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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 263, 17 May 1878, Page 9

All mention, remarks the Tablet, of the following passage occurring in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of tl^e Spanish Cortes is omitted in the telegraphic summary published in the London newspapers :— " The profound grief caused me by the death of the illustrious Pius IX., whom I deplore as a Catholic king, and whom I regret as a Christian, and as his godson, with all the force of my soul has come to trouble the felicity of this happy season of my life (the King's marriage). The unbounded goodness of which his heart was the treasury, and the unfailing grandeur of his views, render superfluous for his glory the impartial judgment of posterity. Divine Providence will doubtless inspire those who are now assembled in all freedom and independence to discharge the difficult duty of electing ••a successor to the See of St. Peter, in hopes of a Pontificate that shall ensure concord, so fruitful in benefits, between Church and State." The Univers remarks on this paragraph that some expressions in it liave caused dissatisfaction to the Catholic organs in Spain.