gentlemen, meekness and forbearance, to support what they call a religious
cause, by irreligious means; and would not hunt down, when bidden, your
unoffending fellow-citizens, to the hollow cry of 'No Popery,' and on the
pretence of a fabled aggression."

The London _Times_ might well say, referring to this magnificent appeal,
that the Cardinal had at length spoken English. It was easy to mystify the
people in regard to theological utterances. They could be no longer
deceived now that the Chief of the new hierarchy had addressed them in
round Saxon terms, about the meaning of which there could be no mistake.
The _appeal_ first published in the London _Times_ was reproduced in all
the newspapers of the country. The public mind was tranquillized, and very
little was heard, afterwards, of the "Papal aggression." The Prime
Minister, however, was bound, for the sake of consistency, to do
something. What he did was highly in favor of the hierarchy. It proved
that everything had been done according to law, simply by the fact that
parliament was urged to make a new law by which everything that had been
done would be illegal. This was the famous Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. It
was designed to accomplish a great deal--to extinguish for ever the
Cardinal Archbishop, and all the other newly-instituted bishops. It proved
utterly futile--_telum imbelle sine ictu_. The people could not be made to
put down the Catholic institution; and religious liberty was so thoroughly
recognized that even an act of parliament was powerless against it.

(M28) The new Sees constituted by the Letters Apostolical of 29th
September, 1850, were thirteen in number--Westminster, the Metropolitan
See; Southwark, Hexham, Beverly, Liverpool, Salford, Shrewsbury, Newport,
Clifton, Plymouth, Nottingham, Birmingham and Northampton.

(M29) At the time of the restoration of the English hierarchy, Dr. Wiseman
was created a Cardinal, not so much in honor of the important act to which
it was his charge to give effect, as because the Holy Father having
resolved on a creation of Cardinals so eminent a man could not be
overlooked. At the accession of Pius IX. there were sixty-one living
Cardinals. Of these only nine were not Italians. When, on his return to
Rome, after his sojourn in the kingdom of Naples, he determined to add
fourteen Cardinals to the Sacred College, only four of the prelates
selected were natives of Italy. The rest were, at the time, the most
distingu