The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

feasor and writer, M. Charles Le Normant, then gave
us a most interesting bat rather long account of
the state of Catholicity in Greece and the lonian
Islands, and of the massacres of Syria, of which
he Was a witness.

The celebrated preacher, Pero Felix, whose ap-
pearance is of the meanest, it may almost be said
from his stature and looks, then delighted the
audience for a few minutes with his clear and
easy comments on the formula of St. Augustine,
quoted by the Cardinal of Malines in his open-
ing speech, liberty and charity. He called in
the end for acclamations for Jesus Christ our
Lord, whose divinity is insulted and denied ; for
his vicar, our Holy Father, Pius IX, and for cur
Mother the Holy Catholic Church. These calls
were heartily responded to by the assembly, which
adjourned for half an hour only at halt-past six, to
resume again its meeting to receive the reports
from its various sections.

MALINES, September 3, 1864,

Today the Catholic Congress was terminated by
an early meeting, at 8 a.m., at which several reports
on the state of Catholicity in different countries
were made, among which the most remarkable was
one made by a Brazilian, Senor Marc de Costa, in
which he stated the interesting fact that although
slavery still existed in his country, yet it had be-
come very much mitigated by the religious spirit of
the population, and by the laws which allowed the
slave to purchase hie own freedom from his earn-
ings, after his daily legal time of work for his
master. He also stated that charitable associations
were organised in- all the towns of Brazil for the
redemption of slaves. Letters were read ad-
dressed to the Congress by the editors of the
Annali Cattolici of Genoa, by the distinguished
historian and statesman, Cesare Cantu, of Milan,
and by Signor Casoni, the eminent journalist, of
Bologna. The venerable President. Baron de Ger-
lache, then read his farewell address, in which he
expressed the special gratitude of the Congress for
Mgr. Dupanloup's appearance among them, and for
his discourse, which will leave such a marked im-
pression in Belgium. The members of the Congress
then adjourned to the cathedral church of St.
Rombaut, where, in presence of all the prelates who
had been present at the Congress, and including the
Bishop of Orleans, the Pere Felix preached one of
his usual calm, beautiful, and clear discourses, which
are as interesting in print as in speech. He took
for his text the words, " Be trustful, I have over-
come the world." He spoke of the life of the Church
under the three respective states of persecution,
protection, and neutrality on the part of temporal
rulers. The sermon lasted more than an hour. Hie
Eminence the Cardinal of Malines then ascended
the pulpit to address a few farewell words to the
assembly, and concluded them by reciting along
with those present the acclamations of blessings on
God, his holy name and attributes, on his holy
Mother according to the flesh, and his holy friends
the angels and saints, which are so constantly in use
at the end of religious ceremonies in the churches
of Rome.

A banquet, in which nearly three hundred of the
members of the Congress were gathered, tcok place
at the Petit Seminaire, in the great hall of the
general meetings, at 2 p.m. At 5 p.m. and later,
till ten o'clock, the railway station was filled with
groups of friends parting from each other, all with
the expressed hope of meeting again in old Malines
at a like happy gathering. As already announced,
through our previous communication, this re-
assembling of the Congress at Mslines will pro-
bably take.place only two years hence: