' c / ¿ ' s * ^ol. XXVI., N°- 1.-503. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1865. /S T AM P E D SIXPENCE. (UN STAMPED F IVEPENCE Cable of Contents. ife A R V ..................................................................... iAR??T INTELLIGENCE......................................................... „ . . . "L IAM ENTARY PROCEEDINGS: Roman Catholic Oaths. rni>,!l!" i'listration of Justice in Ireland. ............................... r r IGN AND COLONIAL IN TELLIGENCE: France, "'•stria, Spain, Piedmont, Poland, Prussia, Canada, Mexico, Algeria, The Brazils, America. Freemason Government ill Poland— Letter 11. Re-inauguration of President Lincoln. Cato ace Meeting at Fortress Monroe.................................................. 177 177 179 OIOLIC IN TELLIGENCE: Diocese of Westminster: Catholic Schools of St. John, Islington. The Quarant' Ore Hi Fulham. Royal Bavarian Church of the Assumption, •'arwick-street. The Condition of the Catholic Poor in the Workhouses and Prisons— Meeting in West Brompton. Ljiurch of the Holy Family, Saffron-hill. Diocese of Liverpool- Lenten Pastoral of the Right Rev. Dr. Goss. Liocese of Newport: Pastoral of the Right Rev, Dr. Brown. Liocese of Salford: Manchester and Salford Catholic Reformatory. Scotland: Celebration of St. Patrick's Day, Glasgow“ Letter of His Holiness to the Bishop of Orleans. Hie Pope’s Encyclical Letter. The Bishop of Oxford anil tl>® Clergy of Paris. Correspondence between Sir George «owyer and Mr. Newdegate. The Inspection of Convent 1, llSAn Crompton Oratory Case............................................................... ^ f 'E R S : The Debates in the French Senate on the Relations between the Church and State; and Rome, France, and Italy. The University Question. University Education. (From our own Correspondent). : The Catholic Academia LAND : Refonnatories. The 0 1,1 Newtownwards. Obnoxious Oaths, Fenianism 1M* 186 ^ t t m i n a f n . n 1 will bfl seen by our Parliamentary intelligence bin ^ r' ^ l°useH bas obtained leave to bring in a tat subatitute an oath for the oath required to be yj5®» and subscribed by the statute of the 10th t;.Ur o f the reign o f King George IV . , for ¡jj.® relief o f his Majesty’s Catholic subjects. a * George Grey, on the part of tbe Government, gave Sady assent to the motion as far as regarded the 'htninary step of bringing in a Bill for the purpose m ‘ ed. Messrs. Newdegate and Whalley were Sqc<1enough to speak against Mr. Monsell’s object, and V i n c r e a s e the feeling of the House in its favour. If 8 discussion is to be taken on the second reading, a that great party, which after all is com ' o f men o f all parties, and is worth Pl tn all put together (we mean the party which ^ was fond of appealing to as “ the party of all good ?»” ) would only take up this question,and agree to get f ?f this blemish on our laws, and this source ofilN L lQS> it would be done with the greatest ease. W e n,?® that the measure will find support ou both sides ^ House. t,() Monday the bon. and gallant member for Wngford brought once more under the notice of the bj ®i the exclusion of Roman Catholics from certain in c h e s o f the military service. The Marquis o f Hart- ' lac* stated correctly that, since 1829, no orders °f tu n C^enby the authorities of the Ilorse Guardsor O). |*e Commander-in-Chief’s department for such u ‘ »sion, and nevertheless the fact was that, without L Ruction of the highest authority, such orders had ¡ft8» issued, and acted on by the heads o f departments ‘Oa 8 army- In 1855 the Earl o f Donoughmore corakj » ‘led a regiment o f Tipperary Artillery, and was the ^ ’Reilly’s authority for stating that, in 1855 ‘»ten r Cer cllarKed iu Ireland with the duty of superCftft^'iing the whole recruiting for the Royal Artillery t0? e to the head-quarters of the Tipperary regiment for recruits for the Royal Artillery ; but having ^ »t in a conversation with the noble earl iu com- » that the regiment consisted almost entirely of ><>,»» Catholics, the recruiting officer said he was t A •t» UcI‘ surprised that he should be sent to ask for froin frorn that regiment, as he had strict orders tft ¡ * the officers in command of the Royal Artillery not Hftft e a larger proportion of Roman Catholic recruits lw 8 »He in six, and he was consequently every day stfftWOg eligible recruits. Lord Honoughmore was e*<!la such a monstrous statement, and his first