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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 8, 13 June 1884, Page 27

A racy story is told of an old lady who refused to be comforted by her pastor's assurances that when he left she would have a better pastor as his succassor. '■ Na, na," she said, " I have seen fourteen changes in the ministers since I attended the kirk, and every ane has been waur than anither." The Paris Figaio's correspondent at Cairo says :— " General Gordon, before the sortie on the 16th inst., sent the following proclamation to the rebel sheiks : • Come to me without fear, as I have come to you in all confidence. I came not to fight, bub alone with the help of God, and God b with me.' The sheiks replied, 'We have read your letter. You say you are with God, If you are with God, you are with us, because God is with us, If you are not with us, then God is against tb.ee, and we shall do with t'lee as we have dene with Hicks Pasha.' " Rome, March 23. — While discussing the report of the Pope's in tended departure from Rome with your correspondent to-day Car diual Howard ridiculed the notion of the Pope having any thought of leaving the Vatican. "At all events," said His Eminence, laughing heartily as he rose to receive another visitor, " I have not heard a word about it. Nor has Cardinal Maccabe, Cardinal Manning or Cardinal Newman, to my knowledge, taken any steps to induce the Holy Father to move from Rome. Nor have I any reason whatever to believe that the Holy Father will allude to his alleged departure in addressing the Consistory next week." After the rebuff of the Bavarian Prince and Princess by the Vatican, the following note was sent to all the papal nuncios :—": — " The Vatican can neither now nor henceforth consent to receive Catholic princes who have been welcomed as guests in a palace which, though confiscated by the Italians, is still the property of the papacy. The coexistence of two governments in Rome is inadmissible. The Vatican declines to acknowledge any authority but one in Rome— the authority of the head, the Church, Leo Xlll."— Pilot.