For the Banner of the Sonth.
LINES
ON THE DEATH OF MONTGOMERY.
another pleiad’s mystic flight
Has oast its shade o’er Britain’s stranu,
A brilliant constellation’s li-'ht,
la dawning on a better land.
The Northern Lyre, one by one,
Has had its goid strings rudely swept;
tn h wee tost tones its chords vibrate,
As if a trembling seraph wept.
At holy eve when thousand stars
Have cast their glory o’er the sea.
Thy numbers have my bosom stirred
To yearnings that it might be free.
.tad o’er my sorJ thy influence threw
A pure, sweet dream of heavenly t 'bliss;
1 look “beyond the flight of Time,*”
Took all the pain and tears from this.
In softest cadence, low and sweet,
A requiem floats tar o’er the gale;
j;, old Westminster's arches wide
Do kindred spirits join the wail.
Another white shaft wails thy name,
And laurels twine to wreath thy bier,
While Kings and Princes guard the spot,
To Poets consecrated there.
Though now thy star is set in mists
Which baffle visions boasted power;
Thy name will flourish as the oak*
That thou didst plant in life’s last hour.
Though Azrael’s mandate stayed its flight.
Til fourscore lustres shed their rays,
Thy renovated form will live
To chant in Heaven eternal praise.
In a notice of the Poet's death, it is stated that he
planted an oak in his eightieth birthday, in the front of
the Infirmary in the town in which he lived.
S. C. Q.
FRANCE.
The Ministerial crisis in Paris is,
according’ to my information, much
misunderstood. Its most serious sig
nificance is domestic rather than politi
cal. In spite of official contradiction, it
is perfectly true that the Emperor is in
a very weak state of health. He has to
he helped into and out of his carriage.
Very little fatigue exhausts him, and at
Oompiegne he lived for the most part of
the time, except when the Prince and
Princess of Wales were there, in com
parative seclusion, appearing only uow
and then to reassure his guests as to his
existence. The effect of his malady is
mental iangour, amounting at times
almost to coma. The interests of the
empire now belong more to the future
than the present, and the struggle is
among those around the sovereign for the
hold on affairs, which he has almost
dropped already. Rouher is the most
aspiring of the civilians, and on the
other side are the marshals and the
military faction. Between them the
Empress is hesitating. Engrossed in her
boy, she tsjmxious to obtain the support
of the strongest party. Her natural
predilections would lead her to look for
help to the clergy, but of late a revulsion
has taken place in her views. She sees
the rising strength of French democracy,
its estrangement from the priesthoed, and
Prince Napalcon’s disposition to coquette
with it, and to conciliate the ‘‘Reds”
would moderate her support of the Pope.
Rouher and Lavalette are related by
marriage. A son of the one married a
daughter of the other, and are now in
alliance. When Drouyn de Lhnys
resigned in 1866, Mousticr was chosen
as his successor, in the expectation that he
would act uuder Rouher’s directions;
and on several important occasions
Lavalette, who himself aspired to the
office, wrote several of the most important
despatches. Moustier, however, has
shown himself too independent to please
the Minister of State: and Lavalette,
reconciled to Rouher, whose jealousy
had led to a passing coldness between
them, is gratified with the coveted
portfolio, Finard.s downfall is also
attributed to the same influences. Taken
altogether, the present change of Ministry
means that the Empress and M. Rouher
are as one .and in the ascendant, and so
fai it is a sign ot peace, for she might
have thrown herself into the hands of the
marshals. Still all this adds to the
uneasiness and uncertainty of the situa
tion. It remains to be seen what the
military and the clergy will now do.
1 he Admiral Verhuel, for speaking of
'vhom the D table a Quatre lias been
seized, figured prominently in the
scandalous gossip regarding the Ein
peiors mother, Queen Ilortense; and,
hi deed, at the time of the republic several
* c Democrats went so fur as to refuse
l ah 1 rince Louis Napoleon anything
e> aept Louis Verhuel —Corespondent
or Scotsman.
ENGLAND
A Colossal Fortune.— The will of
mo late Baron James Rothschild, affords
“ hodi proof of the colossal wealth amass
od by this famous family. The Baron
le tto his wife Betty 200,000,0001*, the
Chateau Ferriere, whose art galleries are
estimated at above 20,000,0006, and his
muse in the Rue Laffitte, at Paris. To
is second sod, Gustavus, he gave 200-
J-O.Oijot; to his third son, Edmund,
n,*'00,0001; and to his grandson, the
son of the late Solomon Rothschild, 50,-
OOU,OOOf. Ihe rest of his fortune,
amounting to about 5OO,O00,000f„ falls
to the share of his eldest son, Alphonse.
