Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 213, 10 September 1869, Page 3

The Marquis of Westminster contributes £1000 to the British Colonial Emigration fund. The Empress of the French will arrive at Constantinople in September. Great preparations are being made for her reception by the Sultan. The East India Loan Bill has been printed. It empowers the Indian Council to raise iu England £8,000,000, of which £4,000,000 wili be devoted to railway construction. The Duke of Newcastle's affairs still attract attention. His furniture was sold by auction. The list of aristocratic bankrupts includes the Earl oi Westmoreland, Viscount Parker, and Lord George Townsend. The wheat crop now growing is believed to be the largest ever raised in the United States. The Spectator suggests that the Queen should make Archbishop Manning a peer, to represent the Catholic Church in the House of Lords. M. Renau, author of the 'Life of Jesus,' which has so greatly scandalised the friends of the Gospel, has published a. book upon the Apostle St. Paul. He represents the great Apostle as a passionate intolerant man; but assuredly St. Paul, who evinced such ardent and admirable zeal, such a spirit of self-renunciation and self-sacrifice, does not need any defence against the unjust attacks of the French Bophist, who fails to comprehend the great character, tbe faith, or the generous sentiments of St. Paul. The Reformed Church of France have founded a Society, for the Employment of Discharged Prisoners. Everyone knows that prisoners, liberated after the completion of their terra, meet with no sympathy, from without in general society. They are; despised, repulsed, isolated, and can find no regular means of existence. Undoubtedly, 'A this mistrust and aversion are -somewhat justifiable j but what is its habitual result? The liberated prisoners, under the weight; of popular opprobrium, and haying no; means of support, are easily precipitated in to ynew crimes. The following is a striking .example; Of :the excellent results, of the i efforts of the' Society. Some years i since the- humber of liberated; prisoners ; who ; recommenced theii7 ;irreg ular course of life amounted to 75 per cent: j but ,now, rsince . ithe; ■S.qciety;i-has,:,::taken charge; of these; unfortunate of '' those;} who ;,liave7afteH t^eir^ii^riafion ; ;fallen^aniew^nt^; : e^

One of the largest Romish churches in the ancient city of Seville in Spain has just been secured on lease by the Protestant congregation there, under the ministry of Senor Cabrera. The church is in the shape of a Greek cross, in the centre is a cupola, from the floor to the roof of which is above . 100 feet. When the altars are taken down it will accommodate 2000 people. In the same city Mr. Nicolas Alonzo, formerly associated with Matamoros, but now in connection with the American aqd* Foreign Christian Union, preaches regularly, and holds Bible-class and prayermeetings through the week. On ihe first Sunday iu March the first Sunday-school in Spain was commented in Seville. About four hundred bishops havewritten to the Pope that unless they are absolutely obliged to attend the Ecumenical Council at Rome they would prefer to remain in their sees. The Pope does not seem disposed to insist upon tbeir attendance, so that it is not probable that the number present in Rome on that occasion will exceed 500. The Rev. Samuel E. Marsden, has been appointed, on the recommendation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, to the bishopric of Bathurst, Australia. The bishop designate is the grandson of the Rev. Samuel MarsdeD, the well-known Australian missionary. From Persia Dr. Perkins writes that there is a new civil head of the Nestorians of Oroomiah, Abdul Aiy Khan, whose general bearing towards the missionaries is very friendly; and he declares that his Government has given him no instructions to interfere at all with their labors, having become conviuced tbat their objects are purely benevolent.