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SUBIACO, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1876.
No. 26.-VoL. III.
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I have lution to consecrate all my efforts to the by thousands. The few remarks which cause. We are not animated by any sectarian, well-being and to the prosperity of the popu- quoted are symptoms of an impiety which is ; we, nor poisoned by Communistic, plottings who have confided their destinies to predominating. together with our truly Christian people, lation me. To attain an end so noble I will recoil destructive and infamous horror in such hold THE AMERICAN SCANDALS. from no sacrifice, mad by every means I can sentiments. SUL MAURICE O'CONNELL. dispose of I will take special care to mainWe can hardly believe that anti -Irish The American Republic has had an evil tain the most loyal relations with the Holy champions of Protestantism who. ardent The almost In maintaining in rottenness. will persevere political self-assertion for reputation Apostolic See and with t he worthy prelates memorialised Her Majesty praying that Sir every department cf the State the mercenary that all Ireland has not as much capacity as of Ecuador. Maurice O'Connell. President of the Legismotive has been more or less powerful in in- is necessary to manage her internal affairs. " But as man is always helpless without Queensland, should never fluencing the course of legislation, or the Insignificant islands and dependencies Lave the assistance of the Most High, i beseech lative Council of to fill the post of Acting appointments to the public offices. Admirers of won their Parliamentary independence ; we your Holiness to pray for my goverument and again be appointed been present at the the country and its Constitution deplore this, ask, therefore, shall Ireland be for ever de- for myself. May your Holiness deign to Governor, he havingbanquet where the health and long for a reign of purity. possibly it graded. or, as O'Connell said, allowed to shower your benediction upon this Repahlie, O'Ct tone] I Centenarypostponed to that of the will be brought about in the near future, after remain for ever a pitiful, pelting province 1' which reposes all its happiness, all its love. of Her Majesty was taken much " by their step. the recent accumulation of scandalous dis- As no people ever won or regained legitimate and all its glory in the public profession of Pope, have not " be remembered that on the It will by many closures. In this connection, we cannot avoid freedom without making resolute efforts and the Catholic Faith. occasion referred to Sir Maurice O'Connell pointing out that the Presidency of General necessary sacrifices, we are resolved, together your preserve Providence Divine " May against than sinning. sinned much more was Grant has been marked by an unprecedented with our people, to co-operate with our fellow Holiness by His omnipotent protection. He was invited to the banquet held in memory development of official corruption. A futile countrymen, in sustaining the glorious leader, of the distinguished patriot whose name lie ANTONIO BORRERO." effort was made to prove that even he was Mr. Butt." bears. He had no idea that in going he was not above suspicion, hut his greedy creatures to be made a participator in the piece of unseem to have vied with each other in turning patriotic ill -breeding by which another toast their positions to monetary benefit. A PreHORRORS. OF OF CATALOGUE A CONDITION RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL was to receive precedence over the health of sident who saw himself bound up with so BERLIN. the Queen. lie was the victim of one of those Some time ago, the Pall Mall Gazette felt inconceivably venal a crew might well resort little priestly tricks by which those who perto some desperate expedient to avert a crash constrained to say that there was nothing the Church A missionary of the Protestant petrate them love to mark their separation he must have felt to be impending, and what British public relished more keenly than a religious the of account deplorable gives a assertion from the healthy good sense of the general so efficacious for his purpose as the relighting " big, bloody butcher's bill." If the of Berlin in the Church community, and to affront public opinion by of the flame of religious discord ? Happily, be true, the British public has had nothing to and social condition The missions of the States," he giving priority to the toast of a dispossessed he has over-reached himself, and aroused a complain of recently. The Blackburn atrocity Gazette :-" horror baffling description-has been says, " lately enabled us to