MANY FACTS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 6, 7 June 1873, Page 11

MANY FACTS.

tt!B Ho -INBBB has written an autograph letter to her Majesty the Queen of Wallis Island in Oceanica, an Island which was one of Bishop" Viard s fields of labor, in which he sends his benediction and thanks for her noble efforts for the propagation of ihe Catholic Faich.Fifteen Catholic missionaries are already at work in the Mission of Norway and Lipland. A Paterson, N.J., minister took for his text the other <lay, the inquiry : "Is the Devil Dead ?" If the reverend gentleman is anxious to know he had bettor read the New York daily papers fora week. There are said to be nearly one million children — About one in five of the population — now in attendance at primary • :hools in Ireland. General de Charette, late commander of the Pope's army, and the Hero of Orleans, France, has seat his sword to the Shrine of St.. Anne d'Auray.- Father Leineweber, of Munich, has been sentenced to six months imprisonment, for the crime of protesting publicly against the odious prohibition recet.tly made by the Bavarian Government to boys and young men, preventing their serving at mass. Mr Froude, iv the Christian Intelligencer says, speaking of the ''Ue viral of Romanism :" "In America, in Holland, in Switzerland and in France, wherever there is most political freedom, the power of Catholics i* increasing. The Protestant spirit of the sixteenth century is taking refuge with the half regenerate' despotisms." Truth must out, even from the most prejudiced. James Tyler, aged 105, was fined sdole. recently, in a Chicago court, for beating his own son, aged 80. William of Germany fosters in his army that feeling of honor which insists upon duelling. He compelled several officers of. a Polish regiment to resign for having agreed not ti> fi^ht duels in any case. The Viceroy of Egypt intends to erect a pyramid which will astound the world. The immense blocks of stono requisite will be cut from beneath the cataract of the Upper Nile. At the Home Rule meeting in Manchester, Mr Hennessy stated that there were 45,000 Irish voters on the register in London. There are in England 34 Catholic Peers, 49 Catholic Baronets, and 37 Catholic members of the House of Commons. The heaviest brain on record was recently found in the skull of a London bricklayer who could neither read nor write. Its weight was eixty-seven ounces. This is a nut for the Phrenologists. Rt. Rev. Wm. H. Elder, Bishop of Natchez, is said to be one of the deepest thinkers and best speakers in the American Hierarchy. The nuns of the Order of the Sacred Heart in Prussia are to be included in the operation of the anti- Jesuit law. Lecky in Maemillaris, nccUses Mr Froude of " partiality, intolerance, and intemperance." "With a recklessness of consequouces that am not be too deeply deplored ; with a studied offensiveuss* of language that can only be intended to irritate and insult, he has thrown a new brand of discord into the smouldering embers of Irish discontent." — i-Dr. ScliUeman professes to have found live toads, three thousand years old, quietly snoozing fifty-three feet beneath the ruins of ancient Troy. Henry Ward Beecher's salary as pastor is 25,00JJ0U. ;as editor of the Christian l/nion $10,000 ; and as lecturer, etc., sly §10,000 more. Mr R. K. Boyle, of Brooklyn, N. V., is favourably noticed by the Journal of the Telegraph as the inventor of a system of railway signalling by electricity. Richard Spencer, hanged at Kirkdalo, England, for the murder of a woman, was born in jail, and his father was hanged for murder. Mm Priestly, of Des Moines, sued a li-quor-dealer for selling liquor to her husband, and recovered §2500 damages. Mr Froude's last contribution to literature is an essay iv the Christian Intelligencer, whicn he calls, the "Atlractiens of Romanism for Uneasy Protestants." — — Peter Bayne says, in the Boston Watchman and Reflector (Protestaut), that "while the English middle class is still strongly Protestant, Roman Catholicism is making rapid conqnests both iv the upper and lower strata of British society." He attributes this growth of Catholicity to the wisdom of Archbishop Manning, "who," he says, "understands his business." Of course he does : ail our bishops do. A contributor to the Boston Pilot says : I heard J. M. Belew read, and it certainly was a treat of the highest order. Ho is, without exception, the best of the kind I ever had the fortune to hear. If there is any secret in his success, it is that he belougs to the land of Cirrran, Grattan, Eduiand Kean, and Mackliu. The prers speaks of him feelingly, as an " English Reader," and so he is, but only in the sense that he is a reader of English. A correspondent of the Unioers recalls the fact that out of 3 3,000 priests iv Germany there have been only thirty apostate 3, a fact worth the attention of those who, as Bishop Fraser did lately, speak of the Dollingerists as one of two parties into which the Catholic Church, ia split. The clergy of Bresku lmvo sent to their Prince-Bishop an address, declaring, in presence of the new projects of law, that they, "are firmly resolved to remain inviolably faithful under all circumstances, and even to death, to the oath taken by them as priests." True to the last. At a fancy fair in Amerioa, a paper is published. There is a banner valued at 200 dols. to be voted to a temperance society, and a silver mounted revolver to be donated to the policeman leceiving the largest number of votes. It is reported that the Prussian Government has given an order to several firms in Birmingham, for 2,000,0J0 small arms, and that the firms to whom the order has been entrusted have been sworn to secrecy. Fraser v. Burke was an action by a newspaper reporter to recover damages for an assault committed by the police during the Phoenix Park affray. The verdict was given for the claimant, £100 damages and costs. — Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, lately, in discussing the point so often made by Protestants, that the prosperity of any country is owing to tl)e Bible, said ; " I doubt very much whether, if the coal beds of England suddenly failed the reading of the Bible would supply the deficit. I think the coal beds of England, her insular position, and the hard genius of the Anglo-Saxon race, have more to do with her prospsrity than the reading of the Bible, though that ia very good." large number of people emigrating to Texas have drawn a

