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6 tricts ; but the French Government has already offered to furnish these to the Committee from its arsenals. Two ar tillery officers are to accompany the guns, for the purpose of instructing the Papal artiltery in their use. In making provisions for the wounded, the Committee availed themselves of the advantages of the World's Exhibition just then going on in Paris. Here they found models of many late improvements and inventions adapted to hospital use, all of which were adopted and procured at an expense of 43,000 francs. The entrenchments which it. is necessary to throw around Rome as a protection against those revolutionary bands, are also very expensive. It is said that the recruiting of volunteers for the Papal Zouaves is going on very briskly and suc cessfully of late, since the Government has ceased to throw obstacles into the way of the recruiting officers. The nobili ty of France are taking a most praise worthy part in the movement. Young men of the best families either procure substitutes or go themselves to serve as privates in the ranks of the Papal army. No bounty is paid, because they who are willing to help this cause must do it for the sake of the cause itself and not for money. The applicant for enrollment must have completed his 18th year, and is required to produce : 1, his certificate of Baptism ; 2, the written consent of his parents; 3, certificate of Confirma tion from his parish Priest ; 4, a certifi cate from one of the members of the As sociation. The recruiting offices are at Paris, Strasburg, and Marseilles. Every applicant must come to either one of these places at his own expense ; and it is really edifying to see how many young men trudge thither on foot from the in land districts of France, often even suf fering hunger and thirst on the way. Having arrived at Paris or Strasburg, and being mustered into the service, they receive 15 francs, to pay the expenses of their journey to Marseilles. The Com mittee has arranged with the different railroad ©ompanies to carry these troops at the usual half-hire rates. The enthusiasm of the French people for the cause of the Pope is really quite an extraordinary one. Thus, on the 20th of December alone, a body of 120 young recruits left Paris, via Marseilles for Civ ita Vechia, where an agent of the com mittee is ready at hand to receive them on their arrival. At the same time, the collections for the Papal array are proving successful beyond expectation, and yet withal, the gathering of the Peter-pence, which is going on at the same time, does not seem to suffer in the least, but, on the contrary has increased considerably within the past year. The late efficient reorganisation of the society of “St. Peter,” has been also pro ductive of much good. The Committee now stand in direct and constant commu nication not only with the various sub divisions throughout the provinces, but also with Rome. The Papal Secretary of War sends regular reports to the Committee of all those who were recruit ed by its officers and are already in the Pope’s service. From these reports the Committee again makes out special re ports to be furnished to the friends and relatives of each individual soldier. The Committee lias two agent# or correspond ents in every Diocose of the Empire. These agents procure members for the society ; and every ten members are sup posed sufficient for the maintenance of one Zouave. Each member receives a card inscribed with his or her name, and generally, also the name of the Zouave whom they are to aid in supporting. All the Catholic papers have offered their services to the Committee. There is little or no expense altdied to the govern ment and administration of the society. All its outlays are the hire of one servant, and the purchase of the necessary writing paper. Printers’ bills there are none to settle. All documents of which a duplicate is required are given to the monasteries and convents, where they are copied gratis as often as it may be re quired. At the end of every year a full report of the state and operations of the society is forwarded to the Holy Father. Baron Stillfried remarked that he had also noticed the same feeling becoming quite prevalent in Germany. The late pastoral letter of the Bishop of Mayenne seems to have fired the hearts of the dwellers on the banks of the Rhine. Meetings are held everywhere by the Catholics in which they express their sympathy with the Holy Father, and demand of their home government that it shall come to the resoue, and protect their Chief Bishop. Meanwhile, others more active and fiery still, are hurrying on to the