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THE PRESS, SEPTEMBER 5, 1857.

—one Polish—one Hungarian—one Flemish—and one
Swedish. In Milan alone there have been 17,004) copies
sold, and in England somewhere about 20,000. Of all
versions of this beautiful book, 100,001 copies must have
been sold up to this moment.
We could have wished that the following
passage had not appeared :
In the January of the ensuing year an earthquake
laid desolate a great part of the province ; and thus a new
field was opened up to the charity of the good Archbishop.
Everywhere he hastened to the relief of those who were
the most distressed, especially visiting and comforting
those districts whose inhabitants had no shelter left save
what was afforded them by rudely constructed huts. The
faithful pastor suffered in his dock, and made their mis-
fortunes his own. We huve, in our own times, seen
heavier calamities full upon a portion of a proud empire,
whose statesmen and whose press treat with contempt the
rule of ecclesiastics ; but, notwithstanding the pride and
power of that empire, we beheld its innocent and un•
offending subjects dying like mangy dogs upon the public
highways, while efforts, clumsy and unsyrnpathising, were
being tardily made for their relief. It had been well for
Ireland if, in the days of her tribulation, a Mastai had
presided over the councils of her rulers—or if there had
been less of the spirit of Political Economy, and more of
the spirit of the Gospel.
Such is not the language which an educated
and independent Irishman should have em-
ployed to England. How did the Irish mem-
bers act when Lord George Bentinek, sup-
ported by a large party of Conservatives,
endeavoured to obtain employment for the
Irish masses by a great railway scheme ? The
Irish M.P.'s returned by the priests pledged
themselves at Palace-yard to support the
motion of Lord G. Bentinek, and yet " the
whip" made them vote with Ministers in three
days afterwards. In order to relieve the Irish
famine, the whole policy of the Government
was altered ; Protectionists admitted that the
ports should be opened, although by doing so
their own interests, personal and political,
were seriously compromised. The whole policy
of Government, and the tactics of the chiefs of
various parties, were altered to meet the Irish
famine. Immense stuns were subscribed by
private munificence in England, and all this
was done after England had previously been
vituperated and reviled by the demagogues
and priests of Ireland, and after• its people
had been held up as " Saxons," and everything
done to alienate them. At the time when
there was the cry of the "famine in the land,"
the O'Connell tribute was under process of
collection, and--but these are unpleasant
recollections, and we leave them with the
remark that never did any country suffer more
from priestly misgovernment than Ireland.
This volume can be accepted only as a bold
Papal pamphlet. There is no necessary con-
nection between the present Pope and the
various hospitals and colleges founded by his
predecessors ; and the " Institutions " of
Rome are in nowisa superior to those existing
in other Romanist cities, like Vienna, or
Brussels, or Lyons. The ease attempted to be
made by Mr. Maguire breaks down. He
should have proved, which he does not, that
the " Institutions " of R')me are better than
can be found elsewhere.
Entering Rome, " for the first time," on the
31st of October, 1856, the author composed his
work and collected his materials in too brief a
time. None but a practised writer, with con-
siderable readiness and energy, could amidst
the turmoil of politics have produced so much
matter ; and whatever may be thought of it in
other respects, the work is a strong proof of
the stial of the author for his Church, and the
practical energy of his mind. The exaggera-
tion of its panegyric will be the best antidote
to its fallacies.

Chow-Chow. Being a Selection from a Journal
kept in India, Egypt, and Syria. lly tlio
Viscountess Falkland. London : Hurst and
Blackett.

" ' LADY SAHIB, want fine cheese ? Here
" " Uncle Tom's Cabin." I got good pickle.
" There box of French gloves. Take soap,
" Lady Sahib ?' Then he tempts the lady's-
" maid with a gay ribbon, and by degrees the
" contents of the chow-chow basket are dis-
" played. Side by side stand a bottle of
" anchovy sauce and one of tincture of
" rhubarb; there lies a Wiltshire cheese, sur-
" rounded by goa lace. English tapes, and
" French ribbons. There are bottles of bac,