• MEDIAN-AL REVIVALS.
AT a festival which followed the consecration of the new Roman Catholic "splendid cathedral church of St. George," at York, the Chairman, e Honourable Charles Langdale, proposed as the first twilit 'the health of " the illustrious Pope Pins the Ninth." " The Queen ", was subsequently given "in -handsome terms," and, we presume, duly acknowledged by thecompany. At Leeds, too, as 1 we learn from the Tablet, Mr. HoUldforth, "like a true Christian, I honoured first his spiritual Father," and, though the-beverage was only tea, . offered the priniarY. libation to "our present Sovereign Lord the Pope." The etymological propriety of a flux of bumpers —au ben pere—ought to recommend- this revival to the hearts of the most loyal and Protestant of arelueologiits, whatever may be thought of another revival, not obscurely-hinted at in the sermon which closed the religious exercises on one. of the occasionSreferred to. The Right Reverend Dr. Gillis does .not seem to belong to that class of cold-blooded gazers for whom Johnson prepared his pity. The worthy Bishop's piety grew sensibly warm amid the antiquities of Yerk. After drawing ".a withering picture of the humbled and abandoned state of Anglicanism," his LordshiP,said:— " On treading over today the flagged pavement of their ancient city, when he cast his eyes on the many monuments of past times, but especially on that I mighty temple, the glory of England, dear to the memory of every 'Catholic, his heart became sad when he remembered her former glories, and now be- held her in desolation, and diverted to a worship inconsistent with that glorious structure. In contemplatino.' its now unhallowed appropriation to a worship so contrary to the object of the founders of that holy muster, the • inscription on the church at Athens might now be inscribed over its former altars--' To the unknown God:. For three centuries, 0 Lord, 0 Lord, Thou hest tolerated error ! how long, how long, 0 God ? When shall again the gates of that glorious church be thrown open to a catholic peopleher altars reerected, that spacious roof again resound with the chants and litanies from God's own anointed priests ?" [Brut, suddenly stopping in this eloquent ex- clamation, his Lordship said]—" Perhaximit as best to be humble ; to wait t without hind the teteisied rifOgLisPurel:auTpc._ i uth our esasaotivoilit FtOxibetillitetlrifieloauVelybese; to remember Ills ways are unsearchable—that Thou art a hidden mystery, 0 God !" " Che sara, sara" : did not the association of ideas bring before the mind's eye of the humble hierarch a -vision of the dormant uses and of Woburn, of Covent Garden n, while he thus glossed with pious prolixity the pithy motto of the house of Bedford P These would be a revival wort thanking to in potations pottle deep.
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