front. Thus Count X. S. Kerssenbroek and the two Counts Stolberg-Stolberg have al ready gone to Rome to enlist as privates in the Papal army at their own expense. Others still are gettirg ready to follow, and the movement, thus auspiciously in augurated, promises fair to become uni versal. It was but a few weeks ago that even in our own country the initiatory steps were taken simultaneously in several cities of the West to raise a regiment for the Holy Father. Thus the one unaltered and unalterable faith unites alt nationali ties in one common cause, and presents a spectacle to the world of the present day, such as, perhaps, has not been witnessed since the days of the ancient crusaders. Truly the old Church is not dead yet. The spiiit of sacrifice which animated her children hundreds of years ago, animates them still; and leads them on to-day. as it did in the olden timt, to ever fresh lau rels, won beneath the banner of that sel f saine cross which has ever been to its fol lowers a safe guarantee of final victory over oppression, wrong, and even death itself. CATHOLIC INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. Catholicism in Virginia. —The Irish Citizen , of New York, correcting an im pression that, it says exists among Catho lic immigrants that churches and priests of their religion are rare in Virginia, says, “ there are in Eastern Virginia, Diocese of Richmond, twenty-one places of Catho lic worship, most of them regular churches, but a few being stations visited by a priest once or twice in the month. Rich mond has the cathedral and two other churches. There are churches at Peters burg, Fredericksburg, Alexandria, War renton, Lynchburg, Harper’s Ferry, Win chester, Staunton, Martinsburg, Rath, Norfolk, Old Point, Portsmouth, to. There are also excellent •cheola and or phan asylums.” New Catholic Church.— The congre gation of St. Michael’s German Catholic Church, comprised in the densely settled portion of the city around North Avenue, in the North Division, commenced last year, and have partly completed, a church edifice, on the corner of Linden and Ilurl burt streets, which will be one of the most imposing structures in the city. It is of brick, with a. massive tower, which is to be surmounted with a tower whose top will be some two hundred feet high. The building fronts north on Linden street, with entrances also on Hurlburt stroet. It is hoped to complete it this year. The main walls already being up—though a very large sum will be required for the work. The building now occupied by this society is a long low frame structure on the corner of North Avenue and Church street. The church was organized in 1853, and has one of the most numerous congregations in the city, though the in dividuals are generally in limited circum stances, and this great work is a sensible burden upon them. It shows, however, how the German, and especially the Ger man Catholic clement, is increasing in numbers and influence in many portions of the city.— Chicago f ill. ) Evening Post, March <S. FOREIGN. Mgr. Mi lies, sent to Rome to represent the Chaldean Episcopate at the centenary fetes, has just arrived in Paris. He is staying at the Saint Sulpiee Clerical School, and is the first Bishop ot the Chal dean rite that has visited Fi ance. The Pope and Mr. Peabody —His Holiness ihe Pope has always a large number of applicants for audience about this season, but he seldom has to receive individuals with such claims to public gratitude as Mr. George Peabody, who, with lion. R. C. Wintbrop, was presented to His Holiness last week by Mr. Hooker, late Secretary of the United States Lega tion. The Pope was fully aware of the character of his visitor, whom, with Messrs, Wintbrop and Hooker, he re- UJWII ©I UES S©fffS. quested to be seated in his presence, an unusual mark of distinction. A delicate token of Pio Nono’s appreciation of Mr Peabody's universal benevolence was af forded by the Latin quotations from Holy Writ, showing the blessed quality of charity, which he wrote with his own hand under some photographic likenesses of himself, which he presented to the party as souvenirs of the visit. On retiring from the Pope’s audience, Mr. Hooker presented his friends to Cardinal Anto nelli. The conversation turned on the hospital of San Spirito, among other chari table institutions, and Mr. Peabody no sooner returned to his hotel than he for warded a check for 1,00 Os. to the Cardinal in aid of that hospital’s funds. Mr. Pea body left Rome for Naples on Thursday. Admiral Farragut is the next American celebrity we expect in the Holy City. [Rome Letter , Feb. 29. Catholicism in England.