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No. 14.-VoL. II.
SUBIACO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1875.
O'CONNELL C'ENl'ENARY. Everything is now in course of active preparation in Ireland for the celebration, with all befitting splendour and solemnity, of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the itnmortal Liberator; Here, for once, is a centenary that a nation has reason to ecanniemorate with the utmost possible rejoicing. As a rule, the celebration of ittiniversaries of this kind in honour of great men are little less, to our thinking, than meaningless absurdities. In the instance , of O'Connell, however, the Catholic populathin of Ireland, the Catholics throughout England, throughout Scot land throughout the whole British Empire, have such reason ,to regard his memery with lust, gratitude, and admiration, that it %vould have Beta simply moustrous to have allowed the hundredth, anhiversary' of his birth to approach without making some effort, however inadequate, le steak:: to the whole world our eel, of
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end et the Empire., wire still sunk, they had been sunk for the better part 4,1 three hundred years in the depth of political how lag,. " It is a Lapps day," e.,,.[iiii,,,I Laeorda ire when, in 1; 17, 'he tugs preytni,,,,i 1,,,,,,,,g, i.i,, of il,,, Libels:0,T front the pulpit of Notre Dame, " It is ii happy day when a wetnan brines - ferth her hist-born into the wor1,1 ; it is - happy day when the cart iii' se,, again the "full lielit of heaven ; it is a happy day " when the exile returns to his cetedry ; but mine et these delights --the greatest which " nuts enj%ys-approaches er equals the " thrilling of a people whi), after hare
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PUNCH.
We cannot congratulate Punch on his cartoon this week, either upon the score of li WHOM. Or of appositeness. Anything in more execrably had taste we cannot recall to mind as having for a lung time past appeared in the Flees of the London Charivari. In point of fact. nothing could be more preposterously mat a propos. The leader of the Home Rule Party, so far from having rendered in any way obnoxious to Catholics of the I:mpire from participation the Househimself of Commons, has been complimenit: the rights secured by the (lens( it mien to teal.by the l'rime Minister, amidst the all the other free citizens of the (frown applause crumbled away at last at his voice, as the evidence of its members, on his singular of in debate. Yet, the walls et Jericho had crumbled before the pencil of moderation Mr. trumpets of the Israelites. During the ten pourtray hint, l'enniel must spitefully without any provocation ;het tears el the century he was propm ing to his being so pourtrayed, as The himself fur the work of ontancipation. whatever Dog at the Di shy, yelled of the course by all Daring the next twenty years he alas, by bystanders with the tin kettle of Home Rule boreulean lalemrs, accomplishing it. And iit tied to tho end of these ten, twenty, thirty years wit and his tail. Surely this is very feeble very ill -aimed sarcasm. Throughout there came for hint, at last, the numerable the Session the Irish members genwily have day when he could speak of himself withottlr shown remarkable self-command,"1"der-let raider, when others could say eil him, quite us say this, if only in remembrance of the truly, that lie wii;etlie uncrowned monarelt of galling Peace Preservation Act-no little 1,1eial. " It is a prest thing," as has been provocation. While there has been no absaid, " to become the elii(4 of a party ; the stention whatever on their part from "ere :diem of a party is a masterpiece of " power and skill ; and yet the leader of a championing the interests of their country, whenever the opportunity for doing so has "party is nothiug in comparison with the presented itself, they have, with admirable moo who has become the moral leader of a moderatien, refrained from everything like "nation, must mike holds it under his laws, factious opposition to the general views of '' is illiotit army, without police, without the (louse or of the Government. In proof " tributials, without any other resourse than of this, it is only necessary to appeal to the " las penile; and devot edit( ss." That is popular precisely us hill I 1'(',1111(.11 did fur years and House remembrance of the discussions in the )ears Ile was her Liberator. Ile was her intendedsince February. Mr. Punch's lasthit with his baton falls back, moral ruler. Ile had given up his career, lie had 'levet ed the whole of his splendid. boomerang -like, with a sting upon his own knuckles. And yet it was aimed so viciously powers tee the advocacy of I:er cause and of and her rights-powers that, if he had been a tive,soif offensively as to have been provocaselfish manonight have won for hint, with a rap the rascal had only been worth it, of over his wooden pate, inflicted by an ease, wealth, and titles, and dignities. The easy back -handed least she could do was to pour into the hands It'eehly Register. blow of Pat's shelalagh." eenteri, s, heals, ter the first time, human
" en I die ine language' in the teem illicit" ,if - their liberty ; and Ireland owed that nespeaeable joy to this young man of the" mal-t w en ty, a hose name was Daniel ()Von,. oell." Ile had to go on speaking for thirty years before, at the close of that long interval, during which his courage never once faltered, the barriers whielt divided the
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EXPLANATION 01' TI1E RELI- 1'11E "IDEA OF EPISCOPACY." GIOUS WAR BY TIIE GERMAN AMBASSADOR IN LONDON.
