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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4433, 4 June 1875, Page 3

The Weekly Register calls Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet a poisoned cup, with honey smeared upon the rim in the shape o£ compliments to the Roman Catholic authorities. The Belgian papers aro warmly discussing, says The Times, an incident which has occurred at Huy.. One of the pupils of the Training College, on receiving the Communion with his comrades, took the wafer out of his mouth, pocketed it, and afterwards exhibited it in the playground, telling his companions they might see it was only bread. After a discussion as to what should be done with it, he resolved to eat it with a muffin. Three days afterwards, a fire, the origin of which cannot be discovered, destroyed the college, and some of the scholars, regarding this as a iudgment, revealed what had passed. The clerical papers take the same view of the fire, while other journals blame the priests for forcing young men by moral and material pressure to feign sentiments and take part in,rites in which they do not believe.