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memmG eSU AD CUnuonL ammm ln NEW ORLEANS. SUNDA, NE 91, Isee. Irom the Catholic World.] NELLIE NETTERVILLE; on. ONE OF THE. TDSP4 ED. " God help you, a- scried in a tone of unfeigne laying at the same time her withered hand upon the tat tered kerchief which Nellie was trying to fold round her stately shoulders. "God help you ! and is this all that them black scum of Saxon robbers left ye when they turned ye out upon the- wide world to seek your fortune It "It cannot be helped," said Nellie- with a little chohing in her vbide, though she tried hard to eTil it beneatlan assumption of -indifference. "And after all, these rags do but make me seem what in fact I am- beggar. Only I hope," she added with a little nervous inagh, "I hope that Colonel O'More" (she had learned his military rank and his real name, Moore being only its Saion rendering, the night before from Nora,) " will not be utterly disgusted this morning when he finds out to what a pauper he extended his hospitality last night." ' The colonel Is it the master that you mean ! The master be disgusted ! Ah ! now listen to me, asthore, and don't be filling yourhead withem -ugly faneies "for you my just tase my word or it, and don'tI know every tarn of his mind as well as if I was inside of it? You may uast take old Nora's word for it, that he-worships the very ground yon tread on, and weo too, all the same, f youhad never a brogue to the foot or a kirtle to theTrack. indeed ! Why, couldhe not seefor hihsBelk last night that you had been just robbed and murdered like out of your own by them thieving Saxons, and wasn't it for that very reason that, before he went of this bleseda morning, he gave me the key of that big black box, and -says-says he 'Nora, my old woman, I have been thinking that the young lady up-stairs has been so long on the road that may be she'll be in want of a new dress, like; so, as there is nothing like decen t woman-tailoring to be found in the island, may be she'll condescend to see if there's anything in my poor mother's box that would suit her for the present.' And troth,-my'dailing," old Nora went on, "it's you that are going to have the pick and choice of fine things; for she was a grand Spanish lady, she was, and always went about among us dressed like a princess." - Nora had opened the box at the begin ning of this speech, and with every fresh word she uttered, she flung out such treas ures of finery on the floor as fully justified her panegyric on the deceased lady's ward robe. INellie soon found herself the centre of a heap of thick silks and shiny satins, and three-plied velvets and brocaded stuffs, standing upright by virtue of their own rich material, and of laces so delicate and tine, that they looked as if she had only to breathe upon them in order to make them dat away upon the air like cobwebs. She was quite too much of a girl as yet to be able to resist a close and curious ex amination of such treasures ; nevertheless, her instinct of the fitness of things was stronger than hei viianity, and -there was an incongruity between these courtly habili mnnts and her broken fortunes, which made her feel that it would be an absolute im possibility to wear them. Selecting, there fore. a tew articles of linen clothing, she told ,ldl Narna that everything else was far too tine tfor daily wear, and began,otf her own accrtld, to restore them to their cofter. Not so, however. the good old Norn. That anyi thing could be too tine for the adorn itmet of antly one whomo ' tihe master" de hted to.honor, was a simple absurdity in her ud; and site became so clamorous in her ren strances, that Nellie was fain to shift her grI id. and to explain that she was bent :it thu noment upon ' taking a long ramble by t 'ea-shore,' for which anything like a dress of or satin (Nora's owp good sense must tell he would be, to say tie least of it, exceedingly I ropri ate." At these words a new -light seeme dawn upon the old woman's mind, aniT plunging almost bodily down into the deep coffer in her eagerness to gratify herprotege, she exclaimed, "so it's for it walk you'd be going thispnorning, is it? and after all your bother last night! Well, well you are young still, and would rather, I daresay, be skip ping about like a young kid among the rocks than sitting up in silks and satins as grave and stately as if you were a princess in earnuest. Something plain and strong? That s what you'll be wanting, isn't it, a-lanunah Wait a bit, will you? for I mind me now of a- dress the old mistress had nmde when she was young, for a frolic, like, that she might go with mie unnoticed to -a ' pattern.' Andmanay I never sin if I haven't got it," she cried, diving down once more --into the