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,•,ver _e v _ s obssale.s taok * Church, on Josephine a. o ,of Tuesday. -Tbs. I "`.flt orowded to its utmost ,.. o greist olskep oagrer Se sdes.. e r. ewa- isr ' Sdeceased aistera , learne •, w r el o noble and ,psa I-denylag aearss f,"r ts.he 1the of eOtoee 9r, 14 8 v. S e ; ,was naieles- ho A er. aof .her may- ` _id, Viearieneel of the adioese eo•ft 'ated, IFather .ae ldhirt preoe the ser- m.1, te a f roem the 14thl apter a iBlessee ase the dead . die el l k dTyhea Re mua the mater that his Sarer. meron, that hbl larrt was io. i,1b tbogue was still. St u-t . n i of t he-life of SLin wheo pte o3before. them a cold corpse, S.le only atew a abefore a ar worea. orker iahe viueyar'd oft tie Lord.' He was bo Ssspectable and wealthy parents. Ordalsed a priest on the 22d of December, 1849, he worked sealoasgly for six years as a secular i, it e t 15th of October, 1865 he b a ember of the order of Onuret 1 Roly dqaener. On the 3d of .Oogber, I -386, Father A. came first among us at the oesiang ofb thore eiti at the Church-,o aorte Dame Bonedouiars. Hor sealous he has battled for the Lord, how kind he has C been, how afetionate, you all know. On t Sunday last, at the order of his saperior, and at t-te argent desire of the rochbishop, he went to the Convent af the Ursalines to gire them their annual retreat. Here it c wom he fret heard the voice of the Lord c calling for hie to come. On Satuirday he took sick, and only last night a brother b•ought the sorrowful message that Father t A. was going home. He received all the r holy rites of the Church, and died at peace I with all mankind. W.e-endeavored to obtain a biographical rsethi of the. life of the lamented deceased -or materials for one-bat unsuccessfually, f, and are there .re restricted to the fore- going meagre igrtieulars. We trist some t pea` nm ot bead, by rules, will furnish Sproie data for a memoir, however brief- a il'-ottbt eulogize the dead, but for the benefit efihe living. The praises of men, as to every tree priest, was valoeless in his eyes while living; still less are they required, n now that he is enjoying the rewards of thati sord whom he loved and served so well. tp 3 would be a highly-esteemed service, n Iwese gou.n person familiar with his career s faurnia. his numerous friends with the b stired ex l.f a life, which could not fail to ri sons, r. Mhile it edified the faithful. Scaoor.s or Ta CaHRaTtanBROTUras.-- The immanse work being done in this city a by the Christian Brothers may be jadged td from the sla6 of the procession of a portion of their pupils, which paraded the streets e Thursday last. Several of their schools po were not represented and. yet there were m about 1500 Ia line. The parochial schools - whiheb trnad oat were those of St. Joseph's, St. Batrisek's, At. Theresa's and St. John's. In addition to these, the students of their college-St. Mary's-were also in the pro- w wession. th The occasion had been previously .given e Its religious aspect by a solemn High Mass die at St. Patrick's Church, celebrated by Fa-; th ther Flannagan, and by the blessing ofea a banner of the Immacu'ate Conception, pye- di pared expPessly for this event and paitted Is by Mr. Moise, ohe of our most disting~ish-• ed artiats. The labors performed b this vlnable brotherhood can never be estimated Io dol- 9r are and ceta, for the. culture whic they . hmpart is as emEinent tmoral sAt is intel- it leepal. they are deserving the igratiude and vene•nation of our whole contry, and we soni sgret that thbeir numbers are not tu saffcient to justify their asasuming cbarge to oiI all the male parochils t gehool through- eat the city and indeed bthe whole Diocese. m, Ti Tax LacRhIassO.-According to pre- thi vious announcement, thie Most Rev. Arch- bishopferche left for - Rome, last Monday. H. planges withoon heaitation into the whirling cauldron of European war o unds Sevolution a t a period of lifte when me nof Lenerally seek repose and tranquility. The thu pelsciel which eto addressed to his flock and diacbh w publish to-day, beautifully Si. expreresf the oblfgation which impels him to 'o ig share the sorrowsio o.ur great t Pope, wa, he, in common with all the Gu faithful, lovesae welL With him we share in the anticipaftio.a of a brighter day ard we B. hopefullyexpect to see his return, the al bearer of good news. The prayers of his to people go with him. Thu CArTOLIC PaOPrAGTOR.