CARDINAL NEWMAN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 382, 13 August 1880, Page 16

CARDINAL NEWMAN.

(From the " Whitehall Review.") Those who, like ourselves, remember the distinguished Vicar of St 2s ' Joh a Henry Newman, holding spell-bound by the simplest W™ « VV h v sw ™ tes * Voice ' the crowd of P^le-faced, thoughtful listeners, which gathered round the University pulpit-a crowd now gone divers ways, scattered hither and thither— and realised what his ho C thT n t h rr ° m \ hG Estab [ ished Church involved, cannot but blstawk now as w^l C^ ra l°l the ° f Cath <*<*»* then and its position 3'f,.^ 1 as b y. fc be knowledge and remembrance of the important fhan JPJ P Fitt emmenCe u aS taken in *l uietl y Ringing about that ™ti?s a °«y« y yea 18,I 8 , ago he was misunderstood, misrepresented, and SSS SL V™ 7 ° f 8 °i ld aIHeS - by a bideous kind of inconsistency, ™fwi?h w^k S B lu ply dead and buried ' The y mentioned his ewVTw * te^ 1 breath; or, calling him "poor," shook their heads, Hpnl^i cv . c , s ' and sighed with sadness. They never saw him s™, ™ 7k h ? m k The Bpires and towers of O*fort. as he some, times passed by in the train, were of course, seen by him ; but he did "°™^ the city from which Establishmentarian bigotry and epistf^ \ +1 f Slghtftdn i ss had combined to drive him away. From that t h^ ? reSeQt) . fi^- aBd -thirty years have come and gone. During ™w£T P T°l what a change has taken P la «e ! There is nS S2iSS%SI g f a n d .™«« tealy honcoed and respected than the Kft lo £ ?J Onel. His conscientious regard for religious a^d^ffZ^ b \ 1^ ypowere ' his bi S b character, the great th7#nS^? Cc V hlch his noble writings have obtained wherever £?r ™1« gUS 1S Bpoken ' bave all hel P ed to proime ihis result. HbeiS y J?Z c?e ?£ TS TJ h^ ° f ° ld n0W > I"**** civil and religiou and Us hJ • fuU Wortance of conscience, its workings Eneli 8 h Ca rS gS - ; r, Wblle tbeir en tbußiasm for the laft Had BiSfnn th 1S) at once honest mid hearty, iiad Bishop Thomas Walsh's advice been originally takeu SnSStot 6 PraCtiCSl WOrk Of a qnariitaSJal Idnd JJffjJ the numerous married parsons who subsequently « went stm'funher T,^r n T^ - migbt bave de «P^ed Sod thickened NewmSntK though tins was not done, the position of Dr. •whSif fp P hL g f W^, rande^' year by y ear - His work in Ireland, £wtarMd^t^"i° r< i lblec ? 1 ? CC S tbonghbwas labour tbrowQ awa 7 on ' rwT ?? - ° f S reat influence. The ' Atalanta,' the treatise SnJwSW 2*2 vißv i 8 later works were of immense service to the HSe wort dd v l^J t' pOUSed - S ° Was the of 3?J, i m ' had bec °me a necessity. The copyrights of them would soon have run out; enterprising adventurers Tand SSu£SiS H nto 7i. W^? d hay « Promptly then?; and " o due ft lS US autbor himself gave them anew to the world, with Be£*M^?? ci ? a S d Careful Their sale, it is no the dU «? ' i^ een e ° orm ou S . What a change, we repeat, from the Kvl SDS DS w adleU t0 Dr> Ogle and Mr - Manuel John son at Church tl ft y f' •?'■ Newman turned his back upon the National Whit » ? faking and almost dramatic events of the last week. rTSemen? af t h bet^f ! hc wben be spent man y monthsTn LitSnrLn^ S ? httle building by the road-side in Church? Ke S, re n Pt ° nS at , N ° rfolk Houße as a Prince of the ™SI « i. Docto " of Oxford, who brought out their SSSS *"., maklD^ fi tag«-tbunder, and who condemned and of aU flesh' C TK ea S Ue> ?\ Pnß0 * baye > some while ag0 > gone the way the «foS' B JJ 6 ° Ur luto1 ;?' who were so affectionately to Bristol %n Pe3 f7l one > are ' if WG arc not mistaken, still here. SuntrT^rlon 11 ' a n B^ ay^ n t. d Review '- er . now a kind of fossilized cES Wad£L John .®"**B sits easily enough in the Warden's mSvidPd ftS «f t ; an v D x. r - TiUt has long been more than comfortably Sny mwk mW, Lambc ff V the OT £ S maU Of tbe four who has ma de h EhS b ? Hg^. Or fello^ s - But to contrast these with Newman bettl S h A g G . er i naa sil ' er into the family Plate-box. It had «S v* b .° atfcem P ted nor thought of. While, then, the differences whil d S U ii ieS ° £ the^y-com P rchcn s iv c Establishment augment • Hstens h o ST' S(luabble ' so . cieties prosecute each other, and no one and?L fe eLW^ man f dmgV TT C/C /' fOr the P ° Wer of Jabber increases, 2?wellfo?tWin r?l- n PP n * forcmo6l 5 the man who had laboured Th^ S^ mark ? d '1 nOtable era in the Progress of Catholicism. J™ D i ke h0 b l came hishost ha3 > with Perfect tact and taste done h, s work well The youthful Duchess of Norfolk, too, has won S&ISK 08 "^ 08^ ThG CatboliC nobilifc y and gentry have rithl- h6 ?£ "* , A fair sorinkling of 'High Anglicansf with SSSft 8y S. pathieß> « were present from da y to dft y t° P a y their Sit ° tb ? nlwn l w Cardinal-Oxford's former outcast. At Norfolk so SiTft prolonged ovation. While, as Lord Beacousfield so tiuiy remarked, bis secession «gave a blow to the Church of

