No. 39.-VoL. IV.
6entral MItantitgs, Pius IX. AND HIS MOTHER. The chronicles relate that in 1799, in Italy, in the little town of Sinigaglia, one evening a mother and child were at prayer. According to the laudable and pious custom pm-valent, they set themselves to recite the Rosary before the statue of the Blessed Virgin, to implore the Madonna to aid the Church. so profoundly affected at the time. Suddenly the young mother seized the child, and inswing him near to her said : " Dear little one. pray with more fervour than ever, for armed men are around the Pepe ; he is a prisoner, and they drag him far from Rome I" At these words the child joined his hands and prayed with the fervour of an angel. Then rising, with tears in his eyes he asked why the good God permitted the Holy Pontiff to be thus treated. " My son," answered the mother," it is because the Pope resembles Jesus Christ, whose Vicar he is, and also in order that our confidence may be tried. Let us pray earnestly to the Madonna, and she will hear our prayers." This mother was the Countess Mastai Ferretti. The child had received in baptism the name of John Maly ; to -day in the Church they call him Pius the Great ; they call him the Pope of the Immaculate Conception ; they call him Pontiff-King ; and the legend given to him for a device is " Crux de cruse."
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SUBIACO, MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1877. extricate five of their mates from the horrors of death by starvation. From the Queen downwards, everybody, day after day, watched with breathier; anxiety for news of the result of their splendid exertions. These obscure labourers were not, like the soldier, seeking, in the imminent deadly breech or in the cannon's mouth, the bubble reputation. They were working in the bowels of the earth, in grime and darkness, hewing their way with pick and drill through yards upon yards of solid coal to get at their accidentallyentombed companions. When warned, at the last, from persevering in their efforts, that it was all hut certain death to themselves, by reason of the blasts of the pent-up air their last blows upon the thinned barrier
would release, with a roar like that of artillery-one of them, after the first momentary hesitation, stepped to the front with the quiet remark, " Well, I'll go in. if 'tis death." six others in rapid succession following his glorious example. And they went in-and. as all England knows full well, they conquered. If ever men earned a badge of honor those seven men earned it. If ever the gold medal of the Royal Humane Society was merited those seven Welch colliers have, beyond all question, merited, its bestowal upon them, one and all. For, the five miners they rescued were distinctly saved by them from the hazard of drowning, and of drowning as miserably as so many rats caught in a trap or in a drain -pipe. And the heroism of these men is by no possibility traceable to any ignoble motive. It sprang from the purest dictates of humanity. Acts of heroism there. no doubt, will be in the course of the THE CATHOLIC UNION OF IRELAND AND terrible war now immediately beginning in THE ITALIAN Eastern Europe, but no nobler instances of it "CLERICAL ABUSES in its purest and loftiest form can by any BILL. chance come to light than those which during The following is the protect recently issued these last few days have by sympathy by the Catholic Union of Ireland against the swelled the hearts of all England in watchItalian " Clerical Abuses" Bill :-The ing the desperate. but at last triumphant, Catholic Union of Ireland have heard with struggle of these humble anti illitera e giief and indignation that a Bill against the descendants of the ancient Britons in rescuso-called abuses of the clergy has been intro- ing their fellow workers from destruction. duced into the Italian Parliament. In union with their brethren in Italy and throughout Christendom they protest against this unjust sacrilegious measure. They protest as VON MOLTKE ON THE ARMIES OF GERMANY children of the best of Fathers. Pius IX.. the common Father of the faithful, whose AND FRANCE, sacred rights as Vicar of Christ and the Field -Marshal Von Moltke took the oppordivinly-appoin tad I I ead of the Christian tunity of Tuesday's sitting of the German family on earth, this Bill violates and l'arliament to deliver a speech of a rather tramples under foot. They protest as kind, which showed clearly enough ominous Catholics, to whom our Lord ,Tesus Christ has given the right, of which this measure that he had been studying the first article in seeks to deprive them, of recurring to the the current number of Blackwood's Magazine. The occasion of his harangue was the Govpastors of His Church, and especially to the Sovereign Pontiff, for direction, for guidance, ernment demand for the salary of 122 and for support in all their doubts and captains to be added to the peace footing of 'he Army. in regard to which, the veteran spiritual necessities. They protest as Chris- admitted that, the rank and file remaining at