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D Ü M VOCIS GRATULAM U R , ANIM OS ETIAM ADDIMUS U T IN IN CŒ PTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER M ANEATIS.

From the B r ieJ o f H is Holiness to T he T ablet, j u i n 4, 1S70.

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[R eg ister ed a t th e G en er a l P o st O f f ice a s a N ew spaper.

«Chronicle of the Week : The

Meeting in St. James’s Hall.— The Address to the Pope.—The Premier and the Pope.—The Addresses o f the Candidates for Co. Meath.— Feelings in Ireland.— Proofs o f a Free Church in Rome. — The Opinion e ” on Papal Liberty. — United States. — Our American Difficulties.— The War : Paris. — Paris Advertisements.— The War : The Loire.— For the Sufferers in France.— The Stafford Club.— &c., &c. . . , , '

The Kingdom of the Church and the P e o p l e ................................... 737 The Destinies of France . . 738 Education Board Election . . 739

C O N T E N T S .

L eaders (continued) :

Appeal in behalf o f the French

S u f f e r e r s ...................................... 739 Peter’s Pence. . . . . 740 Whither we are Going, and wilder what Guides. .... 740 E nglish A dm in istr at io n s a n d

C atholic I n t e r e s t s : XV I— The Insurrection o f 1798 . . . 741 R eview s :

A n t i - J a n u s ...................................... 742 One Y e a r ; a Story o f Three

Homes . . .

. 743

The Autobiography o f a Rejected

MS. . . . . . .744 Household Stories from the Land o f Hofer . . . . . 744 S hort N otices : The Catholic

Calendar.— An Ancient Mariner.— Everybody’s Year Book. . . 745

New Books and New Editions Pub­

lished last Month .... C orrespondence :

Catholics on School Boards . The School-Board Controversy The School-Board Elections.—

Duty o f Catholics The School-Board Elections . British Right o f Asylum The Ceremonies of Low Mass R ome : Letter from our Roman

Correspondent .... Letter from our Italian Corre­

spondent ................................... The English College, Rome . Italian Protest . Diplomatic Position o f Italy . Pastoral Letter of the Archbishop o f Westminster, protesting against the invasion of Rome .

745 746 746 747 747 747

743 749 751

, R ecord of th e C ouncil : Sub­

missions ............................................. ID iocesan N ews : l Westminster

Southwark j Birmingham j Liverpool : Northampton ; I r eland :

752 752 752 753

Letter from our Dublin Corre­

spondent ................................... T h e W ar M em oranda :

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Religious Educational . Literary. Fine Arts I G eneral N ews

754 7*4 755 755 755

C H R O N I C L E O F T H E W E E K .

HALL. A

THE MEATING¡i n s t . j a m e s ’s

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% e go to press on Friday morning, and the great Catholic meeting in St. James’s Hall comes off on Friday evening, it is not possible for us this week to do

•more than lay before our readers the resolutions which are to be proposed at it, and the names o f the speakers who have undertaken to support them. On Sunday a Pastoral, or Protest, from his Grace the Archbishop, which we print ■ elsewhere, was read in all the churches and chapels of the Diocese o f Westminster, and the faithful were invited to special devotions in preparation for the Feast o f the Immacu la te Conception, as well as to a General Communion upon the Festival itself, or on the Sunday following, in behalf o f the Sovereign Pontiff. The public expression, by a meeting in St. James's Hall, o f the deep feelings o f indignation which the late occurrences in Rome have excited throughout the rest o f the Catholic world has, we are sure, the earnest •sympathy and support o f the Catholics o f Great Britain. RESOLUTIONS FOR THE MEETING AT ST. [AMES’S

HALL, ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 t h , 1870. Proposed by the Duke o f Norfolk, E .M ., seconded by Sir George Bowyer, Bart.

