Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet drew forth on Monday two com- ments,
both published in the Times, one from Archbishop Manning and one from Lord Acton. The Archbishop of West- minster is very brief, contenting himself with saying that the Vatican decrees have in no way altered the duty of Roman Catholics in relation to their civil allegiance ; that their civil allegiance is as undivided as that of any, other Christians ; but that all Christians recognise conceivable emergencies in which it may be their duty to disobey the State. No doubt ; but the question is whether, in the case of Roman Catholics, and Roman Catholics alone, such an emergency might be created solely by the command of another, and that other a foreign potentate whose authority was, if not extended, at least placed in a much more for- midable light, by the Vatican decrees? ' We imagine that whatever other Roman Catholics would say, Dr. Manning at least would answer this question in the affirmative, and so confirm Mr. Glad- stone's view,—a view, however, which, as we have elsewhere said, demanded political expression just now only as justifying the strong recoil of which, Mr. Gladstone asserted,—and rightly, we think, asaerted—that Protestants have recently been con- scious, against the Church of Rome.