coffer, and bringing up from its shining clhaos a dress which, consisting as it did simply of a aindder-colored petticoat and short over-skirt of russet brown, was not by any means very dissimilar to the habitual costumne of a peasant girl of the west at thie present hbur. Nora was right. It was, as ladies have it, " the very thing!" Stoutenough and plain enough to meet all Nellie's idease of propriety, and yet present ing a sharp contrast o'f coloring which (for give libr my reader, shIe was only sixteen) she was by no means sorry to reflect would be exceedingly becoming to her clear, pale complexion, and the bluablack tresses of her hLar. It was with a little blush of pleasure, therefore,-that she took it from the old woman's hand, exclaiming, "Oh! thank you dear Norm. It is exactly what I was wishing for--so strong and pretty. It will make me feel just as I want to feel, like agood strong peasant girl, able and willing to work for her living; and, ·to say the truth, moreover," she added, somewhat confidentially, "I should not at all have liked making my appearance in those fine Spanish garments. I should have been so much afraidof the O'More taking i his 1 mother." Theanuno ationa of this rv of old Norma alt of luging, Iof w conytrived to anm dl rk mantle, she' a; effectthough eedny rty, e means exactly'what she SllNo,, tuming heroun closer inspection, declared, San Irish expletive, which we aour readers,' That dress -mW . i"-s inight-@no one could ever mistake her for anythlg- but what she really was, namely a bern lady and per haps, even mo guie." With a accepted of 4 . trippeddown the win turret, took one peep at Netterville as he lay in the room below, in the «"callgh or nook, by_.'p s , whigh, screene off by a bent nmttif ,1had beni allotted to him as the warmest and most comfortable accommodation the tower afforded, and having satisfied herself that' he was still fast asleep, stepped out gayly into the open air. She was met at the door by "Maid.," who nearly knoeksdher down in her boiterous deliht at beholding her again, and she was plo ydom.e iher self from the too rap., m vanoeb'.l. o ,hee tr four-footed iead, whieaRoger iman his ish ini-boet aloegide the pier, and, evidently mistaking Nellie for some bare-footed vis tor of Nora', calledout in Irish: -"Hillos, ma coleen dhas ! run back to the tower, will you, and tell Nora to fetch me down a basket, and you hall have a good handful of fish for your pains, for I have eught enough to garrison the island for week." . Guessing his mistake and enchanted at the success of her masquerade, Nellie in stantly' drted into the kitchen, seied a nreerl which was lying near. the eand rushed down to the pier.Boer was stil so busy disentangling the fsh from the net in which h had caught them that he never even looked at NelTe until he turned around to place them in her basket. Then for the first time he saw who it was whom he had. been so unceremo niousl ordering about on his commission. Had Nellie been rich and prosperous, he would prohably have laughed and made ex ceedingly light ofthe matter; -but poor, and almost dependent on his bounty as she was, he flushed scearlet to the forehead, and apologized with an eager deference, which was not only very touching in itself, but very oharacterlatio of the sensitive and generous-hearted race .from which he sprm . B"But, after all," he added, in con inosine, smling and lyinghis finger !ightl on the folds of Nellie's mantle, "afte al, how could I dreanathat, her weeks of weary wandering only just concluded, Mistress Netterville would have been again with the sun, looking as fresh and brfpht as the morning dew, and masquerading like a peasant girlt" "But I am not masquerading at all," said Nellie, laughing, and yet evidently quite in earnest. "I am as poor as a peas ant girl, and mean to dress like one, ay, and to work like one, too, so long as I-needs must be dependent upon others." "Not if I am still to be master here," said Roger, very decidedly, taking the fish ing-creel out of her hands. "Like a wan dering princess you have come to me; and like a wandering princess I intend that you shall be treated, so long as you condescend to honor me by your presence in this king doin of barren rocks." " But the fish," said the laughing and blushing Nellie; "in the meantime what is to be done with the fish t Nora will be in pain without it; for she told me last night that there wasn't a blessed fish in the bay that would be worth a 'traneen' if only half an hour were suffered to elapse between their exit from the ocean and their intro duction to her kitchen." " Nora is quite right," said Roger, re sponding freely to the young girl's merry laugh; " and it has cost me both time and pains. I do assure you, to impress that fact upon her mind. But ' Maida' has already told her all about it; and here she comes he added, as he caught a glimpse of the old woman descending leisurely toward the pier. " So now we may leave the flsh-with a aafe conscience to her tender mercies and, if you are inclined for a stroll, I will take you up to yonder rocky platform, from hence you will see the Atlantic, as unfor tu ly we but seldom see it on this wild coast. all the calm glories of a summer day." I Continued.l , READIN.