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ae g Star d OseiLd MeUsesiengr, 35W s I94L , 5UipA, 94=I4N T s. lfl. Zats ws m om Italy. -CAIrCIT Or PIISITI. As in every dioeese in Italy, so in Rome itself the want of priets is becoming per eeptible. The priests who die in eachb year are three times more numerous than those who are ordained. The causes of this falling otr in the number of candidates - for holy orders are various, but the chief -.of those causes are the dispersion of reli glous families which used to prepare great numbers of young men for the priesthood; the want of titles to orders caused by the absorption by th- State of church revenues; the dangers and insults to which the voca tion is now exposed, the clerical dress being a mark for scorn instead of respect; and r the conscription laws, which spare-no one and prevent youths from embracing the -clerical career. The whole tendency of Italian legislation is towards the extinction of Catholieism. The suppression of the Religious Orders, the abolition of chaplains to the forces, and cessation of services for soldiers, and the introduction of secular schools, all seem parts of a deliberate plan to bring religion into disuse. But the Government itself may have reason to rue this anti Catholic policy.. "True patriot Ism must naturally rest upon religious principles," said General Lamarmora when combatting in Parliament against the law which made priests liable to the conscrip tion. Tie populations trained up to des pies religion and neglect God will one day prove to their rulers how weak are merely seeular motives in withstanding tempts tion, and how foolish it was to remove the bulwark of faith which alone can oppose the Commanoistil and Socialistic excesses of the spit it of the age. NEW CHARITY IN ROME. As all the schools and institutes of bene volence in Rome are now more or less administsed by Government in a mode little calculated to promote the interests of religion and morality, the Catholics are endeavoring as well as they can to create new schools and asylums under control of good Catholics. It has been proposed by Father Claudio Maria Gandet, the Procur ator-General of the Brethren of St. John of God, with consent of his General, Gio vanni Maria Alfieri, to found a vast asylum to receive those objects of charity who can not enter the existing institutions. The new asylum will have four principal divi sions. The first will be for boys under the age of 1 years who may be amlited with shronic ailments, such a scrofula or its kindred disorders. The second division will be assigned to the use of persons over 1i years of age, who may be paralysed, deaf, blind, or incurably infirm. A portion of thia second division will be set apart for old men without ailments, but who may have no means of gaining a living by work. The third division will receive aged or in frm priests of all nationalities who may require a home. There will also be a place for men of broken fortune, who knew bet ter days, but whoaby calamities may be re doced to indigence. This new asylum will be located in the country near Rome, in a healthy situation, where the boys may have the benefit of pure air and exercise in the cultivation of the land attached to the asylum, and where their religious and moral education may be carefully attended to. The Holy Father has already given to this scheme his special patronage and bles sing. Cardinal Antonelli has given to it warm encouragement. The new asylum will be somewhat like that at Marseilles, and will afford a refuge to many poor per sons in Rome who used formerly to receive parochial alms, but since 1870 have found this source of charity diverted in various ways to serve the purposes of the Italian Government. SALES OF CHURCH PROPERTY. The Giunta .iquidatries set up to public auction on the 2nd of December various properties belonging to the Monastery of S. Dominic and Sistaus; the Convent of St. Maria in Via; the Monastery of the Little Sisters of St. Paul; and the Convents of 88. Cosmas and Damian. At the sale held by the Ginnts on the 21st of Novem ber last a son of Garibaldi become the pur chaser of a property belonging to the Chap ter of St. Peter. The price he paid for this holdiinq was 21,140 lire. The land is called ('aupo Morto, and lies outside the gate of Sr. Sebastian, the Latin gate, and that of St. John. PUBLIC BALE OF a BISHIOP'S CARRIAGE. The 26th of November last was the day fixed for selling, by public auction, the carriage of the Bishop of Mantua, seized by the Government authorities to satisfy a fine and expenses attending trial amounting to 986 lire and 75 centesimi, about £9 Eng lish. Twenty-four citizens of Mantua paid the fine and costs, and saved the Bishop's carriage. They would not allow their names to be made public, so that the Bishop is as as yet ignorant of his benefactors. His lordship, on being informed by the Government agent that the fine was paid, at once protested, and lodged a formal de elaration that he had not consented, and still refused assent to the act whereby, without his concurrence, the flue was paid. The Roan.