POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
There appears in the journals this morning the following address of the Roman Catholics of England to the Queen. It is understood to be from the pen of Cardinal Wiseman; and it will lie at the various chapels of the Romish communion tomorrow for signature.
" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
"May it please your Majesty—We, the undersigned subjects of your Majesty, residing in England, and professing the Roman Catholic religion, beg to approach your majesty's throne, there to express our sentiments of unimpaired and unalterable fidelity to your Majesty's royal person, crown, and dignity.
"At a moment when attempts are being made to impeach our loyalty, we consider it a duty to give fresh utterance to these our feelings.
"During centuries of exclusion from the privileges of the constitution, and from the rights enjoyed by their fellow-subjects, the Catholics of Eng- land remained true to their allegiance to the Crown of this realm, and yielded to none in their readiness, at all times, to defend its rights and its prerogatives against every foe. And now that, under your Majesty's wise rule, we enjoy equal participation with others in the benefits of the consti-
tution, we are more ever animated with the same sentiments of fidelity and attachment, and are equally ready to give proof, whenever occasion may 'present itself, of the sincerity of our loyal professions.
"The dearest of the privileges to which we have thus been admitted, by the wisdom of the British Legislature,. is that of openly professing and practising the religion of our fathers in communion with the see of Rome. Under its teaching, we have learned, as a most sacred lesson, to give to Caner the things that are of Comer, as we give to God the things that are of God. In whatever, therefore, our church has at any time done for establishing its regular system of government amongst its members in this island, we beg most fervently and most sincerely to assure your Majesty that the organization granted to us is entirely ecelesiasticak and its authority purely spiritual. But it leaves untouched every tittle of your Majesty's rights, authority, power' jurisdiction, and prerogative as our Sovereign, and as Sovereign over these realms, and does not in the leastwise diminiah or im- pair our profound reverence, our loyalty, fidelity, and attachment to your Majesty's august person and throne ; and we humbly assure your Majesty, that among your Majesty's subjects there exists no class who more solemnly, more continually, or more fervently pray for the stability of your Majesty's throne, for the preservation of your Majesty's life, and for the prosperity of . your Majesty's empire, than the Catholics of England, in whose religion boy- altyis a sacred duty and obedience a Christian virtue."
The pastoral letter of " John, Bishop of Beverley "—Dr. Briggs--ap- pears in the papers this morning. It is headed by the text from Matthew, " Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" ; and its scope is to discriminate, logically and soberly, tl provinces of the civil government and the ecclesiastical government over men{ In matters of civil authority, Dr. Briggs enjoins on his flock, that for conliCience' sake, and not merely for policy, they pay a perfect ta•
obedience to their civil rulers in spiritual concerns there is no over.thom earth: save thatrwhich was "communicated ,J:cm himself to Sk•Peter, the chief of. the apostles„ and. OA other ago their suecessona.in .the• sacred authority and ministry wNe13- OW: mei Redeemer astablishedP" .1; a• • • L) Eryi The"Archlaishop'oteisiflarburr yesterday received, a Zeputationama the Parish of S. AncrreiVorfolliMxL, on ethis religious; subject -of Ithetsliy. "Perhaps," said the -Area 6 " Might to liti'khaidiftildtlaataiut4. portunity has offers k tiktioenitifsvbwkithb hagrveee 4isuviwialpposedc4tha4i;Attnia 41044,, tuOitI 1.1 ell 891113V120
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The Archbishop of York has also replied to an address from the cle of his diocese. He qualifies the measure of the Roman Pontiff as " precipitate, and ill-advised" ; counsels addresses to the Qtieen and Legis- lature, a faithful but calm and uncontroversial "pointinvout of the enor- mous errors of the faith and practice of the Romish Church," with the promotion in the young of an intelligent acquaintance with holy writ.
The Common Council of London meets in special Court next Thurs- day, to "pronounce." The County of York is convened for the 22d in- stant, by the Sheriff, on the requidtion of a host of nobles and magis- trates.
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