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THeS VATICAN.
Rous, May 8 -Unfavorable reports tlme
toebhing the health of his Holiness were br
latel set about There was no fouedatlo am
for tbem, sadit is difedulte to acount for
them save by the supposition that false fru
mos were delibertely circulated by the f(Sr
bdll .dlPosed pereons who desire a ebhange et ,
is l e Pontidoate for their o)n purposee. fcati
The Pope's state of health is better now agari
sad for some time back than it was two Guar
years ago. .His carriage, his step. his artie'
strength of voice, bhis endurase of the Pond
AtignS of audiences, all show that no per- battle
septible diminution of vigor can be traced the I
this spring in Pins IX. His medical at want
tendants pay him bi-weekly visits, as is ante
their duty, but their visits arq merely per- prt
funptory. For a few days the sky has stric
bees eloudy, and the atmosphere dull and law.
heavy, so that a walk in the Vatcao gar- he a
dens at half-past 12 or I P. x. is not so mero
agreeable as a promenade through the gal- whie!
laries or corridors, and consequently Pine its p
IX. has preferred the latter to the former. trout
On Ascension, Day the Pope limited his carr
afternoon walk with his guests to the Vati
loogia of the Sala Matilda. He sueered as an
perhaps a little from his exertion the day scien
before in addressing the French pilgrims. basal
Tot ean that day (Thursday. 6th of Mtay) he
,eesived several batches of visitors, and on T
the day following (Friday) he received over whic
two hundred visitors, to every one of whom proof
be spokea few words, made a short speech exist
fn French to them altogether, and then issue
took his usual walk down the noble stair- orgu
ease to the library, where he remained ever
oeversing cheerfuly with the members of 0o3
his Court for half aa hbor. He then re- but
turned to bit own apartments, and in Chau
going and coming declining the assistance Croe
of blhservante sad displaying a briskness give)
in seending and descending the broad of th
stairs, which astonished some of. the ern
younger men whowere present. OnMonday, eont
May 3rd, the children of a charitable in- Sooh
stitotion were admitted, and the Pope Moini
stood for some twenty minutes, patiently the
standing while two very young children, a man;
boy an a girl, delivered orati which were
brought smiles to to the fae of hisbl lnese. arm
The ith of May was the Feast of S. Pirs
V., and on that day a number of French
pilgrim thronged the balls of the Vatican. name
There were nearly eight hundred alto thos
gether. Some of them were men tfamous lief
eor their literary merits and services to the litiem
Charch. Some of them bore names dis- the e
tiagaished in history. They had previously ment
visited the Basilicas, and on the 8th had and
Svisited that of St. Peter's,.whence they as- well
sended to the audience. The Holy Father Igln
eatered the hall of audience after twelve the
o'clock, accompanied by ten Cardinals, thirt
many Archbishops-and Prelates, and by his their
chamberlains on duty. The Vicomte de be
Damas read the address of the deputation, then
and many of the listeners were deeply The
moved when the Vicomte spoke of the of I
wrongs inflited on the Holy Father the
through the fault of Frenchmen, and the whie
eoasequent necessity that France should won
repair the evils she had done. More guilty and
than other nations, her reparation should soft
be the nobler. The fact,yhat Pins IX. had him
sot despaired of Fra·ce was an eneourage- Vig
ment ; and France, In return, would never tion
despair of the cause of the Holy See. to
TUa iOL.r PrAsTa's E nLr. nd
" Why should I not countapou Franee when pov
I base so maoy proofs of the devotion of and
Frenchmen to the Holy See, not merely in Dec
deputations like the present, bhut in various
ether waalt I know," he proceeded, "and all
men know that the times are dioicult, and that lib
all the sentiments whether of respect or of in 1
1bame, which proeed from your hearts, cannot this
be openly manifested. The enemies whbich Ad
erround and menace as are many. We mest ing
employ prudence, which is a cardinal virtue,
yet it will cease to be a virtue when It in- a
triages on the rights of truth and Justice. You
have mentioned St. Plus V. Let as throw
bleck our thoughts to his time, two centuries
ago. Then it was the custom before entering
he field of battle to try the lot of war against Ar
the pride of the infidel, to make processions of of
penitents to offer public prayers to implore the
aid of God; and these religions aeo' preceded ter
the battles, victories, and triumphs. Nor did chr
the prayers of that Pontiff cease with his vic.
