sions to a degree inconsistent with the destiny of the great majority of mankind upon earth. In numbers of the working classes it induces a disinclination to physical labour, by which alone they can be rendered comfortable, and a desire for intellectual pleasures or exertion, in which line they cannot earn a decent livelihood. It drives them, in consequence, into those desperate circumstances, and induces that recklessness of conduct, which is at once the parent and the excuse of crime. In all ranks it engenders an uneasy restlessness and dissatisfaction with their condition, which is the fruitful parent of disorders both private and political. By magnifying to the imagination the pleasures of wealth, while it induces a dissatisfaction of bodily labour, it both strengthens the temptations to vice and weakens the habits by which alone competence can be safely and honestly acquired. By clothing in a more voluptuous and seductive form than they naturally possess the pleasures of sense, it adds fuel to a flame which already burns fiercely enough in the human heart. By strengthening the imagination more than moral or religious principle, it in effect adds to the force of the antagonist powers which assail integrity, while it gives no additional strength to the counteracting dispositions, by which alone they can be restrained. The pleasures of intellectual labour are, by the constitution of the human mind, accessible only to a small fraction of the human race. When Lord Brougham said he did not despair of seeing the day when every poor man should read Bacon, and Cobbett added, it would be much more to the purpose if he could give them all the means of eating it, the one showed as great ignorance as the other evinced knowledge of the intellectual capacity of great bulk of mankind. In no rank of life or condition of society did any man ever find a tenth part of his acquaintance, in whom the pleasures of study would form a counterpoise to the excitement of the imagination or the seductions of sense. Education can do almost all to magnify the influence of the latter to a few only can it strengthen the former. Thence its universal and now generally-experienced failure as a substitute for religious principle, and its total inadequacy to counteract the temptations to sin, which itself has so greatly increased.

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THE HOME OF THE CROSS.*
[FROM THE CATHOLIC HERALD.]

LEAVE us the Cross! for we have kept it long.
Have sealed that emblem with our martyrs' blood:
Saved from the whirlwind and the invader's song
The temples where God's infant altars stood.

Leave us the Cross! for on our shields came down,
In early times, the fury of the strife:

Like HIM our fathers wore the thorny crown,
Amid the tempest of this desert life.

Leave us the Cross! its dawning light was shed,
With feeble beams, upon a star-led band;
In mountain caves the holy flame was fed,
Far from the fury of the bigot's hand.

To understand the meaning of the above lines, it is necessary that the reader should be informed that a cross has been lately placed on the new spire of St. Peter's Church (Episcopalian), Philadelphia. [ED. CATII. CAB.]

Leave us the Cross! along Time's sinuous stream,
That sign has shadow'd, with its angel-wing,
All those who live within that single beam,

Or draw their draughts from MIRAH's sacred spring.

Leave us the Cross! ye, who have told the world
That we bow down in mute idolatry

Before the smoke of incense, when it curl'd
Around this token of the Deity.

Leave us the Cross! ye who, when danger came,
Shrunk from the conflict with the biting blast;
Hid from the world your emblem and your name,
And calmly waited till the tempest pass'd.

Leave us the Cross! and we will guard it well:
Its home that bosom where it first was prest
Shrined o'er that altar like a heavenly spell,

Shall be the image of our final rest.

PHILADELPHIA.

CLAUDE.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

ST. LOUIS. The festival of St. Aloysius was celebrated in the new church of St. Francis Xavier on the 21st June. At early mass, about two hundred boys approached the holy communion, and edified those who were present on the occasion by the deep feeling of piety with which they discharged this sacred duty. At eight o'clock, High Mass was chaunted by Rev. Father Vandevelde, assisted by deacon and sub-deacon. After the Gospel had been sung, the Coadjutor Bishop preached on the virtues of St. Aloysius. The church was filled, principally by youth of both sexes. After mass, the boys and girls who attend the free-school proceeded, in different directions, and under the charge of their respective teachers, to some short distance from the city, where they dined and spent the remainder of the day. On Sunday the 25th ult., the Bishop of New Orleans officiated at High Mass in the Cathedral. At five o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the same prelate solemnly blessed the corner-stone of the proposed German Church of Our Lady of Victory, at the corner of Third and Mulberry streets. The Right Rev. Dr. Odin, Vicar Apostolic of Texas, and the Coadjutor Bishop of this diocese, assisted at the ceremony. A large number of people assembled to view the interesting ceremony: the Hibernian Benevolent Society was also on the spot. Previous to the ceremony, the Coadjutor Bishop addressed the assemblage on the nature of the rite at which they were about to assist. Father Cotting, S. J., preached in the German language after the conclusion of the ceremony. The collection taken up in aid of the new church was $149.

