College founded in Dublin by the Koman Catholic Archbishops for the higher education of youth," and to " grant a sum for the purpose of providing scholarships." Mr Gladstone, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, promised the House of Commons an opportunity for discussing the above ar- rangement before it was carried out ; but he evaded his promise ; and as soon as Parliament rose, advised the Sovereign to grant the Charter. The Law Courts, how- ever, interfered, and pronounced the charter illegal. (Papers on University and National Education, March 5, 1866.) 14 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 1867. ggp* 3 In March, 1867, Mr Gladstone actually supported a Romish Bill, stated to have been inspired by Dr Manning, ivhich literally gave the Pope co-ordinate power in England with the Sovereign of this country, and authorised him to parcel out dioceses, assign them to his bishops, grant offices of authority, and confer titles of honour. (Times, March 21, 1867, and Colquhoun's Pamphlet, p. 61.*) In May 1867, Mr Gladstone warmly supported Sir J. Gray in his motion against the Irish Protestant Church. (Hansard, col. 122, May 7, 1867.) "Gladstone's speech, in its bitterness (says Colquhoun), his defiance of past opinions, and his cynical assertion of his new views, left Drs Cullen and Manning nothing that could be desired." (p. 72.) * Mr Colquhoun makes the following important remark, in his " Progress of the Church of Rome towards ascendency in England," p. 62 : " The able Report of Mr Walpole has this year (1869) been fully confirmed by the evidence and Report of the Committee of the House of Lords. I refer everyone to that valuable docu- ment. It shoivs us what an escape we have had, and how ready Mr Gladstone is to surrender the highest prerogatives of the Sovereign to the demands of Dr Manning. It shows us also that we can put little trust in the leaders of parties in the House of Commons. They all sacrifice anything in order to tide over a difficulty or to avoid a defeat. Let the electors choose manly, resolute members, and hold them to their duty as English Protestants." The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 15 This Sir James Gray was the spokesman of the Romish party. He belonged to the National Association, which declared in January, 1866, that nothing but separation would satisfy them. He owed his popularity in Ireland to his conviction and imprisonment for treason. And the Pall Matt declared that for his wanton defiance of the magistracy " he ought to be expelled from the law-making assembly in which unfortunate accident had placed him." Yet this was the man between whom and Mr Gladstone confidential communications passed. The following ia Sir James Gray's own version of the matter : " The future Premier of England has now the charge of the Irish Church question. But you never can know, for even were I at liberty to detail WHAT OCCURRED AT THE SEVERAL PRIVATE INTERVIEWS with which I was favoured, I would not have the power adequately to convey to you a just impres- sion of the generous, earnest, and hearty devotion with which Mr Gladstone determined to pledge his future as a statesmen to the redress of this great wrong. I feel grateful that you so truly interpret the motives which induced me to take this course. The leaders of the Liberal parties of England and Scotland, the whole Liberal party .... is indissolubly IDENTIFIED FOR GOOD OR EVIL with the success or failure of the Irish Church question." (Standard, June 22, 1868, and Freeman's Journal, August 21, 1868.) In December, 1867, when speaking at Southport, after complaining of the endowments of the Protestant Established Church as belonging to the Church of a minority, Mr Gladstone said : 16 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. " Now I must express to you my firm conviction that prin- ciples of religion must be established in Ireland, and that it is vain to look to a true union and harmony between that country and this until the Legislature of this country shall have made up its mind to govern and attain that great consummation. It may involve the sacrifice of our pride, there may be difficulties to encounter on the way, and there are those who would tell us that it is hostile to religion. " As to the modes of giving effect to this principle I don't enter upon them. I am of opinion they should be dictated, as a general rule, by that which may appear to be the mature, well- considered, and general sense of the Irish people." (Times, December 21, 1867.) These are remarkable words. They deserve attentive consideration. Surely the " great consummation," to which Mr Gladstone alluded, was the making Popery dominant in Ireland it was the granting that same Romish Home Rule which he so desires at the present moment. In 1867, as in 1887, Mr Gladstone's aim and object was the same. 1868. On March 23, 1868, Mr Gladstone moved his three resolutions touching the Irish Protestant Church. They contained no reference to Maynooth ; so, on May 7th, Mr Aytoun, a Scotch Liberal M.P., proposed, in the interests of equity and of Protestantism, to add a fourth resolution, which ran thus : " That when the Anglican Church in Ireland is disestablished and disendowed, it is right and necessary that the grant to The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 17 Maynooth and the Regium Donum should be discontinued ; and that no part of the secularised funds of the Anglican Church or any State funds whatever be applied, in any way or under any form, to the endowment or furtherance of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland, or to the establishment or maintenance of R. C. denominational schools and colleges." Mr Gladstone bitterly condemned, voted against, and overthrew Mr Aytoun's motion. (Hansard, col. 1905, May 7, 1868.) In the course of his speech Mr Aytoun observed that considerable doubt existed through the country whether any portion of the secularised revenues of the Irish Pro- testant Church was to be given by Mr Gladstone to the support of the Roman religion. In proof of the existence of this feeling, he referred to a letter from Mr Spurgeon in which that great Baptist minister said : " The one point about which we Dissenters of England have any fear is lest any share of the Church property should be given to the Papists. To a man we should deprecate this. Bad as the present evil is we should sooner see it let alone than see Popery endowed with National property. Not one single farthing ought any religious denomination to receive, and the whole matter will be imperilled if those in power are not quite clear as to any douceurs to the Pope." On June 5, 1868, Mr Gladstone resisted and voted against Mr Aytoun's motion that Maynooth, with its Trustees, should be dealt with precisely after the same manner as the Irish Church. (Hansard, col. 1189, June 5, 1868.) 18 Tfie Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. In 1868, the Daily Review, a Scotch Liberal paper, stated that Mr Gladstone was negotiating with Dr Cullen, and had agreed to give a large sum to the Romish Church. This was never contradicted. (Colquhoun's "Progress of Church of Rome," p. 9.) In the autumn of 1868, Mr Gladstone said, in his electioneering speech at St Helen's : " In 1833 we cut off ten [Protestant Irish] Bishops, and we pitched them out of the carriage to the [Roman] wolves. For a considerable time the wolves fed upon these ten Bishops. They are now in full course again." On 12th October, 1868, Mr Gladstone said : " I am not a reformer of the Irish [Protestant] Church, but an anti-Reformer. There is no use in reforming the Irish Church." (Speech at Warrington.) Could a Romish priest say more ? On October 14, 1868, Mr Gladstone said : " Some think vested rights are very sacred things if they are found within the limits of the Establishment, but not so very sacred if they are found within the limits of the R. C. College of Maynooth. I must differ with them. One and the same rule of equity and liberality must be applied to the whole." (Speech at Liverpool, October 14, 1868.) Here note firstly, that when in Parliament, on June 15, Mr Aytoun, by a resolution, requested this very pledge at Mr Gladstone's hands, he refused to give it. Secondly, that afterwards, in the following October, whilst election- eering at Liverpool, Mr Gladstone gave verbally the pledge The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 19 which he refused to Mr Aytoun. Thirdly, that neverthe- less, later on in the session of 1869, when it suited his purpose, he distinctly broke the pledge. Let the reader turn to the last paragraph of November 16, 1868. On 2Oth October, 1868, at Leigh, when advocating the Disestablishment of the Irish Church, Mr Gladstone said : " Protestantism [in Ireland] has been divindling away, not- withstanding that we maintained our Church Establishment in possession of all the ecclesiastical property of the country." There was not a particle of truth about this " dwin- dling away ; " for, according to the then latest census, the Irish Protestants had, during the previous years, increased from less than 20 per cent, of the population to more than 22 per cent., while the Eomanists had declined from more than 80 per cent, to less than 78 per cent. Mr Fair, in his statistics on the population of Ireland at the time of the disendowment, says that " Surprise may well be expressed not that there were so few Protestants, but that there were so many, for Persecution had done its work in reducing the ranks of the Reformed Church in Ireland." In October, 1868, Cardinal Manning attested the value he had for Mr Gladstone and his services. He thus wrote : 20 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. " A friendship of thirty-eight years, close and intimate till 1851 in no common degree." And he bore witness : "That a mind of greater integrity ; of more transparent truth (!), less capable of being swayed by faction and party, and more protected (sic) from all such baseness even by the guilt of indignant impatience of insincerity and unselfishness in public affairs than Mr Gladstone's, I have never known." (See Tablet, October 24, 1868; also Last Words to Electors, p. 7, Macintosh, 1868.) On October 23, 1868, Mr Gladstone said : " It is clear the Church of Ireland offers to us indeed a great question, but even that question is but one of a group of questions. There is the Church of Ireland, there is the Land of Ireland, there is the Education of Ireland ; there are many subjects, all of which depend upon one greater than them all. They are all so many branches from one trunk, and that trunk is the tree of what is called ' Protestant ascendency.' It is upon that system that we are banded together to make ivar. We therefore aim at the destruction of that system of ascendency, which, though it has been crippled and curtailed by former measures, yet still must be allowed to exist. It is still there, like a tall tree of noxious growth, lifting its head to Heaven and darkening and poisoning the land so far as its shadow can extend. The axe has been laid to the root of that tree, and it nods and quivers, from its top to its base. It wants one stroke more ... It will then once for all totter to its fall, and on the day ivhen it falls the heart of Ireland will leap for joy . . . and something will be done towards deepening and widening the foundations of public strength, security, and peace." (Speech at Wigan.) If the reader turn to Mr Dillon's statement in April,. 1866, he will see that Mr Gladstone, in so speaking, waa The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 21 carrying out a previous compact made with the Romish party. The Liberal J. A. Froude well remarked that " It was not wise to describe the Irish Church as a branch of a poison tree . . . He might call disestablishment justice, but we did not believe it to be justice.; we were yielding merely to the revived spirit of 1641 and 1798, and capitulating before rebellion and murder." We may here recall the words of Mr Gladstone in his Apologia, published in 1868, where he says : " I was bound," he says, " to defend the Irish Church as long as it could be defended on the ground of its truth ; but when the day arrived on which that ground was definitively abandoned, . . . the moment that / admitted the validity of a claim by the Church of Rome for the gift, by the free act of the Imperial Parliament, of new funds for the education of its clergy, the true basis of the Established Church of Ireland for me was cut away. The one had alivays been treated by me as exclusive of the other." On October 31, 1868, Cardinal Manning's organ, 44 The Weekly Register," thus wrote, when Mr Gladstone was about to disestablish the Irish Protestant Church : " It is felt that religious licence, and possibly even the very existence of Protestantism, are staked upon the issue of this final struggle . . . The hour has arrived for the resuscitation of Catholicism." (Quoted in Recent Events, p. 21.) On November 16, 1868, an eminent Nonconformist minister, the Rev. W. Jubb, living in the Black Country, wrote thus to Mr Gladstone : " The Tories are making great headway in Birmingham, 22 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. because the public are in doubt as to whether you intend to take away the Maynooth Grant with the Regium Donum, and the emoluments of the Irish Church." Mr Gladstooe wrote in reply : " Not only my own declaration upon every occasion, but the resolution unanimously passed by the House of Commons, bind me in honour, as I am bound in purpose and conviction, to propose that the Regium Donum and the Maynooth Grant should be wound up, and should cease with the Irish Church Establishment. Can words go further?" (Quoted in Recent Events, p. 91. Also Birmingham Gazette.) No ! words could not go further in the way of decep- tion, as the reader will see if he turns to the paragraph following after March 1, 1869 On December 21, 1868,. Mr Gladstone, during his speech at Greenwich, ridiculed the idea of the Roman Catholics ever seeking ascendency in these kingdoms, and announced his " determination utterly to extinguish and efface Protestant ascendency." (See Jesuitism. Morgan & Chase, p. 86.) In September, 1851, the Pope declared: " That the Catholic religion ought to be exclusively dominant in such sort that every other worship shall be banished and interdicted." "In 1868" (wrote the Liberal, Earl Grey) " When Mr Gladstone began his agitation about Ireland, and denounced the ' upas-tree/ Ireland was rapidly improving. The landlords and tenants were as a rule on good terms with each other, and Fenianism, as Mr Gladstone himself admitted, met with nc support whatever from the small farmers. ... But Mr Glad- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 23 stone stimulated the excitable Irish people to half madness by his speeches, denouncing the grievances he said they were labour- ing under, and which he had not raised a finger to remove during all the years that he had before been in office." (Quoted in Recent Events, p. 499.) 1869. In February 1869, Mr Gladstone opposed the appoint^ ment of a Select Committee to inquire into Roman Catholic. Charities, and Registrations of Burials ; the Burial Laws- having been distinctly evaded by tho Romish priests. (See Hansard, February 26, 1869.) On March 1, 1869, Mr Gladstone brought in his Bill for the Disestablishment and Disendowment of the Irish Protestant Church. He did this, although as Mr J. A. Froude, a Liberal, wrote : " No body of men had done their duty more loyally and admirably for the last fifty years than the clergy of the Irish Church. Even the Roman Catholic peasantry loved and trusted them. They had ceased to be a grievance. There was no cry for their disestablishment. No one asked for it, except, perhaps, the Roman Catholic Hierarchy." (Times, January 10, 1881.) This statement was afterwards confirmed by Mr Glad- stone himself, who said : " You would have thought that at any rate upon one subject, namely, the Disestablishment of the Irish Church, the repre- sentatives of Ireland, considering it is mainly a Roman Catholic country, would in a very large majority have voted for it. But even for the Disestablishment of the Irish Church there was but a poor majority of the Irish members." (Speech at Albert Hall, Edinburgh. Daily News, November 10, 1885.) 24 The Pro-Romish Acit, of Mr Gladstone. In March 1869, an order was made in Parliament for letters, etc., connected with the attempt to assassinate H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh by OTarrel, a Romish Fenian. The said letters would have shown the com- plicity of the Irish priesthood. O'Farrel had been trained for a priest and was an agent of the Central Fenian conspiracy in England. But on April 27, 1869, Mr Glad- stone voted that the above order be discharged. (Hansard, March 19 and April 27, 1869.) On March 21, 1869, Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary stated that lectures on a subject not illegal could not be stopped ; yet on April 1st, tne Government revived an obsolete law (passed in 1799 and aimed at revolutionists) for the purpose of gagging Mr Murphy, and of preventing the free discussion of Protestant questions. The reviving of this law took place under the following circumstances : a Popish mob had attacked a building at Tynemouth in which a Protestant lecture was being delivered. The result was much violence and some bloodshed. The Home Secretary, instead of condemning a riotous mob which had fired through windows at a peaceful assembly, condemned the lecturer, who was acting within his rights, and said : " The Act in question was one of extreme severity. ... I did not hesitate to put in force an Act, which I quite admit is one only to be used in extreme cases . . . under my direction, the Mayor of Tynemouth made known that all persons attending these lectures would be liable to a penalty." The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 25 The penalty was 20 for persons attending the lecture, and 100 for lecturer and owner of the room. (Hansard, col. 759, April 14, 1869, and col. 617, July 23, 1869.) Mr J. C. Colquhoun thus forcibly wrote about this Gladstonian infringement on the liberty of the subject : "A Secretary of State first announced that he could not Interfere with the right of English people to meet and to dis- cuss. There spoke the English statesman. Next, pressed by Dr Manning and Mr Gladstone (his ally and accomplice), he hunts up an old Act, passed in the worst times of Toryism, and uses this to stop discussion. And when a Mayor, following his example, apprehends, without right or law, an English citizen, he justifies the illegal act, because it is acceptable to Romish Priests. It is time that all England should rise against this Romish tyranny. If we are to be gagged and arrested because we say what Cardinals and Bishops don't like, where is our freedom of thought and our boasted liberty." (Letter, July 5, 1869.) On April 3, 1869, the very same day on which it was at Tynemouth proclaimed illegal for Mr Murphy to lecture in the hall there, two monks were permitted by Mr Gladstone's Government to lecture in that hall, and to continue to use it for their treasonable and seditious purposes ; and further, a priest, named Lavelle, had the protection of the police a protection which was denied to the loyal Protestant, Mr Murphy. (Circular of Protestant Electoral Union, p. 6, May 1869.) During the Session of 1869, Mr Gladstone disestab- lished the Irish Protestant Church. He stripped her of 26 The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. all her revenues, her parsonages, and her glebes. Now when in the previous year Mr Gladstone stumped the country, he had plainly led people to believe that the Government Romish College of Maynooth would be treated in a manner " precisely parallel " to the Irish Church- that is to say, after providing for life interests, amounting to about 144,000, the College would be stripped of her annual grant of 25,000 (see note at close of 1868), and of her buildings and her land ; but instead thereof, in direct violation of his pledge^ Mr Gladstone gave her, out of the spoils of the Protestant Church, an unconditional sum of 364,000; or, a permanent endowment at five per cent, of 18,000, per annum, without even stipulating that any portion of it should be applied in satisfaction of life-interests. He handed over to her as a free gift the buildings and grounds which had cost the country at least 100,000. He withdrew all the previous supervision which the Government exercised, so that the foreign power of the Papacy remained entirely without control ; and he left almost unaltered the Maynooth Acts, so that this Jesuit seminary was neither disestablished nor disincor- porated. (See the very important and significant May- nooth clauses in Irish Church Bill, and " Compensation and Endowment," p. 29.) Let it be remembered that Mr D' Israeli and his party voted for the disestablishment and disincorporation of May The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 27 nooth ; whereas Mr Gladstone and his followers voted for the maintenance of that Jesuit Seminary. Mr Fawcett, the then Liberal M.P. for Brighton, said in the course of the debute : "I do not object to compensation being given to Roman Catholic students and professors. I would be the last to chaffer about pounds, shillings, and pence; but this is not a question of pounds, shillings, and pence; it involves a great principle. What I say is that this lump sum is NOT a COMPENSATION, BUT an ENDOWMENT." The Protestant Alliance has stated that "Since the Disestablishment of the Protestant Church, its former funds have been devoted almost exclusively to the advancement of Romish interests, in direct violation of the 68th sect, of the Act of 1869." (Pamphlet, p. 6.) In May, 1869, Mr Gladstone's Government forbade a course of Protestant lectures in the Hall at Portsea under a penalty of 100 for the proprietor, and 20 for every person found there. Upon hearing this, the Rev. G. Reynolds, Baptist Minister at Stepney, wrote thus to the Morning Advertiser, on June 3rd : " This fact ought to speak for itself. I am a thorough Liberal, but I cannot sacrifice my Protestant principles to my party. What English Liberal could have conceived that the accession of the Liberals to office would have resulted in such tyranny ? Our politics must now be the Queen of England or the Pope of Rome." On June 14, 1869, a meeting was convened in Bir- mingham, to consider the propriety or non-propriety of 28 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. disestablishing the Irish Protestant Church. Mr Murphy was advertised as one of the speakers. To prevent his being heard, the Mayor of Birmingham illegally arrested him when entering the hall. Mr Glad- stone's Government supported the Mayor in this his anta- gonism to freedom of Protestant speech and to the liberty of the subject. The Mayor was afterwards fined 50 in the law courts for his illegal act. (Hansard, col. 411, July 23, 1869.) In July, 1869, Mr Gladstone voted that the Poor Law Board should have power to remove children from work- house schools, where their religious rights were amply secured, to others not under the control of the Guardians or Parish authorities; and yet the Parishes were to pay rates for each child. This Bill was passed with a view of removing children to Eomish schools. The Marylebone Parochial authorities, among others, bitterly resisted this Bill. (See Parl. Debates, July 6, 1869.) On July 23, 1869, Mr Newdegate moved : " That the right of free speech is one of the most important safeguards of good government, and that attacks upon this right are therefore dangerous to the welfare of the State; that the recent conduct of the Home Secretary in preventing free discus- sion of important topics is, in fact, an attack upon this great safe- guard of freedom, and is therefore deserving reprehension by this House; that this conduct of the Home Secretary has proved especially mischievous, since it has led to breaches of the law on the part of official persons, more particularly by the Mayor of The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 29 Birmingham, who caused the arrest of an innocent person [Mr Murphy] for the purpose of preventing what to him was dis- tasteful discussion." Mr Gladstone's Government brought down their majority and negatived the motion. /'Hansard, col. 610, July 23, 1869.) On July 29, 1869, Mr Newdegate moved for a return of the number of deeds enrolled in connection with Koman Catholic Charities, which hitherto had been exempted from the scrutiny required by Act of Parliament. This return was asked for on account of the evasion of the Mortmain Acts by the creation of secret trusts. Mr Gladstone's Government admitted that " several endowments had been made by Romanists, some legally, and SOME PERHAPS ILLE- GALLY," yet they opposed and voted against the motion.. (Hansard, col. 1014, July 29, 1869.) 1870. On March 29, 187O, Mr Newdegate carried in Parlia- ment a motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into " the existence, character, and increase of conventual and monastic institutions in Great Britain, and into the terms upon which income, property and estates belonging to such institutions, or to members thereof, are respectively received, held or possessed." Mr Gladstone voted as usual against it. (Hansard, col. 891, March 29 1870.) 30 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Referring to the number of petitions presented to the House of Commons in favour of Mr Newclegate's motion, the Roman Catholic Weekly Register of March 26th, 1870, thus wrote : "The Catholics of England are not ashamed of their con- vents ; far from it ; and they would always be glad to obtain admittance for persons who wish to see the interior of such establishments AS ARE NOT CLOISTERED." It is not generally known that " Convents are divided into two classes, open and closed. In the open the inmates have a certain amount of freedom, but the closed or CLOISTERED convent is a living tomb in which women are incarcerated for life. Such convents are surrounded by high walls, the windows barred, and every avenue of escape closed." (English Convents, p. 19. Kensit, Paternoster Row.) In April, 187O, Mr Murphy hired, at Greenwich, a public hall for the purpose of delivering a Protestant lecture. A troop of soldiers, together with 300 police from Scotland Yard, were actually sent to prevent the lecture coming off. They illegally took and kept possession of the hall, refused admittance to Murphy and his friends, and permitted him before their very eyes to be brutally assaulted by a Popish mob. At a public meeting shortly afterwards convened by the Liberals of Greenwich, Mr W. C. Bennett, a Liberal, said : " Instead of securing the safety and rights of the lecturer . . . the police authorities came in force to defend the hall against him. Freedom of speech is the very safeguard of English liberty. The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 31 ... Is Murphy to be gagged and refused the right to utter his opinions under threats of murderous violence ? He has & right to free speech. ..." (Kentish Mercury, April 23, 1870.) The Rev. Mr Davis, Baptist Minister at Greenwich, said : " I have hitherto always worked and voted for Mr Gladstone, but his Government has endeavoured to stifle free discussion on Protestant questions here and elsewhere, and henceforth I shall oppose Mr Gladstone to the utmost of my power." On April 22, 187O, the following letter appeared in the Morning Advertiser from Mr J. Aytoun, Liberal M.P. for Kirkcaldy Burghs : "When Mr Gladstone announced his intention to govern Ireland according to Irish ideas, he soon made known what he meant by this. It was to follow the dictation in every point of Cardinal Cullen and the Romish hierarchy, in order to obtain the quid pro quo, the Ultramontane vote in the House of Commons, in exchange for the most slavish subserviency of the priesthood. Mr Gladstone might, however, we submit, have contented him- self with ruling Ireland according to Irish ideas. This, however, will not satisfy Mephistopheles. Dr Cullen insists upon Eng- land being governed in the same manner, at least in everything which refers to Catholicism. " We have an instance of this in what is now taking place in Greenwich and the other suburbs of London. Mr Murphy, the anti-Popish lecturer, is, by the express order of the Home Secretary, prevented by the police from delivering his lectures in a hall hired and paid for by private parties. Could there be a more outrageous interference with the liberty of public meeting guaranteed to Englishmen by the Bill of Rights ? And what is the pretence for this violation of our legal rights to assemble in public meeting? 'Oh,' says Mr Bruce, the Home Secretary, 32 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. ' it is to prevent a riot.' And who are the rioters ? Why, a set of the lowest St Giles' Irishmen, stirred up by the priests, who insist upon preventing Englishmen from going to a private hall to hear the abuses and corruptions of Popery exposed. " This organised band of ruffians, instead of being at once put down by the batons of the police, as they would have been by every previous Liberal Government, are fostered and encouraged by Mr Bruce, who orders the head of the police to employ his force, not in putting down illegal rioters, but to coalesce with and to carry out the wishes of those rioters, by prohibiting a perfectly legal meeting. " We have really come to a pretty pass. Under the fostering care of Mr Gladstone and Dr Cullen, not only have agrarian assassinations been quadrupled in Ireland, but mob laiv is being established in England. Nor is mob law confined to Greenwich. Nearly the same thing exists in the House of Commons. The Ultramontane members appear to have taken the example of their countrymen of St Giles, and have organised themselves into a regular band of rioters, who yell and howl down every Englishman who dares to advocate the inspection of nunneries, or to support a resolution not agreeable to them and their priests. Who, after these facts, will deny that Ultramontane ascendency under our present precious set of rulers is going ahead apace ? " In IVIay, 187O, Mr Gladstone induced the House ta recall the motion of March 29th. In the course of his speech he said : " I freely grant, when we have in the Emancipation Act of 1829 a distinct enactment affecting the existence of monastic institutions, that very fact is, in the nature of a presumption, in favour of Parliament considering the question. . . . / should be desirous of associating myself rather with those who doubted whether it was desirable to maintain the prohibition con* The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 33 tained in the Emancipation Act." (Hansard, coL 2, May 2 1870.) On May 6, 187O, Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary admitted that lotteries were illegal, and " that some of the Roman Catholic lotteries were conducted in a manner that had a tendency to promote a spirit of gambling," yet that " he did not think it was the duty of Government to take the same steps which they would do if the more immediate object of (these Romish) lotteries were gambling instead of the promotion of charitable objects." In plain words, as the debate showed, the Government enforced the law against all kinds of illegal lotteries, eoccept Romish ones; these they shielded. Mr Aytoun inquired whether he rightly understood Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary to say "that it was within the power, and consistent with the duty of his office, to- determine when the law, as laid down in a particular Act of Parliament should, and when it should not, be enforced." The Home Secretary actually replied that Mr Aytoun " had put a very accurate interpretation upon his language." (Hansard, col. 57, May 6, 1870.) In June, 187O, Mr Gladstone's Government revoked the exclusion of Romish priests, Jesuits, and Friars from the Government Council at Malta. (Protestant Alliance Paper, July 1, 1870.) July, 187O. Mr Gladstone's Ministry brought in the 84 The Pro-Eoinish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Irish Glebe Loan Bill very late in the session of 1870, although Mr Gladstone confessed that it " might easily have been introduced at an earlier period." Mr Maguire, a Roman Catholic M.P., practically admitted that the object in so doing was to prevent the Protestant Public having time to send up Petitions against it. In this manner various measures were passed after Members had left town, or had become wearied and exhausted by inces- sant watchings. This Act gave a very large endowment to Romanism in Ireland, since doubtless its provisions would be so applied as to assist in the building and extending of convents and monasteries, should it be made out that any of these places constituted a dwelling-house for a priest. It obtained the Royal Assent on August 10th, 1870. In September, 187O 7 H. M. S. " Defence " arrived at Civita Vecchia, having on board 450 soldiers. The captain landed, and went to Rome to deliver despatches from Mr Gladstone's Government. He had an audience of the Pope. The Vatican affirmed that the "Defence" had come prepared to receive the Pope on board, and convey him to Malta. (The Roman Correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, quoted in the Rock, Sept. 6th, 1870.) On November 23, 187O, Mr Gladstone liberated certain Fenians, confined in Portland Prison. One of these, Luby, was convicted of treason-felony at Dublin in November 1865, and sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. Another, The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 35 O'Donovan Rossa, was convicted of the same offence on December 9, 1865, and sentenced to penal servitude for life, He was the advocate of arson and murder, and the organiser of dynamite outrages. These two men, together with Devoy, Sheridan, Egan, and others, making some twenty-five in all, were liberated by Mr Gladstone, who stated that he thought the release of these R. C. Fenian convicts was "perfectly compatible with the paramount interests of public safety." * (Times, June 7, 1887. See also Gladstone's Almanack, September 7.). Mr Gladstone's Secretary for the Home Department, admitted that " The Irish Fenian prisoners lately confined at Portland . . . were kept separate from other prisoners . . . the labour to which they were put was of the lightest kind assigned to prisoners ; but their frequent insubordination, and consequent punishment, made it very difficult for the Government to obtain any work from them . . . [yet] they received more letters than the other prisoners ..." * The Fenian oath was read before the House of Commons in 1867, and contained such language as this : " I swear by the Almighty God, by the blessed and Holy Prayer Book of my Holy [?] Church, by the Blessed Virgin Mary ... to fight till I die, wading in the fields of the red gore of the Saxon tyrants, for the glorious Cause of Nationality; and when the English Pro- testant robbers shall all be murdered, we shall then embark for and take England, and shall wade in the blood of all Orangemen and heretics who do not join us and become one of ourselves." Such was the oath taken by the men whom Mr Gladstone thought it was perfectly safe to the public to set free. 36 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. He also stated that the Government had released these Popish niffians before their time had expired, had given them each 5 pocket money, and had paid their fare, second class, to America!! (See Hansard, February 1871, vol. 204, coL 165.) How different the treatment these Romish Fenians received to that meted out to Mackay, a loyal and God-fearing Protestant ! As also to that meted out to discharged labourers of Woolwich Dockyard, who, in 1870, asked assistance to enable them to emigrate, and were refused by Mr Gladstone's Government. (Let the reader note the paragraph which follows after March 1881.) In November, 187O, Mr Gladstone himself wrote thus to Mr Dease, a Romish M.P. : " Downing Street, Nov. 30, 1870. " SIR, . . . Her Majesty's Government consider all that relates to the adequate support of the dignity of the Pope, and to his personal freedom and independence in the discharge of his spiri- tual functions, to be legitimate matter for their notice. Indeed, without waiting for the occurrence of any actual necessity, they have during the uncertainties of the past few months taken upon themselves to make provision [the sending a frigate to Civita Vecchia] which would have tended to afford any necessary pro- tection to the person of the Sovereign Pontiff . . ." Mr Kinnaird, a Liberal M.P., remarked that the above- letter " Supplied topics for deep anxiety, in so much as it ... con- veys the personal feelings of Mr Gladstone . . . For his Govern- ment to desire tho maintenance in dignity of a power necessarily The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 37 antagonistic to a Protestant throne, unless that throne bows to its decrees, and thereby ceases its own protest for independence, is, I think, a subject for anxious thought on the part of the country." The Daily News, as quoted in the Irish Church Ad- vocate of January 2, 1871, said : " Many will not easily be reconciled to the doctrine that the- independence of the Pope's spiritual functions is a matter that concerns H.M. Government. They will ask what Mr Gladstone can possibly have to do with the Pope's spiritual functions . . . His letter is as favourable to the memorialists as if the first Minister of the first Catholic State in the Europe of the present day had penned it" December 8, 187O. The following appeared in the Standard of February 8, 1871 : " SIR, A letter purporting to be from the Pope to Mr Glad- stone, is being circulated privately, and a copy has been sent me. The Pope in it thanks Mr Gladstone ' for the eminent services rendered by you to us, and to that holy religion, the interest of which it is our chief duty to advance.' It goes on to say that the Pope had been apprised ' of the dexterous manner in which the English sectaries and Scotch politicians, though inimical to each other, have, mainly by your influence, been induced in your National Council to combine for the present weakening and eventual destruction of our ancient enemies the pretended Churches of England, Ireland and Scotland.' It thanks Mr Gladstone for having raised so many Roman Catholics to the peerage for having raised to an important post in Ireland a near relation of Cardinal Cullen and for his intention ' to receive into the Council Chamber of your Cabinet our trusty and well- beloved son, William Monsell, of the Kingdom of Ireland'; and in conclusion bestows upon Mr Gladstone the Apostolic blessing 40G177 38 The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. " The copy before me purports to be testified to by ' Daniel Gilbert, V.G., John Rowse, D.D., Archbishop's House, 8 York Street, Portman Square, Dec. 8, 1870.' " " A note is added to the effect that ' the publication of the Brief of Nov. 25, 1870, would at the present time be productive of much harm and disaster, and that it should be communicated, if at all, exclusively to the faithful.' The note bears the signa- tures of Cardinal Cullen, the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Petre, Lord O'Hagan, Mr Monsell, Sir George Bowyer, and Mr Hope Scott, Q.C., and is dated Stafford Club, Dec. 21, 1870. " Now, sir, if this letter be a forgery, then it is right that these gentlemen, whose signatures are so unwarrantably being used, should have an opportunity of repudiating it. On the other hand, if the letter be true, the sooner the electors of England and Scotland know of it the better. Your obedient servant, A PLAIN ENGLISHMAN." "Pall Mall, Feb. 7, 1871." Dr Manning's secretary, as might be expected, said " that the document was an imposture " ; but he took no notice whatever of the significance of the signatures in the appended note, which remained unrepudiated. In December, 187O, Mr Gladstone appointed Monsell, a Roman Catholic pervert, as Postmnster-General. This appointment took place immediately after the acquisition by the Government of all the telegraphic communications of the country. Connected with the post was immense patronage. (Standard, January 10, 1871.) In 187O, Mr Gladstone's Government passed laws conceding to the Romish Hierarchy in the Colonies extensive privileges as to the possession of landed property ; and The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 39 interfering, as in Trinidad, with the law of marriage so as to perpetuate concubinage, and encourage immorality. (Protestant Alliance Paper, p. 5, Session of 1874.) 