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Les cartas, planchaa, tableaux, etc., peuvent Atre filmte A daa taux de reduction diff6rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour Atre reproduit en un seui clichA, il est filmA i partir de Tangle supArieur gauche, de gauche A droite, et da haut en baa, en prenant le nombre d'imagas nAcessaira. Leu diagrammea suivants iilustrant la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 m /i; PASTORAL LETTER. JOHN JOSEPH LYNCH, by the Grace of God and the Appointment of the Holy See, BLSHOP OF TORONTO : TO THE VENERABLE CLERGY AND BELOVED LAITY OF THE DIOCESE, GRACE AND BENEDICTION : Whilst the heart of the wh|t»le Catholic world beats with profound sjMnathy for our IJ^lv Father, in the recent outrages heaped on him. as Head of the Church and Guardian of its Patrimony, and whilst the Faithful run with signa! unanimily to deposit at his feet noble offerings to alleviate his pecuniary embarrassments, You, Beloved Brethren, We are Nure, are also eager to join in their pious demonstrations. If We have thus far delayed giving you an opportunity of doing so, it was that you might be enabled, after an abundant harvest, to make your offerings more worthy of your pious generosity, and more in keeping with their august object. The recent evils which have swept in a destructive tide over the Patrimony of St. Peter, and have stirred all gencfons hearts with just indignation against their infamous authors, make the present an appropriate occasion to come to the aid of our Holy Father, and imperatively require ns to give a substantial proof of our affection lo him. It is enough for us to know that our dear and Holv Father is in distress, to cause us to offer him the little assistance in our power. Some noble souls have mag umously given up their lives in W holy ahd ju^^t cause, and shall not we ha^en to give some of our worklly goods for the same end ? \ The sacrilegious and unjust; plundering invasion of the Pontifical territory ha^ been carried on by an excom- .anicatetl Royal filibuster and vile mercenary followers, who have everything to gAin by war, and nothing' to lose, aided anc! abetted by a false friend, the worthy nephew of the persecutor and betrayer of Popes. He, whilst hoUling out vain hopes of protection, wilily flattered the Catholic world into the belief that the Patiimony of St Peter was safe, until the alien banditti of his accomplice had actually got possession of nrovinces which might have been saved from their sacrilegious grasp had the Catholic Powers suspected the danger. We hoped that at least Napoleon III. had read history and the fate of sacrilege with profit, and that he would have been restrained from prosecuting his Italian programme, by even a love of pe^Muating his name en the French throne m the one slender hope vouchsafed lo him by a benign Providence, as an encouragement for his good begmnings. But, alas! ambitio.i- the fatal star of his uncle -has thrown already a dark, lurid glare over the horizon of this self-doomed and vacillant dynasty. The deluded Italians are experiencing already that their wild hunt after liberty and fortune is ending in bitter disappointment. Exorbitant taxations and the mob rule of vicious men will soon make them long to he received as servants in their Father's house. - , ^ Reverend Pastors will please form Committees to take up Subscriptions, which will be sent to Us as soon as possible, together with the names of the donors, that t' >y may be enregistered and sant to Rome. The Faithful will likewise continue to pray fervently for our Holy Father; and the Rev. Pas'ors wiir also contmue the preyer Pro Papa at Mass, till otherwise directed, together with the thr«e Patera and Aves after Parochial Mass on Sundays. ' This Pastoral shall be read by the Rev. Clergy to their respective Flocks on the first Sunday after its reception. Given at St. Michael's, on the Octave Day of All Saints, 1860. f JOHN JOSEPH, •'} oiuei i>i Kis fjordship, GEORGE R. NORTHGRAVES, Pt., t^erretary.