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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 26, 19 October 1888, Page 31

The London Tablet, organ of the Catholic Tories of England, and a malign enemy of Home Rule for Ireland, hts lost its entire circulation among the bishops and priests of Irish birth or extraction. We are informeb from London that a subscription has recently been raised for the Tablet among English Tories, large sums being contribnted dy Protestant aristocratic. Lately a i arty of of forty, seventeen ef whom were ladies left Southampton by the Tartar to join the Trappist Fathers and Mission Sisters who are working among the Zulus in Natal. Special accommodation was provided on board under the direction of Father David from Natal, who is at present in London, and the party will be met at Durban by seme priest* of the Order. The Holy Father sent his blessing to the Sisters, known in the Cape as the " Red Sisters," on account of the colour of their dress, and it is expected that this token of eitaem is preparatory to a formal approbation. Notre Dame has seen many great scene', but few perhaps more religiously impressive than the opening of the Buchari9tic Congress the other day, when 6,000 men, each bearing * candle, and all singing the Patife Lingua, went before the Blessed Sacrament in procession. They had passed twice around the Cathedral — laymen in the van, and the clergy of Paris next — before the Host, carried by the Archbishop, had left the choir. Monsignor Mermillod followed, with two prelates cf tbe Pope's household, and then a throng of priests and monks. Father Mod sabre preached on the words, Christum regevi adortmvs. — Weekly Register. A number of Catholic missioners shortly will start for the southern part of Mexico. Their object is the conversion to Christianity of a tribe of aborigines still subsisting in the States of Campeche, Jacalan, and Tobasco, and numbering probably 25,000 souls. It is said that these natives retain all the religious and social observances and tenets of the Aztecs, and have the horrible rite of human sacrifice as an element of their primitive savagenesg. This country has never been explored, but it is a matter of popular belief in Tobasco that in the heart of their forest houses the Lacondons hare a city with temples an 4 baiasrs similar to those found by the Spaniards at their landing in the land of the Aztec. Few whites hare ever penetrated the country referred to, and those who had the temerity to do so hare never returned. The undertaking of the missioners is considered of a dangerous character and has elicited the opinion from tbs Mexican Preis that religious zeal and a self-sacrificing spirit among the Catholic clergy of these days are as great as at the time of St. Francis Xavier and his companions. Toe heroic band consists of Jesuits and Passionists, and bas the approval of the Mexican hierarchy and the co-operation of the Government in all its ofortsfor tbe conversion of this remnant of heathenism.