He had for his health, during the previous winter, visited Bermuda and the West Indies. He returned to Halifax in March. His friends noticed he was not as vigorous as he used to be. On Sunday the 23rd he complained of chills and called in medical aid. On the following Monday he remained in the Glebe House. On Tuesday, believing he was again himself, he drove to his country residence. That night he was restless and had an attack of vomiting. On Wednesday morning, so early as 5 o'clock, he drove to town and again sent for the doctor. By two in the afternoon symptoms of delirium appeared and his case was pronounced to be congestion of the brain. At 4 o'clock he was unconscious and unconscious he remained until death.

The bell of St. Mary's tolled over the midnight city and apprised his weeping people round the Glebe and his friends throughout Halifax, that the end had come. The body having lain in state, suitable obsequies attended his burial on the last day of July, 1876.

Early in the summer of this year his successor was consecrated amid imposing ceremonies. In 1840, when a very young man, Archbishop Hannan arrived in Halifax from Ireland and was appointed teacher in St. Mary's College, recently established by Dean O'Brien. In 1845 he was ordained to the priesthood. For over thirty years his course in the diocese of Halifax has been one of untiring labour. His work was hard and faithful, but not calculated to attract the attention of the outside world. Twentythree years ago he founded a Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Halifax, and has ever since superintended it with vigilance and judgment. As Vicar-General, he took an active and intelligent interest in the cause of education. Though an advocate of denominational education, he made the most of the general system. As a school commissioner he was universally esteemed. When he retired both Protestants and Catholics united in presenting him with an address expressing their regret at his resignation and gratitude for his invariable kindness and readiness to oblige all, irrespective of religion and nationality. It will be seen he has those qualities which fit him for great place. "Dr. Hannan's mind," says one who can speak authority "is of a different stamp and character from that of his illustrious predecessor-not different in

degree but in mould. Archbishop Connolly was emotional and impetuous, fervid and eloquent to a degree, with clear head and a warm Irish heart, which sometimes carried him away. Dr. Hannan, on the other hand, is calm and equable, with a judgment that is naturally sound and solid, a temper not easily ruffled, and a sagacity but seldom at fault."

All the bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province joined in signing the recommendation to the Pope for his appointment. He is still in the fresh autumn of life.

The Bishop of Sandwich, the Right Reverend John Walsh, D.D., was born in the parish of Mountcoin, Kilkenny, on the 24th May 1830. From his earliest years he felt drawn towards the ministry. After a preliminary course of science and classics he entered St. John's College, Waterford, where he studied philosophy and a portion of his theology with great success. In 1852, carrying out his intention of serving God on a foreign mission, he came to Canada where he entered the Seminary of St. Sulpice, and here, together with the late Father Synnott, Father Hobin, and several other ecclesiastics of Irish birth, finished his divinity course with great credit. On the 1st of November, 1854, he was ordained priest by Bishop de Charbonnel. Brock was his first mission. In 1857 he was appointed to the pastoral charge of St. Mary's, Toronto. After the consecration of Bishop Lynch, he was appointed Rector of the Cathedral. Bishop Walsh, as pastor of St. Mary's, was greatly esteemed. He has the reputation among the clergy of being a sound and deeply read theologian, well versed in the Scripture and canon law. He is, it is said, an eloquent preacher, and well read in general literature. Amiable, charitable, polished in manners he possesses much force and decision of character. When he became bishop the diocese was encumbered with an enormous debt. Every cent has been paid. Twentyeight churches and seventeen presbyteries have been built; three convents; an orphanage; an episcopal palace; and no debt incurred. Something less than a year ago he visited Rome. In March he returned and continues his energetic labours amongst a people by whom they are thoroughly appreciated. The Right Reverend prelate resides in London, Canada West.

Bishop Crinnon, of Hamilton, is an able and liberal-minded man.

One of the most remarkable men in the Roman Catholic Church in Canada is the Reverend Father Stafford, of Lindsay, who in the best spot in the country has erected a convent which is a splendid piece of architecture. He was born on the 1st of March, 1832, in Perth. He went to school at Drummond until the age of thirteen; at Perth for the next three years; then to Chambly whence he was removed to Ste. Thérèse College where he spent six years and where he finished his arts course. He afterwards studied theology at Regiopolis for four years under the late VicarGeneral McDonell. During these four years he attended the Penitentiary, where his attention was first called to the evils resulting from the use of intoxicants. He was ordained in the summer of 1858, and in the autumn was appointed Director of Regiopolis and Teacher of Logic and Philosophy.

