NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2125, 26 February 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Archdeacon M'Kenzie has been appointed suffragan bishop of Lincoln. A meeting to advocate reciprocity of trade was held in Manchester on December 6th, under the presidency of Mr Richard Haworth, Resolutions were passed, sympathising with the condition of the British workmen in the present depression of trade, condemning the present commercial policy, and demanding an investigation into the best means to obtain redress. The Government has directed a prosecution against a Catholic priest, of the name of Ryan, at Cashel, for using language calculated to produce a breach of the peace, at a public meeting. Me declared that the old system of revenge upon landlords was given up, but that now a tenant, when d : ssatistied, tong Lis revolver secretly, and “tumbled” his landlord. The o’Donohue has written a very temperate letter on the present condition of Ireland, urging the Irish people to co-operate with the Liberal party in obtaining redress of their grievances by constitutional means. The national papers denounce him for publishhig this letter. Secretary Fish has sent a circular to various maritime powers, dated December 28, urging that a convention of states be called relative to ocean cables. He suggests a reciprocity of concessions between states, and an agreement for the protection of the cables during war ; .dso, that all despatches should have immunity from Government espionage. The revenue of the year 1869 amounts to L/ 0,750,000. A submarine telegraph company has been formed to lay a line to China and Japan, via Russia in Asia. The excitement in Paris is subsiding, but a feeling of uneasiness prevails. Archbishop Manning has been appointed “promoter” of the infallibility dogma, which is to hind more closely the threatened unily of the Roman Church, and on him will devolve the task of propounding it to the Council. On this particular question there has been for months past an incessant negrtiation. Opposite opinions have been tested, and all the skill of the Jesuits exerted to procure compliance, but with incomplete success. According to the correspondent cf the Pall Mall Gazelle, before the Council had assembled a very violent scene took place between the Holy Father and Cardinal Antonelli :—“The Pope, regardless of obstacles, clings to' his resolution to procure from the Council the dogmatic enunciation of his infallibility, and has, indeed, so set bis heart on this issue that his household believe he will not survive its rejection. There seems to be no doubt that the majority of the bishops will do whatever he wishes ; but, on the other hand, the opposition is so powerful that Cardinal Antonelli, a day or two ago, urged him to defer the question, representing that the consequences of pressing it now might prove very serious. The Pope combated his arguments, and at last flew into a passion, exclaiming, ‘ Hold your tongue. You are a diplomatist; yon are not a theologian. Confine yourself to what you understand. Cardinal Antonelli is greatly exasperated, and has since avoided having an audience. ”

The most important event as yet has been the issue of a bull, defining the degrees of ecclesiastical censures, or excommunications, The full force of this document was not at first apprehended, for it affects to be a concession to the necessities of modern society, and suggests a limitation of penalty, declaring that of censures hitherto inflicted none shall have effect which are not included in the brief. But more careful reading shows that it is one of the boldest assertions of papal authority. It has excited great commotion among the assembled bishops, for it trenches upon their prerogatives. It arrogates t® the Pope alone the right of absolution in certain cases of excommunication ; and it enumerates the instances in which censures are held to he incurred without need of a sentence. One damnatory clause includes “all and severally of whatever status, dignity, and condition who appeal fronijthe ordinances or mandates of the Homan pontiff pro /impair existing, to a future universal council.” Another embraces all who directly or indirectly compel ecclesiastic d persons to appear before lav tribunals. All the acts most prominent in recent Italian legislation, such as the dissolution of monasteries, the marriage of priests and nuns, come under the anathema. Indeed, there is scarcely a sovereign or subject outside the pontificial dominions who is not in some way compromised. There are claims asserted in the bull which even the middle ages refused to recognise. Other hulls are expected shortly to follow—one against Liberal Italy, and another against modern science. The societies are now in the very swing of their work, although I do not know of any very particular facts to record. The Ethnological has had a discourse from Dr Leitner, the Thibetian explorer, who has discovered people with a language unlike any known tongue. Eeally, what with his and Dr Livingstone’s extraordinary discoveries, the world is not quite used up yet, and explorers may be comforted that there is still something to find out. The Society of Arts has broken out in a fresh place, noth a mechanical committee, and is altogether suffering from an eruption of committees, which are to report on everything and everybody. Ihey have a telegraph committee, which is likely to be useful now that the preparations for extending the wires to the post offices arc progressing so fast. Every thing fresh that crops up shows ns that the surface of electrical science is only just scratched. The last new thing in this particular branch, will I fear tend to the disestablishment of organists in our churches, for it has been found out that by laying on the wires to the various organs in a town, they can he played by a central organist, the only care b ing that the hours for the different psalms and chants arc arranged so as to have the right tunes coming out at the right churches r,t the right time. Some body has Jfouivl, too, that a flash of electricity is a capital thing to make inferior wine of a first-rate quality, for the owner of a cellar of bad wine went down after a severe thunderstorm, and discovered that all the bottles bail improved in their vintage. The question of wine adulteration has always been unsatisfactory, no test being knoAvn of ivny real value ; l>ut latterly Borby has ascertained that the spectroscope yields certain colour results which can be applied with great accuracy to detect the mixtures. A jimpa* of food, 1 am very pleased to see that Mr Tallerman's establishment is attracting phblic attention in a very marked manner, and that his system of penny and twopenny ninners is being extensively followed, not only throughout Loudon, but in many towns in the provinces. Kangaroo

sausages, too, will be in the market, ami if some of the squatters who are troubled with rabbits will only pickle them and send them over to England there will be plenty of demand for them. There is a practical air about the Norton Folgate shop which takes people amazingly, and 1 sincerely trust that Mr Tallerman will soon feel the benefit of his hard and up-hill work. A memorial from the residents of British Columbia has been presented to President Grant, praying for the annexation of that State to the United States, on the ground that the confederation of that State with the Dominion of Canada is injurious to their interests. Mr Layard was officially received by the Rcgenton December 2. In the speech which he made to Mr Layard, the Regent said that “ Spain only desired to imitate Great Britain in the practice of liberty, and to follow her footsteps in the path of progress.” The adaptation of St. Peters for the purposes of the sitting of iho (Ecumenical Council coat L 40,000.