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THE MUNICIPAL DIRECTIONS. Thd New Lord M...
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peror and Empress off the French and the...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. The Belgians have bee...
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Dr. Cullen And Irish Catholic " Reform."...
snoken 'has earned for the Chureh of-their native land a singular share of the solicitude of -Propaganda . The Holy Father-is well acquainted with -the good qualities of the Irish character and-their fidelity to the Holy See ; but it must not be supposed that he isignorant oftheii many shortcomings . Jt could not be expected thatthe traces of past sufferings could all at onoe be effaced ; and it is hardly to be wondered at that the prelacy and clergy of the old school and of the ' evil days , ' should not be quite alive to the opportunities and exigencies of -more modern and happier times . The interference in politics of the ftlergy , their dissensions on merely political , or on religio-polkical questions , and the manner in lybich someramong them have-viewed certain Papal de-¦ cisions on -these matters , have for some time met with much disfavour here ; but as no dogma or article of faith has been called in question , or even any touching moral or essential discipline , the Holy See-, with its usual prudenee , and with that spirit which bears patiently , but which never loses sight of its object , has -hithertortolerated the evil while awaiting an opportunity for a radical reformation among the turbulent clergy of Ireland . ' After deploring the tendency to turmoil and political strife of the Irish priesthood , and dwelling on the scandal to the Church which is thus produced , the writer proceeds : — " The ceremonies of the Church and the splendour of public worship are consequently neglected and comparat ively unknown in Ireland ; their religious and civil duties are not inculcated among the faithful ; and the spirit of jjr ^ yer : and affection for spiritual exercises which exist mother Catholic countries are not found among a docile and impulsive people , singularly favoured with t he gifts of nature , and the grace necessary to raise them to a high degree of Christian perfection . To whom and to what all that is attributable it is superfluous to say . To remedy these evils , it is proposed to confine as much as possible the clergy to their proper functions , and' to impose wholesome restraints on then * interference in political or g'waM-political questions . They are not to be debarred the exercise of their rights ¦ as citizens , nor the employment of the influence attaching to their characters in civil or political affairs ; but , as that influence is solely derived from their sacred character , and , as they'have taken the Church for their inheritance , it is but right that their conduct in that respect should be . always subordinate to the interests of religion . It cannot be questioned that the respectable English and Irish Catholics have been much hurt , if not scandalised , at the part taken in political agitation hy the Irish clergy . It is , therefore , proposed that that clergy shall confine themselves to the quiet , unobtrusive exercise of their individual rights as citizens , and that their influence shall be felt only in counsel and private persuasion . In questions where a difference of opinion may arise , the bishop of the diocese , or rather the Apostolic Legate himself , Will indicate the course to be followed , and thus unity of action will be always secured " The seminaries are to be modelled on those of Italy , and all the traces of a profane spirit and legislation are to be effaced whenever and as soon as it is possible to do so . More time is to bo given for contemplation and spiritual exercises , and the young Levites are to see constantly before their eyes the complete subordination which they are to practise when they are promoted to the Ministry . The seminaries are , in fact , to become miniatures , as it wore , of the dioceses , and the position and authority of their rectora are to correspond with those of the bishops , and to depend on the Legate in Ireland , 'or some other representative of Rome . " It will be seen that the effect of these arrangements will be to lay Catholic Ireland still more completely a , t the feet of Rome .
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The Municipal Directions. Thd New Lord M...
