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THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL LETTER,

The following is the encyclical letter of the Pope to the
archbishops and bishops of France :
" Well-beloved sons and venerable brethren, apostolic
salutation and benediction ! In the midst of the multi-
plied sorrows with which we are overwhelmed on all sides
in our care of all the churches which have been confided
to us, notwithstanding our unworthiness, by an impenetra-
ble design of Providence, and in these hard times in which
the number is too large of those of whom the Apostle has
said sanam doctrinam non sustinent, sed ad sua desideria
coacervantes sibi magistros a veritate auditum avertunt et
seductores proficiunt in pejus,* errantes, et in errorem
mittentes,' we experience the greatest joy when we turn
our eyes and our mind towards that French nation which
has been illustrated by so many fine names, and which has
so well merited our affection. It is with a sovereign con-
solation for our paternal heart that we see in that nation,
by the grace of God, the Catholic religion and its saving
doctrine increasing day by day, and with what care and
zeal you, our dear sons and venerable brethren, called on
to share our solicitude, endeavour to fulfil your ministry
and to watch over the security and salvation of the preci-
ous flock entrusted to your guard. This consolation is still
more singularly augmented by the letters, so marked by
respect, which you send us, and which tend to make us
more and more acquainted with that filial piety, with what
love, and with what ardour you glory in being devoted to
us and to that chair of Peter, the centre of Catholic truth
and unity, head, mother, and mistress j- of all the churches
—to which all obedience and honour are due which, on
account of its primacy, every church must' join, or, in
other words, all the believers that exist on every point of
the world.§ We do not feel less satisfaction in learning
that you, always calling to mind your grave functions and
your duties, display all your pastoral care and vigilance to
have the clergy of your dioceses advancing each day more
worthily in the path of their vocation, give to the people an
example of every virtue, and accomplish exactly the charges of
their ministry, in order that the believers who are confided to
your care, being constantly nourished more abundantly with
the words of faith and confirmed by the abundance of grace,
may increase in the knowledge of God and be strengthened
in the course which leads to life, and in order that they
who unfortunately err may return to the path of salvation.
We are aware—and this is likewise a sweet consolation to
our heart—with what eagerness, attending to our desires
and opinions, you hold provincial councils, in order to guard
intact and pure in yourdioceses the deposit of the faith, in
order to hand down sound doctrine, to augment the honour
of divine worship, to strengthen the institution and discip-
line of the clergy, and to encourage everywhere, by a well-
devised progress, propriety of behaviour, virtue, religion,
and piety. We feel also ailively joy at seeing that in a
great number of your dioceses, where particular circum-
stances do not prevent it, the liturgy of the Roman Church
has been re-established according to our wish. Thanks to
your ready zeal. That re-establishment has been so snitch
the more agreeable to us that we were aware that in many
dioceses of France, on account of the vicissitudes of the
times, the sage prescription of our holy predecessor, Pius
IT., in his apostolic letters of the 7th of the ides of July,
1568, commencing with the words Quod a vobis postulat,'
had not been observed. • But in reminding you of all these
things, to the great happiness of our mind and the praise
of your order, well-beloved sons and venerable brethren,
we cannot, however, dissemble the great grief which over-
whelms us at the present moment, when we behold what
dissensions the oh. enemy endeavours to excite among you
to shake and weaken the concord of your minds. This is
why, in fulfilment of the duty of our apostolic ministry,
and with that profound charity which we have for you
and for this faithful people, we write you these letters,
in which we address ourselves to you, well-beloved sons
and venerable brethren, and at the same time we warn
you, we exhort you, and we supplicate you, to oppose
with the virtue which distinguishes you, and to cause
the entire disappearance of all the dissensions which this
old enemy endeavours to excite, bringing yourselves to-
gether in the bonds of charity, and endeavouring with
all humility and meekness to preserve in all things unity
of spirit in the bond of peace. By this wisdom, you
will show that each of you knows how much the sacerdotal
and faithful concord of minds, wills, and feelings is neces-
sary for the prosperity of the Church, and the eternal sal-
vation of men. And if it were ever necessary to keep up
among you that concord of minds and of wills, it is parti-
cularly so now when, by the will of our very dear son in
Jesus Christ, Napoleon, Emperor of the French, and by
the care of his Government, the Catholic Church, tranquil
and protected, enjoys with you entire peace. This happy
state of things in that empire, and the condition of the
times, should excite you more warmly to unite yourselves
in the same spirit of conduct and in the same means, in
order that the divine religion of Jesus Christ, its doctrine,
purity of morals, and piety should strike deep root in
France ; that the youth should there more readily find a
better and purer education, and that a stop may be thereby-
put to those hostile attempts which have already mani-
fested themselves through the proceedings of those who
were, and still are, the constant enemies of the Church and
of Jesus Christ. This, well-beloved sons and venerable
brethren, we ask of you more and more, and with all pos-
sible earnestness, that in the cause of the Church, in the
defence of its holy doctrine, and of its liberty, and
in the accomplishment of all the other duties of your
episcopal charge, you should have nothing more at heart
than to show a perfect union among you, than to be united
in the same ideas and the same feelings, consulting us in
all confidence, we and this Apostolic See, on questions of
every kind which may arise, in order to prevent any dis-
sension. And, above all, comprehend how far a good di-
rection on .the part of the clergy interests the prosperity
of religion and of society depends, in order that you
may never cease, in perfect union of mind, to devote all
your care and your reflections to an affair of such gravity
and great importance. Continue, as you have hitherto done,
to spare no pains to have the young men intended for the
Church formed early in your religious seminaries to
every virtue, to piety, and to an ecclesiastical spirit, in
