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"Turning now to the Life Preach, It remabuto be reported that
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The Third, 1855-60
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The Fourth, 1860-04
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ment in this country.
"The Directors have likewise to report that the Life funds
have increased by the sum of £103,146, the accumulated funds of
this department now amounting to £746,45.6. As an addition of
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next ten years may now be fairly anticipated, it Is within rea-
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the :iugmentetion of the year, now reaches the sum of £116,913
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hoods of a party kind are formectamthg the you'll
men, under the patronage of the seniors. The
confessional plays its part ; and lectures are given
by party leaders, the tendency of which is
not soi• much to instruct or edify in
the ordinary way, as to extend a party
connexion among the hearers. The churches of
the city offer in aid of the movement all the fas-
cinations of the most extreme ritualism, not, we
presume, without the knowledge of the Bishop,
who assures the world that he hears no com-
plaints on the subject ; and in one sense with
perfect veracity, since, when a curate did
complain, he not only refused to hear him, but
inhibited him from ministering in the diocese.
These combined efforts and influences have been
successful ; and an abundant harvest of Romanism
has been produced. But it is not so easy to prevent
the proselytes from disregarding the ecclesiastical
policy of their teachers, and going over at once to
Rome. Youth is not very amenable to the ar-
guments of diplomacy, whether political or eccle-
siastical ; and thus those who have ac-
cepted Roman premises at the hands of
their Anglican leaders are sometimes found,
we doubt not to the unfeigned dismay of
the leaders, embracing Roman conclusions. Per-
haps it sometimes occurs to the waverers that life
is uncertain, and that if there is only one Church,
and that a visible Church, in which souls can be
saved, a prudence higher than the prudence of
ecclesiastical tacticians prescribes that a choice
between the visible Churches should be made
without delay. Hence these secessions, and the
general apprehension of more.
We are not going to denounce propagandism,
against which, from whatever quarter it may come,
the world must guard itself, not by denunciation,
much less by prohibition, but by strengthening
the influences which promote independence of
thought and hold men fast in their allegiance to
the truth. Nor are we going to waste
words in exhorting ecclesiastical propagandists
to turn from women and boys, their
immemorial prey, to manly intellects, which can
be influenced only by valid arguments or by
real ascendancy of character. But there is no
intolerance in calling attention to the fact
that the University receives its junior members
from their parents as a trust, and that the sacred
obligations of this trust are binding on the con-
science of all the rulers and teachers of the Uni-
versity, and of all who exercise authority by vir-
tue of their connexion with it. The trust is vio-
lated, we venture to submit, when the power is
used, not for the purpose of education, for
which alone it is given and accepted, but for the
purpose of instilling into the undergraduate party
opinions which it is known, or may be surmised,
his father would not wish him to embrace, and of
entangling him in party connexions which, in the
result, may seriously compromise the prosperity
and happiness of his life. The risks
which a parent encounters in sending his son
to Oxford or Cambridge are already great enough
in all conscience, as many a man has reason to say
with bitterness of heart. It is too bad that to
these risks should be added that of ecclesiastical
intrigue. We are not speaking of the mere per-
sonal influence which every man of any ability or of
any attractiveness of character must inevitably
exercise on the circle around him, and which,
being encountered in a mixed society by opposite in-
fluences, does little harm in the net result. We
are speaking of systematic propagandism, which
we affirm to be a distinct breach of educational
trust. Whether the University can do anything
to check or rebuke such proceedings is another
question—probably not ; but if individuals per-
gist in serving their religious party by such
means it must be because they think reli-
gious party above the restraints of honour. We
must add that there is an especial claim on
the forbearance of men who have seen the reli-
gions vicissitudes of Oxford during the last thirty
years, and who must well know that the artificial
excitement of the religious passions by propagan-
dist influences often, when the burst of emotion is
over, leaves the proselyte a sceptic in the worst
sense of the term for many years and perhaps

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litical dinners of an Undergraduate Club. Edu-
cation, we repeat, is the purpose for which the
students are placed in the hands of the authorities
of Oxford ; and propagandism of whatever kind,
even though the opinions be as certainly and exclu-
sively true in the apprehension of their propagators
as were those of any ecclesiastical or political
fanatic in history, is really beyond, and not only
beyond but contrary to, the objects of an educa-
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION.

