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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 19

The French Minister of the Interior and Public Worship, Le petit Goblet, resigned two weeks ago, the Ministry having been defeated in the Chambers in its policy in regard to the municipality of Paris. It is a very strange coincidence that barely two weeks before, this same Goblet handed over as far as he could, to the tender mercies of the present municipality of Paris, the National Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Mont mut re. Three million Frenchmen subscribed to that magnificent temple, as an act of National homage to the Sacred Heart. Now the Deputies of France have voted to practically Bappress it. The wretched Goblet pretended to oppose the radical motion by saying that it was not the right of the Government to expropriate the Church — that was the right of the municipality of Paris i " The National Basilica will disappear," says a famous writer in the Pay*. " Montmartre, after a century will again become Mount Marat. The Phrygian Cap will replace the Cross of Jesus, and God once more will be driven from His own Household." — Catholic Review.