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IMPORTANT LETTER OF THE
EMPEROR,
p AiUS> 13th April.—The Journal
Official '* which was published unusually
late this morning, contains a letter of the
Frrmeror to M. Kouher, dated yesterday,
inferring to the 15th of August next,
the centenary anniversary of the birth
J Xapoleou the First. The Emperor
savs :* “The best mode of celebrating
national jubilee would be to give
AO aid to our veteran comrades who
served under the Emperor. I propose
tu charge the Bank of Deposit with the
pavment of increased life annuities to
a rred soldiers and in return to place at
the disposal of the bank the credit allot
ted for that purpose by the Chamber for
the number of years required to replace
the amount advanced. The estimates of
the Budget will therefore in no wise
Le altered.” The Emperor proceeds
to say: “He wishes that from April
1 5th every soldier who had served
under the Republic and under the
First Empire should receive an annual
pension of 250 francs. His Majesty
expresses a hope that the Legis
lative Body will receive this proposal
with the patriotic feelings which animate
that assembly. The Emperor concludes
j,v saying, “The Legislative Body will
think with me that a time when every
one complains of progress of scepticism
it is fitting to reward patriotic devotion,
and revive its memory in the present
generation. To rewaken great historical
recollections is to strengthen faith in
the future, and to render homage to the
memory of great men is to recognise one
of the most striking manifestations of the
Divine will.”
In yesterday’s sitting of the Legisla
tive body, Marshal Neil, after defining
the necessity for maintaining the present
great military divisions added. Within
eight or nine days we should always be
able to have 600.000 men under arms.
However 28,000 of the regular contin
gent together with 11,000 Volunteers
have been allowed to return to their
homes. Only soldiers on six months
furlough and belonging to the conscrip
tions since the year 1863 have been re
quired to join their regiments.
Paris 13th April, Evg.—The Const i
tut-ionnel of this evening publishes a
letter from the Duke de Persigny, in
which lie denies rumors of his having
advised certain ministerial combinations,
or of his having offered to join in such
combinations if effected.
Iu to day’s sitting of the Legislative
body the debate upon the estimates of the
Ministry of War was resumed. Marshal
Neil, Minister of War, in reply to a
question from M. Gamier Pages, said
that the effective strength of the army
would never exceed 400,000 men. The
six months furlough soldiers who were
recently called out for exercise would be
sent back to their homes after having
been inspected. An amendment demand
ing the suppression of the Imperial
Guard, and a reduction of 200,000 men
on the effective army was rejected.
The Fenian Convicts. —A return lias
been issued to-day of the names of the
Fenian convicts not proposed to be re
leased, stating what portion of their sen
tences is unexpired. Those confined in
Great Britain and Ireland are: Thomas
F.Burke, John M’Cafferty, Jno. M’Clure,
and Jeremiah O’Donovan (Rossa), for
the remainder of their lives: Thomas
Clarke Luby, the remainder of 20 years,
from Ist December, 1865; John O’Leary,
20 years from the 6th of December, 1865;
Michael Sheehy, 20 years from 28th
duly, 1867; John Devoy, 15 years, from
19di February, 1867; William Ilalpin,
15 years from 25th October, 1867; John
Francis Kearns, 15 years from 2d May,
18G7: Edward Power, 15 years from
19th February, 1867; Patrick Walsh, 15
years, from 11th June, 1867; Patrick
F" 11 non, 15 years, lrom 1 Otli February,
1%8: Brian Dillon, 10 years, from 14th
December, 1865; Charles Underwood
O’Connell, 10 years, from 14th Decem
ber. 1865: Dennis Downing Mfclcahy, 10
y eais, lrom 24th January, 1867 ; Morti
mer Shea, a/ifls' Moriarty, 10 years from
Mb August, 1867; William Mackey, 12
years, from 9th March, 1868; ‘ John
Murphy, alias O’Leary, 7 years, from
17th July, 1865; and Martin Hanley
5 years, from 18th January,
;866. Those confined in Australia are
~yFuward John Kelly, for the remainder
°‘ his life; James Dunne, alias Cody, for
Die remainder of 20 years from Bth
Aprils 1867 ; John Ford, 15 years, 1867:
Cornelius Dwyer Cane, 10 years, from
J ‘ th January, 1866; Thomas Baines,
i" years, from 19th February, 1867;
I>av id Bradley, 10 years, from 11th
•nuie, 1867; Thomas Fennell, 10 years,
Dom 15th July, 1867; George Francis
onuolly, < \ears, from Bth April, 1867;
and James Kearney, 5 years, from 2d
May, 1867.
