and supported during the ten years that have of an irresponsible power or the necessity of elapsed since the establishment of this admira-its control. But scarcely are you fixed in

ble work.

ENGLAND. The Limerick Reporter states that several Anglican ministers are preparing, in the Catholic colleges of Lancashire, Cheshire and Staffordshire, for admission into the fold of the ancient Church. It is expected, says the same journal, that all the members of Oxford will, before many years, pass over to the ranks of Catholicism.

your seats and your Protestant companions restored to the propriety from which they were disturbed, than you turn upon those to whom you owe your seats and honors, and enter into overtures for an offensive alliance with our ancient foes to fee the Catholic clergy to keep her majesty's peace?"

Sisters of Mercy. Mrs. M'Auley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, died lately in Ireland, in the odor of sanctity, and leaving her order in a very flourishing condition. She commenced it in 1830, since when 250 young ladies have joined it. Sixteen houses of this institute have been established; twelve in Ireland, three in England, and one at Charleston in the United States.

IRELAND. Dr. Machale, archbishop of Tuam, has addressed an admirable letter to Lord Clifford, who with other English peers had issued complaints about an irresponsible power in Ireland, alluding to the agitation of Mr. O'Connell, and to the zeal which some of the Catholic clergy have manifested for the success of the noble cause which is conducted by that distinguished man. After refuting the charge of an irresponsible power in Ire-opposed an almost insuperable barrier to the land, the prelate administers the following just reproof:

NORWAY. The constitution of the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden has, until now,

progress of Catholicity in these two countries. But the question of liberty of conscience is "Some new light must have broken on the about to be agitated in the Norwegian legisintellects of the English Catholic peers since lature, particularly in reference to the free the memorable period of the Catholic Associa- exercise of the Catholic religion, and the tion, when the Irish nation, laity and clergy, king will be compelled by the terms of the embracing almost the entire mass of the peo-constitution to sanction the bill to this effect, ple, were leagued in one great constitutional confederacy to wring from the injustice of England the rights of emancipation.

which he has already twice rejected, if it be voted a third time by the diet.—Ami.

HAYTI. We learn with pleasure from the Catholic Herald, that the Rt. Rev. Dr. Rosati, bishop of St. Louis and Delegate of the Apos tolic See to the republic of Hayti, has arrived at Port au Prince, and was joyfully received by the clergy and people. The president admitted him to an audience, and appointed a committee to treat with him on the subject of his mission, promising at the same time his efficient co-operation to establish religion on a solid basis in the republic. The bishop enjoys excellent health.

"Were your lordship's remonstrances heard against the agitating spirit of the priesthood? O, no! they were then hallowed exertions as long as their object, or at least effect, was to restore to their parliamentary honors some few members of the English peerage. I wonder how soon your lordships forget the noble and peaceful exertions of those men, who under the championship of him who guided this moral movement, lifted the prostrate peers from their degraded condition-infused into their inert souls a political vitality, of which TEXAS. By the revolution which detached they seemed unconscious-loosened the fet- this province from Mexico, all the ecclesiastiters in which they were bound-undid the cal property fell under the dominion of the rusty bolts that debarred them from their he- state; but by an act of the Texan Congress it reditary honors, and flung them forward among has been principally restored for the use of the lords, who were frightened by the sudden the Catholics, at the solicitation of the Lazaintrusion of so many strange apparitions.rists or priests of the mission, aided by Mr. During this heroic and eventful struggle not a Dubois de Saligny the French consul. The whisper escaped your lips about the existence following law was passed in their favor: "It

Cathedral will be opened on Passion Sunday, the 13th.

Feb. 24th, three young ladies took the veil at the Convent of the Visitation, Georgetown, D. C., Misses Magdalen Schæffer, Margaret

gion are Sisters Mary Alexis, Mary Olympia, and Mary Simeon.

is decreed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Texan republic, in Congress assembled, that the churches at San Antonio, Goliad and Victoria, as well as the land at Nacogdoches, the Churches of the Conception, St. Joseph, St. John, Espado and Re-Felix and Mary Walker, whose names in relifugio, with the buildings and ground thereto belonging, be remitted, in full ownership, into the hands of the chief pastor of the Roman Catholic Church in the republic of Texas, and his successors in office. This grant is made in perpetuum, but on condition that the property be applied to the use of the Catholics, for their religious worship or the educa-Lord 1790, Rev. John Thayer, formerly a tion of their children." By a subsequent act, the church of Alamo has also been ceded to the Catholics.

