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—........■- i ----------------- Vol. XX., No. 1028. • MM*exertion n»bl rtefcottage decent in i * * * * » % £ , does so, end then the man enjoys ‘« g g g at Us home, stays awayfrem ike ¡■ ¡■ V r » , {1^ : has reached its fitting indent Opp Post also says “ that The Evening its consequences. The way to do this Iwas to persuade the Ministers that, no what th w wishes might be, ^ ^ I from carrying their hostility to the Holy Father into îfcaiiU of •«mutins. H, ; ____ “ it is “ it has ... ... ei!l foui* ret air-tight, it had a brick floor, a Wd ™oh from carrying tneir nosuin>y to J 7 U . Atw1 practice under pain o£ forfeiting their places. An therefore i t was that when the Archbishop a?d f I of Dublin and the Irish Catholic Press, instead of pitias ¿ a s s*?, ,„ ,-v e ry curious, in^ dT ; ci S x « ■•non in s ^ . d n g Post also says that Mr MacMahon, who has r e p r in te d the Coimty of Wexford in two or three Parliaments, started on ginally as Champion of “ Independent Opposition; on whichAhe Times remarks that the Post aP ^ ara, ^ , f°of get that Mr. MacMahon “ forsook the cold shade of “ Independent Opposition on one of the most rem a rk ab le divisions which occurred dunng the last “ Parliamentary session. Nevertheless, adds the Times “ it would be absurd to dispute his claims to “ professional promotion.” In spite of the Post s sneer at the silence of its “ Independent” contemporaries, we feel inclined to say as little as possible upon this subiect. Our opinion of Mr. MacMahon s vote last putting a pressure on the present Ministry, applied themselves to showing that they were no worse than v ' rn j their predecessors, and ' T f u “ *. % words of the Tory Ministers who were out, ratherthan J L the words and acts of the Whig Ministers who were in, - 918 we expressed with becoming freedom our apprehension Will any Irish membe* think i t w « th his 5'rlule^ | . that instead of using their opportunities to help toe " I pope, they were actually strengthening the hand» of t o down “ boarded floors —to erect r ” Z~ houBes, and “ other conveniences,” they might not entirely alter their character and their c0?d" ^ ’ come vfdl-intentioned people and good The poor Irish tenant does not even, aflk t o landtod to d o t o i for him, does not ask a blue or a red ribbon for doing it—only asks that he may not be robbed an exterminated foe doingR. . ■■ ; •1 ~ Catholic 1 f ¿ i l lu s te r s et. Aloys enemies, p u re ly , if a footman, had m curredourd,sou ik i^ •. I i ; j*__n* in anlenoe. i t WOUld. D€ wark: Christmas ä f M M M b H. Diocese > Pope; Qui "!k- : I for drunkenness or insolence, i t would be , a strange method of reproof, if we were to **4bt id: Äeetiug o before us in order to tell him that m he was no worse than his predecessor m e opinion of the Catholic public as to the intentions of the Emperor, has materially changed withm session in consequence of which Lord Palmerston became Prime Minister, and Lord John Russell Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Gladstone Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been repeatedly expressed. Mate afiusion to the appointment will probably be m a d e t j ^ ^ b y Mr. MacMahon himself, or bv his WeHordConstituents ; after which, we Bhall know more of the case than Ave do at present. je of Beverl. Establishm« Lady Iwuift— les to Petition t ; of the _. .ate, Crook. -------tnoiica to reuuuu die Queen. New South LEADERS; The Catholic Declaration and the _ * * * * * 1 : * Ce The Congress; the “ Globe” and the Bishop IRELAND: Pastoral Letter of His Grace the ° t o t few weeks. But we set up no claim of having ;en further than our neighbour». I t may be tnat MS Tuam; the Declaration of the Catholic L Britain; the Most Rev. Dr. Keane, Bishop of pathy with the Pope—Galway Demonstrate] of the Irish Members—the Bishops Pastoral Mercy—Baggot-street; Meetings in Ireland; aminer ” on the Meeting of Irish Members .1 n i __ ___Vila tl ^ _______ __________ g bours. lb m ay ue M ^ lfrom the first oihis intentions has been P ';2 unfavourable, butour opinion of his intentions has not Enf 1 ^ iépverned our .course. , r Pt £ « O . We would have done t h e m » h a d we beheved th a t to « S m i S S ? :^ toToughito ie T e s i a tu s offarmem and labourers in England, may have at le a s ta ^ ea^ of flesh for the people of Ireland. Six years afS° H Lordship a d m i t te d that the Irish tenants were eSjitled to a t least 20 y e a r s ’ retrospective coa^nsarion Evidentlv we may expect a more liberal instalment of the r'r — There has been a most able, a most argumentative, a most affecting, a most admirable speech m favour of Tenant Right delivered this week—by Lord Palmerston. The noble Viscount is a man of rejuvenescences—and each fresh lease of his hfe dates by bucolics. One sees him limping over from (^mbridge House to the Park : watches him strutting shakily down Westminster H a ll; hears him stammering or sees lnm snoring in the House—fancies it is all over with t h e m mortal Cupid. Lo! a week afterwards, he has ridden the Crown for Tyrone; Lord Plunket and hi: Marquis of Clanricarde; Diocese of Cloyr REVIEWS; The Pyrenees, West and East; t. °» an, l i n i t i o n s were excellent. ne fyreiere *" I been and is not with the secret i n t e n t i o n ^ the most lo r t r • - , J„ . s a l S S l e 7 ™ Our business, and the b u s in g of | "fSl Catholics, sincerely desirous of serving the Holy [ y - 1Father, has been to supply the French Emperor and Patriots; New Zealand and its Colonisation, SI CORRESPONDENCE: St. George’s and the Two T