LXXX. The Roman Pontiff can and ought to reconcile and

harmonize himself with progress, with liberalism, and with modern civilization.
SPAIN.
"The Queen fled from Spain Sep. 30, 1868, and arrived at Biarritz, where she met the Emperor Napoleon. Her conduct had alienated all feelings of loyalty, and the forms of the Constitution had heen abused and made the machinery of arbitrary and oppres- sive rule. The people were weary of a system which repressed all freedom of thought and rights of conscience, which placed the education of the young in the hands of Jesuits, and under which they had lost all respect for their ministers, and all attachment to the Crown. Nothing however occurred until April to give warning of the coming storm." — Extracted from " The Annual Register"
INTERDICTION OF THE JESUITS IN SWITZERLAND.
" The Council of the States has approved of the resolution on the part of the National Council, which interdicts the order of Jesuits, and forbids its members to engage in ecclesiastical and educational functions in Switzerland." — Extract from "Daily News," Berne, Feb. 9, 1872.
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CARDINAL CULLEN ON THE COUNCIL.
The Tablet of the 30th of June, 1870, gives the following account of the presentation of an Address to Cardinal Cullen at Rome by the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, there resident at the conclusion of the (Ecumenical Council. The subjoined extract of the Cardinal's reply to the Address, as given also in the Tablet, appears to convey his views as to the general objects of the Council, especially with respect to the Liberties of the Gallican Church : —
" On the evening of Monday, the 18th, after the public session of St. Peter's, an important reunion was held at the Irish College in Rome, through the kind invitation of the Very Rev. Mgr. Kirby, the venerable and respected president. Not only the Irish bishops at present in Rome, but the most distinguished prelates from France, Spain, the United States, Canada, and other countries enjoyed his hospitality on this occasion. Several bishops representing the children of St. Patrick, not only in Ireland, but throughout the British Colonies, availed themselves of the opportunity to present the following address to his Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin : — ' To his Eminence Paul Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, etc. May it please your eminence, on this most memorable day in the history of the Vatican Council, we the archbishops and bishops, representatives of the Irish race, respectfully approach your eminence, and offer our heartfelt congratulations on your most able and successful vindication in the Council Hall of the rights of the Holy See, and of the tradition of the Irish Church con- cerning them. Your eminence truly represented on the occasion the faith and feelings of the Irish people, and we are proud of the manner in which you have testified to both. — Signed by D. M'GETTIGAN, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland — followed by 29 other signatures.' '
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Extract from Cardinal Cullen's reply to the address :— " In progress of time the decisions of such a body will be the " source of great blessings to the Church, condemning, as they " do, so many forms of modern error, upholding the cause of "justice and authority, denning the rights of religion, and above " all, banishing Grallicanism from the pale of the Church. This " form of teaching, notwithstanding the name it bears, was never " adopted by the great Church of France, but was violently forced " into a sort of official existence by an ambitious king. Its " tendencies always were to undermine the foundation of the " Church, to divide the faithful of different countries into hostile " camps, and to promote schisms and dissensions among those " who should live together like brethren. Having been now " solemnly condemned by a General Council, it is to be hoped " that itself and its offshoots will soon be forgotten."
LONDON : WILLIAM MACINTOSH, 24, PATERNOSTER Row.
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