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SUBIACO, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1878.
ettettal gleanings. ENGLAND AND THE VATICAN.
The French journal L' Union relates that the present English Cabinet will not hesitate to profit by the benevolent dispositions which are attributed to his Holiness Leo XIII. of entering into diplomatic relations with Great Britian. An attempt of this sort was made in the beginning of the Pontificate of Pius LX., but it fell through because the Cabinet of St. James' insisted on the condi tion of having a layman to represent the Sovereign Pontiff in England. Hence an .unrecognized Ambassador or agent was in Rome, and was the only means of communication between the Governments of England and Rome. The last of these, Mr. Clarke .Jervoise, who remained here until the transfer of the ,capital and the arrival of the great Italophile, Sir Augustus Paget, was much respected both by the Pontifical Government ,and the English Catholics in Rome. Lord Beaconafield is not likely to insist on the foolish condition of his predecessors ; and probably the occasion of the re-establishment of the Hierarchy in Scotland may also be the occasion of the re-establishment of diploma. tic relations between St, James' and the
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THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LAMB-
exercise, the Cardinal gave the pledge to several adults, and then enrolled the whole of the schoolchildren and the working boys and girls of the Mission, to the number of about 500, as members of the Catholic Total Abstinence League of the Cross. The scene was, in truth, a most impressive one, and, as the Cardinal afterwards remarked, deeply affected him. At the conclusion of the service of Benediction be was presented with a neatly-designed address on behalf of the children, it being read to his Eminence by one of their number. They tendered him their sincere and heartfelt congratulations on his return from the Eternal City, and expressed the great joy they felt at seeiag him again in their midst after his serious illness and long absence, but they particularly thanked him for the kindness he had manifested in paying them his first visit to enrol them as members of the Temperance League of the Cross. They all knew the tender solicitude and loving care he had ever shown where the interests of children were concerned. They knew, too, how dear to his heart was the Total Abstinence cause and they felt, therefore, that what was so great a source of pleasure to them would be a source of joy to his Eminence, whose prayers they requested, that Divine Grace might enable them to keep faithful and inviolate all the days of their lives the pledge they had on that occasion accepted from their beloved Archbishop's hands. The address concluded with an earnest supplication that God might long spare and bless him. The Cardinal thanked the children for their beautiful address, and would prize it as far dearer and more pleasing to him than any congratulations he had ever received. He besaught them to adhere to their pledges, shun drink, lead honest, pure, and Christian lives, and God would bless and prosper them. They bad much to be thankful for to the good Fathers of the Mission for the interest they had taken in their education and moral training, the happy results of which he witnessed that day. As Catholic children he -prayed them to remember the high privileges they enjoyed, and never to sully their character by taking intoxicating drinks. The Cardinal afterwards preached, after Vespers, at the Church of S. Mary, Moorfields, before an immense congregation, ;
territory is ever annexed, and the tribe, at present divided into two parties, becomes again united and strong, is is possible that the white population of Natal may be swamped altogether.
ANOTHER AND A REMARKABLE CHANGE IN
THE CONDITION OF LOUISE LATEAU. A Reverend correspondent of the
New York Freeman's Journal writes of a new change now taking place in the condition of Louise Lateau. " Scarcely returned from Bois-d'Haine, what shall I say of what I have seen there except that heaven appears to be approaching nearer to the earth, for the blessed soul of Louise is severed more and more from her mortal frame. Yes, since the death of Pius IX. our poor dear Louise has entered into a new eta :e of sufferings, which seems to be the last of her earthly life. She is now but a shadow of what she was before. Her hands are thin and stil her head considerably emaciated ; hef complexion pale, almost livid her sight is dimmed by the pains of the crown of thorns ; the pains in her side provoke a heaving of the chest, distressing to contemplate. Her stigmata are dried up, except those of her hands. Her voice can scarcely be heard, and her speech is almost nothing bat a whisper. She is not any longer on this earth, except when called back through obedience. Her ecstasies, however, are not so long, but are more frequent. Dr. Lefebre and another eminent physician were last Friday (March 8th) at her bedside. They state that all her organs are in a perfectly healthy condition, and, nevertheless, there are all the symptoms of phthisis in the last stages. Those symptoms are produced by the pains in her heart, pains which are so violent that it seems to her that her heart is torn away from her bosom. They produce in her a loose cough, almost continual, but without expectoration." ;
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PRICE 6D. the commanl of Professor Nordensjold, its object being le,,rieted to an attempt, if possible, to hake the North-east passage. Toe " Vega" a small steamer, specially constructed for ice navigation, will be provisioned for two years, and will carry with her, in addition to a scientific staff of four or five persons and four whale fishers, a crew composed of a naval officer and a surgeon, with fourteen sub-officers and volunteer sailors from the Swedish Marine. Professor Nordensjold conceives that by taking due advantage of a favorable season, it will, comparatively speaking, be easy to force his way between the southermost point of Nova Zembla and the Continent of Asia, into the Kara Sea, thence making his way out into the North Pacific by Behring's Straits. His forecast in this way seems to be not unreasonable. But whether the scheme be really practicable can only be shown by the result of the proposed adventure. Hitherto the sea to the North of Siberia has never been attempted, although it is tolerably certain that daring the chief part of the year the coast all along the mainland must be cleared from ice by the Obi and Ynisci, It is rememdered that Mr. Lamont forced his vessel almost into the Kara Sea through the Matockin Straits. Professor Nordenskjold proposes merely, however, to skirt the southern shore, and to endeavor, by creeping along it from station to station, to reach an outlet through Behring's Straits. The enterprise seems, at least, a little hazardous than the one adventured upon under the command of gallant Nares.
