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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 24 August 1888, Page 7

A party of tithe collecto-s and police were attacked by a mob at Llain field, Wales, on May 17,aad ia tieconflict that fo' lowed 3s persona weie injured, seven c f th^m seriously. M. Faye, the Paris astronomer, has just read an interesting communication at the Academy of Science, which gives soma curious mfoimttion concerning the " Men in Mars. " The author of the communication is M. Perrotin, of the Nice Observatory. This gentleman brought a powerful glass to bear on the planet, and from what ha saw it appears that Mars is not only inhabited by men, but by most skilful and energetic canall cut* rs and engineers who put M. de Leaseps and his fellow piercers of isthmuses "in back seats" A»i ..miners have already called the lines going from sea to sea on me turf ice of Mais "canals"; but M. Perrotin says that some cf these waterways are, like the Panama project, 6ti 1 unfinished. It is instructive to compare the conduct of Continental liadicab alter a victory and afcer a defeat. In Rome, where they have been victorious, they paraded the streets, hurling out the f mleat insults against the Vatican, and exulting at tbe thought that they would not henceforth b 3 oblige-i to restrain themselves to " words, empty words." In Brussels, where they were iznominiously dilated, they revenged themselves by hurling stones and threats of f ature vengeance at their political opponent*. I Q the one case the police had to prevent the mob from marching on the Vatican ; in the other the police aad military had hard work to disperse them after they hai broken some scores of window?. After all, there 19 not so much difference between " Cassius drunk and Oassius sober."— Catholic Press. O'Brien, the Irish Mayor if Boston, has been the first to nominate a coloured man to the prominent position of principal assessor in the W j 8 we bear anti - Irs sb bigots prata about Irish intolerance Ihe death is announced of Mr. Henry F. flemy. A convert to Catholicism in early life, his music U talents, which were markedly evinced in childhood, were utilised by his appointment to the office of organist to St. Andrew's Catholic Ohurcn, Newcastle-on-Tyoe As a pianist and a teacher of the instrument he had few compeers' and his celebrated " Pianoforte Tutor " yet remains a standard work for learners. In sncces*ion, he held the post of organist at St. Cutbberts Catholic Chnrch, North Shields, St Bede's, South Shields, and, nnally, Ushan College, Durham. His musical compositions icclude some of our mo3t popular hymn tunes. Note worthy in thi B depart, roent of his work is his setting of the celebrated hymn, " Oh, Par*. disc I which is graceful to a degree, and yet survives ia popularity. He is, perhaps, best kown to Catholics as the writer of the music in the < Crown of Jesus Hymn Book." He leives behind him the repu, tat-on of an earnest Catholic.