The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-24 00:00:00

THE POPE'S ENCYCLIC LETTER•

TO OUR BROTHERS THE PATRIARCHS, PRI-
MATES. ARCHBISHOPS, AND BISHOPS.
Pius VIII. Pope—Venerable Brothers, salutation
and benediction.
Ready to take possession, in the church of the
Lateran, according to the usage of our predecessors
of the Pontificate, which has been confided to us,
notwithstanding our imperfections, we open our
heart to you, venerable brothers, who have been
given to assist us in the discharge of such an im-
portant office.
However, notwithstanding the consolation which
your courage, venerable brothers, imparts to us, we
cannot help experiencing an acute feeling of sorrow,
on seeing, in the midst of peace, the children of the
world causing in us the deepest affliction. We are
speaking to you of evils which are known to you,
which are committed before the eyes of every one—
which cause our common tears to fall, and which
consequently demand our common efforts to correct,
to oppose, and to extirpate. We speak to you of
those innumerable errors—of those false and per-
verse doctrines which are attacking the Catholic
faith, no longer secretly and in the dark, but openly
and violently. You know how culpable men have
declared war against religion, by the assistance of a
false philosophy, of which they declare themselves
the doctors, by means of frauds, dra;vn up with
worldly ideas. This sacred seat, this chair, upon
which Jesus Christ has laid the foundation o► his
church, is particularly subject to their attacks.
Sacred things are unworthily made a mockery,
and the worship of the Lord having become an abo-
mination to the wicked, all that belongs to religion is
considered as ridiculous, fabulous, and vain supersti-
tions. We say with tears—" Yea, the lions are let
loose, roaring against Israel. Yea! they are united
against God and against Christ. Yea ! the impious
cry out aloud, destroy, destroy to the very foundation."
This is the object cf the dark manceuvres of the
sophists of this age, who regard with the same eye
the various professions of faith, and who declare
that the port of safety is open in every kind of
religion.
Venerable brothers, the people must be fortified
against these deceitful masters; they must be taught
that the Catholic faith is the only true one, accord-
ing to the words of the apostle—" One Lord, one
faith, one baptism"—and that, consequently, he is a
profane man, as St. Jerome said, who eats the pas-
chal lamb out of the house of the Lord, and will
perish in the deluge, and shall not be suffered to
enter the ark of Noah. Indeed, after the name of
Jesus " there is not another given to man, by
which to be saved; he who shall have believed,
will be saved—he who shall not have believed, will
be condemned."
Another object of our vigilance is those societies
which publish new translations of the lives of saints,
in all the vulgar: tongues,—translations made in op-
position to the most salutary rules of the church.
It is, besides, your duty, venerable brothers, to
turn your attention towards those secret societies of
factions men, the declared enemies of God and
Kings, who devote themselves entirely to desolate
the church, to destroy states, and to confuse the
universe; and who, bursting the rein of the true
faith, open a road to every kind of crime.
Among these secret societies we have determined
to point out particularly to your notice, one recently
formed, whose object is to corrupt the youth etlIP
cated in colleges and schools. As it is well 1tn61174
that the precepts of masters are all-powerful ire
forming the heart and mind of their pupils, all sorts
of pains and artifices are employed to give to youth
depraved masters, who lead it in the paths of Baal,
by the means of doctrines which are not of the
Lord. It is thus that we with sorrow see these
young people arrived at such a pitch of licence,
that having dismissed all fear of religion, banished
all moral restraint, despised the holy doctrines,
trampled under foot the rights of one power and of
another, they no longer feel ashamed to be guilty
of any disorder, any error, or any attempt ; that we
may say in . the words of Saint Leon-le-Grand,
" their law is falsehood, their God is the devil, and
their worship is that which is the most disgraceful."
Remove, venerable brothers, all these evils from
your dioceses, and endeavour, by all the means in
your power, by authority and by mildness, to effect
that men distinguished not only in the sciences and
letters, but also for their purity of life and piety,
shall be charged with the education of youth.
There is still, regard being had to the circum-
stances in which we are placed, another object,
which we have determined to recommend to all
the ardour of your zeal for the safety of men's souls.
It is, that full of solicitude for the sanctitude of the
marriage ceremony, you inculcate to your flocks the
same regard for that sacred tie, in such a manner
that nothing may take place to lessen the sanctity of
that holy sacrament, to dishonour the purity of the
nuptial bed, and finally, to give the least doubt of
the indissolubility of the conjugal union. 'lhe only
means of arriving at this happy result is by carefully
instructing the Christian people that the marriage
ceremony is not only subject to human laws, but also
to the divine law; and that it should not be ranked
among terrestrial objects, but among holy things,
and consequently that it is entirely with the church
to regulate it.
May the kings and princes of the world, those
whose minds arc so great and so elevated, favour
our efforts; and may He, who has given to them a
heart inclined to obey his command, so shower his
precious favours upon them, that they may be en-
abled courageously to do that which may tend to the
prosperity and to the safety of the church afflicted by
such heavy calamities.

Baron APCLELLAND has retired from the
Bench. He was called in 1790. In 1799 he gave his
vote for the Union ; he was shortly afterwards put upon
the Bench, and in 1829 he makes way, (as it is said) for
Mr. JOHN LESLIE FOSTER. Sic transit glories mundi !
—Dublin _Morning Register.

Boitrus-Cr-KANE.—The letters by yester-
day's conveyance announce, that SELLENGER, the police-
man, after a trial which lasted until nine at night, was ac-
quitted. The popular excitation, on this result, is stated
to be quite beyond the powers of description.—Dublin
Morning Register of Saturday.

The invigorating breezes of Cromer and Gor-
lcstone, during a residence of six weeks, have effected a
complete restoration of Lady WILLIAM LF.NNOX'S health,
and she will finally leave our county on the 24th inst.—
Norfolk Chronicle.
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EXECUTION.—This morning, JAS. BROWN,
alias KING, terminated his career upon the scaffold, at the
front of New ate. The prisoner was convicted of a bur-
glary at the house of Mr. NEWTON, at Stepney, at the last
Old Bailey Sessions, and being a most notorious character,
the law was left to take its course.

11URDERS.-011 •Friday last, a pig-drover
was murdered near Oranmore, within four miles of this
town. An inquest was held on the body, the issue of
which has not come to our knowledge. It is our painful
duty to state, that this evening a poor woman met with
a similar fate in the immediate outlets of Galway.—Con-
naught Journal.
ECCLESIASTICAL CASE Of SELECT VES-
TRIES AT Bow.—A few days ago, a most crowded meet-
ing of the inhabitants of St. Mary, Stratford, Bow, who
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