the Gracchus of * ?,ope’ fhen, ye serfs of Sligo ! I t is an ill wind that blows nobody nimiumi sua6l bona norint, M „ AgrioolOM 04,^0 I :.. the “ Tablet” and “ Times;” The Declaration of the C: Laity; the Pope and the Emperor; Arc Catholics te Defend the Temporal Rights of the Holy See t In the English Ministry with motives for not injuring the Pope, by showing them that they would not be allowed to injure him with impunity. This has been the value of the Pastorals of the French Bishops, as well as of the other Bishops in other countries. This has been ithe value of the great demonstrations in Ireland, an te jjeiena me icuipuia . . » ___ T-I..1. C.rinnafllV TVIfill t.hft KlUDGEOI*' n/ i to Mr. Ffoulkes; Irish Sympathy with the Lmperoi of t French; the New German Church; Thirty Thousand G( man Catholics in London without C h u r c h o r Schools tholic Poor in English Workhouses; the Catholic .. ...__ . A J : . .,«,1 1*-., Aiicurnr■St I.1>(1 I ine-t-ast; mo xvyx, — ^ : • t>„’ Harper’s Ferry—Execution of Captain Brawn, ~ — !— twenty miles across the country, and delivered twenty i mil« snceches all in a row, all buoyant and riant, lull “d of adolescent vigour, atsome “confounded cattle show.” ip„ Mr. Punch is fond of figuring his LoiriAip as A tto— - H icTof the Catholic Laity; the Pope and the Congreeu --- wit---11----- .... Home Miscellaneous. ... .............. ■MM .......T R u m i n â t as a revreww i of — -——r ------ , . . . eftect of the polioy therein defined was regarded With reference to future complications ; but the feeling among “ moneyed men” was rather hopeful than otherwise, it being considered that Napoleon III. had made up his mind to range himself on the side ot ringland, as represented by Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell, rather than on e 81 e q; a legitimate amu. — The possibility of trading by water between Marseilles and Bordeaux, at present engages the attention of the French Government, aud a plan is under consideration for converting the cannot Kiquet and branch canal to the G a r o n n e , n a v i g a b l e vessels of heavy burden. Iwenty_________ s will cover' the supposed.sxpenso of ¡this uudertakin; for r.OW, Via VTitJiaiww, V7A.X7 ----X* ^ vessels in good weather two months, and three or four in bad weather, will, by the canal navigation, be reduced to 170 leagues, occupying ten days, and free from the perils of ocean navigation. This is an “ idea of a legitimate kind- •> .. y>l»8 ,, ’w M •_ « of Austria. Well, “ moneyed men” . know no _ qq,. war with Morocco has not thus far resulted m more than th#*' poorest amongst us what course the^ j e vements that werej anticipated, and the hope the French Emperor will take, for he will be governed ^ ------A ------ ”"+,‘ ™hreli tlm bv his own views of his own interest at the time of Llie auimJYtJLueuuo «—'—r -----1 * And those views may change from internal action. A P *nuoc uvtio xx~»j — ----- i_T. ^ promptings or from external influences. His pamphleteer, M. de la Guerronniere, a t present represents that the Pope must be an independent Sovereign, and that his territories must be of small extent. He admits, or rather, assumes, i n incompatibility between the spiritual and temporal sovereignties of the Pope, and thinks that the difficulty is to bo got over by narrow­ ing his temporal dopiinions withm small bo ji» » . ih e Romagna he treats as irrevocably lost. France can t and won’t restore it. Austria mustut, and Maples sha’nt. i;uU ‘ w«»l *-!* ' , Strictly speaking, we have no particular business with M. de la Guerronnifcre’s pafaphlet,_or with the French Emperor’s intentions—our business is to protect and help the Pope; and that, as we have over and over again pointed out, is, and has been in our power to do, principally in two ways. First, by impressing the Frendh Emperor with the conviction that if lm mores the Holy Father he will hurt himself, by bringing upoa himself the resentment of the Catholic body throughout Christendom. The Catholic public of England and Ireland had and have |a special duty in this respect, because they possess freedom and facilities which_Catho- lios possess no where else, except in British Colonies and in the United States, and this causes our words and sentiments to be watched and scanned carefully over the whole world. This was the cause of our alarm and regret when the Archbishop of Dublin and t o Clergy were reported as expressing their admiration for and their trust in the Frenc h Emperor, a t meetings convened for the avowed purpose of helping the Holy Father. What was wanted was not to encourao-e the French Emperor to believe that he had a fund of admiration and trust on which to draw in case he should decide on using his power against the Pope, but to convince the Freneh Emperor th a t he had already inspired the deepest distrust into all Catholic«; and that, for his own safety, he could not too soon repair the past, and by unequivocal conduct provednmself to be the champion, and not the enemy, of the Holv See, When a servant’s conduct has been unsatisfaotory, and when his intentions respecting our wine or our plate are doubtful, i t is a bad moment for assuring him of our confidence and esteem, and for trusting him with the k eys of the plate-chest and the Whatever the intentions of Napoleon H I. may be we are not responsible for them, but we are responsible for any evil act of his which different conduct ou "ir*.*****“" ^ , -M s i r t t j d England could help the Pope was by their action on the English Ministry. Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell, and Mr. Gladstone, are the avowed enemies of the Ifoly See, and they owe their opportunities of doing mischief to the votes of Catholic members re* tumfed'by Cathffiic eonstituencies, for the purpose ot bringing them to power. Whoever was to blame for this, our soul, a t least, is free. We protested against of which helped to swell the enthusiasm with which the Spaniards saw the Gross raised against the Crescent. But then wars seldom do realise the .expectations that precede them. j A; The Spanish army has, however, set one question at rest. I t is more than a match for the Moors. In every encounter, and there have now been many, the short Spanish soldier has more than stood his ground against the tall and ferocious Moor. Her Ca,tholic Majesty’s army has displayed the highest military qualities, and though General O Donnell is blamed for standing still when people expected lie was to move oil, cropping victories as he went, it is most probable that in this he shows the highest quality ot a good general, the discretion and courage to do nothing when it is not quite clear what ought to be done. ThuB far he has everything against him : an army inexperienced in war, a commissariat which also has to learn its business, a treacherous enemy, a difficult country a deficient camp, stormy weather, and now and then a deluge. If, under these disadvantages he has held his ground, has repelled several formidable assaults, and taught his soldiers their superiority over the enemy—all this forces us to the conclusion that the right man is in the right place. I f there is any ground to doubt success with such a general and such an army, it is that the Moors seem to have the imperfection attributed to British and Irish soldiers of not knowing when they are beaten. I f four thousand are repulsed to-day, eight thousand come up to-morrow. And they care so little for life that they refuse quarter, stab one another when in danger of being taken prisoners, and when thev can neither stab themselves nor any one else they bite the legs of the Spanish soldiers. This is more than fighting while you have a leg to stand on. __ An Address was lately delivered to the Catholics of Richmond, in Yorkshire, by Mr. M. J . Rhodes, on His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth and the Temporal Rights of the Holy See, as involving the religious, social, and political interests of the whole world. I t o Address, revised and considerably enlarged by the author, is about to appear as a pamphlet. I t is dedicated to His Lordship the Bishop of Beverley, and will be published by Richardson and Son Me give this notice of it because—though by the kindness of th e ’ author an early copy of the work is lyinffo jn r e us_ we have not had time to read it for the purpose of reviewing it, and are nevertheless desirous to bring to the knowledge of our Catholic readers a publication which isso well-timed, at this moment when the aftairs of the Holy See are the universal topic of conversation. As this is a subject on which all Catholics will talk, whether wisely or foolishly, Mr. Rhodes does well to endeavour to put within their reach the means ot saying something to the purpose. , „ *»)-.? -fin — The announcement that “ the Attorney-General “ has directed the junior briefs in the department of “ the Woods and Forests and Land Revenues of the “ Crown to be sent to Mr. P. MaoMahpn, qt the Ox“ ford Circuit, in place of Mr. W. N. Willes, who has L - - c eunty Court Judge, has at , ’ .r iA u f sxTirixxQxrrmv tiY rpstrict as much as t o ' t S ' Ä ^ l S 68 that in t to appointment “ the system termed why not give him a turn as Antaeus i Or (if it would not be profane, which neither Mr. Punch nor Lord Palmerston wouldlmind) as Job? His Lordship speculiar philosophy (though his patience a t the left hand of the Speaker is by no means remarkaMe) always 'Hot.-s ijiosfc freely over a dunghill. Now a t Lomscy, days ago, he appeared m full flow a t a loea Qi £*1 nine iviimabtu ” ,—t 7 fsmalHarmer or agricultural labourer in Ireland—-say, on his Lordship’s Irish estate in Sligo—will be entranc­ ing. Does he deign to speak pour encourager nous mures? Yes, he does. He laments that while there are Blue Ribbons and Red, Stars and Garters, for men who otherwise servetheir country, andfor the fruges consumer nati who don’t, there are none for those raise the fruits, which noble Viscounts, who wear the Stars, the Garters, and the Ribbons, consume He moralises much also on the effect which decent habitations, air-tight, water-tight, and properly boarded, have on the morale of the tenants who occupy them—these tenants being agricultural labourers. As for the higher class tenantry, alas! let our Irish tenantfarmer only fancy the different condition of an English tenant farmer, when he “ears oi an English landlord (who is an Irish landlord also, by the way), urging the improvement of labourers cottages a t the landlord’s expense ; because i t is, in fact a duty that the landlord owes to the farmer, to keep his labourers near him, and to make them per­ ■ ftatest EnttlUflencc. THE PRESIDENCY OF THE £ONGRE Roiie Dec. 21.—The report that the Pope had cUimett the Presidency of the Congress for his Plenipotentiary unfounded* - ' RUSSIA. t ^ » . F exersmu, Dec. oo.-Vrince Gort3c h ^ a hw e |pressed a desire that £ court on that day by the duties of his office. FRANCE. . Paris, Thursday.—Count Avigdor, representaPve ot the republic of San Marino at the court of Pans, has preented a memorandum to Count Walewski, aMressed to the future Congress, against the encroachments of Pied“ The Emperor of the French has conferred the grand >rdon of the Legion d’Honneur on the Prince of Orange. ---- ---THE MOROCCAN WAR. Madrid, Dec. 21.