tliift'J»lt-ion was that i f that were the case he did not to * he would be justified iu allowing his men t|)ey » ‘ Unteer for the Royal Artillery, unless ^liii ^ w*th the knowledge o f this circumstance. Atitj to the remonstrance of the officer, however, anx>cty to get volunteers, the noble earl, 8‘4llv ^ hy a patriotism which did him honour, espeUjo j , " ’hen contrasted with the sectarian bigotry of 0( ^ loyal Artillery authorities, thought the crisis ‘‘lift k’reat war was not the moment for discussing •h*tj fforeoeas as these, and he reserved to himself }>efi0|ht of bringing this matter forward at a later 11hisYand at the same time took the precaution that 0 ' l\k8. kept together and treated in such a way l6ffe their religion would not be greatly in- *»en volunteered in the Royal Artillery they with by tbe rules o f the army. Another S t e 1 which induced the Earl of Donough- j t to bring the subject forward at the time was fX-W® felt, and naturally so, that the professional - in¡n ° f the officer who made the statement might »‘pie i red- l ie might also state that the same print o u t * 3 ac^ upon in the Royal Artillery to the Shrift day, as was shown by the fact that in volun- ? 8hort time ago from the Foot to the Royal w ‘ holiffRffiery a]j tqie volunteers who were Roman te.c,8 were rejected. That such was the case lie j^&car I)rove’ al‘ d to mention time and place M .P . for Kildare said : i. ef edit was, fie thought, dn TP »ho v- Cre‘I>t yas, be thought, due to the noble fc ‘»8 tbs enaWed his hon, and gallant friend to t|5»‘hst Sa ^ ^ er Leflore the house (hear, hear) ; and ?>o 8av»iÌer lefore ->-------- ------------ - - — / . ----, y that the dissension which sudi a state of V « « Wflft v V * "w 'a ,c u|Pacijpiwu V*Utwu a oiavo v i v®» ar,fk,„ tlsdy to produce among our own popula A V«aped fra l . :_L._ 1------ 4*«», __----------------------------C »liift', '-'‘ an war ...i.:,.i, 8o recently formed the ftfttiona^ red to liin /to be a far more fertile source o f 1Atngpi eaknesa and danger than that possibility o f l.ip.r»*. « Wap Vin.f1 SO rfinpnf.lv fnrm n rl flm war which ision.” .Ject 0f i ? war h / t a A ll?lac.uas:“ - Hartington had no answer except a,, j !*e had made inquiries at the Horse ‘ r ai the \VTar-office, and had ascertained that no such orders had been issued from either o f those departments. He would, however, again assure the Committee that a thorough investigation into the circumstances mentioned should be instituted. — The Bien Public o f Ghent gives the following short account of the debates in the French Senate on the relations between Church and State, and between France and Rome and Italy :— “ Cardinal de Bonnechose spoke like an eloquent orator, a prince o f the Church, and a statesman. He made two excellent political speeches. “ Cardinal Donnet presented’ the issue in a striking manner. “ The Archbishop o f Paris, retained as counsel in virtue of his office, pleaded extenuating circumstances on behalf o f the Pope and the Church, and threw himself upon the wisdom of the Court. “ The brave General Gemeau dealt in the midst o f the discussion one o f those great sword strokes which Madame de Sevigne admired so much. “ M. Rouland preferred an indictment against the Papacy, the Religious Orders, and the Church. Rope adopts this style we may be very certain that he has information as to the plans and determinations of the French Emperor, which leave no doubt upon his mind that the only terms between them are terms of defiance. “ L i lu i t " and “ Placuit." There is even scorn in Pius the Ninth’s description o f that great Im perial handiwork, the Convention o f September. The French Government’s prohibition to the Bishops is spoken of with unceremonious censure. Meanwhile, it is certain that within the two next years the crisis will arrive ; and it is also certain that, in a few months, the Catholics of Ireland will be called on to take their part in deciding the question, whether for the next few years the Government o f this Empire shall be in the hands of tbe party which has identified itself with the Revolution of Italy and the destruction of the Pope’s temporal power. W e see that there exists in Ireland a strong desire to keep this out o f sight. Let the Catholic people be got to boil up an agitation upon any question in the world, but let no reference be made in Dublin, or Tipperary, or Newcastle West to the Foreign policy o f the Whig-Liberal party. i f r i b a a i s N c t o e . PRUSSIA. Berlin, March 23.