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se.ug Star and Catho!Ic Mrsenger. 1PUJBREUD IEvIT s7DAT MORNoE G. rll3 JM ollr&tle, olU;DAY, A e; USTr Jie. S... Aug. -lesthe saayaherleret. DedtrosVsi of eL. Mard of tioee Av... g g. L-Traos(ruea ttea ouf Or La t. m ...I. 7-St. CaJtaa. . Cotees fer. aes sed0.Ag. -o - Cir5s.ua Cepeseleei. Marmmr. Siy1 . Leg. 3.-VaaIl of Pr. Lerraas Marflyr. St. A&igdie. I'upea·nd hst)r. Smeo...,oAl t0-Pe . laMeeotn. Martyr. = As.. g.. It--ot. rtztus.P s ·e d MAWStJr. Mr. J. M. Pollard. of this city, haa published Spps h On "Fir.s on Sea and Shore, and bo to extinguish them." 6r. Viplorr'c a Hoe u -The BMard of Direct em will mot this (Suoday) evening, at the oome, at G o'elock. Of loers of Conferences g lanvited t the meeting. We have remived a eommunicPtion with re. drsseto the Camp Msetieg et Bil.i, which we mast poblish for several reasone. the first I f wthie is that the writer failed to send Lis OLtasIa o reutare Mase -Next Saturdey,, Augulst 11. at o'clock. there will be a olerrn Requiem Nam in 8L 1 heresa's Church for the epose of the soul of Mrs. Margaret Iligginslor Donne. Friends are initred to attend. I < Next Thursday evening. Augnat P:h, at c,. o'clock, the pupils of the lsters cf Mercy wi!i give a Concert and exhibiton in the echeo; ball, Biloxi, under the direction of Prof. hake. Admission .O cents. I re entertainmrent ,%.i be repeated ti.e next o "g o t, Friday, .b.h. for those who may not fid r ',aso in the I',l ! or In the House of Conemoes lately, i, a dC'e es rloe on the Supreme aLou of Judicature (Ireland) bill, Mr. Meldon submitted as an amendment that the office o Lard Chanmsllor of Ireleand hould be limited to members of the t Irols bar; but the Attorney-General for Ire land objected, pointing out that the present IM Chancellor of Eogland is an Irishman, sad the amendment was negatived by a vote of 2t0 to 106. ther an unusual opportunity is now offer Sof securing, at least for a season, the 8er vil of so aeeombliahed ad experienced a peman and aeoDastant as Mr. Elder. We oeratulte in advance the assoiation. busi nef hrm oi individual who may succeed in feeting en engagement with him. Any oeem mounloatln for him m.ey be addressed to th:s ofitoe, or to Pot-eoffie Box 2e':4. fee card on fifth page. St. Stephen's Catholic Total AlatiLr)ce S, ciety meets to-day. St. Alphonsns Soetety si!l men-t tl.i evening at 4 o'clock. 1A'Ler t;.eee, C SH , will deliver L~r third discourte &i l.a.e peance: 'The Irnokardl an tie tLeu:t of his family ' G atlemen, wbe' Or n.eobere of the Society or t ,:, aru invited to .'teod. St. John's hociety wit meet rtext TtCeeda, at 7:30 P. i. 'AIR TLI Pa-- Cnae.srTIT -- he Fair at Pass Christian op'na to-night ,Saturdas . , and wit; continue to-morrow andl Mnday. Great prep', rations have be.n made to ensure is sauoeeet and as the proceeds are to be devoted to build lug a new church to replace the one brnedl down a short time ago, we hare no doubt that 1 the Catholics of the coast, as well as those of our city will contribute to that end to the foil extent of their ability. UasUi.tLcn ACADNY, To-CALeOAs, AI.A.- Parente in deciding upcn an instittion at which to place their da ugh.ters would do well to consider the advantages presented by this Intitution. It is situated in one of the thebltihnt and meot beautiful parte of Ala bama, and is controlled by ladies of the Uruline Order, which, as our readern all know is entirely devoted to the education of girls. See card on fifth page. One of the finest eights to be seen any where in London is at the Church of the Fathers of the Oratory at Bayowater. where the sainted and lamented Father Fbror (whose pious works are so well knowr) lived and labored. --The whole coogre-ratli.n nnmbering many thousands, sing at Veslpers asl BoMe diction the sweet hymns "Daily, daily ig to I Mary," "Ilail! Jeans aIil," '"J.osus my Lwrd, my God, my all," and the efiect is very imlreo sive. The Maine Repubhlcans hold their Slate Con vention next Thursday. The leading Republi can newspapers of the State, with one excep tion, .think that the Convention ought to orxp the diosgust whrioh they ey nine-tenths of the Repnblion voters of Myins feel for Mr. Haye' policy towurde the oath. As this ist belino's own State, the mother of "dstlwart epbloaniser, if ther i to be any revolt at Il among Reponblleans saint Hayese' policy, it should properly eommepce bere. The time aIs e opportulon, u the Ohio Republicans havse just endorsed Haye' course. The cotton manufacturesa of New England show encouraging elgue of a gradual revival of business, perceptible If small. Forty-nine mills, which turn out about oce-third of the Northern product, worked up during the first esx months of the present year 8l).'t--i* pounde of cotton, as oompared with $6,730,805, pounds last year during the correeponding pe rind. The