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TO ERIN.
a o .nsag MOInt.
ar ·nrarxToo1[0r.
Oh, Erin I land of beauty and of sone,
Of virtues rich and rare,
Thy s#en see brave and strong,
Thy daughters pure and fair I
The warrior's sword, the poet'sa pen,
The hobl deeds of saintly men,
Have each lent lastre to the crown,
By many sons entwined,
With which thy brows we bind,
And mark thee wortbyof thy great renown!
Oh, Rri Brightest Jewel of the Sea
Upon her throbbing breast!
With matchless brilliancy.
Then dost in beauty rest I
Thy limpid lakes, and streams, and rilles,
Thy sleplag vales and swelling hills,
Thy rle grem cids sand skies of blue,
AlU asehow the oehotoest aret
Wmta Nature e- Impart,
o n, ·or ahapo, or ihawoes in each bue!
Oh, ]la I titd by sat'rnlgs long and sore,
es tftal tsharsgh theam all !
Thy woes ae nearly o'er,
Th' oppressor soon must fell I
Soon must they drop, the bol uand chain
Which now thy beauteous limbs restrain !
Seen will thy gallant seas, set free
From Britain's cursed sway.
khy loving laws obey,
And feaely aooer to noea but Lhee
Oh. God ! let not the fate of Mose be
Likewlse to us decreed !
Permit our eye. to see
Our esuring country freed !
And era we're numbered with'the Read,
Her liberated sell once more
Permit our outcast feet to tread,
As did our sires in daye of yore!
Oh, keep not from our wearied a·ght,
So long without a cheering ray,
The glorious dawn, the happy light.
Of Brin's coming day!
ot Patrick'a Day 1073.
Interesting from Rome.
An "occasional" oorrespoadbnt of the
-ndon Tablet, writing from Rome on the
ith of Feb. thus pictures the high sense of
onor and honesty for which *the present
les of "free and united Italy" are so
onspienons.
Here is asample of the good faith and of
he policy.of the Italian Govern ment. On the I
th August, 1870, the Minister Visconti.
enosta wrote as follows toathe European
overnments in thMe)emorandum, which he
orwarded at that date in order to tranquil
ize the pubilic mind and to secure the
nnivance or the silence of Foreign '
inister :---"The Italian Governoent en
ages to preserve all the institutions, offl
a, and ecclesiastical budies, and their I
dmianstrathlns at present existing in I
ome 0 " It engages to preserve in
to entirety and without subjecting it to 0
pecal taxep all ecclesiastical property, P
hose rent is paid to offices, charges, cor
rations, being ecclesiastical institutions J'
aving their seal in Rome." On the 30th '
an 1871, the Minister Visconti-Venosta n
ade the following declaration to the Ital- n
n Deputies :-"The Pontiff is the Spirit.
ead of the Catholics of other nations a
ud as such he exercises over Catholic socie
a jurisdiction which forms part of the i
ablic law of those States." e * "'We n
ave always declared that we desire to
alve the Roman question without offence I1
the feelings of Catholicq, without offence m
the'legitimate interests of other Govern- w
oets." I might quote other statements e
qually strong; but two, the one to the a'
overnments and the other to the Cham- t
r, are enough. Now I wish you to con
rast these statements of the Government no
ith the following fact. The Convebt and T
eneral House of the Capuhbins in Rome P
Swell known. The Capuchins are special- b
y'devoted by their rule and their practice R
o the care of the poor-they are the priesta 'b
and brothers of the middle and lower ci
classes, and are deservedly beloved for w
heir charity. They, if any, have the sym- ni
pathy of the people. Their principal con- cc
vent in Rome contains about 150 Fathers in
and Brothers. Their chief means of sub- cc
tistence ia drawn from the large kitchen- St
garden which adjoins their convent. The (a
value of this garden in the market is said CI
he from £12,000 to £20,000. The Govern- ne
eant taxed the Friars to the amount of om
4,0001. (£160) a-year for it. On Sunday of
last, Feb. 2, the Procurator-General re- di
ceived notice that the Government would ge
take posseeion of this garden, and that at
th Jrine were to cease to have the use of ci
it by Feb. 16. But they would net take it ret
without indemlileation. Oh, no ! The fe
r. sum fixed upon to be paid to them annual
ly is £80, but out of this annual paymeni
the established taxes have to be taken
amounting to 17 per cant ! You can nos
make your own business calculation upoi
this transaction, and contrast it with tlt
statements made by the Italian Ministe
scarcely two years ago. I -mention thi
incident because I have the detail upon
the very best authority, and because it ii
but a sample of the conduct of the Italiae
Government towalds the forty or fiftj
houses already suppressed, and of what ii
will be towards the twenty other houses
the Municipality is asking for leave to take
possession of. Let me give you oneother
example of the Italian mode of procedure
is will come nrarer home, forit touches the
rights of British subjects. Sir Augustus
Paget writes Oct. 25 1870, to Lord Gran
ville as follows :-" I received from [Sig
nor Visconti Venosta] the most emphatic
assrrace that all property belonging to
British subjects would be respected by the
Italian Governuient.') We learn from the
same Blue Book that Mr. Jervoise obtained
an exact list of the property belonging to
British subjects in Rome; and among what
he calls. Jan, 18, 1871, "the eight British
" and Irish ecclesiastical establishments" in
Rome, I find the property of the Rev. E.
