a modification in its internal policy; or, for instance, the adoption of more liberal measures towards unhappy Ireland, and more humane ones in regard to its subjects in the East Indies? What would be his answer to any power that should thus dare to intermeddle with the Queen's government? He would reply, as the court of Naples now does, that he acknowledged no right and no power in any one whatever to dictate rules of conduct to him, or to indulge in offensive remonstrances; or rather, not so. Lord Palmerston would not even have taken the trouble to answer, but he would at once have sent passports to the representatives of the power that should have so acted. Has not then the King of Naples an equal right with Great Britain to show himself jealous of his own honor, and careful of that of his people?" And after reviewing in a dignified manner the impropriety of the demands and the consequences to which they might lead, he thus concludes: "France and England should remember that they engaged in the eastern war for the express purpose of preventing a foreign power from interfering in the affairs of Italy. Any analogous intervention in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies would be a strange and unheard of anomaly. King Ferdinand cannot and will not believe that any such thing can be intended. He relies with entire confidence upon the fact that the courts of Paris and London have in the most public manner recognized this principle, namely: that every free state, however inferior its strength may be to that of the power which pretends to offer advice to it, has the indisputable right to reject the advice when it comes in the form of a threat and an attack upon its independence. "The King intends to abide by all that has just been said. If, which it is impossible to suppose, it shall be attempted to constrain his will, he will then, confiding in the justice of his cause, make an appeal to the national feeling, as well as to his brave and faithful army, and prepare himself to repel force by force.' SPAIN. Spain at latest dates was quiet. The Cortes was dissolved, and a new one, together with a Senate, shortly to be elected. The whole of the National Guard of Spain is to be disarmed, but the question of its definitive dissolution will be left to the decision of the Cortes. The new Municipality Law voted by the Contingent Cortes is to go into operation on the 1st October. Disturbances have broken out in the southern part of Spain. At Marchena the population rose and massacred the alcaldes, four municipal councillors, and a clerk in the employment of the town. An order given by the alcalde to disarm the National Guard was the origin of this sanguinary scene. The town of Ronza has also been the theatre of similar scenes. PORTUGAL. On the 8th of August attempts at disturbance took place at Lisbon, For several days previously some excitement was manifested among the lower classes, caused by certain agitators, who took advantage of the high price of bread, to attribute it to speculators. Meetings of the workmen were held, and inflammatory speeches were made. Riot was the consequence. In Lisbon and elsewhere the houses of some speculators in food, and those of several bakers were attacked, but the disturbance was put down without bloodshed. The cholera had appeared in the English College at Lisbon, and several deaths had occurred. FRANCE. The Emperor, at latest dates, was at the baths of Biarritz. He is reported to be urging the claim of Prince Pierre Bonaparte to the throne of the Danubian kingdom; and to be engaged in considering what title to bestow on the American descendants of Prince Jerome. France and Russia are on the most friendly terms. The crops throughout the country are said to be good.-The existence of a secret society of a very dangerous character has been discovered. Its ramifications extend through several parts of the country. Its head-quarters are in the department of the Upper Loire. Its object is the overthrow of the Bonaparte government-if necessary by the assassination of the Emperor. From the revelations which have been made it appears assassination is one of their recognised means of success. Each member is sworn to implicit obedience, to abandon family, and to yield up his life.—A new confraternity has been established in France, which has been enriched by many indulgences by the Holy Father. It has for its object the procuring of lamps to burn perpetually before the B. Sacrament throughout the various churches of the empire. Its constitution is simple. A committee has been established, composed of a number of Christian ladies, and presided over, in the name of the archbishop, by another prelate of dignity. The first object of this committee is to get made, by means of alms and subscriptions, a number of suitable sanctuary lamps, which are dispensed gratis to the churches that make application for them. The oil and other necessaries are thereafter supplied by means of congregational subscriptions.