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him to repair to their court at Barcelona, to quest, he gave an account of the most concert plans for a more extensive expedi- striking events of his voyage, and a description. The letter was addressed to him by tion of the islands he had discovered. These the title of "Don Christopher Columbus, he pronounced to be mere harbingers of the our Admiral of the Ocean Sea, and viceroy discoveries he had yet to make, which would and governor of the islands discovered in add realms of incalculable wealth to their the Indies." Columbus set out on his dominions, and whole nations of proselytes journey to Barcelona, taking with him the to the true faith. When he had finished, six Indians, and the various curiosities and the Sovereigns sank on their knees, and productions he had brought from the New raising their hands to Heaven, poured forth World. The fame of his discovery had re- thanks to God for so great a providence; all sounded throughout Spain. Wherever he present followed their example; a solemn passed, the surrounding country poured enthusiasm pervaded the assembly, and forth its inhabitants. In the large towns, prevented all common acclamations of the streets, windows, and balconies, were triumph. Thus did the brilliant court of filled with spectators, who rent the air Spain celebrate the discovery of the New with acclamations. The multitude pressed World.—Washington Irving. to gain a sight of him and of the Indians, who were regarded as if they had been natives of another planet. Popular rumour had, as usual, exaggerated the truth, and filled the new-found country with all kinds of wonders. His entrance into Barcelona has been compared to one of those triumphs that the Romans decreed to a conqueror. The Indians, according to their savage fashion, decorated with tropical feathers and ornaments of gold, various kinds of live parrots, stuffed birds, animals of unknown species, tropical plants, Indian coronets, bracelets, and various other trophies of an unknown world, being paraded in front, made a conspicuous display. Columbus followed on horseback, surrounded by a brilliant cavalcade of Spanish chivalry. The streets were almost impassable, the very roofs being covered with spectators. The The Operative Printers' Guild, London.event was looked upon as a signal dispensa- We have received from this fraternity of Catholic sation of Providence in reward for the piety printers, several specimens of their workmanship, and of the monarchs; and hence there was a the ornament into consideration, they will bear a can truly say that, taking the design, the type, and sublimity in it that mingled a solemn feel- comparison with the productions of any other press ing with the public joy. To receive him in Britain. Acting upon the wisdom of our forewith suitable distinction, the monarchs had their throne placed in public, under a canopy of brocade of gold, in a vast saloon. Here the King and Queen, with the Prince Juan, the dignitaries of the court, and the chief nobles, awaited his arrival. Columbus entered the hall with a crowd of cavaliers, among whom, says an old author, he was conspicuous, for his stately and commanding person, which, with a countenance rendered venerable by his grey hairs, gave him the august appearance of a senator of Rome. A modest smile lighted up his features; and certainly nothing could more deeply move a mind inflamed by noble am- DEAR SIR,-I am very much pleased with the bition, than the gratitude of a nation, or articles on education which have already appeared in rather of a world. On his approach, the the "Bulletin," and which contain such just views Sovereigns rose, as if to receive a person of of that important subject. Your last article, headed "Godless Education," the highest rank. Bending his knee, Co-strikes me as particularly good, and one which, I am lumbus requested to kiss their hands; but sure, will meet with the hearty approval of all priests, their majesties hesitated to permit this act whose mission, like my own, lies in the large manuof vassalage. Raising him in a gracious facturing towns of England. As you truly remark, the higher classes or aristomanner, they ordered him to seat himself cracy amongst us, with few exceptions, value a sound in their presence-a rare honour in that Catholic education, and consequently send their proud and punctilious court. At their re-children to the Catholic colleges, or convents, to

fathers, and with a desire to avert the poverty and distress that too frequently overtake even the sober and industrious workman. in these days of mastermonopoly and operative serfdom, these men have associated for the temporal and spiritual advantages of themselves and families. We understand that their rules are chiefly drawn from those of the ancient Catholic Guilds, with such modifications as suit modern circumstances. They come out under the sanction of the clergy, and have already been honored with ecclesiastical patronage, as well as with the support of many influential laymen. Their object is praiseworthy, and we sincerely wish them all success. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BULLETIN.

St. Marie's. Sheffield,
Nov. 5th, 1852.

