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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 23, 2 October 1885, Page 13

A writer in the London Times says :— " Mr. Charles Stewart Parnell desc< mis fiom ' bold Norfolk's '.Earl de Brotherton,' son of Edwaid Land Mai shall of England, us well as from that Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, whom Bolingbroke challenged to mortal combat, aud whom Richard 11. banished for life. Another of Mr. Painell's anoesurs is John Howard, the ' Jockey of Norfolk,' first of the actual line of the Dukes of Norfolk, who was slain at Bosworth and duly attai ited by the victorious paity." The Italian savant Narducci has just laid before the Academia dei Lmcei a number of documents showing that Pope Sixtus V. and the Republic of Venice were at one time negotiating for the piercing of the Isthmus of Suez ; a plan which was only abandoned for fear lest the difference in the level of the two seas would quickly cause the traffic to be impeded by the san<i.~ Court Journal.

Beilin, Aug. Bth.— The article iv the North German Gazette attacking France, in connection with the advice of the Paris Tempt that French cavalry on the trontier he reinforced, has seriously affected the Berlin and Frankfort bourse*. It is supposed in official circles that the object of the article is to prepare the public for a large imrease in the military budget. All the German newspapers, fo'lowing the Gazette, dwell upon the fict that the approach of the French and Ku-sians toward each other is coincident with the increasing goodwill between England and Germany. The rector of the University of Berlin, at the celebration yesterday in honour for the founder, Frederick William, toasted the health of Emperor William in the following words : " Long live peace. Should, however, the arrogance of our neighboors pass from daring words into daring deeds, they will learn that the old spirit still liYes."