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^MMabv „ l 0p pV"1 :— The Neapolitan Question— Spain— The Confiscation

and tKlfC^ ProPerty— The Kansas Troubles— The Bishop o f Arras ^ O N n c Education Question— British Bank Frauds

Sjj_: EDITION:— Consecration of St. Mel’s Cathedral, Longford— pc n Carlist Emeute— Suspension o f the Sale o f Church ProP0* E lr y> rNaPlcs and the Western Powers— The Ultimatum

and K ANrD COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE Italy : Naples Nani C ' Vcstern Powers— An Allied Squadron for the Bay o f Mi -CS* • ^ardinia and Tuscany. Spain : The New Constitution— j^i^ls^erial Changes— The Sale o f Church Property. France: The Lif C<* Question— The Conspiracy Against the Emperor’s * ' • . Belgium : The International Congress. Austria. Prussia. -j>.SSla : The Coronation Festivities— Russian Railways. T u rkey: •j> e “ le o f Serpents— The Principalities. America : The Kansas jOUbles— Action of the Federal Government. Canada. China: ^•ATHmreSS the Insurrection ....

CIC INTELLIGENCE :— Important Letter o f the Bishop o f

-The Catholics and the Government in India. Australia. Cath States. Dioceses o f Westminster, Hexham, & c . ^ISCpt t Missi°ns o f England, No. I , St. John’s-wood. Scotland -

ELANEOUS :— The Royal Family— The Sees o f London and T'K airi— Crimean Dinner at Portsmouth— Iron Ship-building— j O Bishop o f Exeter and the Protestant Association— Archdeacon u l nis°n’s Case— Frauds on the Crystal Palace Company— The

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-The British Bank

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d£VVS :— The Life o f Jesus Christ— 'The Catholic School— Car-

lr>al Wiseman’s Sermon on the Perpetuity o f the Church— The ^ATHrfB^Pkaelites

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.r^LANEOUS (Continued) :— The Anglican Establishment and Tk lrJ.0ny— The 44 Times” on the British Bank Frauds

X, Chartists and Mr. John Frost— Lord Lucan and the 44 Daily T INews” .......

Bight and the Irish Tenant League . . . ^ toarchioness o f Londonderry and her Tenantry— The TipPerary Bank— The Irish Militia— Close o f the Harvest— ExecuJ°n at Cork— The Potato and Irish Famine— The Markets—■

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%ummatp. L,?" h is seldom that matters have gone so far lw 'Veen European states as they seem to have done w T een the King o f Naples^and the western powers

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French and English squadrons in the Bay of sJtP'es, diplomatic intercourse interrupted, and the opof French and English subjects in the kingdom js lhe Two Sicilies watched over by ships o f war, N ttle picture which we are invited to contemplate. VçTvv»this mav mean a great deal, or it may mean S(lj y little, and it is extremely difficult to see the ret0 ;?• When the French and English squadrons went for e I"ay ° f Besika there were far graver reasons o0 expecting that the matters in dispute would y'o In to a Wood/ arbitrament, yet the diplomatic

obstinately persisted in believing that not a Ip^Je shot would be fired with hostile intentions. iPq at case, however, _we all know what these dec o r a t i o n s led to—will the same story be repeated ?

11 s it seems that this must depend upon the firmbon °^ tbc King of Naples. I f he persists in his resoluf0r to be an independent sovereign, the allies must hope pr an insurrection o f his subjects, excited by their des: ence, which is the most probable view o f their is J?n5>’f anything can be called probable when all W * ad a?d r- ’ ■ ’ monstrous. -*avp — w„... Should this fail, they will \v0riHn.° choice but either to incur the laughter o f the HStn ..by a ridiculous failure of two giants to frighten by n°y, or to incur the execration or mankind <5uarrpCi°Urse t0 open violence and bloodshed in a they k ? f their own making about a matter in which ffiam H'a?° earthly right to interfere. After all, the

