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Vol. 37 . No. 160 5 . L ondon, J anuary 14, 18 7 1 .

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‘C hronicle of the Week : Ad­

dress of the English Ladies.— Death of a Cardinal.—Mr. Monsell Canvassing.— The New Postmaster-General.—Papal Demonstration at Naas.—Higher Education in Ireland.—The War : Paris. ■—Paris under Fire.—Paris : the "Forts.—The Provinces.—The Infidel and the Catholic Camp in France.—The Reds in _Paris.— The English Ambulance in Paris. &c., & c . .....................................29 (Leaders :

The Right of the English Govern­

ment to Interfere Recognized by Italy . . . . . . 3 3 Higher Education in Ireland.—II.

Sir R. Peel’s Attempt in Favour of the Queen’s Colleges, and

C O N T

Failure.— Evidences of the National Feeling . . 33 A New Policy needed towards

China . . . . . -35 The French Catholic Relief Fund. 36 Peter’s Pence.....................................36 E nglish Administrations and

Catholic I nterests. — XX. William Pitt foiled and Robert Emmett Executed. . . * 3 6 The Anglican Movement ; The

Law of Marriage.—The Jurisdiction of Colonial Bishops.—The “ Church Herald ” . . -37 R eviews :

The Life and Labours of S.

Thomas of Aquin . . - 3 8 Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey . . . *39

E N T S . R eviews (continued) :

Memoir of the Life and Works of the late Charles Barry . . 40 The Window ; or, the Songs of the Wrens ...... 41 The Four Cardinal Virtues . . 42 Cloister Legends ; or, Convents and Monasteries in the Olden Times............................................42 Short Notices : The Gregorian

Chant Mass, “ Missa Tortii Toni.” —A Novena, &c.—The Waverley Novels.—Waterton's Essays . . 43 Correspondence :

The French Sick and Wounded :

Orleans . . . . - 4 3 “ Other Worlds than Ours” . .43 A Hint to the Charitable . . 43 Rome: Letter from our Roman

Correspondent . . . - 4 5

R ome (continued) : Letter from our Italian Corre­

spondent . . . . . 48 The Address of the Catholic Ladies of Great Britain to his Holiness Pope Pius IX . . . 4 8 R ecord of the Council :

The Bishop of Birmingham on

Infallibility......................................... 49 D iocesan News : Westminster . . . . - So

Southwark . . . . . 50 Birm ingham......................................... 50 I reland :

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ......................................... 5 1 The War ...... 5 3 Memoranda :

Religious . . . . . 5 3 General News . . . . 5 3

C H RO N IC L E O F T H E W E E K .

‘ HE example given by the ladies of Rome address of 1 ]l a s been taken up by those of Vienna, ™ ™ s . ISH Milan, and other places, and has now reached England. Everywhere they have, with their signatures, given their Peter’s Penny, though it may have been only a florin or a franc. In England there is the absurd idea that if you cannot give much, better not give at 'all. But on the Continent there is the persuasion that the ocean is made up of drops of water, and that the fertilizing wain falls in drops from Heaven. The Address will be found in another page. There is one sentence in it quite worth extracting. It will afford a genuine consolation to the Holy Father. “ It may be better for us,” the Address says, “ and more pleasing to God to lay at your feet our “ earnest intention to try and conform to your repeated and “ urgent exhortations by resisting worldliness and imitating “ you in the glorious stand you are making against the “ enemies of religion.” We take this to mean that these English ladies intend to set themselves against the extravagance in dress, the extravagance in repasts and entertainments, the extravagance in furniture and luxury, which some French ladies have recently commented on in the kindest spirit, in letters to the Times, as developing in England in a manner which reminds them of the extravagance and luxury which, begun by corrupting French society, has ended by destroying it and their country together. Apropos of worldliness and the Pope’s teaching upon the subject of dress, &c., we may refer our readers to a little book published by Mr. Bentley, entitled, An A ppeal to Young Christian Women, by Marie de Centelles. No nobler work could be undertaken by the Catholic women of England— and the Address says that “ their numbers are Xi daily increasing ’’— than to take a courageous and determined stand against the luxury and extravagance of the day.

Ihe example, or the fashion, must be begun at some time, and by soiw persons, unless- English society is to be sunk and eventually losi iw its own corruption. Have not the Catholic ladies of England, trom tKc facf* that they ars Catholic, a mission to practise, in their own persons, that saving mortification and self-denial which is the only antidote to corruption ? We think that they have. And we would counsel them to associate with themselves in such a national and Christian enterprise the sterling women of our middle and lower middle classes. Social corruption descends from the high to the low ; and so should the antidote.

A letter from Rome announces the death

Cardinal.A of his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of

Ravenna. Monsignor Enrico Orfei was born New Series. Vol. V. No. 114 .

in 1800, and was created and preconized Cardinal in 1858. R.I.P.

Mr. Monsell, the new Postmaster-General, is 011 an electioneering campaign, there being L ' threats of a “ Nationalist” opposition. The Town Commissioners of Rathkeale have addressed him. They say:— “ Your appointment to a Cabinet office gives us “ great hopes the day is not far distant when the Emanci“ pation Act will be carried out in its entirety, by admitting “ Catholics to the highest offices in the State. We look on “ your appointment as an indication that the foreign policy “ of the Government will not be hostile to the Head of the “ Church, and we rejoice that your elevation will give you “ increased influence in vindicating the rights of Roman “ Catholics.” Catholics have been taught by experience that place has too often an influence on principle. They need not, however, fear this in the case of Mr. Monsell any more than in that of Lord O’Hagan. And the Town Commissioners of Rathkeale were quite right in saying that his “ elevation will give him increased influence in vindicating “ the rights of Roman Catholics.” Whether his appointment is an “ indication of a foreign policy that will not be hostile “ to the Head of the Church” is another matter. AVe have discussed in another column a plea on which a Government policy might be based, and one which Mr. Monsell may be reasonably expected to give his attention to. It has been matter of comment that neither Mr. Monsell assisted at the public demonstration in Limerick in favour of the Pope, nor Lord O’Hagan at that in Dublin. But a very simple answer may be given : both of these Catholics are actually members of the Government, and there was a fitness in their abstention from a public act which had for one of its objects to memorialize Government. Men do not sign and forward petitions or addresses to themselves. Nor can there be any doubt in the minds of the well-informed, that they both sympathize with the Catholic movement and will use their best influence in behalf of a just foreign policy. The same excuse, however, cannot be alleged in favour of the lawyers, judges, Castle men and others seeking for promotion, who abstain from any Catholic movement out of fear that their religion may stand in the way of their worldly advancement.

Great satisfaction, in which we fully share, ^ throughout the County and City of general. Limerick at Mr. Monsell s appointment. His high personal character, joined to his known talents for administration and organization, had marked his fitness for the high post to which he has been preferred ; a post never, except in very rare cases, held by anyone below the rank of a Peer. The gratification is, however, not wholly unmixed so far as Catholics are concerned. Mr. Monsell’s appointment does not give him a seat in the Cabinet. According to Constitutional precedent the Post