England, which reeled and staggered under it, and from which it has never recovered, his new co-religionists have completely realised his worth and the present Pontiff has duly recognised his merits. Neither golden salver from Australia, however, nor illuminated addresses from every diocese, nor munificent gifts from individuals, nor portraits by R.A.s are equal in value to the profound personal homage, thorough affection, and respectful regard which have been of thfda universally displayed for one of the greatest men He stood, a little bent, at one end of the stately saloon of Norfolk House, attended by Father Norns, who so efficiently made the formal presentations. In Cardinal's undress cassock, with scarlet cincture and skullcap— looking every inch a dignitary— the Cardinal, one after th« other received, as a Prince, many hundreds of his fellow-countrymen Whigs and Tories, Knights of the Garter, Peers and Privy Councillors' Monsignors of the Roman Court, Anglican Deans, members of the U. O. X., and converts more plentiful than primroses in May, cam« up in quick succession to kiss the Cardinalitial ring. Surely Mr Beresford Hope and the Dean of St. Paul's, Mr. Matthew Arnold and Lord Salisbury, the Duke of Cleveland, and Sir George Bowyer are all representative men. But there were many more. Cardinal Newman s voice, if not quite so powerful (there were a few words for*U) is as sweet and musical as ever. Here there is scarce any change But the fundamental change— social, religious, political— which has been effected m forty years is one which- the premier Duke of Enrland has been permitted to see, and upon which his Grace may well be congratulated. He has thus taken part in events of deep historical interest during the past ten days, and their remembrance will last Ut old, sunshine and shadow have alternated. Many dark vicissitudes nave been, and black shadows have fallen; but they may now be left behind and forgotten. For the howl of bigotry, like a distempered dog baying at the moon, is at length happily unnoticed, or only looked upon as an anomaly of the age and an actual nuisance."

Messrs. Fmdlay Sc Co., of Cumberland street, Dunedin, have entered into arrangements with certain of the Southland Sawmills, winch enable them to supply red and white pine of all descriptions at extremely moderate rates. The Dominican Sisters acknowledge remittances towardi their art union from Mrs. Whalley, Timaru, and Mr. M. Brophy, Pleasant Mr W « ha 7 e _ rec ! ived ". The Second Reformation," a pamphlet by Mr. j. (x.S Grant, explaining the significance and value of the publication entitled " Scottish Sermons." All those who are interested in the state of religion in Scotland will find it an instructive study. *«. ™ drav T in S f 9, r tbe ottoman worked in chenille will take place at the Dominican Convent, Dowling street, Dunedin, on Saturday attend P " m# S6 persons wbo bold tick ets are requested to Person^ who intend to plant forest, fruit, or ornamental trees of any description during the present season will find all their wants provided for at Messrs. Gordon Brothers' nursery, North-East Valley Dunedin. Priced catalogues may be had on application. Messrs. Thompson and Company, George street, Dunedin, invite the attention of housekeepers to their large and unrivalled stock of teas, lneir coffees, provisions, and groceries generally will be found or much excellence. Public attention has been occasionally directed during the last nine years to the case of a girl, the daughter of a labourer at Turville Bucks, who is said to have remained for that period in a condition of trance, perfectly helpless and unconscious. The only food given her has been a few spoonfuls of wine and tea or wine and milk administered at frequent intervals. Notice has just been directed afresh to this case by the sudden death of the mother of the girl. At the inquest, m the course of his evidence, Mr. Hayman, F.R.0.5., said he had occasionally attended the deceased during the past few yeW and had often seen the " sleeping girl." In his opinion she was paralysed, and was quite uncouscious. ' A Madras paper, having unearthed a relic of the groie;que Prctestant bigotry of last century, contrasts it with the views of to-day : —On the 27th January, 1747, the Court of Directors of the Honorable fiast India, Company wrote to the Governor and Council at Fort St S a «^w£ °r : "^,". '' ' West «ctly forbid your suffering any Komish Church within our bounds, or any of their priests to dwell among you, or that religion to be openly professed ; and in caxe any lapists have crept into places oftntst in our service, they mvst be immediately dismissed. On the 29th April, 1880, the Madras Times announces that the Marquis of Ripon, a " Papist," has been appointed Viceroy of India. rr The Abbe Le Louet, Honorary Canon of Civita Castellana, after labounous researches continued during nine years, has succeeded in discovering the Catacomb of Santa Maria de Fallen. Of this catacomb there exists no account, except au imperfect relation concerning the transfer of the bodies of the holy martyrs Gracilliano and Kelicissima, which were brought from St. Maria de Falleri tdtne collegiate church of Bassano de Sutri. By means of the sole iiidiftahon of that catacomb, without any other local tradition, St. MaVi'a de S alien having been destroyed for more than six hundred years this cemetery was discovered by Canon Le Louet on Easter Monday Penetrating into a subterranean passage, he discovered that this catacomb consists of several galleries, four of which he has already visited, and which in height and width are unique of their kind and surpass those of Rome. There arc many locidi in which the discoverer hopes to find frescoes and graffiti or scratchings of names etc., on the plaster. He has already discovered many Etruscan sepulchres, transformed by the early Christians to their uses, in which he has observed the tracings of paintings representing the Madonna and tno Apostles. But other galleries remain to be explored— a task which the discoverer will set about as soon as possible. The See of St. Maria de Falleri was founded by St. Peter, and this discovery has a great historical importance. *