‘faculty is to appreciate the amount o f agree ment or divergence between the policy o f Lord Palmerston and that o f the French Emperor. I f we could suppose an agreement between England and France to carry out at all risks some prearranged scheme with regard to Naples and Sicily, speculation would be superseded, for at the present moment they are the only two great powers in the world capable o f offensive action. T h e alliance between France and England for the sake o f curbing Russia was a benefit to the world ; an alliance between Louis Napoleon and Lord Palmerston, for the purpose of dictating to Europe, would be a curse to humanity. Perhaps the Neapolitan demonstration is only the result o f a compromise, by which France lets England have her way with Naples in return for a similar permission to herself with respect to Spain.

— A t last we are in receipt o f the long-looked-for news from Spain. T he execution o f the law of disamortisation is definitively suspended, and the law itself will probably be repealed by the new Cortes, which is to meet under the constitution o f the year 18 45. On the 9th instant, in the absence o f the Queen, and o f M. Rios Rosas, at a Cabinet Council presided over by Marshal O ’Donnell, M. Cantero, Minister o f Finance, brought forward a scheme for advancing, on the part o f the State, 300,000/. towards the restoration o f churches, to be repaid out o f the produce of the sale o f Church property, under the law of disamortisation. This project, artfully devised to secure the enforcement o f the law for the plunder o f the Church, and to nullify the wishes of those who urged its suspension, was unanimously adopted. On the demand o f M. Rios Rosas an extraordinary meeting o f the council was held on the 11 th to review this decision, at which that Minister opposed it on the ground that the disamortisation law was a breach of the engagements o f the Government with the Court o f Rome; that it had ordered what it had no power to order, and had attempted to set up a right contradictory o f an existing right. Cantero, Bayarri, and O ’Donnell supported the scheme, the latter with a threat o f resignation. T h e Queen of Spain replied that her conscience had been often troubled on account of her participation in a measure passed to the injury of the Church, and in contempt o f a recent Concordat with the Holy See.

Marshal O ’Donnell afterwards presented the decree to the Queen for her signature, which she refused. H e tendered his resignation, which she declined to accept. H e yielded, the disamortisation law is shelved, the correspondents o f the London press are furious, Cantero has since resigned, and we are told that the partisans o f Narvaez are expecting the downfall o f O ’Donnell at no distant period.

— We reported last week the collapse o f the moral force of the anti-slavery party in Congress and the triumph o f the south. This week we have to relate the still more signal prostration of the physical force o f the same party in Kansas, and a still more signal victory o f the Missouri slavers. T he battle of Ossawottamie, on the 30th of August, was the first blow to the Freesoilers, who were totally defeated ; on the 2nd o f September they were driven out o f Leavensworth. T heir prospects are declared desperate. T h e free settlers are proclaimed rebels, and the military force of the union is commissioned to destroy them. There is some talk o f extra sessions of some legislatures o f some northern states, to vote money and aid to the defeated party ; but, for the present, the south triumphs with no immediate prospect o f a change to their disadvantage. A dismal moaning is raised in the columns o f the Times:—

“ W e live in an age o f reaction. Despotism has, “ within the last ten years, made a decided advance “ in Europe. T he Papal power has regained consi“ derable ground which it had lost, and Austria has “ receded from the reforms o f the Emperor Joseph. “ T h e Anglo-Saxon race is the only great power “ which never recedes,” &c.

Now, our position is t h i s : we have a hearty abhorrence for slavery, and for slavery, as it exists in Protestant America, we have no words sufficiently strong to express our detestation. “ T h e border ruffians” of Missouri we would willingly see hanged as they deserve. But when we come to the Republicans, the Freesoilers, and the Know-Nothings o f the north, our gorge rises, and our very nature rebels at the notion o f having to sympathise with them. As to the north itself, it is confessedly the north which upholds slavery. I t is not a question between the north and the south. T h e Democrats o f the north are a part of the north, and they are the supporters of slavery. As to humanity, as to Christian charity, we have had abundant proof that the equality o f races is as little or still less recognised in the north as in the south. T he free man o f colour, who is shunned, as a pestilence, by anti-slavery orators, with whom no one will ride in the same carriage, who is knocked down for his audacity if he offers his arm to a white woman, who is protested against i f he tries to come to England as a first cabin passenger, by his experience has formed our notions o f the real character o f northern liberality.