tories, but he continuedt his supplications that 9
God would renuer the fruits of sictory of last- W
ing benefit to His Church. Just before his
death he went to visit devotionally, the seven
chabrches, uecompanolied by one of hie most
amous generals, MSark Autony Colonuna. Al
though tainting from t'fatignp the Holy 'untt' l
persevered in tfibshing has pilgrimage, and re- He
turned to the Vatican to receive in to long in
terval the crown of eternal gl,ry from bi- Ce
lather in Hevren. Do you, beloved, remember du
the example of St. Pius V. when you visit wi
these basilicas and when you perform your
pilgrimages? Would that I myself could ac- an
oemipany you. But if the frightful spectre of b(
lhe revolution prevents my going with you in co
person, my heart will be with you, and my at
prayers will mingle with yours at the foot of La
he altar, while you cry : 'That Thou mayest lil
deign to repress the assaults of Turks and at
Heretics, we b.eech Thee to hear us, O Lord.' fu
Even now in Coustantinople and elsewhere the T
eburchrs are taken by assault and violence
nid given over to schismatics. The Mussul- "
man, no longer impeded by any Christian di
Kingdom, shows his true nature of hostility to It
the faith. lint thanks to God the Catholic,, pa
both laymen and clergy, stand firm in the si
trth ; alnd scism nnmake no progreas. If I, b'
lke Plus V., were to make known my desires! I
to those who oocupy the seats of power, nmy
voice, I am sorry to confess it, would have no
trho. Uucertaiuty, fear, and frequently E
malice, obscure the minds of those to whom I ci
allude. Let then, mny children, our prayers be re
our aruarmaenuts. These prayers let us marshal w
m order, as ilid Jacob when he went to meet tl
loffended brother Esau. First the servants, ti
Sthe rest of the numerous family, and last
.f all Rachel, the fair Rachel, well suited by
.er goodness and sweetness to allay the re
seuntment of Esau, unjustly irritated. And in
ike manner let os array in our 'favor the
SPaints of IlHeaven, the Angels of God, and, fa
tially, the Queen of Angels and of Saintsa, the o
Mother of God, in order to best down and
destroy the enemies of liHer Son sad of His
Church. Let us apply, lastly, the wnede put
irto our mouthe by the Church on thli day,
&amely, that by the merits of it. Pins V..
Mleium suptratcls ,nsidiie perpetru pace Iltesiur.'
"The Ben1tction then iollrowed.
TiE t'AttRLIAMENtT.
aIn the Chamber of Deputies the speeches
of the various advocates or opponeuts of I
the anti-Catholic measures which are
sought to beintrodnced into the Jtalian
Code, in order to please lismarck arnd
Prussia, have caused great excitement. The
boxes set apart for strangers are crowded
during these debates. Signor Mancini's
meech ,was the most important delivered
am the side of the Opposition, or Left. He
mid the country demanded a frank and
seri s. yet te perate, diseasi of . etia aL
ir-n relations with Se States; that the aol
Governmeet seemed to have two pro- of
grammes, one open sad pablie whAebh eao - al
of1 weeds, re1lrs, 4ae selaraloeas his
the other seeret, whiheb was smade po sts,
plvtso Iarldgss with the Yaies, whihb e
were deogerwes to the lawse sad stita- I
east of the State, bat foolishly lantelad to
bring about a eaoelliatia i order to pa
smoeth the progress of the cation towards al
prosperity and greadeor. The former Mina- an
etry might be excused for their mistakes, tt
ear b foreign powers, and apologies for d
sets whieh were neeeseary to efdbet t salni
Scation of Italy. That Government foght evi
against a stroag party when the Law of rel
Guarantees was discosed. The Ministry, as
article by article, combated to mantlain the (G
Pontiieatl privileges, while the Oppeaition of,
battled for the righta sad peerogatives of ex
the State. Signor Mancini does aot now of
want to alt6r the text of the Law of Guar
aateen. But be blames the policy of the to
precont Ministers, who do not irsist on the an
strict efaforcemebt of the provisions of that p,
law. Our political sna national edifiee is, Ar
be said, every day undermined by the on of
merous pro-consils of the Pontifical Court. on
wbieh believes and expects a restoration of col
its powpr. Numerous circulars of Jesuits an
trouble the consoiences of Catholics and thu
carry disunion into domestic circles. The thi
Vatican trperds the Kingdom of Italy only ch
,s an intruding power, which it is the con- a
scientious duty of Catholics to expel at all i,
hazards. The elergy are forbidden to it
recognise the on·stitution of the State. ful
The journals publish every day Allocations
which are virtually libels against the _e
present order of things. In the Vatican fai
exists an army which may at any moment in
inse forth lnto the plasza folly armed and ar
organised. Individuals are to be seen th
every day vaunting in public titles of Bit
a.cet which have been five years illegal, m
but which the Vatican maintains. The to
Church patronage formerly in gift of the Th
Crown is surrendered. The azrgsatsr is the
given to those who rqpaniate the authority t
of the Kingdom. The attitude of the Gov- lib
ernment is cowardly, and disgraceful, and of
contemptible in the eyes of foreigners. k
Suoh were the assertions of ManainL The
Minister Vigllani, in his reply, defended ev
the policy of the Cabinet, and said that co
many of the charges brought by Maneini m
were abasurd and untrue. The Vatlena do
army and its officers did not exist even on w
paper, for the Vatican Asasnrie, or calen- an
oBade eased4 to publish the title. and de
names of any "at eclesiastele officials, Bi
ths showing that he Vatican had no be- o
lief in the afeLted maltennace of the po- 1
litical, civil, aed mllit departments of j
the extinct temporal po Ger.. Th Govern- le
ment had no intrigues wits the Papacy, au
and the Law of Guarantlis had worked
well and had proved that the Pope and the h
King could co exist in 'Rome. Since 1871 in
the prosecutions against Bishops were is
thirty-four, and against priests for abusing o
their ministerial office 120. If other laws be
be required to check clerical abesee let
them be inserted in the new penal code. gi'
The policy of the Government was not one on
of immedlab conciliation, which was for to
the present impossible, bpt it was a policy t
which produced order and quietude, and
would eventually produce more important b
and beneficial results when time had tb
softehed animosities. Mancini declared
himself dissatisled with the explanations of kt
Viglinal, and moved the following resoln
tion : "The Chamber Invites the Ministry gi
to guard' inviolably the national dignity
and existing laws; to protect the rights of
the State and the prerogatives of the civil
power asserted by the law of May 13, 1871 ;
and to propose, as soon as possible, the 1
necessary measures for administering ec
clesiastical property on the basis of the
liberty of the lower clergy and of the laity S
In matters ecclesIastical." The debate on
this motion, which is one of want of con
Adence in the Government, is still proceed
ing.
