The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-18 00:00:00

Cardinal Wiseman's Pastoral on the Birth
of the Young Prince.

TLe following pastoral, in which a thanksgiving
on the birth of the young Prince is commanded,
was read yesterday in all the Catholic chapels in
the diocese of Westminster, by command of Cardi-
nal Wiseman

" Nicholas, by the divine mercy, of the Holy
Roman Church, of the title of St. Padentiana Cardi-
nal Priest, and Archbishop of Westminster.
" To our dearly beloved brethren and chitdren in
Christ, the clergy secular and regular and •he faith-
ful of the said diocese,
"Health and benediction in the Lord.

"Dearly beloved in Christ, it has pleased Divine
Providence to anticipate our prayers and desires by
the birth, almost unexpected, of a child granted to
the heir apparent of the Crown, and so destined in
the order of nature to occupy, we hope at a yet
distant period, the throne of this realm.
" An interval of anxious suspense has been thus
cut short, while the assurance from day to day, that
nothing has occurred to lessen the first joy of this
event, has completed the happy inauguration of the
new year. _ .

" To the continuance of heavenly favour which
has hitherto protected them we fervently commend
both mother and child. And we earnestly pray
that He, who at this season would receive his birth-
day offerings, however regal, only from the hands
of the wise, will infuse into the heart of the Royal
infant that wisdom which Solomon 'preferred before
kingdoms and thrones,' together with which all
good things' as well as ' innumerable riches' came
into his possession.—(\Visd. vii. 9.)

" But we feel sure that, while praying for the
speedy and complete restoration to health of the
Princess Mother, that she may be 'as a fruitful vine
on the sides of the Royal house' (Ps. cxxvii. 3), you
will turn your thoughts and sympathies towards
one still more august, who, after her, has here a
larger claim than any one else to maternal joys ;
and who, after a long period of faithful mourning,
may perhaps exclaim, as did Lamech on the birth
of Noe, This child shall comfort us.'—(Gen. v. 22.)
" Although so soon as these happy tidings of
God's merciful dealings with the nation reached us
we ordered that thanksgiving should be publicly
offered up in our pro-cathedral, which was done on
Sunday last, we feel this to bo an occasion for a
more general expression of gratitude, and therefore
hereby enjoin :
" That the Te Deum, with its versicles and
prayers, be sung in every church and chapel under
our jurisdiction, after high mass and at benediction
of the Most Blessed Sacrament, on Sunday next,
the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus.

" Given in Westminster on the octave day of the
Epiphany, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
four, and ordered to be read at each mass on the
said Sunday.

" N., Card. WISEMAN.
" F., Canon SEARLE, Secrotary."

Death of the Duke of Athole, K, T,

We were apprised last evening by telegraph that the Duke
of Athole expired at 2 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at
Blair Castle, Perthshire. From the protracted illness of the
Duke and the nature of his disease--cancer in the throat—
his friends have for some months past been prepared for this
event. The late Right Hon. George Augustus Frederick
John Murray, Duke of Athole, Marquis of Tullibardine and
Athole, Earl of Tullibardine, Athole, Strathtay, and Strath-
ardlo, Viscount of Balquidhar, Viscount Glenalmond and
Glenlyon, Baron Murray of Tullibardine, Balvenie, and
Gask, in the peerage of Scotland; Earl Strange, Baron
Strange and Murray, and Baron Glenlyon, county Perth,
in the peerage of Great Britain, was the elder of the two
two sons of General Lord Glenlyon, second son of John,
fourth Duke of Athole, by Lady Emily Percy, fifth daughter
of Hugh, second Duke of Northumberland. He was born
September 20, 1814, so that he was in his 50th year. The
lamented Duke married, Oct. 29, 1839, Anne only daughter
of Mr. Henry Home Drummond, of Blair Drummond,
Perthshire, by whom he leaves an only son, John James
Hugh Henry, Marquis of Tullibardine. The late Duke was
formerly in the 2d Dragoon Guards, from which he retired
in IS4O. On the death of his father, in 1837, he took his
seat in the House of Lords as Baron Glonlyon, and suc-
ceeded to the Dukedom on the demise of his uncle John,
fifth Duke of Athole, in 5ept.,1846. The late nobleman was
Hereditary Sheriff of Perthshire, and a Deputy-Lieutenant
of the county. In 1853 he was made a Knight of the
Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle. He
had held for many years, since the resignation of the late
General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, the office of Grand
Master of the Freemasons in Scotland. As Lord Glenlyon
he participated as one of the knights at the memorable
Eglinton Tournament in August, 1839, attended by a
band of upwards of 100 Athole men fully equipped.
When her Majesty first visited Scotland in September,
1842, the Duke, as Lord Glenlyon, and heir presumptive
to the honours of the tamiiy, gave a splendid reception to
the Queen and her late illustrious Consort at Dunkeld on
the Royal progress from Scone Palace to Taymouth Castle.
The present Duke, born oa the 6th August, 1840, is a Lieu-
tenant in the Scots Fusilier Guards, and only returned from
serving with his battalion in Canada last autumn. He mar-
ried on the 29th October last Louisa, eldest daughter of Sir
Thomas and Lady Louisa Moncreiffe, of Moncreiffe, Perth-
shire.

