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Doubting.
Look up my love, see o'er the sky.
A thousand clouds go fleeting by.
A host, they scud along.
v love-star shines through the hurrying throng
tie- wind so fairly.
, Aho strife of life, if coming years
Bring Borrows, frets and bitter tears.
tv all life’s evils, come what mar,
SlTyour love, like the star, still light my way.
SHE* through these but rarely. W. t. D.
L °;;«Sa-. Oaf, March, 1869.
A THRILLING INCIDENT
The following 1 incident is extracted
from a very interesting paper in Bentley’s
Miscellany, entitled “Hours in Hindoos
t.m »» Tbc cobra capella is said to be
onC of the venomous species of serpents
in the Bast, his bite being attended by
almost instant death:
We had been playing all the evening
at whist. Our stacks had been gold
tflobur points, and twenty on the rubber.
Maxey, who was always lucky, had won
five consecutive bumpers, which lent a
golf-satisfied smile to bis countenance,
a „d made us losers anything but plea
sant, when he suddenly changed coun
tenance and hesitated to play. This the
more suspried us, since he was one who
seldom pondered, being so perfectly
master of the game that he deemed long
consideration superfluous.
“Play away, Maxey; what are you
about?” impatiently demanded Churchill,
one of the most impetuous youths that
ever wore the uniform of the body
guard.
“Hush,” replied Maxey, in a tone
which thrilled through us, at the same
time turning deadly pale.
“Are you unwell? said another about
to start up, for he believed our friend had
been taken suddenly ill,
“For the love of God sit quiet,” replied
tbc other, in a tone denoting extreme fear
or pain, and he laid down his cards.
“If you value your life move not.”
“What can he mean? Has he taken
leave of his senses? demanded Churchill,
appealing to myself.
“Don’t start—don’t move, I tell you,”
in a sort of whisper I can never forget,
uttered Maxey.
“If yon make any sudden motion I’m
a dead man!” he exclaimed.
We exchanged looks. He continued:
“Remain quiet and all may yet be well.
I’ve a cobra capella around my leg.”
Our first impulse was to draw' back
our chairs; but an appalling lock from
the victim induced us to remain although
we were aware that should the reptile
transfer but one fold and attach himself
to any other of the party, that individual
might already be counted a dead man, so
fatal is the bite of thatdieadful monster.
Poor Maxey was dressed as many old
residents still dress in India, namely,
breeches and silk stockings. Therefore
he more plainly felt every movement of
the snake. His countenance assumed a
livid hue; the words seemed to leave his
mouth without the features altering their
position, so rigid was the look, so fearful
was he least the slightest muscular
movement should alarm the serpent and
hasten his bite.
We were in agony little less than his
own during the scene.
“He is coiling round,” muttered
Maxey, ‘ 1 feel him cold, cold to my
limb; and now he thickens. For the love
of heaven call for some milk. I dear
not speak loud; let it be placed near me;
let some be placed on the floor.”
Churchill cautiously gave the order,
and a servant slipped out of the room.
“Don’t stir. Northcoto you moved
your head. By everything sacred I
conjure you not to do so again It can
not be long ere my fate is decided. I’ve'
a wife and two children in Europe; tell
them I died blessing them—that my last
prayers were for them. The snake is
winding round my calf. I leave them all
I possess. I can almost fancy I feel his
breath. Great God, to die in such a
manner!”
The milk was brought and carefully
put down; a few drops were sprinkled on
the floor, and the affrighted servant drew
hack. Again Maxey spoke:
'No! it has no effect! I dear not look
down, but am sure he is about to draw
hack and give the bite of death with
more than fatal precision. Receive me,
0 Lord, and pardon me. My last hour has
c< no ! again he pauses! I die firm, but
past endurance! Ah, no! He has
undone another fold, and loosens himself!
Can he he going to someone else?” We
involuntarily started.
1 Fur the love of heaven, stir not! I’m
a dead man; but bear with me. He still
Jensens —he is about to dart Move not,
nut he ware! Cnurchill, he falls off that
wa y. Oh, this agony is too hard to bear.
Another pressure, and lam dead! No,
her relaxes.”
that moment poor Maxey ventured
J“ look down; the snake had unwound
nimself; the last coil had fallen, and the
le ptile was making for the milk.
