In reply to the remonstrance of the Rev. Owen C.
H. lKing, the chaplain to that family of Vaugbans to which 'Cardinal Vaughan belongs,—but not the official chaplain of the Cardinal,—against the description of Cardinal Vaughan as an "Italian Cardinal," in the Archbishop of York's speech at a meeting held at York on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Archbishop's secretary 'virtually admits that his Grace did use that language, and .does not retract it, but only regrets that his correspondent should be so imperfectly acquainted with the history of the 'Church in his own country as to make the statements which Mr. King's letter contains. No doubt there was at least one .statement in Mr. King's letter which seems to all Anglicans conspicuously false,—namely, that the great change of the sixteenth century is miscalled the Reformation,"—but that has no relevance to Mr. King's complaint. That Cardinal Vaughan could be quite rightly termed a Roman Cardinal, as a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, is undeniable ; but lie is no more an Italian Cardinal than he is a French or American or Hungarian Cardinal. The Roman Catholic Church is not an Italian Church, any more than the Jesuits 'or Dominicans are Italian monks.
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