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nothing of auction sacrifices; "and that
would give us enough, besides paying the
quarter's rent, to keep us comfortably until
some of my bills come due."

That afternoon the sofa was sent, and on CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK ENDING the next afternoon Florence went to the

auctioneer's to receive the money for it.

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Have you sold that sofa yet, sir?" asked
the timid girl, in a low, hesitating voice.
'What sofa, Miss?" asked the clerk,
looking steadily in her face with a bold stare.
The sofa sent by Mrs. sir."

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"When was it to have been sold?"

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Yesterday, sir."

"Oh, we haven't got the bill made out yet. You can call the day after to-morrow, and we'll settle it for you."

NOVEMBER 20.

14. SUNDAY, 24th after Pentecost, (as 6th after
Epiph.) St. Erconwald, B.C., d. white, V. (2nd)
of the Feast to the Chapter, then (1st) of St. Ger-
trude, com. of St. Erconwald and of Sunday.
15. MONDAY, St. Gertrude, V., d., white.
16. TUESDAY, St. Edmund, B.C., d., white.
17. WEDNESDAY, St. Hugh, B.C., d., white.

18. THURSDAY, Dedication of the Churches of
SS. Peter and Paul, d., wh te. Cr.

19. FRIDAY, St. Elizabeth, W., d., white. Com. of
St. Pontian, P.M.
Abstinence.

"Can't you settle it to-day, sir? We want 20. SATURDAY, St. Edmund, K.M., gr. d., red.

the money particularly."

AND A PRIEST
DIOCESE.

Without replying to the timid girl's ORDINATION OF
request, the clerk commenced throwing over
the leaves of a large account-book, and in a
few minutes had taken off the bill of the sofa.
'Here it is-eighteen dollars and sixty
cents. See if it's right, and then sign this
receipt."

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mistaken, sir? It was a beau-
Ain't
you
tiful sofa, and cost one hundred and forty
dollars."

TWO DEACONS
IN THE ARCH-

[FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] Westminster, Feast of the Patronage of our Lady.

To-day (Sunday) three Edmundians were ordained by His Eminence in the chapel of the Archiepiscopal residence of Westminster-Messrs. M. Driscoll and D. Gilbert, deacons, and the Rev. E. Tayler, priest. Searle and Weathers, and the Lay Secretary (in The Cardinal Archbishop was attended by Canons Florence rolled up the bills that were deacon, and the latter holding the Pontifical, &c. cassocks and surplices); the former acting as archgiven her, and returned home with a heavy | Several relatives of Mr. Tayler attended the ordinaheart.

"That's all it brought, Miss, I assure you. Furniture sells very badly now."

"It only brought eighteen dollars and sixty cents., ma," she said, throwing the notes into her mother's lap, and bursting into tears.

"Heaven only knows, then, what we shall do," said the widow, clasping her hands together, and looking upwards.

There are always two parties in the case of bargains-the gainer and the loser; and while one is delighted with the advantage he has obtained, he thinks nothing of the necessities which have forced the other party to accept the highest offer. But few buyers of bargains think or care about taking this view of the subject.-From the New York Mirror.

tion, and afterwards had the honour (with the above assistants and the newly-ordained clergy) of breakfasting with the Eminent Prince. After the Epistle, and Mgr. Searle said (in Latin, of course)-"Let the Archbishop sat before the altar with his mitre; those who are to be ordained deacons draw near." The candidates then approached with amice, alb, girdle, and maniple; a stole in their left hands, a candle in their right, and a dalmatic on their arms, and knelt before His Eminence, to whom Mgr. Searle then presented them, saying-"Most Reverend Father, our Holy Mother the Church prays you to admit these sub-deacons to the diaconate." The Cardinal inquires if they are worthy and it is replied, that they are believed to be so; when His Eminence exclaimed, "Deo Gratias." addressed the people, and afterwards admonished the The Archbishop then candidates on the duties and responsibilities of the office to which they were about to be admitted, who then lie prostrate (i. e.. perfectly flat on the ground), during the recitation of the Litany of the Saints, the Pontiff kneeling at the faldstool with his mitre. After the prayer for the departed, His Eminence rose from If there be a lot on earth worthy of envy, his seat, and, turning towards the candidates (holding it is that of a man, good and tender-hearted, his pastoral staff in his left hand), while they rewho beholds his own creation in the happi-mained prostrate, said “That Thou vouchsafe to bless ness of all those who surround him. Let Thy chosen servants," &c., which was repeated with him who would be happy, strive to encircle the addition-" and sanctify;" and then with the himself with happy beings. Let the happi- further adddition-" and consecrate." After this ness of his family be the incessant object of those to rose from where they their his thoughts. Let him divine the sorrows knees), and the Archbishop exhorted the clergy and had been lying (but still remaining on and anticipate the wishes of his friends. people to pray earnestly for those to be ordained. Then, after commencing a beautiful preface, His Eminence placed his hand on the heads of the candidates, saying, "Receive the Holy Ghost," &c.; and at the conclusion of the preface, placed on them the white stole, with suitable words, and the dalmatic, POOR.-A term of reproach in England, saying, "May our Lord clothe thee with the garments and of pity in most countries.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander; as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.-Swift.

