intervals between spasmodic attacks, he hood, or that more advanced period of life, presented it to Mr. Travers, saying, "May when the young girl finds herself merging I hope, Sir, that you will still protect this into womanhood, to whom her heart could ouphan girl whom your deceased wife have attached itself.

adopted, and whom in this note she re- Save on one occasion, when she had spentcommends to your care. a short time in London, with Mrs. Travers, Mr. Travers took the letter with a nervous she had never been suffered to stray beyond eagerness; and as he hastily perused it, a the precincts of Ellersley Hall. Her dis-smile, as though some fear had been dis-position was therefore, strongly tinged with pelled, lighted up his countenance, then melancholy, and her warm heart yearned drawing Emmeline to his side, he exclaimed: after those natural ties of which she had "The adopted daughter of my late wife, been early deprived. Emmeline was an who has lived with us from infancy, need orphan, without a single friend or relative have no fear, Ellersley Hall shall always save the family who had adopted her, and be her home. Reverend Sir, in a few short her soft eyes had often filled with tears as days my daughter Millicent will return Mrs. Travers had narrated to her the sad from the continent, and Emmeline will be circumstances attendant on her birth. She her companion." was the offspring of one, she was told,

The priest now turned to depart, but on whose early widowhood compelled her to Mr. Travers urging the lateness of the hour become the dependant of others, her motherand pressing him to remain for the night, was the companion of Mrs. Travers, and the good Father acceeded to his wishes, she herself was consequently a child of and sought a few hours repose so needful charity. Oh! was it for Emmeline, then, after the fatiguing journey and harassing to murmur at the harsh and imperious conexcitement of the day. duct of the strange woman, who had saved Early on the following morning Father her, perhaps, from much greater hardship. Hubert departed, having failed in his The personal appearance and graceful manendeavours to procure a private interview ners of Emmeline, would have graced the with Emmeline, who, when she bade him palace of a queen, her understanding was farewell on the previous night, felt an un-of the highest order, and she had doubtless definable fear for which she vainly strove to received many advantages in her constant account. Her heart beat as it were with a intercourse with a woman whose mind was so foreboding apprehension of approaching highly cultivated, as was that of her patron

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ess. Millicent received her education on Sadly and drearily to her wore away the the continent, and it was such an one as to the next few days; the funeral of Mrs. render her fit to grace the society to which Travers was postponed till the latest pos- her rank and great wealth entitled her to sible period, in order to afford Millicent an move. For her own gratification, however," opportunity of arriving at the Hall, ere the Mrs. Travers, as already noted, had not interment took place. As to Mr. Travers, been unmindful of the education of her his countenance wore not even the sem- youthful protégé, it was a pleasure to her blance of grief, and so far from sorrowing to hear Emmeline read aloud her favourite at the death of his wife, Emmeline often authors, whether in French or Italian, it thought, that inwardly he rejoiced. The de- was pleasing, not less from her correct conceased lady and her husband had lived ception than the sweet tones of her voice. unhappily together; frequent altercations There was a charm, too, in her execution, on had latterly occurred between them, which the harp and piano, that like David's with not unusually ended on the part of Mrs. Saul, relieved the listener of many a weary Travers in strict and gloomy seclusion hour of ennui, for she, herself, had become within her own apartments; whilst her too indolent, or to haughty to draw gratifica-husband would absent himself for weeks tion from her own well-known skill as a together, mixing in the gaieties of the practical musician. But while she made metropolis, or otherwise spending his time the girl minister to her pleasure, she also as whim or fancy dictated. The return of caused her to feel the heavy obligations the gentle Millicent from the continent, under which fate had placed her. was as a ray of hope to the forlorn and Alas! for poor human nature! how sad bereaved protégé. Sweetly feminine in her to think that those who have themmanners, there was a sunbeam in the selves suffered, who know what it is to glance of Miss. Travers that cheered all who smart under the injustice of others, should approached her yet though inheriting all be so prone when fortune changes, to err in her mother's personal charms, there was precisely the same manner. These remarks not a point of resemblance between them are painfully true, let but the reflecting in mental constitution or social disposition. mind look around what is to be seen Far back.as. memory could wander, amongst the children of the world, and in-t Emmeline, through the dim vista of years justice and tyranny will be found to pregone by, could recollect none, save Millicent, vail. The strong oppressing the weak, to whom, either in the days of her child- whilst the latter in their turn, oppress those & Dosi, 1