THE MUNICIPAL DIRECTIONS . Thd New Lord Mayob . — -On Saturday last , Michaelmas Day («< goose-day" it is called in popular phraseology ) , the new Lord Mayor was elected according .. to » custom . Several names were proposed ; but the show of hands among the , livery was in favour of Aldorman David Salomons and Alderman Finnis , and uUir matoly the former was elected . Tho announcement was received . with great cheering . Thanks were voted to the Sheriffs for the past year , and to the present Lord ¦ Mayor , after a brief protest , on the part of a Mr . Jones , who thought Sir Francis Moon had not sufficiently encouraged art and science , and who objected to tho policy of tho Frenah Imperial visit to . this country . He was met ,. however , with groat tumult , and was , obliged , to sit down . The present Lord Mayor , in returning thanks , made some very grandiloquent remarks . He said : — "The present year has heen one replete with events which will occupy a prominent place on the page of history , and I trust that , in tho performance of my duties as chief magistrate in connexion , with those events , my country has been benefited by . the course which I liavo adopted . ( CA « en > . > I should bo sorry joTwastpf what I have done , because I do notbeHevie -that thAt would he consistent with dignity ; but , At the tBatnetime , circumstances arose which compelled me to take- * yery prominent part in tho reception of the Em-
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peror and Empress off the French and the municipality of Paris on the occasion of their recent visit to this country . Although I never did profess to be a rich man , yet I can declare to you that , individually , I did my utmost to uphold the dignity of the City , and , in the interchange of courtesies between the municipalities of London and -Paris , I endeavoured to maintain its ancient reputation for hospitality . ( CAeers . ) It was of the most vital importance that we , as citizens , should do what we did . I Relieve that the cxmrse which we adopted warmed the heart of the French nation , and induced them to feel towards us that sympathy and regard which we Englishmen ate so desirous to promote . I believe that what the City did upon the occasion of the Imperial visit will hereafter be looked at as one of the greatest evejnts of modern times . " Inauguration of the new Sheriffs of London and Middlesex . —The two new Sheriffs are Alderman R . H . Kennedy and Alderman W . A . Rose , both natives of Scotland . The ceremony of their inauguration took place on Monday before Mr . Baron Platt in the Court of Exchequer , the Cursitor Baron being absent from illness . The Recorder having given a biographical sketeh of the two gentlemen , -they were presented to the Judge . After certain routine forms with respect to the new Sheriffs had been gone through , a ceremony was performed of'so preposterous a nature that it is surprising how it could have been acted with becoming gravity . The usual proclamations were made for suit and Service to the Crown in respect of certain lands held by the citizens of London of the Crown in Shropshire . Mr . Alderman Finnis came forward , as the senior Alderman below the chair , to do service with a bill-hook and some faggots , amidst considerable amusement , as suit and service for a piece of land called the Moor in Shropshire . The Remembrancer declared the service well performed , and the learned Judge gravely confirmed the decision . Proclamation was then made in respect of a piece of land and building called the Forge , in Essex-street , in the parish of St . Clement ' s Dane . Alderman Finnis did suit and -service by counting six tolerably large horse shoes and sixty-one hob-nails . This concluded the ceremony of-inauguration .
Sabb Atari An Restrictions. A Veesr Calm...
SABB ATARI AN RESTRICTIONS . A vEEsr calm , temperate , and lucidly written petition in favour of opening the British Museum and National Gallery on Sundays is now lying fo r signature at various places throughout London . We append some of the most striking passages , merely premising that the object has our most hearty good wishes ;—" To the Honourable , the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled . " Your petitioners , employers and workmen , members of the jewellery , goldsmiths , silversmiths , and other trades , beg to call the attention of your honourable House to the important subject contained in the following petition : — " They -would premise that in approaching this question they are actuated by no spirit of irreligion—no contempt for the established forms of worship , or the sacred expression of private devotion ; but by the firm boliof that the proper study and contemplation of the creations of nature , and of the works of art , tend powerfully to enlarge the mind , and to open to it a true perception of the Deity . They ' ate the more anxious to impress this belief on your honourable House , as they know that it is the fate of those who contend for an alteration of existing Sabbath regulations to bo stigmatised as impious and infidel " From tho nature of the occupations of j'our petitioners , it is essential to complete success that they should obtain a certain knowledge of the laws of art , and be enabled : to cprrect those errors in taste , as to the true principles of ornament , which earlier prohibitions , restrictions , and a generally defective education have entailed upon them ; for it is only too obvious to them that , in the manufacture of . articles commonly styled of luxury , and ; in the general employment of skill as con-. nee ted with art , foreign labour is commonly preferred to their , own , is better romunerated , and already threatens , to thrust them , in some degree , from , tho field of their labours . Nor can they ascribe their assumed deficiency in this department to any other cause than insufficient instruction , and tho wmt of that . free access to the Governmental collections Qf natural objects , of painting " , and . of sculpture , which form so prominent a feature in tho interior arrangements of continental oitios . Tho capitals , no loss than tho smaller towns of France , Belgium , Holland , , and others , might well serve as examples in this particular ,. for in them public institutions of every description Aro freely accessible , on Sunday . In "Vienna , the school for youtUs and adults , held in . thoJPolytochnio Institution , for instruction in drawing and design , with special reference to trade , is also open on this day . Nor can . it be urged that this liberty of viewing the most beautiful works of ancient and modern art has boon . productive of evil conBO < luejucefl , for the . peacoablo and scrupulous behaviour of . tho working population of foreign cities is constantly graded , before tho English mechanic as most worthy of . imitation . " In temperance , and In general morality , tho