Pestoral Letter of the Cardinal-Arehbishop and
isheps of ths Provisoe of Westminster.
The follownlog pastoral of the Cardinal
Archbishop and Bishops of the Province
of Westminster, together with the two let
ters referred to in it, was read in all the
churches of the Province on Sunday, May
9th:
We, the Cardinal-Archbishop and the
Bishops of the Province of Westminster,
to our dearly beloved Brethren the
.Clergy, Secular and Regular, and the
Faithful under our jurisdictiou.
SHealth and Benediction in the Lord :
Reverend and Dear Brethren. and Dear
Children in Jesus Christ,-We cannot I
r doubt that you have all united in prayer 1
with and for our Catholic brethren, pasture
i and people, who are suffering persecution,
f both in Germhny and in Switzerland, for
in conscience sake. Most of you have watched,
y and followed step by step, the oppressive
of laws which have been passed against the
5t libertiesof the Church in those countries,
id and the violent acts under which the faith
ful have suffered with an heroic constancy.
n Two Archbishops and five Bishops have
.- been already fined and imprisoned. About
,n sixteen hundred priests have in like man
to ner been taken from their flocks and de
9, prived of liberty. These deeds of oppres
e sion are happening week by week and day
Sby day. They are inflicted for acts purely
espiritual in thecareof soule. These things
Shave b.come, now at last, widely known in
SEngland; and the public opinion of this
Scountry, which, from its instinctive reve
e rence for law, at first Iaclined against those
a who seemed to be disobedient, when once
t the truth of thefocts and the injustice of
t, the accusations became known, has steadily
pronounced itself against these violations
of liberty in faith and conscience.
o Fully and clearly ypu have seen and
he known these things: but there are other
d, facts which perhaps are not ye either fully
e or clearly hnderseod.
n The eeatest in Gerhany, which began in
Il wanton sad groundless imputations of dies
ot loyalty agalinst the Catholics of the Empire
r has now been transferred to another field.
SIt was said in the beginning of this conflict
that the dogma of the lufallibility of the
Roman Pontiff, and the Decrees of the
Vatican council, had no part in the motives
ies Or in the legislation of the Prussian Govern
of ment. This position has at last been
re abandoned. We are now told that
an the civol powers of the world can hold
id no relations with a Pope who is infallible.
'ie No account is, however, given of the fact
ed that the civil powers have hitherto been
Di's in concord and amity for a thousand years
red with an infallible Church. We are told
He also by the publication of a Circular Note
od addressed to the Governments of Europe,
of ar of tun c Pth I a r y
now redeesd a servileo de e on
his persneal will a sad that wl such an
Bpiaseot.--loeas only a ame--no N
Gviramesat em tremt.
By these maiseperneset& e, which yeu BeI
do aot nued shat we sbould refute, the Im
perale Chancellor beu endeavored to excite
alarms and suspicios., and to piot the he I
animoaity of Goveromeats against liber- non
ty of the nest Coneave, whieb may God long sees
We enter into no refltation of these self
evident misinterpretations of the Catholic who
religion : nt only belas you do not need in t
any refutation, but beeRnu the Bishops of lish
Germany, assembled as Fldsa the month the
of Jamury it this year, have so completely spe
exposed and destro$ed them that no -word wta
of our can be needed. whi
The collective answer addressedby them thea
to the Imperial Chancellor is o oooclusive afra
and so unaeswerable, that his Holiness Ing
Pans IX. has been pleased to address to the mel
Archbishop of Cologne, and so the Bishops seci
of Germany, a letter in whibh their lumin sio
oune teaching and their noble protest are mm
commended ansod confirmed by his supreme for
authority. The value and importance of per
these two documents is therefore so great, loo,
that the Bishops of other countries are at the
this time uniting together to declare their A. 3
adhesion to the doctrines herelo contained. at a
We cannot delay to do the same, by direct- alli
inog these two letters to be read to the faith- in
foul of our dioceses.