who are yet weaker than themselves; look God had blessed her with a head to unfor one moment within the walls of our derstand, and a heart to feel all the truths factories, mark the conduct of the task of her religion; yet it was seldom indeed masters or foremen, see how they treat as that she could satisfy her pious longings. if they were beings of another nature, the True, she was regularly present at tho wretched men who are subjected to their Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, on Sundays, and control. Again, in the domestic circle, can other days of Obligation-true, she particianything be more cruel than the exacting pated in the Sacraments three or four times tyranny of women, whom chance may have a year, but as to the other means of nurturraised to comfort, with regard to their ing piety in the young heart, which the female servants. It is a truism often noticed Church holds out to her children, the that women who have been servants, generally | frivolities and dissipation of Ellersley Hall make the worst of mistresses. denied all access,

But to return from our digression, un- In the presence of Mr. Travers, Emmefortunately the case stood thus with Mrs. line always had experienced a species of Travers, and far from remembering the dread-from her entrance into his family, mental tortures she had herself endured in the days of her dependance, she appeared too often to take a malignant pleasure in embittering the life of her protégé.

till about her fourteenth year-his manner to her had ever been cold and repulsive, and when politeness began to master his harsh nature, and urge him to pay the orphan To the latter, her conduct was an enigma, some little attention, the present grace was the very menials would shrug their shoul- lost in the recollection of his former marked ders, and declare to each other, that not to ungraciousness. Besides, in his religious inherit her rich estate, would they submit views, he was ostentatiously evangelical, to be their mistress's companion. What and his scoffs and sneers against popery then must have been the sufferings of settled the original dislike of Emmeline Emmeline. Alas, there was nothing left for into a feeling nearly allied to loathing. To her but patient resignation, and she was re- her there was only one redeeming trait in signed; true, she would weep, but she would his character. With a father's deepest also pray, and comfort would come. Yes, fondest affection he doated on his only and even when some soft word, or conde- child, his adored Millicent. For that one scending action, or even a kindly look would virtue Emmeline was prepared to forgive be vouchsafed, her affectionate heart would him many vices. grow glad, and contentment for a moment would steal over her spirit.

Millicent Travers was indeed both good and amiable-participating not of the faulty On the whole, the conduct of her patron- disposition of either father or mother. It ess was to her an unfathomable mystery. seemed as she had been given them by Generally speaking, it was marked by Providence as a standing rebuke to the overhauteur if not unfeeling harshness. And, weening pride of the one, and the coarse yet, there were times when that strange vulgar selfishness of the other. Though not woman would relax her severity, and partial to the hyperbolical style of novel Emmeline, when by chance she would raise writers, of her it may be said, that she was her eye from her embroidery, or other casual more like an angel than a human being. employment, had frequently found her Her figure was commanding, her movements gazing on herself with mournful earnest-all grace, and the beauty and harmony of ness, and an expression amounting almost her features superhuman. For these exto maternal tenderness. Such an evidence ternal gifts, and not for her solid virtues, of kindness was sure to cancel all remem- her father loved her to excess; and yet brance of harsh treatment in the heart of with all his fond partiality, his judgment Emmeline Templeton. told him that in mental powers and literary

Thus sad and cheerless passed the early arguments, she suffered sadly in comparison days of our heroine. Domestic happiness with the clever and intelligent Emmeline. was not her lot, nor had she all the comfort He could not conceal from himself the fact that springs from the consoling practise of that large sums had been expended on the that holy religion, in which she was a sincere education of his daughter, while fitful in believer. The Catholic chapel was several structions from Mrs. Travers, and chance miles distant, and Ellersley Hall had few lessons from occasional professors, consticharms to induce the visits of a pious priest. tuted the only extrinsic aids of his protégé. Mrs. Travers, as we have shewn, had thrown He did not understand the power of genius aside the practice of her religion, yet, in when sustained by unceasing toil and pa perfect keeping with the contradictions of tient industry. And his mean heart felt her character. While at the persuasions of jealous, and his pride of spirit was humbled, her husband, she permitted her own because that his vast wealth could not pur daughter to be educated as a Protestant, chase for his child those priceless treasures she provided with anxious care for the with which nature had so lavishly gifted a due instruction of Emmeline in the Catholic friendless orphan,

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dence between natives of the same soil, which is the nurse of good order and social improvement.

