bond; it was to have renounced the three great temptations of humanity, the flesh, money, and the independence of the will; their crime is to be engaged by special and inviolable obligations even until death, in the service of God and of their neighbour. This is their guilt; it is on this account that legislators of a civilized country, a country which calls itself Christian, and which is indignant if it be styled infidel,-declare the men of whom I speak, them and those like them, incapable of taking charge of youth.

I say it confidently, that such a proceeding as this, would not take place in Turkey. No, if Father Lacordaire, or Father Ravignan went for the purpose of opening a school in Turkey, it would not be closed, under the sole pretext that these men are dedicated to God by three vows which for several ages have produced such wonders.

And who has told the authors of this exclusion, that these men represent not a host of similar characters? They both belong to two orders-who have filled the world with their virtues, their genius and their martyrs. Whence is derived the right of sealing up this consecration, energy, and talent in its pure and fertile fountain? Whence originates,-who has given you, the right of saying in the name of France: I have vigour, talents, and devotedness equal to all that. It is said, these men possess all these qualities; but no matter, I am not disposed to make trial of them. They are Frenchmen too: no matter, let the bosom of their country be closed against them! They demand liberty and equality let liberty be, as regards them, a chimera, and the protection of the laws a lie; or rather, let them be free as those liberated from the galleys, and rank with the convict released from justice! Yes, gentlemen, such is the case. The slaves of the galleys, convicts and monks, form the Categories of your exclusion.

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Ah! gentlemen, is it then so difficult to tolerate what you do not love? to leave to others to do that for the performance of which we feel no relish ourselves and which no one imposes upon us? Shall we never know anything but self? Can nothing induce us to pardon a difference of origin, opinion or views? What! although ever and over all, the victors,-always exclusion, always intolerance! But why then do we not comprehend that whilst we are wounding the liberty of conscience in our fellow citizens, we forge claims for our own conscience, and that the terrible sword of violence and persecution, which is ever dreaded by ourselves, may one day be turned against our own hearts and transfix them by its envenomed points?

To me it is a subject of astonishment and regret to find a measure like the one in question, presented to the nation under the guardianship of the men whom I behold on the bench of Commission and on the bench of ministers; and to see them obedient to the blind clamours and furious menaces which have dictated those clauses of the present bill, which the law proposed by M. Guizot in 1836, indignatly rejected.

And to you who ascended to power, and who are yet in possession of it,

what shall I say-have you not experienced the fury of those clamours and of those menaces? Have not you more than any others in France, been a butt for similar outrages? Have you not witnessed arrayed against you a conspiracy of all those odious falsehoods, of all those last resourses of a hatred which is incapable of seeing anything, or of hearing anything, and which, it would seem, must be satiated at any cost? What fate should be yours if all those members, who, whilst they oppose you in politics, are yet just towards you individually, were so debased as to render themselves the plastic instruments of those furious passions and falsehoods? Yet on your own part you permit that men, vastly more irreproachable than what it falls to the lot of public men to be, whilst mingling in the orgies of political life,—you permit those very men to be the victims of an atrocious conspiracy, well known to you as such! The most eloquent of your party has recently, said with a noble pride, that however men may accumulate injury upon injury and calumny upon calumny, these shall never mount up to the level of his contemptuous regard. But when those injuries and calumnies are directed against the poor religious, whom none can convict of a solitary act, or word, meriting reprehension during the thirty years they have been in France, then they accquire importance, and they rise not only to the level of your regard, but they surpass it, they overwhelm you, they carry you away in their career. What eight years since you scorned to do, you propose to-day; you defend it, nay it has your assent. Is this a proof of strength or weakness? Is it onward, or is it retrograde? Honest men, and men of feeling will answer. In vain, I look for the proud victor of the unjust clamour of the multitude; I discover only their echo, their accomplice, or their docile instrument. Ah! if after so many lessons, after so many mistakes, a new proof were still needed, of the moral misery of power in our day, and of the melancholy compensations of political greatness, I should ask for no other than that cruel dominion of circumstances, which makes the most eminent men faithless to themselves, compelling them to bow their heads to prejudices in which they share not, to assume the yoke of passions which they despise, to immolate to antiquated animosities, to false charges, to calumnies a thousand times refuted, on the altar of mistrust, jealousy and fear, innocence, liberty and religious devotedness.

