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SUBIACO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1877.
Settexal Sltattiugs, A NEW MONUMENT..
The monument to be erected in' New Y,Ork harbor, by French citizens, as s. memorial of the co-operation of French with'' American arms in the War of Independence, will apparently be the newest wonder of the world. It will consist of a figure of Liberty, 120 feet in height, placed on a pedestal of similar altitude, so that the head of the goddess will tower aloft 240 feet. The right arm, which will extend upwards, will be 35 feet in length, and will hold a lighthouse in the hand, so as to be useful as well as ornamental. The famous sculptor, M. Bartholdi, who is the designer, is at present in America, and has been giving some interesting information on this and other great monuments. The colossus of Rhodes was 105 feet in height, and was five feet smaller than a figure executed in bronze for Nero at Rome. In modern times ambition did not soar so high, and the bronze " Bavaria," at Munich -the greatest in our days-is only 60 feet in height. The cost of the French project will be enormous, but no one doubts for a moment that it will be contributed. The whole French nation is invited to contribute, and the smallest sum will be taken. When the collections are complete the names of the subscribers will be arranged in a book, and one copy of the work given to each State in the American Union.-Catholic Messenger.
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Speaking of Sept. 27 at Leeds, as a luncheon which followed the layine of the foundation -stone of a new seminary of priests for the diocese of Beverley, Cardinal Manning said He did not believe that the temporal power of the l'ope had ceased to be. (Cheers.) lie believed that so long as there was a Christian world the head of the Christian Church could never be a subject, and if he were not a subject he must be a sovereign. (Cheers.) We were witnesses of a great excitement, which was affecting the whole civilised world. There was a time when the supreme pastoral rule of the Holy Father sufficed to maintain the moral order, when, in spite of all conflicts and all ambitions, it was sufficient at least to govern and pacify the world. That period had long passed. Springing from it and surviving it was a period of what men called the law of nation, international justice, mutual responsibility between the peoples of the Christian world, and a respect for treaties, engagements, and pledges. For a long time diplomacy was found to be enough to preserve the peace of Europe, and to terminate its conflicts. He was afraid we had survived that period also, for it appeared as though the obligations of diplomacy had at this time very little influence in binding the consciences of governments; and as for treaties written under parchment, we had seen the sword put through them in our time and in recent years. What remained 1 There re: miAned the iron age in which some eight or nine millions of men are under arms, and the promise is made to us that when the governments of Europe shall have carried out the provisions they are making, there would be some eleven or twelve millions of men ready to cut each other's throats. It seemed to him that the experiment of dissolving the temporal power, as far as a man could do it, had already produced ominous and menacing consequences which darkened the horizon of Christian Europe. He, therefore, believed that the Divine Providence that had governed us so long had not yet departed from the Christian world. He earnestly hoped that a European conflict might not come again, but of this he was confident, that the only issue from it would be the restoration of the moral order to the Christian world, in which alone was the perpetuity of peace. There were great'things yet to be done and yet to be seen, and he hoped that Pius the Ninth would still live to see at least the commencement of these things (applause). In a subsequent speech the Cardinal said :-No abhorrence had been conceived by any one throughout the length and breadth of our country which exceeded in intensity the profound horror with which every Catholic had regarded what are called the atrocities of Bulgaria. (Cheers.) They had been taunted in the public printe with their passive attitude. They have been passive because they believed it was easier to light fires than to quench them, and when fires were once lighted they exhaled smote, and when smoke was thick men could not see their ways, and they did the very things that they had desired not to do. (Cheers.) Thee believed that in the present crisis there werd perils to the whole European civilisation and to the whole Christian world ; and they could not be be so light either in heart, or head, as tongue as to give expreasion to anything but
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to them an event of unusual interest. Lord Charles George Archibald Douglas, the only brother, and, I believe, the heir -presumptive of the Duke of Hamilton, has become a Catholic priest, and this morning, at the Carmelite Chapel, he sang his first Solemn High Mass. The ceremony was attended with much pomp. The robes of the noble priest and of his deacon and sub -deacon were of the most gorgeous description, and the music. as it always is at this chapel, was superb. Lord Archibald Douglas was born in 1847. He was educated at Eton. He was appointed a cornet in the 11th Hussars in 1866, and he was aide-de-camp to Baron Napier of Magdala during the Abyssinian war. He is senger. the son of the 11th Duke of Hamilton and of the Princess Mary, daughter of the Grand Duke of Baden and cousin of Napoleon III. READY TO FIGHT. His voice is sonorous and musical, and he Events in Europe point so plainly to a sang the Mass with great expression. general war that it becomes a matter of interest to inquire what is the strength of the armies maintained by the various powers. AMERICA. We derive the, following particulars from a phamplet recently published by a distinThe late Lord Bishop of Havannah died a and we (M. and Russian general guished beggar. He was absolutely without worldly D. Advertiser) have reason to believe that means when called away, -and his funeral exthe figures, if not accurate in evew particular, penses were subscribed. This astonishesthe are approximately so quidnuncs. " What a fool he must have' Englend.