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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 37, 8 January 1886, Page 7

Some say, " Consumption can't be cured." Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, as prove! by forty years experience, will cure this disease when not already advanced beyond the reach of medical aid. Even then its use affords very great relief, and insures refreshing sieep. The ranks of the pries' hood are to receive a venerable recruit in the person of Lord Charles Thynne, youngest son of the second, and uncle of the present, Marquis of Bath. Lord Charles was born in the year 1813. ■ Educated at Harrow and Christ Church, he entered the service of the Anglican Church, and was Rector of Kingston Deverill, Vicar of Longbridge, and a Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, when, in 1852, he resigned his preferments, preparatory to being received into the Catholic Church. Lord Charles married, nearly half a century ago, Miss Bagot, a daughter of the Bishop of Bath and Wells ; but he has been a widower for some years. Lord Charles resided for a long time in Redcliffe Gardens, but has latterly lived at his place near Woodchester. After he is ordained, the new priest will probably join Canon Brownlow, at St. Mary'B Church, Torquay.— Weekly Register. We regret to announce the death of the Bishop of Down and Connor, which occurred early on Tuesday the 3rd, November, at Belfast, after a short illness. A telegram was received from the Pope giving the Apostolic Benediction to the Bishop a few hours before he died. Patrick Dorrian was a native of Downpatrick, wheie he was born early in tne je*r 1814. In 1835 be entered Maynooth, and after a course marked by distinguished proficiency, was ord.tineil by Archbishop Murray. For ten years he laboured in Belfast, and it was at this time that he attracted attention as a remarkable able preacher. During the terrible famine year of '47 Father Durriau was appointed to the parish of Loughhnfslaud, where tie worked for thirteen years. In ISGO Dr. Denvir, the then bishop of Duwn and Connor, becoming enfeebled by age, Dr. Dorri n was elected coadjutor, with the right of succession : and five years after, at Dr. Denvir's d«,atli, he succeeded to the See. When the new bishop first entered upon the duties of his episcopate, few dioceses in Ireland were more miserably provided with educational establishments. To-day few stand higher in that respect. Out of the small nucleus of the Donegal Street Seminary he made St. Malaca^'s College what it now is— oue of thefirßt institutions of its kind in thu country. To thes>e are to be added the convent schools, and orphanages and industrial schools. There were at the time of Dr. Dornan's consecration only three CMholic churches in Belfas*. At present the Catholics can point with pride to the magnificent edifice in Derby street, tit. Petei's ; the equally magnificent church of St. Patrick, Donegal street, replacing the quaint unpretentious structure within which even mauy of the younger generation used to worship, and which dated from the year 1815 ; the beautiful Church of St. Mary, Chapel Lane, and others. On Wednesday the 4th inst. the remains were taken from the Bishop's palace to St. Patrick's Church, where they lay in state until the solemn office and Requiem High Mass on Friday morning. — Weekly Register,