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534 GENERAL PROPAGANDISM.Roman Catholics, particularly orphan girls from Irish workhouses.The object evidently is, to supply Roman Catholicwives for the English and Scotch Pi'otestants of the humblerclasses in Australia, and thereby to Romanize the Australiancolonies through the artful and thoroughly Jesuitical deviceof mixed marriages.The rapid and portentous rise of the Romish Church inAustralia is fraught with immense danger to both the colonyand the mother country. This has happened mainly throughthe working of the Bounty Emigration Scheme. The wastelands of the colony are sold by auction, and the annualproceeds, now amounting to four hundred thousand pounds,are devoted to the importation of emigrants from the unitedkingdom. The scheme is farmed to speculators, who receiveso much a-head for their cargo of emigrants.Hordesof Irish paupers, papist to a man, are collected in the southand west of Ireland, and, being shipped at Plymouth orCork, arecarried across the globe, and thrown upon Australia.In this way an Irish land-flood has been flowingsteadily, during several years, upon this colony ; and a newIreland is rising in the Pacific. In 1822, two priests, one inNew South Wales and the other in "Van Dieman's Land, sufficedfor the entire of Australia.Romanism in the southern hemisphere now.been divided into eleven dioceses, which areunder the managementof one archbishop,priests.But mark the strength ofOceanica hasten bishops, and two hundredThese are supplemented by a numerous staff" of sistersof charity, ecclesiastical students, and Christian brothersor schoolmasters, under a vow of celibacy and devotion tothe Papacy, In all the towns there is a priest, and one, andsometimes several congregations ;the membership rangingfrom four hundred to two thousand five hundred. At thehead of the establishment is Dr Polding, a native of England,and created by the Pope in 1840, Archbishop and Count of thePapal States. Liberal grants arc made from the colonial treasuryto aid the erection of cathedrals and chapels. A modeltrust-deed is lodged in the Secretary's Office ; the building is