TURKEY.-The Catholic Archbishop of Petra, in part. Patriarchal Vicar Apostolic of Constantinople for the faithful of the Latin rite, Mgr. Julien Hillereau, has lately arrived in Paris. The French press gives us, on this occasion, some particulars concerning the Mission of Constantinople, which, besides the city, extends itself to the Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus and to the borders of the Black Sea. There are in this mission about 10,000 Catholics of the Latin rite, 9,000 of whom reside in Constantinople: the others are dispersed in Salonica, Adrianople, Trebizonde and other cities. There are 46 Priests in the mission, who attend nine Churches and nine private Oratories. There have been opened three parochial schools; two hospitals have been erected for those who are infected with the plague, and a house of refuge for the poor. There is a College under the charge of the Lazarists, and another educational institution, attended by the Sisters of Charity. Late and important changes which the Sultan Mahmoud introduced in the costumes of the Mussulmans bringing them nearer to those of the Christians, have contributed much to lessen the hatred of the Turks against those who bear the name of Christ. The Catholics are no more, as formerly, obliged to celebrate the Holy ceremonies in secret. Constantinople, in the course of this year, witnessed the the solemn Procession on Corpus Christi move through its streets, with great order and magnificence.

CHINA.-Hong King.-A handsome Catholic Church has been erected in this place. A correspondent from Hong King says: "Several Catholic Missionaries have landed here, and manifest much zeal for the Propagation of the Gospel. They have already a college built near their church. They entertain the hope of once more spreading in the Celestial Empire, like formerly, when the School of Loyola preached the gospel in China, and some of them had become inmates of the Court."-Cath. Misc.

Since 1840 a new mission has been established in Chinese Tartary. Mr. Verolle, Apostolic Missionary of Setchuen, has been appointed Vicar Apostolic. This exemplary Prelate accepted the charge with respect and humility, although with the natural fear attendant upon an undertaking so arduous and important. After much trouble and anxiety, by a protracted voyage of 69 days from Setchuen, he, accompanied by three Priests, arrived at the place appointed for him by the Common Father of the faithful, Gregory XVI.

SANDWICH ISLANDS.-Mr. Huguenin, of Bordeaux, has received a letter from Father Tignac, procurator of the Congregation of Picpus, dated Valparaiso, 28th October 1842, in which it is stated that Father Maigret had informed him that eight thousand Neophytes had already been made in the Sandwich Islands, notwithstanding the persecutions raised by the Protestant Missionaries. The speedy conversion of all the inhabitants to the Catholic faith is likely to follow, if the Catholic Missionaries be allowed to pursue their holy functions without molestation.-Catholic Herald.

AUSTRALIA. To the Clergy and faithful of the City of Sidney. John Bede by the grace of God and of the Holy Apostolic See, Archbishop of Sydney, and Vicar Apostolic of New-Holland, placed in the church of God to watch over the spiritual welfare of her children, as having to render an account for their Souls, we are impelled by a strict sense of duty to sanction and to strengthen, as far as in us lies, the expressed judgment of the civil power on a subject of the greatest importance in a moral point of view. You are aware, dearly beloved, that the legal authorities have entitled themselves to our gratitude by the decided opposition they have made to the inundation of immoral publications, with which the colony was threatened. They have denounced, after due examination, certain publications as destructive of good order, as tending directly to the corruption of the mind and heart-in a word, as utterly unfit for perusal. The purpose of the persons who edit these publications is to obtain money, by means necessarily destructive of the morals of the community. Our object in now addressing you is to invite you to abstain from the purchase of them. We exhort you thus to set a good example to the Colony at large-an example which, if universally followed, will prevent effectually the continuance or repetition of this most dreadful evil, for so long as there are readers to purchase, there will be found wretches to publish, whatever may be the risk. Parents, guardians, masters and heads of families are particularly admonished. Let them remember their responsibility to God. Let them avoid co-operation with these assassins in the spiritual murder of those under their charge; for of their heinous crime will they be held guilty if they permit such publications to be circulated within this homes and amongst their dependants. And whilst we decline the exercise in full of that authority to rule in the Church of God, with which we are invested, and use the language of entreaty rather than of power as regards the purchasing of these publications (either under the same or different titles,) we prohibit most strictly, and in virtue of the obedience due to us, any one of our flock from aiding in the dissemination of these publications, by selling, lending, or in any other way. The peace of God be with you all. Amen.-Australasian Chronicle.

