" We have received the fidlowing from a young nobleman
of the most distin-
guished promise. Sir—As I have seen in the Standard, that your office may be made a depository for subscriptions to the Tuam Diocesan Society, I have taken the liberty of directing my banker to pay to your account the sum of five pounds. It is no very large contribution ; but I am not rich, and I give it more " liberare animam mean,' " than in any hope of aiding the holy and blessed object of that exemplary body. Pray do not insert this letter, at least with the name; though zf my name alone can be in the least degree useful, I am quite willing you should publish that. ' "—Standard.
This young nobleman of "the most distinguished promise" must be no great things after all. If to " deliver his soul" were all he sought, an anonymous contribution would have done as well as one enclosed in a letter signed by his noble name. He may rest assured, however, that his name alone would not be " in the least degree useful.;" for our sagacious contemporary, notwith- standing his eulogium on the contributor, and the invitation to publish his name, has prudently suppressed it.
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