under "due authority," to institute a rule of life for those (and I entertain a heartfelt belief there would be many) who would desire to devote themselves to the re-conversion of our country, by good example, united with prayers. And I believe also there would be found devout souls, actuated by this holy and noble motive, who would aspire even to greater perfection than might be required from the associates in general. There are modifications of religious rules, such as the "Third Order of St. Francis," applicable to persons living in the world, which, I doubt not, if proposed, would be thankfully received and observed by many. But such an engagement could of course only be made after due probation, and with permission of the pastor, or of the spiritual superior of the fraternity.

New characteristics would likewise be appropriate to an institution adapted to so specific a purpose; and whence should they so fitly emanate as from Father Ignatius of St. Paul; and what could be more desired than to see founded by his zealous hands, a minor order of "Passionists," to co-operate with himself and his holy brotherhood, united with our other angelic religious communities and our apostolic clergy, in England's re-conversion? Among the laity, who are assailed by all the daily trials and seductions of the world, some further aid to virtue and sanctity would indeed be acceptable. We look with almost envy upon the heavenly life of the religious; and, when favoured with an opportunity of a transient visit to their sequestered, calm, and holy abodes, we sigh on returning to the clamour of our worldly strife and battle. When, also, we behold our clergy summoned from time to time to spiritual retreats, therein to renew their fervour, we, poor laity, feel our necessities the more. This latter most holy source of stability in a good life, or of its restoration, if declining, I cannot doubt, venerated Father, would come within the scope of the design you have in view.

Humbly apologising for again intruding on your notice, I am, yours, in the sincerest respect and esteem, Oxford, July 9th.

UNUS.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

FROM THE

PROPOSED PRESENT TO HIS HOLINESS PIUS IX. CATHOLICS OF ENGLAND.-An influential meeting of Catholics was held on the 25th instant, in Windmill-street, to take into consideration the address of the Catholic Bishops, published at their annual meeting in London, calling upon the clergy and laity of England to purchase a superb remonstrance or ostensorium, now in England, as a present to his Holinees Pope Pius the Ninth. Amongst the gentlemen present we noticed the Hon. C. Stonor, the Rev. Thomas Rooker, D.D., and president of the Catholic Colleges of SS. Peter and Paul, Prior Park, the Revs. J. O'Neill, J. Bamber; Messrs. Amherst, Bagshaw, Mostyn, Palmer, Ryan, Wallis, Dearsly, &c., &c. The Right Rev. Dr. Morris, D.D., was called to the chair. Mr. Dearsly, in proposing the first resolution, said his lordship would be aware that the bishops at their annual meeting had called for the zealous co-operation of the Catholics with them in showing some mark of sympathy with the Holy Father in the many sorrows and affictions which had lately visited His Holiness. To that summons he, in common with Catholics in general, responded with the most cordial enthusiasm. England might not do so much as other countries, but she would do to the utmost. The testimonial which they were about to present would, he hoped, in the language of the bishops, speak of the "faith, and the zeal, and the devotion" of the English Catholics. He believed there was not a city, town, village, or hamlet, but would vie with each other in a noble rivalry in this good

cause. An attempt to describe this superb ostensorium would be impossible. Its value was unknown. The late Bishop Baines, so much lamented, and whose exquisite taste and judgment in all things relating to the fine arts, originally brought it from Rome. It had been designed for the Basilica of St. Peter. It contained 1,600 precious stones. Its weight in gold and silver they might imagine, when he stated that it stood four feet and a-half in height. There was but one place in the world fit for it, and that was St. Peter's, where it would be in harmony with everything around, and, by its accumulations of riches and beauty, centre every eye and every heart on the Holy of Holies. It was most gratifying to him to know that this movement emanated from the bishops, and that it had the full sanction of that revered and eminent prelate, Dr. Wiseman. Mr. Dearsly then moved "That the sum of £1,600 be raised to purchase the ostensorium as a present to the Pope, on such occasion as the bishops may deem fit." Mr. Wallis seconded the motion. Carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. Amherst, seconded by Mr. Palmer, a committee was appointed. Mr. Bagshaw then proposed, and Mr. Ryan seconded, that his lordship should communicate the resolutions of the meeting to the Right Rev. Nicholas Wiseman, D.D., V.A.L.D. Mr. Barnwell was appointed treasurer, and Mr. Palmer secretary, pro tem. A vote of thanks was passed by acclamation to the Chairman. This being the first occasion of a similar nature since the Reformation, the utmost enthusiasm seemed to prevail.

