Vol. IX., No. 417. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1848 P r i c e Gd. Æ a f c l e o f C o n t e n t s . *hüsLfotellígrnrr :* Ï 4 t l i * h®P 0 f E ,PhÍn ria e 273 and the an , of Shrewsbury—Passiontide ton #' Week in London—Clifthe ^At*,0**c Church—Return of bati ^ Ueen Dowager ; Diseni- _*rkation Dowager ; at Portsmouth—In^ Nation of Dr. Hampden and I ' surnner—Geils v. Geils. ♦: ' land : Government Prosecuj.,?*-"State of Peeling; Lime♦l ^Correspondence between jj* Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy and v* James Bermingham, P.P. jj. a*e of the Duke of Bucking^ ms Estates —France Italy ; «K'*1*®—Denmark and the Du- 0* Chl«s. C“«bfr610n. _ ^Alcester. Twai ’ c i n t d l ig n i r t :— . . . 273 275 J«uS. lA? the Polish Refugees. c #mlNriAL:~ Xj^?5^ury—Howden —Peckham loi?0 ’ A Grievance of the Caj ' c Poor — Conversions V‘olic ç,^>TL4Nd ._ Vk?vrmati°n at Stirling. ThN,DAD :-. C> tholic Church. Ap?^ (©olittfsl): — j}X&l to Young Ireland by the ®Uh«n • an<^ French Volunteers. wftCriRlion* f ° r Ireland : GalSta^ r* Kilmeena, &c, of 2f the Country : Ejectment Tenantry — Starvation — Th„ ®Jner, Crops and Emigration. ^han ar Partyïh ePll ace Party. Roman Correspondent of Lo^f *'^aily News. ’ 0lAL National Repeal Asso«■or»?'0*anîrColonial ïntrlliSeurc ;__ A pi ** **.................. f cw f 1 Calm in Paris, î ’k ^ o f t h e Week. “PAttis. — The Elections the ^fet Tribunals—Division in ’ju Provisional Governmental»* Railways —Abolition of ®ry—The Chair of Political \Pan °my — General State of S^*Pl,e Departments. »hen'r^®ME-“ Lombardy: Move* <W 80fthe Two Armies—Pro- V. W ation Of Radetzki-Re- od Retirement of the Pied 274 577 montese—Disturbance at Rome— The Jesuits’ College— The Pope and the Austrian Am b a ssa d o r Final Declaration of Sicilian In dependence. Switzerland.—Négociations be­ tween Mgr. Luquet and the Swiss Diet— Outline o f the New Federal Pact. Germany. — Defeat o f the Repub­ licans in Baden — Emeute in Hanover— Prussia : Quiet Termination of a Procession to the Palace— State o f the Duchy of P osen—Austria : New Electoral Law — Monster Meeting at V ienna— Answer o f the Em peror to the Galician Deputies — Progress of the W a r in Schleswig; Defeat o f the Free Corps. Holland.—Funeral of His Royal Highness Prince Alexander of the Netherlands. Portugal.—State of Church A f ­ fairs in Portugal— The University o f Coimbra. îLraînng Rrtirles:— ......... 280 The New Liberal Party. French Elections, Elements o f Mischief. The Irish Revolution. Lord Palmerston’s Insult to Spain. Testimonial to Mr. Steele. Payment o f the Irish Clergy. îvfblftDB :— ................ 282 History ot the French Revolution. Judas Iscariot. V ia Dolorosa. Stories of Richard Cœur de Lion. Address to the Working Classes of Great Britain. The •* Reasoner.” Spirit of tfjr $mfi ... 283 Despotism in the Protestant Church Establishment. Great Bar ain . The Englsh Middle Class. Punch's Police. Imperial parliament:— ... 283 Destitute Poor (Ireland) B ill— A d ­ journment of the House. €f)t Court:— ................ 283 V isit o f the Duchess o f Kent to the Queen. Personal :— 283 Attempted Suicide o f M r . Steele. Louis Philippe— The Countess de Neuilly— The Widow o f Belzoni — The Bankruptcy o f M . Jullien — Festivities at Strathtieldsaye— Dinner at the Mansion House. $oItttral:— ....................... 284 Mr, Cochrane’s Demonstration against the Poor Law's—Taxes in England and Scotland—Stamp Duties —Petitioners —Emigrations from Scotland—State of Trade in Manchester and Sheffield—Mr. Hume’s Letter to the “ Leed’s Times.” fttretings :— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mr. O’Connor at Nottingham— 284 Reform Movem nt—Meetings in Bradford, Bury, Mancnester, and Greenock—London Trades’ Meeting—Anti-Bribery Society. Cfjc P u b lic 3i?raltf) :— The Plymouth Prisons—Bristol— Washhouses. C i f i ib i t t o n s .............................. The Royal Academy. The Theatres. Protestantism :— . . . . . . . . . The Bishop of Exeter and his Victim—Anti-State Church Association—Shoreham : Results of Puseyism—The American Episcopalians. a r c it r en ts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Race on a Railway—Fires on the River Thames, in the City, near Regent’s Park. Crim e :— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Case of Mystery; Attempted As­ sassination—Mutiny in a Convict-ship—Clerical Delinquency —Bank nobbery in Wiltshire. fWiscellaitra :— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Windsor ; The Round Tower- 284 284 285 28G 286 286 United Service Museum—The Largest Magnet in the World— Puuper Misers — A Hint for Sight-Seekers — Special Constables’ Testimonial—Arrival of Specie. Rain aittr P o l i c e :— . . . . . . . . . Middlesex Sessions—Increase of 286 the Magistracy—A Prophet in Oxford street —Fortune-telling in Hammersmith—Respectability of Chartist Meetings—Specious Coin. ÎSTabal anti m i l i t a r y In te l ­ l ig en ce :— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C b c Ron&on C a i c t t c :— . . . Bankrupts, &c. itton eg m arfeet:— . . . . . . . . . 