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Yol. IX., No. 406.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1848.

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Chartists and Democrats

FkANck—Paris.—T he Chamber of Deputies -Debate on the Affairs

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T he Chartist Soiree—The Land Company. fHcctütgs:— ....... ••• Small Pox and Vaccination Hos­

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Text and Comment—A Bill for of Poland — The Abbate RosD E N M A R K . -T h e New Danish Con­

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Establishing Diplomatic Reía» tiona with Rome—Anniversary of her Majesty’s Marriage—The Rev. Dr. Fergusson—France: O’ Oonnell—Stormy Debate in the Chamber of Deputies-Cape o f Good Hope : Successful Operations against the Kaffirs Australia—Adelaide : Arrival of Bishop Murphy. C onberstons:— Catholic Intelligence:— ...

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B avaria.—Expected Marriage of the Count de Trapani and the Princess Alexandria. T he Levant. — Constantinople :

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pital — Commercial Bank of London—Gas in Marylebone. Cfje Public Sealtf) —

Laystalls—France : The Officiers

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Arrival of the Pope’s Nuncio. A merica—T he United States.—

de Santé-What the Clergy may do—Appeal on rfehalf of the Lungs—London Tailors—Shortening Poor Men’s Lives --Typhus in Rural Districts Cabman and Cab-horse — London Mortality—Liability of the Old to Influenza— Nuisances at Lambeth. CtjePoor Bub poor Ratos :—

The Embassy to Rome—Occupation of Mexico. T he Cape—Cape Town and its

Population. Imperial parliament 102—107

The Mission at Aylesbury. The “ Mores Cutholici.” London: —

Diplomatic Relations with the

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The Mission in Southward-* Mission of St. Alexis, Kentish Town-Petition in favour of the Relief Bill. P rovincial

Court of Rome—State of the West Indies—Irish Destitution— The New Houses of Parliament— Jewish Disabilities — Order of Proceeding—The Urquhart Impeachment Counted Out—New Zealand Government Bill—New Government Sanitary Bill—Members taken into Cutody-AdjournedDebate: Jewish Disabilities. Hoticegto Correspotureim Reading articles ..........

Medical Belief to the Poor—The

City of London Union—Warm Coverlets for Winter.

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Protestantism:— ••• •••

Birmingham: The Rev. J. H. Newman—Liverpool: Death of another Priest. Scotland:—

English Dissent—Protestant View of the Frogres3 of Catholicism— The Irvingites in London—The General Baptists at Leicester— 104 ( The Non-jurors Over Again.

'Glasgow: Secrecy of the Confessional. Ireland :— , . . ,

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Dublin : St. Joseph s Asylum— Dundalk: Death of the Very Rev. Dr. Coyne—Galway : The Sisters of Mer cy. Ireland (f lo lit tra l): —

The Electric Telegraph—How to

Treat Landowners — Railroad Sprinkler. Eittibitions anlramusements :—110

Notes of the Week. The Minto Triumph. How Can We Work a Sanitary

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Reform ?

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Government Measures:—

The Bull “ In Cœna Domini. Count Montalembert in the Cham­

Practical Instructors—Results ot Special Commission in Tipperary The Prisoners under Sentence of Death-Cost of Paupers—Grand Discovery of the “ Times ” Home Measures : — ,

Chinese Warfare—Punch in his ber of Peers. Kebietos:— ... ... ...

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Native Land-The Canynge Society — Royal Academy — The Historical Pocket-Book—Temperance at Cologne—Mississippi Flood—Antique Pulpit at Sudbury—Cost of the New Houses of Parliament - Post Office Robberies—A Long Time ComingWarning to Servants -Famine in Silesia—Library for the MianChester Police Force — The Squadron at Lisbon. Rato anil Police:— ..........

A Few Words on Church Music,

&c.—Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chancellors: Erskine— « Brownson’s Quarterly Review _*• The Rambler” —“ Duffy’s “ Irish Catholic Magazine.”