The following is the full text of the Pope's Allo-
cution which has been referred to in a recent tele-
gram from Rome. It will be seen on perusal that
thetelegraphic summary conveyed a very inadequate
idea of this important document, which reasserts
in the most positive manner the doctrine of the
temporal sovereignty of the Pope, renews the pro-
test against the annexation of the Pontifical State
by the King of Italy, and denounces all those who
took part in that proceeding.
Venerable Brothers,—More than once, 0 venerable
brothers, exercising our apostolic office, we have deplored,
either in our published letters or in divers allocutions de-
livered in your moat august aailambly, the affliction which
has hung for • long time in Italy over the
affairs of our very holy religion, sod the
very grave insults offered to us and to the Holy See by the
sub-alpine government. Moreover, you must comprehend
with what grief we are seised now that we see that
government with • passion that is increasing every day,
constantly attacking the catholic church, its wholesome
laws, and all its sacred ministers ; when we see, alas
venerable bishops, and the most virtuous clergy,,
both secular and regular, and other most excel-
lent catholic citizens, sent into exile by that govern.
meat, without the least regard for religion, justice, or
humanity, or thrown into prison or condemned to forced
residence, molested in the most unworthy manuer ; dioceses
deprived of their p ,stors, to the great detriment of sonic
virgins devoted to God taken away from their convents
and reduced to beggary ; God's temples violated ; dio-
cesan schools closed against the members of the
clergy ; the education of catholic youths taken out of the
pale of Christian discipline and confided to the professors
of errors and iniquities, and the patrimony of the church
usurped and sold.
That same government, in contempt of ecclesiastical
censures, and without paying the least regard to our
most just complaints and those of our venerable
brethren the bishops of Italy, has sanctioned similar
laws, totally contrary to the catholic church, to its
doctrine and its rights, and condemned by us ; and it has
not hesitated to promulgate • law respecting civil mar-
riage, as it is called—a law quite contrary not only to
catholic doctrine, but likewise to the well-being of civil
society. Such a law tramples under foot the dignity
and sacredness of marriage. It destroys it as an institu-
tion and encourages • isoncubinage that is perfectly
scandalous. In fact, a marriage cannot take place amongst
the faithful without there being at the game time a sacra-
'neut. It belongs, therefore, exclusively to the church to
decide on everything concerning the sacrament of marriage.
Moreover, that government—injuring in au evident man-
ner the condition of those who make public profession of
religious vows, which have always had and always will
have force in God's church, and not recognising the
very great advantage of the Regular Orders which,
founded by men of holiness and approved by the Holy
Apostolic See, have in an especial manner deserved the
thanks of the Christian republic, civil and literary, by so
many glorious labours and so many pious and useful works
—has not feared to sanction • law suppressing throughout
its entire territory all religious corporations of both sexes
it has appropriated all their property, and • great deal of
other property belonging to the church, and has ordered
it to be divided. Before entering into possession of the
Venetian province, it did not hesitate to extend thereto
the same laws, and it enjoined, contrary to all law and
justice, the total abrogation and annihilation of the con-
vention which was come to between us and our very dear
son in Jesus Christ, Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria.
Therefore, faithful to the very serious duty of our
apostolic ministry, we raise anew in your most august
assembly our voice on behalf of religion, of the church, of
its holy laws, the rights belonging to the authority of this
chair of St. Peter ; and with all our strength we deplore
and condemn all and each of the things which, contrary
to the church, its laws, and its rights have been decreed,
done, and attempted by the sub-alpine government ; and
by all other subordinate authorities ; and by our apostolic
authority we abrogate and proclaim null and void, and
without force or effect, all the aforesaid decrees and every-
thing that appertains to them.
We likewise bog their authors, who glory in the name of
Christians, to bear in mind and seriously to consider that
they have unfortunately incurred the censures and the
spiritual pains inflicted by the apostolic constitution and
the decrees of the general councils upon whosoever should
attack the rights of the church.
You know, venerable brethren, that certain astute
men oppose us and interpret in their own sense the bless-
ing which we gave to Italy when assuredly without any
merit of our own, but, thanks to the impenetrable judg-
ment of God, we spontaneously pronounced the words of
pardon and peace out of love for the people of the pontifical
state.
In truth, full of solicitude for the welfare and happiness
of the entire flock, asking by our prayers from God the
good of Italy, we besought him with fervour and humility
that he might deliver her front the evils which afflicted her,
and that the most precious gift of the catholic faith
might be all powerful in Italy, and that rectitude of
manners, justice, charity, and all Christian virtues might
flourish there more and more. Once more to-day we do
not cease to send up our most fervent prayers to God that
in His goodness He would d- igu to remove from the catho-
lic people of Italy the many and great calamities of every
kind which are afflicting and assailing them through
the fault of the governors of Italy, and in come-
sequence of a multiform persecution. But, above all things,
we beseech our most merciful Lord to aid and fortify by his
heavenly help the people of Italy, in order that they may
remain firm and immutable in the divine faith and in their
religion, awl that they may be able with Christian forti-
tude to support and endure so many misfortunes and evils,
Foolish, however, are those who, on the strength of this,
do nut cease to demand of us, already despoiled, and with
the most manifest injustice, of several provinces of our
pontifical territory, that we should renounce our civil sove-
reignty and that of the apostolic see. Surely everyone
must see how unjust and prejudicial to the church is such
• demand. By a singular arrangement of Divine
Providence, as we have said on a former occasion,
it happened that the Roman empire having
fallen, and beig divided into many kingdoms and
divers States, the Roman Pontiff, in the midst of such
great variety of kingdoms, and in the actual state of human
society, was invested with his civil sovereignty, in conse-
quence of which, never being subject to any lay power, he
exercises in entire liberty supreme authority and
his jurisdiction over the church, which has
been divinely confided to him by our Lord
Jesus Christ. And the faithful, with full
tranquillity of conscience and entire confidence, obeying
the decrees, warnings, and orders of the pontiff, submit
themselves th-reto without ever entertaining the least
suspicion that his acts are subject to the will and impulse
of any sovereign or any civil power. We cannot renounce
the civil power established by the divine wisdom of Provi-
dence for the good of the universal church. We are bound,
on the contrary, to defend that government and to pro-
tact the rights of that civil power, and to complain strongly
of the sacrilegious usurpation of the provinces of the Holy
See, as we have already done and as we do now, remon-
strating and protesting to the utmost of our power.
Everyone knows that the bishops of the catholic world
have never ceased to defend with zeal, orally and in writ-
ing, our civil sovereignty and that of tho Apostolic See,
and ail have proclaimed that Chit sovereignty, especially in
the actual condition of the affairs of this world, is
absolutely necessary to establish and defend the perfect
liberty of the Roman Pontiff. who feeds all the catholic
flock—a liberty which is so intimately connected with the
freedom of the entire church.
These same men fear not even to go about crying
everywhere that we ought to reconcile ourselves with
Italy—that is to say, with the enemies of oar religion who
boast themselves of having founded Italy. But how can
we, the appointed champions and defenders of our most
holy religion and of the salutary doctrine of virtue and of
justice, who have to watch for the salvation of all, march
in concert with those who, not upholding the holy doctrine
a-sd refusing to hear the truth, keep themselves away from
ue—those who would never condescend to grant our desires
nor to meet our demands, to the effect that so many
dioceses of Italy, deprived of the pastoral consolation and
protection, should have their bishops.
Would to Heaven that all those who so vehemently op-
pose the church, us, and this Apostolic See, turning their
egards sad their mule to truth and Pastime, may
• enlightened once for all, and, thinking of
themselves, and looking to the good of their souls,

