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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 23, 2 October 1885, Page 11

Our Holy Father the Pope is never tired seemingly of referring aff -ctionately to Ireland and her people. On Tuesday week the red biretta was presented to the new Irish Cardinal, and two days later he received the red hat of the Cardinalato from the han'ls of the Fope at an open consistory held in the Vatican. On the occasion of the presentation of the biretta the Pope, a 9 he handed it to Cardinal Moran, addressed him as a " dearly be'oved son " and as a " child of brave and dutiful Ireland." Expressions of this character show that the sympathies of the Holy Father are with the Irish people in their troubles, and they cannot fail to have the effect of strengthening the bonds which unite our country and Rome.— Nation, August 8.

In an article which warmly praises Lord Salisbury, the semiofficial Fremdenllatt of Vienna says :— " England has for the present bo allies because her authority at a Power suffered immensely from the policy of the late Cabinet, wkich loosened old fri«adskip« without creating new ones. Lord Salisbury is now d hdjj kis bast U withdraw England from her isolation, and in th« Egyptian mmi ot»« qo«ation« it may already be seen that his policy ig not o»ly mm Ofmrnervhtire, but more European. In re-entering the political systeK of Bur >pc as a Conservative factor on tbe side of the exietiag #sier «f thiegs, Kngland will sion make her influence felt srtirywtasre, and it must count for a great deal at Constantinople. "We repent, fW««, that Lord Salisbury's policy is more European and «t tb« stare ti«e more English than was ' Mr. Gladstone's. It is mow Bb^HA b««a«se it recognizes that England's authority must be based on an tuoraase of defensive strength, and more European because it brings England nearer to the Otweetvative Cabinets of Europe."