NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 69, 27 April 1868, Page 104

NEW SOUTH WALES.

' A BOMAICCATHOLICATtCHBISHOB ON THE 1 - ‘’ATTEMPTED " ASSASSINATION'[-.'• OE THE BBINCE. --y' TBdß;Sjcbaey anointing Hetaldi filetMarcii, says f. -i” Dr Fold- . Sydney, and .Metro- .. • .tpdliian, o£ j ; caused ; a. pastoral,, aireVting public) seryice. 'of thanksgiving to' Almighty God, for ;the ; -recovery of ( his Royal/.Highness the Duke n of. Edinburgh' from a wound, recently in-, f;flicted by. an assassin, to be read in St; -Many’s Cathedral. , -'“ -1 His Grace the -Archbishop was received % et-the principal entrance to the. Cathedral By .the olergy of the city and acolytes.. On -.his entering,, the, andante, from-; Mozart’s -Symphony iri}o (No. 1) ; was played by the t Whilst his Grace was vesting, .Mozart’s, choral motett “ Splendente Te ■' - Dens’* was sung-by the choir, accompanied By the orchestra. The s following pastoral i was then read by the Rev. M. J. Dwyer. > Vi :. • • .- .... “Dearly Beloved ;Children of Jesus .. Christ, years ago, in the Lenten . Pastoral of 1856, I addressed to yon the • following; words • _ “Mt has .pleased Almighty God, in Hi's providence, to bring us together 'in (this , : fair land, from almost all nations, of the civilised earth; doubtless for a blessing, if it be not lost by bur own folly and perversity. •' _ “‘Before everything else we are Catholics ; and nest, by a name swallowing np rill distinctions of origin, we are Aus- .. traliaus ; from whatsoever land we or onr ■ parents have: arrived hither, - be it from .Ireland, from Prance, from England, from ; Scotland, from’Germany, we are no longer Irishmen, and. Frenchmen, and' English- -- men, ; and Scotchmen, but Australians ; . . and the man. who seeks, by word or writhing,' to (perpetuate invidious' distinctions •: is an enemy to put; peace and prosperity. ' The generation qf to-day answer for the • ; Jfollies.and vices of-past-generations; and ' he who strives, by bringing up the memory . of past quarrels-and -injuries, .to avenge • himself for the past on the-fpresent, is endeavoring to realise the fable of the wolf • and the lamb ; hatred and violence: are in - his own spirit, and if this man and that be n Dothguilty towards him, at least some an.T.cestbr;he- will -still have it, was or would . have been—let us avoid sucb an unchristian spirit and- all., its. developments. As civilised men, as men of an ordinary mo- - laShty,’we .detest (arid despiseit• as Catho- - lies, . we renounce J and abhor ■ it. That man is a pest :and. a .domestic traitor amongst' us who; by rimming the name of . - anal ion, or. race, or class, or past injury, stirs rip, by word or. , pen, i one. hitter feeling... Let ns banish:,all such tbpics of con- - verßation; let us mot encourage'such' publications as abound with them. In such deadly wounds, to I Christian charity, we cannot imagine any justifiication, nor will we admit- any. dangerous extenuations on pretence of custom or expediency.’ “And now again, .at this solemn moment, . when, after the commission of a most detestihle crime in our midst, our hearts are • beginning to.recoyer from the .miserable .shock, and to expand in most grateful ; thanksgiving to our all-merciful God, who has averted from onr beloved Queen’s sonj -and: from; ns the fatal consummation of man’s wickedness:—at this moment I -- address them. again to yon, with all the added force thatrihe events of the last few - days ought to give them. : . Twelve' years ago theycwere uttered in: your hearing, - -and I do not. say—Lam [far, thank God, from being obliged to say—that they were [uttered in vain: but I must fear that they : have mot produced all the effect which I - [desired from them, all the-effect every -igqojd> Catholic, amongst yon joined me in desiring-to see. - How else could it be that - Bome men have expected that we Catholics Bhould stand out from the body of Australians -here, and denounce separately, a • crime- which is denounced by very elements of natural and revealed religion ? How else could it be? It is astounding / on-any other supposition. What! come [ forward on a pillory, for such bad emi‘nencewould be apillory, and say that we really do: consider.’the work of rebellion and, disloyalty, the’work of murder and :>evenge, to be the;work of the enemy' of [ God and man!' It is indeed humiliating, - - bud I will not believe that : onr fellowiconhtrymen, <■ onr‘Australian fellow-eoun- _ tryineD, -can on reflection:think such a (humiliation deserved. It can only be that ' because some .few ill-instructed, and illi ladvisedj have - kept up those separating, . . alienating,: misplaced (recollections and j associations, against which I so long ago raised the voice of warning and entreaty . .—~it.can (only be. so that the least colorable grounds: could'have been imagined for ex--peering a specially Catholic protest against the crime; which has overwhelmed ns with ” • fihameand- sorrow. . No; we'-are men' and : > ChriarianSj-aiid l am sure; quite sore, that wour iellow -colonists of New South Wales ,‘:.are justdand generous (enough to maintain, . sthat. we have earned amongat ihem a right :■ riotdeposedfroniso much regard and consideration asfs impliedvin the titles; That - there shonld be! amongst ! us men who are - HOtofus/wastabeexpected. Itissoinall -who attemptedthe Life of .our Prince-and Catholic. ■ B.e '. :jßuteynll(anyimah ofcsense believes that Bis • erune wasyCatholic4»* It?i^isaid; that "ceW i ((tainipriests- :a abameful {t ;iof ] sympathy - witfr public tcnpunSle. :I of that disv;grafcerfbeyond,4what:iL;:bave read -in the •*' 'But? ifrtth’eVcMsei was-as \it is \ WwoughQUtiitiieiiiVforhiv acbud^unsV-iaiid

