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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 259, 19 April 1878, Page 15

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(From, our Exchanges.) ♦1, Q ? % Le ? 1 " Wft9 crowned in the Sixtine cbapel, on Sunday, the 3rd March, the ceremony lasting four hours. Only the cardinals the prelates, the diplomatists accredited to the Papal Court, and a few 2^PJ*, 80 ™ were Permitted to be present. In the evening some of the faithful Romans illuminated their houses in honour of the event of the i day ; but the streets were filled with mobs of enraged revolutionists, and these broke sonic of the windows of the illuminated houses. Very tardily, it appears, the mobs were dispersed by the troops, who were apparently under orders not to hurt the rioters. The Italian Government is playing with fire ; it is encouraging, perhaps making use of, a set of wretches who are almost as thirsty for the blood of the "iS. lur S J arG ?r? r *AcA c h }°°^ Of the P °P e '• but wll0 ' for the present, are willing to pretend to be loyal subjects. It is clear that Leo XIII. is prisoner m the Vatican just as Pio None was. To-day the mob is mnt lg VS, r S ak c w , i I nclows of the lay Catholics in Rome ; toSHSd pro^bSn^ 6 " * ° f "" ° WU Ms The Rome correspondent of the London Times, writing- from Rome under date of the 14th of February, spoke as follows of Cardinal Pecci, since then _ elected Pope : "Pecci is tall, with fine head, high forehead narrowing at temples ; long face, and staight features. He has a large mouth, prominent chin, cheerful, open countenance, and large, well-shaped ears. His face reminds one of Gonsalvi, the renowned minister of Pius VII. He has a fine sonorous voice; great dignity, even austerity of manners in public life, but privately is affectionate, unassuming sociable, and witty. As Cameilengo, he has been at the head of that party which, without formally renouncing the right of the holy See, acknowledges the wisdom of submitting to the decrees of Providence, accepting what seem to be irrevocably accomplished facts. The general opinion is that, for learning, tact energy, dignity, amiability, real moral worth, and sincere piety, the feacred College could not find a more deserving Pope than Cardinal I™* ' " Card T malPecc vv 1 s private life, at all^ periods, is above ssisajtt^srr* his dutybrings h ™ ** «*** y^Tl^l V^ I T^ ent^ t ' Uheml>i and anti-Catholics are well pleased with the election of Cardinal Pecci ! We may see how long they will remain so ! In taking the name of Leo, the Pope may havl thought of the first Pope St. Leo, called the Great who, with unarmed fct^K 0 v CGt f A £ Ua C the Scour^ c of God <" «^d finding him on St^^Ll* the Mincio, induced him to spare th<f Roman thf HW Pn^ ?WD? WD 4f r tnw * lon - But, perhaps, he thought more of t£?,< 2hnS§ I, a XIL > whowas called to succeed another Pope Pius, who had had a very long and troubled reign. Leo XII. used no SSw l i U ? dlni 2? dmi ?^ pweedß tbat had heen «™*i during the long and exceeding mild reign of Pius VII to oi2! c ,?i the x U £ eS °^ L % 00 * m " wbile Cwdinnl Camerlengo, was to open and read the will of Pius IX. This was done in the presence SShLm IV t V l0 ° d ° f , th ? dead P °P e " The U waswritten t r S ff SS^teSSi llßl^ SbeetS ° f Papei> b ° Und to S et herby a silk stung, ami elated 1875. There were several codicils. These .are the directions for bis buna : « My body shall be buried in the Church of the S^ C %W -° he l yalls ' Uuder the little arch which surmounts tlie gnduon, that is the stone on which are still visible the stains made by the martyrdom of the illustrious Levite. The expenses of the monument shall not exceed four hundred crowns." The following is the inscription written by himself ■ OSSA ET CINERES Pl'l P. IX. Sum. Pont. Vixit An.— In Pontificatv An. — m, . . , Orate Pko Eo. That is to say : The bones and dust of Pope Pius IX., Supreme PonAm JSSt ; Pontificat e - years. Pray for him." f'nmSrliW Sma(l<i to personal friends, Pius IX. left to the lC?Jln^w ?m "I 108310 dosi S n of the Blessed Virgin, to the Dowager Duchess of Moclena a similar mosaic, to Queen Isabella a ?'f ''/-Sn^T °44 N fPIGSf PIGS a Ho] y Famil y> to tlie U « k * of Tuscany a copy of Raphaels Madonna, to the Duke of Parma a miniature SSSS, the Apostles t0 *™ fc little cWlch-en to vSfni JS Mv °S f : de Bourbon a medallion of the Resurrection, and to the Princess Thurn Taxis a crucifix set in precious •.tones, and made still more precious with relics of the True Cross! Ihe Pope allotted the sum of 300,000 francs for the use of the poor His private patrimony, obtained by inheritance, he divided equally between his nephew and grand-nephews equany Almost all of the near relatives of Pope Pius IX. had preceded him o the grave. No brother of his survives him : the last Ssed member of his farm y were his elder brother, Count Gabriel MastaY and his nephew, Lmgi Mxstai, son of Count Gabriel. Another son of C ount Gabriel, and nephew of the late Pope, is still living : be is the it SfniSSn? "ifr I Cll lf ilan ' He has two «»». ™of whomTs of s " Ovf %r the other is being educated at the military school w K?