Legacies of great magnitude were left to
the employes and members of the firm*
A man named Sheward, formerly in
business as a publican in Norwich, gave
himself up to the London police on
Saturday on the charge of having mur
dered his wife in 1851. Inquiries made
since have tended to confirm his story,
which was at first received with
incredulity.
The Daily Nines states, as a matter of
certainty, that Mr. Cardwell’s scheme of
army reform will propose to take the
militia patronage out of the hands of the
Lord Lieutenants. The force will
probably be placed under the direct
control of the Horse Guards, and made
the nucleus of a permanent and efficient
reserve, which will enable reductions to
be made with safety in the number and
cost of the standing army.
The Late Marquis of Hastings’s
Library, —This sale was brought to a
close on Friday evening at Nottingham.
Lot 1,207, ‘‘The Seven Sons,”* a Persian
Dictionary by the Rajah of Oude,
printed at the Royal Press at the City of
Lucknow, 1820,7 vols. covered in blue
velvet, made £22 Is. Lot 1,307,;
Nichol’s History and Antiquities of the
County of Leicester,” vol ii., part 2
wanting, large paper, 7 vols. calf. £135.
The amount realised from the side of
the library was £5,28G 4s, The wines
were sold on Saturday, and made about
£832; only medium prices were obtained,
the highest being £4 Bs. per doz. for
port of 1848 vintage Total proceeds of
the sale about £6,118,
Ritualism at Brighton — On Christ
mas Eve a midnight celebration was
held at St. James’s, Brighton. The
church was partly filled by a respectable
auditory; the building itself profusely
decorated with laurels, holly, and flowers;
many large crosses being formed by the
same. The altar was decorated with
flowers, and on a side table was the usual
light burning, but on this occasion sur
mounted by a carved figure of the Infant
Saviour. Ihe usual display of embroi
dered dresses, Ac., was exhibited by
the officiating priests and choristers.
The proceedings commenced with the
imposing procession, during which and
throughout the entire service incense was
freely scattered about’ In hiet, not
withstanding the recent decision of the
Privy Council, lights, incense, bowing,
Ac., were upon the usual excessive scale.
Many slightly suppressed sounds of
discontent were heard throughout the
service, both within and without the
building; but at the commencement of
the offertory sentences, a gentleman
cried out, “It is perfect bosh; I say perfect
rubbish.” Immediately some of the
vergers, with their oaken staves, rushed
to the pew in which he was sitting; the
priests looked aghast, and the choristers
and the congregation seemed terror
stricken. The gentleman proceeded to
say, when efforts were made to expel
him, “I expected this; I am not afraid to
repeat my words, it is all perfect rubbish;
leave me alone, I will go away without
help.” The vergers again attempted to
take hold of him, when lie again said,
“It is perfect rubbish; I came here to
worship God according to the tenets of
the church of Englaud, not of the church
of Rome! This is all mockery and
rubbish, Mr. Purehas.” The last words
he uttered while crossing the church and
nearing the altar. On reaching tiie
first (inner) doors of the building, two
or three over earnest vergers rather
roughly pushed him into the outer lobby
and thence into the street. The service
was then resumed, though the voice oi
the officiator was very tremulous, and
side-long glauces were taken by those in
the choir at every murmuring sound
from without. Many persons immedia
tely left the building; some ten or a
dozen only remaining to partake of the
Holy Communion, iu the celebration of
which excessive bowing, lightings, and
incemsings were most freely indulged in.
The congregation separated about one
o’clock; but as a detachment of police
were stationed without, the crowd offered
no personal violence to them as they
dispersed. —Brighton Herald.