By JAMES BURKE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. It may be safely averred that amongst the Those who endeavour to defend the exnumerous evils of which Ireland has been istence of the Protestant ascendancy in so long the victim, the existence of an Ireland, believe, or pretend to believe, that ascendant religion at variance with the feel- the Catholics of Ireland would not be satisings and the convictions of the people at fied with equality, but that they would, in large is the greatest. To this prolific source their turn, seek for ascendancy, and if to of just national discontent may be traced their numerical strength, the power which those heart-burnings and those discordant ascendancy gives were added, the liberty of and jarring sentiments, which have for cen- Protestants would be at an end. The inturies divided Ireland into two hostile justice of this supposition is at once appacamps, and made a beautiful and fertile rent from the facts, that the Catholics of land the battle ground of faction. The in- Ireland do not suggest that the revenues of sane effort, of which Ireland has been the the Protestant Church should be transferred theatre, to force a nation intense in its to Catholic religious uses. Although, it fondness for its ancient faith, to embrace a would certainly be a nearer approximation creed from which the popular sympathies to justice that these revenues should be aprecoil, has perhaps no parallel in the annals plied to the support of the Church of seveneven of the most misguided policy. When eighths of the people, than the Church of to this we add the injustice by means of one-sixteenth (for half an eighth must be which the existence of the "Protestant allowed for Protestant Dissenters), yet, the Church, as by law established" is upheld, it Catholics seek for no such arrangement. must be confessed, even by the warmest ad- They ask for no such appropriation. They vocates of the Irish State Church, that the distinctly, through their journalists and people of Ireland have shown an amount of their public speakers, disclaim any such patience under the circumstances, greater wish, believing as they do, from the exthan any other nation would have displayed. ample before their eyes, that such an appliIt is time that this gross national injustice cation of national funds would, by linking should be removed, and something more their creed with the state, tarnish its lustre. than barren and resultless denunciations of They even offer to give up the comparatively the wrong should appear. To little purpose is it that Ireland has sent forty-one Catholic representatives to Parliament, if they be not prepared to lay the axe to the root of the Upas of an unjust ascendancy, which poisons the moral atmosphere of that country. The sad experience of centuries has proved, that as long as there continues a State Church in Ireland, and that church one which is hostile in feeling to the people at large; the nation will blend that church, and the government which fosters it in common odium. It is plain that tranquillity cannot exist under such circumstances. No country can advance in social progress in which there exists a mutual distrust between the

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moderate sum which is granted to Maynooth, and which is now only accepted as a slight instalment of justice. They seek that accordingly as the vested interests of present incumbents ceased by their death, the Protestant ecclesiastical revenues should gradually merge into the general property of the state. They ask, as a matter of ne justice, and as the great avenue to cional tranquility, that these vast fund national applied for the general benef munity, for the support oft of the compromotion of education, the poor, for the national utility, and for public works of the beneficial result for all other uses in of all creeds could s of which the professors government and the people. The Irish No injury w share. Catholic looks back through the gloomy be offered + uld by such an arrangement annals of his country, and finds that the conscient o the religious convictions or saddest historical memories are linked with real fri ous belief of any Protestant. The the idea of religious inferiority. The most see and to that faith would be pleased to

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should not be deprived of those means of religious subscriptions as buying powder subsistence to which they have been ac- and ball for missionaries to sell to t the customed to look forward as a provision for Kaffirs, wherewith to shoot down the themselves and their families. As the Queen's troops!

