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(Catholic intelligence.
There is to be a Chapel built at Aiken,
g q Bishop Persico will be the
1 Subscriptions are being taken up for the
building ol a Church at home, Ga.
' ]jr Kev. Bishop Lynch has returned to
n.arleston after an extended and arduous
tour in'the interest of his Diocese.
Rev Father Ryan gave several lectures
in Charleston this week for the benefit of
the Orphans.
A n nvv Church was dedicated at Penn
Van, N. Y., Sunday, Dec. 13th, under
the invocation of St. Mary, by Bishop
I{van. the newly consecrated Bishop of
Buffalo. „ . „ f
Very Rev. Peter Magagnotti, or the
Passion Sts, a devoted and fervent Mis
sionary, died, near Rome, in November.
The magnificent Cathedral at Leaven
worth, Kansas, was consecrated on the
Bth of December, the Feast of the Im
maculate Conception, Archbishop Kenrick
conducting the consecration, being assist
ed by four Bishops and numerous
Clergy.
Canadian papers record the death of
tho Venerable Rev. Father Migneault,
who was a Priest 50 years.
Rev. Dr. Anderson, a distinguished
convert, has been lecturing at Brooklyn,
N. Y., on “Popular Objections Against
the Catholic Church.”
The Lord Archbishop of Westminster,
Most Rev. Dr. Manning, left London, on
J)ec. 10th, for Rome. It is probable he
will be elevated to the rank of Cardinal.
Rev. Dr Weathers, President of St.
Edmund’s College, England, has been
nominated Theologian for England, at
the Great Council to be held at Rome, in
December, 1869.
The Pontificial Zouaves are organized
into four battallions, each of six compa
nies. They muster 2,000, and comprise
Italians, French, Belgians, Canadians,
Americans and Irish. Col. DeCharette
commands the corps.
$43,500 has thus far been raised to
ward an Endowment Fund for the Ameri
can College at Rome.
Fairs are in progress in Philadelphia
for the benefit of several Churches.
Catholicity is making rapid progress in
and around Wilmington, Del. Bishop
Becker is indefatigable in his labors to
promote the welfare of his extensive
Diocese.
Anew Church, in the Roman style, of
blue limestone, with a massive tower and
steeple, built by the Sisters 'of Notre
Dame, on the mount, near their Convent,
at Reading, was consecrated by Most
Rev. Archbishop Furcell, on 10th of
December. It cost $50,000.
Bishop Elder has returned to his home
in Natchez.
The Catholic population of lowa is
150,000. They have ninety Churches,
ten Chapels, forty Stations, ten Convents
or Communities for women, and seventy
two Priests. Four new Churches were
built last year, and there are twelve others
in the course of erection.
Catholicity is deeply rooted in the
heart of the German nation. A general
Union of the Catholic Press of Germany,
supported by the Catholic population,
has been commenced, under the most
favorable auspices, and the various Be
nevolent Societies have extended their
ramifications, not only through Germany,
but also through the various German
colonies in the great cities of the rest of
Europe.— Monitor.
Among the distinguished converts to
Catholicity, in St. Louis, are : Drs.
Linton, Gregory, Shore, Youngblood,and
Pollack, in the medical profession, and
Judge Moody, Judge Cato, Asa S. Jones,
Esq., and George Marshal, Esq., in the
profession of the law.
Archbishop McCloskey conferred the
order of Sub-Deaeonship on Francis A.
Spencer and Henry Lake. They are
both converts, the former being the son
of an Episcopal Clergyman and the latter
the son of a wealthy merchant.
Rev. Hugh Murphy, Parish Priest,
Beragh, Ireland, is dead.
St. Mary’s new Catholic Church, in
Belfast, Ireland, was dedicated on the
22d ultimo, by the Most Rev. Dr. Dor
rian.
December Bth, the Sisters of Mercy,
were installed into their new Convent, in
Kanturk, Ireland.
The collections on Christmas Day, at
the Church in Augusta, Ga., at the sev
eral Masses, were donated by the Pastor
to the Orphans under charge of the
Sisters of Mercy.
« Reception of Dr. Rogers, of Mf.m
ms.—St. Louis, Dec. 10, 1868.— Dear
: On Sunday last, was received into
tb'’' 1 liurch, Dr. 1. E. Rogers, late pastor
°f the Church of the Blessed Virgin
(Ritualistic), at Memphis. Baptism, sub
' ond was administered by Rev. E.