286 287 287 State of the Money Market, and City Nevys. abbertisements :— . . . . . . . . 287 frames, glazing, &c. The state of the funds will not allow o f the intended portico being added to the edifice at present, but*the columns erected for it are not to be removed. The chief ornament o f the building will be a very fine stained window. Should no unexpected obstacle arise, the chapel is expected to be ready for opening in August. On the site adjoining the chapel a convent and school-house are to he erected— the former as a residence for the Sisters o f Penance, and the latter as an asylum for Catholic orphans.— Bristol Gazette. D i s e m b a r k a t i o n o f t h e Q u e en D o w a g e r a t P ortsmouth.—Friday morning proved very unfavourable for a royal disembarkation, the rain being incessant. The boats o f all the ships at the port were ordered to assemble in the lake up which the royal barge was expected to pass to the landing stage at Gosport. The flag-captains o f the two admirals headed the flotilla, the rest consisted of Captain Chads, C.B., o f the gunnery establishment, Excellent; Capt. Morgan, o f the Hastings, 72; Capt. Austin, C.B., o f the Blenheim, 54; and Capt. Dundas, C.B., o f the Powerful, 84. Her Majesty, however, countermanded their remaining, and they returned to their ships. Very considerable preparations were made for the royal convenience in landing at the Victualling Office, but the rain spoiled all. At about half-past ten her Majesty, having taken leave o f the officers o f the ship, left the Howe under a r yal salute and the enthusiastic cheers o f the sailors, and embarked in her Majesty’s yacht Fairy, Captain Crispin, and entered Portsmouth harbour at eleven, where the same enthusiastic greeting welcomed her from the sailors who lined the ships moored in the Channel. The tide being low would not admit, it was thought, o f the steamer’s going abreast the platform, and a handsome “ stairs ” was in readiness. The yacht, however, did get alongside, hind rendered it unnecessary to make use of the royal barge. Her Majesty remained for about half an hour under the cupola o f the yacht during the transfer o f the royal baggage to the train, in waiting in the yard. The royal pleasure being then intimated o f disembarking, the naval Commander-in Chief conducted her Majesty to the stairs and on to the pier, where a chair was in readiness.to receive her Majesty; two marines carried the chair with her Majesty in it to the door o f the railway carriage, where her Majesty bade a most gracious adieu to the brilliant staff assembled there to receive her. Major General Lord Frederick Fitzelarence conducted the Duchess o l SaxeWeimar to the train,and at twelve o’clock the whole cortege being seated, the royal travellers left Gosport for London. The royal baggage ("about forty tons) was sent partly by the mail train on Thurday night, partly by her Majesty’s especial train, and the rest was to follow by another special train. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager arrived at her residence Marlborough House, Pall-mall, at half-past two o'clock on Friday afternoon. His Serene Highness the Duke Bernard o f Saxe Weimar visited the Count and Countess de Neuilly on Friday, at Claremont. p c* E dw a rd ’s S i / * S T IT U T IO N , 16, * V y ^ R K e t . T W O Catholic L ite rary GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LECTURES, by WILLIAM RYAN, Mor|de,Tl*,er of the Royal College of Surgeons ^*t*l the 1st.—The Structure and Affections of the .. ^torirt Eungj.—Circulation of the Blood, ti(w rl°h Maythe 15th.—The Atmosphere , ... *v*r» **R*nal} wants; its vitiation followed v \ ^ by Dia8rams and Preparatio -Respiration. its wondrous adaptaby consumption, -Ventilation and Drainage ; their paramount importo’clock precisely. N ew P u b l ic a t io n s . AA Second Edition ot .L e tte r on Auricular with an extended Supplement, C o n Notes, &c., ; x , f * ss>°N, ^6C0ll at*v®ly proving from Scripture, from tradition, and from Church, that Confession is of Divine Rite, and ®^8ed by the Fathers of the Church. Addressed to the To commence at J. E. 