-Every time we have called at Mr. M. L Kavra's. 174 Canal street, during the paset Sfifteen or twenty dys, we have found the store crowded with people. Although times are hard and money Ls said to be scarce, they Sock to his store in great num beres. Tbhere must be some reason for this msrkedr prefreuce. and we think that we bhae discovered It. Mr. N·rava is seolling the very best artlcles, and has reduced his prices so umuch that the most carsful buyer can neow be suited. The goods in his present stock were nearly alt of them selected personally by Mr. anra. and are of the ont eslegtant syles and the latent patterne. He baa china, crockery and glassl ware, plated ware. and house fOrilhing goods of ali kinds, sad those who visit his store are sure to be pleased. MUmRmy's flott..-We are pleased to see, as as evidence of faith an te future of our ity, th tt o or t at this woll hLown hesse, 1 and IS0 St. Charles streemt, has again been opened to the public. T'he presemt pro prietors, Meears. M. Kennedy and U. Larkin, are vary popular gentlemen and have had much experienc in the difocult business of 'keeping a hotel." hence we can isely promile to all vistore comfortable uarters and good fare should they put up at " Murphy's." SUED PorATo-e.-Attention is called to the advertiemet of Messrs. McGrath & Compton, 103 Poeydras rstr ee obrlng several bhundred barrels choice seed potatoes tkr sa rHoma RuL.-.-This is one of the prlntelples Ceoart- semrvaltve party. oemmea the preassaes - Sit by1a.;gses ags lesies hmesma8* yen prvsr., Npg 3am isap, MI s, sU Osses, s Smhees HIS RE1103 IN TH1 ASSKIsLLY. SiLeadea Tabts, Dee. 1th. The first great debate in the Natiosal Assembly was on the subject of the Na tional Universities. Mgr. Dapanloup, with charaeter oig eloquence, rose to the height of the oeeiMoui- It is well known that the first Napoleon was thoroughly despotic on education; that no functionary in France, whether eccleslastical or lay, could open any character of seminary without the permission of the State. While, under Napoleon III.. M. Duruy, the Minister of Education, was so absolutely schoolmaster of France, that he knew the subjects which were being at any time taught in every school in the country. Education was a monoply ofthe State. One disadvantage of this system was the poverty of the colleges; for it was impossible for the State to adequately endow every institution of an educational character. From one to three hundred a year is the average pay ment now given to the most competent of professors In the colleges. In the debate last week M. Jules Simon affirmed that, during the year 1872-which, however, was very soon after the war-the whole amount which the State paid for higher education was under three thousand pounds. It might be almost as well to grant nothing. The two principal advo cates, on either side of the question, were M. Bert and the Bishop of Orleans. M. Bert is an ardent Republican; and while he insisted that education should be free, he was anxious to protect it from what he considered a great danger-the encroach ments of the Catholic Church. He would leave Professors the liberty of teaching their own doctrines on the subject of Christian religion; fearing lest Catholic science should trammel the science of free thinking. Mgr. Dupanloup, in reply to M. Bert, took the ground that education should be free; for this reason, among others, that the zeal of the Church was far richer than the good-will of the State. But by freedom the Bishop meant a very different thing to that which was proposed by M. Bert. Professors should teach only demonstrated truthb. The State should have no further supervision than to forbid anti-Catholic doctrine. We all know the devotion of the Bishop to a strictly Christian education ; for he resigned his membership in the French Academy rather than sit with M. Littre. His speech last week was answered by many members; among others by M. Challemel-Lacour, who professed sympathy with those revolu tionary States which were warring against the influence of the Pope. But the As sembly was not much impressed by the arguments of M. Challemel, nor by those of his skeptical friends; and passed the bill In favor of "freedom" by a majority of four to one. ILondon Register, Dec. Ith.J Monseigneur Do'inloup, the good and great Bishop of Orleans, fresh from his de nunciation of the Italian Spoilators of Holy Church, ascended the Tribune the other day in the National Assembly at Versailles, and, in a speech worthy of him self and of the occasion, vindicated the glory of Catholicism as the foster-mother of all sciences, while, in