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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.’’ 3