disowns, their-deed; ■ Ordinarily I should fe^l'^^l)o,upd .byahame^aud'. charityVno’t to speak;pf ' of .elergynaen;; but .here, always t supposing reports (to be .correct, I-am cotnpelled'by the ,duty of the greatest. charity ’to declare, in vindication of j’the l great Catholiß doinihunity, that'sucK an acfc’would be only too sadly in unison , with. the known\ antecedents of ffi'ese particular men.. , 1 disloyalty and rebellion are as ('old as, and as well known as, the. Church herself.. Prom, the timeTwhen St. Paul bade. Christian s: obey and ,'respect ,the powers that exist, because their power is of Goi), even should it be perversely and crueily exercised, down to our own day, there has been the one same voice of the Holy-Spirit vvithin the Church. . Why have s'ecret societies been .condemned again and again, but because they have been known, to he foci of sedition and rebellion ?. No mem-ber-of a secret society, under, whatever denomination, can receive, even were he the sacraments' of the Church, unless he repeDt of fellowship ; and a priest,' w?ho might be .so wretched as to be an accoinplice pf such society, would be ipso facto suspended and excommunicated. “ I need scarcely remind you, dearly beloved, of these things, but I. mention them, if need be, for the information of your non-Catholic neighbors, that they, may see hotv. causelessly and cruelly' they rnay have required you to make a separate protest against a nefarious deed, which your Church, consistently and .severely, has ever stigmatised and-condemned. , “And now, dearly beloved, bear with me if. whilst I r protest with all my strength against the. notion that you, as Catholics, could be suspected righteously of any symP for, of any lukewarmness of indignation against, the hideous deed that has been perpetrated, I still make use of the .sad occasion .to recall to you my most earnest exhortation, to set your faces like flint against any. habits, or societies or modes of speech which may excite and maintain unfriendly classes of factions. We have many blessmgs here, we. hOTe, too, the affiections which .the good Providence of God . permits, bat let- us not wantonly and wickedly import miseries and ehnritties. Australians we should all be.- We owe it to each other, we owe it to duty, we owe'it to Christianity. And I say, Australia for Australians, our sole and sufficient, national% under the rule of our ever good aiid gracious Queen, whom, with her. Boyal family, may God’ in his infinite mercy long preserve to us.

’Arid now, dearly beloved, ! invite you all, as many as can be present; to the Cathedral on Sunday evenirig next. You during the Holy Sacrifice, whilst I was absert arid in- ignorance of mir calamity, offered prayers for the Prince s speedy restoration to health and strength 5 and I thank yon for the generous eagerness _ and faith of voiir prayers. On Sunday evening we shall sing the “Te Deum in humble, exultant thanksgivirig, that-it-has pleased God to‘protect and restore the Royal guest, whom it is no less our sincere’ delight tlian our duty to honor. Come all that, can—l wish the Cathedral were large enough to hold' all, that do, I-wellknow, as their Holy. Church teaches them, fear God ' and honor the Queen.

“ One word only more. The defilement of bloody if riot bloodguiltiness, is amongst us, and it was surely a happy thought of some one, I know riot, of whom, that, a new hospital, the evidence and fruit of our grateful joy, wpuld be an appropriate' expiation.- It wus : .a good, and a Catholic, thought, and I trust that all the Catholics of the laud will promptly bring their help to realise it.

“ May God inspire and bless you! “t JOHN BEDE, Archbishop of Sydney. “Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin, 1868. “ S. J.A. Sheehtj, V.G.”

The reading of this document was succeeded by the singing of the “ Domine salvam fac,” the usual anthem for *he Queen. His Grace, assisted by Rev. Garavel and Rev, Mr M’Carthy, gave the “ Benedictiori. of the Blessed ’ Sacrement.” after which the “Te Deum,” composed by Romberg, was pierformed by the choir arid orchestra. The ceremony concluded with presto finale - of Mozart’s symphony in C (No. 1), played by the orchestra. The whole of the music was under the direction, and conducted by, Mr' Cordrier, the organist of the Cathedral. *