A TRUE HEROINE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 24, 11 October 1873, Page 12

A TRUE HEROINE.

I* Dona Mario de Bourbon, the wife of Alphonso, brother of Don Carlos, were a G-anbaldian or an internationalist, she would be by this tiruo the greatest heroine of our Protestant contemporaries As elxo happens to be a Catholic she is not noticed by them, but she does deserve special mention from her brothers in the faith This gallant ladj lv.is accompanied her young husband through all the fatigues of the campaign, dressed m a riding habit tucked into a thick pair of top booio. She sleeps often in the open air, and rides not unfrequeutlv tweheho'm a day. She is described as a very beautiful young woman, only rineteen years of age ; she nurses the sick and encouru^Lb her youthful husband, who is often dovvnhea; ted notwithstanding l)i» frequent successes. Whenever they can this noble pair hear Mass aud receive communion together. The country folk are enthusiastic m their praise of la Senora Dona Maria de la Meves—the Lady Mary of Snow, for so is the infanta called. Her Highness is the daughter ol the legitimate King of Portugal, Don Miguel, and the lineal ueecendaut of the fair and unhappy Inez de Castro. The Flench papers applaud her courage, her beauty and charity, and style aer a model Catholic wife, who follows her husband through thick and fchin in peace and war. — ' Catholic Review.' '

Mr Butt, QC., and America.— The Philadelphia 'Catholic Standard says :•— " Ihere 13 a rumour here that Mr Isaac Butt, O 0 at the urgent request of his f.iends and admirers, has consented to deliver a series of lectures 111 the United States on. Ireland and the Iribh in the present day, and that he will proceed to New York in the first instance for that purpose in the course of the cn 9 uing autuma