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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 38, 10 January 1890, Page 13

I (. IHrtA) see that in November all the Conservative AssocUttont are to meet at Nottingham, under the Presidency of the Daks of Portland, a gentleman who, although rich beyond the dreamt of avarice, condescends to take £2,600 per annum out of the taxpayers* pocket aa " Master of the Horse." His wife it, on tbia occasion, to introduce all the Primrose Jezebels who attend the meeiinf to Lady Salisbury. It is only meet and proper that these baekbitlßgearews should have their reward, and I make no doubt . that they, really do esteem it the highest of honours to be introduced by a Daohess to a Marchioness. The sapient editor of that journal '.so famous for waited ffews and the use of choice, classical phraseology, the WhUtktMJt^imv, declares that the Monitewde Boms, a " clerioal journal," it " poking much of nothing " in attaching importance to Sir J. L. Sinmons' mission to the Vatican with respect to tbe affairs of the island of Malta. Toe editor of the Whitehall is evidently unawarethat this is tbe &rst time for two hundred jears that an English Minister has been formally accredited to tbe Papal Court. The revolution of 1688 put an end to the diplomatic relations between England and the Holy See. Since that date arrangements with the Holy See have been affected extra-offidallyby English ambassadors. In 1850, Lord Palmenton submitted to Parliament a bill authorising the Crown to re-open relations with " the temporal sovereign for the time being of the&oman States." The measure was passed, but formal relations with the Holy See were never resumed. To Lord Salisbury belongs the credit of having for the first time daring two hundred years placed an accredited Eoglish representative at the Court of his Holiness the Pope,— imwrport CdtkcUs Tmn.