The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-01 00:00:00

N°. 22.340.

THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 1864.

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Pius XL and the Nations.

Mr, Dickens's Remembrance of Mr,
Thackeray.

The following is the text of the address, already
briefly announced in our columns by telegram, as
Lip.ving been the other day solemnly prestrited to
the Holy Father by 300 Cgholies of all cations, Lt
present in
Holy Father,—As Catholics of all the nations represented
in the capital of Christendom, we have solicited the honour
of laying at the feet of your Holiness the home ;e of our
derpest veneration and most faithful self-devotion. We
have already been witnesses at the beginning of the New
Year that your Holiness was greeted by the inhabitants cf
your city of Rome with moving manifestations of their love.
Be it also allowed to us, your children in the spiti:u il order
of things, to hail with our greetings and our good wishes
that Pontifical royalty, made more sacred still by misfor-
tune, and the necessity of whose existence increases iu the
very proportion of the criminal machinations which threaten
it from abroad.
May the year which is opening be better than preceding
years. May it bring some consolation to your paternal heart!
May it, by the restoration of your authority, satisfy the
long expectation of justice and right, which have not on
earth a more august impersonification than your Holiness!
Such is our most ardent de. ire, and the prayer which rises
from our souls towards that God whose Vicar you are.
Having been witnesses of all the great works of a univer-
sal character which are being carried out in Rome, we shall
go back to our various countries to tell to our brethren how
just and holy is the duty of corning in aid of the wants of
our common Father and of our common country. For
Rome, such as the piety of ages has made her, Rome is
truly our common country, as you are our common Father.
There is no nation, however rebellious or wandering, who is
not under obligation to the Holy Roman Church. It is she
who keeps entire the depositof moral truths without which all
societies would return to barbarism..:, is from, her womb,
ever torn yet ever prolific, that cams forth, and still come
forth, the Apostles of all nations.
We, who coma from the most varied climes, from the
East or the West, from Europe or America, to meet at the
feet of your Holiness, we cannot make a step in Rome with-
out meeting with footsteps of some great ancestor in our
faith. Within that magnificent enclosure, which St. Peter
crucified contemplated and blessed from the top of the Jani-
culum, everything, from the prison of St. Paul to the trium-
phal spot of his martyrdom, from the Church of St. Gregory
to that of St Clement, from the Idissionsof St Alexis to those
of the Gesu, everything speaks to us of our native lands ;
there did the heroic men, who gave baptism to our nations
and bore them to civilization, draw their inspiration and
fire their souls with the sacred fire; St. Denis of the French,
St. Austin of the English, St. Patrick of the Irish, St.
Boniface of the Germans, St. Adalbert of the Poles, St.
Cyril of the Russians, St. Auschairus of the Scandinavians.
We should quote the Popes also ; for,creators and saviours
as they are of Italy, they belong at the same time, by the
immensity of their Apostleship, to the whole of mankind!
How then, Holy Father, should not our gratitude mingle
with our admiration ? At present, perhaps, more than ever
under your memorable Pontifioste, the Eternal City ap-
pears as the universal city; everything done in Rome is
done for the city and the whole world. Those seminaries
for all nations founded or kept ap by your solicitude, those
houses of hospitality, those colleges, oecumenical as it were,
that incomparable institution of Propaganda, where we

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come to dinner, " because he couldn't help it," and
must talk some passage over. No one can ever have
seen him more genial, natural, cordial, fresh, and
honestly impulsive, than I hare seen him at those
times. No one cm be surer than. I,'of the greatness
and the goodness of the heart that the❑ diselosee,
itself.

We had our differences of opinion. I thought
that he too much feigned a want of earne6tness, and

that b© made a preteuca of undervaluing bia arl

which was not good for the art that he held in trust.
But, when he tell upon these topics, it was never
very gravely, and I have a lively image of him in
my mind, twisting both his hands in his hair, and
stamping about, laughing, to make an end of the
discussion.
'When we were associated in remembrance of the
late Mr. Douglas Jerrold, ho delivered a public lec-

turn in London, in the course of which he read his

very best contribution to Punch, des-ribing the
grown up cares of a poor family of young children.
No one hearing him could have doubted his natural
gentleness, or his thoroughly unaffected manly sym-
pathy with the weak and lowly. He read the paper
most pathetically, and with a simplicity of tender-
ness that certainly moved one of his audience to
tears. This was presently after his standing for
Oxford, from which place ho had despatched his
agent to me, with a droll note (to which he after-
wards added a verbal poetcript) urging me to "come
down and make a speech, and tell them who he
was, for he doubted whether more than two of the
electors had ever heard of him, and he thought there
might be as many as six or eight who had heard of
me." Ho introduced the lecture just mentioned,
with a reference to his late electioneering failure,
which was full of good sense, good spirits, and good
humour.

were present but yesterday at one of the grandest festivals
of the great human family; those crypts restored to the
light of day and the veneration of the faithful ; those ma-
jestic basilicas found again underground or restored from
their ruins ; these cemeteries of the martyrs honoured with
a love which recalls that Damascus and Pascal ;
that museum of the Lateran. added to so many other
magnificent displays ; those daring and learned re-
searches in the depths of the catacombs, whence we see
come forth, thanks to splendid publications, a new and
irrefutable apology for our holy religion; those pious resto-
rations of an immortal past, which your Holiness carries on
with a magnanimous tranquillity through spoliations and
persecutions I—in a word, so many works and so many
labours, which are the glory of Rome, are Christendom's
treasure and form a part of her most precious patrimony.
And we may say, in the name of our brat hren, that Christen-
dom shall acknowledge so many services and benefits.