—Yesterday 8,000 Actors attacked the Spanish, but were energetically repulsed, and com pelleiF, by grape-shot « d grenades, «. retreat in disorder The Spanish had 51 wom^M-iU v inen-of-war, formerly, .«flatidnei^,«* HavawtjHu I m -ju t arrived to reinfow ; tiatoAsquadron; M liAJflMwSifehH. s lriA fectly comfortable. Listen to these words, base bogtrotters,” who tilt the unprofitable Irish soil—listen to these words from your lord and Khan : When I build a cottage for a labourer on a farm I do not expect it to pay in money. When I build a good farm-house for a tenant I do not expect rent for that house separate from the farm. Well, the cottage for the labourer ought to be. uccu „P1,v. looked upon as part of the appurtenances of a farm just ag .p aris. much as the buildings for cattle, or any of ‘J080 ot^ ®rSJ; tions essential to the cultivation of the land. How can the land be weU cultivated if the labourers are not well housed ? If they are obliged to trudge three or four miles in order to <ret at their work, and the same distance home again ? It Is manifest that they must be not only exhausted physically, but that their time must be wasted m walking to and from their work, and that the farmer does not get from them his money’s worth for the wages he pays. Therefore I oonsider that in providing a farm with accommodation for the number of labourers to be employed on it yon are giving facilities to the tenant to cultivate his farm, and increasing the value of the farm whioh you let to a good tenant. The idea of a landlord building a cottage for a la bourer on a farm, which he does not expect to pay in money—in order that the labourer may not be obliged to trudge three or four miles to his work and then home again! The idea of a landlord building a " " ' ~ a "good farmhouse for a tenant, and not expecting rent for that house separate from the tear! The idea of a landlord contemplating the erection of labourers’ oottages, buildings for cattle, and “ other erections essential to the cultivation of the land,” as hia business, and at his charge! Only conceive an Irish landlord discoursing in that sty le! Why, he would be expelled from the County Club, cut at the Hunt, andpnoked out of the Grand Jury. I f Lord P a lm e r s tM g tW introduoe such doctrines among his brother squires in Sligo, he would be regarded as Ossawatomie Brown was by the planters of Virginia. as Dy me piauveio w »“ ¡s“ '»“- The worst of the case is that Lord Palmerston lias certain religious conviction m die subject. Believing Original Sin to be aii attau ol Drainage, and holding that it would be “ immoral” to prohibit the marriage of respondent and co-respondent in a Divorce (which theological dogma the House oi Commons, on an Amendment to the Act accordingly affirmed), we need not wonder to find that he believes ,CUI) ” w UuvU AATA.l» " V, v lust, anger, sloth, and drunkenness are entirely onvy, iusi, ttugoi, =iu.h, “ ‘“v“.“—:--------- r -------y due to imperfect ventilation, lh is is the way he puts the proposition:—» {*,¡gv-mtjft'yLr-* •’ ,* .J fcWheu a cottage is in suoh a ramshackle state that it is impossible for the wife to keep it olean she becomes a slattern, , _ everything goes to ruin, the man is disgusted, and flies totn» beershop. If, on the contrary, tbe wife feels that she can by Turin, Thursday.—riarjn been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary dr. this Court, is expected here on batMday. 7 4 ; * -<*u/.T? ' ' ” » *. .1-hr^A ift •£>«’# -v | ^ > • 1 TURKEY. v Constantinople, Dec. 20,-A hmed Wefik Effendrhas been appointed Ambassador to the Imperial Cou.rt ofv ■ X .. 7 ; 7 , — •S T , ’■ l i r ” F loremob, !>•«. i ; .—*1 - d j to-day. n ^arrived here COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGENCE. o-r— f i>i e^-’ | v&U' t 1:' f i In the City, Consols, whfeh had previously been steady at 951 to j; closed ye'sterday at 951 *° *h„0" ghRi 1“ Rentes on the Paris Bourse, declined to 70f. 35c., after from the same | having been at 70f. 70c. Railway shares, cause* relapsed 1 to £ per cent, notwithsandrag exceUent tra'ffics and the prospect of good dividends Money keeps in good demand, bnt thereis no pressure, and the supplies are ample.—Mo7mng Star of Friday. F f H nA^CM.JC. ATP ASSOCIATION^ — - ............. . *** * Amongst tboMjvffioJiave lately joined the Catholic Aid Association, is R. Biddnlph Phillips, Esq., of Longworth, Hereford, who has forwarded five guineas to the fund. We are requested by the secretary toi state that the fact of the Association conducting the meeting to address the Pope, causes no cessation of the ordinary operations, but that the promptest aid (and, dnwes&MJ, legal assistance,) will continue to be afforded should any grievance he reported to the Association, 40, Hartstreet, Bloomsbury-square, London. l mg d The »ARDiifrAN PARLIAHE.M.-The convocation of Parliament recedes more and more into the land of the future. At first it was to be convoked at the beginning, or at any rate towards the middle ot 1'ebruary; now the - _ 5L . ■ . r . 1 fL. 11 tilO 11VTVhiDll Cologne to Matence— on me mm railway between Cologne and Mayeuco 'fas opened t o . ^ ■affic. T • aG n 'id 7 )1 French Embassies.—The Moniteur of Wednesday publishes the nominations of several Secretaries to French Embassies abroad ; among them the_ Marquis Chateaurenaud, as Secretary to the r im b«# L0£ i . _ O » the 22nd inst., at Norwood, James Corner, E»q., of Little Britain, aged 77 years^R I-P . r f ! J"'' **" \ >’7 ^

