Current Topics. AT HOME & ABROAD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 304, 14 February 1879, Page 1

Current Topics. AT HOME & ABROAD.

As to the Prince of Wales, we must remember that this sentence was pronounced concerning him before he had been given a Bible at a kiosk in Paris ; since then we are to turn a deaf car to all little tales of a naughty tendency whispered concerning his Boyal Highness. He belongs now to the piety of the future, has come under the influence of the Bible Society and partaken of their grace, and cannot fail to crown with honour the great craft over which he presides, and to form the happiness by-and-bye of the nation, •' disgusting"' or otherwise, submitted to his sceptre. It was a most fortunate thing his Royal Highness visited the Exhibition in Paris and obtained that Bible ; so to speak, sucklings accomplished then and there what giants had been attempting half-a-lifetimc in vain. Years of labour on the part of the Archbibhop of Canterbury and all his suffragans had failed to effect what was produced in a few moments by the cifortof a few laymen, nearly -'kilt" by dint of firing out Bibles to the famishing French. Jn a word the Prince of Wales, who will next year, perhaps, open the Sydney Exhibition will be a convcitcd Prince of Wales, without so much as a grain of wild oats within a mile of him. We may remark, en jMmtnt, that we hope the Bible Society will forward a kiosk also to Sydney, who knows but his Uoyal Highness, grateful for his own conversion, might be induced to speak a few words of pious exhortation in front of it, describing the effects of that Bible on his own soul, and only think what resultrthat would produce. There would not be such a thing as a " Papist left next clay in all the colonies. Meantime it is, fortunately, loyal to hope that many years may still elapse before the " disgusting people" alluded to by Prince Bismarck shall enter on their " good time" under the reign of their monarch that is to be.

Thk "schoolmaster is abroad" indeed as our contemporary the Ereniitfi Star observes, and what is more, he is carrying his cane— a perfect shillelagh— about with him on his rounds, and trouncinosoundly everyone he meets. We have come in for a cudgelling amongst the rest, and the result is that we hasten to stick our°thumb in our mouth, and to promise amendment for the future. " What is to be said, however, wheu the erudite Tablet persists week after week in publishing a prominent notice that ' Catholics interested in election matters should loose no time in having their names placed on the electoral roll.' " This is, what his pedagogueship says of us, and all we can urge in reply is the famous answer given, we believe, by a cute, if not "erudite,'' Ynnkee under similar circumstances, that he would be a poor scholar who could not spell a word in more ways than one. We thank our contemporary for the correction, and will louk up our spelling : a week or two of Mayor will perhaps set us all right.

The Captain of the German man-of-war, -who has investigated the proceed ings of the Eev. George Brown at New Britain has°becn perfectly delighted with the doings of the rev. missionary. The captain has repoited his reverence's conduct to the German Govern-

ment, where it is certain to meet with appreciation. In fact, vre should not be surprised to hear that Prince Bismarck had so thoroughly approved of the Ke\r. George Brown's style of evangelization as to have imported him in Germany for the express purpose of employing him in the conversion of the Socialists. He would be the very man to preach a gospel of peace to these people, for it is clear that, if they arc to bo converted at all, the preaching that converts them must be something of a kindred nature to that of the Rev. George Brown. It is encouraging to find that there are snch preachers to be found, and we have no doubt that the German Government would be very glad if they could employ a corps of them numerous enough to be effectual in the conversto^desued by them. Of course, such preachers are dear to the Tiiearts oMJerman naval commandants, and other lire-eaters, and men of martial heart.

