my name, I was admitted to the sick young man. He had returned to his bed before I entered, and was wrapped in a large overcloak. I asked him whether he wanted to see me, and for what purpose. He deliberately turned out of his bed, locked the door again, very respectfully handed me a chair, and asked me to sit down, as he had something very important to tell me. He wrapped himself again in his cloak, lay on the outside of the bed, and spoke to me, in a firm decided tone to the following effect:

"Sir, you have taken me for a young man, but you are mistaken. I am a girl, but not so young as I appear to you in my boy's dress. I sent for you, because I want to get a character, and confess to you before I leave the city.' I answered, 'You must explain yourself more fully before you do either.' I moved my chair further from the bed, and tightened my grasp upon a sword-cane which I carried in my hand. 'Feel no alarm,' said this now young woman, ‘I am as well armed as you are,'-taking from under her jacket an elegant poignard,-'I will not hurt you; I am a Lay Sister belonging to the order of Jesuits, in Stonyhurst, England, and I wear this dagger to protect myself.' There was no longer any mystery in the matter. I knew now where I was, and the character of the being that stood before me.

"I discovered from her that she arrived in New Orleans some time previous, with all necessary recommendations to the Priests and Nuns of that city. She had the necessary 'Shibboleth' from the Jesuits of Stonyhurst, to their brothers and sisters, who were then, and are now, numerous in that city. They received her with all due caution, as far as could be seen by the public; but, privately, in the warmest manner. Jesuits are active and diligent in the discharge of their duties to their superiors, and, of course, this sister, who was chosen from among many for her zeal and craft, lost no time in entering on her mission. The Sisters of Charity in New Orleans took immediate charge of her, recommended her as chamber-maid to one of the most respectable Protestant families in the city; and having clothed her in an appropriate dress, she entered upon her employment. She was active, diligent, and very competent. The young ladies of the family were delighted with her; she appeared extremely pious, but not ostentatiously so. She seemed desirous to please in all

things; talked but seldom of religion, but took good care that her devotional exercises should be noticed, though she seemed to avoid such a thing. Her conduct was in every way unexceptionable. So great a favourite did she become in the family, that in a short time she became acquainted with all the circumstances and secrets, from those of the father down to those of the youngest child.

"According to a custom universally in vogue among the Jesuit spies, she kept notes of every occurrence which may tend to elucidate the character of the family, never carrying them about her, but depositing them for safe keeping with the Mother Abbess especially deputed to take charge of them. She soon left this family under some pretext or other, obtained from them an unqualified recommendation for honesty and competency, which, with the previous and secret arrangements of the Sisters of Charity, obtained for her, without delay, a place in another Protestant family. Here, too, she was without fault, active, honest, and industrious, to all appearance. Little did these families know, that while they and their children were quietly reposing in the arms of sleep, this apparently innocent waiting-maid or chamber-maid was perhaps in the dead hour of night reducing to paper their conversation of the day previous, and preparing it, as least as much of it as could answer any Jesuitical purpose, to be recorded among the secret archives of the Jesuit College of Stonyhurst, from which they were to be trans-copied to those of the parent College in Rome.

“Thus did this Lay Sister continue to go from place to place, from family to family, until she became better acquainted with the politics, the pecuniary means, religious opinions, and whether favourable or not to the propagation of Popery in this country, than even the very individuals with whom she resided. No one suspected her; all believed her innocent and industrious; the only fault they could find with her was, that she seemed too fond of going from one place to another. For this, however, the Sisters of Charity had some salve or other.

"This was not the best of the joke, if joke it may be called. This excellent chamber-maid-or rather Lay Jesuit sister-wished to leave New Orleans and come North to a better climate; and how do you think, reader, the means were raised to defray the expenses of travelling? (To be continued)

REMARKABLE CONVERSION OF TWELVE PAPISTS.

According to our announcement, a recantation from Romanism took place in St. Audeon's Church on last Sunday-twelve persons, nine men and three women, publicly abjured the errors of that system. Two of the former are Priests, the Rev. Nicholas Beatty, D.D., &c., late Superior of the Convents in Drogheda, Athlone, Waterford, and Multifarnham, and the Rev. Patrick Brennan, late Parish Priest of Creere, Diocese of Elphin. Dr. Beatty was ordained by the late Pope Gregory XVI., and has the highest testimonials, given at Rome, where he was educated. He has a faculty, granted by the Trinitarian Society, empowering him to invest with the order of the Scapular, and to dispense indulgences to the faithful. This he has done to thousands in Ireland. He was esteemed so highly for his acquirements, that since his return to this country the regular Clergy of the above Convents have successively elected him to the office of Superior in their respective establishments. He says now, "that no doubt many of his former brethren will follow his example of shaking off the unscriptural yoke of Rome." Another of the converts has recently been a student in the College at Galway, under the superintendence of the Rev. Dr. O'Toole; there was also the wife of a late stipendiary Magistrate among the number. On the whole the class was very respectable. The Rev. Thos. Kingston, Rector of St. James's, and the Rev. John Prior, assisted in the service; and the Rev. Thomas Scott, as usual, received the converts, and administered the form of abjuration. The Rev. G. Sidney Smith, D.D., F.T.C.D., and Professor of Biblical Greek in our University, delivered an able and appropriate Sermon from the following words: “ Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth. He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do."-Ezekiel viii. 12, 13. All the converts sealed their solemn profession by partaking of the Holy Communion

