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:. / R t . . . - i S ' rý' a5 neatger "e .3T OBI? TR DIOCM IO 01 NW Stri alate the followaing from Le Pro Stb emord lass heard our pMyrs ---wthat our holy and wll-, e ".oi p feeli·ng hi strength diminish, S b"i asled from the Sovereign PntifL co on whom, in all omodence, he a -4e burden of the episcopacy. T "Isle priest whom r an presentea h recommende by' all the Bishops Provines, by al the Archbishops of i tid atd Stt ad tied for by all the of~it diouias HYAsiding towishes .s nanimo sit. pyers so priing, the' Sovereign PontR1,las you already know, and as we asnnounce to you offeially to day, has appointed Mgr. N. J. Perche, hihertoVI 'OeC ertal and Adminlstrator of the , Bislop of Abdera, o parti ls, sd Coadjutor of Mgr. st of succession. ' to in thanking the Lord for e has granted to us. For d t one we all desired, a "who has for us all he the man the the flock entrusted .d teslhins, so profound, me ioL anas anlo, and by the 4of iM virtues a man who by the " his Jbudgment, tib ele v his viewps, and by sweetabas ited mes promises us ajust, ea.tnn paterl adminl~a tration. I E *the thful to unite with as in thanktng God for havinf given as such a an t the Lord that He may . peirve nim to us. pressing .need of the diocese not eoly did not permit the newly elected to raebse the burden that was imposed upon iam, but even requires that he should be esesmertesd without delay. HB has therefore selected for the day'of .ia eonsecration -the first day of May, wh ip falls this year on the second Sun ,d" " aiatr ster. The ceremony will'take l pd at the Cathedil. It will commence at ten o'clock, and the procession will ttart from the Archbishop's residence precisely at balf-past nine. All the priests of the city who are not abeolutely prevented by t elreametaneps will make it their duty to a aaist at this Imposing ceremony. Conse quently in each church, that day, the last mass will be at eight o'clock, to give time I to the eter.y and th f-lkithful to be present tM the appoIamed hour. We i eaere also that the country priests, as far as posible sbould come; for it is it and proper, in amily festivals that the ehildren should gather numerous theai father, that their fervent prayers may draw upon the eonserated Bishop those abuant blessingswhich shall spread t fonth the s pierd over the whole flock , ilke a salutary and beneflent dew. New Orleans, April l0 (Palm Sunday), Sunday next, the 24th inst., the corner k Asne of the new building, St. Theresa's t School, on Erato street near Camp, will be aid at four o'clock in the afternoon. A 1 procession will be formed at the church, which will march to the place where the i1 .esemony will take place, with the Chris- n .paalrother's Band at the head. Bishop fi Prchbe will perform' the ceremony, and an r appropCate address will be delivered im- d agliately after by the Rev. Corneliua'Moy- 1 niban. This ceremony is in full accordance a ,with the practice of the Church in all n ages, which has always taught her children a to bless every good thing.and every good as work, in the name of God, the author of all n l'he foundation of the new building has t beiron laid, and the work is progressing tl very satisfactorily in the hands of Mr. Wm. a, :Telly, the builder, under the careful super- a lateandesuce of Mr. Thomas Mulligan, the m architect, a gentleman every way qualified to to adb ect the construction. It is the inten- p tion of the Rev. Father Kenny, the good ti pator of St. Theresa's, that the work shall ol beceasied on without any stop or delay an- fo til it is completed. So that the obngregat di than of that church will soon have the pleas- th ure of seeing the completion of that most w uaseful wor_, or . 0 n- n( IBebtted to the mercy of God through the anm of the zeal and energy of their pas trt and the generous liberality of them- la aelves and their neighbors, p4 REDErMPTORlaTSr' MlSSOlN.