Cabmnal Manning presided over a meetingron Clerkenwell Green in connection with the Total Abstinence League of the Cross. About 6000 persons were present. Cardinal Manning said there were two hundred 1 thousand known Catholics in London, and two hundred thousand more children of Catholic parents who had died in the workhouse, ■whither they had been drawn by drink, and who were of no religion at all. This would not have been the case had the League -of the Cross been established twenty-five years ago. His Eminence was escorted by a detachment, of .his newly-formei civilian bodyguard in uniform. ;-..., - A young man says: " You can get xound the girls at Vassar easy enough— they suck-gum bo readily |and are bo Vassar-lating." ' ...
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3204, 27 May 1879, Page 3
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120Untitled Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3204, 27 May 1879, Page 3
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