NOTICE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 8, 12 June 1885, Page 20

NOTICE.

Mb. JOHN MURRAY, lateofi Keasti and M'Car thy'a Brewery Company, haa.beennappointed as.CANVASSBii and OOLLBOTOB to. thd NsWfZBALAND Tablet Company.

The brutal intolerince of ths loyalists in Lurgan burst out again last week. A Catholic clergyman was " mobbad " in the public street*, through which crowds of Orange rowdies, unrestrained by the authorities, paraded in the most violent manner. Other Catholics also were attacked and cruelly maltreated, and when they attempted to seek the protection of houses the windows were smashed into smithereens by those pious advocates of " law and order." Appropriately enough the crowd varied their barbarous amusement by giving cheers for the Prince of Wales !— Nation. At the ceremony on the Capitol, when revolutionary Italy laid the first stone of a monument to Victor Bmanuel, the Prime Minister, Depretis threw down the gauntlet of defiance* to the Vatican. The day was well chosen— Passion Saaday— which will remind posterity that " Christ is once more captive in His Vicar." No fitter place", said Depretis, could be found for the great king than that spot which tiems with memories of ancient and. modern times. He sketched the gloiiou3 deeds of Victor Emanael, whom the people by " a plebiscite of love " proclaimed the gentlemanking, and by a plebiscite of sorrow the father of his country. He recalled those famous words which showed the faith of the dead monarch in the regeneration of Italy : "In Borne we are, and in Home we will remain." He apostrophised the queen as the " honour, example, and highest ideal of Italian women," and hoped that " for many long years she would come to that classic spot ia her own Rome to contemplate the image of the king who had made her country one." Depretis is not the first who has stood on the Capitol and vaunted the eternity of a new regime. Rienzi was once there a tribune of the people, proclaiming respect for the Pope and the glory of an independent republic ; Arnold of Brescia succeeded him, with the fixed idea of " subverting the immovable rook of St. Peter/ Then came Porcari, in 1453, inflamed with a desire of restoring the grandeur of pagan days. He spoke of country, of liberty, of glory, of immortal fame, and did not forget to remind his followers that the sack of the Papal palace would produce a million florins in gold. In a few days he was dangling by the neck from the battlements of Castle Sant' Angelo. In 1798 General Berthier with a French army entered the city to liberate Rome from the popes. He took up his residence in the Apostolic palace of the Quirinal, and on the fifteenth of February proclaimed the Republic of the Tiber from the heights of the Capitol. He invoked " the shades of Pompey, of Sato, and of Brutu?,to accept the homaga of free Frenchmen. The eons of Gaul came with aa olive branch to set up the altar of liberty first erected by Brutus. The Roman people should arouse themselves and emulate their ancient greatness and the virtues of their ancestors." Again, in 1849, the Papacy was declared defunct, and Muzzarelli, Armellini, and Mariani announced to the people,— "The Roman Republic was proclaimed to-day from the Capitol. The Roman Kepublic will ba eternal and prosperous." So said Victor Emanuel in 1870 ; so saya Depretis in 1885. But while pompous words are calling up the memories of Paganism, the prayers of the Church are besieging the throne of God for the annihilation and route of Humbert, Depretis, and Co. The monument on the Capitol will be their tombstone, and their own motto their epitaph.