yard of Kingstown. The placard adverted to runs thus:-"Why do Roman Catholic Priests hate and burn the Bible?-Is it not because they feel as the wicked King Ahab felt towards Micaiah, the Prophet of the Lord? There is one man of whom we may ask the will of the Lord, but I hate him, for he never prophesieth good to me but always evil.'-Paralipomenon, xvii, 7. Roman Catholic Bible. Who, then, should burn the Bible?" The Romish priests who participated in this crime of burning God's Word, have been arraigned for trial and acquitted. A large meeting of papists was held at Kells, on Sunday, for political electioneering purposes, &c., when a priest, Rev. Mr. McEvoy, delivered himself as follows: "We have seen those pious, and learned, and laborious ministers, who have, within the last few weeks, given the benefit of the priceless blessings of their ministrations to the people of Kingstown, those ministers of the altars, those sanctified servants of the Lord, about to be sent into the dock upon a charge which these good men had again and again declared to be false. Would you know what is the nature of that charge? It was that of committing to the flames a thing which pretends to be the Bible, but which is a vile and blasphemous perversion and corruption of the Word of God. (Cheers.) It was for committing to the flames a volume which, if I myself, in the absence of attorneys-general and solicitors-general, were going to commit to the flames, I should take it up with a pair of tongs for fear of soiling my fingers-(tremendous cheering) and so with the tongs would I hurl it into the consuming fire! (Renewed cheering.") &c. &c. POPERY IN A BAD WAY. ITALY.-At a meeting of the Consistory of the Cardinals at Rome, Aug. 26th, Pope Pius IX pronounced several allocutions, which show that religiously, not less than politically, the system of Popery is sinking into contempt in several governments of the old world. The Pope avows the most ultra doctrines against liberty of conscience; and shows that a fatal breach is made between Popery and several of the Most Catholic Majesties" of Europe. The following are extracts from his Allocutions on the above occasion: SARDINIA."We say with sorrow not only that the Piedmontese Government has not lent ear, either to the supplications of its Bishops or our own exhortations, but making new and more serious attacks on the Church, on our authority, and on that of the Apostolic See-openly despising our reiterated protests and our paternal warnings-has not feared to approve, sanction, and promulgate the law on religious houses.' SPAIN."Laws have been passed which, to the great damage of religion, destroy the first and second articles of the Concordat, and which order the sale of the property of the Church. Various decrees have been published, by which Bishops are interdicted from conferring sacred orders; by which virgins consecrated to God are prohibited from admitting other women into their institutions; and by which lay chaplaincies and other pious institutions are to be completely secularized.' "Raising our voice in your assembly, we complain of all that the lay Government has done and is still doing in Spain, unjustly against the Church, against its liberty and rights, against us, and the authority of the Holy See; and especially we deeply deplore our solemn Concordat violated in defiance of international law; the authority of the Bishops prevented in the exercise of the sacred ministry; the violence employed against them; and the patrimony of the Church usurped in spite of all divine and human laws. We, therefore, in virtue of our apostolic authority, censure, abrogate, and declare without value and without force, null and of no effect, for the past and the future, the said laws and decrees. Lastly, we call on the authors of all these audacious acts, and we exhort and supplicate them to consider seriously that those who do not fear to afflict and torment the Holy Church of God cannot escape the hand of the Almighty.' Switzerland.—“After a few words of praise to the Bishops and clergy of Spain, and to the faithful who have supported them, the Pope concludes by a brief reference to the woes which afflict the Church in Switzerland: "We must also tell you, venerable brethren, that we suffer indescribably at the deplorable state to which our most holy religion is reduced in Switzerland, and especially-oh, sorrow!-in some of the principal Catholic towns of the confederated cantons. There the power of the Catholic Church and of its liberty are oppressed, the authority of the Bishops and of this Apostolic See are trampled under foot, the sanctity of marriage and of oaths is violated and despised, the seminaries of priests and the monasteries of religious families are either entirely destroyed or completely subjected to the arbitrary power of the civil Government, the nomination of benefices and of ecclesiastical possessions is usurped, and the Catholic clergy are persecuted in the most deplorable manner. But on that occasion he could only mention such sad things, which could not be sufficiently lamented, and which merited severe reprobation' and that he would dwell on them at length on a future opportu nity. His Holiness concluded by calling on the assembly to pray constantly to the God of mercy to aid His Holy Church, which is overwhelmed by so many calamities!'" It is a remarkable fact also concerning Pius IX, at home, surrounded by his "own children," as he calls them, that without the protection of foreign bayonets his life would not be safe for a moment. And yet this worn-out, effete system, falling to pieces from internal putrefaction, which has virtually filled the countries which it curses with infidelity, adulteries, murders, and all the crimes against the Decalogue, that this same rotten system is as pretentious as ever, and is able still to fascinate silly men and silly women. FRUITS OF THE NEW DOGMA." The fruits of the "New Dogma" continue to appear from time to time. M. Oswald, in a book entitled “Mariology,” maintains Mary's real presence in the Eucharist. This nonsense is just condemned by the "Congregation of the Index." But they will have more to do yet. NEW POLICY AT ROME. The Literary Churchman says, "Next to the countless celebrations of the 'new Dogma' all over Europe, the year just closed will be the most remarkable for the revival by the Pope of the Court of Bishops of different countries, who are to surround him henceforth as Cardinals in Rome. Taken in connection with the spreading mania for Concordates with different Roman Catholic powers, the plan of having the ablest and most tried representatives of foreign nations as a Cabinet of Propagandism is perhaps the subtlest of all the active ef forts of Pius the Ninth. Such combinations are so like conspiracies against the other nations, that politicians will be obliged to enquire a little more respecting them. The prelates now called by his Holiness to the purple are, M. Villecourt from France, De Rauscher from Austria, Di Pietro from Portugal, De Reisach from Bavaria, the Dominican Father Gaude, Grassellini from Bologna, Gianuzzi and De Medici, already about the person of the Pope. Of these, it is said that one at least will retain his see, viz, De Rauscher of Vienna. The number of Cardinals of the Curia at present is twenty-nine; of these, eighteen pertain to the Roman States, four to Piedmont, three to Naples, two to the Lombardo Venetian kingdom, one to Tuscany, and one to Corsica. This state of things is the result of the European revolutions of the last generation, and will be remedied by the Pope's new scheme. A considerable preponderance of Roman Cardinals will still be retained, but not so great as at present. The thought of recurring to this (which is called the ancient plan of the Papal Government) is so eagerly extolled in Rome, that a special inspiration of God' is affirmed as the only way of accounting for the rise of the idea at this time in the Pope's mind." NOTE-A large amount of Continental Intelligence is laid over. VOL. IX. THE CHURCH REVIEW. JULY, 1856. No. 2. ART. I.