—In to-day’s sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the general report of the committee on the budget was resumed. The Minister of War made a speech, in which he declared that tbe Government regarded the approaching vote of the Chamber in reference to the report of the committee as of great importance. If the propositions of the committee were ! adopted the government would know that the Chamber aimed to extend to its own power and to circumscribe the rights of the Crown. The Minister further said :—“ We have been advised to resign ; we remain in office from a feeling of duty, not from ambition. We are told that the Chamber should be dissolved; but the Government has little prospect of achieving any result from such a course in the face of the present organisa** tion of political parties. Until now the Government lias held fast to the constitution; it does so still, and desires to end the present disturbed state of things. For that purpose you must co-operate with the Government. Should you refuse, the question at issue will no longer be one of rights, but of existence. Make your choice.^ “ The Premier President Bonjean summed up i against the Papacy, adopting the conclusions o f Attorney-General Rouland, on leave from the Bank o f France. “ The Marquis de Boissy satirised the whole affair; and M. Itouher, jealous o f Cardinal de Bonuechose for speaking like a statesman, wound up the discussion by preaching a sermon.” — The Constitutionnel o f March To threw ridicule on the statement that certain secret additional articles were signed between the French and Italian Government at the time o f the Convention o f September 15, and says nobody takes those impudent and ridiculous inventions seriously. But the Unita Cattolicu replies, for its part it does take them very seriously. I t will not assert that the additional articles as quoted are the very words o f the compact, hut it maintains that they are its substance, for it insists that secret additional articles were signed, and that one o f them included the annexation to France o f another tract o f Italy. The additional articles as quoted, are, first, that Victor Emmanuel binds himself neither to assail Austria nor to allow Austria to be assailed by our volunteers without the consent o f Napoleon III. Napoleon III. guarantees the Kingdom o f Italy against every assault on the part o f Austria. In case of war between France and Italy on the one side and Italy on the other, the direction o f the war, the command o f the Allied Forces, and the right to decide on peace, shall belong to the Emperor, and V ictor Emmanuel shall obtain from the Italian Chambers unlimited full power for an indefinite time. If, in conssquence o f a war, or of diplomatic negotiations, Italy should be aggrandised by new provinces, the Emperor and King agree that there shall be a pew demarcation of frontiers between them, in order to ensure France against the preponderance of Italian forces. This demarcation shall be settled before peace, or the conclusion of the negotiations. These articles shall remain secret, and the breach o f one o f them shall annul them as well as the Convention o f September 15. — The letter o f the Holy Father to the Bishop o f Orleans, of which we give the Latin text in another column, is dated February 4, and is on several accounts remarkable- The Pope tells the Bishop,— W e are so convinced o f your respecc and attachment that even before we had received your work, in which join together such different subjects so usefully and well, we seemed to hear your voice mingling with tbe noble voices of your colleagues, who, disregarding danger and human respects were almost to a man asserting with priestly freedom and firmness our own and this Holy See’s trampled rights before ^the chief Ministers o f the Empire, and at the same time were taking care to admonish the faithful entrusted to them o f the) danger o f the errors which we have condemned, and were professing to execrate them in the very same sense in which we had reprobated them. Thus, if we felt pleasure, we certainly felt no surprise, cither at the diligence with which you intimate that you have commuuicated our letters to all the Priests o f your Diocese, or at the work which you have offered to us, in which, praising the fearless protests o f your brethren, you declare that