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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 452, 9 December 1881, Page 13

Father Sheehy, who has been ;el eased from Kilmainham, reports ths condition of the jail as conducive to blood-poisoning, and says the food is unfit for human use. In his first speech after release, he said : " I am precisely of the &ame mind now as I was before my arrest." What has England done by his imprisonment ? Again proved her own maUgnant stupidity. — Pilot. The Osservatore Romano announced the solemn retractation of the Abbe Persiaui who had joined the Old Catholics. John Stuart Mill said it was not Irish ideas about land that were peculiar, but English ideas, and the New York Dvening Post (Carl Seburz's paper) says that on this subject (property in land) " the Irish are in the main stream of human tradition ; it is the English who have gone up a little side creek." London, Sept. 29. — The Times publishes the draft of the Scottish land bill prepared by the Scottish Chamber of Agriculture, which provides for an adjustment of rents by arbitration, a revaluation of farms, and for power in the tenant to sell his holding. The Times says it is one oE the most far-reaching measures on the land question ever yet submitted to Parliament. It makes the strictest provision relative to compensation for improvements. A negro went home from a Georgia camp meeting in a state of ecstasy, declared that he was going to heaven by the way of a tall tree that grew in the dooryard, climbed to a height of seventy feet, and then undertook to fly the rest of the journey. The fall killed him. According to present arrangements, the Empress of Austria will hunt next spring in county Meath, Ireland, and Summer Hill is being prepared for her Majesty's reception. The stud is located at present at Brownstown, on the Curragh, The Jesuit Fathers have been expelled from their missions in Kabylia, in the southwest of Algeria. Their only offence was the gradual spread of the French language and the publication of tyro dictionaries of the Kabyl di-ilect. Their schools were so successful that five native pupils have passed with honor the examination for the military school of Saumur in France. The Western Watchman says that "one of the greatest and best priests that ever wore a .sto'eis now slowly dying of leprosy contracted during his ministrations on the sick " in Louisiana, wht-re ihe old plague is spread sng in certain parts of the State. Its authority is the State Board of Health. Mr.J. Stewart, chief-engii.eer of the Livingstonia Mission settlement, has made a voyage in the " Ilala." the little steamer which 300 African women carried upon their shoulders around Murchison's Falls, and which now navigates the beautiful Lak* Nyassa.