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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 6, 1 June 1883, Page 15

We have received a list of subscriptions made at the Taleri towards the Dunedin. Cathedral building fund too late for insertion in ourpresent issue.' It will be published by us next week; < The annual imeeting of shareholders in the N. Z. Tablet Company will be .held in the office of the; Company, Octagon/ Dunedin, this . evening at 8' p.m. ' . Blocks. and remittances in connection with the: Oamaru art. union hay« been received by the Dominican. Nutis from Mr."J, Mac 1 * Cabe New Headford, and. Mr; J. Noonan, Rangiora. "An Irish ßoman .Catholic," who swears at the Pope In the columns of our contemporary the Otago Daily Times should know that the famous bull of Pope- Adrian IV. has been proved to have been another English forgery*— The 1 true papal rescript forbade the very thing that King- Heßry asserted it had authorised. For the credit of old Ireland, let " Irish Roman •Catholics" who write to the papers .beware of betraying their ignorance— or that some priest or another jbaß<tread on theircorns. . , - The. Otago> Daily Times, haa a few foolisluwords on the reported encyclical of the Pope^which we believe to be a formal matter-that wilL produce no effect whatever on the Irish agitation. It is cer-> tainly not directed against • lawful > agitation, and those who agitate unlawfully and by joining. Secret Societies will not care much for any thing *he; Pope may say. They have already defied 'his excommuni- ( c*tion, and care nothing abont him or the religion which he teaches; That the Government, then, # should have succeededin' striking terror' - into the conspirators before his- Holiness issued his mandate, 1 ? as our contemporary says, is nothiagtto the purpose; The' mandate of bigHoliness would not have aided the Government-in the slightest degree, or modified in any; measure .the designs.of the conspirators; • • That theN 'Irish people all overthe iworld are determined -to carry on to the end their lawful agitation,- we have every reason to believe— and as »to those who agitate unlawfully and by means of Secret Societies Eng.land must look to her police to repress them without the help of the Pope.— One conspiracy has now- been.diecovered;and for the moment things seem quiet in consequence, but our belief is that it has only made room for another conspiracy, to be suppressed/ perhaps, in turn and equally so succeeded* and so on, as the- history of every tyranny 1 warns us. But let not. tbepowers that be befool themselves by a confidence in the power of religion ovenpeople who- defy, religion, as all those do who form the Secret Societies. 'To them the 1 voice of the Pope seems. an empty-sound. i Mr. Patrick Moloney, New South Wales, has, sent as further contributions to the Dominican Convent building fund, Invercargill, per Rev. Father. McEnroe, S.J., £4 Is.,' and 'per Mr. J, Maher, £1. I These sums were inaccurately, acknowledged in our columns last week,- " On Thursday ilast,thei Feast of Corpus Christi, Pontifical High Mass was celebrated! at St. Joseph's Church ? Dunedin, at 11 a.m., by his Lordship the Bishop, with the Rev. Fathers Burke and Lynch ai deacon and sub-deacon respectively. After Mass there was exposition of the Blessed Sacrament until evening, when on the termination of Vespers a procession .round < the church was made in the following order :— Cross-bearer (Rev. Father. Lynch) and acolytes, girls of the Convent High iSchool, girls of St. Joseph's School, boys of the Christian Brothers' School, Children of Mary,' memberspf the Confraternity of the Sacred-Heart, the Bishop carrying the Most Holy Sacrament under an umbraculunu. The Pange lAnguai was very sweetly ■ sung by theschool children-andihe^Childienof Mary while the procession wound^roundAhechuxchii /The, girls were>dreu«d in; white, at usual <

