The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-09 00:00:00

PASTORAL LETTER OP THE ARCH-

BISHOP OF WESTMINSTER.

HENRY 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,
On this Feast of St. Patrick I speak to you with
a mixed feeling of joy and sorrow. The festival of
your great Apostle and Father brings vividly before
us the grace which through him has descended upon
you, and upon your children, and likewise his glory
which through your faith is always increasing both
on earth and in heaven. Excepting the Apostles
of our Divine Master, there is perhaps no saint
whose spiritual children are so faithful and so fer-
vent, so numerous or so widely spread. They are
in Ireland, England, and Scotland, in Canada,
throughout the United States, on the shores of both
their seas, in the West Indies, in India, in Australia,
in the islands of the Pacific. It is a wonderful fact
in the providence of God that when the English
tongue began to contradict the Catholic Church,
the children of St. Patrick took it as if their own,
and have spread the Catholic faith wheresoever the
English speech is ;heard ; not only throughout the
empire of Britain, but wheresoever the Anglo-Saxon
race and language have extended. North America
and Australia are evidently marked out for a great
future. Empires will one day rise out of them ; and
in their destinies the children of St. Patrick must
bear a large proportion. St. Patrick has left on
record his confidence that the people whom God
had given him, in the ends of the earth, would
never be lost to his inheritance ; and that confi-
dence has been signally justified. The children of
St. Patrick have continued faithful to their saint
and father with a fidelity not surpassed by any
nation of the Christian world. This day bears wit-
ness throughout the world that you are steadfast to
the faith he taught you, and to the laws which • he
delivered to you. You love him as the great and
powerful intercessor who is praying for you before
the Throne of God, and as the Spiritual Father
through whom you have passed from death to life.
It is he that made you heirs of the kingdom of
heaven. You owe to him a great debt of gratitude ;
and I know that you faithfully fulfil towards him
the obligations he has laid upon you. He has taught
you to believe the Holy Catholic Faith, to hold fast
by the Catholic unity, and to adhere, even at the
cost of life, to the Vicar of Jesus Christ. • By his
example and by his words he has taught you the
duty of mortification, of detachment from the world,
and of peacefulness. This is the inheritance of the
children of St. Patrick, and these are the fruits he
will look to find in return for all his toil. And I
bear witness that in steadfast adherence to the
Catholic Faith and to the Catholic Church, and in
close filial union with your pastors, you show your-
selves to be the true children of St. Patrick,
throughout this great city and in all the world.
This then is the cause of my joy.
But 1 have also a cause of sorrow. It is because
the country we love so well is at this moment in
affliction. You have a right to know my thoughts
at such a time as this, and I have a duty to warn
and to guide you. God forbid that I should be
silent when I ought to speak, or that I should in
mistaken prudence keep back from you what you
• ought to know. I do so the more freely because
ever since I was of age to know the history of Ire-
land, all the sympathy of my heart has been with its
faithful, noble, and martyred people. If my prayers
or my efforts can avail anything, they shall never

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THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has
URGENT NEED of FUNDS:—Donations and Sub-
scriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. Dimsdale
and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drummond and Co., Charing-
cross; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. Hoare,
Fleet-street ; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec.

HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.—
METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, Devon-
shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratuitous
Relief of the Sick Poor of every Nation and Creed, Without
letters of recommendation. FUNDS are urgently needed to
maintain its efficiency.
BANKERS —Mes sr s. Barnett, Mares. and Co.. 62, Lombard-
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GEO. CiiOXTON. Secretary.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Volunt try Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 981,051 patients since it was
established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients ara admitted
free.
BANKERS—Messrs. Barnett, Lloyds, and C0.,60, Lombard-
Street; Messm Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pail-mall. lion.
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cease for Ireland. The centuries of conflict of race

against race, embittered seven-fold by conflict of
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OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn -road,
religion against religion, have left upon Irelandanin the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
accumulation of evils and sufferings which
genera-
way Terminus, King's-cross. tions alone can remove. But removed they must
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab- and will be, if only the gradual and onward move-
Ush the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without meat of England and Ireland to perfect unity and
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is ,wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary oontributions andt,..Tactes. equality be not hindered by violence.
It affords relief to a large number of in-pa -lents, and, in The past is past, and cannot be recalled. Spain
lestitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between was once divided into many peoples and
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the dynasties : it has been fused and united into
benevolent, as the pr vises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several la..ndred more beds had the Committee one kingdom. France was once many states
the requisite iunds to maintain them. and monarchies : it is now one indissoluble race
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Janson, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and and people. England was once seven king-
Co. • Ltrummonii and Co.;G.yn and Co. ; Berries iCnii Co.;Ransom and Co. • Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne ' , dome : for 1,000 years it has been a monarchy. Eng-
and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet land, Scotland, and Ireland were once three king-
and Co., Bernere-street : and at the hospital, from 10 till 5.
.BT4LNYOUD 8111TH, segrettry. doms: they are now one indivisible realm, What