have a deeper look foreign potentate over that one in which wave of indignation that promises to sweep condition of the pcpulation. Englishmen are accustomed to express their interior of the into Sunderland. at discovery, followed by the him out of power for ever. portions of the body of a child, which gave The experiences made on this occasion have loyalty to the Throne and all those ideas of that spiritual misery country and reverence for law of which that certitude palpable evidences of dismemberment. The procured us the example of Wainwright has evidently had has gained a frightful extension among the is the symbol. In his reply to the memorialVULGAR Pitn.runtce. due effect. In Sonwsetshire a young woman poorer classes, Their views of life Show that ists, Lord Carnarvon, in a few well-turned and the father-whose the most absurd materialism has replaced the sentences, points out the folly of their petition. Don Carlos is said to have felt much hurt has been murdered. her would shock a Kaffir Holy Scripture. Among the working classes The entertainment was a " luncheon given by at the reception given to him on landing at earlier treatment of Then there is the belief has got a footing that men are but the Roman Catholic bishop," and " appears to Folkestone. It is little wander. lie may -is in custody for the crime. involves mur- animals, only with a little more sense, and have been held under theauspicesof the Boman possibly have thought, in his Mexperience, the Brompton mystery. which of a wife id we frequently hear the scornful remark Catholic clergy." This Lord Carnarvon evithat the grand principle which makes every der and forgery ; the killing to stupid enough still we are think Do you husband quasi dently thinks is quite sufficient to account for of a killing the man free when he sets foot in England had Forfar ; and We need not be.ieve in the immortality of a soul 1"The the ungracious procedure which forms the subsome chord of sympathy in the hearts of the in another part of Scotland. lesser, though distinction of position and fortune, the differof ject of the memorial, and at the same time masses. Many others have thought so before particularise the catalogue which, ent adversities of life, contribute to under- prevents it from deserving any serious notice. him. The lower rank of the English potpie still grievous, deeds of criminality, sensa- mine the belief in God. They consider Sir with despatch pays a compliment to recognise no emotitm higher than itseir own for a week or two. hare bristled of the daily religion good enough for children, but mere The Maurice O'Connell's distinguished career," and prejudice. They admire no foreigner unless tional headings in the columns well can We "capable people. grown-up lie wasuot fur that nonsense to glut opinion the enough expresses numerous he cronies anioneat Ilwin with such (Totem tails press, het they are 'hen, HA the greediest. &nil all this takes place in a imagine that such ideas cannot further of intentionally connecting himself with any " tst (.'grist was a good man,' said proceedings by taking part in whieit tie could et ery'llour told. from s2lsris:ianity. :re we which land iN smith Spain, hr be 1.11.1.111t be inferred to consider any person entitled .ziiest,thonglithe country some pulpit or platform, enjoys a speeial one of the workmen to me, 'butt he preached kti a much of loving our neighbours, whilst to higher honors titan his Sovereign," All iropelatud iii the struggle. but lie blessing front heaven-a land teemiti4. with ten 11.01 I best.' to love themselves wli,, aee undoing good or glue Man everybody ought this was, of course, quite well known to the that which he conceived to be their mission - only quote these expressions to illustrate the memorialists before, from Sir Maurice his r:;_.:11; a.: a Pliny, and a cathol,e, and beyond their own slior,....,,preaul globe. general decay of religion. It is unfortunately O'Connell's uwn assurance ; but as they were the .maricr of evtry over ageneies :us' hi nie tin' ,ii.'1,11-11,1i,01 of the legion of brutal heathens not only among the lower classes, but it is not content with this. and wished to pursue \\-iih ht the ii Picot It It clually increasing among, the so-called well- their petty complaint. it lets resulted in prosver.ton. retrained riots at home. asseducated, Only lately I heard in good society curing for the object of their suspicion one of ;IIIiu-tilt 1,1? i. ri the hope expressed that thirty years hence the Iti:Aest compliments that could tie paid ri,1 11:1,4` there will be no mere clergymen, because no- to the loyalty of a subject by the representative oith-i,t, (),,e/to n. 'rite .1 stirs Ix CHINA. and how of -the :overeign.