l take no money for services he does not render. But
the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, and the Protestant archbishop
and bishops of other sees are not so; they receive money under false
pretenses--they exact money for services they do not perform. The
Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, or the other Catholic bishops in
England or Ireland, do not enforce the payment of tithes at the point of
the bayonet; the life of no widow's son is taken on their account. The
soil of Ireland has been saturated with blood in the forced collection
of this odious impost, and the Catholic people are still compelled to
pay it indirectly, for they cannot get their receipts for their rent
until they pay the tithes to the landlord, who has to pay it to the
parson in the first instance. We must put an end to this. I hope the
country will rally, and meet the cry against popery by a cry against the
Protestant Church establishment."

The cardinal and his colleagues persisted in their assumption
of territorial ecclesiastical authority, and the ceremony of his
enthronisation was attended with extraordinary pomp and parade, while
the doctrines propounded on the occasion showed Rome to be, as to her
ambition and purpose, _semper eadem_.

Finally, a bill rendering illegal and punishable the assumption of
ecclesiastical titles was brought into parliament under the auspices
of the premier: the right of prosecution was, however, reserved to the
government, and as it was well known that the Whigs would never
exercise that right from fear of losing the parliamentary support of
the Romanists, their bill was seen by the public to be a sham. This
circumstance, taken in connection with the premier's vehement letter
to the Bishop of Durham, threw an imputation of inconsistency and
insincerity upon the political character of Lord John Russell, which
impaired his subsequent usefulness and credit.

COMPLIMENT TO LORD PALMERSTON.

The keystone of the whig political arch was Lord Palmerston. He was by
far the ablest man attached to the party. It was well understood that
the connection of the noble viscount with the whig government was not
from any partizan predilections, but from approval of their foreign
policy, and from a patriotic desire to maintain the honour and credit of
the country in its relation to other states, by devoting his diplomatic
talent and experience to the conduct of the foreign office. The
conservative party, knowing the powerful sup