The Pope's Encyclical Letter, issued on Thursday, opens with a picture of the evils which afflict humanity, Supreme truths are denied ; the yoke of legitimate authority is PREVIOUS everywhere shaken; cruel wars ravage AGRARIAN OUTRAGES IN nations; laws are despised, and eternal IRELAND. things are held in culpable neglect. Every where there prevails a fury of cupidity-a Old recollections are revived by the series of depredations committed under the assassination of the aged Earl of Leitrim. It is recalled to mind that on the 1st January, pretext of patriotsm, right, and liberty. The 1839, Lord Norbury was shot in the shrubbery cause of all this must be sought in the refusal to obey the authority of the Church. The near his own house in Meath, the Holy Father then proceeds in this solemn assassin been seen to escape, but his identity manner to enumerate the attacks on bishops never been ascertained. The Government on and ministers of the faith; on religious that occasion offered a reward of £1,000, orders, educational institutions, and charitwith an annuity of £100 a year, but popular IMPRISONMENT POE DEBT. able associations ; on the temporal powers sympathy was so strong that no information Imprisonment for debt, it constituted by Christ to secure the civil would appear, is was ever volunteered, although there was only, after all, nominally abolished. Debtors little doubt that the murderer had accomliberty of His Church and to facilitate the are still incarcerated under the designation plices in the neighbourhood. Again on the conducting 40 the populations to eternal of prisoners for contempt of court, and these 23rd of May, 1850, Robert Lindsay Manisafety. The Encyclical continues by describGOVERNING BY " WIRE." unfortunate people are now subjected to everer, a magistrate of the County of ing the maternal and civilising character of Great as have been the advantages derived many cruel and grinding regulations under Londonderry, and agent over extensive the Church recounting all she has done for from it, the electric science and the arts, for missions, an for telegraph has not proved the provisions of the New Prisons Act, which estates in the north of Ireland, was shot near the restoration of human liberty, Formerly an unmixed blessing to the world at large. came into operation on Monday last. Accord- Dundalk while riding home on his jaunting the kingdoms united under the influence of That it tends to paralyze the independence ing to the rules then brought into force, car. Two men, at whom suspicion pointed the Church were peaceful and prosperous ; of subordinates acting at a distance from debtors, or, as we have said, prisoners for irresistibly, were tried for the offence, but now, on the contrary, the Eastern peoples, home is now continually shown. Thus gene- contempt of court, have been transferred the deceased was shown to have been evictseparated and deprived of that bond of union, rals in command of armies in the field have from the civil side of such a place of deten- ing tenants, and the jury, after listening to offer the example of the most frightful been subjected through it to interference tion as Horsemonger-lane Gaol to the the evidence, returned a verdict of not barbarity. To whom, asks Leo XIII., does worse than that exercised by any Aulic criminal side, and incarcerated for over guilty. Yet again on the 12th of October, Italy owe her grandeur and Rome her glory ? Council of old. It is certain, again, that the twenty-two out of the twenty-four hears in 1855, Miss Charlotte Hind was shot by some Is it not to her Sovereign Pontiffs, to whose free use of the wire has added greatly to the the day in solitary confinement in cells of her tenants when returning home on a car memory the Holy City has dedicated her difficulties of European diplomacy in the hitherto appropriated to felons, all access to from Bally Connell Market, County Callen. finest monuments? It is necessary, adds His present momentous crisis. But worse than them being virtually cut off, as they are only The murderers were never discovered, but it Holiness, to preserve the dignity of the all is the effect it has had upon colonial entitled to send and receive one letter per was notorious that the unfortunate lady had Roman See, and again affirm the union of governors, who have been known in moments month, and be visited by one, or, at the out- for months been marked oat by a Riband the members with the head -s-of the sons with of emergency, instead of acting upon their side, two of their friends and relatives at the lodge, and had, moreover, been informed the father. That is why, he says, " we shall own judgment, to refer to Downing -street same time once a month for one quarter of an that her days were numbered. About the never cease to claim the rights and to have for instructions. Sir Michael Hicks -Beach, hour. Hitherto they have been allowed, in latest instance before the recent tragedy was put aside the obstacles to our power, in order in replying to a deputation, very properly the case of Sheriffs' debtors, to see their that of Mr. Featherstonhaugh, Deputyto re-establish it in the conditions in which laid down the rule that this practice of refer- friends daily, and in that of County Court Lieutenant of Westmeath, who was shot when divine wisdom established the Roman ence was greatly to be deprecated. He said debtors on three days weekly from 9 a.m., driving home with his servant from the railPontiffs. We claim that restitution not by colonial governors were men specially selec- till 6 p.m., and to have free communication way station. He was one of the largest ambition, but by duty ; for the Temporal ted as persons of capacity and experience, with each other, thereby