R/nnessy, C. Mat St. Vincent’s Church.
1 e ceremony was unusually solemn and
impressive, and excited sentiments and
revived memories which brought tears
to the eyes of at least some of us who
were present. Os the company assem
bled in the parlor of the Lazsarist Con
vent to welcome the convert into the
Church, eight were converts—Dr. Gregory
and Mr. Bakewell prominent among the
number. Yours, Ac..
Oscar W. Coll et.
FOREIGN NEWS.
[Compiled from dates of Dec. 12.]
IRELAND.
The Pali Mall Gazette says that the
human Chief, John Savage, has been
to Compiegne to see (he Emperor.
Capt. P. K. O B rien was captured near
Kanturk, Monday, Dec. 7. lie was suf
fering severely from in juries received at
the hands of the police.
Thomas Cantwell has been elected
Mayor ol Clonmell for the ensuing year.
The notorious Murphy, it is reported,
is to be admitted into Anglican orders,
and that the Canonry in Westminster
Abbey is to be conferred upon him as a
reward for his services.
There have been violent storms on the
Irish coast. Several vessels have been
wrecked and many lives lost.
Cornelius Redmond, Esq., proprietor
of the Waterford News, has been nom
inated Mayor of Waterford.
Thirty-three of the one hundred and
fourteen passengers on the Hibernia have
been lost.
Mr. Justice O’Hagan has been raised
to the high and honorable position of
Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He is the
first Catholic Chancellor Ireland lias seen
since the Revolution. His promotion is a
great triumph for the cause of Ireland.
Strong efforts are being made to secure
pardon for the Fenian prisoners. It is
proposed to get up a national petition to
Queen Victoria asking amnesty for all.
Sir John Gray has declined the Dublin
Mayoralty, His resignation has been ac
cepted.
Before the Tories left office, for a long
tour into the realms of unofficial life, they
took care to provide for the hungriest of
their supporters. Vacancies were pro
vided and filled op with what we can
scarcely call anything else than indecent
haste. At the very time that Mr.
Disraeli’s letter of resignation was on its
way to the London papers, the Hon.
David Plunkett, an almost briefless bar
rister, of a few years’ standing, is pro
moted to the silk gown, and shoved into
the office of Law Adviser to the Castle,
his whole deservings being, so far as we
can see, that he contested Dublin city in
the Tory interest, and was unabie to
carry it, although hacked by two thousand
rotten Freemen. Mr. Warren slips into
the comfortable post of Judge of the
Probate Court, vice Keatinge, retired on
a comfortable pension of £2,500 per an
num. Mr. Bushe complacently resigns
the Mastership of the Queen’s Bench to
make way for another follower of the
right sort, and Mr. Charles Shaw has been
promoted to the Chairmanship of the
County of Monaghan. Other little tit
bits of patronage have been distributed
at the very last minute, on which it is
needless to dwell. Toryism certainly
seems to have become infected with the
spirit of mean selfishness as well as of
political cowardice.— Observer.
ENGLAND.
The first session of the eighth Parlia
ment during the reign of Queen Victoria,
was formally opened Monday, Dee. 10th,
by Royal commission.
The Daily News says : The following
is a correct list of such appointments as
have actually been made, and been ap
proved by the Queen :
First Lord of the Treasury—Mr. Glad
stone.
Lord Chancellor —Lord Justice Page
Wood.
Secretary for Foreign Affairs—Earl
of Clarendon.
Secretary for the Colonies—Earl
Granville.
Chancellor of the Exchequer—Mr.
Lowe.
Secretary for War—Mr. Cardwell.
First Lord of the Admiralty—Mr.
Childers.
President of the Board of Trade—Mr.
Bright.
Secretary for India—Duke of Argyle.
Chief Secretary for Ireland—Mr. Chi
chester Fortescue.
The Times gives a list exactly similar
to the above:
The Times says : For good or ill the
future Ministry practically consists of the
ten members of whom it was at first com
posed. Mr. Gladstone has failed to se
cure any new strength for his adminis
tration. Mr. Bright, alter mature con
sideration, declined to become Secretary
o! State for India, on the ground that
the duties were more onerous than he
could undertake to discharge, and some
slight re-arrangement lias necessarily 10l-
>mbbib sis seiroi"
lowed his preference of an easier post
Lord Russell has pleaded increasing age
as a reason for declining office, or even a
seat in the Cabinet without office. The
limes further says the acceptance by
Mr. Bright of the office of President of
the Board of Trade is understood to be
a reluctant sacrifice to patriotism.
