The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-17 00:00:00

BROTHIR lONATIUS.-EXTILtORDINARY
PIiuCENDINGS.

It was announced that Brother Ignatius would
=at the mooastery at Norwich on the nativity of the
Virgin, but a sore throat prevented his doing so. It
is stated that the Rev. Professor Owen, of Jeans College,
Oxford, officiated in his stead. The rev. gentleman preached
from the words, "The dew of thy birth is of the womb of
the morning." On Wednesday there was a special service
at the monastery in celebration of the " exaltation of the
holy crone" Mr. IL F. Webber, third son of Mr.
C. B. Webber, of South Brannocks, Dear Barnstaple,
Devonshire, has jut taken the monastic vows: he will be
known in the " English Order of St. Benedict." as Brother
Branoock. An intuit of two plan ham this week been so-
lecoaly dedicated at the mousier, to the service of Got The
infant was dressed se a Benedictine movie* in white serge,
and he ia now left altogether to the care of the minks, and
will not see his mother sgaio until he has forgotten her.
Brother Ignatius esgaged to deliver a course of lectures at
Newometle-on-Tyne, on the peculiar principles and
which he is seeking to introduce into the church of
Beg . There is no doubt that be is in • week state of
health iodated by the austerities which he has practised.
During the oast week there have been some alterations at
the monastery. It appears that the building dignified
with this title was let some time since by the dean
and chapter of Norwich to • gentleman who was saheb.
quently admitted • member of the " third order." This gam.
tieman seems to have sib-let the tenement te Brother
Ignatius sad the " Esglish order of St. Beeediel." Oro of
the brethren who recently quitted the order wet received
as a visitor at the house of the member of the " third
order;" and as this was in direct violatioo of the rules of
the order generally—and at any rate of the will and plea-
sure of Brother lgostaus— the member of the "third
order" now finds himself excommunicated. A lady
who refined to lend her assistance to the establish-
meat of a nunnery at Norwich has also bees
excommunicated. The discipline mauttanied by Bro.
Bier Ignatius is very severe ; aid when any of the
moths address him as superior they have to make • very
abject obeisance. One of the monks, Brother Augustine,
hie addressed • very extraordinary letter to • lad named
Hasa, whom the mouths have endeavoured to attract to the
mosastery. The letter is published in the Norfolk Newt d
to day, and is as follows

u Feast Sancti Cruis, 1864.
"My duties Child,—l want you to promise me that
during the Superior's absence you will strive as much as
possible to keep from doing wrong, and that you will daily
pray for God's grace sod help to (alit the same. Yoe
will not be allowed to be here much. if at all, as 1 rather
expected you would, so that I am obliged to write that
which I should have preferred saying to you in permit ; but
oh! my dearest one! you will never realise how much I
really love you, and how wretched I feel all day without
seeing you. My love for you in sodomy, so tender, that loan.
sot laser eves to be aspirated from you. and when I do see
you I have such a heavy weight at my heart, and you seers
so careless and light-hearted and so takes up with
others, and all this makes me worm. Then the Superior,
who is always having fresh favourites and liking., seems so
dreadfully afraid even of 011e's looking at you, that 1 am per-
fectly obliged to look calm and indifferent woes my heart is
literally burning for you. This love I Dever telt fora lino,
creature beside yourself, it seems to consume me, and it is
quite a comfort to write it down to you. Sometimes I think
you know your power over me, you give me such searching
looks, and whet do you meet with in return ? What but
the moat earnest, burning, tender look of love, u pure se
that of angels. Were I and you in the world I would lavish
every care, every affection upon you that money or
time could procure, every wish should be greti-
fied if possible. Sometimes ou Sunday. you have
eat in your cassock sod cotta looking so like
srs aogel I could have worshipped you. I have
striven to collect my thoughts to the solemn service
on which I was engaged, but no ! you hoppers to
look my way whilst I am at the lettere, and then I grow
quite °untamed end my breath even seems to fail, and I
wonder if you have ever seen it and guessed the cause.
Morning, noon, and night, nothing haunts me but your
sweet darling face ; in my very dreams I see it ; io s word,
I am infatuated and wretched arid wish sometimes I had
sever seen you. I feel I could clasp you in my arms and
never unfold them whilst I looked into the depths of those
sweet eyes. It is very week, perhaps wicked, to write like
this, but I ociu-oelr know what 1 am doing, and feel forced
to write sod tell you all this. Suppose I were to go away
from here (as they want me at home) when my novi-
ciate is up in February. 1 feel that leaving
you would make me intensely miserable and per-
haps break my heart. I know you will only laugh at me.
Is there as one here loves yea like this! No !I am sure
of it. Why do you avoid me, or outset yourself with
a pessimists's:el What lam now going to say must be a
secret to everyooe if you don't wish me to be troubled. I
want von ou day (I will tell you the lion) to go to
Mason's, S. Gibe', to have your portrait takes. Dear
mama shall seed the postage stamps to you so that it will
not be with say mosey from bare. I will muse, your
having a cotta sad cassock without asyose's knowing hare
what you want it for. Bare this. I would not hare any-
one know anything about it for the world, sod if you have
the slightest respect for me you will do so. Ido Sot ask it
out of love, for I know and feel you have sone for roe. and
this, indeed, is the reason of my misery. Good bye, deer,
sweet child, end my prayers shall ever be for your pesos
sad happiness.—Your affectimate brother in Xt.,
" Auarnprom.