ROMAN CATHOLICS A 'I) JEWS. By the net 9 k 10 Viet., dip. 59, pawed August IS, 1946, intituled "An Act to relieve her Majterty's subjects from certain penalties and liabilities in regard to religious opinions; " all the previous Acts and parts of Acts imposing diathilities on the profersors of the Roman Catholic or Jewish religions were repealed, of which a portion, as far as Roman Catholics were concerned, had been Indirectly removed by the Roman Catholie Relief Act. On August 1, 1851, however, was passed an Act 14 & 15 Viet., cap. 410," To prevent the assumption of certain Ecclesiastical Titles in respect of places in the United Kingdom," by which a penalty of 100/. was imposed on any one assuming the title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of any province, place, or district in the United Kingdom ; and which declared any such creation by the ace of Rome to be illegal and void. It also made illegal and void, punishable with the like pecuniary penalty, the publication of any bull, brief, rescript, letters apostolical, or any other instrument or writing constituting ouch province or dis trict, whether such district be or be not the see or diocese, or deauery, of the established church. On July 23, 1858, likewise was passed the
21 & 22 Pict., cap. 19, intitnled " An Act to provide for the relief of her :Majosty's subjects professing the Jewish religion," by which Jews on taking the oath before sitting in parliament, may be relieved, by a resolution of the house, from making the declaration°, " I make this declaration on the true faith of a Christian ; " and these words are to be omitted in every other oath, except on making presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice. Jews are also declared incapable of holding the office of lord-lieutenant of Ireland, lord chancellor of Great Britain or Ireland, or high commissioner of the general assembly of the church of Scotland. The right of presentations to ecclesiastical benefices, vested in Jews, is devolved in the archbishop of Canterbury, nor are Jews to advise in the disposal of such matters; a contravention of those provisions to be deemed a misdemeanonr, and a conviction entails a disability of serving the crown in any office, civil or military, whatever.