The mission of Texas has been confided by the Holy See to the Lazarists; and the Rev. John Odin, who labored for many years in the diocess of St. Louis, has been appointed bishop in part. of Claudiopolis, and Vicar Apostolic of the province.—Ami.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE. ARCHDIOCESS OF BALTIMORE. On Sunday, Feb. 13th., a retreat was opened at St. Vincent of Paul's Church, in Baltimore, by Rev. J. McElroy, who conducted the spiritual exercises during the whole week. A numerous concourse of persons daily filled the temple of God, and caught with avidity the words of sound instruction, as they flowed from the lips of that zealous clergyman. Several other ecclesiastics were in attendance at the confessionals, and witnessed with joy the continual demand for their services. On Sunday the last day of the Retreat, eight hundred and thirty approached the holy table, and with those who had performed this duty on a previous day, the whole number of communicants amounted to thirteen hundred.

Tuesday, the 1st of March, a course of spiritual exercises was commenced at St. Patrick's Church, Fell's Point, and will be continued during the week.

Similar advantages will be offered to the faithful of the other congregations in Baltimore. The Retreat at St. Joseph's will commence on Sunday the 6th inst.; that at the

DIOCESS OF BOSTON. From an article in the Boston Pilot of Feb. 19th, we learn the following interesting particulars relative to the commencement and progress of religion in Hartford, Conn. About the year of our

Presbyterian minister of Boston, Mass., but who had embraced the Catholic religion, and been ordained priest, visited Hartford, and explained the doctrines of Catholicity in the Centre Presbyterian Meeting House, then under the charge of Mr. Strong. This, as near as we can learn, was the first public instruction on the part of any Catholic clergyman given in the English language. When the French troops passed through Hartford in 1781, mass was celebrated in the vicinity by their chaplain. From the visit of Rev. Mr. Thayer, till the conversion of an Episcopalian minister, Rev. Mr. Barber of Newtown, which occurred about the year 1818, little had been thought or said of Catholicity in this section of the country. Dr. Cheverus, bishop of Boston, paid two successive visits to Hartford in 1819 and 1820, and having preached in the court-house produced a very favorable impression. About the same time, two Protestant ministers embraced the Catholic faith. Shortly after this period, the idea of building a church was suggested, the Catholics amounting to about twenty in number. Before they could accomplish this, however, Rev. Virgil Barber visited Hartford, and officiated for several days in a private residence. In the year 1828, the Rev. R. D. Woodley was sent to the place by Dr. Fenwick, who had succeeded Bishop Cheverus after his departure from America, but this clergyman remained in the town only a short time. Bishop Fenwick purchased the old Episcopalian meeting-house in 1829, which was moved to another site, and placed the congregation under the charge of Rev. B. O'Cavanagh,

In the month of July of this year, was is-order to set the example and give the start, I, sued the first number of a public paper, (The with my seminarians, took the total abstinence Catholic Press,) established to refute the false pledge at the altar, immediately after high charges of the adversaries of the Roman Ca- mass, and had the soul-moving pleasure of tholic Church, who now came out formidable being followed by upwards of two hundred and strong. This paper was continued until of the French congregation. I hope to see 1832, making upwards of four volumes, du- that society soon established in every parish ring which time, had also been published from of my diocess, with its respective clergyman ten to twelve different pamphlets on various at its head. The Irish congregation of Trireligious subjects. nity church in Detroit numbers already six hundred members of that society, with their zealous and indefatigable Pastor, the Rev. Mr. Kundig, at their head."-Cath. Tel.