increase is aboout 3 per cent., but as the quality of cotton this year was eomewbat better than that of the fabric worked up last semon the increase in the actual amount of manufactured goods is about 5 per cent. All the goods have been readily marketed, there being no considerable accumulation on hand, while there Is a perceptible improvement of -ho demand. With prioee at the present lgre it is expected that all the New Eng land mills will be kept running at their dbst oapecIty dnrlng the fall cad winter to "·:'LJL ew- d for cotton goode.. Episcopalian Confession. ( The sqoabble wbich in England has been in furious progress for some six weeks t past on the subject of '"Sacramental con fession" has invaded this country. We do P not complain of this, for did not America h send England the potato bog some time agot Bit ,'will we, nill we" it is here. The New York Sun in a resent number bas i over two colomos of close, fine print re- a porting certain researches which it had just made into the status of the question among New York Episcopalians. The rev. gea tlemen interviewed were highly in favor of the practice, but the Sun in its editorial & comments shows an inclination to take a issue with them. It seems that the principal clergyman interviewed, ,"Rev. Father" MorUlu, takes his views of authority from the English u )o-of-Conmoo -Pirayer, convetlet4t ignoring certain changes made in the American Prayer Book, which are of vial lo import on this very question of confession I and absolution. Rev. Mr Morrill, who claims the power of absolution in corfca- it sion and, as a genuine Father Confessor, m has himself addressed as Rev. Father, quotes the English Prayer Book to the !t effect that the faithful are encouraged to apply to some discreet and learned mino's- p ter of God'sa word "'tha they may receive the beLefit of ai-ciutie." Tie -in thinks it t was not very cand.d in Mr. Morri l to ig nore the fact tiat these worde are omitted in the American B-,uk, and that in theiris place are subet::ottd the foliowing: 'that tt be may receive such goodly counsel and advice as may tend to the quieting of his f conscience." Again, as the Ean says, "Father Morrill quotes from the English Office for the via- ri itation of the sick as follows : " Here shall the sick person be moved to gt make special confession of his sins, if he feels his oorseienoe troubled with any mighty mat ter." After his onfession the priest gives him to this absolution: " Our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath laft power to His Church to absolve all sinners who truly repent and believe in Him, d of His great mercy forgive thee thine ofences; w and by His authority committed to me, I ab solve thee from all thy sins in the name of the T Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost" " l Then follows the statement on the an- d thority of the Sn that the "form of abso- te lotion" was left out by the "American re- so visers" and that they were determined not ei to permit "any other than the general ti public confession aLd absolution of their ti Prayer Btiok to be pract:se-d." Thts branch t f the caee betrays great If in.becility. The Eun and its Protest int g c-,tr-rie lalgh scornfully at the iLfalible re power cla:med by the Catholic Church to Ii pronounce on doctrinal truth, yet they set fi up a far greater power in-it: what ? The 1i Anglican Church at large t No. The a An.eican branch of it ? No. Itat in the t "American revisers." These mytl.ical gen t:e:ren left out a whole Sacrament-that t of suricnlar confession with absolution- f asld were determined not to pet rot it to be practiced. For be it observed, the Sun t de l' Lot cast a shadow of doubt on the I authrl..ty of a clergyman to give absolution c in England, but denies it to him in Amers n ca, though duly inducted into his parish. c That is, in one country Christianity has one Sacrament more than in another coun- i try. Certainly neither Pope nor Council ever went so far as to proclaim a doctrine in one place and deny it in another. The immediate occasion, however, of the I great interest just now taken in the matter is the publec attention that was recently, in the English House of Lords, called to a work entitled "The Priest in Abso'n tion." This work has been brought out in the interest of the High School or R tual istic branch of the English Church, and purports to suggest to clergymen what questions they may find useful in the con feasional by way of prompting penitents. The noble lord (Rideedale) who brought the matter to the attention of the Louse read a number of passages ahich were clsaacterined as disgracetul. The newspa pers, always in search of game, took the matter up and declared many passages to ne vile and obscene. Thereupon the book found itself famous. We have net seen the work nor any ex tract from it but suppose it is