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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1865.

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Cable of Contents. SUMMARY ..................................................................... J'ATEST IN TE L L IG E N C E ....................................................................... FOREIGN A N D COLONIAL IN TELLIGENCE : France,

Austria, ^Prussia, Bavaria and the Duchies, Russia, Spain, Piedmont, Switzerland, The East, Japan, Cochiu China, America. Address to the King of Prussia by the Upper House. The Prussian Chambers. Southern Independence. The American Civil W ar in 1864. Polish Affairs. The Expedition Against Wilmington and General Butler. The -, Extradition of the St. Albans Raiders. .............................. CATHOLIC IN TELLIGENCE : Diocese of Westminster :

The London Catholic Maternity. The Little Sisters of the Poor. The Missions of Waltham Cross and Barnet. The Workhouse Question. Reform of Workhouse Oppression of Catholics. Diocèse of Birmingham: New Catholic Church.— Stratford-on-Avon. The Hanley Bazaar. Dr. Newman and the German Congress. Diocese of Salford : St. Mary’s, Bacup. Diocese of Beverley : Dewsbury. Diocese of Liverpool : Opening of the new Catholic Church, Moor Park. List (in Order of Merit) of Candidates who have Passed the Examinatien for Admission into Normal Schools........................................ ......................................................... LEADER S : The Irish Law Appointments and the Borough

of Tralee. The Late J udgment of the Court of Chancery Appeal (Ireland). The University Question: Memorial to the Sacred College of the Propaganda. Rome (From our own Correspondent)........................... ' ............................................ R E V IE W S : Burton’s Mission to the King of Dahome. The

Workman; or, Life and Leisure. The Labourer and North British Record..................................... » ............................................ CORRESPONDENCE : Pilgrimage to the Tombs of SS. Peter

and Paul. Prison Ministers’ Act.................................................... *RELAND : The Cathedral of Armagh. The Carlow Priest

in Australia. The Distress in Galway. The O ’Connell National Monument. Chancery Appeal Court. W y se v. Wyse. ..................................................................... M ISC ELLANEOUS: The Brompton Oratory C a se : Legal

Correspondence and Newspaper Comments. The Fenian Brotherhood in America. Destructive Collision on the Great Western Railway. The Importance of Aspirates. A Pauper Heir to an Immense Fortune. The London Fog. Mr. Bright and the American W a r . Photographic Experiments. Home and Foreign Miscellaneous

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W e regret to announce that the latest bulletin of Friday morning gives a less favourable account ° f the health o f His Eminence the Cardinal A rch bishop than the earlier part o f the week had Warranted us in hoping for. The bulletin o f Friday the 27th, at 11.40 a.m., is in these terms : '—“ The Cardinal has had a bad night and is ■vorso to -day.” . W c trust that our second edition will contain more reassuring tidings, and that the prayers aQd hopes o f the Faithful who look forward to see their great and loved Archbishop celebrate in their midst,

in renewed health, the approaching twenty-fifth Hnniversary o f his Episcopal Consecration, may rev iv e a speed/ )\nd decisive eucouragement.

•— The event o f the week has been the appearance of the anxiously-expected work o f the illustrious "■shop o f Orleans, .Monsignor Dupanloup, on the Convention o f September 15, and the Encyclical o f December 8 . I t forms an.8vo. volume o f eighty Pages, and has filled for five or six successive days ’ ■■any columns of the French Journals. W e shall not Fail, by extracts from this splendid production, to do "'bat we can to enable our readers to form some idea

it, hut its length forbids the hope o f transfering it to our columns; and as it will without doubt he transi t e d into English, our readers must procure fo r them8elves the pleasure o f possessing it in its entirety.

After proving in the first part o f his work that the abandonment o f Rome would redound neither to the "'elfare o f Italy nor to the honour o f France,

Bishop of Orleans uudertakes to confute those who Pretend that the Encyclical o f December 8th will facilitate and justify the abandonment o f Rome.

‘ Fheir tactics, ” he says, “ are, henceforth, to speak

little as possible o f the Convention, and to keep it cloaked as a decisive weapon for the last fnoment, but !*} the mean time to post, to exaggerate, to pervert the Encyclical, and to defame the Pope before overthrow,lng him. T o give themselves out as more exactJng than the Pope, and as more Ultramontane than tbe Ultramontanes, and to shout to all Catholics ‘ N o f l e c t i o n s !’ ‘N o explanations 1’ ‘ On your knees !’ 1*at thus they may more easily hurl them all to the I'jound. This is the plan.”