We subjoin a list of persons now in
the convict prisons who are under sen
tence of penal servitude for offences in
connection with the Fenian conspiracy,
and who were convicted in England,
with the portion of sentence still unex
pired : Edward Shore and Patrick Melo
dy, peDal servitude for life; John Bran
non, 3 years, 6 months, 3 weeks; Thomas
Scatley, 3 years, 6 months, 3 weeks;
Timothy Featherstone, 3 years, 6 months,
3 weeks; William Murphy, 3 years, 6
months, 3 weeks; Patrick Doran, 5 years,
11 months; Henry Shaw, 6 years;
Richard Burke, 14 years; Chas. Moore
house, 3 years, 0 months; John Carroll,
3 years, 6 months; Daniel Redden 3
years, 6 months; James Anderson alias
Loam, 3 years, 10 months; Patrick Ryan,
3 years, 11 months; William Pherson
Thompson, penal servitude for life; and
Peter Mohan, 9 years, 1 month.— Cork
Examiner.
The Prince of Wales Insulted.—
The Dublin Evening Mail makes an ef
fort to undo the effect of the behavior
of the students of Trinity on the occa
sion of the visit of Prince Arthur. It
has a quasi contradiction in the following
terms:
“There is no foundation whatever for
an insinuation, made in the Freeman s
Journal of this morning, that his Roval
Highness Priuce Arthur left the Mu
seum building in Trinity College, on
Saturday, on a groan being called for
by the students lor the Lord Lieutenant.
No such groan was called for or given.
The Prince and the Viceregal party were
courteously received by the students,
botli in the Examination Hall and in the
Museum building. There was no fur
ther haste in the departure than was ne
cessary from the fact that a special train
was waiting to convey his Excellency,
his Royal Highness, and the Viceregal
party to Powerscourt.
This is a very iame way of meeting the
clear, distinct statements of the reporter
of the Freeman s Journal , while it is
rather curious that the denial is confined
to one paper. The Conservative morn
ing papers confirm the Freeman's account
to the extent of stating that the polite
students of Trinity greeted the Prince
and the Lieutenant with “groans for
Maynooth,” the significance of which
will be understood when it is remem
bered that the Priuce and the Lord Lieu
tenant were just after returning from the
college. Had the Maynooth students
greeted their distinguished visitors with
hootings of a rival Protestant institution,
which they were on their way from
visiting, there would be no end of com
mentary on the rudeness of these “sons
of peasants.” But when the students of
aristocratic Trinity behave as a pack of
unmannerly curs, of course there is
nothing' for it but to hush the mailer up
as completely as possible.
An Irish General. —The French
army has just lost one of its most gallant
officers by the death, after only two or
three days iliness, of General O’Malley.
He was the son of one of the lrigh emi
grants of ’9B, who entered the French
service under the Consulate. The late
General, who was in his 75th year,
served for a long time in Algeria. He
commanded a regiment in the Crimea,
aud got the English medal with three
clasps. He served in the Italian cam
paign, when he got his promotion as
general of brigade for his distinguished
bravery at Magenta. He accompanied
the French expeditionary force under
General Montauban to China, and on
the departure of the General-in-Chief
was left in command of the troops.
Subsequent]y he was sent to take the
command of the subdivision of Constan
tine, then of Marseilles, aud lastly in
the Department of the Nievre. About
six or eight months ago, he was, at his
own request, placed on half-pay. He
iiad suffered much from a wound in the
ear received in China; it was never
healed, and the attempt to stop the sup
puration is thought to have brought on
the erysipelas which carried him off in
two or three days. He was Commander
of the Legion of Honour; Commander
of the Turkish Order of the Medjidie;
Commander of the Italian Order of St.
Maurice and St. Lazare; and had, more
over, the Imperial Military Medal, aud
the Chinese aud Italian Medals. A
body of military attended the religious
service iu the Church of St. Severin, in
the 11th Arrondisement of Paris, and
paid him the usual honors in the Ceme
tery of Montparnasse, where lie was in
terred.— Times.