His health failing he was sent to Cuba, but finding Cuba too hot, he spent the winter in South Carolina where he was arrested for speaking against the indecencies practised at an auction of slaves. He was, however,-Civis Romanus sum-immediately re leased, on telling the authorities he was a British subject. He visited Ireland in 1859. The relations between the different classes in Ireland he found it hard to understand. The airs of the "squireens" he could not easily tolerate. Two men assured him that they thought he was a gentleman when they saw him speaking, with his hat on, to Mr. Derby. He came back to this country well pleased with its social condition. "The equality," he says, "in this country is better than the quality in Ireland. We are more as God made us." But the Irish squire would think the equality in this country the very child of hell. Such is the power of education. The English squire's airs would be equally offensive to a man accustomed to our free and easy manners. There may be a little more imperiousness in the Irish gentleman's manner, arising from the fact that there is not a family of Irish gentry one or more of whose members have not done something great. At their doors there are numerous sins. But they have not been drones. They have not been careful of their lives. The most dreadful oppressions of the Irish tenant have not come from them. Even some of their worst faults, as for instance, their love of duelling, were virtues run to seed.

FATHER STAFFORD.

ROBERTSON.

HODGINS.

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From Ireland Mr. Stafford went to England, and thence to France. On his return to Canada he resumed his position in Regiopolis College. He afterwards spent seven years on Wolf Island where he succeeded Father Foley who had established a Total Abstinence Society there. In May, 1868, he went to Lindsay. Amongst the people of Victoria he has done a great work as a temperance or rather teetotal propagandist, and as a social force is probably without an equal on this continent.

There are at least six or seven hundred clergymen of all denominations who are entitled by their talent and devotion to a place here. But happily they belong to a class who look for appreciation and reward not to the types of time or the perishable trumpet of fame, but

"To where beyond these voices there is peace."

How much the late Thomas J. Robertson, M.A., T.C.D., did for the Model and Normal Schools and education generally, should not soon be forgotten. Dr. Hodgins has been pronounced by a competent authority the most "thoroughly trained man in all Canada for the Education Department," and his energetic action his publications for schools, his reports, show that he has been one of the greatest educational forces in the country.

It would be invidious to select any of the teachers, as we could not mention all who might claim to be mentioned. But Mr. John A. MacCabe, who in Nova Scotia and elsewhere had already given satisfaction, has a right to a niche here as an able educator.

No work commends itself so much to the heart and the head alike, as that which seeks to mitigate affliction in any form. The instruction of the deaf and dumb has now happily been brought to the highest perfection, and armies of teachers are employed to supply the defects with which, owing, no doubt, to vice and ignorance, so many are born. Among these Professor McGann stands pre-eminent. He is connected with the Ontario Institute.

If I could have found space for elaborate, full inquiry into the labours of Irish educators it would be seen how much Canada owes to them and their brethren, the English and Scotch. The Scotch show a strong predilection for the work of education-a pregnant hint for those who think mainly of making money, for

it explains Scotch success. The Scotchman, more than any man in modern times, has mastered the truth that knowledge is power. More than our indebtedness to the schoolmaster would have been shown, had the cramping exigencies of one volume not barred my way. It would have been seen then that old world ingratitude to the men who stand at the fountain head of the mighty stream we others

"lightly skim,

And gently sip the dimply river's brim,"

exists here. Burke said he would have the mitred front of the Church raise itself in the Parliament of the Empire. I would have the pillars of our educational system to illustrate and enlighten our Senate. We do not realize how trying is their work, how much they sacrifice. "A great school," says Dr. Arnold “is very trying; it never can present images of rest and peace; and when the spring and activity of youth are altogether unsanctified by anything pure and elevated in its desires, it becomes a spectacle that is dizzying and almost more morally distressing, than the shouts and gambols of a set of lunatics." Everything should be done to encourage the best men, therefore, not only to enter, but to remain in this field where the future nation is moulded "There is," says Fuller, "scarce any profession in the commonwealth more necessary." He might have made the proposition unqualified. When the schoolmaster knows his work and does his duty, there is, as Guizot eloquently insists, no more glorious figure in a free community; and when we remember that neither fortune nor fame waits on his laborious toil; toil not only laborious but monotonous; often requited by ingratitude; nearly always badly paid; the unnumbered sacrifices the poor pedagogue makes for those who profit by him; his patience; it will perhaps be forced on the dullest mind that the world which neglects so many of its benefactors has no where, than here, displayed thanklessness more dire.