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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 593, 9 April 1851, Page 4

The following letter has been written by Mr. Disraeli to the Lord-Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire on the all absorbing topic of the Papal aggressions :— “ My Lord, —I have received numerous appeals from my constituents requesting that I would co-operate with them in addressing your Lordship to call a meeting of the county, in order that we may express our reprobation of the ■recent assault of the Court of Rome on the prerogatives of our Sovereign and the liberties of her subjects, “ I think it very desirable that a meeting of the county should be called for that purpose, but, as far as I can gather from what reaches me, great misapprehension is afloat respecting the circumstances which now so violently, but so justly, excite the indignation of the country.

Men are called upon to combine to prevent foreign interference with the prerogatives of the Queen, and to resist jurisdiction by the Pope in her Majesty’s dominions. ‘ But I have understood that, when the present Lord-Lieutenant arrived in his Viceroyalty, he gathered together the Romish Bishops of Ireland, addressed them as nobles, sought their counsel, and courted their favour. On the visit of Her Majesty to that kingdom the same prelates were presented to the Queen as if they were nobles, and precedence was given them over the nobility and dignitaries of the national church; and it was only the other day, as I believe, that the Government offered the office of Visitor to the Queen’s Colleges to Dr. Cullen, the P op8 ’ 8 delegate, and pseudo Archbishop of Armagh,

and to Dr. M‘Hale, the pseudo Archbish Tuam. What wonder, then, that his ness should deem himself at liberty to an ° tion England into dioceses, to be’ ruled—by his bishops I And, iwhy, instead of .°? t; posing he was taking a step ‘ insolent u insidious,’ should he not have assumed fag acting in strict conformity with the wished Her Majesty’s Government? 8 01

“ The fact is, that the whole question |. been surrendered, and decided in fa VoiJr 88 the Pope, by the present Government• & °< the Ministers, who recognized the pL? Archbishop of Tuam as a peer and a prelat ° cannot object to the appointment of a nse ..j Archbishop of Westminster, even be a Cardinal. On the contrary, the loftier dignity should, according to their table f precedence, rather invest his Eminence with a still higher patent of nobility, and permit him to take the wall of his Grace of Caatef' bury and the highest nobles of the land. “ The policy of the present Government ij that there shall be no distinction between England and Ireland. 1 am, therefore ra . ther surprised that the Cabinet are so ‘hju nant,’ as a certain letter with which we have just been favoured informs us they are. “ I have made these observations in order that, if the county meets, the people of Buck, inghamshire may understand that the question on which they will have to decide is of a graver, deeper, and more comprehensive ch. racter than, in the heat of their laudable enj. tion, they may perhaps suppose. “I have the honour to be, my Lord “Your faithful servant, “ B. Disraeli, “ Hughenden Manor, Nov. 8.”