The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-12-18
FOREIGN nIISCELLANY.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.
BIOGRAPHY OF DR. .WIsKMAs-Cardinal Wise
man is now in his forty ninth year, having been
born on the 2d Of August, 1902 He is descended
from an Irish family, long settled in Spain. At an
early age he was brought TO England, and sent for
hs education 10 St. Cuthberts Catholic College at
Usham, near Durham. At the age of eighteen he
published in Latin work the Oriental Ian
guages, and he bore of the gold medal at every
competition Of the colleges of Rome. The Cardinal
came TO England after he had reached manhood In
1885, and in the winter of that year delivered
ries of lectures on the Sundays in Advent. From
the moment of his arrival he attracted attention,
and soon became a conspicuous teacher and writer
on the side OF the Catholics. In Lent, in 1896 he
vindicated, IN a course of lectures-delivered at
st. Mary's, Moorhelds-the doctrines of the Ro
man Catholic church; and gave much salts
faction TO his coreligionists that they presented
him with gold medal, struck by MIR. Scipio
Clint, TO express their esteem and gratitude,
and commemorate the event He after
wards appointed President of St. Mary's Col
lege, Oscott, and contributed by his teaching and
his writings very much 10 promote the spread of
Roman Catholicism in England. He was a con-
tributor 10 the Dublin RsUisip, and the author of
some controversial pamphlets. The Cardinals Sc
cond visit TO Rome led TO further preierment. He
was made Pro- Vicar Apostolic of the London dis
trict, in place OF Dr. Griffiths, deceased On the
death OF DR.. Walsh, in 1919, he became Vicar
Apostolic OF the London district. To him the Ro-
man Catholic body acknowledges indebted for
the completion and dedication Of the Cathedral in
St. Georges fields. His success in gotta tin the
re- establishment Of the Roman hierarchy in Eng
land gratifed his holiness. In u Consstory, held
on the 3Oth of September, Nicolas Wseman waA
elected TO the dignity Of Cardinal, by the title OF
Saint Prudential, and was appointed Archbishop OF
| Westminster. Under the Pope. he is the head OF
the Roman Catholic Church in England, and a
Prince Of the Church of Rome. Cardinal Wiseman
is the seventh English Cardnal-if he can be called
English, having been born in SPAIN and passed the
greater part of his life in Rome, since the reforma
lion. The other six Pole, Allen, Howard,
York, Ia son of the Pretender, who never in
Engand,) Weld, and Acton, Ia member of an
English family, we believe, long settled in Ma
| ples.)
NIcIssITUpns NIwsPAPER PaoPERTY.-The
correspondent Of contemporary, alluding 10 the
facts disclosed in the court Of bankruptcy relative
/ 10 MIR. Hudson attempting 10 brbe the London
Weekly Chronicle says: 1.-The history Of this paper
affords excellent illustration Of the rise and fall
/ Of newspaper property. Originally started by a
well known literary speculator, without a farthing
Of capital in his pocket. 1t rose, under his manage
ment to the enormous sale Of 100 900 copies a week
when IL passed into the hands Of the paper maker
who sold IL 10 Sir Henry Ward, the Lord High
Commissioner Of the Ionian islands, for El2 900
Sir Henry's ponderous articles in support Of Whig-
gerry brought the circ ton dow n 10 900 a week
and after being appointed 10 bis present lucrative
situation, he was constrained to part with IL TO Mr.
Doyle and his partner for ESQ IL is singular
that, about the very period. iust before it, tina
Sir Henry quilted London for the seat Of his admins
| traton, the gentleman who originated the Wsskil
Chronicle, accompanied by cargo Of type, and
chosen band OF compositors. sailed for California
| where be has succeeded in establishing a genera
newspaper and an illustrated paper.
s'The vicissitudes Of life have seldom produced /
saddcr more rapid reverse than that by which th
fortunes Of this excellent lady were darkened ans
! overthrow. Born 10 a noble inheritance, which er
tended over territory far exceeding the domain o
many a regning German prince, her name wa
/ throU Urhft ont he ffed D.,
Of 'the Irish beiress' Five years ago her erp CT
ancy was considered 10 be equivalent, over an
above all cncumbrsnces and liabilities, TO a year
ly income Of five thousand pounds sterling. Befor
two years Of the interval had elapsed, she fOun,
horsef At the head Of her patrimonisl estates with
out shilling that she could call her own. The fail
ure Of the potato crop, the famine and pestilcnc
which followed, the scourging laws enacted an
enforced by ignorant legislature, 10 redress III
calamity and the claims Of money lenders, sweI
oycry inch Of property from under her feet. lie
hopes and her prospects were forever blightcd. He
| projects Tor the improvement OF the wild distriC
over which she had rcigned n sort Of native GOV
eregn were at an end; and she went forth from IN
rOoi Of her fathers wandcrer, without home, anc
. was hard fate Ices descrved for her untirinC an
sctve benev0cnce had been devoted from her child
hood 20 the comfort and relief those who sucre,
and her powerful and original mind was iucessantl
employed i'm devising means Of moral and physic,
ameOration iu the condition Of tho tenantry on h,
fathers estates. She gave up her whole time sue
pursuits, avoiding the hauuts Of fashion and tho.
amusements which mi ght bo considered suitable
, her ego and place, that she might perform he v,
rious duties of physician. amOucr schoolfnistrcs
aud agricultural instructor. Her almost daily M
bit was 20 visit the poor and the sick in tho reno
rocc5sel Of that Wild region, sometimes on foot
! moro frequently in her little boat we'll proyid,
with medicaments and foot, which she impclled I
the vigor Oi her uvs arm through the lakes Viii,
: stretch along the foot of the mountains. Ho
grievOus Il j. 20 reflect that she should 80 soon hA-
born driven across the IN search Of a place
lay her head. The American editor intimatss ~,
the object Of her voyage was 10 collect materials
literary works We have no doubt that such W
among her projects, for she was a very disu
guishcd writer. sad would by no means cat
D bread a idlcncss dependence; but there D. re
son 10 believe there Il more strin gent coInpC
c sion which obliged her. At an advanced period
The year, and in y peculiarly delicate stage OF h
lie, when even peasants, who would bring for
z ~ atiety," remain shore, 10 encounter the (
dlum and perils Of voyage in sailing vess,
We have heard, in fact, from quarter which oug
20 70 correctly informed, that sho vac proccedin
- the residence Of near relative Of her father wi
the intention Of remaining there till sonc favOrab
: change might come over the color Of her life.
d MARsnAL U,yNAU's RsTRrAT.-lu the lnsc
J., vent Court, ON the 27th November, the keeper
4 the George public house. Bsnkside, where Gcnef
o Haynau retreated on being attacked by hsrcl'
r. aud Perkins draymen, applied under the Prote
q ton Act ON his interim order, There was no o
II position by the creditors. The appearance befo
c the court attributed 10 the profits of the Geors
e now known ss Marshal Haynsu's Refuge" bcil