a revamp of some standard Catholic treatise. If a man has to exercise the right of forgiving or re taining sins be must first know what they are. If he is to address others on doubtful points of morality he most be informed of the circumstances, and if through timidity or ignorance the penitent does not make them known they must be drawn out by interrogation. This cannot be denied, but the critics imagine that these questions will be work ed in every time whether there be occasion for them or not. If so it would be an abuse not a defect of the system. In a case of chills and fever a physician would have no Sproper occasion to make investigations Swhich other diseases some times render i imperative and which are very repus:eve to I a patient of natural modesty. In the same way numberless confessions might be I heard before one case would be found pre senting conditions that world justify such questions as those paraded before the House of Lords. SIt is true that Lord Redesdale's conclo aieons were correct, though his strictures Smay have been hypercritical. The English ciergy ertainly have no right to ask sooh quaetrons because they have no right to gi'e abeol!tion. They are not priests, though they delight is being calledL ter. C Father, b!oaring confesmions and playing ti priest aecerally. Still they are nmostly c somewbat sincere in their notions and very hI harmless kind of gentlemen. To suppose a tbem capable of unnecessarily enquiring into subjects naturally disgusating and not at b all suggested by the matters confessed, would be an outrage upon both probability aid charity. It would be equally unfair to the penitent to suppose that he pr ass i would have so little sense as not to under stand, and so little Christian firmnes as a not to resent, the secriligions impertinence. S From Bad to Worse. Communism has spoken its word of counsel as to the remedy for the conflict between capital and labor. The Governi meot ! Let the Government take charge of the railroads. The railroads are immense corporations controlling hundreds of millions of dollars in property. employing many thousands of1 men and affecting very materially nearly t all the commerce of the country. Granted that they fall into the hands of intriguers. schemers, rogues; that they afford an of- r p)rtunity of power so immense in its pre portions that it csao.,t safely be entrusted o to unprincipled speculators irreepons:ble { C: to the general public. Granted that in the very nature of things such men will rr surely work themselves into the control of i these great arteries of trafi:, that they will grasp after business to which their actual b facilities do not entitle them, and, soulless 4 as the corporations which they represent, that they will mercilessly eacrifloe the rights of human labor and the dearest in- i terests of their employee in carrying through their ambitious schemes. What does all that prove l Why cer- e tainly thata remedy is very badly needed, * is, indeed, the first political want of the u day. But what sort of a remedy is that b which the Communists urge upon us? e Their theory is perfect equality-a dead n level of equality-everywhere between in- v dividuals and an iron handed government d to administer everything. Of course all b social disorder, all conflict of private inter- a sets, is a god send to them in view of their theory as an excnue for urging more cen tralization of power in the government But tLe American people are not ready r for such a doctrine or such a remedy. If s government mrort take charge of the tail- 1 roads ai the intere-t of labor, so it must do t in regard to the n ::ee, so for canals, so e for great facturies, + o everwhere where c large bodies of ,ni-. are to be employed and where they may le unfairly treated as to wages. Certainly Americans are not ready for that. As a people tl.ey still want a chance for private enterprise. I Again. If g ,vernment owned the great trunk railways and operated them as pro posed, it would become a commercial rival 4 of its own citizens and it would be natu rally biased against that universal devel opment of facilities which, as the common protector of all, it is bound to foster. Thus, it would have a tendency to promote the commerce and protits of its lines at the expense of traffic by water routes. It would be interested in entering upon the same ill-judged rivalry with the Mississippi river and the Northern canals which has lately culminated in such fearful riots. The government has a right to own and administer whatever property is necessary to the convenient discharge of its own functions, but when it is proposed to make it a great rival of its own citizens in the private Interests of life, in manufacturing, carrying or produciug, to draw it aside from its original purlose of general, impar tial protection aid to interest it in repress iug