The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-02-20
GENERAL CHURCH NOTES.

The Emperor of China Studying the
English Languaee-Cardinai Howard.
Few people are aware that we ale
educating and entertaining royalty, ana
yet such is the fact. at the Nicholas
Latin School, Lewiston, Me-, is a student
who is known in the classroom as Lewis
P. Clinton, whose real name is Sornayon.
King of the Bassa tribe In West Africa.
While in his W land~he had strong
desire to learn tile English language
that he might be able to converse with
the. traders n do u profitable
business for his people. 10 do SO he
had to run away from his tribe, which
he did, putting himself under the care
of a missionary, who sent him to this
country. He has attained to a good
knowledge of English, and is said also
to nave shown average ability in the mas
terry of Latin, Greek, mathematics n
other studies. He expects to return and
devote his life to the Interests, educa-
tional and religious of his people. 1t is
safe to say that his reappearan ce will
''astoniSh the natives"
With Manning perishes the last of the
great English Cardinals of the Catholic
Church. Newman. his equal In intellect,
and like him a convert from the church
of England. passed away W years ago;
Wiseman is dead, and only one remains,
but he is dead to the world. We refer to
enc who is doubtless forgotten by many
of our readers-Cardinal Howard. He was
from one of the proudest ouses of Eug-
land, that of Norfolk. His brother. the
Duke of Norfolk. RANKS the English no.
biIity. AS guardsman he was a mag
niicent figure, aud when he resigned and
ioiued the church the army regretted the
loss of a gallant officer. His first appear
ance in the rich robes of a cardinal. which
&c L,- Co. G.,.-p - ndr ,-a nan-
ated a sensation, He was considered to
be the haudsomeSt man in England. A
sad fate befell him. He was seized with
o sudden madness, an incurable malady.
and for many years the unfortunate Car
dual Howard has been In seclusion In
Rome.
The Rev. Dir. Hopper, the veteran mis-
siopary to China. writes:-''The Emperor
of China OH the first day of December,
which was the first day of the Chinese
eleventh month, commenced the study of
the English language. This incident
taken in connection with the facts that
at the Chinese New Year of last year this
youthful Emperor arranged that the
foreign Ministers at his court should be
received at an imperial audience, and
| that he issued a favorable imperial edict
in regard to Christianity and mission
aries, portends great changes, n such
rs are likely to prove helpful to
future progress. Ii Is said
that it is due to the enlightened policy
of the Empress Dowager that this won
derful step of learning English has been
undertaken by the Chinese Emperor.
Two young men of the Banner Glass, who
have studied English i'll the college ut
Pekin. of which the Rev. DR.. W. A. P.
Martin is President, have been appointed
tutors to his Majesty in his English
studies. Orders ave been sent to
Shanghai to a well known mis-
sionary to select Il Chinese we'll
educated in the English language and
Western sciences to be the permanent
teacher of the Emperor. whose example
will thus lead to Il great increase in the
study of Western languages and sciences
by the officials Ms well as by the people OF
Chinu. It. will result in the introduction
of many Western improvements into
China. The Emperor already has "a short
railroad and small steamers at his
summer residence"
Howard Saxby. n writer of ability, SAYS
that .were it not for thesconfessionaI,
crime In the United States weuld Increase
1000 per cent" Mr.. Saxpy Is a Protest
ant and edits u Western religious news
paper. He also writes, II am a Protestant
simply because | happened to be born
that way"