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wbo endeavour to trouble sacred and public things, to
destroy the good order of society, and to annihilate all
divine and human rights, have always concencred their
criminal schemes, attention, and efforts upon the manner
in which they might above all deprave and delude unthink-
ing youth, as we have already shown. It is upon the cor-
ruption of youth that they place all their hopes. Thus they
cease to attack the clergy, from whom have descended
to us in so authentic • manner the most certain records of
history, and by whom such considerable benefit has been
bestowed io abundance upon Christian and civil society and
upon letters. They assail them in every shape, going so
far as to say of the clergy in general that, being the enemies
of the useful sciences, of progress, and of civilization, they
ought to be deprived of the charge of instructing and
educating youth.
Others, taking up wicked errors many times condemned,
presume with notorious impudeace to submit the authority
of the church and of this Apostolic See, conferred upon it
by God himseU, to the judgment of civil authority, and to
deny all the rights of this same church and this see with
regard to exterior order.
They do not blush to affirm " that the laws of the church
do not bind the conscience if they are not promulgated by
the civil power, that the acts and decrees of the Roman
Pontiffs coueeroieg religion mad the church require the
sanction and approbation, or at least the assent of the
civil power, and that the apostolic constitutions condemning
secret societies, whether these exact or do not exact an
oat► of secrecy, and branding with anathema their secreta-
ries and promotes, have so tome in those regions
of the world where these associations are tolerated
by the civil government." It is likewise affirmed
that the excommunicatioes launched by the Council of
Trent and the Roman Pontiffs against those wbo invade
the possessions of the church and usurp its rights, seek, in
confounding the spiritual and temporal orders, to attain
solely a terrestrial object ; that the church can decide
nothing which may bind the consciences of the faithful in
• temporal order of things ; that the law of the church
does not demand that violations of sacred laws should be
punished by temporal penalties ; and that it is in 'moraines
with sacred theology and the principles of public law to
claim for the civil government the property possessed by
the churches, the religious orders, and other pious estab-
lishments.

And they have no shame in avowing openly and
publicly the thesis, the principle of heretics, from
whom emanated so many errors and perverse
opinions. They say "that the roolesiamtical power is not
of right divine, distinct and independent from the civil
power, and that no distinction, no independence of this kind,
can be maintained without the church invading and usurp-
ing the essential rights of the civil power." Neither can
we pass over in silence the audacity of those who, insulting
sound doctriees, assert that "the judgment. and decrees of
the Holy See, whose object is declared to concern the general
welfare of the church, its rights and its discipline, do not
claim the acquiescence and obedience under pain of sin and
loss of the catholic profession, if they do not treat of the
dogmas of faith and manners."
How contrary is this doctrine to the catholic dogma of the
full power divinely given to the Sovereign Pontiff by our
Lord Jesus Christ, to guide, to supervise, and govern the
universal church, no one can fail to see and understand
clearly and evidently.
Amid Ito great a perversity of depraved opinions we, re-
mamboing our apostolic duty, and solicitous before all
things for our most holy religion, for sound doctrine, for
the salvation of the souls confided to us, and for the welfare
of human society itself, have considered the moment op.
patties to raise anew our apostolic voice. And, therefore,
do we condemn and proscribe generally and particularly all
the evil opinions and doctrines specially mentioned in this
letter, and we wish that they may be held as rebuked,
proecribed, and condemned by all the children of the catholic
church.

