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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 8, 11 December 1891, Page 31

The ungraciously premature intrigue and gossip aa to the future Conclave continues in both Presß and Cabinet. The Vatican hai been " approached " as to the possibility of a not-Italian Pope, by " a power not greatly in favour at the Holy See," and several Cardinals are reported to have replied that the tradition of an Italian Pope would, in all probability, be continued. The power in queaton is Austria, and our readers will not be slow in guessing what French Cardinal's name has alarmed it. But that the Cardinals at the Vatican have replied upon a matter to hidden in the counsels of Providence may be frankly disbelieved. The Holy See hai merely called the attention of the several Governments, by a note, to the unpleasant activity of the Italian Press.— Weekly Register.

The last ten years have been fruitful of evidence going to prove both that the East was not so wonderfully wise ascertain antiChristians had said, and that the West had been mnoh wiser had it not chosen for a century or two to doubt all ancient travellers and the testimony of the Holy Scriptures. Recent researches, showing that Hertdotus and Jeremiah were faithful to a foot in their measurement b, now lead scholars to expect that traditions will be confirmed and that conjectures will be confuted, and the papers read before the Oriental Congress lately held in London were almost without exception to that general effect. — Pilot

Pere Hyacinthe has found his place at last in the ranks of the) followers of the late moat bestial Madam Blavatsky, the high priestess of the school of Theosophy whose spirit is now possessed by some one else, according to her theory. The celebrated Pere Hyacinthe has arrived in London immersed in Theosophy and the mysteries of the mahatmaa. He intends shortly to address an audience on the subject of esoteric Buddhism and the inner spiritual sight. Pere Hyacinthe, like Annie Besant, has lately become a conven to this ancient and yet new cult. Parabrahm to him has become manifest, and he expects before long to be able to work, he believes, those miracles promised in the Scriptures as well aa in the Vedaa to men of faith.— New York Freman,