Douglas, Provincial of the Redemptorists
at the Villa Caserta. F. Douglas bought
this property, consisting of a large wilder
ness of a garden and a palazzo, in 1855,and
went to live there with his friends. He soon
enlarged the house, which now, having a
flue staircase, large corridors, spacious
rooms, and a central court-yard, presents
every convenience which he and his friends
require. But the Government thinks that
it might suit their purpose also, and I can
not deny that F. Douglas has spent so much
money in changieg and enlarging the old
palazzo, that the place might suit very well
for public offices, it public officesM were
wanted at such a distance from the centre
of Rome. So with this idea before them,
the Government Iltrs actually sent an ol.
cial inspector, ar deputy of Signor Gadda.
to visit the house, take measurements, and
report upon what it can be turned into.
They have not actually taken possession,
nor have they positively given notice that
they intend to do so, and I dare say, if
they were pressed upon the subject, they
would make a declaration as strong as the
one which satisfied Sir Augustus Paget
and Lord Granville in Oct., 1870. But
mean while they have actually expropriated
the whole of F. Douglas's garden- up to his
door, and that in spite of his protestations,
and of bis being a British subject. The
garden was between four and five English
acres in extent-it served not only for
necessary relaxation and exercise, but it
furnished the Community with veretables
all the year round, with the means of keep
ing a cow or two, besides supplying a sale
outside. The money he has spent on the
garden, and the trees he has planted, of
course, are all lost; and the value official
ly set upon the property is s-, I ,w, that
people are already specual.,t, ..,- ,.,
ormous profit the municipalir? -
out of it. I think it worth i.:...
public attention to these facts. r. • .,...
larations of the Government seem ut ,..1.
just the force and value they intend te,, r,
to have, viz, to deceive whomsoever it
may be their interest to deceive for tihe
moment. Lord Granville and Sir Augus
toes Paget appear to have been its victims
as well as other people. As the Govern
ment has surpressed all theological chairs
in the universities, I suppose practical
-moral theology, truth, and justice go with
the general suppression. At all events the
Italian Government appears to be too
much for the diplomatists, and I fear it
will also become too much, whenever it
suits its purpose, for "the eight British
and Irish ecclesiastical establishments" for
the present existing in Rome.
Ii cielo a di broao--there appears to be
no chance of any change of affairs in Rome.
The Pope is as completely despoiled as
Peter was when lucked up between iron
bare in Jerusalem. But the Catholics of
Rome have been stirred into activity whichl
before that time they were miserably defi
cient in. There are now .ten lay Societies,
which are formed into a Federazione Pia
na-the Confederated Societies. These
consist of (1) The Society against the read.
ing ot bad books and papers : (2) The Cir
colo of S. Peter for Italian Youth : (3) 1
Society for the promotion of good works 3
(spread all through Italy) : (4) Society of I
Cabholic Interests, comprising most of the
nobility : (5) Society of Catholic Ladies,
nobility and middle class: (6) The Reduci
Of the battles for Religion-Zonaves, sol
diers, d&c.: (7) Society for the diffusion of
good books: (8) Society for continual prayer
among the youth for the Chuorch : (9) So- ,
cieta artirstica ed operaria di carita recip
roes : (10) Society for protection of poor
female servants. All of these Societies ex- a
il- cept the two first have conme into existence
nt since the occupation. The Presidents of all
'i. meet together twice a month in a camera Fed
w cratel at S. Giuseppe dei Falegnami and die
en cuss anlly matter of public interest in which
e they can take cammon action. Tile Presi
dr ents consist of men add women, and all
us meet together. All of tlhese societies are
on closely connected with thle clergy, who be
is long to all of them, excepting tine No's 5 and
tn 6. They have all a director who is a priest;
ty he exercises a right of veto, or a right of re
it ference to the Cardinal Vicar in case of dis
es pate among the members or in the ceuncils.
