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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 13 July 1888, Page 19

" Bloody Balfour " is not the only distinguished man of his name. Balfour, of Barley, who murdered the Venerable ArohbUhop Snarpe, with the barbarity of a Oomanche, had as little heart or conscience as his namesake who plotted the deaths of O'Brien and Dillon, though like the latter he professed to be governed by a very tender considera* tion of duty. — Pilot. London, May 18.— A party of tithe collectors and police were attacked by a mob at Llanifldd, Wales, yesterday, and in the conflict that followed thirty-five persons were injured, seven of them seriously. A priest eminent no less by learning than virtue wu -travelling by rail to one of our provincial towns. On the train he was accosted by a very nice and distinguished looking gentleman with whom be al lowed himself to be drawn into quasi-religious discussion. " Pardo a Monsieur l'Abbe," suddenly says the V.N. and D.L. gentleman, " I must tell you at the very start that in religions matters I am a tee* total unbeliever," "What I you de not even believe in the existence of a God, ... in the immortality of the soul f " "Ohl aB for that, I feel that I believe that much, . . , but I don't believe in the existence of . . . hell." " But sir, do you admit revelation t" " Revelation ? Why I look upon it as romanoe." Have you ever examined the proofs of a divine revelation T " " No, Monsieur l'Abbe." " Do you know anything of the works of Bossuet, Fenelon, Balmes, Nicholas, Brownson, and of so many others among the learned writer! of our age who have written philosophical treaties on the most pro* found religious problem ? " "I admit that I know nothing of those writings." " Have you ever read the Holy Scriptures, the Gospels f " 11 Never." " Well, sir, allow me to say that you are teetotally wrong to call yourself an unbeliever." •' How so? " Well, I hope my frankness will not shock your feelings, bat, young man, you are an ignoramus and no unbeleiver."