in which two persons were killed. Coleraine Chronicle.

COLONIAL.-New South Wales. According to the latest news, a meeting of the Romanists was held at St. Patrick's Hall, in the town of Sydney, at which a sum of money was collected towards the erection of another masshouse at Sydney. It was then stated that missionaries would shortly go forth to New Guinea, the New Hebrides, and New Ireland.-South Australia. -A new mass-house was commenced lately at Morpeth Vale, Adelaide.

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FOREIGN. Berlin. The discovery of a Catholic Association, under the name of the Rose Order, furnishes matter of conversation in our circles, especially as it is at present the subject of legal investigation. This Society appears to be, like a number of similar ones which have long existed in Silesia, a sort of lodge, in which various gradations of initiated are members. Thus fifteen individual members compose a rose-wreath, fifteen wreaths a rosebranch, and fifteen branches a rosetree. A Romish ecclesiastic of this city stands at the head of this singular Association, and is the leader of the individual members as well as of the whole Society. Each member receives a sheet of paper adorned with a rose, and containing various verses, mostly of a religious nature, to learn or sing. The design of this Society is mentioned to be, and most probably is, of a purely religious nature; yet as its leading and aim are undeniably the spread of Romish doctrines, more especially among the people, it evidently falls within the examination at least of the police. Thus it has been found that a considerable number of Protestant maid-servants have been inveigled into the Society, through one of whom the discovery of its existence was attained, and by her master an intimation given to the authorities, who are engaged in investigating the matter.-Morning Herald. From recent intelligence we learn that the Abbé who was at the head of this order has fled.

The other members belong, for the most part to the Popish clergy, but many among them are Protestants. Proselytism appears to be the object

of the Association, which has ramifications in all parts of the Prussian dodominions. The Government has given orders by telegraph that the most minute investigation shall be made everywhere.- Bavaria.-A report is current here that the extensive castle and grounds belonging to Deputy Keller, in Edisheim, has just been purchased by Government for the purpose of converting it into a monastery. For what order of monks the new monastery is destined has not yet transpired, but such establishments are multiplying with unwonted rapidity in Bavaria.

Ratisbon.-The following statement from Ratisbon affords no equivocal testimony to the asserted ultramontane efforts :-"Our papers announce that the Carmelites of this city have, with the King's (Bavaria) permission, re-purchased the monastery formerly possessed by that order, but which has long been used as a public gaol, for the sum of 30,000 florins. The monastery, which is situated in the handsomest portion of our city, was suppressed in 1810; the order, however, was restored in 1836, by express command of his Majesty, and consists at present of only twelve persons, seven priests, and five lay brethren. - Morning Herald.- -Grand Duchy of Baden. -Progress of Ultramontanism. Deputy Weliker recently in the Baden Chamber laid particular stress on the efforts lately made by the Jesuit party to re-establish the ancient hierarchical despotism. "An Ultra-Romish party," says he, "is daily fostered and favoured, while the Liberal Catholics are neglected, the freedom of the University annulled, those teachers of Catholic moral philosophy and canon law, whose Liberal principles raised a barrier against the encroachments of Ultra-Romanists, are removed, and the University so entirely ruined, that a professor lately declared, while standing by the grave of one of his colleagues, 'It was little wonder if Freiburg professors wasted away in body and mind.' The destructive effects of the system on Baden are doubly deplorable, paining, offending, and ultimately banishing the Liberal and enlightened Catholic clergy, it leaves the laity a prey to the intrigues