oe The total numbers of members, in Rome
er alone, exceeds 20,000. No. 3 has 9.000
members, men and women; No. 4, 3,000;
e No.5:,1,300; No. 6.6.000; No. 7, 4,000;
is and No. 8, 6,000. Tine others are smaller
i- numbers. Many belong to more than one
rt society, and if the same person were count
ic ed over again for each Society the number
o would probably exceed 40,000.
e Taking the Black Veil.
d
* [The following, written for insertion in our
,t last issue, was unavoidably omitted.]
It Sunday last, St. John's Church, after High
a Mass, was the scene of one of the most affect
e ing ceremonies in the Catholic Church. Miss
SElizabeth Grace Egan, a native of Louisville,
Kentucky, and daughter of Thomas Egan, Esq.,
d of this city, and of his late consort, Mariann
n Bexfield, having passed through the probation
s ary period, received the black veil, in token of
her utll admission, asa Sister, into the Domin
Sioan order.
t The exercises opened with a sermon by the
Rev. Jeremiah Moynihan, Jr., nephew of the
I Canons, Jeremiah Moynihan, of St. John's, and
Cornelius Moynihan, of St. Peter's. The text
was taken from Solomon's Canticle of Can.
ticles:
I will rise and go about the city, in the
streets and broad ways, I will seek him whom
mny soul loveth; I sought him and I found him
not.
The watchmen who keep the city found me:
Have you seen him whom mny soul loveth T
W,'hen I hadl a little passed by them I found
lhinm wnllo my soul loveth: I held hint and I
f will not let him go.
I adjure you O daughters of Jerusalem, by
the roes and harts of the fields, that you stir
t not up nor awake my beloved till she please."
t Upon tlhik'beantifnl and apposite text the
I young preacher discoursed with an ability and
sa8t eloquence which commanded throughout
the deepest attention front the assemblage
present, composed of Protestants as well as
Catholics. He was both impressive and folici
tons in explaining and illustrating the faith
and the heroism which move to such sacrifices
as that Miss Egan was making, in severing the
ties of kindred and of friendship, and aban
doning the pleasures, the hopes and the ambi
tions of the world, for a life of obscurity, hu
mility and unseen labors.
The ceremonies were performed by Canon
J.Teremniah Moynihan, assisted by the Rev.
Tlos. J. Smith, of St. Joseph's, the Rev. Father
Keninelly, of St. John's, and the Rev. Father
lranli,,o. ITi Grace, the Archbishop, being
Ijutnl'. I,, ,nlr,.el, Canon Moynihan was de
S!,,'r t ,, .- · , ti,, vows of the candidate.
llsth culn i, In i:ng the grand and solemn
nmusic given n o uc, occasions, Miss Egan, at
tended by a n". on a.sch side,, and followed by
the bridesmaid, %1:;. I i., ti.,ns -, by Miss Lizzie
Arny, crown-bearer, ind by Mips Cary Arny,
Louise Keller, Mamie Power and Mary Louise
Keenan, as angels, came to the altar from the
sanctuary, and kneeling before the Canon, she
underwent the prescribed examination, and e
her responses being such as met the require
ments of the order, her vows were made, and
with her attendants, she.retired, to be known
thereafter only as Sister Mary Thomas.
During the afternoon she gave, in the parlor
of the Convent, a reception, which was 'her
last intercoorse with the world. Surrounded
by affectionate relatives and admiring friends,
the thought of parting from them forever
seemed to have no place in her mind. She was tl
cheerful, even joyous, and those who had wit- ii
nessed such a sacrifice for the first time mar
veled to see a beautilul and accomplished q
young woman, becoming a recluse, moroserene- '
ly happy in being the bride of her Saviour
than if she weroeAecerated with the hymental c
coeonet of orange flower.. ti
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c TRLERAPIIU O SUMMARY.
