But the Dean and Chapter of Westminster had actually attempted to break the slumber, by an address deprecating the appointment, as utterly unconstitutional. This occurred in 1848. It was heard of no more, and silence came again. As his Lordship's Letter is probably to be regarded as a Cabinet _minute_, we shall give its chief portions _verbatim_. It begins by referring to a letter of the Bishop of Durham, which termed the Bull "insolent and _insidious_," the latter epithet appearing to us to have no other merit than that of alliteration, the measure not being _insidious_ at all--but, by a remarkable deviation from the customary craft of the Papacy, being one of the most open and audacious insults on record. The Letter then proceeds to say, that its writer, having "promoted to the utmost of his power the claims of the Roman Catholics to all civil rights"--a fact with which the country was fully acquainted--thought "it right, and even desirable, that the _ecclesiastical system_ of the Roman Catholics should be the means of giving instruction to the numerous Irish immigrants in London and elsewhere, who, without such help, would be left in heathen ignorance." The latter sentence we do not profess to understand. Does it allude to any _arrangement_, by which the Papacy was to change the system of simple superintendence, and adopt Dr Wiseman as archbishop, after all? Is this the preliminary to further _development_, and is the common rumour on the subject the reverse of a mistake? How the kind of religion imported by the legions of Irish beggary into England was to be purified by a new episcopal staff, is wholly beyond our comprehension. Or why the Protestant people of England, after feeding the pauperism of Ireland at home, should be bound to provide for its heresy here--or how, for the further allurement of the superfluous rabble of Ireland, we are to provide, for either their poverty or their pride, the pageant of twelve Popish mitres, we must leave it to his Lordship to explain. His next sentence is more intelligible. "There is an _assumption of power_ in all the documents which have come from Rome--a pretension to supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to _sole and undivided_ sway, which is inconsistent with the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic times."