the matter of Higher Education, he denounced in words of burning eloquence, the lawless course pursued in regard to that great cause of Higher Education by the insensate genius of the Revolution. Facts are, proverbially, stubborn things. And there was one fact mentioned by the Bishop of Orleans, in the sitting of yesterday se'nnight at Ver sailles that was, In its overwhelming force, beyond any amount of rhetorical argu ment. Before the advent of the Revolutnon the Holy Catholic Church had established, in grand array, no less than twenty-three Universities. Since the outburst of the Revolution, in 1789, all those twenty-three Universities, without exception, had been swept out of existence. Besides the Uni versities there was sckoo!s ::.:.umerable, and all those schools had, likewise, van ished. It is idle to deny what we have called, with reason, th i ov rwhelming force of those two historical, and absolu tely undeniable, assertions. It is said that Monsigneur Dupanloup's speech of the 4th instant amounted solely and simply to this a panegyric of the medisval Church, of Catholicism in the Ages of Faith, and coupled with that, in startling contrast, a series of crushing indictments against the Revolution. It was simply impossible that he could have spoken otherwise. Hav ing so spoken, he can say, with a whole heart and unreproachful conscience, Li~br ari aotnam meam. He has just done the like, as all Christendom knows, and grate fully remembers, in regard to the great question between the Holy See and its Spoilers. So long as his life lasts he will do so in vindication of all truth and justice, and in open and resolute denunciation of all oppressors. We give the following as a sample of the wonderful vagaries and fanaticism of Mr. Gladstone's views on moral subjects. Extract from "Life and Times of Sir Rob ert Peel, Vol. II., p. 133, written by W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D., Trinity College Dublin: "Jin. 28thl, 1840.-Various disputes re splecting the opium trade had led to serious collisions between the English merchants and th, Cihinese authorities in Canton. These officials long acncustomed tqtreat all foreigners as barbarians, had proceeded to such lengths, and had offered such wanton insults to the British Representatives. that war had become inevitable. Sir James Graham threw the blame of these dissen slionus on the Cabinet, and moved a vote of censure on the policy pursued towards China. The debate was principally re markable 'for Mr. Gladstone's imprudent approbation of the poisonolng of the wells by the Chinese as a means of expelling the English from the Empire. This atrocious sentiment was almost universally reproba ted, and was tacitly condemned by Sir Robert Peel, who insisted that war, if un dertaken, should be vigorously and effici ently pursued," etc. The advocateand condonor of the whole sale poisoning of his fellow countrymen certainly is not in a position to raise a cry about the burning of heretics, if even such an allegatian were true I 8rrvrrzox As Onaterrs Wirrre.-That well knewa getimemaa, Mr. X k. who has besn Mahr savers ysss isslsr ef ths ohor at St. ]Pete' Chues, wldbss te sat a Misatte aeg I m ish a i s - h Ja Measea Uaflm. I The Catholle world is proud of the great, th=eloqinet, the noble, the patriotic I Jobn, Alrbiebop of Team. For more than half a century that Illaustrious prelate I has been a guiding light in Irish_ politics, and there was no man to whom O'Connell I looked up to more than to bhim whom that great leader named "the Llon of the fold of Judah." Ireland Is about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of Archbishop MacHale, and there is no reason to doubt that the country of which he is so great an ornameniwill prove her I devoted attachment to him who has been I one of her most glorious champions. It was, we believe, about the year 1819 1 that Dr. MacHale commenced his pnblic I career by the publication of those letters 1 to Canning which brought out in powerful I language and in great strength of thought i the proofs of Ireland's right to fall relig ions freedom. Few know now how much these letters did to awaken attention to the fact that Ireland was suffering deeply from I the remains of the penal laws. When in t 1823 the Catholic Association was estab- t lished by O'Connell and Shiel, no man c gave to that memorable body more active a or more valuable aid than the illustrious c prelate of whom we write. It is true that I the speeches of the lay leaders did much towards winning the victory, and also that t the noble poems of Moore, Banim, Griffin I and Furlong contributed to the same re- I sult. It must, however, not be forgotten c that Dr. MacHale and the great Dr. Doyle, i well known (because he was Bishop of Kildare and Leighlio) as J. K. L., gave a great impulse to the movement. To Dr. MacHale chiefly fell