be ordained

of salvation." &c. Lastly, he gave to them the book of

the Gospels, which they touched with their right hand, of the Holy Sacrifice; after which, (rising with mitre and the ordination of the deacons concluded with two and staff) he blessed him as follows:-"The benedic. beautiful prayers. The Lay Secretary then brought tion of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the book to His Eminence, who read the tract and the Holy Ghost descend upon you, that you may be sequence, and resumed his seat, when Canon Searle blessed in the sacerdotal order; and offer acceptable said "Let those to be ordained priests draw near." sacrifices for the sins of His people to the OmnipoMr. Tayler then approached, habited as a deacon, with tent God; to whom be all honour and glory for enda chasuble on his left arm, a candle in his right hand, less ages.-R. Amen." After the Ita missa est, His and a white napkin for tying aud washing his hands. Eminence gave the usual pontifical blessing; and, Mgr. Searle then said- Most Rev. Father, our Holy sitting down, exhorted those who had been ordained, Mother the Church prays you to admit this deacon to to diligence in the discharge of their clerical duties. the priesthood." His Eminence made the same en- On such occasions as the above, the pallium-the quiry as before, with respect to the worthiness of the badge of metropolitical jurisdiction, is worn by those candidate; and afterwards invited the people to state prelates who have received it from the Holy See; and any objection they might have to make to his ordina- the Cardinal Archbishop is the first prelate who has tion. Then, after a pause, he addressed a beautiful worn it in England since Cardinal Pole, the last Archexhortation to the candidate, and proceeded to the bishop of Canterbury. This part of the Pontifical imposition of hands in silence. After asking the dress is only worn by the Pope, Patriarchs, and Archprayers of those present for the newly-ordained, and bishops. (Vid. Bona de Reb. Liturg., i. 24.) reciting a collect in his behalf, His Eminence said the preface, then gave him the stole and chasuble, saying, on delivering the latter-"Receive the priestly vestment, by which is signified charity; for God is able to increase charity in thee, and a perfect work. R. and late Senior Proctor of the University of Oxford, The Rev. J. H. Pollen, Fellow of Merton College, Thanks be to God." After reciting another beautiful prayer, His Eminence began the hymn to the Holy the 20th ultimo, at Yvetot, in Normandy, by the was received into the Catholic Church on Wednesday, Ghost, "Veni Creator Spiritus" (the first verse being Archbishop of Rouen. This is an event which our said kneeling), which was afterwards continued by readers will hear of with great pleasure, Mr. Pollen's the clergy. While the last verses were being said, conversion having been long looked for, and his

His Eminence anointed the hands of the candidate

CONVERSION.

(kneeling before him), in the form of a cross, saying, name held in the highest respect for his piety and Vouchsafe, O Lord, to consecrate and sanctify these goodness.—Tablet.

