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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 25, 8 April 1892, Page 7

Tbs Empress Frederic seat three hundred marks M a donation to the proceeds of an Oratorio performance given for the banefit of the fund for building more Catholic churches in Berlin. The Convention of the Apostolaie of the Press, which w >s held on January 6 and 7 in New Turk, was largeiy attended. The papers read were weU written, and showed originality. Mr George Purs >ns Lathrop read *n address on " The Missio >ary* Outlook m New Engtaud." He told of the coo version of hnne f and hti wife to Cuholicism recently. He considered New Knglaud ripe tor o inversion to Catholicism, and said he Believed tnat in the next century we should see a tidal wave of conversion sweeping millions of American! into the Catholic Church. The literary executors of the late Cardinal Manning are the very Rev. Dr. Butler and the Bey. H. Bay ley, members of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Charles. The Cardinal has left no autobiography ; but there are a great number of letters from men famous in Church and Stata arranged in a row of red boxes at Archbishop's House. In addition to the letters of his correspondents there are a number of his own, which were returned to him from time to tine, generally by executors of departed friends. The letters also which he wrote to Mr Gladstone during the earlier years of their in imacy. Mr Gladstone, when he was making a general arrangement of bis papers some two years ago. returned to the Cardinal, rennrki g, '-I do not forget old days" These will be arranged for publication in due course.— Liverpool Catholic Time*.