The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1. 1861.

saw the ittSe clit and the lifeboat free, hauled away
cith a will, and in a brief space we had the heart- I
felt satisfaction of beholding seven men rescued
from a water- grave,
" The tide coining in fast, and the sea, if possible,
greater. the wreck, after a little while, drifted in
nearer to the beach, and when from 200 to 1100
yards distant, the remaining inan filmg himself off
the wreek-, on It small raft, and enLa.Vonrecl td
reach the shore, which he happily did, by the
assistance of tile() men, who deserve the especial
notice of the Lifeboat Institution. The poor sailor ,
:;`as evidently exhausted, being tossed by the our
in !lis anxiety to retrt4nhis raft, when two men,
commissieted boatman Stewart, followed by the
conVvain of the lifeboat Corbert, rushed into the
surf, caught hold of him, and bronght him in Rafe;
a third man, named. Foley, also aided in bringing
him in, When all composing the crew I have
named evinced such skill, forethought, steadiness,
and humanity, it would be invidious indeed to
make any seleeteien et draw comparisons, but I
cannot heir, particularising on this occasion, where
there was such evident risk of life, the clear
thoughtfulness, prompt decision, and intrepid con-
duct of coxswain Corbert, chief boatman liaise,
commissioted boatman Stewart, and Mr. John
Roderick, as deserving of all praise. I should
remark that the Rev. Mr. \Vale, the Roman
Catholic clergyman ot the parish, exerted himself
her."
eluasbele aid in making
e peopleparticularly,
en andshe
shore
efforda render Ives usefttl. All
themselves
spoke in admiration of the lifeboat, and expressed
the greatest confidence in
Fthwe, NEAR YORK, Dec. 30.—During a heavy
gale of wind this morning the brig Gloucester, of
South Shields, coal laden, from Shields to South-
ampton, ran ashore in this hay. The lifeboat of
the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was imme-
diately manned and launched. She soon reached
the wreck, and took from her, to their great joy,
the crew of seven men, who were afterwards safely
brought on shore. The lifeboat behaved very well
on the occasion ; and her transporting carriage,
sent here by the institution about a week ago,
answered admirably. The vessel had since broken
up completely. About six weeks since this valu-
able lifeboat was also instrumental in saving the
crew of six men, of the brig Flying Fish, of
Whitby, which was totally wrecked during a heavy
gale of wind, in this bay.
FOWEY, CORNWALL, Dec. 29.—We to-day, for
the first time, practically tested the utility of our
new lifeboat, the Catherine Rashleigh, belonging
to the National Lifeboat Institution. She behaved
most admirably in one of the severest gales we
have had on our coast for a long time past. Early
this morning the Coastguard discovered a schooner
at anchor in the middle of St. Austell Bay, the
wind blowing a perfect gale from S.S.E., making
all the western part of the bay a lee shore, and
without the possibility of the vessel running any-
where within the bay for shelter, or attempting to
weather the Gribbon so as to reach Fowey Har-
bour. She laboured heavily at her anchors. The
gale continuing to increase, the sea running high,
and the vessel pitched still more heavily, we
decided to launch the lifeboat, which, amid the
cheers of the villagers, dashed over the foam■
crested waves in gallant style. Her progress was
watched with great anxiety as she stretched across
the bay in the teeth of the gale and piercing
showers of sleet, until the dusk prevented any fur-
ther observation. The lifeboat, after great diffi-
culty, reached the vessel about 5 p.m. She proved
to be the Liege, of Goole, in ballast, bound for
Charlestown, in the bay. The poor fellows were
glad to see the lifeboat, but declined then to aban-
don their ship. The boat returned to the shore at
6.30 p.m., when she was again put on her carriage
and made all ready, and the crew remained in the
boat-house during the night. This morning (Sun_
day), the wind having changed, the vessel was
found to be out of danger.

and I in Thee." But the power and economy of this
unity imperiously demand that all the faithful dis-
persed over the,diffeeent parts of the globe
_should
he united and joined to the Roman Pontiff, the
Vicar of Christ on earth, as the members to the head.
