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The Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese of Dublin met on the 3d, Dr. Paul Cullen in the chair, to make a demonstration on behalf of the Pope. The speech-making on the occasion was very copious. Dr. Cul- len, the "representative man " on the platform, delivered a very long address, some specimens of which we cull out of the chaos for the benefit of the reader.
" While, last winter, thousands of the nobility and gentry, and some of the highest personages of England, were enjoying hospitality and protection in Rome, and were obliged to admire the good order and peaceable disposi- tion of the population—while an English accredited agent was assuring the authorities of the country of the friendly dispositions of the British Cabinet —Lord Malmesbury was drawing up his despatches, since published by order of Parliament, in which he instructed his foreign agents to propose to France and Austria a new arrangement, or rather dismemberment of the Pope's States, though the proposal was so manifestly unfair that he himself was ashamed to take a direct part in its execution. . . . Probably next year some other blue-book will furnish us with the despatches of the present Secretary of Foreign Affairs, which undoubtedly will not be more favourable to the interests of the Holy See than those of Lord Malmesbury. The only difference between the two secretaries appeirs to be, that the former openly avows his enmity and hostility, while the latter, publicly professing kindly feelings, endeavours to deal a fatal blow through the hands of others. . . . While the Evangelical Alliance and the evangelical Lord Shaftesbury, for- getting the maxims of the Gospel, under whose name they disguise their undertakings, encourage committees to collect money for the purpose of arming outlaws, and rebels, and banditti of the worst description, against a peace-loving and humane Sovereign, who has never given to England, or to any of her subjects, the slightest ground of complaint, but, on the contrary, has always acted towards them a kind and friendly part. . . . We cannot read, without horror and indignation, the misdeeds of the men who are favoured and protected by Biblicals and Evangelicals. . . . It is known, also, that every honest man is at the mercy of the assassin's dagger, that many distinguished personages have been murdered or insulted merely be- cause they were attached to the Pope—that religious communities have been dispersed—and that the pretended friends of liberty have polluted the sacred name by their crimes, and especially by desecrating the house of God and stabling their horses in public churches. . . . I know that our feelings will be misrepresented, and that it will be said that we are trembling for the fate of Catholicity, and that we are endeavouring to prop up a system now doomed to final destruction. Many fanatical preachers will make this an- nouncement to their congregations, dancing with frantic delight in their pulpits at the prospect of the fulfilment of prophecies regarding the down- fall of Rome, which have been repeated 10,000 times, from the days of Martin Luther to the present, and as often found to be the offspring of de- luded imaginations. But what is the fact ? No Catholic is in the slightest alarm about the permanent existence of the spiritual authority of the Popes. . . . The noble and generous Emperor of Austria has boldly broken the chains which bound the Church in his vast empire, and given a deathblow to the tyrannical innovations of Joseph II. France, too, is cordially devoted to Pius IX., and we may be confident that Napoleon HI., who sent his victorious legions to drive sedition and anarchy from the walls of Rome, will be always faithful to his antecedents, and persevere in the course on which he entered in the year 1848. Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium, are all now sincerely attached to Rome. Sardinia is the only plague-spot on the Catholic map of Europe; but that unhappy country is groaning under a military despotism, and the people are ground to the earth by enormous taxation, and suffering from the misdeeds of their excommunicated rulers. As to the mixed Powers, they, or at least many of them, are friendly, or must find it their interest to act in conformity with the feelings of their Catholic subjects.. . . The eye of the Pontiff is ever watchful over the interest of the Universal Church; he is anxious to promote all its interests and to provide for all its wants. With the scanty means at his disposal, he has done more for religion and for literature and the arts than many rich and powerful sove- reigns. In Rome he has founded a noble college for all the dioceses of his States, and, under his fostering care, colleges for France, Spain, South and North America, have been called into existence. Encouraged by his patron- age, the learned Father Theiner has commenced the continuation of The Annals of the Church of Baronius and the publication of the Acts of the Council of Trent, as well as the correspondence between the