"n t against the success o f these manoeuvres the Bishop ?* Orleans opposes the strength o f his genius, and all

“ o powers o f reasoning and eloquence in which ho j : ands pre-eminent. He shows that the translation o f .!'eRncyclical qndjoftlie Syllabus as given to France by

Journal ties 'Debats, contains not fewer than ‘ j veuty blunders. He undertakes to rectify before I1®world the true sense aud meaning o f the Papal 0®ttn\ants. p reminds the ignorant commentators o f the t. rfiss o f the elementary rule that the condemna0°a o f a proposition, blamed as false, erroneous, J evert as heretical, does not necessarily imply 0,® affirmation o f its contrary, which may

he another error, but only o f its contra-

Another rule, not less elementary, is it is necessary to examine whether the con. cnined propositions be “ universal and absolute,” for , May often happen that such a proposition is con, lined only by reason o f its universality and o f its

®absolute sense. Another rule is, that all the terms o f a proposition de° k.° weighed in order to see on which the con,)eI>Ulation bears or docs not bear. Thus, in the con . j ^ a e d proposition the “ Roman Pontiff can and ought

be reconciled, and come to a compromise with ^Q , n civilisation,” the condemnation bears on the " i th e U reconciled and come to a compromise Foito ’■ The Press lias drawn the conclusion that the atirUi!8 irreconc‘ b|'ble enenjy o f modern civilisation, d, ■'bat all that constitutes it is condemned. But in ■n ,?er tbis absurdity the Bishop shows that rhfp ■modern civilisation there are good things, in . ^ G n t . l l i i r w r a ' H T1 ( 1 1 l.*l f 1 1 T l 1 W f i n . 1 1 1 , / i / \ n U A things; and bacl things ; and the condera°uJhfU ° nly reSard? *the ProP°sition that the Pope tyiti ” reconciled, and come to a compromise i , w l i o f a u»>1 i n m n d o r n 1 ! __ i •___ TT’ ___ what is bad in modern civilisation. Fur

^mor9 the Bishop notes these rules, that in the interpretation o f condemned propositions heed is to be taken o f all the terms and o f the slightest nuances ; for the vice o f a proposition may often depend on a single word. Absolute propositions must be distinguished from relative propositions, for what might he admissible as a hypothesis is often false as a thesis. Moreover, there are equivocal and dangerous propositions, which may be condemned merely on account o f their double meaning and of the had sense in which they may be understood, although they may have also a good sense. Lastly, there are propositions, and the Syllabus contains several, which are only condemned in the ¿ense o f their authors and not in the absolute sense o f the words separated from the context. The Bishop o f Orleans then proceeds to apply these rules to several o f the propositions o f the Syllabus which have been most ignorantly or most maliciously misunderstood.

— Throughout the week the protestations of the Bishops o f France have continued to appear. The attempts o f the Government to stifle the voice o f the Church lias only given it increased resonance, and the defeat o f the Government candidate for the Department o f the Charento Inferieure by a large majority, is a warning not to be disregarded.

Tlie Union o f Friday, the 20th, publishes the letters o f the Bishop o f Metz, o f the Archbishop o f A u d i , and o f the Bishop o f Blois.

On Saturday it published the letter o f the Bishop o f Rodez.

On Sunday it published the letters o f the A r ch bishop o f A ix , o f the Bishop o f Nantes, aud o f the Bishop o f Mende.

On Monday it published the letters o f the Bishop o f Arras, o f the Bishop o f Strasbourg, aud o f the Bishop o f Farmers.

On Wednesday it published the letters o f the Bishop o f Luqon, and o f the Bishop o f Poitiers, with extracts from the pastoral instructions o f the A rch bishop o f Bourges.

Ou Thursday it published the letters o f the Bishop o f Auttin, o f the Bishop o f Valence, o f the Bishop o f Meaux, and o f the Bishop o f Verdun. And on Friday, the 27th, it published the letter of the Bishop o f Alger.