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P assio n t id e an d H o ly AYe e k in L ondon.— The recurrence o f this holiest season o f the Christian year was celebrated in the Catholic churches and chapels o f the metropolis with more than usual solemnity. Sermons were preached after Complin every night from Passion Sunday to Holy Tuesday inclusively, at St. Mary’s (metropolitan) Church, Moorfields, by the Rev. F. Oakeley (who also preached every morning during the same space o f time), and by the Rev. Fathers Newman, Faber, Coffin, Hutchinson, and Dalgairns o f the Order o f the Oratory, at St. James’s (Spanish) Church, St. George’s, London-road, and St. Mary’s, Chelsea. The Abbé Milanta “ preached the Lent ” at the French Church, and a Retreat o f a week -was given to the Italians by the Rev. Hr. Faa, assisted by another Italian Priest, at the Sardinian Church, Lincoln’s Innfields. In the latter district the Rev. Mr. Hodgson, o f Richmond, gave a Retreat in Wyld-street, for the especial benefit of the poor o f the flock. On Maunday Thursday, “ Altars o f Repose” were erected in every Church and chapel (with the exception o f the Sardinian, we believe) and were decorated with great taste and magnificence. The superior advantage and favourable position o f the new altar o f the Blessed Virgin, at St. James’s, was well adapted for the display o f the grandeur and chasteness o f its decoration ; though we question whether the display o f pictorial banners here, as elsewhere, be not at variance with the spirit o f the Church oil these two days.^ In the same Church the Stations o f the Passion had been erected this Lent ; and so consolatory and appropriate a Devotion was doubtless eagerly followed by the congregation. It is gratifying to see additional splendour given to the ceremonies o f Holy Week by processions in honour of the ever-adorable Sacrament, and o f the dolorous way of the Cross ; hut, at the same time, one cannot but be struck by the inconvenience and almost irreverence o f such taking place in galleried churches, where the Blessed Sacrament is carried under them. We were the more pained to see this at St. James’s Church, as there was no necessity for it ; as, had a larger passage been allowed on one side o f the new aisle, the procession might have passed down it, instead o f under the gallery. The members o f the Guild took part in these processions ; and at *St. James’s their office-bearers had the honour o f supporting a very beautiful canopy, carried over the reserved consecrated Host. We have penned the above remarks in no spirit o f exclusiveness, but from what came under our personal notice, and hope that some other correspondent ■will send you an account o f the improvements which were doubtless effected elsewhere.— Correspondent. C l if t o n C a tholic Church.—-This immense pile o f building, whose unfinished and ruinous-looking state has for more than twelve years rendered it an eye-sore to the inhabitants of that part o f Clifton, is now likely to he completed, though not on the large scale contemplated in the original plan (designed by the Rev. F. Edgeworth). The roofing-in was finished last week, and the workmen are now proceeding with the window T iie R o y a l A c a d e m y .— On Thursday their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess o f Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, attended by the Lady Honoria Cadogan, the Baroness Bose, Sir H. Mildmay, Mr. Mildmay, and Major Stevens, visited the Exhibition o f the Royal Academy previous to its opening to the public. They were received and conducted through the rooms by the keeper and secretary, Sir Richard Westmacott, and the rest o f the council. I n s tallations of D r . I I am fden an d D r . S umner.— On Thursday, the day fixed for the installation o f Dr. Hampden in the Bishopric o f Hereford, the mayor and corporation o f that town, with other gentlemen, assembled at the Guildhall, and the Clergymen in the College-hall, from whence they proceeded to the Cathedral. The Bishop was received on his arrival by Canon Musgrave, Canon Morgan, and several o f the Prebendaries, by whom he was conducted to his pew. His Lordship was accompanied by the Rev. \V. Hayward Cox, B.D., Vice-Principal o f St. Mary’s-hall, Oxford, and several other gentlemen. The service being concluded, the Chapter walked to the Ladye Chapel, where Canon Musgrave took the chair, it having been intimated that the Dean o f Hereford (Dr. Merewether) would not be present. The President then said— “ Reverend brethren, the letters mandatory *•having been read, is it your pleasure that we should “ proceed according to the force, form, and effect ‘ thereof, i f so, you will signify the same by holding “ up your hands.” At this stage o f the proceedings a document was handed to the President, stated to be a protest from the Dean. The Chapter having signified their assent in the way prescribed, the remaining ceremonial usual on such occasions was proceeded with. The installation o f Dr. Sumner took place on Friday in the Cathedral o f Canterbury.