We come, then, to the treatment o f Catholics in America. On which side are to be found the ruffians who burn down our churches, who ride our Priests upon a rail, who force themselves into convents to insult Nuns, who make the exclusion o f Catholics from every place o f honour, trust, or emolument, the cardinal point of their policy ?

I f the present contest spreads, i f the pro-slavery and the anti-slavrTy parties in the Union must come to blows, our only hope is, that from the winning side the Catholics of America may meet fair play.

__T h e letter of his Lordship the Bishop o f Arras, which we give elsewhere at full length, will be read with admiration by all true Catholics. #

We noted last week the feeble crowing and pre tended triumph o f the Daily News, which boasted | to have obtained a victory over the Catholic Prelate, | and to have discomfited plans which existed only in the imagination o f the writer. T hat the Ministry, of which Lord Palmerston is the head, should have seized another opportunity o f testifying its contempt for all religion, by pretending to see in the Pastoral warning o f the Bishop to his Catholic flock an injury to British citizens, is only o f a piece with the tactics which it everywhere pursues. T h e letter of the French Minister, which we give elsewhere, may be looked upon either as an undignified concession or as a civil sneer; but about the Pastoral Letter of the Bishop there is no mistake, and Mgr. Parisis has nobly taken his stand upon ground from which no one ever was, or ever will be, dislodged but by his own fault. — T he arrest o f forty Marianists for a conspiracy to murder the Emperor, the wide ramifications of the secret societies in France, together with the condition of the French press, afford ample room for comment on the union o f France with England in the attempt to coerce the King o f Naples. — T h e notion that the elder branch o f the house of Bourbon would expire with its present representative has been long so general, that the reported likelihood o f an heir to the descendant o f St. Louis has made some sensation.

•—• T h e States o f Holland have met. T h e session has been opened by a royal speech, containing no revelations o f the religious policy of the ultra-Protestant Ministry, except an idle phrase about respect for the rights and consciences o f others, such as Lord J. Russell or Mr. Chambers would use in introducing a Titles or a Convent Bill. In the Second Chamber they have already experienced a check. In naming the three candidates, out o f whom the King has to choose the President o f the Chamber, the majority has selected three statesmen, all former colleagues in the Liberal Ministry o f M. Thorbecke, and one o f them a Catholic. This significant indication of the resolution o f the majority not to allow itself to be won over to the ultra-Protestant faction, may also be considered as announcing that the dissolution o f the Chamber or the retirement o f the Ministry is not remote.

— T he home news o f the week has been scanty. In the Royal British Bank we have a worthy successor to the T ipperary Joint Stock Bank, with members of Parliament figuring in almost as inglorious a position. T h e three countries are now about upon a par— English pietists are illustrated by Strahan and Paul, Irish politicians by the Sadleirs, and Scotch political economists by the directors o f the Royal British Bank. — Mr. Frost has been lecturing on the fearful abominations o f convict life in Van Diemen’s Land. Sir fames Graham has been talking rather loosely in postprandial festivities in Cumberland, and Lord Stanley, Mr. Fox, and Sir J. K. Shuttleworth have been discussing the education question at an Oldham soiree.

§>cconD (ÆDitton. S O L E M N C O N S E C R A T I O N O F S T . M E L ’ S

C A T H E D R A L , L O N G F O R D . T h e splendid Cathedral o f St. M el, the patron Saint o f the diocese o f A rd agh , erected at Longford, was consecrated and opened for its holy purposes on Wednesday with a degree o f solemnity and grandeur rarely witnessed in this country. No less than sixteen Prelates, two o f them Archbishops, about 200 other dignitaries and Clergy, comprising representatives from six dioceses, and nearly 18,000 persons o f all ranks and conditions assisted at the ceremony.

