ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Evening Star, Issue 3428, 16 February 1874, Page 3

ADDITIONAL ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

Meat preserved by the new process in Buenos Ayres has been tested, and found exceedingly A committee has been formed in London to agitate the introduction of Australian wines at a shilling duty. H.M.S. Challenger has left for Melbourne, where she may be expected to arrive by the end of February. The -Postmaster-General is considering a scheme for the reduction of telegrams from Is to 6d, and another plan for dispensing with the system of registering newspapers. Mr John Bright has written a letter on the system of licensing public-houses, recommending that town Councils should grant licenses. Miss Margaret Thomas, artist from Melbourne, is achieving distinguished success as a portrait painter in London. Commissions to her are plentiful. Colonel Gordon has been appointed by the Khedive to continue the work of exploration bepn by Sir Samuel Baker. Ly Pusey has made public a document setting forth t;je views which he]and his co-signataries entertain on the subject of confession and absolution. They believe and confess that Christ has instituted a special means for the remission of sm after bautism, and for the relief of consciences, which special means the Church of England retains and administers as part of her Catholic heritage. _ This special means is delined to be absolution. The signatures are almost exclusively those of the most pronounced members of the high Anglican party. They include those of Dr Benson, Air Carter, Archdeacon Ohurton, Archdeacon Denison, Canon K1, % M lr Lu,flel1 ’ Canon Liddon, Mr Mucoll, and Air Alackonochie. Canon Gregory’s name does not appear. The death is announced of the Rev. John Howard Hunter, a distinguished Nonconformist minister, at the age of 83. He was °k th ? Histo1 T of United States of •North America, and many other works. On Sunday week there were three elections four vacancies in the French National Assembly. and the Republicans again achieved a marked success, returning their candidates by majorities of nearly two to one. The result of the vote in the department of Finisterre, where the whole influence of the clergy was thrown into the Conservative scale, has created much alarm at Versailles,

The Emperor of Germany’s state ®f health excites great disquietude. He suffers from bronehitrs and apoplectic symptoms, combined with sleepless nights and mental anxiety, aggravated by recent bereavements. n 1 ?. ffic j al or dinance has been issued to the Catholic Bishops, rendering the oath of allegiance to the civil power so stringent that submission to it is extremely improbable. In Posen, ci vil war is impending. Troops are being poured in. The recalcitrant archbishop has been summoned to resign his see, which he has refused to do, encouraged by a letter from *he Pope. _ Three bishops have been heavily for illegal appointment of priests, with imprisonment in default of payment. The inferior clergy in Posen are stirring up the people against the Government, and the province will probably be soon declared in a state of siege. Ultramontane motions, aiming at the repeal of the new church laws, have been defeated. Pnnce Bismarck, after six months’ seclusion, has returned to political life with re-established health. His endeavor to introduce German as the language of negotiations has been frustrated by the refusal of liussia to adopt it. The Premier is much irritated thereat. Madame Arabella Goodard has played in Madras and Bombay, and was received rapturously; but the financial results are not very satisfactory, and she has advertised in the Calcutta papers that she cannot visit the City «f Palaces except & guarantee is afforded, her visit having involved a pecuniary loss. Ihe Sapahlien quarrel between Russia and Japan has terminated.

The fortnightly mail service between Hong and San I rancisco has been suspended. It is said that the Powers are disposed to recognise the Republic of Spain. Dr Hayman announces his intention to take legal proceedings against the Governors of Rugby. Major besting has been promoted to a Colonelcy.