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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 28, 6 November 1885, Page 13

The pamphlet containing a sketch of he career of the " Escaped Nun" maybe oidered of W. J. Williamson, Tablet Office, Dunedin, and is deserving of peiusal.

" Now. therefore, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United Sates, do hereby order and direct that any and every unlawful enclosure of the public lands maintained by any person, association or corporation be immediately removed." — President's Proclamation. There is a democratic ring in that for which the country has long waited. Now, we shall Bee the rascals who represent English and Scotch aristocrats swarm to Washington a 9 did the cattlemen two weeks s go, to protest, etc. But the last word of the President to the cattlemen will meet them on the way : " It must and it shall be done Pilot.

Mr. Lowell was unconsciously funny when he said, in his Ashfield Bpeech the oiher day . "There are no wheels that will revolve without our help except the great wheel of the constellations or that great circle of the sun's which has its hand upon the dial plate, and which was made by a hand much less fallible than ours." "Muoh le fallible " is modest. — Pilot.

The Emperor of Russia has been paying a visit to Finland. Apropos of his visit the Newcastle Daily Chronicle says :—: — Finlan'l. where the Czar of Russia is sojourning, where he ia being feted and " lionised," resembles Ireland in a great meisure. In many respects it is related to Russia as Ireland in to Great Britain, Like Ireland, Finland is geographically isolated. It has also the ethnological difference, and it has a history, traditions, manners, and political aspirations peculiar to itself. The farming industry abaoiba the bulk of the Finnish people, whose religion differs from that professed and upheld in Buswia. So much for th< j points of resemblance. But Finland differs from Ireland in two material respects. In the first place, the land of Finland belongs for the most part to the men who hold the plough. They have peai-ant proprietary there. la the second place, the Fins have Home Rule. For while the external affairs of Russia and Finland are under one management, the latter is an independent State in so far as concerns its iuternal administrations.