656 ROBINSON, THERESE A. L. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. 



tigo of her family connection, added to decided 

 talent, assured her immediate success in her 

 new career. In 1847 she' made an extensive 

 professional tour in England, where, in 1851, her 

 husband died. Returning to this country soon 

 after, she renewed her stage triumphs until in 

 1854, upon her marriage with William F. 

 Ritchie, Esq., she bade farewell forever to the 

 stage, and since that time has resided mostly 

 abroad, devoting her rare talents entirely to 

 literature. Mrs. Ritchie was a woman of re- 

 markable purity of character. Nobly strug- 

 gling from earliest womanhood against the 

 frowns of unexpected adversity, conquering 

 well-earned fame from the world as an artist 

 and an author, she gained as well the admira- 

 tion of all those more intimately acquainted 

 with her, by her private virtues and freely-ex- 

 tended benevolence. 



ROBINSON, Mrs. THEBESE ALBEETINE LOU- 

 ISE, an eminent authoress and translator, born 

 in Hallo, Germany, January 26, 1797; died at 

 Hamburg, Germany, April 13, 1870. She was 

 the daughter of Prof. Von Jacob, and early 

 commenced writing over the signature of Tal- 

 vi, a name composed of her initials. In 1807, 

 her father having received an appointment as 

 professor in the University of Kharkov, she 

 accompanied him to Russia, where she began 

 the study of the Slavic languages and litera- 

 ture, and wrote her first poems. In 1810 her 

 father was transferred to St. Petersburg, and 

 here she devoted herself to the acquisition of 

 modern languages and the study of history. 

 In 1816 they returned to Halle, and she applied 

 herself to the study of Latin, and, yielding to 

 the entreaties of her friends, published, in 

 1825, a volume of tales under the title of 

 "Psyche ; " also, the same year, under the sig- 

 nature'of Ernest Berthold, translations of Sir 

 Walter Scott's " Black Dwarf" and " Old Mor- 

 tality," and two volumes of Servian popular 

 songs, " Volkslieder der Serben." In 1828 she 

 was married to Prof. Edward Robinson, an 

 American philologist and Biblical scholar, and 

 two years later accompanied him to America. 

 Here she turned her attention to the study of 

 the aboriginal languages, and translated into 

 German Pickering's work on the Indian tongues 

 of North America (Leipsic, 1834). She also 

 contributed an " Historical View of the Lan- 

 guages and Literature of the Slavic Nations " 

 to the Biblical Repository. In 1837 she re- 

 turned with her husband to Germany, where 

 she remained until 1840, during which time 

 she published a treatise, entitled "An Essay 

 on the Historical Characteristics of the Popular 

 Songs of the Germanic Nations, with a Review 



of the Songs of the Non-European Races" 

 (Leipsic, 1840); "The Poems of Ossian not 

 Genuine," a " History of Captain John Smith," 

 in German, and "The Colonization of New 

 England " (Leipsic, 1847), translated into Eng- 

 lish by the younger Hazlitt. Returning to New 

 York, she wrote in English, "Heloise; or, the 

 Unrevealed Secret ; " " Life's Discipline, a Tale 

 of the Annals of Hungary;" "The Exiles;" 

 and numerous contributions to German and 

 American periodicals. Her last work, " Fifteen 

 Years, a Picture from the Last Century," has 

 been published in this country since her 

 death. 



ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Pope, 

 Pius IX. (before his elevation to the Papal See, 

 Giovanni Maria di Mastai Ferretti), was born 

 at Sinigaglia, on the 13th day of May, 1792 ; 

 elected Pope on the death of Gregory XVI. in 

 1846, and crowned on the 21st of June of that 

 year. The college of Cardinals, at the close of 

 the year 1870, consisted of 5 cardinal bishops, 

 38 cardinal priests, and 7 cardinal deacons; 

 total, 50 members, against 55 in 1869. 



The Annuario Pontificio of 1870 gives the 

 following table of patriarchs, archbishops, and 

 bishops : 



Patriarchates of Latin and Oriental rite, 12. 



ARCHBISHOPRICS : Latin Rite immediately 

 subject to the Holy See, 12 ; with ecclesiastical 

 provinces, 120. 



Oriental Rite with ecclesiastical prov- 

 inces : Armenian, 6 ; Greco-Melchite, 4 ; Gre- 

 co-Roumanian, 1 ; Greco-Ruthenian, 1 ; Syriac, 

 4 ; Syro-Chaldaic, 5 ; Syro-Maronite, 5. To- 

 tal of archbishoprics, 158. 



BISHOPBICS : Latin Rite suburban, 6 ; im- 

 mediately subject to the Holy See, 84 ; suffra- 

 gan, in ecclesiastical provinces, 571. 



Oriental Rite Armenian, 11 ; Greco-Bul- 

 garian, 1; Greco-Melchite, 9; Greco-Rouma- 

 nian, 3; Greco-Ruthenian, 5 ; Syriac, 18 ; Sy- 

 ro-Chaldaic, 8; Syro-Maronite, 3. Total of 

 bishoprics, 709. 



Sees conferred " in partibus infidelium : " 

 archbishoprics, 41 ; bishoprics, 190; total, 231, 



Total of patriarchates, archbishoprics, and 

 bishoprics, 1,110. 



There are vacant, 1 patriarchate, 26 arch- 

 hishoprics in ordinary, and 130 bishoprics in 

 ordinary ; in all, 157 sees, leaving 953 sees 

 actually filled. To this number add 18 prel- 

 ates without a title, and we have 971. as the 

 total number of actual patriarchs, archbishops, 

 and bishops. 



The ecclesiastical statistics of Great Britain 

 in 1870, as compared with 1869, were as 

 follows : 