present incumbents dropped off, their pro- A large portion of our subject still reperty would, it is proposed, vest in the mains. We have yet to examine, amongst state for public purposes. This is what other matters, the subject of Ministers O'Connell, Mr. John O'Connell, and all the Money," an impost, admittedly unjust, and Catholic public men who have written on always going to be abolished, but which still -the subject have invariably proposed. It remains. We have merely glanced at the is the course which justice points out. Any leading features of a subject which has other arrangement would be a manifest occupied the most eloquent tongues and wrong to many a family which would pens for many generations. The great otherwise be deprived of that livelihood anomaly of a poor Catholic country sup for which its head had wasted his education. porting a rich Protestant establishment Religious equality being the grand de-a blot, not only on Protestantism, but on sideratum in Ireland, the principal con- social history. And what is the return? -sideration of course is, how is that blessing Is it kindness? Is it a spirit of conciliation? to be obtained? Two answers are given to No, but an incessant torrent of invective this question. Endow all churches, or endow against the people's Clergy, and untiring none. The latter is the better course. The ridicule and abuse of the people's creed voluntary principle may contain some in- Protestantism, in fact, scorns everything conveniences in practice. It may, perhaps, Catholic, except Catholic gold or silver, or bring the pastor and his flock to the as Moore says, na relozi to olgoog arrangement of pecuniary matters more Though hating Popery in other respects, oonite frequently than may be considered consis- She to Catholic Money in no way objects; tent with the diguity of the clerical And so liberal her very best saints, in this sense, I character. But this is a trifling drawback That they even go to heaven at the Catholic's expense." compared with the apostolic character, and we gotund andr the innate power of the principle. Ireland, amidst all her persecutions preserved her On the 28th of March, 1851, I set out Church, trusting to this principle alone. from Santiago, to pay a visit to a Chilian By the aid of its potent influence, the gentleman, who resided about eighteen Catholic religion in Ireland, has come from leagues in the interior. We pursued our the hill side and from the narrow city lane. way at a rapid pace over the great plain of -A poor nation has reared by voluntary Santiago, apparently a dead flat; but which collections, some of the most beautiful we discovered, on looking back at the city, edifices in which God was ever worshipped. to have a considerable ascent. Amongst Catholic Ireland may safely trust to the the Andes, we are at first liable to err in voluntary principle.

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the ideas we form of the scenery for every But, it will be asked, what of Protestant thing is on a scale so great, that our conIreland? Can the Protestants of Ireland eeptions are unable to grasp the scenes support their Church? To this, the plain before us, and we necessarily fun into answer is-Yes. If it be not so, then have mistakes respecting heights and distances, the Protestants been shallow boasters in which nothing but experience can rectify. saying that theirs is the land of the country. We crossed the river Maypo by a bridge It may be true that in Catholic districts made of hide-rope. It consists of a narrow the few Protestants could not support their road-way of planks laid crosswise, with clergy, but the remedy is easy. A central their ends resting on straight ropes, susProtestant Ecclesiastical Committee might pended by means of short lines, to a set of collect from the Protestants of all thicker ropes, drawn from bank to bank, at Ireland, subscriptions to be distributed in a height of thirty feet from the stream. fair proportions amongst the acting clergy The materials being very elastic, the bridge of that religion. When it is considered waved up and down, and from side to side, that the Protestants of Ireland annually in so alarming a manner, that we dis send very large sums to England for mis-mounted, and drove our horses, one by one, sionaries throughout the world, there is no before us, neither man nor horse appearing doubt that they could easily support the much at ease during the passage. Protestant Clergy, who have been by the The evening no sooner closed in, than we way the most unsuccessful missionaries were cheered by a cool breeze that blew, Protestanism has as yet employed. It is a gently from the mountains; and very soon well-known fact, that there are fewer our reveries on the romantic scenery of ther Protestants now in Ireland, in proportion country were interrupted by one of the to the population, than there were two party calling out that we were entering the centuries ago. If Exeter Hall, too, were to grounds of a gentleman who would furnish send a little money to an Irish Protestant us with another guide for the reminder of fund, it would be at least as loyal a use of the journey. Next day, after finishing our

