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Lady Cotton, widow of Admiral Cotton, who died at Bombay in 1 804 has been received into the Churoh in Rome. The ceremony took place in the chapel of tne Holy Otnoe. The Very Rev. Father Fleming delivered an address on the occibion, and his Holiness sent the convert his blessing. In a letter to one of the Southampton (England) paDers, Mr. F C A Harrington says he is given to understand that forty-seven persons', or thereabouts, have embraced Catholicism in that town in consequence of Ruth ven's anti-Cathohc lectures. Paris has been somewhat interested in the change of religion ot Miss Maud Toland, ot Philadelphia, who joined the Catholic Churoh recently She was received into the Church by the Very Rev. i ather Osmund Cooke, of the Passionists. Miss Toland is shortly to marry the Baron Frederic Meyer de Schauensee of the Swiss Guards o the Vatican. The welding will take place in London, and Cardinal Vaughan will perform the ceremony. The Rev. Arthur Wentworth Bennett, M A., Lit fly curate in charge of St Gabriel's Anglican Churoh. Bromley-by-Bow, London, X has been 'received into the Catholic Church, and is now studying for the priesthood at St. Mary's. Bayswater. Mr. Bennett has joined the Oblates of St. Charles. The Bey. A. T. Mitton, M.A., lately Vicar of Markyate, Dunstable has been received into the Church by Father Humphrey, 5..1. (himself a convert), at Farm Street, London, \Y . Mr Mitton formerly acted as an Anglican minister at Stowmarket, Halhwell, Stockport. Huddersfield, and Weston. He is a Cambridge graduate. The conversion is aKo announced of the Rev. W. R. Clarke, lately curate of the Anglican church at Aughton, Orrn«kirk.