the task of exposing I the educational disadvantages under which 4 Catholics labored. He proved that the 1 system known as that of "Kildare Place Schools" was most dangerous and insidious. J He brought a powerful pen and tongue to the cause, which resulted in breaking tb a great extent the chains which bound the Catholics of the empire. It was not, however, merely in connec tion with educational and ecclesiastical subjectsthat the wonderful talents of Dr. MacHale were brought into action. He 4 flung himself boldly, actively, and with q noble patriotism into every movement which had for its object the elevation of Ireland. He was the greatest of those who helped O'Connell in his struggles for the land which they both loved so well. His letters in condemnation of the National schools which were established by the Whigs in 1831 proved how well he saw through the plot which (as the Protestant prelate Dr. Whateley afterwards confessed) was intended to destroy Catholicity in Ire land. Dr. MacHale became Bishop of Kildare In 1825, and Archbishop of Team in Au gust, 1884, on O'Connell's birthday. The people of Ireland will do well to celebrate I the jubilee of the very distinguished man who has done so much for them. When f the Repeal Association was in action be did work which Ireland can never for t get. He organized those memorable meet Sings in the West of Ireland which gave such an impulse to that great cause. r When Lord John Russell brought in tis f wretched Titles Act in 1851, by which he a vainly thought to lessen thie power of -the e Catholic Church in these countries (which f act has been, by general consent, expunged from the Statute Book to which it was a disgrace), the Archbishop of Tuam made one of the best speeches at the meeting in Dublin, over which Cardinal Cullen, then primate, presided. In 1852 he was amongst the first to denounce the unholy conspiracy by which it was sought to strike down the n liberties of Ireland, and well did the I, noble prelate do his work. e Of the literary labors of the great arch e bishop we have not space to write much to e day. He gave to the world fine transla n tions of "Homer" and of Moore's noble lyrics, and, in fact, it may with truth he said that there is no department of liters tore which his grace has not adorned. e We conclude with the expression of the g hope that the fiftieth anniversary of the . day when such a great and good man he It came a prelate will be marked by such a h manifestation of feeling as will slhow that - those for whom he has toiled are no,t on f grateful to a man who has, with devoted d zeal and unswerving patriotism, devoted a his splendid talents to the defence o'f re e ligion and fatherland. Installation of Right Rev. Dr. Pellioer, Bishop of e San Antonio. e (Special to the Galveston News J SAN A ATONIO, Dec. 27, 1874 it To-day at 10:30 o'clock A. M., Right Rev. ts Dr. Pellieer was installed as Roman Catho II lio Bishop of the new See of San Attonio. B, At 10 o'clock A. X. the various congrega. - )f tions assembled at St. Mary's Church and were there formed in procession, headed by the boys of St. Mary's College, and fol ,f lowed by the different societies and con. f gregations ; next came the carriages with the clergy, and last an elegant carriage, *. drawn by four gray horses, in which were ,- the Reverend Bishop and two priests. His . carriage was flanked by a committee of gentlemen from the various churches, all e under the command of Hon. Jo3. E. Dwyer, Grand Marshal. . The procession moved up Hoeuston street, , across Alamo plaza, down Main street and Sacross Main plaza. When the procession Sarrived in front of the Cathedral it formed 11 in a double line, and down that line the o carriage and escort passed. At the church door the clergy alighted and at the en 4 trance of the church an address of welcome Swas read to the Bishop. Immediately after a solemn pontifical , high mass followed, celebrated by the Bishop. A sermon, short but eloquent, was preach - t ed in English by Father Moynuthan of New SOrleans. At the conclusion of mass the Bishop Sgave the apostolic benediction, and a ser mon in Spanish, by Father Astola, follow r ed. The munsic was fine, the large church . crowded, and everything ha sed off vwry quietly. DnRsSMARxmNO.