Poor-rates-Tenant Right- Public Dinners to Mr. Crawford. L oyal National R epeal A ssociation State of the Country :

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Court:— - ••• — Arrival o f the Duke and Duchess

Aghabollogue -BallaghaderrinBallicrav—Drum—Dublin—Farmagh—Frekie—Galway — Glennesk—Headford: Kells — Killinana — Kilmeena —Lismore— Liscanhaáe — Lisronage-Limeriék : Tuam—Wexford -W aterford—Destitution in Macroom Union—The Pope’s Rescript to the Primate of Ireland—Dr. Maglnn’ s Third, Letter to t o d Stanley—Rev. Dr. Miluy’s Lc-ttetto Count do Montalembert—e x termination—Deaths D-om Starvation-Destitution—Treatment of Fever Patients—Connection of France and Ireland—The Silent Sister—The Murders of the Rev. Mr. Maguire’s Relatives—Death o f the Rev. Mr. Waldron, J.P. foreign aniJColonial intelli­

o f Saxe Coburg—Theatricals. personal:— ••• ••• ••• Death o f the Archbishopof Canter-

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Lunacy — Gang of Burglars at Woolwich — Marlborounh-street —Difficulties about a Deceased v.ury_- interview of Dr. Wiseman with Earl Grey—Death o f Gan. y)oyie_ T h c King and the Tailor —Lord Eldon—Death ot another Member of the National Convention—The Duke of Buckingham’s Estates-The Earl and Countess of Minto—The Statue to Mr. Huskisson. ^Law-maWng - The " New Tory

Catholic—The Murder ir* St. James’s Park. Crime:— .................. ••• Juvenile Delinquency—Preventive no

Measures—Convict Education in S irling Castle and York Hulks at Portsmouth—New City House of Correction—Slave Trade. Nabal anlr fttilitarp Intel­

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Leader—Finance—A Little W a r National Defences: Letter of Sir Tolin Burguyne—Great Procession of Sailors—The Navigation Laws-The Window T ax-P a r liamentaryElectors-Election of Bishops—Law-making,-------------

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Roothaan-The Revolutions of Sicily and Naples.

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New XiitRograpkic and Copperplate

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Sole Lessee, Mr. Char.es Stafhews, Old Brompton. On Monday, Feb. 14, will be produced a new and original Piece called ASTOUNDING PHENOMENA.

Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Mathews, Bellingham, F. Cooke, and Meadows.

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doubt as to the view taken by that “ chivalrous “ champion o f Catholicism” o f the controversy which L o rd Shrewsbury has provoked. T h e y are — fo l lo w s :—

Amongst the Catholics whom the conduct in Switzerland o f the Cabinet o f St. James's has thoroughly enlightened as to the intentions o f the W h ig Ministry, a fatal division has arisen which paralyses whatever influence they might otherwise exercise on public opinion. W e have not yet spoken o f the “ Declaration o f W ar ” by the respected Lord Shrewsbury against the Irish Episcopacy; and i f it were not necessary to unravel a very serious complication o f affairs, we should prefer a hundred times to keep silence on such a Manifestation!

I t is well known that the hostility o f England against Ireland dates from an earlier period than the Protestant Reform ation, and the world is not ignorant that even Tiefore the triumph o f that b e l ie f which has made the slavery o f Ireland a means o f gratifying religious bigotry, E n g land had learned to use her contempt for those she op pressed, as an antidote against the remorse .which her tyranny should have engendered

After which will be produced an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, in Two Acts, by the author of “ The S1“ p'ng Beauty,” “ The Beauty and the Beast,” “ The White Cat, &c, and founded upon the Countess d’Anois' story, “ Le Eameau d Or tn be called TKE g o u ) f n BRANCH. Characters by H. Hall, Gilbert, S. Smith, Marshall, H. Marshall, and Harley, Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam, Miss Lee, Miss Ballin Miss Marshall, and Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Howard, and Madame Vt'StriS’ To conclude^ith

BOX AND COX.

John Box, Mr. Buckstone; James Cox, Mr. Harley; Mrs Bouncer, Mrs. Macnamara

Hatcst intelligence.

