THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1840, 7 December 1869, Page 5

THE EUROPEAN MAIL.

Madame Rachel has cropped up again. It appears that she obtained large sums of money from an Irish Zady, mysteriously spoken of as the relative of an Irish legal luminary in high position. This lady has brought an action against Rachel upon an 1.0. U. for £2,000. As that interesting lady is now in Millbank Penitentiary, where she is likely to remain for some years to come, it is difficult to understand the object of bringing a civil action agaiust her, for there cau be little hope of recovering the money. The Pope has made a decided hit at Dr. Gumming. His Holiness " had seen from the newspapers that Dr. dimming of Scotland" had been inquiring if he would be allowed to be present at the Council, and argue iu support of his own opinions. With great eondeseension, the Holy Father explains in a letter to Archbishop Manning, which has been published in all the papers, that the absolute infallibility of the Head of the Church and of all Councils cannot be allowed to be brought question at the forthcoming (Ecumenical; hut that if Dr. dimming wishes to avail himself of the opportunity of this Council to renounce his errors (Dr. Cuuiming's errors'.), anii "t0 satisfy the wants of his soul by withdrawing from a state in which he caunotbe sure of his salvation"—(Dr. Gumming not sure of his salvation!!) —he can " return to the Father from whom ho has long, unhappily, gone astray," who will "joyfully run to meet him." All of -which reads very much like a joke, and, not improbably, is partly so intended by His Holiness. It is the " retort courteous," and it is not easy to see how even Dr. Cunmnng can do more than draw a moral from it for the benefit of persons exclusively of his own way of thinking. It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue effectively against such pretensions, but the Doctor is very unwilling to retire. When ■β-ing Jamee threatened to reinore the capital from London to Oxford, the Lord Mayor only hoped his Majesty would not take the Thames with him. In America, an agitation is beginning for the removal of the Federal capital from Washington. Weaternera advocate St. Louis a3 the best locality, but others hold New York to be the one and proper place. Nobody at Washington hopea anything after the fashion of our Lord Mnjor.