The book published by Dr. Buscb, and to which we have already alluded, has excited considerable astonishment all over JSurope. Opinions are divided as to whether its publication has displeased Prince Bismark, or as to whether, for some reasons best known to himself, he is not, in truth, the cause of its publication. However the matter be, it must seem to the uninitiated that many things thus published might better hare been reserved ill private, and that the character of the Chancellor assumes a lower standing, seen in the light of much now revealed, than that previously supposed to be occupied by it. Dr. Busli relates, for instance, that Bismarck is inclined to be censorious, and that he amuses himself and his guests continually by commenting upon — or what we may familiarly call cutting vp — his neighbours, without regard to the eminence to which they may have attained. It is not so startling to hear him ridicule Alexandre Von Humboldt, who is dead, and out of the reach of being offended by his satire, and we naturally expect to hear him castigate Von Arnim, his open enemy, but we should hardly have expected t'oat he would have been guilty of the indiscretion of reflecting slightingly on Von Moltkc and other generals. He declared on one occasion that the commanders had nothing to do with the battles, but that all resulted fro n the action of the troops thctrselves. They began by a quarrel between two sentinels, followed by a melee, in which the advanced guards sbot one another without any need. Then a troop was brought up, and then a regiment. Last of all arrived the General, with the body of forces under his command. It was thus, he affirmed, that the battle of Gravclotte took place before the day appointed for it. The fact is that the Chancellor was enraged with the Generals, who did not treat him with the deference he desired them to show toward him. Not only did they not consult him, as he believed they ought to have done, but they were even careless of furnishing him with information. On this account he at one lime had almost determined to retire into private life. He was also vexed with the generals because, he said, they were too prodigal of German life, and displayed too much humanity towards the enemy. He thought the franes-tlreurs and peasants generally were too leniently dealt with, that the military courts were too easy, and the number of prisoners taken far from sufficient. " A little hanging," he said, " is the best means of calming the peasant's patriotic ardour, especially when it is accompanied by a few grenades and burning houses.'' Besides the pique of M. Bismarck against the generals, these sentiments betray the cruelty and coarseness of his nature. There arc not, moreover, wanting other indications by which we are admonished of this. One day during the siege of Paris it was reported to him that the besieged had been driven by their hunger to cat all the animals in the Jard'ui ties Plantes, and that a delicacy had been discovered in the camel's hump, upon which the Chancellor remarked, awaking roars of laughter in his hearers, that the humpbacked people could afford a kindred delicacy : and then he went on to enlarge upon the theme— a brutal one, it must be acknowledged, in the prcscuce of n gallant but unfortunate people reduced by their bravery to extremities. A light remark is also chronicled as made by him respecting the burning of Bazeillo, and some of his speeches to individuals amongst the French are singularly petty and disgusting. France be seems thoroughly to hate, and no spark of generosity shines through the manner in which he spoke of her in her great and nobly endured misfortunes. The French were a " nation made up of noughts, a regular herd formed of thirty million obedient Kafirs." He believed that the country would end in being divided into petty States, Britauny. he said, was legitimist, the south red republican,

elsewhere the moderate republic held chief place, and the majority of military officers remained faithful to .the Emperor. Each province would recall the ruler it wished for, and the Bourbons, the House of Orleans, Napoleon, and the Ecpublic would each find a realm. It is well that we know the Chancellor has been disappointed ; how bitterly we may divine from what we now behold of the nature of the man, who, for all his intellect and all his strength does not fail to be as petty a' creature as ever blotted with the record of his' life the' 1 page of history. Whatever may be the true story of this book to which we refer, or whatever are the circumstances that have resulted in its publication, it must at least have the effect of stripping of every shadow of respect the name of Bismarck. '

If it be not kicking against the goads to attempt the forcible conversion of one of the reprobate, we know not what it is. Had not Mr. arley already passed sentence on the members of the Press ? Had he not declared that, from editors to printer's devils, not one of them would ever see the silver-lining of the clouds as they sped heavenwards? What manner of man is he to enter upon an interference with the great doctrine of predestination or to reverse the decrees of John Calvin 1 Could it have been to exhibit to his spiritual bouquet of candidates for " conversion*' the truth of his dictum, and to recreate himself for a moment by playing with the malicious imp, he, with the eye of a seer, beholds lurking in the soul of every journalist that he proposed to the Daily Time* reporter that he should become a •• Christian" on the spot. We almost think we discern a sweet frolicsomencss in the dear revivalist that displays to us how charming is that righteousness that makes merry the hearts of the elect. At all events the scene with the reporter who would not be converted, but who, like-minded with Byron's recording angel using up

'" both his wings in quills," was bent, in the interests of journalism, of casting from him the preferred robes that should render him a becoming denizen of glory, and securing instead a smart paragraph or two for his newspaper ; this scene we say has edified us amazingly. We do not know that there ever before came under our notice so sharp a contest between nature and grace ; and had grace only obtained the victory the thin* would have been perfectly sublime. But, alas the feeble creature's that we aic ! grace caught it on every side. It went down in Mr. A arley s soul before nature asserting its right to be in a regular tantrum at fancying itself held up in a newspaper report to ridicule, and it went down again on Mr. Varley's tongue before the self-posses-sion and smartness of the reporter who most decidedly got the better in the rnm.Htrc. Ah ! dear Mr. Yarlcy is quite right, journalists all have their backs turned to the clouds, and arc continually on a stampede m the very opposite direction ; the wrestling of the godly man where they aic concerned is all in vain, he really must be prevailed upon to resign them to their fate and no longer to kick against the goads.