The recent Letter of the Anglican Bishops to the clergy of their several dioceses is probably one of the weakest of a class of productions proverbial fur exceptional weakness. It means abselitiely malting. The clergy are warned to obey the Stale, and at the same tine: to obey their Bishops ; but suttee the eonte, that they are in all things ready It, subject their own consciences to the State, it W:1, superfluous to make mention of themselves at all, and it St ould have been better to speak only of the State. The following passage is a puzzle to any one who has the Catholic " idea of episco-
Count ulliinster, the German Ambassador in London, has lately delivered a speech :tt a
banquet of the National Club, which created great itidignatIen here at Berlin. The Germania calls it a Uleelarati,ii of religious war in the name ol the (loTtilall EtilllOriir and
Bismarck. Count 1liinster, speaking in the name of his Sovereign atel the High Chan cellor, expressed his thanks to the meanie rs of the Club, and to the whole of Protestant pacy" England, for their warm sympathies with " The refusal to obey leeitimate authority the German nal i a. 'files: -yinpathite, saidtiri"'Ir,t 1;,`,:,'1,. "iI.,it(1lttn.Il :1"l "t tl.,' present he, prove that the cente-t in !deli our l'1,- 111:11 cii l'!)1111111 fail la lli,liiii!iiy ;1.ii:ICliiilia1 ', rc testant Empire is enutieeirl is just, an I is -,,h,'fity that submission lliiM1 is not a series of tyrannical til(,asive,, as our ''. IN, 1,1 ill Iiii. ititit Of ViiiSCol:wy, but enemies assert. It is the jute wile lagan ...Liter bas Isen avowc Ily tel to the the contest, teclieg it its duty to defend and hieliest judiciel interpretations of the law of protect the liberty of ts:aseiu eve:oil (.,:alrh, i, this Church and Rahn." a true Christian (Au-ellen. Ile retie tele.1 Hs ;en auditors of the littery of Germany, er the la";, that to disobey the State in it, interpre,el tivina law is a me titer evil than to conflicts which have existed between I', II' di,,,h,i.y ill, Ili,h(bp, ,..1,,,,, tilt } decide on any and l'enperors. It was a GI( rman 1.:iirperm. who Weill as a pnitent to l'allo-,r, il.,I :14 print of di cluine. This is that "idea ef Which these gt mitt:urn put Bismarck in ene ,,f his niaLlnithhic, ,,per,e1,,; tlii,iiiiiloy I,,,j,re thoir elerev. : , , in the L'arinthient retnat.l.ed :-"'That whidi ne,tier of inet, the IVe :ill knee% that, as a recent 1,,,i.1;(ti,,ti a:',.titt.Ft vexes most (la. Vatican is the riallicilial liii, (111111,11 pally mitts Ii.11isialioll Oil that our Protestant Emperor Will not go to pa., Iliiiii Clone of doctrine, It would not have Canossa. It is natural that the men of been to state this in the preamble. darkness in Rome hate this Empire, where but prudent e% erybedy knew what was lOCatit, intellect gains the upper hanel ; and it is also toct rite' is at the bet on] of rubrics. Thus natural flee uniteel Gerneine hates Bonie." the 4huisien of the livy Council in the case This religiette esintliet is spreading fast over , of Mr. Gerhilttl, ill the case 4)1 Mr. Bennett, , the wool(' of ...units:, but I1C holly,, said t11(1 t.t. Count, that Enelanil Will escape them fer a theof Ur. Forbes, was virtually decision on Itialie-t points of doctrine, though wider little while, it would be wise for the ere', el ,,eiovernmentalthough rubritsil interpretttion.' So that to keep :i watchful eye en [lungs mile ii the rishepe now write of - not Noy', which are going oti. .1s fur Germany, his disobeying themselves, but of disobeying noble munarch and Bismarck will not rest " the judicial interpretations of the have accomplished the to -k which law.," hiellest they mean that the Law Courle are have undertaken. ,k 11 the neeessary Ow highest authority for the ultimate definilaws will be elven to tilt:tin this end, for which the whole Liberal ;Ind enlightened iien of deictrine. This being se, we can tend( stand the force of those words " not Germany is longing. Ile concluded witl: the wish that the two Protestant nations -- only- as applied to disobedience to Bishops. It is England and Corielany-might unite, their disobey of course wrong, theoretic:illy, to a Ilishep ; but, sine(' the first duty alliance woeld be the