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Vol. XX., No. 1028.

• MM*exertion n»bl rtefcottage decent in i * * * * » % £ , does so, end then the man enjoys ‘« g g g at Us home, stays awayfrem ike ¡■ ¡■ V r » , {1^ :

has reached its fitting indent Opp

Post also says “ that

The Evening its consequences. The way to do this Iwas to persuade the Ministers that, no what th w wishes might be, ^ ^ I from carrying their hostility to the Holy Father into

îfcaiiU of •«mutins. H, ; ____

“ it is “ it has

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ret air-tight, it had a brick floor, a Wd ™oh from carrying tneir nosuin>y to J 7 U . Atw1 practice under pain o£ forfeiting their places. An therefore i t was that when the Archbishop a?d f I of Dublin and the Irish Catholic Press, instead of pitias ¿ a s s*?,

,„ ,-v e ry curious, in^ dT ; ci S x « ■•non in s ^ . d n g Post also says that Mr MacMahon, who has r e p r in te d the Coimty of Wexford in two or three Parliaments, started on ginally as Champion of “ Independent Opposition; on whichAhe Times remarks that the Post aP ^ ara, ^ , f°of get that Mr. MacMahon “ forsook the cold shade of “ Independent Opposition on one of the most rem a rk ab le divisions which occurred dunng the last “ Parliamentary session. Nevertheless, adds the Times “ it would be absurd to dispute his claims to “ professional promotion.” In spite of the Post s sneer at the silence of its “ Independent” contemporaries, we feel inclined to say as little as possible upon this subiect. Our opinion of Mr. MacMahon s vote last putting a pressure on the present Ministry, applied themselves to showing that they were no worse than v ' rn j their predecessors, and ' T f u “ *. % words of the Tory Ministers who were out, ratherthan J L the words and acts of the Whig Ministers who were in,

- 918 we expressed with becoming freedom our apprehension

Will any Irish membe* think i t w « th his 5'rlule^ |

. that instead of using their opportunities to help toe " I pope, they were actually strengthening the hand» of t o down “ boarded floors —to erect r ” Z~ houBes, and “ other conveniences,” they might not entirely alter their character and their c0?d" ^ ’ come vfdl-intentioned people and good The poor Irish tenant does not even, aflk t o landtod to d o t o i for him, does not ask a blue or a red ribbon for doing it—only asks that he may not be robbed an exterminated foe doingR. . ■■ ; •1 ~

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for drunkenness or insolence, i t would be , a strange method of reproof, if we were to

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je of Beverl. Establishm« Lady Iwuift— les to Petition t ; of the _. .ate, Crook. -------tnoiica to reuuuu die Queen. New South LEADERS; The Catholic Declaration and the _

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^ _______ __________ g bours. lb m ay ue M ^ lfrom the first oihis intentions has been P ';2 unfavourable, butour opinion of his intentions has not Enf 1 ^ iépverned our .course. , r Pt £ « O . We would have done t h e m » h a d we beheved th a t to

« S m i S S ? :^ toToughito ie T e s i a tu s offarmem and labourers in England, may have at le a s ta ^ ea^ of flesh for the people of Ireland. Six years afS° H Lordship a d m i t te d that the Irish tenants were eSjitled to a t least 20 y e a r s ’ retrospective coa^nsarion Evidentlv we may expect a more liberal instalment of the r'r