AFRICA.-Ethiopia.-A Missionary sent by the Propaganda of Rome, penetrated Ethiopia in 1842. About the epoch of his arrival at Adua some heretical missionaries were forced by the authorities to depart. Having been led before an assembly of Abyssinian priests, he saw, by God's mercy, the storm which threatened him change into favourable sunshine. They asked him first what he was. He answered: "a Roman Catholic and a priest." Why do you come into Abyssynia? "To learn the Ethiopian tongue, to visit my brethren, and labour for their salvation." Whom do you call your brethren? "All the Christians of Ethiopia, and especially you, who are invested with the priesthood." Do you adore the Cross, the most holy Virgin, St. Michael and St. George? "I adore no one but God; but I venerate the Cross on which was suspended the body of the Redeemer; I honour his holy Mother with a particular worship, and I invoke

the Saints and Angels." How many births are there in Jesus Christ? "There are two-one eternal from his Father, the other temporal in the womb of the holy Virgin Mary. Very well,' they said, "we are content; you can remain among us without fear." Invited by the King to a feast, and courteously received by the most influential persons of the place, the Missionary soon perceived all the errors with which, in consequence of ignorance and indifference, the creed of the clergy was disfigured. In a religious conference which he had with these priests, he caused them to agree that the Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father and the Son, and that in Jesus Christ there are two natures, and but one person, that the Chair of St. Peter is the first of the world, that truth there resides, and thence is poured abroad upon all nations of the earth. After these preliminaries, the Missionary asked them, why they did not unite "We are not in union with Rome," they anthemselves to the See of Rome. swered, "but we respect all holy catholics, and honour their virtues." Why then do you not ask from Rome for a bishop? "This is not the custom, Alexandria must send us one: But Alexandria is in union with Rome, which you recognize to be alone the See of truth?" Very well; it is the concern of Alexandria to negotiate with Rome. Will you allow me to write to Rome and ask "Yes, the Pope to send his benediction to his children in this distant land? certainly; tell him, that in the arm which blesses us, we respect the arm of St. Peter, and even that of Jesus Christ himself." Other Catholic Missionaries are expected at Adua. We love to hope that God will bless their Apostolic labours, and under the auspicies of so happy a commencement, we shall see the Abyssinian mission progress rapidly, diffusing in abundance the fruits of salvation and life.-French Paper.

OBITUARY.

DIED-At New-Orleans, of yellow fever, on the 19th of September last, at the age of 53 years, Rev. FERDINAND DOMINIC BACH, parish priest of the Church of St. Louis. He was born in Lorraine (France,) and after a brilliant course of studies was appointed Professor of Rhetoric, and subsequently of Theology, in the Diocesan Seminary of Nancy, where he continued until the year 1818. At that time he entered the society of Missionaries in France, and laboured at Lyons and elsewhare with great success. He accompanied Monseigneur De Janson to the United States, and delivered a course of lectures in the winter of 1839 and 1840, in the church of St. Louis at New-Orleans, which were highly prized and produced a most salutary effect. Since January last, he has been charged by the Bishop with the parish of St. Louis,

and fulfilled his difficult office with untiring patience. His illness lasted only 48 hours. His zeal, says the Propagateur Catholique, activity, charity, meekness, and prudence had gained the esteem of all his Parishioners.

At Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 8th of September, Sister Marie Joseph of the Loretto (Ky.) order.

