distinguished men of the nation. The insignia that adorned their flags are emblematical of their faith-the name of Jesus, by whom we all expect to be saved, and His Sacred Heart, the furnace of His ardent love for man; their motto is expressive of the sentiments of their soul: "Peace to men of good will."

2. The cross followed, supported on each side by a banner in the form of the Labarum of Constantine, serving to direct the lines. Next, about fifty young girls in their richest attire, all scholars of the female academy of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart, strewing flowers on their way; then the boys at our school -about sixty in number.

3. Two large standards heading the lines of the infantry, and marching to the cadence of drum and fife. The infantry fired salutes at certain intervals.

4. Two long lines of singers, making the welkin resound with the praises of the Almighty, and in the centre six acolythes, who, among the clouds of incense, strewed flowers on the passage of the Holy of Holies; four other acolythes bore lantherns by the side of the Blessed Sacrament. The canopy was carried by the eight principal chiefs, and followed by the commander-in-chief and a squadron of lancers on horseback. Then the women in lines of two on each side reciting devout prayers.

The repository had been built on an eminence in the midst of an extensive prairie. It was a platform of about twenty-five feet square and six high, with steps in front, and surrounded with seven tall cedar trees, over it two flags bearing the sign of our redemption, were waving in the air. In the midst of the platform, upon an Etruscan altar seven feet high, was placed the throne of Him whose delight is to be with the children of men. Fresh flowers and poor draperies were all the ornaments; but the prayer of twelve hundred people that rose like incense in his sight, the offerings of their hearts made by these men of good will, were undoubtly more acceptable to him than the richest perfumes and the vain exhibitions of worldly splendour. The moment the benediction arrived, all the horsemen dismounted. Verily, it was a sublime and consoling spectacle to behold a whole nation who, but a few years ago, were ignorant of God and His holy law, kneeling down in profound adoration before Him who bled and died on the cross for man's salvation. Ah, dear and reverend Father, what scenes for the heart of a missionary! and with what raptures of joy did we not entone the Psalm, "Praise the Lord, all ye nations; praise Him all ye people; For His mercy is confirmed upon us; and the truth of the Lord remaineth forever."

ST. LOUIS.-On the fourth of July, a solemn Te Deum was chanted in the Cathedral of this city, in thanksgiving to God for the enjoyment of those civil liberties which the Declaration of Independence, signed on the same day, sixtyseven years ago, secured to the American people. Before the Te Deum commenced an eloquent discourse was delivered by Rev. Martin Spalding, D. D. of the diocese of Louisville, in which the principles of the signers were shown to be in perfect conformity with the opinions generally received and professed by the scholastic divines of the middle ages, and very frequently acted upon by the people of those abused times. The corner stone of a new church was solemnly blessed by the Coadjutor Bishop of this diocess at Alton, Illinois, on Sunday the 9th ult. A great number of citizens from St. Louis as well as numbers of the inhabitants of Alton, were present at the ceremony. On the same day Rev. Martin Spalding, D. D., preached at the Church of St. Francis Xavier in aid of the Female Free School lately opened in its vicinity. He also preached on the following Sunday in the Cathedral, in and of the Male Orphan Asylum. On the 6th of July left this city the Rev. Tiberius Soderini, of the Society of Jesus, for the Indian missions among the Pottowatomies,

Ottowas and Chippeways. He was accompanied by two ladies of the Sacred Heart, who are to join the others of their community, who so succcesfully conduct the Female Free School among these Indians.

On Sunday the 16th ult., the Right Rev. Bishop Odin, Vicar Apostolic of Texas, administered the sacrament of confirmation to sixty-eight persons at St. Genevieve. The same Apostolic Prelate administered confirmation on the 23d inst., at the Church of St. Mary's, Peryville, to a large number. The Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis visited French Village, Illinois, on Sunday 16th ult, where he administered the sacrament of confirmation to 36 persons. The distribution of premiums among the young ladies of the Academy attached to the Visitation Convent, Kaskaskia, took place on Wednesday, 26th ult. Bishop Odin distributed the prizes. The sacrament of confirmation was administered by the Coadjutor Bishop of this diocess on Thursday, 27th ult., to 17 persons, in the Chapel attached to the Convent of the Sacred Heart in this city. Almost all those who were confirmed on that occasion frequent the Female Free School, conducted by the above named religious ladies. The number of scholars is about eighty. Yesterday was the festival of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. High Mass was sung in the Church of St. Francis Xavier, attached to the University, at 8 o'clock, during which the Coadjutor Bishop addressed the congregation on the life and virtues of St. Ignatius.

