General News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 274, 2 August 1878, Page 17

General News.

l™cSv? S iL™LT U l\? Vo^ c in aa Indian district mi gg h * be excessive. The profits of the business will certainly not exceed those ™,l?£ o^T 'i t J e MadraS Gove ™ment may find it very dim! cult to control. We do not, of course, vouch for the reports, but we believe them as i the existence of gold in the South, as we 1 as^n Assam and the Punjaub, has long been demonstrated. The natives! Sp 7 f^ he £ UQ3aub aud Assam ' make a wretched living of <?l e pe S f?» C f' bUt f^ they only wash the surface-sands, leaving the ££& r^wSffSss^ tarn oat proWle ' - nf> lo H^ SE - mme l aCet^ C ' ll ' diual Al>^bisiiop'of Dublin, writing the other day m acknowledgment of tho receipt by him, at Eome of an address and an offering to the Sovereign Pontiff from the' *£ Family Confraternity of St. Catharine's Heath-street, Dublin says ToJusHS? lette V-: Ye t terday X bad a conversation^ iaikish Ambassador, who has been sent expressly by the Grand Signor to compliment the Pope on his accession to the Chair of Peter (ilu S lZ e t?T T l XVL Sa ?' ab ° Ut for * y ears ago, that of la£ (in his clays) the lurks were acting as Christians, but that the Christians were acting as Turks. The Grand Signor now sends an Ambassador, who is an excellent Armenian Catholic, to present h£ congratulation to the Pope, thus acting like a Christian; but the n 5 u tCn **$* ? ar «^ the President of the Helvetic Republic, n which they recklessly assert that the Catholics have full freedom in Russia and Switzerland, in both which countries they are cruelly persecuted, and especially in Russian Poland, are worthy of the old lurks a couple of centuries ago." Your readers will, I know, be glad to hear that m the same, letter his Eminence confirms the accounts which we have been receiving as to the great and continued improvement in his health, and expresses his hope of being able to leave for SSSimW tbe month. Speaking of His Holiness the 1 ope, Cardinal Cullcn, than whom no one has had better and closer Sn^St?BkSs?. ! '• I - lisHota is «* workingS WtwT^VTT? b - ecU i . nd « str . iollsl y circulated to the effect that the health of Leo XIII is seriously impaired, and that before long a terSZ ZS T? fiCa i^ iay - be / Spected - For theserumoufs there is not the slightest foundation m fact. Leo XIII. is not of a robust no X ,,Un, U Unf n ' ff° r - d ° e ! he Cn3Oy whafc ma y be rude health, but £wk su t ffenn S from any particular disorder, nor has he any infirmities other than such as are incident to his age. He rises early SiS an w Jta f" b^- S ? re ° ularl y' and withoit betraying much onWith^W T ff dd ™ k i Yei yjW™S l J, and his table is supplied MrL « b simplest viands. He goes to bed somewhat late. He takes exercise from 5. p.m.to 7 p.m. every evening in the Vatican gardens and sometimes says his Mass as early as 6 a.m. in a small chapel in the gardens.— Tablet. SS?^>^^-"=^4 s& k ancient edifice being illuminated to the summit. There was an tZ of 6 <r oncoarse <>£ people, and the annual oration in praise of Ro™,;ftn \° WaS dellvered in Cathedral by the Rev. Abbl Rouquette, honorary canon of Bordeaux : after which the usual JDeum celebration concluded by the singing of the Te

cm S o£thloetfZT^T°^ tot what * calls a most miserable episode that occurred at the Newspaper Press Fund dinner on May Wof fosi?nT a / ce A n ' ln - a Sp - eech full of genial humour, gave thl M? H M Itln^v i^T 0 ? coupled with the name of Mr' StJw tZ i* i th& *° ast "J 3 recei ™d with great cordiality. taSr nSSf'- S? repl J-' ,, a PP eared deliberately to set himself the task of effacing this cordiality. From bein°- sardonic his remark* oan no iriend to a good but strangely warped fellow sueeest to hia immediate attention another unexplored desert ? gg