— A P r iv y Council was held at Dublin Castle on Wednesday, and it was shortly afterwards reported in the I ia ll o f theFourCourtsthat the Attorney-General, Mr. O ’Hagan, would succeed to the vacancy in the Court o f Common Pleas caused by the death o f Mr. Justice Ball. This result, it appears, wa3 held doubtful to the last moment, as the Government was supposed to bo very reluctant to lose the services o f Mr. O ’Hagan in Parliament, and was anxious to provide Mr. Brewster with a seat on the Bench. There is, it appears; to us, an unnecessary hesitation about stating the reasons which may have moved the Government on the one hand, and the Attorney-General on the other. But at all events the fact is accomplished. The Government has lost by far the most important and influential member of the Irish Administration— in fact, the one person, through whom it retained any notable degree o f Catholic con fidence and support. Sir Robert Peel is now free to conclude unchecked an Orange Alliance. The Junta of Mr. Attorney Lawson and Mr. Justice Keogh rules supreme— only its friends seem likely to be all frozen out o f Parliament.

Meantime active operations have commenced con cerning the representation o f Tralee. Serjeant Sullivan having reconnoitred the place and found the attempt could only end in failure, Mr. Charles Barry was so ill-advised as to allow his name to be put forward. Mr. Neligan, also o f the Irish Bar, and related to a leading solicitor in Tralee, came down, and called a meeting at the Chamber o f Commerce, o f which we find a short account in the Irish Times:—

“ N o t content,” says this correspondent, “ with representing Barry as Bacon, a Holmes, or a Curran, he stigmatised his opponent as a hollow-trading financier, too contemptible for the smiles o f the highminded men o f Tralee. I t was not such plodding calculating, monetary speculators, like Mr. M ‘Kenna, they wanted, but pure, unsullied patriots, and matchless orators like Barry.”

The rest o f the speech, it appears, was charged with personalities and appeals to religious passions.^

The correspondent o f the Irish Times continues:— “ T o this stirring and convincing appeal M r. Henry Donovan, the representative o f the merchant section, calmly and effectively replied. He repudiated the disgrace o f continuing this borough as the pocket borough o f the Whigs. They returned one W h ig law-officer, hut he would he the last. I f they did that once they would not do it again. Mr. M ’Kenna would go in as an independent member— unpledged and unbound to any Government— especially a W h ig Government— in fact, he would go in as an opponent of Lord Palmerston— as an opponent o f Lord Palmerston’s foreign policy. Then, again, was it to be endured that Mr. Neligan should he allowed to draw invidious religious distinctions, and throw in the apple o f religious discord. P ro testant and Catholic lived harmoniously in this town, and it was never before made a cause o f complaint against any Catholic that ho associated with P ro testants. Mr. Donovan went on to cauterise Mr. Neligan on the infelicitous topics ho introduced, and the spirit which characterised his s en t im e n t s ; and, by a resolution, carried by every one present except Mr. Neligan and two or three others, rejected Mr. Barry’s candidature.”

W e shall hear no more, we suppose, o f Mr. Barry’s candidature. Meantime, Mr. M ‘ ICenna has arrived in Tralee and addressed the electors. J wr^ will doubtless be issued in the course o f a week, and at present everything promises “ a walk o v e r ’ for the Independent Candidate.

— Mr. Milner Gibson, in the course o f his annual address to the electors o f Ashton-on-Lyue, has ad ministered a bland rebuke to those Catholics who are endeavouring to obtain control o f the Government o f the entire Empire by means o f an alliance with the Conservative Party :—

“ Noticing the leatures of the Schleswig-Holstein debate in Parliament, he said, the majority for Government in the House o f Commons was reduced from 05 to 18 by the votes o f the Irish Roman Catholic members, and he maintained that such a combination ns was then effected between the high Ultramontane Catholics and the high Conservative Protestants of this country was not one that ever could, or ever ought to, govern England, or which ever ¡could promote the cause o f civil and religious liberty (cheers). The Catholics themselves had nothing to gain from such an alliance, for it was not to the Conservative Party that they owed their emancipation, or that they were likely to be indebted for measures which they would value in reference to religious ascendancy in Ireland and other matters (cheers.)”

THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. Bucharest, Jan. 25.—The Senate has presented the address to Prince Couza. The reply of the latter was received with enthusiasm.

The Chamber is now discussing the bill on the organisation of the superior clergy.

The Constitution has received a warning for an article defaming the Jewish religion.

