New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-09
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

kELlIlOOO I'm lELbAO GNOG'
A MoNK WITH FoRTUNE.-A suit at law
respecting property left by o monk named
Agostino, whose home was at Malta, has recently
heen tried at COnstantinOple before the SUI
preme Consular Court OF the EngiiSn OOVetn-
ment. AgOstinO was Capucln ana menn pr
of the monastery of that order at Malta like
his brothers he had voluntarily imposed upon POI!
himself the VOW of poverty, but In spite Of TINS
he accepted salaried appointment az us
charged by the British Government WIN tlt
care of the British Roman Catholics at that
place. He lived some years IN ofhce ana pi!os-
Dered the while, leaving handsome cOlIeclloiee
of savings when he died. A large numIer Oh
competitors came up to contest their rlgnI 10
the money. First the convent put IN Its Clam as
entitled TO all things acquired by the individual
members of the society, but it was met WIN
the objection that the VOW OF poverty applleu 10
the community as well as to each OF It's mem
bers. Then a claim came from the rope as heao
of the Propaganda Fidci and finally the col
lateral relatives of the deceased INSISTED that
the property should go to them. After admit
ting as valid the objections male 10 tue claiuh
of the convent and refusing to allow that lne
POpe had any right to the fortune, the Consul
decided that it must be disposed OF acc0rulng
TO the Malta laws and rs if AGOstlnO, nad nor
been monk. At the same time he %dded that
if the English Government had claime1 tne
property 1t would have been very dlllcult 10
withstand the argument in its favor.
Wears AT LOGGERHEADs-TwO Wears IN
BuclIlnghamshire have entered into an astonlsh-
mo bit of correspondence over an incident in
the recent English election. The wear Oh
HilIesden, who is Conservative, allOWeu
prominent Liberal candidate to speak In his
school room, and it so happened that among me
candidates. supporters at the meeting was the
Vicar OF GIand6OrOugh, who also spoke, ana OF
course on tie Liberal side. This fact has led
the Vicar of Hillesden to write hls brother q
letter declaring that he should not nave lnlhded
Liberal candidate, because DlsSenters are
known to be in general of that political faith;
"but that gOW' he goes on to say, " clergy
man, should come to u meeting IN the SCHOOL,
room which | had granted the Use o., ana
speak against views which you knew held,
this was in my Judgment, unseemly as regards
the Church, and not courteous to myself" ne
vicar of GiandbOrOugh, i'll his letter OF reply,
maintains that the Iule OF professional etiquette
referred to applies only to clergyman III us
cleri, al capacity, and reminds the Vicar OF
HlIesden that the present time differs somewhat
from the Middle Ages.
@SrsTER DORA."-During the last illness of
DOROTHY PattisOn MOnsignor Capel and Fred
erick Wilett, CbUIch OF England clergyman,
were both admitted to her bedside. Mr.. W lllett,
in Il letter to Miss LOnsdale, Dorothy bl-
Ographer states as from her own lips that Mgr.
Camel STAYED with her an hour, ur9Ing that
she embrace Roman Catholicism, and trying
all he could to get me to allow him to baptize
me-" "Three times" she is rcpO ted rs having
said, "he tuned to the water and ing the
action to the word mpIIG2red me to- TO lr io nm
no ham, Mgr. Capel has written to Miss
Lonsdale to say that the story rs utterly mn
founded" Both letters were printed IN the
second and third English editions or the bog
raphy, bat we've omitted from subsequent ones.
Tie American edition, b, ing from the sixth
London, does not cont lin either letter.
TIE EXILE OF D1pox.-Pere Didon, when in
Rome in reply to Il question asking OF what he
was accused, made answer: have not been
in 'oImpd and no one WIS bound to tell me-
The Holy Father, perhaps, knows nothing OF
the matter When the colonel OF regiment
pmi hes II inferior, he orders and the interior
oGeys. believed WAS speaking the language
of the Goslel (; | thought could slow the har-
mOny existing between the teaching OF Christ
and the aspirations of the people. wished
TO cOnclliate faith with science, aud TO bnng
believers and unbc!ieyers together under the
,adating light of The Spirit Of God. 1t appears
that this was too delicate il subject 10 deal
with, and il is desired that | should reMtmber
this am sent to Corsica in order 20 haye time
to engTaVe it i'll my memory" He sald alter
ward that he feared the conduct or the Court
of Rome would produce schism.
Mr.. SPURGEON.-A third letter has been
written by Mr.. SpurgeOn-and Il much longer
one than the two OtherS-On the report that i'll
a certain case he had sad he should vote for the
Devil if hc were Liberal. To his denial that
any such remark was ever made by Inn he adds
that men of all crceds and Of no creed have a
right to be represented i'll the House OF Com
mons if they are numerous enough to return
member. While he should greatly prefer 10 see
men OF Christian character returned, the
fitness Of the man politically "cannOt be meas
u,cd by his pIrty or his orthodoxy" The less
scctarianiSm in politics the be ter the moral
element should be mninly regarded, and pecu-
liaritics of creed only so far as they are III,
Volvcd in the present union of Church and
State and other kindred subjects"
Thomas Nelson, who has been missionary
in fine New-llcbrides for thirteen years, says in
reference TO he murder by cannDals of John
Williams the first missionary to Erromango,
that he has sat at the same communion table
with brave Christian who when lad joined
the cannlbal feast on the body OF Williams.
On a certain day which Nelson spent Oh that
island he saw native Christians 20 into a
heather district TO do missionary work, and the
leader of the band WAS son of KOurOwi, at
whose hands Williams was murdered.
Prominence is given in several religious
newspapers to the recent conversion to CathOl- |
icism of Methodist minister of Fort Mill, |
$. c., rs well as bis five children. His name is
j. c. Russell. He has been preacher for nine
teen years past, and his conversion is said to
have been the result of seN eTal years of close
study and careful inquiry. He was received
into the Catholic Church on the 31st OF March.
Mrs. Russell was present at the baptsmal ser
vice, but she has not yet decided to accept it
herself.
1t is said that military chaplains will be dis |
pensed with in France after the present year.
The Catholics have not decided what they |
will do, but it is intended by Professionals to go |
personally into the barracks of all garrison |
towns and invite the soldiers to attend the SER
vices on Sundays. In garrison towns where there |
are no places for Protestant wOrship-and OF such |
towns there are sixty -fOur-the Mayors will be |
asked TO permit the holding of services in some
public building.
A shocking accident TO widely known and