order that they may grow in humility, without which we
can never please God, and may be profoundly learned in
human literature and the severest branches of knowledge,
particularly in what relates to sacred matter, that they
may, without being exposed to any peril of honour, not
only learn the art of speaking eloquently and writing ele-
gantly, by studying either the so excellent works of the
holy Fathers, or the writings of the most celebrated Pagan
writers, when subjected to a most careful expurgation, but
still more acquire the perfect and solid knowledge of theo-
logical doctrines, of ecclesiastical history, and the sacred
canons, as shown forth in the authors approved by the
holy See. Thus, that illustrious clergy of France, among
whom are to be remarked so many men distinguished by
their genius, piety, knowledge, ecclesiastical spirit, and re-
spectful submission to the Apostolical See, will abound
more and more in courageous and skilful labourers, who,
adorned with every virtue, and strengthened by the help
of a saving knowledge, will be able in the course of time to
aid you in tilling the vineyard of the Lord, in replying to
opponents, and not only strengthening the faithful believers
of France in our most holy religion, but in propagating
that religion by holy expeditions among distant and infidel
nations, as that same clergy has heretofore done, to the
great glory, of its name, for the advantage of religion, and
for the salvation of souls.
" You are, as we are, penetrated with sorrow at the
sight of so many books, libels, pamphlets, and empoisoned
journals, which are incessantly and furiously spread in all
parts by the enemy of God and man, to corrupt morals,
overthrow the foundations of faith, and ruin all the dog-
mas of our most holy religion. Never cease, then, dearly
beloved sons and venerable brethren, to employ all your so-
licitude and all your episcopal vigilance to remove unani-
mously, and with the greatest zeal, the flock confided to
your care from such pestilential pasturages. Never cease to
instruct and defend it, to fortify it against the mass of
errors by warnings, and by opportune salutary publications.
And here we cannot refrain from reminding you of the ad-
vice and counsels by which four years ago we ardently ex-
cited the bishops of all the Catholic universe to neglect
nothing in order to induce men remarkable for talent and
sound doctrine to publish writings calculated to cause en-
lightenment, and to dissipate the darkness of the errors in
vogue. For that reason, while endeavouring to keep from
the faithful, committed to your charge the mortal poison
of bad books and bad journals, be pleased, we earnestly
demand of you, to extend all your benevolence and all
your favour to the men who, animated by the Catholic
spirit and versed in letters and sciences, devote their time
to writing and publishing books and journals to cause the
Catholic doctrine to be spread and defended, the rights
worthy of all the veneration of this holy See and its acts
to have all their force, opinions and sentiments contrary
to the holy See and its authority to disappear, the obscu-
rity of errors to be dispelled, and intelligences to be in-
undated with the soft light of truth. Your charity and
episcopal solicitude should then excite the ardour of those
Catholic writers who are animated with a good spirit, in
order that they may continue to defend the cause of Ca-
tholic truth with attention and with knowledge ; and if in
their writings it should happen to them to fail in any re-
spect, you should warn them with paternal words and
with prudence. Moreover, your wisdom is not ignorant
that the bitterest enemies of the Catholic religion have
always directed, though vainly, the most violent attacks
against this chair of the blessed Prince of the Apostles,
knowing full well that religion itself can never fall, or
totter, so long as this chair, founded on a rock, shall re-
main standing, for the proud gates of hell cannot prevail
against it, and in it is, entire and perfect, the solidity of
the Christian religion. That is why, dearly beloved sons
and venerable brethren, we ask from you with all our
power, in conformity with the grandeur of your faith in
the Church, and the ardour of your piety for the chair of
Peter, never cease to apply, with one heart and one mind,
all your care, all your vigilance, and all your labours to
this particular point ; so that the faithful population of
France, avoiding the errors and snares which are spread
for them by perfidious men, make it their glory to adhere
firmly and with constancy to this Apostolic See by a
love and devotedness every day more filial, and to obey
it, as is right, with the greatest respect. In all the ar-
dour of your episcopal vigilance, therefore, neglect no-
thing, either in action or in words, to redouble more and
more the love and veneration of believers of the holy See,
and in order that they may receive and accomplish with the
most perfect obedience all that the holy See teaches, lays
down as rule, and decrees.
" And here we cannot avoid expressing to you the great
grief which we felt when, among other dangerous writings
lately Published in France, there reached us a workre
entitledt
Sur-la Situation presente de l'Eglise Gallicane lativ
au droit coutumier, the author of which contradicts in the
most manifest manner what we recommend to you and in-
culcate with so much solicitude. We
have
that sent this work
to our Congregation of the Index, in ordermay re-
prove mid condemn it.
" Before terminating-this letter, well-beloved sons and
venerable brethren, we
express
to
youose discussions and ui how desirous
s
we are that you should.reject all those
con-
troversies which you know disturb peace, wound charity,
and furnish the enemies of the Church with the arms with
which they combat and torment it. Above all, have at
heart the-preservation of peace, among all calling seriously
to mind that you fulfil a mission in the named of Him
who is not a God of dissension, but a of peace,
and who has never Ceased to recommend and ordain
peace to His
considerations; In truth, Christ, as you all
know, has
pac • 1 ed• all the gifte and rewards of
pre-
servation of peace. If we are the heirs of Christ, let us
live in the
,peace of Christ ; if ,we are the children of God,
we niust be pacific. The children of God must be pacific,
of mild hearts simple in speech, united in affection and
faithful;'attached to each other in the bonds of concord.
The conviction and assurance that we have of your virtue,
your religion, and' your piety do not permit us, well-
beloved sons and venerable brethren, to doubt of your
hearty acquiescence in the paternal advice, the desires, and
the demands that we adidress to you, or that you will
destroy to the root all the germs of dissension, and thus
render our joy complete, bearing with each other in