-WO wel- Rit come to the ranks of EonIlsh Catholic sen joiirualism the English pnrtlon of the fr Frepogafelr Cafholbpne, publeiohed with the above caption. Not having yet had time Dou to scan its first number, we shall not speak Chr critically of its merits, but know in ad- His vance, from the erudition and ability of itts ot reputed editor, that nothing but the most swe reliable matter can befound in its columns. she' his s a favorablee instance of the worklag of the Nat toostl Soclety -fdiedal the siok nsd wounded in the war now r-agna, a lady sara.. a Proestsant, who had moe J.st come from the fnst, rpeet that on a dying deci Frenchmaos bgbingfer sptritalt assstance, a priest Rhe .ampeae for kr ao a sreet distame. sad aguard dlspatch- si to proset him sat the B.leserameet rom any bot salit or eutasaes man meresadly MIas .a..i.. s /- mie a ent f eaeth, It carries c t mow .own eomumet. How a the mnd ofen " will pan s . spontaneously Sad g b ik these days! The Cotnfede" it rac'ada it episode of 'heroism . What a i lla tltemas, what a fearless soldier, d ofitsarmiest SNo mori solemn and truthful lesion upon . the difiberence between the judgments of God and man is furnlshea by history than L* in the eareer of this great man. Men thlok that all merit must be crowned by asucess. r The Wisdom of God sometimes withho d that sueess butgrants the rewa•d in other form. What greater merit as tizen or a conomander was ever em led in an s man than in Gen. LeI The history of war shows no more-brilliant generalship than' his, no more patient fortitude or r courageous pestence. If his orders were m aisunderstood he, mde no outcry, if the ignoranc of governdunt officiala placed I him and the country in a false position, no word of blame escaped his lips. Equally Sde pof success from his private vir- pl 8 from iss public abilities, defeat finally folded his glorious banners and sheathed the keenest sword of the-century. Still honor has sweeter rewards than suc- cess; it has the approval of the good and the true. Gen. Lee was not elected Presi- dent at the close of his iilitary career to I be made the tool of one party and the butt of another, but he became a leader In - the esteem of all men, and the property of the whole human family. No one people could take possession of him, his place was al- ready marked out in the universal temple I of history. Gen. Lee dies, and a people stands in silent, reverential awe at the announcement. 1 It-is as though a father was taken awa t from his family. There is no pomp or - tional display. The flags of his cou try t are not draped nor will its loud-mouthed I artillery thunder a fierce requiem o er the r dead soldier, but still, men stop a d think. Q They stop in the headlongpnrsauit f money, i in the quest of office, in the ve struggle I for daily bread. They stop and reflect. i' There is sadness in their re tions and in a their faces. Busy though goes back to s those fearful battlefields now so silent. e The young, the brave nd beside them n again as though the bl y sod had never been turned, and th grey haired chief tl rides along as thou the bells were not c ow telling his farewell. Business e calls and men mive on, but more sadly, more spiritually No man can face such an event witho t feeling the transitory na- tore of worl affairs, their loves, their a possessions 1d their glory. May the yvrtues of the dead hero be im- q pressed on/ the character of his country- Cl men. .. .sis visti butter shet hent .,t o.. "r, mereis to be elmdd, p, ,as strictly ead spolradle. Tigs havt e. bees comr- Pth and the questibn 'i' .obt ga ima it to a of this l sr ea Whyi did -s ftet feed upons n the beforit i a anersesans wok Tbisope tbat our M eM•a amen wi' be ass. e to enlighten the publie en this point 1 or. show that a similar phenomenon has her been witnesse before. In the meantime or the medical authority ofthieiyin h i in of this saubect, attributes it to the bhygi e of mease whih were taken by the arictly d o hip health. He himself labored most as oons- o or ly, a he po sa at disinfting the remise a B and localities where the fever revailed. g heThe chief agent employed for purpose ti ed appears to have been arbo `e acid, pub t no or in combination, and if e fruiti have A ly been suh as this ical entleman claims t .