10,000 IRISH IN LONDON PROCESSION

All wearing shamrock, some 10,000 Irish men and women last Sunday formed one of the largest processions London has seen.
All along the route to the ruins of St. George's Cathedral, Southwark. where the annual Gaelic service was held, thousands more waited for the procession to come along Whitehall and across Westminster Bridge.
Attended by policemen, mounted and on foot, the procession was led by the Borough Pipe Band, followed by contingents from schools of Irish dancing in national costume, and members of the Westminster Youth Club wearing green sashes.
Crowding into the ruined Cathedral. where a war-blitzed statue of St. Patrick had been enshrined on the site of the former sanctuary, the processionists said the Rosary in Irish and heard a sermon in Irish and English, followed by Benediction.
Seven thousand Irish people walked in procession through the streets of Birmingham on Sunday. The Lord Mayor, Alderman Bowenywas presented with shamrock, and on St. Patrick's Day the Irish flag was down from the Council House,
EPISCOPAL ENGAGEMENTS
Cardinal Griffin. Today (Friday):
Presides at Requiem Mass and gives Absolution in the Cathedral (transferred anniversary of the death of Cardinal Hinsley), 11.15 a.m. Sunday : Visitation and Confirmation at Holy Cross Church, Parsons Green, 6.30 p.m. Thursday : Attends day of recollection for the clergy at the Sacred Heart Convent, Hammersmith, 11.30 a.m.; gives Pontifical Benediction at the Cathedral for the Union of Catholic Mothers' service in honour of Our Lady of Walsing ham, 8 p.m.
Mgr. Masterson, Archbishop of Birmingham.-Sunday : Visitation and Confirmation at St. Francis. Sheffield, near Walsall, 3.30 p.m. Tuesday : Presides at meeting for teachers in St. Chad's Schools, Birmingham, 6 p.m.
Mgr. King, BIShop of Portsmouth.Tomorrow (Saturday): Oiclains two priests at St. John's Cathedral, 10 a.m. Sunday. March 29: Blesses palms, sings Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter's, Winchester, 11 a.m.
Mgr. Parker, Bishop of Northampton.-Sunday : Visitation at 11 a.m. and Confirmation at 3.30 p.m. at Thetford. Wednesday: Celebrates Pontifical High Mass at Corby. Sunday. March 29: Blesses and distributes palms and presides at High Mass in the Cathedral, II a.m.
Mgr. Rudderham, Bishop of Clifton. -Sunday : Confirmation at St. Benedict's, Bonham. 3.30 p.m. Tuesday: Preaches at a rally of the Legion of Mary at the Pro-Cathedral, 7.30 p.m.
Mgr. Petit, Bishop of Menevia.Sunday : Visitation and Confirmation at Saltncy. Sunday, March 29: Blesses palms and pontificates at High Mass in the Pro-Cathedral.
Mgr. Cowderoy, Bishop of Southwark. Sunday : Visitation at Chatham. I I a,m.: gives Benediction at Old Brompton. 4 p.m.; Confirmation at Chatham. 6.30 p.m. Tuesday : Visitation and Confirmation at Strood, p.m. Thursday: Gives Benediction at Plurnstead Common, 6 p.m.; Visitation and Confirmation at Plumstead, 8 p.m.
Mgr. Beck, Bishop of Brentwood.Tuesday : Presuks and preaches at Legion of Mary Acies at Stratford. Wednesday : Presides at clothing ceremony at Mercy Convent, Tilbury.
Appoinments •
Southwark.-Fr. Thomas Cambourne, of Deptford. has been appoimed Rector of Sanderstead. The following assistant priests have been appointed : Fr. Leonard Whatmore. of Blackheath, to Gillingham ; Fr. Thomas Hurley (Ross) to Canterbury ; Ft. James Kenny, of Canterbury, to Weybridge : Fr. Geoffrey Sansom, of Woolwich, to looting; Fr. John William Price (Tarbes), to Ashford.
Portsmouth,-The following assistant priests have been appointed : Fr. Brian Scantlebury, of Woolston, to St. Edmund's, Southampton; Fr. Norman Fisher, of Maidenhead, to St. Patrick's Woolsion: Fr. John Dwyer, M. Southampton, to St. Joseph's, Maidenhead.