* Epist. 11., ad Timot., cap. iv., v. 3,4, cap.
v. 13.

± S. Cyprian, Epist. 4u ; S. August. Epist. 162 ; et
alii.

~.÷ Conci/..gphes., Act. iv.
§ St. Irencms adversus Ramses, cap. iii.

charity and patience, united and labouring in concert
for the faith of the Gospel, continuing with increased zeal
as the sentinels of the flocks confided to your solicitude,
and accomplishing the functions of your charge up to the
consummation of the saints in the edification of the body
of Jesus Christ. Be well persuaded that nothing will be
more agreeable to us than to do all in our power for your
advantage and that of the faithful. Nevertheless, in the
humility of our heart, we pray God to bestow upon you
continually with favour the abundance of His celestial
grace, and to bless your. labours and cares as pastors, in
order that the faithful confided to your vigilance may walk
mare and more in the path that is agreeable to God, in all
things fructifying daily in all good works. With the
presage of this divine protection, and in testimony of the
ardent charity with which we embrace you in the Lord,
we give you with affection and from the bottom of our
heart, the apostolic benediction—to you, our dear sons and
venerable brethren, and to all the clergy and faithful laity
of your churches.
" Given at Rome, the 21st of March, of the year 1853,
and of our Pontificate the seventh.

" pr us P.P. IX."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—William Norton, a letter-carrier,
was brought before Mr. Henry for re-examination,
charged with stealing letters, &c.
When the prisoner was apprehended, several letters
and envelopes were found in his possession, including
one from the widow of Professor Empson, one from a
young gentleman at Rugby (containing uls.), and one
addressed to a betting-office keeper in Long-acre.
Mr. Peacock, the Post-office solicitor, now proceeded
with another charge against the prisoner, for embezzle-
ment and forgery. Mr. Humphreys appeared for the
defence.

