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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 244, 4 January 1878, Page 9

The London correspondent of the Dublin Freeman says :—": — " I have been informed that Dr. Newman and several other eminent divines have been asked to undertake a new English translation of the Holy Scriptures to replace thG Douay version, which is couched in an excessively Latinized style. Dr. Newman is widely known as an incomparable master of pur s English, and to no better hands could the most important work be entrusted. M. THIEES has left an unpublished work in which he attempts to refute, on the avthority of history, the doctrines oE Darwin, Comte, Littre, Rcnan, and Spinoza. M. Thicrs was, in his last days, eminently religious in his principles. He is reported to have said, in one of his latest conversations, •' The fundamental truths on the existence of God and the soul are not only incontestable from the point of view or reason, but also indispensable in social life ;" and he added, " I have abdicated philosophical pride."