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hands by this unction, and our blessing. R. Amen."
Then making the sign of the cross upon his hands,
he said "That whatsoever he shall bless, may be
blessed and whatsoever he shall consecrate, may be
consecrated, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen." The Cardinal then closed his hands, and
tied them with a white linen cloth. On giving the
chalice with the wine and water, and the paten with
Host (of course unconsecrated), His Eminence said-
"Receive the power of offering sacrifice to God, and
of celebrating Mass for the living and the dead." The
lay secretary here brought the book to His Eminence
(after he had washed his hands), who read the tract,
&c., and the Mass proceeded as usual. After the
offertory, the Archbishop received from the newly-or-
dained, offerings of candles, who knelt as they pre-
sented them. His Eminence then proceeded with
the Mass; the newly-ordained priest repeating the
whole of the service with him, even those parts (not
excepting the very words of consecration) which are
usually said in silence. After his own communion,
His Eminence communicated the newly-ordained,
one of the deacons reciting the Confiteor, which,
however, was not said by the newly-ordained priest,
as he is supposed to celebrate with the Bishop. Be-
fore receiving, they kiss the hand of the Pontiff
(which should always be done on receiving commu-
nion from a Bishop), which contains the Host. The
newly-ordained priest received a chalice, with wine,
with which he purified himself; and the Archbishop
having received the ablutions, resumed his mitre and
washed his hands. He then recited an appropriate
responsary; and the newly-ordained priest made a
profession of his faith, saying the Apostles' Creed.
His Eminence now placed his hands on the head of
the new priest (kneeling before him), saying, "Receive
the Holy Ghost; whose sins thou shalt forgive," &c.,
and unfolding the chasuble (which was before folded
on the candidate's shoulders), said, "May our Lord
clothe thee with the stole of innocence." The new
priest then knelt before the Pontiff, placing his own
hands between His Eminence's, and promised
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verence and obedience" to the Archbishop and his
successors in the See of Westminster, who (still hold-
ing the priest's hands within his own) kissed him and
said, "The peace of our Lord be always with you.
R. Amen." The eminent Prelate admonished him to
be especially careful and reverent in the celebration |

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[By Episcopal Authority, and under the Invocation of St. Vincent de Paul.]

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1852.

No. 12.] [PRICE ONE PENNY. THE STATE CHURCH IN IRELAND. yet the stultified adherents of the Law When the cup of England's iniquity was Church, both in Great Britain and Ireland, filled to overflowing, and when God in his have ever held it, and continue to hold it an wrath permitted a mission of wicked spirits indubtitable proof of the spirit of contu to come into the land to punish the national macy-a standing act of rebellion against transgression (as foreshown in a vision to their supremacy-a crime, in fact, for which Edward, the Royal Saint), it so happened fine, imprisonment, confiscation, death, were that the connexion then subsisting between punishments too lenient. Perhaps, indeed, Britain and Ireland gave these wicked these punishments are too mild. For, it is spirits a ready and an easy entrance to the certain, though for the last three hundred latter country, where, (to avoid details) by years they have been inflicted ten thousand their aptitude for slander, their false-witness and ten thousand times, they have never bearing, their continual itching for pecula- proved efficacious, and the Irish Catholic tion and robbery, and their insatiable thirst clings to his creed to-day with as much for persecution, they succeeded, in process tenacity as he did before our Eighth Harry of time, in filching and wresting from the proclaimed himself Pope, or before the Church of Christ all her temporalities, and English Parliament, at the wish of Eliza dedicating them to the worship of Moloch beth, made "the Queen's Highness the and Mammon; and thus was erected that only supreme Governor of this Realm, and monstrous hybrid corporation, known by the all other her Highness's dominions and hated name of "the Law Church."

counties, as well in all spiritual and ecclesiasIt may be said, that in Britain these tical things or causes as temporal, &c., &c." wicked spirits gained a speedy triumph. And these words constituted a part of the Not only did they succeed in seizing the oath which all Bishops and officers, whether temporalities of the Church, and dedicating civil or ecclesiastical, were required to take them to their own use, but, by seduction before entering upon their offices! Now, and extirpation, they almost annihilated the Irish Catholics deemed such oaths both the shepherds and the sheep of the blasphemies, and the makers and proancient fold. Not so in Ireland. The faith- pounders of them daring blasphemers. ful people of that tortured land met the And they spurned the oath, and denied the evil spirits boldly, defied their persecution, authority of the parliament, and thus they spurned their seductions, resisted their en- committed a sin against "the Law Church" croachments, paralyzed their efforts, and that (as she repudiates confession and despite the faggot, the rack, and the gibbet, absolution) never can be forgiven, and, both the priest and the people maintained therefore, she continues her persecutions their allegiance to the Chair of Peter, and up till this very hour. preserved their faith pure and uncompro- But the enduring patience even of Irishmised, though at the expense of their civil men, must come to an end, and it seems liberty and all their worldly substance. Need that late persecutions, taken in connexion it be said that since the first of the wicked with those "looming" not in the far distance, spirits desecrated the soil of Ireland, the but in close proximity, have roused the persecuted Catholic and the persecuting friends of the Church (as well as all those who Anglican have stood in bitter and fierce love civil and religious liberty in the abantagonism, the latter encroaching, reviling, stract,) to wise and determined action; and tyrannizing, the former resisting even to if "the Law Church" is not shortly doomed the death. to disgorge her robberies and her spoils, she Now, although all the world beside look will certainly be subjected to an ordeal upon the unfinching constancy of the Irish Catholics, through centuries of bloody persecution, with admiration and respect, and deem it an undeniable proof of heroic virtue,

little to the taste of her bloated functionaries, and, if possible, less conducive to her honour, her honesty, her dignity, and her utility as a teaching ecclesiastical corporation