Catholic Members of Parliament.—
of our English contemporaries state
that the Catholic members of Parliament
number twenty-eight. This is a mistake;
there are thirty-eight returned to the
new Parliament—namely, Jno. A. Blake,
Sir R. Blennerhassett, Dr. Brady, G.
Bryan, Lord Castleroese, P. Callan, W. F.
Cogan, M. Corbally, R. J. Devereux,
Edmund De la Peer, James Delahuutv,
M. Dease, M’Carthy Downing, M.
D’Arcy, J. Ennis, John Esmonde, Capt.
Fagan, Capt, Gavan, J. F. Maguire, P.
M Mahon, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Monsell, Mr.
Mathews, Mr. M Evoy, O’Donoghue,
O’Conor Don, D. O’Conor, SirC. O’Logh
len, J. O’Beirne, Sir P. O’Brien, M.
O'Reilly, J. Power, C. Moore, G. 11.
Moore, E. Syrian. D Sherlock, Sir J.
Simeon, and K. Digby
SPAIN.
A correspondent of the London Times
gives a m >4 unfavorable account of the
condition to which the revolution and the
proselytising societies have reduced Spain
since she began to become “Protestant
ized,” as the revolutionary press boasts :
“All the rules which public health and
decency enforce among civilized people
are here openly disregarded. Madrid is
becoming a ‘nastier’ place than it ever
was under the worst Bourbon Govern
ment. Obscene prints, disgusting photo
graphs, are sold in the streets with almost
absolute impunity. Gambling to a fear
ful extent is carried on in public and pri
vate houses without even an attempt at
interference. Besides the public lottery,
we have endless private speculations of
the same objectionable description. In
the most conspicuous column of the same
Gorrespondencia, ol last evening, I learn
that, ‘of all lotteries which ever were in
the world, no one ever afforded such ad
vantages as La Peninsular, which, for a
stake of S4O, allows a prize of 11,500,000
reals (<£115,000), and, for $2, a house
worth more than SBO,OOO. It is not I,
recollect, who ferret out these symptoms
of the moral disorganization, the necessary
consequence of a disappointed, and, as it
were, strangled revolution—l am not a
very sharp-eyed observer, and do not
willingly dwell on the dark and cheerless
side of things—it is the press of all parties,
the Republican, no less than the reac
tionary, that attached to the Provisional
Government no less than that hostile to
it, which points to the spread of social
disorder, and urges on the authorities the
necessity of seeking a remedy for the
evil.”
ROME.
An English officer—one who has seen
much active service in India and the Cri
mea—lately arrived from Rome, assures
us that the Eternal City is now so well
fortified, all the approaches are so perfect
ly commanded, and the artillery h} r which
it is defended is in such good order, that
it would stand a siege of from six to
ten days, even if attacked by the best
troops of the Italian Kingdom. This
would, in the event of another expedition,
like that of last year, give ample time lor
help to arrive from France, supposing
that the French army, now at Civita
Yecchia, should he withdrawn. The
same gentleman describes the whole of
the Pontifical army in excellent spirits,
well armed, well disciplined, and most
anxious to meet once more the Garibaldi
ni. The corps of Zouaves, in particular,
he says, are in material and esprit de
corps superior to anything seen in Eu
rope since the days of the Crusades.
The General Council of the Church.
—The sittings of the Congregations for
the Oecumenical Council resumed their
works on the 13th November. To pre
vent false reports concerning their pro
ceedings, they are necessarily kept secret,
the Civitta Catlolica has been author
ized to give account of such portions of
the work before the Council, as it is ad
visable to present to the Christian world
before the meeting. A bulletin of the
works of the Congregations wall, there
fore, appear in its bi-monthly issue,
and will have a semi-official charac
ter. The facts of the delivery of the
letters of invitation to the Greek and Ar
menian Patriarchs, as received in Rome,
are so exactly reported by the Levantine
correspondent of the Monde , that, as you
have reproduced them, there is no use in
my sending you the version received in
Rome, which exactly corresponds with
it. That the Armenian Patriarch would
have accepted the Papal invitation but for
the tear of displeasing Russia, is almost
certain ; the Russian agents at Till is,
Etclierniadzen, and Erzeroum, having
been instructed to do all in their power to
prevent the attendance of the Bishops
who might be otherwise inclined to es
cape from the slavery into which all the
Oriental Churches have fallen, by nni,n
with Rome It is probably the last warn
ing the Eastern Churches will receive, and
I heir degradation and servitude will
be tenfold greater if they remain deaf to
it.— Roman Letter.