— The Os servatore Rvnano has a leading article entitled “ Catholicism in the Nineteenth Century,” which is principally devoted to demonstrating the progress of Roman Catholicism in England. Wo quote the concluding paragraph : In the year 1830, England had 434 Catholic priests, 410 churches, 10 con vents, and no monastery or religious house for men. In 1862, the priests were 1,242, the churches 872, the religious houses for women were 162, and for men 55. In 1867, the priests were 1.415, the churches 1,014, the monasteries 63, the convents 201, and colleges 11. In the sole city of London there arc 17 convents for men and 32 for women, one seminary, and three colleges. The number of Catholics in the principal cities of the United King dom is becoming every day more consid erable. At Liverpool there are 100,000 Catholics; Manchester contains more than 70,000, and in all London their number reaches 300,000. Conversions to Catholi cism continue in really consoling propor tions. In London there are every year about 1,(X)0 persons converted, halt of whom belong to the easy and educated classes, and the other half to the working classes. * * The proportion of the progress in the number of priests, churches, and convents, in the city of London, is as follows : In 1826 there were in London 48 Catholic priests, in 1851 there were 113, and in 1863, 194. In 1826, there were 24 churches, in 1851, 46, and in 1863, 102. At the first epoch there was only one convent, at the second 9, and cow 25, No religious house for men existed in 1826. Now there are 15, besides 34 hospitals and charitable insti tutions which did not exist at all at that time. This is how Catholicism is lan guishing and expiring in the very centre of Anglicanism—one cf the most formi dable enemies of the Apostolic Roman Catholic Church. Catholicity in China ind Japan.— China, a vast empire, received the faith by the incredible efforts and indescribable hardships of the Catholic missionary. Not three centuries ago Father Ricci landed at Canton. He was the first missionary, and the only person in that vast empire, which contained one-third of the human family, who professed belief in Jesus Christ. Now, China is divided among the eight principal missionary orders of the Church. It is governed by thirty-two bishops, eighteen coadjutor bishops, and thirty vicars-apostolic. These intrepid and holy bishops of the Church in China arc ably and devotedly seconded in their zeal by a numerous body of native and foreign priests, catechists, and Sisters of Charity, who, despising every hardship, braving every danger, employ every law ful means to save souls purchased by the precious blood of Christ. Colleges and schools arc established throughout the empire. They are attended by the na tives, and are conducted by the brothers and sisters of our various religious orders. Hospitals have been erected for the sick, and asylums for the abandoned children whom pious parsons, appointed for that purpose, pick up on the roadside, out of the marshes, or from running streams. The number of children thus saved in 18GG-T is given as 303,805, and the funds collected by the Society of the Holy Infancy for their support was 029" l 11. Conversions are progressing on a large scale—whole villages embracing the truth faith. The Catholics of that empire and its adjoining dependencies are counted by millions. Our holy reli gion though persecuted in some cantons, where lately many of our pious and zeal ous bishops and devoted priests received the crown of martyrdom, is flourishing in otliers. This happens especially in the interior, where the hardships to be endured are so great, and the peril of life so imminent, that our missionaries alone dare brave them, and consequently meet with no opposition from the missionaries of the sects. In Japan, where the priesthood was an nihilated and the faithful massacred, reli- gion again revives. The Church in Ja pan, deprived for so long a time of its clergy, is rising from its ashes. The faith preached by St. Francis Xavier was never forgotten ; it was taught by the father to the son, and such acts of religion as could be done without the ministration of the clergy, were performed by the people.