-We have re eeived an interestin8 comamunication from t the Parish of St. Tammany, 6fa mission held at the churches of Covington and .iapdiaoaville, of both of which the Rev. J. 1 * Ma4. somits, a good and faithful priest, i the paster, by the Rev. E. Smulders, C. f5.IR, of thle church of St. Alphonsous, in e aurth District. burin g cightbiys whirih the good Father in 1o+ to the congregation of Coukgton, t and ~be'e eight days devoted to the congre. gation of Madisonville, his labor was ide * tigable. Theasorningeervices were well attended, and during the ev niag tie churches were crowded with att-ntme and d '.etnest heaters, lnany of whom were non i Catholice. The language of the good mi s asy is spoken of as exceedingly inter .4ting and persuasive, and the efect of his .ralxaybg, as far as cohld bejudged by the th .,ga1tigl aesaults, as strikinhgand manifest. Tje crud tLnths he taught will be remem- p brmllathe seed be has sown has already I Mroa&t forth fruits, and we are assured that ties congregations of Covington and e hadiaouyiue, and the good pastor, who is t in clsage of both, are exceedingly thank-. -II for the ha-ipy fruiet derived froim this O misiuen, thoulrP ute..aercy ot God, "5 tmhe "j s.. f: the eauesu and aithful h-0 Be L.i.teer..t P ither. ent ~Ci~seaasof Psauaji Old Cben Joid rie w !i4W lasa MItuw citizens in celebrat- lie 8ag~~i4~ Day ,.. * v paly *.reat 'o.r on r 4 pu o I. . the y of his eruld4zlon, the de s.siQ Swhicdh ie eaae eoa earth. tQfltý' the re demption aot mniad, ý asoopeuaunted: The following Sunday be arose drom the dead, and oommeaeed the orgyisation of 1W that Church, which was to carry down'aamd apply the blessings of that Redemption to o future generations, and whieh, .o.rse quently, was to exist until the end of time. In the four Gospels, though tO gen 5W eral prinoiples of ehtistianity ere laid down 'and the anuthorjtjyof our Blessed Redeemer ,- proved by the greatness of his miracles, he and .though the church which he hwas to my establish is specially referred to, and the one selected who, was to bb the rock on of which it was to be built, to whom were he promised the keys of the kingdom of heaven, with the power of binding and loosing, nowhere is th s there any speial plan to. laid down for the organisation of that , church, nor is there anything that would ýor *. give us an idea of the shape or form which gr. it was to assume, or the precise manner in which it was to operate. It is evident that the Apostles, though they hd full faith in Shi being the Son of God, never fully real all izsed his mission until he arose from the he diead, neither did they fully realise their d, own milion, ox the poewr gonferred upon he them until the Holy Ghost deseended upon he them on the dayofPentecost. But we are le- told in the Gospels that our Blessed Re s deemer remained on earth after his resur rection, and maintained constant converse in with his disciples fqr the space of forty a days before his aqcension. In the closing chapter of St. Luke, we are told that he ot spoke to them of what was written in the t° w of Moses, in the Prophets and in the be psalms, coneerning him, and " Then he opened their understanding, that they might of understand the scriptures. In the first M chapter of the Acts we are told: "To ie whom also he showed himself alive after ce his passion, by many proofs, for forty days St appearing to them, and speakiing of the e kingdom of God." No doubt it was dpring ,y those forty days that our Blessed Redeemer to spent in constant converse with his disci - ples, that he explained to them fully the me principles of the Old Law as taught by at Moses, and the Prophets, and .how those principles were to be carried out in his s name, and gave the necessary instructions, e how, and in what manner his Church was So carry out Uis mission to the end of time. M He promisedto be with them all days until 3 the end of the world, and moreover, that k, he would send the Holy Ghost, the Com forter, the Spirit of Truth, to direct them 'for ll time. S , th Mehrob of *his Church has been ever onward. She has er never retrograded, never lost ground, for, i's though the*t have always been heresies e from the very beginning, those who left s A her, properly speaking, were not of her. b, Now that the .penitential season of Lent te is over, during which we have no doubt a- many have proved the sincerity of their p faith by their obedie'nce to the prescribed a regulations of the diocese, not only by E m- duly fasting, except where exempt by dis- i r- lensation on account of ltaor, sickness or c age, but also, by approaching the sacra 11 ments of the Church, And preparing them- 3 a selves for a proper counnnemoration of the d suffering of Christ, still no doubt there are 11 many who, too much given to indifference 11 or procrastination in everything relating s to religion, have hesitated