1871. On January 13, 1871, the Morning Advertiser thus wrote : " We have received a letter referring to the incarceration in Winchester Gaol for 15 months, with hard labour, of Mr G. Mackayv for selling the Confessional Unmasked. Mr Mackay, it appears, had given three out of a series of five lectures (August 22-24, 1870) in the town of Lymington, on Popery, when his lectures were stopped by the Mayor, a Roman Catholic, and he was prosecuted and convicted for selling the pamphlet in question . . . which was simply, as far as we know, a reproduction of certain things taught by Roman Catholic priests to those who are intended to deal with Roman Catholic women in the Confessional. The passages given are passages from Roman Catholic books of instruction [used in the training of Roman Catholic students at Maynooth] . . . The sentence upon Mr Mackay appears to us to be both illogical and arbitrary, and more worthy of the dispensa- tion against which United Italy has just risen in newborn liberty ... than of the institutions and traditions of free Protestant England." Petitions signed by many thousand persons were for- warded praying for inquiry into Mackay 's case, with a view to his release ; but Mr Gladstone's Government declined to act. One of Mr Gladstone's constituents wrote to him saying : " That to allow Mr Mackay to remain in prison, under the peculiar circumstances connected with his trial, was an act of deep 40 The Pro Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. injustice, especially ivhen Fenian prisoners who would dethrone Her Majesty have been liberated, and that with a bonus" Mr Newdegate, on August 8, 1871, brought the matter before the notice of Parliament. He concluded his speech with these words : " Mackay, who is now in prison, is a poor man, and his friends believed and hoped that the power of remission would be exer- cised in his favour, the more so after Sir Thomas Henry decided that the illegality of the pamphlet which Mackay had sold >was so questionable that it should be referred to the superior courts of law. But the Home Secretary, who is ready to remit the punishment of [Roman Catholic] murderers, is so bitterly adverse to the refutation of these Romish doctrines that he is deaf to every solicitation of mercy, and determined that this sentence shall be pursued to its bitter extremity." Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary, in replying, said "there was no ground for his interference ;" and so Mackay, the Protestant lecturer, was allowed to linger in gaol for fifteen months. (Hansard, col. 1176, August 8, 1871.) On, or about, January 17, 1871, a Roman Catholic reunion meeting was held in the Town Hall, Birmingham. The Roman Catholic Bishop Ullathorne moved a resolution denouncing the invasion of Rome and the Pontifical States as a " sacrilegious usurpation of the Temporal Power of the Sovereign Pontiff," with the usual et ceteras, and winding up, amidst loud cheers, by further moving that a copy of the resolution be sent to the Prime Minister, Mr Gladstone. Mr R. Berkley, jun., in seconding the resolution, said : The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone,. 41 " If Mr Gladstone was as good as Ids word he would exercise his great influence to secure the spiritual independence of the Holy See, and he would find no other means of doing so than by securing the temporal independence also." (See " Mr Gladstone and the Birmingham Protestant Association," p. 8, No. III.) In February, 1871, Mr Gladstone voted against a motion that a copy of his pro-Popery letter to Mr E. Dease, the member for Queen's County, should be laid before the House. "He adhered to the proposition it contained." (Hansard, col. 649, February 21, 1871.) On March 17, 1871, Mr Gladstone voted, as usual, against a motion for an inquiry being made into Con- ventual and Monastic Institutions. (Hansard, col. 179, March 17, 1871.) On April 4, 1871, Mr J. B. Smith, on behalf of the Glossop Protestant Defence Society, in a letter to Mr Gladstone, recounted various actions which awakened strong suspicions of his being a Roman Catholic : amongst others "his acceptance of a co-trusteeship with a Roman Cardinal for the using of vast funds to spread Popery in England" For, according to the Rock, the late Mr Blundell, of Ince, a few years before disposed of the sum of 200,000 for promoting the spread of Romish doctrines and dogmas in England ; and had placed this sum, solely for that purpose, under the control and management of two trustees, viz., Cardinal Weld, of Rome, and the Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone. To Mr Smith's letter the following reply was received : 42 The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. "10 Downing Street, Whitehall, 10th April, 1871. "SiR, In your letter of the 4th inst. . . . you allude to Mr Gladstone's acceptance of a co-trusteeship with a Romish Cardinal, for the using of vast funds in efforts to spread Romanism in England. May I inquire the meaning of this passage, and ask whether you possess any evidence of its truth ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, ALGERNON WEST." To Mr Gladstone's Secretary, Mr Smith thus replied on April 11, 1871: " SIR, ... I would respectfully submit that you have no right to evidence in support of a statement, unless that statement is denied. DOES MR GLADSTONE DENY IT? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, T. B. SMITH." No answer was returned by Mr Gladstone. The tenor of Mr Gladstone's inquiry of April 1 0, and his after silence, appears to give his own confirmation of the truth of the allegation made. An allegation more damaging to his character it is impossible to conceive. On February 27, 1871, during the debate on the Eccle- siastical Titles Act Repeal, Mr Charley, M.P., said : "An opinion was gaining ground out of doors that in his efforts to ' subdue and subjugate and break down ' the will of the people, Archbishop Manning had a willing ally in the Prime Minister of England. When a question was put to Mr Gladstone, whether he had lately become reconciled to the Church of Rome why did he shuffle with the question, instead of giving it a straightforward denial like an Englishman, if it were not true ? .... Would he were a member of the Church of Rome, for then he could not do half the evil he had done to Protestantism as a The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 43 [professed] member of a Protestant Church." (Hansard, col. 787, February 27, 1871.) On April 20, 1871, Mr Murphy, when peaceably lec- turing in his own hired hall at Whitehaven, was savagely attacked by an Irish mob. This brutal mob marched into the town, a distance of some five miles, and went straight into the hall half-an-hour before the time of meeting. It dragged Murphy down six flights of steps, stoned him, trampled on him, bespattered the walls with his blood, and left him for dead. After lingering in great pain for a few months, he died from the injuries received. Some of his Popish murderers were tried, and sentenced to imprison- ment, but before their short sentence expired, Mr Gladstone's Government interfered, and released them from prison, just as it had done six months before to their Fenian co-religionists in Portland Gaol. The Morning Advertiser, referring to Murphy's murder, said : " Either owing to the political necessities of Mr Gladstone, or some deeper and more mysterious cause, we are now living in this Protestant country under Romish intimidation . . . The meetings and processions of Romanists are not stopped by the Executive, but the commemorations of Protestants are." The Standard said : " There may be differences of opinion as to the wisdom of Mr Murphy's proceedings, but if he or any other man cannot deliver a lecture within the walls of some private building (to which 44 I'he Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. people need not go if they choose) without the risk of being mobbed and murdered, the boasted liberty of England is not worth much." (Standard, April 24, 1871.) The Daily News observed that : " The death of Murphy was an event disgraceful to our social position, and under every aspect deplorable." (Daily News, March 14, 1872.) May, 1871. Mr Gladstone, on Mr Miall's motion for the Disestablishment of the English Protestant Church, termed the Church of Rome " the WISE communion of the Latin Church." He also intimated a decided inclina- tion to give free scope to "Latin" usages, and Ritualistic opinions, when he added : " Yet, undoubtedly, the temper in which our divisions are handled has reached a degree of excitement and almost intoler- ance which has resulted in constant efforts to bring them to the issue of judicial sentences, aiming at a compulsory enforcement of usages or opinions in a manner, and to an extent, which is calculated to greatly darken the future prospects of the Church." (Record, May 10, 1871.) On June 16, 1871, Mr Gladstone voted against the " provisions of the Lottery Acts being impartially enforced by H. M. Government against illegal lotteries, irrespective of their objects, in all parts of the United Kingdom." The debate showed that Mr Gladstone's vote told directly in favour of the aggrandisement of the Church of Rome. (Hansard, vol. 207, col. 171.) In 1871, Mr Gladstone's Government constituted the The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 45 Romish Bishop in Trinidad a body corporate, in whom Roman Catholic church property should be vested and yet repealed a similar arrangement in connection with our Protestant Church in that island. (See Returns presented to House of Commons, June 27, 1873.) This favouring of Rome, and denying equality to the Church of England, Mr Gladstone's Government called "religious equality in Trinidad." In July, 1871, Mr Gladstone repealed the Ecclesiastical Titles Act of 1851. In the course of the debates Mr Gladstone said : " He was himself one of the strongest opponents of the original [Pro-Protestant] enactment." (Hansard, col. 1960, June 13, 1871.) By the repeal of this Act the Romish Church is placed in a more favourable position than that of any other ecclesiastical body in the kingdom. For example, if the "Wesleyans appointed a person who assumed the title of Bishop of London it would be illegal. On Feb. 13, 1871, the Religious Disabilities Abolition Bill was brought in by various Romish Members. Its ob- ject was to repeal certain Protestant safeguards, and to open the offices of the Lord Chancellor of England and of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to Papists ; also to legal- ise Monastic institutions and the existence of Jesuit and other religious orders, and bequests for superstitious uses. Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary spoke in favour of the 46 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. measure, and of every proposal in the Bill, except that in reference to the Lord Chancellor. The Bill, however, was for a while withdrawn. (Press and St James s Chronicle, April 27, 1872.) On 27th March, 1871, Mr Gladstone's Government "brought into the House of Commons the " Prison Min- isters Bill." Its object was to compel magistrates and other prison authorities, under a severe penalty, to appoint Popish priests as chaplains to every prison in the kingdom which might have ten R.C. prisoners. The salaries, the premises, the furniture, the Mass appurtenances were to T)e provided out of the public rates ! It was computed that this would have cost the country an endowment to Popery of 40,000 a year. On account of the opposition, the Government withdrew the Bill for a season. In August, 1871, Mr Gladstone strongly opposed Fawcett's Irish Bill, which gave religious equality in matters of education. Eeplying to Mr Gladstone, Mr W. Vernon Harcourt said : " I have listened to Mr Gladstone's speech with the deepest regret ... he has fired the whole six barrels of his ultramon- tane [Jesuit] revolver in the faces of those who supported Mr Fawcett's Bill." (Times, August 3, 1871.) The Presbyterian, the organ of the Free Church party, in commenting on Mr Gladstone having frustrated Faw- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 47 cett's Bill for the abolition of all religious tests in Trinity College, Dublin, said : " There are circumstances in connection with the conduct of (Mr Gladstone's) Government which cannot but give rise to un- easy suspicions on the part of all true friends of religious freedom and equality ... it is impossible to read Mr Gladstone's pain- fully ambiguous speech without feeling a strong suspicion that an attempt will be made to secure religious equality in the higher education of Ireland on the principle of levelling up ; as a protest against which Mr Gladstone's supporters were returned to Parlia- ment . . . the policy hinted at is one which the people of Scot- land, at least, will not tolerate for a single moment . . . Scotch- men will not easily acquiesce in the new doctrine that political justice is to have one meaning in dealing with Protestants, and a very different meaning in dealing with Roman Catholics." (Presbyterian, September, 1871.) In August, 1871, at the very close of the session, when the House was empty, Mr Gladstone's Government introduced and carried in eleven days a Bill entitled " Eeductio ex capite lecti." The title of the Bill pre- vented its nature being understood. During all its stages in the House of Commons no report of it was made in the newspapers, and every stage was passed at a very early hour in the morning, when the House was empty. This Bill abolished the whole law of Mortmain, and deprived Scotland of her most important safeguard against the accumulation of property for superstitious purposes, in the form of bequests on death-beds, made under undue priestly or other influence. Mr Newdegate, in his speech of Feb- 48 '^ Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. ruary 26, 1869, made remarkable statements showing how Romish priests get money from the dying. (Hansard, Aug. 14, 1871.) In 1871, Mr Gladstone's Government interfered with the Italian Government on behalf of Popery, as regards the Pope's residence, monastic property, Peter's pence or the Papal Treasury, Jesuit students, etc., etc. (See Despatches laid before Parliament in 1871.) 1872. On March 23, 1872, the Press and St James's Chronicle thus wrote about the burial of Mr Murphy : " On Monday last the remains of the late William Murphy were interred in the Old Cemetery, Key Hill, Birmingham. At one time the concourse of persons assembled in the streets is said to have numbered 40,000. The mourners, and particularly the widow of the murdered man, were grossly, and even obscenely t insulted by crowds of Irish Roman Catholic women and men. A riot was prevented by the surveillance and interposition of the police. What was William Murphy's offence ? He was a fearless, outspoken Protestant, who obeyed the law. Who were they that thus outraged decency at the burial of his remains ? They were priest-taught, priest-directed Roman Catholic Irish- men. They rejoiced at his death, and would have trampled his dead body in the streets of Birmingham, as did their brethren the living body of their victim at Whitehaven. There is mani- fested in these proceedings a diabolical spirit of hatred and malice, subversive of all morality and decency. The principal blame lies not with these infuriated mobs, but with those who have taught them ; those who profess to have control over them, the Roman Catholic priests. If a Roman Catholic, obnoxious to Protestants, were being buried, it is morally certain that English- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 49 men would not insult the mourners, and cry for vengeance even at the grave. These ignorant and brutal Irishmen confer an unintentional honour on the dead, they acknowledge his power. He was honest and earnest, and these are, after all, sterner virtues than prudence and discretion. Out of William Murphy's life and labours some important lessons may be learned. Are the principles of English law and freedom to succumb before Irish mobs in England ? Are magistrates to be tolerated who fear to protect a subject of the Crown in the lawful exercise of his unquestionable rights ? Is a Home Secretary, who, asked for the means of protecting life, and refuses to give it, to be exonerated from blame, when death indirectlg folloivs as a consequence of such refusal ? These are some of the topics to be considered. More than a year ago, we explained the law in William Murphy's case, and forecast the possible consequences of Mr Bruce's conduct. They unfortunately have been literally ful- filled. The Home Secretary's pusillanimity has weakened the respect for law, and encouraged violence against free discussion." In 1872, Mr Gladstone appointed Mr Montague Bernard to a seat on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, just on the very eve of the Council pronouncing judgment upon the doctrine of the so-called " Eeal Pre- sence " as held by Mr Bennett, a Ritualist. At such a juncture this was a most flagrant appointment, and clearly made in the interests of Mr Bennett. For, firstly, Mr Bernard was an extreme High Churchman and a contri- butor to the Guardian, and believed to have pronounced views in favour of the very doctrine on which he was about to pronounce judgment ; and, secondly, Mr Glad- stone had acted as Bennett's champion when, years before D 50 The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. (according to the Rock) his semi-Romish doings were exposed in Parliament by Mr Horsman. Yet, further, Mr Gladstone had evidenced his own sympathy in the Real Presence doctrine by the fact of having privately assisted Archdeacon Denison with his advice, when the latter was tried before the Spiritual Courts and condemned for holding that same Romish doctrine ; as the reader will see by referring back to the year 1856. In July, 1872, Mr Gladstone stated : " That there were provisions of the law which are directed against certain orders [the Jesuits] of the Roman Church . . . but the non-enforcement of the law having been endured for forty-three years, he failed to see why it could not be endured a little longer." (Times, July 24, 1872.) July, 1872. Mr Gladstone's Government had, as it was asserted in Parliament, illegally appointed Mr C. Jervoise its diplomatic agent to the Pope. On the 30th of July, Mr Monk therefore called the attention of the House to the deception practised in reference to this Mission, and which was calculated to mislead Parlia- ment into the belief that no money vote was required. Similar deception was afterwards, in 1885, practised in connection with Mr Errington's Mission to the Pope. (Hansard, July 30, 1872.) On August 8, 1872, the Rev. R. O'Keefe, a Roman Catholic priest fighting against the tyranny of Cardinal Cullen, wrote to Mr Gladstone ; he closed his letter thus : The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 51 "I laughed at Cardinal Cullen's attempts to degrade me before I committed a fault, but when the Prime Minister of England allows public boards to degrade tne, after being in- formed I got no trial, I submit to my fate, and content myself with praying that Almighty God may open the eyes of the blind. Lynch law has failed to strike me down when my assailant was a minister of the Church, but when a minister of the State inflicts the blow, I readily bite the dust. Other tyrants I can fight and conquer, but if a Prime Minister of England will use might against right, ' Oh ! it is excellent To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.' "Callan, Ireland, August 8, 1872." With reference to this case, Cardinal Cullen, under a Papal rescript, pronounced judgment on O'Keefe, with- out trial ; and actually tivo public departments of the State proceeded to enforce his decision, and condemned OKeefe without hearing his defence. That rescript, of course, had no force or validity within the Queen's realm, yet Mr Gladstone's Romish Lord Chancellor of Ireland pleaded in the law courts that the Pope's rescript ivas legal, and gave him direct jurisdiction within the British dominions ! In October, 1872, Mr Gladstone's Government inter- fered with the due course of law in preventing a Romish priest named Jansen being tried for smuggling four and .a-half pounds of tobacco, and thirty-one pounds of cigars liable to 23 duty. The judge before whom he was 52 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. brought protested against the interference. (See Daily Telegraph, October 29, 1872.) On January 2, 1873, the Pall Mall concluded an editorial article upon the subject, " Why is Mr Gladstone hated ? " as follows : " Having thus rejected the Spectator's reasons why Mr Glad- stone is hated, it is only right that we should offer our own ex- planation of why he is distrusted and disliked . . . most of our objections will be founded on certain tendencies of ecclesiasticism ... its impatient despotic temper, its too ingenious subtleties . . . its intellectual unscrupulousness, the facility for which it imposes untruth for truth on the mind of him who is given over to its influence, and the mischief which the domination of such a spirit naturally brings into the daily work and the practical life of a nation." (Quoted in " Potters Startling Facts," p. 17.) In February, 1873, Mr Gladstone introduced hie University Education (Ireland) Bill. To meet Romish ecclesiastical prejudices he excluded moral philosophy and modern history, and actually permitted students to pro- ceed to a degree, even though they adopted " any par- ticular theory in preference to any other received theory." He further gave " the Council of the University power to question, reprimand, or punish by suspension, deprivation, or otherwise, any professor, teacher ... in the Univer- sity who . . . may by word of mouth, writing, or other- wise, be held by them to have wilfully given offence to the religious convictions of the University." (Hansard, The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 53 col. 378, Feb. 13, 1873.) This savoured of the Inquisi- tion indeed ! A writer in the Daily News, said : " The Irish R. C. Hierarchy . . . will gladly accept a scheme which hands over the National University of Ireland to their supreme guidance and control." (Daily News, Feb. 18, 1873.) With reference to this Bill, Air Chichester Fortescue, a Liberal, said it would in a few years give the Roman Church in Ireland complete control of University educa- tion. Mr Fawcett, a Liberal, said : " It was evident Mr Gladstone had devoted much labour to the measure." And after referring to the fact that Cardinal Cullen threatened to exclude from the Sacraments any who attended the Queen's Colleges in Ireland, Mr Fawcett added : " Was there ever a more cruel, cowardly, and inhuman de- nunciation uttered ? . . . This cruel and cowardly policy, he regretted, had been aided and abetted by a Liberal Government. . . . The Council (of the new University) would have to carry out provisions which would exclude almost every branch of learning . . . Never before were such propositions brought for- ward by any Government, even in the most despotic country, as those proposals to exclude certain subjects from the University curriculum, and to impose the most degrading censorship ever thought of upon the professors . . . Surely you are never going to pass a Bill by which the teaching of modern history, moral and mental philosophy is prohibited ? " (Times, March 4, 1873.) 54 The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Mr Horsman, a Liberal, said : " I think it is a pity the Government did not follow in the footsteps of Sir G. Grey and Lord Mayo, whose communications with R. C. prelates were open and above board . . . No one can read this Bill without seeing in every clause evidence of confi- dential communications and understandings. The gagging clauses, which have aroused such strong comment, were not the work of any Protestant draughtsman. They, with other parts of the Bill, bear evidence of a joint workmanship . . . The Bill deserves the description given of it by Mr Fawcett, that its effect, as framed by Government, would be to place all higher education in Ireland in the hands of the priests . . . The Bill has been framed rather with a view to conciliate the R.C. Bishops than of advancing the true interests of education ... I never had any sympathy with the No Popery cry, but I draw a distinction between Roman Catholicism as a religion and Roman Catholicism as a policy. When it ceases to be a creed, and becomes a statecraft, then I am justified in dealing with the aggression of the Roman Catholic priesthood and their denial of the supremacy of the State.'* Tinies, March 7, 1873.) The Times, referring to remarks made by the Edin- burgh Review, said : "In presenting his Irish University Bills, Mr Gladstone is declared to have fully redeemed the pledges he had given to the Irish Catholic party ; but what is this Irish Catholic party, according to the Reviewer's own account of it ? On the page immediately preceding that where credit is taken for Mr Glad- stone for having fulfilled his pledges to the Irish Catholics, we find it thus written: 'The pretensions put forward of late years, with increasing strength, by the ultramontane clergy and their adherents, are, in truth, inconsistent with all civil allegiance. No man can serve two masters. They are avowedly the subjects of Rome, and the Pope is their sovereign. They The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 55 claim for this principle the sanctity of a religious doctrine. We hold it to be simply a political usurpation in the disguise of a religious doctrine ; but, whatever it may be, it is a doctrine which no considerations will ever induce the people of this country to submit to, because it is opposed to the first prin- ciples of national independence, civil equality, and constitutional freedom ! ' " It 'was, then, by the Reviewer's own showing, to the party whose principles are ' inconsistent with all civil allegiance ' who are the subjects of the Pope who are political usurpers who hold a doctrine opposed to the first principles of national independence, civil equality, and constitutional freedom, that Mr Gladstone gave a pledge, and whom he sought to please. " What more do we want to condemn the Irish University Bill to prove that it was no ' inconsiderable dispute ' which led to the late ministerial crisis ? " (Times, April 23, 1873.) In March, 1873, so wrote Lord R. Montagu, M.P. : " During the debate on the second reading of the Irish Educa- tion Bill, Cardinal Manning was in constant attendance in the House of Commons, and was continually receiving notes, in pencil, from Mr Gladstone. One of these was shown to me. It was written in very friendly terms, and spoke of the embroglio which: the debate had got into . . . Manning then told me that he had advised Gladstone to give appointments to Mr James, Mr W. Vernon Harcourt, and to Dr Playfair, ' in order to do away with the suspicion*)/ Mr Gladstone's Catholic tendencies.' " (Lord R. Montagu, M.P., English Churchman, p. 289, June 11, 1885.) In March, 1873, Mr Gladstone presented 50 from, the Royal Bounty Fund to the Rev. S. Baring-Gould, for the purchase of books necessary for the prosecution of his work on the lives of the saints, in which he speaks of the " miserable apostacy of the so-called Reformation," and 56 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. exalts the order of the Jesuits. (See Pall Mall, March 21, 1873 ; Guardian, March 26, 1873.) The Roman Catholic Tablet, of July 27, 1872, in a notice of a first volume of this book, observed : " It is almost impossible to believe when reading these lives that they are not written by a Catholic." And Catholic Opinion of January 18, 1873, said: " We cannot but marvel at the Providence of God . . . where- by He uses the ministration of those outside the visible fold, in order gradually to leaven with Catholic doctrine thousands who would never have read a Catholic book, or listened to a Catholic priest." In May, 1873, the Gazzetta d'ltalia complained of the attitude which the representatives of Mr Gladstone's Government, in Italy and at the Vatican, had taken up with regard to the religious corporations in Rome. The Gazzetta thought it a shame that Great Britain should forget its traditional policy to pay court to the Pope, and hoped that Parliament would interfere in the matter. . In June, 1873, the Father Provincial of the Jesuits in England thus wrote to Lord R. Montagu, M.P. : "My own opinion is that if Home Rule can be gained, it would certainly be a great step towards the destruction of Pro- testant ascendency; and from what I have heard, I imagine that Mr Gladstone and Lord Granville would not feel themselves bound to oppose it, if they saw sufficient earnestness in the cry for Home Rule." (Recent Events, p. 112.) In July. 1873, Mr Gladstone opposed a Bill brought The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 57 In for the official inspection of monasteries and of con- vents, in many of which women are immured for life. (Parliamentary Debates, July 2, 1873.) 1869 to 1873. During these years, whilst Mr Glad- stone was in power, a reduction of the grants was made in several of the Colonies to the Church of England and other denominations. On the other hand, the recognition and endowment of the Church of Rome was authorised in many places where it had not been endowed before; and in the endowments already existing, an increase was sanctioned. (Hansard, July 15, 1873, and Parliamentary Returns, No. 269, 1871 ; No. 259, 1873.) 1874. On March 14, 1874, Lord R. Montagu, M.P., wrote to Cardinal Manning : " Perhaps your Grace will let me hear whether Mr Gladstone has been to see you, and what he thinks of speaking in favour of Religious Education in Ireland in such a way as to force the Nonconformists to drop off from him ..." The Cardinal replied : "I saw Mr Gladstone at his house last week. Nothing definite passed about education ; but what was said was in the sense of maintaining Denominational National Schools." (English Churchman, June 11, 1885.) In July, 1874, Mr Gladstone, being then out of office, opposed to the utmost of his power the passing of Disraeli's Public "Worship Bill, which was introduced for the pur- 58 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. pose of checking Romish practices in the Church of England. His speech against the measure was distinguished for its extreme hostility; and the Resolutions proposed by him proclaimed " that free licence should be given to Romish innovations." So spoke Sir W. Vernon Harcourt. To strengthen his case, Mr Gladstone, in one of his speeches, actually quoted in Latin a passage from a Roman Canonist, Van Espen. Sir W. V. Harcourt thus replied : " They were told that the resolution could not be accepted be- cause it was contrary to the opinion of the Canonists .... The principle of the Reformation and constitution of this country had been founded upon a repudiation of the doctrine of the Canonists. The Canon Law was fulminated from the Vatican. It was the law of Ultramontanisrn, and was adverse to the principles of the National Church in every country in Europe. Ifc was the law which, in order to found the Reformation, it was necessary to re- pudiate .... To hear a Canonist quoted as an authority against the legislation of Parliament was enough to make the bones of Lord Coke turn in his grave .... The relations of the Bishops were to be governed upon one proper consideration of the law of the Queen." (Times, Aug. 1, 1874.)* * In a letter to the Times, Sir W. V Harcourt wrote : " I know that Ultramontanism is struggling in the nineteenth, as it did in the sixteenth century in England as it is in the rest of Europe for supremacy over*the*civil powers. I earnestly hope that the statesmen of the reign of Victoria will have the wisdom and the courage to crush it as they did in the days of Elizabeth.'* It would be well if Sir W. Harcourt acted out his own words in the matter of Romish Home Rule. The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 59 The Times termed Mr Gladstone's speech "About the most destructive ever made by a man, whose words are really weapons for good or for ill" The Pall Mall said that " The resolutions which Mr Gladstone submitted to the House prove to demonstration what many observers of his life, writings and political course have long suspected ; that he is a Liberal only because certain consequences of policy to which the Liberal party is committed will, if followed out with reserve, lead to the triumph of Sacerdotalism." (Pall Mall, July 21, 1874.) It should be remembered that, on account of Mr Glad- stone's persistent opposition, the Episcopal Veto was intro- duced into Mr Disraeli's Public Worship Bill, otherwise the measure could not have been carried that session. This Veto has enabled sympathising Bishops to save Ritualistic law-breakers from being prosecuted. In October, 1874, Mr Gladstone brought out his "Vatican Decrees," in which to the world generally he seemed to pose as, after all, a good Protestant ; but in real truth the pamphlet was written (so Cardinal Manning in- formed Lord R. Montagu, M.P.) to avert the storm which had already begun to brew against him on account of his Romish tendencies. The correctness of the information given is confirmed by p. 56 of the pamphlet, if it be read between the lines, and by p. 61, which states that of what had been done " he regretted nothing, he recanted nothing." Indeed, how is it possible to reconcile Mr 60 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Gladstone's description of the Jesuits as "the deadliest foes that mental and moral liberty have ever known" (p. 58), with the fact, that in the previous Parliament he advocated the removal of all, even of Jesuit disabilities, from the Catholic Relief Act of 1829. Mr Gladstone's actions belie his words. (See English Churchman, June 11, 1885.) With regard to this pamphlet, the Northern Whig, an ultra-Gladstonian but honest paper, said : " There is nothing distinctly Protestant in the position Mr Gladstone has assumed." Also, Sir G. Bowyer, M.P., a Roman Catholic, writing to the Times, in November, 1874, said : " Four years have elapsed since the Vatican Council During that period Mr Gladstone was Prime Minister .... why did he not call attention to the portentous matters which he has pub- lished regarding the effect of the decrees of that Council on the allegiance of H.M.'s Catholic subjects and the serenity of the realm ? Why did he not propose some measure in Parliament calculated to meet the dangers ^vhich now alarm him ? During all the time referred to he held his peace." (" Potter's Startling Facts," p. 19.) On November 6, 1874, the Rock remarked : "Mr Gladstone, when in London, worships at All Saints, Margaret Street This is not his parish church, therefore the ritual there may be supposed to be that which the ex-Premier prefers. It is no secret that the ceremonial enacted in that church is of the description designated by Mr Disraeli as the Mass in masquerade." (Rock, November 6, 1874.) The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 61 1875. In July, 1875, Mr Gladstone wrote : Some "think that bold changes in the law and constitu- tion of the Church in the direction of developed Protestantism would bring within its borders a large proportion of the people, my own opinion is the reverse of this" " Unhappily men of no small account announce that they care not for the sign, they must deal with the thing signified. They desire the negation, by authority, of the doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ, and of the Eucharistic Sacrifice ; negations which are synonymous with the disruption of the English Church." " There are even those in the English Church who urge with sincerity, and with im- punity, the duty of preaching the Real Absence." " It appears rather difficult to sustain the proposition that the surplice when used excludes all the more elaborate vestments." " The present position of the altars." (Contemporary Review, July 1875 > pp. 207, 210, 211, 216.) From the preceding extract, we infer that Mr Glad- stone holds the Pro-Popery doctrines of the " Keal Presence of Christ " in the consecrated elements, and of " the Eucharistic Sacrifice," although these Doctrines are re- pudiated by the Church of England ; and further, that he approves of those "elaborate vestments" and "altars," which the highest Court of the realm has declared illegal in the English Church. 1876. In June, 1876, Mr Gladstone thus wrote : "The Ultramontane [i.e., the Jesuit] System .... derives its origin by an unbroken succession from Christ and His Apostles .... It undeniably contains within itself a large por- 62 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. tion of the undivided religious life of Christendom. The faith, the hope, the charity, which it was the office of the Gospel to engender, flourish within this precinct in the hearts of millions upon 'millions." (Contemporary Revieiv, June 26, 1876.) The Church of England, to which Mr Gladstone pro- fessedly belongs, speaks of the " System " which he so eulogises as " Anti-Christ." Let the reader note that these Pro-Popery words were written two years after Mr Glad- stone had sent forth his pamphlet entitled " Vaticanism," in which, for a purpose, he posed as a Protestant. 1877. In March, 1877, Mr Gladstone wrote : *The visible Church also claims to be .... a city widely spread, WITH A FIXED HEART AND CENTRE, if with a fluctuating outline ; a mass alike unchangeable, perceptible and also deter- minate .... in a sufficient degree for its Providential purpose the Education of Mankind .... The Christianity which claims our obedience is a Christianity inspired, sacramental, ethical, embodied in certain great historic documents, involving certain profoundly powerful and operative doctrinal conceptions. A great mass and momentum of authority may be pleaded for much that lies beyond the outline I have drawn. Nearly half the Christian world adopts the entire Roman system" (The Nineteenth Century, March, 1877.) 1879. On March 2d, 1879, Mr Biggar, M.P., addressed a meeting oi Irish Papists in Bermondsey. He there alluded, AS Parnellites so frequently have done, to the impulse The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 63 which Fenian outrages gave to Mr Gladstone's Pro-Popery schemes. He said : " Physical force was the one thing for which the English governing classes cared. - They were moved only by their fears. He did not mean their fears for their personal safety. They knew they had the police and the military to protect them, and they did not fear personal violence. But it was possible he would not say probable that some fine day the democracy would break loose, that the London warehouses and the Lan- cashire factories would be reduced to ashes, and the shipping in the Thames and Mersey set on fire ; and that was an outlook which the English governing classes did not like. He urged all his countrymen to unite in some organisation he did not care which and make as much display as possible. They might be few in numbers, but when they remembered the great results which flmved from the determined action of the handful of men at Manchester and Clerlcenwell, they could not doubt of their ultimate sucess." (Times, March 4, 1879.) On June 15th, 1879, at a meeting held in Milltown, County Galway, the ticket-of-leave man Davitt said : " The organisation to which we have the honour to belong I mean the Fenian organisation that organisation disestablished the Protestant Irish Church. Mr Gladstone himself has admitted that it did" (Quoted in Recent Events, p. 388.) In November, 1879, when the proposal was first made of inviting Mr Gladstone to stand for Midlothian, a strong protest against it was made, in the form of a letter to the Electors by Sir J. D. "Wauchope, Bart., previously chairman of the Liberal Committee. Sir John appealed to every- one "who valued his Protestant convictions more than his 64 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. party inclinations " to oppose Mr Gladstone's return. Sir John said : " All Gladstone's policy and actions have apparently been adverse to Protestantism, which forms the basis and foundation of all our liberties, both civil and religious " Sir John declared that Mr Gladstone's " Kitualising and Eomanising proclivities rendered him specially unfitted to represent a Protestant constituency." Sir John also gave prominence to the fact of Mr Glad- stone being a trustee of the Clewer Convent, "an establish- ment conducted on the most approved Komish model by Canon Carter," one of those who " look upon the Keforma- tion as a crime and misfortune." On November 26, 1879, Mr Gladstone said, in his Midlothian campaign : "Down to the year 1865 .... the whole question of the Irish Church was dead. Nobody cared for it .... Circumstances occurred which drew the attention of the people to the Irish Church. In 1865 I had said it was out of the range of practical politics. Now it came to this a gaol in the heart of the metro- polis was broken open in circumstances which drew the attention of the English people to the state of Ireland, and when, in Man- chester, a policeman was murdered in the execution of his duty, at once the whole country became alive to the question of the Irish Church." On December 3O, 1879, Mr Gladstone wrote thus to Mr Irving : "In 1865 I denounced the Irish Church in the House of Commons, but saw no preparation in the public mind to enter- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 65 tain the question. The two signal outrages in 1867 [the Man- chester Fenian Murders and the Clerkenwell explosion] drew attention to it. That attention was the only thing lacking." (See English Churchman, May 7, 1885.)* Bishop Samuel Wilberforce remarked that Mr Gladstone's project for the abolition of the Irish Church, having been derived from the Clerkenwell explosion, was a premium on assassination and murder. (Harper's "Past Warning," p. 46.) And Mr J. A. Froude spoke of the reason for setting about the Disestablishment of the Irish Church as "a yielding to the revived spirit of 1641 and 1798, and capitulating before rebellion and murder." (See paragraphs following after July 1880 and Feb. 1885.) * In one of his electioneering speeches Mr Gladstone said: "Clerkenwell, sir, was no more the cause of the disestab- lishment of the Irish Church than when you hear the bell of your chapel ring to call you to public worship, that peal is the cause of your going to public worship. Clerkenwell was simply that which drew attention." On this Mr Gladstone is supposed to have remarked : " Ingenious as this was, and accepted as conclusive, there was really no analogy. They forgot what I had added, 'it came within the range of practical politics.' You would not say that by the tolling of the chapel bell, religion came ' within the range of practical,' etc." ("Letters to my Son Herbert," p. 39.) 