— There has been a most able, a most argumentative, a most affecting, a most admirable speech m favour of Tenant Right delivered this week—by Lord Palmerston. The noble Viscount is a man of rejuvenescences—and each fresh lease of his hfe dates by bucolics. One sees him limping over from (^mbridge House to the Park : watches him strutting shakily down Westminster H a ll; hears him stammering or sees lnm snoring in the House—fancies it is all over with t h e m mortal Cupid. Lo! a week afterwards, he has ridden the Crown for Tyrone; Lord Plunket and hi: Marquis of Clanricarde; Diocese of Cloyr REVIEWS; The Pyrenees, West and East; t.

°» an, l i n i t i o n s were excellent.

ne fyreiere *" I been and is not with the secret i n t e n t i o n ^ the most lo r t r • -

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s a l S S l e 7 ™ Our business, and the b u s in g of | "fSl Catholics, sincerely desirous of serving the Holy [ y - 1Father, has been to supply the French Emperor and

Patriots; New Zealand and its Colonisation, SI CORRESPONDENCE: St. George’s and the Two

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the Gracchus of

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fhen, ye serfs of Sligo ! I t is an ill wind that blows nobody nimiumi sua6l bona norint, M „ AgrioolOM 04,^0 I :..

the “ Tablet” and “ Times;” The Declaration of the C: Laity; the Pope and the Emperor; Arc Catholics te Defend the Temporal Rights of the Holy See t In the English Ministry with motives for not injuring the Pope, by showing them that they would not be allowed to injure him with impunity. This has been the value of the Pastorals of the French Bishops, as well as of the other Bishops in other countries. This has been ithe value of the great demonstrations in Ireland, an te jjeiena me icuipuia

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n/ i to Mr. Ffoulkes; Irish Sympathy with the Lmperoi of t French; the New German Church; Thirty Thousand G( man Catholics in London without C h u r c h o r Schools tholic Poor in English Workhouses; the Catholic .. ...__ . A J : . .,«,1 1*-., Aiicurnr■St I.1>(1 I ine-t-ast; mo xvyx, — ^ : • t>„’ Harper’s Ferry—Execution of Captain Brawn, ~ — !—

twenty miles across the country, and delivered twenty i mil« snceches all in a row, all buoyant and riant, lull “d of adolescent vigour, atsome “confounded cattle show.” ip„ Mr. Punch is fond of figuring his LoiriAip as A tto—

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— The possibility of trading by water between Marseilles and Bordeaux, at present engages the attention of the French Government, aud a plan is under consideration for converting the cannot Kiquet and branch canal to the G a r o n n e , n a v i g a b l e vessels of heavy burden. Iwenty_________ s will cover' the supposed.sxpenso of ¡this uudertakin; for r.OW, Via VTitJiaiww, V7A.X7

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vessels in good weather two months, and three or four in bad weather, will, by the canal navigation, be reduced to 170 leagues, occupying ten days, and free from the perils of ocean navigation. This is an “ idea of a legitimate kind- •> .. y>l»8 ,, ’w M

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And those views may change from internal action. A P *nuoc uvtio xx~»j — ----- i_T. ^ promptings or from external influences. His pamphleteer, M. de la Guerronniere, a t present represents that the Pope must be an independent Sovereign, and that his territories must be of small extent. He admits, or rather, assumes, i n incompatibility between the spiritual and temporal sovereignties of the Pope, and thinks that the difficulty is to bo got over by narrow­

ing his temporal dopiinions withm small bo ji» » . ih e Romagna he treats as irrevocably lost. France can t and won’t restore it. Austria mustut, and Maples sha’nt. i;uU ‘ w«»l *-!* ' ,

Strictly speaking, we have no particular business with M. de la Guerronnifcre’s pafaphlet,_or with the French Emperor’s intentions—our business is to protect and help the Pope; and that, as we have over and over again pointed out, is, and has been in our power to do, principally in two ways. First, by impressing the Frendh Emperor with the conviction that if lm mores the Holy Father he will hurt himself, by bringing upoa himself the resentment of the Catholic body throughout Christendom. The Catholic public of England and Ireland had and have |a special duty in this respect, because they possess freedom and facilities which_Catho-

lios possess no where else, except in British Colonies and in the United States, and this causes our words and sentiments to be watched and scanned carefully over the whole world. This was the cause of our alarm and regret when the Archbishop of Dublin and t o Clergy were reported as expressing their admiration for and their trust in the Frenc h Emperor, a t meetings convened for the avowed purpose of helping the Holy Father. What was wanted was not to encourao-e the French Emperor to believe that he had a fund of admiration and trust on which to draw in case he should decide on using his power against the Pope, but to convince the Freneh Emperor th a t he had already inspired the deepest distrust into all Catholic«; and that, for his own safety, he could not too soon repair the past, and by unequivocal conduct provednmself to be the champion, and not the enemy, of the Holv See, When a servant’s conduct has been unsatisfaotory, and when his intentions respecting our wine or our plate are doubtful, i t is a bad moment for assuring him of our confidence and esteem, and for trusting him with the k eys of the plate-chest and the