I. 1 bat. acknowledging, in the sacred person of Pius the Ninth, the Vicar of Jesus Christ and the Head of the Christian Church, we regard as sacrilege, and we resent with horror, the indignities to which he has been subjected by the violent occupation of the City of Rome, and by the violation of the rights and possessions of the Holy See, and therein of the Church throughout the world. Proposed by Lord Denbigh, seconded by Mr. Henry Matthews, M.P.

I I . That, believing the exemption of the Head of the Universal Church from the control of all Civil Powers, and his acquisition of Territorial Sovereignty to have been a special disposition of the Providence of God in ordering the Christian ■ world, by which a visible provision was made for the personal and official independence of the Head of the Church, and for iiis full and perfect freedom in the exercise of his spiritual office, and believing in the continued necessity for the same provision in the existing state of human affairs, we regard the attempt to dethrone the Sovereign Pontiff as a formal rejection of the dispositions of Divine Providence, a violation of the Liberty of the Christian Church, and the dissolution of the wise and fruitful order whereby Christian Civilization and Christian Progress have been spread among all peoples and nations of the world. Proposed by Mr. James C. Mathew, seconded by Mr. C. D e la Barre Bodenham.

III. That, as Catholics, and therefore upholders of legitimate

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with alarm the founded : being fully assured that every title to obedience and loyalty has been thereby outraged, and that henceforward no rights of just origin, immemorial prescription, or perfect and tranquil possession, will avail to consecrate or to protect legitimate authority against sedition, violence and rebellion ; and further that the obligations of treaties, and of international law are destroyed by all those who either have perpetrated or now countenance the violent occupation of Rome. Proposed by PI011. Marmaduke Maxwell, seconded by Mr. I Charles Langdale.

IV- That, animated by the great principles of Christian civilization and Christian progress we have now expressed, and profoundly moved with indignation at the sacrilege, violence and indignities perpetrated against the Sovereign Pontiff, this Meeting adopts and makes its own the energetic Protest of the Catholic Laity of Great Britain ; and likewise the Filial Address of devotion and sympathy with the Holy Father, to which already half a million of signatures in England and Scotland have been attached, desiring also that the acts of this Meeting be humbly laid at the feet of the Sovereign Pontiff.

The number of signatures attached to the to th ew m Address from the Catholics o f Great Britain to the Pope has now reached the number o f

5 0 0 , 9 8 5 . Considerable attention abroad has been drawn to this expressive testimony to the cause o f the Holy Father.

The Prime Minister has written the following h i e p r e m i e r ]etter to Mr, E. Dease, ALP., Queen’s Co., in p o p e . reply to a memorial presented by that gentle­

man, on behalf o f the inhabitants o f Stradbally,

on the subject o f the invasion o f tile States o f the Church, and o f the violent spoliation o f the Sovereign Pontiff:—

Downing-street, Nov. 30, 1870.

Sir,— I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., transmitting a memorial from the inhabitants of Stradbally, in which you state that they express their desire that her Majesty’s Government may see fit to use “ such diplomatic intervention ns may secure to the Pope the continuance of such a Temporal Sovereignty as will protect him in the discharge of his Spiritual duties, together with an adequate income.” The memorial itself is couched in larger or less definite language, but I do not doubt that I am to recognize you as the best expositor of the feelings it is intended to express. In reply, I have to state that her Majesty’s Gevernment have not, during the various changes which have marked the reign of the present Pope, interfered, nor have they now proposed to interfere, with the civil government of the City of Rome or the surrounding country. But her Majesty’s Government consider all that relates to the adequate support of the dignity of the Pope, and his personal freedom and independence in the discharge of his Spiritual functions, to be legitimate matter for their notice. Indeed, without waiting for the occurrence of an actual necessity, they have, during the uncertainties of the last few months, taken upon themselves to make provision which would have tended to afford any necessary protection to the person of the Sovereign Pontiff. The subjects to which I have adverted will continue to have their caicfui attention ; although they have had great satisfaction in observing that the Italian Government has declared in the most explicit manner its desire and inten-

N ew Series. Voi„ IV. No. 109.