Show catholicism IN ENGLAND yesterday week mr NeW nev newdegate newdigate degate in the house of Common si pursuant to tb notice ti ce moved for a sole select lc t committee of inquiry into int 0 the Con convente ventu al and monastic establishments orthis country in the course of a very lucid and eloquent speech the hon gentleman show showed edthe the marvellous marcellous marv ellous growth of roman catholicism cimmin in england and wales during the last 20 years in im 1841 there were of religious houses of men I 1 ot of convents 10 16 ot of colleges 9 in 1851 there there were of religious houses of men 17 of convents 53 of colleges 10 in 1865 there were of religious houses of men 58 of convents of colleges 10 there were also 14 convents in scotland making altogether of these theme establishments lish ments in in great britain in these facts and figures we have a i tolerable idea of of arelia ion lon o olon the he t aim of which is isto to sap and undermine the protestant character ehara chara ctr orthis of this country ez e Z WO cannot but look at the progress of popery among us with feelings of di dismay sinay uninfluenced we trust by bigotry or intolerance we would desire to have these growing rowin establishments these evils of tte the age und under ersome some control that the country may have the opportunity gue sue port ort unity of judging how liow they are con coll ducted and although mr newdegate newdigate New degato degate was yas vas on friday unsuccessful in his efforts to obtain the committee he asked for the time will assuredly come and at no dis dise banday tant tang tan day when protestant england will demand and in tones irresistible that the religious houses and convents of tills this country shall be subjected to free and rational no hollow cry no babbling about civil and religious liberty no specious arguments or political sophistry will avail to prevent the necessary in inquiry iry irs as to how the daughters of eni en england I int ant are entrapped into the meshes OF of popery and the treatment they are subjected to when imprisoned within the gloomy wails walls of acon a convent yent 0 it is 18 absurd to suppose that P popery 0 pery and il nunneries nunn eries erles in england are diff different erent from popery and nunneries nunn eries abroad the boaston romanism is thatis that it is unchangeable it is the worst the most intolerable of all religions it holds the mind in sl ayery it binds it in the very depths of superstition it places its victims wholly in the hand and at the mercy merey of pi le gt rant raft A party of english Engli 1 sli sll gentlemen not long ago oata obtainer obtain ned nea ea admission into a nunnery in italy and several of the inmates reckless of the consequences rushed towards them and implored the visitors to recede rescue them from their im in P 1 riso tiso dment give us our liberty t they hey cried oried dand dmd we will follow you in any i capacity you require oil oh save us from this livin living I 1 death mchallam mr hallai Hallam u in his ills aliddie ages states that many of the worst vices grew so naturally out of the morde made of ro religious houses that no discipline disoline could have havea a tendency to remove them til the anomaly that presents itself to the mind is that years ago it was found necessary to close those hot bot beds bids of ignorance vice and corruption and that now they shall be permitted to rise by hundreds among us and the priests to aleze upon young girls and confine them within nunneries nunn eries in defiance of parental power and national indignation I 1 mr newdegate newdigate New degate gave many instances of the cruelty perpetrated upon the inmates of nunneries nunn eries erles of their escapes and ultimate capture of the terrible punishments they were compelled to endure their confinement in underground linder pinder ground dungeons their shortness of food and abid ulti alti mate death in defiance of the tile evidence that can be brought against convents many of our legislators persist in calling them happy homes and sir george grey in an audacious defence of convents iu in england characterised characterized mr gates motion as a bigoted effort to stay the fhe charitable acts of the sisters of oamer mer evl cv evi in this count country rv 11 and he urra 9 t f the law was quite sufficient for the protection of females in convents the speech of si Sir rG George eorge grey was a sop to the roman catholic members of the giouse who were of course all at their thelt post and thus upon a division the motion was lost lostay by a majority maj of 27 the numbers being against ill lii the motion emotion for it 79 70 aann oarn cambridge Carn bridge chronicle |