“I am saved! lam saved!” and Maxey
bounded from his chair and fell senseless
into the arms of one of the servants. In
another instant, need it be added, we were
all dispersed—the snake was killed, and
our poor friend carried, more dead than
alive, to his room.
CONVERTS TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-
The following letter has been ad
dressed to the Editor of the Cork Ex
aminer:
Sir —l send you a list of recent con
verts to the Catholic Church from memo
ry, which I believe will be found to te
more accurate explanatory, and I should
tope, interesting than that furnished by
‘a Presbyterian Minister’ to the Nor
thern W big and copied into your paper
of the 18th instant. Not having any ma
terial at band for futher investigation,
line list is necessarily incomplete, but as
ar as it goes I believe it will be found to
De substantially correct. I also feel it
would be almost invidious to particularise
names from a body of men who are all
alike remarkable for an amount of zeal
and a spirit of self-sacrifice without
parallel in the religious history of the
world. Let it then be sufficient to ob
serve chat amongst the English Catholic
clergy there are at least two hundred
ariests who were at one time clergymen
of the Church of England —Yours faith
ully» Veritas.
January 26, 1869.
The Marquis of Bute (Stewart)
The Earl of Oxford (Walpole)
The Earl of Gainsborough (Noel)
The Ear lof Denbigh (Fielding)
The Earl of Dunraven (Quin)
The Earl of Granard (Forbes)
The Earl of Pembroke (Herbert)
The Earl of Buchan (Stewart)
Lord Louth (Plunkett)
Viscount Norreys (Bertie)
Eldest son of the Earl of Abindon,
and son-in-law of Colonel Townley Hall,
Lancashire.
Lord Huntingtower (Tollemach),
eldest son of the Earl ofDysert, and son
in law of the late Sir Joseph Burke,
Bart, Glensk Castle, Cos. Galway.
Lord Nigel Kennedy.
Lord Gilbert Kennedy, sons of the
Marquis of Ailsa.
Lord Henry Kerr, son of the Marquis
of Lothian.
Lord Charles Thynne, brother of the
Duchess of Buccleuh and the late Mar
duis of Bath, father of Yicountess Cast
lerosse, and son-in-law of the late Doctor
Bagot, Bishop of Bath and Wells, form
erly a -clergyman.
Sir George Bowyer, Bart
Sir W. R. Codriugton, Bart
Sir John Sutton, Bart
Sir Yere De Ye re, Bart
Sir Paul W. Molesworth, Bart
Sir J. Hungerford Pollen, Bart
Sir John Simeon, Bart, M. P.
Sir Charles Compton Domville, Bart,
son-in-law to the Earl of Howth.
lion Colin Lindsay, brother of the Earl
of Balcarres.
lion, and Rev. W. Towry Law, broth
er of the Earl of Ellenborough. His
eldest son is a priest of the Oratory,
B romp ton, London.
Hen. and Rev. Monsignor Talbot,
domestic chaplain to his Idol iness Pope
Pius IX, and brother of Lord Talbot de
Malahide; at one time a rector in Somer
set.
The Hon - and Rev. Gilbert Chetwynd
Talbot, brother of the late Earl of
Shrewsbury and Talbot, now a priest iu
London.
The late Hon. and Rev. George Spen
cer, P&ssionist Father, and founder of
the community of that Order at Harold’s
Cross, near Dublin, was uncle of his
Excellency Ea 1 Speneer, Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland.
The late Hon. and Rev. Reginald
Pakenham, also a Passionist Father, and
who died at Harold’s Cross, was former
ly an officer in the Guards; was a broth
er of the Earl of Longford and nephew
to the Earl of Wellington, and late Dean
of St. Patrick’s.
The late Duke of Leeds.
The Duchess who resides at Hornsby
Castle, near Leeds, is a munificent patron
of Catholic charities in the North of
England.
The Duchess of Hamilton, daughter of
the Grand Duke of Baden.
The Duchess of Norfolk, daughter of
the late Admiral Lord Lyons.
The Duchess of Buccleuch.
The Dowager I uehes of Argyll.
The Marchioness of Londonderry*
eldest daughter of the Earl ot Roden,
and mother of Viscount Powerscourt.
