but whed the author of The Life and Institutes," mentions twelve thousand Jesuit authors, we are by no means disposed to concede that even the tithe of them were great men. Father de Raviguan quotes a few of the most celebrated, and says that, if mankind were willing to be just, they would find the marks of the genius of theology in Suarez and Vasquez, (writers whom Benedict XIV. distinguished by the appellation of luminaria theologiæ) in Bellarmine and De Lugo; the genius of the elo3quence of the pulpit in Segneri and Bourdaloue and the genius hof science in Petan, Sirmond, Kircher, Clavius, Gaubil, and Grianaldio! Certainly the reverend Father asks too much; for these →men, with many virtues and great talents, can hardly be allowed the celebrity, even much less the possession, of great genius. The learning of some was frittered away upon worthless objects, and the conclusions drawn by them were not often sounder than those of the philosophic Xenophanes, the result of whose studies was to be found in the assertion that the stars were igneous clouds, lighted up every night, and extinguished again in the omorning Others, too, are as bold and hazardous in their assertions as the angelic doctor himself, who, in his "Commentary -on Batehius," informs the world that Plato kept a school in Aca-demia, and that Alcibiades was a beautiful girl, who had inspired with love some of the pupils of Aristotle! While the publications of some are as incomprehensible as that work of Serapion, which Atticus lent to Cicero, and of which the knightly sage does not scruple to tell his friend that he could not under-stand a thousandth part of it! avan a't azt zul so dala bouSome of the early schoolmen occupied themselves with lubbTriously enquiring how many angels could dance on the point of a needle without jostling one another? Nor were equally grave enquiries scorned by one of those men whom Father de Ravignan declares to have been a genius of science. Father Kircher, who is thus distinguished, was a great scholar, no doubt; but he conferred little obligation on the world, by presenting to it the strange fancies to be found in his "Ecstatic Journey to Heaven" Da journey on which the hero, Theodidactus, explores the regions vof the sun in a boat of asbestos, and who, during his sojourn in the planet Venus, and his enjoyment of the odours and intelligences abounding there, not only enquires of the angels presiding there whether baptism may not be performed with the waters of Venus ?"-but is very gratifyingly assured that it mayıloud suunad Iginal isgood bib od talt ovetlenge of 267 901935) *

Our readers will doubtless remember the references made in a former number to the "Compendium Theologiæ Moralis." M. Sue well illustrates the effect which the "Compendium"

and similar works must necessarily have have on the yet pure mind" of a youth in the following passages, which has earned for him Aurane the implacable enmity of a society which he has delivered over to the scorn, hatred, fear, and disgust of all society. The young priest Gabriel is speaking to the old Jesuit D'Aigrigny be

37636 You put into niy hands a book containing questions whichs I was to address to boys, to young girls, and to married women, when theys presented themselves at the tribunal of penitencegi Gracious Godde (exclaimed Gabriel, shuddering at the thought) I shall never forget! that terrible moment. It was in the evening. I withdrew toomg room, bearing with me the book composed, as you informed mes bør one of our fathers, and completed by a holy bishop. Full of respect,y confidence, and faith, I opened the pages. Atufirsts I understood nothing; but at last slowly I began to comprehend. And I was seized with shame and horror struck with stupor I had s s scardely [ strength to close with my trembling hands that volume of abominations To you I hastened, my reverend father, to accuse myself of having dio voluntarily cast my eyes on these pages without a name, which you in unconscious error, had placed in my hands.' 'Remember, my son, (said Father: D' Aigrigny, gravely), that I calmed your scruplesW I told you that a priest, destined to hear everything under the seal of confession ought to know everything to judge and appreciate everys thing that our company imposed the study of the Compendium, as a classic work, to young deacons, seminarists, and the young priests destined to become confessors. And I believed you, reverend father. The habit of inert obedience was so powerful within a Jom cipline had so entirely stripped me of all self-opinion, that, in spite br Parspite be my horror, which still took the appearance of a serious fault when I' thought of your words, I carried the book again with me to my chan ber, and I read itad Oh, father what a frightfuls unveiling was there of all that is most criminal in luxury, all that is most disordered imits refinements. And I was then in the very vigour of my age band, ups to that time, my own ignorance, and help from the Almighty, had alone supported me in the cruel, struggle of the passions. Oh, what a night was that! In measure, of tude I bent over, shuddering with confusion and timidity, that catechism of monstrous, unheard of, unknown debaucheries in measure as these obscene pictures (d'une effroyable lubricaté) presented them selves to my imagination an imagination which thou, O God! knowest had been hitherto chastes and pure-I thought that my reason was departing from me. And, indeed, depart it did. For I wished too shun the infernal volume; and yet I know not what fearful attraction, what devouring curiosity, detained me breathless and distracted before its pages of infamy. I felt myself sink with confusion, and shame; cheeks, in spite of myself, became on fire; a corrosive ardour veins; and then

