CARDINAL WISEMAN. [From the "Illustrated News," Nov. 2.]

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 521, 12 April 1851, Page 4

CARDINAL WISEMAN. [From the "Illustrated News," Nov. 2.]

The Cardinal has pi'\ Jt<\, for the present at least, the height of tiis ambi'l >. How eooh the Papacy may be vacant, it is impossible to foresee ; nor ore we aware that his Eminence immediately aspires to that, but the choice of the conclave, if it seek a rigorous i Pope, may yel place the tiara on his head. Cardinal j Wiieman is now in his 49th year, having been horn, a« we are informed by a correspondent, to wnom we are indebted for a memoir of the Cardinal, at Seville, on August 2, 1%2. He is descended fiom an Irish family /long set -led in Spain. At au early age he was bi ought to Enghind, and sent for his education to St. Cuthbert's Catholic college, at Ushau, near Durham. From ihence, having gone through the " humanities" with success, he was removed to the English college at Rome, where he distinguished himself by an extraordinary attachment to learning. At the age of eighteen, he published in Latin a work on the Oriental languages ; and he bore off the gold medal at every competition of the colhgei of Rome. His merit recommended liim to his superiors ; he obtained several honours, was ordained a Prieit, and dubbed a Doctor of Divinity. He was a Professor, for a number of year", in the Roman University ; and then Rector of the English college where he had achieved bia earliest success. The Cardinal came first to England after he had reached manhood in 1835 ; and in the winter of that year delivered a series of lectures on the Sundays m Advent. From the moment of his arrival he attracted attention, and soon became a conspicuous teacher and writer on the side of the Catholics. In Lent, 1836, he vindicated, in a couise of lectures— delivered at St. Mary's MoorfieMs — the doctrines of the Catholic Church ; and gate so much satisfaction to his coreligionists, that they presented him with a gold medal, struck by Mr. Scipio Clint, to express their esteem and gratitude, and commemorate the event. He returned to Rome, Rnd seems to have been insttumentnl in inducing Pope Gregory XVI, to increase the VicarsApostolic in England. The number was doubled ; and Dr Wiseman came back si coadjutor to Bishop Walsh, of the Midland district. He was appointed President of St. Mary's College, Oscott, and contributed, by his teaching, his preaching, and his writings, very much to promote the ipiead of Catholicism in England. He was a conuibutor to the Dublin Review, and the author of some controversial pamphlets. In 1847 he again repaired to Rome on the affairs of the Catholics, and no doubt prepared the way for the present change. It was resolved on in 1848, but delayed by the troubles which then ensued at Rome. The Cardinal's second visit to Rome led to fuither preferment. He was made pro-Vicar Apostolic of the London district, in place of Dr. Griffiths, deceased. Subsequently he was appointed coadjutor to Dr Walsh, translated to London, cum jure et successions t and in 1849, on the death of Dr. Walsh, he became Vicar Apostolic of the London district. To him the Catholic body acknowledges itseU indebted for the completion and dedication of the Cathedral in St. George'sfields, described in our journal of July 15, 1848. It seems, however, to regard his last service as the greatest. In August he went again to Rome, •• not expecting," as he sayg, "to return ;" but " delighted to be commissioned to come back" clothed in h'u new dignity. Hi* success in negotiating the le establishment of the Romish hierarchy amongst us in all its splendour, seems to have gratified his Holiness. In a Consistory held on September 30, Nicolas Wiieman was elected to the dignity of Cardinal, by the title of Saint Padentiuna, and. was appointed Archbishop of Westminster. Under the Pope, he is the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England, and a Prince of the Church of Rome. As a Cardinal, he has sworn temporal as well as spiritual allegiance to the Pope. Whether that wilt be consistent with his allegiance to the Queen, or whether he hold himself to be an alien not bound to pay her allegiance, we know not ; but he is accused of having had removed from the Canon of the Mass that portion of it in which the priest prayed for the Queen. He even caused, it is said, all the missals of his diocese to be changed, in order to expunge the obnoxious passage. Tnat Cardinal Wiseman possesses great abilities and a ready and fascinating eloquence, is evident ; but we doubt whether lie be over scrupulous, and we are certain that he Ins all the ambition of the " Romish priests," Fu»m his previous success, and his very marked hostility to the English Church, his Holiness could scarcely ! aye nominated a person to the new dignity he has created less acceptable than Cardinal Wiseman to the noii- Romish ; artion of the people. His Holiness has carried out ar» obnoxious partitioning of England in a most obnoxio 1 manner. No statute is, we believe, violated by the Pope or the Cardinal but there is an arrogant exercise of Papal power, requiring to be checked by a strong- expression oj opinion. It is obviously part of a system, for the last papers we have received from the United States mention thai the Romish Church there has been similarly extended tnJ elevated. The Bishopric of New York has been converted into an Archbishopric. Cardinal Wiseman is the seventh English Cardina —if he can be called English, having been born in Spain, and passed the greater part of his life in Rome —since the Reformation. Tue other six were Pole, Allen, Howard, York (a son of the Pretender, who was never in England), Weld, and Acton (member of an English family, we believe, long settled in Naples.

Cheap Mode of Filtering Water.— As efficient a filter as can possibly be constructed, may be made in a few minutes by any person, and at the cost of a very few pence. Procure a clean flower-pot of the common kind, cloie the opening iv the boitom by a piece of sponge, then place in the iniide a layer of small stones, previously well cleansed by washing, this layer may be about two inches deep» the upper stones being very small ; next procure some freshly burnt charcoal, which has not been kept in a damp or foul place, as it rapidly absorbs any strong smells, and so becomes tainted and unfit for such purpose; reduce this to powder, and mix it with twice its bulk o( sharp, clear, well-washed sand ; with this mixture fill the pot to within a short distance of the top, covering it with a

layer of 9mall nones, or, what is peihapi better, place a piece of thick cloie fl.mnel over it, large enough to tie round the rioi of the pot outside, and to form a hollow inside, into which the water to be filtered is to be poured, and which will be found to flow out rapidly through the sponge at the bottom in an exceedingly pure »iate. The flannel removes the grosser impurities Hosting in the water, but the latter absoibs much of the decaying animal and vegetable bodies actually dissolved in it ; when it becomes charged with them it looses this power, hence the necessity for a supply of fresh charcoal at inteivals. — Monthly Observer, No. I.

Tlie following changes in the stations of regiments in the Home establishment were to take plare during November:— The 2nd (Queen's Royal) Regiment, from Newry to Clonmel ; the loth Light Infantry, from Fort Geoige to Stirling ChsUb ; the 27th (Lintskilling) Regiment from Stirling Castle to Belfast ; the 39th Regiment, from Belfast to Newry ; the 52nd Liaht Infantiy, from Liverpool to Limerick ; tlie 63rd Kegiment, from Ashton to Cork ; the 74th Highlanders, from Clonmel to Fermoy« there to form their service and depot cotnpnnies, preparatory to their embarkntion for the Mediterranean ; the 79th Highlaners (depot), from Preston to Berwick the 8 lit from Beriviek to Templemore ; and the 90th Lighl Infantry, from Manchester to Cork.