EDITORIAL NOTE.—The paragraph just given is taken from the “CATHOLIC STANDARD," (which we are glad to see assuming a hopeful position as a weekly newspaper), and seems to call for some little notice on our part. The "Standard" published, on the 29th June, this paragraph, which is the first allusion we have seen in any Catholic paper to the meeting of the bishops, or to the proposed present to His Holiness. Our "Register," indeed, recorded that meeting three months ago; and stated that the remonstrance was to be purchased by subscription, in order that the amount so collected might avail to discharge the remaining encumbrances upon the colleges of Prior Park, and that the remonstrance itself might be presented to His Holiness, as a token of our gratitude for the restoration of the hierarchy. Within the last fortnight other Catholic organs have whispered about this increase of the hierarchy, which we had thus announced. We shall move the zeal of every Catholic to promote the object of the bishops when we state that the hint, that soine acknowledgement should be made to the Holy See, came from Rome itself:-although the resolution carried at the meeting, and reported by the " Standard," does not specify on what occasion the present is now to be made.

It is far from our wish to remark invidiously upon our Catholic contemporaries they can but report according to the intelligence conveyed to them: we only regret the want of method which prevents that intelligence from being regularly and systematically distributed. Thus in the report given from the "Standard," allusion is made to an address published by the Catholic bishops: we never heard of it, nor have we seen any record of it in either the "Standard" or "Tablet." Thus, too, the Catholic journalists are left to collect as they can the accounts of the yearly examinations of students at the Catholic colleges-such reports being sometimes forwarded by chance correspondents in such a manner that, as lately happened, they have to apologize for them. How beneficial would it be to the colleges if authentic accounts of these matters were transmitted by the colleges themselves to the editors of all Catholic periodicals! But it is a misfortune that literary jealousies and hostility are supposed to exist where, so far as we are aware, none have been dreamed of.

While we are writing on these matters, we would call the attention of the

"Standard" to an imposition which has been practised upon it. Our June number contained a description of the Church at Erdington, which was forwarded to us by a gentleman, who took credit to himself for his gratuitous liberality: a fortnight after we had published it the same report appeared in the "Standard," as from its "own correspondent." It was evidently the same; and it was evident, also, that the imposition was unknown to the editor of the "Standard," since several short useless passages were restored by the writer, which we had struck out from the letter supplied

to us.

Let all Catholic writers depend upon it that method, charity, and union, while labouring for the same cause, will most advance the object all have at heart-even their private speculations. Make your publications such as to give a taste for reading, and you will increase the number of readers. -[EDIT. CATH. MAG. & REG.]

PARLIAMENTARY RECORD.

JULY 15-PREACHING IN UNKNOWN TONGUES.

Sir B. HALL said, on the bringing up of the report, he would move that the incomes of the English deans be reduced from £1,000 to £700 a-year, the sum received by the Welsh deans. To show the effect of appointing deans for Wales who were imperfectly acquainted with the Welsh language, he might mention that in a case which had come under his notice, the dean's sermons were written by a person who had been a member of the Independent body of Dissenters, but who had been expelled by them. This man was on one occasion brought before the magistrates, among whom was the dean, for neglecting to maintain his family, when he said--addressing the dean"If you would pay me more than half-a-crown for 17 sermons I should be able to maintain my wife and family, but I can't do so now." ("Hear, hear," and a laugh.)