the developuient of who'e sections in furtherance of its own local enterprise-s, we say again that Americans will not en tertain the idea. Communism in that de gree cf development can slow but few converts on this Continent. That labor, however, ought to be pro tected against the rapacity of powerful ;monopoes by some beneticent provisions of legislation is incontestable. It is the problem of the day and we may add, it is Sone which the spirit of Christianity ought to be able to solve. On the evening of the 16:h nit., a working party of seventeen members of the Philadel phia Colonization Society of the Irish Catho lice Benevolent Union, left Philadelphia for the Pink Beds, in Trasrylvania County, West ern North Carolina, as the pioneer settler of the lands of the Society. The party were in I charge of A. J. Reilly Eq , a director of the Society, Mr. HUnnon, the President, having gone ahead a week before to prepare for these men. The members of the working party Icomprise, principally, P'-iladelphians, four from Mahonoy City, Pa., and one from Brans - wick, Me. Their work will be to open roads aid erect buildings for the use of the first col ony to be sent down in Saptember. The col ony has been named St. Brandan in honor of the reputed discoverer of America thirteen Shundred years ago, and the settler of two c>! Sonies in North Carolina. The Dublin freemas, of the 14th of July, says SThe Twelfth of July, dies fre, dies ilfa. has psmd away, sad in Ireland, at least, there Swere sobohome brokea. wev. ratber emay a tsae ashue a We are glad to be able to say that the Ccristian Brothers are about to coae back for the parposeof re-estab!ishing a first class edu cational Institute in this city. They are to be i located in St. John's pariah, under the direction and patronage of Rev. Thee. J. Ke.ny, pastor. This earnest worker and watchful shepherd ' baving got the parochial debt completely on der controi is now enabld to turn hie atten tions to the paramoont matter of Catholic education which mast prosper and grow into I grand and beautiful proportions in sech keep The Brothers back in St. John's! Here is I something for which to give thanks. The word will go round so rapidly and the feeling of gladness pass from heart to heart as swiftly I as to draw to the place more pupils than can possibly be received. The Brothers are to reside upon the premise.. They will not be able to open the school earlier in sthe season pernape mau -- . I" . .Oo , ... I once commenced the good work of the Aead- I emy will go on uninterruptedly thbrough a I long and happy future. The old ohuach building is to be at onee re- I paired and reitted, so as to be made auitable i in separate departments for the accommoda tion of the male and female divisions of the I grammar or parish sehool. The Academy bilding p:oper is to be str rendered from base to dome to t,:e Brothers, who, as soon as repairs are made, will throw it open as a nigh -ch'o! for students from all parts i cf the city. The numters to ai --y fir admission n~s:t indeed be very large. uoo the standard of seholarehip to be looked f:r cery h:gh and per feet, but the Brotherhood of Christian teachers is so numerous, and thorongbly educated, as to be able to please the most exacting, and assure the permanence of the school. Recently, Casrdinal Manning, in answer to a letter asking his opinion "on the effects of wine-drinking on the upper and middle e'ases," wrote: "I do not think it enough to t try to ebeck drunkenness, unless we try to ebeck intemperance. These two things are distinct and need distinct treatment. There is a great deal of intemperance which never betrays itself in drunkenness. To the upper elasses worldly respect, fear of sbame, and many other motives keep men and women within the line beyond whioh they would be detected. But they wreck themselves and their homes by an excessive use of wine and other etimulante. Half the misery of homes arising from bad temper, sloth, squaandering, selfishness, debt, neglect of all duty, is caused by indulger.ce in wine and the like. The sure and best cure of this is to bring up child ren in simple habits, and to guard them against acquiring the likeing for intoxicating drinks. When a liking for the taste is acquired the temptatiou is at onae In existence. Common sense, as well as faith, says-Train up thy children not to know the taste, and they will not be tempted. I urge this on parents when ever I can, aLd I have before me many homes in which children have grown up without so much as having even tasted anything but water. They will be the suber fthers and mothers of the next generation. If the fathers and mothers of to-day had been so trained, we should not now have before ns so many un happy hom'es and outcast children. I say thi: especially of the middle classes. There is no need of adding that self-indulgence