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Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 117, 26 May 1885, Page 4

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South African Troublos,

B"Mr Goorge Baden Powell is at present engaged in studying tho South African diiliculty on tho spot, and also in pro.noting tho work of tho Imperial Federation League in that quarter of the globe. He will, no dcubt, prosont an interesting report of tho stato of affairs in South Africa when he roturns homo. Wo havo not had any further nows concerning tho difficulty botwoon Sir Hercules Robinson and General Warren, but wo learn that tho latter has almost cotnploted tho pacification of Bechuanaland, and that tho trial of Van Niokerk, and tho discovery and punishment of tho murderers of Mr Botholl. aro tho only two tasks of importanco remaining to him. It Rooms highly probable, however, that affairs in BasutoL'Liid will attract his attention, and it i." also hoped that he will undertake a sottlomont of Zululand. Professor Soclcy's Lectures. During tho weok l'rofosser Secloy has concluded a courso of loctures in tho East End of London, on "Tho Expansion of England." In tho courso of the last he said : — " Mr Bright tolls us that tho wars of tho British Empire wcro duo to guilty ambition, that the proceeds of thorn went into tho pockots of admirals and gonorals, and, gonerally speaking, that tho British Empiro was founded in tho interests of tho youngor sons of aristocratic families. Now all this is not to soo just tho very thing about thoso wars which is most cortain and obvious. They woro not at all prompted by lust of empire, and they wore waged in the intorosts, not of tho aristocracy, but of tho trading classos. They wcro businoss undertakings, and it was tho standing marvel of tho cightconth contury that tho moro England fought tho richer she becamo, and that if hor debt increased fast hor ability to bear it incrcasod yot faster. And if you ask what wo havo got for our 800 millions of debt incurred in thoso wars, tho answer is vory simple. Wo havo got Canada, and South Africa, and Australia, and India, and a world-wide cominorco such as has novor before boon Keen." Lord Randolph Churchill has roturncd from India, looking bronzed and weii. Last night the noble lord occupied his nld familiar corner seat just below tho Opposition gangway. On his entry into tho Mouse ho was received with a fairly respectable clicor. Wo shall bo glad to havo him buck, for English politics havo been terribly dull (luring his absence. Tho Suez Canal. A story roaches us from Paris which shows how utterly futilo woro tho hopes of tho.so who anticipated that tho Suez Canal CommiH.'»ion would confino its labours within tlio limits laid down by Lord (Jranvillo'a famous circular. At tho first sitting of tho commission tho French dologar.es produced a scheme for tho regulation of tho Canal, which the"Titnos" correspondent doßcribcs as " including a vory complex pyutom of rules, interfering in many cases with tho Interior affairs ot tho Canal, full of puzzlos and ambiguities of all kinds." The same authority goes on to say that— " It is evident from tho very nature of tho situation that tho English schomo is diamotrically opposed to tho French. England , wants tho canal to bo freo without tho intervention of anybody. ttlio wants tho canal to bo managed by a froo company without any external control, whoroas Franco dosirca a complicated regulation implying also a control over Egypt. This would obviously result, not in tho noutralieation of Egypt, but in multiplied intervention of Egypt. It would not bo an Egypt belonging to nobody, but an Egypt belonging to evorybody, England being thus evicted, and hor einglo will drownoi in manifold wills." North Queensland as a Crown Colony. A eorrospondeneo has just taken place botweon M r C. S. Salmon, formorly President of St. Nevis, and Mr Wcstparth, through tho medium of Mr Chcsson, Secretary of the Aborigines' Protection Society, on the question of forming Northorn Queensland into a Crown colony, so that Coolio labour could be obtained by the plantors u mlorthosuporvision of tho Imporial Government. Mr Westgarth considers this stop necessary for tho commercial progress and prosperity of Northern Queensland ; whilo Mr Malmon strongly opposes tho idea of spoiling a " frco rontinont" by tho introduction of a scrvilo class moroly for tho purpose of making a " snug place for planters." Marriage wltli Deooasod Wllo's SisterA memorial, signed by nearly throofourths of tho members of the City of London Corporation, has been addrossod to her Majesty's Ministers, urging tho repeal of tho I'iw prohibitint: maniago with tho dcccn'cd wife's sigter. Tho memorialists- anvme whom aro the Lord Mayor, tho cv Lord Mayor, the two Sheriffs, tho Recorder, tho City Chamborlain, and'JO of tho _!l ilrpntios, say : "Tho prohibition of such marriages has boon ropoatodly condomned by largo majorities in tho House of Commons; it has become a part of our jurisprudence through a doubtful interpretation of Scripture ;it is habitually infringed, without, loss of respect, by persons of admitted virtue, who do not boliovo that they aro acting at varianco with religion or morality ; and a law which, llko this, fnils to secure tho gonoral assent of tho community ought, in our opinion, to bo abolished. Wo. thoroforo, urgently appeal to Hor Majesty's rosponsiblo advisors to tnko such stops as may bo needful to carry tho desired roform into cltbct." Tho Frlnoo of Walos nnd tho Irish Clergy in Rome Tho Dublin correspondent of tho "Times" quotos a letter writton by tho Rev. Canon llegarty, of Cork, drawing attention to tho goodwill which tho Princo of Wales has always shown tho Irish Dominicans of I-I'.. Clemont's in Romo, and to tho protection of tho British flag afforded them. It, was not during tho Prince's visit to Romo soon after iiis marriage that ho first mailo (ho acquaintance of Father Mullooly and tho Irish Dominicans, nor was St. Clement's tho only Irish establishment in Romo that hoisted tho Union .lack and took sholtor under its protecting influence. When his Royal Highnoes, thon a youth, was in Romo in 1859, ho took a livoly interest in Fathor Mullooly's oxcavations beneath tho modern church. Ho visited thorn frequently, subscribed handsomoly towards the work, and invitod Father Mullooly moro than once to dino with him at tho Hotol dos Ilos Baitanniquoß. Tho oxcollont prior esteemed tho Princo highly ;ho had his portrait and autograph hanging in a prominent placo in his coll, and always spoko of him with affoctionato rogard. On tho occasion of tho second visit of tho Princo to Rome, with tho Princess from March 23 to April 9, 1572, ono of tho first places thoir Royal Highnesses wont to was St. Clement's, »nd tho friendship which had sprung up between tho Prince and tho reverend Prior 13 years before wasfurthorcemonted. Tho excavation of the subterranean church was then comploted. For tho frontispiece of his work, entitled, " St. Clomont, Pope and Martyr, and his Basilica in Rome," Father Mullooly had drawings made representing his conducting Pius IX. through the oxcavations tho first time that his Holiness visited them. Of this he had a replica made, representing his showing the Princo and Princess of Wales through them; and the two drawings hung side by side in his cell. Many sovereigns and princes of royal blood who camo to Romo went to see the discoveries at St. Clement's, but to none of them did Father Mullooly pay tho same compliment. During their stay in Rome, the Princo and Princops went to"visit Pope Pius IX., who—l quote the following from tho official " Osservatore Romano" of that date—" had prayed for tho Prince in his hour of need, and rejoiced at his restoration to health." On tho Pope hearing from Mr Clarke Jervoise, then officially representing Her Majesty's Government to the Holy See, that the Princess wished to see the interior of a convent, His Holiness directed that any one which she named should be onened to her. Her Royal Highness chose one, and in naming the suit© who were to attend them the Princo especially included Father Mullooly, who accompanied them accordingly. Canon Hegarty, so far from exaggerating the service rendered by tho Prince to the Irish Dominicans, to say nothing of the other Irish establishments in Rome—for Father Mullooly did not plead for his own—has simply done justice to the facts. The Father often talked with me on the subject, and, in confirmation of what Canon Hegarty has stated, it is within my knowledge that both the Prince and Princesß of Wales expressed fully to the King and Queen of Italy—then Princo Humbert and Princess Margherita — the warm interest vhich they took in the welfare of the establishments owned by her Britannic Majesty's Irish Catholic subjects in Rome. How effectual that expression of interest was is best illustrated by tho case of St. Clemont's, which, as every Roman Catholic bishop in Ireland knows, had not a shadow of claim, in the eyes of the Italian law, for the exemption from confiscation that it obtained. Tothe reminder which Canon Hejjarty gives "tho gentlemen whoso password is now respectful neutrality," &c, that the treasures of S. Clement were under the protection of the British flag, when the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Rome, at