ACTS OF THE COUNCIL. Le Canadien observes, in relation to the Council of Baltimore, that there was probably some movement made for the erection of a bishopric in the missionary regions of Columbia or Oregon. We understand that it was thought advisable to recommend to the Holy See to appoint an apostolic vicar, with the episcopal character, to the charge of the entire territory. The Catholic Telegraph mistakes in reference to the establishment of a bishopric in the Oregon territory, which was deemed premature.

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"PROVINCIAL COUNCIL.-The late Council recommended bishoprics to be established at the following places: Milwaukie; Chicago; Oregon Terri

tory; Little Rock, Arkansas; Hartford, for Connecticut and Rhode Island; Pittsburg; also, a bishop for Charleston and two coadjutors."

We take all this as authentic (with the exception of the Oregon bishopric), since our watchful cotemporary generally has early intelligence. The New York Freeman's Journal says that no credit is to be given to newspaper reports about the proceedings of Council, and that the news from Rome must be waited for. [Catholic Herald.

ENGLAND. On Sunday 21st May, Dr. Pusey preached a sermon in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, in which he avowed his belief in transubstantiation and the doctrine of the Mass. A copy of the sermon has been demanded by the University authorities. Dr. Pusey has given it to them; and a good deal of anxiety is evinced to know what steps the college-heads will take in consequence. [European Times.

We learn from unquestionable authority, that the Oxford investigation has terminated in a complete vindication of Dr. Pusey, who has produced, out of St. Cyprian, the ipsissima verba of a passage which Dr. Faucet had accused of heresy.. [Times.

THE FRENCH CHAPEL. The Lent of 1843 will form a memorable era in the annals of the French Chapel in Little George street. I address you as one deeply impressed, and sensibly alive to the effects produced on his hearers by the brilliant eloquence displayed, and instructive lessons conveyed in the Rev. Abbé Milanta's diversified discourses from the pulpit of that chapel. This zealous and pious orator grounded his wise and clearly expounded controversy on historical facts and the soundest logic: under their auspices, having history and reason as his supporters, he deduced and imparted to his hearers, under the guidance of the Gospel, instructions both luminous and sublime, with that exquisite simplicity, the undeviating concomitant of truth, infusing into the souls of his auditors the triple benefits of hope, consolation, and peace! Let it not, however, be forgotten by those who heard him, that while enforcing the tenets of our religion, faithful nevertheless to its enlightened principles of Christian benevolence, he failed not to cover with the mantle of charity all those who have dissented therefrom, or who oppose its dogmas. It was gratifying to witness the marked support given to the pious efforts of this zealous missionary in the crowded state of the chapel, filled even to inconvenience by persons moving in the highest classes of society, and among the number, the only two Roman Catholic Bishops then in London.

LIVERPOOL. A large and splendid church is about to be commenced at Edge-hill, under the patronage of St. Anne, from the designs of C. Ansom, Esq., which, when finished, will be perhaps the only pure specimen of church architecture in Liverpool.

PENZANCE. This mission has, with the approbation of Bishop Baines, been confided, by the Rev. W. Young, its founder, to the Society of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, a society expressly established for sending Catholic missionaries in all directions. Since the opening of the new chapel numbers of Protestants attend at service, in order to learn the real tenets of Catholicism.

AIGBURTH, NEAR LIVERPOOL. The Catholic school at this new mission, lately completed and furnished, was opened on the 8th May. A treat was given to the scholars by a benevolent Protestant, the lady of Joseph Bullen, Esq., who, with Mrs. Chaloner, the lady of Peter Chaloner, Esq., of Aigburth, regaled them with "all sorts of good things:" tea, lemonade, cakes, oranges,

CAMBRIDGE. Thirty adults, the majority of whom were adults, received confirmation on 7th May, from the hands of the Right Rev. Dr. Wareing. Consecration of the new Catholic Chapel. The following account of the consecration of the above chapel is taken from a Cambridge paper: "On the festival of St. George, the building situate in Union-road, New-town, which has lately been erected and used as a Roman Catholic place of worship, was formally consecrated by the Bishop of Ariopolis (Dr. Wareing), celebrant, assisted by the deacon and sub-deacon, assistant-priest, acolytes, thurifers, and choir, together with the mitre and crosier-bearers. These being arrayed in the gorgeous and spotless robes pertaining to their office, presented a very imposing and (from the fact of the ceremonial taking place in Cambridge, a university town, for the first time) a very novel appearance. The church dedicated to God, in honour of St. Andrew, was built by A. Pugin, Esq., whose eminent taste as an architect is universally acknowledged. It is in the early English style. Every feature is real, genuine, and natural. The screen, with its cross and figures; the altar, so beautifully carved; the open seats; in fine, every thing connected with the church, recalls to our mind the old times when the Catholic religion was all-in-all. About nine o'clock the procession entered the church, with cross-bearers, acolytes, thurifer, deacon and sub-deacon, assistant-priest, choir, &c., and the Right Rev. Dr. Wareing, the Bishop of the Eastern District. The consecration occupied about two hours. After this was finished, a solemn High Mass was commenced by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Wareing. The ceremonies were most appropriate, and although different from those of the consecration, yet they were quite in accordance with the service. Parts of the mass were chaunted by some of the students of St. Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, the plain chaunt being used. After the Gospel, the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman (Bishop of Melipotamus), so celebrated for his zealous and talented advocacy of Catholic tenets, made his appearance at the altar. He took his text from the twenty-eighth chapter of Genesis, and the eleventh, twelfth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth verses, detailing Jacob's dream, and his erection and anointing of the altar. We are informed that it is very probable the sermon will be published, under the authority of the Bishop. At its conclusion the mass was continued. When the mass was finished, a solemn Te Deum,' in thanksgiving to God, was chaunted by the choir; and then the Bishop and his attendants left the altar, and proceeded down the church in procession, in the same order as they had entered." COVENTRY. Mr. Hamsom is now erecting a "large and noble church " (to quote the words of Bishop Walsh in his last pastoral) in this place, in the early English style, which is justly considered a beautiful revival of a large parochial church.