66 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 1874-188O. 1874-188O. During these years Mr Gladstone was out of office, and so, too, practically were the Romanists, as a writer in the Weekly Register mournfully regretted. He thus wrote : "Lord Beaconsfield succeeded Mr Gladstone on February 21, 1874, now nearly six years since, and during that time he has not appointed one single Catholic to any of the higher posts of honour and emoluments in Great Britain, they have been rigidly excluded .... The same exclusive spirit and system of exclusion has prevailed in every branch of the public service. Not one of his appointment is to be found amongst the diplomatists of Europe, on the Bench, in the Army, the Navy, or in any other branch of the public ser- vice." (Weekly Register, February, 1880.) This is a striking testimony to the Protestantism of Disraeli. 188O. In the Session of 188O, when Mr Bradlaugh claimed admission into the House of Commons, Mr Gladstone said : "We have been driven from the Church ground; we have been driven from the Protestant ground; we have been driven from the Christian ground ; and now it appears here is to be a final rally upon this narrow and illogical basis of Theism. That ivill go ivhither your Protestantism has gone." The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 67 In March, 188O, Mr Gladstone said : "There is not a bad story told about secrecy which may apply to a vote, and it is not altogether inappropriate now. Sir Walter Scott, when he was asked whether he wrote the Waverley Novels, said, ' No, I did not ; and if I had written them I should have made you precisely the same answer' NOW I DO NOT THINK THAT ANYONE CAN SAY THAT A PERSON WHO GAVE THAT ANSWER WAS GUILTY OF ANY ACT OF DECEIT. His answer was, 'No, I did not/ with the fair notice that supposing he had written them, that was his answer. I do not see myself how you can object to it." (Midlothian Speeches.) Herein Mr Gladstone was in strict accord with the Jesuits, who teach that : *' Material simulation, to wit, when anyone does any- thing not intending to deceive another, but only to accom- plish some end of his own, this is lawful when there is a just cause." The "end" in the present instance was how, on Scott's plan, the Midlothian elector might hide the manner in which he had voted, if inquiry was made by lying to his landlord. In May, 188O, Mr Gladstone, on again becoming Prime Minister, immediately appointed 68 The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone, As Viceroy of the Indian Empire . a Pervert and Papist. As Lord Chancellor of Ireland . . .a Papist. As Lord Chamberlain . . . . .a Papist. And afterwards As First President of the Land Court . . a Papist. That is to say, he appointed to the most re- sponsible offices under the Crown four men, " who," on his own admission "had renounced their moral and mental freedom, and placed their civil loyalty and duty at the mercy of another," and who " intend, in case of any conflict between the Queen and the Pope, to follow the Pope, and let the Queen shift for herself." (Gladstone's Vatican Decrees, pp. 6, 61.) Four men who "must obey their confessor in the place of God; simply and freely disclose all their concerns to him, and resolve on nothing without his counsel" (P. 45, School of S. Philip Neri. See also Manning's " Sermons on Religious Subjects." Burns, 1873.) The Presbyterians of Scotland, to their honour, were amongst the first to protest against this abuse by Mr Gladstone of a political trust. Touching the Viceroy of India, Mr Spurgeon wrote : "I deeply regret the appointment of Lord Ripon . . , The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 69 Romanism has not changed. It seems a dangerous infringe- ment of a great national safeguard to put a Romanist into the pro-regal or vice-regal office." "All our viceroys should be Protestant." So similarly Dr Parker, of the City Temple, a sup- porter of Mr Gladstone, wrote : " Mr Gladstone has, by this one act, conferred upon Popery greater patronage than could have been given to it by any other man, or in any other way . . . . The viceroy goes, as far as religion is concerned, as the representative of the Pope ! And Roman Catholics swear allegiance to the Spiritual King first, and to the earthly monarch second .... The viceroy's whole in- fluence must work in favour of priestcraft and Popery ? " ( The Fountain, edited by Dr Parker.) Touching the Irish Lord Chancellor, Lord O'Hagan he passed an Act by which the qualification for service on an Irish jury was lowered, until the jurymen were taken from a class whose ardent sympathy with crime was notorious. (See Lord R. Montagu's letter in English Churchman, p. 394, Aug. 13, 1885.) In 188O, Mr Gladstone, with a complimentary note, granted 100 from the Civil List to the Rev. T. Mossman, D.D., an ultra-Ritualist, "in aid of his labours in the liter- ature of ecclesiastical history." (Church Review quoted in Constitution, No. 10, 1880.) This Ritualist, whom Mr Gladstone subsidised with public money, was secretly consecrated a Bishop of the mysterious " Order of Corpor- ate Union." He was afterwards expelled from the English 70 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Church. Union as having gone too far, even for that Romanising Society, in ordaining in his own house a Deacon as Priest. (See Bishop Mossman's letter in English Cliurchman, p. 119, 1885.) This Bishop Mossman, in 1884, wrote to the Pope stating that he believed in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, and the Infallibility of the Pope, and " praying him .... to cause us to become (R.) Catholics." Shortly before his death, in July 1885, and while still Rector of Torrington, he was openly received into the Popish Church by Cardinal Manning. In July, 188O, in Parliament, the following extract was quoted from the Irish World : "The six hundred scoundrels have already made rules to govern debate in their talkative House, which can be sprung upon an Irish talker if he should talk anything disagreeable, and close his mouth for the day or for the entire session. Nothing will bring the ears of the 'six hundred' to 'atten- tion ' but the free and frequent use of dynamite in England and Ireland. This is what Mr Gladstone told the world in his speech in Scotland, and this is what Mr Parnell told the world last week in his speech at Cork." (Times, p. 6, July 13, 1880.) July, 188O. Mr Gladstone denounced the Bulgarian atrocities, but he never censured the atrocities committed on the loyal Irish by Irish Papists as, for example, card- ing a man with an iron comb and scorching him all over. (Hansard, col. 152, July 12, 1880.) The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 71 In September. 188O " On the recommendation of Mr Gladstone, a pension of 80 per annum was granted to Mrs Hawker, said to be a Roman Catholic, in recognition of the literary services of her late husband, the Rev. R. S. Hawker, of Morwenstowe," who, although receiving the pay of the Protestant Church of England, was a concealed Papist, having privately con- formed to Romish doctrines and practices " for years." "Such hypocrisy, duplicity, and Jesuitism, as Mr Hawker is proved to have been guilty of, are a disgrace to the very name of an Englishman, and should make all honest men blush to contemplate." (Standard, Sept. 17, 1880, and Morning Advertiser, Sept. 1876.) 1881. In March, 1881, Mr Gladstone's Government sanctioned an entirely new code on behalf of the Romish prisoners in Ireland termed " Suspects." These men were accused of murder, shooting at, inciting to murder, assaulting persons and dwellings, incendiary fires, treasonable practices. Yet will it be credited that this neiv code actually gave these Popish law-breakers every comfort and convenience, and literally turned their prison into a social club. The Vice-Chairman of the Government Prisons in Ireland, writing to Mr Gladstone's Chief-Secretary, said about these new rules that they " had been strained to the utmost in favour of the prisoners, not alone by you, but by prison officials." If the reader will turn to the paragraph following after Feb. 1871, he will find the Popish Fenian 72 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. prisoners were at that time also treated with exceptional favour in their prison. (See Report to G.P. Board, 1880, 1881, and Parl. Paper I., Session II., 1882; also "The Irish Landlord," pp. 539, 540.) On March 19, 1881, the Universe stated that the Marquis of Ripon, Mr Gladstone's Romish Viceroy, on " receiving a deputation of the Society of St Vincent de Paul at Bombay, headed by the Venerable Bishop Meurin, S.J., said that he took a personal interest in the Society, being himself a member of it." The object of this Society is ostensibly to benefit the poor, but it is, in fact a religio-political organisation. Frederick Ozanam, the founder of this Society, stated at Florence, in 1855, that " Our chief object is not to assist the poor no, that is for us only a means. Our object is to keep them steadfast in the Cat/holic faith, and to propagate it among others by means of charity." (Works of F. Ozanam, published by his Society. Vol. VIII. p. 43. Paris : Lecoifre et Cie., 1859.) This Society has its local, central, and general councils ; quarterly meetings, conferences, fetes and pilgrimages ; it has passports and circular letters for its members. It adapts itself to all classes and conditions addresses itself to the scholar, the soldier, the mechanic, the apprentice, the labourer, to the mother and the daughter, and for all of whom it issues a suitable publication. (Vide "Les Jesuites," by Charles Habeneck, Paris, 1860, pp. 27 and The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 73 28.) The injurious effect of the influence created by the Marquis of Ripon's presence was shown by the number of Protestants who attended the Romish services. In the Weekly Register, March 12, it was stated that the R.C. Cathedral, on Christmas Eve, "was thronged by (R.) Catholics and Protestants alike." The same Journal also stated " that the Loretto Convent, the only high-class school for girls, contains more than 200 pupils, (R.) Catholics and Protestants." " It is impossible that our Protestant sovereign can be rightly represented by a Roman Catholic in the Govern- ment of Her Majesty's Indian dominions. Such an ap- pointmeB t is inconsistent with the principles of the British Constitution. Her Majesty's subjects render a ready obedience to the Queen, as the representative of their Protestant liberties, the elect of the will of the people ex- pressed through the voice of the Parliament in the succes- sive Statutes, of the Act of Settlement, of the Acts of Union of Scotland and Ireland, and of the Roman Catholic Relief Act. The appointment of a Romish Viceroy, whose primary allegiance is due to a foreign Potentate, is calcu- lated to undermine the stability of the Throne, and is an invasion of the Protestant rights of the nation." (Quoted from the April 1881 letter of Protestant Alliance.) On March 21st, 1881, the Daily Express stated, that at an immense land meeting in Ennis on the previous 74 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Sunday, the chairman, a Romish priest named Kenny, denounced Mr Gladstone as a hypocrite, who, when he disestablished the Irish Church, gave Cardinal Wiseman to understand that he was about to conform to his faith, but that at the last moment, when everything was pre- pared to receive him, and the altar candles lighted, the Cardinal received a letter stating that he had changed his mind. The Express remarked " that the statement was so remarkable that Gladstone could hardly fail to take notice of it" The Times, it may be added, had also given full publicity to the alleged fact. (Times, of March, 1881.) In a letter, dated Scariff, County Clare, August 29, 1883, Priest Kenny wrote thus in answer to an inquiry : " I STATED THE FACT BECAUSE I HAD THE HIGHEST AUTHORITY FOR DOING so." The authority was the Roman Catholic Bishop Coffin of Southwark. However, four years after the meeting, Mr Gladstone, on a post-card, dated " Hawar- den, October 12th, 1885," wrote: "There is not the smallest shadow of foundation for the absurd story told by a Mr Kenny concerning me." We leave Mr Gladstone with Priest Kenny. On IVIay 6, 1881, the Papal organ, the Osservatore Romano, as a proof of the progress of Popery in England, adduced Mr Gladstone's appointment of Lord Ripon as Viceroy of India, and asserted that the attitude of the English Government towards the Roman Church enabled The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 75 that Church to exercise to the full her beneficent influence, and added that : " The Gladstone Ministry would, before long, re-establish the relations which formerly existed between England and the Holy See." (Recent Events, p. 174.) In May, 1881, Mr Gladstone's Government, contrary to the principles of religious liberty, made the teaching of the Romish religion compulsory in the Lyceum at Malta, on all students seeking admission into the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. (See Daily News, Tablet, and Times of- May, 188V) Tne Tablet remarked : "Malta is now one of the few countries where a Catholic University and other educational establishments are not only recognised but maintained by the State." The Osservatore Romano spoke of what had been accomplished in congratulatory terms. On IVIay 18th, 1881, under Mr Gladstone's Romish viceroy, Protestant missionaries were prevented from preaching in the open air at Calcutta, and peaceable con- gregations dispersed. The action taken in this matter was at the instance of the Police Commissioner, Mr Harrison, a Romanist, who, immediately upon the accession of the viceroy, Lord Ripon, was appointed to the double office of Chairman of the Municipality and Commissioner of Police in Calcutta. This intolerant attempt to suppress Pro- testant missionary work was happily frustrated. (See 76 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Times, May 24th, June 21st; and Nonconformist, June 2, 1881.) In October 1881, when speaking at Leeds, Mr Glad- stone described Mr Dillon as " a man of perfect, unswerv- ing integrity, and an opponent whom I delight to honour." This was after Mr Dillon, an Irish Papist, had publicly advised his fellow Roman Catholic countrymen to mutilate their landlord's cattle. On Mr Gladstone being asked by a Welshman how he, as Prime Minister, could under such circumstances express " respect," he replied that he had merely done so "generally"!! (The 1885 Gladstone Almanack ; also Globe of October, 1881.) In October 1881, a revolutionary manifesto was issued from Kilmainham Gaol. It was signed, amongst others by Parnell, Dillon, and Michael Davitt. Lord R. Montagu remarks : " How the signature of Davitt, who was a convict at Port- land, had been procured, vrifk&tet the privity of Her Majesty's Government, it would be hard to say." " Prisoners cannot com- municate with the outer world, except by the sanction of the governor of the prison." (Recent Events, pp. 462, 463.) On October 13, 1881, Mr Parnell was arrested. When Mr Gladstone, at the Guildhall, announced the fact, he said that Parnell : " Had made himself beyond all others, prominent in the attempt to destroy the authority of the law." (Recent Events, p. 535.) The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 77 Now Mr Gladstone arrested Parnell, and lodged him in Kilmainham jail, not so much, it was believed, because " Parnell had made himself, beyond all others, prominent in the attempt to destroy the authority of the law, and substitute . . . anarchical oppression," * as because of a. telling speech, delivered four days previously, in which, amongst other home statements reflecting on Mr Glad-- stone's character, Mr Parnell said : " No misrepresenta- tion was too low or too mean for Mr Gladstone to stoop, to." Be that as it may, Mr Parnell was imprisoned, but. imprisoned in the best quarters of the jail, and provided with every possible comfort at the expense of the country. (For full details, see The Irish Landlord and His Ac- cusers, pp. 339, 537, 538.) In the autumn of 1881, Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment sent Mr Errington on a mission to the Pope. (Daily News, November 2.) Mr Gladstone, however, wrote him^- self to the Times of November 11, 1881, saying: "H. M. Government have sent no mission to, the Vatican" But the Romish Bishop, Dr Vaughan of Salford, on the* contrary, stated that Mr Errington held " a letter of confidence, so that he may be a medium of direct communication between H. M. Government and the Holy See, without, however, any regular position, and without salary, (Daily News, December 14, 1881.) * Speech by Mr Gladstone at the Guildhall. Amongst the crimes alleged against Parnell were the being " reasonably suspected o having been guilty, as principal, of treasonable practices." 78 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone, Similar deceit was shown, it will be remembered, in the case of Mr Jervoise. (See paragraphs following after April 1882 and of May 1885.) 1882. January, 1882. H, M. Government, in 1872, handed over the Cathedral Church of Gibraltar, and the Presbytery, with all the temporalities, to the Junta, "to be held by them, and administered in trust for the Roman Catholic Communion." This Junta " was elected by the Catholics of Gibraltar, assembled in public meeting, convened yearly in the Gibraltar Chronicle" In 1882, the Pope, in direct opposition to the expressed wishes of these Roman Catholics, appointed as their Bishop a Dr Canilla, who, notwithstand- ing their remonstrances, " was installed, in London, by Car- dinal Manning as Bishop of Lystra and Vicar-Apostolic of Gibraltar." His attempt to enter the cathedral was strenuously resisted by the Junta." Mr Gladstones Government at this point interfered, ignored the ivishes of the people, recognised the supremacy of the Pope, and, in violation of the rights guaranteed by the Crown, BY FORCE INSTITUTED THE PoPE*S NOMINEE INTO POSSESSION OF THE CATHEDRAL. (Times, Jan. 3d, and April 28, 1882.) In April, 1882, Mr Gladstone, notwithstanding his denial in November, 1881, was at length compelled in Parliament to admit that : " Communications had been transmitted to the Vatican through Mr Errington ... In a time of great social disturbance in Ireland, The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 79 Lord Granville was desirous that the Pope should be well in- formed " with regard to the state of that country ..." The honourable gentleman refers to an expression on which he seems to place great stress, viz., that Mr Errington was described, with the knowledge of Lord Granville, as an agente recommandato the recommended agent of the British Government.* I cannot say from recollection whether this is so or not, but I believe it is perfectly possible ; and I believe, that if you only limit the purpose properly, it was the fact. (Hansard, col. 899, April 18, 1882 ; Parliamentary Debates, April 21, 1882.) * " Mr Gladstone, be it remembered, wishes it to be clearly and distinctly understood that Mr Errington had no connection with any agency on the part of the Government The ear accustomed to Gladstonian utterances anticipates with a sort of agony of delight and expectation the contradiction which it knows by experience is to follow. Here it is, just not in terms. ' Mr Errington went to Rome on his own account, and so Lord Granville availed himself of the opportunity to ask this gentleman to carry to the Pope certain communications/ He was not an agent; he had no connection with any sort of agency ; only he acted. He had no mission ; he was only sent. He was not charged with anything ; he was only asked to carry it. But Mr Gladstone has not done with us. His versions of to be and not to be are by no means finished. Mr Errington, let it be remembered, as far as Mr Gladstone knows, had no connec- tion with any agency on the part of the Government. But Mr Gladstone cannot say that he was not described, with the know- ledge of Lord Granville, as an agente recommandato. He thinks it very possible that he was. Here the distinction is obvious. He was not an agent ; he was only an agente. ' This/ as the man in Dryden's comedy says, ' is the most rarest language. I understand it almost as well as if it were English.' But mark the rashness of such a conclusion. Agente does not mean agent, or else Mr Gladstone has said the thing that is not, which is impossible. ' Was he an agent ? ' says Mr Gladstone in a reflec- tive kind of manner, and then he vouchsafes a definition. ' Every man who carries a message for another is an agent.' Now Mr Errington by Mr Gladstone's admission, carried a letter ; there- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. The Wesleyan Conference protested that : " Diplomatic relations with the Pope, either by a diplomatic agent or some unofficial person [Errington] is a measure so unwise and unsafe " that it " would take active measures to prevent it." On May 2, 1882, Mr Gladstone released Mr Parnell and other conspirators from prison. Lord R. Montagu's remarks on this point are well worth recording : " Mr Gladstone, acting on some ' mysterious communication ' from some ' superior power/ suddenly released those who had been ' steeped in treason up to the lips,' those who had endea- voured to subvert the Government of the Queen, and were- seeking to promote the disintegration of the Empire. They were released without trial, without punishment, without having been asked to give promise to behave better in future ; without even a penitential 'confession.' They were released at a time when the outrages had increased, and the law was more set at defiance than ever. Not a shadow of ground was alleged for the release, except that ' secret and mysterious communication.' It was done against the opinion of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- fore he is an agent ; but Mr Gladstone wishes it to be clearly and distinctly understood that he was not. Here,, it must be frankly confessed, the average brain begins to whirl a little. But the Premier has a soothing draught for it. Mr Errington was 'a recommended agent in a limited sense.' But Mr Glad- stone is not aware whether ' any agency remains in his hands.' Now that cannot remain which was never there ;. so the soothing draught excites the poor brain worse than ever. For the con- venience of those who believe implicitly in everything that Mr Gladstone says, we draw up a clause of the Gladstonian creed to be recited and signed by all the faithful. 'I believe that Mr Errington was not an agent at all, but that he was a limited agent, and that he was charged by Lord Granville with nothing, and that he was charged by Lord Grauville with something.'" (The Saturday Review, quoted in Standard, April 24, 1882.) The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 81 land ; against that of the Chief-Secretary ; against that of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; against that of the Lord Chancellor of England. One Irish member after another, one of the sus- pects after another, rose in his place in Parliament to protest against the supposition that he had promised to abstain in future from promoting lawlessness, intimidation, outrage, sedi- tion, rebellion. One after another repudiated contemptuously Mr Gladstone's insinuation that it was one of them who had communi- cated that 'mysterious information,' upon receipt of which MrGlad- stone had released the prisoners. Even Mr Gladstone himself, after having shifted from evasion to ewsicm.admitted that the secret in- formation only ' appeared to him to include ' the names of those suspects who were ' steeped in treason to the lips/ From whom, then, came the mysterious information, or the stern order to Mr Gladstone to release the prisoners?" (Recent Events, pp. 539, 540.) On May 6th, 1882, whilst walking in broad daylight, near the Viceregal Lodge, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke were savagely assassinated by Fenians, all of whom were devout Komanists. One of them, James Carey, was a member of a Eeligious sodality, and a constant attendant at the Jesuit Church in Dublin ; and his letters show that all the time he was plotting murder he confessed to his priest, received absolution, and partook of communion. (Universe, Aug. 18, 1883.) Another, Joe Brady, was so highly esteemed by the priests as to be appointed office-bearer in Anne Street Roman Catholic Chapel. For nine years he held that office, and made all the collections. (Recent Events, pp. 653, 663.) And the whole gang of these "devout" mur- derers received "the sacrament of their Church" ere the ground had absorbed the blood of their innocent victims. 82 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. The same day, Mr Gladstone released Michael Davitt from Portland prison. This Mr Davitt was not only a Fenian, but a zealous Papist, hand and glove with Priests and with Bishops, and with the Pope himself. On Sunday, Xttay 7th, 1882, the evening of the day following the terrible murders of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke, Michael Davitt, the Fenian, went, so it is asserted, to Mr Gladstone's house in town, and after the interview left directly for Paris to confer with Patrick Egan, secretary and treasurer of the Land League. We make this statement on the authority of the Manchester Courier, of May 9th, 1882, as quoted in Recent Events, p. 556 ; and also on the authority of a speech by Lord Robert Montagu, publicly delivered in Exeter Hall, May 14th, 1886. This speech, when printed, was widely circulated in the country, and was forwarded by Lord Robert to Mr Gladstone, with the request that he would reply to the disgraceful and damaging allegation contained in it. Mr Gladstone, however, remained silent ; he sent no reply. If it were not true, it was indeed strange that Mr Gladstone should have allowed so circumstantial a statement to have remained one hour uncontradicted. May 23d, 1882 A few days after Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke had been assassinated, Mr Staples, an Irish magistrate, wrote thus to the Standard : " About a year ago, I had occasion as a magistrate to see Mr Burke, on business connected with the state of the country. I The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 83 told him what I thought, and lamented the troubled and danger- ous state into which we were drifting, and his answer was, ' We may thank Mr Gladstone for it all.'" (Times, May 25, 1882; and Recent Events, p. 591.) In May, 1882, Mr Gladstone forced the Arrears Bill through the House of Commons with scandalous and totally unjustifiable haste. As Lord R. Montagu remarks : " Even the Daily News remarked the refinement in Mr Gladstone's cruelty to the landlords of Ireland : not only were the Protestant landlords to be defrauded of their arrears, but the Protestant taxpayers of Enyland and Scotland were to b& mulcted to aid the Roman Catholic, or rather the Fenian ten- ants of Ireland" (Recent Events, p. 584.) On May 26, 1882, an extreme Radical, the Hon. Auberon Herbert, writing to the Times, said : " For each bid Mr Gladstone makes, Ireland raises her price. Compensation for eviction is succeeded by a tribunal of rents ; tribunal of rents by payment of arrears; eviction of the larger farmers .... Behind both Mr Gladstone and Mr Parnell are forces which, having once been accepted as masters, are now exacting full service from their slaves." o Those " forces " were put in motion by the Jesuits, as might clearly be inferred from Papal newspapers published at Rome and elsewhere. In or about June 1882, Mr Gladstone's Romish vice- roy bestowed " four of the most important appointments in India on Romanists." (Morning Advertiser, June 6, and Vanity Fair, June 3, 1882.) But further, on October 14th, 1882, a Papal organ, the Moniteur de Rome, had an article headed " Mr Davitt 84 The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. and Mr Gladstone." It commenced by warmly eulogising Mr Davitt, and then proceeded to say : " Mr Gladstone also . . . has pursued throughout his whole political existence the political liberation of the Irish people . . . yet the initiative of Mr Gladstone is, so far, but a first essay. A GREATER, A MORE EXTENDED WORK IS IN STORE a work which will crown his laborious and restless life. . . . All Gladstone's legislative efforts would have been doomed to futility had it not been that the Church of Rome caused his prolific and healthful influence to affect men's hearts and minds. . . . The Papacy im- pressed its seal on that legislators political labours." (Recent Events, pp. 618, 688.) It would appear from this article that the Papacy and Davitt were on affectionate terms, and that between the Papacy and Gladstone a clear understanding existed. On November 10, 1882, the same Papal organ, the Moniteur de Rome, in an article entitled " Cloture and Mr Gladstone," said : "It is very well known that Mr Gladstone has, in pigeon- holes, certain measures which he has very much at heart ... it is, be it remembered, not the first time that he has struck a blow at the British constitution." (See in Recent Events, p. 360.) In 1882 Mr Gladstone's Government made Mr T. C. Day and Mr T. C. Matthew, both Romanists, Judges of the English High Court of Justice. Also Mr Justice Fitz- gerald, of the Irish Bench, and a Romanist, was made Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, in which capacity he would sit as Law Lord in the House of Lords the Supreme Court of Appeal for England, Ireland, and Scotland. These appointments were most influential in aiding forward the The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 85 Komish conspiracy against the liberties of England. (Re- cent Events, p. 600.) December, 1882, the Standard's correspondent, writ- ing from Rome, stated that : " The Voce said that England [i.e., Gladstone's Government] has not hesitated, during the ivhole of the past year, to have recourse to the Holy Father respecting the vital questions threat- ening her, sometimes indirectly, sometimes quasi-officially, and has thus spread dismay among Italian politicians." (Standard t January 1, 1883.) 1883. 1883. Mr Gladstone's Romish viceroy, on reaching India, had been instrumental in stopping Protestant open- air preaching ; and now news comes of an immense gather- ing, of over 4000 Hindoos, having been held at Calcutta presided over by Kessub Chunder Sen, which resolved that it viewed " with deep regret and alarm the recent action of the authorities in depriving certain members of the Salvation Army of those rights and privileges, in the exercise of their religion, which are by law guaranteed to all classes of her Majesty's subjects." (Quoted from the Irish Church Advocate.) On March 15, 1883, dynamite explosions occurred in London. Referring to these, the Dublin Daily Express remarked : " While all eyes are angrily turned upon the Irish party, the person whom lue believe to be chiefly responsible for these and such outrages escapes. The whole political career of Mr Glad- stone has been one standing argument to the Irish democrats 86 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. that, if they would bend him to their purpose, they must have recourse to some such tactics. Mr Gladstone's declaration that the Clerkemvell explosion brought the land and Church ques- tions within a measurable distance of practical politics, has been ever since the charter and justification of all ruffianism. Me has taught, not only by his acts but by his words, that if the extreme Irish party desire his assistance in carrying out their revolutionary designs, they must seek it by assassination, out- rage, and diabolical wickedness .... Mr Gladstone has done more to foster and cherish Irish Nihilism than any promoter of disorder with whom we are acquainted, not excepting Mr Parnell or the editor of the Irish World." (Daily Express, March 19, 1883.) On May 19, 1883, an article appeared in the R.C. Tablet, headed " The other Side of the Medal." It was a capital description of the Papal policy, as expressed in the article, " Catholic first, and anything else a long way- after. " It remarked that : " Of the present [Mr Gladstone's] Government Catholics most certainly have no very great cause to complain .... In some respects ive have to thank it for a great deal. Let us not forget that this Government is the Jirst that has entrusted two great offices of State the Vice-Royalty of India and the post of Lord Chamberlain to Catholics. It is something very considerable that this very marked disregard of Protestant prejudice, this bold reversal of the old Protestant proscription, should have taken place .... In the public offices generally there is manifested a disposition to give us fair play .... How extremely fortunate would Catholics in the so-called Catholic countries of France and Belgium deem themselves if the Ministers of Education and of the Interior exhibited to them one tithe of the civility and the fairness which we receive from the corresponding authorities in England" The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 87 In the morning of Sunday, August 19, 1883, Mr Gladstone's Government passed a grant for Irish Education which was a distinct concession to the priesthood. It gave the Romish Hierarchy control of education in that country, by establishing Denominational Training Colleges. The Presbyterians in Ireland strongly protested against it. (Parliamentary Paper, No. 181, May 29, 1883.) In August, 1883, Mr Gladstone dropped the Irish Constabulary Bill by which the Police would have been made more effective, and more able to put down the murders and coercive terrorisms of the Land League in order to make way for the passing of the Registration of Voters (Irish) Bill, the object of which was to increase, in the constituencies, that class of the voters which supported the Land League, and which encouraged murders and coercive terrorism. The Times, of August 1, 1883, spoke of " This measure as calcu- lated to strengthen enormously the (Romish) National party in Ireland." (English Churchman, p. 294, August 1885.) In November, 1883, the Times observed that, when Mr Gladstone appointed Lord Ripon as Viceroy of India, protests were made from all parts of the country, on the ground that a man who changes his religion in middle-life is not fit to govern an empire, and the Times added : " Though sympathising with these protests which come not from fanatics but from their antipodes, we were unwilling to take up an attitude that might have seemed invidious .... a 88 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. man who, at the mature age of fifty, apostatises from the religion of his fathers, on the ground of ' grave doubts ' as to the validity of English orders, or the views of the Anglican Church about the nature of the Eucharist, certainly does not possess the strength and solidity of intellect required in a ruler. A man who at that age passes a crushing vote of censure upon his own private judgment, BY HANDING IT OVER TO A PRIEST, deserves no confidence from others" In November, 1883, a Leeds correspondent called Mr Gladstone's attention to a statement that he approved of the use of altar lights in the daytime, at Hawarden Church, and also of the Eastward position. The following reply was received : "10 Downing Street, "Whitehall, Nov., 1883. " SIR, Mr Gladstone has received your courteous note .... I am to add, for his own part, Mr Gladstone never anywhere interferes in such matters as those connected with the conduct of church service .... E. W. HAMILTON." So we have the unedifying spectacle presented of the Prime Minister of England, the maker of the laws of the country, not only attending a service conducted by his son in which the law was violated, but himself assisting, as far as a layman may assist, in conducting it, by reading the lessons. We should add that the Rev. Stephen Gladstone, the Rector of Hawarden, was a " Priest Associate of the Con- fraternity of the Blessed Sacrament," and a member of the English Church Union ; and that he was placed by his father as a student at Cuddesdon, under the pro-Romish teaching The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 89 of Canon King, since promoted by Mr Gladstone to the Bishopric of Lincoln. (Church Review, October 12, 1883.) 1884. In 1884, Mr Gladstone's Government disendowed the French Huguenot Episcopal Church in Bloomsbury Street. Now, in 1687, a sum of 200,000 was raised for the pur- pose of endowing the churches of French Protestant re- fugees ; and the interest was made payable through the Government. The Savoy Church shared in this endow- ment to the amount of 209 annually. Hence the re- fusal to continue this payment was considered to be by the trustees of the Savoy Church, an illegal act. How much our country owes to the French Protestant refugees (who, when expelled from their own land, came to London two hundred years ago), for the industries they started, is a matter of history. In 1884, Mr Gladstone's Government appointed Car- dinal Manning as a Member of the Royal Commission for the Housing of the Poor. The Cardinal was given a, rank of precedency above the Peers of the Realm, and his name placed next to that of the Prince of Wales ! (Page 10, Protestant Alliance Report for 1884.) It should be remembered that a title given by a foreign potentate, such as the Pope, to an English citizen, such as Dr Manning, cannot be lawfully assumed, much less can it carry with it prece- dence or rank without express permission from the Crown. 90 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. On April 11, 1884, in the Papal Organ, the Journal de Rome, there appeared an article on " England and the Holy See," in which it was stated that : " Pope Leo XIII. has, since youth, been studying assiduously the history of Ireland, and he knows very well that the present Prime Minister of -England [Mr Gladstone] fervently hopes to make reparation for all the crimes and errors of his predecessors ; and the Pope is ready to assist him in his endeavours .... but to this end, the re-establishment of direct diplomatic relations is necessary." (Quoted in Recent Events, p. 706.) In October, 1884, there was : "another bid for the Parnellite vote. Mr Gladstone appointed Mr G. Fottrel, Jun., late solicitor to the proscribed Land League, Clerk of the Crown for Dublin. Salary, 1200 per annum." (Gladstone's Almanack for October.) In November, 1884, that notorious Ritualist, the Rev. J. L. Lyne, a member of the Society of the Holy Cross, wrote a letter to the Bishop of St Asaph, with the follow- ing postscript : " Some time ago I received a kind letter from Mr Gladstone, saying how he wished I could preach in the churches. He attended my preaching in St Edmond's Church, Lombard Street, many years ago, I remember." (See South Wales Daily News t 1884, and English Churchman, of July 15, 1886.) 1885. On February 13, 1885, Mr Gladstone being in power, the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland issued a circular, in which they stated that they are now pre- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 91 pared to : " Grant aid to nuns and monks towards build- ing vested school-houses." Some of the larger convent schools, with an average attendance of 800 daily, would receive, by the new capitation, 480, instead of as before 160, and so in proportion for smaller schools. Early in 1885, the Standard stated that Mr Glad- stone had offered 150 out of the Koyal Bounty Fund to a Komish priest named Meehan, in recognition of his services as an Irish historian. The gift was a significant one, what- ever the merits or demerits of the priestly writer. In February, 1885, a Fenian, named McDermot, at Paris, said : " Dynamite is in its infancy .... we shall make it hot for England. Don't say it is useless. The Clerkenwell explosion gave us the Disestablishment of the Irish Church. When the wholesale explosions make room for the retail ones, we shall not be far from Home Rule and the Irish Republic." (Dynamiters at Paris, Globe, February, 1885.) These dynamiters, again and again, refer to the practi- cal encouragement given to them in their nefarious trade by Mr Gladstone's public utterances. 