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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 45, 2 March 1888, Page 27

Cardinal Langenieux, Archbishop of Rheims, is justly proud of the surname by which he is known throughout his diocese. Ha is called " the friend of the workingmen." Of course it will be said that the constable is always the butt of the pantomimist, and that no doubt is true. But let Sir Charles Warren ask his inspectors whether ever before in their recollection any reference to the police was hailed with such hisses and groans as toose— to mention a single ins ance— which burst out again and again at Covent Garden on Mon lay night. The only exception was when it was declared that tbe policeman was always courting the cook when he was wanted to apprehend a burglar. That was cheered no doubt almost as loudly as the discomfiture of tho police when they tried to clear the Square, and were themselves cleared out, to the enthusiastic satisfaction of all beholders. Lotd Beaconsfield once f adjusted English foreign policy to the note of the London music ball. Possibly Lord Salisbury may take a hint from the theatres as to his policy at home. Music halls on the Thames may be dangerous gu des as to the policy to be pursued on the Bosphorus and the U. nube, but the pit of a London theatre is a tolerably safe guide as to the views taken by Londoners on a question of London administra. lion.— Pall Mall Oanette. - I