This recent attempt'to transfer the per- 1
secutions of Germany to the domain of ecd
faith, and to aesail the liberty of the Church pro
in its Head and centre, equally affects kc
every Catholic Bishop and fiook tlroughou the
the world. But in some o-buntes the the
Bishops may be less free to speak than we 4ial
are. We hold it, therefore, to be our duty We
to speak in their behalf aqd in our own. not
The liberty of the Head of the Church is on
the liberty of the Church itself. The liber roy
ty of the election of its Head is vital to its ant
liberty in every place, and in every function Pri
of its spiritual authority. Against this at- dies
tempt to coerce the freedom of the Holy gre
See, and to enslave the Church of God, test
every Catholie in the world is bound in wic
conscience to pYptest before the just judg- auc
ment of every Christian people. It is our ens
duty to bear our part in denouncing this the
wanton and insidious attack upon ourfaith; Hai
and obey by adhering, with this public .. w
declaration. to the noble resisatence of the s.
Bishops of Germany, to show that where Ta
one member suffers all members anffer with
Ct. We trust that in every country where vol
liberty of consoience anod of speech is yet
left to men, there may be a prompt and wb
authoritative republication of the wise and
fearless words of the Bishops of Germany,
that they may be thereby assured that, if
in this conflict, the glory of the vanguard me
is givdn to them, the whole Catholic Epis- *
copate, priesthood, and people, are united roe
behind them for their support. bol
For these reason , therefore, we have wh
given order, Rev. and dear Brethren, that At
copies of the Letter of the German Bishops
to the Imperial Chancellor, and of the Let- ale
ter of his Holiness Pins IX. to the Gerntan u
Bishops, shall be placed in your hands, ed
that after publishing this, our address to h,
the faithful, you may read them also to
your people, so that all may have a flol Ke
knowledge of their contqnts. It i
May He by whom Kinga reign and Law- tbt
givers decree justice (Prov. viii. 15), turn Ca
the hearts of all who bear authority to the
protection of faith and of conscience; and
may the peace of God be with you. hia
Given at Westminster, in Low Week, W
1875, and ordered to-be read, together with
the two following Letters, in all Cunrches e
and Chapels of our Dioceses, on the first ri
Sunday after its receipt by the Clergy. it
f HEaxr EDWARD, Cardinal-Archbishop re
of Westminster.
t THOMAS JosEPi, O.S.B., Bishop of New tt
port and Minevia. fi
f WILLIAM BERNARD, 0.8 B., Bishop of fo
Birmingham.
t JAMrs, Bishop of Shrewsbury. th
f WILLIAM. Bishop of Plymouth. lit
t WILLIAM, Bishop of Clifton.
t FRANCIS, Bishop of Northampton. a
t ROBERT, Bishop of Beverly. bi
t JAMES, Bishop of Hexham d Newcastle.
t JAMES, Bishop of Southwark.
t HERBERT, Bishop of Salford. t
t BERNARD, Bashpp of Liverpool.
t EDWARD, Bishop of Nottingham. t
The Paris Correspondent of the Baltimore e
Mirror writes :
The greatest event of the age is the ir
- resistable movement of all Christian people n
t to honor the Sacred Heart. You are doubt
r less already in possession of the decree o
a for consecration, and are aware of the sig- c
, nificance of the day on which it takes place li
,r as the anniversary of the electidn of Pope t
, Pius IX. It will be the point of departure I
e for a new transformation, it will strike
te down violence with the arms of celestial
e, mercy, and France which took the initia
I- tive of this consecration. France which e
. sgave birth to that great Saint, Margaret c
re Mary Alacoque, will not fall under the
at German domination, which desires to van
i quash us, to abolish our faith and make us a
. proceed, following the wretched example c
. which M. de Bismreck gives to the entire ,
world.
ly You are aware, perhap, that it was the e
a Msleimonries of the Sacred Heart of Isson
n duo who brought to Rome, a short time
,, since, thirty two voinamesrichly bound con
. taining one lhundred and sixty-two ad
sa dresses from Bishops and three millions of
ce signature asking thle Pope to consecrate
of the Church to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
ly Other addresses and signatures have been
us added to affirm this irresistible movement I
of piety towards the Sacred Heart. The
od Church, indeed springing from the Sacred
r Hleart, had been consecrated to It thoolog
ly ically, being the work of is love, the
spouse of Christ. But we French people,
in moved always more by holy enthusiasm
a. than theological reasohing, desired that the
ire Pope should consecrate the Church to the I
Id. Sacred Heart. The Pope victoriously
act overcame the difficulty by inviting all the
he faithful of the world to consecrate them
he selves solemnly to this Beloved Heart.
res This is leaving with us the whole merit of
rn- the project, it is to pnake us the ministers
enof its execution.
ld A transaction occurred Io San Francisco
le. a few days since which throws some light
act upon the administration of the navy. The
:en United States steam frigate California, a
ars vessel registered at 2,490 tons, and sent to
old sea four years sago for the first time, at a
ote cost of $1,500,000, was sold at auction for
pec, * ,3,0(0.