--There wras a d who2 at four teen, was apprenticed to a soap-boiler. One of his resolutions was to read an hour a day, or at least at that rate, and he timed him self by an old silver watch left him by his uncle. He staid seven years with his mas ter, and when he was twenty-one he knew as much as the young squire did. Now let us see how much time to readin seven years be had, at the rate of one houreach day. It would be more than two thousand, five huffdred and ffty-five hours, which, at the rate of eight readinghours a day, would be equal to three hundred and ten days, equal to forty-five weeks, eq~uial to eleven months- nearly a year's reading. The time spent in treasuring up useful knowledge would pile up a-very large store. I am sure itisworth trying for. Begin now. Do what you can. In after years you will look back upon the task as thie most pleasant and profitable one that you ever performeld. B EATIvrI. .AI) TRItE.-Iln an article in Fraze's Maqazi,,e this brief but beautiful extract occurs: " Education does not cont mence with the alihabet. It begins with a mother's look, with a father's smile of ap probation or reproof--With a sister's gentle pressure of the hand, or a brother's noble act of forbearance-with bird's nests ad. mired, not touched-with ereeping ants and almost impossible emmuets~-with humming birds and great bee-hivce-itvithl pleasant -walks and shady lanes, and with thoughts directed in sweet and kindly tones and words to nature, to acts of benevolence, to deeds of virtue. and to the source of all good-God himnself."' hist , ii n the I .ne int gathering. The transactions of the two succeeding days were very interesting, and but we only ive a pynopsis: red ecod Se-au-iqM da ui.- The second ws aession Was held to-day- -- The attendance of a delegates was very large; the immense sver snite of rooms barely afforded santufficient she space to wole of them. They come princi -the States of Ohio, _ork, Illinois, Miouri, S smn , etc.-some even "Germazt(C societies organized f west d n Francisco. rille At half-past iseven in the morei , the the delegates were conducted fromthei head q. rte dais Aemmbly 3goolm tei ty Redeer: 111gb mass was eslebrated the Bev. Father SWa rieob, parist. The serdoat do the ooearuon was preaehed byl by the Rev. Norbert Stoller O.M.C. oor After the services in the chureb, the p~, n cession returned to the Germania Asembly herBoom her- The following gentlemen -were-eleted her permanent-ofierss Mr. John Amend ofSt. uis, Mo., Preeldent ; Mr. George MJalds, Sof Bu Pl o First Vice Presideut Mr. Max Philps Milwaukee Second Vice'Presi ent; S~C~et,-y, Rv. i. Steller, Sy. .The erseb were elected by a sta ing v with three cheers and -a "tigeri. Adresses were then delivered by Mr. r Gorge Baldus, Vice President of the _8o ar city" the Rev. Mr. Miller, of Jefferson S.;Rev ev. Mr. Brandt, of Madison, I e various a were Chiefly ex h bting the Union to further the interests of the Catholi teligion in general, by the sup t p l good C-tholic schools, by the sup p ort ofthe atihoie Church, and manifesting. evotion to the HolyFther. r grand o~r sion to the Chuiiof the Most Ho ly te , where grand high mass ro was celebrated by Most. Rev. Dr. MeClos nO key. At seven o'clock, the several dele on' gates presented their reports as to the he numberof members of the local society each represented, giving agrand total of nearly r twnty-fRve ,ouu d. Rev. Father Moeller, of Jff erson City, Mo., delivered the sermon md in Gerum. cu At two o'elock, the convention re-aessem bled, and proceeded to elect its officers for and the ensuing year, with the following re e suit: ForE President John Phillips, of Mil - waukee; First and Second Vice Presidents 1 George Baldus, of Buffalo, and Joseph Koelble, of ew York City; Recording 'ry Secretary, Rev. Norbert Stoller, of Syra ease Corresponding Secretary, Charles Ith Holzhauer, clerk of the Mnnicipal Court of the Milwaukee; Treasurer, John Harting, of e a Chicago. During the proceedings in the 11, afternoon, Bishop Elder, of Natchez,. Mis., y entered the hall, and the bgloting for tly fficers was suspended, to listen to a speech - from the right reverend gentleman. , Mr. Orf was chairman of the Committee Son Immigration, appointsd-at the last meet