to do the right S g thing at the right time. The Church, fully k •. aware of the weakness of our nature, and k anxiously desirous in the tenderness of her e mercy to gather all her flock within her bi i Iold, has extended the season of penance to - Pentecost, so that in the fulness of the a I time there may Te no excuse for the neglect la 1 of duty. Let those who havp not yet per - formed the duties prescribed by the Church i during the holy season of Lent remember - that Christ, Himself, has threatened to t withdrawthis grace from those 'that will ' - not hear the Church. w." A We have received a communication this D - last week referring to a communication re published in our paper two weeks ago, and objecting to some allusions therein, which m the writer thinks untrue, and as intended fe to be offensive. The allusions referred to f were couched in-general terms, no name or . locality being mentioned, consequently it jo never occurred to up that any particular in' application was intended. Ignorant, too, H of any fact connected with it, and, iu the di hurry of getting up matter for our columns, we did not notice those allusions, neith&r, indeed, if we had, would we have under- be stood them. B3t:'as the present communi- sel cation would lead directly to- a -peroa controversy, that wonuld be exceedingly utn- l pleasant, from which no good could, and th some mischief might arise, c-very idea of di discretiod that ie. have compela us to de- ri eline publiahing it. As the affair stands h now, nobody, except those in the immnedi- ju ate locality supposed tobe alludled to, can re attach any personal or local application to these allusions; were we to publish the is present communication it would give per- 1y sonal and local meaning to them, and " spread them over a wider surface. WV l desire to say to our readlrl's geoerally, tlit ter tie columus of our paper we e notiutendtud dc to be made a field for personal coutroversy. Our mnission is peace, ut strife. so Po At last we have anll item about IIarrict f Beecher Stowe's Ihusband. The con eualntd- on entef a New York paper saw him tt lar- H riet's Florida. farm, who saya he laroishea Henry Wardc B. with .uggeetions for his opt pulpit outleouiugj' -- ,co sty oar re.ras wV oeii ý bbetthat - rs morrow, tse i.le ,,.4dm, faSi ri, tu w w be held ,a St. ldon Joseph's H1M, o thbp ourati Common satd re- Derbigny streets.. Ou reddes will also ted: remember.bitkt the beautiful mimsals, em the bossed In silves-and gold, brought frben of Belgium, whioh we referred to before, ae dad to be voted for by the congregations o(the Sto l'everal harohes. The handsome hose ies- carriage, richly Amounted in silver, to which of we referred as expected from Philadel en- phias sad which bas been received and ex hwn hibited for the last two rwefks in the win nor dows of the Gauche Building, will also lea, be set up to be voted' for by the Are to companies, and will be the prize of the most the successful. -These, no doubt,. will draw on many to the fair, but we hope the good are work for which the fair is held, and- to of which the proceeds will be devoted, will md draw a still larget number of our citizen Ian Wrho will have an opportunity of showing bat their llberality in aiding in the building 6f aid the House of God. " ich The energy with which this fair has been In organized, the nobleness of the object for eat which it is to be held, and the many claims in to public gratitude. of the Rev.. Fathers, ,al. wwhose lives and labors are devoted to the the accomplishment' of that object, will be eir without many parallels in the history of on the charities of our city. While we a'd on mire and applaud the liberality which ex e tends beyond the narrow limits of the Le- parish or the city, and would never divert r- its outstretched hknd frbm its beneficent ree purposes, we still assert that the charity ty which does not radiate from home is more ng or less open to the charge of ostentation, he and that it is vain it grete smonuments to be religion and piety in remote regions, while he here, in it legitimalt cntre; it-confines he the religion and piety of our own poor ,ha people within crumbling edifices which i rt momentarily threaten ruin and destruction. ro To-the lasting honor of our citizens be it er said that the hand of indigepce is never I held out to them in vain. Clergymen from he every clime receive from them