Year: 1875




EXCLUSIVE PUBLICATION OF THE BISHOPS PAS


ToRAL LETTER IN THE HERALD EXCITEMENT


AMONG THE PEoPLE-PRoBABLE ACTION OF


THE 1NsTIrUr cAHADIEN-THE DECREE OF


THE PRIyY COUNCIL.


MONTREAL Canada, Sept 13, 1875.


1t is matter Of grave surprise 10 the newspapers oi
Montreal that they should have missed the Bishops
pastoral letter read yesterday and that the New YORK
HERALD should be the first only journal to give to
the world the uttered by the Bishop upon
the ground where Guibord may chance TO be buried
Neither the Bishops own official organ, the Nouuedu
Monde. the French paper, La Ainerre, nor either
Of the English morning papers any other sheet
even an intimation of this strange and re-
markable document The news agencies in New
York telegraphed to their operators askini
whether the HERALD special a true 70
port and thus it soon generally known
that these columns had published the curse in fun
prior any paper printed. The HERALD OF to-day ar
rves here night at eleven o'clock, and though the
Bishops letter not obtained until late hour asi
night and had to be translated from French into Eng
lish and then wired all the way to New York, the
HERALD containing it will be distributed in Montreal
tonight before the Montreal morning papers of to.
morrow have gone to press The Evening STAR com
mentlng upon this, says:-


Bishop bourgeois pastoral Guibord's burial was
promulgated from the altar Of the French Cathedral
yesterday morning Not a word of this important
document appears this morning in our enterprlsine
morning journals although the active correspondent OF
the HERALD could obtain copy To telegraph to that
journal yesterday afternoon and so it appears in New
York Ia advance of our local papers


This being the the letter has not as yet been
fully circulated so as create any marked popular
effect but among those who farniarw with its pun
port


Widest EXCITEMENT


II
cursng the ground, violates the mandates Of his SOW
eregn which that Joseph Gubord should be placed
in consecated ground while the Bishops flock, on the
other hand say that the ground is consecrated until
Guibord's body is buried, and thus the law
of the Queen is fulfilled to the letter, the
not taking effect until the grave is filed Here
there is very fine distinction and which
there is sure to be the most terrific struggle Since the
reading of the pastoral letter have had oppor
tuny of conversng with Mr.. Dantres the head of tho
Instltut Canadien and perhaps the most able lawyer
in Canada. IL is he who carried this Guibord affair
against the Church to England, whoIhere secured q
favorable decision from the Prvy Council, and who,
week or so ago. headed GuiDord's funeral process
sion 10 the gates of the Cote des Neiges.
The Institut Canadien has placed all in
his hands, and until he chooses TO open his
mouth action the Institut concerning the Bish-
ops cannot be ascertained In the meantime
the lnstitut receiving numerous letters from lib
era Catholics in the United States prasng them for
the course they have pursued, and several offers OF
aid have been advanced in case necessity requires It,
feel that


has at last been reached and that serious trouble muse
needs be the consequence. 1t cannot be otherwise
The integrity, dignity and honor OF the Insut Cana
dien at stake and If the Church carries its
points the Institut crumbes at once into nothing
As the morning papers of Montreal
distribute among the citizens of Canada the news
which, by this time, been circulated in the columns
of the HERALD throughout the entire United States,
some insight may be caught of the dangerous issues
TO result. AT present an is dark but ominous.


have learned from very good and reliable authority
that the government has ordered the Sheriff of Montreal
to bury Gubord this week. and that he is ut liberty to
call out the military if necessary Just at present the
Sheriff is absent, but is daily expected to arrive