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New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 52, 25 April 1874, Page 8

Tha 'Posner Zeitung' (one of the organs of the Chancellor) predicts the exile of the great Archbishop Ledochowski of Posen, Poland. Prince Bismarck's enciuavor to introduce German as the language of negotiations has been frustrated by the refusal of Russia to adopt it. The Premier is much irritated thereat. The Queen Dowager of Pruisia, widow of the late King Frederick William IV., and who died the l4fch December, was the dtiughte- of Maximilian I. o 1 Bavaria, in her 22ud year she was married to King Frederick of Prussia, and then apostatised. In 1858 she and the King made a long >i-it to Rome, and there she bad the loving counsel of Pope Pius 1 v It is believed that she died a true Catholic. Scarce! > • day passes now in Berlin without its appalling deed of blood, so that the staple news theru is about such deeds, and the first question when fiLnia meet ia, " W ell, whose throat has been cut this morning ?" Referring to tbo angry expressions of the liberal press in Germany against the Pastorals of the French Bishops, the ' Germania ' says :— " The conviction that t/iere will soou again be war is penetrating aU classes of the people."