RUSSIA.
Letters from Russia announce the dis
covery by the police of a revolutionary
society, composed of students of the Uni
versities of Moscow and Kieff. A great
number ot students have been arrested,
and several pamphlets by Herzen were
found in their possession. It is stated
that the Russian socialists abroad have
been very active of late, and that large
quantities of their pamphlets have been
confiscated on the Russian frontier. In
one of these the writer speaks of a war
in the East which would draw the Euro
pean Powers into a general conflagration
as imminent; and adds, that it would fur
nish an opportunity tor a radical reform
of the political and social organization of
Russia. T lie suspicions of the authorities
have also been excited by certain demon
strations which have, of late, taken place
among the students at Vilna. The other
day the Polish and Russian students dined
together, and, after dinner, a toast to the
speedy liberation of the two great Scla
vonic nations of Russia and Poland was
drunk with much enthusiasm.
ERANCE.
Death ofM. Berryer. —ltjis stated by
telegraph that M Berryer died on Sunday
morning. He was born in Paris, on
January 4th, 1790. “Men of the Time,”
says: —“ln 1814 he proclaimed, in
presence of the magistrates and law stu
dents of Rennes, the fall of Bonaparte,
and mounted the white cockade. A tu
mult thereupon arose, when the prefect
ordered the arrest of the author, but for
tunately lie escaped to Nantes. He
made one of the Royal volunteers who
took arms during the Hundred Days, to
assure the ancient dynasty and to pre
vent the disgrace and misfortunes of a
second invasion. .
At the Restoration, he exerted himself
most energetically to moderate the rule of
the Bourbons, and was one of the de
fenders of Marshal Ney. ile always
pointed out the dangeis of reaction.. Even
in defending Royalists against judicia
pursuits, he professed the maxims of a
wise liberty, and protested also against
every attempt at corruption and ven
geance. His pleadings for Lamennais
(1833), Audry de Puyraveau, and Yoyer
d’Argenson (1834), and Prince Louis
Napoleon (1840), breathe the samefrank
| ness and liberalism, lie entered the
Chamber of Deputies as deputy for the
Department of the Haute Loire, in 1830,
and was the brilliant orgafc, but not the
passive instrument of his party. After
the fall of the Bourbons, he did not follow
\ them into exile, but remained in Fiance
j to watch over the interests of the dynasty.
To prove the fidelity of his party, lie
visited Gharles X., at Goritz in 1836,
and made Ins homages to the Count de
Chambord, in London. In the Republi
can assemblies which followed the Revo
lution of February, 1848, Berrycr eon,
fined himself chiefly to the questions of
finance and administration. Faithful to
the Parliamentary regime , he took an
active part in the re-union of the 10th
arondissement, where the National As
"sembly proclaimed the fall of the Presi
dent. tSiuee the coup d'etat he has taken
no part, in politics, except by his partici
pation in the attempts for a fusion of the
two blanches of the Bourbons. In
February, 1855, he was elected a mem
ber of the French Academy. The
speech, which on this occasion he deliven
ed, contained some allusions to the de
gradation of the Lower Empire, and was
on that account obnoxious to the Govern
ment of Napoleon 111., who ordered its
suppression. In less than twenty-four
hours, however, the interdict was re
moved. In the midst of political agita
tiou, M. Berrycr still found time to make
himself the first advocate at the French
Bar. The most recent displays of M.
Berrycr’s forensic talents were in 1858,
when he defended the Count de Mon
talembert; and in 1860—’61, when he
was engaged in the Patterson vs. Bona
parte case.
GREECE.
The Alheneum, in reviewing Mr. Ar
nold’s new book, “From the Levant, the
Black Sea, and the Danube, says: “Os
course, everybody has not been at an
Athenian election ; still less has every
body published an account of the process
just as it is being repeated in England.