Death of A Wothy Irishman. —On
the morning of our national anniversary
one of the purest spirits among the faith
ful Irish exiles in London passed away
—a true Irish heart, ever responsive to
the promptings of the noblest impulses,
was stilled for ever in death. Endowed
with talents which, under other circum-
stances and in another country, would
have raised him to a high position in
society, possessed of a warm, generous
nature, “kindly Irish of the Irish,’' and
imbued with a spirit of a patient, self
sacrifice for others rarely equalled, it is
no marvel that Mr. Meade O’Dwyer
should have endeared himself to all who
had the privilege of knowning him. His
name will long be remembered by many
“brave hearts and true” as one of the
foremost in the van of that Spartan band
of patriots here in the metropolis of
England, who, through good report and
ill, through all the disasters of the past
four years, and the dangers that menaced
them on all sides,- even into the gloom of
the dungeon and under the shadow of
the scaffold, only closed their ranks the
firmer against the foe, and stood
shoulder to shoulder with an unexamp
led fidelity to the cause of freedom and
fatherland. His life long ambition was
to die for the freedom of his native land,
and his wish was gratified; for as surely
as Allen, O’Brien, and Larkin, died on
the scaffold, O’Neill Crowley in the open
field, and Duffy in the prison vault, for
Ireland, so, surely did Meade O’Dwyer
sacrifice his life for his country, when in
her service he contracted the seeds of the
rapid consumption which hurried him to
his grave. While passionately devoted
to Ireland, he was always a true son of
Holy Church, and ever zealous in the
discharge of his religious duties, a cir
cumstance which ensured him a happy
death, and enabled him to meet the
inevitable approach of the grim “king of
terrors” with a fortitude and a resigna
tion truly edifying.— Universal News.
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Catholic Intelligence,
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
The Provincial Council of Baltimore
—lmpressive Ceremonies at the Ca
thedral— The Prelates—The Proces
sion—Pontifical Mass — The Sermon
The Music—Officers of the Coun
cil, (f'C.
[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.]
The tenth Provincial Council of the
Roman Catholic Church in the Province
of Baltimore, under the jurisdiction of
the Most Rev. Archbishop Spalding,
was opened yesterday (the fourth Sun
day after Trinity,) with imposing cere
monies at the Cathedral, and will be
closed on next Sunday, May 2d.
The following is a list of the prelates
in attendance, comprising mostly Bish
ops: Most Rev. Martin J. Spalding,
D. D., Archbishop of Baltimore, Md.;
Right Rev. Richard W. Whelan, D. D.,
Senior Prelate am! Bishop of Wheeling,
West Ya.; Right Rev. John McGill, D.
D., Bishop of Richmond, Va.; Right
Rev. P. N. Lynch, D. L., Bishop of
Charleston, S. C.; Right Rev. James
F. Wood, D. D., Bishop of Philadelphia,
Pa.; Right Rev. Michael Dominic, D. D.,
Bishop of Pittsburg, Pa.; Right Rev.
Augustine Verofc, D. D., Bishop of Sa
vannah; Right Rev. William O’Hara,
D. D , Bishop of Scranton, Pa.; Right
Rev. Jeremiah F. Shanahan, D. D.,
Bishop of Harrisburg, Pa.; Right Rev.
Tobias Mullin, D. I)., Bishop of Erie;
Right Rev. Thomas A. Becker, D. D.,
Bishop of Wilmington, Del.; Right Rev.
Jas. Gibbons, D. D., Bishop of Ad
ramythim, in part, and Viear Apostolic
of North Carolina; Right Rev. Ignatius
Persico, D. D., Bishop of Gratianopolis,
in part, Inf. et Miss.; Right Rev. Abbas
Bonifacius Wimmer, Abbot of the Order
of St. Benedict.
THE PROCESSION'.
The weather yesterday was bright and
beautiful, and the streets in the vicinity
of the Cathedral were early crowded
with persons to witness the ecclesiasti
cal display. The doors and windows of
the dwelling houses in the neighborhood
were also tilled with spectators of the
scene. At 10 o’clock A. M. the proces
sion moved from the front of the Arch
bishop’s residency in Charles street,
passing round into Mulbur}" street, and
thence to the front entrance of the Ca
thedral, the bells of the church ringing
continuously, and the clergy singing’
psalms and chanting antiphonally. The
Young Catholics’ Friend Society of
Baltimore, under the direction of their
President, 31 r. Alexander J. Bland,
numbering about 200 members, acted as
a guard of honor. The procession
moved in the following order :
The censer bearer and second master
of ceremonies; the Cross bearer with a
large golden crucitix, between the aco
lytes, carrying candlesticks; the semi
narians and choristers, theologians,
Priests, Ac., of the city and province—
those in second orders in dalmatics, and
the Priests in chasubles; the twelve
Bishops of the Province of Baltimore in
mitre and cope, according to the time of
their consecration, with croziers in hand,
each followed by two boys as train-bear-
ers; the senior Bishop, Rt. Rev. Dr
Whelan, pontifieally dressed to celebrate
Mass, preceded by his assistant Priests,
and between the Deacon and Sub-Deacon •
the Archbishop’s Cross; the Archbishop,
between the very Rev 11. B Coskery,
Vicar-General, and the Very Rev.