But you know further, venerable brothers, that in our
time insulters of every truth and of all justice, and violent
enemies of our religion, have spread abroad other impious
doctrines by means of pestilent books, pamphlets, and jour-
nals, which, distributed over the surface of the earth, deceive
the people sod wickedly lie. You are not ignorant that in
our day men and found who, animated and excited by the
spirit of Satan, have arrived at that excess of impiety AI not
to fear to deny our Lord sad Master Jesus Christ, and to
attack his divinity with scandalous persistakom We cannot
abstain from awarding you well merited eulogise, venerable
brother', foe all the care and zeal with which you have raised
your episcopal vein, against so great an impiety.
In the present letter, therefore, we speak to you with all
our heart, to you who, called to partake our cares, are our
greatest support in the midst of our very great grief, our
joy and our consolation by region of the excellent piety of
which you give proof in maintaiuing religion, and the mar-
yellow; love, faith, and disciphne with which, united by the
strongest and most affectiatiate ties to us and this
apostolic see, you strive to valiantly and accurately fulfil
your grave episcopal ministry. We ought, thee, to expect
from your excellent pastoral zeal that, taking the sword of
the Spirit, that is to say the word of God, and etreugtheeed
by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, you will watch with
redoubled care that the faithful committed to your charge
"abstain from evil pasturage which Jesus Christ does not
cultivate because it was not sown by His Father." (St.
limit. M. ad Philedelph. ; St. Lent., epist. 156, al. M.)
Never cease, thee, to inculcate in the faithful that
all true felicity proceeds, for the men of our
august religion, from its doctrine and practice, and that that
people is happy who have the Lord with them. (Psalm 143.)
Teach "that kingdoms rest upon the foundation of the
faith (St. Ceded., let. 22 ad Syn. Eph.); end that no-
thing is so mortal, so prompt to engender every ill, so ex.
posed to danger for those who think that it can alone
suffice, as the free will, which we received at birth ; if we
ask nothing further from the Lord—that is to say, if, forget.
tin our Author, we abjure His power to show that we are
free." And do not omit to teach "that the royal power has
been established not only to exercise the government of the
world, but above all for the protection of the church (St.
Lent., "pig,. 156, al. 125) ; and that there is nothing
more profitable and more glorious for the sovereigns
of states and kings than to leave the catholic
church to exercise its laws, and not to permit
any to attack its liberty ; es our most wise and courageous
predecessor, St. Felix, wrote to the Emperor /moo, 'lt is
certain that it is advantageous for the sovereigns, when the
cause of God is in question, to submit their royal will,
according to the established rules, to the priests of Jesus
Christ, and not to impose their will upon them.' " (Pius
VII., Epist. Encycl. Diu satin. 15 Hay. 1800.)
It is always, but especially at present, your duty, vene-
rable broths», in the mid» of the numerous calamities of
the chtrch and of civil society, is view of the terrible con-
spiracy of our adversaries against the catholic church sad
oar apostolic see, and the great accumulatiou of errors ; it
is your duty, I say, beim, all, to go with faith to the
Throne of Gime to obtain mercy and find fitting succour.
We have therefore judged the moment to have come to
excite the piety of all the faithful, in order that with us,
and with you all, they may prey without ceasing to the
Father, supplicating end beseeching Him fervently and
humbly for instruction and mercy, in order also that in the
plenitude of their faith they may seek refuge in our Lord
Jesus Christ, who has redeemed us with His Divine blood,
that by their multiplied efforts they may obtain from that
burning heart, victim of its charity for us, the gift of draw-
log all by the bouda of His love, of inspiring all men intiamied
by His holy love with the desire of living according to His
heart, pleasiog God is all things and faithful in all good
works.

But as there is no doubt that the prayers most agreeable 1
to God are those of the men who approach Hint with • heart
pure from all 'tails, we have thought it good to open to
Christiana, with • truly apostolic liberality, the be•venly
treasures of the church confided to our dispensation, so that
the faithful, more strongly drawn towards time piety, sod
purified from the stain of their sits by the sacrament of
penitence, may mote confidently offer up their Kevin to
God, and obtain His mercy and grace.
By these letters, emanating from onr apostolic an.
thority, we grant to all and each of the faithful of both
eases throughout the universe a plenary indolgeoce during
one mouth, up to the sod of the year 1,463, sod not longer,
to be carried into effect by you, venerable brethren, and the
other legitimate ordinaries, in the form and manner laid
down at the commencement of our sovereign pootifi-
cats, by our apostolra•l letters, issued as • brief,
epos the 20th November, 1346, and seat to

[TWOPEN CE'

the whole episcopate of the world, commencing with the
words, " Amino divina3 Providentire cousiblo," and with
the faculties given by us in those same letters. We desire
however, that all the prescriptions of our letters shall be
observed, saving the exceptions we have declared salmis,
sible. We have come to this determination notwithstard-
ing all which might be ordered to the contrary by special
and individual mention, and which might be worthy cf
departure from that decision ; but in order that every hesi-
tation and difficulty should be removed, we have ordered
that a copy of our letter should be again forwarded to you.
Let us implore, venerable brethren, from the bottom of our
hearts and with all our souls, for the mercy of God. Hs has
encouraged us to do so by saying, " I will not withdraw my
mercy from them." Let us ask and we shall receive,
and if then is slowness or delay in its reception, because we
have gravel► offended, let us knock, because He opens to
those who knock ; for prayers, groans, and tears, by means
of which we must persist and remain, knock at the door."
Ac." Cyprian, Epistle II.) But in order that God may
&coeds more easil► to our prayers and our wishes, and to
those of all his faithful servants, let us employ in all con-
fidence as our mediatrix with Him the Virgin Mary, who
has destroyed all heresies throughout the world, and who,
the well-beloved mother of wall, "is very gracious . . .
and full of mercy . . allows herself to be touched by
all, shows herself very clement towards all, and takes under
her pitying care all our miseries with unlimited affection"
(St. Bernard, Germ, de duodecim preroaativis B.N.V. in
verb,. Apricalypti), and who, "sitting as queen upon the
right bead of her fime. at Lard Jeans Christ, in a golden •
vestment, shining with various adornments, knows nothing
which she cannot obtain from the Sovereign Master." Let
us implore also the intervention of the blessed Peter, chief
of the Apostles, and of his co-Apostle Paul, and of all those
saints of Heaven who, having already become the trisiods of
God, have been admitted into the celestial kingdom, where
they are crowned and bear palms, and who, henceforth cer-
tain of immortahty, an entirely devoted to our salvation.
Lastly, let us ark of God, from the bottom of our hearts,
the abundance of all his celestial benefits for you. We our-
selves bestow upon you, venerable brethren, end upon all
clerks and faithful of the laity committed to your care, our
apostolic benediction from the most loving depths of our
heart, is token of our charity towards you.