The following year, Rev. James Fitton took charge of the church and established a school; the congregation at this period numbered about sixty persons. He was assisted by several clergymen in succession, one of whom, Rev. Mr. McDermott, built a church in New Haven in 1833. A third church has been erected in Bridgeport. Before Mr. Fitton left this section of country in 1836, the Catholics had increased to the number of two hundred, and from forty to fifty persons had been reclaimed from the ranks of Protestantism.

On Saturday, 22d January, all the St. Philip Neri College buildings near Detroit, were accidentally consumed by fire.-Ibid.

DIOCESS OF CINCINNATI.-Mr. Michael Byrne and Mr. Charles McCallion received the clerical tonsure and minor orders on Sunday, 13th February, in St. Peter's Cathedral, Cincinnati, at the hands of Rt. Rev. Dr. Purcell. On the Saturday in Ember week, Mr. C. McCallion was ordained sub-deacon, deacon on Sunday, and priest on Thursday, festival of St. Mathias.-Cath. Tel.

DIOCESS OF LOUISVILLE.-We understand that temperance societies have been established by Rev. Mr. Jarboe in the congregations of St. Rose, Springfield and Lebanon;by Rev. Mr. Spalding, at Bardstown;—and by Rev. Mr. Drew, at Frankfort and Lexing

From the above period to the commencement of 1841, the Hartford congregation was attended successively by several priests, until the Rev. Messrs. Brady, the present missionaries, were appointed to serve it. The Catholice of the place have a school numbering nearly one hundred children, a singing school, a charitable society on the mutual relief system, and a total abstinence association which numbers 3,036 members. The congregationton.-Cath. Ad. at present amounts to two hundred and fifty persons, exclusive of women and children, and the mission in general appears to be in a prosperous condition.

Ursulines.

The literary' institution so long conducted near Boston by the Ursuline Sisters, is now established in the city, No. 756 Washington street.

DIOCESS OF DETROIT.-Dr. Lefevre, bishop of Detroit, in a letter received from him at Cincinnati, says: "Seeing the great and many evils that have been and are still daily the result of even the moderate use of intoxicating liquors, and the immediate call for a reform

I delivered my first sermon, last Christmas, to the French congregation of St. Ann, on temperance and the great necessity of a total abstinence society, and continued them on to the third Sunday following, when in

DIOCESS of CHARLESTON.-We rejoice to learn from the Catholic Miscellany, that the health of Dr. England, which had been impaired for some time past, has considerably improved, and will soon enable him to resume his accustomed labors.

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Arbitrary Power, Popery, Protestantism. 12mo. Phila. Published by M. Fithian.

We have received a copy of this work from Mr. John Murphy, who has it for sale at his bookstore, 146 Market street, Baltimore. It is a collection into a handsome volume of the several portions of an able article that appeared in successive numbers of the Dublin Review. We congratulate the publisher and the public generally on their appearance in this form. The enemies of Catholicity in the United

The Lives of the most eminent Saints of the Oriental Deserts, &c. N. York, J. McLaughlin, 12mo.

