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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 456, 6 January 1882, Page 7

The credulous souls who thought President Arthur would keep right along on the lines marked out by Garfield are beginning to set their mistake. Arthur's advisers now are those who were his associates when the fight with Garfield was going on. Grant, Logan, Cameron, and the other active Stalwarts, are the men, with whom he takes counsel, and nearly all his appointments thus far bear the Stalwart stamp. This might have been expected, for men don't change thennature with a new suit of clothes. — Pilot.

Funny things are still going on in Prussia under the regime of the May laws. For some time past a priest — Father Zielinski — has had to pass from one criminal court to another to answer some frightful charges that had been brought against him, and which he had all the work cut out to clear himself of. In the criminal infurn#ition laid against him it was said : " The prisoner at the bar is charged with having repeatedly celebrated Mass in the church at Ilgen, which, being done in public, other persons were afforded an oportunity of joining in the worship by prayer, and deriving edification therefrom." Surely, such hideous offences could not go unpunished. In point of fact, the indictment specified sixty-six counts, all of them for " sacerdotal actions " contrary to the May laws, the delinquent not being duly licensed by the Government to carry on the calling of a minister of religion. The first judge before whom he appeared found him guilty of all the horrors imputed to him ; but, taking a lenient view of the case, only fined him £33, or sixty-six days under lock and key. The culprit had the coolness to appeal, and the second court reduced the punishment to £3 10s., or seven days, and this judgment has been finally confirmed by the Supreme Court of Prussia. But they cautioned him that next time he would be locked up without tha option of a fine. The culprit had the hardihood to say that he did not care. — Universe,