-Austrulfistern. body wants to study thistM:sy flu I'i.mrrr :Inno,in, es that the .fesuits pleasant that will be,' said tt man of high be t utneui churches wi II sr he atI reand ing, when in China. Cnder are having gloat Many, even DEATH OF THE LIST REPRESENTATIVE OF cent iieatic, th,-, 'have obtained possession into places of anniscruent; TIIE CoNt,stios fir- CoNxtatarts. ot the large amount of properly belonging to ladies, boast of not having been to church A RACE. since their childhood. ' The Bible is not true,' 111(.1,1 2(to years ago. and confiscated at their The e1er7 of the deanery of There is always something specially nielansomewhat 1,o:irkissti,u1 a expulsion. From the profits arising front they say, 'and the life after death a fable,' but l'ontamara. bite these possessions they are building in Canton when such impious people are on their death- cli,,ly about the death of the last representative :Ole iatilfe..t., on the condition of that a catheult al whieli is to cost 3.0o(ysto dollars, bed, and when we are sometimes called to of a race. This is felt in some degree as the di-ttict. mid the etr.,1 therettp,m ofthe them. we find nothing but despondency and death of the sole and last hearer of a family the pi incipal iuortitai and in'a wr quits as magnificent in l'ekin /iii de-Hra,ion while do:relies said to be thronged with wor- despair. As people have neither the want name which with his death becomes extinct. :lie titles neglect by Vchig and Tory shippers are rapidly going up in every imp-1r- nor the time for prayer, they also neglect to But when the disappearance of the individual Cote. 1,1 Irish int,re-1-, flu,staulitiou tanteity in the Empire. The French Minister teach their children to pray. When we re - also involves the end of a whole race, which our parishioners to at tend the church passes from the earth without leaving any of ',Bosnia a of tibunuant proof. Vast has olitttined from the Chine,. Government a Butt representative, or any trace of its existence, ',el- of reel:6,1,1,1e mountain laud lift in donee permitting the priests to decide all and receive the sacraments, 11Py tell usfaith. theeffect of death becomes deeply intensified. questions of law betwu.ken chinese Catholics common sense has now triumphed over The s one condi' ion in \\Moll they tries when tvhi:It is falsehood and swintlline% Thtoe W tilt the death of the poor old native woman of the Ithie xvere vvitlotrawn. and those who still adhere to the Chinese th. connemara there are ;linen IlinViT or immense importance. who are not quite so bad have other excuses who (lied the other day at Hobart Town. the a' -of this desct.iption if begleeted 1 he ptie-ts also pick up feandlinga lay the for not attemling the church the women say Last member of a rest' which was a powerful In, that their hushatuls prevent them from doing std numerous ose within the tuemury of many might hum land. '1 Itmotintaiti districts so, and the poor plead the want of proper people now living passed away. The Tasmanturned into vast sources of empHymenl, soul clothes as an excuse. The profanation of Sun- ian aboriginal has become utterly extinct, of nein :Ind heast. This C011,0111ellt may be clearly seen from the successful efforts ANTONIO RORRERO'S LETTER TO THE POPE. days increases more and more; it. seems as if and one branch of the human family, by the the day of Our Lord were established in death of this old black woman, ceased to exist. made by some excep.ional lanclIonts. For The following letter from Antonio Borrero, Berlin to indulge in pleasures, which are Tales will long be told of the irrepressible instance, liteltell Henry, Esq......., has given a 110tile UN:11.1,1e on this subject huti- elected to the presidency to the Republic of very often criminal. The desire of gain in- savagery of the Tasmanian native, of the dreds of act,- have been feel:dined by him. Ecuador nn the lith of last December, directed duces the proprietors of manufactories to struggle between him and the settlers, and growing now on tracts on to the Holy Father. hasbeen received by him. compel the poor workmen t o work MI Sundays, of the memorable " drive," when a cordon Corn mops was formed all across the island with such \viny l,. so to speak. a snipe could hardly that It ie a magnificent testimony from a Catholic anti thus, between the burden of labour and ruler to the common Father of Christendom. pleasures, people forget that which is most disappointing results. But all of these stories Doting. necessary, their salvation, An accruing rest- will in future be told of a vanished race. The het, 'Cvatigr, to say. neither personal in- It is as follows Most holy Father.