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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 19, 6 February 1891, Page 15

Gawne's Worcestershire sauce is acknowledged to surpass the imported article. Its price, meantime, is one-half lower. Messrs. Duthie Brothers, George street. Dnnedin, are offering wonderful bargains at the salvage oale now being held by them. The stock includes drapery and clothing of every description, and purchasers will find no difficulty in suiting themselves exactly. In China all the land belongs to the State, and a trifling sum per acre, never altered through centuries, is paid as rent. This is the only tax in the country, and it amounta to about 60 cents per head. Germany employs 5,500,000 women in industrial pursuits, England, 4,000,000 ; France, 3,750,000, and Austro-Hungary about the same number ; and still women are the weaker sex, the lesser half, the pensioners on man's beneficence. The latest idea of the Protestant imitators of Catholicism is to have Protestant saints, says the Liverpool Catholic linws, " Wby," says the new Bishop of Winchester, '' are we to speak of a St. Anselm and not of a St. Martin Luther, a St. John Wye. if, a St. John Bunyan, and a St. Norman McLeod 1 " Why indeed ! The chief reason, my lord, is that St. Anselm was a saiut, and the others certainly cannet be so termed. Besides, who is to declare the saiut>,hip of St. Luther / Wbat incontestable atthority can raise him or, to come nearer home, aiy Henry Vlil., to the Anglican Calender ? Dr. Beuson might do it ; but if D . Ryle protested, and tae case went to the ultimate tribunal, would it not be a little odd to see, aay Mr. Bradlaugh on the ODe band, or say Colonel Hughes-Hallet on the other deciding by vote wbo was in Heaven and who was not 1 We fear if Biahop Perowne wants more saints he must submit his case to the Tribunal of Rome, and in such an event we should be incline 1 to believe that the advocatus diaboll would have but small difficulty in speedily knocking the bottom out of the claims of many of his candidates. Father Morris, S.J., the author of the " Life of Thomas it Becket," discusses the Lincoln case in the current issue of the Month, and draws from the decision given by the Archbishop of Canterbury a lesson on which all members of the Ritualistic body Bhould carefully ponder. The whole judgment, he points out, pretends to be nothing else than purely Protestant law. Tapers, and mixed cup, and the Eaatern position are approved, and the Cross condemned by reference to the Book of Common Prayer and post-Reformation usage. The Communion service, which moderu Ritualists would fain call the Mass, is a Protestant service, rendered still more Protestant by the careful weeding out of everything savouring of the ancient Sacrifice. Many persons besides Catholics will bs inclined to ask, with the erudite Jesuit, what can lights and the Cross and the mixed chalice and all that the Bishop of Lincoln has been fighting for do to change i a substance ? These are but wbat Hooper called " the feathers of the Mass." If the Mass is not there, of what use are the feathers ? The London correspondent of the Manchester Courier says :— The Duke of Norfolk is at Lourdes, whither he has taken his sod, the Earl of Arundel, to try the miraculous waters for the third time. It is well known that the afflicted little Earl has been for the last year undergoing a special treatment in which electricity and massage is largely used, but unfortunately without any apparently f tvourable result. The faith of the Duke in Lourdes is unlimited, and everybody wbo knows how kind and charitable he is will be deiigbtui it this visit proves beneficial to his son. His Grace's suite is composed of sixteen persons, amongst whom are two well-known medical men.