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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 233, 19 October 1877, Page 19

The Rothschilds, it is alleged, have informed the British Government that in an emergency, they could advance £5,000,000. Catholic Missionaries visited Danish America in 821), more than a thousand years ago. The oldest version of the Old and New Testaments belonging to the Christians is that in the Vatican. It was written in the the fourth or fifth century, and published in the year 1597, Happy souls who can say to God : " O Lord, I have always belonged to Thee." Oh, how beautiful, bow grand it is to give one's youth to God ! What a source of joy and happiness ! — Cure of Am. The Dublin Freeman says of Father Burke : " One of the most astonishing facts of our time is the limitless fertility with which the great Dominican pours out his eloquence week by week wherever a good cause wants an advccite." "What strikes one above everything else in Pius IX," wrote Frederick Ozanam, " are those two great sentiments that have made the greatness of all great Popes — an immovable faith in the Divine authority vested in him, and a profound conviction of his unworthiness ; a trust in God that enables him to undertake everything, and a contempt for himself that enables him to suffer everything ; hence the aureola of sanctity which illuminates his countenance, and that burning accent which pervades his discourse." Authorised by the Holy Father, the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has forwarded to Dr. Constantino James a Papal Brief addressed to the learned savant who has so gloriously refuted the propositions of modern materialism in a "book entitled " Darwinism, or the Man-ape." The Sovereign Pontiff, whilst congratulating the doctor upon his|splendid refutation of a system which is as stupid as it is false, has also by a special decree named M. Constantine James Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester. A correspondent of the London Tunes, at the seat of war in the East, is rather severe on the nurses sent out by the Protestant " Sisterhoods." He says that evidently they went out to nurse "young officers with headaches," but on being brought into close quarters with the hideous wounds of common soldiers they showed to small advantage, and have returned to their homes wiser than they left them. The Sisters of Charity are as usual at their post, says the same correspondent, and ho describes their tender piety at the death of an officer, at which he was present as most touching and impressive. — Catholic Review.