kindness and hospitality, and it is not asking too e much of them to invite themn to evince º ,l- their generosity on this occasion of vital he importance to themselves and their chil- I dren, to come forward and aid their pas se tots, who stand by them in all their trials, I as who divide-with them more of their sorrows is, than they participate in their joys-on e as whom they can rely in the dread season of a 1e. the epidemic-in erecting a church to Al- I lI mighty God, in which their children for I at many a generation will assemble to offer a _ their s.critloes and their prayers, and bless a mm the memory of their benefactors. We anti- i cipate for this fair a decided success, and it e as we were disappointed in our expectations- a , which we do not believe possible, we should I ea only regret that the high estimate we long t since formed of oh people had not a more a solid basis in their piety to God and their r at gratitude to their real benefactors. t . We append the names of the ladies who c ir have taken charge of all the details of the v Fair, and will dispense its hospitalities: t4 Table No. 1-RestaurantIMrs. Thos, a y Eagan and Mrs. Sadler, with a host of other f, 8- la4ies. r No. 2.-Mrs. B. J. Berkery, 3&. Wm. o H- art, Mrs.- J. Douglas,-Msefs0-B.._eitl, Miss Deeves. n e No. 3.-Mrs. Wm. Lee, Mrs. J. G. Ryan, i Mrs. Jas. BuBby, Mrs. P. Murphy, Mrs. E. - Me M. Eagan, Miss M. Lee, Miss A. Coll; Miss Kate Donohoe. g No. 4.-Mrs. H. McManus, Mrs. William e1 t Sheridan, Mrs. Wm. Kelly. No. 5.-Mrs. Edw. Lynch, Mrs. T. Mar- g key, Miss Kate Carolan, Miss Maggie Mar- p1 d key, Miss J. Previtt, Miss J. Lynch. el r No. 6.-Mrs. J. Gibbons, Mrs. G. Swar- p, r brick, Mrs. Wm. Cullinane, Mrs. J. Powers in o No. 7.-Mrs. Thos. Eagan, Mrs. J. Ford, at e assisted by any number of charming young ci ladies. . No. 8.-Mrs. John McCaffrey, Mrs. Philip McCabe, Mrs. McCoriuick with their young g' lady assistants. d r THE REBELLIOUS ARIMENIANS. - TWO Spoints call for especial notice in the Brief h which the Pope has addressed to Mgr. in Ploym, Archbishlop of Tlimu, Vicir-) id Apostolic of the Latin Rite, andApostolic 8 Delegate at Constantinople. It has been u repeated over and over again by Protest- 5i4 ant paplre that tlie revllt of the .Armenians it, inthat city was owing to Roman encroach- t I ments on their'privileges, and even to a 1 fear-fa certain probable defluition. So id far is this from being the case, thaat the ti malcoutents, in their petition to the Pope, de Sr'equests that they may be placed under thi Sjurisdiction of tile Aposttolic Delegate, thata is, the Lijtin Ar'lhbishop, as long as Mgr. pr Hassoun occupies tile Patriarch al See. na SThis discontuent is evidently.caused by tine Sdiscipline introduced by the Patriarchli for what tile Pope espeinall.y dwells on is P3 the necessity of..reform among disordqrly of clergy and monks, who musCleave secular busainess and intrigues, to devote them selves to the observance of their duty and pi t-eir lte~--The-ther point is the absolute mn refusal of timhe Holy See to allow -them ex thus to ive themselves ~tn R tome tou the detriuri t of the' P'atriarchal' juris diction. "If," so runs the brief, ' the ra right of appeal to thie Romnan PontiB, be- tot cause ine holds from God the power to un- Ig hmose whatever hmas been bound by any i judge winatsoever, is sacred, and hIas been th respl'ectfully observed in all ages, neverthne- as less it cannot, he endured that it should be m alleged abusively to cover disobedience; of is to say, that subordimnates should useless ly endeavor to avail themselves of this ap- t Imea-kagninst ecclesiastical discipline. For hum tile remedy of appeal, as our predecessor Alexainder 1I1. Ihas piuted out, is not in temnded to auplortt tile nldice of-hiru whio tio dept4-rts frosts thi, observtatiou of religioin cnt ind oh cuder." Thiis is Inot very like thie nat ovel- cetUtralizsation of whlich we have iheard so much.' 4t is ntisfhantory to see that thie rac Polme Is able to s*peak ,if tile large.r i,,,rti,,u ire of tile Almnleininn conimmllnity amI iaVillg re- Iie moamlted faittiful to their Patriarch and the Holy See. - the The I pring trattich in tle ia'nllec Hailromad b openns withi an average of 6.0 per day, Ins cunuting tooth-ways. - un Swhat ba been it is b Wit.lLie, ip t he~B 9nh its 1d+i wholeise not to foundl tsid otstdie C si Stholie communion. In the -bosmo hbte ,m-. rodox, there. as"ndiyvidu, isolated peo *it plea; peoples aggregatedl:or y time, and as. lithoft any common cente i;:but no com the p5an of nations, reduec to stable unity by se- an unbroken Plerpetual tradition and en ich dowed with the moral life, Which Ideal 1el. Truth infuses into those who enjoy its. ex- light. A particular people may, as lell as in- here and a particular indfvildual, boast of a lso certain degree of ciVillzation and refine ire ment; but outside of the Catholic Church, oat man is completely insulated from his kind; aw roving and aslns in his movements, and rod livingin a statei of intelleet&al and moral to wildness analogous to what somlrphiloso rill phers consider the original condition of lis n whole nature ~.Hce if the church is not log- yet actually, she is potentially the human bf race, and enjoys by anticipation its heaven given prerogatives. She pos en ness ideal, truth; and this is the vital centre for of attraction, which draws .all nations to ms wards itself,,and moulds them Into one ra, living, organic whole. This Idea is like an ;he organic germ whiobh attractsladasimilates be to itself all exeentrig, volatilisedparticles, of and recomposes and shapesthem acording id- to their prinmitive and natural form. The ix- work of organization, whie : tie Church he for over eighteen centuries has been en. art gaged in, and the abundant fruits which at she has reaped from her labors, were of ity themselves sufficient to convince any seri re osne mind that She is the only principle of = in, unity able to fulfil this mission, and pro to duce these universal and permanent results. lie False religions may, in proportion to the yes ideal principles they have retained, beget or aggregations more or lees durable and ex ch tensive; but the unions they form cannot a gn. be universal, permanent and independent, it because lacking immovable anchorage out er side of the fluctuations of human opinion, c om they have to cling to the'wrecksof political as parties, and drift hither and thither with no every wind that blows athwart the treach ce erous sea of political agitation. All false al religions are essentially disintegrating, for il- in none of them is the Idea perfect. The I a- integrity of ideal truth is the privilege of Is, Catholicity; which is therefore the only' or as ganicprinaiple which can-rebuild the erumbied o m edifice of the human race. The modern b of abettors of progress, with their alliances of 1- nations and their theories of univeral bro or therhood, founded on a philosophy without or a basis and a Christianity without a Christ, as are good only to amuse and entertain the i i- vacant and vulgar, to pain and irritate the it serious, and most profopndly to afflict and - sadden the philosophlc and Christian mind. Id Powerful nations have been known to cling ig to another for a time; but it would be a re great mistake to suppose that their false ir religion, spasmodic symptoms of which they exhibited, or rather betrayed, only on o certain national or international festivals, ie was the bond of their union--iterest, ma- T terial interest-politics in our American do s, sense, which makes so many strange bed- of 'r fellows-did it. Sum up all the fractions of ideal truth outlying the circumference o ' of the Catholic Church, and the total will not furnish a code of morality comprehen- r sive enough to keep a small village together M -even a husband and wife together-for a year. Religion, properly so called, unifes: as error, in itself, disintegrates. fr .Withouut inquiring whether man was ori- f ginally created, or simply constituted or th placed in the state of grace, that is, of le' election, the prerogative of his race, as Fi primarily constituted, can be pronounced infalli(ility; that is, all mankind would be di able to take one and the same view of un- ga changeable truth of whatever order pre- uin sented to them, as logicians do of the cate- vU gori-4 of Aristotle-mathematiciano , of the tal deflitions of Euclid.