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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 24, 9 October 1885, Page 21

The cable reports Cardinal Manning as having paid that while all Pr > estantism is divided and discordant, the C-itholie Church was never more united and harmonious. If any evidence of this truth was needed, tin. 1 Catholic Ih-vknv finds it in the notable harmony and approval with which all the bishops of the world are receiving the late notable de 'l^ion of Pope Leo XIII. Seldom was an assertion of Pontifical authority mor>- nere=sary, and certainly never has it been received with greater cordiality, Pope Leo is our head by authority, we all know: but he is aKo our chief rul<r by his hold of the sceptres of the intellect and of the heart. He is a Providential chieft iTi.

The Indo European Correspondence publishes the following :—: — '■ It \v is a strange iuspua'iori that prompted thy Journal dc Genkve, a t\adicil pap'T, to answer for the safety of the Pi nice of Wales in Ireli'id, on th.- ground that 'he is a Free Mason, and that Free Masuniy has taken him under its protc ctio \. Not many indiscretions of this kind will be required to persuade us that Free Masonry has .tome control over tho»>e who boast of destroying kinsrs and princes."

London July 29. The Gariba'di branch of the Anti t lerical League met in Paris for the purpose of expelling Jogand, alias Taxil, the repervn.nr freethinker and atheist, who bas recently recanted and published his return 10 the Church. To the amazement of the meeting, Taxil presented himself b fore the, assembly and made a defiant speech. He declared that his publication called Amours of Pius IX and otner similar pamphlets were mere fictions. He denounced the League in vehement language, and said that he accepted his expulsion from that body with pleasure. A great uproar ensued on the conclusion of Taxil's remarks, and the chairman ordered Taxil to leave the hall. He left amid the furious denunciations of his former colleagues.