The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1865-03-07 00:00:00

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

CdRDINAL W/EIRMAN'S SOOOEBBOR —The Pall Man
Gazette sayß it is runionred that Dr. Clifford, the Roman
Catholic Bishop of Clifton, will succeed Cardinal Wise-
man as Archbishop of Westminster.
TAR LATH CARDINAL WISHMAN.—We understand
that Mr. .J. F. Maguire, M.P., author of "Rome and
her Ruler" and "Father Matthew, a Biography," is
engaged in the preparation of a biographical memoir of
the late Cardinal Wiseman. Such a work could hardly
be in the hands of a biographer better qualified for the
task. We have not heard who the publieber of the
work is to be, but we believe it is quite certain that
such a volume is already in course of preparation.- -
Morning Star.
The following is the text of the notice sent round to
the Roman Catholic clergy, announcing to them the
death of Cardinal Wiseman, Its Latinity strikes us an
peculiarly simple and elegant :
Pi&ati et cleinent!se DiYinte Gommenda, sanctisque
sacrificiis adjuvu autumn carissimi in Christo Pettis
nostr. Bminentissimi et Reverendiasimi Domini

Tit. S. Pudentian; S.R.E. Fresh. Card.,
Archiepiscopi Westmonast,rioneie, qui placidibaime
obdormivit in Domino jimdiu suspirato, die :v. Feb.,
I.IDCCCLXV. Vale, magne Prceinl, in vita nobilia,
nobiliasime in More; spud DUMiIIIIIII memento noiari,
et coele,.ise viduatie sponseo hue. _ _

It is not a little remarkable that among the Protestants
present at St. Mary's, Moorfials, to do honour to the
Cardinal's obsequies, the Table includes the name of
Lord C.implsell, the son of the Lord Chancellor, who
etteen years Ago vowed vengeance, at the GuilThali
dinner, 'spinet the Csrdinars hat. Nor is it void of
signillsance that Dr. Mantling, in his fueeral panegyric,
[should have Acknowledged " the kindly generous,
noble-he-teed sympathy of the people, the public men,
and the public press of England—a great people, strong
and bold in its warfare, but humane, chivalrous, and
Christian to sueh antagonists as contend against it
worthily."—Guardian.
Two YouNG LADIES TAKING THIS VEIL. St.
Godric's Catholic chapel, Durham, was crowded on
Monday morning. the greater portion of the congregation
being of the fair sex, to witness the ceremony of two
young ladies taking the veil. The Right Rev. Dr.
Hogerth, Lord Bishop of Hexhani, officiated on the
occasion. The young ladies were members of St.
Godric's Convent of Mercy attached to the church. A
procession issued from the vestry, preceded by a youth
bearing the crow, followed by nearly twenty virgins
dress-el in white, their waists bound by coloured sashes,
and their beads crowned with circles of laurel and
flowers. Then followed the bishop, nccompanied by the
Very Rev.. Provost Pratt and Dr. MarshalL The fair
postulants, young and beautiful, came nest, dressed in
bridal attire, white veils from the head to the feet, and
a circlet of flowers round the head. fl-y wore
attended by the lady superior and other sisters of the
order. The priests having ranged them-elves round the
altar—the bishop in the centre, and the fair postulants
kneeling at either corner of the dais—all with books
and lighted tapers in hand—several prayers were said
and services intoned by the priest, and the customary
hymns sung by the choir, one of the sisters presiding
at the harmonium. Dr. Marshall then delivered •
discourse from the words "It is good for us to be
here." The sisters were then conducted from before the
alter and taken to the vestry, where their flowing locks
were cut eff, end they returned clad in the eonibre vest-
ments of the order, which from contrast rather heightened
their beauty than otherwise. They then went to the
altar, when the bishop blessed them, and sprinkled
them with holy wate' rd r and they afterwas prostrated
themselves on their faces for a considerable time,
whilst several prayers were gone through, the bishop
again sprinkling them with the holy water whilst they
lay. They then arose, and each tenderly saluted the
lady superior and the other sisters Mass was after-
wards performed, the proces ion left the church as it
had entered, and the ceremony terminated. The sisters
will now be known as Sister Mary Evangelist° and
Sister Mary Ignatius.