T E X T A N D C OM M E N T . I n L oril Shrewsbury’s second letter to D r . M T Ia le , to which allusion is made in our Notices to Correspondents, there occurs the fo llow in g reference to the Count de Montalembert :—

Lest, however, it should seem discourteous not to devote a word to M. de Montalembert, whom X revere as the brightest ornament o f his country, and the most cluval rous champion o f Catholicism— 1 w ill m erely observe that i f he he not scandalised at the proceedings at Conciliation H a ll—o f which, indeed, we must hope he has no very definite knowledge—nor yet at your Grace’s recent letter, neither do I apprehend he w ill be at mine.

Since the publication o f our F irst Edition, we hav. received from Paris the ju st published number o f the Correspondant, the organ o f M . de MontalemberQ and • i ' _ a _o _nnmo n/mnnips a.

Since the more upright and enlightened minds o f Great Britain have begun to turn towards Catholicism, some men who have known how to raise themselves above hereditary prejudices, and at the head o f whom we must place the courageous Editor o f the T a b l e t , Mr. Lucas, have laboured to combat in the minds o f the English Catholics, this contempt o f the Irish. A t the present tim e, Mr. Lucas’s Journal informs us that with the view o f obtainin g from Pius IX th . the submission o f the Irish Episcopacy to the English Crown, the W h ig Ministers have had the skill to turn to account this contemptuous disposition o f the English, b y inducing some Catholics to represent to His Holiness that Ireland w ill never be tranquillised so long as th e people are left to the uncontrolled guidance o f their native C lergy. A letter from the Venerable Cardinal Pransoni, though very moderate in its language, proves that this b low has told.

Intrigues with this object were going on in Borne when an attack was made in the House o f Lords upon an Irish Priest to the effect that on the very steps o f the A ltar he denounced a landlord to the vengeance o f assassins. The Priest found no difficulty in proving the absolute falsehood o f this ca lum ny; nevertheless, such being the state o f things, without waiting for any explanation, the leader o f the Catholic aristocracy in England, the founder o f one o f atholic aristocracy in rmgiaiiu, me m m those magnificent churches which recall the great monuments o f Christian a r t in th eM id d leA g e—in a word, Lord Shrewsbury—has taken upon him, in a letter which we cannot describe, to assail the venerable Archbishop o f Tuam, and to call on him to put an end to the crimes and disorders o f his clergy (s'est mis, dans une lettre inqualifiable, à interpeller le vénérable Archevêque de Tuam, et a le sommer de mettre un tei’me aux crimes et aux désordres de son clergé) . The Irish prelate has replied to this appeal with admirable dignity and moderation ; but hitherto he has not brought his adversary to retract, and so, ju st at present, the mantle ot Jesus Christ is rent asunder in the British empire.

I t w ou ld seem the Count has read both L o rd

A B IL L FOR ESTABLISHING D IPLOM ATIC

RELATIONS W IT H ROME. “ Whereas, by an A c t passed in the first year o f the reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary intituled, ‘ An A ct declaring the Rights and * Liberties o f the Subject, and settling the Succession •o f the Crown,’ it was, amongst other things, enacted, that all and every person and persons who was, were, or should be reconciled to, or should hold communion with the See or Church o f Rome, or should profess the Popisji religion, or marry a Papist, should be excluded, and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and Government of this realm and Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging, or any part o f the same, or to have, use, or exeercise any regal power, authority, or jurisdiction within the same, and in all and every such case the people o f these realms should be and were thereby absolved o f their allegiance, and that, the said Crown and Government should from time to time descend to and be enjoyed by such person and persons,belngProtestants, as should haveinherited thesame incase the said person or persons so reconciledor holding communion, or professing, or marrying, as aforesaid, were naturally dead. And whereas by another A ct passed in the Session o f Parliament holden in the twelfth and thirteenth years o f the reign o f His late Majesty King William III. intituledd An A c t for the further