- But this infallibility, w, as was shown in thie articleson Rationalism, wl has unt its basis in the human mind, either liS individually or collectively; it is due to Iideal truth, common to all minde, asthe to sun is visible to all eyes. Infallibility, con- the sidered in its source, is objective, and has mr its basis in'the raditl lpconpatibiity of tic truth and falsehood; it is the necessary di idntity.of truth with trauth. Thie Idea, the tih~e from eternity which we call evi- m dease, in whihob, a has been .Ieoften tin affrii~ J;lthes artiles,Vre E. n eric mm principlles of every science entitled to that ne name, is itself the Infallible: it is the ex- pen pression of the True; its substance, not a t participation of it: it is the groundwork k of every particular intellection, qnd the primary essence of the Intelligible. If tihe i primitive order had not been perturbed, men in their uriversality would have been exempt from error, for in all the vicissi- he tudes through which, in the necessary ev radiations into which from their primitive an focus they were bound to scintillate, the hun light of.the Idea wouild have shed upon them, and warmed and quickened them, bol as the sonu warms and quickens the organic matter it informs. When the moral unity al of the species failed, with it failed also all es thie privileges wherewith it was endowed; ThI hIumanly speaking, there was no partner to tha Iput thie concerns of the firm into liquida- in tion; the natural race became bankrupt, ana and infallibility, once thie capital of tie his natural, was transferred to thie predestined, an race. Thencefnrth lIufeillibility became tihe i prerogative of thie great society, in which who Idleal Tirulh, or, as we shall say henceforthl C -but iu a diferenut senlse Ifrom the Stoics-- b the Ides, took up its perminuent and v;sible p abole; and in which thie Idela Incarnate abs has pjronied to abide unutil tihe end of rule tlme; vIheru the scattered mnembers of only Adam's Ahudi piWedeeswegs*** Somesuwr now md disintegrated wiltreeovsa*lacin1 Sunity it has lost, sd will once moreI.9t. Snfallible, beepAus identified with the Church. Here bthis argunen~t, which has been prolopged ,througha so many we-ry rd articles, might be brought to a speedy and, ca perhaps, not an unsuocessfal close; but. someidditional observation,owhile deemd necessary to eompltes the writer's pro eal gramme, might ngt be altogether unworthy the consideration of the intelligent reader. as According to a great many writers In if a vogue at the present day, the:human race, ne- as now situated, retains its original privi clege of Infallibility, and is at onto the basis and ultimate motive of all certitude; and if the Church lays any claim to iner ral rancy, theclaim is founded on her being an institution within the jurisdiction of his natural-=oeiety, and deriving from such iot society allher-power and authority. This an theory is simply Pantheistic; and as such 1n- might be rejected as the" exploded theory of some resuscitated Heraclitus, or some e rival unearthed from the Eleatic school, if it was not the constitutional practice of the ne most powerful government, perha]s, since an the Roman, on earth-of the country in which heterodoxy has its least pregnable e, stronghold-a country at once the most nonservative and the most absurd of all be time-a country in which the vote of a Ca ch tholic or a Jew may decide how an Angli can should save his n hbt yet retaining ch enough of the old conservative element to of neutralize its practical absurdities. Eng - land 1ractically is pantheist,. where it is of not Catholio, and the Church of England, so-called, is the humble plave of English to politicians. The assumption here contro he verted is utterly devoid of any foundation in fact:,the infallibhty of the human race x- would presuppose a human race, which, outside of the Church, does not exist, and therefore may-be denied as peremptorily as it is asserted gratuitously. In the natural order, as well as in the supernatural, the a only autonomous truth we have is the Idea, th from which emanates the light of reason, h- by which every other truth and authority is demonstrated. But, waiving this point, S-which seems all but self-evident, the writers alluded to are right in believing the human race infallible, but wrong in of imagining the human race to exist outside of the orthodox society. The moral essence of mankind d es not reside in Individuals, rn but in unity; )which cannot be simply col lective, that is, consist in mere aggrega tion : it must be organic and perfectly har monious with itself. Infallibility does not come from the body, but from the soul; it 0e is not the symphony of varieties harmon e ised, nor the total of numbers added aup it has its throne outside the circle of varie ties