relieving the mono- proprietors in the county, and there bad but Power is necessary to the plentitude of the sufficiently strong and self-reliant to act for tony of prison life. Prior to the new Act very recently been several evictions on his spiritual- to the well-being and safety of themselves. To dwarf them into ciphers or they were also allowed the use of tobacco, est4te. The assassins stopped the vichle in a human society. We renew and confirm the mere clerks might lead to the gravest evils. which, by these rules, is strictly prohibited. secluded part of the roan, dragged their declaratirns and protests of our glorious The unpleasant consequences of waiting thus A course of treatment so rigorous could never victim to the ground, and there fired at him predecessor Pius IX. against the occupation for instructions were seen plainly enough in have been contemplated certainly by the BO closely as to scorch his clothes. The cirof our civil power as well as against the the recent political deadlock at Victoria. framers of the Act, who, as the records of cumstances of this case wonderfully resemble violation of the rights of the Church. In the Had Sir George Bowen felt that his com- " Hansard " show, endeavoured by every those of Lord Leitrim's assassination. august name of God we adjure kings and munication with England was cut off, he means in their power, during its progress princes to return to the source of authority, might perhaps have shown a firmer front through Parliament, to ameliorate the position of prisoners. The Legislature when to attach themselves to the Church by bonds against the pressure of his Cabinet. delegating its functions to the Home Secreof love, and to exert themselves to put an end l'HERKS SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE tary, could never have anticipated that such to the evils with which the Church and its STATE OF "-RUSSIA hardships as those just named would have visible chief are afflicted, in order that their been inflicted on prisoners who are merely peoples may walk in the ways of justice, and A communication received by a corresponFUTURE POLICY AT THE CAPE. by that means enjoy true glory and prosdebtors-hardships far greater than those dent of the The tame principle of dealing with Kaffir endured by persons charged with criminal Petersburg Times from a friend in St. perity." The Encyclical letter, which is who has resided there as a meraddressed to the Bishops of the ntire world, outbreaks is that recommended by p'actical offences. The position of debtors is thus chant for many years runs to the following concludes with advice, congratulations and and experienced generals like Sir John Bisset, reduced to one of cruel privation, the extent effect, and no doubt expresses the feeling of and now seemingly adopted by Mr. Sprigge. of which could not have been exceeded had the English benedictions. colony in that capital :-" We the Premier at the Cape. This is to make it they been found guilty of criminal offences. are here in a painful state of suspense, and plainly understood that for the time being all ruin is staring us in the face. The people Kaffirs, whether openly hostile or nominally seem to be beyond the control of all well disposed, are all enemies alike. Those considerations but ambition and national THE CARDINAL-ARCHBISHOP OF WEST. who remain at peace generally do so only as aggrandizement. Austria is to be broken up a blind ; they favor secretly our foes, take ARCTIC EXPEDITION. MINSTER ON JUVENILE TEMPERANCE. and 'annexed,' and Europe will be compelled charge of their cattle for them while they are Another Arctic Expedition is just now to bow down to Russian supremacy. A On Sunday afternoon his Eminence the engaged in the field, and only era t actively in preparation. A actually Cardinal -Archbishop of INestminister paid for the right moment Swedish merchant nation of 70 millions, it is said, can furnish to throw in their lot of Gothenburg, a Seotehman by his first pastoral visit since his return from against us. This and an unlimited supply of men for the army, argument does not of conies by name, Mr. Oscar Dickson, descent Rome to the Mission of St. Anne's Spicer - extend to the Zulus, aspires to and as for money, paper notes can be who have no particular emulate, by his mnnificient enterprise ,in manufactured to any amount. No one seems street, lipitalfields--one of the poorest and sympathy with the most squalid districts of the East of 'London Pigott Moore observes, Kaffirs But as Mr. undertaking the whole cost of the expedition, to care for the future of in his lecture at the the brilliant course pursued in the same direc- will certainly be -for the purpose of administering the tem- United Service Institution, a IMO. perance pledges to members ofthis flock. Ile is a very different affair, the Zulu question tion earlier in the century by the great gin But the spirit of tavowsli:iet and will have to be distiller, Sir Felix Booth, who thereby not a pitch that no was greeted with hearty and prolonged treated separately. There is no fear of the only won his knighthood, but got his name moderate the cheering from the large concourse who had Zulu King so long as ho spirit which ill abroad. remains independent, permanently associated on the terrestial The entouragewarlike assembled to welcome hint home after his for Natal is filled of the it said to with subjects globe with enormous tracts withie the Arctic flatter him with the ideaEmperor long absence. After a preliminary religious who have fled from his renegade that he is invincible rule, list if his circle, The new expedition will be under -that he is the obiAtitimr in the world, and I
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