The Catholic World.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 43, 25 October 1900, Page 19

The Catholic World.

ENGLAND.-The See of Portsmouth .-The Right Ber. Bishop Cahill has been appointed successor to the late Bishop Vertue, of Portsmouth, to whom he had been Coadjutor. Stonyhurst College and the Oxford and Cambridge Examinations-— The names of G. Gavan Duffy, A. Jarrett, H. C. MGinity, and L. O'Hea (Stonyhurst College) appear in the list of successful candidates for Higher Certificates at the examinations under the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board. L. Bonacina, H. Creagh, \V. Kane, and P. O'Hea of the same college obtained Lower Certificates. Ordination at Louvain- — During August, at an ordination at Louvain (Belgium), the Rev. Father Aidan Elrington, 0.P., of the English Dominican Province, was raised to the priesthood. The League Of the CroSß.— The annual festival of the League of the Cross was held at the Crystal Palace on August 27. Canon Murnanc presided at a meeting in the theatre, and during an tlojnent address said that what was really a mystery to him was thi.s — Good, practical Catholics outside the League (clergy and laity) admitted whit the League said, that drink was the root evil, and tint it was degrading our land ; yet while they admitted it and ewn sa.d it. so netnneH in less temperate language than the uu'iiilvrH of the League, they not only did not join the League, but M'pined ii< if they would not raise their little finger to remove from tiiu lives or tli" pt oj'le the load of misery caused by drink. He candidly contested he could not underetaud this. The Town Seal of Rye-— A correspondent writes : The following extract from the Hasting* and St. Leonard*' Observer wilt b: of interest in connection with the opening of the new Catholic Church at Rye •It is not a little curious that Rye's town s^al should be, of all municipal corporations, perhaps the most Papal in the whole kingdom. It is composed of an enshrined ficrure of the Madonna -md Child, around which are the words, Aye Maria jih mi tjratin Dommux ti/'um. I mentioned to a well-known ifisrh Church clergyman in Hastings the fact that through centuries of haul and fa-t Protectantisni Rye's Town Council had been using this seal, when the reply eime, " Well, poor people, it didn't hurt them. We may well tuppope they didn't uuderstand if" Jubilee Pilgrims and the Holy Father.— Two loyal addressee, which will be presented to the Pope — one from the clergy by Cardinal Vaughan, the other from the laity by the Duke of Norfolk — are receiving signatures on all sides. FRANCE— A well-deserved Award— Among the awards granted by th" International Jury at the Exhibition (writes a Paris forre.sr-ondent"), not the loast interesting and certainly* not the least well deserved is a gold medal which has been awarded to the Religious Sodality knov\nas the ' Ladies of Calvary.' This Sodality ha« chittly for object the care of poor people suffering from cancel, and unable either to go to hospital or to be properly looked after at home. The ladies who form it, and who are, I think, almost exclusively widows of good families, undertake to personally vißit and look after a certain number of patients allotted to each in her own neighborhood. The Sodality exhibit in class 112, devoted to the relief of the poor, the various processes for the treatment of cancer which they havu adopted and which they recommend ; also their regulation and the record of their work. Aa will be seen from this the Exhibition is not devoted exclusively to industrial or artistic pursu.th or to the ginger-bread fair antics of the Rue de Paris. Charity organisation and also humanitananism, have found a prominent place in its capacious bosom, and nothing can be more interesting to the student, the humanitarian, the philosopher, or the legislator, than the sociology and political economy sections on the ground (lour of the severe, almost classical, Palais des Congres. ROME— The Holy Father's Name-day-— ln the natural course of events (^nys the Jldjast Examiner^) the life of Pope Leo XIII. would be drawing to a close. The venerable Pontiff is aow in his ninety-first year, and at the reception of Cardinals held last hunday in honor of his name-day, the Pope expressed the hope that he would witness th« closing of the Holy Door of St. Peter's at the end of his Jubilee Year. He then proceeded — ' I will hold myself ready to appear before the Great Judge, as my life is drawing to its dose.' We hope the day is a good way off, but when in thg appointment of Divine Providence Leo does pass away, he will leave behind the reputation of being one of the greatest Vicars of Christ since the days of Peter.