THE BELLS! how charming the associa- 2. THURSDAY, St. Bibiana, V.M., sem., red. 3rd tions they waken up! Who that has

wandered far away from his native city, 3. FRIDAY, St. Francis Xavier, C., d., white. town, or village, and returned again on a still summer evening as the bells were peal-4. SATURDAY, St. Peter Chrysologus, B.C.D., d., ing, has not felt his heart throb and his throat thicken at their sound, welcoming back the wanderer like some old friend, and in an instant, waking up a thousand recollections of his childhood. They sound like a mild voice from the skies, bringing back the memory of old faces and old friends.

THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP'S with us; for there is real communion, and a constant VISIT TO ST. JOHN'S, ISLINGTON, communication between us and them. We pray for ON THE EVE OF ALL SAINTS.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

So

those of the faithful who used our prayers and sacrifices; and we invoke the prayers of those who have obtained their reward, and are now basking in the blissful preHis Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop sang the sence of the Most Holy Trinity. But what are these first Vespers of the Feast of All Saints, at St. John's, holy commemorations of ours to the world, and to Islington. His Eminence arrived shortly after the those who are without the Fold of the One Holy hour appointed, accompanied by the Lord Bishop of Catholic Church? Alas! the very names of these Plymouth; and the clergy and their assistants were festivals, like the "Catholic Church," and the "Comready at the doors to receive the illustrious prelates. munion of Saints," in the Creed, are unmeaning The procession reached nearly the entire length of the sounds, or at best have but an earthly signification. church (which is a very large one); and crimson What, for instance, is that-I had almost said greatest— cloth was laid down from the western doorway to the festival (for it is so in some respects), "Lady Day," sanctuary. The processional cross was carried by as it is called, to people in this country? How many Mr. Francis Weale, the archiepiscopal cross by Mr. of those without the pale of the Catholic Church asBowyer, M.P., and the mitre and the crosier bearers sociate any religious thoughts whatever with our were the Chevalier de Zolueta and Mr. Gawthorn. Lady's Day, the feast of her Annunciation? You The very Rev. Dr. Maguire, Canon Theologian of know, my brethren, that the very name has become Westminster, and the Very Rev. Canon Oakeley, were utterly secularised, and that it is now merely a day His Eminence's deacons; and the Bishop of Plymouth for transacting business and settling accounts. was attended by Father Hood, S.J. (a convert), of St. again, with the feast of the great St. Michael-the Mary's, Westminster, and a Greek priest from Sidon. Prince of the Heavenly Host is not the same reCanon Searle acted as archdeacon. The Rev. T. mark equally applicable? And then, if we descend Dale was the Master of the Ceremonies, and the Rev. to those few lesser festivals which have been retained W. Dolan, and Mr. acted as cantors, vested in the calendar of the Reformation (apparently for no in copes. On arriving at the altar, the prelates and their religious purpose whatever)—St. Hilary's Day, for attendants knelt before the Blessed Sacrament; and instance, a great Catholic Bishop-who does not know the Cardinal Archbishop then proceeded to his throne, that this festival has now only a legal significance→ where he was divested of cappa, &c., and assumed being the day on which term commences at the courts the archiepiscopal vestments; the Bishop of Plymouth, of law. His Eminence observed how different the taking his seat on the opposite side of the sanctuary, case was with the Church, who had no empty forms, with his attendants on either side of him. When the or meaningless or ambiguous words, calculated only Cardinal Archbishop had vested, His Eminence to deceive the simple; for her whole Divine system, intoned the first versicles of the Vespers; and, at the and every part of it, and also her glorious Ritual conclusion of the Psalms and the hymn, the eminent were replete with vitality, and full of the highest sigprelate assumed his jewelled mitre and crosier, and nificance. There may be many things (continued proceeded to incense the altar during the singing of the Eminent Prelate) which we may not understand the Magnificat; after which the collect was sung by at the first glance, especially if we are uninstructed His Eminence, and the office concluded with the in the mysteries of the Faith and the services of the Pontifical Benediction. Mr. Dolan then ascended Church in which they are enshrined; but we must the pulpit and gave out the usual notices. He an- not, therefore, conclude that it is all a "mummery" nounced that on Wednesday there would be a (as people say), merely because we do not underRequiem Mass for the souls of the deceased bishops stand or appreciate it in a moment. Many of you, of the diocese, and on the following day, one for the my dear brethren (continued his Eminence), have, benefactors of the church. Also, that devotions for perhaps, come here to-night partly from a feeling of the holy souls in Purgatory would be recited every curiosity; and you may have asked yourselves, why evening during the month of November. When all this excitement and display? But recollect my these announcements were finished, the Cardinal observations about domestic festivals. Why, I ask, Archbishop rose from his throne, and taking his should there not be similar celebrations in the housecrosier, ascended the steps of the altar to deliver the hold of Faith? We have far greater events and persermon, his attendant deacons and the mitre and sons to commemorate than those to which I alluded: crosier-bearer standing on either side. His Emi- and why, therefore, are they to be ungratefully and nence commenced his discourse by observing, that unthankfully forgotten? No; if the Church's teachwhen we visited the house of a friend, and observed ing is a reality, if her doctrines and the lives of her it decorated more than usual, and the tables sump-saints are to be believed, we cannot do otherwise than tuously provided, we at once concluded that it was keep these solemn festivals. And to-day the Church, on the occasion of some domestic festival-the anni- in one vast commemoration, sums up as it were all the versary, probably, of the happy marriage of a saints' days of the year, and also remembers those daughter, or the noble exploits of a son on a distant many saints, local, perhaps, or otherwise, impossible shore. His Eminence remarked how natural and to be universally celebrated-for the days of the year reasonable all this was, and then proceeded to would not suffice for them all-and beseeches God to observe that, in the same manner, the Church had have mercy upon us at the prayers of these multiher joyful anniversaries, and that these holy festivals plied intercessors, through the Blood and Passion of were devoutly kept by her obedient children. She, His Divine Son. And, oh! (continued the eminent continued the Cardinal, draws no broad line of Prelate) how glorious, how consoling, how unutterably demarcation, between this world and the next; nor consoling is this Festival of all the Saints! Before are her sympathies and commemorations limited by this time next year, many of us, my dear brethren, the confines of time. She penetrates beyond the will probably have finished our course; and, perhaps, grave into the very ocean of eternity; and, as on the received the crown promised to faithful souls; and, one hand, she sympathises with, and earnestly prays then, how shall we look down with love and sympathy for, those of her children who are undergoing that on those who are keeping this festival at this very painful but necessary purgation, which all who are in altar, returning their homage and grateful veneration, the least defiled by sin must endure before they could with earnest supplications at the Throne of the be admitted into the presence of the All-Holy: so, Eternal in their behalf! Or, at any rate, many of us on the other hand, she devoutly rejoices with, and will certainly have entered upon our painful purgation, invokes the assistance of, those who have obtained their which we shall patiently and thankfully endure, with crowns, and are now reigning with Christ in Heaven. a certain prospect of alleviation, and admission to And thus it is, continued His Eminence, that the the Beatific Vision. Then how consoling, I say again, "communion of saints" is no unmeaning form of words is this our festival! You see now why it is that we