-Mrs. Fricke, the popular mil liner of the PeFourth District, whose elesant rooms over Y Brselman & Adamsu' are so well known, having secured b the services of the experienced modiste, Mrs. Williams. is prepared to execaute all orders for dressmaklng, etc., in the l·test styles sad at moderate prices. SA lady, thoroughly competent, advertises in Suor waSt celma for prvate lessons in nagish, Preseh a sa d as. Tas meeritn,--eoumm lemi setsethy ;W l"U s va limne Ir ; ( em the zuisals Cssaeira.s. at e The Chicago 2Wbse is. offended with us a for an alleged miiares sentation of its a position in regard to the formition of the a Federal Government. It says: "We un , derstand the Oourier.Joernial to affirm that I thecorporation called 'States'bhaveonfefred t upon and delegated to the Federal Govern I ment its powers, and that it is their 'agent,' 9 which doctrine the Tribune denies." If t we misrepresented the Tribune, the fault is not ours. The language certainly warranted t the interpretation we put on it. but we will r requote it in the light of the Tribunes ex i planation. It said : "There is no escaping the fact that the i fundamental issue between the two parties is, that the Republican party holds the United States to be a nation possessing 1 every power necessary to a complete nation ality; that it holds these powers, not as a gift from the States, nor as an agent of sovereignties, but as a nation in no wise dependent upon the States. The Democratic party holds, on the contrary, that this is not a nation, but a Confederacy of sovereign States, which have delegated certain limited powers to a certain Federal agency; that the General Government is a creation by original sovereigaties whose in herent sovereignty is intact." Now, we maintain that the States exis ted as soverelgnties before the Union was formed; that they formed the Union; that they delegated to the Federal Government certain powers which are limited, and that the Federal Government is in somewise "dependent upon the States;" for if all States should refuse to elect Senators what would become of the Federal Government I No law could be passed; no appointment to office could be made; no treaty could be approved. How, then, could the Federal Government exercise that "complete na tianality" which the Tribune says itbhas Sand for which it is in nowise "dependent up 6 on the Statest" The position that the States I existed before the Union and formed it is matter of history, and we commend the Tribune to the books. We say, further, that when the Tribune makes the Federal Gov ernment independent of that part of the Constitution which recognizes its depend I ence upon the States. it practically gives it unlimited powers. It places it on a more f despotic footing than the arbitrary govern ments of Europe. As the Constitution stands, the States vote as State in the Senate upon all laws passed by the House, I and there must be a majority of them in D favor of any measure before it becomes a law; a majority of the States must also t approve an appointment to office before it is valid, and two-thirds of them must ap prove a treaty before it can be enforced. Make the Federal Government independ B ent of these provisions and "in nowise de pendent upon the States," and where will B the Constitution bet Would it not be B destroyed, and what would be the limit of authority T Would it not be a n government of unlimited powers? We B don't think, therefore, we very grossly misrepresented the Tribune when we said that it declared the Federal Government e to be unlimited, for when it cuts itself , loose from the States and the Constitution B there can be no boundaries to it. e The Death-Bed Test. 1 We present our readers, without com a ment, with the following extract from the Pall Mall Gazette : o "One of Prince Talleyrand's last acts t was to draw up instructions concerning the y publication of his memoirs, which, as we e recently had occasion to point out, will not e see the light for another quarter of a cen tury; but after he had performed this task, and upon the very day of his death, he re . vised a letter to the Pope, which, when he t- wrote a draught of it a few weeks before, e he himself headed 'A Retraction.' The e document, which is a very lengthy one, was accompained by a private letter, and the whole placed in ,,,.e entvelope, was . handed by the Pri-ce t., tee Archbishop of SParis, who was at is hbetdside, and by him forwarded to Rome, as a min,,rte still to be a seen in the library of the Arc'-.wt-piscoptl Pal St ace testifies. It was jutt after lie had sent Soff this letter that several b y .and girls d who had just been confirmed in the neigh ,d boring Church of the Assumption were B brought intje they room, and knelt in prayeor at the fot. of the twd, while the Prince, stretching out his arnte towards them, ex claimed "What subliome contrasts there are of in life! between tihe old man who is about to leave it and the young who are just en tering its thresholi I' These were almost his last words, for it was previous to this that hlie received the visit of King Louis Philippe, when, unable to raise him self in bed, he said, 'Sire, this is the great eat honor which has ever been, paid to my Shouse.' The 'Retractioo' will, no doubt, d appear in the memoirs, but the two most Simportant passages are as follows :-'After Sgiving the matter my gravest considera lb tion and passing in review the consequen ces of a revolution which has