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seized for tbiscry^for both these causes are stated-they refused to ?Kh°t!; ?i! yobj « Cted^ obetalcen t0 P rißon - The second trial has le accused arr fi 7 ati ° D ° f ** Ssatenco ' W itne ßß es against Sriiit?^? a • policemen, who distinguished themselves by the S?5 5 BW vf a u, lHg ; Tbe law y era en g a S ed *» the defence made Cw^fZ arkttb i ce M Clea TB9andT 89and <«y showing the injustice of the first sentence, and they al 8 o produced rebutting testimony. It was Slfi? aVai1 ' , the n ~»**n»>d were condemned anew and Italian law was vindicated ! Catholics are now in Home nearly in the same condition as their brethren of Ireland were under the penal laws of Sirr^ 1 Here ais ° we have *™y <*& ««*«? o^^nglish modes of procedure in the shape of a jury-Heaven save the
The new Constitution of the State of Ohio has been defeated, mainly, as is stated on both sides, by the votes of the Catholics. The great objection was its disposal of the school question. The « Cincinnati Telegraph' claims that Catholics have in the result a double cause for joy-the defence of a most sacred right, and the united display of their voting strength. . * * # It is known from a reliable source that the Government of Italy, seeing the prospect that awaits it at the coming election, has ordered fte Minister -Vigilani to address a circular to the Archbishops and Bishops of Italy to excite their flocks to vote at tbe coming elections. The plea put forth will be that it is necessary to oppose " a faction equally hostile to State and Church." The very fact of such a proposal offers a brilliant testimony to the character of the Catholics. They are recognised by the Government as lovers of law and order; for if they had republican or international sentiments, they would never be asked to vote at an election. The motto of Catholics in Italy is -Neither elected nor electors. In 1849, tne kingdom of Sardinia addressed a like circuUr to the Bishops of Sardinia. The Bishops exercised their influence with their people ; and the Government, elected by Catholic votes began its career of Church persecution, and prepared the wav for the sad condition to which the whole Peninsula is reduced to-day ™!f " not much fear that a similar mistake will be committed now. While Catholics do not oppose an active resistance to the election or to the proceedings of the Government, they show by their absence from the voting places that the Government does not represent the nation and that they do not connive at or encourage— but rather the reverse -the war undertaken against the Church. With what conscience could a Catholic vote for the maintenance of a Government which hZ sewed Rome, despoiled the Church, rendered the Sovereign Pontiff a prisoner, and destroyed, so far as it can, the right arm ot the Church —the Religious Orders ? If the circular be sent to all the Bishons of Itay, one must to the Pope, who is Bishop of Rome; and surely Italian assurance cannot go so far as to ask Pius IX. to encourage his children to vote in order that the Government which has reduced him to his present condition may be maintained. When Victor Emmanuel desired to co to Rome, the adhesion of the revolutionary mr tv wai sought, and not that of the Catholics. Now this same Government would play off the Catholics against the revolutionists. But the Governmental game cannot be played twice successfully. It i 3i 3 n0 ras u prophecy to say the Archbishops and Bishops will follow the counsel given by the Holy Father, that has been neither faint nor infrequent If the Government is in denger from its own, it has certainly not gained the affection of Catholics, and they shall not step in now to save it from the consequences of its own folly and crime. There is a narrow, ugly street in Baltimore, says an American paper, where women rarely come, but one is often seen there. It is the shape of a little old woman that sallies from a boarding-house on the corner, less often recently than it used to— a feeble, stooped, tottering frame, and wizened, wrinkled face, wigged and specklea. The old Jady uses her attendant's arm as a support, and passes, apparently without notice, the group of talkers that stare or point her out to J stranger. It some of the more deferent salute her, she straightens for a moment, and returns it with a touch of the old grace that wrought her fame and misfortane. She is not a celebrity of to-day ; her stoVy stretches back full sixty years, to the days when a handsome pusillanimous exile "married on his own caprice, and repudiated her at the beck of bis brother. For she is Madame Jerome Bonaparte, aa she always proudly styled herself, once the wife, now the widow, of JeroJe Bonaparte, King ot Westphalia. Beautiful, brilliant, and aristocratic, Miss Patterson married him, then an unknown' stranger, against the wiehea and counsel of all her friends, In a few months Napoleon! mX SVT *£ im P erious ' conjured up a kingdom' for his brother, and and bade him come to it. We know the condition on which it was offered ; we all know how it was accepted. Madame Patterson-Bont-parte, is very old and peculiar. Her son Jerome, who never saw his lather, is dead; but his widow and child, a third Jerome, with unmi*. takable Bonaparte face, are still living in Baltimore. At Berne a man, who it seems liad been crossed in love, attempted to commit suicide, choosing the extraordinary means of jumping into a bear-den. He was rescued with difficulty. F"»gun»
