3 APRIL 1936, Page 36

A Hundred Years Ago

" THE SPECTATOR," APRIL 2ND, 1836. INCREASE OF CATHOLICISM.

The Duke of Newcastle, in the }Ionic of Lords on Wednesday, called the attention of the Peers to the danger to Protestantism arising from the spread of Popery. S4ty years ago, there were only thirty Catholic chapels in England, but now there were 510. In Kidderminster and Dover, Protestant chapels had been cOn veiled into Papist chapels, and-eleven new Papist chapels were in the course of erection.