-HIGH CHURCH AND LOW CHURCH. 1. The Church Review and Ecclesiastical Register. New Haven, Ct. 2. The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly Review. New York. 3. The True Catholic. Baltimore, Md. 4. The Southern Episcopalian. Charleston, S. C. 5. The Spirit of Missions. New York. 6. The Churchman's Monthly Magazine. New York. 7. Christian Witness and Church Advocate. Boston, Mass. 8. The Gospel Messenger. Utica, N. Y. 9. The Churchman. New York. New York. 10. The Protestant Churchman. 15. The Episcopal Recorder. Philadelphia. THIS is a goodly array of periodicals, to be published and paid for, read and digested in a Church, numbering about one hundred and six thousand Communicants. We have placed the "Church Review" at the head of the list, not from a vain-glorious feeling, but simply out of regard to its age and size; although some of our newspapers are accustomed to speak of its young brother, "The Protestant Episcopal Quarterly," as the "stateliest and most valuable" of Church periodicals. We are in our ninth year; our "stately" contemporary is only two years old; and notwithstanding we have had from the first to earn our own living, and he is said to have been born " with a golden spoon in his mouth," we are not disposed, in this Republican country, to yield the palm to him on this account. Let it not be supposed, however, that we have arranged the long catalogue which heads this Article, according to seniority, merit, or any similar principle. Just imagine what would ensue, if we should venture to give an opinion as to the comparative value of these Quarterlies, Monthlies, and Hebdomadals; pronouncing upon their respective literary excellence, soundness of doctrine, fairness and good temper in controversy. What would be the consequence, if we should intimate, in the most delicate and friendly manner, that the "Y— Z—” is not a model of intellectual strength, or as piquant and interesting as it might be; that it cribs a little too much from other papers and serves up the news after it is somewhat stale; that it is not always as chivalrous and courteous as St. Paul would be, under similar circumstances; what sort of a notice would the paper give of us? Something like the following:-"We have received the July No. of the Church Review. While there are occasional articles in this periodical that we can conscientiously commend, it gives us pain to state that too often sentiments are inscribed upon its pages, which are utterly at variance with our formularies of doctrine, and with Holy Scripture. It professes not to be identified with party and to represent the general views of the Church; but there is a deadly virus of error infecting its leaves, which the truly pious mind will readily detect. In judging others, it seems moreover to have a singular obtuseness of vision, and to be guided only by a blind and bitter prejudice. We hardly need to add, that we have no reference whatever to the views which are expressed in this No., of the religious press. We do not expect to receive candid consideration in that quarter." Or, suppose we should try to be complimentary, and congratulate "The W-X-" upon the uniform tone of its editorials, in the topics and their mode of treatment, as indicative of a most zealous and exclusive devotion to what the writer considers the only form of truth worth considering; upon the ex emplary care with which the Editor prevents his readers from getting, through his columns, any adequate notion of anything which he sees fit to oppose; upon the magnificent assumption with which he criticises what would be impossible for him to comprehend; or, upon the delicate roughness with which he handles the reputation of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, whose Office he professes almost idolatrously to venerate. What sort of a notice should we have from that region? Curt and comprehensive like this:-"The Church Review has fallen from its High estate into the hands of the Low Church faction. We advise our readers to drop it." Now such words as these would be unpleasant, and, what is worse, they might lead some weak-minded brethren to withdraw their patronage; therefore we will not even intimate that our Religious Newspapers are not as immaculate, high-toned and truthful, as though they were edited by Apostles and printed by angels. This thought, however, will force itself upon us; whether an equal amount of benefit would not accrue to the Church; whether there would not be somewhat less of personal bickering and petty controversy; whether these publications could not afford to make themselves more effective; if we had ten periodicals, where now we have twenty. It is as easy to make up a paper to be read by twenty thousand subscribers, as by two thousand; and the larger the subscription list, the greater is the stimulus and the wider are the facilities, to render the sheet worth reading. This suggestion we feel can be offered with safety; because every Editor will presume, if the number of Church periodicals should be reduced, he is the whale that must swallow up the little fishes. Why is it that these publications are proportionally so much more numerous, in the Episcopal Church, than in other religious bodies? Are we such a reading community, and have we such a special hankering after this sort of literature, that nothing less can supply our wants? Two-thirds of our people neither take or read any religious periodical. The "Spirit of Missions" ought to have ten subscribers, where now it has one; a becoming sense of propriety forbids our saying how many should take the "Church Review." Do the different regions of the country require their own organs of communication, specially adapted to the necessities and peculiarities of those localities? To some extent this is true; but it does not explain the fact that we have sometimes two, and sometimes half a dozen periodicals, in the same city. Everybody knows that most of our papers are established to sustain the policy and views of some particu |