-Population, 31420,000. Armed been " is their comment for they cannot force, 437,667 men ; consisting of permanent understand a charity which gives away army, militia, yeomanry, volunteers. everything. The New York Sun summarises Belgium.-Population, 5,113,000. Armed the case with a force that deserves recogniforce, 130,000 men consisting of permanent tion :-" A singular man was the Bishop of army, garde civique active. Havannah, whose death is just announced by Holland.-Population, 3,716,000. Armed telegraph. The despatch tells us that this force, 85,000 men ; consisting of regular bishop had to be buried by public subscriparmy, schutery active. tions, as he left nothing, having given all his Denmark.-Apulation, 1,661,000. Armed possessions to the poor. Queer, was it not ? force, 52,000 m'tn consisting of line, and its Sonic people will say he was a very foolish reinforcements. man. He had plenty of chances to make Portugal.-Population, 4,376,000. Armed money, which he might have put out at force, 160,000 men. interest till it grew to a fortune. He had a Sweden.-Population, 4,227p00. Armed good salary, which he might have hoarded force, 150,000 men. up, and by which he might have enriched his Turkey,-Population, 37.976,000. Armed heirs. But, instead of doing any of these force, 586,000 men consisting of regular things this singular bishop had given all his army, let reserve, 2nd reserve. irregular troops, possessions to the poor, not leaving even and auxiliaries. enough to pay the expenses of his funeral. Switzerland.-Population, 2,669.000. Armed He died of the vomit°, which is raging in force, 201.000 men consisting of elite, re- Havannah. He did not run away from serve, landwehr. the city because the vomits raged in it, but Germany.-Population, 40,582,000. Armed remained there for the sake of his flock, who consisting of regular were falling victims to it. Some people will force, 1,310,000 men army, depots, garrisons. say that this clergyman ought to have loqked Austria.-Population, 35,904,000. Armed after himself but alas he neglected his own force, 1,034,000 men ; consisting of regular interests in every way. The Havannah letter army, landwehr. published in the Sun lately, which told of France.-Population, 36,102.000. Armed his illness, said he was greatly beloved by the force, 1,423,000 men consisting of regular whole population. army, reserve army, territorial reserve. Russia in Europe.-Population, 68,884,000.
the nag et measured language on the Tight oceasion, and almost ,ifisilent council among .h with WhOln cenne4 was to be taken. (Cheers.) He bekieved that the duty of erg,' witle ,thud OeTY .leyel patriotic subject at the present time; was to lend the whole of his support in beat, and will, and speech to Her Majesty's Government, be the Government what it might. (Cheers.) He was convinced that the duty of every Englishman was to forget himself in the great crisis in which this country might be compromised into one of the most terrible European conflicts with which we have ever been scourged. (Cheers.)-Catholic Mes-
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Sunday rest is added to the Sabbaths, fasts, and festivals prescribed by his own law, the orthodox Jew has only thirteen working days month of thirty days. It is not, out of however,' a month of self-indulgence ; the tenth day is a standing example to the contrary. It is a day of atonement, a holy convocation, a day on which "ye shall afflict your souls" (Lev. xxiii.) The tenth day is entirely given to prayer and meditation, undisturbed by eating or drinking, from even to even, a period of twenty-five hours. The nine days preceding it are called, together with the fast itself, the ten days of repent. ance. On the eve of this day it is common to visit the graves of the departed. In the synagogues the shoes are removed from the worshippers' feet as a sign of mourning. Many dress entirely in white. All recite a long general confession of sin, and perform the rare cermony of kneeling. The ritual observed on this day when the Temple was recited ; and then occurs the series of ejaculation quoted in " Daniel Deronda :" "Happy the eye which saw all these things, but verily to hear only of them afflicts our souls ; Happy the eye which saw our Temple and the joy of our congregation, but verily to Happy hear only of them afflicts our soul the eye that saw our joy and the gladness of afflicts it of only our soul, but verily to hear Happy the eye that saw the our soul fingers when turning every kind of song, but verily to hear only of it afflicts our soul 1"
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Armen force, 1,520,000 men. Italy.-Population, 26,801,000. Armed force, 823,000 men ; consisting of regular army. reserve, militia. This gives a total of 7,881,677 soldiers in Europe ; but it appears also that, including the Landstrum, which Germany has just organized, the military strength of the German Empire can hardly be estimated at less than three millions of armed men, which swells the grand European total to something like nine millions and a half of soldiers.
THE FENIAN CONVICTS AT CHATHAM.
The cells in the prison in which the Fenian prisioners are confined at night are still kept a profound secret, but it is known that they are in different parts of the building, and that the convicts are placed in different cells nightly, only the Governor of the prison and one or two warders knowing there whereabouts. This precaution is adopted to prevent the possibility of any warders who are on duty at night being tampered with so as to give information concerning the part of the building in which the prisoners are confined.