-Called, though un- lessness characterizes new the population of localiioniclers who write about the death tcre-t. nor benevolenc.,. nor rcgard for the of choice spontaneous all large cities. It makes one uncointortable of usable old " Lelia Rookh." appear to by free and has stiiiiiihneut the worthy, the tenantry want of the al tent ii,n of' a Lumerous class or landed pro- my fellow -citizens to govern the Catholic Ile- to witness the discontent of the working derive satisfaction frosts mentioning that it is hoo,n iir this vast wa puhlic of Ecuador, I fulfil with a profound classes and their hatred against the rich. As " an admitted fact " that " she was a queen," prietors. \yito obit which l'oang. a hundred year, ago. designa- satisfaction the agreeable ;old honorable duty long as they earn they never think of saving, and that "site haul five husbands all kings." b.d. ness; The nulliels,11, of informing your Holiness that on the Otti of and when they are root of work and suffer and from speaking of this Itoor old bhtekhowling Spot, of green sward caltivated by indus- the month of December last I took possession from poverty they make their employers re- woman as " Ber Majesty." Perhaps these ti ions tenantry, Ind from which they have of the Presidency. and that I took before the sponsible for it. Another deplorable condi- distinctions are of quito as much intrinsic been evicted. and thus robbed of the traits of National Congress the oath prescribed by the tion is that die ties of families are no longer importance as many others on which great respected, whiiit must hasten social and moral value is placed. 13ut their lustre and the their hibour, are significant proofs of what constitution of the thate. " This sacred promise imposes on me the ruin. The introduction of civil marriage has feeling of il,We they are so well fitted to pronosy be done by a judicious application of done great harin. because people in their ig- duce ought not to cause us to lose sight of the sire Holy Father, of by fair enMost respecting all. obligation, capital and labour and, couragement on the Intl of the proprietors to and of causing to be duly respected the norance will not understand fluid this new law real significance of the fact that this old lie Catholic Iteligion, and of preserving to the does not release them from their duties to God, woman, whether gin, or squaw, or lubra, or the occupants, personal interests might greatly enlianceul. remunerative employment Church the just liberty of which she has need and the enemies of Christianity use it to queen. was the last of her race, and that with given, and the people redeemed from the for the exercise of her ministry, in lending confirm them in their belief. A great number her the only representative of a whole people bondage of a harassing and impoverished to her with loyalty and firmness the support of children remain unbaptized, or are only passes out of life and human history, of the authority which the station has placed what they call christened by the magistrate. condition. "We are convinced, by the present condi- in soy hands. I have promised it solemnly to The Church has no longer a right. to ask tion of lrelarel as well as by the past, that God and to the country, and now I promise whether people are married by a minister of A CATHOLIC REPUBLIC, neither prosperity nor convent 'tient can be it to your Holiness, not only on account of God, or by the secular authority. In one word, The Republic of Ecuador on the Pacific, enjoyc(1 by our comory until our domestic the oath which have taken, but also to obey the confusion in this sphere is already great, line with. affairs are managed by Ihe Queen. the Lords, the beliefs and the principles which 1 profess and unconscientious people still increase it. shore, directly under the glowing to the north, and Commons of this nation. We therelow as a Catholic, as an affectidnate son of the These are only a few sketches of the religious the United States of Columbia free and renew our adhesion to the Home Nide organi- Church governed by the august Vicar of condition at. Berlin," concludes the mission- and Peru to the south, is essentially ary. " Do not imagine that these few ex- intensely Catholic. There are those who deny sation, and state that we shall use eery Jesus Christ. exist in can Catholicity and freedom that legitimate means to ensure the cordial co" I have accepted the difficult and thorny amples which I have given are exceptional a falso operation of our respective flocks in the sacred charge of time magistracy with the firm reso- cases on the contrary, they could be counted conjunction. They err or lie. It is
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