ned a priest, and made a Doctor of
Divinity. He was Professor for a time in the Roman University, and then
made Rector of the English College at Ushaw. Dr. Wiseman came to England
in 1835, and in the winter of that year delivered a Course of Lectures on
the connection between Science and Revealed Religion, which, when
published, obtained for him a high reputation for scholarship and
learning in all divisions of the Christian church. He subsequently
returned to Rome, and is understood to have been instrumental in inducing
Pope Gregory XVI. to increase the Vicars Apostolic in England. The
number was doubled, and Dr. Wiseman came back as coadjutor to Dr. Walsh,
of the Midland District. He was appointed president of St. Mary's
College, Oscott. In 1847 he again returned to Rome. This second visit
led to further preferment. He was made Pro-Vicar Apostolic of the London
District, in place of Dr. Griffiths, deceased. Subsequently he was
appointed coadjutor to Dr. Walsh, and in 1849, on the death of Dr. Walsh,
he became Vicar Apostolic of the London District. In August he went
again to Rome, not expecting, as he says, to return, 'but delighted to be
commissioned to come back' clothed in new dignity. In a Consistory held
on the 30th of September, Nicholas Wiseman was elected to the dignity of
Cardinal by the title of Saint Prudentia, and was appointed Archbishop of
Westminster--a title which drove silly churchmen into fits, and which
made even Dissenters wild. Under the Pope he is the head of the Roman
Catholic Church in England, and a Prince of the Church of Rome, at which
place he now principally resides. His sojourn in England is understood
to be but temporary. He has published several sermons, and a few
volumes, in support of transubstantiation and the other doctrines of the
church of which he is such an ornament. But his literary reputation is
principally based on the series of lectures to which I have already
referred.

The Cardinal has no great love for our age, and little love for England,
if we are to judge by his epistle to his clergy on the Indian Mutiny. In
a sermon on the Social and Intellectual State of England, compared with
its Moral Condition, published in 1850, he asks, 'Are we convinced that
the real moral tone of society in every part is on the increase? Is it
not notorious that crimes, and crimes even that were unknown among us a
few years ago--that deeds of violence which not even the hot pas