Arr.opos of remaiks that we see made here and there in the newspapers concerning the narrowmindedncss of attacking a man because of his religions opinions, and referring particularly to the Attorney-General, we have a word or two to say. Wo also hold that it would be reprehensible to attack a public man for such opinions held by him and acted upon legitimately, so as to direct his own conduct and that of those over whom he had legitimate control. But when we find a public man not contented with this, but determined by hook or by crook to force his opinions on people who differ with him to the utmost, who detest his opinions, and look upon them as leading directly to perdition, mucry in this world, and damnation in the next— determined not only to educate such children as he has a right to decide for in atheism, but to rob of what their parents regard as their dearest heritage, the children of others, then we consider such a man can claim no man's forbearance. To be silent concerning his designs would be to be numbered amongst his dupes, and to make use of every means of opposing him is but to adopt weapons such as he himself adopts. Mr. Stout, as Attorney-General, is prostituting his place to the inculcation of his private opinions : he holds, as we know from his teacher, Mr. Bright, that it is his duty to prevent all the children he can from receiving a Christian education, and he is giving the lie direct to that much vaunted manliness of his by pretending in order to accomplish his object, that he is only desirous of establishing an efficient educational system. With his private opinions we for one would not meddle, they would, saving so far as charity compels us to lament all error, be to us matters of perfect indifference, and indeed we find it tiresome enough to be obliged to watch them were it not that they are the clue to Mr. Stout's public action, and that they are the enemy we must guard acjainst : were it not for this we say again, we should not trouble ourselves as to the God atwho«c shrine the Attorney- General might worship, or as to what theories might direct his life ; in themselves they are no concern of ours.

Enterprise, when vigorously undertaken and judiciously carried out, is undoubtedly capable of accomplishing wonders. Tlic genius, moreover, tbat directs the particular line in which enterprise shall proceed is various, and the goals it aspires to arc many ; still a

feature common to almost all is the acquirement of wealth, and it is interesting from time to time to follow the methods by which this is attempted, to be attained to. We must confess that a bank clerk whose annual salary was fixed at the moderate figure of £IGB was endowed with peculiar powers when we find that he so managed his affairs as to become involved in pecuniary difficulties to the amount of £800,000, and he may well claim a place on .the list of those who have earned the reputation of heroes amongst, the light-fingered. A gentleman holding such a position as that to which, we have referred, and named Eugene T'Kint de Roodcnbeke, has been lately arrested, convicted, and sentenced to fifteen years' solitary confinement because he had so utilised his clerkship in the Bank of Belgium as to become a defaulter for close upon a million o£ money ; he was found guilty of one hundred and forty-nine thefts, a number, however, not surprising when we consider the gigantic nature of his transaction?. His particular weakness appears to have been speculating on the Bourse, and for this his situation in the Bank — at the head of his department managing the securities entrusted to that institutionfurnished him with facilities. He profited extensively by them, s:> much so indeed that one of the gentlemen employed by hinv as agents de change received from him as commission in the space oi five years £7,500, — the numbar of his agents were in all twenty-five For nearly twenty years this accomplished clerk maintained his dis honest course unsuspected, and it was not until circumstances led to an official examination of the securities that he was obliged to make good his retreat to Liverpool with the intention of going to America, and the fact that he changed for dollars £5000 in Belgian notes proves that he did not leave home without provision for evil days to come. So fine a career is worth chronicling, it forms even a feature in the fraud of this enlightened century of ours, which, notwithstanding its high pretensions has produced much that might reasonably be supposed to have perished with the "dark ages."

