CATHOLIC NEWS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXII, Issue 2, 10 May 1895, Page 25

CATHOLIC NEWS.

(From contemporaries.) CABDINAL RICHARD, Archbishop of Paris, will share the gifts received by him on the occasion of his jubilee with the poor of the French capital. Tbe Sacred Congregation of Rites has before it at present no less than two hundred and ten causes of Beatification. Cesare Cantu, tbe well-known Italian historian, has passed away in his ninetieth yar. Ha received the Papal Banodictioa on his death-bed. Ucder the Pope's direction, Cardinal Rampolla has addressed a letter to Prince Alois Liechenstein, chief of the Austrian antiSemites, to the effect that his Holiness cannot approve of class and racial hatreds. It is rum >ured that the Pope will recall the Nuncio in Vienna, who favours the anti-Semites. By the wish of the Pope, Cardinal Langenieux will found in Paris a review entitled L'Oriente, having for its object the promotion of reunion between the Eastern and Western Churches. Mgr. Satolli, Papal Delegate to the United Sta es, in a recent letter on Pope Leo XIII , said that the continuous growth of the Pontiff's moral influence was one of the most striking features of his

regime. The epistle w«s fall of facts strongly put in the interest of tbe Church. The eighth centenary of the first crusade, which was preached by the Blessed Urban 11. in the ancient sea of Olermont, France, will be celebrated from tbe 16th of May to the 20th. Leo XIII. has sent a brief to the Bishop praising him far inaugurating the ceremony. It is not generally known that the novelist, John Oliver Hobbes (Mrs Craigie) became a convert to the Catholic Church a few years ago. Her parents are still Nonconformists and are regular attendants at Dr Parker's City Temple. Oo the occasion of the centenary of St Anthony of Padna, who was a native of Portngal, an international Catholic congress will be held at Lisbon. Addi esses will be delivered in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and FreDch. Bishop Curtis, of Wilmington, U.S.A., has just finished a retreat to Protestants iv a town of his diocese in which there is not one Catholic. The people heard him gladly. Catholic missionaries to Protestants is a novelty, but it may prove the planting time for a new harvest of conversions. In recording with approval the action of the clergy of Philadelphia in erecting a monument to the late Mr G. D. Wolff, editor of the Catholic Standard, a Catholic contemporary, says : " Better even than granite over graves would be encouragement and support during life, so that the traveller from New Zealand may not say. of every one who devotes himself to Catholic religious journalism : ' He asked for bread and they gave him a stone." A telegram from Ottawa says the Dominion Cabinet has come to a decision on the Manitoba schools question, in accordance with what it believeß to be the judgment of the Judicial Committee of tbt Privy Council, declaring it to be necessary that a provincial law shall be passed restoring the rights and privileges enjoyed by tbe Catholic minority prior to the Act of 1890. In the event of a provincial Legislature failing to carry ont this remedial order, the Dominion Parliament is vested with power to legislate on the subject Tie Archbishop of Edinburgh in a pastoral letter calls attention to a pious association of prayer for the conversion of Scotland, called the League of St Andrew, established under the direction of the

Bendictine Fathers of Fort Augustus, and asks the clergy to strongly recommend this apostolate which has received the approbation of the Scottish Hierarchy and tbe special blessing of the Holy Father. Despite the boasting of Americans as to the religious liberty which prevails in the States, things are sometimes witnessed there which are strangly inconsistent with our notions of f*ir play. For instance all the Catholic lniian schools have been struck out from the Indian Appropriation Bill as it passed the United States Senate, but two Protestant schools that aßked for specific amounts have been kept in it. A religious, Bister Marie Marc, thirty yeari of age, was buried ft few days since at Vernon in the presence of most of the military and civil population of the town. Sister Mario Marc was in Martinique in 1890, at the time of the great fire at Bort de France, and her zeal in saving the patients who were in the burning hospital waß such that at last she had to be forcibly held back. A year later the terrible cyclone occurred and again the self-abnegation and courage of Sister Marie Marc knew no limit. But her exertions brought on a fever and she had to be sent back to France, She continued in ill-health until her death a few days since. She was the daughter of a very poor family, and belonged to the Community of 8t Paul de Chartres. A notable Catholic has passed away in the person of Mr J. J. Heath Saint, Recorder of Leicester, whose death took place at his London residence, Lexham Gardens, Kensington, aged 67. Mr Saint, who was a convert to the Church, was the only son of the late Rev J. J. Saint, of Groombridge Place, near Tunbndge Wells, and was born on January 27ih, 1828. After being educated at Eton he graduated B A. in 1850 at Chiist Church, Oxford, and was called to the Bar in 1854, joining the Midland Circuit. Sixteen years la'er be was appointed Recorder of Newark, which post he held until 1884, when the Recordership of Leicester was presented to him. Mr Saint was married to a daughter of Mr A, Lynch French, of St Kitte, West Indies. Thk Bishop of Orvieto announces in his Lenten Pastoral (hit a Eucharistic Congress will be held in that city in 1896. The thirteenth Congress of the Catholics of Italy will be he! 1 in Turin from the Uth to the 13th of next September.

