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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 38, 26 June 1891, Page 5

Hia Grace Archbishop Walsh, in an interview with a correspondent, has expressed himself highly satisfied with the result of interviews with the Pope, who, he says, entirely approves of tbe course taken by tha Irish Bishopp. Asked whether he thought the Parnall crisis would produce a religious schism, the Archbishop said, N I not the slightest faith in these pessimist predictions. Be&ftes, the present crisis will not last. After the general election, Mr Parnell will be ; politically interred. He now represents no national force, and the imposture that was so near imposing itself on Ireland is rapidly malting away. Sir Arthur Sullivan is credited with Baying, in reply to an ignorant, but pretentious woman who asked him if Bach were composing anything nowadays : " No, madame, he is decomposing." William Henry Grattan, a native of New York city, died suddenly at Ban Francisco April 10, aged sixty years. He was lineally descended from Henry Grattao, tbe eminent Irish patriot,