It is for this reason thet Jerome, a Father of the
Church, has written, to Damascus, our predecessor
of holy inenioty—" I am united, to your Holiness by
the Consiiinnion of the See of Peter.; I know that
the Church is built on this rock ; aced that
whoever shall eat of . the lamb out of this
hoese is aircifarie." What injustice does the
author of the aforementioned pamphlet not do to
the most illustrious French nation in believing
that that nation, the most attached to Catholic
unity, could let itself be drawn into schismatical
et-el-Jr§ ! Whitt boldness thirst tot that writer have
who dares hope to detach froth obedience end faith
to the Holy See the clergy of that nation, • and,
above all, the illustrious bishops who count among
the hilinbet of their predecessors St. Ireneus,
Bishop of Lyons, Who has Written these words—
It is necessary that the whole Church, that 15 to
eay, the faithful of all places, should turn towards
the Roman Church, as being the principal Church"
—these bishops who, by word and writing, have
not ceased to combat for our rights and those
of the Holy see, and have vindicated the With-
out letting themselves be moved ,by any fear,
without regard for any peril! Certainly) they
have not neglected any oteasion of furnishingus with proofs of their attachment. l,Ve catitibt
but give well-merited praise to them and to the
other bishops of the universe for their pastoral zeal,
their vigilance) and their firmness; and, although
we know them to be spontaneously most itealotts
for the defence of the Catholic faith, we cannot re-
strain ourselves frem exciting, in these days of
iniquity, a zeal—which is so much the greater as
assaults of the enemy are becoming more impe-
tuous—to oppose to them more firm resistance, and
to exhort the faithful to take care of the tricks
and snares employed by most audacious's:nen to
tear them from the bosom of the Church.
In this condemnable pamphlet the author and
those who partake of his opinion have dropped the
mask, and unveiled the plan they are pursuing to
overturn the civil authority of the Holy See; yet
they have no other end but to sap the foundations
of our holy religion. We groan to see these wicked
men going to spread the doctrine through the pro-
vinces unjustly taken from our government, as
well as through the other countries of Italy. Be-
hold the end of these translations of the sacred
books, everywhere scattered to corrupt thelfaith—
this host of most shameful books, made to poison
the morals of youth—of this licence without rein,
of this contempt for the Church, trampled
under foot, of this violation of sacred immunities, of
the removal from the authority of the bishops of the
education of youth, and of the inspection of doctrine
and morals. To the same end tend those men, super-
intendents of instruction, who hold opinions hostile
to the Church ; this decree, published in Umbria,
ordering the expulsion of religious congregations
from their convents, the annihilation of collegiate
chapters, the abolition of benefices of every kind,
and the occupation, by a supreme injustice, of the
property of pious associations. It is to attain the
same end that they have cast into prison ecclesiastics
and even bishops, among whom we have lately seen
our venerable brother the Archbishop of Urbine,
who has been conducted to prison in the midst of
soldiers. Another venerable pastor, clothed with
the dignity of cardinal, IFirmin, was taken from his
see, and prevented from all contact with the flock
confided to his charge. Many bishops of the king-
dom of Naples were either cast into prison or were
obliged to take to flight. It is, also, the same ten-
dencies which make them erect Protestant temples
in many cities of Italy, and erect public schools, in
which they teach doctrines the most pernicious and
hostile to the Catholic religion. Finally, the same
end is assigned to the decree promulgated in Um-
bria, by which the sacrament of marriage, declared
great by the Apostle, is submitted to purely civil
forms, which remove marriage from the ecclesi-
astical authority, and which are combined with the
intention of making a civil institution, and, whish
is most displeasing to God, of transforming it to a
legal concubinage, to the great injury of souls.
Conformably, then, to the duties of our apostolic
mission, we reprove and condemn, we declare null
and void everything committed against the rights
of the Church and its patrimony, against the per-
sons of those consecrated to religion and against
their property.
And where, indeed, is the man who will not de-
plore with us the disorder which has seized upon
both public and private affairs, the terrible agita-
tion which reigns throughout Europe, the revolt
which rages like a fire from Heaven from end to
end of Italy ? Considering these numerous and
deadly wounds inflicted on religion and on the city
itself, we are forced to cry out with the prophet,
" The earth is infested with its own inhabitants,
because they have transgressed the laws ; because
they have falsified the right and torn the eternal
pact." This miltitude of evils can only be attri-
buted to those who, styling themselves the promo-
ters of public happiness, have, in order to extend
their power in Italy, laid a sacrilegious hand on all
laws, human and divine; and who have left in
their track but ruin and desolation through
their impious fury. May they, returning to
sentiments of honour, at length understand
that without religion there is no longer
any protecting refuge for society, that religion is
the sole desirable bondlof nations, and if they
proceed so far as to burst this bond peace and secu-
rity would be ever banished from the world ; may
they be convinced that the Catholic religion is one,
that it is it alone that disseminates virtue, especially
those virtues which make man attached to man, a
good citizen in a tranquil and prosperous kingdom;
in fine, may they remember that the Apostolic See
has never shown itself hostile to the true and solid
happiness of peoples, but, that at all times and
under all circumstances, it has made the happiness
of all the chief aim of its labours. History is open
to all—let it be consulted.
