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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 166, 11 July 1873, Page 2

A Pbiest living near Drogheda has died in great agony from mortification caused by the unskilful paring of a corn on one of his feet. Swift said that the reason a certain University was a learned plaee was that most persons took some learning thore, and few brought any away. The use of bleached celery as a salad at meal times is strongly recommended by the Practical Farmers' Newspaper, as a certain cure for nervousness and palpitation of the heart. Another horse disease is reported by tho Talbot Leader.— " A disease for which there is uo. assignable cause has made its appearance among the horses in this and the surrounding district. The symptoms are general, weakness and sleepiness, an inability as it were to do half tbe work ordinarily expected, and this notwithstanding good feed and careful grooming. Mr Foley, a farmer at Mount Cameron, has recently lost a valuable horse from this unexplainable debility. A Eomish Paper on the Influx from Ritualism to Rome. — The following significant statement appears in tbe Catholic Register: — In England the work of conversion has continued during the past year with steady and not very slow steps. To name or even indicate individuals who have been received during the past twelve months would be foreign to our purpose. This much we may say (and say with truth, the fact being known to many Catholics in. London), that the number of converts in London alone has been upwards of two thousand ior the past year, and bas, during the last few weeks increased very much. Many, as we are in-, formed who, have joined us were ali but Catholics, and who had little need of instruction before they made up their minds to take the final, the long-deferred, but the all-needful step. From every Ritualistic congregation in London there is a regular I stream of converts drifting towards us, and tbe number would be increased had we priests sufficient to look after those who are hesitating as to this future step in the right direction. In various parts of the' country different Anglican clergymen j

have been received into the Church, to the number of some ten or a dozen, and at least as many ladies connected with the various Anglican Sisterhoods have followed in ,the same direction. Out of every twenty Anglicans who joined the Catholic Church, not less than seventeen have been prepare/1 for tbe step by the teaching tbey bave heard from Ritualistic pulpits, and by the practices they have got accustomed to in Ritualistic churches. * * * Not only laymen, but Anglican clergymen, bave been seen devoutly hearing mass at Catholic churches, rather than go to their own places of worship, where what they consider heresy was taught.