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reason to rejoice at their escape from the
fatal and wholesale effects of the heated
term and sitting atmosphere of all the other
large cities of the country, and to congratu-
late themselves upon the wisdom which
guided them to Chicago to spend the sum-
mer.
ULTRAM0NTANE MALED1cT10N.
It was sad spectacle Of the lack Of Chris
tian charity, Of the acidity Of q once-sweet
end gentle character, Of the fury, harmless
in this instance, aroused by longing for po-
itical power, that Pope P1us TX. afforded
the world at the recent feast Of Corpus
Domini in Rome. The occasion was nota-
Bile one. It was not only q great solemn
festival day, but it was also on that day that
the Pope completed the thirtieth yenr of his
pontifcate. The dignitaries of the Church
made it the occasion Of splendid demonstra-
ton in his honor. The Cardinals were in at
tendance. All the Roman nobility and high
representatives of the Church, from near and
far, also gathered to pay their respects and
tender their congratulations to the Holy
Father; and, to add to the interest, band of
400 Ultramontane German pilgrims came
from the very heart of the enemy's country
to manifest their loyalty to the Papa1 throne
and acknowledge its supremacy over body
and soul, over spiritual powers and temporal
thrones. Surely here, if ever, was the occa-
sion for the head Of the ancient and powerful
Church to make an address which should be
worthy Of the day as a festival and as mile
stone in his pontiical progress. Upon such
day, and in the midst of such m assemblage,
the whole world, irrespective of sect, or creed,
or belief, might naturally look for calm re-
view of the past, and sage advice for his fol-
lowers as to the future. The Holy Father is
an old man, On the verge of his grave, with
ittle probability that he can reach another
anniversary of this lind. The world, there
fore, would naturally expect to hear from
him calm, thoughtful, ,dispassionate, solemn
statement OF the condition Of the Church,
words Of Christian forgiveness for his en-
emies, q forgetfulness Of former hardness
and asperity, and such adnonitions to his
followers as would crown the close Of his life
with calm dignity bedtting his white hairs,
and forever enshrine his name in blessed
memory. But the world must be disap-
pointed. The venerable Prelate made no
review OF the past, gave no advice for the
future, had no timely admonitions for his
followers. His few words were violent,
vehement, and bitter. They commenced
with malediction and ended with anatllema
mnranaLha. There Was lamentation, not for
the wickedness of the world, but for this
loss Of his temporal possessions There
were curses, not only against his German
foes, but against all men, past and present,
who have dared to question the dogmas. He
hurled curses at the graves Of dead monarchs
and the heads Of living ones. He threatened
the German Emperor with the fate Of
AN11ooHus, and held up ADDU1-Az1z as a
warning to other thrones, although what
the late Sultan did to offend the Holy
Father, or what part heiplayed in the ecclesi-
astical wrangle, We do not know.
The substance Of the Papal speech lies in
the declaration to the Cardinals, " We are all
in kind Of slavery" He compared the
Church to TOBIAS in slavery, and said:
" SENNAcHERm was killed by his sons, and
TOBIAS was able to return to his tribe; and,
let them remark, not only free to A1s tribe, but
to all those rich possessions echich asere his be-
,Joae he eoas carried of from his country" and
closed with the following prophetic and
bloody vision: 1.-The Church must triumph
aud the Revolution perish. TIE fathers zoiU
It'll the sous and the sons soiU kill ttei" fathers,
and all those born Of the Rccoztttio,s aoiX derour
each OTHER" In subsequent interview on
the same day with the German pilgrims, be
narrated to them the Divine vengeance which
had overtaken RArAzz1, which had brought
disaster to the French and Austrian arms in
recent WAITS, which consigned ABDu1-Az1z to
his grave, and killed ANT1ooHus,-the latter
symbolical Of the approaching fate Of the
German Emperor.
Such malevolent ma1ediction against that
accept the Papal political dogmas do not need
comment They will fall harmless because
he has not the power to carry them out, but
they are none the less piiable. The saddest
part Of the spectacle is that all this luminosity
is displayed, not On account Of any interfer-
ence with the spiritual concerns or creed of
the Church, but because, in the absurd and
i1eligious struggle with civilization, human
thought, and human progress, for the pos
session Of the things that are CEsAR's, and
for the right to dictate to CEsAn what he
shall do with his own, he has been worsted.
The malediction is brutum tttEnaez, but the
launching of the bolt from such feeble hands,
which should have been stretched in blessing
over all the world, is none the less sorry
sight.
AN IRISH DEBATE m PARLIAMENT.
A remarkable debate took place in the |
British House of Commons on the 30th of !!
June, which We find reported in the London
Times Of the next day with long editorial
comment. Mr. Butt, member from Linn
erick, who is the recognized head of the |
F" Home-Rule" party in Ireland, moved g
resolution directing special committee to
inquire into tile circumstances and condition
Of Ireland, and to:report such legislation as