The New York herald., 1872-10-13

| Wives of Windsor must be successful. In
reproducing this play we shall demand of Mr..
DAILY new Falstaff and a fair opportunity for
the revival of Shakspeare's comedies.
| Installation OF Archbishop Bayley.
| One of the most solemn, important and
| imposing ceremonies of the Catholic Church
will be performed to-day in Baltimore
the installation of Bishop Bayley, of Newark,
as Archbishop and Primate of Baltimore. Our
Baltimore exchanges speak of the preparation
for this event as being something very extern
sive and magnificent Bishops and clergy
from different parts of the country will be
present and will participate in the ceremo-
nies Religious and benevolent societies from
this neighborhood and from districts con-
tinguous to the archiepiscopal diocese will
also attend, and we may believe that this
event will be one of the most memorable in
the history of the Monumental City
The growth of Catholicism in the United
States has been most remarkable far out
stripping, indeed, the increase Of population
itself, which has been great. Ninety years
ago, when our national government was
organized, there were but twenty-five thousand
Catholics in the country; now they number
nearly five millions. And Baltimore, with its
twenty-five churches, has had much to do with
this advancement. Hence it was elevated into
an Archiepiscopal See in 1903, and the Sees of
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Bardstown were established as suffragans
to it. The Importance, therefore, of the posi-
ton to which the Right Rev. DR.. Bayley has
been transferred will be readily apparent
Archbishop Bayley is the eighth in the illus
trious line Of metropolitans of Baltimore and
is the third convert from Professionalism who
has filed the archiepiscopal chair. He was
formerly an Episcopal minister in this city;
but in 1841, during tour in Europe, he joined
the Catholic Church, and three years later
entered its ministry The new prelate is o
writer of considerate note and was in other
years preacher Of some celebrity; but it is as
pastor and chief shepherd that his abilities
and his virtues shine out most beautifully and
grandly. The diocese Of Newark. which he
has left, is filed with monuments of his Cath
his Episcopal administration. He has man
aged in most wonderful manner in his late
diocese to live in peace and charity with all
men, and he leaves this vicinity with the best
wishes and prayers Of those who knew him.
Bishop Bayley is a native of this city, and is
now in the fifty-ninth year Of his age, in robust
and vigorous health, and in an eminent degree
possesses sound mind in o sound body
The 'pallium" or token of spiritual power
sent hither from Rome, and which will be
conferred upon Archbishop Bayley to-day, is
simply an addition to his priestly vestments
made Of lambs wool, spotted with purple
crosses, and is worn on the shoulders of the
prelate over the chasuble and with label
hanging down the breast and back. It was
formerly long garment, and was an imperial
habit which the Roman emperors conferred as
a mark Of honor and dignity upon eminent
priests and bishops. It was subsequently
limited in size and was conferred only upon
archbishops Its use is limited to particular
days and occasions and places, and it is
guarded with the most jealous care by its
wearer while he lives and is buried with him
when he dies; SO that every new bishop has
to ask and receive a new pallium. Palliums
derive their ecclesiastical sacredness from the
circumstance that the lambs from whose wool
they are made are blessed in the Church of st.
Agnes on her festival and are afterward kept
in nunnery until they are shorn. And when
this wool is manufactured into cloth the
palliums are laid over the tomb Of st. Peter in
Rome the whole night of the vigil before the
feast Of that Apostle. Hence it comes with a
dual or triple authority to faithful Catholics.
To-day not only Baltimore but the entire
Catholic community Of the United States will
rejoice that the vacant Archiepiscopal See has
been filed and by so eminent pastor as the
Right Rev. James Roosevelt Bayley, fitting
successor to Carroll, Whitfield Spalding and
other of his eminent predecessors. Catholi-
cism in that archdiocese will lose nothing at
his hands but, if the past is any criterion of
the future, it will gain much under his wise
and able administration. We therefore hail
the installation of the new Primate of Balti-
more to-day as q good omen for the future.
The RUSSIAN MOVEMENT TOWARDS CHINA
The latest mail from British India, under
date Of September 3, supplies evidence of the
fact that the Russian imperial ruler still turns
his eyes in the direction Of the fertile terri