turned everything upside down, and which has is been going on for fifty years, I cannot, now Sthat I have arrived at p great age, but cen sure the excesses of the epoch to which I belong, and unreservedly condemn the grave errors which during all these long years have troubled the Catholic and Apostolic Church: errors which, I regret n to say, I have had my share in pro pagating. Having :e-ctiived from Pope Pius VII. a dispensation from ecclesiastical functions, I haie endeavored in the course of my long political career to render all the services within my power-to the Church and to many honored members of the Catholic clergy. I have never ceased to look upon e myself as a son of the Church. I again ex press my repentance for any acts of mine that may have caused her to grieve, and my last thoughts are for her and her Supreme Head.'" FP Frry Pea Czxrr BaLow OLD PRICES.-No more astonishing and pleasing inteillgence could be * giien to the public than that an enterprialng clothier had reduced prices exactly one-half. Astonished and h piered therefore will all be to learn that Mr. M. Cogan. whi popular clothier, No. 59 Canal and 9 Crosaman atea o, hba so reduced his prices-that is. that he will nuw grev for $5 what, a short time ago, he was asking I- .0 -fr. Try him. At Mrs. Fry's wood yard, 123 Calliope street, d between Camp and Mageaine streets, oak, ash and other wood can be bouialh, In great or small quantities, at the very lowest prices. Mr. L. E. Meehan, the efB. cleot and popular manager of the business. guarantees prompt attention to all ordere and fua emeaure. a Good things to commence the New Year 7 with-SBhes horm Wagmaer'satore, earase ef Uuasllas -'sd tesams Borrowliag and raslig. BlSeooldsy Magasldne. as Bometlmespersous borrow and lend verf t clarious property. A gentleman and his es wife, in the golden daya when people a- "struck oil," were rejoicing in the comfor it table allowance of several hundred dollars d a day. They boarded at a fine hotel, and x- spent their money liberally. You would ,' suppose snob folks *ould be above borrow If ing. But they were not. They sent over, is almost every day, to the house of a humble d friend, to borrow a possession they could II not buy for love nor money-. No, not if c- they had heaped up its weight in solitaire diamonds! They sent to borrow the ie baby It suited the dear, little, dimiled is darling to crawl about over the bright ear le pet and pat the roses, but it loved better g to cuddle up in mother's bosom, when a- "sleepy time" came, if the house was ever a so plain and humble. Two thousand dol it lars a week was no better than $12 a week, .- as far as it knew. No doubt it was a great e deal better for him that he was not born r, heir to an oil well. Baby-lending is quite y common in the circle of street beggars in dour large cities, and terrible is the abuse il the poor little ones sometimes receive in a order that they may the more readily ex i- tort sympathy and pennies. A secret order exists in London and Paris for deforming i- children for this very purpose. Poor, help s less little creatures are distorted in a hun it dred ways, until they become too shocking it to look upon. The backs are bent, the it arms twisted, and the features distorted a in most fearful ways. There Is a saloon in II Paris where these grown-up "monsters" dt meet to dine by themselves, and it is said I to be at his peril that any one, from curl o osity, intrudes upon them. Most of them d had been deformed in infancy, and loaned ii out or hired out from an institution which kept them for sale. It is no more wonder SI fol that such things should go on in spite I of the public than that there 'should be Is frequent secret sales to the highest bidder is of poor Italian children, in our cities. In e Scotland they often lend their shepherd it dogs, and though they perform their duty well they never make a mistake, and adopt e the new master "for good and all." A I- gentleman stopping for a few days with a it shepherd's family, observed a fine dog e coming in every day at dinner time. He i- received his rations and then went away. n "I never see that dog except at dinner e time," remarked the guest, inquiringly. 3, "The reason is," said the farmer, "we have n lent him to our neighbor, Jamie Nicol, an' a we tell him to come home ilka day to his a dinner. When he gets his dinner, pair it beast, he goes awa back till his work." Fine working dogs they have in Scot I. land, with a great deal of national good .- sense, Three dogs were lying asleep be i- fore the fire, when some one whistled them II out. Two arose and the other lay still. e "It is odd," said the visitor, "that this dog e does not get up like the others." "It is no a his turn," remarked the farmer, "he was e not a' the morning'." id CONSCIENTIOU SCRUPLEa.