T H E IN D IA N M A IL . By the Calcutta and China mails jnst arrived we have some interesting though melancholy details of the barbarous murder of Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird in .Japan. It is to be feared that the dastardly assassins will never be discovered, and our peaceful relations with the Japanese Government may again be disturbed. There is no political news from China, and the Indian news has been generally anticipated by the last mail from Bombay.—Standard.

This passage is very suggestive. But may we ask, to begin, W h o are the high Ultramontane Catholics in question ? Are Mr. More O ’Ferrall and M r. Cogan among the persons indicated ? They on this occasion for the first time within living memory voted against the W h ig Government on a great party question, and Mr. Cogan at all events very fairly gave his reasons for so doing. On the other hand, is Mr. Monsell, who opposed the Government, to be denied his right of ranl;ingasanUltram ontane?Thisistoo hard. Weshould very much like to know what idea Mr. Gibson has of the meaning o f the word Ultramontane— or whether i f he saw an Ultramontane and a Gallican proposition side by side, he would he able to tell one from the other ? The use o f this phrase without the dimmest inkling o f its meaning, is becoming a distressing bad joke o f everyday recurrence, and our Protestant contemporaries generally apply it about as accurately as i f they were to call a mau a paralellogram or an oxide.

— A terrible accident, o f which we have given an account elsewhere, fortunately not, as yet at least, attended with loss o f life, occurred on Thursday evening at the Schools o f the Jesuit Fathers in W e s tminster. As many o f these poor people belong to the working classes, great distress, it i3 apprehended, must ensue to their families unless a prompt effort is made to assist them ; and we are requested to state that subscriptions for the relief o f the more destitute o f the sufferers are b e in g received at the Charing Cross branch o f the National Bank.

W e are sorry to learn that the arrears o f subscriptions to the Brook Green Reformatory amount to upwards o f 140Z., which causes much inconvenience. AVe therefore beg to call the attention o f subscribers to this excellent institution to an advertisement in another part o f this paper, earnestly calling upon those who have not yet paid their subscriptions for the past year to he good enough to do so as soon as possible.

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FRANCE.

P a r i s , Jan. 2G.—The Constitutionnel of to-day denies categorically the rumour that France is about to send 500 Spahis to Tunis, and says that the calm and disinterested attitude of France during the disturbances in that country ought of itself to suffice to prevent credence being given to unfounded rumours calculated to excite disquietude.

The Patrie publishes advices from Suez to the lGth inst. stating that Captain Tricault was about to start on a mission to the Imaum of Muscat, whose brother was said to be desirous of ceding Zanzibar to England. The great naval Powers, uuder whose protectorate Zanzibar is placed, were urging the Imaum to oppose this cession.

IR E L A N D . (From the Correspondent of the Times.) D ublin, Jan. 2G.—Mr. O ’Hagan succeeds the late Mr. Justice Ball, and Mr. Lawson becomes AttorneyGeneral in his place. It was expected by many that be would prefer remaining at his post of Attorney-General, in order that he might carry through the House of Commons certain reforms in the Irish courts, by which his name would go down to posterity as a legislator.

Mr, Lawson, the new Attorney-General, is a Protestant. Ilis career in the University was most distinguished. He was the Wliately Professor of Political Economy, and he has held next to Mr. Brewster the highest position at the bar, having great practice in the Courts of Equity. He contested the University ou one occasion in the Liberal interest, hut he has never been able to get a seat in Parliament. He intends, it is said, to try his luck in Portarlington if he cannot get in for Tralee, which is not so likely. That constituency will probably insist on having a Roman Catholic representative, and any Government candidate will have a formidable opponent in Mr. M’Kenna, manager of the National Bank. He is a man of ability and energy, and lias much local influence in Tralee. It is reported that he is determined to fight hard for the representation of that borough.

Nothing is known yet about the new Solieitor-General. In the sporting phrase current here in legal circles now Serjeant Sullivan, Law Adviser, is in the “ running” for i t ; but then, unless he could get a seat, there would he no one to conduct the Irish legal business in Parliament. Sir Colnian O’ Loghlen is member for Clare, for which he would probably be returned again without opposition, and therefore he is spoken o f as likely to he the new Solieitor-General. But all these things are matters of conjecture, which a day or two will set at rest.

