THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF DUBLIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 17, 21 August 1885, Page 23

THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF DUBLIN.

(From the Dublin Freeman.') We point with feelings of deep gratitude to the announcement in another coluxn that the Very Rsv. Dr. Walab, Vicar Capitular, has been appointed by His Holiness to the ancient Archiepiscopal Bee of Dublin. The information reached the city on Wednesday by telegraph from Cardinal Simeone. It is information that will send a thrill throughout the land, and elicit from the faithful children of Mother Church a prayer of fervent thankfulness that the enemies of Ireland have failed, and that the Holy Father has not felt it inconsistent with his high duty as Head of the Universal Church to ratify the selection of the venerable priests of the city. It was, of course, to be expected that his Holiness woul 1 have no objection to offer to a selection so admirable and so thoroughly in accord with the feelings of the priests and people of Ireland. Dr. Walsh, by hit learning, his piety, and his unrivalled qualities of head and heart, is eminently fitted for the sacred and most responsible position to which he has been called ; and had it not been for the intrigues known to be proceeding in the Eternal City immediately after the announcement of Dr. Walsh's name aa dignissimvs, the ultimate choice of his Holiness would not have been questioned for a moment. Now, however, all is well. The desire of Irishmen, not only at home, but throughout the world wherever Irishmen are to be found, is gratified. The Archbishopric is honoured in Dr. Walsh and Dr. Walsh in the Archbishopric ; and in the new and most worthy occupant of the Chair the country will to-day express the sense of its renewel and unbounded confidence with a heartiness and unanimity never before surpassed. The Pope tas followed up his ratification of the election of the Most Rev. Dr. Wal-h to the Archbishopric by a signal mark of favour and distinction. His Holiness has summoned Dr. Walsh to Rome for consecration aB Archbishop at the Tomb of the Apostles. The prelates assembled at Maynooth College, the prl-sts throughout the country, and the people in general, will view the Pontiff's act as a most gracious compliment to the learned President and to Ireland, capital and country ; and they regard it also with joy in a national sense that Dr. Walsh will have opportunity and occasion so immediate to complete the effect of the Bishops' statements at the Vatican. The iscident is as significaut a crowning of the Irish victory in Rome as ever marked our arm ils or the relations between Ireland and the Holy See. The Most Rev. the Archbishop-Blect will leave for the Eternal City in a few days. His consecration will take place about the 20th inst, and one of the first great duties awaiting his Grace on his return to his See will be in connection with the approaching General Synod of the Hierarchy of Ireland, which will probably be held in the late summer time or early autumn.