Pits IX.. Pope.
Given at St. Peter's, in Rome, this Bth December,
1864, the 10th anniversary of the definition of the
dogma of the Immaculate Coaosptiun of the
Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

DERPITCII OF nit BOMBAY MAILS.
AMPTON, Iltc. 27.—The Peninsular and Oriental CMS.
may 's steamship Ellors, Captain Brooks, sailed hence this
afternoon with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean,
Egypt, Aden, Bombay, and Upper Bengal. She took out
37 passengers, and on freight MS boxes sped. value
183,0634 10s., of which amount 17.3721. 10s. in sovereign
is for Alexandria, and ►be remainder for Bombay, consisting
of bar silver, 143,000 f. ; silver coin, 12,4001. ; bar gold,
5,0001. ; gold coin, 4,650/. ; and gold thread, watches,
i;tl/. The Ellor► also took out a full cargo of general mu•
shandies.

CRYSTAL PALACR.—.-ALI interesting addition to
the thousand &Wartime of the Crystal Macs ham jam been
made. to response to an application to the Lords Cour
inissiooers of the Admiralty, they have kindly granteg=
ce ‘ssioo to the directors to have for exhibition in the
two of the armour plates which have bees submitted to ex-
permasotal firing by the heaviest ordnance. The view thaw
massive plates of iron present, perforated and shattered to
piece. as they are by the heavy projectiles hurled against
them, is most remarkable, tad will serve to give the general
public some idea of the power of the monster guns and shot
which have lately excited so much attention. Accompany.
lag these armour plates are several varieties of steel and iron
shots, from those weighing 5001 he. to the ordinary 68.
pounder, also • piece of 13-inch armour plate, the
thickest aver rolled ; this entire plate baring been 17 feet
lour by 6 feet 10 broad, and weighing 28 tone. Theme have
been kindly furnished from the Atlas Steel and Iron Works,
Sheffield, forming altogether one of the most interesting
exhibitions of this power likely to be expended offensively
and defensively in any future naval warfare.
THx ENCLOSURE OF WIMBLEDON-COMMON.—The
proposed bill forth., protection and improvement of Wim-
bledon-common has been printed. The preamble recites
that the common bas been the neon of similes; that it is
and unfit for pasturage ; that rights of taking
gravel from certain parts of it are exercised by adjoining
parishes ; that the National Rifle Association bare the use
of it from the lord of the manor ; that the lord of the manor
is willing to appropriate the bulk of the common.. a public
park ; that provision for the expenses of such appropriation
inset be made by selling part of the present area, and that
it is expedient eartain roads should be diverted, viz.,
pert of the road leading from Stag-lane, and the
Robin Hood-road, crowing the common. Ihe act constitutes
Lord Simmer protector of the park. authorising him to set
aside a portion of the common coloured pink on ths plan,
and enclose it with fences, so a., however, not to interrupt
the view from the villas around, and to make walks.
drives, and rides in the park. level obstructions, &c., and
' •ppoint gate-keepers and park-keepers. The park to be
open at six in the mrwciog, or at tootles, if after six, sad
not to be closed till sunset. The park may be used for
any purpose of practical public utility or interest with
the consent of the Home Secretary, when money Can be
claimed for entrance ; bus political meetings, open air
preachinp, and meetings of clubs or benefit societies are
prohibited. Protector to have power of making regulation as
to permitting refreshments to be sold in the park, and the
like, for regulating quarries and pits used by the parish,es
and for excluding pixies and tramps. Bye.laws not to be
contrary to act, and to be approved by Home Secretary.
Provision is made for compensating those who had common
rights. The site of the windmill may be used by Earl
Spencer for budding a dwelling-house, with ground., A
plan accompanies the bill, is which the land to be sold is
coloured blue ; but farther sales of land admired brown and
green may be made if money raised is insufficient, the
brown to be sold before the grain • and if these are issols-
cient to pay all claims, the claims shall abate proportionably.
The map 4130.111 that only a strip of land is to be sold. The
blue Mod to be first takes is on the south and west of the
park, and the brown and green together only cut off the
extreme north-eastern projection in Putney parish, and near
to the Chelsea waterworks.

