THE PROTESTANT MAGAZINE. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE Protestant Association. "The Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Realm of England.”—ART. XXXVII. VOLUME XXIII.-A.D. 1861. LONDON: WERTHEIM, MACINTOSH, AND HUNT, 24, PATERNOSTER-ROW, AND 23, HOLLES-STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE; SEELEY, JACKSON, AND HALLIDAY, 54, FLEET-STREET; HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; NISBET AND CO., BERNERS-STREET, OXFORD-STREET; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO., STATIONERS' COURT; OFFICE OF THE ASSOCIATION, 11, BUCKINGHAM STREET, STRAND; W. CURRY AND CO., DUBLIN, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. 31 49 America, Popery in the Army of . Annual Meeting of the Protestant Association, Report of. Bardsley, Rev. S., Speech of, at the Annual Meeting of the Protestant - Rev. J., Speech of, at the Annual Meeting of ditto Baxter, Robert, Esq., Speech of, at the Annual Meeting of ditto.. Bigotry, Romish, in France Bishops, Jesuit, in India, China, and British Dependencies Britain, Great, Position of Popery in 66 70 62 30 91 Brunswick, Duke of, Fiftieth reason for becoming a Roman Catholic "Cardinal" Wiseman and the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Southwark 24 Petition against, to the House of Commons, by the Protestant Association Church Revenues in Ireland 85 86 Convent of St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Ceremony of Introducing a Noviciate at 104 D'Aumale, Duc, Speech of, at the Literary Fund Dinner Destruction of Rome, the late Dr. Townshend on. Increase of Popish Priests, Chapels, Colleges, and Convents Lord, James, Esq., Letter of, to R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., on Maynooth College Maynooth College Naples, the Jesuits, and their property in Nevins's "Thoughts on Popery New Zealand, Letter from Ven. Archdeacon Williams Nunnery Question Nunneries and France Papal States, the; Escape of the Abbé Passaglia. Popery, Nevins's Thoughts on Popish Priests, Increase of Papal Aggressiveness and Protestant Organization Pope's Irish Brigade, the, "Requiem" for the Souls of Pope's, The, Allocutions Practices, Romish, in Union Houses Pope, The, and the Friar Protestant Association, Work of the Roman Catholic Charities Romish Statistics Requiem for the Souls of the Pope's Irish Brigade Review of "My Country," &c. Temporal Sovereignty of the Popes Sardinia and the Jesuits and Rome Spain. Sudden Death of Count De Montemolin and his Consort Thelwall, Rev. A. S., Speech of the, at Annual Meeting of the Protestant Association Waldo, Rev. J. P., Speech of, at the Annual Meeting of the Protestant Association Yelverton, The, Case, and Popery. 67 65 . 44 THE PROTESTANT MAGAZINE. JANUARY 1, 1861. OUR TWENTY-THIRD VOLUME. WITH this Number we commence the Twenty-third Volume of the "Protestant Magazine." The years which have passed since the formation of the Protestant Association-of which it is avowedly the organ-have been too generally characterized by much callous indifference, if not positive hostility, to Protestant. interests; and there is now, as much as ever, need for earnest Protestants to combine, and to show a determination not to suffer a pro-Popery policy to prevail, or pro-Popery legislation to disgrace our Statute-book. Our foreign policy should be avowedly and essentially Protestant in all those cases where either the interests of our fellow-countrymen, or those of foreign Protestants unjustly persecuted for their religion, are involved. Vast liberties and concessions have been made by the British Parliament in favour of the rights of conscience; and Roman Catholics enjoy in this country not only the opportunity of worshipping their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences, but they enjoy also political rights, and are not restricted from any due and proper efforts to induce persons to join their religion. Is it unfair to urge upon Papal Governments that they should in some degree act on principles of reciprocity? That they should in some degree grant to Protestants in Popish lands the same degree of liberty which we, the first Protestant nation of the world, grant to Roman Catholics when visiting or residing amongst us for the purpose of either pleasure or business? We do not speak of naval and military power being brought to bear; but, over and above physical force, there is a moral power and weight, which might have been called into salutary activity, and which even now would tend to produce consequences of a most beneficial character. During the Protectorate, oppressed Protestants felt the influence of the British power and the British name exercised on their behalf; and Romish Sovereigns, and ministers, and priests, were awed or shamed into a better treatment of their Protestant subjects and fellow-countrymen. The times have changed, and rarely, unless moved from with- B |