- for it, we may begin bope that the t sat despotic sway of yell w fever is about to a ad show terminate. We rember to have hearda . sithmilar esects attributed it to the same case d Ic- during the epide s of 1867, wujen it was d stated publiclyh were ha the hands employed si- In laying th Nieolson pavement were a to totally exs, at frm the fever, although t tt part of the duty consisted in turning up re he the soil. pitch or tar used in this pro- at he cess is said to contain the essential sa ed harppears of carbolic aci d, l- Tbe re was a great outcry made by our p e le ited, newpaper reporters at that time, a nt d thi e cruelty of disinfecting sick pa tn ms with such a substance, and it was we nd t. blieve, dropped We are hand employe d on -that the authorities have acted.with more gs - firmness on this occasion, and hope that Fm ry the experiment will result in at least a ar d practical if not a total relief rorom the ter- to e rible reign of yellow fever. - If any means mi k. part of holding it in consistan be ded in rd, no pe y, matter how expensive, the vastly increased ye le prosperity of our city will be assured. It csi is easy to note the heavy losses in ev nkind w in of business ustained this fall, twth l-standing the limited prevaenc e bythe dis- . ease. The publi will never he reassured of Sno matter how many cteason withay pass me r without the fever, until resit bee at certain e . tbat disinfectant or other deved, no pe Smatconquer the epidemnsive, tendency of reaed no ea prosperityred. It be Sisa too Itethe A v ExoLes i Waa.The of presentwaranding thas gone fa prvalove that the is 1 t. ease. The pmblia will neser be reaosued, of English army w ald be quite powerless in el n yno matter Tow many onilitary pasrles wiof th e present day is bg imes sad short ware. The English resource itted for on - quite an oppthe epidemsystem. En sad is - nTh capable of a competition which any day the may be foreed upoajher; and the ation is St Snaturally anxious and W aisied. The Spatriot, armh seems an e ~tllrovethat e SEnglish prese weakness and ta . _powerl in e- o. anye uropean daereit. To militarreediue T of lties present themday : big armiowever shortad as the Irish Nemesis ever follows the heelfor of pable of alish competigislation, re Ireland day t e the first d poty. Most athe men tio the th a ed what couldly anxo and dithome The s-he a rule which has represed every Irish meter- - prme has seriousln dmind ish e o r oures dit . of employment. But iuppoee tile obstacle nisa tee for etully overeme-t Twppose the preed Th d cut army were ot disbemseded, but that re- ScEruing were diseontinued-are the Irad is wi I People to be daily drilled adn instructed real r i the art offwar I Tbis diuoalty is not sothe armeasily disposed of. Will the sons sad Sbrother of our people, without distinction Sof clae ch, ght for a eountry which is hardly witi a cseomamon country The leveling social Whd Sandcce pllcal sovtem of Ppappo must pre-Thb Scede t army wetary syteot m'in England. Levell cr ing up will folly met th necessity diwit *i this case. Let the stakq ofh peasant bo I and saborer be rai•d, so that they shall bela Iave something bappier than an existence of toil spoeked out d by day. Let thean trade of the country encourage,so that calia our merchant. shall have equa facilities with those of Liverpool and London. Let the natural resources of the country be de- com veloped, our fisheries, our mineral wealth, to Ci our manufactures. When Ireland enjoys the reward of her own industry, when her Ti harbors are busy and her railways extend- a ed, when Irishmen manaue Irish affairs, M. I and our landed gentry and native nobility y live at hoame, in a word-when Ireland is a on nation and no longer a province, then her bear sons will fight in the ranks of a pEatriot army in the cause of Ireland and freedom. -D tubli .'eema. the TOUCmNo IN4IDENT.