Lord Denbigh, speaking lately at llugby, said he recently had some conversation with the Pope, and it would be very interesting to the country to know that his Holiness said:—"l

have the greatest opinion of England. I feel grateful to her, and have the greatest respect for her laws and constitution; for I see she is just, and therefore liberal She is strong, and all the Catholics under hor rule have greater liberty and freedom than they have in other parts of the world. For that I thank and respect her, and I wish to help her to tho utmost of my power wherever my influence can extend throughout the whole world. Not only can I help her in Ireland, but in the colonies and India, and I wish to do it to the utmost of my power; but I must know what lam doing. I have no accurate means of knowing what now is doing in England, nor what the English Go vernment wishes. I have no representative; if I had a representative of England at my court I should knaw what was goiug on and know what to do; but until I have that it is impossible for me to act."

Nothing seems to be final hi our busy little planet. An architect of Barcelona has broached a scheme which exceeds in wildness that o£ the Eiffel Tower, at Paris, as he proposes, to build an hotel of 15 storeys, containing some thousands of rooms for all imaginable purposes, a cafe, restaurant, ball and concert rooms, and afford ing from the top a view extending from the Pyrenees to the Mediterranean.