Thomas Foley, Chancellor, followed by
the Archbishop’s Secretary and crozicr
and mitre-bearers. The rich vestments
of the Bishops, and their emblems of rank
and authority, had a brilliant effect in the
bright sunlight.
The church, at an early hour, was
filled in every part, except the centre
aisle.
As the procession, which numbered
over one hundred ecclesiastics, entered
the Cathedral, a grand march, com
posed by Professor Lin hard, the organ
ist, was pei formed with a full orchestra.
The procession passed slowly up the
centre aisle to the altar, where the
bishops and their attendants took the
places prescribed for them, and remained
stat,ding until the Archbishop arrived at
his seat, when all then became seated,
the clergy and others being seated in
front of the altar railing.
PONTIFICAL MASS.
Grand Pontifical High Mass was then
celebrated by the Right Rev. Bishop
\\ helan. Haydn’s sixteenth mass was
sting by the full choir, under the direc
tion of Professor Gegan. Before the
sermon the Veni Sanctus Spirit us, by
Dietsch, was sung by the choir.
The sermon was preached by Right
Rev. Bishop McGill, from the 14th
chapter of St. John, in which Christ
comforteth his disciples, “Let not your
heart be troubled, ye believe in God;
believe also in mi,” &c. The discourse
was listened to with much interest. At
the offertory Hummel’s Alma I if go was
sung by the choir.
OPENING OF TIIE PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.
Alter the close of the morning service,
the Archbishop moved to the front of
the altar, when the opening of the ses
sion of the Provincial Council was com
menced—all the proceedings being in
Latin. The reading of the 68th Psalm
was followed by a prayer addressed to
the Virgin, invoking the light and grace
ot the Holy Ghost upou the proceedings
ot the council. The litany of the Saints
,wax then recited, the responses being
made by the full voices of all present
with unusual effect. A portion of the
ninth chapter of St. Luke was read,
“Aud he sent them to preach the king
dom of God and heal the sick,’ 7 <fcc.
The l eni Creator Spirit us was then
sung by the priests. The Archbishop
made a short address to the prelates and
clergy concerning matters to bo treated
in the council. A profession of faith
was then made by all the prelates and
officials of the council. The decrees of
the Council of Trent, de reside alia de
professione fidei , were read, as also the
list of the officers of the Provincial Coun
cil, of which the Most Rev. Archbishop
is the presiding officer.
OUR MISSIONARIES.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Register says of our missionaries:
The late debate in the Lords about
the protection of missionaries has created
a great deal of surprise here. The
French cannot understand a missionary
who sets his life higher than a pin’s fee.
If any of your non Catholic readers
should come to Paris, I recommend them
to visit the Seminary of the Missions
Etrangeres, near the top of the Rue du
Bac. They will leave the establish
ment with a very correct notion of what
the Catholic missionary—the only real
missionary—is As the visitor goes
along the lobbies he will see the doors ot’
the cells in which the pupils prepare
themselves for the heroic race they mean
to run. One of these cells, considera
bly larger than the others, is called the
Martyrs Hall. The door is open; let
us enter. What a sight meets our
eyes! Vestments still covered with
blood; bones secretly snatched by
neophytes from the fury of the execu
tioner; instruments of death brought
home by those who escaped from them;
rudelv drawn pictures of horrid sights,
where you see men tortured, quartered,
aud beheaded, without ever having ask
ed for “protection.” This sight is too
overpowering for weak men. We seek
relief in the garden. On leaving the
Salle des Martyrs a rusty old sword
catches our eye, and we are told that it
has shed as much Christians’ blood as
would suffice to redden the waters of
the largest river in Asia. Hardly are
we in the garden before we stumble over
a cangue, whose weight many a Catholic
martyr has felt. Such are the objects
brought home; such are the spoils of
Catholic warriors. In another part of
the establishment we find the arms with
which they won a footing in the enemy’s
territory—telescopes, maps, quadrants,
bits of gaudy glass to tempt the eye of
the savage, rosaries, medals, etc. And
now let us consider for a moment the
warriors themselves, the Zouaves of the
Catholic army. Does the sight of the
instruments of torture and death dis
eouiage or deter them from their future
career? On the contrary. What they
see and hear inflames their souls the
more. It is in vain that their superiors
exaggerate, if possible, the horrors of a
missionary’s life; in vain that they tell
them that out ot ten missionaries sent
abroad not two return; their ambition is
to be of those who never return. These
are not rnen to ask their country for
“protection.” On the contrary, it is
they who are useful to their country.
