ARRIVAL OF THE THE SUEZ MAIL.

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 847, 12 March 1877, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE THE SUEZ MAIL.

[Per Bingarooma, via Bluff,J The Attorney-General speaking at Preston anticipated during next session an attack on the Government by the extreme P,adical party, but ho said the consequence would be that Government would be assisted by many who, though nominally in opposition, entertained moderate views. At the annual dinner of the Oxford Liberal Association, Sir Wm. Harcourt said every thing pointed to a want of confidence in the administration, and said that foreign affairs were being more mismanaged during the last eighteen months than during any former period.

Addressing a crowded audience at Leeds, Mr Chamberlain, M.P., contended that the church was the greatest obstacle to a national system of education.

The dioceses of Chester, Durham, Lincoln, and Lichfield are to be divided. The new Sees will be Liverpool, Newcastle, Southwell, and Derby. Much excitement has been occassioned on account of the ritualistic practices of the Rev Mr Tooth, vicar of Hatcham. Lord Penzance inhibited him, but he paid no attention and services much resembling those in a Boman Catholic Church were performed on two successive Sundays with closed doors. He was adjudged guilty of contempt, and a warrant issued. Several thousand roughs assembled in front of the church on the following day, and four hundred police were in attendance.

On the sixteenth a meeting of the English Church Union passed resolutions in favor of supporting Mr Tooth, His father and brother, it is stated, are well known squatters in Queensland and New South Wales.

At Dorchester, near Wallingford, a Ritualistic demonstration was made against the rector, Rev Blake. Mr Concannon, who was lecturing at Leamington, said the Turks were about to be swept out of Europe, and the Jews were preparing to take possession of their own land and of Jerusalem. Soon they would cross the Euphrates, which, according to the Apocalypse, would be one of the last things of time.

Admiral Hornby hoisted his flag as new Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet.

A new and powerful ironclad for the Turkish Government has just been completed, and will be ready for sea shortly. She is one of the most powerful vessels afloat.

A Royal Commission, composed partly pf civilians, party military, is to be appointed to inquire into recruiting. Last year there were 7759 deserters.

A floating skating rink, with artificial ice covering an area of 3090 ft, has been opened at Charing Cross. A purse with five hundred pounds has been presented to Daft, the cricketer. Lord Fitzharding has initiated a testimonial to W. G. Grace.

A man named Triggott. a pork butcher, at Crowle, in Lincolnshire, sold hia wife for forty pounds to a local publican. A strike of barristers took place at Carlisle Sessions, consequent upon the Treasury reducing the fee frem two to one guinea. The Treasury gave way, and the strike ended. Sir Titus Salt left £30,000 for the benefit of the sick and aged poor at Saltaire. One hundred thousand persons lined the streets of Bradford at his funeral.

The question of Sunday amusements is attracting attention. Several clergymen have spoken or written in their favor. A commission for determining the best route for cutting through the Isthmus of Darien has arrived at Panama.

A lady in Rome, occupying a high position, has claimed a share of the inheritance left by Cardinal Antonelli, on the ground that she is his illegitimate daughter. She is married and received a handsome marriage portion from the late Cardinal. Captain King Hamman has been returned unopposed for Sligo. Mr Smith, M.P. for Tynemouth, referring to the elementary schools in America, said we should not arrive at a satisfactory educational position in England until we had elementary schools to which all classes of society would send their children. At a meeting, presided over by Lord Carnarvon, held at Newbury Corn Exchange, it was resolved to raise funds for the erection of a monument to Lord Falkland.

Obituary. —Lord Boston, Lord Milton, Lieut-General Wesley, Lord Neaves, one of the Judges of the Court of Session ; Sir Richard Gobden ; the author of “ Margaret Catchpole,” aged eighty; Mr Lewis, barrister; Alfred Bmee, inventor of the present mode of printing Bank of England notes; Robert Landells, artist of the illustrated, London News ; Prince Charles of Prussia.