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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 244, 4 January 1878, Page 5

The Holy Well of St. Winefride, in Wales, where the crutches and bandages deposited as offerings by those whose miraculous cures have been effected by the powerful intercession of the Saint, and by their own uunshaken faith in her ministrant power, was recently visited by the British Archaeological Association, the members of which regarded these tokens as very instructive, as an instance of the late lingering of a thought and feeling which formerly pervaded the whole of the inhabitants of our land. — London Universe. The Roman correspondent of one of the New York papers says : — Victor Emmanuel, whose annual income from the public treasury is about 3,500,000 dols. or nearly double what Victoria of England is paid, flings bis money about in a prodigal manner, as if he had the exhaustless purse of Fortunatus in his pocket. His family have an additional 500,000 dols. a year among them. They live within their incomes, but his Majesty is considerably and continuously in debt, and every now and then his Minister of Finance has to execute the difficult and delicate duty of > obtaining a large money vote, a Parliamentary " benevolence," to pay off the most pressing demands of the royal tradesmen. The King is rather popular than not with his Roman subjects. Accustomed as they have been in the Papal time to gentle manners and delicate ways, they scarcely understand the King, those chief delight is in the sports of field and forest (at this moment and for weeks'past he has been in his native Piedmont, hunting and shooting game and wild beasts of prey), and they smile, sometimes contemptuously at his rustic dress and address, ,which certainly have nothing princely in them.