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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 20, 13 February 1891, Page 31

Oae moie conversion from " Father " Abbo-t's Church, Clapham, is chronicled this week. Mr. Cirtmel, a prominent member of the choir of Christ Church, has, with his wife, been received by Father Mevens CSS. 8., at St. Mary's, G.apham. Within a comparatively short timj four Anglic m curate 3 have passed through this Kitualistic centre into the i rue Fold.

St. Louis his at times been c illed the Rome of America, and judging from the s'atisvic* r.c>n ly col'ectj i by Chancellor Vander Niankn tb it cry can boast ot a 'ruly gieit Catholic (.evelopment. >h. has 47 Citiulic churc <e-. att nly 1 t>y 82 pric-st^, neirly 18,000 chudr- 1 !! in the parish schools whuh ire un ler the guidiucj of an efn-ient tody of religious and lay ttach r-, ami shi is well suppliel wnh monasteries, convents, ana other religious charitable institutions.

In cons quence o the forcible sj^estions concerning the great nte i of au efficient L'ata >lie Pies?, get forth at the Spanish Cath >he Congress and closely followed by the :eeent lett-r vi the Hoy Father wlvcn touchei on the same question, Catholic pen idicals have beeastartel ia each diocese in Portugal. Some of the Portuares • newspapers have recalled the words uf Piu3 IX • "'One good Cith lie jjurnahs!: is of greater valu ' and accDmulishes more th in half a doz >a prea'jhjr^"

If Dr. Koch's i iscovery turns out to be all our fancy has painted it, a heavy blow (•• Pnysician ' writes) wil. hive bien detlt at the anti-vmsectionists : for thu discovery has been made by means o vivisection. It will not O'lly furnish ai unanswerable vindication of the value of that method of investigation, but will probably lead to af demand on the pirt of English patholog sts for some relaxation of trie restrictions which a prefect hamper ihom as compared with their Continental colleagues. Pasteur and Kch ! France and Germany are leaving Englandbeb.nl. There is another poi'it worth noting. Dr. Koch had no sooner finished with his guiuea pitjb and expressed a wish (or human subjects than hundreds hastened to offer themselves. It is true they came voluntarily and for their own good ; but they are liberally submitting themsjlves to vivisection experiments, and showing that, in this case at least, men are wilhog to undergo the same paais which they inflict on others.

The manifesto of Mr. Parnell (says Truth of December 4), is a considerable relief t-) mi, fjr I have alway> hal a liking for the man, an i I 'vas greatly shocked when I found that he was subordinating the cau-e of his country to his personal ambition. Nothing ein no rnorj r-vi lent t.an that he lssuiljrinsj from cerebral excitement, ani thft" he i a no r . consequently, responsible for his actions. Were it not for this I s u .ou'id have tj regard him a* me me meat of iu;d. Conti leituil communications hi regard to a Hornj Rule Bill naturally to.'k place between himsolt and Mr, Gladstone. The one held full powvri from England, the ottVr held fu 1 poweis from Ireland to arrive at some arrangement alvmta^eous alike to the Empire and to Ireland. But the communications were, in their nature, private. Neithei could honourably allude to them without the consent of the other. Six months after receive these pretended revelations Mr. Pirnell lauded Mr. Gladstoue to trie He now, on account of the revtila'iouo, as he would have the world believe, declares that Mr. Gladstone is not to be trusted, and that he is cjnspmng against Home Rule,