fur life.
We have spoken of the confessional as one of
the instruments of propagandism. Against the
use of the confessional itself we have nothing at
present to say, except that the Anglican confes-
sional is destitute of the safeguards which surround
that of the Church of Rome, and that its unregu-
lated employment will, we suspect, before very
long provoke a strong reaction in English
society. People must be allowed freely to resort
to this or t e anything else which they per-
sonally feel to be adapted to their spiritual
needs. But it is obvious that when introduced
into a public place of education under the auspices
of party leaders the confessional presents itself in
a different aspect, and becomes a more legitimate
subject for remark. It can scarcely fail under the
circumstances to be not only a vehicle of ghostly
counsel, but an organ, and a very powerful organ,
of sectarian opinion. Parents may surely claim
to be consulted in the matter. A man is
entitled. to know in whose hands his son is.
He supposes hint to bo in the hands of the head
and tutors of the college and of the authorities of
the university ; and if a spiritual director is to
be provided in a different quarter, he has a right
to be made a party to that arrangement. He has
a right, at least, if the family has any rights which
a religious sect calling itself the Church is not
qualified to set aside. That the confessional is
an ordinary and recognised part of the system of
the Church of England, to which everybody must
expect as a matter of course to be subjected, is, we
are aware, a party theory ; but the theory has not
yet been converted into a fact.
The remarks which we have made with re-
gard to ecclesiastical propagandism at a uni-
versity hold good, though in a less important
sense, with regard to political propagandism also.
It has on more than one occasion publicly tran-
spired that there are political clubs at Oxford
mainly consisting of undergraduates, but of which
heads of houses and professors of the University
are members. We do not for a moment accuse
any head of a house or any professor of doing
anything that he does not believe to be perfectly
consistent with academical propriety, as well as
conducive,to the propagation of sound political doc-
trine. But we venture to think that any honour-
able mind, after a few moments of reflection,
will see the matter in its true light.
To entangle youths whose intellects are
immature, though they cannot be conscious of it,
and who have never had the chance of taking an
independent view of life, in political connexions
from which they can only extricate themselves, in
case their opinions should change, by a painful
effort, and with some loss not only of the good
i will of their friends but of self-respect, is under
any circumstances a strong proof of party zeal ;
but under the circumstances of a head of house
or a professor is, as most people will say, a proof
of a zeal which considerably outruns discretion, and
does not even carefully consider what generosity
and chivalry would enjoin. We cannot help
fancying that these thoughts must sometimes

