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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 15, 9 January 1891, Page 31

Here are two advertisements selected by the Pall Mall Gazette from out of a dozen in a 8 ngle day's Truth Time,*, which seem to suggest that Irish Protestants, who talk loudly of Catholic intolerance judge others by their own practice :— " Intelligent Protestant Lad warned at Donnybrook to clean boos." " Wanted a Pntestant Boy to milk." One can understand vaguely, says the Weekly Register, the confused fear of Papal infection in the milk ; bat the dread cf Popery gettmg into the blacking seems a little morbid. The Chilian newspapers call attention to an incident which took place in the apartmeuts of the President on the occasion of a reception, when all the Corps Diplomatique were present. One Thomson, who has been sent out by the Times as a special correspondent, was presented to Mr. Patrick Egan, the United States Minister to Chili by an attache of the Chid Foreign Office, and declined in a marked manner to recognise the presentation. On the attache apologising to Mr. Egan for having been the cause of bis having been insulted by a guest of the President, the U ited States Minister replied, " The man has injured.bimself ; a gentleman would not insult me, a blackguard could not"" It seems to mi (Truth) th&K when any one connected with the Time* meets an Irish Nationalist, the Times man ought to | fall down on his knees and ask the Nationalist to forgive him for having anything to do with the organ of Pigott, Houston, Walter, and Co. In any c^se, when the Na ionalist happens to be an American Minister to a Republic, the correspondent of the Times ought to have tie good taste not to insult him in the Palace of the President ol the Republic. M. Palfrav.the parish priest of Saint- Romarj. near Havrp, canned something of a sensation the other day by toasting the Republic at a banquet attended by the Prefect and 6everal Deputies. He justified his conduct by declannsr that he was acting in acordance with the spirit of the Church, which ordainsd that the Catholics of France should each Sunday repeat in their churches, Domine Salvam fac Rcpubluam, a prayer, said he, which, in good and intelligible French, means, " Loug live the Republic I " Pere Palfray ha 9 been attacked with much bitterness, by various critics, and oae of them certainly puts his criticism reason ibly, wh^n he says the go >d Father ought to have cried, " Long live the Republic which does not expel the religious congregations, the Sisters from the hospitals, and the Brothers from the schoo's, and which does not empty the seminaries in order to rill the barracks" Tne moral uf the mcideat fjr tbe an honties in France is that they can safely count upon the good will of the | Church if they only ensure to the citizens a just and a Christian Re» j public,