-- This morning the was doors of the suburbs of La Chapelle and La Chi Villette were crowded with emigrants from con the villages near Paris, seeking refuge thit within its walls. There were probably two thousand vehicles of all kinds, who hade, been all night in the plain of ta. Dens, s waiting their turn to enter when the draw- to o bridges should be lowered. At six in the his morning all would be in line to pass through and thie gate. An aged priest, seated in a cart, bu was attending to a poor sick woman, ano stretched out on some mattresses. A farmer perli on a cart loaded with potato sacks said to no him," Why, father, are you hero " detal "Yes, my parishiboners have come here; hon I must look after them." by t "And you have brought old Mother Ger- prob vais, the poor paralyzed woman with you. turee "Certainly," said the priest; "could I freo leave her without any one to pattend to marti her I" -ivelj The clergy, Brothers of the Christian ye trs Doctrine, and in fact all religiousn commu- nities, vie with each other in act. of charity An 4 and zeal towards theo wounded and the sick an n general. They not only preach charity se we nd good worke-but practbee them to to heir sep. Suilest exteant. IMaoplpierg, of Natohes, has artred i.n Yek bek I team reme. 5zedle veiw gf..me Uag•aa • e, . 6ed4 speoke hougb their above pae- 1 ass. l.on were mere We i ent prd- ! side i8to blame the t piatistg with I n their Meds aaid' th a behind, or I In- even fore takiog spedal Inhtersl ia the I fortunes of a eo try whyi ws'eae their 4 otly own, but whoe it come to b *im- aeeIa an uendlongI ist otuto o BlA. I sty, merek and os Willlar to' inasste omth t to anneasti of Alsasee aid Lorraine, ks I pon tialtnt sir Ameriosmal m looks very 4* t be we, as an American, had formally na- iint Used in Brail and given 4e Emperor t has understand tai we were hli nIs loyal i , subjeet, we should feel a deloacy in mend- t in g to our former eountrymen of the United h is States inach urgent appeals' upon questions P erd of their own policy as could come properly ti us- only from absent citiens. What right has P sea a foreigner to take and express such a sin- - ed. gular interest in the affairs of another na- tI see tion t and are not German Americans as h r much foreigners in Germany as any other o0 bAe Americans ? Does King William regard tl me the vehement enthusiasm of American Ger- 6 he mans as the sentimental interest of foreign ti to admirers, or does it not rather impress him rd as the effusion of a loyalty that was merely fa ise disguised for appearance sake , o1 rai As dubious as is the Americanism of at ed such ardent sympathasers, what can we ei re say of their republicanism in' the nature of or gh the advice which they send They pass. T up resolutions, and forward them to the Prus- of -. sian despot, urging him by everything n( lal sacred not to cease warring against France nI until Alsace and Lorraine shall have been ae ur permanently severed from that country and tlf Ie, annexed to Germany. Here is ardent re- tb ak publicanism for you. 'The people of these so re two provinces are to be shifted about from as ad one allegiance to another without any re- on re gard to their own preferences or politics. ow at France is pow a republic, and these people thi a are-to be changed, not only from Frenchmen raj r- to Germans, but also from re'publicans into to us monarchists. This manner of disposing of as io people without consulting them may suit an Ad very well with the Royal notions of two hie It centuries ago,. but hbat very little aflinity cal id with the advanced doctrines of Democracy I a- pr Republicanism. cal I- Republics in their purity know nothing ma I, of conquest. Their doctrine is that govern- for ma ment is based on the consent of the gov- be n erned, not on the might of conquering sw ' arms. A republic expects to make States, ma - not provinces, of all its territory, and to En be strengthened by the unforced patriotism cio of their population. If the new territory inl e is to bring only' an unwilling and hostile P> n element into its bosom, then it will be a Th e source of weakness in a government based nni t on the popular will, and is not wanted. the This is the trne theory of the republic, al- the y though many contend that the United the States departed from it in the policy of en- -A forcing the participation of the Southern bes -States in a Union which they abhorred. per - This may or may not be, but it is not a tua Sparallel case with the one of which we to s write. In the case of the Southern States, stre a they were already