The Marchioness of Queensberry,
claims descent from the dauntless Red
Hugh, through her mother, a daughter
<d £>ir Hugh, O’Donnell, the head of the
ancient and princely sept of that name
in the Country Mayo.
Ihe Dowager Marchioness of I.othan,
Min® ©i in® s©mn.
sister of the late Earl of Shrewsbury
and Talbot.
The Dowager Countess of Clare, has
built a church, convent? and schools at
her sole expense in the Isle of Wight.
Is widow of John Fitzgibbon, second
Earl of Clare, of whom Lord Byron
wrote—‘As to friendship, it is a propen
sity in which my genius is very limited.
I do not know the male human being ex
cept Lord Clare, the friend of my infancy,
for whom I feel anything that deserves
the name?
The Lady Milford, daughter of the
Earl of Wicklow, married, secondly,
Mr. Thomas, Eyre, eldest son of Count
Eyre and first cousin of Mr. Vincent
Scully, ex-M P. for Cork county.
Lady Catherine Petre, daughter of
the Earl of Wicklow, married to Mr.
Edward Petre, cousin of Lord Petre.
The Dowager Countess of Castlewart,
daughter of Doctor Bathurst, Bishop of
Nor which.
The Countess of Gainsborough, daugh
ter of the Earl of Errol.
The Countess of G ranard.
The Countess of Buchan.
The Countess of Kenmare.
The Countess of Portarlington.
The Lady Holland.
Hon. Lady Simeon.
Lady Do Vere.
Viscountess Bury.
Lady Georgiana Fullerton, sister of
Earl Granville
The Ladies Achinson, daughter of the
Earl of Gosford.
The Lady Herbert of Lea, mother of
the Earl of Pembroke.
Miss Gladstone, Sister of the Prime
Minister, the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone.
Miss Stanley, sister of the Dean of
Westminster, and daughter of the Late
Bishop of Norwich.
Mr. Charles Wentworth Cavendish,
son of the lion. General Cavendish,
married to the only daughter of the Rt.
Hon. Sir Alexander Coekburn Lord
Chief Justice of England.
Mr. J. R. Hope Scott, the eminent
Parliamentary Q. C. grandson of the
Earl of Hopetoun, and inheritor of Ab
botsford, in right of his first wife, the
granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and
daughter of Mr. Lockhart, the well
know r n Editor of the Quarterly Review.
Mr Hope Scott married, secondly, the
Victoria Howard, eldest daughter
of the late Duke of Norfolk.
Mr. 0. R. Scott Murray, formerly M.
P. for Bucks son-in-law of Lord Dovat.
The Right Hon. Colonel Monsell,M.P*
Mr. F, R. Wegg Prosser, formerly
M. P. for Herefordshire, son-in-law of
Earl Somers.
Mr. E. J. Hutchins,ex- M.P.
Count de La Field, brother-in-law of
the Earl of Limerick.
The late Mr. Francis MacNamara
Calcutt, M. P.
Admiral Manners.
Mr. Thomas Chisolm Anstcy, cx-M.P.
Colonel Gaidsford, son-in-law of the
Earl of Howth.
Mr. Stephen Dc Ycrc, ex- M. P
Mr A. G. Fullerton, brother-in-law of
Earl Granville.
The late Archdeacon Wilberforce,
brother to the Bishop of Oxford; died in
Rome a few years ago while preparing
for holy orders in the College of the
Propaganda.
The Rev. W. H. Wilberforce, brother
to the Bishop of Oxford.
The late Rev F. W. Faber. I). D.
The Rev Richard Gell Mac Mullen,
D. D
The Rev. Dr. Mrshall.
The Rev. William Lockhart, A. M.
The Rev. Frederick Oakley, A. M.
The Rev. W. G. Ward, A. M.
The Rev. John Henry Newman, D.
D. of whom Earl Russell remarked
some years ago in the House of Com
mons:—‘Foremost among English divines
for learning, and whose loss to the Church
of England we all deeply deplore.'
The Most Key. Henry Edward Man
ning, 1). I). Archbishop of Westminister
and Catholic Primate of England, form
erly Archdeacon of Chichester; was mar
ried to a daughter of the Rev. John
Sargent, and sister to the wife of the
Bishop of Oxford. His reputation for
learning and wisdom, the spotless purity
of his life, his marvellous eloquence
and attractive address have all combi
ned in giving him a power and influ
ence to draw the thoughtful and refined
classes of English Protestant society
within the pale of the Catholic Church,
which no man has ever before enjoyed in
England*
Catholic Intelligence.
