NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1938, 22 July 1869, Page 3

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Last March a Mr Aronson lost L6OO worth of watches and jewelh-ry, which he was about to export to Australia. The box containing the property was stolen from the North-Western mail train at Bangor. We learn that a large portion of the produce of the robbery, with that of two others, has been found under the hearthstone in the house pf a map named Hughes, a respectable Bangor citizen. Wilson, a parcel porter, has been charged as an accomplice, and both have been remanded.

Since the departure of the April mail, there has been a cessation in the public discussion of the question of banks a> ting as wool brokers. The leading merchants have sent out their protest and warning to the Colonies, and now quietly await their response. The Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, Dr Goss, in a sermon at Preston on Whit Sunday, May 16, on the occasion of the consecration of a bell, complained that Mr Gladstone had not done full justice to the question of the Irish Church ; he ought to have treated it from first to last as a question of State. If the Prime Minister had determined to see the Established Church distinct from the State, it was his duty to have handed ever to the Catholic Church all endowments which it possessed previous to the Reformation. He had nut done justice to Ireland, but he had shown a desire and a Willingness to' do so. The Catholics of Ireland had been defrauded of their rights and the endowments wlrch they possessed previous to the Reformation. The liberality of England was not real liberality, though it professed to be so. The Petit Monitcur says :—“ Pius IX. received with his o«n hands the offerings presented to him by the different deputations. Among others the Pope received on the 10th an English nobleman, who presented his fioliness with a skull-cap filled with sovereigns. At the end of the tassel was a diamond of immense value. Having presented his magnificent offering, the Englishman added, with the usual phlegm of his nation, that he gave the present on condition of getting the Pope’s skull-cap in return. Pius IX. smffed, and ringing the bell, he ordered the servant to bring him another calotte. When brought he took off the one he wore and gave it to the JCnglishmau, who put it into his pocket and retired, saying that he was never so pleased in his life. A matron in Bonny bank was stunned and stupefied the other day on seeing a gentleman who had been practising with a velocipede, and who was approaching her dwelling on foot,' leading jt np the incline. ‘ ‘ Preserve a’ living, sirse—come ’ere,” she cried to a neighbor. “ Did yon ever see a thing like this ?” Both looked intensely for a while, and the other Toots, woman, did ye never see a thing like that ? It’s just a man gaun about wi 1 a thing for sharpin' razors.” Hearing this the matron ran to the bouse to look for her scissors, crying at the same to her son—‘‘Jim, rin oot and tell that man to stop, for I want my shears sharpit.” Jim did as commanded, but after looking a short time, “Mither. that’s no a sheer man ava I think it’s only Tclyer Tamson tryin’ to row twa girds I” But the gentleman, who was now ‘‘ str delegs” over the fleet horse, was off like an arrow. “Hech ! What’ll ye wager,” qnoth the matron, as he vanished from view, “ but that’s ane o’ the newfashioned whurlygigs the newspapers ca’ * philosophers !’ ”