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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 50, 5 April 1889, Page 29

Among other pe'ty insults to which the widowed Empress Frederick has been subjecr by her eldest son is the order recently published in the Official Gazette depriving ter of the use of th« Imperial crown i n her coat-of-drm", and decreeing that in future she must content herself with the attributes of a mere Queen of Prussia. The Paris correspondent of the Catholic limns writes:— Tbe eminent Catholic Senator, M. Lucien Brun, has delivered a rem likable ipeech on the taxation of the primary schools. He showed that tie laictsaMon campaign was carried on against the wishes of the enormous maj any of the population, who were compelled to pay taxes to support schools which they did not want. M. Floquet's turgid eh queoce cannot, however, influence any impartial minu of either tbe justice or necessity of the siep9 that the Government has taken, in face < t the elucatijnr.l statistic* for the year 18H7-88, wmch have just bien published. 698 schools were laicised in the twelve months fr« m November, 1887. to October i f the following year. In place of 2y« of theße the Catholics raised tree scnools. These latter have 27 416 pupile, while the <>93 1 ucned schools can count only 39,555 scholar*. The proporti' n U not in favour of the advocates of secular education,'