you join them with your whole heart. W e have read your work with eagerness, and have seen with pleasure that you have not only recounted and sentenced to deserved contempt the calumnies and blunders of the newspapers, by which the sense o f the doctrine propounded by us had been most foully perverted, but have also gravely reproved the injurious prohibition by which, while ignorant and hostile writers have had full freedom of abuse, it has pleased certain persons to deprive the only legitimate interpreters o f our letters, to whom alone they were addressed, of the.power o f publishing and of explaining them. But we have been especially gratified by” that enumeration of frauds, intrigues, basest greed, robberies, and crimes, which in tbe first part o f your work you have set before the eyes o f all, supported by undoubted and notorious facts, in order that you might lay bare the character of those to whose illustrious guardianship, by the Convention o f Sept. 15, it has seemed good to certain persons that the remnants o f the plunder and our sacred rights should be handed over. Therefore we give you thanks, feeling sure that, according to the zeal with which you are wont to defend the cause o f religion and truth, you will explain to your people the genuine meaning of our letters as carefully and as accurately as you have vigorously dispelled the calumnious interpretations put upon thena. And while promising you ample reward for these pains, we affectionately give asan earnest of it, and a proof o f our special regard, our Apostolic Benediction to you and your whole Diocese. There is no mistake about the spirit which pervades ~ — — ------ -----------— --------r ----- . . * ■ ,, excellency, M. von — The Hon. Charles Langdale has called a meeting which, as will be seen from the advertisement, is to be held at the Stafford Club on Monday next, the 27th inst., at 2 o’clock, p.m. The question to be discussed, is, we believe, the expediency of calling a public meeting o f Catholics to take into consideration the present state o f the Prison question. The Government have introduced a Bill which consolidates the law ou Prisons, and which is now before a Select Committee. The Bill is unsatisfactory, both in what it contains and for what it omits ; and the question is, if, and to what extent: it can be amended and how to proceed. RUSSIA. St. P etersburg, March 23.—The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day publishes a circular addressed by Prince Gortschakoff to the representatives of Russia abroad, in reference to the Russian acquisition of territory in Central Asia. He points out the necessity for these acquisitions, and states that Russia does not seek any territorial aggrandisement, which might lead to complications whereby her interior, progress would bo arrested. SPAIN. Madrid, March 22.—To-day the Minister of Finance presented to Congress the budget for I8C5-66. The ordinary expenditure is estimated at 2,139,703,080 reals, and the extraordinary at 553,718,190 reals. The ordinary revenue is stated to be 2,184,178,130 reals. The resulting deficit is to be covered by the proceeds of the sale of the national property. THE CASE OF DR. COLEMSO. The judgment or opinion of the Judicial Committee of Privy Council on Bishop Colenso’s appeal to the Crown was delivered on Monday. The effect of it is, that Bishop Gray’s deposition of his suffragan is null and void; and the Queen will, we presume, upon this opinion, declare it void. The ground of this decision is, that the Crown has by law no power to constitute a bishropric, or to confer coercive jurisdiction, within any colony possessing an independent legislature, and that the letters patent which purport to create the existing see df Capetown and the existing see o f Natal were issued after those colonies respectively had acquired such legislatures. Consequently the sees do not exist; neither Bishop is in the eye of the law Bishop of his supposed see ; neither of them has in law any jurisdiction whatever. It follows that the original judgment has no legal force. But does it follow that the Crown has legal authority to declare it void ? The Congress have agreed to the bill for the issue of bonds guaranteed upon landed property by 140 to 78 votes. The debate on tbo proposed abandonment of St. Dom* ingo will commence to»morrow. PIEDMONT. T urin, March 23.