-The Abbé Destrade, after many years labor, has succeeded in realizing the idea long contemplated by the President-General of the Conference of St. Vincent of Paul, of building an hospital for the indigent poor in the village of Bareges, situated in the loftiest summits of the Pyrenees.-The French papers announce the death of the illustrious sister Marie, of the Order of Charity. She died at Algiers, in the 73d year of her age. ENGLAND. The political news of England is unimportant. Little is said about the affairs of the United States, and less upon the " Italian question."-Mazzini has been endeavoring to draw attention to the condition of his oppressed country, by the publication of a lengthy letter in the Times, under the head of the "cause of Italy stated," in the course of which he advocates street barricades and wholesale murder in a view of bettering the condition of his countrymen.-The arrival of the Dowager Queen of Oude in England forms at present the chief subject of comment among the English journals. She landed at Southampton on the 20th of August, accompanied by a numerous suite. The object of her mission is to obtain the restoration of her son to the throne of Oude. Her departure from the vessel is thus described by a correspondent of the Times: "At three o'clock unusual excitement was observed at the gangway of the Indus. The landing stage from the ship to the dock was covered with carpet. Surrounding the gangway were eunuchs and the chief officers of state belonging to the court of Oude, dressed in magnificent robes, and holding the insignia of their offices. A snow white screen was held up before the gangway. It was now whispered that preparations were making for the Queen leaving the ship, and voices were heard behind the screen Presently two figures, dressed like Egyptian mummies, appeared and walked across to the stage, their little naked feet in gaudy slippers turned up at the toes. These were assisted into the Queen's carriage, not a vestige of any part of them being seen but their feet and legs. These were the chosen maids of honor to the Queen. Soon after they were seated the screen was thrown down and the palanquin was brought out. It consisted of a chair enclosed in a slender frame, which was covered with a splendid blue and silver robe. In it was the Queen, whom few persons in the world have ever seen. A splendid scarlet umbrella was held over the palanquin. Mace bearers attended her; eunuchs and officers of state preceded and followed her. The pressure of the crowd to get a glimpse at her was intense, and the gigantic eunuchs were in agony. The difficulty of getting Her Majesty into the carriage without being seen was immense. At length a screen was placed against the body of the carriage, and Her Majesty was just in the act of stepping in, when, horror of horrors, two men were detected on the coachman's box, looking deliberately into the carriage, and about to stare Her Majesty in the face. A shout of indignation drove them from their post, to the infinite relief of the courtiers." His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman recently paid a visit to the town of Aix-la-Chapelle, where he was received with every mark of respect due to his high dignity.-The conversion of the Duchess Dowager of Argyle, and her recent admission into the Catholic Church, has caused great sensation in the upper circle. This is the third Duchess within the last few years that has been admitted into the Catholic Church. What is a little remarkable, they all belonged to Scottish families.-The death of the Earl of Shrewsbury is announced. This melancholy event took place at Lisbon, on the tenth of August. He was the cousin of the sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, to whose titles and estates he succeeded in 1852. By this death, the long succession of Catholic Earls of Shrewsbury is broken; Henry Chetwyna Talbot, a Protestant, it is said, will succeed to the titles and estates of the deceased Earl. IRELAND.-The Rev. N. Gillooly was consecrated Bishop of Elphin on the seventh of September. The impressive ceremony took place in the Church of St. Vincent, Cork. The Irish journals annouce the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Ferns. The melancholy event took place after a short illness, on the 13th of August. His death is universally lamented. He had been for a long period parish priest of Wexford; and before his elevation to the see of Ferns, Dr. Murphy had secured the affection of all classes by the practice of those virtues which marked his whole career, and which were so much calculated to promote the happiness of the community among which he dwelt. Dr. Murphy was consecrated Bishop of Ferns in March, 1850.