HIGHWAY RATE:4. —A curious me was brought
before the Pickering bench at their last weekly meeting,
which oriasioued no small interest. The surveyor of the
highways for the pariah of Itirbymispertoo. Mr. John Cm.
dukes, summoned the rector, the its,. C. J. Sympeoc, sad
the following members of hit flock. viz., Mr. J. Haggett,
Mr. J. Hardman, and Mr. Joe. Hardoastle, joe., respec-
tively of Kirbymiapertou, for refusing to pay the (alleired)
legal rate for the maintenance of the pariah highways. The
same claimed were—the rector, 20/. Ils. ; Mr. &nett,
14/. 16.6 6d. ; Mr. Hudnall., 3/. MM. Gd. ; sod Mr.
HardcasUe, jun., lb/. its. Kates proportionate to thews
charge* bad bees paid by other parishioners, and it wee
shown that the rate was duly made, allowed, and published
according to law. For the defence it was shown that a
spiritual guide is not the lees a man of the world, it being
Alleged that the rate sued for epee at the rate of Is. in the
p und, and was therefore objected to as being 2d. in the
round in 'deem* of the maximum figure allowed by the
11 igh vay Act, the highest sum allowed being 10d. in the
pound. The objection was fatal, and the bench dismissed
the whole of the casea.

Pnopose:D So,TTiaft HILL tlr LONDON.—Repre-
sentatives of the Highland Society of Loodoo the Caledo-
nia. Society of London, the Lott& Scottish
Volunteers, the Scottish Hospital. and the °dodo-
viall Asylum, met at the Hall of the Scottish Hospital oa
Wednesday lest week. Sir Job. Hero° Maxwell, Bait, itt
the chair, when nn the motion of Dr. George Webster,
wooded by Captain Meeker/le, the following resolution
was unanimously sgreed to. : That it is very desirable
to hers a central buildi,g for the business purposes of the
various Scottish societies in London, and for other national
objects. Amin)g those yreeent at the meeting were the
followmg :—Sir Jobe Hems Maxwell, Bart. ; Professor
Donaldson, Captain George Mackeene, Dr. Alexander
Halley, Professor Kerr, Dr. Webster, F.R.S., Francis
Morris, Esq., J. Macrae Moir, Esq., M.A.. Alexander Grant,
Foal., Dr. Donald Fraser. Dr. William V. Drury, Dr. George
Webster, J. C. Laois', Esq., George Baio, Esq. The meet.
Mg resolved itself into& committee for the pupae of taking
preliminary steps for carrying out the object specified in
the resolution.

EGO-0 nrcgiNo Mneuittu. —The Ballarat Star
thus refers to an egg.hatehiog mazhine, imported from
France bv Dr. Schmidt. of Chines : —•• Th•• machine. which
is capable of hatchirg ro eggs per month. is about three
feet square. and is so constructed that there is an equal
heat kept up in the whole of it by means of a small lamp
fixed beneath. The eggs ars contained in a lot of little
drawers. It is the owner's isteation to construct large
ovens on the same principle for the purpose of carrying ow
the business of egg.h.tching and we are informed that he
has applied to the Board of Land and Works for a lease of
30 acne of land in the neighbourboo lof Omelets's cricket-
' ground, under the novel industries clause, to suable Lim to
rear fowls.' every derieription on an extensive wade. Who.
ther the government will regard this as a truly your I in-
! dusts, or not remains to be seen ; but in anticipatmn of ob-
i taming the land, operations will probably he shortly cora-
-1 menced upon it in the emetics. of the ovens, which will be
built large enough to hitch 5,1100 eggs per mouth."

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28.