He had a particular delight in boys, and an ex-
cellent way with them. I remember his once
asking me with fantastic gravity, when ho had been
to Eton where my eldest son then was, whether I
felt as he did in regard of never seeing a boy with-
out wanting instantly to give him a sovereign. I
thought of this when I looked down into his grave
after he was laid there,-for I looked down into it
over the shoulder of a boy to whom he had been
kind.

These are slight remembrances; but it is to little
ramiliar things suggestive of the voice, look, man

The St. Peter's Pence, resuscitated in days of crisis: by
the free charity of the faithful, is, first and foremost, a
debt of conscience. Is it not just that all should contribute
to what is a profit for all P Christendom shell not be want-
ing to her sacred obligation. She knows that in its more
and more generous realisation resides, until the restoration
of order, one of the last guarantees of the material inde-
pendence of the Church. She will try to make her offerings
equal your misfortune and her love; and, at the same
time, she will continue to send her children around you,
in the ranks of that Pontifical army, issued also in full life
from the spontaneous impulse of children who see their

ner, never, never more to be encountered on this
earth, that the mind first turns in a bereavement.

The National Shakspere Committee.

We see no reason, says the Queen, to apprehend
that the secession of the members of the National
Shakspere Committee, which was announced with
so much pomp and circumstance in the daily papers
last week, will seriously compromise the chances of
a creditable Tercentenary Celebration taking place
in London on the 23d of April next. Whatever dia-
saZisfaction may be felt (and justly so) by the judi-
cious, at the jobbery and mismanagement of those
whom Mr. Punch has dubbed " the Athenccum
clique," there can be no pretence for asserting that
the committee is practically dead, or (as our facetious
contemporary puts it) even in artieulo mortis. The
public is usually very slow to adopt any view of a
matter which does not immediately concern its
material welfare, and is quite as slow to abandon a
sentimental notion when it has once fairly adopted
it. There will be a celebration in London and a
monument too, the limes, Mr. Punch, Mr. Tom
Taylor, and Mr. Friswell notwithstanding.
The gentlemen who seceded (although for
the most part excellent gentlemen in their
way) were by no means the strength of
the movement, and they have left many geed men
and true behind them. We understand that since
their somewhat pretentious retirement, not more
than committeemen have followed their example.
The secession of Messrs. Martin, Hardy, Shirley
Brooks, Brewer, Walker, and Gruneison is to be
regretted; but why Mr. Taylor should deem it
necessary to inf len the world that ho had retired
from a movement which he never took any part in,
is not easy to understand. The act was on his part
as preposterous as his sudden zeal for the national
British Drama ; though what he would understand
by dramas " kindred " to Shakspere, except trans-
lations from Scribe, Angier, and Co., passes us to
conceive. However, Mr. Taylor has joined the
Stratford celebration as one of its Vice-presidents,
and joy go with him. As for Mr. Friswell, it is
possible that the National Committee will survive
his defection ; but the publisher of his forthcoming
book about Shakspere will have to remove from the
advertisements the distinguished title of " Member
of the National Committee."

Father attacked, and from the Royal inspiration of your
heart, which in spite of perils from without, would not

allow the often necessary but ever rigorous burden of con-
scription to weigh on your subjects. Thisarmy of volunteers
of all countries, so small in numbers, so great from the re-
collection of Castelfidardo which rests or it, is greater still
from its spirit of sacrifice, from its disinterested self-devo-
tion, from its patient abnegation, from all those qualities

which are the noblest form of heroism,and truly worthy
of watching with the soldiers of France sound the chair of
St. Peter and of Pius 11. I
It is with such feelings, Holy Father, of veneration for
your person, of admiration for your coirage and virtues,
of absolute devotion to your cause, of unshakeable and
calm trust in the triumph promised by providence to your

rights, that, prostrate at your feet, we inpiore from your
Holiness its paternal blessing on ourselves, our families, our

countries.