in drink clouds the consoience and all the powers of spiritual life." Alpine tourists will this year have an oppor tunity of observing a new and unprecedented phenomenon. In the neighborhood of the small town of Boorg St. Maurice is a mountain called by the people of the country the "Bee Rouge." It is connected with the outlying spars of the little St. Bernard, and is 7500 feet above the sea level. This mountain is at the present moment tumbling to pieces. For three weeks past the blccks of solid stone of which it is, as it were, built up, have been crumbling away, and the whole side of the mountain ap. pears to be in course of pouring itself down into the plain. The scene is described by a member of the French Alpine Cinb as magnifi cest in the extreme. The boulders which de tach themselves are often of immense eaze, and they leap down a steep slope at an ex'remely f rapid pace, crashing literal!) tomatchwood the trees and eaplings which they encounter. Tne no:se made by the descending masses resembles dull and diitant peals of thunder. We read in a scient:isc journal: "There is a method which I have adopted in my osn house to cool the temperature of my room during hot weather, and that is, to hang a sheet or a blanket down outside windows upon which the suno may be bshining. This sheet is wet, and the evaporation of thbe water produces a Sdeliciously cool apartment. The sheet is kept damp by having a veseal filled with water above the top of it outside, and a piece of flannel arranged to form a siphon, and touch ing several portions of the sheet. The water gradually empties out of the vessel, and may be replenished if necessary. The window is, of course, open. It is strange that so simple and inexpensive a method has not found favoer rere, more especially in sick rooms; a cylin drical-shabped tia vessmel, with some very fine holes, fixed over the window, would easily supply the water." Miss Corisande wM born only two years earhler than her brother Tom. When Tom was ten years old she gloried because she was twelve. When Tom wasM known to be four Steen bshe confeseed to sweet sixteen. When STom proudly beasted of eighteen bshe timidly acknowledged herself past nineteen. When he came home from college with a moustache and a vote, and had a party in honor of his twenty-first birthday, she said to her friends, " Wat a boyish fellow he is; who would think he is only a year younger than I?" And f when Tom declared he was twenty-five, and old enough to get married, she said : "Do you know, I feel savagely jealous to think of Tom getting married. Bot then I suppose twins are always more attached to each other than other brothers and sisters." And two years Slater, at Tom's wedding, she said with girlish vivacity to the wedding gouests,"Dsar old Tom; to ee him married tS-nitht, and then think a Bow, when he was only firve years old, they Sbrought him in to see me, his baby sister. I wonder if he thslhtsJeI to-night." * - - . . -,,; RmW P.TBLICAT IONlS. The lif o.f Pope Pius It Xpistk. By J. G. Sbhea, New York : £bomas Kelly. This beautiful work by the distingoisbed historian, John Gilmary Shes, presents an ex terior as attractive as the eontents are solid and instrnetive. This is the asoord work whica has appeared this year on the esme il lustrious subjeot-and while the first dealt more with the persond life of Pius IX, this work of Mr. 8hea presents him to us in con nection with the great events in the history of the Church during his Pontificiate. Toe au thor has shown a rare skill in condensing into fifteen chapters the chief events in the life of him whom tbhe world already ealls Great, and whom the Church may one day, crown with the title of Saint. Yet the two bcharacters, that of greatness and holiness, are so graphically and aloquently combined that the reader finds himself as mueh interested in the man, as edified and in steud_-hw-h Pem and Prince. We think the eeooeat of his voyage to South Amerioa, its diseultie, obstacles and results, more elsdely detailed here than in any previous pub lieation. The coneise, and yet well developed skebph of the revolutionary movement which drove the Pope to Oaets, of the bad faith of Sardinia, and of the cowardice of Napoleon the Third, is also well worthy of careful per How often do we find vhite and merit over looked until we suddenly learn by some out aide impulse that we bare actually been stand ing within the shadow of greatness and heroic bholiness. In years to come, we Catholics may exclaim "0 if we had but known Pope Pins the IX as we know him now, how proud we won;d have been of such a Father, Pope and King!" This work will make him known to us in his triple greatness as intimately as the artist has made known to every Catholic the sweetness and dignity of his person. It teaches us to understand his patience in adversity, his un flinching