in the Union; if they lug had not been, a war to conquer and annex fore them might have been considered in a very oft different light. It might have been recog. mun nised by all as thoroughly unrepublican. sort The case of Alacse and Lorraine corresponds 4 with this 'upposltion, and not with the The reality as it was. * Yor How cah our German friends reconcile ing the proposed disposition of these countries , with their own asserted Republicanism Cas! Where is the consent of those who are to Coll be governed, or in what respeet do they at differ from the flocks of sheep which will Ami be transferred along with them without intr being in any wisi consulted said We have constantly contended that Radi- a calism is the most proscriptive form of 'Ke despotlim, and this proposed policy may that compog very well with it, but ought not be to call itself Republicanisml had Tea Caunc in CanA.-Abdauctio of add a ifiasionary.-A young French missionary, prov M. Lebran (arrived in China six or seven fami years ago), visiting some Christian sta- there ,tone with a small party of servants and have bearers, took up his quarters on the even- 8omb ing of the 4th of March in a little village ago, natbed 8iu-tehan, between Tsen-y-fou and Prot the Ou-kia-bo river, prayioce of Koai- lady tcheoa. On the 5th, at daybreak, the party of th wan suddenly attacked' by a gang of and a Chinese freebooters belonging to the ame had I country, well hrmed, and aboiut thirty or were thirty-ave in number. The whole of the fore I poor priest's luggage was cleverly abstract- by t ed, hbls companions driven away, and him- band self led along narrow paths over the bills tingu to tome unknown place. On the return of dash his servants to Siu-tchan, next day, tedious Unio and protracted investigations were madel. story but as nothing came of them the serv,,,- i'leu annolhnced the sad newsto the Father Su- ", "r, perior of the mission at the college. The then u-rorltunate missionary is doubtless nor Amex detained by these banditti in some lonely gener house or in some secret cavern; perhaps novac by this time he has been killed, but more lady 1 probably he is undergoing atrocious tor- Gen. aures in order to extort a good round sumn the fa from himself or from his friends. The martyr dying on the scaffold is compara- In 4 tively happy. Take notice of this fact, O placed yetravelers in Western Chinal Gree An agd prlest, hoe Rev.. Menard, from St. Henria piece do YadoeeeL s dea in Not, Dameatreet, Montreal. angul lasYweelk, jt s• he Iea signetanl the stret ear to menta Trh xas* 3ev. Azwnihop of Baltdmore, whae lest LO' beaLwru n was at re isda ,n isvo. H wu Ia Muach ex• oleas alb, we w ~ .0 - -Ph. 'naves whics te slug ebor% .. r . I!be e of thefast. -anored Islare e ak- to heel tbeimpslas tp atbe th S p .es .the world fo Menso uo as where upon the aU• l eiy is tdh y, psobldms whihb the h4i- eslidh oietydiltio nt ou r ho oetdnry- Po hare prty rio the world for solut•on ant- hrie tr saasy iste for a nobility o I1 pasa- thefr any advantagert is royaltyt They pre- see it operation a oonst iatlon _ ioh with lnfines thp wealth of the frits ith- 4, or arrow limites and redoese-te popw- i te tion, as a mass, to power-ty. Pov- their erty is the sore which has eatent into a ple. English society until It has become an- Bl u ralyaable, and some remedy must besought ratibe 'overty is there, not because England is a poor, for England is the richest country of oA. the world. Her conquests and colonies edbraee nearly one haundred and t hy mil- sa- lions of mien,-and'their trade is made tribnt- eror tary to` her easlth. The fiits of their oyal labor fill herl aips and warehouses with tud- treasure. But poverty has placed its irona ited hand upon the hearts of nine-tenths of her lone population, because of legal and constita- erly tional restriotion which prevent enter- has prise, labor and wealth from pursaing their sin- natural channels and attaining their natural na- results. For several centuries the people s as have groaned under the increasing weight bher of. these evils, while zealously holding that aid they enjoyed the fullest freedom and the ler- best balaneed government of pay peoplein sign the world. him These loyal delusions are, however, rely fast vaaishing before the bitter sofferings of the population. Men are growing restive of at being treated as clods of dirt, while gild- i we ed nobility roll by in ampered state with- a of out vouchsafing a notice of their existence. 