CLIPPINGS.

Evening Star, Issue 3430, 18 February 1874, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

Our difficulties are on the increase in Africa 1' rom Natal it is reported that a Caff re chief to register his arms” was pursued by the Carabineers, but being supported in his rebel ion by his follower?, he was able to attack and defeat the pursuing force, killing an officer and three men. It was feared a rising of the Catties would result. < Allowing extract is taken from the (fr 01 !- eni ncia News, a Lahore journal • In us state entry into Agra, the Viceroy had the ill-luck to have the umbrella that was being held over him, caught by a telegraph wire under which his elephant had to pass, and earned away, so that Lord Northbrook got into Ins camp unshaded. As the ‘chatta’ is the symbol of royalty among the Asiatics, there have not been wanting those who see in this accident a foreboding of evil, while before lone we expect to hear of the fulfilment of a prophecy bringing back to India the golden rule of its Indian despots ; for, do what we may we cannot eradicate the unwavering belief that Padishah’’ 01106 &Sain be £ overnetl by its own Much attention is being paid in Germany to the cultivation of fish in ponds and ditches, and it has been found, contrary to the generally received opinion in reference to such localities, that they are more favorable for the purpose than other large bodies of water, apparently fiesh and pure in their character. This is doubtless owing to the great abundance of animal life, as well as to the more decided conceutration of vegetable substances in the form of living plants of different kinds, including the algae, ibis produces a constant evolution of oxygen needed for. the respiration of the fish and allows a larger mass of life to, be crowded together m a given space. The reproduction of arnJ P J CleS ™ ra P i( b Wd tllC young g?ow very quickly, J b A very remarkable sermon was preached on December 21 by the Bishop of Exeter, prior to an oi donation at Exeter Cathedral, his subject being Tho Ghurph’s Authority in the Forgiveness of Sins. The Bishop urged that the ott-qiioted passage < Whosoever’s sins he shall remit, they shall be remitted,” applied to the whole Church, not to the clergy only, and were intended to indicate that the judgment of their consciences, under the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit, would agree with God’s judgment, ihat remission was purely declaratory, and there was nothing in it of what was ordinarily understood by absolution. Absolution was ordinarily understood to mean the forgiveness, not of the conscience, but ot the will. When they said that one man “absolved” another, it meant that that man chose that the other should be forgiven. But when the Church felt that a man was forgiven, and said so, that was an expression of God’s own judgment. It was most fitting that these words should be retained in the Ordination Service, because it was the duty of those who were ordained to make men know thoroughly the ministry of reconoiliation ; who they were that were really forgiven and who were not forgiven. ’ Mr Brogden, M.P. for Wednesbury, has been making a speech at a trades union demon, stiation, at which he said that trades unions were now a necessity and an advantage to both masters and men, and that those who persisted in shutting their eyes to such facta were foolishly blind. He spoke in a rather gloomy way as to the immediate future of the iron trade afi over the world. In America he said that half the works were closed, and that those that remained open only were, worked half time In Germany it was the, same, and in EngW things were looking very blapk. At ment he had an offer of 10,003 tops ofEnglh hj5 h S 3r ”T W VW* u per ton I«M (hap Insjrt prices. This, however, was W ¥ on,y a temporary depression, aud matters would right themselves in due time. If, however, things are dull in one trade, they seem busk enough m others, and the Government are finding a difficulty in getting their. African transports loaded, as the stevedores lyoaH. take less than bs bd per day, and pep night.