IA asZZaw ors wa rsrse or Maeur. m
enoucal. Th
ths
( r. T. Tablt] ,.
Napoleoa was asked by O'Uea, at Os
Helena, whether, when the Prusians a -
peered on the feld of Waterloo, he did not rai
believe them to be Grouchy's corps, auo the
he answered "certainly I did. I cannot even lisl
now conceive why it was not. I have not col
seen Grouchy since, and I cannot under- ph
stand it." With a eriosity to learn what 'E
was denied to the Emperor, we bhare read for
what Grouchy's excuses were, as set forth bu
in these interesting volumes, recently pub
lihed in Paris. They do not exculpate po
the Marshal, and his auguments are-more ba
specious than sound. Throughout the so
whole narrative the fact is too plain, that no
while the army was devoted and full of en- in
thualiasm, most of the chief offiers were Pr
afraid to compromise themselves by bshw- tbi
ing too much energy, and were casting thi
many a backward look on Paris to keep or ao
secure favor with the Bourbon government aig
should the campaign be unfortunate. There tw
most have been treachery, too, in the staff, in
for two important despatehes from the Em- an
peror to Grouchy from the field of Water- on
loo, one dated ten o'clock of the night of he
the 17th and a duplicate of it at two o'clock mt
A. x. of the 18th, were not delivered to him "'
at all. General Bourmont deserted to the cs
allies on the night of the 16th, and a feel- as
ing of distrust and of being betrayed per- wI
vaded thearmy. Pr
The memoirs are replete with many an- a
ecdotes, personal and political. Some wi
prove the wonderful bagacity of mind ahid o
knowledege of human nature which marked as
the genius of Napoleon, and others stri a
the tinsel from the characters whom par- mi
-ial history has clothed with false lustre. of
Wellington was a narrowminded Tory, and (}
not at all scroplonus in lavishing adulation to
on any imbecile, provided only be was of wi
royal or princely rank. In his despatch de
announcing the victory of Waterloo to the Gi
Prince Regent, he thorsts to the foremost 'e
distinction the invaluable services and W
great assitanee he derived during the con- ga
test from "His Grace the Duke of Brunas (
wick." Byron, too, misled by the assur- GI
ance in this oficial state-paper, and never -v
suspecting its entire untruth, perpetuates tb
the error in the beautiful lines of "Childe gp
Harold" : t
.' Within a wiadowed icbs of tba-; highiaat si
gat Branswiok ' fated chieftain. He i ber e pc
Tb. asoad tbh firt aitd the fentvl;i
Be reulis inle the fold. asd, foremoast1Atl5 fol ^"
01
This is very beautiful, but on page 10 1,
volume iv., are the facts from as eye-wit- in
nese and an ator, recorded at, the time, or
which we translate as curious th
"We had before us the troop- of Bres- g
wick and Nassau. Marshbal Ney, whe Gem
manded us, ordered an attack on- the im
portant position of Quatre Bras, defeeded re
on our right by some English and Seotch
regiments and on oar left by German troops, t
holding the wood of Bossue, on the top of G
which they had thrown up entrenebmeats. v.
At the moment when the division-Jerome t,
was advancing to the attack an eofficer ef p
elevated rank, wearing a gren-uniform, it
covered with medals and decorations, wish
ed to harangue our man. Standing up, his
ohapean in hand, be cried out, invFrench :
'My friends, .no fighting (par de-gtrerte).
Keep the peace; we are coming to bring
it to you, like brothers.' It seems to me
that he had not finished his sentence, when b
Captain de Brea (be who was so fatally ,
assassinated it June, 1848, at the Barriers of
d'Italie), coming up at double-quiek with- i.