tians, believing in a sacred heirarchy which God has instituted for the government of his their present numbers, the new officers were not much so wanted in peace as in war, spiritual kingdom, and which this Bill would thwart, degrade, and enslave in the discharge Germany, he said naively, kept only 400,000 of its sacred duties. They protest as sons of men ender arms, against the 487.000 mainCatholic Ireland, which, through weal and wee, tained by France. Theiefore he insisted. as has always remained faithful to the Holy See, the French battalions were actually intended and which heresy or schism has never separa- to be doubled in war, it could not be said ted from the Infallible Chair of Peter. because that Germany was intent upon armaments this measure endeavours to tear Catholic Italy than her neighbor. The French Military from the Roman Pontiff, who ia her joy, her Budget, lie further pointed out, exceeded the glory, and her crown. They protest as men. German by 150.000.000f. a year, not includby whom the principles of justice, of honour, ing extras. Von Moltke spoke with evidently and of fair play are still cherished, because grim admiration of the haste, the zeal, and this measure, if passed into law, would the uncommon intelligence with which the violate the pledged faith of treaties ; would colossa work of French military recognization encroach in the most offensive way on the had been completed. Referring, then, oddly, rights of the clergy, who had always been a to Germany as a pacific country, he said he did not mean to insinuate for a moment that class of citizens without reproach, and well deserving of their country ; would set up the the people had actually become oblivious of the achievements of their troops ; but added civil anthority as judge in the spiritual domain, which is altogether outside its com- that there was certainly a marked tendency be niggardly towards them. If they petency would force the judiciary to con- to demn the innocent, who had acted only in wished the German Army to be strong, they should not begrudge in the necessary outlay. accordance with their conscience ; and in flagrant violation to the Italian Constitution, France had the advantage over them in numbers and in maintaining her war cardes would, assuredly, entail a religious persecution-Signed on behalf of the Catholic Union during peace ; they relied upon the careful of ',Ireland, GRANARD, President.-Dublin, education of the individual soldiers rather thon upon excessive strength. The fresh 17th March (Feast of S. Patrick), 1877." captaincies proposed were intended to prepare 122 important officers in peace for the work they would have to do in war. Depend upon it, he said, these 122 captains would HEROISM. have little spare time for amusement if they Heroism has, happily, not died out amongst consented to appoint them. The money, as, The age has not altogether deteriorated. about 700,000 marks a year, was then voted Within a fortnight of each other two noble - by a large majority. hearted Paris doctors have sacrificed their lives in the interests not merely of science, but of humanity. Dr. Cintrat was the first THE 12TH OF APRIL. to perish through blood -poisoning, a couple of weeks ago, when saving the life of a This anniversary, which recalls two happy patient by sucking the virus from a wound events in the life of Pius IX.-his return And, more recently, Dr. Carriere, at the age from Gaeta and his miraculous preservation of 31, has succumbed through inhaling from at St. Agnes-and which in the years prior the windpipe of a little girl who was suffer- to the Italian invasion was celebrated with ing frightfully from a spasmodic attack of such magnificence by the Romans, has this croup. It was only the other day, again, that year been observed in a religious manner. the heart of all England was stirred pro- The Te Deum was sung in the Church of S. foundly by the glorious self-sacrifice of the Agnese fuori le attire on Tuesday evening, seven humble colliers who set all hazard to and was largely attended. In the Church of themselves at defiance in labouring for days San Lorenzo in Lucina at every Maas that and nights together with might and main to beautiful prayer °reams Pro Posteftee Nostro ;
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was sung by a single voice. The music is Vicar of All Saints, Margaret -street ; A. most sweet and touching, and is well Duncornbe, D.D., Dean of York ; T. T. rendered. The same prayer is sung in that Carter, Rector of Clewer ; Edward Balaton, churzh on the 12th day of each month. The D.D., Archdeacon of Derby ; Charles 0. new -comers, the ltalianissimi held high Goodford, D.D., Provost of Eton ; Edward festivals on that day, but it is needles& to Coleridge, Fellow of Eton, Rector of say that the festival was not a religious one. Mapledurham B. M. Cowie, B.D., Dean of Races took place on Tuesday and Thursday Manchester. &c. beyond the Ponte Nomentana, at which the King and his followers assisted. ;
LORD LYTTON ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.
MR. BUTT'S EDUCATION BILL.