1885. Lord R. Montagu stated that : " This year Mr Gladstone expressed himself warmly in favour of the Church of England Working Men's Society, and by his countenance and encomiums he has done all he could to extend its influence among the working classes." (English Churchman, May 21, 1885.) Now this Society was founded in the notorious parish 92 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. of St Albans, Holborn, for the special purpose of support- ing the Rev. A. Mackonochie in his lawless defiance of the Ecclesiastical Courts. It defended the Society of the Holy Cross when, in 1877, it was accused of publishing that loathsome book, "The Priest in the Confessional." It advocates Auricular Confession, the Restoration of cer- tain Popish Ornaments of the Church and of its Ministers which were rejected at the Reformation ; * it circulates tracts and other publications full of distinctly Romish teaching, and approves of the reunion of the Church of England with the Church of Rome. (Church Times, December 7, 1877 ; Church Review, January 18, 1884, and "The Rights of English Churchmen," p. 14.) On March 1, 1885, at a Land League meeting, Mr W. O'Brien, M.P., described the relations between Eng- land and Ireland as "simply the relations of civil war, tempered by scarcity of fire-arms," and he declared that : " There were half-a-dozen Englishmen in the Commons for whom he and every member of the Irish party had a deep respect, and a sincere respect; and he had no hesitation in * The Society gives a list of these ornaments : " Cere Cloth, Rood Screen, Ciborium for Altar Breads, Pyx for the Sacrament reserved for the Sick, Corporal, Chalice Veils, Lavabo Bason, Thurible or Censer or other Vessel for Incense, Pome for hot water to prevent numbness of the hands, Ampulla or Chrismatory for the Holy Oil for Confirmation, Processional Cross, Rogation Banners, Girdle, Biretta, Albe, Tunicle, Dalmatic, Stole, Maniple, Chasuble, Amice, etc." The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 93 placing Mr Gladstone first on the list" (Quoted from Recent Events, p. 689.) O'Brien was the Editor of United Ireland, the paper in which (said the late Mr Forster, M.P.,) "murder, robbery, insults to the dead, and attacks on women, were habitually described as ( incidents of the campaign.' ' United Ireland was the property of Messrs Parnell, O'Brien, and Justin M'Carthy. (The Irish Green Book, p. 8.) May 15, 1885. Mr Gladstone, it will be remem- bered, in November, 1881, had distinctly denied that his Government had sent any mission to the Vatican ; but in August, 1885, a letter, purporting to be written by Sir G. Errington to Lord Granville, a member of Mr Gladstone's Cabinet, threw a very different light on the matter. This letter, which, by some unexplained means, fell into the hands of Mr O'Brien, M.P., ran thus : " House of Commons, Friday, May 15. "DEAR LORD GRANVILLE, The Dublin (Roman Catholic) Archbishop being still undecided, I must continue to keep the Vatican in good humour about you, and keep up communica- tions with them as much as possible. I am almost ashamed to trouble you again when you are so busy, but perhaps on Monday you would allow me to show you the letter I propose to write. This premature report about Dr Moran will cause in- creased pressure to be put on the Pope, and create many fresh difficulties. The matter must, therefore, be most carefully watched, so that the strong pressure I can still command may be used at the right moment, and not too soon or unnecessarily, for too much pressure is quite as dangerous as too little. To . 94 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. effect this, constant communication with Rome is necessary. I am, dear Lord Granville, faithfully yours, G. ERRINGTON." Mr O'Brien, in calling the attention of Parliament to this letter, said : "This letter now made it perfectly certain that Sir G. Errington had been acting in Rome as the agent of the English Government. For reasons of their own, Mr Gladstones Govern- ment had d'isowned him publicly on every occasion on which the question of his mission to the Vatican was brought forward .... Every effort had been made to conceal the object of the honourable baronet's mission to Rome, or the fact that he was acting on their behalf .... As to the authenticity of the letter . . . . there could be no doubt of its genuineness .... There was no mistake as to the meaning of the letter. In order to inveigle the Pope into appointing the nominee of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment to the (Roman Catholic) Archbishopric of Dublin, the hon- ourable baronet was empowered to hold out certain promises, certain considerations, to the Court of Rome; and, what was worse, certain promises that were evidently not meant to be performed .... The Pope was to be amused, duped, and kept in good humour .... The plot had utterly failed .... The honourable baronet, at all events, got his baronetcy, but Dr Moran did not get his archbishopric .... He suspected, from the pains taken by Mr Gladstone's Government to keep the matter from the public eye, that they had an uneasy feeling that it would not tend much to their credit among the constituencies at the next general election." Sir G. Errington, in his reply, did not deny the authen- ticity of the letter, but merely said that : " A document so obtained made it impossible for him to enter into any explanation about it ... ." (Parl. Debates, Times, August 6, 1885.) The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 95 June, 1885. Mr Gladstone, on the very day lie quitted office, offered the living of Stroud Green to an extreme Ritualist. He did this against the wishes of the parishion- ers. The offer was by telegram, saying: " Time presses ." In December, 1885, Mr Gladstone (then out of office) met Mr Balfour, President of the Board of Trade, at Eaton Hall. A conversation ensued between the two on the sub- ject of Irish policy. Mr Gladstone said that lie had infor- mation of an authentic kind but not from Mr Parnell which caused him to believe that there was a power behind Parnell, which, if not shortly satisfied by some substan- tial concession to the demands of the Irish Parliamentary party, would take the matter into its own hands, and re- sort to violence and outrage in England, for the purpose of enforcing its demands. Mr Balfour replied : " In other words, we are to be blown up and stabbed if we do not grant Home Rule by the end of next session." Mr Gladr stone answered : " / understand that the time is shorter than that" Afterwards, in a private letter, dated Hawarden, December 20, 1885, he wrote "of the urgency of this matter." (See Mr Balfour's letter of July 1, 1886, pub- lished in the Times.) This startling disclosure was corroborated (as will be hereafter more fully noticed) on January 15th, 1886, by the Roman Catholic Archbishop Walsh, who said : " . . . . those other weapons to which even now some des- 96 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. porate [Fenian] men were waiting to have recourse the dagger of the assassin and those other fearful engines of destruction .... placed in the hands of those who make no secret of the determination to seek for the last hope of freedom for Ireland .... among the ruins of English cities and of English civilisa- tion." (Times, January 16, 1880.) The disclosure was yet further corroborated, some few months later on, by information published in the London papers as to the relations of Mr Gladstone's friend and ally Mr Parnell, and the American dynamite party. For example, tho Globe wrote as follows : " These incendiaries were represented as having allowed Mr Parnell till August next that is, till the close of the Session of 1S8G to exact what surrender he could to the Nationalist demand by Parliamentary means. If he failed to advance his purpose within the time allowed, he was to be pushed aside, the subsidies by which his agitation is supported were to be with- drawn, and the Clan-na-Gael, or party of action, were to re-apply those resources of civilisation which produced the Phoenix Park murders and the dynamite explosions in London." (Globe of July 5, 1SSG.) Now the coincidence between the disclosure of Mr Glad- stone, the statement of the Roman Archbishop, and the programme of the dynamiters is most remarkable : it tends to show (l) that Mr Gladstone and the Archbishop were both behind the scenes, and both equally aware of the existence of " a power which, if not shortly satisfied, would resort to violence and outrage in England"; (2) that Mr Gladstone was early honoured with " authentic information" The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 97 of this diabolical plotting against his country ; and (3) that Mr Gladstone did not (as any loyal subject should have done) instantly give full and explicit and unconditional information to the Government of the day, but, as the Globe remarked : " he held it back to make a thrifty party use of it, and left life and limb and property to take their chance .... and did not scruple to hold back, for his own private purposes, informa- tion affecting the life and property of his fellow-countrymen. (Globe, July 5, 1886.) 188O-1885. 188O-1885. Mr Gladstone and his Government appointed, or promoted, to various positions during their term of office (1880-1885), so it has been stated, twenty- two Papists, including two Jesuit priests. 1886. On January 15, 1886, Dr Walsh, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, said that in the event of the issues of the elections being disregarded : " it would lead eventually, and that speedily, to one sad result. That the constitutional expression of a nation's voice was likely to be more effective for the accomplishment of its purpose than those other weapons, to which, EVEN NOW, SOME DES- PERATE [Roman Catholic] MEN WERE WAITING THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE RECOURSE the dagger of the assassin, and those other, and in some sense more fearful engines of destruction, which the progress of modern science had placed in the hands of those who make no secret of their determina- tion to seek for the last hope of freedom for Ireland, if they 98 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone could not find it elsewhere, among the ruins of English cities and of English civilisation. Let us trust then that those in whose hands, under Providence, lie the issues of the immediate future will be ivise in time." (Times, January 16, 1886.) In February, 1886, Mr Gladstone came again into power. He then made Lord Ripon, a Romanist and a pervert, First Lord of the Admiralty and a Member of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education, and gave him a seat in the Cabinet. He made Mr C. Russell, a Romanist, the Attorney- General for England. He made Mr Naish, a Romanist, Lord Chancellor of Ireland ; and The Macdermott, a Romanist, the Solicitor-General for Ireland. Amongst minor, but very important appoint- ments, he made Mr Coward, a Romanist, Chief-Inspector of Schools for the N.W. division of England, with special charge of the Manchester district. On April 8, 1886, Mr Gladstone, obedient to Dr Walsh's threatening * mandate of the preceding January, introduced his " Bill for the Better Government of Ire- * " Mr J. E. Redmond, M.P., in a speech uttered by him on January, 1886, conveyed the significant threat that ' the four millions of Irish Papists would be as powerful in some modes of warfare as ten times the number.' Mr Redmond's friends in America openly avow that their plan of warfare means dyna- miting, assassinating, and boycotting to attain their end, that of establishing Home Rule in Ireland the specious name devised to cover the real object, Rome Rule." (Testimony of the Temple, p. 54. London : E. Stock.) The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 99 land." By this Home Rule Bill the Lord-Lieutenancy was not to be limited to any fixed number of years, and was to be thrown open to Romanists, who, as Mr Glad- stone admitted in his Vatican Decrees : " In case of any conflict betiveen the Queen and the Pope, would follow the Pope and let the Queen shift for herself" (Hansard, col. 1069, April 8, 1886.) By this Bill Mr Gladstone handed over the Government of Ireland to Parnell and his Roman Catholic supporters, *' from the weight of whose tyrannical yoke," he said, in 1881, "he was then endeavouring to relieve the people of Ireland," and whom at Knowsley he once had been con- strained, by the force of public opinion, to describe as men who were "not only pursuing a policy of rapine, but were, marching through rapine to the dismemberment of the Empire." By this Bill Mr Gladstone proposed to start his Irish Roman Catholic Parliament with 20,000 a-year taken out of the Irish Protestant Church surplus. By this Bill even the form of paper guarantees for the preservation of the properties, liberties, and lives of Pro- testants and all other Loyalists was set aside. " It was anticipated (said the Times) that the protection of the loyal minority in Ireland, and the safe-guards against the intolerance of the dominant creed, now in close alliance with the National League, would be of very doubtful efficacy. But few were prepared to find MR GLADSTONE THROWING ULSTER ANI> 100 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. THE PROTESTANT RELIGION OVERBOARD with quite the deliberate coolness u'hich he displayed on Thursday." In April, 1886, an Ulster landlord wrote thus to the Times : "A Priest, a leading man amongst the National Leaguers, gave out, when Gladstone's adhesion to the Parnellites was first mooted in January last, that the landlords are to be bought out first, and then the Protestants will be driven out of the country^, every mother's son of tfiem." The landlord added : " Eighty years ago the Roman Catholics were in power for a few months .... Protestants at Scullabogue were burnt alive, men, women, and children .... At the Bridge of Wexford, Protestant prisoners were transfixed with pikes, and hoisted into the river amidst the savage cheers and laughter of their foes." (Times, April 26, 1886.) Clearly, therefore, the Priests were in the secret of Mr Gladstone's intentions before he made those intentions public. With reference to Mr Gladstone's action in this matter, the Times spoke of him as : "Heading the Parnellite host, and working shoulder to- shoulder with the paid agents of a foreign conspiracy." (Times, July 10, 1886.) " And as seeming all unconscious of the depth of his descent, and the enormity of his offence against a betrayed country." (Times, July 17, 1886.) Professor Tyndall, a Liberal, enquired : " What has converjbed Mr Gladstone, to all intents and pur- poses, into a TRAITOR to his country ? " (Gladstone and Home Rule, p. 9.) The Pro Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 101 C. H. Spurgeon, a Liberal, wrote : " We cannot look forward with any complacency to Ulster {Protestant] Loyalists abandoned, and an Established Irish R.C. Church. Yet these are by no means the greatest evils which we foresee in the near future, should Mr Gladstone's policy ever become fact." (Times, June 3, 1886.) "The whole scheme is as full of dangers and absurdities as if it came from a madman." (May 27, 1886.) Auberon Herbert, a Radical, wrote : " The crime which Mr Gladstone with a logic and a morality which are his own most peculiar property is ready to commit towards the [Protestant] Ulster people." (Times, July 2, 1886.) Goldivin Smith, a Radical, said : " There are few friends of Mr Gladstone in the United States who are not the enemies of England : and there is not a single enemy of England who is not a friend of Mr Gladstone's." (limes, September 7, 1887.) In May, 1886, Mr Gladstone appointed Lord Halifax as an Ecclesiastical Commissioner. Lord Halifax is the President of that Romanising Society, the English Church Union, and is one of the most zealous advocates of the reunion of our Protestant Church with the corrupt and idolatrous Church of Rome. The power, which, as an Ecclesiastical Commissioner, he can exert for forwarding the views of the Ritualists, and so of Rome, is simply incalculable ; for the Commissioners exercise an almost unlimited influence over the Church's external affairs, and hold the ecclesiastical purse strings. 102 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. (See Lord Halifax's letter to Archbishop of York, Feb. 27, 1886; also English Churchman, Dec. 10, 1885.) On June 25, 1886, Mr Campbell-Bannerman, Mr Gladstone's Secretary for War, when at Stirling, said : " Information was sought as to the views and motives of some of the leaders of those millions of Irishmen in America who form so serious an element in the people with whom we have to deal nowadays, and from all other sources open to us the materials for a solid judgment were brought together.' (Scotsman, June 30, 1886.) In reply to some strictures, which immediately afterwards appeared in the Scotsman, Mr Bannerman wrote : "The men to whom I refer are not the Dynamitards, and others of whom you speak, but the real leaders and representa- tives of Irish feeling." To this reply the editor of the above-named paper appended the following words : "Mr Bannerman avows, and indeed justifies, the action of Mr Gladstone's Government in going to American-Irish to know what sort of legislation for Ireland they would prefer. His disavowal of Dynamitards and others means nothing; for the public know, if he does not, that the 'real leaders among the American- Irish are closely connected with dynamite, So far from our strictures being irrelevant, they are proved by Mr Bannerman himself to be fully justified. THE DISGRACE- FUL FACT IS ADMITTED THAT BRITISH [Gladstonian] STATESMEN WENT TO AMERICAN-IRISHMEN FOR GUIDANCE AS TO THEIR The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 103 IRISH POLICY. NOTHING WORSE COULD BE SAID OF THEM." (Scotsman, July 1, 1886.) Mr Gladstone's attention having been called to the fact that Mr Chamberlain, in his Cardiff speech, had attributed to Mr Bannerman the assertion that although he (Mr Gladstone) had not been in communi- cation with Irish-Americans in America, yet he had placed himself in a position to know their opinions and receive suggestions. He telegraphed to the editor of the South Wales Daily Telegraph as follows : "Statement imputed to my friend, Mr Bannerman, is absolutely false; I have done nothing whatever of the kind." The telegram proves either that Mr Gladstone did not know what he was writing about, or that he gave his own Secretary of State the lie direct. (Times, July 9, 1886.) With reference to the Bannerman disclosures, Sir H. James, once a member of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment, said : " Great discredit had come upon the public life of England when a Cabinet Minister made it an argument in favour of the policy of the Queen's advisers that it satisfied the demands, the hopes and the desires of the men who had been guilty of assassinations more cruel than any recorded in history, and BY INFORMATION SO SOUGHT BY THE CABINET, THE POLICY OF THIS COUNTRY WAS NOW BEING GUIDED.'' (Speech at Bland- ford. Times, July 13, 1886.) 104 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Mr Gladstone hesitated not to receive visits from Mr Parnell. Early in July, 1886, one of these visits was paid at Ha warden. Commenting on this "his last visit," a writer in the Times remarked: "It is a pity that the public are deprived of a full report of the interview which undoubtedly took place this evening week. The reason for this sudden plunge must of necessity remain in the regions of conjecture. Of course, though there is the other point pressing for notice, the fact that THE FENIAN TREATY CONCLUDES ON AUGUST 1. ... Yours, an On-looker, July 14." (Times, July 16, 1886.) The nature of this "treaty" has already been re- ferred to in the paragraph following upon date of December 1885, page 95. July, 1886, Mr Gladstone resigned office, having been defeated on the Home Rule question. 1887. In January, 1887, Mr Gladstone congratulated a Parnellite gathering at Belfast on the presence of their " distinguished member " Mr Sexton. Where- upon, Mr Arnold-Forster, son of Mr Gladstone's late Irish Secretary, wrote to the Times as follows : "... .Mr Gladstone's distinguished friend it was who in- formed a Dublin audience that the one prevailing and un- changeable passion between Ireland and England ivas the passion of hate." .... It must never be forgotten that he is one of the three Parnellite members who took the lead in the executive committee of the Land League .... He sat weekly in private The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 105 conference with four scoundrels .... These four colleagues have fled this country ; one of them, has refused to stand his trial for wilful murder" (Times, Jan. 14, 1887, and Dynamitards, p. 12.) On May 31, 1887, Mr Gladstone asserted at Ha warden " that there is less crime in [Romish] Ireland per million of popu- lation, than there is in [Protestant] England or Scotland." The Judicial Statistics of 1886, pp. 16, 17, state the exact reverse, as the following tabulated statement proves: Total Crimes during 1885. Estimated Population. Crimes per Million of Population. Ireland, .... 231,313 4,924,342 46,900 England, .... 698,143 25,974,439 26,800 * It is instructive to note that the Irish R.C. female furnishes no less than ONE-FIFTH of the crime of the entire population of England and Wales. " In England, if the [R.C.] Irish were as orderly as the rest of the population, there would be 3500 prisoners sent to the gaols, instead of 22,000." (Sir L. Playfair, M.P., March 7, 1885.) On June 6, 1887, Mr Bright, M.P., thus wrote to Mr T. Sinclair, with reference to Mr Gladstone's speeches in South Wales : " One Ash, Rochdale, June 6, 1887. "DEAR SIR, I have just been reading Mr Gladstone's speeches * If Romish crime in England were deducted this figure would be very considerably reduced, say about one-fourth. 106 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. in South Wales. He speaks as if there were no province of Ulster, and no Protestant or loyal Roman Catholic population in Ireland. He seems ignorant or unconscious of the fact that the whole of Wales had a population in 1881 of only 1,360,000, which is, I think, less than that of Ulster by something more than 300,000. Ulster may be deemed a nationality, differing from the rest of Ireland at least as much as Wales differs from England ; but Wales is treated to a flattery which, if not insincere, seems to me childish, and Ulster is forgotten in the discussion of the Irish question. Is it not wonderful how decided Mr Gladstone can be, and how his great intellect can be subjected to one idea, and how he can banish from his mind everything, however im- portant, which does not suit the subject or object which he has before him. He speaks, too, as if it were a good thing to make Wales almost as un-English as he assumes all Ireland to be. He conceals the fact that there are more loyal men and women in Ireland than the whole population of men and women in Wales. It is sad that an ex-Minister should descend to artifices so transparent, and that crowds of his countrymen should be thus imposed upon. Yours very sincerely, JOHN BRIGHT." In the early part of Session 1887, as Mr L. J. Jennings, M.P., remarks, at page 117 in his " Gladstone, a Study " : " The enormous weight of Mr Gladstone's moral support in the House of Commons was invariably given to the Parnellites. On one occasion (April 1, 1887) he put himself literally at their head, and marched out of the House with them, amid cries of ' Down with the Speaker,' and ' We'll fight to the death.' Mr Gladstone was frequently in the House when the Speaker's authority was assailed, but never once did he utter a word to rebuke or discourage the assailants. . . When the Govern- o ment was forced to proclaim the National League, it was Mr Gladstone, not Mr Parnell, who conducted the case in the House for the [Roman Catholic] League .... His zeal in the service of the Parnellites knew no bounds. They were struggling, he The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 107 said on one occasion, 'for an end and a purpose, which is not only lawful, but almost sacred.' They had reasons on their side, ' strong and conclusive as if almost they were written in Holy Writ.' " (Hansard, August 27, 1887.) Such advocacy, on behalf of Popish "traitors," "law- breakers," and "moonlighters" by Mr Gladstone, would seem almost incredible. In August, 1887, Professor Tyndall wrote : " When Mr Gladstone brought forward the scheme of Home Rule, [Protestant] Ulster was forgotten .... The blood of the heroes of the Reformation still stirs its pulses, and it never will submit to be ruled by the Romish priesthood of Ireland. It is not from the men of Ulster that a cry of anguish reaches me, but from equally valorous and loyal men who are outnumbered further south. In the name of freedom, in the name of justice, . . . . / protest against these men, among whom I learnt to read and love my Bible, being handed over [by Gladstone] to their hereditary enemies, among whom their only desire is to live in peace." (Times, Aug. 9, 1887.) On November 19, 1887, the following letter was pub- lished in the Times from Dr Donald Eraser, Minister of the Presbyterian Church, Marylebone : " 3 Cambridge Square, Hyde Park. "MY DEAR SIR, You ask where I am in politics. I will tell you frankly. I am a Liberal of the old school, and I cannot follow Mr Gladstone. Long have I admired his capacity and eloquence, but I have been slowly and reluctantly convinced that he has become a most unsafe guide in public affairs. Any hesi- tation which I have felt to express this judgment has been swept away by those most disappointing speeches which he lately delivered at Nottingham ; and without for a moment impugning 108 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Mr Gladstone's patriotic motives, I must cherish the hope that his country will never again let the reins of power fall into his hands. . . . "Home Rule gives him the opportunity to appeal to all temperance reformers, free echicationists, and Disestablishes of Churches to help him on with Home Rule in order to clear the road for their own pet projects. Not that he promises to help them in return. He is far too prudent. He allures them with bribes, but does not pledge himself to pay. It is altogether a curious proposal which was set forth at Nottingham, apparently to catch simpletons. It is to the effect that all men who wish to promote necessary and useful legislation must first help Mr Gladstone to his great Irish coup, crowning his extraordinary career with a fourth Premiership. This may take ever so many years ; but till it is done poor old Great Britain must wait. Even, then, Mr Gladstone comes under no promise. He only clears the floor, and other men may scramble for their long deferred reforms as they please. . . ." In November, 1887, Mr Gladstone and the Lord Mayor of Dublin shook hands cordially with one another at Chester. (Times, Nov. 11, 1887.) This Popish Mayor had previously (according to Lord Hartington) hurled de- fiance, on the part of the National League, at the Queen's Government. (Hansard, August 27, 1887.) In December, 1887, the Liverpool Courier wrote thus about St Cuthbert's, Earlscourt, Kensington : "The Ritualism at St Cuthbert's is so advanced that Mr Mackonochie's congregation at St Alban's would not know how to comport themselves at the new church which Dr Temple, of all men in the world, consecrated the other week. Practically the English prayer-book is completely discarded. It is put on The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 109 one side, and the ritual is taken from the Roman Catholic Missal there being high and low mass, while, when there is no service, the members of the congregation enter the church and bow before a small coloured lamp on the altar. The trustees of this remarkable specimen of an English church under the See of Canterbury include the Lord Chief Justice (appointed by Mr Gladstone), Lord Halifax (made an Ecclesiastical Commissioner by Mr Gladstone), and Canon Liddon (nominated to St Paul's by Mr Gladstone). The surprising thing is that Mr Gladstone is not a trustee ; but then Mr Gladstone' has to delude the Presby- terians of Scotland and the Methodists of Wales into the belief that he is one of them." (Quoted in Record, Dec. 16, p. 1210, 1887.) 1888. On Januarys, 1888, the English Churchman stated : " The Italian newspapers report that Mr Gladstone will go to Rome to treat with the Vatican for its support of Home Rule : and that Monsignor Persico has already opened negotiations on that basis." On April 2, 1888, a letter of the Duke of Argyll's was quoted in the Standard. The following extract from that letter deserves the attention of the people in Scotland : " In recent years Mr Gladstone has republished an essay in which the right of such 'bodies of religionists' as the Free Church of Scotland to call themselves ' Church ' at all, is spoken of as ' license ' only to be allowed on some such principle as that by which each man may select for himself any name he likes ; and a time is indicated as coming, when ' that motley catalogue will be riddled sifted with some severity.' Presbyterianism in Scotland is also spoken of as ' a narrow system of human and secondary origin' " For some weeks previous to June 26-28, 1888, a 110 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Popish lottery was advertised to be held on that date in Dublin, for the completion of the Roman Catholic White Abbey Church at Kildare, This ILLEGAL lottery drawing was widely advertised. On each ticket the following state- ments were printed : 1st Prize A GOLD MEDAL, Set in Diamonds, the Gift of * 2nd Prize AN OIL PAINTING of RT, HON, W. E, GLADSTONE, M.P., And Two Vols. of his Works, with Autograph Letter, presented by Himself. To the above Popish and illegal lottery Mr Gladstone therefore, it would appear, has presented some of his works, and has thus publicly united himself with the Pope in this particular attempt to advance the interests of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone, 111 Here is another "act" of a similar kind. A Romish Priest, Canon Brosnan, had been collecting funds for a church to be built in memory of a late Popish rebel, Daniel O'Connell. In reply to his appeal, he received the following letter from Mr Gladstone : "Naples, February 4th, 1889. " REV. AND DEAR SIR, I send with pleasure a cheque for 10 as a subscription to the effigy of O'Connell. Yours very faithfully, W. E. GLADSTONE. " To Rev. Canon Brosnan." Strangely do the contents of Mr Gladstone's letter contrast with his refusal to help certain pressing local appeals for assistance made by his Protestant constituents whilst he was Member for Greenwich. On February 23d, 1889, the Romish Weekly Register, at page 244, under the heading of Men and Things, after calling attention to Mr Gladstone's call upon the Cardinal at Naples, goes on to state that " on Sunday, at Amalfi, Mr Gladstone went to early Mass, reading the Anglican Lessons aloud when he returned to his hotel." Yet once again consistent in his inconsistency, it would be interesting to learn whether he communicated or not. But what business had he to be there at all, since he professes to be a member of a church which declares that the " Mass is a blasphemous fable and a dangerous deceit." 112 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. June 12th, 1889. Referring to Irish Home Rule, the Sheffield Telegraph prints in parallel columns the follow- ing extracts. The first is taken from Mr Gladstone's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees, written in 1874, and the other from a speech which he delivered in Cornwall. The contrast is striking : 1874. "No one can become her (the Church of Rome's) convert without renouncing his moral and mental freedom and placing his civil loyalty at the mercy of another He is a Catholic first and an English- man afterwards, and intends, in case of any conflict between the Queen and the Pope, to follow the Pope and let the Queen shift for herself. . . . The fixed pur- pose of the secret inspirers of Roman policy is to pursue, by the road of force, the favourite project of RE -ERECTING THE TERRITORIAL THRONE OF POPE- DOM, even if it can only be re-erected on the ashes of the city and amidst the whitening bones of the people." (Vatican Decrees, pp. 6, 50, 62.) 12th June 1889. "It is not an unnatural thing that there should be in this country among Protestants an apprehension on the subject of the future maintenance of full toleration in Ireland. . . . I beseech you to lay aside en- tirely all such apprehensions. . . . The Roman Catholic people will be found fighting breast to breast ^uith you the battles of religious liberty. . . They will show the sincerity of THEIR ATTACHMENT BOTH TO THE THRONE and to the laiv, and to the principles upon which the law will, I hope, be uni- formly founded. They will hold the same opinions upon these subjects which you have held, which your fathers have con- tended for, and which have marched triumphantly towards so many successful and most beneficial and brilliant results." Could any man more thoroughly eat his own words ? The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 113 July 1889. We invite English Electors to contrast the utterances of Mr Gladstone as given below ; and we would ask what dependence can be placed on a statesman who one year describes Mr Parnell as the " Demoraliser " of Ireland, and another year as "in the best sense . . . a, restorative force of great value to the peace and happiness" of that distracted island : On October 7th, 1881, Mr Gladstone said : " ' For nearly the first time in the history of Christendom a body a small body of men have arisen, who are not ashamed to preach in Ireland the doctrine of public plunder. ... I take as a representative of the opinions I denounce the name of a gentleman of con- siderable ability Mr Parnell, the member for Cork a gentle- man, I will admit, of consider- able ability, but whose doctrines are not such as to need any considerable ability to recom- mend them. If you go forth upon a mission to demoralise a people by teaching them to make the property of their neighbours the object of their covetous desire, it does not re- quire superhuman gifts to find a certain number of followers On July 19th, 1889, Mr Gladstone wrote : " I will further frankly state that, in the great controversy which is now going on, / con- sider Mr Parnell, with his friends, to be in the best sense a conservative and restorative force of great value and im- portance ivith reference to the peace and happiness of Ire- land, the honour of England, the integrity of the United Kingdom, and the permanence and greatness of the Empire. I am convinced that at the present moment they, and he in particular, HAVE BEEN labouring to consolidate the foundations of legality, on the strength and stability of which our ^uelfare essentially de- pends ; while the ill-judged, ineffective, and tyrannical pro- ceedings of the Government 114 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. and adherents for a doctrine such as that.' What do these words mean ? I ask you to allow your minds to travel back over the years that have elapsed since 1879. No one can think of the tragedies of these awful years without a shudder the murders that made the flesh creep ; the outrages that disgraced the Irish name; the maiming of dumb animals ; the destruction of property ; the suppression of opinion ; the silence of those who ought to have spoken out ; the open and avowed sympathy of a large section of the people with all this. In Ulster [Pro- testant] you have not known much about it." (Speech at Leeds.) in Ireland have deepened the aversion of the Irish people to the administration of their affairs in a spirit truly anti- national, and have for the first time enlisted the feelings of great masses of the English people in widespread and de- termined antipathy to the cause which in the sister Island is unhappily and abus- ively described as the cause of law and order." (Letter to Lord Aberdeen.) And on November 26th, 1890 :- " The splendid services ren- dered by Mr Parnell to his country." (The famous letter to Hi Honble. John Morley,M.P.) We pray the Reader to note the concluding words in the above extract from the Leed's speech, and to mark well that Mr Gladstone there bears testimony to the fact of murders, outrages, maimings, etc., being almost un- known in the Northern or Protestant portion of Ireland. Oh, when will English Electors understand, that the Irish difficulty which perplexes successive Governments solely arises from the existence of Romanism, and that if all Ireland were Protestant, Ireland would cease to be a burden to England, and a thorn in her side ! The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 115 Earnestly we impress on our readers the fact, patent in the history of all nations, that Jesuitism is but a synonymous word for disloyalty and crime. On January 29th, 189O, Mr Gladstone addressed the following letter to Professor Tyndall : " MY DEAR SIR, If you are correctly reported to have said at an Ulster meeting where Lord Londonderry appears to have been the chief speaker, that I have called Mr Pitt a blackguard, I have to request that you will, at your early convenience, supply me with your authority for that statement. I remain, Yours faithfully, W. E. GLADSTONE. " Professor Tyndall, &c." In his reply to this request, Professor Tyndall quoted certain extracts from Mr Gladstone's utterances, which, for the purpose of contrast, we place in parallel columns : " When his intellectual When Mr Gladstone was power was at its maximum" nearly 80 years old, he thus Mr Gladstone gave this as described Mr Pitt's Act of Ms opinion of Mr Pitt and Union with Ireland : the Act of Union which he passed : September 1856. J " ne 28 th, 1886. " It is hard to say what " I know of no blacker or might not have been anticipated fouler transaction in the history from his (Mr Pitt's) vigour and f man ihan the making of the wisdom, combined with a con- Union" (Speech at Liverpool.) tinuance of peace. But the June 29th, 1886. hurricane of the French Re- " Can you wonder that a cry, volution swept over the face of long and loud, was heard from 116 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Europe, and drew him into a war which again postponed for a quarter of a century all at- tempts at legislative progress, with the splendid but isolated exceptions of the Union with Ireland and the abolition of the slave trade." Ireland against the Union so foully brought about?" (Letter.) July 17th, 1886. " I am amazed at the dead- ness of vulgar opinion to the blackguardism and baseness no words are strong enough which befoul the whole history of the Union." (Letter.) Four years later on. " I won't enter now into all the proceedings in connection with the passing of that Act into all the fraud, all the bribery, all the corruption, all the violence, all the torture, all the slaughter, all the scandal- ous and incredible acts, which at the time stained the character, both of the British Govern- ment and of those who repre- sented it in Ireland" (Speech at Plymouth.) The Professor reminds Mr Gladstone : " You were no rash or immature youth when you delivered this opinion of Mr Pitt's work. You entered Parliament in 1832 ; the foregoing words were therefore uttered after you had had four-and-twenty years' experience of public life. Changing your lines in other matters, you held on to this view of Pitt for 29 years longer 53 years in all. These years em- braced the entire period of the Repeal agitation, during which you never gave the slightest intimation of any change of opinion regarding the Union." The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 117 He points out that it was not till Mr Gladstone was beaten at the election of 1885 that he suddenly changed his tone, waiting till he was 76 years old to discover that the Union was a crime ; remaining, up to 1886, a sharer of the " Vulgar Opinion" an abettor of "the blackguardism" which he now so passionately denounced. The Professor presses upon Mr Gladstone the question why, if the " cry from Ireland was long and loud" did he not give heed to it before 1886? And he asserts that : "Nothing more scandalous and incredible is to be found in political history than the fact of your having, for more than half a century, lived side by side with this monstrous violation of right and justice accepting it, abetting it, praising it without once allowing your voice to be heard in protest against it ? " Lastly he "takes his leave of Mr Gladstone by saying that " : "In sterner and more patriotic times the statesman found guilty of this unmeasured impeachment of his country, this wholesale delivery of her interests and her character into the hands of her enemies, would assuredly have received the re- ward considered righteous by Carlyle, and lost his traitorous head." Professor Tyndall's interesting and crushing reply will be found in the Times of March 10th, 1890. It is well worth careful and attentive perusal. 