People We Hear About

New Zealand Tablet, 1 November 1906, Page 28

People We Hear About

uvi* l^ 6 »fw Jesuit General speaks German, English, French, Italian, and Latin. ... - . . •. • n,xj Th ? d?sthd ?s th has taken P lace at' Clontarf of Mrs. O Hart,, widow of John O'liart, author of • lrisft Pedigrees and other works of historical interest which have a wide circulation. m Mr. T M, Healy, K.C., M.P.,'who made such a manly profession of Catholic faith" in the House of Commons during the course of . his , speech on the Education Bill was with his wife and family, on a' visit *to the United States i n August. .• Queen Natalie of Servia. was on a visit to England early m September, and was for some days the guest of Lord and Lady Clifford, of Chudleigh, 'in Devonshire • Lady Clifford, it may 'be mentioned, holds the first Board of Trade certificate for competency in navigation that was ever bestowed on an English ™*u Sir ~ Heni 'y Campbell-Bannerraan, who completed his /utn year on September 7 under circumstances of' intense personal borrow, has attained the /great position of Prime Minister for. the first time at a period in life more advanced than any statesman since ttie time of Lord who became Prime Minister for the first time in 1855 when he bad entered cm his fSS 1 tv ; sec ° nd T y ear - T Lord; Derby became Prime Mini 7 m P,'. I i ord John Russell, at 54, Mr. Disraeli at 63, Mr. Gladstone at 59, Lord Salisbury at 55, Lord Rosebury at 47, and Mr. Balfour at 54.An interesting temperance pamphlet, edited 1 by Sir Andrew Reed, X.C.V.0., has just been issued. The pamphlet claims a triumph for temperance at the last General- Election :—« In the last Parliament there were 88 abstainers,. while in the present Ho>use of Commons no fewer than 156 of the merabers are teetotallers' ; 114 o ,f these represent English constituencies, 25 Irish Sii. 17 i C H tC w ; , 221 °l the . ambers representing England and Wales are favorable to the policy of the ' United Kingdom Alliance (the great English Temperance Society) ; 60 of the Scotch member! are in favor of local veto. But the fact that there are such an I unprecedented number of members in the House of .Commons in sympathy with the cause of temperance ! reform, computed" at over 300 out of 700 in the House gives us the hope to expect and the right to demand effective temperance legislation.' • The world (says the London * Tablet ') has come to -know very intimately two of the Holy Father's sisters bub it had quite forgotten that he has any - brothers until one day recently, when " Signor Angelo Sarto made himself famous in a small ■ way The Pope's brother, although almost seventy' years of '• ase continues to earn a humble living- in a little town near Mantua as postal collector. One evenwie he was working hard in a little office when he saw an unknown, but robust, young man rushing by his window ;In a minute Signor Sarto had him by the cpllar of the coat, and, finding that he was unable to give-* a satisfactory account of himself, promptly handed ,him over to the police, who discovered that he had been tampering with Signor Angelo's drawers. Signor Sarto makes occasional visits to see the Holy Father and on each occasion- stays with, his sisters in their modest apartment near the [Vatican. •, ' The death is - reported of Colonel E. Saunderson, who had represented North. Armagh in the House of Commons for a number of years. Colonel Saunder* son's grandfather was member for Cavan in the Irish House of Commons,- and, like "most of the old Irish country gentlemen-mcluding Mr. Walter Long's ances" tor V Mr - Hu *ne». of Humewood-was a steadfast opponent of the Lnion. A peerage and a large grant of money were offered to Mr. Saunderson if he voted for the Union, but he- spurned the temptation He w!U the first member for Cavan in the Imperial Parliament ; his son also represented the same county • and his grandson, Colonel Saunderson, sat for Cavan from ,1865 till he was ousted -by Mr. Joseph Bietfar in 1.874 As member fpr Cavan, Colonel SaundersoS was a Liberal, . but on the Irish Church question in 1869 he voted against Mr. ■Gladstone. Remaining out •of ..Parliament from >1874 to 1885, he returned to the Commons as member for Nortb.~Armagfc and a Conservative. A strong and outspoken opponent of Home Rule, he was popular personally with the Irish Nar^ionalist Party, and when he returned to -the House in 1905 after a long illness the cheers which greeted him -when he rose to speak came warmly from the Irish benches.- . * ' . .