of the rankest Jesuitism; and mocking the advances in civilization and mental culture, undermines at once the best foundations of ecclesiastical and civil polity." - The Jesuits.—“La Gazette de Woss," contains the following letter from Rome, which deserves perusal:-"Amongst the cardinals are estimated as many enemies as ardent friends of the Jesuits, and as it is foreseen that the great age of the Pope will soon bring about a Conclave, the cardinals are desirous of currying favour with all parties, more especially as France exercises a pretty large share of influence upon the election of a Pope. The Pope at first refused to give way respecting the order to the Jesuits to remove from France, in spite of the counsel of some of the cardinals. The latter made an urgent appeal to the General of the Jesuits, who declared that under existing circumstances, (to obtain the support of France at an election for Pope,) it was better to renounce the establishments in France. Several Jesuits blame their General, no very strict adherents apparently to the vow of 'implicit obedience;' others say that the General has acted prudently in sparing the Pope this decision, which would have dissatisfied one of the parties; in this way, nothing has been conceded, and it is possible to return to a purely economical and administrative measure."

-Rome.-A letter from this city, in the Constitutionnel, says:—“It is in contemplation to canonize the late Princess Borghese, who was the daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury."

United States. -Bishop Chase, the Protestant Bishop of Illinois, in a recent letter to the Rev. J. Allport, of Birmingham, says, "The Mississippi Valley, in the heart of which I now reside, is filling up with Romanists; and they boast of the prospects of the Church of Rome becoming the mistress of those rule regions of incredible extent, and of maintaining

their sway by controlling the education of the rising generation of Protestant immigrants. Hitherto, they have wrought in secret, and been successful to an alarming degree. Roman Catholic churches and schools for the education of Protestant children, particularly females, have sprung up in every direction. Children of their own poor they entirely neglect; it is to Protestants they extend their favours." To stem this torrent of Popery, Bishop Chase has founded "Jubilee College," and a female school. "The Romanists regard this Institution with peculiar jealousy. They see in Jubilee College a novel and effective opponent." Bishop Chase says, he is "endeavouring to save the Church in the Far West, in the widespread valley of the Mississippi, from perishing in the false embrace of Papal Rome, by educating faithful Evangelical ministers. Let Jubilee College be furnished with buildings, so as to accommodate students and send out teachers, who may compete in the sciences and fine arts with nuns and monks, now flocking from Europe in such numbers as they do, and all Christians may have reason to rejoice at the result." Mr. Allport is collecting a sum of money to send to Bishop Chase for this object.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"A PROTESTANT," who makes inquiries respecting the Institution of Nursing Sisters, Bishopsgate-street, is informed that the Society referred to was commenced in July, 1840, under the name of "Protestant Sisters of Charity." Amongst those patronising the Institution we find the names of Her Majesty the Queen-Dowager, the Lady Ashley. The President of the London Committee that year was Mrs. Fry; and amongst the Committee we find the names of Lady Inglis, Dowager Lady Buxton, Mrs. Gurney, &c.

THE INTRIGUES OF THE JESUITS.

COMPILED BY THE REV. JOHN SPURGIN,

VICAR OF HOCKHAM, NORFOLK.

THE Society or Order of the Jesuits, was instituted at Paris, by IGNATIUS LOYOLA, in the early part of the Reformation. The founder was a Spanish knight, who had been wounded in the siege of Pampeluna-a citadel which he had resolved on defending with his usual impetuous and headstrong rashness; and being instigated by a morbid craving after notoriety, he became the victim of a mingled spirit of ambition, fanaticism, and superstition, at once, the most inexorable of tyrants and the most abject of slaves. About this time, the Church of Rome was sustaining great injury from the ignorance and profligacy of her priesthood, and, the heart of the Papacy being alarmed at the giant strides of the Reformation, Pope Paul III. (after some delay, and not without fear of danger,) confirmed this newly-formed Society, in 1540, under the title of "The Companions of Jesus," or, as in common phrase, "THE JESUITS." The

VOL. VII.