On this subject Mr. Arnold is worth
hearing. The Athenian polling places,
he says, are often the churches. Greek
priests are prohibited from taking part in
elections, and in order to make this plain
to the whole nation, the churches are
desecrated for the time being. If this
plan were to be adifpted in England,
the Duke of Marlborough would have to
throw Blenheim open, and would be
turned out of it himself until the polling
was over. Ballot-boxes were ranged in
tho centre of the church which Mr. Ar
nold visited, and electors were smoking
in front of them. There was a box for
each candidate, and the elector, putting
iis arm in so far that the movement of it
could not be observed by any looker-on,
1 r( JPP C( I his ball to the right or the leffo,
aS wished to vote for or against the
cant idate. It was said that an official in
tle sland of Euboea stopped up the en
rance to the ‘No’half °f a candidate’s
ja.lot-box. fo r . Arnold does not know
iow often similar practices may be tried;
!^P or so favorably of the outward
and visible signs of order and indepen
dence. His own walking-stick was
taken away by the soldiers on duty before
he was allowed to approach the ballot
boxes. In a country ruled as Greece
has been, and among a people given to
private corruption, this public regard for
order is a great gain.”
Rossini. —A correspondent gives us
Rossini’s account of his withdrawal from
public life:
“ Some fourteen or fifteen years n<ro, I
went to see Rossini at his house in Flor
ence, where he was then residing*. In
the course of conversation he inquired
what there was new in Paris, whence I
had lately come, and I mentioned a piece
by Scribe (the “ Bataille des Dames," I
think it was) as the latest novelty. ‘Now 1 ’
said Rossini, ‘there is a thing I cannot
understand. Why on earth should Scribe
go on at his age writing for the stage ?
What has he to gain ? Money he does
not want, any increase of fame lie can
hardly expect, and if he got it, what
difference could it make to him ? llis
position in life is fixed. But, with some
people it seems to be a rage. They can
not leave oil writing. For my own part,
I have always steadily resisted the en
treaties with which, for more than twen-
ty years, I have been assailed to tempt
the stage once more. I know very well
that I can do nothing better, if as good, as
I have done already. When I had writ
ten the ‘ Barbie re,’ the ‘ Gazza,’ ‘ Semi
ramide,’ and ‘Guillaume Tell,’ to say no
thing of a crowd of other operas, I felt
that my best powers had been exerted i
After reaching his prime a man does not
expect to grow taller or stronger. He
may grow fatter— ‘ mais, pour ma part
je ne me soucie pas qua ma musique
prenne du centre .’ ‘ But you began com
posing in early life, you know,’ said his
wife; ‘what age were you when you wrote
the ‘Barbiere,’ ‘twenty-three, was it not?’
‘Yes. Ido not pretend to fix the age at
which a writer should cease to publish.
All I say is that when you have reached
your greatest height you must necessa
rily decline; so, 1 think, it is best to
leave off'at the top. I write still. I shall
do so de temps en temps, I dare say, as
long as 1 live; but there is no reason
why I should expose myself to the ca
price of a public whose praise I do not
care for, and whose blame might annoy
me.’ Talking of his age on this evening,
he told me that he was born only eight
weeks after the death of Mozart (1792.)
‘Now you speak of Mozart, maestro/ said
I, T must read you what my brother, an
accomplished musician, says in a letter
I received yesterday, lie is in an out of
the way place in India, where he hears
no music, and has no instrument, and he
consoles himself by studying the scores of
‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Guillaume Tell, a
and can hardly make up his mind which
to place highest.’ Rossini shook his
head. i ll a tort. 11 ne faut pas dire
cele.’ And, on my making a deprecatory
gesture, he continued, laying his hand on
mine, ‘AT an je cous le ((is tree serieuse
ment ct ed conscience. Je nai jamlas
de ala hauteur de Mozart. When
young composers come to me for counsel
1 always give them this: Take every cp
portunity of studying Mozart. He has
excelled in every kind of music; in his
works you will find every sort of effect,
and always produced by the most legiti
mate means.’ 1 never heard him speak
so emphatically. In general there was
so much of personage concealed under
his pretended bonhomie that the simple
and unsuspecting might easily be taken
in; but, on this subject he was unmis-
takably in earnest.”
The will oi’ the great maestro, among
other bequests, has two special interest.
One is to the effect that the testator, in re
cognition of the hospitality which he
found on the soil of France, desires to
take his eternal repose there; consequent*
]y, he prescribes that his body shall be
interred at Fere La Chaise, there to re
main. The second disposition bequeaths
to the Institute of France n capital neces
sary to yield two prizes of 3,0001 V. each;
one to be annually awarded to the author
oi the test libretto of an opera, and the
other to the composer who shall have
produced the best musical score for such
a work. However, he stipulates ex
pressly that the reward to be given to the
musician shall only be granted to a
“melodist.’’
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