and numbers, such as we have g considering them, and is the idea God in e creating us givet'ts of Himself, in the light , 0 of which we see the principles and axioms of all that is knowable. Infallibility de " pends not on mere numbers: men, like " votes, ought to be weighed, not counted. The true human race is the Churbch which n does not result essentially from the number of its members. "If two or three," says s our Blessed Lord, " are assembled in my e name, I am in the midst of them," These 11 profound words show the identity of the true human race and the Church. Let it r be supposed on one side that a few men are a assembled in Christ's name, and connected by a legititnate mission with the centre from which they draw -their life-with their mental vision directed to one intel lectual focus, as was the case with the First Council of the infant. Church /at Jerusalem; and on the other side that the 1 discordant multitudes of the Patgan or.pa ganising world are aggregated for a mo ment, bringing with them their endless variety of opinions, destitute of all authori tative traditions, undirected by any legiti- i mate hierarchy, and with no central point which all can agree in viewing in the same light; who can hesitate to pronounce on whichi side Infallibility is the more likely to be found, or where the essential germ of the reconstruction of the human race is the more likely to dwell In a preceding ar- C ticle it was affirmed, anudin this there is no t disposition whatever to.deny, that among the universality of men there still lingers B many a relic of the truth primitively taught, and naturally evident, to the ha- I man mind; the dreams of philosophers noever entirely got the upper hand of the I peoples' commop sense; for ideal truth b still asserted its supremacy; and tradimion, ml like a submarine telegraph cable, though n sunk beneath oceans of intellectual revola- F tions, yet consoled the exiled members of " the primitive family of mankind'with mes sages recalling them to their celestial ,in- a heritance. These fragmentary truths, htiw- i ever, are so mixed up with error, that an analysis compatible with the bshortness of human life could never detect the prinociple c of unity involved in them, nor could the B boldest intellectual chemistry'separate time W good parts from the bad, without the in fallible solvent-necessary even before the ol eiperiment is begun--of absolite Truth. r The chemaist must have made up his mind N that such or such a poison is to be found ti in his sublject before be proceeds to its Ci analysis, and the man who wishes to save tl his soul must know, before making m an experiment on thie result of which so lh much depends, whiat lihe starts from, and "a what lie is going to; lie mast, amid all tile cemoreti,,ns and salutionsof human opinion, wl be assured that his hlife is not a mere ax- 11 pelinmenrt, butsa vsCl reatity, which requteI '" absi,,ute certainty for_ its beinning, is rule and its eni. This- certainty.de fou.,d Ch only is the athioli OChurch. 'L'Les,.prper. ph by ;4oapa~tawer has sand ine ol ed ids tbii'e tp n~E a r por hton , surp. lIl. pethe id, childrenof .cdispaera:pi ' .ntho i9'"Of ba the Church is proveu d 6 re ireS Sn edl tuof ideal tsrh, as eaiolgbt"dayi ist ro. own only ]iroot; ideal, intietal trufB, Uly the i tri ishn eternale md asibeb alike or. to mind, as matter Is to Landt an be i fouend npwheres ouatslde ofthe Catholec e, Church, redectlpg or, as was shown in the vi articles on Bationalism, which appeared in se these columnas, bending back upon herelf, le re-thLeknag heraoelf, is her own proof. The Br- Church is truth, therut, active, and be ng cause active, personified; she i the trruta of clothed with an external and visible body, clx which represents it, Wshi representing i, is enjys all its-prerogatio,p rtlakes of its ch native evidences endis illmined with Its lightm ery u 40e e adsssep Ie oMBILE Fxasmx's Cssramazox.-Ws i see by the Mobile.Begster that the Mob ce Firemen had quite.a tine of iton the 9th in inst., their thirtysecond analnere. ~ . The ole ere companes in Mobile are ot large,. at nor, in most eases, quite as well m alled as those of New Orleans, but in matters taste and display,bthey are nt at all be hind their more anneroeasbro i rs of good city. There are lnt iro. lplooahlss in Moae, DeeMes an urn uf u, Scomposed -of reole olored nmen who al Sways have their celebration at anght, sat d, get up avery handsome pressioe. At the head of the proeessioh on the 9th o rode Those B. Lyon, Chief Englneet, with nWm. B. Fosrter anid J. B. Hobtis Asle antr . CO Mobile Firs Department Band.