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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 496, 13 October 1882, Page 7

It is said in Ireland (but no answer was vouchsafed in Parliament) that, soldiers are sent into publichouses, and that they entrap thoughtless men into treasonable language and then inform on them. We are not inclined to believe all this, but we do believe (and, indeed, are quite certain) that soldiers ought to be ordered to get any required refreshments at their barrack canteen, and also that civilians ought not to talk to them on political subjects.— Universe. With the possible exception of Moscow and Waterloo, it would be hard to find any spot on the face of tne earth which has been more fatal to France than the strip of sandy beach extending from Aboukir Bay to Damietta. Damietta itself witnessed in the thirteenth century the destruction of a splendid French army by pestilence, the massacre of the few helpless survivors, and the capture of the King himself, Louis IX. of France. Aboukir Bay saw the battle of the Nile, by which Nelson annihilated |at one blow the finest fleet of France, and cut off Bonaparte's invading army from all communication with Europe. In Alexandria itself the gallant General Kleber, the ablest soldier of the French Army, next to Bonaparte himself,' was assassinated by an Arab fanatic, and upon the flat beach beyond the city, K l eber's successor, General Menou, strove in vain to prevent thelanding of Sir Ralph Abercromby, whose victory, though purchased with his own life, at once made the English masters of the whole peninsula of Alexandria,