—In the Chamber of Deputies, to-day, a question was put to General Lamarmora respecting the rumours which have been circulated respecting a secret treaty entered into with France after the conclusion of the Convention of September. Tbe general, in reply, expressed surprise and sorrow at the credence given to these absurd rumours, and energetically denied them. Signor Yenosta ridiculed the accusation. He also stigmatised as an absurd calumny the assertion that it was intended to cede to France a part of the country to which most Italians owed their fatherland. The subject was then dropped. IM P E R I A L P A R L I A M E N T . The Committee address themselves to this point. At the beginning of the judgment they say thatthe two Bishops are ecclesiastical persons; that they have been created Bishops by the Queen in exercise of her authority as Sovereign o f this realm and head of tbe Established Church; that they received and held their dioceses under grants made by the Crown ; and that they are the creatures o f English law; at the end of it they say,that the Queen, as head of the Established Church, is depositary of the ultimate ecclesiastical jurisdiction; they refer to the Act 25th Henry V IIL , which, coupled with a previous Act, defined the course of Ecclesiastical Appeals—from Archdeacon to Bishop, Archbishop, and finally the Crown ; and they observe that, if there were no final resort to the Sovereign in such a case as this, there would be a denial of justice.— Guardian. T h e C h u r c h o f S t . J o h n o f J e r u s a l e m .— The Forty Hours Adoration was solemnised in the beautiful Church of the Knights of Malta in Great Ormond street, on the Thursday and Friday of la9t week. The ceremonies were commenced with High Mass, celebrated by the Rev. Mr. Cahill, and Monsignor Manning preached a very eloquent sermon, in which he particularly <lvyelt on the connection between the church and the adjoining hospital, and the many benefits it was calculated to render to that interesting charity. The church during the Forty Hours was splendidly decorated, and illuminated with circles of gas jets running round the dome, and the effect of the blended lights, flowers, and banners was exceedingly beautiful. The Marchioness of Londonderry and Lady Petre attended the High Mass in their stalls as Ladies of the Order. The church was continually crowded during the whole period of Rx position. In the House of Lords on Thursday, Earl Russell laid upon the table a notification from Mr. Adams, the American Minister, of the intentions of his government to determine the reciprocity treaty and the convention regulating the force to be maintained by each country on the Canadian lakes. The noble earl observed that the treaty would terminate within twelve months of the day on which the receipt of the notice was acknowledged. After the acts of conspiracy and violence which had taken place on the frontier he could not deny thatthe United States were perfectly justified in putting an end to the convention and taking steps to prevent their recurrence. As to the reciprocity treaty, there might be circumstances to induce the United States to desire its renewal with certain modifications which might be deemed advantageous and just towards them. On a previous occasion he had expressed to Mr. Adams the hope that the United States would agree to an arrangement by which a small and limited armament might be kept up on tho lakes for police purposes, and also to the renewal of the reciprocity treaty on terms to be eventually agreed upon, and which might be negotiated before the notice had expired. lie had^ since been informed by Mr. Adams that he was not authorised to give any assurance on the subject, at present, but he had used words which encouraged the hope that such a course would be pursued. On FrHa}^ Sir J. Bruce would set out to represent, this country at Washington, and iu his hands the honour aud dignity of England were safte. Iu the House of Commons Lord R. Cecil gave notice that, on the order for the second reading of tho Abolition of Tests at Oxford Bill, ho should move as an amendment that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. C a r d w e l l stated, in reply to Lord R. Cecil, that the government had expressed their entire approval of tho scheme of confederation which had been adopted at Quebec. He hoped it would be concurred in by tho provincial Legislatures, and ministers were ready to give it practical effect by the necessary