lre,t gitarailtee for the of a peace of Europe Vi telt Iodic, here protest whichBishop is to accept the interpretations against such daring: lareenage in the interest the are given hint by the hats Court, of land, the dis()bedienee is only theoretical. of religious pear, \\le slieuld be perficily 'flu' real offence, the unpardonable sin, justified in denieneing ;in ;recount of the is the disobeying the Secular: and if the AiallsSailor ter Ilett old: I: we call an obvious violation of the Mike with which he Bishop were to command you to believe in the Real Presence, and the Privy Council is entrusted. to command you not to do so, it The Germania publishes an article front were would be your duty to obey the Privy the Epoca entitled " Gereemy and Ceilholi- Council. , , , cisme- which is werthy et at lentien, 'flits is the "idea of episcopacy." But After a few remarks :thou, Ilismarek's war that it is pnictical and sound, at least in against the Papacy, it says the Church of England, we do not for a " We are of opinion that Ilismarek's real moment dispute. Since it is absolutely purpose is not yet known to the world. impossible to ohey Anglican Bishops, Formerly the ('beach[ was the basis of tile no two of them are at all of the same State's authority now the Divine right is because mind-yet since obeelience is theoretically replaced by the worldly supremacy. it is an a virtue error to believe that Cathelieisin is invent- Privy --therefore the clergy must oley the e'ouncil. This necessity is strikingly patible with eieilizatien and progress. %Ve cart say with good reasett that Bismarck is illustrated, in the Letter to which we are referring, the factor of the Garman pewee', and he (lid 111,1 by the centime of the Bishops who sign. The Bishop of Salisbury, on wants to make lerinany the arbitrator of :ill the ground of his heing a High Churchman, European affairs ; lie visite: to deprive all refused to put Ids signature to the Letter ; the Catholic nations ,,f their power, in er,l,r and to transfer it to the Protestant countries. of the Bishop of Durham, on the ground his being a Low Churchman, also expressed For this purpose France and Austria must Nothing, can be more be conquered. But this was not enough ; disapprobation. than the satire of these two another moral power had to be surpressed- withering dissuntients on the twenty-seven Bishop who cite Papacy. It is not Bismarck's manner to signed. The Bishop of Salisbury writes of to dothese things by halves, and, therefore, "the vast and increasing numbers of loyal he began the war with the Roman Curia, High Churchmen ;" and of the determination and announced to C'e world that lie would of the _Bishops " to maintain the principles destroy the hydra of Papal Hierarchy. of the These bombastic words found an echo in if the Reformed Church of England ;" as Italy, especially with the Eadicals, who of the whole question of "the principles'' Reformation were not the very point think that they must ally with the German about which all Anglicans differ. And the policy. After Prance was overthroWn, and flishon Italy united, he felt that if the latter were the " of Durhans professes contempt for feebleness" and " indefiniteness" of the recon, e. o the Pope, l'aris, having lost its Letter ; " so feeble in its conclusions that own id. , 'would stand to Rome, and not "it dared not to ,.,.. But Italy must not enter into " with reference venture to utter one word to the serious errors of alliance with Bismarek's policy, because it " teaching the Real l'resence and aricular would work in the interest of Germany, and not in its owe. Although it attacked the "confession." Both these gentlemen, who themselves to be Bishops, are secular power of the Popes, it must, never- suppose entitled to the obedience of their clergy. theless, protect the mutual freedom of So that it conies to this, that, in the Diocese Church and Slate. It must fulfil its mission, of Durham, it is a duty to deny the Real and convince the ecclesiastical power that in l'resenee, but in the Diocese of Salisbury it combination with the State, entering into a is a duty to teach it. If a Rector or moral activity, it would soon disarm the Curate, enemies of Catholieisin. We