Puseyism is spreading tremendously in England. The correspondent of the Mercantile Advertiser says: "There is, at all events, one thing progressing in England it is Puseyism. Rely upon what I tell you when I say, that it is spreading throughout the land."

A letter from Rome, dated February 7th, describes a meeting there at Melga's Hotel, of fifty-four members of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin. [Tablet.

INDIA. A school for the Catholic children of the station is about to be established at Bellary: the officers quartered there have come forward generously in its behalf. Besides the useful institution just mentioned, a poorhouse has been also established at Bellary: in the superintendence of it the Rev. Mr. Doyle receives the most liberal and cordial co-operation from the Protestant chaplain at Bellary. Among the native population in the vicinity,

who are chiefly under the care of the Rev. Mr. Perozy, a Genoese priest who has submitted to the Vicar-Apostolic, religion is making great progress. Within a short period about two hundred of the natives have been baptized, by the excellent clergyman whose name we have just mentioned. [Bengal Catholic Herald.

The following paragraph is from the Bengal Catholic Herald of March 14: "On Sunday last we had the happiness to witness assembled, at the Dum-Dum Chapel, one of the largest congregations we have seen collected together at divine service for a long time. This great increase in the numbers of the Catholic military at Dum-Dum is occasioned by the circumstance that that station has been selected for her Majesty's 49th Regiment, untill they shall embark for Europe in the course of the present month. To accommodate so large a number, it was necessary to remove the benches from a greater part of the nave, and to allow admission into the choir to so many as could be conveniently accommodated there. The evening service began about half-past six o'clock, and it was at once both gratifying and edifying to us to find that several of the male and female portion of the congregation joined in singing vespers, with a taste and efficiency that would be creditable in any of our Calcutta churches. We were moreover greatly delighted at the serious and recollected devotion displayed by all present, and especially at the decorum and becoming neatness of dress, for which the numerous children who assisted were conspicuous. As soon as vespers had terminated, the Bishop opened his discourse. in favour of the Orphanage with the following suitable text: Religion, clean and undefiled before God and the Father, is this to visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one's self unspotted by this world. James i. 27. "

The advances made in Christianity in India cannot fail to be gratifying to all. We hear, therefore, with much pleasure, that a little community of Catholics is flourishing at the foot of the Neilgherries, the congregation of the little. chapel there comprising full three thousand souls. [Planter's Journal, Feb. 22. At the first meeting of the Madras Auxiliary of the Catholic Institute, on the 11th of January, the Right Rev. Dr. Fennelly in the chair, it was stated in the report read by the secretary that the treasurer's account exhibited the sum of Rs. 251-10-11 as the amount of subscriptions received from one hundred members and one hundred and forty associates of the Institute; that there were about thirty-one persons who had enrolled themselves as members and associates, but had not then paid up their subscriptions. The disbursements for printing and other charges amounted to Rs. 30-14, leaving a balance of Rs. 220-12-11 in the hands of the treasurer.

An interesting description of the opening of Seal's College, Calcutta, on the 1st of last March, is thus given in the Bengal Catholic Herald of the 4th of the same month: "A very large party of European and native gentlemen met at the residence of the munificent founder, Baboo Muttyloll Seal. Among the gentlemen present were Sir Lawrence Peel, the Chief Justice; Sir J. P. Grant, Mr. Lyall, the Advocate-General; Mr. Leith, and other principal members of the Calcutta Bar; Captain Birch, Superintendent of the Police, Mr. George Thompson, Baboos Dwarkanath Tagore, Ramcomul Sen, and Russomoy Dutt. The Catholic Bishop and all the clergy of the Catholic Cathedral, as well as all the Professors of St. Xavier's College, were likewise present. Nearly the whole of the dissenting ministers and missionaries of Calcutta and its neighbourhood also attended.

SPAIN. During the sitting of the Senate on the 26th ult., the Bishop of Cordova boldly defended the rights of the Church against some propositions