and signing the Recantation Roll, after which they received a copy of the Sacred Scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer."-Dublin Evening Herald of 9th instant.—Record, March, 1847.

UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF THE FATHERS.-A LYING PRIESTHOOD.

One of the new Articles of faith inflicted upon the Roman Church by Pius IV. is as follows:-" Neither will I ever take and interpret them (the SCRIPTURES,) otherwise than according to the UNANIMOUS CONSENT of the Fathers." Let us look a little at this unanimous consent, as exhibited in the notes to Croly's approved edition of the Bible.

Gen. iii. 15. "She shall crush. Ipsa, the woman; so DIVERS of the Fathers read this place, conformably to the Latin: OTHERS read it ipsum, viz., the seed." (As Protestants read it.)-Gen. xxxi. 19. “Her father's idols. By this it appears that Laban was an idolator: and SOME OF the fathers are of opinion that Rachel stole away these idols to withdraw him from idolatry, by removing the occasion of his sin."-Gen. xlvii. 2. "The last. Extremos. SOME interpret this word of the chiefest, and most sightly: BUT Joseph seems rather to have chosen out such as had the meanest appearance, that Pharao might not think of employing them at Court, with danger of their morals and religion."-Judges xi. 31. SOME are of opinion, &c. BUT the common opinion followed by the generality of the holy fathers and divines is, that she was offered as a holocaust, in consequence of her father's vow, &c.-Judges xvi. 4. "Dalila. SOME are of opinion that she was married to Sampson; OTHERS that she was his harlot."-1 Kings xxviii. 14. "Understood that it was Samuel. It is the MORE COMMON opinion of the holy fathers and interpreters, that the soul of Samuel appeared indeed; and not, as SOME have imagined, an evil spirit in his shape."--3 Kings xiii. 24. Killed him. The GENERALITY of divines are of opinion, that the sin of this prophet, considered with all its circumstances, was

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not mortal."-Job. xxxviii. 31. "The Hebrew name Cesil is VARIOUSLY interpreted; by soME, Orion; by OTHERS, the Great Bear is understood."-Psalm iv. 1. "Unto the end, OR, as St. Jerome renders it, victori, to him that overcometh which SOME understand of the chief musician-wE rather understand the Psalms thus inscribed to refer to Christ."-Psalm cxviii. Aleph. This order is VARIOUSLY expounded by the holy fathers; which shews the difficulty of understanding the Holy Scriptures, and, consequently, with what humility and submission to the Church they are to be read."Prov. xxxi. 1. "Whether this Agur be the same person as Solomon, as MANY think, or a different person, is uncertain."-Ecclesiastes viii. 15. "No good for a man, &c. SOME commentators think the wise man here speaks in the person of the libertine ... BUT it may also be said, &c."-Isaias xv. 7. "Torrent of the willows. That is

OTHERS render it, a valley of "The host of heaven on high.

some say, the waters of Babylon; the Arabians."-Isaias xxiv. 21. The stars, which in many places of the Scriptures are so called. SOME Commentators explained that these words here signify the demons of the air."-Ezechiel i. 1. "The thirtieth year. EITHER of the age of Ezechiel, or, as OTHERS will have it, from the solemn covenant made in the eighteenth year of the reign of Josias."Daniel ii. 40. "The fourth kingdom, &c. SOME understand this of the successors of Alexander, the kings of Syria and Egypt: OTHERS of the Roman Empire, and its civil wars."-Daniel ix. 27. The abomination of desolation. SOME understand this of the profanation of the temple by the crime of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots. OTHERS of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standards of the pagan Romans. OTHERS, in fine, distinguish three different times of desolation, &c."—Joel i. 4. That which the palmer worm hath left, &c. "SOME understand this literally of the desolation of the land by these insects; OTHERS understand it of different invasions of the Chaldeans, or other enemies."-Joel it. 20. "The northern army. SOME understand this of Holofernes and his army; OTHERS, of the locusts."- Jonas i.

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