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moved by a boly repentance, as, endeavour to come back

tea.
wartlog would be more agreeable to ns than to go for-
tt
matt them, following the example of our evangel-
ical father, and to embrace them, rejoicing in the
Lord that his children were dead and are
alive again, that they went astray and hay'
been found. Then, indeed, it would be seen that
our venerable religion, the mother and the fruitful auras
of every virtue, and the scourge of vice, conducts equally
to the happiness of the individual and the welfare of all.
Where religion and her wholesome doctrines prevail
there must necessarily flourish uprightnses of man-
ners, integrity, peace, justice, charity, and all the
virtues. Then people are not afflicted with those
grievous calamities which unhappily weigh upon them
wheresoever religion and its doctrines are not recognised.
By the deplorable facts related summarily and with
pain, andby the sad contemporary events in Italyjverbody
can easily see and divine to what great perils this
Apostolic Bee is exposed, and how it is the mark of the
most bitter threats of rebellion, the hatred el unbeliever',
and the anger of the enemies of Christ's cross.
On every side are continually heard pluensied
voices, which find an echo in our desperate
enemies, declaring that this city of Rome must
share in this unhappy Italian perturbation and rebellion—
nay, must become its capital. But God, who is rich in
mercy, will, by his omnipotence, make the impious
counsels and desires of our enemies fail. He will
never permit this noble city, so deer to us,
in which, out of his great and singular good.
mess, He has fixed the chair of Peter, the
impregnable basis of his divine faith and religion, to
return to thatunfortunate condition so admirably described
by our holy predecessor, Leo the Great, in which she found
herself when for the first time the holy prince of the
apostles entered this city, then the mistress of the
world.

