The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-02-16

In That town, and Mt Montana, and has en-
trusted the work to Count Vespignant, on'
OF the best architects in Rome.
- The Monitewr says on tho reclamation o
the Consul General and Charge d'Af:sircs
in Japan, Q certain number of Japanese
Christians, who had been imprisoned a,
Nagasaki, had been restored to liberty.
Rev. E: L. Blenkinopp, a clergyman re-
asserts that "Protestantism has produced
all the heresy, and schism, and infidelity OF
tho last three hundred years, from Martin
Luther to Joe Smith,"
1t is now considered certain that the Gen
eraI Council of the Roman Catholic Church,
preparations for calling which were some
time ago, by Pope Pins TX, confided to a
special communion of seven cardinals, will
assemble at Rome ins November next.
In japan, it is said, there are twenty
thousand ROnsan Catholics, descended from
the Christian CONVERTS left there two hun
dred years ago, at thetinle Japan was closed
to foreign Intercourse. They are scattered
throughout the empire, and there are no new
converts.
The turning to Rome Of several Anglican
sisters and clergy in England, recently
chrOnicted. has been followed by the pro-
fession of the>Roman Catholic religion by
three members of the Irish aristacracy-
Lords Lonth and Granard, and the Countess
OF Portarlington. ~
The Bishop of Worcester has, says the
Church Times, recently eonsecratcd :rensrch
with rood, our Lady under canopy,
beautifully sculptured, altar lights, altar
cross, altaf-cfoth Of beautiful ncedleworll,
and with gorgeous banners suspended on
the screen and over his chair, and rich
paintings.
TherRoman Catholic Bishop of Bosra, a
Dntchman, who has been fifteen years at
Bombay, hat-w4t6>is now in Amsterdam, is
endeavoring to convert British India. He
has issued an appeal to Dutch Re.t.tn Gsth-
olics, asking for money to enable him to
send out ten missionaTics to aid him in his
enterprise.
AT Rome all is calm and tranquil Day
by day assistance, in the shape of money
and men, is pouring in.3 The only one who
had fallen away from E:n, III the tine of
trial has recoGnizp I'd and re- no,I,,ce.l his error
and returned TO Rome, and now FINS the
Ninth is far more securely seated on his
throne Than any other European potentntc.
- The maintaining of one or more PontiE-
cal Zouaves has now become one OF the dis
tinguishing features with the wealthy legit-
: lmiSts OF France. One of them, tho Mar
, quis de F.. i'll writing to Il friend recent
1y, excused himself for not preparing post
ago on his letter, ON the plea that he had
-curtailed all superfiuous expenses of late,
as he desired to be able 10 maintain another
Zouave for tho Holy Father. ==z
The New Year "Opens well and hopcfully
for the Holy Father. He has overcome his
enenics, he has gained friends, and, in spite
of the war, his army ismoTe numerous than
it was mt the beginning of the YEAR All
hail TO our Chief Pontiti, to the Pope-Kinc.
Plus the Ninth. One and all we wish him
Il Happy New Icar-a year free from the
trouble and anxietirs of the past year-a
year increasing the gories of the past one
London Gnicersc, January 1.
The King of Prussia has congratulated
the Pope on his happy deliverance from the
Garibaldian invasion, and has declared. in
an autograph letter, that he will never lend
himself to any international arrangement
that should sanction the destruction, or even
the weakening, of the temporal power of
the Holy See; and for the reason that its
maintenance appears to him Indispensable
81 to the free exercise of the spiritual =soye-.
reignty of the head of tho Church, and to
tho religious liberty of Prussian Catholics.
Upon the conclusion Of the Advent Lee
lures of Pere Hyacinthc, the Archbishop of
Paris delivered q discourse which has Gro.
ated u little sensation, derived from the pre-
lat's proximity to the imperial throne. The
~Archelshop declared that people who were
faithful to Christian principles could not
have too much of liberty, while a people
false to those principles could not have too
much authority. This has been accented
IA eulogium upon the uncrowned cdi-
flee" in France, and a condemnation of the
revolution in Italy
NEW CARDINALs.-As there are twenty
one red hats vacant in the Sacred College.
the Pope has decided to create Il batch eff
Cardinals, and, in Difference to the wishes
of the Emperor Napoleon, will include in
= the number the Archbishop of Paris and
Prince Lucien Bonaparte, prelate of his
household. The red hat will also br la,
slowed on two nuncios, Monsignor Baretc,
nuncio at Madrid, and Monsignor FcTriaTi,
nunciO at Lisbon. AmOnn the other ,.,;
pients of the dignity will be Monsignor
Ferrari, Minister of Finance, Monsignor
Pila, formerly Minister of the Interior,
Monsignor Borromeo- Arese, major tt6mo,
Monsignor Capalli, Sacristan of the Propa-
ganda, aud MonSiSnor Monaco de Lavalette.
The whole number of creations will he