Itis^K 0 !™? 11 * 1^ *>!*'? "«PPly» new want of civilisation. ic is to be a oorps of commissionaires, each member of which will h« warranted trustworthy, adroit, and prudent. The commSnSe U for .TJ* P W re n tO d ° , the WiU ° f ' he P ublic itt an y opacity called kJifllfo!* ft ci ™ d ,™-y<>ryou quick, cheap', and faithfuUy ; will hSi »t I y° ulI P lace °f business, office, store, or house; he vZr Joom/T TVI mora ™S, eleanyour clothing, and arrange your rooms ; he will collect your bills, drafts, or cheques ; he will find you a comfortable and desirable boarding-place, or private ho useif your time does not allow you to do so ; he will secure you seat, for the opera, threatre, and other amusements, and, if desired, he will wait upon the lady to and from such wtetoin^^^ifi S Jarti cce c r n hf wTA '* yy ° Ur C T mand h , e Will a PP ear afc P™* parties ; he will bring your vahse to and from the depots and steamboat landings. The commissionaire will attend vourlady when making ?ectin?? PI T &°-rt& °-r t J I ng f * laek^ ; " visitin S cards, protecting her by umbrella from the sun and storm, or falling on a &$£J?J£ fiSS wm Bp > ear * ele * ant -™* The • Dublin Freeman,' Aug. 25, says :—« We have learned with sincere pleasure that his Holing Pope Kn. ix!, on beingTformed of the intention of the archbishops of Ireland to undertake the erection by pubhc subscription of a new church in the National College of «!;?"» Maynootb, has been graciously pleased at the prayer of the i Very Rev. President to bestow his apostolic benediction on the undertaking, and to express hi 3 earnest desire that it may brought to early auspicious termination. If any additional encouragement were needed m order to ensure the success of a work in which every diocese. every parish and indeed almost every family throughout the kingdom may be said to have its own particular concern, it might be found in this mamfestation of paternal interest with which our Holy Father, amid anxieties at home, and "solicitude of all churches" .throughout »^. cie i! 11l r >18 / leaSedtore ° Brdßn «»terpri 9 e which in its bearing Z™^ ? fw? CatlOn and fc / Binin S of th 9 ehr &> is flo intimately connected with the progress of religion inlreland." Lord, Dunmore writes to the « Times ' to say that, typhoid ferer havmg broken out a short time ago in his nursery, he sent a quantity of the milk supplied to him to an analyst, and received a report to the effect that it was • m an active and peculiar state of fermentation j and, in JSfcntiR eh * condlfcion that was, in the opinion of his medical man, quite sufficient to account for the outbreak of fever." Being desirous ol taking proceedings against the dairy proprietors, Lord Dunmore sougnt vie advice of the nearest police magistrate, by whom he was lnlormed that he was powerless to take proceeding in person, but that he could lay his case before the vestry of the parish, whose business it would be to send their sanitary inspector to the dairy to buy some cr fc hh e e r Qd n lfct .t b^r alyßed analyst. On learning further, however, that the sanitary inspector would be bound to warn the dairy people that the milk was purchased for the purpose of analysis, Lord Dunmore was, he said, convinced that it was useless to proceed further in the matter. Mr Froude, the historian, left England recently, for about two Si w a i tO 7 rr ° Und the r rld ' H «^ been staying near Corwen, North Wales, for some months past, and expected Mr Thomas Carl vie on a visit to him for a couple of months. Mr Carlyle was not able however to leave town for so long a period, though, considering hit advanced age, he is said to be in excellent health. Mr Froude v appointed Mr Carlyle's literary executor, and the intimacy between the r° v . of , t clO8 f dajoriprfon. Mr Froude resigned the editor!i!- P «. w' a u er 8 Ma S a2ilie ' principally in order to make this tour. With regard to 'Frazer's,' there is considerable curiosity ai to the conduct of the Magazine by Mr Wm. Allingham, the new editor. Mr Alhngham is tolerably well-known as a writer of lyric poetry • but most people are not aware that in Mr Froude's absence he haa acted at sub-editor of 'Frazer's 'and his experience in that capacity weighed largly Mith Messrs Longman's in appjinting him to the editor™. He is an Irishman. [ * A Bemamabie Time-piece.— The very strangest thing I ever heard of in the way of a time-piece was a clock described by a Hindoo rajah as belonging to a native prince, and jealously guarded as one of the rare treasures of his luxurious palace. In front of the clock's disk was a gong upon poles, and near it was a pile of artificial limbs. The pile was made up of the fuil number of parts necessary to constitute twelve perfect bodies; but all lay heaped together in apparent confusion. When the hands of the clock indicated the hour of one, out from the pile crawled just the number of parts needed to form the frame of one man, part coming to part, with quick mechanic click • and when completed the figure sprang up, seized a mallet, and walking up to the gong, struck one blow that sent the sound pealin? through every corridor and room in that stately palace. This done, he returned to the pile and fell to pieces again. When two o'clock oatne two men rose, and did likewise; and at the hours of noon and I midnight the entire heap sprang up, and inarching to the gong, struck one after the other his blow, making twelve in all, and then returning, fell to pieces as before. Can you imagine any piece of mechanUm more wonderful ? At the Crystal Palace, the automaton chessplayer was on exhibition in a small room set apart for the purpose. It it said to have been invented ia Austria, nearly a century ago • but it it jaat as interesting to us, as though our grandfathers had never looked and wondered at its quaint curious operations. The chess-player represents a dark-visaged Turk, with long black beard, and loose robes and turbaned head. He sits on a round box two and a half feet high' covered witto a thick cushion, and the chess- board lies before him, orer one leg. He plays with his right hand, moves the men quickly, and all his motions are not only graceful, but seem to indicate intelligence Of course, some one •ontrols the movements of the automaton, aa he* plays with different people, sometimes winning, and sometimes losing but m what manner he is thus controlled no one has been able to as' certain. The box on which the figure sits contains only a quantity of wires ; there is not space for a human being, even a very small one to be accommodated therein, nor is there any apparent connection with machinery elsewhere.—' Little Corporal.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 84, 5 December 1874, Page 11
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