The erection of the Bishopric of Chi
cago into an Arehepiscopal See is talked
of.
We regret to learn that the health of
the Archbishop of New Orleans did not
permit him to officiate, during Holy
Week, at the Cathedral. He, how
ever, blessed the holy oils at the Arch
bishopric.
We see it stated that Rev. Father
Balt€*s, of Belleville, has been nomi
nated as Bishop of the Diocese of Alton,
vice Bishop Juncker, deceased.
Prince Scomberg, a young nobleman
of great wealth and ancient family, has
been received into the Roman Catholic
Church by Cardinal Buonaparte. His
conversion has given the utmost gratifi
cation to his Holiness, and to the Catho
lic world.
On the holy feast of the Immaculate
Conception of the Blessed Virgin, the
foundation stone of the new St. Mary’s
Cathedral, of Sydney, Australia, was
laid by his Grace the Archbishop of that
See.
We learn from the Catholic Mirror ,
that on the fourth Sunday in Lent, and
on Passion Sunday, the Most Rev. Arch
bishop of Baltimore, visited several
among the Churches of the District of
Columbia, and administered confirma
tion. In those visited, the total number
confirmed on the recent occasion was
eleven hundred and thirty-five, of whom
one hundred and thirty-six were converts
to our holy faith. This keeps up the
usual proportion of twelve per cent, of
converts on the total number confirmed.
His Lordship, the Bishop of Toronto,
has issued an important Pastoral Letter
on the subject of Matrimony; denouncing
the modern abomination called Divorce,
and warning Catholics against the evils
that surround them, and the moral dan
gers to which, by their surroundings,
they are exposed. “No Christian legis
lator,” truly adds this Prelate, “ can
conscientiously aid in framing a law of
divorce for a Christian community.” Un
fortunately, it is only by courtesy that
many of our modern statesman can be
styled Christian.”— True Witness.
Djocese of Galveston. —The Belton
(Texas) Journal , of March sth, says :
We have heretofore announced that
there was a Catholic Church to be erected
in Belton; and now we are enabled to
state that the early completion of this
public enterprise may be expected. The
Rev. J. S Bussant has recently been in
our town, aud we are informed that the
site for the building has been selected.
It is due to our enterprising fellow
townsman, R. D. Kinney, to state that
lie has generously donated the lot, and
one of the most beautiful, for a Church
within the corporate limits. *We are
glad to see this public spirit manifested,
and trust that it will not be long till our
nourishing town will be supplied with
Churches to suit the diversified opinions
of the religious world.
Diocese of Natchez. —A correspon
dent writes to the New Orleans Morning
Star , from Yazoo City, Miss. :
A great grace has fallen from Heaven
upon our little city. The visitation of our
beloved Bishop, Rt. Rev. William Henry
Elder, has been to us the source of a few
holy and profitable days, and they will be
remembered.
here on the morning of the
6th instant, and fatigued from a long
journey by rail and stage, he nevertheless
preached the same morning to a large
congregation, a touching discourse on the
importance of Salvation.
Ou Sunday the subject selected was
the “Necessity of Sacrifice,” and of the
most sublime of all sacrifices—that, of the
most precious body of our Saviour, truly
present under the appearance of bread
and wine. It was an exceedingly lucid
exposition of the teachings of the Church,
and delivered with the usual unction aud
pathos of the Bishop, had a powerful
effect.
The exercises continued until the
morning of the 12th instant, with three
instructions during each day upon some
important dogma of our faith, and fol
lowed in the evening by a sermon and
the Benediction of the Blessed Sacra
ment.
Os our congregation, about one hun
dred and thirty received Holy Commun
ion, and there were thirty-two Confirma
tions, of whom there were four ladies
and one gentleman lately received into
the Church by our good pastor, the Rev
Paul Le Corre.
Bishop Eider is not only a Rishop in
the Church—he is a powerful aud efifee
tive missionary. His visit has not only
been fruitful of good to the faithful, but
has been also an occason of much edifica
tion to those without the pale of our
Holy Church. Let us hope that God, in
his goodness and love lor our couutry,
may raise up lor us many more like him.