Has Mr. Macandrcw got nothing on earth to do with the religion of the Ministry. We had thought thnt, if our worthy ex-Superinten-dent were anything at all, he was a true blue Presbyterian to the backbone, and would lay down his interests any day, if not his life, in defence of John Kuox, or even of his descendant Dr. Cumming. But Mr. Macandrcw, we are disappointed to find, seems to have made no sort of a light at all in support of orthodoxy ; he has given way to the science of the period, and has not so much as dared to wag a finger in the Cabinet in opposition to the Brightism that appears to prevail there. We should have expected that Mr. Macandrcw would have retained sufficient of the spirit of the covenanters to deter all over whom he had any influence from insulting the prophets of his fatherland, and it would not have lessened our respect for him to find that he had done so. We do not say, however, that our respect for him has become materially altered by finding that he has failed to prove the champion of the creed of some of his fathers. We all have our weaknesses, and who shall say that the strongest minded of us all could sit for several months cheek-by-jowl with an emporium of the deepest thought, widest research, and intense originality, such as our great Attorney-General, without learning that he dared not budge an inch in opposition to any of the opinions put forward by so blight a luminary. The comfortable, plethoric, easy-going doctrines of orthodoxy would have no more ehancj <>f li ilding their own in presence of so enormous a capacity than had Ilia fat kinc of Pharaoh's dream of escaping to ba gobbled up by the lenu ones that overtook them. We may pity, but not blame, then, Mr. Macandrcw, 6ince his influence has not been strong enough to prevent that worthy Government organ, the New Zealand er, from insulting Presbyterianism in the person of its great prophet, Dr. Cumming. Tc Wbiti, says the Neir Zcalander, is •• as familiar with Scripture as Dr. Cumming," and our contemporary goes on to say that this illuminated Maori "considers himself better able to expound prophecy" than is the doctor "of whom he (Te Whiti) has never heard."' This is very remarkable, but as Te Whiti is a prophet his believing himself more able than a man of whom lie has never heard may perhaps bo accounted for. He has beheld him with prophetic eye, and so knows all about him, without ever having needed to hear a word. The editor of the New Zcalander was Dot one bit confused in his notions when he wrote the sentence alluded to. However, this is beside the question, what we arc concerned with is that Te Whiti has been flung in the face of Dr. Camming, the great glory for many years of Picsbyteiiauism, and its infallible seer every one of whose predictions have been fulfilled, as we know, to a letter ; and that under the very nose of Mr. Macandrcw, who has evidently been unable to make such terms with the " science"' that rules the roost in the Cabinet, as to secure from insult at least the creed of which he always has been considered a pillar, and to which after all he really owes something. We were uul surprised to rind that the Cabinet considers Tc Whiti can compare favourably with Mr. Spurgcon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Pope. Although we might, perhaps, have expected that Sir George Grey would have urged some feeble plea on behalf of his grace the Archbishop. And as to the Apostles, they of course arc fair game for any one who chooses to have a rap at them. Why should not Tc Whiti indeed expound the Scriptures as

well as any of the authorised Christian teachers of the day. Only think of the sort of coves who first taught Christian doctrine, and you will sec that the idea of its requiring any kind of peculiar qualification to do so is ridiculous. Any savage in the land is fully qualified to write a gospel if he only took it into his head to do so. " And considering the kind of men who first taught the Christian faith before it was reduced to a science, there seems no valid reason why he should not." So says our contemporary, wbose thoughts, as it becomes a trusty henchman of our great Attorney-General, seem to run on " science." However, we are to know all about it next March. Te Whiti is then to publish his new religion, and whatever it may be, whether eclipsing Dr. Cumming, Mr. Spurgcon, His Grace of Canterbury, and the Pope, or not, of one thing we are certain, that it mayMie a great deal better, and cannot possibly be more degrading or mischievous to society than is secularism, the creed of the Grey Government.

Our contemporary the Otago Daily Time* published an article on Wednesday last on the Agar-Ellis mixed marriage case, which has lately been finally decided, and to which we referred some few months back, pointing out to our readers the impossibility of relying on the promises made by non-Catholics previous to their marriage with Catholics as to the faith in which their children should be educated. Our readers will recollect that Mr. Agar-Ellis, a member of the English untitled aristocracy had pledged his solemn word to Miss Stonor, whom he desired to marry, that all children born of their marriage should be brought up in the Catholic faith, and that on this condition the lady in question accepted and married him ; that for 6ome months he respected his word, but that afterwards, in a manner that even deprives him of the right to be considered so much as a gentleman, he broke his word, and charged his wife not to instruct his children as he had consented that she should instruct them, and in virtue of which consent he had prevailed on her to marry him. His wife, however, considered that he was bound by his promise, and we cannot conceive how she could be called upon to think otherwise, and continued to teach the children the tenets of her faith. Of this the Daily Times says :—": — " Having given general instructions to that effect, he appears to have been careless as to how they were carried out ; while his wife, true to the instincts of her creed, was subtily imbuing them with her own doctrines." That is to say this lady, in acting on the word that had been solemnly pledged to her, and for which she had paid the price demanded of her, was acting subtily, with cunning, and in an underhand manner, when she determined on holding the right that had been conferred upon her, and that she was acting in this cunning and reprehensible manner according to the teaching of the creed professed by her. If we knew what the principles of the Daily Times really are, or if our contemporary did not vere round like the wind, and wag hither and thither,

