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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 92, 30 January 1875, Page 8

Signor Boiighi, Minister of Public Instruction, has forbidden the gentlemen employed in his department to rote in their native cities or counties. They must vote under the official eye in the place where they are employed. The ' Gazette of Milan ' publishes a Government document concerning the elections which the ' Capitale' call a " mon•trous one. It is a circular from (he Prefect of Como. After stating that the Government officers will not be allowed to canvass excent for the Government candidates, the circular adds that "every public functionary must be at once denounced or reported— < tosto iUna™7T <° T 8 nOt - BllO r' MmBclf Buffi <*ently alive to the abovenamed duty of canvassing for Ministerialists, or who permits himself to deviate from the line of conduct above traced for him." The uroTosts arc then « recommended to work effectively to promote the return of official candidates." The Minister of Public Instruction may be termed the " schoolmaster abroad " in Italy. One of the religious societies of the metropolis, describing Loil don, says that the police boundaries cover 576 square miles, and a population of 4,000,000 of inhabitants ; that there Ive gathered thero more Jews than there arc in Palastine, more Scotch than there are in Edinburgh, more Irish than there are in Dublin, more Catholics than there are in Eorao, and that there is a greater variety of languages spok n There is a birth ia London every five minutes, and a death every eight minutes. n i.l l^* s?g shawc AVils ' °» November 12, consecrated as Eoiraa Catholic Bishop of Xotli-iglinni. Aivbbwhop Manning ollidated on tue occa^iou,