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Pastoral Letter by Archbishop Manning.

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY.

enry Edward, by the Grace of God and the favour
of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Westminster,

to the Faithful of the said Diocese.

Dear Children in Jesus Christ,—The feast of St.
Patrick last year was one to be remembered with
thankfulness. You kept it in the way your great
patron and apostle loves best—in peace and sobriety.
The true devotion to the saints consists in imitating
their examples. The holiness and mortifications of
the apostle of Ireland ought to be the pattern of all
his spiritual children. It was, therefore, a great con-
solation and joy to me to know, last year, that
hardly any of my flock was found to dishonour the
festival of St. Patrick by the sins which he hates.
The truce of God to which you pledge yourselves
last year was kept so faithfully that I desire to ex-
tend it this year all over London ; and I earnestly
beseech you, for the glory of God, and for the honour
of St. Patrick, to take the same pledge again. If
any disorder shall bring shame upon this coming
festival, the memory of last year will be tarnished.
It will be a double humiliation ; because the order
and sobriety of last year shows what we can do, by
the grace of God, if we have the will. This year
you will be in greater temptation. Last year St.
Patrick's day fell upon a work-day. This year it
falls upon a Sunday. Labour and work last year
helped to save many from drinking. The wages
of Saturday, and the rest of Sunday will this year
bring great temptations and great dangers. Be
you therefore doubly on your guard ; and stand
firm. I call upon you:one and all to pledge yourselves
to the truce of God. Let those who, from the past,
know their own weakness take it that they may be
strong. Let those who are strong take it to en-
courage the weak, and lest they should trust in
themselves. Let both husbands and wives, brothers
and sisters take it together ; both those that need
and those who may not need ;' that in the Apostle's
words, they may bear one another's burdens. If we
are all united together as an army in array, Satan
will find no entrance to scatter us. To all who take
and keep this pledge I give an indulgence of 40
days. And now for the future. Last yoxr has shown
us what we can- do. What we have done once
we may do always. The Archbishop of Cashel
writes to me that, for six years, his numerous flock
in the dioceses of Cashel and Emley have pledged
themselves not to ;et foot in a publichouse on Sun-
days. What they have pledged they have kept.
The archbishop says their fidelity to the temperance
law, by the grace of God, is wonderful. The
Bishop of Ferns writes to me that for ten years his
flock have taken the same pledge, and kept it
with great exactness. He was the first to
begin it ; and the cause of its beginning, as
he tells me, was this : —On a Sunday, during
the time of the Holy Mass, a young man, reek-
ing with blood in a drunken fray, was carried past
him. He resolved, by the help and power of God,
to put an end to the horrible sin of drinking. He
instituted the same pledge in his diocese, and a

novena, or nine days' prayer, every year, before the
feast of All Saints, for the suppression of drunken-
❑ess. It is my desire and prayer to walk in the foot-
steps of these great pastors in Ireland ; and to see
my flock in London like the Catholics of Cashel,
Emley, and Ferns. For.this. end I beseech you, for
the glory of God and the honour of St. Patrick, to
take the following pledge for a twelvemonth.
The Feast of St. Patrick this year falls upon a
Sunday. Let every Sunday, then, be in sobriety
like this Feast of St. Patrick. I hereby give the
same indulgence of 40 days, to be gained every
week by those who take and keep the pledge here
given—" I promise not to enter a publichouse on
Saturday night, or ou Sunday." Those who do not
take the truce at this festival may take the above
pledge hereafter from their pastors. Finally,
dear children in Jesus Christ, it is not in
your own strength that you can overcome temp-

tation ; but the grace of the Holy Spirit will
be with you, if you ask it in prayer, and use it
when given. Ask it through the prayers of the
Immaculate Mother of God and the glorious Saint
whose children you are. Your pastors, who so
fathfully and lovingly watch over you, will ask all
grace for you in the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar ;
and my prayers are never wanting, nor ever shall
be, that God may be glorified in this and all things
by the flock which he has committed to my charge.
Given at, Westminster, and appointed to be read in
all the churches and chapels of the diocese on the
first Sunday of Lent, 1867.
HENRY EDWARD,
Archbishop of Westminster.

March 10, 1867.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, March it

A. rumour is current, although in no way authen-
ticated at present, that Baron von Beust, in order
to improve the financial position of the Empire,
will mortgage the ecclesiastical property, and an
arrangement to that effect is said to have been made
with the clerical party.
The Emperor leaves to-morrow for Pesth.
It is stated that Pesth, as well as Vienna, is to be
fortified.
The Ministers von Wiillerstorf and Komersvon
Lindenback intend to send in their resignation.

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THE LONDON CABS.—Mr. Stanford, of Charing-
cross, has just issued to the public the map and diagram of
the." course" system of the London cabs, as pro Posed by
Mr. Haddon, of the Hackney carriage department of the
Metropolitan police. The chief idea is to divide a four-
mile radius into districts of a single mile, and affix to each
lamp-post a distinguishing letter; for instance, a passenger
when hiring a cab world have nothing to do but to look
for the initial letter or figure (say 0), repeating the opera-
tion when discharging the vehicle (say K), referring to the
table for the fare K to 0, which ho would find to be 2s. 3d.
This, of course, would be the charge supposing the new
arrangement of fares proposed be also adopted. Whether
the proposed increase by about 30 per cent. on the present
cab fares would bo acceptable is a question which admits
of much argument, but the sooner something is done to
improve the present system of cab hiring in the metro-
polis the better. The proposal of Mr. Haddon is quite
practical, and, with the aid of Mr. Stanford's admirable
diagrams, easily understandable.
THE INVENTOR OF THE STEAM ENGINE.—A
splendid medallion, six inches in relief, and mea-
suring 22 inches in diameter of Edward Somerset, second
Marquis of Worcester, author of the " Century of Inven-
tions," and inventor of the steam engine, has just been
produced by Mr. D. Brucciani, of Great Russell-street,
Covent Garden. The model was furnished by Mr. James
Loft, the likeness being derived from paintings by Van-
dyke and G. Hannemann, in the possession of the Duke of
Beaufort. The work has been produced in the
highest style of art, and forms a most appropriate
decoration for mechanic and literary institutes, rail-
way offices, engineering offices, and the halls and
libraries of scientific gentlemen. To those who may
pay Mr. Brucciani's establishment a visit, and who are
unacquainted with the existence of the " Galleria Delli
Belle Arti" in Russell-street, a great enjoyment is in store.
The spacious gallery is crowded with reproductions of the
most celebrated specimens of the sculptor's art, which are
arranged with the most artistic effect. Here the admirer
of classic beauty will have the opportunity of viewing the
triumphs of Canova, Thorwaldsen, Power, Gibson, and
others as illustrious, side by side, and a thousand other
interesting specimens, which cannot but prove a source of
the highest pleasure to every person of taste and refine-
ment. The gallery is open free to the public, even the
formality of a ticket not being required.
Sir Roger C. Tichborne, Bart., has taken a
residence at Croydon, in surrey.