" Commc la queue de notre cbnt, " so that it is impossible to tell one day what opinions he may represent the next, and so that all we can discern in his columns is that coarseness has been replaced by feebleness, and that " God knows what," would be his most fitting motto, we should be the belter able to deal with him. The sentence to which we refer would a little time ago, we know, have been an outrage on the principles which then ruled our contemporary's columns, for it would have been a slap in the face for •' woman's rights" which tenet is held by the party that were then represented by the Times. However, it matters very little as to whether we can show that our contemporaiy is false to his principles or not. The sentence to which we refer hai dly deserves criticism : it is stupid, slanderous, and ignorant to a degree, and therefore false to all true principles. Our contemporary makes another asseition which is almost equally stupid ;it runs as follows :: — •' The beneficial lesson to be learned from the Agar- Ellis case is the avoidance of mixed marriages. Father Hennebery, when he took occasion to denounce them as he did some time ago, was not so wanting in worldly wisdom as many people imagined, had he only restrained his wrath^ithin reasonable bounds." The one gram of common sense that re^Ks this is the condemnation it contains of mixed marriages ; but it m/tfepresents Father Hennebery at the same time. Father Hennebery displayed no wrath whatever on the subject of mixed marriages. He -taught his congregation the doctrine of the Catholic Church on the subject in moderate and plain language, and so they understood him. On the West Coast his teaching, it is true, was misinterpreted by a knot of bigots and interested persons, who, for reasons best known to themselves, though, perhaps, not quite hidden from others, were anxious to bring the mission into disrepute. But the missionary was not accountable for this ; he had stated the simple truth, and bad done so moderately and well. This has been abundantly testified too, and had not our contemporary been awaie that any sneer at anything Catholic made by him, however mild, would pass with his readers for smartness, or however unfounded, would be accepted as just, he would not have ventured to make the allusion to which we refer.

A week or two ago we commented on a paragraph which we liad seen in a Northern contemporary, and which referred to some

thing alleged to have taken place at a certain church in Dunedin, evidently Knox Church. We now find that there is no truth whatever in the matter alluded to, and hasten to express our regret at having been misled by a statement that, it seems, had no foundation. At the same time, perhaps, we may have furnished the opportunity for contradicting a report that otherwise might have gone the rounds unnoticed. A letter in our correspondence column will fully explain the matter.

Is brigandage to become an institution in the neighbouring colonies? It will add much to the romance of the bush if it be regularly established there, but we doubt as to whether the comfort of settlers will be much improved by it. In fact it is very little to the credit of the police of Victoria that the Kelly gang are still at large, and for any signs that we can discern to the contrary, that they bid fair to remain at large, and continue the scourge of the border. We were lately told that the desperadoes bad been hemmed in, so that their capture was made sure of ; and that it would be impossible for them to escape from the net drawn around them ; but while this report was still current there came the intelligence that at a distance from the place in which they were supposed to be lurking they had crossed into New South Wales, and stuck up a bank, robbing it of £2000, and destroying valuable documents of various kinds. This wanton destruction speaks very badly of them, and goes far to contradict the pretence of their having been driven by the force of circumstances on a life of violence and bloodshed. It betrays an innate malice altogether at variance with the traditional spirit of the boldhearted highway man, who only robbed the rich, and half atoned for his lawlessness by kind actions to those in need. Meantime it must be very pleasant, for the squatters particularly on the border, to know that soreckless, so swiftly-moving, and powerful a band of desperadoes aie in their neighbourhood, and may at any time appear around the station. The intense quietude of the Australian bush must become much altered by such a change. We can fancy with tow much trembling interest every advancing body of equestrians is watched, and how each range and stretch of tranquil forest becomes a menacing lair which the imagination peoples with the dreaded band. Such a state of things must be all the more unsatisfactory because of the contrast it affords to the peaceful life led of late years by settlers in those parts, who had long given up all thoughts of bushrangers. It is now a good many years since the Clarkes, the last men of the kind whom we remember to have heard of as frequenting the country alluded to, were captured. They bad been settlers in fairly respectable circumstances, who seem to have taken to the bush more through the spirit of adventure than anything else, and their career was short. We remember to have received an account of an enterprise undertaken by them from one of the persons who were principally and most unwillingly concerned in it. and it was not without its amusing features. One evening, during the time they were out, it happened that the mistress of a bush public house, whose family had been absent during the day at races ' held in the neighbourhood, had just achieved the task of cooking for them a holiday supper and it was laid on the table in readiness. When, as the hungry party were about to commence proceecdings, a man with his face blackened appeared at one of the windows, and presenting a revolver ordered them to bail up, to rise from the table and stand against the wall, with their faces towards it. This man was in a moment joined by three others, and as ladies only were present in the room his otclers were promptly obeyed. A scaich of the house then commenced, but without much results, for almost all the money then under the roof was hidden away in one of the beds, and the Clarkes do not seem to have been well skilled in searching. Indeed they appear to have been singularly stupid for on their 'way to the inn in question they had passed in the bush a servant woman, who was carrying back from the racecourse the proceeds of the day's sale at a booth amounting to £40 ; and on her telling them she was " only a poor girl" on her way home from the races they did not in any way molest her, but let her carry her money safely in their rear to the inn, which she reached some time after they had gone away. The ladies continued with their faces to the wall, .ill the time the bushrangers were in the house, but when these had taken their departure, and the usual clatter of women's tongues set free at last had come off, the lady of the house proposed that they should now cat their supper and so comfort themselves for their fright. They accordingly sat down at the table, which was apparently untouched, but on lifting up the dish covers they were dismayed to find that the gang had carried off all their victuals, and, evidently as a trick, had covered up the dishes again. The party, therefore, were obliged to go supperless to bed. Meantime it is to be hoped that the present state of things will speedily come to an end. However excellent a shot a desperado may be it is a disgrace to the civilization of the country in which he finds himself that he is allowed to go long at large.

