The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-01 00:00:00

announced the entrance into the hall of the
celebrated Bishop of Orleans, Mgr. Dupanloup,
who came in introduced by the Cardinal Archbishop
of Malines himself, and accompanied by the Bishops
of Tourney, Ghent, and Namur, and followed by
several prelates and distinguished laymen. The
Baron de Gerlache, when silence was restored, ad-
dressed to the great French Bishop a few words
of appropriate feeling words marked by all the mental
vigour which still distinguishes that venerable sep-
tuagenarian. Amidst ti fresh burst of applause, Mgr.
Dupanloup ascended the platform, and in a voice
full of emotion thanked the assembly for the greet-
ing given to his sacred character as a bishop, and
to his national position as a Frenchman. "I can
easily disinterest myself," said he, "in the matter
of your kind reception. lam but a fiction person-
ally, and feel that it is given to the Catholic and
the French bishop. You love Christ and his Church.
You salute me as the brother of Sour own bishops,
and however unworthy of your courageous and
patriotic Cardinal, as well a son of that great coun-
try with which you have so much in common. I
also love you; I love Belgium, which, though a
new nation, is more solidly established and more
free than many an ancient State, thanks to her
faith, her laws, and her King. In Belgium I love
especially her good Catholic population, and I am
happy to give them, in coming among you a testi-
monial of sympathy because they have been lately
not so successful as they ought to be. Had you
not been conquered, I might not have come.
But I felt that want of success is a trial, and that
the time of trial is the time to prove true affection
and faithful friendship." When the applause which
followed these words had ceased, M. Ducpetiaux
announced the arrival on the previous day of the
distinguished French writer and orator, M. A.
Cochin, and continued the reading of the general
committee's report. Addresses to the German and
Swiss Pinsvereins were then read and adopted. An
address to the Congress, from 203 young students
of Paris, was alsc, read. Several additional honorary
vice-presidents were appointed for Holland, Ger-
many (among whom was Herr Augustus Reichen-
sperger), France, Spain, and Canada.
M. Verspergen called the attention of the meeting
to the case of the great Cathoiic journalist of
Bologna, Signor Casoni, whose present journal, the
Patriota Catholica, is threatened, like the precoole
ing journals he has edited, with annihilation, from
the fines imposed upon it by the Piedmontese fiscal
authorities. He announced that the Bien Public
of Ghent had already opened a subscription to come
to his aid, and invited the Catholics of Belgium to
come to the rescue of this courageous champion of
his country's rights and those of the Church.
Ducpetiaux announced that the general com-
mittee subscribed 2,000 f. towards the fund for the
payment of the fines imposed by the Piedmontese
Government on the Patriota Catholica of Bologna,
and told M. Perspergen that he could write with all
confidence to Signor Casoin that the Catholics of
Belgium alone would be his sureties. The Marquis
de Kerchove, a well-known Belgian diplomatist,
then delivered a most eloquent address on the spirit
of union which ought to reign among Catholics, and
which the Congress was so well calculated to pro-
mote. After this speech, which lasted nearly an
hcur, M. Ducpetiaux announced that -the general
meeting on the following day would begin with an
address from Mgr. Dupanloup. A very eloquent,
but not very well timed, address on the Religious
Orders, by M. Woest, a young and very promising
barrister of Brussels, concluded the proceedings at
a quarter past six. In the evening an interesting
concert was given in the hall of the Congress by
the blind pupils of the asylum of Brother Julien,