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my mind, which till then had been innocent and pure, has been for ever blasted by the knowledge of monstrosities which had never entered my naturally arose in my breast. On my arrival at Charleston, the superior of our establishi bon gination. melit in that city 12to whom I communicated these doubts, which con cerned the ultimate object of the society, undertook to relieve me. With ad terrific frankness he unveiled the aim towards which were advancing, not perhaps all the members of our company for many shared my own ignorance but that aim which its governing heads have obstinately pursued from the moment of its foundation......I was) horror struck II read the casuists....And then, father, it was to me a new and frightful revelation, when, in page after pages of these volumes, written by our fathers, I read the apology and the justifica tion of theft, calumny, violation, adultery, perjury, murder, and regicide.I.And when I reflected that I, the priest of a God of charity, justice, pardon, and love, was henceforward attached to a society whose chiefs professed such doctrines, and were glorying in them, I took an oath before God to burst asunder for ever the ties by which I was bound to its mod 2 2 6 275 7 de liten v noe ym odmood bund vor i bosely be too ooom, ni I We will merely add to what has been stated of the general) wealth, and the number of hours occupied by the Jesuits, that at Avignon they are endeavouring to galvanize the old Romanist skeleton lying prostrate there, and to deck his old bones in gold. They have taken up their residence in that city, in one of the most splendid and ancient of its palaces; and in it they have established a noviciate and a convent. In addition, moreover, and to the splendid estates possessed by them in the vicinity, they, only last year, purchased the magnificent Chateau de St. Chainanty situated about half a league from the city, land ac quired at the bready-money cost of one hundred and twenty thousand francs to To this chateau the poor and humble men ride meekly in their own carriages, and keep a table worthy of the Phigalei. An edition of Juvenal, edited by the reverens Jesuit, Father Tartaron, above a century ago, is at this is at this moment lying open before us, and singularly enough, as we raise our eyes to the open page, they rest upon, those words of Naevolus in the ninth satire, which are not inapplicable to the advantagese possessed by the company at Avignon, and to our own feelings! connected with them:qob boob bu om mort qutraqob noitonte Intro] Jaw Jou woud I 19 ba: 9muloy Ierslui ont le 910led boUtile et hoc multis vitae genus: at mihi nullum ovob talw smala Inde operæ pretium ; 5. I mi to esprq asi шобтв эѵіготтов B And no mood loam to side el m words which, without much straining, may be made to mean: you doubtless find yourselves, gentlemen, very comfortable at St. det nisimos of hotnog jon me I b. A 2000 dar ild medi

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Chamont; but, for our own parts, we have no mind to house d: orade stormteib zas at As for the profession of poverty in union with immense wealth, it has been defended by the great Romanist historian of the Anglo-Saxon Church, Dr. Lingard. He tells us that it required but the aid of an ingenious distinction" to discover that honesty might subsist in the bosom of riches; and that individuals might be destitute of property, though, as a community, their wealth might equal that of their most opulent neighbours. And so the Jesuits understand it. They abdicate private property, and, by adding it to other wealth, similarly abandoned, they enjoy the increase in common. They give up an apple that they may have the run of an orchard! They deeply decline raspberries, because they prefer the consolidation of a jam fold dow

ART. IX. Hora Decanica Rurales; an Attempt to Illustrate, by a Series of Notes and Extracts, the Name and Title, the Origin, Appointment, and Functions, Personal and Capitular, of Rural Deans. By WILLIAM DANSEY, M. A., Prebendary of Sarum, Rector of Donhead, Rural Dean. 2 vols.20 -edition. London: Rivington. 1845. edition.