the leprechaun, a wee fairy oobbler, who sits on the hedgeß hammering elfin soles for the boots of his brethren in the grey dawn of summer mornings. Mr Murphy, moreover, ia a contributor of short tales of American life to the Associated Presa Company of New York, and other syndicates. He has compiled a handsomely bound volume containing words and music of the best and oldest of Irish lyrics. Mr Murphy is a distinguished linguist. He can speak in Gaelic and Beveral European languages. The subject of this memoir Btands six feet in his vamps. He has large shoulders and a well-developod chest. His intellectual forehead is fringed by a wealth of curly auburn locks. His blue eyes are penßive and dreamy at times, just as if bis mind was conoeiving an idea for a future lyric ; occasionally a gleam of humour glows and twinkles from their sunny depths. He is gifted with a genial disposition. His temperament has all the sanguine enthusiasm of a true-born Gael. As a society man he ia most facile and interesting in his conventional powers, and he tells many a comic yarn, spiced with the sauce ot an inimitable drollery. Mr Murphy is the possessor of a magnificent library. It is replete with volumes on Irish subjects and originally belonged to the late James Redpatb, the famous correspondent who, in the Land League days in Ireland, was diKpatched to that country as a representative of the New York Tribune. These volumes were presented afler Mr Bedpath's death by hia widow. Mr Murphy in his eariy manhood was, bo to speak, a literary protege of Mr Bedpath. Although his concert and lecture engagements compel him to travel during several months of the year, he has Btrong home tastes, and ie never so happy as during his summer vacation— a period when he can spend hia spare time in the cultivation of flowers, of which he is veiy fond. His wife is an accomplished musician, painter and literary woman and aflf )rds him much asaistance. Their home is a musical and literary centre, where they entertain people of artistic and literary tastes. It is probable that Mr Murphy will j .in in the more or le^a immeiiate future a grand opera compiny, for his fatno as a musician is rapidly increasing throughout the Doited Statt'B.

Mr Gawne, of Dunedin (says the Southland Times of April 13 1891), bas just bern on a visit to luverca-gill to push business a little. Not that it wants much canvasoing, for eince he commenced the manufacture of his Worc»s ershire Sauce, the demand has kept pace with his capacity to Bupply it. He makes a really good thing, indistinguishable from the famous Lea and Perrin'a, which he places upon one's table at a much lower price, and trusts to that to secure a Bteadily growing trade. Those who have not yet tried the Colonial article should put their prejudica aside for a time and teat the question with a bottle or two. — ADvr. Mr Holman, of Indiana who retires from Congress, after thirtyfive years therein, when interviewed lately said : " I should not advise any young man to enter public life. There is nothing in it. We note with pleasure the success of the Irieh Woollen Manufuc ture Association. It wab Mr Davitt who fostered it, and even pledged himself bdfore hiß laßt lecture tour to aid it. He did so. To-day it /is a paying business. ' Italian emigration h-s increased enormously. In ISB4 tho .number of immigrants to the United States was 15,000 ; during 1894 the number rose to 43,000, while 18,739 left the couutry for the Argentine and Brazilian republics. The centenary of Taeeo, Italy's immortal religious poet who died in the Monastery of Saint 0..0fn0, near the Vatican, will be solemnly celebrated in the Eter .al City, April 25. The Pope and the King will leave nothing undone to give rclat to the ceremony. Duelling ia Franoj seems to be in a f^.r way to be kilkd by ridicule. M. Ueary Hocheiort, although m his tina. he has tukeu pait as principal in a good miuy "affairs," now calls it au absurd practice, and other waters of influence approve o[ that view.