(From a correspondent of tho N.Z. Herald.)

New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 242, 21 December 1877, Page 3

The first banished Ursuliue nuns from Germany arrived in England lately, and founded, with the kind permission of the Bishop of Southward, and under tile care of Canon North, a community in Greenwich. They came from Duderstadt, in Hanover — where they had been established for about 200 years — and belong to the oldest and original branch or congregation of the Ursulines, viz., that of Paris, founded in 1612. On Thursday, the 13th of September, a further number of four Sisters and about seventeen children, conducted by their late parish priest and director and episcopal vicar, the Very Rev. — Pasch ,arrived from Rotterdam via Harwich, and were accompanied from Stratford by the Rev. W. Jansen, chaplain to the Ursuline Convent in Upton. It was certainly a strange sight to see that procession wending its way through the city, and at the busiest hour of the day, especially as most of them were worn out with fatigue, having travelled for more than forty-eight hours and by rough weather. Nothing but the greatest interest and respect was shown them on their way to Cannon-street station and further on. Then came the touching reception at the convent, when tears had to say everything in a language only too well \xnderstood by all the banished ones, and tnose who shared the banishment by their own wish (and several of them were • Protestants). A few more Sisters have to come, and England will possess a community of Ursulines, who are the closest followers of their great patron Saint, St, Ursula, as they too left their country rather than give up their fidelity to God and their vows,