£ S y T? 1 l\ aS aISO two d»tighterß-one is a nun in a convent at Speccln, while the other is the wife of commander Marco None of the portraits of Pius IX. do him full justice. Many of them But !?^? le: Tf them are as Perfect as art can make ? em ," °^ t ; IS .<^possible for art to reproduce the angelic beauty of ™'ih™ ci £• "^ery ° f his Sl "ile. the lambent flame of his eyes. J™ t iI 8 chlldrei » ha™ seen him on earth, and they know what we mean : let us pray that we may meet him in heaven. lftm £ ?l? ll ° n nba; bar l T?" a - S morta1 ' Peter never dies "-these words were

the Church will never permit it to fail. The Vatican is empty. In the • Quirinal rules a usurper, yet the day will come^-after perhaps still " greater trial — when the Quirinal will send adrift its unwelcome tenant and the Vatican will again rule and bless the city and the world. The dead Pope strikingly impressed this truth on a friendly French diplomat, who with his wife and child went to bid him farewell. " You are both of you young,"' said Pio Nono, " for you life will be long in passing. But, without deceiving myself, I believe it is the last time that you will sen me. Perhaps you will not come to Rome for a long time ; then remember me, and what I am about to say to you ; repeat it often to this little child, as soon as he is able to understand you. . . . Impress profoundly on his memory the recollection of this man now before him, clothed in white. And whatever may happen to myself, who am in fact nothing, depend upon it that here, in this very place where I am standing, when the child having become old, shall one day return with his sons and grandsons, depend upon it that he will find here, even in the same place, another man like myself clothed in white." The Scottish Hierarchy was constituted in Rome yesterday (Feb. 20). St. Andrew's and Glasgow are archbishoprics, Aberdeen and three other sees bishoprics, — all of them, excepting Glasgow, suffragan to St. Andrew's. The present bishops are retained, namely, the Right Rev. John Strain, now Vicar Apostolic of the Eastern District, who becomes Archbishop of St. Andrew's and Edinburgh ; the Most Rev. Archbishop Eyre, now Apostolic Delegate for Scotland, and Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, who is appointed Archbishop of Glasgow, and the Right Rev. John McDonald, Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, Bishop of Aberdeen. The new bishops arc the Very Rev John McLachlan. Galloway : the Very Rev. George iUgg, now Vicar-General of the Eastern District, Dunkcld ; and the Rev. Angus Macdonald, now priest of Arsaig, Argyll aud the Isles. On Monday, March 4, Irishmen everywhere recalled the memory of tlic brave gallant, unfortunate Robert Ernmett, whose fate has moved all hearts, and whose eloquence still thrills all who can be moved by human words, appealing to some of the tenderest and purest emotions of humanity. He was au unselfish and heroic soul, who perished too young for himself and his country. If Ireland has had to blush for unhappy sons who traded on the holiest affections of her people and their devotion to their fatherland— degenerate sons who " thanked heaven they had a country to sell" — she hashad also her Emmetts, one of whom would elevate a whole race. We have to chronicle this week the death of Rev. Father Secchi, the famous astronomer, which occurred in Rome on the 25th of Feb. Ho was born in the States of the Church, at the commencement of the present century, and at an early age entered the Society of Jesus. For many years he has been director of the celebrated observatory in the Roman College, and when the Jesuits were driven from their establishments he was allowed to remain at his post. He has made many important discoveries in astronomical science, and lias published many learned works. — R.I.P. Bad as the dead king of Italy was his successor promises to be worse. Even in the proclamation which he makes of the King's death he shows himself to be both unfihal and uncatholic and makes it evident that if he had the power he would have stood between his dying father and his opportunity for sorrow and reparation. There are glowing promises that he will "follow in the footsteps of his father,'' but in this address of a Catholic King to a Catholic people lamenting the death of a Catholic man there is not one sentiment that shows his Catholic feeling, not even a halfhearted prayer that the poor dead man may rest in peace. Fitting epitaph for the dead