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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 1, 4 May 1894, Page 31

Th^ Boston Herald writes strongly against the proposition to settle the negro question in America, by deporting the negroes to Africa. Bays the Herald :— " An exodus of tbe kind would bave to be voluntary. A forcible deportation — taking the coloured people by the ear, bo to speak, and leading them out of the country— is hardly conceivable. Insurrection or revolution would surely follow. Moreover, the negro population is American born, and has all the rights and privileges of citizenship." Wnen will our Protestant friends ge v . enough of the " Converted Catholics" 1 Gebhard L. Mayer, one ot the recent accessions to tbe Baptist raoke, is discovered to be a bigamist ; and has been ignominiously expelled from the Newton Baptist Seminary and Tremont Temple. But tbat won't hinder Tremont Temple from picking up the ne.st weed that is thrown over the Catholic wall, and presenting it to the credulous Protestant public as a lily.— Pilot. The Daily Chronicle says:— An interesting ceremony wu solemnised quietly at 3, Wuitehallcourt, in the presence of his Eminence Cardinal Vaughan and a small bnt distinguished company. It consisted in reproducing, for the first time since he died, a message committed to a phonograph by the late Cardinal Manning, and left as his bequest to humanity. The company included, amongst others, Mr Bayard and several members of the American Embassy, Sir Algernon West and Mr Shand (representing the Prime Minister and Mrs Gladstone) and others. Tne words of the lecord were found on reproduction to consist not so much of a message as of » spoken thought. The Cardinal had in bis mind the vision of his own life, and of the effect it would have and the judgment which would be passed upon it. Speaking in long-drawn deliberate tones, every accent of which was faithfully recorded, he said : "To all who come after me ; I hope that no word of mine spoken or written, will be found to have done barm to anyone after lam dead." Then followed the name and title of the speaker, also in his own voice, witb the date. To add to the interest of the occasion a few other voices of great men now deceased were reproduced in a similar manner. Most of these including the voices of Tennyson and Browning, have only been heard once or twice since they were first recorded, and after this they will probably not be beard again till a generation baa passed. Altogether the experience was a remarkable one in many ways, and wm one not easily to be forgotten.