set of confidence men, who travel on the trains, get into the good graces of the ignorant emigrants, and succeed in swindling them out of large sums; these confidonc • men haveplied their nefarious business with great success, and in every instance succeeded in evading detection or arrest. The third volume (London edition) of the sermons of Archbishop Manning has a remarkable introduction, which throws a flood o? light on the position of the Church, in relation to the hostile government of Germany. In England the work of conversion 'has continued during the past year with steady and 'not' very §16w stepsl Th« number of converts in London alone has been upwards of two thousand during the past ; ear, and has during the past few weeks increased very much. The number would be increased h.d we priests sufficient to look after those who are hesitating as to thi< future step in tlvo right direction. In various parts of" the country different Anglican clergymen h.ive been received into the Church, to the number ofsonie ten or a dozon, and at least as many ladies connected with the various Anglican Sisterhoods have followed in the same direction. Nof only "y 110 ". but Anglican clergymen, have been seen devoutly hearing Mass at Catholic churches, rather than go to their owii places «f worship, where what they consider heresy was taught. - Father Burke says that the "spirit of association" is one of the characteristics of the present age; thut the "dovil m.ust be met on this ground, and as he works by associations, so the Church must work by associations." In almost every country Catholics appear to be acting upon it. In Rome, France, Germany, England, Ireland, and the United associations have beeu formed differing in names, the details oforganizution and designs, but all having the one object of drawing closer the bonds whi^h unite the children of the Church. Bishop Ollathorne has defined Liberalism thus : Liberalism is a lotally different thing to liberty. What, then, ia Liberalism,? Liberalism is jthe claiming by a man of all rights for hiTself, and the exclusion of bis fel W-men from the same rights. That is Liberalism. - — The London Telegraph has found a fact for some future history by Froude, namely, that most navvies are Irish, and generalises that the navvies on board the Northfluet were therefore Irish. The Telegraph 'n no doubt anxious to own coinftatriotship with the men who would not allow the women into the boats. A Journal replying to tho Telegraph says :— " Only two names stand conspicuously from the nameless crowd. One of theM is that of tho man who in his furious terror dared the captain's revolver, rushed into the boat, and was shot by the indignant captain. His name was Thomas. The other is tint of the brave fellow who stood to the last by the captain o.i the deck of the sinking ship, and who was afterwards picked up alive HU nimo wis Diniel' M'Carthy. It requires little knowlddge of the nomenulituro of Ge«t Britain to say which, of these namos was tho Saxon, and which the Celt."-*— The Boston Pilot reviewing an article on the Republic of the future, vhich while the Teutonic element is made mucli of, the Celtic is entirely ignored, says :— " The Celtic element of our population is its strongest element, because it possesses the strongest principles and the highest guide— the Catholic religion." In plain words— for we believe it implicitly — the Irish immigrant of to-day is the seed sown for the strongest American tree of the future. The Irish Catholic element, with all tha faults th-it England's foolish and criminal legislafciou has temporarily fasetied to it, is the strongest and hopefullest element in the United States." M. Lachat, Bishop of Basle, speaking of the fruits of the propagation of the faith, said : — " Through the intrepid evangelical labors, pagin countries are converted to Christ, new Christian congregations are for.n-d. Our Missionaries are in China, Japan, Siam ; they are to be found in Polynesia, in Madagascar, in India, in Abyssinia, in Guinea, in Senegambiu, ia North and South AmeYica 5 us far awaj as the snows of Greenland and Iceland, and'througli the whole extent of Europe, wherever, in fact, there is a soul to be saved.