legislative measures. The Emperor has sent to this country five presentation copies of his Life of Julius Caesar, with his autograph in each. We have reason to believe that of these copies one has been presented by him to her Majesty, another to Lord Palmerston, another to Lord Malmesbury, and another to Sir Henry Holland. Of the destination of the fifth copy we are Rot informed. A notice following the title-page announces that the book lias been translated into the English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Hungarian languages, and, as if resolved on nothing •shortof becoming universal, it warns literary pirates that “ all rights of translation and reproduction are reserved.” Mr, Gavan D uffy.—The Melbourne Argus of the 17th of January announces Mr. Duffy’s departure for England on thatday“ The steamship GreatVictoria will leave Hobson’s Bay for England this morning. Among the passengers is Mr. Gavan Duffy, who was visited at the vessel yesterday by a large number of personal and political friends, to bid him farewell and a pleasant voyage. We understand that the pressure of private engagements prevented Mr. Huffy from accepting tho compliment of a farewell banquet which had been contemplated by his friends.” Tho average passage of the Great Victoria is 70 days, so that Mr. Duffy may ike expected to arrive in London in the course of the coming week. . L ord N a p i e r and M. von Bismarck.—A letter trora Berlin states that the relations between Lord Napier, the English Ambassador at Berlin (who has just arrived there from England), and M. von Bismarck, the Prussian Minister for Foreign Affairs, are anything but cordial. It is further stated that on Friday last Lord Napier, wishing to have an Interview with M. von Bismarck, called at the latter’s rcsis dence, and was informed that he was at home, but could see no one. Hereupon, his excellency, as the letter states, entered the Minister’s room unannounced. Nothing is known as to the conversation which ensued, but on the departure of his Bismarck required the porter and the yvrter auu me T h e M arquis o f I I a r t ix g t o n . in proposing a vote o f 811,424?. for works and buildings, in c lu d ing 50,000/. for the defences of Canada, part of a sum o f 200,000/. for the defences o f Canada, observed that these works were rendered neces- iary in consequence o f the United S ta tes h av in g , w ithin the la st fou r years, become a great m ilita ry power. T h ere was not the s lightest expectation entertained b y her M a je s ty ’s governm ent that tho United S tates were contem p latin g an immediate a t ta c k ; but in the changed circum stances o f the tw o countries there w a s every reason w h y w e should do w hat , all continental nations had done, and put our frontier in a position of security, l i e explained that the number o f men required to garrison Quebec and M ontreal was 12 ,0 00 , but that in case of attack it w ou ld be desirable to have a t least 35,000, and a further m oveable force o f 25,000, to act upon the enem y . T h u s the total force for Montreal and Quebec would am ount to 60,000 m e n ; in addition to which the colony had 20,000 enrolled volunteers. O f course he did n ot deem it possible to defend the whole frontier, but only the more v ita l points. A debate ensued which lasted to a late hour, when the vote w a s carried b y a majority ot 2 ( ,> to 40. His Majesty the K i n g of the B e lg ians arrivefi at Dover shortly after 7 o'clock on T h u r sd ay evening, en route for W in d so r , on a v is i t to the Queen. Sib Frederick Bruch will "'•'fk as Minister to Washington. SlL ? “ ^ P e tt! k 6Ucceeds Sir F. Bruce as Envoy Extraordinary at¡Pekin. W e (Times') regret to ann0’^ 0^ t o e sudden ^eath of S ir I le n rv P . Willoughby, M -T - fur E versham . T h e deceased was discovered by his valet dead in bed shortly ° ’ b £ * d°lf,y ’ ^ K ° tim es for the murder o f A d am Grierson fou gh t hard forffiis life , and has won a t last. T h e ju ry in th is case were discharged on W e d n e sd a y morning, after 1 9 hours’ deliberation. I he Crown having intimated that they would take no fur her proceedings in the case, the prisoner was liberated.—Times :ly before nine this letter, and it is even more clearly manifested in the cjerkg to draw up alij sigU a declaration of the unlooked for original than in our translation. Now, before the visit which he had received. i