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}—;JESUIT OPERATIONS IN ENGLAND. 527Catholics and Jesuits into tlio British senate,—wc need notdescribe. The principal scene of operations was now transferredby the Jesuits to England.The Jesuits have a sort of intuitive sagacity in comprehendingin what lies the strength of an enemy, and of coursethe point to attack. The Church of England, they saw, wasthe main barrier between them and political ascendancy.Provided they could Romanize it, the battle would be halfwon ; and to carry this point all their efforts were put forth.But previous to beginning operations on the Anglican Establishment,there was a preliminary point tothe reduction of the old popish families tobe gained,the Jesuit dominion.To effect this, the college at Stoneyhurst was erected.This institution is flourishing, and nearly all the firstCatholic families in England are educated within its wallsand there they receive such a polish as is fitted to makethem influential in English society. But the main battlewas directed against the Church of England. They stroveto quicken the dormant principles of a popish origin whichhad been suffered to remain in her ever since the Eeformation; they availed themselves of her forms, some of whichsavour of superstition, to revive within her a love for Popery.Of course we have no direct proof that Jesuits* took ordersin that Church, and officiated as pastors, to expedite themovement ; but few will be disposed to doubt the fact, whonow consider the whole career of Messrs Wiseman, Pusey,Ward, Newman, and who consider the history and characterof the " Tracts for the Times."Tract No. 90, where thedoctrine of reserves is broached, bears strong marks of a* When the Jesuits went to India, they stained their bodies, and sworethat they were Brahmins, who could trace their pedigree to the godBrahma. In China they taught that the doctrine of Confucius differedlittle or nothing from their own. In the times of the Reformation theJesuits entered the Church of England, and preached from her pulpitsagainst the mass and set forms, to induce the people to fight against theirChurch. Why may they not have had recourse to the same tactics on thepi esent occasion