his company of carbineers, to scale the y
works from the top of which the orator
,orated' (perorail).gave the word 'le'& The
unfortunate paliverer (discourseur)felt dead
riddled wihh balls. We all thought at first
it was the Dukepf Berri, but he was soen
recognized to be the Duke of Brunswiet." I
It is difficult to imagine a less appeclta ii
tire audience. His Grace "Brunswick's
fated chieftain" must have been drank or a
fool. Most likely, after his kind,,he war4
both. General Boarmont, he who deserted a
the night before Waterloo and revealed all
lie knew to Wellington, had made great a
exertions to obtain a command.. A- scene f
is described at the Tuileries, a day or two3
betore Napoleon left Paris to join the army
-pagh 100, vol. iv.:
.-Generals Flahault and Girard impor
tuned the Emperor to accord it to him. He
relactaetly ielded to the solicitaglons of
two su',d attached friends, but said to them,
'You urge it gentlemen; be it so. I con
e sent to let M. de Bourmobt have a com
mand, but God grant that we do not re
pent of it.' "
The plan of the campaign has been pro
e nounced sublime in its simplicity. A mil
lion of troops were swarming from all parts
of Europe to overwhelm Napoleon. lie
could only master 125,000 to meet the Ang
e lo-Belgio army of 85,000, under Welling
e too, and 65,000 Prussians under Blucher.
e Had Wellington retreated to Antwerp, as
e all military critics unite in thinking he
Ai ought to have done, time would have en- -
t- abled the rapidly approaching millions to
h arrive, ans Napoleon could not have had a
t chance. His strategy was, therefore, to
e surprise them, cut in between and separ.
- ate them, turn on Blacher and, defeat him,
s and throwing him into rttreat, send Groo
le chy, with 52,000, to complete his route.
re and then turn, with all his remaining 95,000
-a numerieal superiority--o. Wellington's
ie 85,000. The defeat of Wellington woOld
1- have upset the Tory government of Castle
le reagh in England, wootd have installed
3- a Liberal -abinet and eompelled the with
* drawal of England fyom the Continental
of coalition, the conquering of peace and the
to establishment of Napoleon on the throne.
*. le defeated Blucher, and the Prussians on
n the 16th of June, at Ligny, and seperated
it him entirely from Wellington and placed
be himself between them.
td Thq question that has .ccpied so many
- minds and created so much discussion, is.
he why did not (r6uoeby, with his 32,000
e troops, fresh from the victory of the 16th,
mpress so hard upon the disoidered and de
he moralized Prussians in their retreat as to
e prevent their joining Wellington on the
ly 18h at Waterloo 1 The'Frenchl and Prons
he sians agree that the battle of Waterloo
- was going against the English when the
rt. Prussians arrived, at 8 o'clock in the even
of ing, on the field. Napoleon said at St.
ris Helena: "Had Grouchy been at Wares on
Sthe night of the 17th, as he ought to have
been, Blcher would not have dared to di
co vide his army and send off all bhut rear
ht guard to Wellington's assistance." Feeling
he the exigency of the crisis, Napoleon's dis
a patches not only are explicit. and were re
to iterated to avoid the possibility of mis
a understanding or qpistake, but he illustra
for ted them bj expladation in person. But for
some resdth which is unexplained, Grouc y
had so behert i the enterprise 1 A a
diseasion took place between tEmperor
sad Groseby on the mornle of the 17th.
This rsotes aeti Gro 's ssetigmu P
that eda ot rseve tb oredt to pr 0tle a
the P s atiusl telv'rF., of the 17th
QOs a a oliv.iv, we read :
ý , .i jtowly .throesh a beating 91
ra, ppaut of t the track whete s
the a eartts had been estaeb
lisbed, the tpery saeleg that Grouchy
continued suggesting obsta.les to bie
plans, put a stop to tbe interview with, a
' Enough said; obey by sersig as a shield
for me against the Penueeios, and dan'ts
busy yourself with the Engilhb. "
On the morniDg of the 17tch of Jaie, Na
poleon drove in his carriage to the field of s
battle of the day before. He was sufferin
so intensely with hemorrhoids that he could p
nobtet on his horse. He pointed with his a
finger Io the direction of the retreatlng b
Prusatans and said to Grouchy what be
tboaght Lad but one meaning : "Pursue f
the Prusasian; complete their defeat as
soon as you overtake them, and don't lose
sight of them." Grouheby says this was at
twelve o'clock. He did not set his troops e
toin motion te obey this earnest injunction f
until four o'clock, and urges the ausal ex
cuses that 'it was raining hard." "the meno
had not cooked their dinners," "that the t
muskets were foal and required cleaning,"
"that the saddles had.been taken o, the
cavalry borses," etc. The consequence
was that he did not flnd out the route
which the.beaten,ad retreating army of
Prasiane bhad taken ! He came up with a
mall rear-gaerd on mid-day of tue 38th, t
whichb old Blocher had left at Wares as a
sersen, while the whole Prussian army,
aegmented by 0,00e wader Bulow, slipped
away to join Wellington at Waterloo. At s
mid-day of the 18th, the fearful cannonade !
of Waterloo was distinctly heard by
Grouchy. His staff urged him to march
to the canon (Marcher a ecraon) ; that it
was plain the Emperor was engaged in a
decisive battle with the English. General
Girard was importunate, Grouchy says t
"even to insubordination," to march to
Waterloo with the whole army, to disre
gard the Prussian rear-guard, and that if he
(Grobchy) would not go to let Girard ge.