the time when the "Bill for the suppression of monastic orders," aa it Was called, was boing prepared, I may add that on the Italians entering Rome on September 20, 1870, the Irish Franciscans of St. Isidore wore the first to hoist the ' Union Jack. According to a letter printed in the Belfast "Northern Whig" at the time, it was flying from their church as early as the 16th. St. Clement's and the Irish Colloge, the headquarters in Rome of uncompromising Irish disaffection and disloyalty, next placed themselves under the protection of the British flag, tbo other Irish establishments following tho oxnmplo. Tho principal of ono of them aaked a Roman clerical if ho thought tho green flag with the harp would do as well, and a very expressive raising of tho eyebrows convinced him to tho contrary. Tho Anglo-American Yacht Race. Tho " Sportsman's " New York spocial correspondent, writing on the 25th of March, H ays:—Tho Boston men are observing the deepest secrecy respecting the new craft now building to beat tho British sloops which aro coming across the Atlantic to sail for tho America's Cup. As a Now York authority naively expresses himself: "It is thought that it will bo better if tho Yankee craft possesses any now points of excollonco not to lot her adversaries know anything about them," She will ho a centreboard sloop, with a doublo-hoad rig, and her lower sail area will bo about 5,000 square feet. The corrected dimensions are 1)3 feot overall, 80 foot wator-line, 23 feet boam, and 8 foot draught. Tho timbers aro prepared, and sho will bo ready for launching on the 10th Juno. The now English yacht purchased by Mr A. Padleford, of Philadelphia, which is expected to arrive shortly, will be entered in all tho important matches.