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Miss Elizabeth Kilsyth Livineston, a member of an old New York family, has joined the Catholic Church. The Rev. F. C. C. Colly, sometime curate of St. Peter's, Fulham, England, has been received into the Catholic Church. We learn (says the Catholic Herald) that Miss Campbell, of Craigie, Ayrshire, has just been received into the Catholic Church. Miss Winifred Mary Chapman, daughter of Mr. Arthur Chapman, Victoria Parade, Ramsgate, was recently received into the Church by Father Fox, of Ramsgate. Rev. Nicholas Bjerring, the Greek priest who established the first Russian Greek Church in New York City, and later on embraced the Presbyterian faith, has become a Catholic. Hon. Walter M 'Henry, son of Judge W. H. M'Henry, of De 3 Moines, lowa, has been received into the Catholic Church. The M'Henrys can trace their ancestors back to the famous Patrick M'Henry, of Revolutionary fame. Mrs. Russell, wife of Mr. Cyril Russell, author of the clever controversial story, Cyril Westward, has been received into the Catholic Church. Mr. Russell became a Catholic some years ago, and was formerly an Anglican clergyman. We are glad to announce (says the New Era) that Mrs. Austin Lee, wife of the first Secretary at the British Embassy at Paris, has been recently received into the Church at the Chateau Josselin. The Duke and Duchess de Rohan, whose guest she was, acted as godfather and godmother. A Leamington correspondent states that much interest is being aroused by the fact which has just become known that the Rev. Harold Wilson, late of Liverpool and now of Leamington, has been received into the Catholic Church by Mgr. Souter at St. Peter's, Leamington. The wife of Mr. Wilson has also joined the Catholic Church, At the parish church of the Immaculate Conception, New London road, Chelmsford (says the Catholic Times), Miss Martin, of Mill House, Baddow road, was received into the Catholic Church on Friday, March 3, by the rector, Rev. Father Padbury, M.R. She is the eldest daughter of Mr. Martin, architect to the P. and 0. Company. A touching ceremony (writes the Rome correspondent of the Catholic Times) took place, on February 8, in the chapel of the Convent of the Assumption, when three young German ladies, sisters, abjured the errors of th^ Protestant religion, and were received into the Catholic Church by Most Rev. Mgr. Granello, Archbishop of Seleucia and Commissary of the Holy Office. The Rev. Robert Thomas T. Nichol, a former Episcopal minister, has been converted to the Catholic faith (says the New York Lvl-c-tnatCx Journal). Mr. Nichol had been one of the most devoted adherents of the Anglo-High Church Party in this country. His conversion followed attendance upon a series of missions lately held in New York in a Catholic church and a subsequent brief study of the subject of Catholic doctrine. He was born in Toronto, Canada, about forty years ago, and graduated from Trinity College, in that city, in 1879. He was ordained minister in the Church of England in 1883. Dr. Jeffcris, writing in the Adelaide daily press in reply to a letter by Mr. K. P. B. Joyner on the subject of the capitation grant, says : — ' Mr. K. P. B. Joyner was certainly an occasional attendant at my church, though not a member of it. I am sorry that I had no personal acquaintance with him, for the tone of his letter is that of a thoughtful and conscientious man. Perhaps if he had done me the honour of seeking my counsel in his Teligious difficulties I might have helped' him. I will not say a word against his conversion to Roman Catholicism, thongh it seems to have been sudden and very complete. Free determination is the crown of our manhood. And he may find rest where thousands have found it, in the teachings of an infallible Church. 1