CIRCULAR LETTER FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP, DUNEDIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume III, Issue 123, 3 September 1875, Page 8

CIRCULAR LETTER FROM THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP, DUNEDIN.

- 1- * t Duuediu, SIbI Aitgust, 1875. Bbv. Air© t>BAH SIR, — The time for gaining the Indulgence of the Jubilee during this Holy Year will commence in this Dioccso on Sunday, the 18th of September, and end on tho 31st December. Annouuce this m the several districts of your Mission as soon after the receipt of this circular a3 possible, and make arrangements for holding religious exercises in ordor to tho gaming of tho Indulgence for one week in each of tho Churches and Chapels of your charge. The Bull of His Holiness Pius IX., proclaiming the Jubilee of thiß year, and by authority of which we write this lofcter was translated and published in tho New Zealand Tablet some months ago. On the 24th of January of tins year the Holy Father granted an " lndult," a translation of which is appended to this, and to which yoiuyparticular attention is called. «#The conditions for gaining the Indulgence is this Diocese are— 1. Confession. J. Communion,

3. In places where there are Churches or Chapels, five visits to the Church or Cbapel. This anvngernent is made in virtue of tho " Indult" spoken of above 4. Praeyrs for tho prosperity and . exaltation of the Catholic Church and Apostolic See ; for the extirpation of heresies ; for the peaco ancl unity of tho whole Christian people ; and lastly for the other intentions of the Holy Father. The faithful should endeavor to keep these intentions bofovc their minds whon praying in the Churches or Chapels ou the occasion of the flvo visits spoken of above. But in districts where there are no Churches or Chapels, in order to gain the Indulgence, tho faithful shall recite at home, five times, oither the Litany of the Saints, or one part of the Eosary, or five dececles ou the Beads for the intentions enumerated^above, besides, of course, going to confession or communion. • .. Children who have not yet made their first communion, maygain the Indulgence by going to confession, praying as prescribed „ above, and performing some other good work prescribed by the confessor. "" , You will read over the subjoined " Indult " carefully, and act in accordance with its provisions. At the end of the week's exercises in each Church or Chapel, you will read after Mass on the last day, tho enclosed prayer for the special dedication of the district to the Sacred Heart of Josus. During the week's exercises explain to the people the naturo and conditions of a Plenary Indulgence, the meaning of the Jubilee, tho nature of the Devotion of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Announce beforehand the arrangement you have made for affording the faithful an opportunity of complying with all the conditions necessary to enable them to profit by the Jubilee. After Mass each inorniug, and also after instruction each evening, recite prayers in publij for the intentions mentioned nbove, and exhort all, who can, to be present an I join you in these prayers. If possible, caJl to your aid ono or more c£ . the neighboring priests. i I am, Bey. Dear Sir, yours, &c, The Rev. "Indult for the Jubilee Granted iv Favor of the Faithful Dwelling in Missionary countries. j " From an Audience given by tho Holy Father on the 24th January, 1875. "Since, in many heretical and infidel countries, there arc no churches, and in others also not not so many as ifc is necessary for the ! faithful, who do not reside in Home, to visit, in order to avail themselves of the Jubilco according to the Encyclical G-ravibus Ecclesice published by our Holy Father, by Divine Providence, Pope Pius IX., under date 241h December, 1874; and since it may also happen that, from various causes, tho visit to churches cannot be repeated the proscribed number of times, many of the faithful dwelling in these places might be compelled to forego the treasures of the Jubilee, so profitable, aud so salutary, unless provision were made for them by ecclesiastical authority. Considering these facts, our Holy Father, through me, the. undersigned, secretary for the Sacred Congr gation of the Propagation of the Faith, has been graciously pleased to grant to patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, and to all superiors of missions the faculty — which faculty they may also delegate to simple missionaries — of prolonging at their discretion, even to two years, if necessity requires, the time for gaining the Indulgence of the Jubilee, and also | of dispensing the aforesaid faithful as regards the number of churches, j and of the visits to be thereto paid ; yea even, when it shall be necesi sary, of commuting altogether the enjoined works of this kind Jor | some fast, or tho recitation of some pious prayers, still maintaining firm the obligation of sacramental confession lor children, who have not yet heon admitted to Holy Communion, and for all adults the obligation of praying for the prosperity and exaltation of the Catholic < hurch, and of the Aooatolic See, for the uprooting cf all the heresies, for the conversion ot all, those who are in error, for the peace and unity o tho whole Christian people, and also for the intention of the Holy Father. " Given at Borne, from the office of tho samo Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, on the day and in the year aforesaid. . s " (Signed) " John Simeoki, Secretary."

Brougham and Maca-dxay. — Brougham, tall, thin, and commanding in figure, ■with a face -which, however ugly, is full of expression, and a voice of great power, variety, and even melody, notwithstanding his occasional prolixity and tediousnoss, is an orator in every sense of the word. Macaulay, short, fat, and ungraceful, with a round, thick, unmeaning face, a with rather a lisp, though he has made speeches of great merit, and of a very high style of eloquence in point of composition, has no pretensions to be put in competition with Brougham in tho House of Commons. Nor is the difference or inferiority of Macaulay less marked in society. Macaulay , indeed, is a great talker, and pours forth floods of knowledge on all subjects ; but the gracefulness, lightness and variety are wanting in his talk which are so conspicuous in his writings; there's not enough, alloy in the metal of his conversation ; it is too didatic, it is all too good, and not sufficiently flexible, plastic, and divercified for general society. Brougham, on the other hand, is all life, spirit, and gaiety — " from grave to gay, from lively to severe" — dashing through every description of folly and fun, dealing in those rapid transitions by which the attention and imagination are arrested and excited ; always amusing, always instructive, never tedious, elevated to the height of the greatest intellect, and familiar with, the abstruse subjects, and at the same moment conciliating the humble pretensions of inferior minds by dropping into the niidst of their pursuits and objects with a fervor and 'intensity of interest which surprises and delights his associates, and, above all, which p\its them at their ease.—' Grreyille's Memoirs/