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SUBIACO, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1875.
No. 17.-VoL. II. .
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on the occasion of the that direction, it seems not improbable that Catholic Bishops their metropolitan, his the next warlike events may arise between consecration of Governor's wife, Lady Van the sent Holiness Jovellar and Dorregaray. The latter has
Writing about Royalty, says the Despatch, we may mention that the question of preceStrubensee, a splendid cameo, with a blessing dence between the Duchess of Edinburgh for herself and her husband ; and the and the Princess Bearice has not yet been Governor was so pleased with this act of the settled. This inspiriting subject almost Sovereign Pontiff that at the first reception drove the present and the past Lord in his palace after the arrival of the gift lie I ,hamberlains out of their senses. It has proudly showed it to all present. been a frequent theme of correspondence between the English and the Russian Courts. Its settlement was one of the chief objects of ENCOURAGING TO A GOVERNOR.
contrived unmistakably to take up, for the time being, a secure position in Catalonia. The former, on the other hand, is believed to have marched fro:n Sarrsiena, in Aragon, Ma. GLADSTONE. the province of Lerida, in Catalonia. The Quarterly is at issue with Mr. Glad- into other Government troops are The great stone-coloured Tory Simultaneously stone. understood to be moving upon Urgel, where, Review has recently been the rostrum of the as we have just now seen, Dorregaray is ex -Liberal Leader in his newly -assumed awaiting them. The Alphonsist Army is the Czar's visit and its !nun -settlement the character as an anti -Popery controversialist. evidently satisfied as yet with holding the The Straits Times (Singapore) has the cause of coldness between the But the Quarterly, as alone befits it, has Carlists, as rigidly as the actual circum- following complimentary observations con- primary of Russia and our own Queen. And opinions of its own, and is ready, upon any stances will allow, within a line that may cerning Sir Arthur Kennedy, Governor of Empressbother arises out of the question as all this occasion, to maintain them to the uttermost. be marked out from Vittoria to Logrono, Hongkong (formerly Governor of West which of the two l'rincesses shall enter Now, Mr. Gladstone has recently propounded to Laraga, to Pente de la Reyna, and on to Australia) :-" Hongkong is just now blessed to room first, and who shall stand the rather vital question, in regard to the Pamplona. Meantime twenty-five miles to with an old woman of a Governor who is the throne to the Sovereign ! The Queen Church of England, whether or not it is the north-east of Urgel, upon the frontier, possessed of two ideas which make his Dearest the claims of her own daughter, but worthy of preservation 7 This singularly the Carlists have suddenly interrupted their absence of leave no loss to the colony, and defends spectacle for loyal pertinent enquiry he sets forth, not in the vigorous endeavour to besiege Puycerda. his promotion or removal very desirable. is not this a pretty ? people it Can Quarterly, but in the Contemporary. in interest of the war is concentrating One is that the' Heathen Chinee' is impechave been declined by the former as The Catalonia. According to the view unhesi- cable ; and the other is, that merchants and unwelcome to the Quarterly editor's own tatingly expressed by the keenest military traders are sons of perdition, capable of THE QUEEN ANI) MR. GLADSTONE. been convictions and for that reason have in this country, the skilled master and therefore to be repressed in relegated to the pages of the Contemporary? observer who has been writing for a long iniquity, New York Sunday Mercury of the The a doubt is not There way. Anyhow, the new politico -ecclesiastical pro- of strategy upon the subject in the Morning every possible of Hongkong by the Can- 16th May is responsible for the following nunciamento of Mr Gladstone appears, while past would seem to be narrowing now that the blockade which will doubtless have great statement, ton Farmer of Customs is mainly due to his unlike his immediately preceding one, in the Post-there the Carlist Army in Catalonia one of want of pluck. Like other benevolent, kind- intents for Mr. Whalley and Mr. NewdeGunt:mporary and not in the Quarterly, and about t is freely circulated that the alternatives-either to fight, to hearted, and well-meaning nincompoops of gate upon the morrow of its so appearing is these three or to take to the