CATHOLIC NOTICES• The Sixe.• of Charity in alums of the Hospice beg to acknowledge, with deep and bearti.lt petit:ode, the following sums totter& its .opport m answer to the Chriatntas Appeal, 1902, ....... - £ a d Right. Hoe. Lord Chid Ban= Pass .- 10 0 0 Mrs. Worm lO 0 0 Astoo

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London. ssuAr • laabilitiee, £2119,475; Rumen L 303,000. Loma of 253 to LOnfa) made on env dam of menrity. Two end a Half per Cent Intern. allowed on Current Amounts. Detroit. of MI and upwards received as under—Pive per Cent. per ..rum, ay of to 3 months' notice of withdrawal.

loss of life is °facially stated as 52. The building ago burned to the ground. Tho calamity was the matt appalling at its kind which latter-day Louden 'hat watt:owed. Yesterday the remaths at the Mee Yr. Chutes O'Dosoelme, JY., Chairman of Weatmeeth Courted, sere interred la the

The correat issue of 'The Worit's Work." the eismilently roamed magazine recently establithed by Mr. Remy bioanan, M.P., con- Sinn an article from the pen of • Berlin contributor which ascribee in somewhat' gloomy term the meting polkfol and social outlook in Germany. dosarding

The diaasereas fire which bathed to the grimed one of the outbaffdinge of Celery Batch Ithratie Asylum, near Leaden, yetherday room* must be described as the avert appalling on record duhng this cenntry st all events. It :united in • tonal* holemast of Inman lives, upwards of fi

• . one Morn in spring" is the title of a eong by Mr. Herold White, which ought at once to become popular. The very graceful verses of airs. H.Failan are set to music of an elegant and musicianly character, well worthy of the composer of - The Silent Lead," Messrs. Pigott. arc t

GATIF4OIC MEETING. Prom the -Landon Threw" Paddock Novices Bundle—Batersbakt. Gorse Manctcap Handle—Eighway. CAagexn liaiioiatietaster. Nines Hurdia—Pairvies. Spoons Hasdiap Steeplechwe—St. G.U. Prom the • Morten; Leader." Paddock Novices Handle—Soanatcher. Gorse lian Hunlio—dia

FORCED TO RETIRE. PRETENDER ADVANCING. (Pres, Rasociation Foreign Special.) Tangier, Jarmary 7. It is rumoured that the Sultana outposts have been compelled to retire upon the main body of the army pooled at the bridge over the Saba River, and that the Pretender is making a turn