— Morning Chronicle. G e il s v. G e il s . — Sir Herbert Jenner Fust judgment in this case on Wednesday. He considered Mr. Geils to have been guilty o f the crime o f adultery ; while he was not satisfied that the case o f crxie} ^ ia^ bad been proved would justify a separation oi .e.Pa^* ties, as a condonation o f that cruelty might aJrJy be supposed to have taken place in consequence ot their subsequent cohabitation. In conclusi°n e pronounced that Mr. Geils had been guilty o f adultery ; and on that ground he thought that Mrs. Geils 'vaj8 entitled to a sentence o f separation. The learned Judge, who had been engaged without a moment’* interruption, from ten o'clock to half-past five, delivering judgment, afterwards decided that the costs c l the case should be paid by the husband. LETTER OF THE BIsH2 i L 0 F FLPHIN TO THE EAKL OF SHREWSBURY. We have just received from the Bishop o f Elphin the following letter, in answer to one from the Earl o f Shrewsbury to his Lordship, which we believe appeared in the Morning Chronicle :— We have also received the list o f families mentioned in his Lordship’s letter, which, i f possible, shall be published next week. “ Athlone, 26th April, 1848. “ My Lord—It must appear strange that I should so long defer giving any reply to the letter dated the 29th February, with which (through the public journals) your Lordship honoured me from Bournmouth. I had left London and was in a distant part o f England when it appeared, engaged in my late charitable mission to your countrj’. Since then I have been much occupied by the Lenten visitation of my diocese, by attendance on and assisting at the last obsequies o f an aged parent, who died about a fortnight since, in his 99th year. Perceiving also that your Lordship was not disposed to give much credit to statements unless supported by evidence, I deemed it more prudent to postpone any letter until I should have leisure to visit Strokestown personally, and inform myself correctly o f all the bearings o f this lamentable controversy. I can have no object, my Lord, to gain in saying or writing anything to the prejudice o f the late Major Mahon; no man more sincerely abhors and execrates than 1 do the crying and terrific crime that brought him to an untimely grave. Perhaps, my Lord, in my zeal to defend an innocent and maligned Priest against the imputations cast upon him by Lord Farnham, &c.—(I do not wish, i f I could help it, to classify a Shrewsbury with such anti-Catholic company,) I may, in describing the scenes that ocurred, have written too warmly or hastily, if 1 compared them to those that occurred under a Nero or Caligula; but the tenor o f my letter will prove that the simile was rather intended, in a general sense, for the whole o f Ireland where the poor were oppressed, than for any individual application to Major Mahon. I never questioned the abstract or legal right of Major Mahon to evict or distrain his tenants if he thought proper. That large and immense sums o f rent and arrears o f rent were due to him, are undeniable facts; but the question is, what does the divine and natural law prescribe in a year o f famine, pestilence, and desolation? If any landlord in such a period shall urge too strongly his legal claims, may we not say, summurn jus, sununa injuria? I f many on a large property are treated with great indulgence and lenity, while a very large portion are handed over to the tender mercy o f bailiffs, agents, &c., may not such severities be exercised upon the latter as will account for .the cruel and heartrending scenes of which I made mention in my former letters as having occurred in the neighbourhood o f Strokestow’n ? I have now before me a catalogue o f 605 families dispossessed o f their lands and hou'es in the immediate vicinity o f that tow'n, including eighty-four widow's, in all amounting to 3,006 souls. The names o f all the heads o f houses are given, the townlands in which they