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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VII, Issue 325, 11 July 1879, Page 19

A committee of distinguished archaeologists has been appointed to consider the best means of fishing up the statues, coins, and other articles which have lain for centuries under the Tiber's yellow mud. The golden candlestick taken from the temple at Jerusalem, and the gold and silver cups and the ornaments which once adorned the palaces of the Roman emperors, are thought to be among the covered treasure. The number of men who will this year be subject to military duty in France is thus stated by the Rapell .■ 479,100 in the active army, 2,850 officers and 144,570 privates of the first reserve, and 6,820 officers and 117,800 privates of the second reaexve.