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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 169, 22 November 1876, Page 2

The Otago Daily Times of 13th inst. has the following r—The Rev Mr Upton Davies, in his morning service yesteaday, introduced somewhat of a novelty, by specially directing the intercessions of the congregation on behalf of “ those who have the direction of the Press in this place.” Speaking of the Abolition of Provincialism, the Christchurch Press says :—“ In our own Province, at all events, all lias passed off very quietly. The change has been received with general acquiescence, or rather with absolute indifference. We might almost say that no one was aware of its having taken place. Nothing lias been missed, and no great loss been perceptible. Provincialism has expired without mourners. Its death has created no widespread gloom, no profound sensation. No august ceremonial lias marked its decease ; no long train of afflicted friends attended its obsequies. Least of all have there been any symptoms of resistance. In Canterbury, it lias never occurred to the most violent Provincialist to offer any opposition to the law.” A new paper, the Wellington Church Chronicle , edited by Bishop Hadfield, is to be issued on the Ist December.

“ The True History of Punch,” which has for some time been appearing- from the pen of Joseph Hatton in “London Society," is to be concluded next month, and to be republished in the winter or early next year with considerable additions. It is interesting in the history of journalism to know that Punch was sold to Bradbury and Evans for £l5O, and that it owed its publishers £B,OOO before it paid sixpence. In a late London paper the following Annuities to Members of the Royal Family, charged on the Consolidated Fund, is published for general information ;—“ Crown Princess of Prussia, £B,OOO ; Princess Louise of Hesse, £6,000 ; the Prince of Wales, £40,000 ; the Princess of Wales, £IO,OOO ; the Duke of Edinburgh, £15,000 and £IO,OOO ; Princess Christian, £O,OOO ; Princess Louise, £G,OOO ; _ the Duke of Connaught, £15,000 ; Prince Leopold, £15,000 ; the Duchess of Cambridge, £G,OOO ; the Duchess of Mecklon-hevg-Strelitz, £3,000 ; the Duke of Cambridge, £12,000 ; and the Princess of Teck, £5,000 —making a total of £157,000. The miscellaneous pensions for Ireland include £32 to persons who suffered by the rebellion in 1798, and £2,671 formerly charged on the Irish Civil List.” The most absurd story is going the rounds of the Roman journals, which, of course, comes from Paris. Some diplomats were talking about the Oriental question, and one of them expressed a wonder as to what England would do eventually in regard to Turkey. The Persian Ambassador said : “ England will do as the monkey did.” The Persian told how a learned man of the good old times, wishing to test the power of maternal affection in a she monkey, took one, with a young monkey, and put both in a high, largo tin bos, wliich box was placed over the lire, where it gradually heated. When the box began to get hot the poor monkey seized the little monkey in her arms and jumped and danced about on the hot floor of the box. At last the floor was so hot that all her leaping was of no use. Then what did mother monkey do ? She took her baby monkey, put it down on the floor and stood on it! The poor little fellow roasted, but her feet no longer burned. Up to the present England has shown a mother’s heart towards Turkey, but when the fire becomes intolerable she will cook her young monkey. — S. F. Chronicle.

The latest Cablegrams from England announce the death of Cardinal Anlonelli. He was over 70 years of age, and from the “ Men of the Time” we take the following ; a member of an Italian family of the middle class, was born at Sonnino, April 2,1806. Having been educated at Rome for the Church, he entered .into* orders, and after holding several posts under the late Pope Gregory 16th, he was on June 11th, 1817, raised to the dignity of a cardinal deacon, by Pope Pius 9th, under the title of St Agatha. Cardinal Antonelli was Secretary of State to the Pope, President of the Council of Ministers, Prefect of the Sacred Apostolic Palaces, and of the Sacred Congregation of Loretto and of the Consulta. He was virtually the Prime Minister of the Pope, controlled all formal and official transactions, and influenced all matters relating to the diplomatic intercourse of the Papal Court with the rest of the world.” A late issue of the Dunedin Saturday Advertiser had an exhaustively written historical sketch of the life of the late Cardinal.