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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 19 September 1890, Page 15

It is stated that the Rev. R. P. Camm, of Keble College, Oxford and ot Ouddeston Theological College, Bon of the rector of Monkton Wyld, Dorset, and since 1888 curate of tbe Anglican Church of St. Agnes, Kennington Park, has been received into the Catholic Church and will enter the Benedictine Order. The negotiations between Russia and the Holy See have had the happy result of securing freedom for the Catholic priests exiled in Siberia. Few there are, except victims, who know what (he horror of Siberian exile means. The isolation, the Artie cold, the starva'ion, the paralysis of energy aDd hope, the death in life which the captive undergoes, makes his lot incomparably more terrible than that of the prisoners who linger out their days behind prison bars in other countries. Every year thirty thousand exiles are sent to Siberia, and Prince Krapotkine estimates that as many as ten thousand are sent there without trial on the most trifling pretexts. It is no wonder that Russian society is honeycombed with secret societies, and that Prince Krapo'kine and Stepniak Bhould be continually preaching on the barbarity of Russian rule.