ENGLAND.-By far theacost important event
b in the week's news from Europe, is that of
i" the overthrow of the Gladstone Ministry
11 on the question of the Irish Uuiversty Ed
re ucation Act, the provisions of which will
1. be found n out Foreign mail news. Forty
d iitenbers took part in the debate, whic
, aery protracted and exciting, the
galleries being crowded with visitors, ;among
whom, was the Prince of Wales. Near
midnight the deblate was concluded, and a
i. vote taken, resulting as follows : For the
o bill 284, against it 287. When the result was
o announced the excitement became intense, the
opponents of the meoanre indulging in tumul
tuous cheers. Gladstone arose and said: "The
r vote just given is certainly of a grave charac
tare; as the Iouse never wishes to continue its
deliberations when the existene of the gov
ernment is in doubt. I move an adjournment
r until Thnrday." The whip on the occasion
was the severest ever known in the House of
Commons. One Conservative member wasee
brought froi Paris by special steamer anud
railroad train, and a liberal whip was report
r ed to have besieged Sir Robert Peel, almost
upon his knees, to go to the House, but fruit
leasly. Not a single Conservative voted for
the bill, and forty-six Liberals, of whoa, thir
ty-rsix wererishmea, voted against it. Fifteen
Irish membersla vted for it--saac Butt was
absent. The Catholics were unanimous against
the bill, the Irish Bishops having advised op
position, sad Cardinal Cllen'a pastoral hay
Ing denounced it. On Thursday Mr. Gladstone
announced the resignation of the Ministry.
Disraeli has been asked by the Queen to form
a Ministry, but before accepting desires time
to consult his colleagues, who are absent. His
party are in a minority of ninety, and if he
takes office, Parliament will have to be dis
solved and a new election ordered. Mr. Glad
stone on rising in the House of Commons to
announce the resignation of the government,
was received with load and prolonged cheer
ing. When he had informed the House of the
resignation and its acceptance by the Queen,
he moved that the sitting be adjourned till
Monday, adding that when that day arrived,
should the public interests require it, he would
ask for a further adjournment. The an
nounnement was received in perfect silence.
Mr. Gilpin gave notice that on the resumption
of the sitting, he would move the following:
that the vote of Wednesday last on the Irish t
University bill' was not and is not intended to
be a declaration or expressuon of want of con
fidence in the Government and that the House 1
takes the earliest opportunity of expressing o
its confidence in the general policy of her
Msjesty's Ministers. Mr. Oilpit's inoti nu was
received with cheers, and the Hlotms the,,
adjounrned until Monday. I
FRANC.n-At last there seenits to be some
guarantee of peace, at least till the Germaus I
evacuate the country, the constitulional prq-i
ject reported by the Committee of Thirty and
approved by Thiers, having been adopted by
the Assembly oin the 13th, by a vote of rIl to I
231. On the 7th, a terrible explosiuu occurred
in the cartridge factory of Fort Valerian, killing I
fifteen and wcounding over a hundred persons.
GEItMANY.-The Imperial Parlianment con
vened on the 12th and was opened by the Em
peror. Ir his speech he sa;d that negotia
tions now io progress would result in the en- a
tire evacuation of France by the German
troops at an earlier day than had heretofore t
been expected. Ii the Prussian Diet on the
10thb, Bsmuarck madea powerful speech in sap.
port of the new bills against the Catholic
clergy.
ITALY.-On the 8th, His Holiness replying to
an adldress presented to him said: "Kecom- r
ciliation with the Italian Government was im- t
possible. God would punish the invaders of
his doninions. As Catholics were ever un
shakable in their faith, he had the ntmost con- 0
fidence in the ultimate triumphof the church." s
The 10th being the Anniversary of Mazzlni's
death, a deputation of Democrats attempted to
visit his tomb, but were prevented by the po
lice and troops, a riot being imminent for some n
time.
SPAIt.-The Assembly has agreed to the
Government bill providing for the convocation a
of a Constituent Cortes and fixing the date for it
,Ii.e-i,,n of members thereto. This measunre C
-,"n , nrtir- after a very excitlng debate and it
. .. r,,.-:t pressure from outside, the citizens
'.. ronnd the Assembly Hall in large
r so,,l,era. The Carlist forces continue in tfi
field ant! ~re gaining strength. On the 7ts
they del;,,-ld the government troops in the
North,, intlr ',ig f loss ofa hundred men. a
UNITEID TATEs. a
WVSit-NuLTON.-The Senate hiu continued] Its f
session through the week, being oecunied with s
the Cldwnell and Spencer cases and inkoonurm.
ing nominations. -0
Spencer, elected by the Alabama rump Radi- w
cal caucus which itself acknowledged, subse b
quently, that it was so Legislature. being fa
vorable to the adminisrration, was seated.- The
Calfwell case is nut settled yet. He booght it
out the whole of his State Legislature. This
case excites mauch interest among politicians, as
there is no precodeit to it, but j~idgiog fromi
the present tendency of political morale will s
bequitecommon in future. Tile Louisiaua.
senatorship case, has been shelved as requiring
more attention than can now be given it it I 15
is dead until the next Congress meets in De
esember.
