THE POPE AND THE QUEEN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 37, 12 February 1875, Page 2

THE POPE AND THE QUEEN.

To Tin: Editor of the 'Evening Mail.' Sir — Some interested parties profess to be greatly surprised at the indignation generally excited by the disloyal proceedings at a late meeting in [Nelson. Divested of all Jesuitical special pleading, the matter Simply stands thus i — As regards all portions of the British dominion, if at any public or semipublic meeting any health or toast; is proposed prior to that of our Sovereign Queen Victoria, it plainly indicates her Majesty only holds the second place, or possibly a lower one, in their estimation and nilegiance. If this does not distinctly indicate disloyalty, then perhaps there is some deficiency in my logical powers which I am quite prepared to have demonstrated if such is the uufortunate fact. To a church that professes to be infallible it would . bo utterly absurd for any one, however elevated or humble, however learned « or ignorant, to venture to offer a ;, suggestion. I shall not be guilty of so preposterous a proceeding, but to call the attention of the general public to what may be in store for them is quite another matter. The Church of Rome is now more actively aggressive than ehe has been for very mauy years past. What she has been in her days of power history has with more or less of truth informed us, and there are too many indications that like those faithful adherents of hers, the Bourbons, she h^ in her comparative days of adversity nothing learned and nought forgot. Mr Gladstone has sounded the alarm in England none too soon, it becomes us to heed it. I am, &c, i JR. Fbeeman.