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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 31, 1 May 1891, Page 29

A certain Rev. Mr. Junor, of the Dutch Reformed Church in New York, made a canvass recently of a d. strict of that ci y aid as the result ol his inves igatioas deduces that in the whole city the number of Catholic church-goers am >uns to 762,666 ; of Protestant C'urch-goers, 258,666 ; of Protestants who do not attend any church, 255 633 ; of heathens, 325,335. — The New York Sun remarks on the°e statements that not all the church-going Protestants can be called Chri<tiins but that nviny of taem are at heart iufidels or agnostics. Tbe Sun adds that " the only Christian communion on which modern scepticism seems to make no impression is the Roman Catholic."

The Marquis of Ripon, presiding over the inaugural dinner of the new club houne of tbe Lieeds and County Liberal Club, erected at the cost of £25 OuO, said the conduct of tbe Irish people ia the crisis through whcb they had passe 1 showed that they were animated by a cordial sense of the obligations uuder which they were placed to the people < f this country by the course which the Liberal party bad taken of late years wita regard to tbe Irish question. This fact, so far from furoisning an argument against Home Rule, offered legitimate grounds for an increasing sympathy and respect for the Irish people.