We do not as a rule lay any very great stress on conversions to the Catholic faith. If the converts arc persons of any note, and on the part of whom any considerable change or movement would claim attention, or if any other circumstances make the matter more or less

cohZn ' We f neiallyinSerfc the names of these converts in our • Tfn '«"' ll n V nT' aUude tO tbeir con^sion. But to us converastonS l ?lV° liC foith SeemS the matter ' of Co ™*' Wo are atomsled, not that men should now and then become Catholics, uTJwt f*s° lenoil - Catho]ic "-orlddoe S not do so, and we await in the expectation, notof hearing of an individual here and there coopeiatins with the grace bestowed upon him, b-.tof hearing of masses TortT 7S7 S Qg SO ' WC therefole do nofc find Jt at all strange or woithy of comment, as we said, to hear of conversions at any time, bu£ sometimes circumstances connected with them are worthy of tTp t /c^ ad ' then ' ma Paragraph from some Irish paper, that a LtTr r°T', OfTUßra ' ffas received ' oa his death-bed, into the Catholic Church by the Venerable Archbishop McHale. There i* However, nothing strange to us in this, considered in itself ; if we cspecialy notice it, the reason is because Tuam is the very birth-place jnd original hot bed of the Irish Church Missions in the West of Ireland. Ihey began there some thirty yeais ago, and, if we were to have accepted as Gospel all the boasts made in connection with them by this time we must have believed there would not have been a Catholic left m the province of Connaught, much less in the town referred to. The diocese of the Eight Kcv. Bishop Plnnket, up to the time we speak of, had not, borne amongst the godly a very l,i«* reputation. The bishop, in fact, had not been lookeel upon by the n Kra- P iou S as a "Christian man." His Lordship had something XL U* 9 v!?, Dl * I faw " w '' and a great ma » y old ladies thought very little of him. But in a lightning flash the thinwas changed; not that the Bishop made personally much improvement ; the man who pirated the Archbishop of Canterbury's charge and evicted the tenants at Partly, could hardly claim a veiy high personal sanctity. But he displayed a perfect detestation of the Pope, and that we know passes for a most excellent righteousness. Under the direction of one Mr. Dallass (we arc not sure of the orthography), an English ex-military man, a crusade was entered upon against the faith of the people, and at once the Diocese of Tuam rose some thousands percent, in the estimation of the pious. The Soh T V i? ? r Ot JUSUfied tb ° We suspect that Archbishop McHale has just as many subjects in his arch-diocese to. day as he would have had had the IrU, Church Missions never been heard of there, and we find in the conversion of this doctor, at the very fountain of evangelicalism, an additional confirmation of our opinion.