-At the anonal It meeting of the Wrexham Town Council, If Alderman Beirne, Catholic, missed the n chair because he refused to go to church. Some of the members denied this, but one of them, Mr. Thomas Roberts, said: "I formed one of the deputation to Mr. Beirne to try to bribe him, as has been said. We I- told him we should like to see him mayor, ie and asked him if, in order to make his elec tion unanimous, lie would go to church He replied * No.' We then asked him if it would suit him to go to church on a week e day, and be said 'No.' We next asked him re if he would go to church with us one day ot on condition that we paid a return visit to - his place of worship t He said. ' No, not if k, you would make me king.' Mr; Beirne did a- not stop there. He taunted and sneered at ue sand observed, 'I am astonished at you; e, you will all come to my way of thinking he shortly; you wilt all be Catholics.' We te, replied, ' We are all Catholics now.' He 3d made answer, " But I mean you will all be as Roman Catlholics. The heads of the nation of are all turning, and you will do so too bm shortly.' He then referred to the Marquis he of Ripon and some other big heads, and ti- said that thie whole nation would be Catho nt lic before l,ong. I have nothing to say rio against Mr. Beirne as a man. I know lie is b- a very respecta')Ce man. I have paid him re a great de.l of money in business, and I or have always found him a straightforward, : honorable tradesman in every way, and lie x- might have been mayor had he been a re little more reasonable.-Oswestry (Eng.) ut Advertiser. st THE CHURCH, FROM WITHOUT AND FROM SWITHIN.-I have met with an ilustriation, g I think in one of Cardinal Wiseman's n works, which admirably expresses the dif t ference between the Catholic Church as she Sappears to those outside her pale, and to , those who have been admitted within it. at It is that of a painted window as seen from er without and from within the sacred build a- ing which it adorns. To the external ob server it presents nothing but a confused d mass,, without distinotnea of outline or as variety of color. From within, on the con Strary, all appears orderly and beautiful. SThe mass develops into a religious subject; I the dingy hue clears up into colors of the most surpassing brilliancy and the most g precious compositions which are reflected 3d in rainbow tints upon the marble pavement et beneath them. There was, even from - without, a certain shadowing forth-a dim p0 augury-of the glories within ; but to those al alone who have passed the threshold does the 50 work reveal its wonders, or even disclose lie its signiocancy. It is thus that the Church 3d of Christ must be entered, in order to be understood and appreciated.-Canon Oak De EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND.-According to ii return issued by the Registrar General, JO the number of emigrants, natives of Ire land. who left the country during the first ten mouths of the present year was 68,225, of whom 36,411 were males and 31,811, t were females, as against 85,287 in the cor ed responding period of last year, of whom in 48,798 were males and 36,498 were females. , There was thus a net decrease during the I present year of 17,062. The total number ng of emigrants from Ireland, from the 1st of May, 1851, to the 31st of October, 1874, was 2,320,870. ad FARMER WANTED.-Aa Irishman or a Ger" em, man, who thoroughly understands farming, can get a If. good situation by applying to Mr. J. Miokett's, at s D'Arcy's hat store, corner Canal and Charirsa streets. Applicant must be a practical Catholic. See want a Bay home made goods-Egan's Louisians Teast ?semme en tests teste ssmea s swimmers do bodily, e"at the waves of tribel a tn, s 1 dence, or despair and, after tary bath, you shall appear more pleasing than ever in the eyes Swimmers first extend themselves on water, then they push the water back their feet, fold their band --se and finally draw them back again to breasts. This completes one stroke, which they repeat the same actions as fore, and thos propel themselves gradually Upon the precision, force, and co'tinnsae. of these motions, depend the ease and pidity with which they swim. Thosewk know the art safely breast the tide, others struggle in vain and and a grave. Imitate swimmers whenever are in the midst of tribulations. Thie& yourself by an act of great confidence iae; the hands of God's Providence, witho whose permission no trials can come upei you. Push back with the greatest eon. tempt the sinful means which the devg may suggest to deliver you ; fold yeo hands in prayer that thus you may se your course aright separate them to i.. plore aid but, iflly resigned whetheri come or not, bring your hands back to yoj breast in childlike submission to the will . Heaven. Renew these pious affection while your troubles last; pray with in-` creased fervor and devotion, and you will glide securely through the swelling tide. GERaxA Scsoor scssRS.