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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 49, 29 March 1889, Page 7

The first Swede ordained to the Catholic priesthood since Sweden went over to LutheraDism three cen'uries ago, is the Rev. Anthony Swensson now rector of the Church of St. Elizabeth, Detriot, Mich. Father Swensson was ordained by Bishop Borgess, in 1874. and is noted as an energetic, but singularly modest, worker. He speaks Swedish, English. Italian, French and German fluently. He is a native of Stockholm, and his father was a convert to the Faitb. — Out of a population of 6,000,000, Swedeu baa but 2,000 Catholic?. Mr. Picton, an English Member of Parliament, has had a letter from the wife of Mr. Edwaid Harrington, M.P , in which she says :— My husband's prison treatment is in keeping with tie sentence. He spent the first three days on brown bread and water, and will spend the first month on a plank bed. His employment is quarrying stone and stone- breaking-, chopping wood, and while in his cell picking oakum. An old magistrate who saw him in his cell told me with tears in his eyes that the skin was off my husband's fingers from this oakum picking. Mr. Balfour thought he would be too well off in Tralee Gaol and bad him lemoved toTullamore, and should I tell you how he was removed ? He was driven on an outside car from the gaol through the town dressed in prison clothe?, with no overcoat, only an old blanket to use as a rug, or to cover himself with if be felt cold during the long, cold and tiresome journey in a third-class cairiage accompanied by eight rolicemen. I was speakirg to him for just a minute and saw his fingers were skinned and raw, and 1 say no one but the demon of toitnre would ask h s m to pick oakum while his fingers were in such a t-tate." Mr. ficton. in a letter to the Daily JVews, adds :—": — " Oh, yea, I can imagine the manly sneer with which, were these details given in thn House of Commons, the • Biave Balfour ' would taunt the Irish patriots with ' whining.' But let there be no mistake, Edward Harrington does not whine, gronn. or sigh. He has been before this in the retirement assigned by English voters to Irish patriots, and, if be were one of the whining sort, he would have taken good care not to go there again. I saw him on the former occasion by accident during his imprisonment, and a better ito personation of cheerful endumnce I never witnessed." The beading of the letter ip the^ Daily A r etvt< is " The Devil in Ireland."