GOOD AND BAD BREEDING IN HIGH PLACES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 56, 23 May 1874, Page 13

GOOD AND BAD BREEDING IN HIGH PLACES.

The following anecdote is from a source likley to be well informed i i matters affecting the Pope pers-onally :—: — The Empress of Russia was recently in Rome, for the known purpose of paying her respects to the Popu. Victor .Emmanuel had the bad taste to offer her the use of his carriage to drive to the Vatican. She sent it back indignantly. She would not insult the venerable prisoner in the Vatican by driving to his palace in the carriage of the usurper who had wronged him so previously. This shows the feeling which exists among the noble and chivalrous portion of Europe, n society towards Victor Emmanuel and his victim, — even the nonCatholic portion of them. Queen Victoria has not appeared peraoually at the Vatican to pay her respects to Pius IX, but the heir-apparent ha*, r»"d she herself has communicated personally with him by telegraph. These ucts were not avowedly religious or political, but they were significant of feelirgs of rejpect un I sympathy. When such feelings exist in high places they will find expresuon in words, and they will, as a matter of course descend to the lower stratas of society in time. I would like to know if the Editor of the Dunedin 'Star' would have indignantly refused the use of Victor Emmanuel's carriage to diive to the Vatican — supposing it were ottered to him and he were permitted to visit the Pope, as many Protestant Englishmen have done. The Empress of Germany is sail to be warmly attached to the Papal party. We all know the effect of female influence in religion and politics — how powerful it is. Bismarck, therefore, may well be uneasy about the present Pope and his successor, when he seis the Empresses of Russia and Germany, and the Queen of England manifesting so warm an interest in Pius IX. It even the non-Catholic portion of Kurope show such sentiments of veneration ami regard to the Pope under present circumstances, what must the Catholic people throughout the world feel ? Bismarck must be a bold man to outrage their feelings. We shall see the fruit of his policy soon.

It is reported that the yield of wheat from the South Aiutialian harvest- ■v* 111 be 20,0C0 tons less this year than usual. A man, named John Mooa, died of thirst in the Gawier Ganges South Australia.