The French Admiralty documents bear
witness that not a martyr has fallen with
out dcing his country service. And let
it not be thought that the number o*
those who aspire to martyrdom is small.
Every year numbers of candidates are
refused at the Missions Etrangeres for
want of room. Hero is a young hero of
athletic proportions (for the superiors
require strength of body as well as force
of soul) who has been fortunate enough
to get himself accepted; as soon as he
has been ordained priest lie is taught
the use of arms to defend himself against
wild beasts. The elements of a few
foreign languages, music, natural phil
osophy, botany, geography, and astrono
my, complete his education. And now
he is all impatience fertile day of depar
ture. These departures take place lour
times a year, and several missionaries
travel together till the orders received
separate them. At length he is told to
be ready to start in a week From that
joyful hour he becomes an object of res
pect and envy to his less fortunate com
rades. The chapel of the Missions is
crowded with his friends and relatives
on the morning of the great day. Tears
are flowing from every eye. He alone
is transported with happiness. The
ceremony is presided over by some veter
an missionary, who after years of suf
fering, lias come home broken-down to
repose from his apostolic labors. lie ex
horts his young comrade to be prudent,
and not to expose himself to needless
perils. He tells him what obstacles he
will meet with and how to overcome
them. Above all, he exhorts him to be
patient, and not to wish to reap before
he has well begun to sow. The young
priest then mounts to the altar. In his
hand he bears a staff. His feet are
bare. Those present approach and kiss
them, singing the hymn of departure.
The hero then bows for the last time, re
tires, and, in a few minutes, is on his way.
French Democracy. —As the period
of the genera] elections approaches t! e
language we hear in the meetings of
Belleville and Rochechourt becomes ex
cessively and suspiciously violent. The
Democratic deputies arc denounced as
base renegades and traitors. The speak
ers demand that the candidates for Paris
shall pledge themselves to the Socialist
Republic. One orator named Bacol said
the other day, “We shall ask the candi
dates are you revolutionists? Are you
Socialist Republicans ? Do you think
yourselves strong enough to obtain the
reforms we require ? It is only on these
conditions that we vote for you. As for
mo, lam a Revolutionist. I want the
Socialist Republic. My fhg is that of
the Revolution; my watchword that of
June, 1848—namely, to live working or
die fighting.” Another observed, “We
hear it said that the elections are ap
proaching, but I and many others with
me declare that what is really approach
ing is the revolution. Our aim is the
overthrow of the Empire ’’ A third,
“We must revert to 1787, and recom
mence that all our fathers have done.
The Deputies of the Opposition have
failed in their duty and their mission.
They were bound to resign their seats
and appeal to the public.” A fourth,
“Let us hoist the revolutionary fi ill
Blood will follow, but what matters!
Blood is indispensable for our social
renovation, and for getting back the
rights of which wo arc robbed. Four
©
a"e ! awake! for from the s'rwgglo which
is about to commence will begin anew
era ! We shall have a revolution, but let
us not be baffled as we were in 1848.
Let us no longer tremble iu presence of
authority and its agents.” When the
Commissary of Police declared the
meeting dissolved, lie was assailed with
abuse, and cries ot “Hang him up, “Do
not let him go out,’’ “Death to the Com
missary,” “Let us hang him !” The meet
ing, however, dispersed, without carrying
their threats into execution.— Tunes'
Pa ns Cor respondent .
Our General Travelling Agent.—
Mr. M. J. Gannon, our General Travel
ling Agent, is now on a tour through
the South and West in the interest of
the Banner of the South. We cordi
ally commend him to our friends
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