HOLLAND.-Hoorn.-Two respectable gentlemen lately made there abjuration of Protestantism in the Catholic Church of this city. The bigots of this place had scattered several pamphlets among the people, in which the tenets of the Catholic Church were misrepresented, and the Catholics set forth as idolaters &c. The reading of these pamphlets induced the gentlemen to inquire after the true tenets of the calumniated Church, and finally finding within its bosom the saving faith once delivered to the saints, they abjured the Calvinistic belief before all their relatives and acquaintances.-[Godsdienstvriend.]

JESUITS. Since the articles of agreement have been signed by the Belgian and Dutch authorities, the Jesuits have commenced to re-establish themselves in those places from which the narrow-mindedness of William I. had driven them. They opened, in 1842, their old College of Cuylemburg, and have attracted an unusual number of the Catholic youth of Holland. Upon the request of the Bishop of Curium, they have lately accepted of the direction of the College of Nobles, which that Prelate has erected in Katwyk, near Leyden, where all the Catholic, and very probably many of the Protestant Nobility of Holland will receive their education.

WEST-INDIES.-Dutch Possessions -We take from the May number of de Godsdienstrviend, a Catholic periodical of Holland, the following information concerning the state of our H. Religion in the Dutch West-Indies. Curacoa, St. Eustatia and the half of St. Martin, are the only Isles which belong to the Government of Holland. In these Isles, as well as the mother-country, our Religion, notwithstanding the ignorance of the Aborigines, and the bigotry of some English and Dutch Lords, is very flourishing. A few years ago there was but one Priest and one Church at Curacoa, now each Isle has its Church and Minister. They are under the Spiritual jurisdiction of the Very Rev. Dr. Newindt, the Apostolic prefect of the Dutch West-Indies. Curacoa, where the zealous Prefect and the intrepid Van Roosmalen labour, has a large congregation in Williamstadt. There is a flourishing Free School under the charge of six Sisters of the Order of St. Francis. Upwards of two hundred children, without distinction of colour attend daily Cathedral instruction. St. Eustatia too is about to have a beautiful Church erected, the expenses of which are

partly to be borne by the Dutch Government, and partly by the liberality of the Catholics of Holland. The Rev. Mr. Kistemaker, who labours here, writes in a late letter, that on his arrival in the Island in the year 1842, he was greeted at every step-by the name of Papist," worshipper of images," "embassador of the Pope" &c. Even the very negro-race was profuse in antichristian and antisocial epithets against the Catholic missioner. The Isle was in a religious point of view, under the complete influence of English Methodists: the Dutch population being comparatively thin in the Island. Now, however, thanks be to God, great accessions Lave been made to the trueChurch of Christ and there exists a great alarm among the English Protestants, who appear every where instinctively to dread the innate power of Catholicism. St. Martin too, though small, has the zealous Ten Brink for labourer. This worthy Priest, since his arrival in 1842, has formed a congregation of four hundred souls and is about to open a Free School for the poor salt-diggers of the

Isle.

SWEDISH WEST-INDIES.-St. Bartholomew, a small but fertile Island, is the only one that belongs to Sweden. It is attended by the French and the Dutch Priests of St. Martin: a handsome Catholic Church has been commenced in Gustavia, the capital of the Isle.

DUTCH GUIANA.-The Gazette of Surinam of the 7th of March last has the following:

"Information has been received in Paramaribo that his Holiness, the Pope of Rome, has nominated the Very Rev. James Grooff, now Prefect Apostolic of Surinam, as Vicar Apostolic of the Dutch East-Indies, with the dignity of Bishop of Cana in part. inf. Also that the Very Rev. M. J. Niewindt, now Prefect of Curacao, has been nominated Vicar Apostolic with the dignity of Bish op of Cytrum in part. inf. His Majesty William II., King of Holland has confirmed the nominations; by a decree of 16th Dec. 1842."

This intelligence is so much the more gratifying that the Very Rev. M. M. Grooff and Niewindt are the first Vicars Apostolic with Episcopal dignity, that ever were appointed for the Dutch ultramarine possessions.

CHINA.-Extract of a letter of the Rev. P. Gotteland, of the Society of Jesus, dated Nankin, September 1842."