118 The Pro- Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. November 189O. From the public correspondence which followed the Parnell rupture, this much seems clear, that the Irish Home Rule Bill of the future is in- tended by Mr Gladstone to be a more Anti-English and therefore a more Romish one than that of 1886. Yet, in a Romish direction, that was bad enough, for its sup- plemental Clauses kept well in the background clearly convict Mr Gladstone of the intention of making the Roman Catholic Church eventually dominant in Ireland. On this latter point an eminent Wesleyan, the Rev. William Arthur, says : "The first thing I did was to turn to the supplemental Clauses. They seemed not to cover any guile. But, behold, in searching the Bill itself, when arrived at Clause 19, / find a few stealthy lines of a short sub-section which turn the prohibition respecting religion in Clause 21 into ivaste words. The effect of Clause 21 is that the Roman Catholic majority cannot establish any religion; the effect of Clause 19 is that 'notwithstanding snch prohibition, with the assent of Her Majesty in Council, they can spend money out of the taxes on their Church.' . . . That is the manner of legislation ... to which Nonconformists are to say Amen. It is as like the old supplemental Clauses of 1873 as ' my fingers to my fingers.' So the separated Irish are not to establish a religion, but may subsidise one in the first year ; and that done, the next step will need nothing but threats in Ireland and tremblers in office here. An English Roman Catholic journal says that if they are not to be free to establish 'the Church ' in Ireland, they will no longer have any reason for helping to keep up the Establishment in England. . . . And those who said from the first, Mr Gladstone means to set up Roman ascendency in place of Protestant ascendency, will say to the rest of us, Did we not tell you ! " The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 119 On December 27th, 189O, another letter appeared in the Times from Professor Tyndall. We give its closing words : "The duty of patriotic Dissent is now clearer than ever. The state and character of political parties in Ireland are laid bare to an extent never before reached since this agitation began. Kilkenny furnishes a sample. Consider it well. Monks and priests everywhere; Sir John Pope Hennessy hiding behind his sacerdotal agents and leaving to them the entire management of his affairs : priests in the chapels, loith the dread terrors of the other ivorldheld over their panting flocks : priests as political orators in chapel yards and market squares; priests as can- vassers in the villages and as roivdies among the mob, they are, and long have been, the heart and soul of this movement. These dark-browed gentry know what they are working for. To them their object is clear enough it is the final and complete over- throw of Irish Protestantism, and the re-conversion of Ireland into an ' island of saints.' " I once, not very long ago, was rash enough to propose to Mr Gladstone that we should go together to Belfast, and lay before the audiences assembled in the famous Ulster hall our respective views of the Irish question. In the event of his accepting the invitation, I hoped to walk by his side through that noble city, and not only through the city itself, but round about it for miles, and to point out to him the evidences of prosperous activity everywhere aboundingly manifest. We should have heard to- gether the song of the labourer, the sound of the carpenter's saw, plane, and hammer, the ring of the bricklayer's trowel, as new mansions, streets, and humbler dwellings rose beneath his hands. " The laws of the Imperial Parliament had not prevented the people of Belfast from achieving these results from making their city and its suburbs a model of comfort, solidity, and splendour. And I would have asked IVIr Gladstone to gauge, if he could, the infamy of placing this great 120 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. population, and not it alone, but the steadfast loyalty of the rest of Ulster, and the rest of Ireland, under the feet of the priestly horde whose ruffianism has recently been exhibited in Kilkenny and elsewhere. " I confidently ask the young and chivalrous members of the Dissenting body to pause before lending their aid and counten- ance to the perpetration of so unspeakable a crime." On January 13th, 1891, Dr Parker of the City Temple, stated in the Times what he thought of Popery, and of Mr Gladstone's policy with regard to the Religious Dis- abilities Bill. His letter ran as follows : " SIR, I strongly object to this Bill both as a Protestant dis- senter and as a British subject. The Bill is ostensibly conceived in the interests of those who are suffering disabilities in view of their religious belief. In so far, it would secure my hearty assent ; but this appeal to the instincts and traditions of Non- conformists ignores an aspect of the case which is absolutely essential to its completeness. " Popery is not only a religious faith, it is a State policy. As to practical effect I might reverse this sequence and say that Popery is a State policy first, and a religious faith second. " It is to the credit of Popery that it does not conceal its political purpose and claim. It wants to rule the world. When kings and thrones stand in its way they must be abased or removed. Its own words are, ' The temporal authority should be subject to the spiritual power.' (Unam Sanctum.)* 1 The Bull, " Unam Sanctam," is explicit on the subject of Supremacy. It proclaims as follows : " It is necessary that one sword should be under another, and that the temporal authority should be subject to the spiritual power. And thus the prophecy of Jeremiah is fulfilled in the Church and the ecclesiastical power, ' Behold, I have set thee over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.' Therefore, if the earthly power go The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 121 " This one sentence determines my attitude towards Mr Glad- stone's proposed Bill. I am not in the faintest degree animated by religious prejudice. A man can honestly be an agnostic and an Englishman, but he cannot be a thorough Englishman and a consistent Papist " Yet even assuming that some degree of religious bitterness entered almost unconsciously into my hostility, the Papist cannot visit me with recriminations because his own ' Syllabus,' accord- ing to Mr Gladstone himself, condemns, " with fearfully energetic epithets, . . . toleration of Nonconformity, liberty of con- science, . . . and the definition by the State of the civil rights of the Church." " Not because the Papist believes in transubstantiation would I exclude him from the woolsack, but because, as Mr Gladstone says (' Vatican Decrees,' p. 61), ' Rome requires a convert, who now joins her, to forfeit his moral and mental freedom, and to place his loyalty and civil duty at the mercy of another.' " Suppose we adopt Mr Gladstone's words, and describe the Bill thus : ' A Bill to remove the disabilities of men who have forfeited their moral and mental freedom to hold the offices of Lord Chancellor,' &c. How would the proposal be then re- garded ? Yet this is Mr Gladstone's own definition. " I contend that ' Roman Catholic ' is more than a religious term ; it is a symbol of utter surrender of mind and conscience to the will of the Pope, and on this ground alone I protest against the Bill being associated with the sacred policy of removing strictly religious disabilities. astray, it must be judged by the spiritual power ; but if the spiritual power go astray, it must be judged by God alone. Moreover, we declare, say, define, and pronounce it to be alto- gether necessary to salvation that every human creature should be subject to the Roman pontiff." Corpus Juris Canonici, torn, ii. p. 394, Paris, 1687. This Bull, Unam Sanctam, and the Syllabus, Cardinal Manning has declared, contain the doctrines of " Ultramontanism and Christianity." (Times, December 24th, 1873.) 122 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. "I am not blind to the proposed safeguards; indeed, I set great store by them as arguments in favour of my protest, Popish Lord Chancellors are not to dispense ecclesiastical patronage ! Popish Lord Chancellors are not to be trustees of Church of England endowments ! Yet they are to ' hold and enjoy the said office.' Paradox can hardly go further. If this is not a most glaring instance of inflicting purely religious disability, I am utterly deluded. By parity of reasoning, why not appoint an English Bishop as Lord Chancellor, with the safeguard that he is to confine himself to the dispensation of ecclesiastical patronage and the discharge of ecclesiastical trusts, but not to interfere with the interpretation or application of the civil law ? Why dismember the functions of the office, under the pretence of removing religious disabilities ? This Bill would inflict what it proposes to remove, and would place conscientious scruples under an official and public stigma. "JOSEPH PARKER. " The City Temple, January 9th." From another letter of Dr Parker's we give a few extracts : " The Religious Disabilities Bill means, not in intention, but in effect, the destruction of Protestantism, and that is the destruction of liberty. . . . One fatal mistake which some Nonconformists are in danger of making is that of supposing that Popery and Nonconformity are politically the same thing ; and the consequent error of contending that the concession made to Nonconformity ought to be extended to Popery. Non- conformists are Protestants. They are loyal. They owe no allegiance to any Foreign Power. They hate with inexpressible hatred the kind of Priestism that divides families, extorts con- fession, plots against authority, and fixes its leering eyes upon all simplicity of virtue and truthfulness. " As a loyal Nonconformist I repudiate the suggestion that Nonconformity and Popery are in any sense or degree synony- mous or equivalent terms, even in their relation to the State. The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 123 . . . The word Liberty is a word which every Papist ought to be ashamed to use. The Pope is ever willing to acquire Liberty, but never ivilling to distribute it. " When does Popery throw doivn its barriers that Pro- testantism may pass ? " When does Popery meet Protestantism half way ? " It is always Protestantism that must yield. It is always Progress that must stand still or recede. " I call, therefore, upon all Protestants to resist a Bill, which, under the plea of liberty, enlarges the range of slavery. . . ." (Times, Feb. 3rd, 1891.) About the same date, at the City Temple, Dr Parker said : " One thing astounds me beyond measure. It is incredible, in view of his publications, that Mr Gladstone should have pro- pounded this Bill. It is wholly Mr Gladstone's doing. It is utterly inconsistent with his writings (unless he has withdrawn them), yet thoroughly in keeping with his legislation. Mr Glad- stone has uniformally favoured the Roman Catholic cause by his speeches and his votes. If I wanted an authority for con- demning the Bill, I would quote Mr Gladstone himself. In this matter he seems to me to be saying one thing and doing another. I await, however, the guidance of his speech. He must not be judged unheard." (Quoted in English Churchman, Feb. 5th, 1891.) On February 2Oth. 189O, during the debate on Free Education, Mr Morley promised for Mr Gladstone and his party that, in the event of Free Education being granted, schools intended for a section of the community, such as Roman Catholics or Jews, should be left under the control of these sects, though they received public support. This announcement brought up Mr Sexton, 124 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. who promised the support of the Irish party, accepting the principle that their rights of conscience should be respected ivhen those of others were abolished. One result followed. Mr Bevan, a well-known Glad- stonian, announced his intention to leave the Gladstonian party by reason of their action in reference to the Roman Catholics and the question of Free Education. With reference to this announcement Mr Chamberlain wrote as follows : "I consider that Mr Bevan's return to his old friends and fellow-workers is most important and encouraging, and I am sure that he will be heartily welcomed by all of us for his influence with other friends who have been temporarily estranged from us, and whose eyes may be opened to the demoralisation of the Gladstonian Party by the latest proof in the momentous compact between themselves and the Roman Catholics. It is most extraordinary that the very men who pro- tested against the remotest idea of placing the higher education of Ireland on the same footing as that of the Protestants should now be willing to give to the Roman Catholics in England privileges and advantages over other sects and denominations." (Standard, March 3d, 1890.) On December llth, 189O, the Globe linked to- gether the following extracts : " It may be necessary for the manhood in Ireland to uphold their rights . . . by hardy blackthorns." Michael Davitt. " Depend upon it our people with blackthorns are more than a match for these police any day." William O'Brien. "Why are not blackthorns to be used against batons [of police] ? " W. E. Gladstone. It seems almost incredible that an ex-Prime Minister The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 125 should use such language, and this language coming too from a man who, when stricken with fear during the Fenian scare, surrounded himself and his house with policemen and their batons. On December 12th, 189O, the following letter was addressed by the Kev. Donald Fraser, the eminent Presbyterian minister, to a Member of the Committee of the Nonconformist Liberal Unionist Association, Dec. 15th, 1890: " Cambridge Square, Hyde Park, Dec. 12 "My DEAR SIR, I see no logical connection between con- formity or nonconformity to the Book of Common Prayer and any particular view of Irish politics ; therefore, I do not join the Nonconformist Unionist Association. In the Church to which I belong we do not discuss aifairs of State, or pass resolutions, eulogistic or otherwise, on the conduct of party leaders. Accordingly I write on such an issue as Home Kule, simply as a citizen, and not as a Presbyterian Churchman. At the present juncture it may be necessary for those Englishmen and Scotsmen who have admired and honoured Mr Parnell to proclaim their changed opinion of him; but, being one of those who never trusted him, I have no need to renounce him. Some persons seem to expect us to recognise in such an Act of renunciation by IHIr Gladstone and his followers a sublime tribute to morality. To me the tribute appears very tardy and very partial. For years past Mr Gladstone and his adherents have, for political ends, made light of many breaches of the Sixth Commandment (outrages and murders) in Ireland, and of the Eighth Com- mandment, too, in the concerted non-payment 126 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. of rent. They have extenuated the cruelties and dishonesties which have been the weapons of warfare on the part of their allies. At last they throw over Mr Parnell with great show of virtuous indignation, because he personally has broken the Seventh Commandment. I do not think that this sensitiveness about one of the Com- mandments and this callousness about the two that go before and after, indicate any very high or healthy morality. " As to Home Rule for Ireland, how can any sober-minded man waste time any further over a mere phrase ? The thing can never be without distracting our national life, and turning Ireland itself into a scene of horrid strife. Yours sincerely, " DONALD FRASER." (Tivies, Dec. 15, 1890.) On January 23d, 1891, the following admirable re- marks appeared in the Christian : " Now what is the case with regard to Roman Catholics ? They are mentally, spiritually, and physically the subjects of a foreign power. They are ' Catholics first and Englishmen after- wards.' They are de facto aliens. It is conceivable that a Frenchman or an American might have become so weaned from his own country, and so Anglicised in thought and interest that he might be safely entrusted with the crown of the British Empire. But this is inconceivable in the case of a true Roman Catholic. He may be ever so estimable in his personal char- acter, but he is the absolute servant of the Pope, whom he declares to be infallible. And as soon as he attains a position of influence or power, he becomes an available instrument of Jesuit intrigue and of Papal pretension. " The disability of Roman Catholics to hold the office of Lord Chancellor of England, and Lord -Lieutenant of Ireland, does not arise from the doctrines which Romanists profess, but from the fact that they are subjects of a foreign power, which claims absolute and world-wide dominion, and has enforced it whenever and wherever it has had the ability. ... So far as England is The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 127 concerned, Cardinal Manning has confessed that it is the pur- pose of the Church of Rome to bend the neck of this imperial race. With the aid of Sacerdotalism in the Church of England, and of false views of liberty among Nonconformists, with will- ingness to follow the fashion among the people generally, the imperial race seems likely to bend her neck to the Roman yoke without causing the Papal hierarchy unnecessary exertion. " Many of our Nonconformist brethren think it necessary to civil and religious liberty, not only to remove the disability of Roman Catholics as to the two offices named in Mr Gladstone's Bill, but to do away with the Act securing Protestant succes- sion to the throne. Indeed, it would be quite inconsistent to approve of Mr Gladstone's Bill, and to hesitate at the abroga- tion of the Act of Succession. It would have been more honest if IKIr Gladstone had at once included in his Bill its logical and inevitable consequence the abro- gation of the Act of Succession opening the way to the throne to a Popish sovereign, and his Lord God the Pope. " It is not liberty to allow the strong to oppress the weak, or the crafty to defraud the simple. True liberty means, letting the oppressed go free, and the breaking of every yoke. But those who, in the name of civil and religious liberty, advocate the Bill in question, lay upon this England of ours a yoke which our fathers were not able to bear ; and would be helping to put out the candle which Latirner and Ridley, and their peers, lighted at the flames of martyrdom. " The truth is that civil and religious liberty has itself become the religion of many descendants of the holy and faithful Non- conformists of two centuries ago. It is possible for civil and religious liberty to become a cry, an idol, a fetish ; and for its worshippers to be more zealous in adoring religious liberty than enjoying the liberty to be religious. "That is not liberty which gives the Old Man of the Sea licence to fasten himself upon Sinbad's neck. Liberty setting the tyrant on the throne is liberty run mad. English Non- conformity waving its banner of Civil and Religious 128 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Liberty at the head of a procession leading Popery back to the throne of England would be an un- precedented exhibition of Freedom free to slay herself, and dying while they shout her name. " In the name of personal liberty, both civil and religious, of which Popery has always been the consistent and persistent enemy, we appeal to those who value liberty, not to bring upon their and our children a cruel tyranny to deliver us from which their and our forefathers suffered imprisonment, torture and death." On February 4th, 1891, Mr Gladstone moved the second reading of the Religious Disabilities Removal Bill. This Bill, if passed, would have made another of Mr Gladstone's dangerous inroads on the Constitution of "this Protestant Kingdom" (Bill of Rights)* by permitting the appointment of Roman Catholics to the high offices of Lord Chancellors of England, and Lord Lieutenants of Ireland, and so removing the last safeguards of Protestantism provided by the R. C. Emancipation Act of 1829. Happily the Bill was rejected by a majority of 256 to 224. Our Ancestors, it should be remembered, closed the above-named offices against Roman Catholics, not because the latter believed in Transubstantiation, &c., but because they belonged to a Church which bound * In the Ninth Article of the Bill of Rights, A.D. 1689, we read : " Whereas it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant Kingdom to be governed by a Popish Prince, . . . &c." The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 129 its members, at the peril of their salvation, to obey a Foreign Priest, who claimed to be infallible, and who was the avowed enemy of our Protestant religion, and of our civil and religious Liberties. They therefore felt, and justly, that with safety to this Protestant Kingdom Komanists "were not fit to be entrusted with the discharge of high and responsible duties." (Speech of Mr Gladstone, Feb. 4th, 1891.) In 1874, Mr Gladstone admitted this to be true He then stated : " That the Decrees of 1870 not only proclaimed the Infallibility of the Pope, but enforced absolute and entire Obedience, at peril of salvation, in every matter, not alone of faith and morals, but in all subjects belonging to the domain and competency of the State, which the Pope, at any time, may please to declare concern the Government of the Church; such as marriage, burial, education, prison discipline, blasphemy, poor relief, incorporation, mortmain, religious endowments, vows of celibacy and obedience . . . and that the Pope claimed with plenary authority, from every convert and member of his Church, that he shall ' place his loyalty and civil duty at the mercy of another:* that other being himself." Now, during the debate of February 4th, 1891, Mr Gladstone was reminded of these his former statements, and in reply said : " / wish to state the case f airly , and my answer is this. . . . It is perfectly true that I did impeach in 1874 certain declarations of the See of Rome as dangerous to the civil allegiance of those who adopted and concurred in them, and I invited, in a pamphlet termed ' Vatican Decrees,' my Roman Catholic fellow-subjects to give assurances to their fellow-countrymen on the question 130 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. whether they did or did not profess a full, entire and undivided allegiance. The effect of that pamphlet was to draw forth a considerable number of replies, and I myself, having published a tract in November 1874, and having read and considered those replies, published a further tract termed 'VATICANISM' in February 1875, and in that tract I inserted a passage which I will now read to the House, but which evidently, for some reason or other, has never met the eyes of a single person connected with the opposition to this BilL In page 14 of the pamphlet will be found these words: 'I cannot but say that the im- mediate purpose of my appeal has been attained in so far that the loyalty of our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects in the mass re- mains evidently untainted and secure.' " (Times, Feb. 5th, 1891.) But although Mr Gladstone expressed a " wish to state the case fairly," he wholly ignored certain passages in his pamphlet, which, if quoted, would have neutralised the favourable impression produced by the short paragraph to which the attention of Parliament was called. For example, Mr Gladstone did not tell the House of Commons that " the large majority of those who sent replies adopted without reserve the Ultramontane hypothesis" (Vaticanism, p. 6) that "the Bishops, who govern in things spiritual more than five millions of the inhabitants of the United Kingdom, have in all cases accepted the Ultramontane claims" (Vatican Decrees, p. 46) ; and that his conclusion about Roman Catholic loyalty was drawn, NOT from the statements of the Majority, but from those of " the Minority who did not represent the true current and aim of thought in the Papal Church" (Vaticanism, p. 14), and who held their The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 131 moderate views "subject to the condition that, upon orders from Rome, if such orders should issue, they shall be qualified, or retracted, or reversed" (p. 17). He did not read the passage where he had said : " It is, in my opinion, an entire mistake to suppose thati theories like those, of which yours is the centre, are not operative on the thoughts and actions of men. An army of teachers, the largest and most compact in the world, is ever sedulously at work * to bring them into practice. Within our own time, they have most powerfully, as well as most injuriously, altered the spirit and feeling of the Roman Church at large " (p. 16). So similarly other passages where he stated : " That the Priests are absolute over the People, the Bishops over both, and the Pope over all, . . . the mere utterances of the central See are laws, they override at will all other laws " (p. 94), and " no man can depart from them save at the peril of his salvation." (Vatican Decrees, p. 38.) " That the Pope has the Jesuits and other admirable advisers near him, whom he will always consult," the Jesuits being " the deadliest foes that mental and moral liberty have ever known" (Vatican Decrees, p. 38), and that, " under ill advice, he (Mr Gladstone) sees the Pope aiming heavy and, so far as he can make them so, deadly blows at the freedom of mankind" (Vaticanism, p. Ill), "con- demning free speech, free writing, a free press, toleration of Nonconformity, liberty of conscience, . . . and demanding for his Church, ... a right to use physical force." (Vatican Decrees, p. 42.) He omitted to tell the House that : "After a further review of the Papal system, as a system, * Archbishop Manning, together with his priests, are bound on oath to carry on this work. 132 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. he must say that its influence is adverse to freedom in the State, the family and the individual " (p. 112), and " must avow that he did not feel exactly the same security for the future as for the present " (p. 16), and " was no longer able to say . . . ' There is nothing in the necessary belief of the Roman Catholic which can appear to impeach his full civil title; for . . . his Church itself has not required of him, with binding authority to assent to any principles inconsistent with his civil duty ; ' " for " that ground was now, for the present, at least, cut from under his feet." (Vatican Decrees, p. 63.) And hence, that in writing Vaticanism : " His object had been ... to warn his countrymen against the velvet paw, and smooth and soft exterior of a system which is dangerous to the foundation of civil order." (Vatican- ism, p. 117.) We trust that the Electorate of England will thought- fully weigh the preceding statements which (see page 59) were deliberately put forth by Mr Gladstone in 1874-75, but which, in 1891, he shall we say knowingly sup- pressed in debate, lest the pro-Roman object he then had at heart might be defeated. On April 15th, 1891, the Times pointed out that, as a general election was near, it was important that the Constituencies should be brought to see what Mr Glad- stone's policy, in its present phase, really means. Only a few months ago, Mr Gladstone and his party staked everything on the omnipotence of Mr Parnell. But now, they are appealing for support against Mr Parnell, as at once morally discredited and politically dangerous. The Times therefore inquired what was the character of the The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 13$ new Irish Nationalist Party to which the fortunes of the Gladstonians are tied. Sir Henry James, in his weighty speech at the Liberal Club on the previous evening, gave the answer. He showed that this new party was simply the tool of a Priesthood, which claimed that Roman Catholic electors must resign all freedom of judgment in matters of politics. In the speech to which the Times referred, Sir Henry said : " We know from the events at Kilkenny and Sligo, from the canvassing which has proceeded from the altar and has been carried on in every household, how the priests have become the agents for political candidates, how excommunication has been threatened and imposed on account of the political views of electors differing from those of the priesthood. I wish to call attention to the declaration made and the claim of right asserted on the part of the Roman Catholic priesthood. It goes beyond all the suggestions which some of us have made on this subject. I am simply now about to call attention to the words of the most responsible representative of the Roman Catholic priesthood, . . . the Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, the Most Rev. Dr Logue. . . This prelate is thu reported to have spoken, in the National Press newspaper of' April 7th : " ' We are,' he says, ' face to face at the present moment with a great disobedience to ecclesiastical authority. We have news- papers which pass as Catholic and writers trying to turn away the people. These people call themselves Catholics; but they are Catholics who have lost that spirit of holy religion to which God has called them. They are following in the steps of the Freemasons and other secularists of the Continent, and are trying to turn away the people from the pastors who have been placed over the Church for the guidance of the people. We ar$ 134 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. all frail, weak men ; but we have God's grace, and we are given special light if we have grace to direct the people ; and, if from time to time we make mistakes, we are more likely to be right than those who have only worldly prudence. The doctrines of the present day are calculated to wean the people from the priests' advice, to separate the priests from the people, and allow the people to use their own judgment.' * ***#** "Now let me take this statement made by the Most Rev. Primate of Ireland. He says, ' We are face to face with a great disobedience to ecclesiastical authority.' Well, is it dis- obedience to ecclesiastical authority for a man to exercise political thought and to enjoy freedom of political action because his priest differs from him as to the course which he ought to take ? If it had been said in this country that it was disobedience for a Churchman to vote against his vicar or rector, or for a Nonconformist elector to vote against his minister, what would have happened ? He says that priests are more likely to be right than those who have only worldly prudence. ... If once it is admitted that the priest is a person who is better able to guide, on account of the superiority of his principles, than the elector who is a mere layman and does not belong to the priesthood, what a power we shall furnish * The late Earl Russell, on Jany. 19th, 1874, addressed a letter to Sir John Murray, referring in it to Archbishop Manning's statement about the claims of the Roman Church : "If" (said Dr Manning) "the Church be Christ, it is the Supreme power among men ... a power to bind the consciences of all men born again in the Baptism of Jesus Christ" "This" (remarked Lord Russell) "is not liberty, civil or religious. It is to bow the knee to a despotic and fallible priesthood. The very same principles which bound me to ask for equal freedom for the Roman Catholic, the Protestant, Dissenter, and the Jew bind me to protest against a conspiracy which aims The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 136 towards the establishment of a clerical party, and not only that, but to the creation of a state of things which always has been, and always will be, opposed to the progress of the people and the existence of a true Liberal party. The Archbishop says that the doctrines of the present day are calculated to wean the people from the priests' advice to separate the priests from the people, and, to sum up the whole of it, to allow the people to use their own judgment. That allowing of the people to use their own judgment is what many of us have been striving through our political lives to secure for the people, I would now appeal to the Liberal party. For what did they for years support the principles of the ballot, except that the people should be free to use their own judgment ? For what have they extended the franchise ? For what have they legislated against undue influence and intimidation unless it was to let people use their own judgment? "And now I am about to ask, will the Gladstonian party accept this view that it is an error and a wrong for men to be allowed to use their own judgment, which ought to be corrected by the priesthood of Ireland ? . . . What do the Gladstonian party say to this claim made on behalf of this strong body of their allies ? They must accept it, and forget and forego the whole traditions of their party, or they must repudiate it. What would be said if such a claim as this were made on behalf of the clergy of any Church or any faith 1 There would be an outcry in this country that the Church itself would not be able to with- stand, and before which any political party would go down. We are asked to accept Home Rule, to hand over one portion of the Kingdom to this power, not now possessing claims, which are only to be defined by political opponents, but a power that claims the right to prevent electors exercising their own political judgment." (Times, April 15th, 1891.) February 16th, 1891. Mr J. "W. Martin, "a voter in four constituencies, an enthusiastic supporter of Mr Gladstone's political policy, and for the last four years 136 The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. an ardent Home Ruler," on February 16th, 1891, wrote to Mr Gladstone. He said : " I desire to know, for the guidance of myself and friends at the next general election, whether you can give the Protestant section of your supporters any assurance that the Religious Disabilities Bill will not be reintroduced into the House of Commons, if you are returned to power at the head of a majority in the next Parliament ? The question is a very important one, and upon your answer must depend the direction in which a great many votes will be cast. . . . "I ask you, sir, as a statesman, and one whom I venerate as the greatest among living Englishmen, if you desire to reduce this England of ours to a condition of semi-dependence upon the Papacy, like that recently exhibited by Germany and Belgium ? Your Bill would seem to indicate that you do, and if you do, then it is for the Protestants of England to say, by the God who delivered us from the Roman idolatry in Reformation times, we will not return to it, and by the blood which our fathers shed in the sacred cause of liberty, this thing shall not be. . . ." The reply ran thus : " DEAR SIR, .... Who may have charge of the Bill in a future year is a matter which has not yet been considered ; but if the British Roman Catholic is loyal, I hope you would agree with me that we need not make him suffer because the claims of Rome are in our view extravagant. Your very faithful servant, W, E. GLADSTONE." We would remark that a Romanist, if really loyal to his creed, cannot be loyal to a Protestant sovereign. The thing is impossible. On February 25th, 1891, the Liverpool Courier said : "It will probably cause some surprise, and various sur- The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 137 misings, when we announce that Mr W. E. Gladstone has acquired the advowson and the right of next presentation to the Rectory of Liverpool. The arrangement has been effected quietly, and considerable pains have been taken to keep it secret" Judging Mr Gladstone by his antecedents, we are sure that in purchasing this advowson he can have had but one object the power, in the future, to appoint Ritualistic Clergy. The view which Mr Gladstone takes about these Ritualistic "conspirators" remaining in the Church of England may be judged from the following : " We are prepared to contend " (writes Mr Gladstone) " that even those who may be influenced more or less by the sympathies which Mr Ward * has avowed for Romish opinions, and by his antipathy to the proceedings taken at the Reformation, are in no degree thereby released from their obligation to continue in the Church [of England]. If their private judgment prefers the religious system of the Church of Rome to their own, and even holds the union of the English Church with Rome to be neces- sary to her perfection as a Church, yet, so long as they cannot deny that she is their spiritual parent and guide ordained of God, they owe to her not merely adhesion, but allegiance." (Gleanings of Past Years, Vol. V., p. 152.) Not long since an able writer well remarked that "It is idle to talk to Englishmen of the devotion of the * In discussing the question of equivocation, Ward once expressed himself thus : " Make yourself clear that you are justified in deception, and then lie like a trooper" Ward, not long after, seceded to Rome. (Quarterly Review, October 1889, p. 365.) 138 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Anglican Priest, the purity of an Anglican Nun, and the zeal of the Anglican Monk, now working within our midst. In- novators are always zealous and devoted until their system is established. But we have had the system before, and we know what the Priesthood, and Nunnery, and the Monastic order resulted in three hundred years ago ! History is apt to repeat itself, and we have no wish to see those scenes repeated." (Club Cameos, p. 252, Sampson, Low & Co.) April 2Oth, 1891* taking the Mr Gladstone of either " Vatican Decrees," or "Vaticanism," and the Mr Glad- stone of the following epistle, we ask, could inconsist- ency go further in being inconsistent ? To Mr H. G. Shee, the Gladstonian Home Rule Candidate for Whitehaven : " London, April 28th, 1891. "MY DEAR SIR, I have already stated to the Liberal candidate for Oxfordshire urgent reasons for restoring Ireland to equal civil rights, and of removing the great impediments which the Irish question places in the way of effective British legislation. Your personal position as a Roman Catholic demands from me a separate expression of good wishes and a special notice, because recent circumstances bring it again into question whether religious opinions are or are not to be in this free country a disqualification for political offices. " More than one leader of the dissentient party in Parliament has endeavoured to stir up sectarian animosities in Ireland against the mass of the people, and in England a combination of Tories and dissentients have this year thrown out a bill which was introduced in order to place all persons on an equal footing with respect to holding the Viceroyalty of Ireland, and to discharging the civil duties of the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. Either of these offices may be held by a Unitarian or by a Jew, by a Mahommetan or a Bhuddist, by an Agnostic The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 139 or an Atheist, but not by a Roman Catholic, who, however, may be Prime Minister, and would not then be disabled (such is the opinion of the Government) from advising the Queen as to the appointments of Bishops. And this is the state of law which in the year 1891 the Tories and dissentients forming the majority of the present House of Commons have combined to perpetuate. " I trust that the constituency of Whitehaven will, by return- ing you to Parliament, follow the example set all over the country in giving sanction to the Liberal cause, and will in your person find the means of pointedly condemning a state of law which unites in a singular degree gross injustice with gross absurdity- I remain, with hearty wishes, faithfully yours, "W. E. GLADSTONE." (Daily News, April 22, 1891.) Whitehaven, however, did not " follow the ex- amples" suggested by Mr Gladstone, for whereas Mr Shee was only beaten in 1886 by 106 votes, he was beaten on this occasion by 233 votes, and this notwith- standing a strong Irish Roman Catholic element in this English constituency. 140 The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. CONCLUSION. COMMENCING with the year 1838, we have brought Mr Gladstone's pro-Romish "acts" down to May 1891. These "acts" form one unbroken chain. They cover a period of more than half a century. They prove incontestably that Mr Gladstone has uniformly opposed what is distinctly Protestant, and has systematically advanced what is essentially Popish. It has been truly remarked : " Much will be forgotten before the Elections. No one is better aware than Mr Gladstone that the public memory is like a sieve, and that his own powers of reshaping and remodelling facts, so as to render them available for any purpose required at the moment, are still inexhaustible after forty years of incessant use. No memory is so short (he has told us) as Political memory. The party which can count upon forget- fulness need not trouble itself with repentance or con- version/ We know of no passage in all Mr Gladstone's writings or speeches in which a profound truth is put into so few words." (Quarterly Review, July, 1885.) Among "forgotten" facts, we may unhesitatingly include certain remarkable statements put forth by Mr Gladstone in 1875. These statements refer to his Irish policy, and occur in a letter written, admittedly, * after * Vatican Decrees, p. 60, and Vaticanism, p. 113. The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 141 much calm reflection, and addressed to his countrymen at large. " I had " (wrote Mr Gladstone) " for very many years felt it to be the first and paramount duty of the British Legislature, whatever Rome might say or do, to give to Ireland all that justice could demand, in regard to matters of conscience and of civil equality, and thus to set herself right in the opinion of the civilised world* . . . While this debt remained unpaid, both before and after 1870, 1 did not think it my province to open formally a line of argument on a question [Vaticanism]. . . . which might have prejudiced the matter of duty lying nearest our hand .... by slackening the disposition to pay the debt of justice. When Parliament had passed the Church Act of 1869, and the Land Act of 1870, there remained only, under the great head of Imperial equity, one serious ques- tion to be dealt with, that of the higher Education. I consider that the Liberal majority in the House of Commons, and the Government to which I had the honour and satisfaction to belong, formally tendered payment in full of this portion of the debt by the Irish University Bill of February 1873. Some indeed think it was overpaid. . . . But the Roman Catholic prelacy of Ireland thought fit to procure the rejection of that measure by the direct influence which they exercised over a cer- tain number of Irish members of Parliament.