CONSTITUTION of this order was and still remains military: its GOVERNMENT is monarchical, the supreme authority being vested in the Grand Master or General, whose power is absolute; and its MEMBERS, who enter into every profession, are sworn to strictly to keep secret its purposes, deny that they belong to it, as well as while they themselves are employed to work them out. The REAL OBJECT of the Society is To OVERTURN EVERY

CONSTITUTED AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT

THE WORLD, EVEN POPERY ITSELF, and TO ESTABLISH ITS OWN SOVEREIGNTY!!- Hence we find that

The SECRETA MONITA, or "The Secret Instructions of the Jesuits," (a MS. copy whereof is to be seen in the Library of the British Museum,) depict, in awful colours, the moral and political workings of their past and present usurpations.

These instructions declare, that it will" tend to the benefit of the

Church, that all bishoprics, and EVEN

THE APOSTOLICAL SEE ITSELF, should be hooked into their hands." (See Short Extracts, in No. 11, of the Editor's Second Series of Anti-Tractarian Tracts.)

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quickly after its formation, emissaries were sent forth to China, Japan, Abyssinia, South America, the Indies, &c. making Protestant Europe its chief field of operation; and THE MEANS by which this Society carries out its designs, are the sowing seeds of discord in every institution and grade of society, weakening in order to destroy, disguising its agents under every vaRIETY of character, and instructing them to insinuate themselves into the confidence of kings and princes, bishops and nobles, the influential and wealthy of the land, so as to confuse their minds and infatuate them to bring about changes, which tend to their own ruin; and effecting all this so stealthily and so treacherously, as not to excite the least consciousness of the influence under which their unhappy victims are acting.†

ENGLISH REFORMATION (Elizabeth, 1558-1603). On the accession of Queen Elizabeth, the greatest leniency and persuasion were, for six months, exercised towards the clergy, who then filled the English benefices, to induce them to abandon the Romish Ritual, but not a single instance of Voluntary

*The Jesuits have appeared as Pagans among Pagans—as Atheists among Atheists-as Jews among Jews, and as Reformers among Reformers. They have changed their exterior habit, as noblemen, as ruffians, as ministers, as soldiers; and they have sometimes passed as merchants, as farmers, as stewards, as publicans, and as tradesmen of every craft. (See Dalton's Jesuits, their Principles and Acts, pp. 76, 84, 85; a work from which several statements in this tract are made.)

+ The "Secreta Monita," declare "that no small advantage will be derived from SECRETLY and SKILFULLY fomenting the animosities that arise among the great, in order to reduce their strength," and in conformity with these instructions, the Jesuits "secretly" apply the torch of faction to national dissensions, and then "skilfully" retire from the field of conflict, as far as may be, -leaving the odium of the exploion to be cast on others, far less guilty than themselves. Such was their policy in the great rebellion of England in 1649, as well as in the revolution of France in 1792; and their craft and treachery remain unchanged.

Conformity occurred. (See "Burnet's History of the Reformation,” vol. iii. part 1. book 6, p. 336.) After this Commissioners were sent over England to enforce obedience to the law, by re-establishing the "Protestant Service Book;" and the result reported to the Queen was, that out of 9,400 beneficed clergymen in England, only about 100 dignitaries and eighty parish priests left their benefices: ALL THE REST CONFORMED TO THE QUEEN'S INJUNCTIONS, AND READ THE PROTESTANT SERVICE. (Ibid. vol. ii. part 1. book 3, page 720.)-This strange event was, no doubt, the agency of the Jesuits. The Papal clergy conformed in one united body, and kept their benefices for the express purpose of multiplying divisions among Protestants. (See Churchman's Monthly Review," for May, June, and July, 1844, "The Jesuits.") Thus was the Reformed Church of England distracted by various conflicts among upwards of 9,000 pledged partisans of Rome, WITHIN the pale of her sacred offices,* aided by swarms of dispensed Jesuits from WITHOUT, under the garb of PURITAN MINISTERS, exciting Churchmen against Dissenters, and Dissenters against Churchmen. The historian Strype records the detection of one of these Puritan Jesuits (Heath) after preaching in Rochester cathedral, in 1568. On searching his lodgings, a Pope's Bull and a Jesuit's license to preach "for the dividing of Protestants, and particularly the English Protestants," was found in his boot.-This man had been travelling as a poor minister, and "preaching up and down the country for six years. (See "Strype's Annals of the Reformation," vol. i. c. 52, pp. 521, 522.) And not only were the deep-laid stratagems of the Jesuits, for the recovery of England to Rome, developed in their insidious workings within the

This one FACT proves, that although the Reformed English Church was, under God, primarily established through the energies of some of our leading ecclesiastics, yet, that it owed much of its stability to the agency of the laity. May the LAITY then be awakened to a holy vigilance for her PRESEBVATION!