— Hence, after the lapse of nearly two hun dred years of persecution and abandon ment, when the missionaries are again permitted to enter the kingdom, they are greeted by two hundred thousand faithful —the children of the martyrs. — From the Pastoral of the Bishop of Toronto. STATISTICS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH The Pope bears the title “ Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of Apostles, Pontifex of the Church Universal, Patri arch of the West, Primate of Italy, Metro politan of the Province of Rome, Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the temporal possessions of the Holy Roman Catholic Church.” The cardinals are 73 in number—name ly, 6 cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, and 16 cardinal deacons. There are three patriarchates of the Ori ental rite, in Antioch (for the Melcliites, Maronites, and Syrians,) in Babylon (for the Chaldeans,) and Cilicia (for the Armin ians) ; and seven patriarchates of the Latin rite, in Constantinople, Alexandria, Anti och, Jerusalem, Venice, the East Indies, and Lisbon. The patriarchate of Rome consist of 96 episcopal sees scattered over the whole world (12 metropolises and 94 cathedrals), which stand under the immediate jurisdic tion of the Holy See. There exists at present 11 patriarchal, 194 archiepiscopal, and 986 episcopal sees. To these must be added the archbishops and bishops in partibu* Jidelium ; so that there are at present, with or without resi dence, 908 episcopal sees. There are be sides these, 101 apostolic vicariates, 21 apostolic prefectures, and 5 apostolic dele gatures, all under the control of the Pro paganda. Fiua JX. has since his assumption of the Government, created 93 bishoprics, 4 arch bishoprics, I*2 prefectures, and 1 delega te re, and preeonized a considerable number of b'sliop* for vacant sees. The Oupclla Pontejtcia (the Papal Court) consists, as at present ordered, of the car dinals and patriarchs, the throne assistants (archbishops and bishops), the vice cham berlain of the Church, the princely throne assistants, the auditor and the treasurer of the Papal Chamber, the majordomo of his Holiness, the archbishops and bishops not being throne assistants, the College of the Apostolic Pronotaries, the archimandrite of Messina, the Commander of the Santo Spirito Hospital, the chief of the chancel lery, the priors of the monastic orders, the municipality of Rome, the master of the Holy Hospice, the auditors of the Rota, the comptrollers of the palace, the priests of the chamber, the masters of the ceremo nies, the acting and honorary chamberlains, the chaplains, Ac. The Pam iff lia PonUfeia, however, con sists of the cardinals prodatariis, the Sec retaries of the Breves, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Memorials, the Chief Chamberlain, the house prelates and other prelates, the chamberlains di spadda e cappa , the Noble, the Swiss, and the Palatine Guards. The Holy See is represented at foreign courts by seven Nuncios—Brussels, Lisbon, Madrid, Munich, Naples, Paris and Vienna ; 3 internnneios—Hague, Florence, Modena and Rio Janeiro ; 1 charge d’affaires—Lu cerne ; and has 35 consuls. The diplo matic corps at the Holy See, and the ac credited consuls, consists of 3 ambassadors. 14 ambassadors extraordinary, 2 ministers resident and 39 consuls, of whom 17 live in Rome. The State* of the Chnrch are divided into 20 (since the robbery, into live) lega tions, which are again subdivided into a certain number of delegations, and ar« peopled inclusive of the provinces usurped by Piedmont, by 3,134,688 inhabitants. The iuperficial area of the Papal territory is 752 square mile* (geographical). The present de fact • possessions of the Holy See are Rome and the Comarca, Viterbo, Oivita Vecchia, Velletri, and Frosinone (excepting Ponte Corvo, with two square miles of territory, and about 0,000 inhabi tants), with 214 square miles, and a popu lation of about #OO,OOO inhabitants, of which Rome contained, according to the census in 1864, 205,896. In Europe there are 603 dioceses, with a Catholic population of about 147 millions. In America nearly two-thirds of the population belong to the Catholic Church. The total population is in round numbers about 70 millions. Os these 42 millions are Catholics. Os the 148 dioceses of America, 50 are in the United States, with a Catholic popu lation of 4 millions. Os the remaining 97 dioceses, 12 are in British North America, with a population of about 2 millions ; 33 in Mexico, with 8 millions; 11 in the em pire of the Brazils, with 8 millions; and the remaining 56 in the States of South America and the West Indies. Asia has a population of 660 millions, of which scarcely more than 3 millions be long to the Catholic Church. Os these 3 millions, 1 million dwell on British terri tory, half a million in Turkey, as many in Anam, and about 330,000 in China. The Catholics in Africa amount in round numbers to five millions, and arc divided into 34 dioceses. Australia has a Catholic population of four millions, with 21 bishoprics. New Holland and Van Dieman’s Land have 350 000 Catholics in nine dioceses, and the