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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XX, Issue 27, 22 April 1892, Page 15

The Tacancy of the Cambridge chair of astronomy, caused by the death of Professor J. O. Adams, is well filled by the appointment of the Irish Astronomer Royal, Bir R. S. Ball. Sir Robert is one who cannot be too highly estimated as an authority oa astronomy. Mr Froude intends to republish from the Quarterly, Longman's Magazine, and other sources hia recent contributions. The tale will be " The Spanish Story of the Armada, and Essayß, Historical aDd Descriptive." Why not call it a romance, especially as Mr Froude is fond of " takiug " titles ? The Turkish papers of a late date announce the conversion to Istamism of an Anglican bishop, but it is not supposed the intelligence is accurate. A ftw months ago the Liverpool papers stated that an English clergyman had declared himself a convert, and he is now in Turkish employ, and this probably has given rise to this story. There are grave fears that both in France and Italy the Ist of May celebrations will this year be marred by disorder. The state of Spain is also anything but reassuring. In Germany the police assert that they have unearthed a serious Anarchist conspiracy, and the prisons of Berlin were never so full as they are at presmt, tbis beiDg the result partly of the arrest of the so-called Anarcuisis, partly of the Emperor's crusade against public immorality. Cardinal Domenico Agostini, Patriarch of Venice, dying with the old year, leaves even more than common regrets. He waa one of those pastors whom their flock canonise before their death ; and it haa been the fortune of Venice to have two "Saints" at St Mark's ia succession. The hospitals, the prisons, and the contessiouals, were the chief scenes of his laborious apostolate. He never spared himself, on account of the burdens of an important episcopate, one hour's work for the poor, to whom he had originally wished to devute his wholes life. Hia Eminence was aixty-six years of age.— Weekly Register*