Don't-Don't insult the poor. His muscles may be well developed.-Don't colour meershanms for a living. It is simply dying AN ARCHBISHOP'S CARRIAGE. by inches.-Don't throw dust in your teacher's A handsome new state carriage for the eyes. It will injure the pupil.-Don't worry about the ice crop. Keep cool, and you will Right Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Archbishop of have enough.-Don't turn up your nose. at Sydney, has just been completed, and is now bright things. Thinkof bread and taxation. on view at her Majesty's coachbuilders, -Don't boast of your pedigree. Many e fool Messrs. Moran and Co., Long Acre, previous has had a wise ancestor.-Don't bey a coach to its dispatch, in a week or two, for New to please your wife, Better make her a little South Wales. The body of the carriage is of sulky. --Don't write long obituaries. Save graceful and noble proportions, and is painted some of your find words for those living.- a rich lake colour, relieved with delicate lines Don't publish your acts of charity. The Lord of crimson, the mountings, lamps, and fittings will keep the account straight.-Don't mourn being silver plated. On the panels of tht over fancied grievances. Bide your time and doors the armorial bearings of the Archbishop real sorrow will come. Don't put on airs in have been richly emblazoned by the celeyour new clothes. Remember your tailor is brated mute heraldic artist Mr. D. T. Baker, suffering.-Don't be too sentimental. A dead who has now had the honor for many years heart properly crooked will make a savoury of painting for the Royal Family and the meal.-Don't ask your paitor to pray without Corporation of London. The arms of the notes. How else ran he ,pay his provision Vaughan and Herbert families with the bill 7-Don't ask the Lord to keep our gar- Archbishop's crest and motto are executed ments unspotted. He isn't renovating old with taste and judgment, and greatly enclothes.-Don't linger where ," your love lies hance the general appearance of the carriage. dreaming." Wake her up and tell her to get The interior is lined with blue Morocco breakfast.-Don't put off subscribing for the leather and ample provision is made for paper. Send in your name without further books, vestments, &e. Altogether the carriage reflects great credit on the eminent firm of delleyt7s. e builders who have produced it.
RIOT AT A TIomg RUM MEETING AT DEPTIPORD. A public meeting, convened by the Green-
wich branch of the Home Rule Association, was held on Monday night, in the Lecture Hall, Deptford, and led to some riotous proceedings Lord F. G. Osborne, who presided, when he rose to address the meeting, was interrupted by cries of " O'Donovan Rosso," and a party of between-twenty and thirty rnen in the body of the hall raised cries of " Total separation," and " Three cheers for Mulcahy." When the disorder which was thus created had somewhat subsided, the chairman attempted to speak, but disorder again prevailed, and he resumed his seat. Mr. F. H. O'Donnell rose to propose a resolution, pledging the meeting to support a Home Rule candidate, but was met by cries of " What has Home Rule done i" and a continued fire of interruptions. It then became evident that the disturbance came from an organized body. A subsequent speaker was
similarly interrupted, and a remark that" he had no objection to conspiracy or to physical force, but that he believed that the men who came to public meetings ,to shout about fighting would be the last to fight,' led to a regular melee. The Nationalists made p. rush at the Home Rule banner, were repulsed, and a combat ensued. People rushed from all pales of the hall, 'and after a series of exciting skirmishes the riots were ejected. From one of them a dagger, 18 inches long, was taken and was handed over to the chairman, and teveral life -preservers of a formidable character were also seized by the Home Rulers. The rioters appeared to have conic from London by train, and several of them returned wounded to Charing -cross. After the meeting had resumed, the police appeared and kept the doors during the remainder of the pt.: ceedings.
FATHER BURKE IN THE NORTH.
Father Burke, the Dominican, preached on Sunday in Kircubbin-a remote district in the diocese of Down, and the reappearance of the most popular of Irish preachers attracted to the village church an assemblage as remarkable for its munificence as for its numbers. A sum of no less than k800 .was " The fine taken upon the occasion. autumnal morning," says the Ulster Eramirter, " which ushered in the Feast of the Dedication of the Churches of Ireland, beheld the old and the young, high and low, the rich and the poor. from every point of the compass, from far and near, turned towards Kircubbin. By rail and road the thronging people went, and when the ceremonies of the day commenced in the secluded spot so favored, a scene there met the eye which attested more strikingly than words can tell
the.nndying faith and fidelity of the Irish people. The splendid sermon oddreased to that multitude we endeavor to reproduce, but the cold type of the printing press cermet conjure up the sonorous intonation, the A, CONVERTED NOBLEMAN .CNLEBRATIti(;gesture full of gram and -meaning, and The THE DAY as ATONEMENT. generally magnificent delivery of the great HIS FIRST MASS. ' Dominican whom the Cardinal et th6Oharch A correspondent of an English Catholic Sunday last was the tenth day of the of Ireland del ighte to call ptineeof petit:ties*. contemporary writes .--' At the beautiful seventh month of the Jewish year. The The glowing diction, full -of learning aiit'of chapel attached to the monastery of the sanctity of the number seven, which supplied imagery, is, however, preserved, and nest' to Discalced Carmelites, in Kensingten, a small Philo with the materials for a long treatise,' the pleasure, of hearing the disconree should but very select and aristocratic company of extends to the seventh month. It is ,be thatof pelng it; As Father Bourke's Roman eat holies have assisted at what was eminently a month of prayer. When' t4e. voice rang but clear as a:Wm:ion, through the