"After a short and happy voyage our little group of Jesuits landed on the Chinese soil:-thanks be to that Providence who always surpasses in liberality those who are liberal to him. We had no difficulty to get all our luggage ashore and secured: which according to recollection, never had happened before. The Rt. Rev. Vicar Apostolic of Nankin, Besi, received us with the utmost cordiality, and expressed his wish that the Society would once more spread in the celestial Empire. The diocese of Nankin numbers about sixty thousand Catholics: the number of Clergymen in attendance is quite insufficient for the wants of the people. Wherever we appeared all classes seemed to receive us with open arms. The Vicar Apostolic was much pleased with the encouraging letter of our Very Rev. Father General at Rome. The Provinces of Hianguan and Chang-Tong are very destitute of Priests, and their Spiritual heads have applied for Jesuits. We just recived the news from the last named Province, that, upon the request of a persecuting Mandarin, twenty-two men and twenty-four women were made prisoners for the faith: it is said that eight of them had renounced their faith before entering upon their sufferings; the rest were faithful and resolved to lay down their lives for Christ. The rulers of Chang-Tong are some of the most intolerant ones of the Empire: we will deem ourselves truly happy, when we shall be appointed to labour there for God's greater glory. The Bishop has invited me to baptize to-morrow

the third day of our arrival, four Chinese adults-great many more, says he, are to be baptized within a month."

In addition to the above, information has been received in this city from Fribourg, Switzerland, that Rt. Rev. Bishop Besi has earnestly applied for a new supply of Jesuit-Fathers, for the celestial Empire. In consequence thereof fifteen Fathers of the Province of France are preparing to set out towards the close of this year.

CONVERSION. Dr. Moses Rocca, an Israelite of Trieste, and a physicirn of high reputation, aged 33 years, and his wife aged 25, with their infant daughter, were recently baptized at Rome. The Austrian Ambassador stood sponsor for the doctor: the Baroness Grazioni was Godmother to the wife and child. CONVERT TO CATHOLICITY.-C. Debarry, Esq., one of the principal contributors to the British Magazine [Puseyite publication,] has recently renounced Protestant opinions, and conformed to the Catholic Church.

LIFE OF ST. ZITA.-The Baron de Montreuil has just published the Life of St. Zita, a servant in Lucca, who died in 1278. On the 27th April, 1841, Feast of the Saint, he heard Mass in her Chapel at Rome, and subsequently visited Lucca, where he obtained leave of the Archbishop to inspect her relics. They were examined in the presence of the ecclesiastical authorities, and of numerous witnesses, and her body was found entire, and free from any putrefaction, of which extraordinary fact a formal document was drawn up. Catholic Herald.

APPROBATION.

THE CATHLOIC CABINET is published with my approbation, and appears to me calculated to promote the interests of the Catholic Religion in this diocese. † PETER RICHARD,

Bishop of Drasis, and Coadjuter of the Bishop of St. Louis.

JUNE 30th. 1843.

TO AGENTS.

We shall feel thankful to those gentlemen who have consented to act as Agents for the Catholic Cabinet, to favor us as regularly as possible, with monthly remittances.

Histoire de la Vie, des Ouvrages, et des Doctrines de Calvin. Par M. Audin, Auteur de l'Histoire de Luther, 2 vols. 8 vo., pp. 534 and 508. Paris, 1841.

History of the Life, Works and Doctrines of Calvin; By M. Audin, author of the History of Luther; 2 vols. 8 vo., pp. 534 and 508. Paris, 1841.

This is in many respects a remarkable book. It is an appropriate sequel to the Life of Luther by the same author. The latter is already before the public, in an English dress, and we willingly indulge the hope that the former may also be soon spread before our reading community. It is, emphatically a work for the times. Its publication is one additional evidence that history is beginning to arise from the tomb to which the prejudice of three centuries had consigned her; and that she will soon cease to be "a conspiracy against the truth." She is already shaking off the dust, doffing the thick mantle in which bigotry had enveloped her form, and standing again erect-a stern witness of the truth.Not only Catholic, but Protestant writers of distinction-such as Voigt, Hurter, Galiffe-have assisted at her resurrection. The present work has lifted the dark veil which hung heavily over the cradle of Calvinism, and exhibited to our view, in all their startling reality, the events which Geneva witnessed in the sixteenth century.

The author has brought to his task great industry and research. He has drawn materials from every quarter. He assures us, that there was not a library of any note in France or Germany which he did not visit.* In pursuing his researches, he discovered many letters of the Geneva Reformer which had been hitherto unpublished. He has published in full, for the first time, the famous letter of Calvin to Farel, concerning Servetus, which he found in the handwriting of Calvin himself, in the Royal Library at Paris. The arguments which he adduces to support its genuinity are such as no reasonable

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