On the 2d of October, at Alexandria, (La.) the Rev. Robert Dugan, since 1840 Rector of the Church of that place. He was ordained Priest in the Ecclesiastical Seminary of Assumption in Louisana, in the month of March 1840, and during the few years of his ministry he distinguished himself for zeal and piety. He was buried in the church of St. Francis Xavier at Alexandria, which he had erected to the glory of God, and which will be a lasting monument of his devotedness and zeal. He made no testament, because he possessed nothing. The tears of all his parishoners accompanied him to the grave.

Le Propagateur Catholique of the 20th ult. announces the death of Rev. Baron d' Auragne at Plaquemines, in the diocess of Lousiana. The deceased had only been in the country from the beginning of the last summer, when he fell a victim to a malignant fever.

At Senegallia, in Italy, on the 3d of August last, his Eminence Cardinal FABRISIO SCEBERAS TESTAFERRATA, Bishop of that See, who was born at Valetta in Malta on the 29th of April 1758, and was promoted to the purple Pope Pius VII of holy memory, on the 6th of April 1808. This eminent Ecclesiastic has left many monuments of the charity that animated him. He opened a Seminary for Clerks, confided to religious ladies the education of the female children of his Diocess, repaired all its collegiate edifices, founded and endowed a new establishment for foundlings, called in the Sisters of Charity to the maintenance and education of female orphans, and the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine to the tutorage of orphan boys. His memory will never die in the hearts of his spiritual children.

The colony of English Guiana has undergone a severe loss in the deaths of two efficient young Missionaries. Rev. John Malley, died on the 25th of May at Georgetown, county Demerara. He had been only eleven weeks in the Mission and was the first Ecclesiastic sent by the College of All Hallows near Dublin to the foreign missions. Rev. William Yates, who acted as Vicar General during the absence of Bishop Clancy, died in the month of June in New-Amsterdam, county of Berbice. Both fell victims to the yellow fever, and expired Martyrs to religion.

We are authorized to announce that Bishop KENRICK, will commence a course of lectures on the principles of the Catholic Church, next Sunday Evening, (Nov. 19th,) at half past seven o'clock, at the Cathedral.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE "DARK" AGES.

Of all the puffs of this puffing age, none has been louder or of longer continuance, than that which has vaunted the triumphs of Protestantism in the matter of education. By dint of constant boasting, Protestant writers have almost persuaded the world, that its rise from barbarism, its enlightenment in literature, its progress in science and art, its present civilization—are all ascribable to the Reformation; and that before that blessed event, all was darkness and wide-spread desolation. The Church sat down in the midst of this darkness, quite at home and at her ease: she made no effort to dissipate this gloom-she fostered it rather, as the thing above all others most suited to her wicked purpose, of infusing into the minds of men the deadly poison of error and superstition!

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Such is the proudly boasting theory, which Protestant writers have sought to establish, rather by bold and reckless assertion, than by calm and solid argument. Verily if history did not inform us, that a Catholic first invented Steam navigation, we should be greatly tempted to ascribe that invention also to the Reformation! Since this religious revolution, there has been in the world one continual puff! puff!! puff!!!-and amidst the accompanying noise and smoke, men's minds have been scarcely calm enough to form a correct judgment on the true facts of History! The Catholic Church, on the contrary, has boasted little, and done much, without vaunting her literary triumphs, she has really been the foundress of Schools and Universities, the fosterer of arts, and sciences, and the mother of inventions, as will abundantly appear, we think, from the facts embodied in this Essay. Before Protestantism was heard of, she struggled single-handed for centuries against ignorance and barbarism. She had already

⚫ Blasco de Gary, a Spaniard, first constructed a Steam Engine for Navigation, and in the year 1543 made a successful experiment with it in the harbour of Barcelona, before Charles V., and all his Court, and in presence of the whole city. The vessel with which he tried his experiment was of 200 barrels burden.-Naverette-Collection de viages, and Year in Spain

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