As to us, even when deprived of almost all human
assistance, faithful still to our mission, and confiding
absolutely in the aid of Almighty God, we are ready to
combat without fear, even to the peril of our life, for the
cause of the church divinely confided to us by the Lord
Jesus Christ, and if need be to remove there, where
we shall be able to exercise in the best manner our supreme
apostolic mission. And seeing that in such a horrible
tempest, our best and only support must be prayer, we
address ourselves to all the venerable bothers and
bishops of the entire catholic universe, to all
the catholic clergy, and to all the children of
the holy mother church, who have never ceased to lavish
on us such striking evidences of love and respect, and to
come to our aid in onr gravest trials and those of the Holy
See ; we beg of them more and more to offer constantly
with faith, hope, and charity fervent prayers to God for
the defeat of the enemies of the church and for their return
to the path of salvation.
For to avail ourselves of the words of Chrysostom,
prayer constitutes a powerful arm—a great security—a
real treasure—an excellent harbour—a very sure asylum—
provided that, attentive and vigilant, we present our-
selves before the Lord, the mind collected, and without
leaving any access to the enemy of our salvation. In the
midst of the deep anguish which afflicts us we have a
great consolation—knowing that God, when this church
has no human support, effects marvellous prodigies,
which manifest most clearly His omnipotence
and His divine hand, and come to confirm
this truth, that the gates of hell will never prevail
against the church, which will always remain im-
moveable, triumphing over its enemies until the consum-
mation of time. But it is exceedingly painful that
it is no'. precisely determined that a nation
shall always preserve the precious treasure of
our divine faith and of our religion. In loth, there are
many nations who have kept faithfully the deposit of the
faith and the discipline of its manners ; but,
alas ! they have been detached from the rock
upon which rests the edifice of the church, and separated
from him to whom has been given the power to confirm the
brethren and to feed thelatubs and the sheep, not agreeing
amongst themselves, and enveloped in the darkness of
error, they are in the greatest danger as to their salvation.
And here we cannot abstain, by reason of our mission,
from adjuring in the name of the Lord, all sovereigns and
other governors of states, to examine once for ail, and care-
fully to consider the very grave obligation they are under to
endeavour that love and respect for religion should increase
amongst nations, and with all their strength to prevent
the torch of faith from being extinguished amongst them.
Woe, then, to those governors who, forgetting that
they are the ministers of God unto good, shall
have neglected to promote that worship when they could and
ought. It is for them to fear and tremble when thr. ugh
their wor k especially they destroy the moat precious trea-
sure of the catholic faith without which it is impossible to
please God. When they shall be summoned befote the tri-
bunal of Christ for most severe judgment, they shall see
what a dreadful thing it is to fall under the displeasure of
the living God and to feel His strict justice.
Finally, we cannot doubt, venerable brethren, witnesses,
and companions of our labours, appreciating your excellent
and well-known religion, your piety, and your deep
love for catholicism, that you will desire to unite
your fervent prayers to ours, and to those of
the whole church, and earnestly to conjure the
very gracious Father of mercies, in order that through
the merits of his only son, our Lord Jeans Christ, He
would take pity on Italy, on all Europe, and on the entire
world, and that by His divine omnipotence He • ould
cause that after the destruction of all errors, and the
cessation of bitterness and perturbations, His holy church
may fully enjoy entire liberty and peace—that
human society may be freed from the many evils that
afflict it—and that all nations may be blended in the unity
of the faith and in acknowledgement of His Son walking in
the paths of the Lord, and producing fruits in good works
every kind.

AN AMERICAN PROTECTORATE OF
MEXICO.

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Times, writing on the 20th ult., says :
" The Mexican question at last draws to a com-
plete and positive solution. I shall be disap-
pointed if, before this letter is printed, there is not
at least a semi-official announcement that the im-
mediate withdrawal of the French and Maximilian
from Mexico is a fixed fact. The basis of this
solution has already been foreshadowed. It is
briefly the assumption of a protectorate by this
government over Mexico, which shall guarantee
the French claims, and in compensation there-
fore the Mexican government cedes the pe-
ninsula of Lower California and other territory
to the United States. The French influence iu
Mexico is thus uprooted, Maximilian's crown of
cactus will be hung up to dry and wither in the
conservatory of the House of Hapsburg, and the
United States become wetnurse for the enfeebled
Mexican Republic. lam not yet fully posted as
to the details of this important piece of diplomacy,
but it will be well known within a short time. It
has been the subject of frequent consideration in
the Cabinet of late, and to-day it is receiving its
finishing touches in the matter of military details,
in a lengthy consultation between the President
and General Grant. The announcement will, of
of course, produce considerable surprise and varied
comment. The momentous question whether Con-
gress will ratify this action will be next in order
for consideration and comment."

(RECTER'S TELEGRAII9.)

RECEPTION OF THE VENETIAN DEPUTA-
TION AT TURIN.
SPEECH OF THE KING.
TURIN, Nov. 4, Erzmizio.

Upon receiving the result of the plebiscitum
from the Venetian deputation to-day, King Victor
Emmanuel made the following reply :

" This day is the proudest of my life. Eighteen
years ago my father proclaimed from this city the
war of independence, and to day you bring to me
the manifestations of the popular will in the Vene-
tian provinces, which, united with Italy, declare
my father's wish to be accomplished. Yon
confirm by this solemn act what Venetia
did up to 1848, and has maintained up