DUKE OF NORFOLK.

Otago Witness, Issue 37, 31 January 1852, Page 3

DUKE OF NORFOLK.

(From t/ie Sun.)

We had last week the gratification to announce exclusively that his Grace the Duke of Norfolk had renounced the errors of Popery. This announcement is amply confirmed by the following paragraph, which appeared in the Times :—: —

" Arundel Castle, Sept. 2. — On Sunday morning his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, F.M., attended.Divine service at Arundel Church, when an excellent discourse was delivered by the Rev. G. H. Hart, chaplain in ordinary to the Queen. The Duchess, Lady Adeliza Howard, with Lord and Lady Ellesmere, &c, were also of the party."

If we are rightly informed, the example of the Duke of Norfolk will, ere long, be followed by the great bulk of the educated Roman Catholics of the United Kingdom, who are thoroughly disgusted with the absurd and outrageous pretensions ta exercise absolute authority over them, even to the extent of coercing their votes in Parliament, which have been recently put forth by the ambitious ultramontane hierarchy, and which are sought to be enforced by the present priests, who have in too many instances been forced upon them as " spiritual directors," with all the offensive and vulgar arrogance which has of late years been the characteristic of their order. The days of the gentlemanly priest have passed away ; the highly-educated, well-bred man, who never forgot the gentleman in the priest, and who exercised his duties as spiritual director all the more effectively -because he avoided any appearance of bullying arrogance and vulgarity, has been compelled to give -way to the noisy, blustering, talebearing, spying, bullying, ill-educated, and worse bred peasant priest, who seeks to reduce every one to a state of abject slavery, and who scoffs at learning, and abhors good manners. The educated portion of the Roman Catholics of England 'have long , since been disgusted at the conduct of these men, and their disgust has been intensified by the publication of the bull nominating the recent intruding.-/ hierarchy, and by the Arrogant tone of the ; fas-faatf#^ Flatniniangate epistle of qardi^'^S? 5^ a <•* ' ■