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the purpose of obtaining Religious dulity of an easily-deluded people, by colEquality," is a body from whose labours we lecting vast sums of money under false anticipate much benefit for the robbed and pretences-under the delusive banner of persecuted people of Ireland, and, conse- evangelical zeal, for the cursed purpose of quently, a corresponding amount of dis- tempting poor starving creatures to barter grace and humiliation for the maligner and their hopes of Heaven for a mess of pottage. peculator. Religious Equality would be an Give the Catholic Church in these couninstalment of justice, and if gracefully con- tries religious equality, and she asks no ceded would likely be received with thank- more. She sighs not for wealth, or the fulness, and a total oblivion of all past dignities of the Establishment. She shrinks wrongs. But such concession will not be from polluting her hands with the gifts of made, indeed cannot, till the last extremity Mammon, and she flies a connexion with the be made, for the powers of darkness hate State, as one would from the pestiferous the light, the spirit of injustice will not ac- effluvia of the charnel-house. Her kingdom knowledge the claims of right and truth, is not of this world, and the more distinct her and the father of lies must be expelled from individual members keep themselves from his stronghold by force, for his antagonism its contaminations the better, not only for can never cease while the world lasts. As them, but for the interest and the dignity the object of this society is to free religion of pure religion. Still we are entitled to from the trammels which have been cast equality, and in the end must have it. No around her, and give her unrestrained sect is entitled to superiority, much less to action, it is the duty of the Catholic world supremacy, though "the Law sect" has to aid the design by every legitimate means, usurped it, and through oceans of blood whether by pecuniary assistance, public co-maintained it for centuries. That iron rule operation, or humble and earnest prayer, is about to pass away for ever, and we hope for it is too evident that so long as the ene- a milder and a juster spirit is destined to mies of the truth can wield this enormous govern in its stead. We believe that such State instrument—we mean the hybrid cor- will yet, and perhaps shortly, be the case. poration-there never will be, in Great We believe that the society to which we Britain or Ireland, the enjoyment of civil have alluded, is one of the means for accomliberty or religious freedom. The thing is plishing the wished-for end. We believe that morally, politically, and naturally impos- the minds of many of our wisest public men sible; therefore, if we are to have peace in are prepared to adopt and carry out the our native land, if we are to enjoy the in- necessary measures for allaying the animoalienable privileges of British subjects, the sities and the strifes which the unjust and temporalities of the Law Church must be grasping spirit of the Establishment removed from the present directors and has engendered and fostered, even to possessors. Monopoly or ascendancy in the uprooting of all fraternal confidence, religion must be uprooted; there must be peace, and social order. We believe no State Church, no petted bloated garrison that this society, should the members be ⚫ of gormandizers to SOW dissension in true to each other, will be the means of society, create disaffection to the State, effecting a great amount of public good. and fling disgrace and ridicule over the spirit of our common Christianity.

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We believe so,-first, from the principles of eternal justice on which their demands are based; and secondly, from the trepidation and dismay of the party who have so long sinned against the people and the people's Church.

With the religious convictions of any man or body of men, we have nothing to do, nor would any motive induce us to interfere between their consciences and the God to whom they look for mercy and salvation. The organs of the monopolist Church, The liberty we demand for ourselves we ever sensitive when Catholic or Dissenter freely concede to others. Neither would ventures to claim a crumb of justice, perceive we abstract a single shilling from the income danger threatening their idol,fand they have of the present working clergy of the Esta- accordingly sounded the alarm. They do blishment, though, in reality, they have no not attempt to argue either the justice or more moral claim to it than we have, for expediency of the measures sought-that prescription, no matter how long continued, would be an honest, a straight-forward, and can never justify robbery and peculation. a manly course, and therefore out of their But while we would leave sufficient support line; but they heap the most opprobrious for the conscientious minister, we would epithets upon the originators, the members, deprive the serpent of its fangs; we would and all who favour the proposition, charging not permit the trading parson to continue a them with ulterior views and revolutionary money-changer in the Temple, or grow fat purposes, whereas their only object is to upon the miseries of his impoverished bring before the British Parliament the flock. We would not longer allow him to monstrosities of the Irish Church Estabprostitute his character as a minister of the lishment; a corporation which has been Gospel, by wantonly assailing his unoffend-unequivocally condemned by every British