T h e ceremony commenced at eleven o’ clock. T h e Bishops and Clergy assembled in the sacristy, and, having robed and proceeded to the sanctuary, a procession was formed. T h e Prelates were :—

T h e R ight Rev. D r . K ild u f f , Bishop o f A rd agh ; Chaplain, the Rev. George Gerty, P .P . , Killenum era.

T h e R igh t Rev. D r . G ilhooly, Coadjutor Bishop o f E lp h in ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. M ‘ Gweeny, C .C .

T h e R igh t Rev. Dr. M 'G e ttig an , Coadjutor Bishop o f Raphoe ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. Sheridan, C .C . , Scrabby.

T h e R ight Rev. D r . Leahy, Coadjutor Bishop o f D rom ore; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. Doherty, o f the Dominican Church, Dominick-street.

T h e Fright Rev. D r . K e l ly , Bishop o f D e r r y ; Chaplain. the Rev. Mr. Slevin, Ballymahon.

T h e R igh t Rev. D r . Moriarty, Bishop of K e r r y ; Chaplain, the Rev. James O ’ Farrell, P .P .

T h e R igh t Rev. D r . Brady, Bishop o f Perth, Western A u s tra lia ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. Duggan,

T h e R ight Rev. D r . M ‘ Nally, Bishop o f C logher; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. M 'D onnell, P .P . , Fintona.

T h e R igh t Rev. Dr. Derry, Bishop o f Clonfert. T h e R igh t Rev. D r . Browne, Bishop o f Elphin ; Chaplain, the Rev. D r . K ilr o e , P .P . , A th lon e .

T h e R igh t Rev. Dr. Denvir, Bishop o f Down and Connor ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. Byrne, C .C . , Carrickon-Suir.

T h e R igh t Rev. D r . Cantwell, Bishop o f Meath ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. Coghlan, P .P .

T h e R igh t Rev. D r . Browne, Bishop o f K i lm o r e ; Chaplain, the Rev. T . Fitzgerald, P .P . , Carnck-onShannon. ,

T h e R igh t Rev. D r . M 'G e ttig an , Bishop o f Raphoe ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r. Kennedy, P .P . . _ . . .

T h e Most Rev. D r . Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin ; Chaplain, the Rev. M r . Devereux, son ot the hon. member for W exford. . , ,

T h e Most Rev. D r . D ixon, Archbishop ot A rm agh , and Primate o f A l l Ireland.

T h e cathedral is in the archdiocese of A rm agh , and the Consecrating Prelate was his G race the Primate. T h e sermon was preached by his Lordship the Bishop o f K erry.

S P A I N .

T h e Madrid journals o f the 1 8th announce the discovery o f a Carlist conspiracy for causing a rising in the mountains o f T o le do , and the arrest of thirteen persons concerned in it. T h e España had again been seized. T h e Epoca calculates that the amount o f Ecclesiastical property to be sold, in virtue o f the law of desamortisation, was 700,000,000 reals, and that 300,000,000 worth has been sold. T h e Hoja Autografa, a ministerial publication, says:—

“ W e should not be surprised i f the sale o f the Ecclesiastical property were suspended. T h e suspension, however, would not be an indefinite adjournment o f the sales, but only a temporary interruption, to afford time to the government to come to an understanding with the Holy See on the sublect. T h e sale of the national and communal property would, however, continue.”

Madrid, September 23rd.

A factious band, which had made its appearance in the mountains of T o le do , is hotly pursued.

Madrid, Sept. 24-th.

T h e Gazette publishes a royal decree suspending, till further resolution, the sale of the property that devolved on the Secular C lergy, by virtue o f the law o f A p r i l , 1845. Another decree appoints M . Riviera director o f the sale o f national property, and M . Sierra director o f the treasury.