States have imagined, that in this country pursues him until he is vanquished. The where the people are so jealous of their liber-number before us is particularly acceptable ties, more easily than elsewhere, a successful to the American reader, as it contains an artiwar whoop against Popery could be raised, by cle on the discoveries of America, that are an attempt to expose the pretended inconsis-supposed to have been made by the Northmen. tency of Catholic principles with the nature The other portions of it that seem to us most and prosperity of our free institutions. Hence interesting, are the "Unity and Catholicity of the hue and cry for several years past, that the the Church of England," in which the abrepublic was in danger, that the Catholics of surdity of its claims to these titles is most this country were paying allegiance to a for- glaringly and amusingly exposed; the "Illeeign potentate, &c. Happily for the honor of gality of Crown grants of public fisheries in American intelligence, the storm has passed Ireland," and the "Defence of Pope Boniface away, injuring in its fury those only who were VIII." against the misrepresentations of Sisinstrumental in exciting it. Perhaps in the mondi. Messrs. Casserly & Sons, 108 Nascalm that has succeeded they will be better sau st., N. York, are agents for the Review. disposed to estimate things according to their real worth, and to acknowledge that in this country as in all others, Catholics have been second to none in the establishment and per- The above is for sale at Mr. Murphy's, 146 petuation of civil and religious freedom; nay, Market st., Baltimore. Perhaps in the whole they who are conversant with the history of range of ecclesiastical history nothing could our country know that the first and brightest be more useful and interesting than the histoexample of liberal policy ever displayed onry of those distinguished individuals, in whose these shores, was exhibited by the Catholic example the Christian virtues have shone forth settlers of Maryland. The volume before us in all their brightness from the most secret proves by historical testimony, (and we re-solitudes. If we peruse with edification and commend it only for the facts which it details,) delight the biographies of other illustrious that the same thing may be said of Catholic persons who have attained to the highest sancEngland. It shows, that "since the reforma-tity, we feel a kind of rapture in reading the tion every tyrannical doctrine of arbitrary power has been introduced into the constitution and practice of Great Britain; and that every resistance to it has been founded on the precedents, the laws, and the principles which had been established by the 'besotted papists; that Catholicism has ever exercised its power in behalf of the rights of the people, and that the Church by law established' ever employed her authority for the destruction of the civil liberties of England.”

accounts of the ancient hermits and monks who literally renounced all for Christ's sake. There seems to be a peculiar charm and impressiveness in the narrative of their virtues, which borrow an extraordinary interest from the contrast which their life presents with that of the great bulk of mankind.

OBITUARY.

Dublin Review. No. XXII., Novem., 1841. The contents of this number evince the same ability that has always characterized this able periodical. Supported by men of the highest standing in the learned and literary world, and true to the principles of Catholicism, it is not only a bright luminary illustrating the paths of science, but a strong and vigilant champion of religious truth, that is ever on the watch, descries the enemy at his first appearance, spreads dismay in his ranks and 136 and 196; in the latter, pages 124 and 162.

Died at Whitemarsh, Prince George's county, Maryland, on the 13th of Feb., Rev. EDWARD MCCARTHY, of the Society of Jesus.

On the 10th of Feb., at Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. PATRICK FITZSIMMONS, lately an ecclesiastical student at Rose Hill Seminary. He died as he had lived, edifying and exemplary to all around

him.-Freeman's Journal.

Rev. Mr. BEREL, pastor of St. Martin's, Attakapas, La.*

The Catholic Telegraph says: "we do not see the name of Mr. BEREL in the Almanac." The name is in the Alinanac for 1841 and 1842; in the former, pages

RELIGIOUS CABINET,

THE PILGRIMS

THE history of the world in all past time, fore, was immeasurably distanced here. Well

(save only its original resolution from chaos are the descendants of the original emigrants to order) presents nothing so grand, imposing entitled to point to the achievements of their and wonderful as the discovery and settlement fathers as the noblest deeds in the annals of of the western continent. It may be consid-time; for all that history records of the miered, indeed, rather a creation, than a discov-grations and conquests of tribes and nations, ery; for it brought into being states and dominions and empires, and first nourished on its virgin soil that hardy race who recollected tyranny only to resolve on freedom. The gales of western forests, full of the inspiration caught in their swift flight across their native wilds, fanned that flame of independence, whose silent promptings and open opposition, so largely contributed to people our shores. All of heroism, all of romance, all of daring adventure which the world had ever seen be

We are much pleased that we have it in our power to place before the reader this interesting outline of the first settlement of Maryland. As an evidence of its merit, we have only to state that, having delivered it as a lecture before the Carroll Institute in Philadelphia, the author was solicited and induced to repeat it in the same city. The publication of the article at this moment may serve to prepare the public mind, and to kindle a congenial feeling for the joyous commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims, which is to take place on the 10th of May, in St. Mary's county, Md.

The authorities that have been consulted, are principally Bacon's Laws of Maryland, Hezard's Collection of Colonial Papers, Fuller's Worthies of Yorkshire, Loyd's State Worthies, McMahon, Bozman, Graham, Chalmers, Neal's Puritans,

&c.-ED.

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