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D u m V O B IS G R A T U L AM U R , A N IM O S ET IA M ADDIM U S U T IN IN CCEPTIS V E S T R IS CON S TAN TER M AN E A Y IS .

from the Brief of His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 1870.

Vol. 52. No. 2010. L o n d o n , O c t o b e r 19, 1878.

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Death of the Bishop of Orleans. — The News from Afghanistan.— Lord Napier on India and Afghanistan.— Sir Bartle Frere and Sir J. Stephen’s Opinions.— The New Russian Demand.— The Rhodope Commission. — Turkey and Austria.— England, France, and Egypt.—The Anti-Socialist Bill in the Reichstag.— Sunday Closing in Ireland.— The Home Rulers.—VacationSpeeches.—The Panic in a Music Hall.— Catholic Chaplains for Prisons . . . . 481

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P e t e r ’ s P e n c e .............................. 485

L e a d e r s :

The Position in India . . . . 485 The Bishop of Orleans . . . . 485 Religious Life at Oxford .. . . 487 j Irish Intermediate Education . . 488 \ Detectives in Irish Catholic

Churches . . ......................... 488 Accidents from Panics . . .. 489

R e v i e w s :

Treatises by Jesuit Fathers of

Maryland . . . . . . .. 490 Oxford; Its Social and Intel­

lectual Life .. .. .. 492 Vestiges des Principaux Dogmes

Chretiens Tires des Anciens Livres C h in o i s .........................492

E N T S . , „ „

S h o r t N o t ic e s ;

An Introduction to theDevoutLife,

Page by St. Francis of Sales . . . . 498 Manual of the Arch-Confraternity of the Cord of St. Francis . . 493 Horse Sacrae seu Sacerdos Sancti-

ficatus . . . . .. . . 493 Magazines for October . . . . 493 Our Native L a n d ......................... 494 C o r r e s p o n d e n c e :

Dr. Pusey on Confession . . . . 494 Canon Dixon on the English Re­

formation . . . . . . .. 494 “ Mr. E. Ryley and the Important

Question that he has Raised.” . . 494 The Study of Latin and the Use of the Classics in Schools .. 495 Converts to the One Church of God 495 A Further Appeal . . . . . . 495

C o r r e s p o n d e n c e (Continued) :

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A C a u t i o n ...................................... 495 R om e : — Letter from our own

Correspondent ........................... 497 D io c e s a n N ew s

Westminster.. ... . . . . 499 Beverley . . . . . . . . 499 L i v e r p o o l .......................................499 Newport and Menevia . . .. 499 Shrewsbury.......................................500 I r e l a n d :—

Letter from our own Corre­

spondent ......................... 500 F o r e ig n N ew s

Germany . . . . . . . . 501 United S ta te s .......................................502 M e m o r a n d a :— Religious .......................................503 G e n e r a l N ew s : ..................................503

CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.

DEATH OP THE

BISHOP OF ORLEANS.