U L T I M A T U M T O N A P L E S . T h e Paris correspondent o f the Times states that the departure o f the ultimatum is still delayed, though this is not to be attributed to doubt or hesitation, but to a desire carefully to mature it. T here can be no doubt, he says, that it w ill go, and that in a day or two.

London, Thursday Evening.

T h e Sun says :— “ I t is, we believe, the intention o f government to despatch half a dozen of our first-class screw gunboats to Naples. E igh t of these vessels, well manned and provisioned, now await sailing orders at Spithead. In addition there are ready for sailing the Cæsar, Colossus, Dauntless, Malacca, Perseverance, and Urgent, all screws.”

T h e Morning Post's Paris correspondent writes on W e d nesday evening, that it is probable that the present week, w ill pass over before the French and English governments take any decided steps regarding the departure o f the squadron for the Bay of Naples. T h e assurance o f some answer by telegraph from the K in g is said to be the reason, but the allied cabinets are more likely to get a shuffling note dictated by Austria.

T h e Morning Herald's Paris correspondent says th a t the continued silence o f the Moniteur respecting Naples has led to the belief that the government still entertains the hope that extreme measures may be avoided.

London, Friday Evening.

I t is understood in Paris that the reply from the K i n g o f Naples to the diplomatic powers is particularly offensive to his friends. T h e report says that when the practice o f flogging old prisoners was brought to the notice o f the K in g by the diplomatists, he was referred to th e Neapolitan minister, who published the fact, but showed that the punishment was not so cruel as that inflicted on soldiers in the British army. A s this conversation was o f an official character, this reply was forwarded to the English government.

T h e Paris correspondent o f the Times says it is not doubted that the ultimatum w ill be despatched to Naples by the end o f the week. Other advices, however, speak o f the probability o f the Neapolitan affair being again referred to diplomatic arrangements.

Vienna, Sept. 26th.

T h e Neapolitan Minister at the Court of Austria, Prince Petrulla, has forwarded his resignation to Naples.

T h e Vienna journals say that Sardinia wishes to participate in the expedition against Naples, in order to protect national interests.

T H E D I S P U T E W I T H R U S S IA . T h e question o f the Isle o f Serpents is by no means settled, says the Paris correspondent o f the Post. A c co rd ing to late despatches from St. Petersburg, Russia intends to prosecute her claims to the rock, and is using every effort to induce other powers to make it a su je c t to r mutual decision. T h e re ought to be no question whatever that the Isle o f Serpents has traditionally belonged to the power which holds the nearest continental land. T h e new Russian frontier, though e* l en ’,n” ey°nd the Dniester, w ill make Russian ground at least 5o miles from the Island o f Serpents, whilst it is w ith in about 20 o f the mouths o f the Danube. T h a t tact alone ought to suffice. Our naval force has very positive orders should Russian troops again attempt to an .

T U R K E Y .

T r ie s te , Sept. 26th.

T h e latest intelligence from Constantinople asserts that Adm ira l H o u s t o n Stewart is to re-enter the B la ck Sea, and that the English fleet, under the command o f Lord Lyons, will receive reinforcements. Persia has proposed to refer to the arbitration of a foreign power its differences with England. Fhe Porte is sending to the frontier o f Montenegro fresh troops, munitions o f war, and an artillery force of ninety heavy guns.

A M E R I C A .

Liverpool, Thursday Morning.

T h e North American mail steamer has arrived. She le f ‘ (^uebec on the 16th. f

T h e Republican party had selected every member to r Congress from Maine. , ,

New Y o r k , September

Money easy on call. Exchange dull and unaltered ; stocks active. Cotton improved in demand and consumption ; prices firm. Export market excited, and three cents, higher. F lour without change. Indian corn firm . Provisions steady.

D E A T H O F V I S C O U N T H A R D I N G T h is event took place at 11.30 on Wednesday, at South P a rk , Tunbridge W e lls .