ENGLAND.
The cordial reception given by the
Queen to the several gentlemen who
presented petitions praying for the
release of tn e Fenian prisoners is the
topic of general conversation.
The Star says that it is not improva
ble thatdii the course of a few days an
announcement will be made on the part
ol the Government, that they have
come to the determination to release the
whole of the political prisoners.
IRELAND.
Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral
letter to the clergy of his archdiocese, ex
pressing strong disapproval of the propo
sed national collection for the Fenian
prisoners and prohibiting bis clergy from
assisting or in any way countenancing
the movement.
Mr. Justice Keogh, as one of the
Judge of Assize in Kerry, visited the
Tralee gaol on Saturday morning, and
on his return to court expressed to the
Grand Jury extreme displeasure at its
condition and arrangements, censuring
in very strong language the Board of
Superintendence and Local Inspector.
A daring murder is reported to have
been committed in the county Donegal
on the 13th. Bailiff Murphy, in the
employment of Lord Leitrim, was shot
in the head at 3 o’clock in the morning,
within a short distance of the Kildare
Police station.
The collection for the Fenian prisoners
had been inaugurated in Cork by a gift
•f princely magnificence from the Meis s.
Murphy—a firm foremost in every
benevolent movement. Their subscription
is £IOO. The Mayor has given £25.
Wexford.— The surviving friends
and the many admirers of the Rt. Rev.
Dr. Keating, are respectfully informed
that it is proposed to erect a stained
glass window, in the Cathedral of En
niscortby, as a memorial of the great
benefits which this great and good bishop
conferred on the Diocese by the erection
of its magnifii ent Cathedral, and the res
to aticn of its ecclesiastical discipline. The
execution of the window has been entrus
ted to Messrs. Early and Powell, of
Camden street, Dublin.— People.
Waterford.— The people of Dungar
ven have just sustained the loss of one
of their favorite priests. The Rev. N.
Csesaretti, one of the Augustinian Com
munity, and a zealous coadjutor of Father
AndersoD, O. S. A., in every work of
piety and charity, died of fever, at three
o'clock on March 7, after a few days,
illness.— lbid.
The weather continues to mend. We
have had some heavy rain during the
week, but, on the whole, everything is
propitious for country work, which now
goes rapidly on. The atmosphere being
genial, vegetation has received a great
impetus, and grass is, generally speaking,
prolific.— Ibid.
Limerick. —The return of William
O’Sullivan to his native place, Kilmal
lock, after his liberation from Portland,
was made the occasion of great rejoicing.
Along the line from Cork, he was greet
ed by cheering crowds, and at Charle
ville the enthusiasm of the people was
only satisfied by his leaving the train and
mingling with them on the platform dur
ing its few minutes’ stay.
Cork. —ln the Chapel of the Presen
tation Convent, Youghal, were performed
on March Bth tire funeral obsequies of
its foundress, Mrs. Angelina Gould, a
lady whose name will be long held in
veneration not only in Youghal, but
throughout the entire diocese of Cloyne.
It is with deep and heartfelt regret
I have to announce the death of the Rev.
David Relihan, C. C., which sad event
look place at his residence, Ballyknock
ane Cottage, Baliinamona, on March
11, at half past five o’clock A. M.
A subscription has been opened in
Cork for the relief of the released Fe
nian prisoners.
Another Distinguished Celt Gone.
—From Chili we have news of the
death of an illustrious Celt, the Captain-
General Don Benardo OHiggins, whose
obsequies were celebrated with great
pomp on the Pith of January. He was
the greatest of those lay whom the
Chilian revolution was accomplished.
Among the South American States,
Chili holds the first place for the civic
virtues and commercial integrity of its
people. To be the greatest man among
such men, was a high and exceptional
distinction.
A Catholic Clergyman on Fenjan-
Catholic clergyman, Rev. Mr.
Shanahan, recently made a speech at
Limerick, Ireland, in which he openly
avowed himself a sympathizer with the
F< nixn movement, concluding with the
following words: “I do not exactly
know what a Fenian is, but if it means
love for Ireland, Ireland for the Irish,
and that Irishmen ought to be able to
govern themselves, 1 am a reman in
rnv heart, and so is every Priest in Ire
land.”
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