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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 38, 10 January 1890, Page 29

At the beatification of tbe Blessed Jean Perboyre a brother and a sister of the martyr were present. The former is a priest of the Congregation of tbe Foreign Missions at ParU, the latter a Sister of Chanty at Naples. Another brother is a miaaioaary in China. Tbe Italian Government intend at once to take practical steps to realise Giribaldi's dream of making Kome a seaport. It is proposed to cut a ship canal, 80 metres wide and 10 metres deep, f om the Tiber, at a p not just outside toe ci'y walls, to the sea at Cartel Fu*ano,a dist* cc of about 11 miles. Tbe canal will probably bo constructed by an American company, and the estimated cost is £2 750000. With reference to a rec-nt speech of the Speaker of the House of Com mo >s, in which he referred to tbe Primrose Dames at Brighton as an Amaz man cohort, a contemporary compUins that it was htrdlr courteous, a^d aids that the Speaker's sugg^tion, that this involves an altered method of conducting elections, proves that he never heard of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, getting a vote for Mr. Fox by kissing a butcher. Well, yes, probably he had ; but the Primrose Damea of Brighton did cot follow the precedent set by the Duchess, but confined themselves to scurrilous abuse and shameless backbiting of Sir Robert Peel. It is not given to every Primrose Dame to be as beautiful as was the Duchess of Devonshire.— Truth. A Renter's tel< gram from New York announoss the death of Colonel Taomas F. Burke. Colonel Burke was one of the most dashiug and brilliant of the Fenian leaders ; and those whose memory goes back to the days of '67 will remember the splendid speech he made in his defence when tried and sentenced to death for- high treason. Colonel Burke served with Meagher in the American Civil War, and was with O'Neill in Canada when Colonel Booker executed that splendid retreat famous in song and story.