The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-06-18


of them is Carmelite in Paris. She re-
fused to leave her convent during tho siege.
The other, at nineteen, joined the Daugh-
ters of st. Vincent de Paul, and devotes
herself, in an obscure establishment OF
London, to the children of the poor, at q
shor. distance from the psternal roof, which
she has not entered for three years, except
once to console her mother for the death OF
her elder sister, who departed this world
three months ago, after q life full of virtues
and merits. Such is the family whose
head repaired to Rome, accompanied by his
younger brother, and the noblest, by birth
and character, among the Catholics OF
Great Britain, all inspired by the same
sentiments and filislly devoted to the Holy
Father"
LORD BROUGHAM's LAST VISIT TO THE
House OF CoMNoNs.-Never but once did
Lord Brougham enter the House of Com
mons after he was raised to the peerage.
1t was not many years before he died. He
went, leaning on the arm of q friend,
well-known officer of the House of Lords,
whom the aged peer had asked to escort
him. There was o curiosity in the old
athlete to view the arena where he had SO
often struggled with and thrown his ad-
versaries. Within the door leading from
the upper house Lord Brougham gazed on
the stirring scene for q minute or two, and
then the tears welled up to his eyes, and
he murmured to his friend, with deep emo
ton: Take me away; take me away.
There is net q face here that can recog-
nize." And he moved slowly along the
passage back to the House of Lords, muir,
gone" The great champion Of that arena
soon went the way that those who had
wrestled with him already passed. The
promise of his bright boyhood was amply
kept in his mature years, and the memories
of both will long be dear to all who rever-
H. L. ,k9n hsNl0 h0f
the aristocracy in intellect is superior to
any degree in the peerage.-Iemp!e Bar.
THE FRENCH NAvY.-If the Frenzy navy
failed to do anything to favorably distin-
guish itself in the Franco Prussian war,
its sailors and marines have certainly done
about the hardest of the fighting since.
Either at their own request, preferred,
perhaps, from a feeling of soreness at the
disrepute of their branch of the service, or
from the fact that it WAS thought fair to
spare the forces already so much cut up by
putting forward fresh troops, the naval
brigades have been exceedingly prominent
in all the contests about Paris-one cor
respondent, who appears to eP,.om, zea inc
general information, saying: "Evervwne!e,
as learn, the Versaillists were led by
gendarmes and sailors or marines" These
formed the fOrlorn hopes which mounted
every barricade and cleared every avenue
for the men of the line behind, and it is an
honorable testimony that in no one case do
we hear of repulse. Late in the day,
perhaps, and in a not altogether glorious
cause = being against it's own people,
though in the interests of peace and order
the French navy has redeemed it's repu-
tation for discipline and valor. AS for the
gendarmes, this much-reviled race was
| always of good material, the best of the
retired soldiery forming the force. Under
another name they were veterans. and, OF
course, did the work well.-N. Y. World.
OLD LANDMARKs.-Among the saddest
losses that the country has had to mourn
for some time is the destruction of the old
colonial and revolutionary buildings by the
recent fire OF Alexandria, Va. The country
is just getting old enough to cherish warmly
the memories and relics of it's young days,
| and when it is known that among the
houses destroyed by this fire were the Ma
sonic lodge of which Washington was the
| master, and the old colonial cOurt-house,
in which bis provincial troops were GUAR
tered in 1854, from the door of which
Braddock marched to his defeat in 1855,
and in which ex-President Washington
gave his last vote in 1899, feeling OF
| genuine sorrow is likely to come over our
hearts. We could better have spared many
richer and grander edifces. These relics
are the things that certify the truth of his
tory, and ia these days of iconoclasm, when
it is argued that William Tell and Shake
l
ere long some irrevcrent enemy of the pas
may not propose to prove that there wa'
no such person as George Washington
The old revolutionary flags in the court
house we're saved, however-the flag o.
Washington's body-guard, the flag of Pau
Jones, aud that of a company of Alexandra
Continentats.
THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.-The Catholi,
hero of Lotlair," the young Marquis o
Butte, although admitted to be the creates
"catch," matrimonially speaking, and out
of the largest landowners in the realm,
has never yet made his respects to the
Queen at Court. This singular circum
stance is now accounted for by the Cour
Journal, which states that the young Mar
quis promised his mother on her death bet
never to permit himself to be presented t.
Queen Victoria. The reason of THE ex
traordinary promise, which the Marqai
has religiously kept, is to be found in th'
implacable hostility of the Marchioness t.
the Queen. The late Msrchioness of Bot
was the sister of Lady Flora Hastings. tn
young and beautiful maid of honor whom
Queen Victoria, then a girl of eighteen, suf