ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1201, 9 December 1873, Page 3

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Ok, Home Jottings by our London corresp onben t.

Siraul et jucunda et idonea dicere vitas. Aliena negotia centum Per caput et circumsaliunt latus.

London, September 25. THE CARL MURDERS.

On the 20th instant a Melbourne telegram was published in the London papers stating that the convicted kidnappers in the notorious Carl case had been discharged from custody in consequence of some informality in the action of the Imperial Government. The Times of the 22nd published a leader on the subject, recapitulating the story of the Carl, and that wretched man Murray, showing that the Coolie trade in its abuses still equalled in hideousness the old slave trade, and saying that if after conviction for gross man-stealing and murder the Habeas Corpus Act is to be made a stepping stone for escape it is high time the trade was suppressed altogether. The colony, says the Times, or rather the colonial authorities, will have to answer to the Imperial Government for their action in this matter. As soon as Parliament meets Mr Kinnaird is sure to make enquiries on the subject. EISHOP STJTER. Bishop Suter, of Nelson, had the honor of preaching the sermon on the occasion of an ordination held by the Archbishop of Canterbury last Sunday. THE CAPTURED SPANISH FRIGATES. The Spanish insurgent frigates are still held for the British Government by Admiral Yelverton, at Gibraltar. The Madrid papers say that tbe British Cabinet has notified to Spain that the vessels will not be given up until the crew of the Deerhound have been brought to their trial. Within the past few days Capt. Stewart and a moiety of his crew have been enlarged on parole, and are under the care of the British Consul. The Spanish papers are indignant at what they call the overbearing conduct of the British Government in this matter. VICTOR EMANUEL AT VIENNA. The visit of the King of Italy to Vienna is a circumstance which, under an apparent business of ceremony, contains much of moment;',. Austria and Italy are old foes, and were it not for what has lately transpired in the political world there would have been little likelihood of any such hob-nob-ing as has been during the past week between the Kaiser and Victor Emanuel. The Pope is the motive power in these exchanges of civilities, and at this time the head of the R,oman Church seems as likely to be as mischevious in the matter of the destruction of human life and happiness as any of his predecessors. Since his deprivation of. temporal power he and his friends have not ceased to plot and scheme for a restoration. With this view efforts have been redoubled in every country by the Jesuits f :>r the spread of the power of the Church of Rome in every possible way. The first symptoms of this has been the expulsion of that brotherhood from Germany, where Bismarck and William cannot brook a rival power, and where, in consequence of high education, Rationalism is rampant. In France the same body are busy plotting for the restoration of the Bourbons, knowing well that in case of success the first step on the part of the Government would be the restoration of the Pope. For the Count de Chambord believes that the Pope is the incarnation of law and order, and that there will belittle chance for the Bourbons to stand if the Pope has not the temporal power. Victor Emanuel is of course the sworn foe of his Holiness, and so is the head of the House of Hapsburg, who fears the Roman Pontiff as he does the devil. Hence what some are pleased to call this unholy alliance. In tbe present days of enlightened education it might have been supposed that the days of superstition had departed, and that there would have been but small hope forthe restoration of the papacy ; but we have had in England during the past month such an exhibition of childish folly as really makes one blush for his countrymen. Some hundreds of educated English men and women have lately undertaken, and only just returned from the completion of a " pilgrimage" to a spot in France, called Parayle Monial. Fancy a '' pilgrimage" in the nineteenth century; not with all the accompaniments of hunger and thirst, cold and privation, which the pilgrimages of the dark ages, but in first-class carriages, at first-class hotels, and with an excellent commissariat. There wasonceapoor nun living at Paray le Monial, not so very many years since, and the poor creature suffered dreadfully from hysterical attacks. During the prostrations consequent upon these attacks she used to have vivid dreams, and on one occasion she dreamed that the Saviour of Mankind approached her, took her^heart from her hreast, applied it to his own heart, which was in a blaze of fire, and ao soon as it became ignited restored it .to its plac&4trher breast, where it remained in a lowing heat of " joyous pain." This wilds dream was pronounced by the heads of the Church to be an actual miracle, the ■' Sacred Heart of Jesus" was soon an established festival, and the poor nun was canonized. To Parey le Monial there have lately been the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Bute, and a great number of intelligent and welleducated gentlemen and ladies. Their prayers were especially directed towards the conversion of England to the Roman Catholic faith and the restoration of the Pope, according to the recommendation of Archbishop Manning,' who commended the miracle to the belief of the faithful, but took very good care to refrain from committing himself to any statement as to his own creed. The sapient remark of the Tichborne defendant recorded by himself in the "Wagga Wagga pocket-book," that "some men has money, T.nd no brains" seems to apply well to the 1 irayle Monial pilgrims. I THE TICHBORNE TRIAL. I {Talking of the Tichborne defendant brings >J^t° notice the rather serious change which %/- -pme over the aspect of affairs as regards * " one. Hitherto, as you are r 7 V*. a most extraordinary license has been fe -fated to this man. You must bear in mind that in the first trial his evidence was disbelieved by a jury of twelve, that he was then prosecuted for perjury, and that a true bill was returned against him by a grand

remain tut ? ej h- e has been Permitted to sent tria 1 l\ dT ngthe whol* of hia VreT£lJ'%?}' f- Ud aISO t0 ?arade the country in fohit ire*jf»^er plea of raising funds wJEL- v? 6 ' makin S stumP speeches, iS\ ace"slQg the Government of Partiality, the witnesses for the proSS& °c[ pl rjm7' and the KoSSi whole rWW? f- con.sP iracy- and the S\. thlee, of, being m combination to thXiE A° Ut, ? h. IS I dghtS- But alth°Ugh the defendant has had full leave and licenle to ab US e anyone he cbooses, no one else has been allowed the privilege, and innumerable newspaper proprietors have been warned and threatened with all sorts of pains and penalties for contempt of Court and this for very mild comments on the X t l las*.. however, the straw has been added which has broken the camel's back and the patience of the Bench, and in consequence of some most impertinent and unjust remarks made at a country meeting a short time since the defendant has been ordered to attend no more meetings or pigeon shootings on pain of forfeiture of nis bail. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and the public are congratulating themselves upon both sides being put upon a fair and even basis. J-iie excitement about this trial is something extraordinary ; of course it is simply a private question involving private interests but multitudes of people treat it as if it was a great political trial, and in case of a general election (which by the way does not now seem at all probable) I should not be surprised to hear candidates asked what were their opinions with regard to the Tichborne case. JNo very important witnesses have yet been produced for the defence, but it is said in some quarters that Dr Kinealy is keeping I back his best cards for the last. i