--No. , obile Hooks asd Ladder Company, Henry -Farrow, President; T. M. English, enore Sman. Next after this Company, as gnests we presume, came Crescent Steam Firs he Engine Company, No. 24, from New)-O , leans, J. B. Schlumbrecht, Foreman. of No. 2-Neptune p team Fire Company, A. Koppersmith, Foreman. it, No. .-Franklin Steam Fire Company, e W. V. Beroqjon,.President; E. . Loughry Foreman. 'g No. 4-Merchants' Steam Pire Company, D. P. Beid, President; B. F Yalestra, Foreman. 0e No. 5-Torrent Steam Fire Company, C. e, Smidt, President, M. Hines, Foreman. 1- Next in the line of procession came F. J. - Barnard, President of the Mobile Fire pe. r- partment Association, and I. N. Marks, at President of the New Orleans Firemen's. it Charitable Association, with all the oilcials 2- of the Department, and of the City, in ear e riages. In this part of the proceslones ams a- the Columbia Fire Company No. 5 of New a frlann. pe W. iian djean, Foreman. This n Company came as a spedlal represeaitttv. at of the Fire Department of New Qrlesas, vs and was preceded by Thomas O'Connor, '- Chief Engineer of that organization. e No. 8-Phweis Fire Company, John J. 1. Reagan, Foreman. b No. 7-Mechanie s Stelm Pire Company, r Jas. Flanagan, Foreman, with Irad Ferry h Fire Company No. 12, of New Orleans, M. y McCarthy, Foreman, as gaests. e No. 8-Washington Steam Fire Company, e W. Keyland, Foreman. it No. 9-Lefayette Fire Company, A. Boul e lemet, Foreman. d The procession was quite a success. The e day was fine, and the streeta were crowded b with spectators. Thi Regiter givB qeite a glowing description of it, and speaks in e very complimentary terms of the style rnd at ppearance of the New Orleans delegations, e This repeated interchange of courtesies between the companies of the two cities is a pleasant feature in the social history of the time, and tends to the enjoyment of many pleasant visits, and the formation of many agreeable acquaintances. Wr. t - PROTESTANT MARTYB.-The late~t illus tration of Lord Shaftesbury's seat has been Sgiveerr in his speech at the noveiling of the F memorial in Snithfield to the memory of Sthose who perished there during the reign of Queen Mary. Lord Shateebery dis claimed the wiesh to hrt the feeld aS of the C- athol ics,-hbe wroald not tbllk of each a > thing for the wortld,-and then went on to ridicule the Coreil apritthe Syllabus. He sauidthat he did not lithe to riavve party asorrows and grievances; 'b worrld rather tkind considerate man) forget dy 1 that is passed, end see membersr of each religion living together in peace. Howdoesall this soft talk harmoniz with the one lan fOat that in the year 1870 a number o Protes tants, with Lorst Shaftesbury at their head, should ion a pblic street of tatetropolls iwhlose population consist of prwfessores - ma spcreedd, open smldsf rtt of h "Ne Popery" a memodal, whc i it pinema r anything at all, Iueansd . ti bitted to Chtholic? What woodlobeo oseloaf Csiho lies, if in some large oatbheru town- i- re laud a memorial were aterled'fs a o pabis erreet,- tendiog to keep alive anohtstEbatsi allca feelings of hated td theLe Feetstbnt fellow-ounatrymen? We entioa o d many, Catholio mrtyrs,' VIe . bldf t thea cruel persecutions of the "good Qesee Bess" gave up their lites for the falh, and we earnestly hope" 'that their honored names na7fnever be Lbrgotten but be Pie served as precious heir-looa1e Kuthe history of the Church,, and we would wish to ee their memorials in the. " Chrehe of the Martyrs" and in other appropriate places. No Catholio defends the Marhao perseee- . tino of Protestants. It was sondemnued by Cardinual Pole and uiuany ('tser fruests at the time, andl in latter days nas been srronlagy crusured b r. Lingard and *uranay other Cathg . lergymueu who have written on En fish history. The siteation t.o of this 8mitlhtleld- memo rinl is singulagly ill-cheosea, fem we Ini-that Itis 1 plccd on the wall -f a great hospital, wiere was f.aoudc in' Catholio times to *tlheiise hinevolence aibi love of one's o4IMhL linra, anUe not t' pejpntntet . Ilke' this sae whso love the genitle 4tabadelD@ COhdristiand-auUld wiasla- d eeves5Asi 4 plhae.- Uaieers. . ) ..b 1os i tas