rather presumptuous, refuge-how much worse would it have been, if the bill had not passed! But who made them prophets?-prophets of an event contrary to fact !

3. Those who, particularly on the hustings at elections, continued ostentatiously and boldly, (in manner at least,) to congratulate the nation on the accomplishment of the great measure. But the shout has gone on diminuendo, through the whisper of a faction, till it has reached the repose of almost absolute silence.

The nation seems devoted to its career of presumed liberality. There are two cases in which those who have no other liberality are often liberal-they are liberal of what is not their own; and they are liberal of what they do not value. This principle, connected with the natural tendency to idolatry of all kinds, will perfectly account for the present degraded state of the national conscience and conduct. In the pursuit of a visionary and delusive amelioration, the nation has even already made a considerable progress in real slavery. We have, perhaps, escaped the judgment of falling into the hands of Him whose mercies are great, to incur the heavier, but richlydeserved one of falling into the hands of those who will possibly show that even their tender mercies are cruel. The dominant faction and their main supporters have, by almost every expression of indifference and antipathy, turned their backs upon God. They have got rid of the religion, not of one question only, but of all. And now we stand upon the brink of a fearful anarchy: sedition is encouraged and preposterously punished by the same authority: every Christian institution is marked out for proscription: public violence is suggested and virtually invoked a reign of intimidation and unprincipled despotism is established and in operation: the times have returned, when princes are to be bound with chains, and nobles with links of iron, although not by saints; and

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libels of rampant atrocity against the dignity of the crown itself triumph in connivance and assured impunity. The shafts of venal malignity have not spared even the illustrious and exemplary partner of royalty; nor indeed is it a matter of much surprise, that the champion of one queen of one character should be the calumniator of another queen of an opposite character*. The extremes of society are now for the first time combined in a common insurrection against religion and even morality, against loyalty and the reign of law. All the foun⚫dations of the earth are out of course:' and it may be asked with anxiety, If the foundations be destroyed, 'what can the righteous do?' The pious king has given his and our answer- The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men'-and what follows in that appropriate Psalm, the eleventh. This is our only remaining hope and consolation. There are some righteous-some unseduced, among us; and God, whatever a class among us may think or wish, has not forsaken the earth.

* See THE TIMES Newspaper. The manner in which this journal has systematically allowed itself to deal with truth is beginning to procure for it an important portion of its due reward-perfect and unlimited distrust.

INDEX.

ABSOLUTIONS, sale of, prohibited by Pius V., 104, 105-forms of
plenary absolution, 263-266.

Accession, the pope how elected by, 23.

Adoration, the pope how elected by, 23-ceremony of his adoration,
24, 25-justification of it, attempted by Romanists, 26, note, 27,
28, and note.

Albigenses, cruelties inflicted on, by the Papists, 61, note*.

Alessandrino, (cardinal) legate of France, interview of, with Charles IX.,

185.

Allen, (William) founded Douay College, 174, 175.

Alva, (Duke of) cruelties perpetrated by, in Flanders, 88, 89-en-
couraged in them by pope Pius V., 90.

Anjou, (Duke of) urged by Pius V. to exterminate the Protestants in
France, 68, 69.

Aquinas, (Thomas) festival instituted in honour of, 165-pretended
miracle approving his doctrine, 166.

Arnold, (Dr.) his censures of bishop Jewel exposed, 147, note.

Augsburg, notice of the Diet of, 44.

Avignon, proceedings of Pius V. against alleged heretics at, 56.

BAIUS, (Michael) condemnation of, by pope Pius V., 108, 109.
Bartholomew, (Saint) details concerning the projected massacre of the
Protestants in France, on his day, 185-198-murder of the admiral
Coligny and the Protestants in Paris, 201, 202-the massacre car-
ried on in the provinces, 203—abstract of correspondence between
Charles IX. and the governor of Lyons, relating to this massacre,
204-209-noble reflexions of the emperor Maximilian upon the
French king's conduct, 211, note-atrocious rejoicings at Rome, on
account of it, 212, 213-notice of the medal struck by pope
Gregory XIII. to commemorate it, 213, 214-and of other medals
struck for the same purpose, 216—detection of the wilful misrepre-
sentation in Paris and its Historical Scenes,' relative to this event,
209, 210, notes.

Beatification of pope Pius V., account of, 224-227.

Bergamo, cruel conduct of Michele Ghislieri at, 13-persecution of the
bishop of, 14.

Bishop's Oath formerly taken by the pope of Rome, 286-remarks
thereon, 287-289-feudal oath taken to Boniface VIII., by the king
of Sardinia, 289, 290-the oath actually taken by Romish bishops,