John Wane, landlord of the Rising Sun, at Wigan,
proved that in February last he wrote a etter to Mr.
Joseph Etches, betting-office keeper, Cranbourn-street,
Leicester-square, desiring him to back Hobby-horse and
Molasses for the Northatnptonshire Stakes. Witness
enclosed a Post-office order for 11., and in about a week
afterwards he received an envelope containing a strip of
paper on which was written, "The odds are 25 to 1."
As this was not the usual way of doing business, witness
wrote again to Mr. Etches, and then ascertained that
his first letter had never been received.
Thomas Homes Watson stated that he was book-
keeper at the betting-office kept by Mr. Etches. On
the 18th of February last, the prisoner, whom he had
seen before at the office, applied for a ss. ticket on
Hobby-horse, the premium for which was 61. 10s. He
subsequently returned to the office and exchanged it for
a similar ticket on Molasses. Witness believed the
ticket now produced to be the same, but the figures had
been altered from 61. 10s. to 261., the payment for which
amount would have been 1/.

Mr. Henry—How many a those tickets do you issue
in the course of a year ?—Witness—We issue about 400
a day in the racing season, varying in amount, and re-
lating of course to different horses.

W. Asling, a clerk in the money-order-office at Char-
ing-cross, produced the receipt given on payment of the
post-office order from Wigan, and Robert Allen and
Henry Fisher, two letter-carriers in the Strand district,
expressed their belief that it was in the handwriting of
the prisoner. A Cranbourn-street letter would not fall
in the prisoner's district in the ordinary course, but let-
ters were constantly missorted by accident, and this
might account for its getting into his passession.
The witnesses in each case were then bound over, and
the prisoner was committed for trial.

MANSION-HOUSE. —Edwin, Henry Powell, charged
with having harboured Joseph Farrall, the bank clerk,
alleged to have forged certain dividend warrants for large
sums of money in the name' of Dr. Davidson, and with
having aided and assisted in the escape of the principal,
was brought up for final examination.
Mr. Clarkson, instructed by Messrs. Freshfield, the
solicitors to the bank, attended for the prosecution ; Mr.
Lewis for the defence.

Mr. Brown, pawnbroker,Waterloo-road, Commercial-
road, said, in answer to questions put by the Lord
Mayor— I know Farrall from having seen him pass the
shop three or four times a day. I understood that he
lived in Bromley-street, near the shop. He was a short,
stout, fair man, without whiskers. A gentleman said,
pointing to him, " That party lives in Bromley-street."
I had seen him occasionally with Mr. Baxter, and I
looked upon him as a neighbour. Farrall had bought a
gold watch at my house on the Bth of March.
Mr.- Lewis, when further questions were put to con-
firm the statement that Farrall and the prisoner had been
together at Keston, said—l do not deny the statement
that the prisoner and Farrall were together at Keston,
but I deny in the most positive manner that my client
had been with Farrall at Brentford. They never were
there together.
Mrs. Gordon, of the Red Cross Inn, at Keaton, hav-
ing been re-sworn,
The Lord Mayor asked whether when the shorter
person said his name was Stevens, the prisoner was pre-
sent ?

The witness replied that Powell was in the same room
at the time.

Mr. Wheeler, one of the clerks in the Bank, added to
Iris deposition—l was aware that Farrell had given out
dividend warrants in the previous June, which had not
been signed, but I did not know to what they related.
Daniel Forrester, the officer—The prisoner delivered
himself up to me on Monday morning, the 28th Feb.,
as the person named in the depositions.
Hawkins, the ostler at the inn at Brentford, who gave
such evidence at a former examination as called for the
decided condemnation of the Lord Mayor, did not an-
swer when his name was called, and he therefore could
not be bound over to appear on a future day.
The Lord Mayor was about to read the usual cau-
tion, according to the act, previously to committal,
when

Mr. Lewis said it would be satisfactory to his client to
be informed of the specific charges against him, before
his lordship finally disposed of the case.
The Lord Mayor—l shall commit him for harbouring
Joseph Farrall, knowing that that person had committed
forgery, and with having been an accessory after the
fact.