hope that this migrate in the Diocese of Durbein, should to the Diocese of Salts', ury, it day may not be not far off, for then Papacy would become his duty to preach the Reel would be strong again by the principles of Presence ; but it from the Diocese of SalisChristianity, and would be victorious over bury there should he a migration to Durham, Germany. This would surely be the greatest it would become a duty to deny the Real triumph, and from that day forth Ilismarek's Preset:et: It is very fortunate that " the policy would be out of fashion, and its period idea of , piseopacy," as stated by the twenty would have reached its end." ,.even Bishops, gets rid of obedience to Thus speaks an Italian paper, which has not the reputation of being a Catholic organ. Bishops, and lays (loan the priliciple that obedience to Law Courts covers every class It also announces that the Pope has issued of disobedience. But for this the " idea of an order to avoid every conflict with the episcopacy" would fare very badly indeed. Government of Victor Emmanuel. As it is, sac do not see that there is much
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of her Liberator her spontaneous tribute, to give him herself with all her love and all her allegiance. And this she did with her whole heart. In return for this unmeasured loyalty to him, as the greatest and the truest patriot any race ever had, O'Connell strove, during the whole of the remainder of his life, to secure the perfecting, so far as might be in any way possible, of the political institutions,' and of the political situation of his country in the enjoyment of the rights of citizenship which he had been the one, first of all, to ensure to her Catholic populalion. According to his judgment, this perfecting (defile great work for the superstructure of which he had been the one, single-hand, to dig out and build up the foundations, was only to be accomplished akquately and effectively by means of a Repeal of the tinion-just as now -a-days, aeceirding to the judgment of the vast majority of Irish electors, the serest method of realizing the smile object is by securing the recognition of the principle of Home Ellie. Call rl'ounell mistaken if you will, a; you may deem the !Ionic Rulers of to-day, in their turn, also, misteiken-but at least (as they :ire in theirs) lie was honest, he was truthful, he Was consistent in his convictions. And in his resolute pursuaneeof his purpose, when other men must, under a resistless impulse, have been tempted into treason, lie eas as trusty :de l lo) l a suject b oof these realms as ever trod the soli ('town ofh of Ireland. Nevertheless, in spite of that utl,illie,1 honour, and of that unblemished leyaity, he was, by what was afterwitrds acktiowledge41 to be a cruel failure of justice, tried and cendeimitel for sedition, sentenced to fine and imprisonment, and had that sham, ful sentence :equally earned out in his regard And the Liberator of Ireland-at the beck of whose finger the whole of its popuhaion, from Cork to Donegal, from Antrim te, Kerry, might, at any moment, had he so pleased, have been iii a flame of incuractually subjected to ,, toe .""i'll'-"l' igrioli,joy of personal confinement within the walls etas public jail. The House of Lords revert, the unjust sentence, it is true. The a as st, lac repaired. But it had pie% ieusly been perpetrated And by the ignun, ily of it the noble spirit of Ireland's Libeator, of our Liberator, was broken down. Ile aged visibly from that very time, at el it was not long afterwards, while on his w:iv to the Etermil I. to fall as an old man at the feet of Pope l'ius IX., that he lire:ideal his last, eight-ancl-twenty years ago, it Genoa, lea it his heart to Route, his tiedy to Ireland, and his memory to the g.rat It ii..1, of all the English-speaking t atlicalcs in bell) hemispheres. It is in the hie of sense of 1 u 'ilcs' (wt. elyht. of gratitude, that this the inexhaustiCatholics of England are. looluim; forward, now, with :leer and loving sympathy, to thecelebratioe by Ireland ult Friday, the next sixth of \ ilgust,ei her Liberator's, of our Liberator's, ' Centenary.- Il eekfy Register.
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