have decked our altar with symbols of gladness, and is, that it is on account of this practice that the exmade this temple resound with the voice of thanks- pression is usedgiving. This is the cause of our joy; this is why (if

Sumitur Pallium ex corpore Sancti Petri. I may be permitted to speak of myself) the father of the The learned author, Butler, however, mentions, in family has come amongst his children to-day, to rejoice his life of St. Agnes, that the nuns, to whom the care and to praise God with them; and not for any of the lambs are confided, are those of "St. Laurenpurpose of mere pomp or display. Let us then, ces, in Panisperna, and sometimes to the Capucistrive to live, my dear brethren and children, in such nesses." a manner that, when our earthly career is run, we may (through whatever trials and sufferings) be found meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light; and God grant that not one of us may forfeit that reward which He has promised to all those who truly love Him, and faithfully keep His

commandments.

THE PALLIUM.

For further information on this subject, we beg to refer our readers to Butler's Lives of the Saints, vol. i. pp. 89, 760 (Dublin edition, 1833); Bergier Dictionnaire de Theologie, vol. vi., p. 184 (Paris, 1841); Audin, Histoire de Martin Luther, vol. i., pp. 121, 122 (Paris, 1845): Aligemeine Realencyclopadie, vol. vii., pp, 1023, 1024 (Ratisbon, 1848); all works referring to or quoting ancient authorities with respect to the Pallium.