SHREWD and far-seeing friends of Italy have
begun to do justice to Cardinal ANTONELLI.
They have even gone so far as to propose by anti-
cipation a statue to that much-abused and misun-
derstood patriot and statesman—a statue to be
paid for by • penny national subscription, to be
called " PAUL'a pence," to distinguish the fund
from the contributions to " PETER," which already,
we regret to hear, are falling very low. And,
indeed, it is evident to disinterested observers
that had the present HOLY FATHER found a
Minister of State less Italian in feeling and pur-
pose than the charming man of the world whom
M. DE Mer-oe.E's fiery fanaticism has proved
unable to dislodge, the Temporal Power might
have "come to terms" with Italy, and even the
Spiritual Power with modern civilization, and we
leave our readers to imagine what Italy or civiliza-
tion would have gained by such a Concordat. It
is, we believe, owing to the masterly adroitness
of Cardinal ANTONELLI, to his profound political
instinct, his grasp of all the conditions of the
problem to be left unsolved, to his prudent and
patient policy of firmness and reserve, that his
country will owe its complete emancipation, and
civilization a deliverance from the last illusions of
an age of dilettante faith and theatrical devotion,
in which martyrs and confessors are replaced by
sentimental restorations and fashionable anchorites.
Strangers who have clung to the cause of Italy as
inseparable from the cause of human freedom, but
whose faith in the destinies of humanity was weak,
have watched this eternal Roman comedy in ner-
vous dread lest the successor of the Apostle who drew
the sword should forget his r.;/e, and be found
advancing to meet the King of ITALY and modern
civilization " with a kiss." Such a misfortune
might have consigned Italy to another half century
of servitude and betrayal. It hes been fairly averted
by the constant interposition of Pius IX.'s nearest
and ablest counsellors—of whom Cardinal ANTO-
NELLI deserves to be remembered as the chief—
to whose obstinacy it is due that at this present
moment the pretty bubble of liberal-catholicism
is irreparably burst ; generous M. DE MONTLLE3I-
LEET is judiciously, perhaps we should say
obediently, silent ; M. ne LA CULEI.uNIERE, the
honeyed Imperial rhetorician, is at his wit's end for
words sweet and empty enough to disguise his
thoughts, and all the pamphleteers and journalists
whom the Pr.,,e can supply find
it an impossibility to persuade the common sense
of mankind that the Emperor of the FRENCH is
waiting at Rome with fifteen thousand men fir the
reconciliation of the Papacy with the Italian
Kingdom.
It would doubtless be an unwarrantable ex-
aggeration of the spiritual character of the First
Minister in the Cabinet of the Vatican to attribute
to his fervent zeal the publication of those astonish-
ing Encyclical Letters which from time to time
have aroused the languid attention of heretics, and
surprised the simplicity of the faithful. The com-
mination which has just been launched upon the
troubled waters of modern Europe is ascribed to
a venerable member of the Sacred College, who
drew up a rough list of "propositions" to be con-
demned, but was unfortunately not spared to wit-
ness the formal ratification of his labours. Still it
is fair to suppose that Cardinal ANTONELLI who,
after all, is one of the Sacred College, who is
chatting with one or other of the hierarchy every
day, and who most know as well as any Cardinal
alive what infallibility in • dressing-gown and
slippers is like ; it is impossible to suppose that be
has not, at least, concurred in the publication of
these admirable documents, with a very keen per-
ception (in his temporal capacity) of their conse-
quences and effects. All honour and gratitude
then to Cardinal ANToNELLI. It is pleasant
to find a Cardinal who resolutely prefers
his native air, even under an excommunicated
sovereign, to a residence at Rome, and who pays a
complimentary visit to the CROWN PRIN. Eof the
excommunicated kingdom. But if • Cardinal
p'.‘Nnitr.a. is a sensible ecclesiastic and a loyal
gentleman, s Cardinal A NT. ,NF.LLI, who sticks to the
helm of the crazy old barque, and is resolved to
scuttle her for the insurance, is to our thinking
a fir more exemplary instance of a citizen who
would sacrifice even his own reputation to save hie
country and civilization.

Of all the "compliments of the season," of all
the gifts of Christmas and the New Year, there can
be nothing like this Encyclical Litter of the Bth inst.
for combined beauty and utility. It is a perfect
masterpiece of careful, elaborate design and exe-
cution, and, like the most expensive dressing-
case, leaves no human vanity or conceit unprovided
for. In style it will be found by the most
critical reader singularly concise and pregnant ;
and it lays about the open or secret enemies
of the Church with a hearty and uncompromising
gusto that ma►es one imagine the Transformation
Scene must have immediately preceded such a
vigorous succession of slaps and kicks.
That the Hots FATHER should treat " pan-
" theism," " naturalism," absolute rationalism,
indifferentism, mitigated rationalism, freemasonry,
the Bible Societies, as Clown treats policemen
and nursemaids, is part of the regular business of
Buell a performance. But the real fun of this
Encyclical is in the backhanded cuffs it ad-