moun- the Exeter Hall type, he is capable of any Queen 1 s deeply mortified by Mr. Glad France, over into pass through organ by the directly opposed Dorregaray, there cannot be a iniquity in the cause of ignorant, maudlin stone's pronunciamento respecting the Pawhich the ex -Premier has just before spoke tains. pacy, and that she wrote to the Holy Father Mr. Gladstone's moments doubt, has shown consummate skill sentimentalism." so uncompromisingly. characterizing her late Prime Minister's fiery the from forces his extricating in care possible argument is that the utmost ' Puritanism' and injudicious impetuosity in they were threatened with must be taken if the Church of England is to cordon by which severe terms. It is no secret that Gladstone THE PASSION FLOWER. The gathering together be preserved from what he clearly regards being encircled. soldiery in the valley of has attended no meeting of the Privy Council the Spaniards discovered South since, and that Dr. Newman, the able Papal When as the imminent risk of a catastrophe. of the Alphonsist from Carlists of the other plants refuter of Mr. Gladstone's tract, has had amongst saw, they Whereupon, says the Quarterly-" There are Segre, the withdrawal America, the preparations for battle new to them, a climbing shrub, having from prophecies that tend towards their own before Puycerda, being made, on the one hand two to three fruit-bearing flowers, unlike more than one audience with her Majesty." fulfilment ; and we might have preferred once more now and, on t lie other, by Dorregaray, by Jovellar, Sincerely prophet. other sonic had ever seen. One day a priest perhaps, and more formidable any they believing that the advice Mr. Gladstone gives all portend another was preaching to the Peruvians, or aboriginal THE HEALTH OF TILE POPE. taken recently has that any than conflict the Church, amidst the wild scenery of their is diemd in a spirit of loyalty to of which may largely inhabitants, result on the one place, worth is she that correspondent or the Journal Roman Passion The conviction was the a subject His and with forests. not merely of Catalonia, native preserving,' at least for the present, we must depend the fortunes, of our Lord. His eye suddenly glanced at de Bruxelles writes that in the course of a Carlists The Spain. of all indirectly, but, observe that we do not accept his description this curious flower, which hung in festoons conversation which he haul a few days ago at do no more now, after three years of of the present position. She is not in that can from the trees overhead, and like St. Patrick the Vatican with one of the Pope's medical just their submit than condition of dead -lock that the next attempt heroic endurance, with the shamrock, he saw with the eye of a advisers, that gentleman said to himany do to prepared been have as they cause, the sad story of " Undoubtedly he is eighty-four years of age, to turn must break the machine. She has been to the saint a vivid picture ofof thread years, last three these during time tribulations, worse which sur- and his deportment, walk, features,announce through brought safely Calvary. The rings battles. We .louht whether her destined duty towards decision of the God of round the cup of the flower, and which are old age. But his sight, hearing, memory, it, the nation"-gather a mild way of putting mottled with blue, crimson, and white, sug- intellect, vivacity of repartee are those of a is fulfilled." Imagine for an instant this TIIE PERSONALITY OF THE ()EVIL. gested the crown of thorns, stained with man in full vigor. His health is good, and resisits incessant work, misfortunes, and the Church of God, the Church founded by of the Devil has recently, blood, to his mind tutored by meditation Personality The its represented vicissitudes which would bring down an our Divine Lord Himself, having fulfilled as our read ers are aware, been under discussion the five panthers on the stamens, things! of all nails consumation the the styles, ordinary constitution. lie is, in fact, in permission before before Sir Robert Philliniore, in his judicial the five wounds ; the three The very utterance of this " doubt" of the capacity. An Anglican clergyman, the Rev. which fixed our Blessed Lord to the cross, fect health, has no infirmities, and may live Quarterly as to whether the Church of Mr. Cook, had been summoned before him by and the singular column which rises in the still for many years. I must also declare England has fulfilled its destined duty a parishioner named Jenkins,to whom he had centre of the flower, were made to bring that he submits himself willingly to our implies an