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dinner, we partook of a capital dessert of the horse prepared for it, he would certainly cool bursting figs, fresh from the trees, be overturned; but he thus contrives to which were within sight: as were the stop the bull, though at full speed, as inluscious sweet grapes, the pride of our stantaneously as if it had been shot. In host's heart; and, lastly, the enormous some cases, the check is so violent, that the purple water melons, the staff of life, among animal is not only dashed to the ground, the poor of this country; to all which, was but rolls along at the full stretch of the added, a pleasant small wine, manufactured lasso, while the horse, drawn sideway's by the hands of our hostess. We sat in the ploughs up the earth with his feet for cross draught of two doors and numerous several yards. Meantime the other horsewindows, enjoying the balmy air as it man gallops past, and before the bull has passed through the house, whisking in its time to recover, throws the noose over his course the dried fig and vine leaves along horns, advancing till it also is at the stretch. the floor. On one side our view extended The bull stupified, lies motionless; but the to the Andes, fifty or sixty miles off, in- horsemen soon rouse him, by tugging him distinctly seen through the waving haze, to and fro. Being upon his legs, with a caused by the fierceness of the sun's rays horseman on each side, he is like a ship striking on the low grounds. Neither bird moored with two cables; and however great nor beast was to be seen, nor the least speck his struggles, he his dragged along by them of a cloud in the sky-the tyranny of the in whatever direction they please: When a sun was complete. There was a solemn wild horse is to be taken, the lasso is cast tranquility in the scene; but we were soon round the two hind legs, and the rider left to enjoy it alone, for the company moving a little on one side, the jerk pulls dropped off, one by one, to take their siesta, the entangled horse's feet in a lateral of after dinner nap; the landlord only re- direction, so as to throw him on his side mained, but evidently out of civility to his without endangering his knees or face. guests, we, therefore, took an opportunity Before the house can recover from the of slipping off to our rooms also, that he shock, rider dismounts, and snatching might retire. At our departure, our host his cloak from his shoulders, wraps it round entertained us by making his people exhibit the prostrate animal's head. He then forces the South American method of catching into his mouth one of the powerful bits cattle. The instrument used is o called a used in the country, straps a saddle on his lasso. It consists of a rope made of stripes back, and bestriding him, removes the of hide, varying in length from fifteen to cloak. The astonished horse springs on twenty yards, and has a noose, or running his legs, and endeavours, by a thousand knot, at one end, the other being fastened efforts, to disencumber himself of his new by an eye and button to a ring in a strong master, who sits quite composedly on his hide-belt, bound tightly round the horse. back, and by a discipline which never fails, The coil is grasped by the horseman's left reduces the horse to such obedience, that hand, while the noose trails along the he is soon trained to lend his speed and ground, except when in use; and then it is strength in the capture of his wild comwhirled round the head by the right hand panions.-Basil Hall, with great velocity, and by a peculiar turn of the wrist, is made to assume a circular form; so that when delivered from the hand, the noose preserves itself open till it falls over the object at which it is aimed. Suppose a wild bull is to be caught, and CATHOLIC EDUCATION IN EDINBURGH.-We that two guassos, or mounted horsemen, were very much gratified at the creditable exhibition undertake to kill him. On perceiving him, Patrick and St. Andrew, in Edinburgh. The display made on Friday, the 6th instant, at the Schools of St. they grasp the coil of the lasso in their left was equally honourable to the children and to their hand, prepare the noose in the right. and instructors. The intelligence that characterised the dash off at ful gallop, each swinging his majority of the pupils was rendered manifest by the lasso round his head. The first that comes quickness and accuracy of their answers in the differwithin reach, aims at the bull's horns; and ent branches of instruction. The Right Rev. Bishop when he sees that the lasso will take effect, Gillis, surrounded by his Clergy, occupied a raised platform, in front of which the classes successively he stops his horse and turns him half came up to be examined; and his Lordship evinced round, the bul continuing his course till throughout the deepest and most Pastoral interest in the whole lassc is run out from tlte man's the development of intellect among the young memhand. The hʊrse knowing by: experience various; embracing English grammar, English readbers of his flock. The subjects of examination were what is going to happen, leans over as ing, arithmetic, geometry, mensuration, music, illusmuch as he can, in an opposite direction trated by singing from notes; history, sacred and from the bull, and stands in trembling profane, ancient and modern; and geography. The expectation of the violent tug which is given by the bull when brought up by the lasso. 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Lord Bishop distributed prizes to the successful candidates; and it was pleasant to see the railient dethey bore away the honoured rewards of their industry light that beamed in their youthful countenances as and talent. His Lordship then delivered an impres