ingof the covention at Pittsburg. After appointing three committees--on mmigra tion, on schools, and on the press-the con m vention adjourned at seven in the evening, ad to meet next morning. - - -- - on In the evening, a committee, headed by ead Rev. Mr. Stoller, proceeded to the residence 5g of-the archbishop, on Thirty-sixth -street and Madison avenue, and presented to him bnd a valuable and well executed portrait of the is Pope, painted in oil, and of full size. The in archbishop accepted the handsome gift, and pht replied to the presentation spIech-in a may happy strain. ily A concert and banquet, in honor of the .en delegates, at the Germania Assembly ro- Rooms, was well attended, last night, and continued till an early hour this morning. re Fourth assion-Wednesday.-High mass a was said in the Church of St. Francis mct d'Assissi. All the delegates and a number d of representative Catholic Germans from Sthe city attended, filling every availabl ofd space in the church. After service, the he delegates repaired to-their hall, at the Ger ith mama Assembly Rooms and, at about ten do o'clock, the President, Mr. Phillips, called ke the convention to order. Mr. J. Edmund om Burke, on behalf of the Catholic Library or- Association of Brooklyn, presented a series ild of congratulatory resolutions, which, in view of the fact that the Brooklyn associa tion is mostly composed of Americans, and, in a large degree,of converts to Cathol icism from other religious denominations, are remarkable ur- The resolutionswer°a-ead in German and One English, answewed by three cheers, and the my, secretary was rdered to reply, in appro m- priate terms, to the kindfeelings expregsed his in them. as- The Rev. Mr. Gartner, of Milwaukee, then ew moved-prefacing his motion with reference let to a certain remark that had fallen from ea speakers in the convention and elsewhere It the Central Union should declare that v though expectations as to the action and the proposed measures to be ndertaken by the be Union have lately been raised to a high nal standard, yet this organization will venture - upon no step extraneous to its declared bin purpose; that the society deals only with ile questions of aid and support to itsmembers rth n cases of poverty and sieckness; and will an. entertain~natters of social or educational the import,-so far as they generally touch the eCatholic heart, without adhering to the maxim, lunto graeu ad parnassum--with slow steps to reach the summit. The reso in lution met with considerable applause, and iful the explanations of the reverend speaker m- were still more favorably received. The. h motion, when put, was carried unanimously. S- refraining from all direct interference with ble tion, as defined by constitution of the ad. Central Union. md The next business in order was the report ig- of the Committee on Immigration. Rev. nt Mr. Schweringer acted as spokesman of the hts committee, and his report was in substance nd as follows: The society will and ought not to endanger its own existence by following all objects beyond its province, however de serving they may in themselves be. Hence t the of is not to be th pnrviewofthe e te interestsof andneither any of the local - to use their cor wlnon rn ovements ing to secure p n andaid tonewl d rived immigrants, and to tis end the U will appoint a eqntral committee of' good Catholics, residents of the city of 1 York,with a priest for chairman, as the it superintending board concerning all mat 7 ters of immigration. T committee shall t apointtw a York and two and . e n ,r bellroa te'nimI rah advise in the exo -of co r other monk or valuables,to ta suitable boarding Splaces, and to look after-the safety of the naggage. Th$ hese agent may at by a orty thieyiýrlleaccreditedby the eersoit Unon to the Board of Emi g" lres, and each agent will also receive a Scertfcate of his appointment. The local societies in all other citiis shall appoint an agent in their places to perform the same service. SSome very interesting facts were also made anown. Une was t the seventeenth t I annual.convention -F-th-i -n-td Catholic s, SwBietes of Germany, a union similar to Sthis, held at Pries, in Prussia, had-taken. i- the initiative in this matter, and has ap . pealedto this German-American Central 8 Union for some co-operative effort to pro tect and aid Catholic immigrants on their r" arrival at our shores. It was announced º and received with applause that to the ef In forts of thisaorganissaton in Germany it was dae that the Bremen and Hambur Catholic lmiui a lspels were institted or the re iio et of emigrants, and that with the aid of French Catholics a splendid -church edifice was erected at -avre, in France, for a like purpose. The report of g the committee, substantially asgiven above, was then adopted. TheVery Rev. F.Leim -abe, etor of the edmptionist Convent t Third street, was then made chairman a of this central committee, the Rev.