Church, but there are ample documents to testify their subtle efforts also within the STATE, co-extensive with England itself, and that too through all the windings of social order down to the very hearths of domestic life: in a word the continual stream of Jesuits, Seminarists, assassins, and plotters of every name and character, for the murder and dethroning of Queen Elizabeth, and the utter desolation of the whole realm, deluged England during her reign of upwards of forty years, and it was only the arm of the Most High which brought to nought the wicked projects of her enemies.

GREAT REBELLION (Charles the First, beheaded in 1649.)-The designs of the Papists for the subversion of Protestantism in England were continued through the reigns of James the First and his unhappy son Charles, the successors of Queen Elizabeth. Insurrections and plots against the life of the Sovereign were no longer available for the service of Rome, and the Gunpowder Treason, in 1605, seems to have been the last attempt made in England to illustrate the regicidal principles of the Jesuits. The times were changed, and the Jesuits were quick to perceive it, and to adopt their devices accordingly. COURT INTRIGUE now occupied the Jesuits, and Archbishop Laud, Bishop Montague, and others, forming an ambitious and dangerous faction in the Church, constituted an essential part of the conspiracy. In 1634, a secular priest named Gregorio Panzani, was despatched from the court of Rome to this country, to bring about a reconciliation between the Churches of England and Rome. He resided here three or four years, and had several encouraging interviews with the King and Queen, as well as with some of the bishops and chief ministers of State; and about this time, there were from 250 to 360 Jesuits scattered over England,* "concealed under a lay garb, and combining the

*Besides these Jesuits there were 180 other regulars, and five or six hundred secular priests in England. (See "Barrington's Memoirs of Panzani," pp. 140,207.)

courteous manners of gentlemen, with a refined experience of mankind." The result of these intrigues was the decay of Protestantism in England, and the conversion of multitudes (particularly women of rank) to the Romish faith; indeed, it cannot be denied that the innovations of the school of Laud were so many approaches, in the exterior worship of the English Church, to the Roman models; pictures were set up and repaired; the communion-table took the name of an "altar," it was sometimes made of stone, and obeisances were made to it; the crucifix was frequently placed upon it; churches were consecrated with strange and mystical pageantry; a presence in the sacrament, beyond that which is spiritual to faith, yet not the Popish transubstantiation, was generally held; the power of priests to forgive sins, beyond that which is declarative, yet not that which mass priests arrogate; and justification by works as a condition of the Gospel as well as faith, but not in the gross way of Popish merit, were likewise asserted; the invocation of saints was admitted by some prelates, and prayers for the dead, which lead naturally to purgatory, were vindicated by many. Thus it was that through the secret influence of the Jesuits, this fearful state of things in England worked on its way, from bad to worse, till that awful crisis speedily arrived, wherein primate and Church, monarch and monarchy, perished together.

MODERN TIMES.-To such an awful extent were strifes and seditions fomented by the Jesuits, even in Papal kingdoms, that in 1773 they were formally suppressed by Pope Clement XIV. at the earnest entreaty of the "kings of France, Spain, Portugal, and Sicily, to prevent the Christians (as the Bull of Suppression expresses it) from rising one against another, and

*Wherever Jesuits are introduced social confidence is shaken, and mutual suspicions must arise; for who can tell whether his next-door neighbour may not be one of them?

How painfully applicable to Tractarian errors of modern times was the state of things in England 200 years ago.