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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 8, 18 June 1886, Page 23

Charles Russell, M. P. for Hackney, and former M.P., for Dundalk, is the first Roman Catholic who has occupied the office of AttorneyGeneral of England since the Reformation. He is an Irishman, born in Newry in 1833, and was educated in Trinity College. The first Roman Catholic Judge since the Reformation was the late Judge Shea, also an Irishman from Kilkenny. Sir James Mathew of the Chancery Judiciary is now a Koman Catholic and of a Tipperary family. The Marquis of Ripon, now First Lord of the Admiralty, was the first Roman Catholic since the Reformation admitted to the Oabinet. In the Church of St. Fr?ncis d) Paula, Barcelona, a solemn baptsm was recently administered lo a native of the island of Ceylon, who was formerly a Buddhist priest. He came to Barcelona with a' company of Malayan jugglers, to whom he acted as a sort of chaplain. The company gave some public exhibitions, but, not making all the profits that had been expected, thny were obliged to return home, ill.' joung neophyte, fortuately for himself, Iviug prevented by illness fio.ii accompanying them. A pious lady, finding him ill and destitute, took him to her house, where he was visited hy numbers of some charitable societies of the city. Seeing Ins good na>ural disposition, they began to tell him of the Chiistian religion. After his recovery woik was procured for him wit. 1: a Cotnol c hookbnjdtr, and of his own accord he put hini-elf unuer instructions with t ie Jesuit Fathers, whoso happiness it was to finally lead him into the Church.