The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-06-10 00:00:00

FATHER 11YACINTIICS OHNION

Father Hyacinths has addressed a letter from Rome to the
Ciauf,AN, in which he acknowledges the sympathy expressed ,
by the Italian Government for France, and desires that the
ties uniting France and Italy should be drawn closer. He
also advt.., a union of the Latin races In view of the
menacing preponderance of the Germanic and Slave races.
Father Hyacinthe sees In the acts of the Commune the fear-
ful results of the negation of God by the people The Com-
mune has been the demonstration of social Atheism, and he
cites the words of Mr. Gladstone that "the 19th century Is
the age of the working men." The Second Empire was
much occupied with the social question, but too much in the
spirit of the Roman Cutlers, whores@ it ought to have
sought to wive the qnsetion by the dissemination of popular
education and by the abolition of the prolonged celibacy of
the soldiers and the legal prostitution of women. The
Church had also failed In Its mission, and been pm-occupied
with dogmatic questions, forgetting its true mission of
giving counsel and instruction. In view of Faris In sabots,
Father Hyacinths says t—tt It le the work of a people who
have no God. It Is rho work of thaw who .q l$ he bhpossibl•
to Were In Ulm at to love Ma."

in corroboration of this view, and other passages from
the writings of Manzini, A. Comte, and Mr. Hain.
Poo, which either indicated the revolutionary designs
.f the wide-spread Communistic movement which had
marked these last few months, or else virtually ap-
proved those principles which have worked much fatal
consequences in l'arias He concluded by saying that
as in the family there was need, not only of Liberty,
Equality, and Fraternity, but also of authority and of
its co-relative, obedience, just so in the State the name
ingredients were becesssry, if we did not wish to fall
under the tyranny and despotism - for it was nothing
less—of a Commune, in spite of it. attractive and
specious title.

women nd children, and this in the capital of a nation
that boasted of civilizstion higher than all other
countries in Europe. If ow was it that in the widat of
that civilization, and in a country which for many
centuries had had an established religion and claimed
to be psrticularly and especially Christian, this should
have happened? They found that those who had
placed themselves at the head of society in Paris were
persona who, as their apolmdsts and eulogists ssid,
denied the existence of God, and who owned no Lurd
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and Saviour, but were the declared opponents and
enemies of all religion. And these acts of barbarity
were the effects of their ante and the natural fruits if
such teaching. This, therefore, was a time when it
was especially necessary to unite those who were fai.h-
ful to the Chriatian religion, to whatever churches or
communions they niignt belong, in opposing is strong
and firm front against the barbarous, and devastating
principle@ to which he alluded. It had been asserted
that the object of these persona, am declared by Op nt
selves and the ir adherents, was to improve the state of
society, and promote the civilization of the world ;
but how have they proceeded? They have begun by
murdering in cold blood the most innocent of men—
men in no way engaged in the war, and those to whom
blame could not in any way, or in any degree, attach.
The late Archbishop of Paris was seized and barbar-
ously murdered, without even the imputation of crime
or fault. This was what had been done by dnae who
t•oastingly proclaimed that they were the enemies of
all religion. Let him show a contrast to this barbarity,
as taken from • narrative given in • French neweisaper
by one of the hostages who had been imprisoned in Paris.
This gentleman said that a person confined with him
in the prison, who was a layman, with a wife and
children, was abut to be led out for slam liter, when
a missionary from China. who was also confined with
them, said to him, "I have no family, I have no ties
upon me; my business' is martyrdom ; but you have
family ties; your life will he useful for the sake of
others. When your name is called, let me answer for
you and take your place." It was incumbent, then,
on all who wished well to humanity and t s their
country to unite in enteavouring to preserve to this
nation the principles of the Christian faith and the
hleasince of the t hristtan religion, and in erecting an
inaurmountable barrier against the effort@ of those
who, under the pretence of advancing civilization and
liberty, were spreading irreligion, immorality, tyranny,
and destruction.

fact that one of the competitors wee Mr. J. 11. Johns
son, of Leeds, the gentleman who, on Friday, so I
heroically rescued Mr. Peters from drowning by jump-
ing from London-bridge. Seven competitors had
entered for the championship, but of theee only two
put in an appearance—Mr. Johnson and Mr. Henry
Parker, the amateur champion of 1870-71. The dis-
tance was one mile; and the cup—the gift of the
London Swimming Club— is worth fifty guineas.
Johnson took the lead early in the ractt, while Parker,
after going through the greater parr. of the distance
in excellent style, was seized with cramp, and bad to
be taken on board a boat. Jithmion kept up his rapid
pace to the end of the race, and when he jumped on
the landing-stage looked still quite fresh. His victory
was received with great applause.