Conversion of the Marquis of
Bute. — The Daily News says:—This is
in some respects the most valuable
prize which the Church of Rome has
made among us for very many years,
j The good ship Marquis of Bute was
I among vessels like a Dutch galleon
| heavily freighted with pieces of eight,
and to see it boarded, taken in tow'
and fially carried into port, by the
cruiser the Cross Keys, is almost too
muon foi Lnghsh patience. There is
no help for iq however. The Marquis
las only exercised aright of which we
are all very proud, the right ofindividuai
judgment; and although in this instance
he seems to exercise and renounce this
right by one and the same act, still,
nobody can really forfeit the right to
profit by the lessons of experience. The
late Cardinal Wiseman, in his intercourse
with foreigners, was wont to extol the
generosity and devotedness of his noble
and gentle English converts. Five years
ago lie could tell the Congress at
Malines that the number of churches
built or being built among us by con
verts was at least forty-two. At a time
when the heads of the Roman Catholic
leiigion in this country announce plans
of startling magnitude; when, for instance
they propose to astonish us with the
magnificence of a cathedral which is to
embrace, ad that is grandest and most
stately in architecture; when, too, the
multiplication ol schools is proceeding
at a rate which Catholics inclined
lather to conceal than to boast of, any
considerable addition to the material
resources of their Church is worthy of
attention, this, however, is the most
important aspect ol the conversion of the
Marquis of Bute. The social influence
which a great nobleman can bring to
bear in favour of an unpopular religion is
not great, and it is smaller in Scotland
and Wales, where the estates of the
Marquis lie, than any other part of the
United Kingdom. We shall hear many
wails over this latest conversion, and
it is of course a pity when a man belives
too much in religion. But after all,
this is merely the case of a young man
transferring his alleg’iance from one
ecclesiastical community to another.
bile there are Christians who wil niake
more luss. about this occurrence than if
tne. Marquis had joined the church of
whicu John Day is a bishop and and Mr.
1 ad wick a father confessor, men who
can exercise far more influence over
their follows than the Marquis of Bute
will ever do, are dropping silently out of
faith altogether, and nothing is said about
IRELAND.
Mr. Sullivan, the new Attorney-Gen
eral,was re-elected for Mallow,on the Bth
inst. without opposition.
. r <*eent gale was the most destruc
tive that occurred during the past twelve
months. On the 28th and 29th ult.alone
no few ci than sixty dead bodies were
washed ashore on the coast near Cor
unna, October 9th.
i On Thurday, 7th instant, Miss Maria
Theresa Lennon, daughter of the late
John Lennon, Esq.—in religion, Sister
Mary Evangelist— made her solemn
profession in the Convent of the Sisters
of Mercy, Crumlin-road. The Right
Lev, Dr. Dorrian officiated on this occa
sion.
Mr. Henry Barry, of Ballyamlam,
formerly one of the county coroners, and
for many years Belgian consul at Cork,
has just died.
The collection at the Queenstown
chapel, on the 20th ult. for the families
of the Manchester Martyrs, amounted to
£l2.
A riot occurred in Drogheda, on
Christmas Day, between some soldiers
and civilians. The soldiers used their
belts in self-defence it is stated and the
mob threw stones and brick-bats at them.
Several windows and lamps were broken
but eventually the soldiers got to the
barrack.
The Directors of the Provincial Bank
of Ireland have declared a dividend for
the half-year ending Christmas at the
rate ot 4 percent, on the paid-up stock,
and also an extraordinary dividend of
30s. on each £IOO share, and 12s. on
each £lO share.
With deep sorrow we announce the
death of Dr. OTerrall, which took place
on December 23, seven o’clock P. M. ; at
his residence, Merrion-square,North. For
the last forty years he had held the
highest place among the profession in
Dublin.— Freeman.
Notices to quit are becoming the
with certain landlords and agents Tn
Kerry, totally upsetting the little share of
security of tenure left under the system
of tenancy-at-will.
The Down Recorder says :- -The far
mer is complaining much of the loss
which he is sustaining by reason of the
progress which disease is making in the
potato crop. Whether in the house or in
the pit, the progress of decomposition
has been rapid. In many cases fully
the half is gone.
On the night of December 19 the in
habitants of Killaloe held rejoicings in
honor of Mrs. Williams, of London, on
the occasion of her visit to that town to
inspect the marble works, and also
the new woollen factory which that enter
prising lady has lately got up in connec
tion with the marble works. A lar«v
bonfire and several tar barrels were kept
blazing during the night.
William Lane Joynt, Esq., solicitor,
Clerk of the Crown for the county of
Limerick, has been appointed by his Ex
cellency the Lord Lieutenant to the office
of Crown and Treasury Solicitor for Ire
land, vacant by the lamented death of
ru * 1 l je valuable office of
Clerk of the Crown for Limerick thus
becomes vsencuot.'—Freetnan.
