General News.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 32, 7 December 1883, Page 27

General News.

Father Emanuel Kenners, a Franciscan of the Convent of St. Isidoro, in Kome has been decorated by Queen Victoxia for his behavior during the cholera pestilence in Egypt. One of the Irish monks of the same convent died a victim of his duty. Mrs. Parnell, the mother of the Irish leader, left her home at Ironsides, N. J., on Sept. 24, to take a train for Bordentown, intending to go to New York. She was on the railroad track, when hearing the tram coming, she became bewildered and stood on the track, bwitchman Flynn, who knew her by sight, saw her danger, and, rushing down the track, threw her off, and barely escaped being killed himself,, although the engineer had reversed his lever and applied the brakes. Another " severe check to Mr. Parnell is reported by English cable from Ulster, where tie Orangemen have in several places attacked peaceful Nationalist meetings. The wickedness of the Eng. lish means of "saving Ulster " from the agitators would be incredible if it were not customary. The whole favour of Government and landlords is poured on the most ignorant and inflammatory of the Orangemen. They are addressed by speeches and placards so directly inciting to violence, that a similar display on the Nationalist side wonld be regarded by England as open war. The result is natural : violence and murder. But the evil bears its own cure. The respectable Protestants of Ulster will repudiate this savagery and rascality at the coming elections.— Pilot. The Rev. Father Anderledy, S.J., the recently-elected Vicar to Father Beckx, General of the Society of Jesus, is a native of Germany, and is sixty year 3 old. He has already held most important positions in the Society. Relieving-officer O'Donnell reported to the Boyle Board of Guardians on Sept. 22 that a tenant farmer named Michael Healy, of Moydoo, who had been evicted on Thursday last by Lord De Freyne, Frencbpark, had become insane, and was quite destitute. Colonel King-Barman, who presided, considered this was a case for the police, and he directed the relieving officer to communicate with them in order to have the man removed at once to Ballinasloe lunatic a9ylum. London, Oct. 6. — There has been a persistent effort on the pait of the Government papers in Fiance, to ascribe the insults offered to King Alfonso to the lowest class in Paris, in order to indicate that the people at large bad no part in the demonstration of sympathy with it. The fact is that a better dressed or more respectable-look-ing mob has not beeu set nin Paris. It was a bourgeois mob, and lfcs quality and its great size testified to the identity of public feeling. No violence was attempted except by the old lady who hurled her umbrella at the Duke of Sesto, and thereby started the boys to throwing mud at the king's carriage. The telegram published from the -Emperor William to Alfonso has made a decided sensation. If the Emperor of Germany should assnme to regard the outrage as intended for him more than for his late guest, as stated, it would no doubt be a serious matter. Evidently Germany means to leave notning undone to exasperate the French. The airest of M. Antoine, the popular and spirited Deputy for Metis, is another slep in the same direction, and adds gieatly to the popular feeling in France, which has reached a degree of bitterness difficult to describe. In fact, whatever iuay be thought of the utterances of the Pai is Press, the course of Germany for some time has been characterized by steady and increasing aggression. The great danger in the whole matter arises from the fact that the Frencb peopleare possessed with a fatuous notion that they are fully prepared to go to war. The wh<>le tone of public discussion indicates the iullest confidence in the ability of the nation to again meet Germany in the field. 'It is haidly necessary to say that their military weakuess was never move conspicuous than now. Gen. Thibaudin's resignation of the War portfolio signifies that the Ministry had to find a scapegoat. Jules Ferry, who owned his own position in the Cabinet toThibaudin, insisted that he should be turned out, and M. Grevy leluctantly assented. Ou Saturday, September 15, the Emmett Brass. Band was attacked at Whiteabbey, near Belfast, by a number of Orange rowdies, vvbo severely maltreated the bandsmen and smashed their instruments. The mob also smashed the windows of a Catholic Church. — Nation. At Weston-supcr-Mare on Thursday week, the revising barrister, in retaining on tbe register the name of a voter to whom the Liberals objected on the giound that he is an inmate of a lunatic asylum, said : "As long as Mr. Gladstone is the Prime Minister of England, I shall not object to a lunatic remaining on the register." Kome, Sept. 18. — Extensive preparations are being made for the reception of the American Bishops who are to meet at the Vatican in November. There will be a series of reunions, at which Cardinal SimeoDi will perside. and at which questions concerning the influence of the Catholic Church in America will be discussed. The main object of the meetings will be to adopt measures for the re-organization of the Catholic Church in America according to canonical law, and to bring it into closer communion with the Vatican t Cardinal McCabe will be invited to attend some of tbe meetings, a which tbe Irißh agitation will be discussed.