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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 468, 31 March 1882, Page 16

A telegram was received from the Bishop of Danedin on Monday, announcing that he was to leave Melbourne en¥okte for hia diocese by the s.s. Hero oa the following morning. The Hero cornea via Hobart, and therefore his Lordship can hardly reach Port Chalmers before' Tuesday next, the 4th of- April. The Bishop's arrival in Danedin is impatiently awaited, and the members of hia flock are prepared to receive him with cead millefaiithe. Wb find that the years that had passed since the Bishop of Dane Tin left Grahamstown had done nothing to efface the memory of his episcopate there. His late visit was anxiously expected by the p2ople over wbonr he had presided, and suitable preparations were made to receive him. We clip the following from the Graaf-Jteinet Advertiser of Jan. 28 :—": — " The Star says :' We hear that every effort will be made by the "Roman Catholics of Grahamstown to give Bishop Moran a cordial welcome.' The Bishop is on his way back to his See in New Zealand." A canard is flying to the effect that Messrs. Parnell, Dillon and O'Reilly have asked to be released from prison on parole, and have been refused by the Government. The antrulh of the' report is fully proved by the fact that Mr. Dillon had already been offered his liberty, on condition that he would leave the country, and bad rejected the offer. The release of these gentlemen on parole would of course mean that they had bound themselves to hold their tongues t — Credat Judceus. Mb. Fobster repeats bis hope that Ireland is going to settle down and be good in a minute or two. He, however, throws in a threat that additional measures of coercion are to be employed immediately. And his threat seems more likely to be fulfilled than his hope. The' Dominican Sisters acknowledge the receipt of remittances towards their Invercargill Art-union, from Messrs. P. Nolan, Charleston, and Goodger, Cromwell. The following paragraph relates to a class of outrages that seem 1 pretty common just at present, but of which, as they do not occur in I Ireland, the telegraph tells us nothing, and they have na interest for | the colonial Press :— " On the night of January 2nd, M. Bivet, the Care of Saint- Arcons-d'AUier, in the Department of Haute Loire, was called by a stranger to administer to the pretended victim of an accident. At a short distance from the presbytery the priest was assassinated and his body was discovered in a ravine most disgustingly mutilated. That same night, an individual called at another parish priest's house in the neighbourhood for him to attend a woman at the point of death. The priest's brother-in-law, who was living with him, not liking the looks of the man, took out his revolver and bade the man go on in front to Bhow the road. When they had j gone some little distance the man made himself scarce ; as for the I dying woman to whom, the priest had been called, she was found in I perfect health." A biot has occurred in Gal way between the men of the 84th and the 88th Regiments. Possibly the Connaught Rangers are in an ill temper, feeling themselves to be in a false position while they are engaged in coercing 'their native country, and kept in readiness to shoot down their fellow-countrymen. A state of irritation would seem natural to them under the circumstances. Another false report of Irish disturbance, which was, moreover, telegraphed to 'the colonies and published all over them for gospel truth has received its contradict' on as follows :—": — " The Central Neivt says— Major Clifford Lloyd, the special resident magistrate for Clare, Limerick, and Cork, telegraphs to the Central Newt Agency that the statement of his having reported to the Castle authorities the -existence of a -widespread -and dangerous 'conspiracy in his district is quite without foundation." This Woodstock rush continues to be favourably reported of. Her Majesty the Queen has cau-sed a letter to be written to Lord Aberdare inviting his Lordship to try if the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anirftals can do anything towards checking the houghing and mutilations of cattle reported from Ireland. Mr. Hugh Ponsonby, however, who has written the letter admits that the cruelties in question are not identified with the national cause. '■ This is no political question)" he says, " and some of the extreme so-caltal Nationalist papers in Ireland condemn these cruelties as warmly as the loyal journals." The Kalian in alluding to tbis letter, while it condemns the outrages alluded to whenever they occur, points out at the same time that the number of cases of cruelty to animals in England, and in which coavictiens have been obtained, is in proportion very much greater than thos - reported for Ireland. During tue month of January the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals obtained 323 convictions in England and Wales, and very many more were obtained during the same month by kindred societies and the police.