PILGRIMS OF MARYLAND.

But if the past was gilded to our adventurers with the sunset gleams of regret, clouds and darkness rested on the future. The perils of the sea in a rude age of navigation, lay before them. Their path was beset by the pirate and the public enemy. The dangers of the wilderness awaited them in America. They might be swept away by diseases of an unknown climate. Colony

after colony had been cut off by the' savages in Virginia; and, from their countrymen who had at last gained foothold there, they could anticipate no friendly reception. Yet they embarked with unwavering confidence in Him for whom they suffered, and who had forwarned them "that they should not accomplish all the cities of Israel," till His second coming. They embark but not alone. The stewards of his mysteries are with them to animate by counsel, and confirm their strength with the appointed means of grace-four members of that sacred band, whose footsteps are found in every land that has been trodden by the missionary-the disciples of Loyola, who, with the dauntless courage of their sainted founder, have waged unceasing war with the powers of darkness, for the last three hundred years-those wonderful men, who, accomplishing the apostolic injunction of being all "things to all" for the salvation of souls are alike at home in the wigwam of the savage, or the palaces of kings, the hardiest of the rude, the most refined among the polished, the most profound among the learned; whose reports of the missions are at once the journals of science, and records of God's dealings with the human soul; who are to-day found exploring the precious manuscripts of the Vatican and to-morrow on the way to bleed with the martyrs of China, to catechise the boors on the banks of the Niemen, or the Blackfeet on the prairies of the west; at one moment forming youth to learning and virtue in the quiet shades of their academies, and the next leading the crowds of the city, from the dusty walks of business, to the cleansing waters of penance, and reclaiming wanderers to the ancient ways, less by the coercion of a resistless logic, than their simple exhibition of the beauty of holiness!

In happy illustration of that celestial harmony that filled their souls, our wanderers loose their canvass on the anniversary of the day when the martyred virgin who for fourteen centuries has been honored as the patroness of sacred melody-"the sweet inventress of the vocal frame"-received her crown. With pious care and in accordance with the beautiful ritual of the Church, they commend their ship to Him whose power supplied the failing faith of Peter as he walked on the waves of Galilee! Escaped from the dangers of the port and channel, they gain the open sea; and for a few bright hours the deceitful element presents a smiling aspect. But the shades of evening are deepened by a rising storm--it increases--their pinnace displays the preconcerted signal of distress and is suddenly lost to view! They mourn their companions with that peculiar grief that is only felt by those who find themselves alone on the waste waters. But a closer calamity soon engrosses their attention. Their own stout ship is nearly engulphed. The solitary sail she spreads is rent by the fury of the blast; and no longer obedient to the helm, she rolls at the mercy of the waves! The strongest hearts are shaken! the mariners avow their danger and their fears! the exiles betake themselves to prayer, and prepare as for the last confession! At this awful crisis Father White bows down before his God, as he artlessly remarks, "with less than his usual tepidity." He represents the object of his expedition--to honor his Savour's blood in the

salvation of barbarians; and as the Lord stood at night by the shipwrecked Paul, bidding him to be of good cheer, so an interior light of present consolation, and assurance against future danger on the voyage, is poured on the soul of this humble herald of the cross. He rises from his knees, and the storm is already abating!-Read.

ILLINOIS.-Chicago.-On the 16th of July, the Feast of the B. V. M. of Mount Carmel, the Rev. Jeremiah Kinsella, deacon, was raised to the dignity of Priesthood by the Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter, Bishop of Chicago.

On the 5th of August, the Feast of the B. V. M. ad nives, Messrs John Brady and John Ingoldsby received the tonsure, the minor orders and sub-deaconship, at the hands of the Bishop in the Cathedral at Chicago.