Wexford. —lu consequence of the
long continued rain the River Barrow
has been greatly Hooded by the streams
from the mountains in the'low land along
the course ot the river. It has over
flown its banks, doing severe injury to
the fields ; but as far as I have heard no
injury has resulted to life or property in
even places where the public sewers are
adjacent to the rivers. The water has
at high tide forced itself up through
t;iem, returning when the tide went out.
Cor. People, December 26.
Dublin. The following is a full and
correct list ot the appointments which
have been made by the Lord Chancellor
in connection with his Court : Secretary
to the Lord Chancellor—C. 11. Teeling,
Esq \ ice—W. H-Filgate, Esq. Clerk
°f the Custodies—Randall M’Donnell,
Lsq. \ ice The Hon. David Plunket.
Put sc Bearer Joseph Lentaigne, Esq.
Vice—Louis Montfort, Esq. Train
Bearer—William Armstrong, Esq Vice
—Henry Martley, Esq. Crier of the
Court of Chancery— Arthur
Esq. \ ice—Archibald 11. Montfort!
Lsq. Ihe Right lion, the Attorney-
General has nominated Mr. Win. Sulli
van of S Inns quay, solicitor, os his
clerk.
( lonmel, Monday. — The inaugura
tion ot Mr. Thos. Cantwell, as Mayor of
Clonmel, took place on Friday. The
duties ot the office were never confided
to abler hands, and were never more
efficiently discharged,than they will be by
the piesent worthy and popular occupant
of the civic chair. The inaugural ban
quet to the members of the Corporation
and his friends is fixed for the 11th, at
Cantwell’s Hotel.
Mr. George Massy Robbins has been
elected Governor of Clonmel Gaol, as
successor to the late Mr. Grubb.
Dwyer and bis son, who were arrested,
on suspicion, for the murder of Mr.
George Cole Baker, have been removed
to Clonmel Gaol.
Tne Penny Readings Society wound
up the season’s entertainments with a
giand performance on Thursday night,
and weie afterwards entertained at suo
per by Mr. Bagwell, M. P. for the
Do rough. — ( Correspondent.
iitholk jfitfcHigrtw.
After eighty years of exile, the Order
of Dominica has again taken up its abode
in French Flanders. Several Freres
Precheurs have settled down in one of
the quietest suburbs of Lille.
A f air was in progress at Savannah
last week for the purpose of raising funds
to aid the Orphan Asylum. We learn
that a handsome suru has been realized in
furtherance of the noble charity.
The contributions to the Papal fund in
the Diocese ot Albany forlBGB amouuted
to $13,550,85.
Iwo pious missionaries, Mgr. Quanelli
and Don Y. Bruno have refused the Or
der of the Crown of Italy.
The Church of San Sevrino, in Naples,
was lately robbed of five lamps and seve
ral diamond ornaments on the shrine of
the Blessed \ irgin. This has become an
every day occurrence, and the police are
more than suspected of going shares with
the thieves iu most oases.
Ilev. lather St. Legcr of the Order of
the Jesuits died suddenly on the 27th ult.
at their residence in Gardiner street,
Lublin, in the 71st year of his age.
Rev. Denis Flanagan, who was former
ly curate of Allen and Newbridge, and
since parish priest of Graige-na-mana,
has been appointed parish priest of San
croft, vacant by the lamented death of the
Rev. Mr. Cullen.
T he parisnioners of Donegal have pre
sented the Rev. Thos. Sheridan, C. C.,
Ballyshannon, with a gold watch, chain,
and ornamental cross—value £3o—to
mark their appreciation of his twe years’
missionary labors amongst them —Cor
respondent.
Archbishop Manning's elevation to the
Sacred College will lake place in March,
lie will receive the hat from the hands of
the Pope.
Two rascals attempted to rob Trinity
Church, Georgetown, D. C., last week.
After securing the silver chalice, two
ciboriums, and other altar articles and
valuable vestments, they went to sleep in
the Church, arid were there discovered
next morning on the opening of the
Church by the Sexton. But they made
good their escape. The .sacrilegious
thieves broke open the Tabernacle, and
scattered the sacred hosts over the floor
and altar.
Ash-Wednesday, the first day of Lent,
falls on the loth of February. The
regulations for the observance of the
Leutal season have boon issued by the
Archbishops of Cincinnati and Balti
more.
Sister Mary Lignoria Butler, one of
the gentle and beloved Sisters of Mercy,
died at their Convent in Limerick on
Christmas Eve. For years back, she bad
ministered to the sick poor of the Lim
erick workhouse.