‘ Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the ‘ Rights and Liberties o f the Subject,’ it was, amongst other things, enacted, that all and every person who should or might take or inherit the Crown by virtue o f the limitation o f that A ct, and was, were, or should be reconciled to or hold communion with the See or Church o f Rome, or should profess the Popish Religion, or should marry a Papist, should he subject to such incapacities as in such case or eases were by the said A ct o f the first year o f King William and Queen Mary provided, enacted, and established. And whereas it is expedient that Her Majesty should be enabled to esta blish diplomatic relations with the Court o f Rome. Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen’s most excellent Majesty, by and w ith the advice and consent o f the Lords Spiritual and Temporial, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the autho rity o f the same, that, notwithstanding any thing contained in the said recited Acts, or either o f them, or in any other A ct or A cts now in force, it shall and is hereby declared to be lawful for her Majesty, her heirs and successors, from time to Time whensoever it shall seem fit to her or them, to appoint and accredit to and employ at the Court o f Rome any Ambassador, Envoy E x traordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary or other diplomatic a„ ent or agents whatsoever, and from time to time at her or their pleasure, to revoke and determine any such appointment and employment, and also from time to time to receive at the Court o f London any Ambassador, Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary, or other diplomatic agent o r agents whatsoever of, and accredited by the Sovereign Pontiff *, and that all Ambassadors, Envoys Extraordinary, Ministers Plenipotentiary, and other diplomatic agents, so respectively appointed, acciedited, employed and reaeived as aforesaid, shall respectively have and enjoy such and the same rights privileges, and immunities as are now by law, usage, or otherwise had and enjoyed by any other Ambassador, Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary, or other diplomatic agent or agents accredited by her Majesty to any foreign power, or by any foreign power to the Court o f London.”

The Court.— On Thursday, the 10th instant, (the eighth anniversary of Her Majesty’s marriage), the Queen had a dinner party at Buckingham Palace. Among the company were included their Royal H ighnesses the Duke and Duchess o f Cambridge, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess o f SaxeCoburg, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick o f Hesse, and Count Arthur Mensdorff, A t W indsor the anniversary was celebrated.

malionibus," about which some question had been raised, was, his Grace observed, in exact accordance with the original received by him from the H oly See. His Grace then adverted to clerical interference in politics, observing that hitherto he had’ recommended non-inter ference merely by his own example, since the granting ot Catholic Emancipation, when the Prelates o f Ireland had unanimously resolved that they would thenceforth withdraw from all political agitation, and that they would strongly recommend such non-interference to the Clergy o f their respective dioceses. Such non-interference, then resolved npon by the Prelates unanimously, had now an additional sanction from the present communication from the H oly See. The Archbishop concluded by observing that he expected that this injunction from the H o ly Lather would be strictly attended to.”

Wm. Ryan (P u ck ) and Andrew Dea were executed on Monday at Limerick. They both died penitent, and having confessed their guilt, acknowledged the ju stice o f their sentence. They attributed their fate to a neglect o f their religious duties.

FRANCE.

The discussion on the paragraph o f the address relating to the Reform banquets, has been the most stormy o f the present session. In the debate on Tuesday, M. Duchatel declared that the determination o f the Government was not only not to grant or to promise any Reform, hut to prevent any Reform banquets for the future. On making this announcement he was saluted with the most tremendous uproar and cries from the left of, “ This is as had as Charles A . ( C ’est Charles X . tout pur.) M. Cremieux called out amidst thunders o f applause, “ There is blood in it ; and M. Odilon Barrot solemnly reminded the ministers that “ the moment was dangerous,” and that they might loook out for revolution.

The Thiers’ party has been holding aloof in the debate, and appears to he by no means disposed to go the lengths the “ gauche ” wishes it ; hut the excitement is now so great, both in the Chamber and in the country, that it cannot recede.— Morning Chro

Mr. John O’Connell arrived in Paris on Tuesday evening. The Abbé Lacordaire delivered the funeral oration, in honour o f O’Connell on Thursday. A n immense multitude were present. Previous to the sermon Low Mass was celebrated. In the evening, Prmce Czartoriski gave a grand dinner at the Hotel Lambert, at which Mr. J. O’Connell, Count Montalembert, and the partisans o f the Polish cause were present. _ The party were expected to go to the Jardin d’Hiver, in the Champs Elysée, in the evening, where a demonstration would take place.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Cape o f Good Hope papers to the 12th o f December have arrived, which inform us that Colonel Somerset had been successful in his operations to the east o f the Kye, by which the hostile Kaffirs lost 2,000 head o f cattle, and upwards o f 20 men, who fell in the several skirmishes.