remaining Australian islands 90,000 in eight dioceses. The metropolis of these 16 bi?h oprics is Sydney. The extent of the dioceses differ* con siderably. Twenty-six have a population of more than two millions : seven dioceses have between half a million and a million, 577 between 100,000 and 500.000 the re mainder less than 100,000 —indeed some less than 1,000 souls. The two oldest bishops are the Bishop ol Rio Janeiro and the Archbishop of Frei burg, both above 90. The youngest i* the Bishop of Vich, in Spain, whose age is _6. The total uumber of secular priest* is about 325,000 of whom 360,000 live in Europe. ... The ecclesiastical orders and religious congregations have 8,000 houses for men, with 120,000 members. The lemale orders have 150,000 members, Next to Europe, America has the greatest number of female convents. Those of North America con tain more than 10,000 inmates; . ouili America has a number equally a* great. Asia is represented by 4,000; Africa and Australia together 1,000. The Catholic Church counts 200 millions of Catholics, the Protestant confessions about 70 millions. The countries ot the Germanic Confederation (in 1855) had 24,004,000 Catholics and 20,992,800 Pro testants. The Greek schism has 30 millions ot ad herents. Os other Christians there are about 15 millions. In the whole worhl there are about seven millions ot Jews, ot whom 353,000 live ini Austria, 284,000 in Prussia, and 192,000 in otker States of Ger many. The world contains 70 millions of Mahometans, and from 700 to 800 millions of heathens. GEMS OE PROSE AND POETRY. ROSE BUDS. The half-blown roue is lovelier than the bud. Yes, lovelier than tho full expanded flower; Thus lovely is tho verge of womanhood. The ripened rose is wrinkled in an hour, Or spotted by tbe north wind’s cankering breath; The bud within the green folds of its sheath Hides all its blossoms; but tho half-blown ros* Bares its full beauties in its tenderest hue, And not a spot its virgin leaves disclose, As fresh and pure as earliest bead* of dew; Thus beautiful—half woman and half child— With woman’s passions beaming in thine eye. Mingled with childhood's sweet simplicity, Dear maid, my youthful heart thou hast beguiled. Happiness and sorrow are the measures of our mortal life. We willingly record the moments of gladness, and sorrow’s hours make their own impression. True love is a natural sacrament; and if ever a young man thanks heaven for having saved what is good aud noble in his soul, it is when he thinks of offering it to the woman he loves. Be not astonished when you see men of virtue in disgrace, and dignities worn by those who have no right to them. Open your eyes, and consider the innu merable stars, which never lose anything of their brightness; but the heavens turn, and now the moon, now the sun, is eclipsed. WAGES—Br Thitwtboa. Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of son;?, Paid with a voico that will pass to bo lost in an end less 80*— Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong— Nay, but she alined not at glory; no lover of glory she; Give her tho glory of going on, aud still to be. The wages of sin is death; if tho wages of virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure flu the Hie of the worm and the fly ? She desire* no Isles of tho bleat, no quiet %> *ts of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky; Give her the wages of going on, and not to die. A Beautiful Sentiment. —Dr. Chal mers beautifully says : “The little that I have seen in the world aud known of the history of mankind, teaches me to look upon their errors in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and repre sent to myself the struggles and tempta tions it passed through; the brief pulsa tions of joy; the tears of regret; the feeble ness of purpose; the scorn of the world that has little charity; the desolations of the soul’s sanctuary, and threatening voices within; health gone; happiness gone; I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellow man with Him from whose hands it came.’’ THE WINTER FIRE. YVc piled, with care, our mighty stack Os wood against tho chimney-back— The oaken log, green, huge, and thick. And on its top the stout back stick; The knotty fore-stick laid apart, And filled between wiih curious art, The ragged brush; then hovering near, We Watch(ml the first r 1 1 blaze ajq nr. Hoard the sharp crackle caught the gleam On whitewashed wall and sagging beam. Until tho old rude-furnished room Burst, flower-like, into rosy bloom. Sxow-Bound. Strength. —Although men arc accused of not knowing their own weakness, per haps as few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.