Wci learn from the “Scotch Catholic
directory for 1809 that the Rcdemp
temsts have established themselves in
hmnoull 11,11. Perth, with tllo , W ; re ,
carry,ng out the object of their holy
founder, St. Alphonsus Liguori— namely
to give missions to the people in the
various parishes of town and country
where they may be invited by the local
clergy, and to receive into their own house
those of the clergy and laity who wish to
make a retreat.
The Scotch Catholic Directory” stares
that thirteen Priests, including the Grev
FuMrs, have been added to Scotland
this last year: but allowances must be
made for other incidental changes, which
only brings up the total of Priests in
North Britain to 209.
Two English books were, after due
examination, put upon thelndexat Rome
on the 18th of December. One of these
is Mr. Renoufs “Condemnation of Pope
Honorius,” the other, Mr. Ffbulkes
“Divisions of Christendom.”
The Rev. lather Brown, of Lancaster,
Lngiand, died in that town on December
20th. He has resided at Lancaster for
many years, and was connected with St.
Peter’s Church there. By a very lar<?e
number ot people—people belonging to
every section of society—he was respected,
and his death will be much lamented.
It is intended to entrust the Catholic
school at Wick, Caithness-shire, Scot
land, to the order of nuns called “Faith
ful Companions of Jesus.” It will be the
most northern convent in Britain.
The Rev. Dr. F. Jacinto Maria Mar
tinez, who was banished from Cuba to
Spain last Spring by Capt. Gen. Lersundi
j ‘°r condemning theatrical matters in
connection with Ristori’s representations,
has returned with General Dulce to Ha
vana.
An association, with ramifications
throughout Spain, has recently been
organized, under the Presidency*' of the
Marquis of Villuna, to protect the unity
of Catholicism.
Another zealous and humble Priest has
been called away from amongst us. On
Christmas Day, at half-past twelve p.m.,
Rev. Morgan P. O’Brien, C.C., Achaloo,
Archdiocese ot Armagh, died at his resi
dence in Caledon. His sickness was but
of short duration, arid the announcement
of his death took all by surprise.
Rev. Richard Macken, C.C.,of Frank
fort, in the diocese of Meath, died in the
South of I ranee, (whither lie had gone to
recruit his failing health,) on the 25th
ult. His sister, known in the world as
Miss Margaret Macken, died on the
same day in the Convent of Mercy, Drog
heda. They were son and daughter Ts
Thos. Macken, Esq., of Newrath.
The most Rev. Dr. Power recently
made the following appointments in the
diocese of. Killaloe: Rev. Michael Pyne,
C.C., Kilritsh to be P.P. of Killimy, in
room of Rev. Thomas Reid, P,P., lately
deceased. Rev. James O’Neil, C.Cb,
Kilmichael, to the curacy of Kilrush.
Rev. Patrick O’Meara, C.C., Ballina
cally, to the curacy of Kilmichael; ami
Rev. Jas. Vaughan, C. C., Kilfinano, to
the curacy of Ballinacally.
The Redf.mftorist Fathers. —Revs.
Jos. Wissel, Adam Kriss, Chas. Katke,
A. 31. Frifag, Wm. Gross, Jos. Farle, and
Chas. O’Donohue, are in this city, < n
their way to Savannah, to open two illu
sions in that city, one at the Cathedral,
and the oilier at St. Patrick's Chure 1 ;
At the close of these missions, there will
also be a mission given to the colored
people.— Charleston Ne\>:s.
Our city has been honor and during the
past week with the presence of the Rt.
Rev. David \V. Bacon, D D., Pushup'of
Portland, and the Rt. Rev. Louis Lentous,
D.D., A iear Apostolic of Idaho. Our
readers will be pleased to learn that f e
new Cathedral of the Immaculate Con
ception, Portland, approaches completion,
and will be dedicated to the service of
Alm'g’ity God in the month of August.
The lit. Rev. Dr. Lootens celebrated
High Mass on the 16th inst. f at the C< 1-
lege of St. Francis Xavier, at which four
hundred and fifty of the students were
present.— N. V. Tablet, 26c/.
It is indeed w r ith sincere regret, that we
lind ourselves called upon to record the
death ol the Rev. James Comvay, which
took place at Slmlvey's Royal Hyde Park
Hotel, on Thursday, October 29th Father
Conway was born in the North of IrelaTi 1
of highly respectable parents, and studied
in All Hallows College, Drumcondra,
near Dublin, where lie was ordained in
due course. —Sydney Freeman s Journal.
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