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he felt that in appealing to the Irish people —the
great I.),Jdy of his hearers—he would have their
sympathy. They were obliged to sympathise with
the ca•mse of St. Tholna; a Becket. For 300 years
thy had been fighting for the very object for
which he had laid down his life. They had been
fighting for the lib rty of their Church. (Loud
cheers.) Almost every nationality was repre-
sented in Rome. France hid seven churches,
Germany one, Spain one, Portugal one, but Ireland

had four. (Loud cheers.) Ile believed the Ir:sh
people would not grudge the English one church
(laughter), and that they would assist them in
obtaining it. The Irish people had an interest iu
furthering their desires. The students who studied
at the college, and who required this church, came
back as pa3tors and bishops among them. A sense

of gratitude, therefore, would impel them to Lelp
them. In conclusion, he asked the hearty co-
operation and sympathy of all present in carrying
out this undertaking. (Cheers.) Mgr. Talbot
concluded by moving a resDlution to the effect

that this meeting pledges itself to co-operate in
the work of rebuilding the Church of St. Thomas
of Canterbury, in Rome.

Dr. Fox seconied. tha resolution, which WC S
cArried unanimously.

Mgr. SToxott, the chaplain of the Papal Zouaves,
said there was one view in connection with the
rebuilding of the church of St. Thomas of Canter-
bury, which had not been touched upon, and that
was the necessity for a church for the English
residents and visitors, and for the English portion
of the Papal army. There had been great diffi-
culty experienced in getting a church for the pur-
pose of giving a course of sermons in English at
certain periods of the year, and he as the chaplain
of the English portion of the army, had found
great inconvenience in not having a church where-
in the religious exercises for the English Zouaves

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could be conducted. He paid an eloquent tribute

.0 the bravery and steadfastness of the soldiers in

the Pap' army, and concluded by urging the
audience to assist in carrying out the wishes of the

Archbishop and Mgr. Talbot.

Archbishop MANNING would say of Mgr. Stonor
what he had been too modest to say of himself. He

was under fire, assisting the woun led at the battle

of Monte Libretti, and at Mentana he was on the

spot to assist the dying. his ministrations had

been conducted with true Christian charity, for he
not only tended the men who were fighting the
cause of the Pope, but also those unhappy men who
had lifted their arms against the Vicar of Jesus

Christ. Most of the latter gladly accepted his
ministrations. When he returned to Rome he
assisted in the hospitals, and only the other day,
being in Florence for the benefit of his health, many
of those Garibaldians whom he had tended, hearing
of his presence in the city, waited upon him and
heartily thanked him for what he bad done for
them.

Mr. SCANNELL said it had always been the for-
tune of the Irish people to assist in building
charches all over the worn, and he was sure the
appeal which had been made to them that night
would not be without a hearty response, as the spot
where this church was to be built was most sacred
in the eyes of the Irish people all over the world.
A vote of thanks to the Archbishop for presid-
ing brought the meeting to a close.

A recant number of the Evenement speaks of a
project for the adoption of the el lest son of the
Comte de Paris by the Comte de Chambord. The
interests of the two brandies of the house of
Bourbon will thus be re-united, and the " fusion"
so often spoken of will become a reality.
All sorts of rumours are flying about in reference
to Dr. Gray and his new bishop for Natal. Some
of the Church papers state tint all the difficulties
which haVe been thrown in the way come from
" the Erastian knight," by which phrase is meant
Sir Travers Twigs, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury's Vicar-General. The Church News, how-
ever, states that all the obstacles which are inter-
posed are those raised by the Duke of Buckingham.
It seems pretty certain that Bishop Gray rind his
party will leave England early in ()Aker, whether
Mr. Macrorie is coaKcrated by that time or not.
Prior to his departure there wiU be a farewell
service at the Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, on
Wednesday, the 30th inst.

