Status of Cardinal Manning.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2954, 19 July 1888, Page 2

Status of Cardinal Manning.

I mentioned some timo ago (wiites , the London ooucspondent of tho l Svdney Morning Herald) that if Loid Salisbury's Life Peerages Bill passed into law it was intended to call Cardinal Manning to tho House of Louis, ' It hns been pointed out that acm kms 1 difficulty would arise ifthia should lie done. In tho eyes of theCatliolio Cbnuli a caidiual ranks on an equality with a Prince; and in till Euiopean Courts—evciuHWotcstant ones—the Princely accorded to cardinals. Uv., Manning;,%; has nlways been granted thepriveleges!'>}■;?;? ol Princely rank whenever hej has appeared in Society in England, nud (:-■$ certain omaal sanction has lately ■% given to this practice. When the Royal Commission upon the housing of the poor was appointed, Mr> Gladstone? ;<? and Lord Salisbury, after views, agreed that ,'tUa uame.of nal planning should foilow tely after that of the Prince of as though he. were the person on' the-M ;;, Commission of next highest rank. Thero would be some littlo difficulty; in departing from the' precedent thus; ■?■; created. But it Cardinal Moran were '■ i>: called to tho HouseoE Lords, and; llio' ':£ status of a Prince still accorded to him, J; he would take precedenco Wor'the''o{ Archbishop of Canterbury,- and this, Hv would bo mote thaV British Protestati-' -K'' tis'm could stand. Tlio difficulty is got over in Society by never inviting the'. ;E : Archbishop and the CardinaAfi'meeV [-. at the same function, but in (he House \'/ : f}:'; j of Lords this ruse" would bo of no 3* ; ":"■;,—_-^^