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The official account of the special subscriptions sent to the

Pope on the occasion of his Jubilee, contains curious items. France, supposed to be irreligious, sent his Holiness £90,000; Austria, the pious, £60,000; Great Britain, which is Protes- tant, £48,000; Germany, which is mixed, £14,000; Turkey, which is Mussulman and Greek, £2,000; and Ireland, which is "fervently Catholic," seven hundred and fifty pounds. The Irish did not venture to propose that Parliament should vote the money "to conciliate our down-trodden land;" and as to subscribing it themselves, they want it to purchase their own farms. Keen people the Irish when money is concerned, but perhaps a little secular.

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