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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22.

ARCHBISHOP MANNINO'S Pastoral Letter to the
clergy and laity of the diocese of Westminster,
which was read in all churches and chapels of his
diocese on Sunday last, presents to readers beyond
the fold a striking contrast in composition and
style to the late lamented Cardinal WISEMAN'S
effusions. Beginning with an eloquent and pro-
found interpretation of the typical significance of
the " Sacred Pallium," or, "Shepherd's mantle," as
conferring upon its possessor the charge of the
whole flock, the Letter addresses itself earnestly
to the consideration of the spiritual needs of the
diocese, and especially urges the erection of a
cathedral church as, in the judgment of the
Sovereign PONTIFF, a work of primary obligation.
It declares that with that Shepherd's garment
which Protestant England has cast off come and
go faith and morality, truth and unity ; the
authority of the pastors over their flock ; the
obedience of the flock to their pastors within the
jurisdiction of St. PETER, and the obedience of
the pastors to St. PETER'S Successor. " The divi-
" sions of England, external and internal, spiritual
" and intellectual, show that with the symbol de-
" parted also the reality."
" These thoughts," concludes the Archbishop,
" forced themselves upon us all the more the
" other day in the beautiful Catholic city of
" Florence."
Again and again the incoherences of the Reformation have
eedeavoured to wind their way into Italy. They wbell
translate and print protestantism for the use of the Italians I
know little of the people of Hely. Christ or Antichrist is
an intelligible alternative : the Samosa of St. Thomas or
the philosophy of Voltaire ; the Christianity of the world or
the naturalism of the human reason ; the sacrifice of the
mass or no divine worship ; the pastoral jurisdiction of
two hundred and fifty pontiffs or every man hie own guide.
This is intelligible and coherent. But a religion without
supreme power, a theology in !moments, a Christianity out
of square with the Christian world, ininisters withont
priesthood, or priests without Liters, or obedience without
a divine jurisdiction,—thew things are only not
ridiculed because of the courtesy which lets them
pear, or the venality which feeds upon them•
What remains now of the Synod of Pistol& except the
bull " Auctorem Fidel"? What will spring from this tam-
pering with its faith but a new, indignant, and authorita-
tive declaration of the catholic religion of Italy? The
people of Italy are profoundly Christian and catholic; of
which their calm and mutual respect in this season of pro.
logged and terrific temptation is abundant proof. May God
In His infinite mercy send them peace. And who that has
seen their churches more fall at this day than ever before—
and more full, above all, in those very cities where the
revolution has fallen the heaviest—can doubt that the
prayers of Italy are heard ; and that if scourges are impend•
ing, thoie scourges will restore to it that which is above all
price, the perfect nniuu of all hearts in the paternal love of
the Vicar of Jesus Christ. It was but the other day that,
with the voice and heart of the Good Shepherd, he called
onoe more those who are wandering to return to his pastoral
care ; and at once a million voices were raised up to answer
with a protestation of fidelity.
Thus much, dear children in Jesus Christ, we have been
almost forced to say, with the cities of Italy fresh before as,
the centres of so many glories of the malts, the statesmeo
the leaders of Italian history, and, therefore, of the
tiara civilisation civilisation of the world. And if this had not been
enough, soother memory would constrain us : the image of
the Vicar of our Lord, whom a few days ago we saw in the
majesty of his confidence and calm, with all the sorrows of
the church full upon him, greater in the isolation of his
poverty and in the freedom of his speech, to which all
nations listen, than Pontiffs who in the height of power
lad the monarchies of past ages, because more like to their
Lord and ours in humility and loneliness of heart. In Dim
the whole Christian world may learn to trait in justice and
in God, and to measure the perils of this hour as we do the
stress of a little storm, sharp for a time, but soon twerps*.
For what are the sorrows of a Pontificate in the eighteen
centuries of the imperishable See of Peter, the sole foun-
tain of jurisdiction to the pastors of Jesus Christ.
According to this magnificent testimony, Italy,
so far from becoming heretical, is more profoundly
Christian and Catholic than ever, and more re-
ligiously and devoutly disposed, " especially in
" those cities where the Revolution has fallen the
" heaviest," or, in other words, in those cities
which, in 1859, were emancipated from Austrian
and Papal rule, and which are now the bulwarks
of Italian independence. It is probably not in those
cities where the flame of patriotism burns brightest
that the temporal power of the POPE would select
its champions, yet it is in twee cities, as
Archbishop 51ANNINO bears witness, that the
churches are more full at this day than ever
before. So that those twenty-five millions of
Italians, the vast majorityof whomdesire nothings°
much as the abolition of the temporal power of the
Papacy, deserve still, according to Archbishop MAN-
NING, to be counted as leaders of that " Catholic
" world," of which we hear so often, as though it
were a living whole in which Italy had neither
part nor lot. If, indeed, through untoward cir-
cumstances, Italy is wanting in " the perfect union
" of all hearts in the paternal love of the Vicar of
" Jzst-s CHRIST," that perfect union will be re-
stored by the "scourges" which are " impending,"
namely, the formal execution of the Convention
of September, and the final departure of
forign troops from Rome. Really, we are
almost tempted to hope that the Arch-
bishop is enabled to contemplate the sharpest
of these impending scourges with the satisfaction