On Monday Cardinal Vaughan delivered an address to a large
public -meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne held under the auspices of the Catholic Truth Society. We have dealt else- where with that portion of the address which Was concerned with the pestion of oaths and the Royal Declaration, and will only repeat here what we have said so often before, -*--namely, that tve hold that the limiting of the occupancy of the Throne to a Protestant is essential, but that the Declaration is not only offensive but quite unnecessary, a Protestant succession being amply provided for with- out it The rest of Cardinal Vaughan's speech was occupied with such matters as the authenticity of St. Edmrind's1 relics, the French emigrant clergy, and the question of whether " Catholics " or "Roman Catholics" was the proper appellation. We find it as Protestants difficult to attach much importance to the question of St. Edmund's WWI, but A -seems certain that the desire of the :British
Roman Catholics to enshrine the authentic bones of an English Royal saint in their new cathedral cannot be fulfilled. The bones that have been so ceremoniously brought from Toulouse through the special intervention of the Pope have been proved beyond doubt not to be St. Edmund's bones.
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