-The collossal statue of the illustrious O'Connell in Limerick is being brought to completion by Hogan, the celebrated sculptor. A Limerick paper thus speaks of the work: "Grand, massive, the illustrious O'Connell in an attitude as characteristic as it is majestic. It is an attitude full of eloquent expression-the right hand raised gracefully before the breast, corresponding in action with the position of the head and with the play of the lips and the eyes, all of which seem to address the spectator in one of those sweetest effusions of persuasive sentiment in which O'Connell loved so much to indulge. The figure, which stands eight feet and some inches above the plinth, is partly enveloped in a large cloak, which, although the costume is entirely modern, is so skilfully arranged as to invest the whole with a fine classic style, affording, besides, to Hogan all that facility for a rich, natural disposition of drapery in which he is unexcelled by any living artist. The folds are broad and massive--the leading characteristics of the whole work—and at the same time flexible and graceful, preserving all the softness and pliability of nature. But what is still more important, the likeness is admirable. In this respect, Hogan had been even more fortunate here than in his former figures or heads of O'Connell; and we have little doubt that any one who has ever seee the Liberator during the memorable period of the monster meetings and the state trials, will hesitate for a moment in perceiving the features and the expression of the man in this work of the Irish sculptor." SCOTLAND.-The spirit of hostility to Catholicity, which has taken so deep a root in Scottish soil, has lately broken out in open violence. The unassuming Church of Kelso, which no one would have taken for a place of Catholic worship, was assailed by a furious mob, the windows and doors beaten in with stones, many of the movables inside stolen, and the building committed to the flames. "It might have been expected," says a Glasgow paper (the Northern Times), "That the fury of the antiCatholic party would have been satisfied by this act of spite and malice. That such, however, is not the case is proved by the fact, that the poor Catholics have been kept ever since in a state of alarm and anxiety. Threatening notices, couched in the most ferocious language, have been sent to members of inoffensive families. They are menaced with the destruction of their dwellings and property, and with death itself, unless they instantly remove and quit the country. These proceedings are not confined to Kelso, but extend to Jedburgh, Hawick, Yetholm, and the adjacent villages. At Jedburgh, the Catholic chapel and priest have been threatened. In some instances, even Protestants have been ordered to remove from their houses, in order to leave the mob free to burn out a Catholic neighbor." This was followed by a brutal outrage on the Sisters of Charity in Glasgow. The same paper thus speaks of this affair: "On last Thursday evening, as two of the sainted nuns, Sisters of Charity, were returning to their convent from the school at Anderston, where they had been engaged in the pious duty of teaching the children of the poor, they were stopped in the street by a large crowd (consisting of men and women), who, with rude and indecent violence, raised their veils, and behaved towards them with every species of rudeness that a brutal mob could perpetrate. Against this host of malignant fiends the sainted nuns feebly struggled. The police tried to interfere; but being few in number, while the crowd became more dense, they found it impossible to open a passage, until, at length, some civilians came forward and volunteered their coöperation, and after removing the obstruction, escorted the nuns to their convent. Now, why this outrage was perpetrated we know not, unless it be for reasons similar to those which influenced the miscreants of old to torture and crucify the Redeemer and martyr his saints. The nuns, indeed, had forfeited all the luxuries of life, all the amenities and fascinations of polished society, for the purpose of devoting themselves to the worship of God, and of bringing up the children of the poor in the path of religion, which alone leads to happiness here and hereafter. In this duty they followed with self-sacrificing solicitude the will of their divine Master. This was their only offence, for which they were insulted and assailed by the brutal mob." The Church of Scotland has sustained a severe loss in the death of the Rev. James Russell, one of the most zealous and exemplary clergymen of Glasgow, who departed this life on the 6th of August. RUSSIA. The approaching coronation of the Emperor Alexander II, absorbs every other topic at present in Russia. This event, for which vast preparations have been made, was to take place on the 7th of September, at Moscow. On the 20th of August the Emperor entered the city, which is thus described by a correspondent of the London News: "At 4 P. M., a salute of 74 guns announced that the Emperor had entered the city. The Governor of Moseow and staff, the magistrates and the nobility of the district, received