CLIPPINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 3429, 17 February 1874, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

SIX DAYS IN' AN OPEN BOAT OK THE ATLANTIC. The Plymouth pilot-cutter No. 4 brought into Dartmouth harbor on December 20 fifteen of the crew of the ship America, belonging to Barrow-on-Furneas, Captain Bartlett, which sank, through the cargo shifting and her being leaky, on the Bank of Newfound and, on the 26th November last. The America was a very old vessel, of about 1,100 tons register, and was loaded with 1,200 tons or railway iron, 750 tons in the lover hold, and 450 between decks. Before leaving port several of the men had refused to go in here, complaining that “daylight” could be seen through her sides in the forecastle, but they were induced to resume duty by a promise of higher wages. The crew consisted of twenty-one hands all told, of which there were six Russian Finns, one Swede, and one German. Just before the vessel sank, the crew took to the longboat, the lifeboat having been stove in in launching, and the gig washed overboard. The captain and first and second mates were about to get into the boat, when the vessel suddenly went down. As she sank the stern and poop blew out, and it is supposed that the captain was killed by the explosion, whilst the first and second mates were drowned. There were in the boat 2001b of biscuit and an 18 gallon cask of water. The men steered in a southerly direction, as the moat likely track for ships, and after having been in the boat for six days, and traversed about 300 miles, they were picked up by the Prussian barque Louise Wichards. Several of the men suffered from frost-bitten feet. On December 21 the two carpenters were sent to Liverpool, where their depositions will be taken. The men give a very bad account of the vessel, and say that the first mate was drunk for three days prior to the disaster, and was asleep in the pilot-house from the effects of drink just before the vessel went down. GIVING A MAN A NEW SKULL. e have great doctors in England, very great indeed according to the Parisian ‘ Petit Journal,' and the greatest of them all, strange to say, is one whose name we do not remember ever to have seen except in a novel-the Doctor “Willoughby de Glenmore.” This marvellous surgeon, before whom Nelaton and Paget rpust hide their diminished head, has had, it seems, for one o' his patients, a medical student, afflicted with a most terrible maalady. The poor young man suffered tortqres ip head, the sufficient cjvuse being that a whole crowd of myrfapod insects bad, somehow, got into his skull, and habitually took their walks abroad over his dura mater. To cute such a state of things strong remedies were obviously needful, and the Dr “ Willoughby de blcnmore” was not a man to shrink from the most heroic. He took the man’s skull to pieces, severing it cleverly at the sutures, and laying the scalp down jjfiown carefully on his shoulders. This done, the doctor carefully cleaned the exposed brain, taking from it no less than twentyseven full-grown insects and a quantity of eggs, and then—as the patient’s own skull was no longer available —supplied him with another taken from the head of a lately deceased person. The flanges of scalp were then drawn back to their places over the new skull, and the much relieved patient became “ perfectly convalescent,” Everything (the ‘ Petit Journal*' assures us) is entirely satisfactory about the cure, save the fear which has been expressad by some phrenologists, that the hitherto amiable character cf the medical student may bo changed for that of the former proprietor of the skull, to whose organs, of course, his brain will soon be moulded,—‘Echo.’ ENGLISH SYMPATHY WITH GERMANY. On it being announced t at Karl Russell was to preside at a meeting held at Exeter Hall to express disapprobation of the measures and proceedings of the Prussian and German Governments against the Homan Catholic Church,” Sir George Bowyer wi;ote to the Earl thqt “ Such a meeting must produce the bitterest feelings on the part of both Catholics and Protestants in this country and still more in Ireland. Things will be said which every lover of peace, charity, I and liberty will lament and deplore, and the 1 effects of which will be in jurio\\s bo your

own Catholic fellow-countrymen. We have nothing to do with the persecutions now carried on in Germany by means of measures of legislation which, for this, country, would be rejected and reprobated by every public man and every party, and be received in the House of Commons with contempt and derision. We ought to keep aloof from everying that bears even the semblance of persecution. We ought to be proud that we alone truly understand religious liberty, and see how unwise it is for a Government to engage in a contest with a religious body, which, in substance, is a fight against the religious opinions of a portion of its subjects. Prince Bismarck does not want your sympathy, and he will be amused and laugh at the applause of English Liberals, He wields the power of a military and arbitrary Government clothed in the garb of Constitutional Monarchy. Thank God, our principles are very different from his. ’ His policy is to reduce both the Catholic and Lutheran Church to abject bondage under the Government. He will fail, for force has never ultimately triumphed over opinion. But let not the people of this country be misled into connecting themselves with an inglorious war grounded on principles diametrically opposed to those which give us a comparative freedom from religious animosities and discord in their most dangerous form ; and allow me most respectfully to say that an Anglo-German No-Popery movement here would be very unjust to Her Majesty s Catholic subjects, and injurious to the peace and welfare of the country.” To which Earl Russell replied:—“l conceive that the time has come, foreseen by Sir Robert Peel, when the Roman Catholic Church disclaims equality, and will be satisbed with nothing but ascendancy. To this ascendancy, openly asserted to extend to all baptised persons, and therefors including our Queen, the Prince of Wa ! es, our Bishops and clergy, I refuse to submit. 'The autonomy of It eland is asserted at Rome. I decline the Pope’s temporal rule over Ireland.” . be Spectator ’ has published a very impressive article on the position of this country with respect to the religious strife now raging in <-ermany. It denounces the course pursued by Lord Russell, and compares his promised presidency at the meeting for expressing sympathy with the German Government to his famous Durham letter. In order to state the case plainly, the Spectator ’ says that the ecclesiastical laws lately passed in Prussia are so destructive of civil and religious liberty, that if they were enacted in this country, they would deprive the Dissenters of their rights, and render the condition of the Roman Catholic worse than it was before the Emancipation Act. Ultramontanism cannot be successfully resisted by attacks which are themselves of an Ultramontane character, and it is childish to act on the principles of a Protestant .syllabus to defeat the tactics of a Roman Catholic Syllabus. The question resolves itself into this. Germany most come to England to ■ earn the real meaning of Civil and Heligious Liberty, and not we go to Germany. RETURN OF WORKMEN FROM AMERICA, To give an idea what the effect has been of the late financial crisis in America, we may mention that over 1000 skilled English and French silk workers have returned to their own countries since the suspension of the silk factories at Paterson, N, J. A Montreal despatch says it is estimated that 30,000 French Canadians have returned to that province from the United States during the past three weeks. A large proportion of them have gone to Western Canada. Their return is attiibuted mainly to the stoppage of manufactories, and it is said that a thousand Germans are on their way back to Fatherland.