DEATH OF LORD ARTHUR LENNOX.—We have to
announce the death of Lord Arthur Lennox, son of
the fourth Duke of Richmond, who expired on Friday last
at his residence, Ovington-square, Brompton, aged 57. The
early part of his lordship's life was passed in the army, and
in 1842 he received the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and
afterwards held the same rank in the light infantry batta-
lion of Sussex Militia, of which corps he became lieutenant-
commandant in 1860, His lordship also held some posts
under Government, having been a lord of the Treasury
from May, 1844, to August, 1845, and a clerk of the Ord-
nance from August, 1845, to July, 1846. The late lord also
sat for Chichester from 1831 to 1846, and was returned for
Yarmouth in 1847, but was unseated on petition.

His Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Auvsrgne,
the French Ambassador, will leayo town in a few days on a
visit to the Duke and Duchess of Manchester at Kimbolton
Castle, Huntingdonshire.
The Dowager Countess of Mexborough is rapidly
recovering from the dangerous attack of bronchitis with
which she was seized a fortnight since. Her ladyship con-
tinues at the Royal Crescent Hotel, Brighton.
Lady Caroline Bathurst, daughter of the first
Earl of Castle-Stuart, and widow of Lieut.-Gen. Sir James
Bathurst, K.C.8,, died on Friday last, at her residence in
Southwick-crescent, Hyde-park.
Sir Henry and Lady Fletcher have left Far-
ranee's Hotel for Pennard House, near Shepton Mallet,
Somersetshire.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey returned to
town on Saturday from Osborne.
Lieutenant-Colonel Hamilton, Grenadier Guards,
left town on Saturday to return to his regiment at Mon-
treal.
Major the Hon. R. Baillie Hamilton and Mrs.
Hamilton have arrived at Nice, en route to England from
India, and have been joined by Lady Francis Baillie Hamil-
ton from Scotland.

THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.—A
memorial stone of white Carrara marble, elaborately carved
in the Gothic style, is about to be erected in Adding-
ton Church, Surrey, to perpetuate the memory of the late
Archbishop of Canterbury. The stone bears the follow •
ing inscription—" To the memory of John Bird Sumner,
D.D., Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated Bishop of
Chester, 1828, translated to Canterbury, 1848, died Sept.
6, 1862, in the eighty-third year of his ago."

The post of Aide de-Camp to the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in Chief is rendered vacant by Col. Tyrwhitt's
promotion.—Army and Navy Gazette.
'IHE HORSE-BREAKER.—Those who remember
her beautiful seat, nerve, and hands, both in Rotten-
row and with the Queen's hounds, will be grieved to hoar
of the death of the celebrated Miss Gilbert. Some years
ago she had a very severe accident in the park; but although
she gradually recovered from its effects, she was never quite
the same again. She was among the very best of Mr.
Rarey's pupils ; and her portrait, representing her by the
side of a horse which she had just " put down," formed
the subject of a pleasant picture by Sir Edwin Laudseer, iu
the Royal Academy, some four or five years ago. Except,
perhaps, on very rough ground, whop Mrs. Pitt was her
superior, Mr. Davis thought ho had seen no lady rider
equal to her.—lllustrated London News.
DAVID'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, DALIZEITII.

There has just been erected in this church a beau-
tiful new alter, consisting of barridoss, canopy, and niche,
in Caen stone, divided into panels by marble columns. In
the front is a perforated iron rail, in which is contained the
remains of an early martyr taken oat of the catacombs of
home in the year 1856, which was presented to the noble
foundress of this church by the Pope. The altar was de-
signed by Mr. G. Goldie, architect, London, and executed
by Mr. Earp, carver, Lambeth. The whole consists of
about seven tons of carved work, including the illuminated
encaustic tiles and the panels. The high altar has also
been enriched; three beautiful panels have been put into
the front of it, and theso are filled by groups in bas relief.—

Scotsman.
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