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'■ , ■* — — (PIB VTKVSmID PBESS ABBOCUTIO**.) j ' London, July 12. The Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church 1 have drawn up a 'protest against the proposal that the State should assist "." members of the "poorer classes to emigrate from Ireland. They contend that the State money might be better employed '■• in rendering the Irish people's burdens lighter in the country of their birth. Le Pays, a journal pnblished in Pans ■ urges, that, in view of the refusal by the English Government to alopt a policy ----' of annexation in the South Sens, France •hould at Ohce place the New Hebrides r, •under. French rule.. It suggests that the "islands might, be. utilized as a conyict ■ettlement for tho reception of French . ' ; ..The, Select Committee appointed by the House of Lords to consider the pro- , -posai of a ship canal from the Mersey to -Manchester, have sent in their final -report, which emphatically approves the : ' schemes. Arrangements are being made to give a 'grand representative banquet to Mr Henry Irving, the celebrated actor, prior to his departure for New York. At a recent.meeting of the dynamite party held at New York, Mr Sheridan, -.whose 'extradition was demanded by • England some time ago, nnd John Walsh, one of •.the Secretaries of the Irish Land .-.ague, delivered violent addresses. (BBl^Bf!__s_s_2---£T'-__S_2I_KEIi-B