The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-16

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her recent deviations from good f;litll. ~
LONDON Register, 18Th ult.
: Letters from Jerusalem state that tn,
monumental cross which is to surmount tn,
cupOla OF the church of the Holy Sepulchr,
would be erected, and formally uncovered
on the 18th inst, the Feast of the Assump
ton.
On the 11th ult., the Lord Bishop o
| Southwark cOusecrated the high altar of st
Augustine's Church, Tunbridge Wells; the
solemn rite commenced at nine o'clock, af-
ter which his lOrdsliip celebrated mass. On
the following day Sunday the bishop cele-
DRAFTED Pontifcal high mass, and preached
beautiful and impressive sermon from the
gospel for the day.
A>remarkable man, jealous priest, says
the Liverpool Northern Press, has passed
from amongst us--the Very Rev. Canon
Newslam, formerly of st. AnthOny's, of
this town, Is dead. N~For some time he had
been In precariOus state of health, but his
death was qnitennexpected by his friends.
He died on the 9th ult., at Standish, near
at AshtOn-in- the Willows.
party of fifty five Canadian volunteers
for the Papal army recently passed through
Paris, on their way to, Marseilles, to embark
for Civita Nccchia. The Unircys states
that they had with them a-negro. newly
converted to Catholicism, and who, for that
reason, had been disinlIerited by his family.
lie Is going to Rome, to complete his the0-
logical studies and prepare for the priest
hood: These volunteers subscribed to pay
for his travelling expenses.
The recruiting Offices opened for the Ro-
man Government at Strasburg and ST. Louis
tiaut Rhin) says the Paris Liberte, and
which enrolled numbers of Germans, both
terminated their operations. Nearly two
thousand men have been forwarded to the
Holy See by those agencies. A sum of
twenty thousand horins has just been trans
mitted from Friburg, i'll Baden, to the
Pope, to serve for the pay of the volunteers
ers of the Papacy.
Tho Pail Mall Gazette says: The debate
ON MIR. Maguire's motion has already borne
fruit, and we observe with pleasure that
the magistrates of Monmoutlslirc have, at
the Court of Quarter Sessions, shown both
good sense and good feeling iu appointing
IL chaplain for the Roman Catholic prisoners,
OF whom there is daily average of about |
thirty, and an annual average Of two hun
dred and eighty. The gentleman appointed |
has been i'll the habit OF attending gratuit-
ousiy there, on four days in the week, up
to this time. The salary is to he go per
The London Weekly Regis!er says that
the Feast of the Translation of St. Thomas
It'll ultimo, will be an ever memorable
lay for the Catholics of Northam pton.
Nothing of equal Importance has taken
place there since the opening of the catIle-
lral, four years ago, when His Emnence,
The late Cardinal Archbishop preached one
If his finest sermons, and the presence Of
six bishops and upwards of seventy of the
secular and regular clergy combined to
ender the ceremonial of that day remark
lble in the annals, we may say, of English
A public meeting, in aid of the rcstora-
ion of the Church of St. Thomas Of Cantcr-
Jury in Rome, WAS held on the l3tl, ulsimo
avs the London Weekly Register, in the
hanover Square Rooms. His Grace, the
Archbishop of Westminster took the chair,
Bishop of Southwark, the Right Rev. Bishop
f Troy, the Hon. and Right Rev. Monsignor
Talbot, the Right Rev. the Bishop of Cliff
on, Earl Denbigh. Sir Robert Gerard, Ba-
onct, Sir George Bowyer, Baronet, Sir p.
Baronct, and Mr.. Weld, of Lui-
hioness of Londonderry, the Dowager +.
of Buchan, the Count de Tore
)iaz, etc. tI !
ITEMS FROM RoME.-A letter from Rome !,
ontains the following: The Pope intends
0 institute a great jubilee or Auno Santo
Or 1870, which will shortly be published,
= the same forms. After the PRONUNCIATION /!
CnO A'aH Va utOCdIiOuS Vic rope SOL
mnized Pontifical high mass at the great
liar of st. Peters. The sanctuary was
lronged with ecclesiastics, cardinals, t
ishops, and every grade of prelate and !
RESTS, in all their varieties Of vestment, ,
lille the Neapolitan princes, the for. ign
and the high officers of the
tate and the army displayed the same T
omp in the galleries. The congregation l
as very large. After the last gospel, the i
ishop of Palestrini published plenary h
sduigence for ali present. The ceremony 9
as followed by the presentation of the c
resby terrain, or aims of the twenty five L
ieces of gold of previous reigns, which a
ardinal Mattel, Dean of the Sacred Col r
&c, handed to the Pope, from the chapter c
ST. Peter, promissG bone caatata. n
The death, from malignant fever. is 8
,nounced of Mgr. Bisletti, Bishop of Ciyita :
ecchia. 1
In the Papal army there are eight gen
ais. twenty -four claDlaips md aeyep u