THE O C CU R R EN CE OF R A I L W A Y

A C C ID E N T S . LETTER OF THE QUEEN. At the meeting at Manchester ou Wednesday of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, the chairman (Mr. Watkin, M .P .) said that her Majesty had written to some of the railways centred in London as follows :—

“ Sir Charles Phipps has received the commands of her Majesty the Queen to call the attention of the directors of the --------- to the increasing number of accidents which have lately occurred upon different lines of railroad, and to express her Majesty’s warmest hope that the directors o f th e ----------will carefully consider every means of guarding against these misfortunes, which are not at all the necessary accompaniments of railway travelling.

“ It is not for her own safety that the Queen has wished to provide in thus calling the attention of the company to the late disasters. Her Majesty is aware that when she travels extraordinary precautions are taken, but it is on account of her family, o f those travelling upon her service, and of her people generally, that she expresses the hope that the same security may he ensured for all as is so carefully provided for herself.

“ The Queen hopes it is unnecessary for her to recall to the recollection of the the railway directors the heavy responsibility which they have assumed since they have succeeded in securing the monopoly of the means of travelling of almost the entire population of the country.

AUSTRIA.

V i e n n a , Jan. 2G— In to-day’s sittings o f the finance committee of the Lower House of the Reichsrath the Minister of Police declared, in the name of the Cabinet, that'the Government was willing to consent to reductions in the budget o f expenditure, under the two-fold condition— that the Government should have the right to distribute the funds voted by the Chamber indiscriminately amongst the different branches of the public service, and also that the budget for-186G should be voted during the present session of the Reichsrath, with a similar power of distribution on the part o f the Government. The Minister further declared that unless these two conditions should be previously accepted, the Government could not state precisely the exact amounts of which the new modificaeations o f the budget would consist.

Hereupon the finance committee resolved not to accept these conditions, so long as the Cabinet declined distinctly to point out the amount of reductions to be introduced.

The Neue Freie Presse, of to-day says “ We learn from reliable sources that the decree convoking the Hungarian Diet will be promulgated on the loth April, and that the Diet will he opened on the loth May next.’

The same paper states that the military tribunals have been ordered to terminate the pending trials as soon as possible.

T rieste, Jan. 2G.—The Governor of this city, in receiving a deputation from the inhabitants, expressed his conviction that the majority of the late municipal council were loyal, and his belief that at the approaching reelection they would exclude members hostile to the Government.

SPAIN.

Madrid, January 25.—The Epoca of to-day states that the Minister o f the Colonies estimates the expenses of the war in St. Domingo at 200 millions of leals, and that the war has besides occasioned a deficit of 100 millions

the revenue of Cuba. The Council of State has not yet discussed the question of the encyclical.

“ Osborne, December 27, 1804.” —Post. SER IO U S A C C ID E N T A T TH E SCHOOLS O F

TI1E J E S U IT FA TH E R S , W ESTM IN STER. On Thursday evening an accident, which was calculated to be of the most frightfuf character, occured at the Catholic Free School-rooms, St. Peter’s-street, attached to the Church of St. Mary’s Horse-ferry-road, Westminster, during the grand drawing of prizes, in aid of St. Mary’s church. a

While lh|! prizes were being distributed— and, indeed, just after the drawing had commenced—a sudden and fearful crash was heard, and the flooring gave Ivay, precipitating upwards of a hundred persons on to the floor below, a depth of 20 feet. It is impossible to describe the scene which followed— men, women, and children fighting, as they thought for l i f e ; while those who were on the floor that remained flocked to the windows, smashed out the glass and frames in their excitement, screaming “ Murder 1” “ Fire 1” and other heartrending calls, that roused the neighbourhood. So rapid was the spread of the alarm that fire was raging, that the engines from the various stations wore soon on the spot. The real eatas trophe was, however, in course of alleviation long ere their arrival, as Conductor Cottrell had safely “ landed” 178 of those on the upper floor who, but for his judicious management would haveprecipitated themselves from the windows The police soon did good service, and upward of GOwere conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, where Mr. St. Anbyn Ilawken, the house surgeon, Dr Pcarse, of liegent Street, and the students attended to the sufferers. Of the number conveyed to the hospital 30 remain inmates, of whom several are not expected to survive. Nearly 50 were attended to and enabled to leave, while a great many were conveyed to the residences o f their lriends without receiving hospital treatment. Amongst the severely injured are Miss Adelaide Fallen, the matron of the penitentiary, who remains in Westminster Hospital. Although there were earnest averments that several children were missing, no traces of any dead bodies had been discovered— Pus