News in Brief.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 31, 26 November 1886, Page 17

News in Brief.

ACCORDING to the Krenz Zeitung the Pope has charged the Archbishop of Madrid to issue instructions to his clergy and the military chaplains to support the Government of the Queen Regent and to condemn from the pulpit the crimp of sedition. Acting under the advice of Mr. Dillon. M.P. for East Mayo. 500 tenants on Lord Clanricarde's estate in Gal way have refused to pay their Tents. The Vatican library contains 24,000 manuscripts, of which 2,164 are Oriental, 3.052 Greek, and 17,059 Latin. A Rossian millionaire has had his smoking-room lined with bank notes. The Catholic school populaiion of the United States is estimated at 1,000,000, attending 4,000 schools. Mr. James Service states that the colonies will be estranged from England unless the New Hebrides be defended. The Times publishes a report that Sir R. Hamilton, Undersecretary for Ireland, is shortly to be removed from Dublin Castle, owing to his Nationalist tendencies. Cardinal Newman, who is 85 years of age, rises every morning at half-past 4, and makes his own bed. There is a sect of mnrderers in Russia who strangle sick people, holding it a sin to let men suffer bodily pain. The death is announced of General Chester A. Arthur. ex-Presi-dent of the United States. It ia announced that Sir R. Hamilton, Undersecretary for Ireland, has been appointed to succeed Sir George Strahan as Governor of Tasmania. A lady, amid the cheers of a large concourse of spectators, swam from the Plymouth breakwater to the pier, a distance of three miles, in 72 minutes. M.de Freycinet, has received a despatch from Lord Iddesleigh stating that the Agents-general of Victoria and Queensland have ma :e nrgent remonstrance against the sending of recidivistes to New Caledonia. A youth named John Anderson, who diauk a bottle of brandy for a wager, died in the Melbourne Hospital next <lay. Two drafts of £2,000 each have been remitted to Mr. Parnell from Australia for " the cause." A roan named Robert Ross was killed by a fall of earth on the road work between Kawakawa and Auckland. Favourable reports as to the Teetulpa goldfields continue to be received. A rumour ia current to the effect that a 60oz nugget haß been found in the district. At the Socialist demonstration in Trafalgar square, violent speeches were delivered by the Socialist leadeis, strongly denouncing the Marquis of Salisbury. Sir Frederick Roberts, commander of the British forces in Upper Burmab, has demanded that officers be sent to replace those killed and wounded in the recent engagements with the rebels. A Maori boy named Tain was killed at Aratapu. Though warned, he climbed a tree and fell. A Congrees of persons devoted to the study of American history, geology, ethnography, etc., opened at Turin, Sept. 15. It was the sixth International Congress of this kind. The pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, which takes place every year, has been forbidden this year by the Minister of the Interior, for reasons of public health. The Irishmen of Toronto will extend a cordial invitation to Justin McCarthy M.P.,to vibit the Queen City of Western Cauada, while on his lecturing tuur, when thousands will assemble to hear his refutation of the Rev. Blowhard Kane's (of Belfast) recent layings at that place in condemnation of the National League. Mary Howitt, the well-known English religious wiiter, hab entered the Catholic Church.