KENTUCKY.-The Catholic Advocate gives an account of a Spiritual Retreat, held at the Theological Seminary of St. Thomas, in the Diocese of Louisville, for the clergy of that Diocese. The retreat was opened on the 25th of July and terminated on the 3rd of August. It was attended by thirty-one clergymen and conducted by the Very Rev. J. Timon, C. M., whose usual zeal was signalized in a special manner on this interesting occasion.

On the 4th Aug. the Rt. Rev. Bishop of Nashville, celebrated a pontifical mass in the church of St. Rose, Washington co., during which, this worthy Prelate, by special permission of the Rt. Rev. Bishop of this Diocese, conferred minor orders on three, and sub-deaconship on two, of the Community of the Dominicans. The names of the young men promoted to subdeaconship were Albertus Clarkson and Joseph Ryan; they will shortly commence their theological course and we hope be prepared for the priesthood when they shall have reached the canonical age. Beside the Dominican brethren, they were present on the occasion, several of the Rev. Fathers and Scholastics of the Society of Jesus: among them the talented President of St. Mary's College, Rev. Dr. Murphy, S. J., who kindly consented to deliver the panegyric of St. Dominic.-lb. OHIO.-The German Catholics of Cincinnati provide for the poor of their own people with true Christian solitude. They have a treasurer who receives his funds from the donations of the charitable and from the collections in the churches. A committee of two in each ward investigates the claims of the applicants and draws on the Treasurer for such sums as may be required to relieve the distressed. In this manner they discover all who are really in want and provide for their necessities.-Cah. Tel.

NEW YORK.-Ordinations were held in St. Patrick's Cathedral by the Rt. Rev. Coadjutor, Bishop Dr. M'Closkey, on the 13th, 14th and 15th ult.; and the following gentlemen were raised succesively to the orders of Sub-deaconship, Deaconship and Priesthood, viz :-Messrs. John Sheridan, Thomas McEvoy, William O'Reily, Sylvester Malone, Mathew Higgins, Patrick Kenney and George M'Closkey.-N. Y. Freeman's Journal.

The Bishop of New York has issued a Circular to the Reverend Clergy and faithful laity of the Diocese for the purpose of calling on their co-operation to commence, forthwith, the foundation of a Theological Diocesan Seminary for the Diocese of New York.

The difficulties which have for some time existed between the Trustees of St. Louis Church, Buffalo, and Bishop Hughes, have been amicably settled. VERMONT.-We have often been called upon to witness the spread of Catholicity among the New Englanders. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Fitzpatrick, Coadjutor Bishop of Boston, visited lately the State of the Green Mountains. At Castleton, Rutland co., the sacrament of Confirmation was conferred on no less than 116 persons. At Middlebury, where a fine brick church is in progress of completion, 140 received the same sacrament. This is the first time, says a correspondent of the N. E. Reporter, that a Catholic Bishop has visited. the Southern counties of this State, and a few years ago there was not one Catholic to be found all over this district.

UNITED STATES.-New Churches.-During the last month the opening of the following new churches have come to our notice. In the Diocese of Charleston, on the 1st of July, the handsome stone church erected in Washington, Wilkes co., Georgia, was solemny dedicated to divine service, under the patronage of St. Patrick, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Reynolds. In the same Diocese, a bank has been purchased at St. Mary's, Ga., for the purpose of a church. In the Diocese of Vincennes, a new church was blessed at Faux-Chenal, about eight miles from Vincennes, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop de la Hailondière, on Trinity Sunday. In the Diocese of New York, the corner stone of a new church was laid at Perth-Amboy, N. J., by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hughes. In the Diocese and city of Detroit, the corner stone of a new church was laid with much solemnity on the 29th of July, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Le Fevre. This church is destined for the rapidly increasing English congregation, and intended to be 170 feet in length by 70 in breadth. New churches have also been commenced at Southport, in the Diocese of Milwaukie, and in the Diocese of Boston, at Randolph, Mass.

WEST-INDIES.-In the last number of the first volume of this Periodical under the head of Catholic Statistics of the West-Indies we observed, that Catholicity made wonderful progress in these Isles, especially those under English sway, and that thousands lately have been added to the fold of Christ. In proof of our assertion, we borrow the following particulars from the Univers of Paris, concerning the State of our Holy Religion in Trinidad. There