A SAD BIGHT IN A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY!
I went yesterday to the Palace of the Archbishop of Parts,
and found a queue 200 yards In length, and filling the whole
pavement, of persons waiting to pass in to the Chapelle
Ardente, where the corpse Is lying exposed_ 1 mcceecled In
avoiding the detention of several hours and was enabled to
Join the mournful procession In the coturtyard, partible
through a eerie. of rooms heavily draped with black and
@liver, and lighted with enormous candelabra in each room;
was a sentry, and In the Chapel Itself • number of Sisters of
Mercy on titer knees at the foot of the bed, which was sup-
ported by massive columns covered with silver ornaments.
Here in full pontifical robes, crowned with hte mitre, and
with his face exposed, but scarcely reocgelzable, Iles the
third Archbishop of Perla who has thus within • few years
been exhibited to a pious multitude, after having been
murdered by some of the Christians In his diocese. On • 0
smaller bed to e left were laid the sacerdotal and
other insignia ofth office. Wreaths of natural flowersrobes and id.- EARL RUSSELL ON COMMUNISM AND
moiled. were strewn upon the beds. The crowd seemed CHRISTIANITY.
principally composed of the small Autagrouiie, the women
In Lon THE PLEASURES OF THE COUNTRY.
dressed In black, and both sexes sadder. d .d solemnised ny don, on Tuesior, Rol Russell was In the chair at
• spectacle to which, perhaps, a large number had been at- the first general meeting A the Cur dn. F. Mimeo Society, On the '' Plague of Servants" a gentleman writes to the
trued in the lira Instance by mere motive. of curiosity, whose lectures against " educated infidelity" have lately Dguy N.
(Varier!, the lieutenant who commanded the shooting party attracted some attention.
Will you advise me lam without female servants,
at the execution of the archbishop, was himself shot inside in opening the Guianese of the day the noble earl
the prison of La Roquette on Monday r —Correspondent of said the object of the society was an important one at and I ace no likelihood of getting any—at least that
The Tones—Another correspondent writing on thr same will stay with me. My wife is the roost amiable of
all times, for at all timed there were to be found
subject, ems :--" One of the most I earful sights, In more ways human beings; and as for myself, I never addro,s my
than one. I witnessed was that , f the lying in stde (4 the nunninus infidel publications, and many attempts to nervants excspt to ask, or return thankti for, a favour.
late Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Darbey shot on the 241 h May. sap the foundstione of the Christian religion ; and at I make no difficulty about wages, and I wish you could
One bullet entered the right cheek Just wider the eye, passing all times, therefore, it was desirable to oppose that nea my beer bill. Why, then, you will ask, do they
Upwards into the brain, and (mending the skull; another gr,togress and to explain and develope the troth, the leave you? We live, sir, in the country, and—they
perforated the chest, and musing out at the right shoulder beauty, the holiness, and the purity of the Christian
caused • considerable amount of hemorrhage. lie was robed . won't. That is the whole history of the matter. Our
. religion. But there were circumstancem at the pre- last maid advertised " country preferred ; " but she
I lull canonicals, with rlngs on his fit germ, and mitre. head,
and o the hearts of all, which me.ented • ghaatly spectacle, reclining on a bed with aent day that must mane home t gave notice the very morning after she arrived,
hie shoulder. raised to enable the gaping crowd, not yet render d it tit cnliarly denirable to unite in the eutlea- saying she " nevt-r see'd such a ;dace, and didn think
satiated with horn re to gratify their morbid curiosity. An your to establish and confirm the belief in the there was such a place in the world." By this she
elaborate ce.flin was placed hy the side of the bed, the room Christian religion among all classes in our own nation. referred only to the locality, for she was good
WAS darkened and draped with black, candles horning on Occurrences had talc -ti Waco lately in a neighbouring
either str'.o, anti a most sickening odour pervading the nom. enough to say that the situation WAR evidently • com-
c tuntry which went far towards renewing those scenes
within a few feat was pawl a 'mail photographic away. fnrtable one but the " loneness was tot, much for any-
that was being employed to perpetuate the memory of this Of barbarity which we read of in history, when the think:, When Imy that I live in one of the moat
worthy man and most unwortny cost.). Thousands have holders of Attila ttvaran the Roman Empire. Nothing lovely parts of England, am only sixty miles trim
already witnessed Om opecrcle, and idthough twelve days that then occurred could have exceeded in barhatity London, two miles and a half from a large market.
have elapsed since the date n 1 Ms death, it is still announced what had taken place in Paris in the burning of houses, town,
to continue for another week." ! the pillage of churches and temples, arid. the murder of and have as many neighbours as I care for,
you may decide open the reasonablenes o sf the young
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woroan's complaia. I confess I do not live in a
village, nor is there a group of gaffer,' and gammen,
outside my gates. In fact, as I maid, I live in the coun-
try. At first I thought that my establishment was too
small, and that its size constituted ite dulness. But our
nearest neighbours keep some fifteen servante— though
that, I have been assured by one of our acorn( ul Abigail;
I. not "a complete atall"—and their trou oleo are
as frequent an ours. They spend most of every
xemon in London—which I acknowledge I do not—
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but that is nut a sufficient eacribce to the
sociable tastes of their dependents. A mils
or two farther off lives another neighbour, a lady of
moult domestic experience and wit, and she toll me
only yesterday that she purposes writing a history of
her last tear's hounel old miseries which in to bear the
appropriate title, ''Why they left me." It will he the
biography of El"Lbe twenty.five different domestics. I
am at my wits' end, and much fear I shall be obliged
to leave the country. I mean England, not its rural
parte, for live in London I will not, and life in the
provinces threatens to become impossible unless I spend
tenet of it in the kitchen and cook the dinner whilst my
wife occupies herself with menial office. Extremes,
they pay, meet; and your fine.fangled civilization may
thus reduce everybody who does not choose to live in a
grimy street to a state of existence supposed to be
peculiar to the backwoode.