-Mr. - Schweringer chairman pro tea., and Messrs. SKoelble, Frech, and three others selected as e the lay members of the committee. h The Rev. Professbr Gartner, of Milwan 1 kee, then made his report on what was r, called the school question. The report n consisted of three resolutions, the second and third of which elicited very warm de bate. -They were voted upon seriatim, and r the second was rejected by a large majority; but the vote being reconsidered, explana tions followed, and it was itmilydop , as were the other two. They are in sub stance-as follows: Si1. The Union reminds its members of the - obligation entered into at the last yearly a meeting, to send their children to only If Catholic schools, where there are such. I 2. Every member is requested individually, e and through his local society, to exert his *, personal Influence, as circumstances may r allow, that better Catholics may be ap h pointed as-teachers in public- schools than now are, that the prevailing prejudice e against Catholics may cease, and the seoff ing at Catholicism be stopped. 3. That the r Union most resoectfally, and with entire confidence, submit to the American Catholic episcopacy -the propriety to consider the , time and manner of petitioning the several State governmentstoobtain a proportionate Y share of the school fund for the schools of e their own faith. --It was, then moved' and carried thiat a a committee of five be appointed to draft-an 0 address to the Pope, expressing the sympa thy of the German Catholics of the United States with the troublous situation of the a Holy Se;- and that it is their conviction that the maintenance of the temporal power e of the Pope at Rome was necessary to his F independence, as the spiritual head of the SChurch and thevicegerent of Christon earth. This was -adopted amid enthusiastic ap a plause, and the Revs. Gartner, Stoller, s Schweringer, and Miller, and Mr. (;. lHaus r chel, the mover, were appointed on that s committee. The constitution was then amended that all juvenile societies shall a hereafter be admitted, but that no delegate - to the Union shall be below twenty-one a years of age. A motion which many looked I upon as a vote of censure upon the clergy I of the city was tabled. It was to the effect P that hereafter the delegates to the Union a shall, in a body, attend divine service only i at the opening and close of the session, the mover and seconder evidently thinking that even piety might be overdone. But they partially carried their point upon the mo tion to print the proceedings in pamphlet form for the use of the members, by passing t a proviso that of all the sermons and cere monies but very short extracts should be inserted. Chicago was then fixed for the L place of next year's convention, and after passing a vote of thanks to the archbishop, i the clergy; the Catholics of New York, to a the mayor and civic authorities, to the i poHce, and to all non-Catholics who deco - rated their houses in honor of the occasion, and after a short prayerand benediction by I the Rev. Mr. Stoller, the convention ad a journed sie die at a quarter past seven So'clock P.M. Thus closed one of the most Sremarkable and imposing Roman Catholic I demonstrations ever witnessed in this city. 1 AROHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK.-The rega s lar semi-annual ordipation at the Provincial 1 Seminary of Troy wat performed on Friday 1 and Saturday, 5th and 6th inst., by the a Right Rev. the Bishopof Hartford, at which Sthe following gentlemen received orders: 1 Ordained Priestas.-Archdiocese of New - York-Rev. George C. Murphy, Rev. James I M. GCalligan, Rev. James Keenan, Rev. Pat r ick Loughran, Rev. Peter McCourt, Rev. e Michael O'Farrelh SDiocese of Albany-Recv. Charles C. Cra ven, Rev. Patrick Lynch, Rev. John E. ..masW.Reilly, Rev. Thos. SRooney, Rev. Edward Thornton, Rev. Thomas E. Walsh. - Diocese of Boston-Rei. Michael Green, I Rev. John O'Brien, Rev. P'eter Ronan. Rev. Arthur J. Teeling. 1 Diocese of Hartford-Rev. Michael 14 ( Clume, Rev. James A. Fitsaimon, Rev. Wmin. j SInalligan, Rev. Bernard Plunket. Diocese of Portland-Rev. Lewis J. Mat sa ners. t Diocese of Louisville--Rev. John A. C ined .Deacons.-Arhdioces e of New _ York-Rev. Thomas J. Duey Redv. Edward I A. Dunphy, Rev. Barthol CGlligan, Rev. Francis Martin. of Albany - Rev. Midhael T. S Florence McCarthy, Rev. Johii Patrick O'Sullivan. -Rev. John M. Krem . John J. Fur New Archdiocese of New o P. Baxter, Rev. Rev.John C. e , v. John P. Clay Rev. John MeNamee, Rev. Thomas F. s Welch. - Diocese of Albany-Rev. David J. Brown, Rev. John- Kennedy Rev. Patrick J. Mli ,u8oo, Rev. Michael e. Mallaney, Rev. John B eou7y5B v. Marin Vii Q ls Diocese of Boston- . Wat lagher, Rev. Daniel S. Hea e. Michael SJDiocese of Hatford~ `Re. Ptrick F. PGorhrbiwb w.Josspbha.Rsat aew.gpenS oDioee-ofPo id..