Mr. Clarkson—lt may be added that I shall charge
him at the Central Criminal Court as a principal. It
will be competent to me, as Mr. Lewis well knows from
the evidence, to charge Powell as•an accessory before
the fact.

The Lord Mayor then, in the customary form, asked
the prisoner whether he wished to say anything ?
The prisoner—Nothing at present, my lord.
The prisoner was then committed to Newgate.
William Ward, a porter at the Custom-house, was
charged with having robbed some of the tide-waiters at
that establishment.

H. Tite, tide-waiter at the Customs, said—On the
25th of February I gave a bed and bedding to the pri-
soner to take to the Blackwall Railway Station. The
parcel contained two coats and other articles of dress. I
afterwards missed the clothes, and I identify part of
them, which I learn were pledged at a pawnbroker's
shop.

The shopman of a pawnbroker said the articles he
produced had been pledged with him by a seafaring-
looking man, but he could not swear that the prisoner
was that person, although he knew the prisoner as a
customer in that way.
James Stewart, an officer of the Customs, proved that
he had lost a bed on the 29th of March, and he missed a
cloak at the same time.

The prisoner, it appeared, had taken a cloak to a
tailor's to be cut into a suit of clothes for him, and the
cloth of the clothes in which the prisoner appeared at
the bar was that which had been made up according to
the prisoner's directions. There was other evidence as
strong brought forward, and the prisoner was committed
for trial.

The Lord Mayor requested that the press would ac-
knowledge his receipt of ss. for the poor-box, as a
" Little offering for a great mercy."

GIIILDHALL.—SamueI Marshall Legge was placed
at the bar, charged with conspiring with Joseph and
John Legge to defraud the creditors of the two latter.
Mr. Nobler, for the prosecution, stated that the bank-
rupts, Joseph and John Legge, had carried on business
as upholsterers, at Churton-street, Pimlico, for the last
eighteen months, during which period liabilities to a very
large amount had been incurred, while a very consider-
abl quantity of goods had been made away with in vari-
ous ways. The date of the fiat was April 2, 1853, on
which day the prisoner's sons absconded, but one of them
had been since committed by the Court of Bankruptcy,
having been apprehended by the officer at Southampton,
concealed in the house of the prisoner, in whose posses-
sion was found a great portion of the property obtained
of several other creditors.

Frank Austin, clerk to Mr. Commissioner Fane, of
the Bankruptcy Court, deposed as to the fact of the pri-
soner having been examined under the fiat against the
bankrupts, and also the issuing of the warrant for their
apprehension.
Cross-examined—The prisoner attended the examina-
tion, and was asked if he had any money belonging to
the bankrupts, and he handed over 701. Mr. Commis-
sioner is-
sioner Fane did net order this prosecution.
John Spittle, a detective officer, said he went to 4,
York-terrace, New-town, Southampton. The prisoner
admitted him, and witness then said he held a warrant
for the apprehension of Joseph and John Legge, who he
believed were concealed in the house. The prisoner
answered to the name of Mr. Marshall, and denied that
he knew any one of the name of Legge. Witness
resolved to search the house ; but was prevented by the
prisoner and a female, who armed themselves with a
huge stick and a couple of hammers, with which weapons
they threatened him. He, however, kept them at bay
at the bottom of the stairs, while a gentleman who was
with him went up stairs and searched the upper rooms ;
but while he was so doing Joseph Legge, one of the
bankrupts, made his appearance on the stairs, upon
which Spittle took him into custody. The prisoner said
the property in the house was his, and witness said he
would seize it, under a warrant from the Bankruptcy
Court, unless he could give proof of his having pur-
chased it. Upon this the prisoner became very violent,
and rushed out of the house, but returned in a few hours
and raved a great deal about his house being stormed on
a Sunday, threatening to make the officers pay for it.
Witness left Huggett in possession of that and the next
house adjoining, where property had been deposited be-
cause his own house would not bold it all. The chief
part of this property was identified by one of the
creditors as goods supplied by him to the bankrupts.
Cross-examined—He found no sheriff's officer at any
time in possession of any portion of the bankrupt's pro-
perty.
The case was then remanded for a week.

......
Alderman Cubitt begged to acknowledge the receipt
of 3/. ss. 6d., presented to James Havaland, the soldier,
by the officers and men of the fifth division of City
police, for his meritorious conduct in endeavouring to
save the life of Sergeant Patterson at the late. fire in
Holborn.