Grouchy said his orders were, "when he
overtook the Prusalans not to lose sight of
them." His fatal error was that by "Pros
Pans" every one bat himself understood
the available and whole army of the Prus
sians against which he was to "shield" Na
poleon, sad not a small ·ear guard. in
fact, with "the Pruselens" he had nevew
ove rtakea or had sight of them at all. The
French sad Prussian authorities unite
in saying that until the Prussian. appeare,
on the field at half pastseven in the evening
the battle was decidedly agatmst the En
glish. It is certain that the dead bodies
of many Freneh colrassiers were fooud on
She moruiag of the ]kth,. entirety in the
rear of the English lines..
There Iea malancholy interest attached
to a letter from the Emperor to General
Girard, which appears on page 33r' volume
v. Thas devoted soldier received his
thirteenth and last wound, was removed to.
Paris, and died the day the allies entered
it. Two days belore, and while the pillars
of his empire were falling around him, Na
poleon, *'a  soce ake in pence or danger,"
wrote as follows to the dying soldier :
J.ss 51t. 1815.
" GcaiEE .rL" The Emperor is satislied with
your conduct. His Majesty thinks if each one
bad done hi-doy as you did yours we would
not have mest with any reverse. In the midst
S of pre.occnpatioan, the most sorrowtul and
I. important, the Emperor has been mindfil of
a your devoties, and has created yea Dake of
r Ligny."
1Cartial hCtsshsfsTweaty Tesasamaellar Crom.
The following letter in reference to the
ecress prese qted to, his Eminence appeared
in the N. Y. Elaid of Sunday, May 23 :
* Te hp dlitor dt the Hand
ha the accounts published in the daly
Spapers of the confirmation festival at Mons t
SSt. Vincent's Academy, it is stated that a
1 peetotlal cross in brilliants was presented
t 46 the Cardinal as a fitting close to the
, festivities, and that this euose was worth
o $20,000. Again, some papers state that
y this Wis the gift of the good Sistess of
Charity composing the commonityof Mosut
r- St. Vincent, while others aflrm that it was
le purchased by subscription gotten up among
Df the pupils, o' rather the pupilst parents.
o, Allow me to correct these err ire, and to
3 give on from an authentic source a brief
" history of the pectoral cross itself. The
" precious stones belonging to it were, if I
am rightly informed, valued at $5010 at
o- Tiffany's. Not one dollar was ever contrib
i- uted or subscribed toward its purlhase by
to the pupils of the academy or their prenta,
le nor had the devoted, hard walt ig comn
g munity to take one dollar fromn the leasury
B- of the poor to bestow on aund purchase;
r. for purchase there was none. 'fhbis pec
as toral cross- was presented to Aselhbishop
He Haghee by the late esaintly Queen Louise
n- of Hplgiuca, as a testimonial of her high
to regard for the great Americas prelate.
a This cross, the personal property of the
to Archbishop, he bequeated to.his stater the
ir' late Mother Angela, at the tinme Superior
n, General of the Sisters of Charity, and by
u- her death it came into the possession of the
e* community of Mount St. Vincent. When
SDr. hlseloskey succeeded Archbishop
' Hoghes it had been the wish of Mother
Angels and the Sisterhood to give him the
le cros~s, as being the dearest friend and chosen
ed heir of their deceased founder. But by
S the advice" of Vicar-General Starrs the
tel presentation was deferred to some future
.he occasion. And now Providence has so or
e dtred that the gift of the saioted daughter
on of I;ouis Philippe to the prelate who stood
ed in the eyes of the Old World and the New
ed as the most illustr lonus representative of the
American Chucrh shall rest on the gentle
ny and fatherly heart of our first American
is Cardinal. CATHOLIC.
th, This cheering report about the financial
le- condition of Virginia is given by the Rich
to mond Esguirer: "Por our part, we believe
;he Virginia is as able to-day as any State in
me- the Union to pay her debt, and that she
loo intends manfully to meet every obligation.
Ihe There are not such bard times in the State
in as many profess to believe. Everybody
St. hlas money and'ie making money, but peo
on ple are closer than they used to be, and
re don't like to part with their dollars. They
di- came by hard work and are therefore the
oar most treasured. From all we can learn
ing there is less poverty now than there was
is- before the war. The money is more generally
re- and equally divided, and everybody has
is- some of it, or something Ip show for it."
for It will pay to buy your coffee, parched er
y groun, at e Tea Depot, 5 Camp street.
we tabu they W" 4 it.eI hemt the
Paris letter of tbJ peIUmatuor.e A.,
correspondent ii hdtakbe, howevesr
saying that the B6libty tArly tirAt yei
Old, It u,as.rt estyblibdll i DI, rty
two years ago. r
Although established h
the Sodiety of St,. VThaedn ear
wfder developmseto' dall.
attets the frnitfulness' o
for the members of this sao
works traly marelloas. P
126 onferecees. in which there
teen workionmen's eirdle, or
apprentice, cireles, had twele '
work of the children.' In to r Cdpttch
pacific army of St. Vieedt db Psih
composed of nearly three, thousand er.
bets who donate fvs htitdred thbuees
franes a year 'to five thousand, 'deatq
families. The Society of St. Vlhceit°d
Paul is the first which has hbei able to i
one hundred franeas ead. to these spi~t.ng
families in support .of.lm.' "Pa-e 'elltij,
France the receipts eohet" to- 2.Ob000
francs, for all orope, 4,1OOZ WGO famie,.
