4 JUNE 1864, Page 3

Two Roman Catholic priests at Munster, in Prussia, recently established,

says the Daily News, a lottery, in which the prizes were masses for the souls of the winners after death, and the tribunal acquitted them of any breach of the law, though it ap- peared they had made 600/. sterling by their operations. Dr. New- man tells us that the true Roman Catholic would deliberately account the painful death of every living creature on the earth less to be dreaded than a single voluntary sin, however venial. What, then, will the true Roman Catholic say to gambling for the chance of obliterating a sin ? Gambling for the universe itself should be less profane.