The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-21
FOREIGN CATHOLIC urE111aENcE.

ROME, Friday, May 15.-Cardinal Andrea
died suddenly last night from apOplexy.
Numerous recruits for the Papal army have
arrived from Spain. s, .esl.1 4.
ROME, Tuesday, May l9.-The funeral of
Cardinal Andrea took place to-day. The
Pope attended in person and took part in
the service. He pronounced the benedlctlon |
over the body of the late cardinal. A large |
crowd had assembled to witness the cere- |
mOny.
ROME, May 2l.-To-day being the festi-
val of the Ascension, the Pope with the
St. John of Lateran. He assisted at mass
and afterward bestowed his benediction
upon the people from the Grand LOggia
over the portico of the Basilica. Several
thousand persons assembled and cheered
His Holiness.
There has been triduo held this week
at St. Carlo allie Quattro Fontene, COM
mencing on Tuesday, il honor of Sta.
Maria francesca dele cirque piayhe, who
was canonized on the centenary OF st.
Peter last year. The little church was
very elegantly draped; the whole interior
including the cuPola, being covered WIN
ornamental hangings: On the evening Of
each day the exterior was illuminated,
and concerted pieces performed by mill
tary band outside. The saint was Il Nea-
politan. born in l715, and belonged to st;
Peter of Alcantara's reform of the third
order of st. Francis Her life, though
| passed within the limits of adult home
of humble condition, was model OF the
! most heroic virtues exercised in patience
aud silence, and hidden from the admi-
| ration of the world.
Lord Beaumont has been received into
the Catholic Church at Rome, and duly con-
tirmed by Cardinal Reisach.
The Rev. Mr.. Nolan has forwarded from
! America a second instalment Of E4OO,
I oil xxy1,i he
for the Rathkeale new church.
BURIAL OF THE PR1oREss OF THE STONE
CoNvENT.-The Staffordshire 4drertiser
says: "On Thursday, the remains OF Mar
garet Halladan. the prioress and foundress
of the extensive Catholic convent OF st.
Dominic, at Stone, were buried with the
solemn rites at that church. On Wednes-
day evening a large congregation as
sembled to hear dirge sung. pr. Ulia-
thorne pronounced the eloge Of the de-
parted. occupying nearly two hours in his
address. He stated that she was born in
London, in 1902, OF respectable parents,
who had become reduced, and was left
an orphan by their death from fever, at
the age of nine years. A lady in Moor
fields took an interest in her, and sent
her to school, where her decision of char
acter and her religious disposition were
soon the subject of observation. She
stayed there for nearly three years. that
being the only time when she had any
f instruction. So beautiful was her read
9 ing that she was often sent for to house
at which Rowland Hill, the celebrated in
dependent minister, visited, that she might
read to him. After leaving school she
went to Bruges, where her name is still
in reverence, and where, in consequence
, of an insult having been offered to her
she took the VOWS of the third order o
fifteen years. and then returned to England
2 to assist DIR. Ullathorne, who was then
D priest at Coventry. When she arrived a
: Coventry the number of communicates wa
e fifty. but in four years, mainly by her infiu
ence, that number was increased to five hun
5 dred and fifty. On the conservation of DIR
Ullathorne as bishop of the Western Distric
t she removed with him to Clifton wher.
r she founded a convent, and was the prin
' cipal agent in the collection of funds fol
building the Catholic cathedral of thai
: place. Shortly after the appointment o
e mingham, the deceased lady removed t.
(. Stone, and at once commenced the estab
n lishment which, under her management
S has attained such imposing proportions
: and has affiliated to itself branch estab
lishments at Stoke, TorGuay, Clifton. ant
. Bow. .....--.
ALGERIA.-The following reflections ar,
p suggested to the Unirers by the presen
:. state of Algeria France now knows thor
! oughly the situation of her Algerian colon.
1 she knows it in the past, in the present, ant
. perhaps in the future. All is fully explained
/ in the letters which have passed between
+ the governor general and the archbishop
i the one representing material force, wh'
9 hae hitherto done everything and the othe
q representing moral force, who hitherto ha
been unable to do anything. 1t is com
n plete failure. We have had thirty -eigh
9 years of sanguinary combats, of immens'
= public works, of sterile peace. A million
. men have been put to death; man.
= thousand millions of money expended
4 Algeria is tomb, rather a gulf, and OF
8 the edge of that gulf all that we have oh
:. tanned are famine, discouragement,a and de
. spair All the blood that has been shed ha
j.. not produced one ear of corn and in tina
= vast charnel- house, war is the only sect