The Archive · 1898

4 RIDICULOUS RUMOUR

was circulated a fow days ago on the authority of the Rome correspondent of one of the leading journals to, the effect that the Duke of Norfolk hed approached Lord Salisbury with a view to securing a peerage for Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster. Th t, the loading organ of the English Roman, Catholics, has, however, at last given an authoritative denial to the statement. Even such s proposal been made to Lord Salisbury would surely not ha given way to it. The No Popery" feeling has pretty well: died out in this country as an active factor in polities, but would take less than such a creation a9 this to revive it. Cardinal Vaughan isa fine dignified ecclesiastic, and is popular in Society; but ho has of- course officially no better position than the head of any other dissenting body. If he were made a peer the Government would be called upon to bestow a similar honour on the Chairman-of the Congregational Union, the head of the Baptist community, anda few others.

'THE BECENT PRIZE FIGHT, 'The surviving principal and the seconde and others concerned in the recent fatal glove fight hive all been discharged by the magistrate with a caution; but the accident has directed considerable'attention to the question of the thin' partition" which

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