AU STRALIA .

A delaide.—A rrival of B ishop Murphy.—“ On July 28th, the John Bartlett arrived at Adelaide from London, after a passage o f 102 days. Amongst the passengers was the R ight Rev. Dr. Murphy, Catholic Bishop o f Adelaide. This arrival has been more than usually interesting, especially to the Catholic portion o f our community, as one object o f the B ishops voyage to Europe was understood to be the obtaining funds tor the erection o f a Cathedral Church in Adelaide. In this Dr. Murphy has so far succeeded as to have enlisted a number o f warm friends to the Catholic cause in South Australia, who have pledged themselves to assist in rearing a suitable Gothic building, o f which the Bishop has brought out the model, architectural drawings and designs. Mr. Leigh, who may be called the English patron o f the Catholic mission in South Australia, is quite enthusiastic in

Installation op D r . Lee.— This ceremony took place in the Cathedral Church, Manchester, on Friday at eleven o ’ clock.

I slington.— Sacrilege at the Catholic Chapel. The following notice has been circulated through the police force, and appears in the Police Gazette o f W ednesday:— “ Stolen, between 11 p.m. on the 6th, and 8 “ a.m. o f the 7th, from the Roman Catholic Chapel, “ Duncan-terrace, Islington, the property o f the Rev. “ H. Lee, trustee o f the chapel, a silver chalice, a « s ilver gilt ditto, a metal ciborium, a small ditto with a “ box in the stem, three patins, a silver gilt cruet, and “ small spoon.— Metropolitan Police, N Division, Feb. 9.” A ctive exertions are being made to trace the property in the different pawnbrokers’ shops, &c., but hitherto without success. Not long since a similar sacrilege was committed at the Catholic Chapel, Hammersmith, the perpetrators o f which are also undiscovered. „ „ _

The Rev. Dr. Fergusson.— The Rev. T . T. Fergusson, D.D., late secretary to the Catholic Institute, has been appointed to the new Mission o f Fairford, Gloucestershire.

the cause, and has consecrated thereto considerable portions o f his colonial lands and funds. Besides the two ecclesiastics who have accompanied the Bishop, another in New South Wales awaits a call to this province from Dr. Murphy, who intends immediately to commence the erection o f chapels in Gawler low n , Mount Barker, and other localities. The Bishop has brought a number o f choice paintings, which will henceforth adorn the walls o f the chapel in which High Mass is to he performed on Sunday week, when Dr. Murphy will dispense to the people the blessing o f His Holiness the Pope, who has expressed a deep interest m their welfare. Dr. Murphy informs us that a Catholic Bishop has been appointed to Melbourne, and that a Catholic Church is to be forthwith built at Portland. The Bishop had sojourned for a month at Rome where he was honoured with a special audience by His Holiness the Sovereign Pontiff, who, among other proois o f regard, presented him with a silver chalice, and a gold medal bearing his own effigy.— The Adelaide Observer o f July 31, 1847.

On the appearance in the Dublin Evening Post o f the Pope’s Rescript respecting the “ Denunciations,” it was stated in the Freeman that not only was the translation incorrect, hut that the text had been tampered with and the word diffamationibus substituted for “ d e fa m a t io n ib u s the former being considered to imply merely condemnatory rumours—the latter, slanderous reports or calumnies. On this subject the following statement appears in the Dublin Evening Post o f the 10th :—

Conbctstons,

Spain.— On the 25th ult. an English Protestant, named Rey, received Holy Baptism in the Church o f St. George at Corunna. A l l the authorities o f the city assisted at this ceremony, which was celebrated with the greatest pomp.— Journal des Villes et des Campagnes.

“ A conference o f the C lergy o f the diocese o f Dublin was held on Tuesday last, at the Presbytery, Saint Michael and Saint John’s. His Grace the Most

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On the 30tli, a Mahometan, aged 28 years, horn at Smyrna, and residing at Madrid, made his abjuration in the church o f St. Louis, in that city, before the Arch_

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