Statesman (deserving the name), and never want repair, because defective in their condefended on its merits either by jurist or struction; for the most skilful artist cannot legislator, whose mental calibre raised him obviate, or even foresee, the accidents to above the stagnant, common-place effusions which his work is liable. The universe is of Sir Culling Eardly Eardly,or the mis- also a machine, composed of countless parts, chievous ravings of the Rev. Thresham divided into luminous and opaque globes, Gregg. inhabited by myriads of various living When the Protestant Alliance of last year creatures. The opaque bodies have a commenced their crusade against the Catho- regular motion in the circle prescribed lic Church, making their first attack upon round the luminous bodies, deriving light the Maynooth Grant, they were warned and heat, day and night, seasons, climates, against proceeding, lest their indiscreet and nourishment, according to the wants of zeal might direct public attention to abuses the various inhabitants. The situation and less defensible in the sight of a thinking mutual gravitation of the planets are so nation; but they spurned the advice, and diversified, that it seems impossible, precheered on in their unchristian labours by viously, to decide the time of their return to men whose only motive was personal in- the point they first left, and renew their terest, they pressed their object, and they periodical course; and yet neither their put Catholicity on its defence, and they various phenomena, nor the numerous movewere defeated! But the plaintiff and ments of these globes, for many ages, have defendant have changed places, and that occasioned a single concussion or irregu corrupt corporation whose minions kept the larity of any kind, The fixed stars are the whole nation in a flame during the two last | same now as at the creation of the world; sessions of Parliament, is now put upon their distances, projection, force, ascension, its trial, and will be subjected to such declination, parallax, and direction, the same. an investigation as will lay bare atrocities The sun also is the same with his days and unparalleled in the history of politicoreligious depravity.

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nights, years and seasons! An incontestable proof that in the arrangement and When the charges were brought last ses- regulation of the celestial orbs, the Author sion against Maynooth, the Lord Primate of of nature stretched his unbounded ken All Ireland, sensible of the justice of his beyond the utmost limits of time. cause, boldly demanded investigation, and same may be remarked of the revolutions challenged Parliament to the contest. Will and changes of climate, to which our earth the Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, or is annually subject; for though at first its the logical Dr. Whately, of Dublin, now various transitions may appear the effect of follow the example, and manfully meet the chance, as if from accident alone the waters charges to be brought against that perse- overflow the earth, and thus effect important cuting and blood-stained corporation, of changes on its surface; yet it is certain, which they are the chief pillars? They will that each preceding modification is the do no such thing. On the contrary, they cause of the next, and the latter of the folwill tax their ingenuity to find out the lowing, and has been from the commencemeans of staving off the evil--they will ment of the world. Nothing is more calunite with their English backers in crying culated to convince us of our ignorance of down a society, the very announcement of the causes of natural events, and their whose existence has made the Queen's dig- connexion with future, than the various nitaries tremble on their usurped eminence, temperature of the air which influences so and whose labours, they clearly anticipate, much the aspect and fertility of our earth. will place the guilty corporation in a striking In vain we repeat our meteorological obserand unenviable contrast with that enduring vations; we can form no certain rules even Church, which has been so systematically for another year. Yet these variations, this and so bitterly maligned, but which fears apparent confusion of the elements, does no investigation, because her unchanging not destroy, or even materially alter, our faith and purity of morals elevate her so far above the gross conceptions of the worldling, the sensualist, and the calumniator.

globe, or render it a frightful chaos, but conduces to the preservation of its feritility. Yet as each modification is dependent on the former, it is evident the elements were ON THE ORDER AND REGULARITY not the effect of blind chance, but have OF THE COURSE OF NATURE. been, and will still continue to be, fixed and The world everywhere discovers traces of measured by infinite wisdom. This unia Supreme and Omniscient Intelligence, verse was not composed of disjointed partiwhich directs the whole, and determines all cles; it is a perfect whole, which was conthings by infinite wisdom. Thus the uni-structed by a Supreme Intelligence. If we verse once formed, constantly fulfils its first behold the myriads of animate beings, whose design without the change of one of its es-natures and designs are similar to ours, and tablished laws! This observation seldom frequently connected with us, if we perceive applies to the works of man. The best con- an infinite variety of creatures, which are structed machines are soon injured and also in some degree mutually connected, if

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