-The Berli Correspondent of the London Telegrcmpk tells us that the trade of a schoolmaste~-la Germany is not lucrative. The majority of highly-educated teachers, even in Berlin and the large towns, receive salaries of from sixty to ninety pounds a year; so - that unless they supplement their Govern. ment avocations with such as are specala tive or private they find it impossible to live. The Germania states that a school master, being threatened by an Inspector with dismissal from his honorable office, re plied that "In that ease he should become a bodman, and should certainly be delighted with the change ;" while a schoolmaster is a Pomeranian village, having ran away from his educational post, subsequentld turned up as a stone-carrier, a pursu which be found mors remunerative. Tih. youths who are educated by these tesehew euffer proportionately and sympathleallyi for since their teachers cannot give the: much time, through being obliged to per sue private speeaulations, the youths ate compelled to teach themselves, and to de' much of their learning at home. The evil, says the correspondent, is a serious one, and is likely to leave its mark on thel rising generation, which is both over worked and imperfectly taught. NoTATION AMONG SAVAGEs.-All the North American Indian languages confirm Grimm's conclusion that all names for num bers are derived from the fingers, Two methods are recognizable. One is strictly decimal, the ten fingers being the base of the system. This is the most ccmmon, bat among some tribes, the Eskimo of Hudson's Bay, for instance, both fingers and toes are required, twenty being called "a man." The Darien Indians count twenty as one man, and to represent five men they have to count one hundred. There seems to be an inability among some of these tribes to double up before the entire basal num ber has been counted. Thus in Greenland the natives cannot represent a man by ex hibiting the ten fingers twice, which would make twenty, but the fingers having been counted they have to transfer the enumer ation to the toes before "a man" is repre sented. The Dakota and Crow Indians count ten on the fingers, this being the base of their system, and each time the count is finished they keep tally by bending one finger down. Fifty-three tribes have the decimal system. Very few have the system of twenty, and one-the Abipones of Paraguay-can count only to four, to which final figure they gave t'ie name "ostrich toes." A POPULAR LUXURY IN CHINA.-Two thintgs struck me in China, the universal smell of musk in the kingdom of fiowers and the enormous consumption of melon pipe, which are what nuts and oranges are to you English, and whatolives and prunes are to us Gauls. The scarlet and yelloer melons are in some places grown for the seed only, and are pilled up by the side of the road for the nue of any traveller who will scoop out the seed for the proprietor. On the rivers I have seen whole junks laden with these seeds. In the lonliest place xou can procure them, when all other food is scarce. The three hundred millions of Chinese all eat them. When friends meet to drink tea or rice wine, there is always an accompaniment of melon seeds. They are pilled up on every dinner table. They are eaten while travelling in the palanquine, they are picked at while discussing bargains. If a workman has a few copecs, he does just what his child would do-bays melon seed. They are an amusement and a food-as a oigarette is to the Spaniard and thle betel-nat to the Hindoo.--The Xingdom of Flowers. Do NoT CnrrICISE.-Whatever you do, never set up for a critic. We don't mean a news paper one, but in private life, in the domestic circle, in society. It will not do any one any good, and will do yon harm-if you mind being called disagreeable. If you don't like one's nose, don't put your feelings into words. If any one's manner's dent please you, remember your own. People are not made to suit one taste, recollect that. Takethings as you find them, unless you can alter them. Even a din ner, after it is eaten, can't be made any bettesr Continual fault finding, continusl critiolem o the condouct of this one, the dress of the obther, and the opinions of anotlher, will make bore the unhappiest place under the son. IO (10 are never pleased with any one, no one w ever be pleased with you. And if it is kopwa you are hard to suilt, few will take psis to sait you. --.___1 ADVERTISING RATES OF THE " BTAL" :::::. : On.0. Two Three ix eE Pour............... ... I1 I 57 i 35 50 sa ,e................1 3.. e 4 as 4 110 T .................... 30 5 75 13 s *ifteen.......... . 40 75 100 180 Is1 Thirty .................70 Isn Ia 3eO 1 40 Traoatst Advertaoe.wt, Su p5r0. equaar e b l wisa. Cat lamerud as special rats. IYZe mimaneeldihumg , . TLf .... -._ 7,t-, ,, ° ...., ..;: -.. ". -'a -,1*',. `