Another good worked out by the Societies
of St. Vincent de Paul is the work ofpopa.
lar libraries, which count for one ebonerese,
alone 70;000 volumes lent out in one
And all this is done by the members ofth
society without noise and without' eu
raesmeat. In the three months begi
this year, the same society had pi
in itfvisits to the sick pour, the
tion 57 the Sacrament for 7,7 d`tnO iip
who had no odo else to prddh last
assistance for them-the figures I i
you relate to the oity of Paris
marriages, whieb would haveU.
only, have been blessed by the 011
thanks to the exhortation of tl m se
of St. Vincent de Paul-I sL odly of
these three months-479 children, who
would have died without baptism, have
been able to receive the Sacrament hor
the hands of the members of the Society of
Saint Vincent de Paul. To give the detail
of all the good which it dods would be tes
long or even Impossible, for I repeat it,, al
these good works are done in secret, follow.
lug out the precept given, " let your ribt
hand not know that which your left det ~"
A egl Ossesam.
-~ablia Wasess, 15.I -
On the Sth and 9th of June, tare will be
a eelebration in the town of Team, which
will be an oeesioo of great rejolclag, not
only l that locality, bet all over Ireland,
and not only throughout Ireland, hub is
every .prt of the world where the sattered'
children of the Irish raee have made their
homes.
On that day, the revered and ilUustrious
Archbishop of Tuam wvil have eompleted
the Fiftieth Year of his piseoopate. It is
a remarkable circumtasaee, and nsturally
it has awakened the most joyful sau6tder
emotions in the hearts of a people to whom
s the great prelate is intensely eadeared.
SThey cannot think of him for a, moment
I without feelings of admiratiot and r·fec
tion arising in their hearts. Ilsrloeg life
of noble servies to 'bihCh uiC d his
country comes before thbi.J t
give thanks to God that he has been spred
to this time, and is new in theafoyment
f of such health and stmengdt dl& vigeor of
e mind and elasticity ofepiriteaglitoprom
isethat for cansy wmore yesls wvi be
d amongst them to do, good wek for faith
g and fatherland, and to be loved and veuer.
, ated by the Irish people.
This Fiftieth. Annivesary. p1 his sleva
tion to the piseopate is, we. are glad to
s know, to be msde the oeeasie of a As
sing and joyful celebrstion by his ast61cb
Sclergy and floek, in the esatedral sews of
Tunam. The celebraten will eatend over
two days. On the iret, day, there will bee
solemn High Mass in the Cathedral, sada
sermon by the gifted and rmnowaed prseb
er, Father Berke, whosoe mavelous pewers
of oratd'y may be expected to be ez~reised
with special eSect on as occaslon .gpe
ing so strongly to every emotion[s bi
heart. Subsequently an Address by the
.Chapter ad 'Clergy ofthe Arohdlooese will
of be presented to His Grace, a proceeding
which wilt be deeply interesting; and in
Sthe evening His Grace will entertain his
guests at a banquet in the new collega
!g On the following day the fle colossal statue
t of the Archbishop, executed in .white mar
ble by the Messrs. Farrell of Dublin will
be unveiled. This, we may be sure, wil.
be a striking scene, a great demonstra
lion of popular regard for the illustrious
a prelate whose likenesb in enduring marble
will thee and there be set before the peo"
,e pie to be a food memorial of him to many
n generations of faithful Irishmen. And then
ry as a pleasant wind-up to the prooeedinge
his Grace will be entertained by the clergy
Bnd laity of his diocese in the new colle e.
Altogether it will be a joyful event sn
sP memorable celebration. The prooeedin.p
we will be witnessed by many Irishmen with
h sppy ad grateful hearts, but with thee
we. ill also be the sympathies of millions
who cannot be present, but whose thoaghte
i'e can reach to, Ireland unhindered by any
r- distaaees of sea and land. And they will
Dy be certain to secure to tbhemselves at
be least this much of participatinu ii the
n proeceedings, that even while the Auarmor
OP of thankegiving, and the voiee of prayer
er and loud sbot of joy are soendieg ,O
e the air in Ireland, they, too, .a git
en thanks to God for sparing this belove'/
by prelate and faithful son of Ireland 5o loni
he to his Church and his country; and they
ire can, and will, pray that He may give msal
Smore such useful and fruitful and hspPY
y ears to John MacHale, ArchbishoP o
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