civil authority, and the present condition of the
English religious world he pointed to as the
miserablo inheritance of the interference of the
State, giving the people au Established Church
which divide.' man from man and brother
from brother. What, h 3 asked, hal the cause
which was opposed to St. Thomas done? About one.
half Cie English peoplo, after the three centuries
since I lenry VIII., were in the English Church ;- a
part of the Scottish, too, sided with the cause of St.
Thomas, and all the The cause of Hoary
If., he went on, triamphe 1 in the time of II my
VIII.; since then that cause had had all the fa'r play
and clear field ; place, power, Royal and civil favour
for three centuries had bean heaped on the Church,
and with what result? Let the Nonconformists
answer as to how they hal not brought about any
unity of worship or faith. Even in the Established
Church her ministers were divided in matters of
faith and ritual. Look across the Channel to Ire-
land, and it would be seen from the statements which
had appeared in the Times that the handful of dis-
senters from the Catholic faith were broken up into
about a hundred sects, showing au instance of the
infinitesimal division of matter—(laughter)—while
the cause of St. Thomas stood in its oneness, with-
out a single schism or single separation—u Red in
name, and having one heart, one faith, and one will.
(Loud cheers.)
Mgr. TALBOT, who was received with the greatest
demonstration of respect, said that the advocacy
of the cause of St. Thomas of Canterbury, by his
Grace the Archbishop, had left him little to say.
Ile would only remark that it was a Catholic feel-
ing to venerate holy places. In ancient times this
was carried out to a greater:extent than at present.
It was a pious practice to have pilgrimages to
Jerusalem and Rome, but Rome was always au
object of especial devotion, and in consequence
everybody desired to have a hospital in Rome, and
a church there, where they might find a place of
rest when they arrived there. England was one
of the first—if not the first—that manifested this
veneration to Rome. England had been converted
by Rome, and it was but natural that she should
look to Rome with especial love and veneration.
St. Gregory I. had sent twelve apostles to convert
England, and in ancient times the Kings and
Princes of this country journeyed to Rome in order
to die under the shadow of St. Peter's. English
pi'gritns founded a colony in Rome in the Leonine
city, which surrounds the ashes of St. Peter, and
that part was called Saxony—because there
the Saxons cane to dig, th..Te they erected
a hospital, there they founded a churc'i.
When, however, the Nor.nans e ime to England,
they manifested a different spirit—they persecuted
the Church of God, and St. Thomas of Canterbury
was an instance of a holy prelate who was mur-
dered by an ignorant, haughty, tyrannous king.
The church of Saxony in Rome fell to runs, and
another was built where the English church now
stands. The reigning pontiff of the time, Eugenius
IV., desired that it shou'd be dedicated to the
English martyr, the Church in England at that
time being suffering from the acts of the civil
power. Sometime afterwards Cardinal Howard, a
name of which England hal to be proud (cheers),
rebuilt the college on the same s:te, and also re-
built the church. That church remained standing
for 200 years. When, however, the first French
revolution broke out, the English college was con-
verted into a barrack, and the roof was taken off
the church. The church hal since remained in
decay, and the holy Father, desirous of seeing it
restore 1, had himself taken the deepest interest in
it, mad had laid the first stone. Ile (Mgr . Talbot)
had come among them to ask their assistance, and

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THE PRO. RTY OF MARRIED WWIEN.

During the late session Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.P. for
Reading, brought in a bill to amend the law relating to
the property of married women. It was read a second
time and referred to a select committee of the House of
Commons, consisting of Mr. Lefevre (chairman), the (late)
Solicitor-General, Mr. Lowe, Mr. R. Gurney, Mr.
Headlam, Mr. Baggallay, Sir John Simeon, Mr.
Beach, Sir O. O'Loghlen, Mr. Ayrton, Mr.
Goldney, Mr. Baines, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Jacob
Bright, and Mr. Powell. The committee, whose
report and evidence is just published, met six times.
They examined Mr. Westlake, the well-known Chancery
barrister, and author of a work on " Private and Inter-
national Law ;" Mr. G. W. Hastings, secretary to, the
Social Science Association ; Mr. Fisher, of the Vermont
bar, United States ; the Hon. J. Rose, Finance
Minister of Canada ; Mr. A. Hohhouse, Q.C. ;
Mr. Cyrus Field ; Mr. Clement Hugh Hill, of
the Massachusetts bar, United States ; the Rev. Septi-
inns Hansard, rector of Bethnal-green ; Mr. Mans-
field, police magistrate of Marylebone ; Mr. Orme.
rod, president of the Rochdale Pioneer Co•operativo
Society ; the Rev. T. W. Fowle, rector of Hoxton ; Mr.
Wybergh, clerk to the Liverpool magistrates ; Miss Tod,
of Belfast ; and Mr. Mundella of Nottingham, one of
the candidates for Sheffield. The committee have made
a preliminary report, in which they say that they have
not had time to fully consider the subject assigned to
them, and they recommend the appointment of a new
committee in the next Parliament. So far as they
have investigated the matter, they think there
is good reason for changing the law. The law is indeed
contradictory. At common law a woman has no legal
existence apart from her husband, but equity has con-
stantly devised means for evading that theory. The power
to settle a married woman's property on trustees before
her marriage is such an evasion. But all such expedients
are palliatory of the original mischief rather than a removal
of it. They are also costly, so that the women of tha
lower classes cannot avail themselves of them,
and are thus liable to have their earnings seized by
drunken and dissipated husbands. The existing common
law was formerly in force in the United States and in
Canada ; but it has been repealed in both countries, and
the evidence of Mr. Field, Mr. Rose, and other distin•
guished Americans, goes to show that the alteration hag
been made without producing any of the evils which havA
been predicted as the result of like changes in England.
The evidence is of great interest, and occupies about ninety
pages.

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