-f . . . Their efforts were crowned with a complete success. From that time forward I have felt that the situation was changed ; . . . the debt to Ireland had been paid; a debt to the country at large had still to be disposed of, and this has come to be the duty of the hour. . . ." * Mr Gladstone is fond of appealing to " the opinion of the civilised world" It is well, therefore, to remind the reader that the said " opinion " has never been given. Like many other of Mr Gladstone's assertions, it is purely imaginary, the creation of his own fertile brain. f But see pp. 131 and 132 of this work. 142 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. " Of what the Liberal party has accomplished, by word or deed, in establishing the full civil equality of Roman Catholics, I regret nothing, I recant nothing." (Vatican Decrees, pp. 59-61.) Supported, then, by "the opinion of the civilised world " he might with equal truth have added, " and of the Heathen world also" Mr Gladstone authoritatively asserted in 1875 that " the debt to Ireland had been paid" and that Ireland had been given '-' all that justice could demand, in regard to matters of conscience and of civil equality" Yet, in 1886, we find Mr Gladstone again uttering his old and worn-out cry o,f "justice for Ireland;" we find him creating mentally another debt, and bringing in a pro- Eoman measure of Home Rule with which to pay it off. Since the above date, down to the present moment, the question of Home Rule has been asserted by Mr Glad- stone to be of such paramount importance to Ireland, that all English and Scotch legislation must be post- poned till it is carried. For example, in April last, Mr -Gladstone wrote : "I have already stated to the Liberal candidate urgent reasons for restoring Ireland to equal civil rights, and of removing the great impediments which the Irish question places in the way of effective British legislation." (Daily News, April 22, 1891.) " For the prosecution of this object (Mr Gladstone says), he mainly retains the leadership of the Liberal The Pro-Roinish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 143 party." (Letter to Kt. Honble. J. Morley, M.P., November, 1890.) But if, in 1870, "ONLY ONE serious (Irish) question remained," and if, in 1875, England's DEBTS to Ireland the long outstanding debts HAD ALL BEEN PAID, so fully and entirely paid, that Mr Gladstone, from thenceforth, felt his hands free to dispose of another "debt due to the country at large," the disposal of which was "the duty of the hour ; " how comes it to pass that suddenly, in 1886, Mr Gladstone discovers the existence of another Irish debt, bigger than any of the previous ones ? How comes it to pass that, for fifty-three years, Mr Gladstone had remained stone-deaf to " a cry (coming) from Ireland " for Home Rule ; a cry which he describes as " LONG and loud ? " * Surely here is matter for grave reflection ! GLADSTONE versus GLADSTONE. Every debt paid in 1875, yet at that very time, on Mr Gladstone's own admission, the biggest debt of all remaining. Ireland satisfied in 1875, yet at that very time, on Mr Gladstone's own admission, nay, "long" before, uttering a "loud" cry for help. Unquestionably Mr Gladstone " counts on the forge t- fulness of Electors." Therefore it is that we wish to refresh their memory, and to remind them of this page * See p. 117. 144 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. in the Gladstonian history, and to beg them weigh it well. Now if what Mr Gladstone said in 1875 was true, there could not possibly have been an imperious necessity in 1886 for further special legislation on behalf of Ireland. Why, then, the introduction of the recent pro-Roman measure of Irish Home Eule ? We conceive this to be the answer. Mr Gladstone believed that the 1869 and 1870 pro-Romish measures would have cut down, ac- cording to his expressed intention, * the Noxious Tree of Protestant ascendency ; but, contrary to expectation, the tree, though sadly lopped by the Hawarden axe, retained vitality, and still cast, what was to him, a baneful shadow over the sister Isle.t So the " Noxious Tree," or rather what remained of it after previous legislation, must be utterly cut down and destroyed. But this could only be effected by granting to Ireland Home Rule, which meant investing the Irish Priesthood with the command of its destiny ; in other words, placing Ireland, in its entirety, under an " organisa- tion which has in every age set every other at defiance," * See pp. 20, 22. { Prosperity is always found wherever the tree of Pro- testantism strikes its roots deep, as in the North of Ireland ; but crime, misery, and illiteracy, wherever the Upas Tree of Romish ascendency is permitted, unchecked, to rear its head, as in the Southern Provinces of that island. The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 145 and whose power is revealed at the present moment iii the struggle which is going forward between the rival forces, headed by Mr Parnell on the one hand, and by the Priesthood on the other. The following supposed case strikingly illustrates the nature of this organisation : " Can you imagine" (said Lord Salisbury) " the Archbishop of Canterbury summoning his suffragans, and resolving that there should be a change in the leadership of the Conservative party ? I might naturally demur to such an exercise of authority, but my impression is, that I should not be alone in my demurrer, and that all who belong to the Church of England would reject with the utmost indignation any such intrusion of the ecclesiastical element. Can you imagine a clergyman of St George's, Hanover Square, denouncing from the altar all who entertain Liberal opinions in his parish ? Can you imagine all the estim- able London clergy going up to the poll on the poll- ing day well armed with blackthorns, leading to the poll their submissive flocks to a duty the neglect of which would involve immediate corporal as well as ulterior spiritual consequences. " Now, I think it is a matter of no small congratulation that this prostitution of spiritual influences to secular ends has been brought home, or is being brought home, to the electorate of England. What they are asked to do is, to place Ireland under this hybrid secular-ecclesiastical power, and in so placing Ireland, place our brethren in the North of Ireland who, undoubtedly, will receive no mercy, and no consideration from this novel and monstrous power." (Times, April 22, 1891.) To this "monstrous power" the Prime Minister had previously alluded In the following terms : " Contemplate the tremendous power of the organi- 146 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. sation which, for the moment, was revealed to view/' [In recent Irish electioneering]. " That is the organisation, which, if you grant Home Rule, will govern Ireland in the future ; that is the organisation beneath whose ruthless heel you are about to place the Protestants of the North of Ireland, who have suffered through many long generations of history from this antagonism, and who look upon it as the most terrible fate that can await them, that their future political, social, material welfare should be at the bid of the organised priest- hood of Ireland. It is a revelation which we must not neglect." (Speech at Cambridge, January, 1891.) We are persuaded, that if English and Scotch Electors had their eyes opened to the true state of the case if they experimentally understood what is meant by Priestly domination and Priestly intimidation, they would never give a helping hand to Home Eule in Ireland.* * Should any of our readers question the truth of this obser- vation, let them weigh well the following words which appeared in a publication entitled, " Catholic Progress " of February, 1881, edited by a Jesuit named Albany Christy : " The woes of Ireland are all due to one single cause." [The existence of Protestantism in Ireland.] " The remedy can only be found in the removal of that which caused the evil, which still continues it. ... Unless Ireland is governed as a Catholic nation, and full scope given to the development of the Catholic Church in Ireland, by appropriating to the Catholic religion funds given to religion, the recurrence of such events" [the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr Burke] "as are now taking place, cannot be prevented." So in March 1881 : " Would that every Protestant house were swept from the land. . . . then would Ireland recover herself, and outrages be unknown." So also on January 25th, 1886, the Pope's newspaper, the Moniteur -de. Rome, with reference to this country, said : " We yearn to see Protestantism exterminated" (Quoted from Lord R. Mon- The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 147 Let the issue be made quite plain let nothing obscure it voting for Mr Gladstone means voting for Ireland being ruled by the Priest, and the Rule of the Priest means increase of crime, therefore of taxation, and the establishment of the Roman Catholic Church, and, in absolutely necessary connec- tion therewith, the denial of liberty of con- science and of worship and of speech, and yet further, the assertion of the right to persecute,* and ultimately separation from England. (See Essays edited by Archbishop Manning, pp. 401-6, 467.) tagu's Speech in Exeter Hall, May 14th, 1886.) On December 1st, 1860, in the official organ of the Fenians, the following words occurred: "If the Protestants be an element of society that cannot be reconciled with the well-being of the majority of the nation, there is but one remedy to apply to them. No sane man would cherish a cancer while it eats into his vitals, if he could cut it out." (New York Phoenix. " Secret History of the Fenian Conspiracy." Vol. i., p. 262.) * History repeats itself, as the following note testifies : " In 1686 the people were laughing at the idea of the in- trigues of the Jesuits ; yet, at that time, exactly two hundred years ago, Tryconnel, whom Lord Macaulay has taught you to know as 'Lying Dick Talbot,' plotted with Jesuits, and with King James II., to overturn the Protestant Constitution in Church and State, and to carry out a conspiracy to separate Ireland from England, and put it under the protection of Louis XIV. There was a Frenchman, sixty years ago, Armond Carrol, who went to the Louvre, and found there the original docu- ments referring to that particular period ; and if those docu- ments have been burnt since at the Louvre, there are copies at 148 The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. This is no party matter, rather is it one of life or death, to our loyal co-religionists in Ireland, to Irish Protestants of all denominations, and likewise to those Roman Catholics who, in opposition to their creed, put their country before their Pope. For many years past, England, more or less, has been harassed by pro-Roman legislation, that is to say, legis- lation on behalf of a " system ivliose influence is adverse to freedom in the state, the family and the individual, and which, when weak, is too often crafty, and ivhen strong, tyrannical" (Vaticanism, p. 112.) Surely it is high time that such legislation cease, and that, for the good of the country, statesmen should be raised up of firm hand and resolute will statesmen who would be ashamed to truckle to a foreign priest, or seek his counsel, and obey his behests statesmen who would govern this great Empire in the fear of God, and for the spiritual as well as temporal welfare of its peoples. For a LEADER,* for one, at the present juncture, to the Hague. From those documents he found out the whole conspiracy and published it. When I read the book I was astounded, and turned back often and often to the title page to make sure I was not reading the ' Times ' account of what happens in Ireland at the present day." (Lord R. Montagu's Speech, May 14th, 1886.) * We understand that a Prayer Union has been formed for this very purpose. Each member agrees, daily, about noon, wherever he happens to be, to lift up his heart to God, that a " Deliverer " may be raised up. The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 149 "stand in the gap," to be England's Deliverer, let us unceasingly pray. "When the Children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a DELIVERER, who delivered them." (Judges iii. 9.) We close with the words of a great Statesman : " I should not be at all surprised if the vizor of Home Rule were to fall off some day, and you were to behold a very different countenance. ... It may be open to England again to TAKE HER STAND UPON THE REFOR- MATION which, three hundred years ago, was THE SOURCE OF HER GREATNESS AND HER GLORY and IT MAY BE HER PROUD DESTINY TO GUARD CIVILISATION alike from the withering blast of atheism, and FROM THE SIMOOM OF SACERDOTAL USURPATION." (Mr Disraeli's Speech at Glasgow, 22d Nov. 1871.) The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 151 Mr Gladstone's Ecclesiastical Appointments. Before recording these appointments it may be well to say something about the SOCIETIES to which Mr Glad- stone's nominees belonged, and about the PETITIONS to which they affixed their names ; for thus only can the reader understand the immense impetus Mr Gladstone has given to the Komanising movement within the Church of England by means of the clergy he has appointed.* The English Church Union, or, E.C.U. The English Church Union is a society pledged to the maintenance of the Eastward Position, the Vestments, the Lights, the Mixed Chalice, Unleavened Bread, and Incense. The pledge was given at the annual meeting of the E.C.U. in June 1875. This was after each of the above points had been condemned by the First Court of Appeal as illegal in the Church of England. Indeed the E.C.U. declared the judgment of the Court not to be binding, and advocated resistance and disobedience to it. The E.C.U. has officially advocated, in its annual Report for 1878, the " restoration of visible communion " between the Church of England and the (idolatrous) Church of Rome. Each branch of the Union has a special Anniversary Service. * For the explanatory statements we are greatly indebted to the "Ritualistic Conspiracy," originally published in the English Churchman : to " Secret Societies " by the Rev. H. H. Smith ; and to " The English Church Union a Romanising Con- federacy," Shaw & Co. 152 The Pro-Komish Acts of Mr Gladstone. In a town where there is a church in which Ritualistic worship is in an early stage, this service is always made the occasion of introducing something new, and advancing to a higher level. {Union Review, July 1867.) This lawless Society, through its President, has identified itself with that vile book the " Priest in Absolution," for which the Society of the Holy Cross is responsible. An English Churchman, in the Times of June 1, 1886, wrote thus : " It is more than he can understand how clergymen and laymen can subscribe to a Society [E.C.U.] whose President, Lord Halifax, is openly smoothing the way for the so-called re-union of Christendom under the Primacy of the Roman See." And the Athenaeum of Nov. 7, 1868, said : " It is time to drop the word Ritualist. So long as there was any doubt in the matter it was a useful word. But now that a Church Union, as it calls itself, collects funds and backs the plainest declara- tions of Roman doctrine on the part of its members, it is idle to treat those members as anything but adherents of the Papal system, looking forward to Union with Rome." The names of those members of the E.C.U. whom Mr Glad- stone appointed to livings, have been taken from the official " English Church Union Directory " for 1885. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, or, C.J3.S. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament is com- posed of both lay and clerical members. A number of the Priests- Associate are so afraid of publicity that they have only joined the C.B.S. on condition that their names do not even appear in the privately circulated " Roll " of Brethren. A secret " Intercession Paper " is circulated amongst the members every month. (English Churchman, p. 200, April 22, 1885.) The chief objects of this Society are the propagation of The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 153 belief in the Sacrifice of the Mass, and in the Real Presence, together with advocacy of Fasting, Communion, Prayers for the Dead, the Reserved Sacrament, the providing Altar Linen and " Mass Vestments " for poor parishes, and the establishment of a system of Perpetual Adoration of the Sacramental Presence. Names of the C.B.S. members which occur in the follow- ing pages are taken from the official " Roll of Priests-Associate " for 1883. The late High Church Bishop Wilberforce, under date of December 15, 1862, thus condemned the C.B.S., in a letter which he addressed to its " Superior-General," Canon Carter : This Society " is quite sure to stir up a vast amount of prejudice from its singularly un-English and Popish tone .... and as Bishop, I exhort you to use no attempts to spread this confraternity amongst the clergy and religious people of my diocese." (Life of Bishop Wilberforce, vol. iii. p. 71.) The Society for the Maintenance of the Faith. The Society for the Maintenance of the Faith is a Society which is placed under the protection of " Our Lady and St Augustine." Its clerical members are required, at certain seasons, to say "Mass." This association is intimately connected with the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. The Society of the Holy Cross, or, S.S.C. The Society of the Holy Cross is the oldest of the Ritualistic organisations, and is commonly designated as the S.S.C. (Societas Sanctae Crucis.) It forms a controlling central authority which moves and guides other Ritualistic associations. This Society is composed of clergymen only, or bond fide candi- dates for Holy Orders : they are sworn to secrecy, they have their 154 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. statutes, they are bound by certain definite and obligatory rules. The Church Review has stated that " all its members are Con- fessors of more or less note." The S.S.C. meets in St Peter's Church, the London Docks, in Synod, twice yearly, on Holy Cross Day, May 2d, and on the Exaltation of the Cross Day in September. The Brethren are bound to secrecy as to what then transpires. At the Synod of Sept. 1874, " a solemn mass, with sermon by V. Brother Lowder, was celebrated in the presence of ninety-two brethren. In this mass the Roman Ritual was fully carried out .... a letter was read from Brother Hutchings expressing a hope that, in Ritual, the S.S.C. would move in the direction of the Roman rather than the Sarum use." (The Press and St James's Chronicle, June 18, July 2, 1881.) The S.S.C. is responsible for the preparation of that infamous ;ind indecent guide-book for the Confessional entitled the " Priest in Absolution," which is adapted from the very Romish works for the exposure of whose immoral teaching Mr Mackay in 1871 was allowed, by Mr Gladstone's Government, to remain in jail for fifteen months. This book, in 1877, was dragged to light and exposed by Lord Redesdale in the House of Peers. Archbishop Tait described it as a " disgrace to the community." The Canter- bury Convocation, on one occasion in 1877, resolved : " That this House holds the Society of the Holy Cross responsible for the preparation and dissemination of the book called 'Priest in Absolution;'" and on another occasion: "That this House hereby expresses its strong condemnation of any doctrine or practice of Confession which can be thought to render such a book necessary or convenient." It may be added that the book was so vile that no respectable publisher would have anything to do with it. Messrs Rivington & Masters both declined to publish it. (English Churchman, p. 57, 1885, which the reader is requested to consult.) The S.S.C. is also responsible (as will be seen further on) for a Petition to Convocation requesting the appointment of Licensed The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 155 Confessors, the promotion of Roman Doctrine, and the restoration of Roman Ritual. The S.S.C. it was that first organised those so-called Retreats for the Clergy. From what has been said, the nature of those Retreats can be well inferred. It may be mentioned that in the Church Times of May 25, 1877, two Retreats were advertised to be held that year at Cuddesdon College, and one at St Augus- tine's College, Canterbury, and another at Lancing College in Sussex. The S.S.C. on July 6, 1877, was condemned in Convocation by the late Archbishop of Canterbury as " a conspiracy against tfie doctrines and discipline of our Reformed Church" The names of the clergy connected with it are taken from the official and secretly printed Rolls of the Brethren for 1876-1877 and 1879-1880, which accidentally fell into the hands of a Protestant Churchman. The Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. In 1871 this REMONSTRANCE was signed with the view of protesting against various points in the Purchas Judgment con- demnatory of Ritualistic excesses. The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament Declaration. In 1872 the C.B.S. issued a DECLARATION in favour of Non- Communicant attendance at the Lord's Supper. Various of the clergy signed it. Petition to Convocation, issued by the Society of the Holy Cross. In 1873 the S.S.C. issued a Petition which was presented to Convocation. The Petitioners prayed that "Venerable House" to promote "the doctrines of (I.) the Real Presence of Our 156 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in the Holy Communion, under the form of bread and wine ; (II.) the adoration done to Him there present ; (III.) the sacrifice which He there offers by the hands of His Priest to the Divine Majesty." The Petitioners also prayed Convocation to " consider the advisability of providing for the education, selection, and licensing of duly-qualified Con- fessors, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF [Roman] CANON LAW." They further asked for the " Reservation " of the Sacra- ment, " the use of Unction in Baptism, Confirmation, and Visita- tion of the Sick," the " consecration by a Bishop of the Oils for the said purposes," " the ceremonies proper to the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary," * and " the use of Pro- cessional Crosses and Banners, Credence Tables, Chalice Veils, Coloured Altar Cloths, etc.," together with many other distinctly Popish rites. 483 clergymen signed this Petition, of whom many are now dead. Their names are to be found in a list printed at the time the Petition was presented. The Three Deans' Petition. In 1874 the Deans of York, St Paul's, and Manchester issued a Memorial in favour of "the adoption of a DISTINCTIVE EUCHARISTIC DRESS and of other ornaments and forms. . . ." The very petitioning for this " dress " proved that the Peti- tioners were well aware it had not at that moment any place in the ritual of the Church of England. This Memorial was widely circulated amongst the clergy. * That is, that on Candlemas Day, Feb. 2, the Priest, vested in purple, should bless, incense, sprinkle with holy water, and then distribute a number of candles, to be kissed, lighted, and carried in procession round the Church in honour of Mary. These ceremonies are those laid down in the Roman Missal. The Pro-Eomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 157 The English Church Union Petition. In 1875 the E.C.TJ. issued a Petition to Convocation in favour of the VESTMENTS of the first prayer-book of Edward VL These Vestments were Roman. The Toleration Petition to the Archbishop. In 1881 a Memorial signed by many prominent Ritualists was presented by the Dean of St Paul's to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Petitioners asked for " the Recognised TOLEBA- TION of even wide diversities of ceremonial." The reader will now be better prepared to understand the full significancy of the following Ecclesiastical Appoint- ments of Ritualists, or of extreme High Churchmen, which were made by Mr Gladstone during the years he was in office (1868-73 and 1880-86) : * Mr Gladstone in 1868 appointed The Rev. W. C. Lake to be Dean of Durham. He signed the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment, and the 1881 Toleration Petition. An editorial paragraph in the Guardian of Feb. 1, 1888, said: "There are some members of the Church of England, though happily they are few in number, to whom it is not ' yet manifest that the fact of the Incarnation is a mriual repeal of the letter of the second commandment/" The latter clause is an extract from Dr Arnold's Sermons, and is endorsed by Ih* Lake. The Rev. R. Gregory to be Canon of St Paul's. He signed the Declaration in favour of Vestments, the Petition for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual, and also the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. 158 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. The Rev. W. Bright to the Oxford Professorship of Eccle- siastical History. He signed the Petition to Convocation in favour of Popish Vestments, the Petition for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual, and also the Purchas Remonstrance. Mr Gladstone in 1869 appointed The Rev. J. M. Fawcett to St Philip's, Leeds. He signed, it was stated, the notorious Petition for Licensed Confessors, and was a member of the Society of the Holy Cross, and of the English Church Union. Dr IVEoberly, an extreme High Churchman, to be Bishop of Salisbury. The Rev. H. G. Henderson to the living of Holy Trinity, Shoreditch. He wore the illegal vestments, burned incense, used altar lights. He was a member of the English Church Union, and of the Secret Society of the Holy Cross, and signed the Toleration Petition, the Three Deans' Petition, the Petition to Con- vocation, and the Purchas Remonstrance. The Rev. W. H. Heygate to the incumbency of Brigh- stone. He signed three of the Ritualistic Petitions, was a member of the Church Union, and a writer of various extreme Ritualistic books. The Rev. M. Ashley to the Chapelry, Oxford Street, St Marylebone. He was a member of the English Church Union. Mr Gladstone in 187O appointed The Rev. H. F. Sadler to the living of Honiton. He signed two of the Petitions. The Rev. T. Mackarness, an extreme High Churchman to be Bishop of Oxford. He had been a member of the English Church Union. When Mr Carter, Rector of Clewer, was about to be prosecuted for his Ritualistic illegalities, Bishop Mackar- ness exercised his veto, defended it in the law courts, and rescued the law breaker. Lord Justice Bramwell, on May 30, 1879, in The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 159 delivering judgment said: "Mr Carter was wilfully, knowingly, and persistently committing several breaches of the law of the land for which he might be indicted and punished, .... he could not understand how it could seem right to the Bishop not to bring him to justice .... Mr Carter broke the law, and the Bishop afforded him impunity in so doing . . . ." The Rev. H. P. laddon to be Canon of St Paul's. He was a member of the English Church Union. He signed three of the Petitions and the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. Mr Liddon also edited certain devotional works, and approved of others, which contained, so Monsignor Capel in 1875 publicly asserted, the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. The Tablet of Feb. 28, 1885, said of the work entitled "Some Elements of Religion," that it " contained arguments which must, if logically followed, lead to the Catholic Church." The Rev. N. Woodard to be Canon of Manchester. He was the founder of the Woodard Ritualistic Middle Class Schools. Mr Woodard signed the Memorial for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual, the Petition in favour of Popish Vestments, and the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. In June 1875, the three churchwardens of Manchester Cathedral wrote to their Bishop accusing the Canon of preaching there " the doctrine of the Mass without any reservation" The accusation was not denied. The Rev. Waldegrave "^rewster to the Rectory of Middleton. He signed the Purchas Remonstrance, the Petition in favour of Popish Vestments, and that for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual Mr Gladstone in 1871 appointed The Rev. Malcolm JYTColl to the Rectory of St George's, Botolph Lane, London. He was a member of the English Church Union, and signed three of the Petitions, and the Purchas Re- monstrance. 160 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. The Rev. C. F. Hayter to the living of Claybrooke. He was a member of the English Church Union, and of the Confra- ternity of the Blessed Sacrament. The Rev. W. W. Harvey to the Rectory of Ewelme. Mr Gladstone in this appointment evaded the statutory law, acted illegally, and was called to account in Parliament. Mr Harvey signed the Memorial for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual, and the Petition in favour of Popish Vestments. The Rev. R. W. Church to the Deanery of St Paul's. Dean Church signed the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment, the Memorial for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual, and that of the three Deans in favour of the Eastward Position and Vestments. He has introduced into his cathedral a second communion table, an altar, and a cross. Recently (1887) Dean Church erected " a life-size image of the crucifixion, sculptured in such prominent relief as to give the appearance of an immense crucifix overshadowing the communion table. High up over this crucifix is placed a sculptured figure of the Virgin and Child, elevated above the figure of Christ on the Cross, and so situated that the light falls upon the head of the image and surrounds it with a seeming halo, all tending to inculcate the Mariolatrous teaching of the Church of Rome." (Protestant Alliance Address 1888.) At the anniversary meeting of the C.B.S., on June 15, 1885, a vote of thanks was passed to Dean Church, Canons Liddon and Gregory, for what they had done at St Paul's up to that date; and the announcement was made, that they were only waiting for the development of public opinion to make further advances there, and that they had everything ready for a suitable altar, as soon as public feeling would permit one to be brought for- ward. (English Churchman, p. 201, April 23, 1885.) The Rev. S. Baring-Gould, an extreme Ritualist, to the Rectory of East Mersea. He signed the Petition for Licensed Confessors, and three other Petitions, and was a member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, of the English Church The Fro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 161 Union, and of the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith which is placed under the patronage of the Virgin Mary This was a most disgraceful act of patronage, as Mr B. Gould was notorious for his bitter attacks on everything Protestant. To enable him the better to carry on his anti-Protestant crusade, Mr Gladstone presented him with 50 from the Royal Bounty Fund. (See Paragraph on March 1873, p. 55.) The Church Times of Dec. 4, 1874, in reviewing Mr B. Gould's " Lives of the Saints," remarked that : " The story of the Jesuit Martyrs of Brazil (1570) exhibits the COMPANY in its most attractive light, namely, as valiant soldiers of the cross, and verifies the proverb that in doing ' good none were ever better.' " The Rev. E. W. Isaac to the Vicarage of Dewsbury. He was a member of the English Church Union, and signed two of the Petitions, and the Purchas Remonstrance. The Rev. M. W. IVEayow to the Rectory of Southam. He was a member of the English Church Union, and signed the Petition in favour of Popish Vestments, and that in favour of Non-Communicant Attendance at Holy Communion. Mr Gladstone in 1872 appointed The Rev. John Xft. Freshfield to the Rectory of All Souls, St Marylebone. He signed the C.B.S. Declaration and the Purchas Remonstrance. The Rev. George Rawlinson to be Canon of Canterbury. He signed two of the Petitions, and the Purchas Remonstrance. The Rev. B. M. Cowie to the Deanery of Manchester. He signed the Petitions in favour of Vestments and Toleration of Extreme Ritual, also the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. The Rev. W. T. Irons, a very High Churchman, to Sfc Mary, Woolnoth, London. The Rev. F. C. Wills to St Agatha, Finsbury. He signed the notorious Petition to Convocation for Licensed Confessors. 162 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. Mr Gladstone in 1873 appointed The Rev. J. H. Blunt to the Rectory of Beverston. He signed the Petition for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual. The Rev. Edward King, D.D.. Principal of that Ritual- istic College, Cuddesdon, to be Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Pastoral Theology at Oxford. In that posi- tion he could, without let or hindrance, influence the religious thought of thousands of young men who passed through the Uni- versity. Canon King had taught that " the bread and wine at the Lord's Supper were made .... verily and indeed the Body and Blood of Christ, and were offered to God as the Eucharistic Sacri- fice." He had taught that Prayers should be made for the Dead. He had stated that Confession and Absolution should be made "a substantial part of elementary education." He had recommended certain Ritualistic books as suitable for meditation and devotion, amongst them one entitled " The Introduction to a Devout Life," which in 1637 even Charles I. directed to be publicly burnt as Popish. " He gave his hearty sympathy " to ecclesiastical law- breakers. He was a member of the English Church Union, and had signed the Purchas Remonstrance and the Petition in favour of the Toleration of Extreme Ritual. No marvel then that out of 160 students, who were under him during the ten years he was Principal of Cuddesdon, 129 are stated to have become Ritualistic Priests, and eight to have openly joined the Church of Rome. (English Churchman, p. 68, Feb. 5, 1885.) The Rev. T. R. Woodford, an extreme High Churchman, to be Bishop of Ely. The Rev. E. C. Lowe to be Canon of Ely. Mr Lowe signed no less than four of the Petitions in favour of Ritualism. He also published a pamphlet advocating the Confessional for school boys. 1874-8O. From 1874 to 1880 Lord Beaconsfield was in power. The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 163 Mr Gladstone in 188O appointed The Rev. W. John Butler to a Worcester Canonry. He was connected with the notorious Wantage Sisterhood. He signed the Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment, and the Toleration Petition, and was a member of the English Church XJnion. The Rev. J. A. Rawlins as Vicar of St Andrew's, Willes- den. He was a member of the English Church Union, and signed two Petitions, and the Purchas Remonstrance. The Rev. P. R. Braithwaite to St Luke's, St Helier. He was a member of the English Church Union, and signed three Petitions. The Rev. H. M. Trywhitt as Vicar of St Michael's, Bromley. He was a member of the English Church Union and C.B.S. He signed the Petition in favour of Popish Vestments, and that for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual. Mr Gladstone in 1881 appointed The Rev. W. J. Knox-Little to a Worcester Caiionry. He signed the notorious Petition to Convocation, and was a member of the English Church Union, and of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. He was at one time a member of the Holy Cross Society. He wears, it is asserted, the Vestments. He has led the Romish devotion of the three hours in Worcester Cathedral. (Recent Events, p. 75.) Mr Gladstone in 1882 appointed The Bishop of Truro, Dr Benson, to the Archbishopric of Canterbury. On April 27, 1884, the Papal Journal de Rome wrote : " Ritualism, that is to say, the imitation of the forms and usages of the Church of Rome, is introduced more and more into the Church of England .... They organised the following devotions: The Three Hours; the Stations of the Cross, with 164 The Pro-Bomish Acts of Mr Gladstone. the usual pictures ; and the Tenebrae. Moreover, it is no longer simple clergymen who give themselves up to Ritualism, but also the highest dignitaries of the Church. At St Paul's Canon Scott- Holland preached the three hours, assisted by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury." (Quoted in Recent Events, p. 74.) At the consecration of Truro Cathedral in November 1887, Dr Benson said : " The worship of this beautiful House must be beautiful. It must give the full and tender music of that Prayer-Book, which WHILE MISSAL AND BREVIARY HAVE BECOME THE PRIVATE DEVOTIONS OF PRIESTS .... IS becoming the Prayer-Book of the world." (Guardian, Nov. 9th, and English Churchman, Nov. 10th, 1887.) Could the Pope desire more for his Breviary and Missal ? The Rev. Q. C. Ommanney to St Matthew's, Sheffield. Mr Gladstone (as the Echo wrote) "thrust a Ritualistic vicar, the Rev. G. C. Ommanney, upon a Low Church congregation in Sheffield." His Romish teaching quickly caused such disturb- ances that a body of police had to be present during service to keep order. He was a member of the English Church Union and the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, etc. He publicly praised that indecent book the " Priest in Absolution," used by Ritualists when receiving confessions. Mr Gladstone in 1883 appointed Dean Cowie to the Deanery of Exeter. He was trans- ferred from Manchester to Exeter, after he had by his Ritualism rendered himself very unpopular in the North. The emolu- ments of his new deanery amounted to 500 a year more than that of Manchester. The Rev. J. O. Oakley to the Deanery of Manchester. He was a member of the Council of the English Church Union, and signed the Petition in favour of Toleration of Extreme Ritual. His leanings may be inferred from the following extract of a letter he wrote to an Evangelical clergyman, dated Novem- The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 165 ber 7, 1885: " We might not be able just now to coerce you ; it is needless ; but those who differ from you .... are quite strong enough, and very much tempted at times to pull our common- house roof down over your heads, and we shall most assuredly do it rather than let the key pass into your hands again." (English Churchman, December 3, 1885.) He signed the Pur- chas Remonstrance. The Rev. R. Ey ton as sub-almoner to the Queen. He was a member of the English Church Union, and of the Confrater- nity of the Blessed Sacrament, and at one time a member of the Holy Cross Society. He signed the Toleration Petition, and the Petition for Vestments, and the C.B. S. Petition. The Rev. G. H. "Wilkinson to the Bishopric of Truro. He approved of Auricular Confession, and signed the Purchas Remonstrance. For a list of the Images, Popish representations, etc., introduced into Truro Cathedral since Dr Wilkinson's appointment, the reader is referred to the English Churchman of Nov. 10, 1887. The Rev. Richard Lewis to the Bishopric of Llandaff. He signed the Petition in favour of the Toleration of Extreme Ritual. The Rev. C. W. Furse to a Canonry at Westminster. For ten years he had been Principal of the Ritualistic Training College of Cuddesdon. He signed the Petition for the Tolera- tion of Extreme Ritual and for the Restoration of Popish Vest- ments, and the Purchas Remonstrance. Mr Gladstone in 1884 appointed The Rev. H. Walford to the Rectory of Ewelme. For- merly Mr Walford was head master of St Nicholas' College, Lancing. He signed the Petition for Toleration of Extreme Ritual, and the Purchas Remonstrance. The Rev. W. G. Henderson as Dean of Carlisle. He signed the Petition in favour of the Eastward Position 166 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. and Popish Vestments, and also that in favour of Extreme Ritual. The Rev. H. S. Holland of the English Church Union, as Canon of St Paul's. He signed the Petition for Popish Vestments. The Rev. Malcolm McColl as Canon of Ripon. He has signed four Petitions in favour of Ritualism, and is a member of the English Church Union. The Rev. H. A. Sheringham, of the English Church Union, to be Priest in Ordinary to the Queen. The Rev. George Ridding as Bishop of Southwell. In August 1885, this Episcopal prote'gt of Mr Gladstone's took a leading part in a service at St Alban's, Holborn, in which the law of the land was glaringly and defiantly broken, and a number of illegal rites were practised, and illegal ornaments used. (English Churchman, August 6, 1885.) The Rev. W. Stubbs to the Bishopric of Chester. He signed the Purchas Remonstrance, and the Petition in favour of Extreme Ritual, and he went against the ancient customs of his Cathedral by adopting the Eastward Position. He was for many years a member of the English Church Union. Mr Gladstone in 1885 appointed The Rev. F. Paget as Regius Professor of Pastoral Theo- logy at Oxford. A position of supreme importance for in- fluencing undergraduates. He signed the Petition in favour of Extreme Ritual. (English Churchman, Feb. 19, 1885.) The Rev. Canon Butler, of Wantage, a Ritualist of Ritu- alists, to the Deanery of Lincoln. To the following seven Ritu- alistic Petitions he has appended his name : (1.) The Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament declaration in favour of Non-Communicant attendance at Holy Communion. (2.) The Memorial of the Three Deans in favour of the East, ward Position, and Vestments. (3.) The Memorial for the Toleration of Extreme RituaL (4.) The Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. The Pro Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone 167 (5.) The Declaration of 1867 in favour of the Real Objective Presence, the Eucharistic Sacrifice and Adoration of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. (6.) The address of the Society of the Holy Cross to the Bishops of the Lambeth Synod of 1867, asking for the Reunion of the Church of England with the (idolatrous) Church of Rome and the " removing of the barriers " which separate them. (7.) The Declaration of 1 873 in favour of Auricular Confes- sion and Priestly Absolution. At the Liverpool Congress in 1869, Dean Butler said : "I am free to own that I know no more telling, heart-kindling services, more congregational or more calculated to edify and attract, than the MASS service, as one meets with in the Rhine Churches." {English Churchman, p. 292, June 11, 1885.) The Rev. Robert Linklater, an Extreme Ritualist, to the living of Stroud Green. Mr Gladstone did this against the wishes of the congregation. He was a member of the English Church Union, of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, and of the Society of the Holy Cross. This appointment was made by Mr Gladstone on the very day he quitted office, and was offered by telegram, in which Mr Linklater was told " time presses." On Oct. 4, 1883, he was the selected preacher at the Harvest Festival in Ha warden Church, and on one occasion was warmly complimented on his Ritualistic mission work at Portsea by Mr Gladstone. (Portsmouth Times, March 3, 1883.) Mr Linklater signed the notorious Petition for the appointment of licensed Confessors and restoration of Popish Vestments. (Church Review, Oct. 12, 1883, referred to in "A Romanizing Confederacy Unmasked," p 18.) The Rev. Canon King to the Bishopric of Lincoln. At his enthronement on May 19th, " the forms observed ivere practically the same as were in use in pre-Reformation times. . . , The Bishop wore his magnificent cope of cloth of gold with richly embroidered hood and orphreys and his jewelled gloves ...,*' (Church Review, May 29, 1885.) At Gainsborough Church, in 168 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. August 1885, he celebrated the early Holy Communion, and wore the illegal vestments used in that Church, alb and maniple and chasuble. Later on at 10.45 there was a high celebration, when he assisted Pontifically, and was vested like a Romish Bishop in rochet, cope, white stole, and mitre. (Sheffield Daily Telegraph, August 1 885.) He is now (June 1888) about to be prosecuted for alleged illegalities. Referring to this prosecution the Echo said : " Dr King has the reputation of being the most advanced of all the Bishops. He is the only Bishop in England who belongs to the English Church Union, and of this he is a vice-president as well as an energetic member. This Society is perhaps the ivarmest supporter and assistant that tJie law-breaking clergy can find THE POSITION OF A BISHOP OPENLY BREAKING THE LAWS OF THE CHURCH OF WHICH HE IS A HEAD IS A STRANGE AND AN ANAMOLOUS ONE. It is to be feared that his persistent adherence to his illegal practices will encourage many of those who are very near the Roman Catholic ritual now. to go yet nearer when they have a mitred Bishop to lead the way." (Quoted in English Churchman, June 14, 1888.) So closes the sad list of Mr Gladstone's pro-Romish appointments, of "Priests" who are undermining the work of the Reformation, who are teaching " for doctrines the commandments of men," who are making the " Word of God of none effect by their tradition," who are breaking their ordination vows, and who are introducing more or less the superstitious ritual and the idolatrous worship of the Papal Church. The pronounced pro-Romish views of some of Mr Gladstone's nominees cannot but have reminded the reader of the Rev. R. S. Hawker, who, as we have already The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. 169 seen, whilst holding the Vicarage of Moorwinstow, was secretly a Papist (see p. 71). Touching this " specimen of treachery * to the Church of England," as the John Bull termed him, the following weighty words cannot but impress every thoughtful mind : " Our avowed belief is that such a case has been and is by no means an uncommon one. We do not pretend to give the number of the clergy of the ultra-Ritualistic school who have lived and died Romanists, or who are still living as such, and concealing their views either because it seems best to themselves so to do, or because they have instructions, or hold a ' dispensa- tion ' from Rome to this effect ; but of this we are assured that there are many such wolves in sheep's clothing in the camp of the Protestant Establishment. We again, therefore, urge those who have the power of so doing to search thoroughly into this matter, and expose it root and branch. Such hypocrisy, dupli- city, and Jesuitism as Mr Hawker is proved to have been guilty of are a disgrace to the very name of an Englishman, and should make all honest men blush to contemplate them. They are a disgrace, too, to the Church of Rome, which orders or connives at such proceedings ; though we fear that nothing we can say as to their enormity will cause a blush in that fraternity, which seeks to enslave the bodies and souls of men by force and per- secution where it has the power, and where not, by guile and every form of subtle delusion and underhand machinations. It is often said that the fear of the workings of Jesuitism in this country is a mere bugbear, that the Protestantism of our Church * The late Rev. W. T. Bennett, a friend of Mr Gladstone's, appears to have been another " Specimen of Treachery ; " for the year before he became Vicar of Frome, his reception into the Church of Rome was duly published in Battersby's R. C. Direc- tory for 1851. This particular volume cannot now be obtained. 170 The Pro-Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone. is in po real danger, that the secessions to Rome are a mere trifle, and that the Ritualistic party as a body are sound at heart. Mr Hawker's case should, we think, open the eyes of anti- alarmists, and lead them to ASK HOW MANY OF OUR ULTRA- RITUALISTIC CLERGY ARE WEARING ' GOLD MEDALLIONS ' BLESSED BY THE HOLY FATHER ' ROUND THEIR NECKS DAY AND NIGHT, AND HAVE PRIVATELY CONFORMED TO THE ROMISH DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES ' FOR YEARS.' Anyone who does not profess allegi- ance to a certain clique in our Church must see and hear things openly done and taught in many churches in the metropolis alone which must lead him to siwpect that there are many ' Mr Hawkers' still ministering to congregations of the Church of England ; and those who know what the private teachings and practices of such clergy are can have little doubt as to what they really are at heart." (Morning Advertiser, Sep. 1875.) May the flood of Popery which this volume proves is pouring in upon our land, through Gladstonian and other influences, and which is accompanied, as statistics prove it ever is, with lawlessness, crime, and infidelity lead many of our readers to daily pray that God would raise us up great Statesmen, such as Cromwell and Cecil, and faithful Ministers, such as Cranmer and Knox and Wesley and Whitfield Statesmen who shall govern in the interests of our Protestant religion, and Ministers who shall determine to " know NOTHING amongst us but Jesus Christ," and to teach NOTHING amongst us but that " righteousness which exalteth a people." FINIS. OF MR GLADSTONE'S PRO-ROMISH ACTS. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE INDEX. Appts. C. Appointments, Civil. Appts. E. Appointments, Ecclesiastical. C.B.S. Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. Ch. of E. Church of England. Ch. of I. Church of Ireland. Ch. of R. Church of Rome. D.C.B.S. Declaration of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. E.C.U. English Church Union. F. Fenian. H.S. Home Secretary. I. Independent. Ii. Liberal. N. Nationalist. P. Roman Catholic Pervert. P.C.S.S.C. Petition to Convocation of the Society of the Holy Cross. 172 Classified Index. P.C.V. Petition to Convocation for Vestments. P.E.P. Petition for Eastward Position. P.Ii.C. Petition for Licensed Confessors. P.T.R. Petition for the Toleration of Extreme Ritual. R. Radical. R.C. Roman Catholic. R.P.J. Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. 8.M.F. Society for the Maintenance of the Faith. S.8.C. Society of the Holy Cross. T.D.P. The Three Deans' Petition. CLASSIFIED INDEX. Abolition Bill, The Religious Disabilities, The Christian criticises Mr Gladstone, 1891 126, 127 Dr Parker's Opinion of Mr Gladstone's Policy with respect to, . . 120, 121, 122, 124 Mr Gladstone moves the 2nd Reading of same, and is defeated, . . . 1891 128 Introduction of, by Romish Members, 1871 45 Legalising of Jesuit Orders proposed by, 45 Repeal of Protestant Safeguards proposed by, 45 Opening State Offices to Papists proposed by, 45 Support by Mr Gladstone's Home Secretary of, 45, 46 "Absolution, The Priest in," Convocation of Canterbury condemns, 1877 154 English Church Union identified with, 152 Classified Index. 173 Mackay, Mr, imprisoned for exposing, 1871 154 Redesdale, Lord, exposes and condemns, 1877 154 Society of Holy Cross responsible for publication of, ... 154 Tait, Archbishop, condemns, . . 1877 154 Act of Union, Mr Pitt's. Mr Gladstone's views of in 1856 and 1886, 115 Acts, Bills. See Bills. Pro-Romish, of Mr Gladstone, 1838-1888 1-170 Agrarian Outrages, Mr Gladstone on, . . . 1881-1890113,114 Alliance, Protestant. See Protestant Associations. Al| Saints, Margaret Street, Romish Ceremonial observed in, . 1874 60 Worshipped in by Mr Gladstone, . 60 Altar-Lights, Approved by the E.C.U. . . 151 Employed at Ha warden Church, ] 883 88 Sympathy of Mr Gladstone with users of, .... 1838-1888 1-170 Mr Gladstone attends mass at, . 1889 111 Antonelli, Cardinal, Interviews of Mr Gladstone with, 1866 12 Apologia, Mr Gladstone on conflicting Claims of Ch. of R. and Ch. of I. in, 1868 21 174 Classified Index. Argyll, Duke of, View of Mr Gladstone on the Free Church referred to by the, . . 1888 109 Arrears Bill, The, Forcing by Mr Gladstone through the Commons of, .... 1882 83 Protestant Landlords robbed by, . 83 Protestants of Great Britain mulcted by 83 Appeal, Supreme Court of, Appointment by Mr Gladstone of R.C. to the, . . . 1882 84 Appointments, Civil, of Roman Catholics by Mr Gladstone, Attorney-General for England, . 1886 98 Russell, Sir Charles. Chamberlain, Lord, to Her Majesty, 1880 68 Chancellor, Lord, -of Ireland, . , 1880 68 (yHagan, Lord. See O'Hagan. Chancellor, Lord, of Ireland, . . 1886 98 Naish, Mr. See Naish: Chief-Inspector of Schools in England, 1886 08 Coward, Mr. Clerk of the Crown for Dublin, 18S4 90 Fottrel, Mr G., jun. Judge in the English High Court, . 1882 84 Day, Mr T. C. Classified Index. 175 Judge in the English High Court, . 1882 84 Matthew, Mr T. C. Law Lord in the House of Lords, . 1882 84 Fitzgerald, Mr Justice. Lord of the Admiralty, First, . 1886 98 Bipon, Marquis of (P. ). See Ripon. Member of the Cabinet, . . . 1886 98 Ripon, Marquis of (P. ). See Ripon. Member of Committee of Privy Council, 1886 98 Ripon, Marquis of (P. ). See Ripon. Member of Royal Commission on the Poor, . . . . . . 1884 89 Manning, Cardinal. See Manning. Postmaster-General, . . . 1870 38 Monsell, Mr "W. President of Land Court, First, . 1880 68 Solicitor-General for Ireland, . . 1886 98 Macdermott, The. Viceroy of the Indian Empire, . . 1880 68 Ripon, Marquis of (P. ). See Ripon. Twenty-two Papists appointed, 1880-1885 97 Two Jesuit Priests appointed, 1880-1885 97 Appointments, Ecclesiastical, by Mr J1868-1873 Gladstone, . . U880-1886 157-168 (All are Romanisers in the Ch. of E., and all have been appointed or pro- moted by Mr Gladstone). 176 Classified Index. Ashley, Kev, M., to Chapelry, Maryle- bone, 1869 158 Member of E.C.U. Baring-Gould, Rev. S., to Rectory of East Mersea, .... 1871 160 Catholic Opinion commends Works of, ... . . . 1873 56 The Tablet commends Works of, 1872 56 Grant by Mr Gladstone for his Works to, . . . . 1873 55,161 Jesuits commended as Martyrs by, . . . 161 Member of C.B.S., E.C.U., and S.M.F., .... 160, 161 Signer of Four Romanising Peti- tions, ..... 160 Tablet finds Popery in Works of, 1872 56 The Reformation a " miserable apostasy " according to, . 1872 55,56 Benson, Dr, to Archbishopric of Canter- bury, 1882 163. Journal de Rome commends the Ritualistic Services of, . 1884 164 Romish Breviary and Missal eulo- gised by, .... 1887 164 Blunt, Rev. J. H., to Rectory of Bever- ston, 1873 162. Classified Index. 177 Brewster, Kev. W., to Rectory of Middleton, . , . . .. 1870 159 Signer of R.P.J., P.C.V., P.T.R. Braithwaite, Rev. P. R., to St Luke's, St Helier, . . . . .. 1880 163 Member of E.C.U. . Signer of Three Petitions. Bright, Rev. W., to Oxford Professor- ship, 1868 158 Signer of P.O. V., P.T.R., R.P. J. Butler, Rev. W. J., to be Canon at Worcester, 1880 163 Butler, Rev. W. J., to be Dean at Lincoln, ...... 1885 166 Auricular Confession maintained by, 1873 167 Eucharistic Sacrifice and Adoration held by, .... 1867 167 Mass as observed on the Continent, lauded by, . . . . 1869 167 Member of E.C.U., . . . 163 Priestly Absolution maintained by, 1873 167 Real Presence held by, . .1867 167 Signer of D.C.B.S., T.D.P., P.T.R., R.P.J., .... 163,166,167 Signer of Three other Romanising Papers, . . . . 166, 167 178 Classified Index. Sisterhood of Wantage approved by, . . . . . 1880 163 Union of Ch. of E. and Ch. of R. sought by, . . . . 1867 167 Church, Rev. R. W., to be Dean of St Paul's, 1871 160 Mariolatrous Images introduced by, 1887 160 Romish Ornaments introduced by, 1871 160 Signer of R.P.J., P.T.R., and T.D.P., .... 160 Thanks of C.B.S., for his Romish advance to, . . . , 1885 160 Cowie, Rev. B. M., to be Dean at Man- chester, ...... 1872 161 Cowie, Rev. B.M., to be Dean at Exeter, 1883 164 Signer of P.C.V., P.T.R., and R.P.J., .... 161 Eyton, Rev. R., to be Sub-Almoner to the Queen, .... 1883 165 Member of E.C.U., C.B.S., and S.S.C., .... 165 Signer of P.T.R., P.C.V., and D.C.B.S 165 Fawcett, Rev. J. M., to St Philip's, Leeds, 1869 158 Member of S.S.C. and E.C.U., 158 Signer of P.L.C., ... 158 Classified Index. 179 Freshfield, Rev. J. M., to Rectory of All Souls, . . . . . 1872 161 Signer of D.C.B.S. and R.P.J., 161 Furse, Rev. C. W., to Canonry at West- minster, ... . 1883 165 Principal of Cuddesdon College, 165 Signer of P.T.R., P.C.V., and R.P.J., . . . . 165 Gregory, Rev. R., to be Canon of St Paul's, ... . . . 1868 157 Signer of P.C.V., P.T.R., and R.P.J., .... 157 Harvey, Rev. W. W., to Rectory of Ewelme, 1871 160 Law violated by Mr Gladstone in appointing, . . . 1871 160 Signer of P.T.R. and P.C.V., . 160 Hayter, Rev. C. F., to the Living of Claybroke, . . . .1871 160 Member of E.C.U. and C.B.S., 160 Henderson, Rev. H. G., to Holy Trinity, Shoreditch 1869 158 Incense and Altar -Lights used by, 158 Member of E.C.U. and S.S.C., 158 Signer of P.T.R., T.D.P., P.C.V., and R.P.J., ... 158 180 Classified Index. Henderson, Rev. W. G., to be Dean at Carlisle, 1884 165 Signer of P.E.P., P.C.V., and P.T.R, .... 165 Hey gate, Rev. W. H., to Incumbency of Brighstone, .... 1869 15& MemberofKC.U 158. Signer of Three Petitions, . 158 1 Various Ritualistic Books written * by, 158: Holland, Rev. H. S., to be Canon of St Paul's 1884 166; Member of E.C.U. Romish Services in St Paul's by, 1884 163, 164 Signer of P.C. V. Irons, Rev. W. T., to St Mary, Wool- noth 1872 161 Isaac, Rev. E. W., to be Vicar of Dewsbury, . . . 1871 161 Member of E.C.U., . . 161 Signer of R.P.J. and Two Peti- tions, ..... 161 King, Rev. Dr, to be Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, . . . 1873 163- King, Rev. Dr, to be Regius Professor at Oxford, .... 1873 163- King, Rev. Dr, to be Bishop of Lincoln, 1885 167 Classified Index. ,181 Confession and Absolution taught by, 162 Effects of the Cudclesdon Principal- ship of, . . . 1883,86,87 162 Member of E.C.U., . . 162 Popish Books recommended by, 162 Prayers for the Dead taught by, 162 Signer of R.P. J. and P.T.R., . 162 Sympathy with Law-breakers by, 162 Tran substantiation taught by, . 12 Knox-Little, Rev. W. J., to be Canon at Worcester 1880 163 Member of E.C.U., C.B.S., and S.S.C., .... 163 Romish Devotions led by, . 163 Signer of P.O. V., . . , 1875 163 Lake, Rev. W.C., to be Dean of Durham, 1868 157 Incarnation of Christ denied by, 157 Signer of R.P. J. and P.T.R., . 157 Lewis, Rev. R. , to be Bishop of Llandaff, 1883 165 Signer of P.T.R., ... 165 Lid don, Rev. H. P., to be Canon of St Paul's, 1870 159 Member of the E.C.U., . 159 Romish Character of Works by, 1875 159 Signer of R.P.J. and Three Peti- tions, ... 159 182 Classified Index. Linklater, Rev. R., to the Living of Stroud Green, . . . . 1885 167 Hurried appointment by Mr Glad- stone of, .... 1885 95, 167 Member of E.C.U., C.B.S., and S.S.C., . 167 Signer of P.L.C. and P.C.V., . 167 Lowe, Rev. E. C., to be Canon of Ely, 1873 162 Confessional for Schoolboys taught by, .... 104 Signer of Four Petitions, . 162 Mackarness, Rev. T., to be Bishop of Oxford, .... 1870 158 MemberofKC.U., . . 158 Rebuked by the Judge in the Carter Case, 1879 158,159 Veto in favour of Canon Carter exercised by, . . . 158 Mayow, Rev. M. W., to be Rector of Southam, 1871 161 Member of the E.C.U., . . 161 Signer of P.C.V. and D.C.B.S., 161 M'Coll, Rev. M., to be Rector of St George's, London, . . . 1871 159 M'Coll, Rev. M., to be Canon of Ripon, 1884 166 Member of the E.C.U., . . 159 Signer of R.P. J. and Four Petitions, 159 Classified Index. 183. Moberly, Dr, to be Bishop of Salisbury, 1869 158 Oakley, Rev. J. 0., to be Dean at Man- chester, 1883 164 Member of the Council of the E.C.U., .... 164 Pro-Romish threats of, . . 1885 165 Signer of P.T.R. and R.P. J., . 164, 165 Ommanney, Rev. G.C.,to St Matthew's, Sheffield, 1882 164 Disturbance through Romish teach- ing of, .... 164 Member of E.C.U. and C.B.S., 164 Praised the "Priest in Absolution," 164 Thrust by Mr Gladstone on a Low Church Congregation, . . 1882 164 Paget, Rev. F., to be Professor of The- ology at Oxford, .... 1885 166 Signer of P.T.R.,. . . . 1881 166 Rawlins, Rev. J. A., to be Vicar at Wil- lesden 1880 163 Member of the E.C.U., . . 163 Signer of R.P. J. and Two Petitions, 1 63 Rawlinson, Rev. G., to be Canon of Canterbury, . . . . 1872 161 Signer of R.P. J. and Two Petitions, 161 Ridding, Rev. G., to be Bishop of South- well, .... 1884 166 184 Classified Index. Leader in illegal Ritualistic Service atHolborn, . . . 1885 166 Sadler, Rev. H. F., to the Living of Honiton, 1870 158 Signer of Two Petitions, . 158 Sheringham, Rev. H. A., to be Priest in Ordinary to the Queen, . . 1884 166 Member of theKC.U., . . 166 Stubbs, Rev. W., to be Bishop of Chester, 1884 166 Eastward Position adopted by, 166 Member of the E.C.U., . . 166 Signer of R.P.J. and P.T.R., . 166 Trywhitt, Rev. H. M., to be Vicar at Bromley, 1880 163 Member of the E.C.U. and C.B.S., 163 Signer of P.C.V. and P.T.R., . 163 Walford, Rev. H., to be Rector at Ewelme 1884 165 Signer of P.T.R. and R.P.J., . . 165 Wilkinson, Rev. G. H., to be Bishop of Truro, 1883 165 Auricular Confession approved by, 165 Popish Figures introduced by, . 165 Signer of R. P. J., ... 165 Wills, Rev. F.C., to St Agatha, Finsbury, 1872 .161 Signer of P.L.C., . .. .. 1873 161 Classified Index. 185 Woodard, Rev. N., to be Canon at Man- chester, 1870 159 Founder of Ritualistic Middle Schools, .... 159 Mass taught by, . . 1875 159 SignerofP.T.R.,P.C.V.,andR.P.J., 159 Woodford, Rev. T. R., to be Bishop of Ely, 1873 162 Arthur, Rev. William. The Views of on the Home Rule Bill of the future, ,. 118 Artifices and Inconsistencies of IVIr Gladstone, r!880 68 Appointments, Civil, of Papists, . J \1886 98,99 Arrangement for Admission to Ch. of R., 1881 73,74 Bequest Trust of Mr Blundell, . 1871 42 Bulgarian and Irish Atrocities, . 1880 70 Character and Conduct of Mr Dillon, 1881 76 Communications with Irish-Americans, 1886 102,103 Disestablishment of the Irish Church, 1879 64, 65 Endowment of Romish College in Dublin, 1886 13 Exposures of the, by Charley, Mr, M.P., . . 1871 42 Montagu, Lord Robert, . . 1882 80 O'Brien, Mr W., M.P., . . 1885 94 Pall Mall Gazette, . . 1873 52 Fenian and Protestant Prisoners, . \ U871 186 Classified Index. Presbyterian, The (Free Church), 1871 46, 47 Saturday Re.view, . . . 1882 78, 79 f!870 36 39,40 Glebes Loan Bill, .... 1870 33,34 Impending Irish Outrages, . . 1885 96, 97 Legislation on Mortmain Acts, . 1871 47 Mission of Mr Errington to Rome, . 1881 89 Pledges regarding Maynooth, . . 1868 18,19,22 Programme of Keforms, . , ,. 1887108,109 Pro-Romish Acts at Corfu, . . 1859 7,8 Publication of " Vatican Decrees," . 1874 59,60 Reasons for releasing " Suspects," . 1859 7,8 Secrecy by Midlothian Electors, . 1880 66, 67 Trusteeship of St Cuthbert's, . . 1887108,109 University Education Bill, . . 1873 54, 55 Atrocities, Bulgarian and Irish. Different Treatment by Mr Glad- stone of, 1880 70 Auricular Confession, Advocates of, Ch. of E. Working Men's Society, 91, 92 Society of the Holy Cross, . 1873 155, 167 Sympathy of Mr Gladstone with the, .... 1838-1858 1-170 Aytoun, Mr, IVI.P. (L.), Arbitrariness of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment elicited by, . . . 1870 33 Classified Index. 187 Fostering Agrarianism charged against Mr Gladstone by, ... 1870 32 Infraction of Bill of Rights charged against Mr Gladstone by, . .1870 31 Resolution by, to terminate Maynooth Grant voted against by Mr Gladstone, 1868 16,17 Surrender to the Hierarchy charged against Mr Gladstone by, . . 1870 31 Balfour, The Right Hon. A. J., Conversation with Mr Gladstone on im- pending Outrages, . . . 1885 95 Walsh, Archbishop, confirming Mr Gladstone's Statements to, . . 1885 95, 96 Baptismal Regeneration, Mr Gladstone's Romish Views upon, 1857 4 Batons versus Blackthorns, Mr Gladstone's Views, . . .1890 124 Beaconsfield, Lord, Amendment by, in favour of Protestant Succession, carried, . . . 1866 12 No Roman Catholic Appointments during the Premiership of, . . 1874-1880 66 Public Worship Bill of, opposed by Mi- Gladstone, . . . .1874 57 Voted for Disendowment of Maynooth, 1869 26 Weekly Register denounces Protestant Policy of, . . . . 1879 66 188 Classified Index. Belgium, Policy of Mr Gladstone more Pro- Romish than that of, . . . 1883 86 " Bennett Judgment." R.C. appointed by Mr Gladstone to Judicial Committee on eve of, . 1872 49 Bennett, Mr W. C. L . . Liberty of Mr Murphy defended by, 1870 30, 31 Bennett, Rev. W. T., Became a Roman Catholic while in Ch. ofE., 1851 169 Defended in Romish Observances by Mi- Gladstone, . . : . .1872 49 Dogma of the Real Presence held by, 1872 49 Berkley, Mr R.. jun., Mr Gladstone's Defence of the Pope's independence demanded by, . 1871 40, 41 Bernard, Mr Montague, Dogma of the Real Presence favoured by, 1872 49 Promoted by Mr Gladstone to Judicial Committee of Privy Council, . 1872 49 Better Government of Ireland Bill. See Home Rule Bill. Bevan, Mr, Deserts Mr Gladstone's Party on account of his views with regard to Free Education and Roman Catholic Schools, . . . 1890 124 Classified Index. 189 Biggar, Mr, IYI.P. N. . Outrages in England encouraged by, 1879 63 BUI (or Act), Arrears, 1882 81 Better Government of Ireland, . 1886 98,99 Diplomatic Relations, . . .1848 4 Disestablishment and Disendowment of Irish Church, . . .1869 23 Ecclesiastical Titles, . . . 1851 5 Ecclesiastical Titles, . . . 1871 45 Fawcett's Irish 1871 46 Gaols, 1864 10 Home Rule, 1886 98, 99 Inspection of Convents, . . . 1873 56,57 Irish Constabulary, . . . 1883 87 Irish Glebe Loan, .... 1870 33, 34 Irish Jury, 1880 69 Poor Law Board (Irish), . . 1869 28 Prison Ministers, . . . .1863 9 Prison Ministers, . . . . 1871 46 Public Worship, . . . . 187457,58,59 Reductio ex capite lecti, . . 1871 47 Registration of Voters, . . . 1883 87 Religious Disabilities Abolition, . 1871 45 Roman Catholic Oaths, . . 1865,186610,11,12 University Education, . . 1873 52 190 Classified Index. Birmingham, Arrest of Mr Murphy by Mayor of, 1869 28 Funeral of Mr Murphy at, . . 1872 46 Government of Mr Gladstone defends the Mayor of, .... 1869 28 May or of, fined for arresting Mr Murphy, 1869 28 Reply of Mr Gladstone to Protestant Association of, . . . .1870 1 R.C. Meeting at, in defence of Papal Supremacy, . . . 1871 40, 41 Blackthorns versus Batons. Mr Gladstone's Views on, . . 1890 124 Blundell. Mr, Bequest of 200,000 for Romish pur- poses by, ..... 41 Gladstone, Mr, Co-trustee under Be- quest of, 1871 41 Gladstone's, Mr, evasion regarding his Trusteeship for, . . . . 1871 41, 42 Bombay, Dangers to Protestantism by Mr Glad- stone's Viceroy at, . . . 1881 72 Jesuits commended by Mr Gladstone's Viceroy at, . . . .1881 72, 73 Bowyer, Sir George, BI.P. (R.C.), Inconsistency of Mr Gladstone chal- lenged by, . . . 1874 60 Classified Index. 191 Note to Papal Brief signed by, 1870 38 Bradlaugh, Mr Charles, IYI.F., Admission to Commons claimed by, 1880 66 Attack on Protestantism by Mr Glad- stone, on claim by, . . . 1880 66 Brady, Joe (R.C.), One of the Phoenix Park Murderers, . 1882 81 Office-bearer in R.C. Chapel, . 1882 81 Brief, Papal (Alleged), to XVIr Gladstone, Established Churches described as Pope's enemies in, . 1870 37, 38 Request to Pope not to publish meanwhile, 37, 38 Services of Mr Gladstone thanked in, 37, 38 Thanks to Mr Gladstone for promoting Papists, 37, 38 Thanks for proposed promotion of Mr Monsell (R.C.), .... 37, 38 Thanks for weakening the Established Churches, 37, 38 Bram well. Lord Justice, Carter, Mr, of Clewer, rebuked by, 1879158, 159 Mackarness, Bishop of Oxford, rebuked by 1879158,159 Bright, Mr John, M.P. L. . Speeches of Mr Gladstone exposed by, 1887105, 106 Bruce, Mr, M.F. See Home Secretary. Burial Laws, The, Evasion of, by Romish Priests, . 1869 23 192 Classified Index. Inquiry into, opposed by Mr Glad- stone, 1869 23 Burke, Mr (!.) Assassination by " In vincibles," . 1882 81 Irish Agitation attributed to Mr Glad- stone by, 1882 83 Calcutta, Missions at, interfered with under Mr Gladstone's Komish Viceroy, . 1881 75 Protest of four thousand Hindoos against second interference, . . . 1883 85 Campbell-Bannerman, IVIr, M.P. See War Secretary. Canilla. Bishop R.C. , Enforcement by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of Pope's appointment of, . 1882 77,78 Canon Law. Definition of, by Rev. Dr Wylie, . (Note) 5 Explanation of, by Sir W. V. Harcourt, 1874 58 Gladstone, Mr, quotes from, against British Legislation, . . . 1874 58 Harcourt, Sir \V. V., ridicules Mr Glad- stone for citing, . . . . 1874 58 Canterbury, Archbishopric of. See Tait, Archbishop; and Benson, Archbishop. Canterbury, The Convocation of, Petition of E.C.U. for Vestments, pre- sented to, ... 1875 157 Classified Index. 193 Petition of S.S.C. for Komish Practices, presented to, . . . . 1873155,156 "Priest in Absolution" condemned by, 1877 154 Capel, Monsignor R.C. . Roman Catholicism found in Canon Liddon's Works by, . . . 1875 159 Carey, James (F.), Communicant in a Jesuit Church, . 1882 81 One of Phoenix Park Murderers, . 1882 81 Carlow, Thanks given to Mr Gladstone by Roman Catholics at, . . . 1852 5 Carter, Canon. Brain well, Lord, declares a Law- breaker, . . . .1879 159 President of the Clewer Convent, . 1878 64 Protected by Bishop Mackarness, Mr Gladstone's nominee, . . . 1870 158,159 Reformation denounced as a " crime " by, .... . 64 Superior-General of C.B.S., . . 1862 153 " Catholic first and Englishman afterwards," T1874 Different Views of Mr Gladstone in, \ 112 U889 Catholic Opinion (R.C.), Works of Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr Gladstone's nominee, approved by, 1873 55,56 194 Classified Index. Cavendish, Lord F., Assassination by " Invincibles," . 1882 81 Chamberlain, Mr, M.P.. Criticises Mr Gladstone's conduct in re- ference to Sects and Free Education, 1890 124 Communications of Mr Gladstone's Government with Irish Leaders, ex- posed by 1886 102 Chaplains. See Prison Ministers Bill. Charities, Roman Catholic,, Inquiry into, opposed by Mr Glad- fl 869 23 stone, .... U869 29 Charley, Mr, IYI.F.. Shuffling charged on Mr Gladstone by, 1871 42,43 "Christian," The, Criticises Mr Gladstone as to the so- called Religious Disabilities Re- moval Bill, .... 1891126,127 " Christian Church Considered, The Ideal of a," Author of, degraded by Oxford Convo- cation, ...... 1845 2 Condemnation of, by Oxford Convo- cation, 1845 2 Decisions of Convocation resisted by Mr Gladstone, . . . .1845 2 Reformation stigmatised in, . . 1844 2 Romish Views held by Author of, . 1844 2 Classified Index. 195 Church of Ireland, The Disestablishment and Disen- do wmen t of the, Admission by Mr Gladstone of little interest in, .... 1885 23 All Revenues, Parsonages, Glebes, taken away by 1869 25, 26 Concessions by Mr Gladstone that Dynamitards brought about, . 1879 63, 64 Concessions by Mr Gladstone to Romish demands for, . . . 1866 12 Creation by Mr Gladstone himself of the demand for, . . . . 1868 22, 23 1879 63 Dynamite Explosions did bring about, -1880 67 .1883 85 Froude's, Mr J. A., description of Mr Gladstone's Policy for, . . 1868 21, 65 Introduction by Mr Gladstone of Bill for, 1869 23 (1868 22, 23 No demand in Ireland for, . . <{ 11879 64, 65 Opposition by Mr Gladstone to Reform of the Church of Ireland, . . 1868 18 Pledge by Mr Gladstone regarding, 1868 15 Preparation of Mr Gladstone for, . 1863 9 Religious Equality violated by MrJ1868 16,17 Gladstone in, . . \1869 25, 26 196 Classified Index. Kesolutions by Mr Gladstone for, . 1868 16,17 Romanism fostered by funds from, 1869-1 8S8 27 Romish rejoicing at Mr Gladstone's Scheme for, . . . .1868 21 Speech at Leigh by Mr Gladstone for, 1868 19 Strong Speech by Mr Gladstone for, 1867 14 Support by Mr Gladstone of Measure for, 1866 13 Thanks of the Pope to Mr Gladstone for advancing, . . . . 1870 37 Transference of Ch. of I. Property to Oh. ofR 1868 17 Twenty thousand yearly to proposed Irish Parliament from, . 1886 97 Wilberforce's, Bishop, description of Mr Gladstone's Policy for, . . 1879 65 Church of Rome in Ireland, The Establishment and Endowment of the. See also Colonies, Education, En- dowments, India, Malta, Maynooth, etc. Artifice of Mr Gladstone regarding, . 1868 18,1ft Educational Bill by Mr Gladstone toward, 1873 52, 53. Grants by Mr Gladstone promotive of, ... . 1885 90, 91 Large proposal toward, . . . 1868 1& Measure contemplated by Mr Gladstone for, . 1845 3. Classified Index. 197 Measures passed by Mr Gladstone in favour of, . . . . .1869 26 Proposed Concessions by Mr Gladstone on, . . . . . 1865 11 Protest by Mr Fawcett (L.) against the, 1869 27 (1863 9 Support by Mr Gladstone of a Measure for, . . . . 1865 10, 11 1870 34 .1871 46 " Church and State." Puritanism assailed by Mr Gladstone in, 1838 1, 2 Romanism and Principles of, identical, 1838 2 Civil Appointments by Mr Gladstone. See Appts. 0. Civil List. Grant by Mr Gladstone for Pro-Romish Works from the, . . . 1880 69 Civilised World and Ireland, Mr Gladstone on, . . . 141 Civita Vecchia. " Defence " sent to, by Mr Gladstone for Pope's Protection, . . .1870 34 Clarendon, Lord, Visit to Rome for Political purposes of Mr Gladstone and, . . .1866 13 Clerkenwell, The Explosion at. Biggar, Mr, M.P., commends, . . 1879 62, 63 Disestablishment traced by a Fenian to, 1885 91 198 Classified Index. Influence of, on Disestablishment ac- knowledged by Mr Gladstone, . 1879 64 Use by Mr Gladstone of, a " charter of all ruffianism," .... 1883 85, 86 Clewer, The Convent of. Carter, Canon, Superior-General of, . 1862 153 Gladstone, Mr, Trustee of, . . 1878 64 Romish Character of, . . . 187864,153 Coffin, Bishop, R.C. . Arrangement by Mr Gladstone for ad- mission to Ch. of R. affirmed by, 1883 73, 74 Colonies, The, Marriage Law in, interfered with by Mr Gladstone 1870 38, 39 Papal Hierarchy in, endowed with Lands by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1870 38 Papal Endowments in, increased by Mr Gladstone, .... 1869-1873 57 Protestant Endowments in, reduced by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1869-1873 57 Commissioner, Ecclesiastical. See Halifax. Colquhoun, IVIr J. C.. Gladstone's, Mr, Pro-Romish leanings commented on by, . . . 1867 14 Protest of, against action of Mr Glad- stone's Government in Murphy Case, 1869 25 Classified Index. 199 Confessional, The, Lowe, Rev. E. C., nominee of Mr Glad- stone, advocates, . . . 1873 162 " Confessional Unmasked." Henry, Sir Thomas, doubts legality of, 1871 40 Mackay, Mr G. , imprisoned for exposing, 1871 39 Confessors, Licensed, Petition for P.L..C. . Petition of S.S.C. for. signed by 483 Clergymen, . . . 1873 154,155,156 Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament (C.B.8.), Carter, Canon, Superior-General of, 1862 153 Declaration for Non-Communicant at- tendance by, .... 1872 155 " Intercession Paper" published by, 152 Romish Errors and Practices advocated by, 152, 153 Secrecy observed by Members of, . 152 Wilberforce, Bishop, condemned, . 1862 153 Constabulary (Ireland) Bill. Dropped by Mr Gladstone, . . 1883 87 Land League affected by, . .- 1883 87 Convents, Roman Catholic, Admittance into Cloistered, refused, 1870 30 Endowments and Number of, in- (1870 33, 34 creased by Mr Gladstone, . . J1885 90,91 Immoral Character of. . . 6, 7, 30 200 Classified Index. Inquiry into Secret Burials at, opposed by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1875 10 1854 9 1870 29 Inspection of, resisted by Mr Gladstone, ^1873 56, 57 Motion for Inspection of, recalled by Mr Gladstone, 1870 32, 33 Prohibition of, in Act 1829, condemned by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1870 32, 33 Protestants educated in Bombay at, 1881 72, 73 Convert, Roman Catholic, according to Mr Gladstone, is a Catholic first and an Englishman afterwards, . . 1874 112 His different view in 1889, . . 112 Convocation. See Canterbury, Oxford. Corfu, Acts, Pro-Romish, of Mr Gladstone at, 1858 7,8 Astonishment of, at Mr Gladstone's "mendacity," . . . .1872 8 Dusmoni's, Count, Letter on Mr Glad- stone from, . , . .1872 8 Coward, Blr (R.C.), Appointed by Mr Gladstone Chief- Inspector of Schools, . . . 1886 101 Classified Index. 201 Crime in Ireland. Statementsof MrGladstone on, refuted, 1887 105 Vast Criminality of Irish Roman Catholics, . . . .1885 105 44 Cross, Society of the Holy" (S.S.C. Societas Sanctce Crucis), Canterbury, the late Archbishop of, condemned, . . . 1877 155 Central Authority for other Romanising Societies, ..... 153 Licensed Confessors petitioned for by, 1873 156 Members of. See Appts. E. Members of, all Confessors, . . 154 " Priest in Absolution " prepared by, 154 Pro-Romish Practices observed by, . 154 Retreats for the Clergy organised by, 1877 155 Reunion of Ch. of E. and Ch. of R. sought by, 1867 167 Cuddesdon. The Ritualistic College of, Canon King, nominee of Mr Gladstone, Principal of, .... 162 Gladstone, Rev. Stephen, educated at, 1883 88, 89 Cullen, Cardinal, Injustice of, in the O'Keefe Case, . 1872 51 Negotiations on Papal Endowments by Mr Gladstone with, 1868 18 202 Classified Index. Signer of Note to Papal Brief, . 1870 38 Daily Express, Irish Nihilism attributed to Mr Glad- stone's Policy by, ... 1883 85, 86 Daily News L. . Death of Mr Murphy deplored by, . 1872 44 Protection of the Pope by Mr Glad- stone, condemned by, . . . 1871 37 Daily Review L. , Negotiations of Mr Gladstone with Cardinal Cullen, affirmed by, . 1868 18 Large Grant to be given the Ch. of R. by Mr Gladstone intimated in, . 1868 18 Davis. Rev. IVIr. Opponent of Mr Gladston ein consequence of Murphy Case, . . . 1870 31 Davitt, IVIr Michael (N. and F. . And O'Brien contrasted with Mr Glad- stone by the Globe, . . . 1890 124 Boasts of Fenian Organisation, . 1879 63 Confers with Patrick Egau, . . 1882 82 Contends Fenianism disestablished Irish Church, ..... 1879 63 Dark Designs in Letter by, . . 1870 80 Eulogised by Moniteur de Rome, . 1882 84 Liberated by Mr Gladstone, . 1882 80 Signed irregularly Kilmainham Treaty, 1881 76 Classified Index. 203 Visits Mr Gladstone after liberation, 1882 82 Day, Mr T. C. (R.C.), Appointed by Mr Gladstone Judge of High Court, .... 1882 84 Dead, Prayers for the, C.B.S. advocates the use of, . 153 Deans' Petition, Three (T.D.P.), Deans of York, St Paul's, and Manchester, sign, 1874 156 Distinctive Eucharistic Dress sought by, 1874 156 Dease, Mr ., HI. P. (IV.), Gladstone's, Mr, Letter to, on Pope's Protection,. . . .1870 36 Refusal by Mr Gladstone to produce Letter to, . . . . 1871 41 Declaration of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacra- ment, The (D. C.B.S.) Non-Communicant Attendance at the Lord's Supper, sought by, . . 1872 155 Signers of, promoted by Mr Gladstone. See Appts. E. "Defence," H.XKLS.,- At Civita Vecchia for Pope's Pro- tection, 1870 34 Captain of, delivers Despatches from Mr Gladstone, and has an Audience of the Pope, . . . .1870 34 204 Classified Index. Denison, Archdeacon, Agreement in " Gorham Case " of Mr Gladstone with, . . . .1851 4 Assistance by Mr Gladstone in defence of, 1854-1858 6 Devoy Mr (F.), Liberation by Mr Gladstone of, . 1870 34,35 D'Israeli, Mr. See Beaconsfield. DiUon, Mr, M.P. (N.), Admiration by Mr Gladstone of, . 1881 76 Mutilation of Cattle advised by, . 76 Secret Bargain of Mr Gladstone with Nationalists announced by, . . 1866 12 Diplomatic Relations with Rome, f!845 3 Anxiety of Mr Gladstone for, U848 4 Bill by Mr Gladstone in favour of, . 1848 4 Jervoise, Mr, agent of Mr Gladstone in, 1872 50 Mission of Mr Errington through. See Errington, 1881 77 Wesleyan Conference condemns, . 1882 82 Disabilities of Roman Catholics. Letter from Mr Gladstone to Mr Shee, 1891 138 Disestablishment. See Church of Ireland. Dissent, Patriotic. Professor Tyndall's Views, . 119 Classified Index. 205 Drummond. TfLr H.. 1VI.P., Nunneries exposed in Parliament by, 1851 Dublin, Friendship between Mr Gladstone and Popish Lord Mayor of, . . 1887 108 Insult to the Queen's Government by the Lord Mayor of, . . 1887 108 Presentations by Mr Gladstone to Popish Lottery in, . . . 1888109,110 Dusmoni. Count, Details of Mr Gladstone's Pro-Romish Practices, by, . . . . 1859 7, 8 Letter on Mr Gladstone's " mendacity " from, 1872 8 Dynamite Policy, Advocated by M'Dermott, . . 1885 91 Approved by the Irish World, . 1880 70 Incitement to, by Mr Parnell, . . 1880 67 Party use by Mr Gladstone of informa- tion about, 1885 95 Parnell's demands to be enforced by, 1886 96 Republicanism and Home Rule expected through, 1885 91 Eastward Position, Observers of, English Church Union, . . . 1875 151 Gladstone, Rev. S. , at Ha warden Church, 1883 88 206 Classified Index. Ecclesiastical Appointments. See Appts. E. Ecclesiastical Commissioner. See Halifax. Edinburgh, Duke of. Assassination of, attempted by a Fenian. SeeO'Farrel, .... 1869 24 Ecclesiastical Titles Act. See Titles Act. Egan, Mr (F.), Liberation by Mr Gladstone o . 1870 34, 35 Education, Free, Mr Gladstone promises through Mr Morley that Roman Catholics and Jews shall manage their own Schools, though they receive public support (Feb. 1890), .... 1890 123 Education, Romish, in Ireland, Attack on Protestant Education by Mr Gladstone, 1868 20 Communications between Manning and Mr Gladstone on, . . .1873 55 Mr Sexton promised the support of the Irish Party, . . . . 1890 123 Concessions by Mr Gladstone to Nation- alists on, 1866 12 Concessions by Mr Gladstone to Romish Party on, 1865 11 Mr Sexton maintained that the rights of conscience of the Irish Catholics Classified Index. 207 should be respected, when those of others were abolished, . . 1890 124 Denominationalism approved by Mr Gladstone in, .... 1874 57 Grants passed by Mr Gladstone in favour of, 1883 87 Mr Bevan deserts the Gladstonian Party on account of Mr Gladstone's conduct in reference to, . . . . 1890 124 Grants for Convent Schools, and for, 1885 90, 91 Inquisition implied by Mr Gladstone's Bill on, 1873 52, 53 Romish prejudices conceded by Mr Gladstone's Bill on, , . .1873 52 Scholarships' Grants proposed by Mr Gladstone to R.C. CoUege, . . 1866 13 Sweeping tendency of Mr Gladstone's Bill to establish, .... 1873 52, 53 Willingness of Mr Gladstone to confer with the Hierarchy on, . . 1845 3 Emancipation Act, Prohibition of Monasteries in, opposed by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1870 32, 33 Endowments, Roman Catholic, Increase in Colonies by Mr Gladstone of, 1870 38, 39 Increase of, in Ireland by Mr Gladstone's Glebes Bill, ... 1870 33, 34 208 Classified Index. Measure for, contemplated by Mr Glad- stone, 1845 3 Measure by Mr Gladstone in favour of, 1871 46 Motion against, opposed by Mr Glad- stone, 1863 9 Negotiations of Mr Gladstone with Cardinal Cullen about, . . 1868 18 English Church Union E.C.TJ. . Court's judgment against Komish Prac- tices resisted by, . . . 1875 151 Directory of, . . . . 1885 152 Eastward Position maintained by, . 1875 151 Halifax, Lord, President of, . . 1886101,152 Incense, Use of, maintained by, . 1875 151 Members of. See Appts. E. Members of, adherents of Papal System, 1868 152 " Priest in Absolution " identified with, 152 Petition for Vestments presented by 1875 157 Communion between Churches of E. and R. advocated by, . . . 1878 151 Errington, Sir George (R.C.), Commissioned by Mr Gladstone to the Vatican, 1881 77 Denial by Mr Gladstone of Mission of, 1881 77 Gladstone's, Mr, denial of Mission of, contradicted by Bishop Vaughan, 1881 77 Mission of, admitted by Mr Gladstone, 1882 78 Classified Index. 209 O'Brien's, Mr, exposure of Mr Glad- stone regarding, . . . . 1885 93, 94 Request to be continued at Rome, by, 1885 93, 94 Saturday Review ridicules Mr Glad- stone's evasions about, . . 1882 78, 79 Wesleyan Conference protests against Mission of, .... 1882 80 Equivocations of Mr Gladstone. See Artifices. Espen, Van (Roman Canonist), Cited from, by Mr Gladstone, against British Legislation, . . . 1874 58 Evasions of lUIr Gladstone. See Artifices. Ewelme, The Rectory of. Violation of Law by Mr Gladstone in appointing to, . . . . 1871 160 Faith, The Society for the Maintenance of the (S.3YLF-), Celebration of Mass required of Members of, 153 Members of. See Appts. E. Placed under the protection of " Our Lady," 153 Fawcett, Mr, M.F. L. . Endowment of Maynooth by Mr Glad- stone, resisted by, . . . 1869 27 Religious Equality Bill of, opposed by Mr Gladstone, .... 1871 46 University Education Bill of Mr Glad- stone, deplored by. . . . 