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WE remember being in the shop of the late Mr. Bohm, some twelve or fifteen years ago, and hearing that a gentleman had been enquiring whether there was any work in existence of the office and duties of the rural dean in the Church of England, and who, finding that there was no such work, said that he had! been collecting information on the subject, and would prepare it for publication. This gentleman was Mr. Dansey; and the result was the first edition of the work before us: to the merit of which we have not only the satisfactory testimony, in a literary point of view, that it has come to a second edition, but the far more satisfactory and practical evidence in its effects, in the revival of the office in many dioceses where it had been suffered

Since the above article was concluded, a resolution of the Chamber of

Deputies has intimated to the Jesuits, that they reside in. France but by the sufferance of the Government. Father de Ravignan, reply to the intimation of the Legislature, has answered for himself and brethren, that for Government toleration they care nothing; and that they will neither desist from their agitation,TM nor be driven

The Jesuits of their strongholds but by the bayonets of the French soldiery.

neighbouring kingdom are now in open hostility against the State. They are drunk with the reeking vapour they have inhaled from the bloody field before Lucerne; and when they talk of bayonets, they are foolishly dreaming of victories in France, such as that which they have just achieved in Switzerland, and which promises to be one of those dearly-bought triumphs which prove to be pregnant with total ruin to the purchasers,al

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to fall into disuse, and in the appointment of rural deans in very) many districts where they had not been known before. It is appa rently owing to Mr. Dansey's publications that the institution has been partially revived in almost every diocese in England, in some few of Ireland for in some it before existed and has even been introduced into the colonies." (Preface, p. vii). The Bishop of Norwich remarked in 1842" The ancient ecclesiastical office of RURAL DEAN has been revived in eighteen English i dippeses since the year 1800; it is recognized by the legisla ture in two recent statutes, which have assigned to that office special duties and is now revived in this diocese with the con currence of the several archdeacons; the object being, not in any respect to supersede their use or authority, or to interferen with their rights and jurisdiction, but to assist them in some branches of their duty, extremely onerous in this extensive diocese." The Bishop of Peterborough, in his charge 1823, observes...“ If a bishop thinks it expedient, he may visit paro chially, and examine in person the several churches of his diocese but it is more usual, and generally more advisable, to delegate the office to others. At present the visitations of bishops are synodal they assemble their clergy at stated places once in three years; and in the other two years synodal visitations are holden by their archdeacons. Beside the synodal visitations of the archdeacon, the duty of parochial visitation,/ which in the early ages of the Church was performed by the bishop, became gradually transferred to the archdeacon of the diocese. But if a diocese, containing nearly four hundred parishes, has only one archdeacon (Norwich contains one thou sand and thirty-eight parishes, and some dioceses still more), the business of parochial visitation, is no less difficult for the archdeacon than it is for the bishop." After pointing out the difficulties, his lordship says For these reasons I have revived in this diocese, as I did in the diocese of Llandaff, the ancient order of BURAL DEANS...The appointment implies no previous neglect of duty. I have reason to be thankful for the uniform support which I have received from the archdeacon of this diocese.odI have only relieved him from a trust which, from its very magnitude, requires more exertion than can be expected from any one man, however active and laborious." Twenty-six rural deans were appointed, each residing within the division to which he was appointed. The parishes, therefore, which a subjected to their inspection, are all within an easy distance from their own homes......Having described the plan, I will nowd relate the beneficial effects which have resulted from it. In the first place, a mass of information has been obtained respecting

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