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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 19, 6 February 1891, Page 27

An International Order of Chivalry has been instituted by Lro XIII. at ihe instance, as it would appear, chiefly of the Rishop of Grenoble, Mgr. Favu. It is called the Order of the Servants of St. Peter, and is designed by th« Holy Father as a reward for services to his own person and to the Church. The Order will include Chevaliers, Commanders, and Grand Crossec. Cardinal Manning will contribute to the forthcoming volume of " Chambers's Encydopaslia " articles on the Immaculate Conception and Papal Infallibility. Iho article on the Jesuits in the same volume will be written by Father Anderledy, tho present General of the Socie'y of Jesus. Messrs. Chambers's conduct in going to Catholic authorities for the chief arlicUs on Catholic topics contrasts favourably with that of the editors of the " Encyclopaedia Britannica," who gave a free hand on such subjects to the most unfair of modern controversialists, the late Dr. Littledale. Every week we have accounts of the opening of new parochial schools in the dioceee of New York and the dioceses of Brooklyn and Newark. The priests of this neighbourhood are earnestly pressing forward the work of religious education. While scores of new schools are opened every season, the standards are being raised, and pupils from our best easily worst those from the best State schools, as has been revealed in several recent public contest*.— New York Freeman .