-, , , o ion, ev. John J. uddy, Rev.E Zuene M. Diocese of Burlington-Bev. John C. Me L. Laughlin. .Promoted to Minor Orders.-Are obe of New York--Mers. Was. F. Bray Jo-. Sseph Hayne, John J. Kean; James -It . r Diocese of All~-e-- sr. Damascus L Arhambeanlt, John v. James J. Kelp ly, James R. Scnlon, John at h+ Diocese of Boston-Michael MMlanus. Diocese ofHa-rtord-John C a aN. -, Prosated to buawe.-Ar-hdIoeeseofNew York-Messrs. Andrew J. Ca--mr, Patrick Healy, Thomas F. Lynch James MoNmee Isadore Moister MartinO0Flsherty, Michael ! J. Phelan, Philip teyL Diocese of Albany-Wm. J. Bourke, John Hayden, James Lynch, Roger Ward. Diocese-of Boston-Jamss H. Conlon, John Dunphy Edward Galligan, Philip Garrigan, Waiter C. Henneberry. Wm. C. Moran, Thomas O'Brien. Diocese of Hartford-Henry Kinnerney, Martin ILawler, Michael McCauley, Charles J. Rogers. Diocese of Portland-Edward McSweeney. Beeapitulation.-Priests, 23; deacons, 11 ; sub-deacons, 26 -minor orders, 11; tonsure, 24-total, 95. ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI.- Ordina tions.-On the 4th inst., in Mt. St. Mary's chapel, Mr. Wm. Hawe received the eccle siastical tonsure and font minororders from the Most Rev. Archbishop Purcell. On the - 5th Mr. James O'Donnell was ordained by the same, sub-deacon, and on the 7th, dea con. And on Saturday Rev. Charles B. Doherty was ordained priest, who on Sun day celebrated hisflrt solemn high mass in St. Peter's Cathedral. The Rev. Mr. Doherty is a native of Cincinnati. New London, Butler county, Ohio.-This place was visited on the 2d inst. by Arch-/ bishop Pnpell, accompanied by Rev. Messrs. Egger, Steinlage, Hammer and Rombouts. A small frame was blessed as a tempgrary chapel-it was merely ground brokenin a new place, where we hope to have ore very long achurch and a congregation. Patron, St. Louis Gongaga. S. Patrick's, nineiAmti.-After highmass and sermon in St. Patrick's Church, last Sunday, there were one htmundred and thirty persons confirmed-- two-or-three converts. St. Francis of ales' Csurch.--There wereV thirty persons confirmed in this church last Sunday afternoon, one a convert; and a beautiful banner, St. Francis de Sales on one side and St. Francis Xavieron the other, blessed by the archbishop. Addresseswere delivered by Rev. Dr. Pabisch and Rev. H. Ferneding. We were pained to learn that of three persons being drowned on Saturday, while fishing in the Miami river, two had been members of this congsogation, and they had but a short time before the sad accident complied with their- Easter duty.-Catholic Telegraph. DIOCESE OF CHARLESTON.-On Sunday, the 7th inst., Right Rev. Bishop Lynch ad ministered the rite of conirmation at St. Paul's church, to a number of candidates. On the same day the Right Rev. Dr. Per sico, assisted by the Rev. Dr. J. J. O'Con nellt administered the sacrament of conflr mation in St. Peter's church, at- Columbia, to a goodly number of children and adults of both sexes. Among the latter were three converts of our zealous and distinguished pastor.-Gazette. DIOCESE OF MONTREAL.-Avery beautiful and interesting ceremony took place on the morning of Thursday, the 4th inst., in the Chapel of the Ladies of the Congregation of Notre Dame, consisting of the reception of several ladies into the community on taking the vows, and the putting on of the reli gious habit by-several others. The number that took the solemn vows w'as six; and nine received the religious habit. , SOrdination at St. Sulpice.-The semi' annual ordination of the students attending the Grand Seminary of St. Silplie,-of this city, took place on Saturday, 6th inst. The Right Rev. Dr. Bourget, Bishop of Montreal, was the consecrator on the occa ason. The number that received the tonsure was twenty; minor orders, seven; sub deaconship, twelve; deaconship, ten; those promoted to the priesthood were Messrs. John Kelly, ¶oronto, (of Cavan, late of All Hallows College, Dublin,) and J. E. Dugas, Montreal. A TIME TO WEEP.-" You are very un grateful to complain," said the knife to the hedge. "Doflt v ou know hattLam slash ing away at you for your good ? Why, every cut I give you will tell, and when _ ng comes you will be so y in green , that the birds will delight to uild myou." "S k said the hedge, "inthe spring, whenl~ Wounds are healed, I will thank you; bbat present, I am too much occupied with my smart to be able to re joice in the prospect of green leaves." What psoe as open-faced honesty is of/ ten masld malignity.