T ngeee" bold a Convention on the 10th ek
and adopted resolutions denouncingslavery in d,
Cubas, and asking the government to recog. o
nise the Cabana as belligerents. Banks made
himself conspicuous on this ocoasion.
Nsw YontC.-The master carpenters and
,t builders of New York city and Brooklyn state
of that they will not socede to the unlust do.
ry mands of societies this spring, and many capi
d-talits who intended investing in building pro
III jecte are already investing their money in oth
tv er investmenti. The Assembly has passed
Sresolutions, and appointed a committee to in.
lie vestigate the affairs of the Great Erie Road,
Ig which are said to be in a terrible condition.
ar Grand preparations are being made for the
a celebration of St. Patrick's day on a scale
he more magniflcent than heretofore. It is re
is ported that the members of Congress from New
ie York, will distribute theirextra compensation
II- among the charitable societies. The Bar As
in soeiation has adonptedl a resolution recommend.
c- ing to the Constitutional Committee the ques
ts tion of jury trials, and suggesting that civil
r- and criminal cases on the question of insanity
I5 be tried by not less than five skilled persons,
n and that thejory trial might be waived in all
ºf but capital cases, by consent, and that in all
Soasesm, except where the death penalty is in
d volved, majority of the jury concurring shall
t. be sufmleent.
t Tri INDIAN WAR.--The Peace Commissioners
have given the Modocs up to the foil control
r of the military. It is stated that the soldiers
are already in the lava beds. The Indians
n have great quantities of ice stored, and an
a abundance of meat and roots. The United
S'ates officers have complete marps of the lava
beds.
SNEW PUBLICATIONS.
SSermo,ns on Ecclesiastical Subjects, Vol. 2. By
a Archbishop Manning. Cactholi Publication
a Society, No. 9. Warren street, New York.
A series of eleven distinct sermons relating
to the conflict of Ilia Holiness, Pope Pins IX.,
with the anti-christian and anti-social revoln.
tion, delivered by the eminent Archbishop of
WVestminster, at intervals during the course of
some six years. Archbishop Manning's fame
as a prelate, as a writer, as an orator, and as a
Catholic who has been signally successful in
disabusing the English Protestant mind of
many of its most obstinate prejudices, is so
well known to the world, that the knowledge
that he is their author is a sufficient guaranty
of the excellence of these sermons. The cen
tral ann of a most brilliant galaxy of piety,
learning and talent, he has done more than
any other living Englishman, to shed the clear
light of truth upon questions which his coon
trymen have heretofore viewed only partially,
or through distorting media, and such has
been the success of his efforts that to-day, Ca
tholics have strong reapon to hope that cre the
close of the nineteenth century, the English
people will have virtually abandoned the
winding paths of error into which HeInry the
Eighth and his gentle daughter led them, and
returned to the well defined road which their
forefathers so happily followed. The conser
vative minds of England are beginning to re
alise and acknowledge the serious fact that
their social and political organizations, are
shadowed by the gloom of an impending con
fliet, a wide sweeping tornado of violenee and
wild frenzy without a counterpart in the his
tory of that country, and they are likewise I
reluctantly beginning to acknowledge that
the Catholic Church alone, by her precepts and 1
the example of her children, offers any en
couraging means of averting the coming
storm. They see with disappolntment and
sorrow, the itter inability of their Establish
ed Church or of any other of England's nu- t
merous sects, to cope with those kindred sunb
jects of public agitation, Liberalism. Socialism
and Communism, and by degrees they are corn
ing to confess that after all, the Catholic
Church is wiser than man in prescribing lim- a
its to his theorizing. That if England Is pre
served from this threatening eatastrophb, it I
will be due to the Church we cannot doubt,
and we are confident that, if not preve
a saeoidal policy, the efforts of such men as
Arebbishop Manning and his coadjutors will
at least effect a mitigation of some of the most
formidable evils. As we have already seld, 
the knowledge of its authorship is conclusive r
evidence of the quality of this work, to which
we will add oar mite of individual testimony,
by the coufident assertion that it is in every a
way worthy the exalted reputation of its au- ti
thor.