Holy Year Pilgrimages-— A Rome correspondent, writing on September 1, «ayfl — The Holy Year pilgrimages, which had not been suspended during the summer, as errom ously state 1 by some papers, but only limited to the less numerous gioup* s () as to fatigue the aged Pontiff as little as possible during his tmu h-nuded holiday. ba\e now entered upon a\n nod of renew< d acmit v. ' Mntus in fine velocior,' and the elo-mg months of the Jubilee Year w ill doubtless surpass all the preceding ones m regani to the number and solemnity of the pilgrimages. On Thursday Leo XIII. granted a special reception in St. Peter's to mar)} lnuuo pilgrims from the dioceses of Padua. Bologna, Foligno. Tnnto, Trieste, Udilic, P;.^... „ ar. '- Vt" I ',-^ «-'-<■ 1' 1 >.- w.v-.n li,,),np« nn.l archbishops. Cardinal Svampa, Archbishop of l'.,,liyna, having been uuhMl iv o^m , hi! ielegat^i t'" 1 \.-.-i , . o>-.,i (T^rdm-il Respighi) to represent him, The Holy Father made his entry into the basilica at about 12. and when the venerable white fiVure on the ' sedia gestatoria' appeared, passing by the altar ot the Blessed Sacrament, enthusiastic cheers made the majestic temple ring again, and the numerous standards of Catholic associations were lowered respectfully as the stately procession «wepr up the aisle to the Altar of the Confession, from whence it proceeded to the Papal altar. Here the Holy Father descended from the • sedia gestatoria ' and knelt for some time in prayer, while 'lie Pontilic.il Choir sang the litanies and the ' Laudate.' Leo >X I II. then arose, and with a firm voice, which was distinctly heard throughout the vast basilica, imparted the Apostolic Benediction to the pilgrims. After receiving the homage of the bishops arid leaders, whom he thanked for their praiseworthy initiative, the Pontiff again blessed the pilgrims and retired to his private apartuunt- apparently none the worse for the fatiguing function, which h^d lasted nearly two hours. A numerous group of Maltese pilgrims, led by Archbishop Pace, arrived at Naples on Friday on the Paraguay and at once proceeded on their journey to Rome. They will probably be received by the Holy Father together with soy pilgrims irom Sicily and Calabria who have just arrived. SCOTLAND.— Retirement of a well-known Police Officer. — After a long and honorable caret: ut .'is years' faithful and distinguished services in the Edinburgh police iorce, when in he rose from the rank of constable to his present position, Lieutenant Durkin. the well-known Catholic police inspector of the capital, has just retired. Both Press and people of the country are unanimous in their praise of this veteran oflker a services to the city and State. Charitable Bequests —The inventory of the heritable and movable estate of the late Rev. Father Shaw, lately reading at Stanley street, Aberdeen, has been lodged with the sheriff Clerk of Aberdeenahire, and amounts to tITTi l.">s 7d on v.!n<h x"'i "is of estate duty has been paid He leaves to tin Lady Nupt nor ot the Home of Little Sisti m of the Pour, Gillt.uh place rdinburg}!. on behalf of that institution. £JMt , to the Lady Superior of N.i/ueth House, Aberdeen, for behalf of that institution. £r,u, to P.i-hop Chisholm, in aid of Blairs College, -t^'iu . ,md to the administrator of St. Mary's Cathedra] AbcnU-'i) ilun. All the lit; ilk .ire free of duty. On a Visit to Ober-Ammergau.— Lord Dumtiie-, Lords Ninian and Colum Crichton Stuart, and Lady Margan t CriehtonStuart left recently for (>ber- \mmerg.ui. They are acco'nranied by the Rev. Sir David Hunter-Blair, of 1 ort-Augu-tu<- Abb, y." Valuable Presentation to a Church — \ cost;,, monstrance. the gift of Mr. Stuart A ("oats. wa« us,-d for the fn-t tim<> at Bt nodiction in St Margaict - A\r. on miiklh) c\ < mn,', \u'_'!.< rJu r i he monstrance, which is ot superb design. < mjui-i', lv w longht and richly set with rubies, was much adu.ind. II 11I 1 will b t nineinlund that Mr. Coats, a- member o f the well-known linn of tint ad manufacturers, was received ii.to the Catholic (Jhuich about a y<>ar ago Presentation to a Highland Priest.— The Rev. Father John Mackintosh, late of Borni-h, South I ist. ami now at ( .itnpbeltown, was recently presented by his former pai i-hioners and iu> nds at Bornish with a beautiful puise containing Inn Miven j,, r) , > Father Mackintosh, who had to relmqui-h his charge m South Uist owing to ill-health, was a very popular eh nc amongst all classes of the community, being the honored clntirji.m ol the Parish Council and School Board of the island. Death of the Marquis of Bute-— a cablegram nv< iu<i the other day announced the (hath of the Marquis oi Bute in hi* -:-!rd year Ihe deceased nobleman had been ill for >-om o month-, but when the last mail left England he hail sutli iently recocted to take a trip to the Continent. He was born in I^l7 and sue 'ceded to the title in the following yi sir. Tie was a convert, having been received into the Church in Im',s He was created a Knight of the Order of the Thistle in ls7"> lie pre-ented the Cn.it Hall to tho University of Glasgow The honorary degree of LLI). was conferred upon him by the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews. He ha- published translations, as well as lecture*, essays, etc. lie was elected mayor of Cardiff in lS'.il, being the first peer chosen for such an oliice since the Reform Bill. He whs married in 1.572, and has issue living— three sons and a daughter. The Marquis of Bute had been considerably occupied ot late with the progress that was bein^ made at Mount Stuart House, his princely residence in Kothe-ay, in the fitting out of the private chapel he was having erected there. When eompk-ud it will be one of the finest examples of distinctively religious architecture in the United Kingdom. The marble for the interior pillars and arches i.s said to have cost, in an un worked state, over £I<i,(m>u, and for the altar alone, which is a unique specimen of its kind, a shipload of red-veined marble had been brought from Italy. A cable message of Saturday states that the deceased nobleman has bequeathed £100,000 to Catholic charities.

The Glasgow City Fathers at a Requiem Mass— The BailieH of the City of Glasgow and the Town Council having been invited to attend the Ih f/tunn Mass for the repose of the soul of the King: of Italy, at a meeting of the Bailies to consider the matter, Bailie^ John Ferguson and D. M. Stevenson urged it would be a graceful indication of respect for a friendly nation and for the religious opinions of their Roman Catholic fellow-citizens. With mriip slight dissent, it was agreed to bring it before the Town Council, whore it was agreed to unanimously. Accordingly, Borne f-even or eight of the Bailies, headed by the Lord Provoat, and bearing their chains of office and attended by about 30 members of the Town Council, proceeded on Wednesday morning, August 8, to St. Andrew's Catholic Cathedral, where they occupied seats in front of iho Tfi<'h Altar It is needier to say that since the Reformation no such public recognition of Catholicism has taken place in Scotland. To the credit of the Press, not a word of adverse comment appeared in the editorials ; but, as might be expected, some fierce attacks have been made upon the 'magistrates attending Mass' and in ' this grunt Protestant city sanctioning superstition.'