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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 1, 26 April 1889, Page 31

Mr. Parnell having convicted the Times of insincerity in Scotland, has now taken the first step towards doing the same in Ireland. Every one remembers how eighteen months ago the Times defied ami challenged Mr. Parnell day after day to take legal action against it. The Time? claqne in the Ministry cheered this challenge to the echo, and Mr. Goscben in particular said that if Mr. Parnell would not trust an English jury, the courts of Edinbnrgn and Dublin were open to him. Well, Mr. Parnell has accepted the challenge ; and what does the Times do 2 Why, it runs away under cover of technical objections. — Pall Mall Budget.

Sir William Hunter made a remarkable prediction at the London Institution. Speaking of tbe operation of the new forces at work in India, he eaid : With regard to the effect of the new forces upon the religious conception of t he people.hia view of the matter was that a new religion would before long arise in India. Tbe forces at work were so poweiful and so productive of some result or another that a new religion would arise. But be did not think that new religion would be our medein Christianity, although he believed that the Christian missio c were at this moment amongst the most powerful factors in designing what that new religion should be.