An in valuable remedy for emigrants and peC- i
some traveling or tsmpsrca-ly visiting mSiasrias dig
tlcts. is be tased is Simmons' Liver saulater. If
takres scesoeeasly it will prevent Chills, fvers. ad
isurlous effects from chasse ofst water. ri
AN EaTABLIrsua RaxmDY.-.Brown's Bron
ehial Troches are widely known as es retablshed rens
d= for Coobs, Ceids. rosethis, earerss, sad sther
trubl e f the Thro at sd Lsh. - -i
I. The Defeat of the rish University Bill.
d on We enesday th eable telegrams in
formed as of the failure of the Gladstone
ministry to secure the Pssageef its cheme
for the foundation of a new Irish Univers
d ity. The asthqrs of the measure undoubt
a- edly designed it to be accepted by the
Irish Catholics as a concession "on the part
a of Government, and regarding it with refer
ence to the policy hitherto pursued by
~ Parliament in its treatment of the Iriseh
education question, the defeated Bill cer
Stainly may be so characterized. Since the
year 1793, when Catholics, under many re
strictions, were first permitted to seek de
grees at Trinity College, until the present
day, the subject of Irish Eduaestion has ever
been a source ofdisqulet to Parliament. This
admission of Catholioeao Trinity College,
however, was so hampered and restrained
I in its effects by features unjust and essen
tially objectionable, that In 1845 Sir Robert
Peel's administration found it necessary to
make an advance movement toward afford
ing Catholics access to educational facili
ties in Ireland. This movement resulted
in the "Academical Institutions' Bill" esta
blishing and endowing the Queen's Col
leges. The peouliar feature of these Insti
tutions, which Peel fondly supposed would
render them less repugnant to Catholics,
was the professed exclusion of all religious
tests, and the exaction from each professor
of a solemn d4claration that he would avoid
all statements derogatory to revealed roll
gionu or calculated to give offense to the
convictions of students of any creed.
This effort, so far from quieting the Cath
olic mind with the argument that if they
could not be allowed to enjoy a system of
edoeation taught according to their relig
ions faith, they might at.least follow one
which professed none. was very soon dis
covered to be as objectionable to Catholics
and as unanimously repudiated by them as
any half-way measure on any subject that
Parliament ever proferred to the Irish peo
ple. Mr.Gladstone's experience as a member
of the Cabinet which framed. Sir Robt.
Peel's Bill, and the result of his subsequent
observations in political life, have done
much to inspire him with an adequate
appreciation of the hardship imposed up
on the Irish Catholio by the narrow and an
justeducational system prescribed by Par
liament, and though the late proposed Bill
probably-owest deoarto the opposition
which it met from the Cathelic element ia
Parliament, still we are not unwilling to
ascribe to its framers and champions, the
very best intentions. In an extract from
the London Tablet which we give to-day
the chief points of interest in this new
bill will be seen.
Its defeat through the instrumentality of
the Catholics themselves, when taken in
connection with the wisdom and foresight
which to-dm characterizse all movements
of Catholloism in Great Britain, argues a de
gree of strength, and a conadence. in its
ability to ultimately obtain a fall and som.
ploet acquiesaeece In Its just demands fn
Ireland, with which we were not prepared
to ereditit. That sueb a result may be
postponed to no distant day Is the fervent
wish, not only of Catholic Irishmen, bat of
every man whose heart throbs responsive
to the efforts of a noble people to obtain
rights unjustly denied them.
Tan Inrsn nx Hoosrox, Tzx.,-Thelrishmen
of Houston have formed a Benevolent Associa
tion which will have foer its objects:
First-The amelioration and the advance
ment of she eadition of the Irish rsee, and
their deseedantse, in the State of Te xas
Second-The encouragementof Immigration
to this Sta. and assisting asu far as poIlble
and necessary, sech immigrants upon their ar
rival.
SIhnrd-The creation of a feeling of harmony
and love among the Irish race in Texas.
Major M. Looscao is president and Mayor
Scanlon one of the members of the Association
which L. in Bofursahing caf'l:n.