Arrangements have been made by the American Government, for a more .speedy transmission of mails between San Franc«co and New York, and which, should bring Europe into quicker communication with these colonies. Genbbax Skobeloff pays the Czar secretly approves -of his attack on Germany. The General evidently has a hankering after the wilds of Siberia. Travellers, in fact, are now beginning to find out that the country alluded to is not the desert it has .so far beenrepresented to be. An English clergyman who lately went there on a missiouary tour returned in delight with all he saw. The inhabitant may possibly have been .delighted with him in their turn, for it waa quite, impossible he could have preached a word, at Ahem tso quickly mofct he have travelled. The Australian colonies, are working at the defence of their ports. At Melbourne a scare -has been caused by some -tale of Russian designs published in the Age on the word of a maa named Bryant, and which it seems Lord Kimberley haa thought it necessary. to contradict from London,, . Two new Armstrong guns have been shipped for Sydney, which are said to -be capable of smashing to * pieces the strongest armour that any vessel can- carry. ( The Bay of Plenty Time* reports, a casein which a Maori. child. ..i who was supposed to have died of .being burned, and over whom a | tangi was being held, gat up and- complained of being cold and ( hungry, i We regret to learn that Mrs, Ryan, the mother of the two lads who were drowned at Oreti, has in consequence of the great shock received by her become deranged. The cate is a very sad one. Sir Henry Pabkes appears to be making a triumphal progress round the world, that is so far as receptions And banquets given to , him go, His attempted negotiations for the benefit of his colony have not by any means succeeded so well. New South Wales is evidently held in high esteem abroad, and Sir Henry is borne with for its sake. The Duke of Edinburgh will preside at a banquet to be given to him nest month iv London, when Sir Henry will have an opportunity, which we have no doubt he will gladly embrace, of swearing a little at the memory of the unfortunate lunatic who fired at his Boyal Highness in Sydney, and fell a victim to the fact of his being an Irishman. M'Lean, who seems much more sane, has already almost faded from the public memory, in striking contrast to the Sydney maniac, who seemed to have infected the colonial public with his own disease. „ And it is a melancholy thing to see a whole population attacked by mania, even when it takes a loyal turn. The Government of the United States have instructed Mr. i Lowell to demand a speedy trial for the suspects who are American citizens. This is a direct reproof to coercion in Ireland, aud a claim to interfere in the internal affairs of England, by insisting that prisoners deprived by the law of a trial shall be accorded one. If the American suspects be tried England cannot without an acknowledgement that she has yielded to fear with-hold a trial from the other suspects. A census recently taken in Biistol has shown that one-half of the population of the city visited the public houses on a certain Saturday night. Decidedly the taste for whiskey grows on the public palate, and the doctors' recommendation has taken deep hold on the popular ranks. We shall have John Bull joining in faction fights, fee, before he knows where be is, but though " more Irish "we hold he vilL not become " less nice," Sib Henry Parkes, it 6eems, takes a lively interest in the proposed College of Music. We had not known that music was* his forte, although we knew that he could very loudly blow his own trumpet, - Another, warning to would-be emigrants reaches as from New Mexico, where a man named Keating, who had gone there • from - Canterbury, has been murdered. Decidedly that was a very horrible murder of the bailiffs whose bodies wereiound in Lough Mask. Nothing can excuse it r and it is to be folly execrated. But at least half as bad was the murder of an old man named Henry Sutcliffe, whose dead body was foond in a well at Stalybridge, on January 31. At least half as bad, again, was the murder of the little girl Georgina Moore, whose body was found in the river Medway, on January 30. And as two halves makea whole, here are English murders quite as bad as those at Lough Mask, concerning which all the world has been informed. We were, nevertheless, not told one word by telegraph respecting the murders in England,