The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger

We were much amused some time ago in reading in the so-called religious press--and among them the South-western Presbyterian of this city, a "Bull" from the Pope, excommunicating Victor Emmanuel. As a consequence, Popery was denounced by Protestants as an outrage on human rights. Most of the sectarian papers believed in it, and bellowed indignantly at the outrage. The same "Bull" has been published before, especially in Know-Nothing times, and was exposed by Archbishop Hughes, when vouched for by a Princeton Professor.

It now appears that Pomeroy's Democrat, for amusement, copied the "Bull" from Tristram Shandy, and those papers which are ever ready to publish everything, no matter how false, of the Catholic Church, strongly advocated the dethronement of the Pope. Pomeroy enjoyed the joke, whilst he also enjoyed the profits from a large sale of his paper. The fools are not all dead yet.

The following is to the point:

Excommunicating Victor Emmanuel.--A few weeks since we published the fictitious anathema of the Catholic Church, written by the Rev. Lawrence Sterne, taken from the novel of "Tristram Shandy," chapter 2, volume 3d, prefaced by a paragraph devoting it to Victor Emmanuel, when, just as we expected, several of the smart daily newspapers copied the article under the head of

Foreign News

as to copy it under the head of "Telegraphic Despatches from Rome." Some editors are very sharp, but not sharp enough to distinguish between an improbable burlesque and an established fact.