1872 52, 53 210 Classified Index. Feast of Purification. S.S.C. advocates Ceremonies of the, 1873 154,155 Fenians. See also Dynamite Policy. Arrears Bill of Mr Gladstone favours, . . . . .1882 Assassination of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr Burke by, .... 1882 83 Conclusion of Treaty with the, . 1886 104 Disestablishment of Irish Church f!879 63 traced to, Il885 91 Exceptional treatment of, by Mr Glad- stone, 1870 35, 36 Insubordination of, admitted by Home Secretary, 1870 35 Liberation by Mr Gladstone of twenty- five, 1870 34, 35 New Prison Code by Mr Gladstone favourable to, . . . . 1881 71 Oath of, read in the House of Com- mons, 1867 35 Outrages by, helpful to Mr Gladstone's Schemes, 1879 63 C 1 87 C\ Q ^ Partial treatment of, by Mr Gladstone, \ U871 40 Special benefits by Mr Gladstone to, 1870 36 Utterances of Mr Gladstone approved of, by, 1885 91 Classified Index. 211 Fitzgerald, Mr Justice (R.C. u Appointed Law Lord in Lords by Mr Gladstone, 1882- 84 Forster, Mr,, XH.F. L. . United Ireland commented on by, . 1885 93 Fortescue, Mr Chichester s L. , University Education Bill of Mr Glad- stone condemned by, . . . 1873 53 France, Policy of Mr Gladstone more Romish than that of, . . , 1883 86 Frazer, Rev. Dr Donald (L. ;/, Home Rule Bill of Mr Gladstone con- demned by, ..... 1887107,108 Criticises Mr Gladstone in reference to Mr Parnell's morality, . . 1890125,126 Free Church of Scotland, The, Right of, to her designation denied by Mr Gladstone, . . . . 1888 109 Free Education, Mr Gladstone promises through Mr Morley that Roman Catholics and Jews shall manage their Schools, though they receive public support (Feb. 1890) 1890 123 Froude, lIr J. A. (!.)*-*- Alleged Demand for Disestablishment denied' by, L881 23 212 Classified Index. Disestablishment Policy of Mr Gladstone denounced by, . . . . 1868 21 Mr Sexton's views on the subject, . 1890 123, 124 Irish Clergy defended by, . . 1881 23 Mr Bevan deserts the party of Mr Gladstone on account of his conduct in reference to, . . . . 1890 124 Gaols Bill, Appointment of Eomish Chaplains favoured by the, . . . .1864 10 Mr Gladstone Vote for the, . .1864 10 Gazette d'ltalia. Accuses Mr Gladstone's Government of " paying court to the Pope," . 1873 56 Complains of Interferences at Home by Mr Gladstone's Government, . 1873 56 Gibraltar, Cathedral Church of. Appointment of Bishop to, against wishes of R.C.'s, .... 1882 77 Papal appointment enforced by Mr Gladstone, 1882 78 Gladstone, The Right Honourable W. E., passim. Gladstone, Rev. Stephen, Altar-Lights in daytime used by, . 1883 88 Eastward Position observed by, . 1883 88 Educated at Cuddesdon College, . 88 Member of E.C.U 1883 88 Priest Associate of C.B.S., . . 1883 88 Classified Index. 213 Glebe Loan Bill (Irish), Endowment of Papal Institutions favoured by the, . . . 1870 33, 34 Introduced and passed by Mr Gladstone, 1870 34 Suspicious late introduction of the. 1870 34 Globe, The, Contrasts Mr Gladstone with Mr Davitt and Mr O'Brien, Dec. 1890, . 124 Outlines the Dynamitards' Policy, . 1886 96 Secrecy of Mr Gladstone on Outrages denounced by, . . . . 1886 97 Gorham Case, Encouragement by Mr Gladstone of Protesters in, . . .1851 4 Grants. See Endowments. Granville, Lord, Home Rule favoured by, . . 1873 56 Letter of Sir George Errington to, . 1885 93, 94 Gray, Sir James, Itt.F. (N.), Advocate of Romish Policy in Ireland, 1867 15 Communications between Mr Gladstone and, 1867 15 Disestablishment Motion by, supported by Mr Gladstone, . . .1867 14 Imprisoned for treason, ... 15 Disestablishment Pledges given by Mr Gladstone to, . 1867 15 214 Classified Index. Grey, Earl (!.), Irish Agitation attributed to Mr Glad- stone by, 1868 22, 23 Greenwich, Action of Mr Gladstone's Government condemned at, . . . . 1870 30 Baptist Minister at, renounces Mr Gladstone, 1870 31 Extinction of Protestant ascendency avowed by Mr Gladstone at, . 1868 22 Interference with Protestant freedom by Mr Gladstone at, . . . 1870 30 Halifax. Lord. Appointed Ecclesiastical Commissioner by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1886 101 President of the E.C.U., . . , 1886 101,152 Reunion with Rome sought by, . 1886101,152 Trustee of St Cuthbert's, Earlscourt, 1887 108, 109 Harcourt, Sir W. Vernon (I*.), Astonished by Mr Gladstone's references to Canon Law, .... 1874 58 Definition of Canon Law by, . . 1874 58 Manning advises Mr Gladstone to appoint, 1873 55 Romish licence in Ch. of E. advocated by, 1874 58 Ultramontanism of Mr Gladstone con- demned by, . . . .1871 46 Classified Index. 215 Ultramontane Policy in England op- posed by, 1874 58 Harrison, Mr (R.C.), Appointed Chairman of the Municipality of Calcutta by MrGladstone's Viceroy, 1881 75 Appointed Police Commissioner in Cal- cutta by Mr Gladstone's Viceroy, 1881 75 Hawarden Church, Altar-Lights used in, . . , 1883 88 Eastward Position observed in, . 1883 88 Declinature of Mr Gladstone to inter- fere with illegal Ritualistic Practices at, 1883 88 Lessons read by Mr Gladstone at, . 88 Hawker, Rev. R. S.. Concealed Papist in Ch. of E., . 71 Denounced as a traitor by John Bull, 1880 71 Jesuitism of, exposed by Morning Adver- tiser, 1875169,170 Services of, recognised by Grant from Mr Gladstone, . 1880 71 Herbert, The Hon. Mr Auberon (R.), Declares Mr Gladstone's Home Rule Policy a " crime." . . . 1886 101 Denounces Mr Gladstone's surrender to Irish " forces," . . . 1882 83,84 Hierarchy, Romish. See Ch. of R. 216 Classified Index. Hindoos, Four thousand condemn action of Mr Gladstone's Viceroy, . . . 1883 85 Home Rule Bill, The; or Bill for the Better Govern- ment of Ireland, Expectation by the Dynamite party of, . . . . . . 1885 91 Father Provincial privy to Mr Glad- stone's Views on, ... . 1873 56 Introduction by Mr Gladstone of, . 1886 98 Ireland to be given over to the Par- nellites by, .... 1886 99 Irish threats in demand of, . . 1886 97, 98 Lord-Lieutenancy to be open to R.C.'s by, 1886 99 Future Bill, the view of Rev. Wm. Arthur concerning same, . 118 Preparation of Mr Gladstone for, . 1867 15, 16 Protestant Religion cast overboard by, 1886 99, 100 Protests against by Bright, Mr John, M.P. (L.), . 1887 105,106 Frazer, Rev. Dr Donald (L.), . 1887 107, 108 Herbert, Mr A. (R.), . . 1886 101 Smith, Prof. G. (R.), . . 1887 101 Spurgeon, Rev. C. H. (L.), . 1886 101 Times, TJie (L), . . . 1886 99, 100 Tyndall, Professor (L.), . . 1886 100 Classified Index. 217 Mr Gladstone evidently intends that the future one shall be more Romish than that of 1886, .... 118 Renewed Negotiations by Mr Glad- stone with Rome, on, . . . 1888 109 Successful Opposition in Parliament to, 1886 104 Ulster Loyalists betrayed by Mr Glad- stone through, . . . . 1886 100 Home-Secretary, Mr Gladstone's, Arbitrariness of, in interpreting Law, 1870 33 Death of Mr Murphy due to mismanage- ment of, 1872 49 Illegality of Lotteries admitted by, 1870 33 Irish Rioters overruling the, . . 1870 31, 32 Obsolete tyrannical Law revived by, 1869 24 Papal influence tampering with, . 1869 25 Protestant Lecture by Mr Murphy pre- vented by, 1870 31, 32 Romish Disabilities Bill supported by, 1871 45 Romish Lotteries screened by, . 1870 33 Horsman, Mr, IKLF. (L.), Romish Policy of Mr Gladstone ex- posed by, ..... 49, 50 Papal Character of Mr Gladstone's University Bill exposed by, . 1873 54 Huguenots, The Church of the, in London. Disendowment of, effected by Mr Glad- stone, ' 1884 89 218 Classified Index. Illegal action of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment regarding, .... 1884 89 Hutchings, Brothers. " Roman Use" in S.S.C. advocatedby, 1874 154 Ideal of a Christian Church Considered. See Christian Church, etc. Incarnation, The, Declared by Dr Arnold a Repeal of the Second Commandment, . . 1888 157 Dr Arnold's Opinion of, endorsed by Dr Lake, 157 Incense, Users of, Ch. of E. Working Men's Society, . 1885 91, 92 English Church Union, . . . 1875 151 Inconsistencies of Mr Gladstone. See Artifices, etc. India, Papal Viceroy of, appointed by Mr Glad- stone, . . . . . 1880 68 Parker, Dr, condemns Mr Gladstone's appointment to, . . . . 1880 69 Spurgeon, Mr, condemns Mr Gladstone's appointment to, .... 1880 68, 69 Viceroy's influence helpful to the Papacy in, 1881 72, 73 Infallibility Decree, Mr Gladstone states tnat it means abso- lute and entire obedience to the Pope at peril of salvation, . . . 1874 129 Classified Index. 219 His utterances thereon differ in 1891, 130,131,132 Invincibles, Communication between Mr Parnell and the, . . . . . . 1887108,104 See also Dynamite Policy. Ionian Islands, The, Appointment of Mr Gladstone as High Commissioner to, . . .1858 7 Ireland, Mr Gladstone's contradictory sayings concerning Ireland between 1875 and 1886, 143, 144 "Ireland, Justice to," Mr Gladstone again cries, . . 1886 142 Ireland, And the opinion of the civilised world, Mr Gladstone on, . . . 141 Irish Home Rule Bill. Of the future, Mr Gladstone evidently intends that it shall be more Romish than that of 1886, ... 118 Irish Nationalist Party. The Times on Mr Gladstone's Policy under the two Parties, . . 189113 2, 133 .Romish doings of Mr Gladstone at, exposed, 1872 8 220 Classified Index. Sir Henry James on the New Party, 1891 132 Irish World (N.), Use of Dynamite approved by, . 1880 70 Irving, Mr, Letter by Mr Gladstone on Dynamite Explosions to, . . . . 1879 64, 65 Italian Government. Pro-Romish Interferences of Mr Glad- f!871 48 stone's Government with the, . U873 56 James, Sir Henry, L. . Communications of Mr Gladstone's Government with Dynamitards, con- demned by, .... 1886 103 On the Priesthood of Ireland, . . 1891 135 Jansen, Priest, Interference of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment in Case against, . . . 1872 51 Judge's Protest against Mr Gladstone's Government's interference, . . 1872 51, 52 Jennings, Mr J. L.. M.F., Parnellite Services by Mr Gladstone commented on by, . . 1887 106, 107 Jervoise, Mr C. (R.C.), Appointed by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment as Agent to Rome, . . 1872 50 Deception in regard to the appointment of, . . 1872 50 Classified Index. 221 Jesuits, Admitted by Mr Gladstone into Council at Malta, 1870 33 Appointment by Mr Gladstone of two Priests, .... 1880-1885 97 (1875 169 Ch. of E. contains some, . . . \ U880 71 Cordial Reception by Mr Gladstone's Viceroy of, . . . . .. 1881 72 Grant made Baring-Gould by Mr Glad- stone for Works on, . . . 187355,161 Irish Policy of Mr Gladstone announced by Father Provincial of the, . 1873 56 Neglect of Law against, pled for by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1872 50 Objects of Society of St Vincent de Paul, 1855 72 Proposed legalising of existence of, by Mr Gladstone's Government, . 1871 45, 46 Students of, favoured by Mr Gladstone's Government, . . . 1871 48 Teaching on Equivocation by the, . 67 Vote by Mr Gladstone for Endowment of Seminary of, .... 1869 26,27 Journal de Rome (R.C.), Commendations of the Romanisers by the, . . . . . . 1884 163 Diplomatic Relations contended for by, 1884 90 222 Classified Index. Jubb, Rev. W. (L.) Inquiry at Mr Gladstone about his May- nooth Policy by, . . . 1868 21,22 Junta, The. Recognised by H.M.'s Government, 1872 77 Pope selects a Bishop in opposition to the wishes of the, . . . 1882 77 Pope's Nominee enforced by Mr Glad- stone in opposition to, . . 1 882: 77 Jury Act Ireland . Criminal Classes favoured by Mr Glad- stone's, 1885 69 Justice to Ireland," Mr Gladstone again cries, . . 1886 142 Continues Leader for that object, . 1890142,143 Kenny, Priest, Keadiness of Mr Gladstone to be a. Papist, affirmed by, . . . 1881 73, 74 Statement by, denied by Mr Gladstone, 1885 74 Keshub Chunder Sen, Chairman of Calcutta Meeting against Mr Gladstone's Viceroy, . . 1883 85 Kildare. Presents by Mr Gladstone to R.C. Lot- tery at, 1888109,110 Kilmainham Gaol, Parnell, Dillon, and Davitt prisoners in, 1881 76 Revolutionary Manifesto from, . 1881 76 Classified Index. 223 Kinnaird, Lord A., M.P. (L.), Protection of the Pope by Mr Gladstone, condemned by, 1870 36,37 Kirkwall. Viscount, Romish Acts of Mr Gladstone at Corfu, reported by, 1860 7, 8 Land Laws, The, National Association claims Reform of, 1866 12 Concession by Mr Gladstone to Reform, 1866 12 League, The Land, O'Brien's, Mr, Speech at Meeting of, 1885 92 Promotion by Mr Gladstone of Solicitor of, .... 1884 90 Voters Bill of Mr Gladstone increases Supporters of, . . . . 1883 87 League National, Proclamation of, resisted by Mr Glad- stone, 1887106,107 Leigh, Protestant Decay in Ireland affirmed by Mr Gladstone at, . .1868 19 Refutation of Mr Gladstone's state- ments at, by the Census, . . 19 Letters (cited in whole or in part), Aytoun's, Mr, M.P., on Murphy Case, 1870 31 Bright's, Mr, M.P., on Mr Gladstone's Irish Policy, .... 1887105,106 224 Classified Index. Constituent's to Mr Gladstone, on Mackay Case, . . . . 1871 39 Denison's, Archdeacon, on Mr Gladstone and Gorham Case, . . . 1851 4 Denison's, Archdeacon, on Mr Glad- stone's interest in his Case, . . 1854 6 Dusmom's, Count, reaffirming facts denied by Mr Gladstone, . .1872 8 Errington's, Sir G., M.P., on his Mission to Rome, 1885 93 Eraser's, DrD., on the Home Rule Policy, 1887 107 Froude's, Mr J. A., in Defence of Irish Church, 1869 23 Gladstone's, Mr, to Birmingham Pro- testant Association, . . . 1870 1 Gladstone's, Mr, on Succession in the Romish Church, . . . .1845 3 Gladstone's, Mr, on his Policy regarding Maynooth, 1868 22 Gladstone's, Mr, on his Government and the Pope's safety, . . .1870 36 Gladstone's, Mr, on his Relation to Bluii- dell Bequest, .... 1871 42 Gladstone's, Mr, on Irish Outrages and Irish Church, .... 1879 64,65 Gladstone's, Mr, on Altar-Lights at Hawarden, . . 1883 88 Classified Index. 225 Gray's, Sir James, on Mr Gladstone and Irish Question, . . . .1867 15 Grey's, Earl, on Mr Gladstone exciting the Irish, 1868 23 Jubb's, Kev. W. , inquiring as to Mr Glad- stone's Policy, . . . . 1868 21 Kenny's, Priest, reaffirming facts denied by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1881 74 Manning's, Cardinal, on Mr Gladstone and Denominational Schools, . 1874 57 Montagu's, Lord Eobert, to Cardinal Manning, on Mr Gladstone, . . 1874 57 Oakley's, Dean, on Purposes of Eomanisers, .... 1885 164, 165 O'Keefe's, Priest, on Mr Gladstone's Oppression, .... 1872 50, 51 Pope's, to Mr Gladstone, quoted from, in Standard, 1870 37 Provincial's, Jesuit Father, on Mr Glad- stone and Home Rule, . . 1873 56 Reynold's, Rev. G., on Mr Gladstone's tyranny, 1869 27 Russell's, Earl, on Mr Gladstone endow- ing Maynooth, . . . 1845 3 Sheffield Daily Telegraph on Home Rule, Religious Liberty and Mr Gladstone, .... 1874-1889 112 226 Classified Index. Smith's, Mr J. B., on the Bltmdell Bequest, .'.... 1871 41 Spurgeon's, Rev. C. H., on Mr Glad- stone and Papal Endowments, . 1868 17 Wilberforce's, Bishop, against the C.B.S., 1862 153 Weekly Register Records Mr Glad- stone's attendance at Amalfi at Mass, 1889 111 Liverpool Courier, (L.), Services in St Cuthbert's described in, 1887108,109 'Lives of the Saints," - Baring-Gould, Rev. S., Author of, . 1873 55 Grant by Mr Gladstone to the Author of, 1873 55, 161 Jesuits as Martyrs in, . . 1873 55, 161 Lotteries. Arbitrariness of Mr Gladstone's H.S. regarding, 1870 33 Gambling tendencies of R.C., . . 1870 33 Illegality of, admitted by Mr Glad- stone's H.S., .... 1870 33 Impartial enforcement of Laws on, op- posed by Mr Gladstone, . . 1871 44 Partial administration of Laws against, 1 870 33 Presents by Mr Gladstone to R.C., . 1888 110 Protection by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of R.C., . . . 1870 33 Classified Index. 227 Imby, (F.),- Sentenced to twenty years' Penal Ser- vitude, 1865 34 Liberated by Mr Gladstone, . . 1870 34, 35 Lymington. Freedom of Assembly interfered with at, 1871 39 Murphy, Mr, imprisoned at, . . 1871 39 Lyne. Rev. J. L.. Member of S.S.C., . . . . 1884 90 Wish by Mr Gladstone for extended Services of, .... 1884 90 Macdermott, The (R.C.), Appointed by Mr Gladstone Solicitor- General for Ireland, . . . 1 886 98 Iftackay, Mr G., Imprisonment of, for exposing Popery, 1871 39 Imprisonment of, denounced by Con- stituent of Mr Gladstone's, . . 1871 39,60 Interference with Protestant Lecture by, 1871 39 Petition for Release of, ignored by Mr Gladstone, . . . . . . . 1871 39 Refusal by Mr Gladstone's Government to act regarding, . . . . 1871 40 Mackonochie. Rev. A., Defiance of Ecclesiastical Courts by, 91, 92 Maguire. Mr, M.P. (R.C.), Artifice of Mr Gladstone's Government on Glebes Bill acknowledged by, . 1870 34 228 Classified Index. Malta, Jesuits admitted by Mr Gladstone to Council at, . . . .1870 33 Offer by Mr Gladstone's Government to convey Pope to, . . . . 1870 34 Romish Education enforced by Mr Glad- stone's Government at, . . 1881 75 Manchester Courier, Affirms Davitt visited Mr Gladstone, on his liberation, and left directly for Paris to confer with Egan, . . 1882 82 Manning, Cardinal, Alliance for revolution between Mr Glad- stone and, 1871 42 Appointment to a Royal Commission by Mr Gladstone of, ... 1884 89 Communications in Commons between Mr Gladstone and, . . . 1873 55- Counsel for deception given to Mr Glad- stone by, 1873 65- Denominational Education favoured by Mr Gladstone according to, . . 1874 57 Friendship with Mr Gladstone boasted of by, 1868 19,20 Motives of Mr Gladstone in writing " Vatican Decrees," stated by, . 1874 59 Inquiry on Mr Gladstone's Educational Policy at, 1874 57 Classified Index. 229 Lofty Character of Mr Gladstone ac- cording to, 1868 19,20 Papal Brief denied by Secretary of, 1870 37,38 Precedence to Peers given by Mr Glad- stone to, 1884 89 Reception of Dr Mossman into Ch. ofR. by 1880 69,70 Support of Mr Gladstone to a Romish Bill inspired by, . . . 1867 14 Unlawfulness of Title assumed by, . 1884 89 Willingness of Mr Gladstone to yield demands of (note), . . . 1869 14 Mariolatry, Advocates off- Society for the Maintenance of the Faith. SeeSM.]?., . 153 Society of the Holy Cross. See S.S.C., 1873 156 Marriage Law. Interfered with in the Colonies by Mr Gladstone's Government, . . 1870 38, 39 Martin, Mr J. W.. Interviews Mr Gladstone as to his future Policy, . . .1891 135 Mr Gladstone's Evasive Answer, . 1891 136 Mass, Assistance at, by Mr Gladstone, . 1858 7 230 Classified Index. Attends Mass at Amalfi, . . 1889 111 Commendation of, by Canon Butler. See Butler, .... 1869 167 Described by Mr Gladstone as " a blas- phemous fable and a dangerous deceit," . . . . . Ill Observance of, by S.S.C., . . 1874 154 Promotion of an Opponent of, resisted by Mr Gladstone, . . .1847 3 Woodard, Canon, preaches doctrine of. SeeWoodard, .... 1875 159 Matthew, Mr T. C. R.C. . Promoted to Judgeship in High Court by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1882 84 Maynooth, Popish Institutions at, Acts endowing, unchanged by Mr Glad- stone's Policy, .... 1869 26 Disendowment of, voted for by the Op- position, 1869 . 26, 27 Large Permanent Endowment by Mr Gladstone of, .... 186925,26,27 Liberalism violated by Mr Gladstone regarding, 1869 27 No reference in Mr Gladstone's Dis- establishment Bill to, . . . 1868 IS Opposition by Mr Gladstone to Resolu- tion for disendowing, . . . 1868 16,17 Classified Index. 231 Professed readiness of Mr Gladstone to terminate Grants to, . . . 1868 21, 22 Promises of Mr Gladstone falsified by his Policy regarding, . . . 1869 26 Kesistance by Mr Gladstone to Disen- ( 1861 9 dowment of, .... \1863 9 Support by Mr Gladstone of Grant to, 1845 3 IKeehan, Priest. Grant from Royal Bounty Fund by Mr Gladstone to, . . .1885 91 Memory, Political, Mr Gladstone on, . 140 Miall, Mr, M.F., Disestablishment of Ch. of E. moved by, 1871 44 Midlothian. Protest against Mr Gladstone's Candi- dature of, 1879 63, 64 Reasons of Mr Gladstone's unfitness to represent, 1879 63, 64 Monasteries. See Convents. IVIoniteur de Rome (R.C.), Approves of Mr Gladstone as an enemy to Britain, 1882 83,84 Attributes Mr Gladstone's political influ- ence to the Pro- Romish character of his Policy, . . 1882 83, 84 232 Classified Index. Monk, Mr, M.F., Deception of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment commented on by, . . 1872 50 Monsell, Mr R.C. . Appointed Postmaster-General by Mi- Gladstone, . . . . 1870 Signer of Note to Papal Brief, . 1870 Thanks by the Pope to Mr Gladstone for appointing, . . . . 1871 37 Montagu, Lord Robert, Communications between Mr Gladstone and Manning explained by, . 1873 55 Inquiry of, regarding Davitt's Signature, 1881 76 Letter on Mr Gladstone's Policy by Father Jesuit to, . . . 1873 56 Letter on Mr Gladstone's Policy by Manning to, .... 1874 57 Motives of Mr Gladstone in " Vatican Decrees " stated by, . . . 1874 59 Release of Conspirators by Mr Gladstone ridiculed by, .... 1882 82, 83 Morning Advertiser, The, Action of Authorities in Murphy Case denounced by 1871 39 Jesuitism of Mr Hawker exposed by, 1875 169, 170 Partiality of Mr Gladstone's Adminis- tration deplored by, . . . 1871 43 Classified Index. 233 Mortmain, The Law of. Abolition by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of, .... 1871 47 Priestcraft protected by the Abolition of, .1871 47 Mossman. Dr, Believer in Immaculate Conception and Infallibility, . . .1880 70 Bishop of " Order of Corporate Union," 1880 69 Expelled from the E.C.U., . 1880 69, 70 Grant for Ecclesiastical Works by Mr Gladstone to, . . . 1880 69 Reception into Ch. of R. of, . 1880 70 Murphy, Mr W M Action of Mr Gladstone's Government in Case con- demned by Aytoun, Mr, M.P. (L.), . . 1870 31 Bennett, Mr W. C. (L.), . . 1870 30, 31 Colquhoun, Mr J. C., Daily News (L.), Davis, Rev. Mr (Baptist), Morning Advertiser (L.), Newdegate, Sir Charles, M.P., Press and St James 1 CJironicle, Reynolds, Rev. G. (Baptist), . Standard, .... Arrested illegally at Birmingham, . 234 Classified Index. Irish Mob at Whitehaven murder, . 1871 43 Liberation by Mr Gladstone of Mur- derers of, 1871 43 Motion in favour of, negatived by Mr Gladstone's Government, . . 1869 28, 29 Prevention at Greenwich of Lecture by, 1870 30 Kevival of obsolete Law to oppress, . 1869 24 Rioting of RC.'s at Funeral of, . 1872 48 Naish, Mr (R.C.), Appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1886 98 National Association, The Romish, Cullen, Cardinal, Superintendent of, 1866 12 Claims put forward by the, . . 1866 12 Disendowment of Ch. of I., . . 1866 12 Freedom in Education, . . 1866 12 Reform of Land Laws, . . 1866 12 Removal of obnoxious Oaths, . 1866 12 Separation of Ireland from England, 1866 15 Concessions by Mr Gladstone to de- mands of, . . . . . 1866 12 Dillon, Mr, M.P., leading spirit in, . 1866 12 Newdegate. Sir Charles, XK.F., Motion by, for Inquiry into Convents carried, ...'.. 1870 29 Classified Index. 235 Motion by, for Inquiry opposed by Mr Gladstone, 1870 29 Motion by, in Murphy Case negatived by Mr Gladstone, . . .1869 28, 29 Motion by, in support of Mortmain op- posed by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment, 1869 29 Partiality of Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment in Mackay Case exposed by, 1871 40 Next Presentation to Rectory of Liverpool, The Purchase of, by Mr Glad- stone, 1891 136, 137 Nihilism, Irish, Charge against Mr Gladstone of foster- ing, . . . . . . . 1883 85, 86 Non-Communicant Attendance at Lord's Supper, C.B.S. declares in favour of, . . 1872 155 Norfolk, Duke of. Signer of Note to Papal Brief, . 1870 38 Northern Whig L. . Protestantism of Mr Gladstone in his Anti Papal works denied by, . 1874 60 Note to Papal Brief, Postponement of Publication of Brief advised in the, .... 1870 37, 38 Signatories to the Bowyer, Sir George, . . 1870 38 236 Classified Index. Cullen, Cardinal, . . . 1870 38 Monsell, Mr, .... 1870 38 Norfolk, Duke of, . . . 1870 38 O'Hagan, Lord, . . . 1870 38 Petre, Lord, . . . . 1870 38 Scott, Mr Hope, Q.C., . 1870 38 Nottingham. Eraser's, Dr, Review of Mr Gladstone's Speeches at, .... 1887 107, 108 Nunneries. See Convents. Oaths, Against Romish Conspiracies censured by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1854 7 Bill, R.C., supported by Mr Glad- stone, 1865 10 Changed by Mr Gladstone after Secret Bargain, 1866 12 Fenian, read in House of Commons, 1867 35 Of Abjuration, swept away by Mr Glad- stone, 1866 11 Pledges by Mr Gladstone to remove "obnoxious," .... 1866 12 O'Brien, Mr W.. IHI.P. N. . Duplicity of Mr Gladstone on Errington Case exposed by, . . .1885 93,94 Great admiration of Mr Gladstone by, 1885 92, 93 Classified Index. 237 And Davitt contrasted with Mr Glad- stone by the Globe, . . .1890 124 O'Connell's Memorial. Mr Gladstone subscribes thereto, . 1887 111 O'Farrel (F.), Assassination of Duke of Edinburgh attempted by, . . . . 1869 24 Parliamentary Order in Case of, dis- charged by Mr Gladstone, . . 1869 24 O'Hagan. Lord R.C. , Serious Concessions by Jury Act of, . . . - . . 1880 69 Signer (alleged) of Note to Papal Brief, 1870 38 Validity in Britain of Papal Rescript pled by, 1872 51 O'Keefe, Priest, Cullen, Cardinal, condemns without trial, 1872 51 Papal Rescript regarding, defended by Mr Gladstone's Lord Chancellor, . 1872 51 Protest against tyranny of Cardinal Cullen by 1872 50, 51 Protest against Mr Gladstone's in- justice by, 1872 50,51 Orangemen, Fenians vow the extermination of (note), .... 35 238 Classified Index. Ornaments, Popish, Advocated by Ch. of E. Working Men's Society, 1885 92 List of (note), .... 1885 92 Osservatore Romano. Appointment of R.C. Viceroy approved by the, . . 1881 74 Hopes of the, from Mr Gladstone's Romish Policy, .... 1881 74, 75 Oxford, The Convocation of. " Christian Church," etc., by Mr Ward, condemned by, . . . . 1845 2 Condemnation of Mr Ward's Book by, opposed by Mr Gladstone, . . 1845 2 Degradation of Mr Ward by, . . 1845 2 Gladstone, Mr, votes against Mr Ward's degradation by, .... 1845 2 Fall Mall Gazette (!.) Dislike to Mr Gladstone explained by the, 1873 52 Sacerdotal leanings attributed to Mr Gladstone by the, . . . 1874 59 Palmer, Sir R., Disestablishment Policy of Mr Glad- stone surprised, . . . .1863 9 Classified Index. 239 Parker, Dr (L.), Opinion of Mr Gladstone's Religious Disabilities Removal Bill, 1891 120, 121, 122, 123 Appointment by Mr Gladstone of Romish Viceroy condemned by, . 1880 69 Farnell, Mr Charles, Itt.F. N. . Arrest as Lawbreaker by Mr Gladstone of, 1881 76 Mr Gladstone's Views with respect to his Morality, and Rev. Donald Fraser's Criticisms thereon, . . 1890125,126 Charges against, by Mr Gladstone, . 1881 113 Is a Restorative force in, . . 1889 113 Dynamitards resolved to further the Policy of, . . . . 1886 96 Fears by Mr Gladstone of power behind, 1885 95 Ireland to be given by Mr Gladstone to followers of, . . . 1886 98, 104 Lodged in Kilmainham by Mr Gladstone, 1881 77 Kilmainham Manifesto signed by, . 1881 76 Reception at Hawarden by Mr Glad- stone of, 1886 104 Relations with Invincibles of, . . 1881 103 Parnell and the Priesthood, Lord Salisbury on, .... 145 Partiality of Mr Gladstone. See Artifices, etc. 240 Classified Index. Patrick, St, Succession of. Gladstone, Mr, favours Roman Claim to the 1845 3 Patriotic Dissent, Professor Tyndall's Views, . 119 Peel, Sir Robert, Interpretation by Mr Gladstone of in- tentions of, . . . . 1865 10, 11 Peers, Pope's thanks to Mr Gladstone for ap- pointing R.C.'s as, ... 1870 37 Petition, S.S.C. Confessors under Canon Law sought by, 1873 156 Mariolatrous Ceremonies sought by, 1873 156 Real Presence maintained by, . . 1873155, 156 Sacrificial OfferingatCommunionheldby, 1873 156 Signed by 438 Clergymen, . . 1873 156 Signers of, promoted by Mr Gladstone. See Appts. E. Unction (Baptismal), sought by, . 1873 156 Use of Crosses, Altar Cloths, etc., sought by, 1873 156 Petition, Three Deans'. See Deans', P.T. Petition, Toleration of Ritual (F.T.R.). Presented to Archbishop of Canterbury, 1881 157 Presented by Dean of St Paul's, . 1881 157 Signed by many prominent Ritualists, 1881 157 Classified Index. 241 Signers of, promoted by Mr Gladstone. See Appts. E. Petition for Vestments (F.C.V.) Presented to Convocation, . . 1875 157 Promoted by the E.C.U. . . 1875 157 Roman Vestments sought by, . . 1875 157 Fetre, Lord (R.C.) Signer of Note to Papal Brief, . . 1870 38 Fersico, IVlonsignor (R.C.), Negotiations between Mr Gladstone and Rome by, 1888 109 Pitt, Mr Gladstone's Utterances respecting, in 1856 and 1886, ... 115 Flayfair, Sir L., Statement on Irish Criminality by, . 1885 105 Political Memory, Mr Gladstone on, . . . . 1885 140 Poor Law Boards, Powers favourable to R.C. Schools given by Mr Gladstone to, . . . 1869 28 Pope, The, Admission by Mr Gladstone of Erring- ton Mission to, . . . . 1882 78, 79 Apostolic Blessing sent to Mr Gladstone by, . . . 1870 37 Assistance offered by Mr Gladstone to, 1870 34 242 Classified Index. Counsel sought by Mr Gladstone from, 1882 85 Craft of Mr Gladstone's Government in Mission to, 1885 94 Denial by Mr Gladstone of Errington Mission to, 1881 77 Enforcement by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of Jurisdiction of, . . 1872 51 Enforcement by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of Supremacy of, . . 1882 77,78 Guarantee by Mr Gladstone's Govern- f!870 36, 37 ment of Independence of, . . (l870 40,41 Romish ascendency as expounded by, 1851 22 Services of Mr Gladstone acknowledged by Brief from, .... 1870 37 Support by Mr Gladstone of Bill grant- ing Co-ordinate Power of, . . 1867 14 " Popery, Not only a Religious Faith, but a State Policy," Dr Parker observes, . 120 Portland Prison. See Fenians. Portsea, Interference by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment with Protestant Lectures at, 1869 27 Postmaster-General. See Monsell, Mr. Presbyterianism, Depreciation by Mr Gladstone of, , 1888 109 Classified Index. 243 Presbyterians, Lack of confidence in Mr Gladstone by, . . 1871 46, 47 Partiality of Mr Gladstone's Policy feared by, 1871 47 Protest against Mr Gladstone's Educa- tion Grant by, . . . . 1883 87 Protest against Mr Gladstone's Papal Appointments by, . . . 1880 68 Press and St James' Chronicle, Action of Mr Gladstone's Government in Murphy Case denounced by, . 1872 49 "Priest in the Confessional. See Absolution. Priestly Denomination. &c., The real state of the case, . . 147,148,149 An appeal, ..... 149 Priesthood and Parnell, Lord Salisbury on, . . . . 145 Prisoners. See Fenians. Prison Ministers Bill, Appointment of Romish Chaplains in- ["1861 9 tended by, \187l 46 Establishment and Endowment of R.C. Religion by, 1871 46 Introduction by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of, 1871 46 Support by Mr Gladstone of, . . 1863 9 244 Classified Index. Privy Council, Appointment by Mr Gladstone of Ritu- alist to Committee of, . . . 1872 49, 50 Appointment by Mr Gladstone of R.C. (P.) to Committee of, . . .. 1886 98. Protestant Associations, Alliance, on Mr Gladstone's Papal Ap- pointments, . . . . 1881 73 Birmingham, questions Mr Gladstone whether he is a Papist, . . 1870 1 Birmingham, referred by Mr Gladstone to his Acts, .... 1870 1 Glossop, on Mr Gladstone's Romish doings, 1871 41 Protestantism. Described as a Tall Tree of Noxious Growth, 1868 20 Public "Worship Bill, The, Canon Law adduced by Mr Gladstone against, . . . .' 1874 58: Episcopal Veto inserted through Mr Gladstone's opposition in, . . 1874 59 Introduced by Mr D'Israeli to check Romanisers, . . . 1874 58 PersistentoppositionbyMrGladstoneto, 1874 57-59 Purchas Judgment. Remonstrance against the (R.P.J.), Protest against condemning Ritual excesses, . . . . .1871 155 Classified Index. 245 Signers of, promoted by Mr Gladstone. See Appts. E. Puritans, The, Ke volution ary interpretation of Scrip- ture ascribed by Mr Gladstone to, 183$ 1,2 Scriptural Polity denied by Mr Glad- stone to, . . . . 1838 1, 2 Real Presence, Advocates of the, Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament, 152, 153 Society of the Holy Cross, . . 1873 155 Rectory of Liverpool, Purchase of by Mr Gladstone, . . 1891 136, 137 Redesdale, Lord. " Priest in Absolution" exposed by, 1877 154 Redmond, Mr J. E., M.P. (N.), Irish Papists boasted of by (note), . 1886 98 Reductio ex capite lecti. See Mortmain. Registration of Voters Bill, Land League Supporters increased by the, 1883 87 Passing by Mr Gladstone's Government of the, 1883 87 Religious Disabilities Abolition Bill. See Abolition Bill. Dr Parker's opinion of Mr Gladstone's policy with regard to, . . 120,121,122,123 The Christian criticises Mr Glad- stone, 1891 126,127 246 Classified Index. Mr Gladstone moves its second read- ing, and is defeated, . . . 1891 128 Question asked by Mr J. W. Martin, a Gladstonian and Home Ruler, if Mr Gladstone would give assurance against the Bill being re-introduced, 1891 315,316 Mr Gladstone's evasive answer, . 1891 136 Remonstrance against the Purchas Judgment. See Purchas, etc. Resolutions, Pro-Komish, by Mr Gladstone against Worship Bill 1874 58 Retreats, Four, held in 1877, at, . Cuddesdon College, . Lancing College, . . .1877 155 St Augustine College, Organisation by S.S.C. of, Reunion of Churches of E. and R., Advocates of the, - Ch. of E. Working Men's Society, . 92 English Church Union, . . . 1878 151 Reynolds, Rev. Q., Protest against Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment by the, .... 1869 27 Rights, The Bill of, . Violation by Mr Gladstone's Govern- ment of, .... 1870 31 Classified Index. 247 Ripon, Marquis of R.C. , Appointed as First Lord of Admiralty by Mr Gladstone, . . 1886 98 Appointed Member of Cabinet by Mr Gladstone, 1886 98 Appointed Member of Privy Council Committee by Mr Gladstone, 1886 98 Appointed Viceroy of India by Mr Glad- stone, 1880 68 Disqualification for Viceroyalty of, . 1883 87 Encouragement of Papists by appoint- ment of, 1881 74, 75 Four Appointments of R. C. 's made by, 1882 84 Interference with Protestant Missions, under, 1881 75 Interference with Salvation Army under, 1883 85 Jesuit Society in Bombay approved by, 1881 72 Pro-Popery influences in India of, . 1881 72,73 Protests against Mr Gladstone's appoint- ment of, by, '. . . 1880 6870 Parker, Dr, . 1880 69 Presbyterians of Scotland, . 1880 68 Spurgeon, Mr, . . .1880 68, 69 Times, TJie, .... 1883 87, 88 Rejoicings of Tablet on the appoint- ment of, .... 1883 86 248 Classified Index. i Ritualistic equivocation of Mr Glad- stone, ...... 137 Rock, The. Statement on Blundell (R.C.) Trust and Mr Gladstone by, . . . 1871 41 Statement on Mr Gladstone's frequent- ing All Saints by, . . . 1874 GO Roll of Priests-Associate, Private List of C.B.S., ... 152 Roman Catholics, Letter from Mr Gladstone to Mr H. G. Shee as to the disabilities of Roman Catholics, . . . 1891 138 Rossa. O'Donovan (F.), Convicted for Treason Felony, and sentenced to Penal Servitude for Life, 1865 34,35 Liberated from Prison by Mr Gladstone, 1870 35 Royal Commission on the Poor, Manning appointed by Mr Gladstone Member of the, .... 1884 89 Precedence to Peers given by Mr Glad- stone to Manning in the, . . 1884 89 Russell, Earl, Affirms Mr Gladstone's contemplated Endowment of R.C. Clergy, . 1845 3 Affirms Mr Gladstone supported Grant to Maynooth, .... 1845 3 Classified Index. 249 Russell, Sir Charles , R.C. . Appoin ted Attorney- General for England by Mr Gladstone, . . . 1886 98 Sabbath, Education Grant (R.C.) by Mr Glad- stone's Government passed on the, 1883 87 Sacrifice of the Mass, Advocates of the, Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament. See C.B.S., . . . . 152, 153 Society of the Holy Cross. See S.S.C 153, 154, 155, 156 Society for the Maintenance of the Faith. See S.M.F., .... 153 Sadleir. Mr, One of the " Pope's Brass Band," .1852 5 Thanks Mr Gladstone for help in resist- ing Parliament, . . . . 1852 5, 6 Salisbury, Lord, On Spiritual Influences and Secular Ends, 1 45 Scullabogue, Persecutions of R.C. Government at, 100 Scott, Mr Hope (R.C.), Signer of Note to Papal Brief, . 1870 38 Scott, Sir Walter, Use by Mr Gladstone of story on Secrecy by, 1880 66, 67 Sexton, Mr, M.P. (N.), His Views on Free Education for Roman Catholics, . .1890 123, 124 250 Classified Index. Described by Mr Gladstone as a " dis- tinguished Member," . . . 1887 104 Flight of four Colleagues of, . . 1887104,105 Leader in the Executive of the Land League, . . . . . 1887 104, 105 Shee, Mr H. G., Letter to Mr Shee from Mr Gladstone as to the disabilities of Roman Catholics, 1891 138 " Sheffield Telegraph," Makes a striking contrast between Mi- Gladstone of 1874-1879, . . 112 Sheridan (F.) Liberated by Mr Gladstone, . . 1870 34, 35 Smith, Mr. J. B., Reports Mr Gladstone's Trusteeship with a Cardinal, .... 1871 41 Smith, Professor Goldwin R. . Declares England's enemies are Mr Gladstone's friends, . . . 1887 101 Societies. (See Distinctive Titles of these). Southport, Romish ascendency advocated by Mr Gladstone at, .... 1867 15, 16 Spiritual Influences, And Secular Ends, Lord Salisbury on, ...... 145 Classified Index. 251 Standard, The, Letter on Pope's Brief to Mr Gladstone in, ... . 1870 37,38 Protest against Mr Gladstone's action in Murphy Case by, . . . 1871 43, 44 Staples, Mr, Affirms Mr Burke charged Mr Gladstone with exciting Ireland, . . 1882 83 Statistics, Judicial, Statements by Mr Gladstone on Crime refuted by, .... 1887 105 St Cuthbert's, Chief-Justice, Lord (Mr Gladstone's nominee), Trustee of, . . .1887 109 Halifax, Lord, Trustee of. See Halifax. 1887 109 Liddon, Canon, Trustee of. SeeLiddon. 1887 109 R.C. Missal observed in, . .1887 108,109 Romish Genuflections by Members of, 1887 109 Why is Mr Gladstone not Trustee of, 1887 109 Succession, Protestant, Opposed by Mr Gladstone, . . 1866 11,12 Protected by Lord Beaconsfield, . 1866 11,12 Stroud Green, Living of, Hurried Offer to a Romaniser by Mr Gladstone of the, . . . 1885 95,167 Spurgeon, Rev. C. H. (!*.) Charges Home Rule Policy with in- sanity, 1886 101 252 Classified Index. Condemns Mr Gladstone's appointment of Viceroy, 1880 68,69 Papal Endowment by Mr Gladstone feared by, 1868 17 Suspects. See Fenians. Tablet, The R.C. . Homeward Policy of Mr Gladstone's Government lauded by, . . 1883 86, 87 Romish Endowments at Malta com- mended by, . 1881 75 Works of Mr Baring-Gould commended by, 1873 55, 56 Romanism in Canon Liddon's Works found by, 1885 159 Tait. Archbishop, " Priest in Absolution " condemned by, 1877 154 S. S. C. pronounced a " conspiracy "by, 1877 155 Toleration Petition presented to, . 1881 157 Three Deans' Petition. See Deans' P.T. Times, The (I.), Professor Tyndall's letter to, respecting state of political parties in Ireland in 1891,. .... 119 On Concession by Mr Gladstone to Political Usurpers, . . .1873 54,55 Opposition of Popery to Civil Liberty, 1873 55 Classified Index. 253 Speech of Mr Gladstone against Worship Bill, 1874 59 On treachery of Mr Gladstone to Eng- land, 1886 100 On throwing over by Mr Gladstone of Protestant Ulster, . . .1886 99 On unfitness of Lord Blpon for Vice- royalty 1883 87, 88 On willingness of Mr Gladstone to be- come a Papist, .... 1881 74 Titles Act, Ecclesiastical. Charges against Mr Gladstone in Debate on, 1871 42, 43 Opposition by Mr Gladstone to the pass- ing of, 1851 4, 5 Repeal by Mr Gladstone of, . . 1871 45 Special benefits to Ch. of R. by Repeal of, 1871 45 Toronto, Revolutionary Speech by Mr Parnell at, 1880 67 Transubstantiation. King, Canon (Mr Gladstone's nominee), maintains, ..... 162 Trinidad, Abolition by Mr Gladstone of Pro- testant Corporation in, 1871 45 254 Classified Index. Formation by Mr Gladstone of Romish Corporation in, . . . . 1871 44, 45 "Religious equality" violated by Mr Gladstone in, . . . .1871 45 Tyndall. Professor (L.), Challenges Mr Gladstone to a public debate at Belfast, ... 119 Inquiry on Mr Gladstone's treachery by, . 1886 100 Letter to The Times respecting state of political parties in Ireland in Dec. 1891,. ... 119 Protest against Mr Gladstone's aban- donment of Ulster by, . . 1887 107 His Views of Patriotic Dissent, . 119 Called to account by Mr Gladstone in January 1890, ... 115 Professor Tyndall's reply in The Times of March 10, 1890, . . 115,116,117 Tynemouth, Lecture by Mr Murphy prevented at, 1869 24 Monks allowed by Mr Gladstone to Lecture at, 1869 25 Protection denied Mr Murphy at, . 1869 25 Protection granted Priest Lavelle at, ... 1869 25 Classified Index. 255 U Hat ho me. Bishop R.C. , Italian Government in Rome denounced by, 1871 40 Ulster, Abandonment of, by Mr Gladstone, Protest by Bright, Mr John, M.P. (L.), . 1887 105, 106 Eraser, Rev. Dr D. (L.), . . 1887 107,108 Herbert, Mr Auberon (R.), . 1886 101 Spurgeon, Rev. C. H. (L.), . 1886 101 Times, Tlie (L), . . . 1886 99 Tyndall, Professor (L.), . . 1887 107 Freedom from Crime, Mr Gladstone on, 1881-1889113,114 Ultramontanism, Apostolic Succession claimed by Mr Gladstone for, . . . . 1876 61 Spiritual Greatness claimed by Mr Glad- stone for, 1876 61, 62 Succession from Christ claimed by Mr Gladstone for, . . . . 1876 61, 62 "Vaticanism" denounces the Jesuits f 18 74 59 and, ...... U876 62 Unction in Baptism, Advocates of the Use of, Society of the Holy Cross, . . 1873155,156 Union, Pitt's Act of, Mr Gladstone's Views of, in 1856 and 1886, 115 256 Classified Index. United Ireland N. , Forster's, Mr, statement regarding, . 1885 93 Universe, The (R.C.), On reception of Jesuits by Mr Glad- stone's Viceroy, . . . . 1881 72 " Vatican Decrees," Challenge of Mr Gladstone's silence be- fore issue of, .... 1874 60 Inconsistency of Mr Gladstone's acts with, 1874 59, 60 The Like, 1891 138 Nothing distinctly Protestant in, . 1874 60 Reason for Publication of, . . 1874 59 Mr Gladstone explains, . . . 1891129,130 Vaughan. Bishop R.C. . Errington Mission to Rome asserted by, 1881 77 Voters' Registration Bill. See Registration, etc. Veto, Episcopal, Carried by Mr Gladstone's Opposition, 1874 59 Romanisers protected by the, . . 1874 59 Used by Bishop Mackarness to shield Carter 1879 157, 158 Voce, The (R.C.), Communications between Mr Glad- stone's Government and the Pope, 1882 85 Dismay in Italy ascribed to Mr Glad- stone's Government by, . . 1882 85 Classified Index. 257 Walpole, Mr, Willingness of Mr Gladstone to yield to Manning, .... 1869 14 "Walsh. 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