The Pope responded to this adlress by one of
,hose impressive allocutions of which that august

Pontiff knows the secret, and which was tran-

scribed by some of its hearers vith rill possible

fidelity, as follows
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The words, so full of tenderness, which you have made
and which give to my poor heart
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end right, justice, and
truth—those words are but the echo cf what the Church,
They aro the echo of that voice of justice and truth which
the Apostles and their successors have raised in all ages, at
i
all times, and especially n the time in which we live.
The Apostle St. Peter, as St. Lawrence has said, by
coming to Rome showed a greater and Dore courageous faith
than when he walked on the sea; the greater from his en-
tering into a city which was then but a forest of wild and
irritable beasts. But little by little, on listening to the
voice of the Apostle of Jesus Christ, those wild beasts be-
came good and obedient lambs. During the very first hour,
St. Peter sent into Umbria St, Briceus, and into Romagna
St. Apollinarius.
The inhabitants of those countries lived at that time in
barbarism and paganism. I llow not whether it was in
God's designs to give theso provinces to the Church as a
Patrimony, but I know that the Church possesses them at
present, that they are entrusted to the Pope ; and what 1
never consent to abandon
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Both Mr. Punch and Mr. Vizitelly have inti-
mated that the nobie vice-presidents whose names
have been put so prominently forward have as yet
taken no part in the proceedings of the committee.
This is by no means the case. Lord Granville, the
Duke of Manchester, the Archbishop of Dublin, and
Mr. Cowper have all taken very active parts in the
matter, and have attended several meetings. We
violate, moreover, no confidence when we state that
at a meeting of the principal vice-presidents held
this week, it was unanimously determined upon to
proceed with the matter; so that the defection
which has occurred, and the consequent scandal, if
they are to have any effect at all, will probably re-
sult in infusing a little sorely-needed energy into
the proceedings of the committee. Already we are
glad to see that the committee is beginning to give
signs of Its existence in the advertising columns of
the newspapers ; the site and monument sub-com-
mittees are reported to be actively at work, and
their report may be expected before the next meet-
ing of the general body, when, no doubt, there will
be something definite to put before the public,
and a public meeting will be arranged to be
held at the Mansion House. Finally, we under-
stand that if the worst were to happen, the citi-
zens of the good old City of London will not allow
the matter to drop through for want of support, and
that in the last result the event will be properly
commemorated at the Guildhall, and an ample sub-
scriptio❑ will be forthcoming, sufficient, at least, to
provide a creditable monument for the City. The
irate gentlemen of the Times and Punch may, there-
fore, make their minds perfectly easy on the sub-
ject; roar or jeer us they may, they cannot prevent
a metropolitan celebration of Shakspere's tercen-
tenary birthday.
At Stratford, all is hopefulness and activity. The
Rev. Mr. Bellew has accepted the post of acting
secretary, and is doing wonders in the way of ar-
rangement. A magnificent temporary pavilion
theatre, capable of containing an audience of 5,000
or 6,000, is being erected, and will cost, from first
to last, about £4,000. Here " Hamlet" is to be
acted on the birthday, chiefly by the Lyceum corn•
paey. Mr. F:cliter will play the principal part,
and (for the rest of the cast) we hear of Mr,

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FIRE AT HACaNEY,—Yesterday morning, be-
tween the hours of two and three o'clock, a fire happened in
the premises belonging to Mr. J. Chiswell, an eating house-
keeper, No. 11, Broadway, London-fields, Hackney. For-
tunately the occupants were enabled to effect their escape
trotn the buildings without receiving any personal injury.
Upon the arrival of the firemen they found the whole of
Mr. Chiswell's premises enveloped in flames. The mains
of the East London Company's warks having yielded a
bountiful supply of water, the brigaJe at once took advan-
tage or the same, but the fire cauld not be extinguished un-
til the building and its stock in trade, the furniture, and
other effects were totally destroyed. The origin of the fire
is unknown.

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I saw him first, nearly twenty-eight years ago.
when he proposed to become the illustrator of rr:-
earliest book. I saw him last, shortly before Christ-
mas, at the P..ther ream Cub, when he told tee that he
had been in bed three days—that,after these attacks,
he was troubled with cold shiverint.;s, " which quite
took the power of work out of bim"—and that he
had it in hia mind to try a new remedy which he
laughingly dercribcd. He was very cheerful, and
looked very bright. In the night of that day week,
he died.
The long interval between those two periods is
marked in my remembrance of him by many occa-
sions when he was supremely humorous, when he
was irresistibly extravagant, when be was softened
and serious, when ho was charming with children.
But, by none do I recall him more tenderly than by
two or three that start out of the crowd, when he
unexpectedly presented himself in my room, an- i
nouncing how that some passage in a certain book
had made him cry yesterday, and how that he had

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1 Brougham as Poineius, Mr. Emery as the King,
Miss Psworthy as Gertrude. Miss Terry 25 Ophelio,
and Mr. Widdicomb as the first Gravedigger. The
other pisy is not yet dceidsd, as we bear. here is
s Aloe talk of " Cymbeline;" but it is voted to be an
" uneatable play," and it is not unlikely that one
com,equence of the secssion will be that both Miss
Glynn (Mrs. Dallas) and Miss 1-11 en Faucit (Mrs.
Thecdore Martin) will have to ha fittcd with parts.
Among other Stratford doings, wo are told of " The
Messiah" to be performed, and a miscellaneous con-
ei:rt of Shnksperian music, both under the direction
of Mr. Alfred Mellon.

M. Victor Hugo and his son M. Francois logo
—the eminent critic grid translator of Shakspere't
plays—have joined the National Shakspero Com-
mittee.

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