irmmess in the fasce of wroang his sublime reliance upon the justice of his cause, his wonderful humility and great permnoal sanctity. His life and his pontiloate are not yet ended; let American Catholice at least learn to know and appreoiate the heroism of the one and the grandear of the other, so that the name and deeds of Pinus IX may bhe as familiar to their minds as that of Amerioa's best and greatest-Washington. A word about the beautiful "getting up" of the book, may be interesting to those who need a stimulus to their faith and patriotism. We speak of patriotism here, in the sense of every Catholic being a citizen of Cbristendom, over which the Pope is Pontiff and ruler. The out side covers are ornamented with a gold medal lion portrait, as well as the coat of arms of His Holiness ; while the text of the work-is well illustrated by engravings of Rome and its churches. The only flaw in this part of the p bljahers labor, is in the heads of the eccle siast:cs of the Papal Court. These have neither expression nor grace, and are not wcrthy of the rest of the book. As a memento of the Jobilee year, and as a souvenir of the grandest figure of this century, this beautiful volume should be in eovery Cath olic hone and its contents well garnered up by every Catholic heart. Tie Fifth Reader. By Right Rev. Richard Gil mour, D. D., Uishop of Cleveland. New Yurk. Cinoinnati, and 8:. Louis: Benriger Brothers. Tois volume completes the Catholic National Series of Readers, and is amonument to Bishop Gilmour's zeal and piety. The learned author claims in his preface that the Reader, next to the Catechism, is the book which most influences the moral and religions character of the pupil and should, therefore, be eminently Catholic. At the same time these books are not made tiresome by too many relig ions lessone; but the beauty of trasuth and the treasures of faith are so displayed that the pupil is gradually led to admire the one and to appreciate the other. We admire the liberal views and enlightened judgment of the Reverend Compiler in the im partial and judicious selections of reasing lee sone. These are drawn from the writings of our beet authors, aLd the Protestant element enters largely into the whole series, bat jar ticular y so in this Fifth volomo. Of ninety four authors, from whom selections are made at leaset one-half are not of the Fold. How different is the case with our Protestant Com pilers. The Literary Reader by Cathcart, which is put forward as the e plus ultra of in formation, has a list of sixty-fire authors-not one of whom is a Catholic! And still we bear that Catholics are illiberal, and that they pre sent but one side of the question to the view of their readers. We live and learn each day; and we know by eimparison of the works be fore us that Bishop Gilmour truly aimed at the highest good of his fellow creatures when be combined lessons of patriotism, religion, and virtue into thisb crowning rolume of his Series, while Catbhcart, narrow-minded and blinded by prejudice, oared little for edasetio, in its highest and truest rende, so long as he was able to parade the writings of sueach teach ers as Tyndall, Huxley, Helps and Stowe! Those schoole which have patiently waited the completion of The Catholic National Series, will, no doubt, be glad to learn that their pa tience is at last rewarded, and that this-last rvolnme is a splendid proof of the truth and sppr opriatenese of the name of the Series. An interesting point of law has arisen in Me Lean county, III. The Judge of the District, while presiding at a murder trial, temporarily vacated his seat, and with the consent of the prisoner's counsel, placed a well-known mem ber of the bar in his stead. The prisoner was convicted, but appealed his scase to the Supreme Court of the State, which held that the absence of the district Judge for a time, how ever short, was illegal, and that neither the prisoner nor bis counsel could make the sub stitote of another man legal by their oonsent. The higher Court has, therefore, decided that the acoused had no legal trial, and that esremony will have to be gone over once more haefor his guilt or iaroeeoeeaa bssstablishd. Our Cngg, Comsnt and Se COMMEYCEZII' XRIZIC&zRA ASuAL COMMraX mIr? OF SIPrzO nLarL., L.ES, 1877, The morning of July 30th dawned Upowl mr an axious, yet Joyous heart within the wats of Spring Hill College. It was the dayetf annual exhibition at the close of the year, and the hearts of the students bossy with gladness at the thoughloKneoae ma ing the home of their ehildhoed, and the loved ones, who undergo sabh nohie in order to give to their obildrew a solid Christian education. Toe eleing exereies ample witness to the good qae of the in the choice of the guarda to wbhom have entrusted their most asened treu earth, the mind and soul of their This year, in fact, Spring Hill