GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 56, 23 May 1874, Page 12

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

iircKNTiTthe Roman ,ailway station was discovered to be on fire It broke out la .he ca.peuter's woikshop and close to a place n here «'gl't but, ot petroleum and four largo vessels of turpentine were HMH M IhG '7' ? .ll. lll ° « orkshop was destroyed. By the exertions of the firemen and soldier,, Ihe progress of the flames was arrested, and all danger was over m an hour or two. The name of the distinguished astronomer, Smshi, (lie Jesuit, has been removed from the rolls oi the Academy de' Lincei, which holds its meetings at the Capitol. H2H 2 was amembcr of that Society for t«entvuve years, an.l dimng that period con.nbuted to it moie than titty scientific papers. He was entitle I after twenty-five yeais membership, to an annual pension of 300 lire, but instead oi a pensi »n ] la s now received Ins dismissal. The pretext for this step was tlio absence of .bather becchi from the meetings of the Lincei, an ah-we, however winch was involuntary and occasioned by cm.-unißJunceaov.i- which the learned Jesuit hud no control. A writer in tl.e Imperial interesl, M. Lionce Dupm.t, pubhsheu tie .oilier day v %wnk in which he supports tlio claims of the vounrr Napoleon IV., ' .md by way of enim.,,,l, (0( 0 his book, he quotes Vo,d* which he nttubutes to Mon^igneui- Pie, Bi*hop ot l'o v.-i ,, whom he makes to say fio,,. the pulp. t , (kit I rovmYnee was re.v nng to the godson of l'ms IX -the- M.n of JS' :I ].oleon 111. -the , v y oi ., E cner.tmgF.ance. It ls vi^ln to add that the Bishop of PoiUo lv. dcuud Jauvin" mane use of tlx -c expressions _ Mr W. Lcwe -y IV v kiey, oi Mielu l.lever, Han-e, thinLs it inav b ■ instruetne to .he pubJj.-. and even po-Mbly t«» some grmnb.m ourCmlW to peruke Hie f.-llowniir strides' act iron. thc^Ucrman Duhoim kulencier lorJS7J, p 147 :-"lliu E m ,,, n .i „f R u^n receives S.i^O.UlH) thaler; the Sultan vi Tmkcv. 0,0 >0 (>()() t hak rs ■ tlicEmpe.orot An tun, 5,500,000 i! ulc- ; the Emiier. „l (U-rinun (as king of IW,-,), ] fltO Oi'O iL.-ih-s; ,l, u Km- oi It.'> 2 300 000 t idler.; the Queen of Jutland, '.Giky-OO ihal.rs J ,. ,/, ovovium to Iho national ninmu- of thes.- conntru-, th, Queen of K.ul.n.d receives the lowest Ciwl Lw-mmelj, 7-lOfh* per ,un , the Sinlui, reecni,,,. the highest, 11 per cent. p Twelve of ihc Eii-'l *h Minixor. of (h e \i &milltl ] KUC b(VM sen( home b\ the Kirn-li Cui.-ul „i Km- Vo>K Lord Georg, Mai.'ars, ?,[ l\, broi', ■ of t , ■ D ,k.« oi ThUland, 1 as takui hi" laborers i>no iann.ng paU.u. o „.,, dm \ t i lUl |, s Wllh llujU] . bjut i/0, fn-tt ]»i ohis.