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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 238, 23 November 1877, Page 7

In an article on the leaders of Dublin society, the Whitehall Review says, with only too much reason, that the old glories of Dublin society have vanished. The reason is obvious. Before the Union, Dublin had a House of Lords, and every lord had a residence in Dublin. But when the Parliament "was annihilated the lords gradually sold off their houses and disappeared. Bank, splendour, and fashion vanished ; and now not a single nobleman has a residence in Dublin. It is melancholy to walk throug-li the streets of the Irish capital, and to see the fate of all these magnificent mansions of the Irish nobles Leinster House given up to cattle shows ; Mornington House, the Mendicity Institution ; Powerscourt House, a draper's ; Tyrone House, the National Hchools ; the mansion of the Lords Talbot, a training school for female teachers ; Lord Meath's, an hospital : Lord Castlereagh's — where the Union was decided upon and signed — a public office ; Charlemont House, given up to Census clerks. But it would be endless to go through the catalogue ; enough has been adduced to prove the accuracy of the statement that Dublin does not now possess an aristocracy. Thk Gazette de. Valols states that a certain Abbe Alphonse Krieger, who had been preaching as an " Old Catholic " in the pulpit of the illegally sequestrated Chm-ch of Notre Dame, at Geneva, haa just published an energetic retractation of his errors,