Mr. J. WILLIAMS could bear out the statements of the hon. baronet as to the inconvenience experienced from the imperfect acquaintance of the clergy appointed to preferments in Wales with the Welsh language: On one occasion a clergyman translating into Welsh the passage. "The righteous shall inherit eternal life," used a Welsh phrase which signified"The goslings shall devour the food of the geese." (Laughter.) It was not to be wondered at that the whole congregation laughed at him. He found on every hand Englishmen appointed as bishops, deans, and to other inferior offices in the church in Wales, and grasping munificent incomes as teachers of the people, while they were totally ignorant of the language. There were two brothers, sons of a late Bishop of St. Asaph, who did not understand a word of the Welsh language, but whose incomes exceeded those of 87 curates (hear, hear); and the house would scarcely believe, perhaps, that there were two curates in St. Asaph who did duty every day in the year, and whose annual income was only £30 each.

Dr. NICHOLL hoped the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) would not consent to any arrangement that Welshmen only should be appointed to ecclesiastical preferments in Wales. He was himself an inhabitant of the diocese of Llandaff, and he could say, that had the persons recommended to the noble lord on the ground of their being Welshmen been appointed to preferments, the greatest dissatisfaction would have been occasioned throughout the whole of the diocese among both clergy and laity.

Mr. DRUMMOND thought it seemed a sine quá non that the clergy and the bishop of a diocese should speak the language of the people. It was the conduct of ecclesiastics which had brought matters to their present pass;

and because deans and chapters had for years neglected their duties, hon. gentlemen said they were of no use at all. Persons who neglected their duties were indeed of no use; but an argument from the neglect of an individual who held an office was no argument against the office itself. Clergymen connected with cathedrals had lumped together four services which took place at such a time that the poor man if he attended could not dine with his family in the middle of the day. It was the clergy of the church who had destroyed the church, and what little Christianity then prevailed was owing to Dissenters.

Mr. HUME wished the Welsh to be all taught to read English; but to send Englishmen to Wales, who did not understand the language of the principality, was a mockery.

Sir G. GREY referred to the testimony borne by a Welsh member on a former occasion to the knowledge which the Bishop of Llandaff had shown of the language in addressing a congregation.

Sir B. HALL would put the case that the Bishop of Llandaff was a Welshman, and had been invited to consecrate a church in Marylebone. What would be said, supposing an address presented to him, if he were to say that, as he did not understand English, he would reply in Welsh?

Sir G. GREY remarked, that the hon. member for Wales of whom he spoke testified to the Bishop of Llandaff's accurate knowledge of Welsh.

Mr. HUME gave credit to the noble lord at the head of the government for having made that selection.

Mr. WILLIAMS remarked that the hon. member to whom the Secretary for the Home Deparment referred did not understand a word of the language; but only one feeling of gratitude to the noble lord prevailed in North and South Wales for taking a step in the right direction.

The clause was agreed to, as were also the remaining clauses, and several additional clauses.

An additional clause was proposed, requiring that deans should not hold a living which was not in the cathedral city, or distant more than three miles from the cathedral city.

CONVERSIONS.

"Miss Peel of Lariggan, within the new district of St. Peter's, Newlyn, near Penzance, a sister of Sir Lawrence Peel, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Calcutta, and first cousin of the late Sir Robert, has just seceded, after, as she states, six years deliberation, to the Roman Church; into which, it is presumed, that she will be publicly received at the Catholic Chapel, recently erected at Penzance, to-morrow (Sunday, the 14th) by the Bishop of Marseilles.-Standard.

The Rev. Edward Ballard, M.A., of Wadham College, Oxford, has been recently received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. R. G. M'Mullen, at Bermondsey. Mr. George F. Ballard, of Worcester College, Oxford, was received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. F. Oakeley, at St. John's, Islington, on Sunday last. The Rev. Charles B. Garside, M.A., Curate of Margaret-street Chapel, London, and formerly scholar of Brazennose College, Oxford, was received into the Church on the Feast of St. Aloysius, by the Rev. Dr. P. Melia, at the Catholic Chapel of all Souls, St. Leonard's-on-Sea. Also at the same place, on the 6th inst., by the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Cavendish, Rector of Little Casterton, Rutland, and the Hon. Captain Charles Pakenham, of the Grenadier Guards.

