The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-06-01
The King and the Cardinal.

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which presented an address to King
Edward was headed by His Eminence
Cardinal Vaughan, who presented the
address, and included the Duke Of Nor
folk, Lord Llandoff, Lord Edmund
Talbot, M. P; the bishops Of Birming-
ham, Northampton, Clifton, Hexham
and Newcastle, Menevia, Nottingham,
Portsmouth, Stafford, Shrewsbury and
Southwark; Bishop Graham, coadjutor
for Plymouth (the bishop Of Plymouth
too aged to undertake the journey to
London), Bishop Patterson, Bishop
Bripdle "a former very popular army
chaplain), and Bishop Preston. The
deputation was representative Of the
hierarchy, clergy, peers and common
ers, members of the Roman Catholic
church in England. The following is
the full text of his address:
MAY it please Your Majesty:
eve, the cardinal, archbishop and
bishops of the Roman Catholic church
i'll England and Representatives of the
clergy and laity, peers and common
ers, humbly approach your majesty
upon the earliest occasion since your
accession 10 the throne, in order to
tender to you our allegiance and our
loyal devotion to your throne and per-
son. While we have deeply grieved
with your majesty and the royal fam
lily on the loss which has recently
plunged the whole empire into mourn
ing, we may now be permitted to
thank God that in your majesty He
has given us sovereign so well fitted
to rule over this great empire by the
years Of preparation and labor which
you have devoted to becoming &C.
quainted with the wants and charac-
ter of your multitudinous subjects.
Your majesty's life has been spent in
the midst Of your people, sharing in
their happiness and prosperity, active
ly engaged in ameliorating the condi-
ton Of the lowly, and in promoting the
comfort of sick and suffering. All
classes Of the population-the leisured,
the professional, the Industrial, and
the poor-have been the object of
your sympathy and interest. These
facts, which are manifest, form hap
py omen for the future. Our prayers
are continually offered up for your
majesty, especially after the principal
mass on each Sunday; and we venture
to assure you that none of your sub
jects pray more fervently or more fire.
quently that your reign may be long,
beneficent and adorned by every Chris
tian virtue-that you may ever be vic
torious and prosperous in peace-and
that He who is the way, the truth and
the life, may guide and bless our king
and queen and their royal family in
the world, and may open to them here
after the gates Of the eternal king
DOM"
His Majesty's reply was as follows:
II receive with hearty appreciation
the dutiful address which you have
presented to me today. 1t affords me
much satisfaction to know that the
Roman Catholic subjects sympathize
with me and my family i'll the heavy
affection which has recently befallen
us; that they tender ne the encourage
ment of their loyal good wishes in tho.
prosecution of the great task which
lies before me as sovereign of this en-
pire, and that they continually offer up
devout aspirations for my prosperity
and that Of Queen Alexandria and of
the members Of my house. 1t will be
my endeavor to promote to the best of
my ability the enjoyment of the bless
ings Of liberty, tolerance, peace and
goodwill among all classes of my peo-
pie"