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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 266, 7 June 1878, Page 19

IK the last week of February, the Very Rev. Dr. Newman revered Oxford for the first time since 1846. He has been staying with the Eev. S. Wayto, President of Trinity College, of which societf , Dr. lawman was formerly a scholar and has recently been elected an Honorary Fellow On Tuesday evening Dr. Newman met a number o£ old friends at dinner at the President's lodgings, and on the following day he paid a long visit to Dr. Pnsey at Christ Church. He also spent a considerable time at Keble College, in which he was greatly interested In the evening Dr. Newman dined in Trinity College Hall at the high table, attired in his academical dress, and the scholars were invited to meet him afterwards. He returned to Birmingham on Thursday morning. It is scarcely necessary to state that the rumour that Dr. Newman would preach at toe Roman Catholic chapel at Oxford had never the slightest foundation. The Rector of an unpronounceable parish in South Wales wis brought up lately at Pontypridd for being drunk and creating a disturbance. He solemnly affirmed that one policeman came up to him on the "gospel" side, and another on the « epistle" side, and took him away without any provocation on his part. The untimely use of these ecclesiastical technicalities convinced the magistrate that the charge was well founded. He was fined, and having no money he vSiem^ ° nhis "S° s P el " Bide, a ndanSher n /H/ H V U ri be^ ° f can . clid ? tes fo * the Protestant and Catholic priestly rvtfi? d r re + as "JS ** Germany. This state of things Lonl the Catholics is due to the harsh measures taken by the Government and among Protestants to indifference. The Golden Mule hSK suggests that some of the American Protestant clergymen who a£