admission that the Church of refused the so-called Anglican Communion. before the mind of those wild savages the prescriptions which he did not formerly. England is not the Church of God, is not The pretext for this refusal was that the harrowing scene of the Second Sorrowful Last week he was bled, as he is always at the changes of the seasons. His medical advisers the Church teaching not one nation, but all aforesaid Jenkins had declined to believe in Mystery of the Most Holy Rosary. nations. Its very title, indeed, is an the Personality of the Devil, and had gone So without bibles or books, did this holy follow the old practice, and he has not to admission on its own part, that it is clearly so far as to publish a revised edition of the man instruct his converts on the Passion ; complain of it." not the Church of God, which was avowedly Bible, from which every allusion to his and to this day our beautiful creeping garto teach not one nation alone, but ;ill nations. Satanic Majesty had been carefully elimin- den flower is called " The Passion Flower." LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN FOR 1875. " Go and teach all nations," said the ated. As a mere matter of justice, Mr. In all language it bears the same name.Redeemer, and the words express, obviously Jenkins wised to insist upon his right to Young Crusader. Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1876 was The Church the of mission the and exclusively, receive Communion. Commenting upon this selected at a meeting of the Corporation on Catholic or Universal. In regard to the singular action in a court of law, the keenMonday, 5th July. The honour fell on 1)r. CASHEL. OF ARCHBISHOP the Church of England's mission, however, witted London Correspondent of the Union, Conservative, who was Quarterly, doubts simply whether it has yet after having remarked that Sir Robert PhilThe Right Rev. Dr. Croke, Bishop of Owens, a Protestant the lion. Mr. Vereker, a Conbeen quite fulfilled. It has passed safely limore, when he haul resolved upon taking Auckland, New Zealand, has been appointed proposed by Sir James Mackay, a by seconded servative, before now through worse tribulat ians. time to consider what should be the nature of to the See of Cashel in succession to the adopted, The Quarterly is simply at issue with Mr. his decision, asks-Why, in the name of com- lamented Most Rev. Dr. Leally.)..Dr. Croke Catholic Liberal, and unanimously members Gladstone as to its having been brought now mon sense, this delay ? The matter at issue is a native of the Diocese of Cloyne, and is a although the great majority of the the Conto belong do not Corporation of the into a condition of dead -lock, the next seems hardly to ad niit of a moment's question! near relative to the late Bishop. 1/r. Keane. Protestant Church. attempt to turn which must snap the A famous judgment, which had been relegated, lie had been for sonic years President of St. servative party or thesays) call to mind an machinery. hardly-one would say-can as to the last resource, to the Supreme COIL- Colman's Diocesan College, Ferinoy, which We cannot (the Nation been selected having a Catholic of instance this he the indestructible Church founded mittee of the Privy Council, decided-was it he directed with great ability and efficiency. civic office in any city or by Our Lord when the so-called believers not through the bland and mincing lips of Ile distinguished himself by his opposition for the highest Catholics were in in it are continually crying out that it is in Lord Westbury ?-that the place of final to the mixed system of education, and his town in Ireland where the danger ; just in the same spirit that leads torment was definitively abolished. After masterly advocacy of Catholic claims. His a minority. Mr. Gladstone now to declare that the the closing of that establishment, says the Lordship's administration in New Zealand utmost caution will be required to preserve writer in the Union, the Devil obviously has has been marked by great prudence and JOURNALISTIC. it from destruction, or, as the Quarterly, no longer any raison d'etre. His employment discretion. Dr. Croke is one of the most which conceives him to have gone, perhaps, a has become a sinecure, and he can no longer eloquent of the Irish prelates, and accepted Statistics in the United States show that a rather has that, saying in far little too maintain his positiou after the rude shock the invitation of his Eminence the Cardinal during the past year £1,600,000 were lost in painful doubt whether it has fulfilled its administeted by a late Chancellor to that Archbishop to preach the