The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-27 00:00:00

LOLA MONTES ENTERING A CONVENT.

The great event of the religious world, and which
has become the most favoured subject of religious
gossip, is the approaching conversion of Lola Montes
by the Abbe Deguerry. It appears that the worthy
Abbe, in his zeal for the good of the Church, had
called upon the fair Lola for aid in establishing the
new Chapel of Augustin, and with the tact for which
be i 3 so remarkable had succeeded in engaging her
attention upon religious subjects, and the conversation
thus begun was found to be so interesting that the
Abbe remained the whole afternoon, and far, indeed,
into the middle of the night, by the side of the new
convert, and never left her till her heart was soft-
ened, and she had owned, with bitter tears, that
all the idols she had worshipped with such fervour
in this life had brought her nought but disappoint-
ment and despair. Before he departed the Abbe
took from his neck the cross and scapulary he
wore, and the little reliquary containing a thorn
from our Saviour's crown, and placed it round
the neck of the repentant Magdalen, and bade her
pass the night in prayer for help in the great work she
bad began. The next day he returned again—
and the next—and the next—until he now
seldom leaves the house but for the accom-
plishment of his religious duties ; and they
say he is determined to have attained his great
design of claiming her as his own before the festivals
of Christmas. Such is the tale of Lola's occupations
as given by the religious world, and one which meets
with many believers among those who know the his-
tory of all the bitterness and disappointment, the
persecutions and injustice to which, even amidst her
grandeur, she has been subjected. Others, again, tell
of more worldly motives for this mystery and se-
clusion ; and this very week another of those tales to
which her;ojourn in every city in Europe has given rise
has been afloat in Paris, a tale of strife and struggling,
of violence and fighting in her presence between two
Englishmen—accompanied on her part by terror and
hysterics, and the memory of the fate of Dajarrier,
the one great sorrow of her life. No wonder that it
may be deemed possible that this tormented, troubled
soul, might be induced to seek repose within the
bosom of the Church ; no wonder that the story of
her approaching retirement to the convent of Challiot
may have found both supporters and believers hare !
—Paris Correspondent of the Atlas.

More than 3,000 Roman silver medals have just
been discovered by a poor vine grower in the neighbourhood
of Nimes, in a field belonging to him. They were enclosed
in an earthen urn. Another small urn was near it, contain-
ing 162 medals of pure gold. The latter, which weighed 867
grammes, were sold to the town of Nimes, and to some ama-
teurs, at the rate of 115 fr. per ounce. They consist of 2of
Julius Cesar, 14 of Trajan, 26 Vaspasian, 5-Nero, 17 Anto-
ninus, 16 Domitian, 11 Adrian, 3 Commodus, 5 Lucius
Verus, 10 Faustinus, 1 Eaustina, 2 Septimus Severs, 1 Plo-
tinus, 1 Lucilla (the wife of Antoninus), 1 Nerve, 1 Sabinus,
1 Didius-Julianus, 1 PertiDaS, and 2 of Aurelian. Out of
the silver medals, only 1,500 have been saved; the others
were melted down by a silversmith, to whom they had been.
sold.

iIIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT....- Thl
Galway Mercury states that the directors have resolved fax
erecting a magnificent hotel, in connexion with the tormintit
at Galway.