sionate
blood of the South is here to palliate--that such crimes as these are
increasing in the great masses of our population? Is it not well known
that the relations of the family are sadly isolated, and that multitudes
live without a consciousness of their sacred nature? Are we improving
the people in regard to these things? Are we doing anything to convince
them more thoroughly, and upon true Church grounds, of their great duty
to God, to society, to their families, and to themselves? I fear we must
answer no; and I will say boldly that there are reasons why it should be
so. There are immense obstacles in the religious institutions of the
country to this being possible--because it is not in their power to come
home to the feelings, to the affections of the poor. They raise not up
any who devote themselves to them--who sacrifice themselves for them--who
find a higher reward than man can give in making themselves servants of
the servants of God. And what is the visible result of this? That any
great institutions which make us think that we are acting so powerfully
on the masses, reach not to the very depths of the miseries which have to
be probed, and which have to be healed. We are content with raising the
position of the artizan, with making him more intelligent, with providing
him with the means of education, with instructing him in his leisure hour
to store his mind with knowledge. All this is good, and yet the
institutions that work upon that class have not of their own nature a
direct moral tendency.' All this may be true or not, yet it is clear
that the institutions which the Cardinal would recommend, equally fail,
so far as morality is concerned. A Protestant is not less moral than a
Catholic. The population of England is as moral as that of France.
Roman Catholic Ireland can boast no superiority over Protestant Scotland.
Luther has not to answer for all the sins of the world.

THE REV. DOCTOR WOLFF.

There are some people who maintain the Wandering Jew to be a myth. I
believe the contrary--that he exists amongst us, and that he is known to
men as Dr. Wolff. I hope the Hon. Mrs. Norton will make a note of this.
It is a fact of which she ought to be aware, as should Dr. Croly, and
especially Dumas, otherwise his wondrous tale will be incomplete. Yes,
Dr. Wolff is the Wandering Jew--not the melancholy personage of the poet
and the novelist, but a fat jolly Jew, for whom 'the law having a shad