sermon on the newspaper enterprise. Anent journalism, mission, not to Christendom, with which it kind of institution. It is, no doubt, perfectly centenary of O'Connell in the Cathedral, the New York Herald is stated to have lost has nothing whatever to do, collectively, but true, as has been remarked, that a Govern- Marlborough street, at the religious festi- 500 per diem, or £180,000 yearly. The daily with a bit of it, that is with England ment shows itself less vigorously opposed to vities on 5th August, Fattier Burke's expenses of the Tribune amount to £300, of sinecures when they are held by members of delicacy of health preventing him from the New York Times to £200, and of the THE CARLISTS. World from £140 to £160. Literary ladies their own party ; and it is incontestable, says doing so. would do well to cross the Atlantic, for fiftyThe Revolutionary onslaught upon the the writer in the Union, with admirable After a Liberal. is women are now editing journals in the the Devil seven that Carlist position, at the very moment when gravity, THE IRISH POLICE AND FREI:MASONRY. States. the telegrams from Madrid were announcing all, it is this, perhaps, as he remarks, that the in Freeman's appeared letter Recently a that the troops of the Government were caused the momentary hesitation on the part Journal urging on the Government the carrying everything before them, has been of bin Robert Phillimore. of forbidding members of the desirability ILLNESS OF FATHER BURKE. front advancing stayed. Quesada, in lieu of constabulary to become members of the Salvatierra into the Aniescoas region, has THE HOLY FATHER AND THE GOVERNOR OF Irish following announcement is made by The stated was Society. It Secret Freemason retreated upon his own footsteps and taken MALTA. that a policeman who had joined the society the Galway Vindicator of July 3 :-The up a position directly south of Vittoria. that the Very The Governor of Malta-a Protestant-at could not well do his duty in the case of a public will be rejoiced to learn been In marching his victorious soldiers back stopping of crime ; and, more- Rev. Father Burke, who has from the battle -field of Trevino, he contented a banquet given in honor of the Catholic brother Mason accused charged that somehow member- at the house of his sister, Miss Burke, himself with laying waste the country, Archbishop of that Island, spoke as follows over, it was his since city, this in -street, Dominick a hateful patrondestroying the crops, and carrying off the of his Holiness the Pope :-" I drink to the ship of the society "created of the service t" which indisposition, is steadily recovering. Absocattle. After the blustering intimation that health of that great and sovereign man who, age in the raDks that policemen are pro- lute repose has been prescribed for him, so the veterans of Don Carlos were beating a although despoiled of all, is yet the most means, I suppose, are Freemasons. The that he remains mostly in bed. He was because they IX. moted is, Pius earth-that on monarch powerful beyond all retreat but ignominious and hasty of the force, and however, able to get up and celebrate Mass, the French frontier, it becomes perfectly His words made the circuit of the world, and letter came from a member another member of the in his own room, on two morning this week, clear that a small portion only of the tear - his constancy and firmness are admired by it was answered by Tuesday last and yesterday. The illustrious guard of Dorregaray was constrained to pass all. Even I had the honor of being admitted force-a Mason-who, however, contented vague denial. This is Dominican is in the very best of spirits ; and into Gallic territory, the main body of his to an audience with him, and I can assure himself with a very add that I have the eminent physicians who consulted on his troops havilig entered the north-east province you that I was stricken with veneration and a serious matter, and I may Freemasons have been case have no apprehension whatever that of Spain, midway between the sea-shore and admiration for that grand, holy High Priest, frequently heard that unduly favoured in the matter of promotion after a short rest he will not be able to the range of the Pyrennees. Entering the who is the greatest man on earth." to the delight of his In recognition of the kind treatment in some, at least, of the Government offices resume duty as usual valley of Segre, he himself was last heard of fellow-countrymen, and indeed of the whole at Seo de Urgel. There, or somewhere in manifested by the Governor towards the in Dublin.
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