EMISSARIES OF ROME.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 7, 14 June 1873, Page 12

EMISSARIES OF ROME.

(Catholic Opinion.) Thb patriotic soul of the English Churchman is fired with indignation *£ newfl °lan1 an " "^"d " Catholic conspiracy, and it appears— even if the Churoh and throne are not in danger, that— surely as there is no smoke without fire, and seldom wide-spread rumours without some foundation—" Dr. Manning, the Roman Catholic Archbishop, is to be sworn as a member of the privy council j" for so rt it is generally reported.' We are told that this unwonted and unprecedented compliment carried into effect, " would be another instance of the bidding By the Government for -the Roman Catholic vote.'* We ourselves would, in common with most sensible people, call it a not unnecessary addition to the thinking-power of that august body which, to be thoroughly efficient as the Sovereign's council, should be all-inclusive. There is no man in the Privy Council individually so representative of millions as, or more thoroughly master of the details of great questions than, our Archbishop. Another paper, the Conservative, reduces the rumour to shape, and, failing to trace any overt act, puts on its editorial spectacles, and reads Mr. Gladstone's soul. "The emissaries of Some " are to be used to recover the votes of Lancashire for the Premier; and, the old links between Ireland and Lancashire still enduring, "it will be seen that the danger is no imaginary one." We ! ennnot say that we ure yet honestly convinced of the truth of the assertion, but if the Catholics of England and Ireland become a wellorganised minority, and other bodies continue to advance in liberality, no doubt the future will bring forth something sufficiently tolerant to confound the politics of narrow-souled bigots.