Whatever the intentions of Napoleon H I. may be we are not responsible for them, but we are responsible for any evil act of his which different conduct ou

"ir*.*****“" ^ , -M s i r t t j d England could help the Pope was by their action on the English Ministry. Lord Palmerston, and Lord John Russell, and Mr. Gladstone, are the avowed enemies of the Ifoly See, and they owe their opportunities of doing mischief to the votes of Catholic members re* tumfed'by Cathffiic eonstituencies, for the purpose ot bringing them to power. Whoever was to blame for this, our soul, a t least, is free. We protested against of which helped to swell the enthusiasm with which the Spaniards saw the Gross raised against the Crescent. But then wars seldom do realise the .expectations that precede them. j A;

The Spanish army has, however, set one question at rest. I t is more than a match for the Moors. In every encounter, and there have now been many, the short Spanish soldier has more than stood his ground against the tall and ferocious Moor. Her Ca,tholic Majesty’s army has displayed the highest military qualities, and though General O Donnell is blamed for standing still when people expected lie was to move oil, cropping victories as he went, it is most probable that in this he shows the highest quality ot a good general, the discretion and courage to do nothing when it is not quite clear what ought to be done.

ThuB far he has everything against him : an army inexperienced in war, a commissariat which also has to learn its business, a treacherous enemy, a difficult country a deficient camp, stormy weather, and now and then a deluge. If, under these disadvantages he has held his ground, has repelled several formidable assaults, and taught his soldiers their superiority over the enemy—all this forces us to the conclusion that the right man is in the right place. I f there is any ground to doubt success with such a general and such an army, it is that the Moors seem to have the imperfection attributed to British and Irish soldiers of not knowing when they are beaten. I f four thousand are repulsed to-day, eight thousand come up to-morrow. And they care so little for life that they refuse quarter, stab one another when in danger of being taken prisoners, and when thev can neither stab themselves nor any one else they bite the legs of the Spanish soldiers. This is more than fighting while you have a leg to stand on.

__ An Address was lately delivered to the Catholics of Richmond, in Yorkshire, by Mr. M. J . Rhodes, on His Holiness Pope Pius the Ninth and the Temporal Rights of the Holy See, as involving the religious, social, and political interests of the whole world. I t o Address, revised and considerably enlarged by the author, is about to appear as a pamphlet. I t is dedicated to His Lordship the Bishop of Beverley, and will be published by Richardson and Son Me give this notice of it because—though by the kindness of th e ’ author an early copy of the work is lyinffo jn r e us_ we have not had time to read it for the purpose of reviewing it, and are nevertheless desirous to bring to the knowledge of our Catholic readers a publication which isso well-timed, at this moment when the aftairs of the Holy See are the universal topic of conversation. As this is a subject on which all Catholics will talk, whether wisely or foolishly, Mr. Rhodes does well to endeavour to put within their reach the means ot saying something to the purpose. , „ *»)-.? -fin

— The announcement that “ the Attorney-General “ has directed the junior briefs in the department of “ the Woods and Forests and Land Revenues of the “ Crown to be sent to Mr. P. MaoMahpn, qt the Ox“ ford Circuit, in place of Mr. W. N. Willes, who has L - - c eunty Court Judge, has at

, ’ .r iA u f sxTirixxQxrrmv tiY rpstrict as much as t o ' t S ' Ä ^ l S 68 that in t to appointment “ the system termed why not give him a turn as Antaeus i Or (if it would not be profane, which neither Mr. Punch nor Lord Palmerston wouldlmind) as Job? His Lordship speculiar philosophy (though his patience a t the left hand of the Speaker is by no means remarkaMe) always 'Hot.-s ijiosfc freely over a dunghill. Now a t Lomscy,

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fsmalHarmer or agricultural labourer in Ireland—-say, on his Lordship’s Irish estate in Sligo—will be entranc­

ing. Does he deign to speak pour encourager nous mures? Yes, he does. He laments that while there are Blue Ribbons and Red, Stars and Garters, for men who otherwise servetheir country, andfor the fruges consumer nati who don’t, there are none for those raise the fruits, which noble Viscounts, who wear the Stars, the Garters, and the Ribbons, consume He moralises much also on the effect which decent habitations, air-tight, water-tight, and properly boarded, have on the morale of the tenants who occupy them—these tenants being agricultural labourers. As for the higher class tenantry, alas! let our Irish tenantfarmer only fancy the different condition of an English tenant farmer, when he “ears oi an English landlord (who is an Irish landlord also, by the way), urging the improvement of labourers cottages a t the landlord’s expense ; because i t is, in fact a duty that the landlord owes to the farmer, to keep his labourers near him, and to make them per­

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Paris, Thursday.—Count Avigdor, representaPve ot the republic of San Marino at the court of Pans, has preented a memorandum to Count Walewski, aMressed to the future Congress, against the encroachments of Pied“ The Emperor of the French has conferred the grand

>rdon of the Legion d’Honneur on the Prince of Orange.