Emperors of Russia and the Popes, and an account of the assistance granted by Pius VI. to 24,000 exiles, French bishops, noblemen, and others, whom he supported for several years. It would be impossible; to describe all that the Pope has done to repair, or complete, or ornament, the churches of Rome, as well as to promote the works of public utility and Christian charity. . . . The ene- mies of the Pope—the agents of evangelical and Bible societies—are teach- ing continually that in Italy there is no obligation of obedience to esta- blished authorities, that the people at every whim can resist their lawful Sovereign, and they loudly proclaim that treason, treachery, and rebellion are great and noble virtues in the subjects of the Pope. Let their principles be widely spread, indoctrinate the inhabitants of the colonies and dependen- cies of Great Britain with such dangerous teaching, and may we not fear that treason, and sedition; and rebellion will soon rule throughout the land ? He that sows the wind will reap the tempest. For Catholics, reverend brethren, the course is clear. Though we have oftentimes reason to com- plain of grievance, yet, when complaining and insisting on redress, we never can forget the teaching of the Scripture, and the Church which commands submission to established authorities for conscience sake—we are to condemn
secret societies of every kind, illegal combinations, and especially all publi- cations tending to promote treason and sedition. The anti-Catholics, while impugning the authority of the Pope, may propagate the most baneful and destructive principles—they may assail the foundations of civil society. We cannot prevent them ; but let us, as far as we can, counteract their evil tendencies by teaching patience under suffering, obedience, submission, and respect to every just law. By acting in this way we shall show that we are truly imbued with the spirit of the Apostolic See and the Catholic Church, always the enemy of sedition and insubordination ; and we shall be better able to secure the assistance and cooperation of all reasonable and liberal men, and to obtain the redress of the grievances which we suffer." The meeting voted an address to the Pope, full of eulogy on that high functionary, and full of denunciations upon those who are called his enemies.
A demand has been made by a priest at Newtownards for an altar and altar requisites for his use in the workhouse of that place. The Poor Law Commissioners have called upon the Guardians to supply the said goods,—an altar and vestments, a chalice and patina, missal and stand, two altar cloths, two candlesticks, two cruets, and a small altar bell,—on the ground that they are " requisites." The Guardians have resisted the order, and the Commissioners have applied for a mandamus. The Lord Chief Justice has granted a conditional order. The Northern Whig gallantly supports the Guardians, and characterizes the step taken by the priests as " an attempt at ecclesiastical innovation altogether repre- hensible."
Judge Longfield decided a question arising out of the transactions of the late John Sadleir. "Mr. Eyre had a security or incumbrance dated 20th October, 1864; Mr. Sadlcir, in August, 1855, mortgaged the same lands to the London and County Bank, who had no notice of Mr. Eyre's prior in- cumbrance, and in the mortgage deed there was a covenant against in- cumbrances, and for further security. Shortly afterwards the solicitors to the bank were informed of Mr. Eyre's, incumbrance ; they communicated with Mr. Sadleir, who undertook to procure Mr. Eyre's release. This re- lease he obtained from Mr. Eyre by means of falsehoods and forgeries, in which, however, the bank took no part, and of which they could have had no knowledge or suspicion. His Lordship continued—Can Mr. Eyre set aside this release as against the bank ? I am of opinion that he cannot, and that a decree in his favour would be a most mischievous precedent, contrary to equity and policy. . . . Mr. Eyre's intention was to release the lands in favour of any party dealing with Mr. Sadleir, he not knowing or caring who that party was. His intention also was that the considerations which induced him to execute the release should not be disclosed to such party. He acted deliberately with full protection, and the assistance of an attorney, and although he has been grievously wronged by Mr. Sadleir, he cannot be permitted to redress that wrong at the expense of the bank, by depriving it of an advantage which it has honestly obtained. I must therefore overrule Mr. Eyre's objection, with costs."
John Harlin, agent of a Mr. Stackpole, in King's County, was directed to notify to some tenants that as they would not pay higher rents they must quit their holdings. Shortly after Harlin was standing near a gate, when a concealed assassin shot him, happily not fatally. Four men are arrested on suspicion.
Thomas Hunt, a tenant at Moneygall, has been shot at while in his bed- room. The shots missed him, however. He had taken land from which a man had been ejected.
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