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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 22, 21 September 1883, Page 27

Cardinal McCloskey is described by a correspondent of the Chicago Inter- Ocean, who saw him in the street, as a spare, erect m in. of medium height, with * singularly benign face, close shaven, andla quiet gravity of demeanour which, rather than any weight of port imparted dignity. One instinctively, and without exactly knowing why, accorded him the distinction of being a personage, —that is, something more than a mere person. The mould of his features was Irish. His eyes were blue and piercing. His grayish brown hair was smoothed until it glistened. His hands were small and almost womanish in their whiteness and softness. On the signet finger of the left hand he wore an Oriental sapphire intaglio, set with blazing diamonds. His suit was black, and his high shirt collar was bent over a stock of purple silk. His hat, like his garb, was a clerical-looking black silk. . The Italian emigration to America is developing into most alarming proportions, From January Ist to May Ist of this year, according to the Corriere Mercantile, the port of Genoa sent out 11 Italian steamers with 6,773 emigrants, 3 Italian sailing vessels, with 180 emigrants, and 6 French steamers, with 3,317 emigrants, all for the Argentine Republic. Besides these, three steamers left the same port with 1,637 emigrants for Brazil, making a total of lU,»Ub Italians who have left by Genoa alone in a space of four months tor the New World. This is taking no account of the very large emirr&tion in the same direction from Naples. The results of this v. ry remaikable Italian emigiation into South America are felt not only in Italy but in the Argentine Republic itself, where, we understand, all trade is rapidly falling into the bands of Italians. Buenos Ayres, indeed, is fed, clothed, and housed almost entirely by Italian labour. For not only the energetic Northerner, but even the indolent Neapolitan, seems to develop in South America into one of the most active and frugal of workmen, with whom the natives find it almoet impossible to compete,