father of such a son. The Church of S. Andrea dellc Prate, in Rome, was magnificently decorated with red satin damask bordered with gold, and an infinity of lights, on the 20th Feb.. the anniversary of the miraculous conversion of Pere Rstisbone, which occurred in 1842, in the Church of San Andrea. He was converted from Judaism by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Masses were said during the morning, and at five p.m. Cardinal Franchi gave solemn Benediction. Padre Giovanni, who possesses perhaps the finest tenor voice at present known, sang oil the occasion, and there was hardly standing room in the churchy On "Wednesday, the 23rd, the Rev. Dr. O'Bryen preached a sermon on Pere Ratisbone to a crowded audience in the same church. No king ever permitted his people to be more ruthlessly ground down than did Victor Emmanuel. Not a single great enterprise marks his reign. Local enterprises checked, enormous taxation, colossal debt, general bankruptcy, public dishonesty, violation of public national faith, increasing infidelity, numberless suicides, multiplied crimes hy secret societies— these are the fruits of King Victor Emmanuel's unhappy reign. " May the Lord have mercy on his soul." According to the latest statistics published in Berlin, Feb. sth, the active army of Germany consists of 687,594 men, 1,800 cannons, and 233,095 horses. The reserve consists of 4.426 officers, 243,095 ! men, 426 cannons, and 590 horses. The militiaj and in time of war intended for garrison duty, consists of 10,107 officers, 353,102 men, 124 canons, and 30,590 horses. The effective army ready for the field is therefore 31,843 officers, 1,203,791 soldiers, 301,536 horses, and 425 batteries, with 2,500 cannons. The London Times editorially says :— -'• It is stated, on authority which cannot be questioned, that 70,000,000 human beings are nowstarving in the famine strickeu districts of North China. Imagination fails to cope with so gigantic a calamity. We caunot doubt that if the Chinese have found their way to America from the comparitivel v prosperous eastern provinces in .thousands, they will pour forth in myriads from the famine-stricken districts of the .north as soon as the way is opened to them. The Chinese difficulty may speedily become a greater menace to the future of the United States than the negro difficulty was at its worst, for negro immigration was never voluntary and ceased with the abolition of slave trade, while, if the Chinese tide once begins to flow in force, it is difficult to see when it will stop." John Bull, just listen to this — from one of your own great men. too : " I do verily believe, and admit in convinced sorrow, that I live in the midst of a nation of thieves and murderers ; that everybody, round me is trying to rob everybody else, and that not bravely and strongly, but in the most cowardly ways of lying trade ; that • English*

man is now merely another word for blackleg and swindler, and English honour and courtesy to the sneaking and the smiles of a whipped peddler, an inarticulate Autolycus, with a steam hurdy-gurdy instead of a voice." The man who talks in this way is John Ruskin, and there are few who knew his countrymen better than he. Mr. Kuskm s language is not always nice, but there is an immense deal of honesty and common sense in it. British subjects hold the bonds of the Egyptian government to the amount of £27,000,000 besiees years of accrued interest. . There has been a great epidemic of cholera among the pilgrims to Mecca. Irom the Gth of December totheeudof January there were 787 deaths ; and at Jeddah, the port of Mecca, between December 29th and January 6th, there were 1,104 deaths. It is feared the disease may eventually reach Constantinople, where, in the present state of wide-spread suffering consequent upon the late war, its ravages will be increased. Gratitude is a leading characteristic of the coloured race. The s death of the illustrious Pius IX. was the subject of a discourse in Cincmnatti by the Rev. M. W. Taylor, a coloured Methodist preacher, who dwelt especially on what the Catholic Church has done for the coloured people. The Holy Father, he said, had begun a movement to lift up the freedmen " from the depths of ignorance smd degradation, into which slavery hud plunged them." and to help on the work he added to the sum taken from the revenues of the Church, frequent and liberal contributions from his own private means. The " Sisters of Chanty," continued Mr Taylor, have gone even to the Backtowns and Five Points, and accomplished wonders in the work of elevatin°our race. We ought to proclaim- on the wings of the wind that we know these things and appreciate them ; and then let our Protestant brethren command, as they may, the same gratitude from us by banshmg the prejudice that exists among them toward the black man."