The Corporation of Dublin did honor to the best interests of Ireland and, therefore, of Catholicism, by their demonstration in support of the Education Bill of the Leader of the Home Rule Party. The attendance was large, and the proceedings conducted with the most business -like decorum throughout, yet every now and then wit a unmistakeable evidences of enthusiasm. The very galleries were crammed, and the number of priests present something remarkable. The adoption of the petition of Parliament could hardly have been more effectively moved than it was by the High Sheriff of this city, Alderman Campbell. Referring to the proposal of Lord Mayo in 1868 to found a Catholic College, leaving Trinity College denominational for Protestants, and to the admission of Mr- Gladstone in 1871, that the Catholics of Ireland had a grievance to complain of, he said they only desired to have the same liberty which they would confer on others, and to have their children educated under their own guidance, believing, as they did, that religion should form a part of education. The High Sheriff warmly commended Mr. Butt's Bill, pronouncing it complete and magnificent. aasJI
CRISIS IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
The following remarkable document has just been published. It is a memorial addressed to the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England, and has been sub scribed by four deans, eight archdeacons, a Regius Professor of Theology, and many other clergymen of position and in-
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fluence " We, the undersigned clergy of tae Church of England, being anxious to retain the relations of Church and State which have so long existed in this country, venture to express to your lordships, as our spiritual fathers,.the great anxiety and distress which we feel at the present position of affairs On the one side we see coercive measures resorted to for enforcing uniformity, such as have been happily unknown in this country for centuies ; and, on the other, a determination to endure any suffering rather than submit to a jurisdiction which, rightly or wrongly, is regarded as purely secular. Moreover, we are much impressed by the unsatisfaotory character of the authority and arguments to which appeal is made in the controversies now distracting the Church. For whilst the Church of England of to -day has the same right to decree rites or ceremonies, and possesses the same authority in controversies of faith, as the same Church had at any previous period in her history, appeal is now made, not to the living voice of the Church, but to events and documents which have themselves always been matters of controversy. Believing, as we do, in the presence in the Church of her Divine Head, we are convinced that what is required is not the mere interpretation, however skilful, of existing law, but the living voice of the Church clearly laying down what the law shall be in the future. " With this conviction upon our minds, we beg to urge upon your consideration that in our opinion no peace can be secured for the Church, nor can her existing relations with the State be long continued, unless laws for the regulation of Divine service, and for other spiritual matters of primary importance, are made by an authority which both clergy and laity would feel to be binding upon conscience ; and we are equally satisfied that no authority will be considered thus;
binding which does not proceed from the Synods of the Church as well as from Parliament. In saying this we must add that the legislative action of the Church is now paralysed by the apprehension that when her Synodical Acts are submitted to Parliament in the constitutional manner, material alterations may be made in them, and that the final result may be seriously at variance with the intentions of the Synods, and may become law without their consent. We trust that your lordships will take these representations into your serious consideration, and in your wisdom devise measures to allay the anxiety and distress which are now pressing upon Churchmen." Amongst those who have signed this document are R. W. Church, Dean of St. Paul's; R. Gregory, Canon of Bt. Paul's ; B. Compton,
A telegram from Calcutta announces that
the Viceroy, in the course of a speech delivered by him before the Legislative Council with reference to the present famine, contrasted the estimatedexpense of £5,250,000 for a larger area of distress with the actual outlay of £6.758,000 entailed by the previous famine in the smaller area of Bengal. His Excellency, proceeding next to speak of the efficiency of the Army, repudiated any hostile intention on the part of the Government against neighboring States, and explained the pacific character of its frontier policy. He announced the successful settlement effected with the Khan of Khelat, declaring that confidence had been completely restored by British influence. He believed that the security of the frontier was only attainable by the friendly presence and salutary influence of upright English gentlemen among the barbarous neighbors of the Empire, and not by military expeditions.
A JUBILEE CROSS.
Signor Allessandro Barbero has made a very beautiful cross as a memorial of the Episcopal Jubilee of his Holiness Pius IX. A specimen of this work, in gold, was presented to his Holiness, who was graciously pleased to accept it, and to bestow upon the donor and his family the Apostolic benediction. On what may be termed the face the cross, at the junction of the arms, in the family shield of Pius IX., surmounted by the tiara, and the keys crossed on his back. On the other side is the following inscription, coniposed by the Jesuite Father Tongiorgi : -"MDCCCLXXVII-Anno L-A Consecra-
tione-Episcopali-PII-IX-P.M.--Romae." A number of Prelates have ordered copies of
this cross in silver to be retained as memorials of this aniversary.
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR DAUGHTERS.
Teach them self-reliance. Teach them to make bread. Teach them to make shirts. Teach them not to wear false hair. Teach them not to paint or powder. Teach them to wear thick, warm shoos. Teach them to wash and iron clothes. Teach them how to make their own dresses. Teach them how to make a good meal. Teach them how to wear calico dressesand do it like a queen. Teach them to say " no " and mean it. Teach them how to darn stockings and sew on buttons. Teach them to regard the morals, not the money, of beaux. Give them a good, substantial, common school education. Teach them that a good round rosy romp is worth fifty delicate consumptives. Teach them accomplishments-music, painting, drawing-if you have time and money to do it with. Teach them to cultivate a garden. Teach them to have nothing to do with dissolute young men. Teach them that God made them in His own image, and that no amount of tight lacing will improve that model. Teach them the essentials of life-truth, honesty uprightness-and at a suitable time
let them marry.
CONVERSIONS.
News has reached Berlin that Herr Von Dachrbden, one of the leading personages in German Freemasonry, and Grand Master of the Prussian National Lodge in Italy, where he is at present, has been converted to Catholicity. The news has caused extraordinary sensation in Masonic circles at Berlin, and also at the Prussian Court, where he was an important and trusted person. We read in the " Univers" that Onno Klopp, the eminent German historian, has become a convert to the Catholic faith. Herr Klopp was received into the Church by Mgr. Jacobini, the Austrian Nuncio Apostolic at the Archiepiscopal Palace, Vienna. The Baron von Weghe, formerly Chamberlain of the King of Hanover, has been received into the Church by Mgr. Jiraik, Bishop of Budweis, Bohemia.