Cdelle only sustained its aneient renown fosei emic closings, bat even surpassed its lections, a in the tralaing and pro the pupils. At 10.30 erenlok A. M. the ball of the College was deluged bythl of people pouring in from early Toanks to the kindness and to the s activity of Capt. Ingate, the Spring Hill afl jrded am ple accommodation. The Right J. Q inlan, B.:shop of Mobile, presided, was surrounded by a great number of thevs clergy, and by the professors of the Co I shball not weary the readers of the $S with a detailed account of the various s that the weil-filled programme of the day pg. sented to the delighted audience, but shall only briefly mention what seems buet ealesa. ted to please an enlightened public. To begin by the debate we cannot help.is gretting that many of the modern politiesin who flood our towns and country, do not sbo that depth of sound reaseon and commos displayed by the intelligent speakes. '1i subject of the debate was, the "Elstoral tem," and, the defects of the present msdt election having been pointed out, vervi liorations were proposed and disesessi solid argumentation, strengthened by the sistible force of strong and Sowing The several speakers distinguished by their graceful declamation aid toned simplicity of their bearing sad ment. Mr. W. Robinson, theehairmsa, natural oratory and digniied appesraees remarked with great pleasare, aemperes arguments pro and con, and dere4d withk maturity of a veteran debater, "that the e.t Electoral System established by ouar fathers shbuld be held and claung to with olable attachment and veneration, till system should be devised by politicians, than those which have been hitheto p gated." Mr. Robinson distinguisaed moreover by his original ode on-the death the Airhbishop of Quito, pregnant with see ments of a deeply-rooted religions feeling, delivered with that pathos which is ito found in those only who are strongly ted with the ideas which their words oan The flute solo of Master R. Cawthon was ceived by all with enthusiastic applause, does the highest honor to the mutieal of both professor and pupil. It were bey th-' limits necessarily prescribed to this a were I to memtion the various young genti men who won the admiration of their hbeair' I cannot, however, pass unnoticed our fries Dr. Pangloes, in the play of the "Heir at Law, so perfectly rendered by Mr. J. Thibant.k whole audience, by their reiterated plan manifested their high appreciation of the Its of the gifted young actor. Consp' amongst the other actors was Mr. Hery Gd bery, whose unsophisticated action was so sat oral and pleasing, in the character of " Homespun." The other younggentimen, w space unfortunately does not allow me to s. tion, elicited the well merited applause of audience, and were a credit to their teae Mr. Charles Aitkens read the Valediotory, which he paid unequivocal homage to the and disinterestedness, of his teachobers, when bidding them and the students a farewell, in his own name ard in the name his fellow-graduates, Mr. P. Leche and Mr. E. Poincy, he clearly showed how strosng the bonds that bind them to their Coll home. But what aroused in all hearts the gre expectations was the appearance of the t young *Atorneys-at-Law, come back after lapse of a few years to take out their degree A. s ; and surely their Alma Mater has ev reason to be proud of the true and solid ort of the distinguisbed graduates. First Mr. H. Rives, who had chosen for his Pins IX , a subject so teeming with set and religious sentiment, that, at the very of the Father of the faithful, every Chri heart thrills with emotion. Let us on0 late the young lawyer on the felicity of choice; and nobly too did he fulfill theask so generously undertook. He deplted* Grand Pontiff, in the midst of an irl- and corrupted world, towering aloft ove ruins of this Babylon of ours, a some gi oak of the forest rears its lofty head ovr Slowly shrobs that surroond it. He brought bear on his sobject all the gif:s of that rdJ talent so liberally bestowed on him by 1 t that cound depth of judgment and trnes of religious sympathy which have ever guished the genuine orator and the grtai0. The simple, yet elegant garb of Ia*sI5 In which he dressed his exalted conceprions' t u, nassuming air, which is ever the therseta y tio of real merit, the grace of gestoreaod e livery which marked every movement of tb - young orator, justify ns in preesging for bi a a brilliant future in the career of law. e Mr. Edward Bermuder chose for the subj e of his address, Simon Bolivar, whoes na Sholds so conspicuous a rank in Booth A*drl e annals. A bold and powerful diction, a strOO c olear voice, and a natural manliness of gPtas and manner, raised him follyto the height f Shis sabject. He graphically depleted t t trials, the struggles, the matganieas dio Stereatednes of livar In his d*er f. dam, and In ,, me ' -