The New York herald., 1879-07-13
FOREIGN RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Protection Society on May "a that John Dunn had
returned from the last peace messengers. and is un
derstood to have reported that the message is bond
fde, and that Cetywayo means to have peace at any
price possible The Bishop expresses his opinion
satisfy Sir Barte Frere The Bishop believes that if
he allowed to visit the King he could bring him
to consent to receive agent, to have never more
than 900 men at his kraal except with the agents
consent and to allow his young men to marry.
correspondent of the Pioneer gives the following
account of incident the recent return of some
widest part OF the Khy ber with barren rocks tow
ering all Sides an English officer riding along.
escorted by motley company of maliks and tribes
men, all armed to the teeth; more armed Afreedees
in the middle distance; weary. lonely figure toing
a brick red and fringed by scanty sandy beard.
The figure is clad in thick. wadded garment and
"A Turkestani' Where are your comradesY = Il
am alone Where are you goingI TO Mecca
with ~ you sd wh Tne
and the armed circle breaks up. This poor dcvo-
tee had tramped hundreds of miles through hills and
valleys, swarming with cutthroats, in his
simple faith which had led him to leave distant
Turkestan in quest Of the still more distant Mecca"
Dublin correspondent gives synopsis of Irish
opinion on the Lord Chancelor's Irish University
bill. The Freemdns Journal says 1--WE believe that,
while the Catholics will be disappointed in it, the
in revolt against it. They will hardly submit with
out murmur to the degradation OF being shutfied
offers no aid to secular teaching in the Catholic
colleges, and by omittng to do preserves intact
the old inequality and keeps the Catholic colleges in
the inferior state in which they regards the
existing endowed institutions of the creed
of the small ., minority the Queens .sa nso col
year while for the Catholics there will be only the
concession Of degree from an examining board and
a miserable share in the wretched pttance OF 200
year. out of which the new university is to be
wholly maintained. we say. in the name of the peo-
evokes only our derison. 1t is meant only in
mockery." The Irish DAILY NeUs thinks that II this
measure satisfies the bishops who rejected Mr..
Ela1cf fnrf .haNn az have
over their views subject which all the world
gave them credit for knowing their own minds. The
Irish Times says that 1t may be safely concluded from
Lord Cairns statement that the government think
that two universities suffice amply for the needs Of
superior instruction in Ireland
The following is the translation OF prayer written
by the late Prince. and found among the papers in
his desk My God! give to Thee my heart. but
prayer, and to pray is a longing of my soul pray,
not that Thou shouldest take away the obstacles on
my path, but that Thou mayest permit me to over
come them. pray, not that Thou should disarm
my enemies but that Thou shoudest aid me to con-
quer myself. Hear. o God my prayer. Preserve to
happy days. II Thou only givest on this earth
certain sum of JOY. take. o God my share and
most most" worthy be my friends II Thou ssekess est
vengeance upon man. strike me. Misfortune
i aver tied. into by the sweet
happy. Happiness is poisoned by the bitter thoughts
while rejoice. those whom love thousand times
better than myself are suffering. For me. God! no
more happiness. Take 1t from my path. can only
find JOY in forgetting the past II forget those who
are no more shall be forgotten III my turn; and
how sad the thought which makes say, Time ef-
faces ALL! The only sat tsfacton seek is that which
lasts forever that which is given by tranquil con-
science. oh. my God show ever where my duty
lies. and give me strength to accomplish 1t always
Arrived at the term OK my lfe shall turn my looks
me long remorse Then shall be happy. Grant,
Godl that my heart may be penetrated with the
conviction that those whom love and who dead
shall see all my actions. My life shall be worthy of
their witness and my innermost thought shall never
make them blush"
The death of Prince Napoleon, says the Rome cor
respondent Of the London Globe, caused much grief
among the Bonapartists resident in Rome. These
consist OF the grandchildren Of Lucien Bonaparte.
brother to Napoleon L. The OF Lucen
Charles Lucien. who married tor his first wife
present Cardinal Lucien Louis; Prince Napoleon
Charles. who married Maria Christine. daughter of
the late Prince Ruspoli; and four daughters
di Roccaeiovanc; Charlotte onorina wife to
Count Trimoli Maria Desderata. wife to
to Prince Placido Gabrielli. A half sister to the
Cardinal. named Constance. is nun in the convent
OF the Sacred Heart in Rome; and half brother,
Antonio married daughter of the Advocate Car
dina of LIcca. These last, together with Louis
killed Victor Noir were children of Charles Lucen
by his second wife, Alexandrina Lorenza di Bles-
champs. All these Roman Benapartes are excluded
from the succession to the French Empire by the
law disnheriting the childrt of Luccn, who
incurred the severe dspleasure of his brother,
the first Emperor. Cardinal Bonaparte lives a very
quiet life in Rome, and is universally respected for
his piety and charity. His brother and his married
sisters belong mostly to the Catholic conservatives
party, which desires give support the monarchy
In Italy for the purpose OF saving the country from
the extreme measures which the democratic faction
would adopt against the Catholic religion and the
Vatican Some eighty or ninety Senators signed
address OF coincidence to the Empress Eugene.
Prince Napoleon Charles Bonaparte left Rome tor
Chselhurst day or two ago, and on thursday, June
49, there was requiem mass for the deceased prince
in the Church of 5. Maria in Via Lata
The Russian Goios publishes and comments upon
some surprising statistics taken from official
port on elementary schools in the district of Tam
bon, one OF the richest provinces in Russia. The
district has more than $4,000 inhabitants, but there
are only 81 schools, with average attendance of
about 1910. boys and girls. Formerly OF
$4,000 rubles was annually devoted to elementary
schools; but in the year 1S75-7S only 10 100 could
be afforded. In more than hundred villages
there is no school at all, and of the ~ existing
schools only 10 can claim to have the necessary
equipment for the instruction OF youth. Upward
of 40 OF the school houses according TO the official
report, are good for nothing" while the rest
narrow, damp and cold, the buildings falling to
decay and the peasants averse from contrib