for the occasion, and the various sodalities were preceded by their distinguishing banners — the effect of the whole scene being very beautiful. On Sunday again, being the Sunday within the Octave of the Feast, Pontifical High Mass was celebrated as before, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament took place until after Vespers. - The meeting of the Danedin Catholic Literary Society, announced in our last issue to take place last evening, has been postponed to next Wednesday evening in consequence of the Christian Brothers' Classroom having been occupied by the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart for the purpose of a retreat. As a number of persons are unaware of the amount of the subscription to the Literary Society, we are requested to mention that it is ten shilling per annum, payable quarterly. Thk St. James' Gazette, which seems to swallow, with even more than a common avidity, all the anti-Fenian rumours put into circulation, is responsible for the following :—": — " It would be hard to imagine a more diabolical means of terrorism, than the latest outcome of Fenian outrage. To cut a piece of linen from the bedding of a small-pox patient and post it to a woman merely because she happens to be the wife of the Home Secretary— not that Lady Harcourt was the only recipient of this insidious poison — is an atrocity beyond words. On Monday we published a note from a wellinformed correspondent stating that this new method for procuring Irish independence had really been put in practice, and his statement is now confirmed. There is only one comfort in the consideration of this new departure in outrage : contagion is a political agent not easily handled, and it is possible that those who resort to this means of gaining their ends may find themselves well punished without the aid of the law." But possibly those guilty of this new departure in outrage were themselves already aware of the danger in question, and knew also that pieces of linen free from all infection would equally well serve their purpose of keeping up and increasing the panic and rage against the Irish people. The plan, moreover, hit upon is especially English, and dates from the time of the great plague of London, when infection was spread abroad by reckless and interested wretches in many ways. — Some student of English history has been doubtless accountable for this latest, though not new, and most horrible idea. Pressube on our space obliges us to hold over to next week the conclusion of the Port Chalmers Presbytery subscription list. Somebody wants to know whether it is trne that the Puritans of Maryland persecuted Catholics. — Indeed, then, it is true and without a shadow of doubt. — But persecution was much in vogue among the American Puritans in those days. — Here, for example, is a passage relating to it, we find in the letter of a certain Anglican, signing himself W.8.C., and which is published in the Birmingham Daily Gazette. In proof of his statement that when the Noncomformists had the power they persecuted all who differed from their religious opinions, ne Bays :—": — " For instance, the laws passed by the Pilgrim Fathers in America provided that Quakers should be whipped, imprisoned, branded, mutilated, transported, and even executed. Accordingly godly men and women who taught Quaker doctrines were publicly, whipped, imprisoned, branded with hot irons, sold aa slaves, and at least two men and one woman were most barbarously executed for holding and teaching the views of the ' Society of Friends/ A few years before the Baptist Bunyan was imprisoned in Bedford Gaol 1 fines, whippings, and banishment cleared Massachusetts of its Baptist population.' Mrs Hemens evidently had not studied all the the chapters of early Nonconformity when she wrote — Aye, call it holy ground, The spot which first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found, Freedom to worship God. Anyone who has read the history of the Quakers in the United States will be tempted to read the above lines in a very ironical sense." Owing to pressure on our space, we are obliged to hold over to our next issue the report of an able lecture on education, delivered the other day. to the Catholic Literary Society, InvercargiU, by the Rev. Father McEnroe, S.J. The proposal of the Archbishop of Cashel very strongly and warmly made, for a national tribute to be paid to Mr. Parnell, in recognition of his great personal worth and splendid public services, was very readily taken up, not only by the Irish priests and people, but also by the bishops. The Bishop of Limerick wrote that Mr. Parncll deserved the testimonial. Through good and evil report, said his Lordship, he had continued to work with " matchless energy and noble devotion for his country's weal," and, he added, the bitter hatred of lieland's enemies poured out upon him in Parliament and the Press gives the crowning proof of his patriotism. The Bishop of Achonry writes in ardent admiration of the great leader, and asks, " Shall it be said that Ireland is unmindful of the part referred to, and has failed to appreciate records and results inseparably united with the name of Parnell ? " The Bishop of Down and Connor, and the Bishop of Dromore have written to a similar effect. The Convention at Philadelphia is said to have been the most representative of the kind ever seen. %It was attended by clergymen,

lawyers, physicians, journalists, and mechanics from all parts of America. A letter was read from Mr. Parnell counselling the adoption of a platform which would enable agitators in Ireland to accept American help, and at the same time aroid giving a pretext to the British Government for the entire suppression of the National movement in Ireland* It is the duty of the Irish race (he wrote) throughout the world to sustain the Irish people in the movement for national self-government. A resolution of confidence and a cheer were ordered to be cabled to Mr. Parnell. A vote of confidence in Patrick Egan was passed for big careful custody and management of the Land Leagae funds. A monster meeting was afterwards held at Chicago to ratify the procesdings at Philadelphia in connection with forming a National Land League in America.