---- ---THE MOROCCAN WAR. Madrid, Dec. 21.—Yesterday 8,000 Actors attacked the Spanish, but were energetically repulsed, and com pelleiF, by grape-shot « d grenades, «. retreat in disorder The Spanish had 51 wom^M-iU v inen-of-war, formerly, .«flatidnei^,«* HavawtjHu I m -ju t arrived to reinfow ; tiatoAsquadron; M liAJflMwSifehH. s lriA

fectly comfortable. Listen to these words, base bogtrotters,” who tilt the unprofitable Irish soil—listen to these words from your lord and Khan :

When I build a cottage for a labourer on a farm I do not expect it to pay in money. When I build a good farm-house for a tenant I do not expect rent for that house separate from the farm. Well, the cottage for the labourer ought to be. uccu „P1,v. looked upon as part of the appurtenances of a farm just ag .p aris. much as the buildings for cattle, or any of ‘J080 ot^ ®rSJ; tions essential to the cultivation of the land. How can the land be weU cultivated if the labourers are not well housed ? If they are obliged to trudge three or four miles in order to

The idea of a landlord building a cottage for a la bourer on a farm, which he does not expect to pay in money—in order that the labourer may not be obliged to trudge three or four miles to his work and then home again! The idea of a landlord building a " " ' ~

a "good farmhouse for a tenant, and not expecting rent for that house separate from the tear! The idea of a landlord contemplating the erection of labourers’ oottages, buildings for cattle, and “ other erections essential to the cultivation of the land,” as hia business, and at his charge! Only conceive an Irish landlord discoursing in that sty le! Why, he would be expelled from the County Club, cut at the Hunt, andpnoked out of the Grand Jury. I f Lord P a lm e r s tM g tW

introduoe such doctrines among his brother squires in Sligo, he would be regarded as Ossawatomie Brown was by the planters of Virginia.

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The worst of the case is that Lord Palmerston lias certain religious conviction m die subject. Believing Original Sin to be aii attau ol Drainage, and holding that it would be “ immoral” to prohibit the marriage of respondent and co-respondent in a Divorce (which theological dogma the House oi Commons, on an Amendment to the Act accordingly affirmed), we need not wonder to find that he believes

,CUI) ” w UuvU AATA.l» " V, v lust, anger, sloth, and drunkenness are entirely onvy, iusi, ttugoi, =iu.h, “ ‘“v“.“—:--------- r -------y due to imperfect ventilation, lh is is the way he puts the proposition:—» {*,¡gv-mtjft'yLr-* •’ ,* .J fcWheu a cottage is in suoh a ramshackle state that it is impossible for the wife to keep it olean she becomes a slattern,

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everything goes to ruin, the man is disgusted, and flies totn» beershop. If, on the contrary, tbe wife feels that she can by

Turin, Thursday.—riarjn been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary dr. this Court, is expected here on batMday. 7 4 ; * -<*u/.T? ' ' ” » *. .1-hr^A ift •£>«’# -v | ^ > • 1 TURKEY. v

Constantinople, Dec. 20,-A hmed Wefik Effendrhas been appointed Ambassador to the Imperial Cou.rt ofv

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having been at 70f. 70c. Railway shares, cause* relapsed 1 to £ per cent, notwithsandrag exceUent tra'ffics and the prospect of good dividends Money keeps in good demand, bnt thereis no pressure, and the supplies are ample.—Mo7mng Star of Friday. F f H nA^CM.JC. ATP ASSOCIATION^

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Amongst tboMjvffioJiave lately joined the Catholic Aid Association, is R. Biddnlph Phillips, Esq., of Longworth, Hereford, who has forwarded five guineas to the fund. We are requested by the secretary toi state that the fact of the Association conducting the meeting to address the Pope, causes no cessation of the ordinary operations, but that the promptest aid (and, dnwes&MJ, legal assistance,) will continue to be afforded should any grievance he reported to the Association, 40, Hartstreet, Bloomsbury-square, London. l mg d

The »ARDiifrAN PARLIAHE.M.-The convocation of Parliament recedes more and more into the land of the future. At first it was to be convoked at the beginning, or at any rate towards the middle ot 1'ebruary; now the - _ 5L . ■ . r . 1 fL. 11 tilO 11VTVhiDll

Cologne to Matence— on me mm railway between Cologne and Mayeuco 'fas opened t o . ^ ■affic. T • aG n 'id 7 )1

French Embassies.—The Moniteur of Wednesday publishes the nominations of several Secretaries to French Embassies abroad ; among them the_ Marquis Chateaurenaud, as Secretary to the r im b«# L0£ i . _ O » the 22nd inst., at Norwood, James Corner, E»q., of Little Britain, aged 77 years^R I-P . r f !

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