Our readers are aware that the Archbishop of The clouds of antiquity cover over the precise Dublin has just received the Pallium. The attachmoment when the Archiepiscopal Pallium was, for ment of Ireland to the See of Rome dates so long back the first time, bestowed; but it is supposed by as the fifth century; and the love of Rome for Ireland ancient authors, it was first tendered, when Christianity has continued unbroken from that time to the present. was acknowledged as the religion of the State, by the It is the same in the Pontificate of Pious IX. as it Emperor Constantine to Pope Sylvester, and that it was in that of Eugenius III., when Ireland received was so bestowed as an emblem of the royalty of the from Rome four new Archbishops. As in the year Christian priesthood. (Chronica Segia S. Panta-1166, the Pontiff blesses Ireland, when he bestows, in leonis in Eccard Corp. Histor. Med., vol. i., p. 769:1852, the Pallium upon the meek and pious Paul, S. Gregor. Oper., vol. ii., p. 518)

We find mention made of the Pallium, as an episcopal ornament of Bishops, bestowed in the fourth century by the Pontiffs of Rome (Baronius, a. 336, s. 63) that the regulation was laid down in the fifth century, that it should not be worn during the times of fasting and mortification (Baronius, a. 451, s. 63)that, in the sixth century, its signification was explained, and various regulations made respecting it. (Baronius, &. 553, s. 79; a. 593, s. 49; a. 595, s. 58; a 597, s. 15)-that, in the first year of the seventh century, it was bestowed by Saint Gregory the Great upon Saint Augustin, the Apostle of England (Baronius. a. 601, s. 23), a circumstance to which we shall presently call the more particular attention of our readers that the use of it is referred to in the eighth century-(Baronius, a. 743, s. 56)-that it was declared to be the emblem of great power, and its signification, and its use more than once referred to, in the ninth century (Baronius, a 832, s. 6; a 867, s. 40; a 873, s. 2). In the eleventh century we find it bestowed upon several Archbishops, by the Roman Pontiffs (Baronius, a. 1006, s. 5; a. 1013, s. 7.; a. 1033, s. 7.; a. 1043, s. 1; a. 1062, s. 114-118; a. 1071, s. 5; a. 1072, s. 35; a. 1085, s. 13; a. 1089, s. 7; a. 1091, s. 13)-that, in the twelfth century, the reasons were explained, by the See of Rome, why it was bestowed upon an Archbishop (Baronius, a. 1114, s. 10)—and, in the same century, we find it conferred upon the great saint and martyr, St. Thomas, of Canterbury (Baronius, a. 1162, s. 21)—he who died bedewing the steps of the altar with his blood, in defence of the self-same principle-the independence of the Church.

Archbishop of Dublin; and to the latter might be addressed, in the bestowal of the Pallium, those words which the sainted Pope Gregory (respecting whom there is a tradition in this country that he was an Irishman), when sending the Pallium, in the year 601, to St. Agustine.

The words of the Pope, that we are about to quote, we would remind our Protestant friends, were written in the year 601, and respecting their authenticity there cannot be the slightest doubt, for they are to be found in Bede (book i., chap. 29). They are as follows:

It is certain that, for those who labour in His cause, the Almighty God has reserved the ineffable rewards of His everlasting kingdom; still it is necessary for us, to grant to such the benefit of the honours that it is in our power to bestow, that they may be incited alike by zeal, and the remuneration they receive, more diligently to perseverance in their toil. Because the new Church of the English has been brought to the grace of the Almighty, through His bounty and your labours, we concede to you the privilege of wearing the Pallium, during the solemnity of Mass, but at that time only: "Usum tibi pallii in ea ad sola missarum solemnia agenda concedimus."-Telegraph.

