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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 12, 10 July 1885, Page 9

General News.

-y. There is something ludicrously naive in the statement of Signor Mancini that he is glad Italy has not signed an alliance with England , " who is now in such grave embarrassment."— Pilot, Somebody, remembering Russia's strength on land and England's on sea, has defined a war between the two as " the fight of a bear and a shark " The epigram is neat ; and what decent man ever felt sympathy with a shark ? — Pilot. The Holy Father, having expressed his desire that the Catholics of Borne should illuminate their hoaseß on Eastsr Saturday, and this desire having been made known ia the churches of the city, the illumination which occurred was of almost universal extent. The darkened houses were only to be seen in the new quarters of Rome, or in those streets inhabited by the radical Italians. The man who threw an onion at the Prince of Wales, in Cork> and almost upset the equilibrium of the solar system, has been found out and punished. His name is Daniel Buckley. He had been under the influence of liquor, but he said it was loyalty, and that he only threw the onion "to give expression to his joy!" The unfeeling magistrates sentenced him to 40 shillings' fine or a month's imprisonment. — Pilot. General Komaroff's name is said to mean " son-of-a-mosquito." The late Lord 'Cairns was a man of extraordinary ability, who had won his own name and fame. His son' inherits his position, title, and wealth, and his place ia the House of Lords as one of England's highest legislators. The N. P. Evening Post, a paper familiar with aristocratic interests, says .— " Now that he is gone, his place will be taken by his son, who is hardly fit to act as umpire at a pigeon-shooting match., much less as a lawmaker. In fact, his parts' are such that his entrance as a matter of right to a legislative" body has the air of a scandal. It is not often that a coronet descends to the next heir with such a ' sickening thud.' " *, Professor James Warren, of Lob Angeles (California) electric light station, is the inventor of a new process of reducing ores, which is done by the aid of electricity, one day while examining a piece of gold-bearing quartz, he accidentally let it fall into one of the dynamos which was in motion at the time. On looking for the piece of quartz next day, he found it in dynamo, and to .his supriee the gold in the quartz had been melted and had ran to one side of the rock, forming a beautiful button. Professor Warren immediately instituted a series of experiments, and has succeeded in evolving a process by which gold, silver and copper can be instantly smelted from concentrations by a powerful electric shock, which almost equals in its intensity a stroke of lightning. The expexiements so far have failed on lead and antimony ores. The colonial 'policy of Italy ' is not regarded favourably in Vienna. That country will soon experience the difficulties and burdens of a colonial policy. The organisation of the Italian army will suffer in consequence. The occupation of Tripoli by Italy, which seems to be the chief gain held out to iteelf by that country, would compromise the order of things established in Tunis, and France might readily be brought into conflict with Italy. There is a powerful French party that would hail with joy any coolness between these two countries. Piper Ireland ha? been released, after being abducted and carried over to England for court-martial. He says the English authorities turned him loose, penniless, 3,000 miles from home, because, after all their trouble, no evidence conld be found against him, and he " would not surroander " himself voluntarily. This explanation is sheer 'nonsense, as any body knows who understands military law. The identification of the deserter was sufficient to ensure his conviction, as it had been to warrant his arrest. When the piper's wife callei on the British Consul at New York a short time ago that official sneered at the idea of this country protecting Ireland, and tried to bribe her by offering herself and children a free passage to England to join her husband: Evidently some strong pressure has brought to bear on the British Government, which has, perhaps, learned for the the first time that a Democratic administration in the United States does not propose to neglect even adopted citizens when wronged by a foreign power. This, at least, we hope and think, is the solution of the piper's release.-— Pilot, M. Bartholdi, the artist who has formed the great statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, says that the* assertion that Congress had refused the monster statue is incorrect. The work has been taken to pieces and is picked in A serious of enormous cases ready to depart in the war transport Isere. The subscription of 500,000 francs by Americans and Frenchmen at a Press meeting last week on board the Normandie at New York fills up the deficiency required for the completion of the pedestal and the raising of the statue. The Isere is now at Cherbourg, whence she will depart for Rouen where the cases containing the statue will be put on board. It is M. Ferry who offered last year his Government transport for the carriage of the great bronze work, and the expenses of going and returning to America will be borne by the French Government. The replica of this statue, but much smaller, being 32 feet in height, as it is formed on the original model of Bartholdi, for which 100,000 francs have already been subscribed, is at .the bronze foundry at present- and will be completed in May. It has been offered by a group of Americans to the city of Paris, which has accepted it, and it will be erected in the Place des Etats-Uais, where the American Embassy to the French Government is located. — Cor. of Pilot.

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