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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 10, 4 July 1890, Page 15

Another genuine paiating by Rubens is said to have been dig covered in the aa'on of a Belgian. The subject ia the La^t Sacrament and the date IG2I. Monsignor Ketteler, a distinguished prelate of Germany, holds that " if St. Paul were living in our days he would publish and edit a newspaper." In IS(J9 there were CO .331 Irith soldiers in the British army ; in 1889, there were but 30,297. These contracted figures are eloquent signs of the political progress of the Irish people. The largest order which the publishers, the Messrs. Longman, of London, received for William O'Brien's great novel, " When We Were Boys," came, strangely enough, from the publishing firm of hmith and McCoy, who made a fortune out of the Loadon Times' slanderous pamnhlet " Parnelhsm and CJnni-2." S-iys our (Pilot .s) esteemed contemporary, the Messenger of Worcpstei, Mass. :— " All Mr. Bradbury has to say of the Pilot's expose of Miss Edith O'Gornun ie, that it is taken from accounts twelve years old. How does that militate against what the Pilot said, if it is true 1 And it is." Unhappily, ag^ does not wither, uor custom stale, nor exposure destroy the charm of the " escaped nun " for anti-Catholics of the Bradbury type. One of the victims of the fire at the Longue Poiate Lunatic Asylum was Marie Laya, a nun of the Convent of the tiicred Heart at, Sault-Recollet. She was a grand-daughter of Alexindre Laya, the author of "L'Ami des L >m," a Kovalist drama, brought out and played on the day Louis XVI. was executed. At a Primrose meeting held last week at a place called Chew Magna, in North Somerset, a " reverend " individual named Galbraith, vicar of the parish, spoke of the Liberal leaders as " the audacious, lying politicians, l°d by the great and gross liar, Mr. Gladstone." In a letter to a local paper he has since withdrawn the word " liar," and expressed his regret for having vs j d it ; but at the very same moment he adds :—": — " I do not, however, hesitate to affirm deliberately, what last night I intended to convey, that Mr. Gladstone and others with him, are dishonest and uu principled politicians." fcuch a letter only aggravates the offence. There is far more excuse for calling a man a liar on the spur of the moment in a platform speech than for deliberately charging him with dishonesty i in writing. If the bishop of the diocese has any regard for the in- ' terests of religion, not to mention those of the Church of England, he will forthwith take steps to prevent this Galbraith bringing further discredit upon both Christianity and the Church by his political passions. Why are there' no ecclesiastical pains and penalties for such offences ? — Truth. In 1885 there were 4,647 Home Rulers and 2,383 anti-llome Rulers in east Bristol. The by-election shows that there are now 5,377 Home Rulers and only 1900 anti-Home Rulers. "Why," sadly asks the Morning Post, " do the electors accord an overwhelming majority to the representatives of a dislocated party, which is apparently unable to account for its existence by means of the production of any specific or united policy ? " The answer is simple : the overwhelming majority of the electors do not regard the Liberal party a 8 " dislocated," nor do they pay -\nj attention to the Unionist trash about its having no "specific or united policy.' 1 Pos?ibly the electors are all wrong in preferring Mr. Gladstone to the Torit'S-cum-Traitors who [managed to secure a haphazard maj <rity at the last general election by insisting that Mr. Glads'one would pledge British credit for an Irish land purchase scheme ; but when they see that the Torieß-cum- Traitors do pledge that credit for a scheme of I this nature, they naturally consider that the present Government got into power by fraudulent pledges, and they reaentthie. — Truth,