Has it not been the See of Peter which has civi-
lised barbarous nations by teaching them the
commands of the true religion, allaying strifes
in the world, everywhere introducing civilisa-
tion and refinement? Was it not the Papacy
which founded those charitable insttutions where
the poor found his daily bread, where the sick re-
covered their health ? Was it not also the papacy
which, addressing itself to peoples and to kings,
has promulgated and established, even in the midst
of the greatest political perturbations, the principles
of justice and of honour ?
Yes, we repeat it, this See has rendered the
greateet service to humanity, and there are in
existence numerous monuments of its wisdom ; and
history, which has enrolled them, even in our own
days, will not fail in its task for the future.
But our paternal heart has not forgotten the
evils by which the Church in the East is afflicted,
evils which only the palm of the famous martyrs,
whose blood the land of the East has drunk, could
demand. We wish to speak, venerable brothers,.
of the kingdom of Corea, of the Ctinese empire,
and the countries bordering on the tropics,
where torments and punishments of all kinds
have not been able to shake the confi-
dence of the Christians in the faith of Jesus
Christ. We wish to speak of the kingdom of
Cochin China and Tonquin, where thebloodthirsty
cruelty of the infidels has sworn the annihilation of
the Christian name and renewed the infamous per-
secutions of the first years of our era.
Will it be necessary to point out to you the col-
leges, the convents, the temples, the public and
private buildings razed to the ground or delivered
up to the flames ? Will it be needful to exhibit the
torments which were experienced by the Faithful
of every age, of every sex, of every condition driven
front their homes, despoiled of their wealth, drag-
ging out a wretched existence from hiding-place to
hiding-place, or groaning in dungeons, exposed
without relaxation to the impious fury of the im-
placable enemies of the Church, Oh! these chil-
dren of our holy Mother, who suffer with hope and
resignation all punishments for the honour of our
Divine Master, will possess the part of the glory of
the olden rnertyrs of the faith. The pitiab!e situa-
tion of the Christians in Syria does not less deeply
touch our soul.
These unfortunate people, who have escaped
with difficulties from the massacres which have
decimated their numbers, are a prey to a continual
fear of seeing full career given once more to the
rapacity and cruelty of the infidels, by the retreat
of the military forces of Europe. In order to aid
as far as possible those great miseries we have
wished, despite of the state of our treasury, to
transmit to the Christians in Syria a considerable
portion of the sum which the piety and liberality of
the Catholic nations have presented us wile: And
we profit by the occasion which is here offered us
to render public and solemn homage to the touch-
ing example of the charity which our welsbeloved
children have recently given, when they opened
their purse to the affiliated poor, their bretaren in
Syria, and to rejoice within our soul at proving
once again that that virtue has not declined which
the Divine Redeemer of the world has given as the
principal mark of the Christian religion. We have
just exposed the state of affairs, sacred and pre-
lane, in calling your attention to the subjects of
affliction and to the causes ofjoy which it presents
to us.

This state, venerable brethren, inspires as with
well-founded fears, it agitates us deeply, Elul fills
our soul with sadness.
We do not doubt that yon wbo are called to par-
take in our mission took also your part of the great
affliction which has overtaken us. But, let as not
become disheartened—let us, on the contrary, raise
up each day_ our eyes Ut,1,1 hearts towards that

celestial mount whence true succour must ar-
rive to us. God will be ever with his
Church ; He will eeme not to be with
His humble servants. Full of strength from
en high, we will never fail in our apostolic ministry,
and neither shall there be fear capab e of making
us despond, nor misfortunes sufficient to make us
doubt ourselves and him who has sent them to us.
May the innocent blood of the Christians expended
on the Eastern soil mount towards the Lord as the
odour of an expiatory sacrifice, and may He turn
aside the calamities to which we are so long a time
a prey and those whieh still seem at this moment
suspended over our heads ! May the Lord, through
the intercession of the most blessed Mother of God,
ever Immaculate, and at the prayer of the happy
Apostles, Peter and Paul, accord victory to His
Church over her enemies ! May the Lord arise to
judge the world ; may He repulse and disperse with
His avenging arm the enemies of His name, who
plot the ruin of religion, and who make the exter-
mination of the Church the object of their dark
intentions ; or, rather, may He and those whom we
invoke with fervour, grant to our supplications
that Divine grace may descend upon them, and the
Infinite Mercy make them re-enter the path of
justice and of truth!