1 ras This world all do very well some decades a.s- of years ago, but there are so many men I ing now-a-days who have seen how human i nce nature is respected in other countries,i sea especially in Ameriea, that new ideas on 1 md those subjects are beginning to diffrse I re- themselves among the people. There are eae some who cannot see why a plebeian is not W om as good as a lord, in fact what right any r re- one has to be a lord except by his e i le. own merit and ability. This class, of b ple thinkers appears to have been gaining i, ten rapidly of late, while. evidences of dislike e to to the reig ng familiy multiply as rapidly a of as do proofs of personal independence a nit among the untitled. The Prinse of Wales is ri wo hissed, and the Queen is advrsed to abdi- as ity cate. I cy If the Republic succeeds in France it a cannot be long delayed in England. We a ng may say that royalty is the established v ._. form of government there and ought not to Ii iv- be overtarned unless by some grievous in ng wrong it has forfeited its claims, but it rs so, may be replied that royalty and nobility in to England are both responsible for the atro- fe sm cious wrong of dehily poverty and sonfer- ti ry ing under which the masses suffer. The w lie people cannot suffer more thas they do. a ra They wold have more to eat and wear ed under the despotism of the Russian Czar la d. than they have in enlightened England, ri' sl- therefore any change would be welcom to pr d theam. ao n- A republic In Great Britain would be the In rn best solution of the Irish question and reh d. perhaps it might be arranged to the ma- BC & tual advantage of both sides of the channel, o re to form a confederation. It would give ori s, strength and secarity to the whole, form- At my nag a nation which would be able to en- so ,x force respect for its rights in every quarter r3 Ky of the globe. If the French war continues Sul • much longer we may see something of the an s. sort. wa ma is "Taura STRANGER THAN FICTION."- bo The St. Louis correspondent of the New exP York Freeman's T ournal relates the follow- lea le nlag incident: B d Some years since the Archbishop of of I Cashel, on entering the parlor of the Irish cox SCollege at Rome, to pay a visit to Dr.t o Kartz, its president, fond him in conver- V sation with a Ily, and to whom, a as of 11 American lady, " Mrs. Kearney," he was P introduced bythe presidenet. "Kearney e g said the Bishap; " that is an Irish name, andl ndeed, tht of family which once - existed in Cavhei , and ware u nown a the ai f 'tKearney of the Crozier,' from the fact d Shat by them was held a piece of the cro- cal ier of . Patrick. The tradirtion was that Un becanse a piart of the croaier of St. Patrick had been given to them, there woauld al- tha ways be some of the family Catholioc. But," es added the Archbishop " that has not a..d proved true, for the only member of the rUim Sfamily in Csshel,.a religiouns, recently died ver Sthere, and gave to me the relic, so that I r o 1 have bad it encased in my own croier. he Some of the family emigrated, many yeagry Sago, to America, bat, as I learn, became s Protestant. I so happened that the very to lady o whom he then srpoke was the widow bei polte desendantof thaese same Kearneys, bi f and all of her family, sloave her haband, mhad become Catholic in France, while they gen were on a visit, just a ciuple of months be- resi fore the death of the religious mentioned the by the Bishop. The Kearney, her has- strn band, was Gen. Phil. Kearney, wro dis- too tinguiLIed himself by his bravery and his moo wdash in w e Mexican War, and again as a J Union general in the late rebellion. This fron story, strange as it may seem by its coin- wha , idleuces, is true, and was communicated to late mc, with leave to publish it, by one who read Pos5 the notice, in my last letter, of a young mar American lady, daughter of adistinguished sacr general of the American army, now a a novice of the Sacred Heart. The young oatt lady thus referred to is a daughter of this Gen. Kearney, and belongs, thorefore, to was the family of the "Kearneys of the Crozier.2 T In criticizing the Lincoln statue lately placed in the Central Park, New York, taiul Greeley says the original " was a master- a m< piece of ungracefulnese, long, awkward, upoc angular and loose-jointed." Not compli- gere mentary to the Great Emancipator. bat Love, in all its shapes, implies sacrifces, still Much meat be conceded, much endared, if word we woald love. fled.' C - rI the whole- Baro •_q m) Im midolaao, sgn oensi, eon , urtod idoh doe.. by areaete ri* eob symiptoms of tE into sprig up l ane, ip ir(while hole Erods of ion. pretty mig to her rsohe . I I la i ano. ,pri d g in .