the cortege at different points in its passage through the city. At the Gate of the Resurrection, the Emperor, Empress and other members of the Imperial family, dismounted and knelt before the image of our Lady of Iberia. Thence they proceeded to the Cathedral of the Assumption, and kissed the relics therein; afterward they proceeded to the Cathedrals of the Archangel Michael and the Annunciation, where they performed similar religious ceremonies. Their Majesties afterward walked to the Palace of the Kremlin. At its gate they were received by a deputation of clergy with religious observances. Here the Archbishop of Moscow presented the Emperor with bread and salt. Immediately afterward 101 guns (at 5 P. M.) announced that their Majesties had entered the palace. At night the city was illuminated.” TURKEY.-A serious outbreak among the Montenegrin tribes had caused much alarm. At Podgoriza they destroyed several mosques and churches, but at Kuci they committed the most horrid outrages. "Forty Catholic families had managed, with their priests, to escape the general massacre, and retreated to the mountains, where they lived for three days on roots and berries. On their return they found their homes not only plundered but burned, and this was also the fate of the church. More than 200 Turks of all ages, many of whom were women and children, were butchered in cold blood. In this catalogue of horrors, the unhappy fate of one Catholic family in particular has created the greatest commiseration and sympathy. The husband was engaged in packing up his valuables when he was attacked by six of the Montenegrins, who literally cut him to pieces. At the sight of this wanton act of brutality the wife was so appalled that she instantly went out of her senses, and whilst in that state set fire to the cradle in which her baby was asleep, then killed her other child, a little girl of five years, by splitting her head open with a hatchet, and finally set fire herself to the house, and perished in the flames. 1. ARCHDIOCESE OF BALTIMORE.-The Catholic Population of Baltimore.—The following computation, taken from the Mirror, has been compiled, we understand, under the direction of the "Young Catholics' Friend Society," and presents several interesting features. If the rule for computation here laid down even approximates correctness, the Catholic population of our city is much greater than is usually supposed: In De Bow's Compendium of the United States Census, for 1850, there is a table at page 111, in which is shown the ratio that exists between the number of births in a year and the whole population of a given place. This table, based upon the returns of the Census, must in the main be correct. The ratio which applies to the whole population will also apply to the Catholics. By knowing the births among Catholics in this city, we can then estimate pretty nearly the aggregate Catholic population. For this purpose we have gathered from the Baptismal Records the number of births as there entered for the year 1854; and we find them to be 2,586. In the Official Report of Census for the city of Baltimore, for 1850, the ratio of births to the whole population is given as 3.02 per cent. With these data we have this formula: As Births. Population. Births. Population. 85,625. The proportion as found belonging to each of the ten parishes at that time formed in the city, was as follows: From this result it is but fair to deduct such children as were brought from outside the city limits to be baptised in Baltimore. The exact number we have not ascertained, but believe it cannot exceed one hundred. This would then require us to make the proportionate deduction of 3,311. As it is customary for mixed families to have all their children baptised in the Catholic Church, there must be some allowance made on that account. There is no means at our control for finding out the number of mixed families, that is, of families in which one of the parents is a non-Catholic, but we estimate the number in this city at about fifteen hundred. That number would then have to be deducted. The final result of our investigation is this: Church Dedication.-The church of St. Louis, near Clarksville, Howard County, in this State, was dedicated to the service of religion on the 31st of August. The Rev. Mr. Jenkins, President of St. Charles' College, officiated on the occasion. Religious Reception.-Miss Ellen Sharpe received the holy habit of religion, at the Convent of the Visitation in this city, on the 26th of August, taking in religion the name of Sister Mary Ursula. The Rev. Father Hewitt officiated, and delivered an appropriate discourse on the occasion.-The Most Rev. Archbishop administered confirmation to sixty-six persons on Sunday, August 7th, at St. Ignatius' church, near Harford, in this State.-We are gratified to learn that the Fair recently held at St. Mary's church, Harford County, has been attended with such happy results. Nearly |