A N O T H E R great figure has passed t-\ from the scene. T h e venerable

B ishop o f Orleans, Mgr. Dupanloup, expired very suddenly on Friday week at the chateau o f M . A lbert du Boys at La Com be de Lancey, near Grenoble, where he was paying a visit on his way back from Rom e to Orleans. The history o f the Church and religion in France during the m iddle and greater part o f this century will always be inseparably connected with the memory o f Bishop Dupanloup. H e was nearly the last survivor o f that illustrious band o f workers, orators, and writers who fought the battle o f Christian education and Christian charity against the spirit of bureaucracy and infidelity, and played th e principal parts in the great Catholic reaction against the anti-religious current which set in with the first Revolution. H e has outlived Ozanam, Gerbet, Montalembert, Ravignan, Lacordaire and his friend the A b b é de Chéruel, M. Foisset, the eminent judge who was the biographer o f the great Dominican, and many other o f that company not less distinguished than some of these. Almost the only survivors of what may be called that generation o f Catholic writers are Mgr. Dupanloup’s great friends, the Comte de Falloux the D u c de B roglie; M. Louis Veuillot, his great antagonist; and the Comte Franz de Champagny. T h e Bishop o f Orleans, however, had not reached what is now considered a very extreme old age. H e was only seventy-six. Born on the 2nd of January, 1802, he was educated for the priesthood at St. Sulpi^e, and was shortly afterwards made chaplain to the little D u c de Bordeaux, and subsequently to his aunt the Dauphine, usually called the Duchesse d ’Angoulême. H e soon made himself a great reputation as a preacher, and above all as an “ apostle o f youth.” “ Tu es apostolus juventutis,” said Pope Gregory X V I . to the young and ardent ecclesiastic. H e took part in the famous Conferences at Notre Dame, became a Professor at the Sorbonne, and soon entered, with Montalembert and M. de Falloux, on that brilliant campaign on behalf o f Christian education which culminated the other day in the foundation o f the new C a tholic Universities free from the control o f the State. Elsewhere we shall enter more in detail into the labours of the life which served so well the cause o f religion and o f Christian society. We will only mention here one remarkable incident o f Mgr. Dupanloup’s career as a priest. When the great Prince de Talleyrand, formerly Bishop of Autun, was dying, every effort made for his conversion seemed to be useless. But Mgr. Dupanloup was successful. T o his ardent exhortations the proud reserve o f the dying statesman

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yielded. And, after a long night spent in preparing his penitent for his passage out o f this world, the confessor was able to say, in announcing his death, “ Seldom have I seen a repentance more complete.” In 1849, under the second Republic, Mgr. Dupanloup was made Bishop o f Orleans, and his life and labours in the episcopal office have since then been known to all the world. In 1854 he was elected a member o f the French Academ y , which he never attended after the election o f the Positivist, M. Littrd. H is devotion to the sick and wounded during the Franco-German war, his success as an orator in the National Assembly and the Senate, his liberation o f Catholic education from the fetters imposed on it by the State, his constancy in defence o f the rights o f the H o ly See, his fervent protests against the designs o f those who aim at unchristianising his country, will be fresh in the memory o f all. H is last act was an eloquent appeal on behalf o f the temporal necessities of the Supreme Pontiff, an appeal which called forth from the H o ly Father the warm acknowledgment published in these columns. On his return from his recent visit to Rom e he halted for repose at the country house o f his old friend, M. A lbert du Boys, near Grenoble. There the malady from which he had been long suffering, pericarditis, struck him down. H is legs had begun to swell alarmingly, and he had to be carried from one room to another in an arm-chair. But the day before his death he had been able to receive H o ly Communion, and on the very evening o f Friday he had just finished his recital o f the office for the day, when, as his chaplain was reading to him, he was seized with a sudden fit o f suffocation, and expired a few minutes after seven in the arms o f his chaplain, after receiving the last absolution and indulgence, in perfect possession o f his faculties. H is body is embalmed and will be buried at Orleans on W ednesday next, Oct. 23rd. R . I .P . Mgr. Couille, his coadjutor, has taken possession o f the see by right o f succession.

T h e accounts from Simla are that a steady n ew sHfr o m and conllnuous movement o f troops is going Af g h a n i s t a n . towards the frontier, many o f the regiments having reached the positions assigned to them.

A ctiv e measures are suspended until the arrival o f the reply o f Shere A li, with which our agent the Nawab Gholam Hussain, is on his way from Cabul, and is expected to arrive at Kohat on the 20th. It is understood that i f the tenour o f the letter be unfavourable active operations will at once commence, the necessary preparations for an advance having now been completed. I f the reports brought down by hillmen to the frontier stations may be relied on, the appeals o f the Am ir to the chiefs o f the hill tribes to make common cause with him against the British have been coldly received. The friendship, or even the neutrality o f these tribes, or some