CATHOLICISM IN HIGH PLACES IN ENGLAND.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1880, 12 January 1875, Page 2

CATHOLICISM IN HIGH PLACES IN ENGLAND.

Mr Gladstone's course of argument toward Archbishop Manning in the controversy, set forth in the Herald special telegram by cable published to-day, iwill tend to produce astonishment in the most aristocratic circles in England—in his own family particularly, his sister having been converted to the Catholic faith in the year 1868jand remaining a devoted mem-, ber of that communion.

Many of the noblemen and gentlemen who held offices in the recent Cabinet constituted by Mr Gladstone and Earl Granville, and in the later Ministries of Earl Russell and in the earlier ones of Mr Disraeli, will be surprised for the verysame reason. Earl Granville was President of the Council in the Russell Ministry. Lady Georgiana Fullerton is His Lordship's sister. The Duke of Argyll was Lord Privy Seal. His Grace's Mother has just died a Catholic. Sir George Grey, ex-Home Secretary, has a Catholic sister-in-law, wh» is even a nun, and other Catholic relatives. Mr Monsell, ex-Vice-president of the Board of Trade, is a convert to Catholicity. Sir Roundel! Palmer has a Catholic brother. Sir Robert Collier has a Catholic aunt. Sir John Djike Coleridge has a brother a priest and a Jes ait. Of the Stanley-Derby Ministry it may .be remarked that the Duke of Marlborough's sister-in-law, Lady Portarlington, is a Catholic. Lord Stanley's sister, Lady Emma Talbot, has a brother-in-law a priest, and several other Catholic relatives. Sir Stafford Korthcote is related to the Very Rev. President of Oscott College. The Earl of Longford had a brother who died a priest of the Order of Passions, being also the brother-in-law of the Marquis of Exeter. The Earl of Mayo's brother-in-law, the Hon. H. W. Wyndham, is a recent convert to the Catholic Church. While one of its Attor-neys-general has two brothers priests of the same communion, and the Catholic profession of the Earl of Ripon, recently President of Her Majesty's Council, is fresh in the minds of our readers. — NY. Herald.