mechanics of Continental nations , especially of Germany , cannot be plaeed'below the like class in England ; while in Ihe cities of-Scotland , where the'Sabbath is most rigidly observed , intemperance and its-consequent degradation , physical . and moral , prevail to a "larger extent than , without ithe -evidence of Parliamentary returns , could bebelieved toeo-existwith the strict theological teaching for which that country is r-enowned . "It must be evident to every one who walks through those parts of the metropolis inhabited by 'the poorer portion of the people , that-the present prohibitory system of Sabbath observance has utterly -failed to effect the moral regeneration of the people—nay , even helps further to demoralise them . If a freer and a better system prove ' unsuccessful in reforming the old , it will yet do something for the young . It is our deliberate conviction that a large proportion of those who , Sunday after Sunday , habitually pursue a course of degradation and vice , would have been saved from a condition so depldrable had opportunities been offered them in youth of studying the -wonders of nature and the beauties of art . It is ' the constant familiarity with 1 beautiful-forms which is the simplest and most effective teacher of all that is graceful and applicable in art ; for it is through the eye that the perceptive and moral faculties are most easily reached ; and such visual education would be the most practical means of rendering our working population not only more elevated in artistic taste , but more intelligent as citizens , and in-every way better as men . "
Continental Notes. The Belgians Have Bee...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Belgians have been celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their revolution . The people seem to be as enthusiastic as ever ; but the royal family , according to the account of an eye-witness who records the celebration in the Times , appear to be getting lukewarm in their celebration of the national victory . He writes : — " Although the King , the royal family , and the chief Ministers of the Crown have been prodigal of their presence at the musical concoura , distributions of prizes , and shows , they have studiously withheld their countenance from , such incidents of the celebration as contained any allusion , direct or indirect , to the revolution of 1830 , or exhibited a patriotic sympathy for those who fought and fell in September . Not only did royalty abstain from appearing at St . Gudule during the funeral ceremony in honour of those victims of the nation ' s struggle for independence ( the solitary feature in the programme , tho formalities at the Place des Martyrs excepted , which immediately recals the important events that gave liberty to Belgium ); but , what was worse , the flag of the revolution was denied the usual honours , and neither in the cathedral nor on the Place Roy ale did the troupe present arms as it passed . In the church , the soldiers were under arms ; but on the Place Royale not even that mark of respect was paid to the national standard . The chief of the Civic Guard ( General Petithan ) has been violently rated for this discourtesy by the organs of the Liberal party . " Prussia has been visited by a bad harvest , which , coming after three years of inundations , with harvests below tho average , threatens tho people with high prices during the winter , and introduces a new element of danger into the political condition of the country . Government has therefore suspended for the third year the import duties on corn , and , for the support of the army , has made purchases of grain in the United States , to the amount , it is stated , 5 , 000 , 000 thalers . The King and Queen of Prussia have been travelling incognito as tlie Count and Countess of Zollern . The complimentary visit of the King <^ f Wurtoraberg has been made tho subject of remark , on account of the vehement opposition of that monarch , in 1848 , to the Imperial aspirations of Frederick William .- —The contemplated marriage of the Princess Louisa , daughter of the Prince and Princess of Prussia , with tho Prince Regent of Bo . den , appears to have been broken off , or at any rate to have been indefinitely postponed . General Monge and Count Malher , Prefect of the Moselle , havo been to Sarrebsruck , to congratulate the King of Prussia , in the name of , tho French Emperor , on his passage through that city . Tho King , it is said , was particularly gmcious , and , when taking leave , said to General Mongc , " I feel particularly pleased with the attention , intention , and choico of tho deputation . " The ratifications of tho Concordat between tho Papnl chair and Austria have been exchanged ; but the conditions are not yot published . The assertion that propositions for peace have been made by BrijseU , and peremptorily rejected by Fruuco and . England , lias been denied . Tho JBavnriaja . Chamber has presented an address to tho throne , in which tho following significant passngo occurs ;—" Wo unite with your Majesty in thanlu ug Divino Providcnco that the wAr which now convulse * Europe has b » en kept at a distance from our nuUvo . country ; but tho concord and strength of Germany , and the future salutary development of tho Coiuwewtion , oanohlybo assured if tho so long desired apu » o solemnly promised improvement of the Jjedwal -UM" - stitution shall give to tho nations of ( Germany . !«« ' »" valuable benefit of a woll-socurod state of right ( mc * m-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 6, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06101855/page/6/
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