resided, the number in family, and the exact number o f souls dispossessed in each village. I will send the list to Mr. Lucas, o f the Tablet, by w’ay o f appendix to this letter, requesting that he will, i f possible, publish the whole, or submit it to the perusal o f any honest Englishman desirous to read the particulars. I will do the same and transmit a copy to Dr. Gray o f the Freeman's Journal. It may be said that many o f the families specified emigrated (voluntarily to America; but there is, my Lord, as you w'cll know, a vast distinction between what is termed in human acts voluntarium simpliciter et voluntarium secundum quid. A merchant in the perils of storm reluctantly consents to consign his goods to the waves. Quaere, i f he had a free choice, would he do so ? A poor tenant, in a year of famine and general dearth, finding it impossible if pressed to pay his rent or arrears o f rent, with the fear ot ejectment processes served upon him, listening to the menaces of bailiffs, agents, &c., consents, like the merchant in the storm, because he has no choice, to surrender his house, his home, and all, and abandons for ever the country o f his affections. The landlord pays in such cases some small sum, merely sufficient for transporting to America the unfortunate individual and his family, who are thus thrown, i f they escape the pestilential vapours o f an emigrant ship, upon a foreign shore poor and penniless. “ Great boast is often heard o f the large sacrifices made by the landlord, but no account rendered o f the value of the manure on the premises, or of the crop in the ground, which in many instances are and must be surrendered to the head proprietor o f the soil. It is but justice to say that I have heard many, and even some of my own Clergy, speak well o f the goodness o f heart o f poor Major Mahon, and declare, that if left to himself, he would not proceed to, or perhaps have countenanced the extreme measures o f severity that were practised in us name. From my heart I wish to do justice to his memmy, to avoid all unnecessary accrimination. 1 a °P fairest means, by publishing the data, giving t ie thus affording to Mr. Pakenham Mahon, an o all his friends, an opportunity o f discussing the merits ot each case, and, for the sake o f humanity, will rejoice, it any false statement has been made to me reflecting upon the deceased or his agents, that the same may e corrected and the truth elucidated. , . Your Lordship, taking up the idea o f Mr. Pakenham - • -*e-echo a ~ Mahon, is pleased to i charge o f partiality against me, because I was silent upon the conduct o f my lamented father and brother. Allow me to assure your Lordship that the statement made in Mr. Mahon’s letter w'as the first intimation that 1 received o f the transaction alluded to. I must acquit my poor aged parent, who was never known in a long lite to have oppressed a poor man. Being incapable, from his very old age, for a series o f years o f superintending hi8 farms, he handed them all over to Uxe management o f my brother, whose letter to Mr. Pakenham Mahon explains the entire circumstances, o f Whl<L a never heard a syllable until the whole matter reached the public. I f it occurred in the immediate vicinity o f Strokestown, to which alone on account o f your Lordship’s reiterated charges against Father McDermott P*y attention was directed, I must have heard it, and trust, jt I know my own heart, 1 would not screen even a brother if proved to be an oppressor o f the poor, and that the defence o f innocence demanded an exposure. . “ I regret much, my Lord, that after the perfect acquittal given by your Lordship to Father M‘Dermott, intone o f your late letters, of all attempts to excite to the assassination o f Major Mahon, yet you still seem to have some doubts on this head, when you ask—why were not the names ot the respectable magistrates, Mr. Blake Berming am, and o f the Messrs. Shanley rttached to the document acquitting Father M‘Dermott? My answer is, they were not in the chapel on the day specified, consequently could give no evidence. The Messrs. Shanley admitted this to me. Mr. Blake was absent from Strokestown, on leave, when I last visited there, I could not see him, but it is an incontrovertible fact he was not in the chapel. I believe, if Mr "Blake is occasionally absent from Mass, delicacy o f health is the sole cause. I send, also, my Lord, as an appendix to this letter, the solemn declaration made before a respectable Protestant magistrate residing in the immediate vicinity ot btrokestown, o f three honest,