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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 1, 25 April 1884, Page 18

Tbe Radicals of Lyons, France, have just received a lesson in tolerance from one whom M. Gambetta himself called •' the great. Frenchman." At a meeting to commemorate the foundation of tbe Geographical Society, M. de Lesseps said energetically, speaking of hospitals : " When I saw the Sisters chased from French soil I begged them to come to Panama ; sixty of them accepted my invitation, and there is now no longer an exceptional mortality in the hospitals ; I belong to no administration, but I do not like Republicans or Liberals who make war against religion as some, have done." The edUor of Les^ Annales Catholiques wonders what the Radical organs which have, in imitation of their leader, ostentatiously praised "tbe great Frenchman," will say to this I— Mid York Freeman.