•er Poil- clathaims, Spne h ib n to spring up l t tl ` a i ue Italy.r Garibaldio iah These threeousands of u y of are ii nged repabr res )a he ar uprising ia pro fabl mta- with cotnd, tres, Bead the ter- be far stronger with i as heir -- or rather three or four art Confederation , thi the Brti*~ ,ple no~ is. Leapotem is bor git repnbliecaism oflthe West i tcolhslisaion may be with the and their battle gronhd in Sin Russia. The 8tate of war is d. rer, favors the work of revolution, ags an excitement which in ive furnishes an example which with ld- is necessary to the inception of th- work.- If the. Franco-Prusls ce. tinues much longer, we do not see les whole of Western Europe can be wen from participating in the ian from making it .a grand conb es, despotism, as represented .by . on liam, and republicanism, as" 4 i see French arms. ire As we have-said, it is rats ,hi s .,. lot monarchical governments of Eurps do me* ny recognize at least the possibility of"- his lisue, and prudently check the moves ib . of by ending the war immediately. Baiti " ng is the will of a divine Providence that the ke era of the Christian Republic should be •i••.. ly augurated now, of course it will be be; ce natural that a useless monarchy should is rush upon its own destruction. Russiais ir-" - li- schemes of her own to forward whyle the war leaves her road open. . Vietor a-,. it manuel is afraid to act lest a foreign-war re would leave him exposed to doinestic re- td volt. Austria fears Prussia, and England to loves to see France humbled. Beside, an gs immediate peace would leave France a it republic, and this is what they all oppose. in Thus it happens that oonflietinginterest, -. fears and prejudices combine to prevent r- the course which policy and humanity me would both dictate and to open the way for o. a general European Republic. Jefferson Davis, the ex-President of the late Confederate States of Amerioc, has ar- I, rived in Dublin. He comes to Ireland as a o private individual, and we have no desire unnecessarily to intrude upon his psivacy.' We -trust that he will enjoy his visit to e Ireland, and carry away with bim pleasant d recollections of the country and its people. Bat the name of the ex-President of the once mighty Confederate States is histori- cal, and his presence calls forth such melm- e ones of the mighty struggle from whieh America has just emerged, and in which so many thousands of our own fellow-coun- try-men lost their lives, that we may be r pardoned if we moralise a little on such a s subject. The struggle which the South, under the presidency of Jefferson Davis, waged against the North- was one of the most terrific and obstinate on record. It is impossible for us to withhold our tribute of admiration forthe ability d ed by the ex-President, and the heroicdbo ottheI - leaders and soldiers of the Confederatilon. But while yielding a well-deserved tribute of respect to the personal hobreter and- conduct of the Confederates, we ennoto forget that their cause wa inherentl un- ast, and that their triumpl4 wouldbave Sh triumph of, wrong aganst rit, of decldle against progre, of lavery against freedom. Demanding fieedomfoe thempselves, they fought that they might rivet the chalns of slavery the more rmly upon their fellow-men. Had they been vi- tors they would have extended shelr "pe. coliar institution" over every 8tate in te SUnion. Withl slavery would have eomne Its inevitable fruits, for it is a peeulireg o tbhat scoaured system that it blassIs Ue energies alike of enslavers and es.laved a..d never fails to bring decay and ultimat ruin in its trac.. We in Ireland hate sL- very. Desiring freedom ourselves, we al- so wIsh it extendad to every race