The Pope has issued an eneyclica jontitled "The Fiftieth Year" enumaerating the Catholic: events during jthe past year and singling out the }Vatican Treaty as the most important achievement and as an, auspacious omen of a happy future for religion, the State, and mankind generally, The letter further em-Phasized the importance of the jconcordats concluded with Prussia, Portugal and Rumanit and welcomed the improvement of the conditions lof the Church in Mexico through the rapprochement between the Catholic Church and the state. Finally the encycliea states that, in response to many wishes, the Jubilee year will be extended until July of. next year.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
Few bones were broken this evens tilting match between the Exchequer, with which th members of the House of Commons were entertained. before the recess Mr, Wineton Chorehill had the fixat "aig", when he remarked that the City of London had given Mr. Snowden the Freedom of the City. Tt would probably have nothing left to give him after his budget. The more he was treated with honour and indulgence, the more crapulous and dictatorial he became. England, continued Mr. Churchill, was cele-Drating its frst, Christmas under a the Sei Government with rising declining wages, increasing unemployment and financial uneasiness.
Mr. Snowden in his reply congra~ tulated Mr. Churchill on his app" priate speech—at this time of panto-mine—and retorted to him by 6 ing that if he (Mr. Churchill) had adopted His (Mfr. Snowden''s) Hague methods in his negotiations with France and Italy over the question of war debts ho might have made more favourable settlements with those countries, while as regards domestic finance, if Mr. Churchill's budgets had been a company's Dalance-sheets the _ox-Chancellor dock. would have found himself in the
Mz. Snowden closed by, wishing his antagonist a Merry Christmas and 1 Prosperous Now Parliament subsequently adjourn. ed until January 21.—Reuter,
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