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"The Pallium," observes Alban Butler, in the life" To the Editor of the Bulletin, Clarence-place, York." of St. William, "which the Pope sends to Arch-X-(Peterborough).-We fancy you are in error; bishops, is an ornament worn upon their shoulders, with a label hanging dowu upon the breast and back. It is made of white lambs' wool, and spotted with purple crosses, and is worn as a token of the spiritual jurisdiction of metropolitans over the churches of their whole province. It is regarded as an emblem of humility, charity, and innocence, and serves to put the Prelate in mind, that he is bound to seek out, and carry home on his shoulders, the strayed sheep, in imitation of Christ, the Good Shepherd, and Prince of Pastors. Cardinal Bona says, the white lambs are blessed on the festival of St. Agnes, in her church on the Nomentan-road, and from that time kept in some nunnery until they are shorn, and of the wool are the Palliums made, which are laid over the tomb of St. Peter the whole night of the vigil before the feast of the Apostle." That which Butler does not mention

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blandishments and cajolery of power.

[PRICE ONE PENNY' THE PROSPECTS OF CATHOLICITY "the difficulty" of Sovereigns, Parliaments, IN BRITAIN. Cabinets, Premiers, and Viceroys, passively Those who, from sectarian prejudices, or resisting tyranny, growing under persecution, political hatred, have found it their duty or calmly despising confinement, banishment, interest to stand in bitter opposition to the confiscation, and death, and what is perhaps Church of Christ, have ever been revilers of more complimentary still, spurning the her doctrines, scoffers of her ceremonies, and scorners of everything which her faith- We remain the difficulty of our governors, ful followers venerate or hold sacred. "By because they cannot understand us; because these marks you shall know them." But no they look upon us as a section of the comsubject, which engages our belief, whether munity that, in their minds, should submit as an established article of faith, or an oc- both in spirituals and temporals to those mancurrence worthy of credence on historical or made laws which govern others. Strange that other rational authority, shocks their sen- the experience of three hundred years of bitter sitive nerves so much as the miracles which and sanguinary, and bootless persecution, we say still exist in the Church, and, God on their parts, should not have removed the so willing, shall continue to distinguish her scales from their eyes, and shewn them the from those usurpers of the sacred office, stern dignity of the Church, suffering, but who, like Nadab and Abiu, offer incense unyielding; patient, but determined; strange with unhallowed fire. They will not believe that, in her resistance to the world, they that "the Almighty can do infinitely more could not perceive proofs of her Divine than they can comprehend;" or that by origin; strange that, in England's baffled means of a standing miracle, prominent to efforts to raze her very foundations, her their mind's eye, and palpable to their visual tyrants could not discover her imperishable organs, he permits them, like Pharaoh, to nature. Not a monarch, nor a faction, nor harden their own hearts, that seeing, they a premier, nor a privy council, that has may not believe, and hearing, they may not ruled the destinies of England since the understand. Eighth Henry usurped the spiritual supreYet, so it is. Now, were we presump-macy, but has fallen into the same eggregituously to attempt to draw distinctions be-ous error. Each had a separate plan for ruptween supernatural occurrences, and speak rooting Catholicity; and yet the Church, of things beyond our comprehension, as like a stately tree, in the vigour of health greater or less miraculous in their nature, and beauty, shoots her roots far into the we might almost be justified in saying, that earth, spreads her branches to the four since the establishment of Christianity on winds of Heaven, gives forth her flowers the ruins of the Pagan Empire, the existence and her fruits, and within her umof the Catholic Church in these islands is brageous foilage affords shelter and security by far the most striking miracle on record. to thousands who, erst-while, had ranged The Resurrection of the Church from the themselves in the ranks of her enemies. All Catacombs, and the triumphs of true Re- these, and countless other facts, are patent ligion over Idolatry and Superstition, are to the eye of common sense, and should be glorious facts on which we look back with palpable also to the understanding of our humble thankfulness, and from which we rulers; but they will not avail themselves draw hope, as typical of our own condition of the knowledge thus presented to them. and prospects. The Church in Rome, for Lord John Russell, in commencing his inthe first three centuries, was the great glorious campaign, could not have been "difficulty" of the Pagan Emperors, Senators, ignorant of the enduring nature of that and Governors, and every species of cruelty power, which he wantonly sought to irritate and barbarity was resorted to in vain to extirpate "The New Sect." For the last three centuries the Church, in this realm, has been

and humble, by his uncalled for and illconcocted penal enactments. His poisoned arrows either fell harmless at the feet of the