under heaven. From the firet, therefore, we sympathised with the Northern States; we sorrowed when they were defeated, we re- jolced when they were victorious, and with them wet•riumphed when the South at last being oonquered, slavery was for ever abolished in America. But, thanks to the generosity of the North, and the noble resignation with which the South accepted the inevitable, the traces of that Srrible struggle will soon be obliterated. I•e u"s, too, forget them, oronly remember tm in order to profit by the lassons they coatin. * Jefferson Davis will find a hearty welcome from all classes of Irishmen, no matter with what side they sympathised during the late war, and will learn, we trust, that it is possible for them to entertain a hearty ad- L miration and reenect for the devotion, self- sacrif•ce, and ab.lty which he displayed in what he believed to be a just cause, while, at the same time, they rejoice, for the sake of our common humanity, that that cause was not successful.--Dubli, Freeman. There is a beautiful legend illdstrating the blessedness of performing our duty at whatever cost to our inclinations. A beau- tilul vision of our Saviour had appeared to a monk, and in lsilent bliss he was gaslng upon it. The hour arrived at which he was to feed the poor of the convent. He lin- gered not in hie cell to enjoy the fision, but he left to perform hi. humble dtuy. word.s straed I wes fled ." / . • .. -. - -- C rOV TY IN aENGLAND.-" One who has been t *ice round the world " informs the g reatI British public, in a letter to the Lon- r don times, that, while war is raging, and we are watching the course of events on the Continent, "thousands of English peo- ple are fghting a sterner battle" with a foe S~idmitting of neither compromise nor nego- Stiation-the deadly foe of want. He says that "thousands o1 anxious, starving souls are standing on the banks of the old coun- try, looking with longing eyes on the abun- dance of the new which they cannot reach." d Is not the hand of Heaven in this ? Little mort than twenty years ago that same 2ntuw grew glefnl over the agony and ,anio-flight of the poor starving people of Ireland. It saw nothing but matter for great joy and hope in the suffering that caused such sad depletion. Can it be mer- ! ry now over the small trouble that stares it in the face at home? In that land of Sbrsting purses and plethoric charities there are thousands starving and longing to go away, but neither the individual for- tune nor the national fund is' drawn upon to give them help. They and their like may cause some trouble yet to the good, easy men of England. It is a trouble far * more-liketly-tsoies-l ie tha to diminish as Time goes on his way, bat the worst that may befall will bhardly match the horror 1 that has been known in Ireland. TaH CHURCH IN EcuADon-Arrieal of the I New oBishp.-Lo .Andes of Gusyaquil re- I ports the arrival at that port on the 6th ult., pev-teamer Pacific, of the new Bishop I of the Diocesae Senor Lisarsaburn, as also I the celebrated Father Bernardino, of the a Carmelites, with six religious of the same a order, and by the same steamer various a Sisters of Charity. Festiral of St. Igaattiu.-The Festival of St IgOatius was kept .with great religions sentimenwt and respect by_ the people of Guayaquil, the Jesuit Fathers being held [ in very high estimation. The Bishop of t Berisa officiated pontifically, and Father - Navarro preached the panegyric of the t holy saint. The great church was crdbded to excess. .MOTHER OF GoD.-The Church Weekly-• ' Ritualist-in reply to an opponent who as- t sorted there was no warrant in Soripture a for calling Mary the Mother of God, says: s " Looker On" dodges. Ho dare not an- , swer our questions. We repeat them. Does " Looker On" believe in the Deity of Christ Is He not God Isnot St. Mary His mother? And if At...Wary is the mother v of Him who is God, is she not then the mother of God When "L o oker On "an- Il swers these questions, we hball be glad to h" show him the like courtesy• and reply to his " interrogatories." D Champagne drinkers have great cause to ni mourn, in consequence of the districts pro- in ducing that wine and the great depots ar Rheims and Chalons, with tslr.amillions o u bottles, having been occupied Jay the Ger- 3 man armies. "u 4'