Among the late conversions to the Roman Catholic Church, are the Rev. C. B. Garside, Rev. Mr. Bodley, late curate at Archbishop Tennison's chapel, London; the Rev. W. Maskell's son, Mrs. Allies, wife of the Rev. T. Allies, of Saunton, and Mrs. Foljambe.-Oxford Herald.

On the 30th ult., Miss Kate M. Warren, daughter of James Warren, Esq., of Kersery, Suffolk, was received into the Catholic Church by the Rev. Edward Hearn, at the Convent of the Sisters of Mercy, Queen's-square.

Mrs. Wilberforce, daughter of the late Rev. John Owen, of Fulham, and wife of the eldest brother of the Bishop of Oxford, has been received into the Church.

The Rev. W. Maskell, late Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Exeter, whose letters, acknowledging that the party of Mr Gorham had the best of it in the late controversy as to what is the doctrine of the Church of England, have attracted so much attention, was on Saturday last received into the Church at the chapel in Spanish-place.

MISCELLANEOUS.

THE RUMOURED CARDINALATE.-We beg leave to state, in answer to numerous queries on this subject, that nothing certain is known either about the promotion of Dr. Wiseman or the arrangement of the hierarchy. Rumour has already given the Archbishopric of Westminster to Dr. Ullathorne and Dr. Briggs. We think, however, the vacant See will be filled by our illustrious Prelate, who, most probably, will return from Italy with the learned Rector of the English Roman College as his Coadjutor Bishop on this side of the water. Every hour of Dr. Wiseman's life is of eminent service to the Catholic cause in England, and we hope that his Holiness or the Venerable Consistory will not take any step which may cause his removal from our shores. The learned and Right Reverend Prelate has been out of town for some days past, but will return to celebrate Mass at the French Chapel, and to administer Communion to the young Count de Paris, in presence of the Count and Countess de Neuilly, and other members of the exiled court.-Standard.

The Hon. and Rev. George Talbot has been summoned to Rome, on the express invitation of his Holiness, with the purpose of his appointment to a place of high trust and dignity (not unaccompanied with emolument) that of Chamberlain near the person of the Pope, an office which has been known to lead to the highest point of exaltation, and really worthy to be filled by the most distinguished. The reverend gentleman left London for Rome on Sunday last, and will not tarry by the way.-Tablet.

Dr. Wiseman will have left England for Rome probably before this reaches the eye of our readers.-[ED. CATH. MAG.]

The Catholic schools at Butler-street, Hoxton, are to have an excursion tomorrow to Erith and its pleasant neighbourhood, under the eye of the Rev.

of Moorfields, and others of the Clergy. The Catholic middle schools. in John-street, Bedford-row, have enjoyed an excursion and undergone an examination by the Rev. A. G. Macmullen, who was exceedingly gratified with the result, which did very great credit to the masters-Mr. Stewart and Mr. Grundy; and on the following day the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the president, presented the prizes in the presence of the patrons of the schools and the parents of the children. The school flourishes, has its sixty-six scholars, and almost pays its own expenses. May it continue to prosper (Floreat Semper)-as a valuable Catholic institution, affording the means of securing a Catholically-conducted classical education to the sons of the middle classes.

The Rev. J. Butt, late Secretary to the Lord Bishop, has been appointed to supply the place of the Rev. John Kyne at Lincoln's-Inn-Fields.

THE GORHAM CONTROVERSY.-THE BISHOP OF EXETER'S PROTEST TO THE ARCHES COURT.-"In the name of the Holy Trinity, Amen.We, Henry, by Divine permission Bishop of Exeter, having been monished

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